We've had a lot of Howard students disrupting the neighborhood lately, the university has received several complaints and they're holding a meeting to address our concerns. I don't have specifics about the meeting but you can contact Maybelle Bennett at (202) 806-4771 or Maybelle.Bennett@howard.edu. Please share info with other neighbors.
11 comments:
I hope this happens, I am so sick of being kept awake on Friday, Saturday and some times Sunday nights. I thought this was suppose to be some sort of high end school that only admits the best and brightest. I have some video and pictures to show they aren't that bright and certainly not on people I would want to work with or have as neighbors.
I would like to know why everybody's blaming college students when there is a bunch of ADULTS that can't control their alcohol and also disrupt the neighborhood.
Were you guys aware that you were moving to an area inhabited by college students? Because it seems as if none of you are. Do not blame Howard students from disruptions when there have been so many nights where I was awaken by drunk adults. Don't be hypocrites.
I have lived in Bloomingdale my entire life and there hasn't been any major disruption until all of these bars came around.
Oh please that is a weak argument saying we brought in to an area. So if you buy a home near a university are you saying I am giving up the right to expect not to be woken up at 2am by a drunken freshman? The bars are to blame for disruption unless you leave on the small section of T st right across from Boundary Stone and even them the owners of the bar are more then willing to work with you. Do you realized I counted > 100 people streaming by on the 100 block of Adams st NW last Friday at 1am in the morning? Do you want to compare that to the handful of people coming out of Rustic and Boundary Stone and the Red Hen? I think not. I wish that was my problem. We had a group of drunken idiot students laying in the middle of the street at 1st and adams. Are people laying in the middle of RI ave? Bet they won't do it twice.
So what you're saying to me is that I have to give up the right to sleep by hypocritical drunken adults that can't handle their alcohol? Howard University has always been in the area. Are you surprised by the presence of college students? Because it and truly seems as if you are.
Do not sit there and call these kids "not too bright" because they are doing what they are expected to do as college students. At the same time that you are attempting to kick these kids out, kick out the "not too bright" ADULTS that do the exact same thing.
Like I said, do not be hypocrites.
And you do realize that drunken disorderly conduct moves further down than T Street? I live on First and S and I have woken up to find drunk ADULTS in my yard on numerous occasions who, might I add, are NOT Howard students and are coming from Rustic, Boundary Stone, and Red Hen.
What is your argument here? It almost seems as if you're helping me prove my point about drunken ADULTS doing what everybody claims the Howard students do.
Your not allow yourself to read and comprehend. I said that you may have some adults drunk on your street but it doesn't compare to the 100+ students streaming down streets like Adams st. You may be woken up occasionally but it doesn't compare to the scale of disruption we have closer to the university. No child is expected to behave drunk and disorderly in the middle of the street and when they do they can be labeled as "not that bright" I am speaking of scale you are not. You are just trying to defend large disorderly groups of your peers.
Oh, Mona - your argument is also weak.
“I thought this was suppose to be some sort of high end school that only admits the best and brightest. I have some video and pictures to show they aren't that bright and certainly not on people I would want to work with or have as neighbors.” –Mona
I think it may be helpful for you to come down off of your high horse and consider the context of your argument. You are discussing a college neighborhood, with young adult college students who are in the phase of their lives where partying and experimenting with alcohol is THE NORM. If you have a college degree, I am sure you can attest to the nights when you and your roommates got a little too drunk (whether it was inside of your dorm or at your home in a university neighborhood like the one you live in now). There is nothing unusual about the activities occurring near the Howard University campus. In fact, I am a Los Angeles Native and I have heard similar complaints from households near USC AND UCLA – it comes with the college territory. So for you to use an example that involves 100 students, (which in actuality is only 1% - YES ONE PERCENT of the 10,000 students at HU) and make such generalizations about the intellect of the students at the university is a tad bit extreme and demonstrates your preexisting biases toward the university. The fact of the matter is that you moved into a college neighborhood and you’re unhappy with the decision YOU MADE, because you did not consider all of the factors pertinent to your need for a quiet and well kept community. In short, you may want to reorganize your argument AND your decision to live in the vicinity of THE Illustrious Howard University.
Best Regards,
A Proud Howard University Student – And Future Leader
Dear Ms. Cole,
I love living near a college campus....keeps life fresh! But what we've had to endure from the house between Second and Adams is above and beyond anything I've ever heard. I will keep calling the police or whatever it takes. The music was way too loud and some of the lyrics were absurdly obscene. So future leader, hope you're not involved when the next party is raided.We're just asking that students use a little common sense and respect their neighbors. Is that too much!?!
When others are affected/disturbed by someone else's experimentation, there is "a problem." Try partying somewhere other than a neighborhood with connected houses...perhaps a commercial facility. BTW, those under 21 who are experimenting with alcohol can be arrested in most states and definitely in the local area (DC, MD & VA).
When I was in college we did not disrupt neighborhoods with our parties. We used commercial facilities with liquor licenses, were carded by guards and all had a good time. It takes some organization skills, but future leaders can figure that out.
HU Students can resolve the problem by taking ownership for creating disruption and discord and changing the behavior. They should be good neighbors and recognize that the universe that they are operating in contains non-HU Students and those neighbors disturbed by their disruptive behavior will speak out and contact local law enforcement where warranted.
DC is a town that happens to have colleges and universities, but it is NOT a "college town" in the most broadly understood sense of the phrase. If Bloomingdale were situated in the Georgia Avenue corridor or its cross streets that comprise the university campus, this type of behavior -- while still unacceptable -- would at least be somewhat understandable. To be clear, Bloomingdale is not part of the HU campus, nor is it even adjacent to it. Student tenants who've chosen to live in Bloomingdale, whether they attend HU, American, Georgetown or GW, are obligated to comport themselves as law-abiding guests unless and until they choose to invest -- as the rest of us have -- in making Bloomingdale their home. As for TC's comments about "experimentation" and excessive alcohol use being the "norm," let's not forget that the Seaton Place party was the scene of violence and multiple arrests for such conduct. If this is what constitutes the norm, I'd simply advise that MPD will never, ever run out of handcuffs.
I do believe Howard student should have more respect to the surrounding areas when partying HOWEVER "Mona's" comment insulting the intelligence of Howard University's students is rude and uncalled for. COLLEGE STUDENTS are known for partying no matter where they go to school or where they live. Partying WILL happen, Howard's students WILL continue to become future leaders, and Mona WILL continue to be ignorant however it should all be done in a respectable manner.
-A PROUD HOWARD UNIVERSITY STUDENT
I am not unhappy with my choice of neighborhood and I remind you that I will be here long after you are gone so you are a temporary problem. As for your definition of norm I bring to your attention that getting drunk and being a underage is not a NORM it is a convictable crime so you need to rethink what your calling a NORM. This is not a college town. This is not like the other college towns that are dependent on the revenue generated by the university. That is a college town. This is a city with universities in it. So in no manner can you lump in this behavior and expect people to think it is a NORM. Just because something occurs frequently in an area does not make it acceptable. I guess you would consider frequent gun fire a norm is you lived in parts of Chicago. I bet you they don't consider that acceptable just because it happens all the time. I have no problem with Howard the University. I have a problem with the children who attend the university and continue to disrupt this neighborhood. I have a simple solution...dial 911, and all my neighbors have learned to adopt that same solution. So your NORM will one day be not so normal
Post a Comment