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JMick said:
Should it not get its way, though? And I ask that sincerely. If it weren't for the university there would be no local economy and they wouldn't be getting all these things.
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It's complex. I haven't thought through all the possibilities.

Lots of parents want the school in the downtown and close to campus. Students can even take courses on campus and its right there. But it really only helps the older students anyway for both those things.I've heard talk of a regional super school being built which sounds interesting but fear other communities wouldn't have the revenue.

If they did the facility right it could really help the downtown. With some entertainment and the business park there is a chance of having Storrs turn into a growth area. My property value could go up and I could sell for a nice profit and leave.

My thinking is not without bias though. My youngest will graduate smith before this could happen and there is a possibility I will relocate after that anyway.
 
UConn always gets its way? I was always under the impression that Mansfield blocked everything and that is why there was such little commercial development right next to the school.
 
As a student in the early aughts, this thread brings back some fine nostalgia. Hey Bob, you remember that time we...?
 
Mano said:
As a student in the early aughts, this thread brings back some fine nostalgia. Hey Bob, you remember that time we...?
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roughed up Nelly so bad after the 2000 Spring Weekend concert that he had to wear a band aid on his face for the next decade? Yeah. I remember.
 
Some parents want the high school downtown. Moving the high school is the smartest option. They are hemmed in and need a major revamp of the building.To tear the building apart while students are going to school there would be idiotic so it may happen. There is plenty of room at the Depot campus for a larger regional school and all the fields for athletics and the Vo-Ag program. Storrs center is dead in the summer. They need to get more people living there year round.
 
Mano said:
As a student in the early aughts, this thread brings back some fine nostalgia. Hey Bob, you remember that time we...?
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More than a few of the thread's messages also provide a reminder it's more recently always some other guy's fault, uber litigious cultural developments, increased #s of tragic accudent, some tragic deaths, etc. aside.

Unlike the early 80s, prior decades, and even the early 90s to some extent, stuff peiple could pull off in the past accumulated over time, drunk driving enforcement increased, the university's administration and police as well as state police reeled in sone over the top behaviour, etc.

Concuurently or consequently, some students adjusted to changes, figured out how to party or enjoy themselves in other ways to avoid arrests (reasonable or otherwise at times), others opted not to or faced the consequences, others continue to whine, and others likely evolved with some combination. ;)
 
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Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Concuurently or consequently, some students adjusted to changes, figured out how to party or enjoy themselves in other ways to avoid arrests (reasonable or otherwise at times), others opted not to or faced the consequences, others continue to whine, and others likely evolved with some combination. ;)
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Those are some big leaps from very little information. I love when people were who weren't around like to explain how things worked.
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
More than a few of the thread's messages also provide a reminder it's more recently always some other guy's fault, uber litigious cultural developments, increased #s of tragic accudent, some tragic deaths, etc. aside.

Unlike the early 80s, prior decades, and even the early 90s to some extent, stuff peiple could pull off in the past accumulated over time, drunk driving enforcement increased, the university's administration and police as well as state police reeled in sone over the top behaviour, etc.
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JMick said:
Those are some big leaps from very little information. I love when people were who weren't around like to explain how things worked.
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UConn to be sued over Spring Weekend death of student from Milford (read the letter)

>>In his letter to UConn interim President Philip E. Austin, Donald Altschuler, the West Haven attorney for Karzoun's family, claims, among other things, that despite the fact that state and "university police were well aware of the problems associated with Spring Weekend ... The University of Connecticut failed in its obligation to protect Jafar Karzoun and provide him with a safe environment."

Altschuler's letter also claims, "the University of Connecticut supported and promoted Spring Weekend as a University sanctioned event, even though the University knew or should have known that large numbers of non-UCONN participants would be attracted to the University, and that the State Police and University Police were unable to adequately police a large number of participants in a way to insure that UCONN students such as Jafar Karzoun would be safe ... (and that) the University of Connecticut failed to adequately supervise and/or train its employees to insure that students such as Jafar Karzoun would be safe while attending the University of Connecticut."<<

UConn task force calls for end to wild partying during annual Spring Weekend

Was this your freshman or sophomore year? Toss in the Jasper Howard death... Did you expect them to look the other way /not ramp up enforcement? Don;t forget the many near misses from lethal alcohol overdoses requiring ambulance transports and the cost involved there to parents for hospital admissions and the such. They lessen the restrictions now and another tragic accident happens - then what?

Time change and everything (or most everything) is recorded and documented. Lose/lose.
 
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huskymedic said:
UConn to be sued over Spring Weekend death of student from Milford (read the letter)

>>In his letter to UConn interim President Philip E. Austin, Donald Altschuler, the West Haven attorney for Karzoun's family, claims, among other things, that despite the fact that state and "university police were well aware of the problems associated with Spring Weekend ... The University of Connecticut failed in its obligation to protect Jafar Karzoun and provide him with a safe environment."

Altschuler's letter also claims, "the University of Connecticut supported and promoted Spring Weekend as a University sanctioned event, even though the University knew or should have known that large numbers of non-UCONN participants would be attracted to the University, and that the State Police and University Police were unable to adequately police a large number of participants in a way to insure that UCONN students such as Jafar Karzoun would be safe ... (and that) the University of Connecticut failed to adequately supervise and/or train its employees to insure that students such as Jafar Karzoun would be safe while attending the University of Connecticut."

UConn task force calls for end to wild partying during annual Spring Weekend

Was this your freshman or sophomore year? Toss in the Jasper Howard death... Did you expect them to look the other way /not ramp up enforcement? They lessen the restrictions now and another tragic accident happens - then what?

Time change and everything (or most everything) is recorded and documented. Lose/lose.
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I really don't want to get into it again, but it's not just about Spring Weekend and it's not even about the lock down. The whole point is that the culture of UConn changed a lot in 4 years and if you weren't there to see it and experience it, you just wouldn't really get it. We've got people coming out from the class of 2014 who were there like I was and saw what a dramatic change it was, but some people still want to act like we're exaggerating.
 
JMick said:
I really don't want to get into it again, but it's not just about Spring Weekend and it's not even about the lock down. The whole point is that the culture of UConn changed a lot in 4 years and if you weren't there to see it and experience it, you just wouldn't really get it. We've got people coming out from the class of 2014 who were there like I was and saw what a dramatic change it was, but some people still want to act like we're exaggerating.
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Point taken... but society in a whole has changed dramatically in the last 4+ years, UConn is a just microcosm.
 
JMick said:
I really don't want to get into it again, but it's not just about Spring Weekend and it's not even about the lock down. The whole point is that the culture of UConn changed a lot in 4 years and if you weren't there to see it and experience it, you just wouldn't really get it. We've got people coming out from the class of 2014 who were there like I was and saw what a dramatic change it was, but some people still want to act like we're exaggerating.
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I watched the change myself. I started Fall 08, graduated May 2012. The last good Spring Weekend was 09 my freshman year. Then that kid got killed the next year (by a non-UConn student), then the year after that UConn really stepped it up and the weather was awful, and that pretty much killed it; there was essentially nothing my last year. But by that time I was a senior and could drink off campus legally wherever the hell I wanted so I didn't care. At least in 2011 we had a moment when Kemba and Co won it all.

They were kind of right about it being sanctioned by the University. I'll never forget in 09 Mike Hogan walking around X-lot. Pretty sure he was at Celeron as well. Of course as students we loved it, but looking at it from outside of that bubble now, I can't believe he did that.
 
Rocktheworld said:
I watched the change myself. I started Fall 08, graduated May 2012. The last good Spring Weekend was 09 my freshman year. Then that kid got killed the next year, then the year after that UConn really stepped it up and the weather was awful, and after that there was essentially nothing my last year (but by that time I was a senior and could drink off campus legally wherever the hell I wanted so I didn't care).

They were kind of right about it being sanctioned by the University. I'll never forget in 09 Mike Hogan walking around X-lot. Pretty sure he was at Celeron as well. Of course as students we loved it, but looking at it from outside of that bubble now, I can't believe he did that.
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I just wish they didn't crack down on everything. Spring Weekend, sure, I get it. It made sense. But they effectively killed everything for under classmen. I had a house my senior year just far enough off campus that we didn't have any issue with 150+ people at our house; but if I just tried to go to see my friends at Celeron? Forget about it. Cop at the end of rape trail checking for ID's or asking people to open their bags. Undercover cops walking up and down Hunting Lodge Rd busting people for trying to get to parties through the woods, nondescript containers with booze, etc. It just went a little too far
 
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JMick said:
I just wish they didn't crack down on everything. Spring Weekend, sure, I get it. It made sense. But they effectively killed everything for under classmen. I had a house my senior year just far enough off campus that we didn't have any issue with 150+ people at our house; but if I just tried to go to see my friends at Celeron? Forget about it. Cop at the end of rape trail checking for ID's or asking people to open their bags. Undercover cops walking up and down Hunting Lodge Rd busting people for trying to get to parties through the woods, nondescript containers with booze, etc. It just went a little too far
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Damn. Guess I escaped just before they started running while with undercover stuff and blocking off public areas. Although my junior year is when they started having a cop outside Carriage and instituted a curfew.

Spring Weekend was kind of like Hamsterdam (from the Wire). For a while it survived as a kind of short, tucked-away thing to keep all the madness contained in one somewhat manageable place at a time and law enforcement stood relatively idly by just making sure all out calamity was prevented. But then enough over-the-top stuff started going down (most perpetrated by, again, non-UConn kids) and the press really caught on and made it super public and then

 
jdb50 said:
Some parents want the high school downtown. Moving the high school is the smartest option. They are hemmed in and need a major revamp of the building.To tear the building apart while students are going to school there would be idiotic so it may happen. There is plenty of room at the Depot campus for a larger regional school and all the fields for athletics and the Vo-Ag program. Storrs center is dead in the summer. They need to get more people living there year round.
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Only problem with moving EO Smith that I foresee that is that there is a prison literally across the street from the depot campus, as well as the abandoned Mental institute that many people believe to be haunted, not joking. I could see parents not loving the depot campus relocation area.
 
huskymedic said:
Bergin has been closed for 5 years now.
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Interesting. It looks frozen in time then as it doesn't seem overgrown or abandoned in the slightest.
 
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Terrible, terrible name. I can already see this place changing ownership in 5 years. The name tells me they don't know what kind of market they are entering.
 
BUHusky10 said:
Terrible, terrible name. I can already see this place changing ownership in 5 years. The name tells me they don't know what kind of market they are entering.
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Agreed. Maybe we'll get a bar rescue episode out of it. That'd be pretty cool
 
BUHusky10 said:
Terrible, terrible name. I can already see this place changing ownership in 5 years. The name tells me they don't know what kind of market they are entering.
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What's wrong with the name?
 
So here's the essential geo/demographic Q that has been avoided but of paramount interest to the undergrads: how many babes will it attract??
 
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laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.
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Graduated in '10 and Carriage was still a zoo every weekend. Cops were present at the end of the trail but really only gave you a hard time if you were noticeably way too intoxicated or drinking Dubra straight from the bottle. They'd sweep through at 1am or so and honestly wouldn't even have to say much just shine their flashlight and people left. However, I think it was that year or maybe '09 when the student was killed outside the bars during Spring Weekend. I had a friend who was still dating a girl the next year so we went up and it was a ghost town. I think that year it fell on Easter weekend so most kids went home anyways or something.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.
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I started Fall 08. Absolutely no trouble with Carriage. I was an absolute degenerate for my entire first semester, and Carriage is mostly
 
DiacosArmy said:
Graduated in '10 and Carriage was still a zoo every weekend. Cops were present at the end of the trail but really only gave you a hard time if you were noticeably way too intoxicated or drinking Dubra straight from the bottle. They'd sweep through at 1am or so and honestly wouldn't even have to say much just shine their flashlight and people left. However, I think it was that year or maybe '09 when the student was killed outside the bars during Spring Weekend. I had a friend who was still dating a girl the next year so we went up and it was a ghost town. I think that year it fell on Easter weekend so most kids went home anyways or something.
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2012 here. It was 2010 when the kid died and Spring Weekend was really in the spotlight already; when you see cops from all over the state (my CT local friends would see who could spot a cop car from a farthest from Stores), you're on notice. 2009 was amazing then I believe then the next year the weather wasn't awesome and of course the tragety occurred. That is really what kicked the block out from the hanged man's feet. I believe 2011 was the year the cops set up roadblocks and were asking for UConn IDs

Also as someone might have said one of those years Spring Weekend fell on abd Easter weekend. That was decimating.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
laughing at the kids who graduated in 14' saying the culture, party scene changed drastically. I graduated in 08', you should have seen the party scene my freshman year, 04'. Literally it felt like spring weekend every weekend. By 06' they really cracked down and pretty much shut down Carriage and put a giant fence in front that you had to check in with a cop with a residents list to get in. I'm sure older board members have similar view points.
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'08 here as well. Those days were insanity.
 
FluxTZ said:
'08 here as well. Those days were insanity.
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you young folks should have seen it when every dorm had a keg (or 2) every Thursday, everyone could drink in their rooms, the package stores delivered 6 packs to your room, there was a pub in the Student Union and beerfests were held every weekend on campus
 
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