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http://www.courant.com/community/mansfield/hc-mansfield-uconn-drinking-20170418-story.html
Bill Roe remembers when this was just "a rural eastern Connecticut town" that happened to play host to a state university. But for Roe, those days are long gone.
About two years ago, the property next to his on a quiet, dead-end forest road was converted to a rental, one occupied by three students from nearby University of Connecticut.
Statistics show that students at UConn, like the three next to Roe, have increasingly moved off campus as enrollment at the university rises. They're renting single-family homes in Mansfield, creating a patchwork of college kids and families living side-by-side.
The close quarters are causing friction on both sides, between residents seeking the peace and quiet they've come to expect in a small town and students looking for their first taste of freedom in college.
That friction has been cast under a microscope in recent months after Jeffny Pally, a UConn sophomore, died at the end of a night of drinking, some of it done at an off-campus party.
Somewhere in the mix of the town-gown tension lies UConn and its administration, seemingly limited in what they can do.
"The neighbors are families, children, senior citizens, working members of the community ... their day ends around 10 p.m. A college student, their day begins around 10 p.m.," said John Armstrong, the school's director of Off-Campus Student Services. The lifestyle differences can create a neighborhood "dichotomy."
But Armstrong and other university officials stressed that of the more than 400 houses being rented currently in Mansfield, only about two dozen "have been identified as problematic due to behavior involving students," Armstrong said.
Bill Roe remembers when this was just "a rural eastern Connecticut town" that happened to play host to a state university. But for Roe, those days are long gone.
About two years ago, the property next to his on a quiet, dead-end forest road was converted to a rental, one occupied by three students from nearby University of Connecticut.
Statistics show that students at UConn, like the three next to Roe, have increasingly moved off campus as enrollment at the university rises. They're renting single-family homes in Mansfield, creating a patchwork of college kids and families living side-by-side.
The close quarters are causing friction on both sides, between residents seeking the peace and quiet they've come to expect in a small town and students looking for their first taste of freedom in college.
That friction has been cast under a microscope in recent months after Jeffny Pally, a UConn sophomore, died at the end of a night of drinking, some of it done at an off-campus party.
Somewhere in the mix of the town-gown tension lies UConn and its administration, seemingly limited in what they can do.
"The neighbors are families, children, senior citizens, working members of the community ... their day ends around 10 p.m. A college student, their day begins around 10 p.m.," said John Armstrong, the school's director of Off-Campus Student Services. The lifestyle differences can create a neighborhood "dichotomy."
But Armstrong and other university officials stressed that of the more than 400 houses being rented currently in Mansfield, only about two dozen "have been identified as problematic due to behavior involving students," Armstrong said.
