Drunken Tufts students

[ron_newman]

I never realized it could be this bad. I guess I'm lucky, living on the Day Street side of the square where this stuff doesn't happen.

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[douxquemiel.livejournal.com]

Quite frankly, that's not that bad. I live next door to Tufts students (I live on Sunset, literally a block from frat row), and they've only been loud and drunken a few times. Yes, they're being stupid, but that's their business. As someone who went to school near UMass Amherst, it could be a lot worse. At least they don't set cars on fire or overturn police cars.

[ifotismeni]

hahaha umass amherst, oh the riot memories....

[mcflynnthm.livejournal.com]

God bless my time at UMass. Best 5 years of my life :P

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Those were your sophmore year, eh?

[mcflynnthm.livejournal.com]

Which riots? They seemed to happen each year. I was there for the ones when the Pats won Super Bowl XXXVI (Feb 2002 IIRC), as a freshman. The car flipping one was sophomore year, I think. Sophomore year is kinda of hazy.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

Sorry, poorly-written offensive joke. I was trying to imply that the 5 years you spent there were all sophomore years.

[mcflynnthm.livejournal.com]

Ah I see. Well, I could just be slow. After all, I did spend 5 year at UMass :P

[spatch]

I was at UMass Amherst during the early-mid 90s. We didn't have any riots. We couldn't. If you were downwind of Butterfield (before it became a first-year-only hall) you were extremely mellow for some reason.

[ifotismeni]

hahahhaah

[ceo]

I was there for the riot in 1986 when the Red Sox lost the World Series. Well, not right there, fortunately; I was in Sylvan and the riot was in (of course) Southwest. [dorm areas at opposite corners of a large campus]

Hmm, you were 2 then, weren't you. god damn kids get offa my lawn. :-)

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

i went to the u of michigan and we did that too. altho i think we only flipped cars, and it was students at michigan state who set them on fire.... i was there when a bunch of students pulled down a stop light and broke a restaurant awning from standing on it, tho, that was interesting. good times, good times.

[koloratur.livejournal.com]

Western Michigan had a lot of problems with couch fires, too, for some reason...I knew a guy who was expelled 2 weeks before graduation for just being present at one of those things!

[ifotismeni]

haha, i live on chester very close to elm and i hear that kind of thing at night almost all the time. most of the time the yelling and stupidity doesn't go on for too long, though some mornings you do see the remnants of this (discarded beer cans and cups on lawns etc).

[ron_newman]

are those Tufts kids, or Redbones patrons?

[ifotismeni]

usually tufts kids, redbones patrons tend to be pretty good and don't stay out *that* late.

[secretlyironic.livejournal.com]

This would be the craziest night of the year, though-- the post-classes spring rager. Nothing exceptional about that-- a bunch of drunk people being a little loud a few times a year isn't a huge problem. It's not like you're stepping over needles or trying to sleep through gunshots.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

You could have changed the name of the school from Tufts to Cornell, and I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference from the articles that regularly appeared in the local newspaper, as far back as ten years ago, every year after the last day of classes (or during the week between the end of finals and graduation). Every year, they always agreed, it was Much Worse Than Last Year, Getting Worse All The Time, and What's Wrong With Kidz Theze Dayz?

Oddly enough, I live on Leonard Street, with Tufts campus in sight from my bedroom window, and I didn't hear a thing.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

It really depends on if you're lucky enough to have a large concentration of students living near you. I lived across the street from Tufts and never had any problems, but my friends that live on Winslow periodically have problems with noisy drunken students. It comes and goes, though... it isn't every school year.

[dreamgirly19.livejournal.com]

that isnt THAT bad.

[xsemperfidelis.livejournal.com]

Yup, college.
I apologize on behalf of my school, regardless.

(Although I'm not so against the public nudity thing.......but, barefoot? eep!)

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

FWIW, the reporter seemed to be looking for the worst. I particularly liked the tough-as-nails "I've smelled worse." line which calls for cigarette smoke curling past a crushed down fedora with a "Press" badge in the hatband.

[ifotismeni]

hahah, too bad we can't smoke in newsrooms anymore XD

[nomirena.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I live on Ware street between Teele and Tufts and there is one house with a bunch of students living in it and they regularly have raucous parties into the wee hours. They were outside on Friday night until at least 2 and I don't think the police came by at all, but I can't be sure. All I know is that I hate them. They sound inane and dumb when they aren't drunk, but worse when they are.

I'm old and crotchety!

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I live just down the street from you (on Ossipee), but it's fairly quiet where I am. I guess we've scared away the loud students. Although, I did grow up around the corner from LSU, so it's possible that I'm just immune to it.

[unsi-sempai.livejournal.com]

Heh, I think I know which house you mean - I can hear it from Teele! There's a few houses on my street that can get bad, but after a few rounds of asking them if they can move the party inside at 3 AM on a weeknight and one round of calling the police, they usually get the picture that they're living in a residential neighborhood and us old farts need to sleep so we can get to work in the morning.

[cook-ting.livejournal.com]

That sounds like Allston every night of the week. Davis and its surrounds have it good compared to the poor souls living in "Rock City" or on Mission Hill.

[xsemperfidelis.livejournal.com]

hah

[xjustquietx.livejournal.com]

Word. I used to live in Brighton. Tufts students are saints compared to BU and BC students (apologies to my friends and family who went to those schools - but they'd agree anyway).

[eeyorecol.livejournal.com]

I had the same thought; I lived in both Brighton and Allston. Allston was the worst; we lived there in 2004 and I don't think that I was able to sleep for the entire month of October thanks to the drunken "Woo! Red Sox!" cries until 4am every night (even when they didn't play) and the Guy With the Air Horn who lived in the building behind us. He was awesome.

[obie119.livejournal.com]

I live on Curtis and this year (after 4 very quiet years) one of the student houses suddenly had loud students in it. The Tufts people did a pretty good job with it and we never had problems after December. Last Friday, I didn't hear a peep. At this point, I'm more annoyed at our new (non-Tufts) neighbors who decided to hook up microphones for karoake at 2:00 AM Sunday morning.

Tufts is actually a great neighbor as far as schools go - nice students and a great campus for walking and sledding.

[watchamacallit.livejournal.com]

Oh please. That's nothing.

[greenbeats.livejournal.com]

is it just me, or is this article terrible?

[billharnois.livejournal.com]

LOL, I agree. I was waiting for something worthy of writing an article about. Where's the story?

[rethcir.livejournal.com]

Yeah, those antics are pretty tame. The guy should have hung out at sligo's around 3PM, or the Josh around midnight for some real debauchery

[chumbolly.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the Tufts students really annoy, like when they leave beer cans or puke in my yard. But then I remember how when I went to Tufts, I used to leave beer cans and puke in peoples' yards. And run around nekkid. And give the police a hard time. Good times.

Tufts now requires a lot more students to live on campus than when I went there, so things have actually gotten a lot better in terms of off campus parties (better from the perspective of neighbors, not the students, that is).