Tufts Community Forum tonight 10/3

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

From the West Somerville Neighborhood Association:

... I wanted to remind everybody about the Community Forum that is being held [to]night at Tufts. The idea for this event came out of a meeting with the Tufts Student Senate leadership I had about two weeks ago. I'm pretty impressed by the efforts the Tufts Senate President Neil DiBiase and the Senate Vice President Bruni Hirsch are making to improve the situation. The idea is to get neighbors and students together to discuss ways to improve community relations, including going over the problems we as neighbors have, and some possible solutions -- so far I think the idea of posting signs near the perimeter of campus reminding those leaving that they are entering a residential area with its noise restrictions is one that a lot of neighbors I've talked to seem to like, along with some kind of Tufts-mandated training for students who are living off-campus for the first time -- I also know that some people feel these measures wouldn't solve the problems, and to them I say come to the meeting and speak your mind!

The Community Forum will be held [tonight], Wednesday October 3, at 7:30 pm in Sophia Gordon Hall, 15 Talbot Avenue (near the Oval and Aidekman Arts Center), and refreshments will be served. Here's a link to a map.

I hope to see you there!

Where the "I" in this email is Edward Beuchert who's on the Board of Directors of the The West Somerville Neighborhood Association. I'm just passing along the info...

Comments

[ron_newman]

From looking at a map of the '3 C' streets, I assume that their use of "West Somerville" means far west Somerville, west of Tufts University.

[wallacestreet.livejournal.com]

Dunno. I had a chat with him at their table during Tufts Community Day this weekend and signed up for their email list. He seemed to know where Wallace is and had no problem with my joining the list. In any case, there will be some overlap between Davis Square and West Somerville, so I posted here.

Their main concern in this meeting seems to be with student residents living off-campus among them. My main concern is noise from (drunk) students walking up Wallace street at 1 in the morning after the last T/bar closing. It's been really bad this month. I don't want to dilute their forum with my concerns if they're not wanted, after all they did the hard work in setting up the forum in the first place. So, I've sent an email asking if my particular concerns are welcome at this forum. If I hear back in time, I'll let you all know. Otherwise, one of us will go and see what happens. I'd encourage anyone with similar problems to come along too, of course.

[mamabunny72.livejournal.com]

Hello fellow Wallace Streeter,

I share your concern!
When you have more info, post on our listserv too.

Thanks,
JP