[33girl]

If you move into a college town, next to student housing, and start complaining, you're an a-hole. No argument there.

But if the college has grown over the years and kind of "taken over" the town and the people who have lived there forever - I mean in houses their family has owned for generations - I can see where the residents have some sort of complaint. The point is, the college should have a plan for growth and expansion and work with the town. Too many colleges overadmit and don't have room in the dorms, so even if the students don't WANT to live off campus they have to.

Or if the college buys up land in the town, it goes off the tax rolls, and that makes things even worse on the townspeople - so even if the students are angels, there's some natural antipathy there. Clarion's definitely dealing with this and I'd bet the other state schools here are too.