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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
This is what I also find a bit "disturbing" from one of the articles I read:
Kenny Eaton, 20, a junior political science major at Hopkins who lives nearby, said there was some tension between students and lower-income residents of nearby communities. The private Johns Hopkins is known for its health and science research and has about 4,600 undergraduates on its main campus.
"You take kids who are paying $50,000 a year (in tuition) and then put them out in a very dangerous city environment, it's almost like a clash of civilizations," he said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz0RDtG3hOX
Almost reflects on what I said earlier.
That area of town has seen massive change within the past 20 years...amazingly while JHU has grown quite a bit in that time, the areas around it has been allowed to go down thus creating this very atmosphere: gentrification.
I am so glad I left that area. |
The neighborhood within a 3-4 block radius of campus has actually gotten very nice. Even in the 4 years I've been here, there's been significant development with lots of shops, restaurants and condos/apartments being added. It's improved the neighborhood significantly. And it's not all bad nearby - walk north towards Towson, and you're walking through a neighborhood of multi-million dollar mansions (professors and doctors, mostly).
However, when you walk 5-6 blocks east or south, you're in a very rough area. The house that this all took place at was within 4-5 blocks of campus, pretty much at the boundary. I actually walked by there today - it's a quiet, nice area (which is now swarming with reporters and vans). A lot of students live right around there. But it's pretty much an expectation that if you move to one of those houses, you're going to get robbed. It doesn't really matter what kind of security you put in, (or try to get your cheap landlord to put in). If they want in, they'll get in, and the police have other things to worry about. Burglary is small potatoes, and they don't really do anything about it. It really, really sucks. You feel powerless. And it's just not ok for things to go on the way they have. People just accept that getting robbed once or twice a year is going to happen, and I think that's totally unacceptable.
My facebook newsfeed has literally been this guy all day long, and I've only seen 2 or 3 students (out of about 100) denoucing what he's done. Just about everybody else has the attitude of "it's about damn time, good for him!". I fall somewhere on that continuum.
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