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[quote=Anonymous]That is one of the most absurd things I have heard of people bitching about.  Talk about creating a problem.

1- it's an open campus
2- people walk their dogs literally everywhere in the world
3- the school itself said it's not against the rules, you just want to complain
4- "not have a bunch of townies getting in their way all the time" .... it's washington DC, not some tiny redneck town in Iowa.  Jesus Christ.  Then the next sentence "pins some of the blame on the more transient nature of the neighborhood, as more renters move in and longtime homeowners are displaced. “They don’t have the same sense of investment in the community,” he says. " exactly.  NOT townies.  That's not what DC is, Jesus. 
5- DC is 47% black.  But sure... "Students also said that they see Howard as a sacred, safe space for them in a city where they often feel marginalized"

I'm with this person: Nice that teenagers who’ve lived in DC all of a year and a half are telling decades long residents what quasi-public spaces they’re allowed in. Is it really gentrification that’s ruining Howard, or are they doing it to themselves?” wrote one commenter.

That whole thing is entitled bratty bullshit.
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