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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So are white people unwelcome at Howard?[/quote]

Only if they have dogs on the grounds of the university property. Take away the dogs and all are welcome.  :mrgreen: [/quote]

Good.  Then Howard should post the campus for no dogs and security personnel should enforce it.[/quote]

Well I really do not think non HU students should be picnicking on the yard. It’s a college campus. I went to an urban school with a quad. I could not image the neighbors walking their dogs or setting up a picnic on it. It’s not a public park. It’s an active and integral part of the university. Just because it’s an open spaces does not mean it’s free to use as you see fit. [/quote]

I'm another one who went to Columbia University.  People from the neighborhood were always entering the campus. Because it's an urban campus.  No one checked IDs.  Security guards were present and as long as people were being pleasant, it was no big deal.  [/quote]

You seem to be misinformed about the situation. Howard students and the university welcome those who are new and/or old to the surrounding areas around Howard. People are welcome to walk through the university campus WITHOUT animals. The quad area is significant to the Howard University community because students picnic on the grassy areas, students study on the grass, university events take place on the grass. It is for this reason Howard issued a statement (posted earlier in this thread) asking the community to be respectful of the campus and its norms. I’m not sure why people think it’s okay for them to enter onto the property of someone’s “home” and enforce their own rules of what they perceive  Howard should be doing. Howard has always had the norm of no animals on campus. Longtime D.C. residents understand this norm. It’s only recent transplants who want to change the norms of what’s been in place instead of respectfully understanding the university desires.

Again, Howard is open to anyone on the campus passing through the campus as long as your pet is not on the campus grounds. It is not okay for Fido to going about his/her nature on campus grounds when there are 4 places around the university perimeter where residents of the community can walk their pets.[/quote]

I don't know anything about the norms of the campus.  But, I do know that people who allow their animals to urinate and defecate in areas where others routinely congregate are special kind of a-holes.

About a decade ago, my daughter's charter school took over a shuttered DCPS school.  The school athletic field had been used by the neighbors as a de facto dog park since the DCPS school was closed, but not it was going to be used by elementary school kids for recess, after school sports leagues, etc.  Many of these nitwit neighbors simply couldn't understand why they wouldn't be allowed to continue to use the field for their animals.

I don't doubt that there's an element of grumpiness on the part of the students about gentrification and the whitening of Shaw and toe area around the Howard campus.  But that doesn't mean their opinions about the idiots who think their animals are more important that people are incorrect.  [/quote]

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