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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ita. The community has been very supportive of all of AU expansion. It's a betrayal. I hope the tenley/Wesley crowd fight every new dorm proposal, go after them for maintaining /beautifying public space and their sidewalks, and fight their bus rumbling through and polluting Tenleytown every 15 min. [/quote]

OMG this maybe the craziest post yet on here - the "community" has most certainly not been supportive of AU's expansion!  If you pay attention to things you will notice that several of the folks who turned out to protest the Johnson's closing have been long time critics of AU.

And in one of the many inanities of the never ending process the people who fought AU building more on campus housing (on a surface parking lot no less) are the same people who complain about students living off campus!  The activist crowd (which is actually made up of about 5 people with lots of time on their hands) in fact has been fighting the proposal to build more dorms even though it reduces the need for AU students to have cars or transit the neighborhood or live off campus - but don't look for any sort of rational thinking or philosophy from these geriatric nut jobs.

And you are an idiot if you are complaining about the AU shuttle bus which moves a massive number of people every day for free and helps to keep cars off the road - you seem like someone more scared about public transit than educated about it but if you have any awareness of what goes on in the neighborhood you'd be aware that anyone can ride the AU shuttle for free - its a reliable way to get from campus to the Metro.[/quote]

Many college kids don't drive and would have to walk to get their burger,  but aside from that - my point is that the community has been supportive or simply tolerant of Au's EVER expanding footprint, from buildings to buses. The streetscape of New Mexico /Nebraska is 100% changed from a mere 8 years ago. Perhaps the five who show up at those meetings simply see AU for what it has proven to be. A taker. People don't like user friends or institutions. [/quote]

Again I wonder if we live in the same neighborhood.

Very few people are engaged with AU and I know this from first hand experience.   Which is a shame because the people who are engaged are absolutely irrationally nuts and have given AU every reason to not make any effort to engage with the community in a positive way.  There is absolutely no way to make any sound inferences about how the broader community feels about AU based on the tiny number of people who engage with them but that group has not been supportive or tolerant or reasonable.  Also it is actually not true that AU's footprint has expanded - all of their recent construction has been on property they've owned for at least 30 years and in fact they reduced their net property holdings when they recent sold 3 commercial properties in Tenleytown and the recent on-campus housing that they've built has resulted in a measurable shift to more students living on campus which is something you'd think would be a net positive for AU haters.

Very little has changed on New Mexico except the corner of the new East Campus.  The changes on Nebraska with the new SAIS building and the East Campus and the new wing of the Nebraska Ave dorm are all big improvements over what used to be there as is the new law school.

And again the AU shuttle bus is a big benefit to the community - I missed where they expanded it (one end of one route was tweaked a bit in response to community complaints) but if they did expand it that is something everyone should support.

As they say you are entitled to your own opinions but you are not entitled to your own facts.[/quote]

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