Some BU Freshmen living the Lush Life

[Loonman]

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/198/nation/The_BU_dorm_not_in_the_brochure+.shtml


But students will still savor some elements of the hotel advertised as a ''graceful balance of old world charm and contemporary convenience,'' including a complimentary DVD lending library and access to the hotel's room service -- for a fee. The students will pay the same basic room rate as their classmates in dorms, $5,930 a year.

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Students living in hotels are supervised by a hall director and six student residence advisers at each site. One guest room at each hotel is turned into an office, where students can meet with BU staff. All regular dorm rules apply, including the school's much-debated guest policy, which limits the hours visitors from other dorms can stay and the number of overnight guests per semester. Kirwan said a separate back entrance may be created for students, to limit traffic through the hotel's doorman-attended front door. Students will be placed in a block of rooms on one floor so they can socialize without disrupting other guests, and they will be given a list of rules, still being written, by the hotel.

''We wouldn't do it if we didn't feel we could protect the overall quality of the hotel,'' Kirwan said. ''Our objective is to take care of everybody.''

[meegbear]

1. I worked a conference in Cambridge ...

at the Hyatt Regency. We had meeting rooms on the second floor and the last room was a "study hall" for students living there.

Back in my day, I lived in a dorm with a public payphone down the hall by the bathrooms. Have times changed.

[morstyranni]

2. I live in boston - Housing Crunch

Thanks to the huge number of often affluent students of Harvard, BC, BU, Tufts, Northeastern, Wellesley, Endicott, Stonehill, Simmons, MIT, Bentley, Babson, and the 20 or so other colleges with 20 miles of downtown there is virtually no apartment under 1000/month in the area. My fiance and I just moved out of our basement one bedroom smack between BU and BC where we were paying 1050 a month. We're in our mid-twenties and together made almost 100k last year, yet we have no savings because we have been paying Boston rent for the last 3 years living in crapnasty places. Down the street from our tenament are the huge brownstones on Comm. ave, those damn 'trustafarians' (rich white kids with dreds) live the high life on daddy's buck.

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. "trustafarian" - I love it!

Often been looking for a name for those people who are white, but wear dreadlocks, and also expensive clothing...

Never understood it...

Sstill don't, but at least I have a word for it now!