<p>how do most colleges feel about skateboarding on campus? i use my board for both transportation but also like to hit up some lines, gaps and grinds. i imagine larger state universities aren't too into this, but smaller LAC's might be more allowing.</p>
<p>I know that they don't allow this at San Diego State, which is a large state school. I think a smaller school might be more lenient, but ultimately, its up to the school.</p>
<p>U of Illinois im pretty sure allows it but you very rarely see it. i see people on unicycles just as often as skateboards.</p>
<p>A hotly debated topic at my school! Last time I heard anything, the university police would give you a ticket for skateboarding on campus even if it was just for transportation. That being said, all the skateboarders that I knew were going to appeal this as bicycles are allowed on campus, and they take up more space on sidewalks and cause more injuries than the skateboarders do. (I agree with them. We just finished our first week and I've already almost been run-over by bikes twice! I've also seen a few people get hit before, and it wasn't pretty.)
I do have a friend that brought a longboard this year, but haven't seen him since the second day of school to ask if he's gotten busted for it yet.</p>
<p>I don't think anyone should be riding skateboards after high school. It looks ridiculous to have a young adult riding around like bart simpson.</p>
<p>For your own sake you'll stop this before graduating from college.</p>
<p>i've skated my massive state school's small skatepark but i haven't hit up the stairs or rails yet...theres some good stuff around campus that has been skated before but there are skate blockers on some ledges meaning they shun skaters...i've heard the cops crack down if they catch you doing tricks...don't listen to foxdie! skate until you can't walk</p>
<p>One of the history professors at my school used to be (quite possibly still is) one of the top-ranking am. vert skaters in Texas. He's tenure track, too. If a prof. can still skate, there's no reason that a student can't.</p>
<p>The funny thing about my campus is that UPD doesn't bust the people (Mostly middle and high school kids) the rollerblade and skateboard in front of the library, destroy stuff and are really annoying. It's just the ones that use it for transportation.</p>
<p>I find it very obnoxious especially in crowded areas</p>
<p>At my small CCC school, its completely allowed, as long as your not grinding everything in sight.</p>
<p>And I saw many a longboard at UCSB during a recent visit.</p>
<p>it really depends on the school...most schools will probably frown upon it, if not take action against it...some less than others, but on they whole they will. i go to USC, a school with a large student body (and small campus), and they could definitely take more action if they wanted against street skateboarding, but they don't (i'm not complaining...).</p>
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<p>For your own sake you'll stop this before graduating from college.
wow...if you think Bart Simpson or anything of the like is a representative image of skateboarding, i would say that's pretty ignorant. for one, i would have to imagine despite what you would like to think, that you have a very narrow and unrealistic perception of what a skateboarder is. and not only does campus police (DPS) not really care about skateboarders, they're really very tolerant of it, so long as you walk your board through certain intersections. it is more than a viable form of transportation.</p>
<p>many, many students at USC use skateboards as a primary means of transportation around campus. the campus is really too small for practical use of bikes, although most people will still use them because of the sheer fact that almost all children learn to ride bikes while not all learn to skateboard. at most a corner-to-corner walk of campus is 15 minutes...skating cuts that time in half, and you don't have to spend a minute at each end of your trip locking and unlocking your bike...and far fewer people steal skateboards. on top of that, i have passed more than a handful of people on bikes using my skateboard, bar the people who pedal from class to class like as if it were a race. skateboards are far more maneuverable than bikes, take up less space on the roads/sidewalks, and stop far easier. as i said, to think that skateboarding is something juvenile and unpractical is pretty single-sighted and ignorant.</p>
<p>Depends on whether the layout of the school allows it. At UCSC, skateboarding is prohibitted because the campus is built in a redwood forest on a fat mountain. Skateboarding is more of a hazard than an effective means of transportation: you'll be either skateboarding uphill 50% of the time or bombing downhill while trying not to hit buses, cars, cyclists, people, and trees. You really have to be experienced if you want to make those hills and unfortunately, the majority of those who attempt to skateboard are morons who are doing it to look cool or impress an attractive other.</p>
<p>i hope to be going to UF next year, and i will def. be taking my longboard with me. Theres nothing more relaxing than cruisin on a longboard</p>
<p>When I was at U of Illinois I was skating all the time to class. I was never hassled or anything. Even when I skated across the quad. </p>
<p>I've heard stories though some kid got busted just because he ollied up a curb or something ridiculous like that.</p>
<p>NIU allows skateboards. I usually hear or see at least three each day. My first semester as a freshman there was a guy who rode a unicycle who had an enormous orange afro. I wished him the worst.</p>
<p>Skateboarding is transportation at Harvey Mudd in Claremont - the dorms are at the top of the hill, the main lecture hall is at the bottom. And they don't mind if you hang your board on the "decorative" "warts" on the buildings. Even the president of the school is learning to skateboard - I guess that's California!</p>
<p>A lot of people use skateboards as transportation here at Colorado College and there's no problem with it.</p>