<p>Cadmiumred is either a ■■■■■ having fun with us or the most seriously disturbed helicopter parent on the planet (see the Cornell posts). Bottom line: don’t believe anything Cad says.</p>
<p>Mini:
Your wife Ellen wrote the other day on this thread that your daughter had conflicts with the third roommate last fall. Dingledan: Maybe a disclaimer should be written how Mini is actually 2 people with quite conflicting posts: Ellen (mini) the wife, and the husband, (mini), who posts with no name.</p>
<p>Yes, she did indeed have two days of conflict, and like the mature college students they are, worked it out quickly. (But not before my d. fell off her 7’ foot bunk bed, cracked her head open, ran out into the hall where she found a huge pile of used condoms by the elevator and a group of male students whose parent hadn’t paid full-freight urinating loudly, having just returned from Citronelle, where they had had egg creams made with Hershey’s.)</p>
<p>Actually, whether students have conflicts with roommate is outside the purview of the AU administration anyway. I’m not sure how a university is supposed to mandate that all students get along and play nice with one another? Although it seems that most mature college students manage to live with one another quite nicely whether or not they become best friends. It’s only the immature students who demand to have things their way, all the time, that seem to have intractable problems, and then demand that others solve the problems for them.</p>
<p>conflicts are inevitable…don’t happily married couples fight sometimes? So mature students, like Mini’s daughter might have occaisonal roommate problems. And mature students work them out and get over them.</p>
<p>And mature, adult college students with parents who let them grow up and develop independence, don’t have parents getting involved with their roommate relationships, unless there is a serious threat to a child’s health or safety…like weapons, or drugs, or a roomie with serious menatal/emotional problems…</p>
<p>Boysx3:
I agree with you about resolving conflicts. The point I was trying to make was that certain posters mentioned that my daughter experienced problems that no other children have which is not the case. Mini’s, Littlebirds, Momma J.'s etc. kids have had some similar issues with noise, roommates, triples, illness etc. We seemed to have more than our share, now with my daughter’s bike being taken, but that’s life according to you guys.</p>
<p>Boysx3:</p>
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<p>tight space only intended for 2 students. That was in the purview of the school as you express it.</p>
<p>The point CR, is that other parents’ children were able to resolve their problems independently. Your daughter was not capable of that, gee wonder why?</p>
<p>Being in a tight space does not necessarily precipitate conflict. My S and many others, I’m sure, decided to keep their triple.</p>
<p>Don’t feed the ■■■■■. It will keep coming back…</p>
<p>You’re right little bird
My last word…</p>
<p>I’m with mini
I personally now believe that CR is a former disgruntled and maladjusted AU student who has transferred to Cornell. Poster has WAY too much knowledge of the DC and AU area – restaurants (the cheap ones, anyone can zagat Citronelle), bars, stores, (whats wagshals?) libraries, even spy hangouts and strip clubs to be a casual visitor to the area.
It wouldn’t surprise me if CR is projecting some of his/her negative experiences at Cornell onto the AU board.</p>
<p>The End!</p>
<p>Hello5:
You are the one who is disgruntled. You know so little about where your child now resides nor care. Wagshals is a marvelous upscale deli on Mass Ave., 1/4 mile from AU, north, towards Westmoreland Circle. Everyone at AU and in Spring Valley knows it. They make their own corned beef in-house and scrumptuous, fresh, takeout meals. Next door, Waghals also has a gourmet market with items such as KOBE beef etc. They also have cooking demos occasionally. Behind these 2 establishments is a Superfresh supermarket where the neighbors and AU community purchases groceries. My daughter used to ride her bike to this little mall. She did tell me the freshmen AU kids didn’t seem to be aware of this mall and always take the shuttle to Tenleytown for everything. I have family in D.C. besides my daughter, which I have mentioned on numerous occasions. I have really gotten to know D.C. through the years. The Palm, Duke Zeiberts, and the old Mel Krupins restaurant downtown were my older haunts. Morty, who is Mel’s brother owns the famous Morty’s deli near AU. My nephew dated Mel’s grandaughter. Small world.</p>