<p>D has found the social scene at AU to be fine. She is not into drinking and frat parties yet every weekend there is something going on that she and friends attend. She is planning to rush when she returns. If not at AU, then, geez, the whole city of DC is alive and hopping with everything from A-Z on weekends…and in between. Its a matter of getting out of your comfort zone and taking advantage of the city and AU.</p>
<p>Washington D.C. is not a playground. It is like any urban area, and it is totally naive to think that it is safe for our daughters to be running around on the subway at night looking for social events. Women are obviously more vulnerable to crime. My daughter has even been accosted in Tenley a few times. My husband and I met a gentleman who works for the administration at AU. He told us that he is amazed at how many kids who attend AU, who have never lived in a city, take their safety very lightly. Apparently, the parents who are not urban people possess this same lack of awareness.</p>
<p>Yay! Knew you would come through in the New Year! Let’s see, accosted “a few times” in Tenley (Whole Foods and Starbucks can be so perilous), bike stolen, dissed by the Art Dep’t., no men in her life, wild partying in the dorm, living in the hellhole that is DC. Thank goodness the poor child can leave for greener pastures in just a few months.</p>
<p>My D goes everywhere via Metro in DC, as did S when he lived there, as do H and I when we visit. H and I went to grad school in NYC in its worst days (the 70’s) and we know that with basic common sense, no one need fear living in an urban environment. DC is a fabulous city, and AU, with a quasi suburban location and real campus that is nevertheless convenient to all of DC, is a fantastically located university.</p>
<p>I grew up in NYC in the 60s when it was much less safe than it is today (though I had terrific egg creams!) My wife grew up in DC when it was much less safe than it is today. </p>
<p>Statistically, the least safe place for college women is on the college campus itself, and they have most to fear from their fellow students. And they might fall out of the 7’ bunk beds, and get sick from the condoms by elevator because their immune systems were weakened by poor nutrition, and they pick up a disease from the unsterile needles.</p>
<p>She was accosted by Wilson students that congregate at the place where the AU shuttle drops them off near the subway system. Her friends also experienced this. There are newly installed police cameras at that stop as a result of crime. (put in this month). There is a very diverse group of kids that attend Wilson now, and the school is a mere block away.</p>
<p>Once again–Don’t feed the ■■■■■</p>
<p>Yep, good advice hello5.</p>
<p>The posters on the Cornell forum are having fun with CR as well.</p>
<p>Apparently AU is not the only school to give upperclass students priority in class registration…CR is complaining of exactly the same “problem” at Cornell. But the posters on the Cornell forum are meaner.</p>
<p>There’s also a Cornell post that says something like “no wonder the AU parents think you’re a ■■■■■”</p>
<p>There are so few parents contributing to this thread because of the continued bullying and the callous, mocking remarks regarding my daughter’s problems. Being accosted is not something to take lightly. I receive private messages from parents who feel sorry for me and are absolutely amazed at my bravery to continue posting on a bullying type of forum.</p>
<p>Put up or shut up. Let’s see 'em. You can change the names of the parents who sent 'em. In fact, we could start a new 'feeling sorry for ‘red’ thread.</p>
<p>Did you finish your paper yet?</p>
<p>It is interesting that of the ten new surveillance police cameras installed at subway stops in all of Washington D.C., and Montgomery County, Metro chose to install them at the Tenleytown-AU metro stop to deter crime in Tenley. My daughter also mentioned kids being accosted in Friendship Heights. I have family who live there, and criminals are known to get out at the metro there and bother the elderly who comprise a big portion of that area.</p>
<p>I feel sorry for any parents who are taken in.</p>
<p>Come on, let’s see 'em.</p>
<p>They are so fearful of being bullied on this thread.</p>
<p>Let’s see 'em. You don’t have to attach any names. Let’s see 'em.</p>
<p>“My daughter has even been accosted in Tenley a few times”—and so were her friends?
Then why wasn’t it reported to Campus Security?</p>
<p>Come on, 'red - be creative - you should be able to gin up something real good for us. If you want one, I’ll write it myself.</p>
<p>“Then why wasn’t it reported to Campus Security?”</p>
<p>Because there is no d.</p>
<p>I’m picturing hundreds of frightened parents, their fingers trembling over the keyboard–should they post on this thread? Oh, but they might be mocked and bullied! Best not to risk it!</p>
<p>Cad–as someone on the Cornell thread said–park the helicopter and let your kids live their own lives! Or as another Cornell poster put it:
your posts = my face + my palm</p>
<p>“My daughter also mentioned kids being accosted in Friendship Heights.”</p>
<p>Oy. AU Health Services must be overrun with the victims of “accostings”. But I suppose those Neiman Marcus shoppers can get mighty scrappy after a long day of trying on the Marc Jacobs and Prada offerings, and I know when I overeat at The Cheesecake Factory and I can get a little cranky. And who knows what sort of hooligans stay at the Embassy Suites. I guess I shouldn’t be fooled by the fact that the area is called the Rodeo Drive of Washington DC. The AU girls must only go in large groups to J. Crew, and only in the daylight.</p>
<p>To AU parents, (excl. cadred): Friendship Heights is a lovely area, though much of the shopping is a little rich for my blood and well beyond my D’s wallet. Nice multiplex theater there and a number of places to eat. And it’s easily accessible–one stop on the Metro or a bus ride from the stop outside Katzen. Another nice aspect to AU’s location–the big city in one direction, a posh suburban-style shopping area in the other.</p>
<p>S and friends like to celebrate birthdays and play openings, etc., at Maggiano’s in Friendship Heights–fun for a group. They have been asked for handouts from those unfortunates who think those who frequent Friendship Heights have ample assets–but then they have been asked for handouts in DC, Chicago, NY, Richmond and on Mercer Island. But accosted??? NO.</p>