Posted on 08/28/2019 9:48:29 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Students living on campus near the construction site of New College House West say they are being shaken awake from their beds in the morning and disrupted by the loud noises.
Situated at the corner of 40th and Walnut streets, construction on the record-breaking $163 million dorm hall began in December 2018, with the site facing Du Bois College House, Gregory College House, and Rodin College House. Residents say administrators are not properly addressing their concerns and have not taken the proper steps to offer a solution to the NCHW noise levels.
NCHW construction starts at 7 a.m. and lasts until 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday
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The apartment complex where I live is under construction too.
I hate it, but I deal with it. Only a temporary thing.
The building has to be brought up to code and earthquake proofed. It is what it is.
When I worked overnight hours and they did construction for weeks in my neighborhood, rebuilding the streets, I cursed and swore and then got ear plugs.
It never occurred to me that it wasn’t necessary.
And they’re not gonna do it overnight because that was MY shift :)
Now THIS is First World Problems.
These pajama boys should go and picket the construction site instead of complaining to the college administrators. I am sure the teamsters, carpenters local and IBEW would sympathize with them.
One would think the students would get used to noises. They experience gunshots, and sirens every evening.
Du Bois college house—is that place segregated by any chance? :-)
Or better, perhaps they should join the military. They’d love sleeping until 7:00 am.
Yeah and we used to get rousted out of our dorm rooms three times a night because of frat rats pulling the fire alarms as part of their initiation. Life bites sometimes.
A decade or so ago, a Penn student called a noisy gaggle of [mostly?] black chicks lingering outside his dorm window "a bunch of water buffaloes" and was nearly expelled.
My frat house was next to a train track.
Ever lived in an apartment below the apartment bedroom of a young couple?
Except it’s in West Philly which falls squarely in the Third World Cess Pool category.
I saw my first and only Eagles game at Franklin Field in 1960. In early 1964, I saw both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in a Penn auditorium the name of which I’ve long forgotten. A cousin went to Drexel just west of Penn in the early ‘70’s and we used to ride our motorcyles back and forth between his fraternity house and our tiny home village northwest of there in Skippack Township.
I can just hear Jocelyn Elders now... "We need quieter hammers!!!".
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