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  1. N Judah
    They could have backed down because they weren't against density per se, they were against density that hurts resale value. There exists density that helps, not hurts, resale value. The real question is whether or not the angry neighbors know this.
  2. N Judah
    Well, that's what I"m saying...there could be options that work out for everybody. Situations involving development of high-rises/density/whatever aren't always zero-sum games, but apparently someone has convinced that crowd that that is the case.
  3. N Judah
    There are some really pretty, dense buildings along Bissonnet (right near where this high rise is supposed to go). In particular I like the collection of white townhome-style buildings. I can understand the fear, given other high rise disasters, but there's no reason density in and of itself is unable to fit in with a particular neighborhood.
  4. N Judah
    That area's already pretty dense. I think it makes sense to put a high rise there.
  5. N Judah
    In San Diego it used to be legal to drink beer on the street. I think that in Europe you can drink beer on the street if you feel like it. When I lived in California I did that all the time. However, I have never seen anyone do it in Houston.
  6. N Judah
    Sure but you don't have to denigrate everybody else's ethnicity/culture to do it.
  7. N Judah
    It's doesn't really matter. The quality of the education itself doesn't change when the name changes.
  8. N Judah
    I don't mind the name but I think it should be "college" instead of "university." It just sounds better and seems more accessible.
  9. N Judah
    No...east. Under 59, on the other side of the freeway from the mall. Maybe "nice" is the wrong word. But I like it, and only another couple of miles and you're in Bellaire. Anyway, I think Sharpstown's perceived dangerousness is overstated. If I were in charge I'd just turn it into an office park or something and not worry too much about the surrounding area.
  10. N Judah
    Along Bellaire once you cross over 59 is really nice, imho.
  11. N Judah
    Yes, you don't even have to go a mile East/SE before it gets very nice. But "surrounded" ? Have you ever been north of Interstate 10?
  12. N Judah
    Yes, it is absolutely correct that I am incredibly biased against degree mills superimposed on top of football factories. Wow. I don't know what to say...
  13. N Judah
    No...UT is a joke. Most large public schools are pretty bad, but UT is known for being the worst. EDIT: Actually, I'll give high school counselors credit for being idiots. Not all of them know that about UT, but they really should.
  14. N Judah
    Er...I'm sorry you were confused (did you try looking on the internet?), but I don't think it is an issue for most people. Even if there is a certain subset of employers who don't know their way around town I don't think it's very significant. Anybody who needs to know the difference already knows, and anybody who is unaware can be told in 30 seconds or less. The most important thing to remember is that neither school is typically thought of as being better than the other in any meaningful way, and the UH-D students mentioned in that survey are deluded if they think that it is a boon to be confused with students from UH-Main Campus. Exclusivity for the sake of exclusivity is a noble goal, and if that is your interest there are many, many schools for that (almost too many). Yes, it does. UT-Austin is a degree mill superimposed on top of a football factory if not for Plan II, and every high school counselor in Texas knows this. Soon it could be the same for U of H. That would be quite a cultural shift. I think you just went to the wrong school. Is that what you did? I understand the desire to make UH better but for my part I would prefer U of H be improved in more substantial ways instead of by simply attempting to be more exclusive. Blaming UH's perceived lack of prestige on UH-Downtown was absurd to me at first, but what do I know? Now that the albatross that is UH-D has been jettisoned I guess UH is on the make. UTEP and SFA had better look over their shoulders.
  15. N Judah
    No, the students aren't the ones getting confused by the name change, remember? It's the supposed employers who apparently can't tell the difference between UH and UH-D, or "City College" and "Community College." It's true that it might be a lot to expect from people around here, but people in many other places do not have problems distinguishing "City College" from "Community College." "Houston Metropolitan University" is not bad but people will have to avoid shortening the word "Metropolitan" lest others think they are going to college to learn how to drive a bus. It's not easy to just "tighten admissions standards." You have to have significantly more people wanting to go to a school than there are available spots. That will not happen for a while. At the undergrad level the best thing a public school like U of H can do is focus on the really motivated students (ie Honors College) and make sure they are able to get the internships, letters of rec, or whatever to accomplish whatever it is they want. This can be done irrespective of general university enrollment standards. Actually the business minor is separate from Bauer admissions. Anyone can do it as long as they have a 2.75 overall GPA or something like that. I agree. Prestige is great if that's your reason for going to school, and there are schools for that, but I don't think perception of exclusivity is really what U of H is all about.
  16. N Judah
    I'm talking about undergrad, where supposed "name confusion" might occur. UH-D doesn't even have grad/professional schools.
  17. N Judah
    Actually my idea was "U of H - City College." There are many schools called "City College" and nobody seems to get them confused with community colleges. That's right about where U of H is too. Neither school has a "name" factor that warrants worrying about other schools tarnishing its rep. Anyway I am just glad they're keeping open enrollment.
  18. N Judah
    Not everybody goes to school for the "name." If employers don't understand U of H v. UH-D then that's their problem. They can just find someone (anyone) from either school to explain it. "Houston Metropolitan University" makes it seem somehow...inaccessible. I liked "City College" better.
  19. N Judah
    The mall itself used to be much worse...and the area north of I-10 was about as bad as Sharpstown is now.
  20. N Judah
    Obviously none of you have been in town long enough to have seen the turnaround at Memorial City. Trust me, all the malingering in the world won't improve an area, no matter how you feel about anybody else.
  21. N Judah
    I don't think so. Memorial City was once the same way but remodeling encouraged the gangstas to go elsewhere.
  22. N Judah
    No...I accounted for that possibility. I'm not forcing you to arbitrarily draw any particular line other than whatever one you want to draw regarding whatever you happen to think are your "personal affairs." What I'm saying is that your "freedoms" and "choices" operate within the bounds of constraints. Whatever reasons you have for not wanting to have a child are the product of others' aggregate decisions which make up society. If you're a wage-slave/veal with no hope for the future then your "decision" is essentially made for you. A society with many such people will see many such "choices." Ideally no one should actually have to "choose" between betraying their sole biological purpose for the sake of, say, making middle management happy. Hrm...actually, it is really my fault that you so completely fail to understand my point. I wish I were better at expressing myself. Sorry!
  23. N Judah
    The pro-lifers are philosophically consistent, while the pro-choicers are (at best) opportunistic/arbitrary and (at worst) eugenecists who are too cowardly to be open about their true beliefs. Anyway my perspective on the subject is that abortion is symptomatic of larger societal ills. It's an indicator of how cowed/whipped people are to believe that it's not feasible to complete their sole biological mission. Instead they allow themselves to believe that it's somehow better to be somebody else's veal, caged and only useful for purposes of extraction of labor, blindly accepting of the constraints placed upon them by others.
  24. N Judah
    I don't know how you could possibly know that for sure. Thankfully, that doesn't preclude such a society from ever being able to exist.
  25. N Judah
    They need a cowboy hat store to appeal to tourist conventioneers.
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