To contact uni about pissed students?

[PigOnStilts]

Every year it's the same. We have nearly six months of peace, then BANG! The flyposting starts up, removal vans pull up and we're back at the start of term with noisy students waking us up shouting in the street. There are loads of families in our street, so safe to assume we were all disrupted last night.

I live in a beautiful old tenement in glasgow...and every autumn it's the same shit. Is there anything that can be done and us there any point in contacting the university?

You don't have to put up with it. I'd be really surprised if the uni didn't take this seriously. Contact either their accommodation service or their student services- they will be able to help. I've worked in higher education for 15 years and whilst obviously a university can't control the behaviour of every student, they can and usually will take action in response to complaints from the community.

Your first step should be to speak to the students concerned nd if you have no joy there, contact the uni directly.

I live in a very student-heavy area (on the doorstep of our local uni) and noise is a regular problem, what with students coming back late from clubbing, holding loud house parties and whatnot. Since I sleep with the window open in summer, this occasionally disturbs me. But that's the hazard of living in such an area.

Don't waste your time fannying around with the local council officers, unless it's a persistent noise problem they might be able to intervene in, and I bet the university can't do anything unless you have the names and addresses of the perpetrators.

If your local student population is causing an anti-social behaviour problem/criminal damage, then your neighbourhood policing team are the people to speak to. Log every instance, rally your neighbours, and get your ward councillor on side (note there is a difference between councillors and council officers).

Or move house.

Glasgow University freshers week isn;t for another fortnight. Are you sure it's not college students? Not that it makes it any worse or better, it's still a pain in the neck for you.

My parents live next door to a student house (they've lived there for forty years). I can't believe how selfish the students are.

Glasgow University freshers week isn't for another fortnight. Are you sure it's not college students? Not that it makes it any worse or better, it's still a pain in the neck for you.

My parents live next door to a student house (they've lived there for forty years). I can't believe how selfish the students are.

Gaaah!

God, you poor thing.

I feel very guilty when I think about the utterly self-centred way we used to behave and the noise we made. And I was possibly more thoughtful than most

It's probably not first years, it's the slightly older ones who have been let out into the community for the first time without mummy

We lived on a road that became increasingly studenty over the 14 years we lived there. It got too much, too stressy, too noisy, too many people walking across our car roofs, too much wee in the front garden, too many parties.

We sold our house to a landlord, who was going to convert our immaculate three bedroom into a five bedroom house. :(

We now live in a field. The cows are very well behaved

Yes, norks, I had it on the market but couldn't bear the thought of it being turned into a student hole....I was kind of grateful that it wasn't shifting tbh.
I'm pragmatic, I've already ordered a solid wood front door as we won't be going anywhere for another year now, but I love my home, my street, my bit of the town....I feel driven out, really, by noise but, if im fair, also by the needs of two kids who will need a garden of their own within a couple of years.

I used to live in a university area and the uni did take complaints about student behaviour seriously. The local paper often had stories about drunken antics and the uni tried to make sure there were good relations with the local residents, not sure it made any difference but they definitely listened to complaints.

I can only assume the people who are asking how you know it's students haven't lived in such an area, it's totally obvious when you live there.

Thanks euphemia! Will call on monday

I used to live opposite the back gate of the western infirmary, 2 closes down from Balbirs'. Couldn't have got much closer to the university if I tried I think.

I'm glad I rented, because that meant I only signed a 6 month tenancy & could leave, unlike the lovely NDNs that had bought their flat.

My uni regularly put notices up warning the students about drunken behaviour and noise and people were punished for it so do contact the uni!

I know exactly where you mean op and its maddness

When you next get drunk and wake me, would you like me to contact your employer? And ask him to have a word?

Or would you rather I came round the next day and asked you to remember its a mixed area and that whilst you appreciate they are settling in, they wouldn't want woken when they are studying/exams so please be considerate.

Also I live in glasgow in a mixed area no problems! Unless you live in one or two tiny areas, where it wud be daft to live, I'm thinking immediately off byres road or behind the library then its unlikely they are all students.

You also realise that as term hasn't even started the uni are unlikely to do anything. Probably send a round robin email saying "please consider the neighbours."

Go and speak to them instead.

Frankly I think the turn out of Oran Mor is worse and Ashton Lane seems to be full of hammered divorcees staggering about. Much more anoying than students.

This or the old lechy men in partick, pissed and pissing over the road. Don't tar all students.

Also, "I live 3 mins from glasgow uni" so clearly you live right centre in student ville, probably behind the uni area.

"therefore they must attend glasgow uni" - don't bet on it.
Many caley or stratchclyde students also live in this area.

This drives me bonkers. I live in University town which has a couple of very well heeled areas which are 'student'.

The university has been there a lot longer than any of the residents. It is also not an area where many people are 'forced' to live.

If you live in a university area you have to accept that this is part and parcel of the area and if you don't like it don't live there or move. It's like people who move under the flight path of Heathrow then complain about the planes.

University students bring massive financial benefits to cities and towns including the money they spend on entertaining themselves. The majority of them are having a couple of years letting off steam after which they will work very hard.

I live in a quieter suburb just outside the main student ones an we have some groups of students here but they generally live here because they too want to be in quieter area.

But seriously, in the suburbs around me half the shops and facilities would be closed if we didn't have the business the students bring in.

Organise a coffee morning, well cheap tea and a slice of cake - push notes thorough doors saying this is free (even if they don't drink tea and hate cake they will turn up for free anything). Say to get free tea and cake they have to listen to 5 mins of you.

Explain how disturbing it is, ask to be reasonable. Ask them to ticket the area if a big party is coming up so you can make arrangements, from ear plugs to going away. Better if your other neighbours are with you obviously.

At the end point out how many small children and babies there are in the area, and how many of you start work at 6am and that when they are writing assessments and revising for exams in a few months, well a group of you might have crying babies who you can only get to sleep with by walking up and down the street at 4am. (not suggesting you wake your babies and make them cry, just record them).

I'm getting a bit pissed off with the assumption that I hate students (I've been here fifteen years so clearly NOT) or that I should fuck off and live somewhere else....The retired professor next door has been here forty years, the lawyer across the road has raised his three kids here very happily I can tell you. Traditionally there has not been much hassle. Or else they'd all be gone. We have one student flat in our block and they are great.

But in the last three or four years there's been later licenses dished out, in venues near me and consequently massive increase in Footfall in my street, and drunken shit like throwing bottles and roaring at eachother....right outside my house. At 1am, then perhaps an argument at 2am...and soforth. But I should put up with that, shouldn't I...because its what people do. Well. I didn't behave like that. At any stage in my life.

ffs! the whole "they're students, its what they do" mentality really gets on my tits!

I have to stand up for PigOnStilts here. I live in the West End and, in my own experience, areas/streets change. We lived in Hyndland for a while, lovely block, young families, elderly couples. But then a couple of HMOs opened up nearby, one in our building, a few on the street, more and more. Most of the students were lovely but that changed with comings and goings. One group would be great but the next year would be replaced by a group who had loads of noisy parties, left their bins out all over the close, were rude to the elderly folk.

So PigOnStilts, I assume, moved into her area in good faith and has been happy there, but things have been different lately.

I'm a PhD student at Glasgow Uni and I work there, so I would definitely say call the number Euphemia posted. The uni is very keen to keep its public reputation clean, especially after the GUU debate scandal.