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re: WTF went down at the cottages on Ben Hur?
Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:45 am to NIH
Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:45 am to NIH
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It'll only get worse if TOPS gets the axe. Parents who were once paying a few hundred bucks or nothing at all towards tuition will be staring down $5-6000 a semester plus the high rent these places charge.
You're exactly right. There won't be any incentive to live in these kinds of places in a few years once TOPS is gone. Hell, who will want to go to LSU when the tailgating is gone, no more TOPS, and this shite? It's progressively getting worse and worse it seems.
On a side note, the Cottages is so poorly run these days. I'm not sure why anyone would want their kid to live there. I got tricked into living there essentially b/c the tour they gave portrayed some really decent houses to live in (I was a naive fricker). The one me and my roommates at the time received had dog/cat hair scattered everywhere, mold was growing in the air vents, and I couldn't even flush fricking toilet paper down the toilet (the maintenance crew didn't even know how to fix my toilet)... That's literally the last apartment complex I would want my kids staying at. Not to mention the security at the Cottages is awful. They almost always leave the gates open, and the alarm systems at each of the houses hardly ever work. It's no wonder they have been getting an influx of thugs as of late.
tl;dr - BR is violent and the Cottages suck. Choose wisely parents.
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Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:48 am to NIH
Section 8 is the single worst government program in existence. It is an unrelenting cancer. And now there is a policy of spreading the ghetto out, intentionally, to areas that are ghetto-free. It's perverse and sick but will never be abolished. landlords and apartment corporations want it, and of course on the other side liberals would cry racism.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:49 am to KindaRaw
Did the third female victim die too?
Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:55 am to ihometiger
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Did the third female victim die too?
I heard the third victim was a male actually. Not sure if he died though.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:56 am to KindaRaw
Article says his wounds aren't life threatening.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 10:57 am to Creamer
Good to hear.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:21 am to KindaRaw
None of the victims were LSU students.
Also in fairness to Baton Rouge this rapid advance of apartments/college housing going up, has happened to a lot of large universities, including ones in isolated college towns like Oxford. It is large national corporations that build them so cheaply that are playing a very easy risk/reward game because of section 8.
Would not be surprised to see a security guard at the little hut at the cottages from now on, not that could have/would have prevented that. But for anyone else on the board that goes to LSU it would be somewhat noteworthy.
Also in fairness to Baton Rouge this rapid advance of apartments/college housing going up, has happened to a lot of large universities, including ones in isolated college towns like Oxford. It is large national corporations that build them so cheaply that are playing a very easy risk/reward game because of section 8.
Would not be surprised to see a security guard at the little hut at the cottages from now on, not that could have/would have prevented that. But for anyone else on the board that goes to LSU it would be somewhat noteworthy.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:23 am to CoastTrashTiger
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None of the victims were LSU students.
Is this confirmed?? Prayers for whomever it was but I'm thankful it wasn't someone I know.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:27 am to CoastTrashTiger
The Cottages are definitely going to change some policies after this. They can't afford to compete with the five brand new complexes with this shite going down. Someone will certainly be changing some policies after hundreds of parents and students call in bitching and trying to break lease.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:32 am to TigersSEC2010
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:32 am to SuperSaint
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20 years ago when the crime rate was much much much worse
The crime rate or the arrest rate?
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:36 am to tiger91
Two deceased are Southern University students per The Advocate
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The third victim is a 24-year-old man who's expected to survive, BRPD said.
This post was edited on 4/10/16 at 11:38 am
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:38 am to CoastTrashTiger
I'd imagine they build them, and dump them within a few years b/c of the natural progression of things. Would be the smart thing to do
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:39 am to Slinky
Cue the culcha
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:48 am to tiger91
Confirmed
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:54 am to biglego
I'm almost positive this was a college party thrown by a student that anyone just invites themselves to. Happens all the time. The section 8 joke here doesn't apply. What youre saying about section 8 in general may be true though. But trust me there are always parties there thrown by students, I know plenty of them. It's not random ghetto blacks throwing them like you may want to believe.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:56 am to UptownnMike
Yeah, classic college rager. Two dead, one wounded.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:57 am to UptownnMike
Having a DJ doesn't seem like a random, spur-of-the-moment party
Posted on 4/10/16 at 11:59 am to Hammertime
Lol no man.
Posted on 4/10/16 at 12:03 pm to Hammertime
Exactly what happened to the Cottages. Company built them super cheap and they were reallu popular for 3-4 years because it was the first of these type of complexes in Baton Rouge. The company sold it to another one just before the buildings started to get worn down and needed a ton of repairs. Management/quality of buildings along with the rise of other complexes led to its demise.
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