SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University graduates the largest class in its history—some 1,638 students—during its annual Spring Commencement ceremonies on Saturday, May 18, at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center.
This year’s commencement speakers are graduates Jacob Liechty of Salisbury at the 10 a.m. ceremony, and Noelle Ford of Towson, MD, at 2:30 p.m.
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I just hope that "most" of them stay away from Hazel ave, since there weren't many there...this past wk-end.
1600 new unemployed (and many unemployable) with $60,000 in student loans wrapped around their necks. Its a great country, huh? Just hope their mom and dad kept their room clean, 'cause thats where they'll be living next month.
Maybe they'll become politicians.
Could this be because SU is taking over Salisbury?? They own half the town?? Sad to say I wish it stayed a community College. Was less traffic, less crime, less farm land being turned into apartments,and farms still being used as farms. Small business able to survive and not being out numbered by 100 other fast food restaurants, Need I say more?? I can go on forever why it was a mistake turning it into a University. Just saying !!
It was never a community college.
It was not a community college. It was a small teacher's college. Then a small state college.
Now it is party central with about half that graduating number tearing up a neighborhood this weekend.
9:38 has made a great point. When you consider the number of businesses run off from that area, the traffic, the party problems, etc., etc., has Salisbury really "progressed"?
9 38 you are clueless.
Crime? Please, show me all of the crime that happens in the college area.
If you really think SU's growth has hurt this area, thats truely hapless.
11 55, first off: Hazel avenue is already tore up, dont be disingenuous.
second: Right. Businesses have been run off because of the college. That makes absolute sense that businesses would leave at the first sign of growth in an area.
third: party problems? A party in the middle of the day on a saturday? seriously who cares? why do you care? Its just a party, you were young once, dont act like you never did it.
9:38, would you be saying the same if you were the franchise owner of one of those fast food restaraunts? How about if you were the farmer that sold off your land for a profit? Or the landlord/owner of those new apartments?
Sadly SU has done little to prepare these graduates for the real world ahead. The college debt will follow them for years, over 50% will not find a real job, and unless they are in a gov job, the reality will be very scary. Spend a couple of days on campus, I did, and you will see a liberal dream, not a institution that prepares leaders. We are so in trouble!
Sorry students, but when college kids move into the neighborhoods, you cause trouble, a great deal of noise, litter (beer cans, bottles, etc.), parking congestion, and generally destroy the peace and quiet of property owners who pay taxes.
You are attending school to learn and prepare for your careers, not party central. Your parents worked long and hard to make enough money to send you to school and you waste their efforts on your behalf on drunken parties destroying property...very intelligent.
Home owners don't like SU students in their neighborhoods because of their behavior. The college can put a PR spin on it by the "helping clean-up the neighborhoods", "raking leaves" ect. but that doesn't change the facts. It just helps with damage control publicity for the college.
Yes, college kids are away from their parents control and get wild because no one is watching them and they don't answer to mom and dad. That doesn't mean you still shouldn't honor your parents who are footing the bills. Act like responsible semi-adults if you want to be taken seriously.
You, the party kids, give the honest hard working students that have to work, study, and maybe take care of a family a bad name and image. I feel sorry for them. The party-animals we can all live without.
SU needs to be a college that actually teaches rather than a landfill of patrons looking for recognition. In the end, the students haven't really developed well. Their behavior is your verification.
This is 9:38, I meant to say Salisbury State. I still stick to the rest of my opinion!! I am not clueless, I just see that SU getting greedier and greedier with each new president that runs it. :)
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