Is Emory a party school?

bernie12
Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:59:32 +0000

Druid Hills is the wealthy community/suburb directly surrounding Emory (the extremely wealthy portion is runs from North Decatur east toward Ponce de Leon basically). While it has some “new money”(a household not really associated with generational wealth, and rose from ground up kind of) families, it has a lot of old money (money passed down in families, or families spawning from a wealthy predecessor). It’s kind of like some of those neighborhoods in the northeast/mid-Atlantic, but is actually southern. It, I believe, is still the wealthiest neighborhood in Atlanta city (if I’m right, I’m sure new money Buckhead is close). Going trick-or-treating (that’s right, my friends dragged me lol) last year, I realized that it has a great deal of conservatism (though many are still liberal as they can live there comfortably due in part to Emory), while Emory does not. Emory is isolated from this culture. Emory is also isolated from the “new south” culture that pervades throughout the rest of Atlanta. In essence, Atlanta is still the south. I’m tired of students not from here saying that Atlanta does not feel like the south (as if this is inherently bad.) as if they actually know what it’s like outside of movies/media. Atlanta still has many/most of those characteristics left too. It’s just more left leaning than the rest of the southeast b/c of the various social movements (most/all involving race) that took place here. Lefter leaning does not make a city less southern in my opinion. They should get out of Emory and look around and maybe they’d find that the south isn’t horrible (some come in with this opinion) as if the Northeast does not have intolerance, shall we cite snobbery, or the ground zero Islamic community center controversy? NYC itself (the “great” city of the north) has racial tension aside from this incident (so do most large cities). Some students here are as ignorant and narrow-minded as the caricatured uneducated southern person. They’ve been blinded by their wealth and their surroundings. A person’s wealth can allow them to go w/o seeing or caring about the problems up there. Unfortunately, this goes for students at every top school, including the privates. Luckily, like ic said, we have quite a spread in this area as the campus is economically diverse, so fortunately it’ll be harder to run into such students.