<p>Well, I guess I fail to see what good warning incoming freshmen about the pile-driving does when in the same post she says the pile driving will be over in April. While the rest of the construction obviously won’t be noise free, they will be pretty far along with the exterior work by move-in, leaving mostly interior work while they are freshmen.</p>
<p>Also, it may have started out as a shout-out about the construction, but it went much farther. To be clear, I have said many times to family and friends that I think the old dorms at Tulane (Sharp, Monroe, Phelps, Paterson, Irby, Butler, and probably others. I don’t think I was ever in Warren, but I will take Zaichev’s word for it that it belongs in the same group) need to be replaced. They aren’t that nice by today’s standards, and to be on par with schools with whom they want to compete they need to have more Wall’s. Obviously that is the plan, and it is a shame they couldn’t (or didn’t) do it sooner.</p>
<p>But to read Zaichev’s last several posts as a group, Tulane is a school with rat-infested ghetto quality dorms that are death traps and no one in the administration cares. Meanwhile, this all happens in an atmosphere of drunken, spoiled rich students who snub scholarship students and almost no one takes their classes seriously anyway. And that all takes place in a city of rude people where you are going to get mugged anyway. OK, before everyone gets upset I know I am exaggerating some of the aspects of her comments, but it is to make a point. When a potential student who doesn’t know much about Tulane and New Orleans reads her comments and how they are presented, that is exactly how they are likely to remember it. So while I totally support her wanting to express things that need improving, I do have a problem with how she presents it. Not that she should care what I think, but I hope if she really wants to support Tulane she will at least think about how it comes across and that this is a public forum.</p>