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Most large American Universities are not part of the surrounding town or city. They are in effect their own municipalities.
by gerbal 10y ago
Most large American Universities are not part of the surrounding town or city. They are in effect their own municipalities.
- mbrookes 10y agoAh, interesting - thank you! So it's the civic structure rather than a particularly lawless student base. :) Not so bizarre then - just different!
- arethuza 10y agoIs there anywhere else that has the US model? I worked on a UK university campus for a few years and I don't think they had any security guards (certainly I never met any and I was in and out of buildings at all hours) let alone armed police!
- pjc50 10y agoThe really ancient ones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Constabulary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University_Constabul... (I think that may be the last left).
- aninhumer 10y agoI think UK universities mostly include limited security in their general pastoral support, rather than having dedicated security guards. So there's someone who can e.g. ask a stranger loitering on campus at night what they're doing, but anything serious will be handled by the police.
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- mbreese 10y agoSome of the literally are their own municipalities. Two examples: The University of Notre Dame is in Notre Dame, Indiana, which happens to be surrounded by South Bend, Indiana. Same with Stanford... which is technically in Stanford, California.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoEven more literally, the city of College Station, Texas, is a city built around the main campus of Texas A&M. Thus the name.