As a sports fan and lifelong Brooklynite, Myers swells with pride when he sees students roaming the hallways in their Nets caps and hoodies.
THINK of Weejuns, the classic penny loafer made by G.H. Bass & Company, and images of preppy American style come to mind — students roaming Ivy League campuses and cool kids in the 1950s and '60s sporting the shoes and rolled up jeans.
The date, he says, seems to change daily as the next tenant, Nando's Peri-Peri, practically foams at the mouth, thinking about those captive students roaming the streets like wildebeests passing through lion country.
Scores of the leased laptops break down each month, and every other morning, when the entire school has study hall, the network inevitably freezes because of the sheer number of students roaming the Internet instead of getting help from teachers.
There is something about the configuration of a college campus, the schedule of courses, and the mobs of students roaming around that places us in a mindset for learning.
Sure, we've got a riverfront of an unmeasured distance, and there may be some art school students roaming around down there at this very moment.
The University of Delaware earlier this week suspended the school's rugby team for five years after a party associated with some of its members ended with thousands of students roaming the streets and in some cases jumping on cars.
With that in place, there wasn't really anything to differentiate me from the few students roaming the corridors, bar the fact I wasn't paying £9,000 to do so.
Romano first started at the school as assistant principal years ago, and remembers the hallways back then as chaotic, with students continually roaming the halls and getting into trouble, often ending in suspension.
Students roamed the hallways with abandon; in one class of 30, only 5 students had bothered to show up.
In my own experience, walking down Fifth Avenue in New York (with one of the highest median incomes in the country) can leave me feeling like an impoverished grad student, whereas roaming the streets of the South Bronx (with one of the lowest median incomes in the country) instills feelings of humility and gratitude for the regular income provided by my stipend.
