By Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen, September 9, 2014
When I was an undergraduate student at Western, I served for a year as the
University Students’ Council’s municipal affairs officer a position I see
they’ve modernized to the Mr. Rogers’-friendly Neighbourhood Relations
Coordinator. The job mainly involved recruiting and training volunteers to
essentially be student reps on their block. They’d put a sign up in their window
— much like the ones given to Block Parents back in the day — so neighbours who
were worried about loud parties, dilapidated couches on front porches and
front-lawn parking had somewhere to turn. via
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