University Hill
Known as Gallows Hill until public education replaced public hangings there, University Hill is southeastern-most of the three upon which Emerald City rests. As the neighborhood’s name indicates, Emerald City University, the region’s leading public college, is located there. Its sprawling campus is surrounded by artsy neighborhoods full of apartment complexes with student-friendly rent, all-night bars and dance clubs, avant-garde art galleries, midnight movie theatres, and other amenities aimed at the youth culture.
The people of University Hill tend to fall into one of two broad categories. First are the students: young, attractive, and blessed with copious amounts of free time plus their first exposure to higher knowledge and wisdom. For the first time in their lives, they have embraced something with a passion, be it Plato, anime, enviro-feminism, beer, Buddhism, Red Phantom graphic novels, sororities, Native American studies, or sex. Life for them is pursuing their chosen devotion with every fiber of their hearts, souls, minds, and parents’ bank accounts... or working if they’re not so lucky.
Category number two encompasses all the people gainfully employed at providing and facilitating the passions of youth. In many ways, this group is as colorful and diverse as the population they serve. Among them are the brilliant and eccentric political science professor who greets admiring students in ancient Greek, the hip theatre owner who books El Topo for a week of midnight shows, and that cool bartender who totally doesn’t check ID’s.
To venture onto University Hill is to enter their world. Even caped heroes who fly there in pursuit of a world-threatening super-criminal had best be prepared for an antiglobalism rally, carloads of fans on their way to an ECU Sasquatches football game, a wicked awesome kegger at the Gamma Rho Phi house, and similar inconveniences.
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