Noise-lover soccer22champ thinks I am crazy for defending the idea that an educational environment should be quiet and next challenges me to find 20 students between the ages of 18 and 24 who have complained about noise. I refer this noise-lover to this information:
Oklahoma Daily article about students complaining about cell phone use in the library:
http://www.oudaily.com/news/2006/mar/08/quiet-please/
Student newspaper columnist deplores cell phone use in the library:
http://www.oudaily.com/news/1999/apr/22/new-technology-means-new-rules-of-etiquette/
letters from students complaining about cell phone use in the library
http://www.oudaily.com/news/2001/feb/22/your-views/
http://www.oudaily.com/news/2006/mar/09/your-views-31006/
Oklahoma Daily criticizes the administration for not enforcing the cell phone ban
http://www.oudaily.com/news/2006/mar/19/hit-or-miss-3-20-06/
on page 2 of this public Facebook album are scans of two letters from OU students protesting rock bands in the dorm areas:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=73685&l=e5576&id=567381284
Go here and scroll down for the comment by Bryan Trachier
http://hub.ou.edu/articles/article.php?article_id=1204106026
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In 1985, in Norman, Oklahoma, the nuisance barking dog problem first began to disrupt my life and inflict me with sleep deprivation. It's still here, along with the menace of loud auto stereos. If you're thinking about moving to Norman, and value quiet in your own home, then think again.
I especially discourage pensioners from moving here. Norman does not deserve your money.
Business owners thinking of relocating to Norman should also think again. If you want your employees to be alert in the daytime and not drowsy from sleep deprivation, Norman is not the place to be. Unless you are planning to pay everyone a large enough salary to afford an expensive home in a quiet gated community, your employees will be at risk of sleep deprivation caused by barking dogs and boom cars.
SLEEP DEPRIVATION AND CANCER
There is medical research indicating that sleep deprivation is a likely risk factor for cancer. The reason is because the body manufactures melatonin, a cancer-fighting hormone, during deep sleep at night. See this MSNBC report:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22026660/
Sleep deprivation also causes fatigue and associated daytime drowsiness, accidents, and reduced productivity. Additionally it leads to immunesuppression and greater susceptibility to infectious diseases.
ELEVATED BLOOD PRESSURE
Medical researchers have found that noise can elevate blood pressure, even while we're sleeping, and thus contribute to cardiovascular illness in the long run. Go here for a New York Times report about this:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9800E5DB1E3BF937A35750C0A96E9C8B63&scp=17&sq=noise&st=nyt
DISRUPTION OF MY HOME OFFICE BY BARKING NUISANCES & BOOMCARS
In the 90s I won four federal grants from the Small Business Innovation Research program of the National Institutes of Health. Here is an AP article about one of my projects:
http://www.aegis.com/news/ap/1995/AP950317.html
Writing the applications for these awards was a complex undertaking. I wrote them all from a home office. By 1998, the noise nuisance was so severe that I could no longer work from my home.
EXCESSIVE NOISE & PROPERTY VALUES
The jerks in our governments who have been allowing noise-makers to rule can only understand one thing: money.
From the Road Engineering Journal, here is an article about the fact that too much noise from vehicles will make property values decline. Property tax collections will decline too.
http://www.usroads.com/journals/p/rej/9710/re971004.htm
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