Time for Emerson College to have its own T stop, some students say

O hai, Mr. Able Bodied.

It has already re-located once. It was previously at Berkley and Beacon but moved to its current location after rejecting a move to Lawrence. But, it has also expanded to Washington Street where the Paramount Theatre is located, so what was once its main campus across from the Boylston T (a misnomer, since it really doesn't have a campus) has spread beyond that area.

It also owns a castle in The Netherlands, which the green line doesn't go anywhere near.

Emerson did relocate- have only been in that part of town since about 1992 or so- I went there when they were spread out on Beacon Street/ Beacon Hill/ Kenmore areas and when they almost moved to Lawrence

At the BU, Northeastern, and BC stops, there is pretty much nothing else there except the college.

Boylston, on the other hand, has access to plenty of other things than Emerson College.

Emerson Alum here, and even I think this is stupid. Hopefully the T rejects he idea, but if the college is gonna throw money at them....who knows?
My main gripe is that Boylston, to my knowledge, is the stop's original name, and it is one of the original stops on America's oldest subway. Some train historians here may correct me, but regardless, Emerson's size and mobility through the city (If you don't think they'll sell those buildings they have built up in the former combat zone once they become worth so much the profit can't be ignored, then move to Quincy, you don't know Emerson) don't warrant naming a T stop after the place.
I do however like the idea of sprucing up the stop with art, maybe some sound-proofing (Boston's screechiest subway stop-woo!), maybe some signage or allusion to Emerson being there, but not the name. "Theater District" would be more appropriate anyhow.

It has been a long time coming, but a full rehab and refacing of the Little Building is slated to begin this May, at the end of the term.

In addition to being Emerson's largest dorm, the Little Building houses the Emerson College Police Department, the main dining area, and numerous offices. These services are being moved to other locations on campus: a new dorm and dining hall are under construction on Boylston Place, and the Gym, Cabaret, and Equipment Distribution Center have already moved. Last to go will be ECPD.

...start furiously typing away like a keyboard cowboy. I came to Boston in 1999, to attend Emerson. Living at 80 Boylston I heard police sirens nightly and the occasional gunshot. Across from our dorm a porno movie theater still operated out of the basement level of a Tremont St building that now houses a karaoke place, I bet it still stinks of ...y'know. You could buy or sell stolen merchandise at Charlie Flynn's and bring your 12 year old cousin in for a beer. The 7-11 on the corner of Stuart and Tremont was a place where you could buy crack at the counter, or at least be locked inside while you were looking for hangover cure (Gatorade) while the clerk sold someone crack at the counter. Granted, 1999-2000 were the death throes of the Combat Zone, but Emerson entered into a deal with the city to buy and revamp several of the buildings in that area. Much like Chinatown is now being gentrified, that area was ripe for development with many boarded up buildings and buildings in disrepair. Before the Opera House was restored I was taken inside by a friend who worked at the Tam and knew a way in. There were bums living in there, and the place sported a lot of its original interior, wasting away. The Paramount, Opera House, Cutler Majestic, 100-120 Boylston, The building behind the Cutler, were all bought and restored by Emerson. The Colonial is owned by Emerson. They have done quite a bit to keep the Theater District full of theaters. They are a major reason why you can walk through the area and not get offered drugs or sexual favors these days. I'm not saying they are the sole reason, but they were a major player in the area's transformation, and because they owned prime Back Bay real estate (Marlboro, Beacon St Brownstones), they were able to finance large portions of those projects through the sales of that real estate.
Pretty sure my tuition went to paying for a multi-million dollar hole in the ground that we used to throw empty kegs in, but there is a beautiful building there now, and its construction only killed one doctor (scaffolding incident).
Your examples of roads being plowed, and fire department that Emerson uses is ridiculous. The whole of Emerson is on 3 streets now. Boylston, Tremont, and Washington Streets. Are you saying that those places SHOULDN'T be serviced unless Emerson coughs up more PILOT? I bet hundreds of other offices/businesses/institutions would have a problem with that. Also, like another poster said further up, the size of Emerson is dwarfed by places like Northeastern, BU and BC. They are less than a quarter of the size of these other schools who occupy entire NEIGHBORHOODS. BU owns a stretch of town from Allston to Kenmore that doesn't even have a name, it's just Boston University.
You can gripe about schools not paying enough, but singling out Emerson is barking up the wrong tree. It's like bitching about a mom and pop hardware store while standing right next to a Wal-Mart.