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November 22, 2005
Students tour area of Columbia’s plan
Harlem residents fear $5B project will evict them
Metro
by Amy Zimmer
Columbia and Barnard undergraduates take a walking tour of sections of West Harlem threatened by eminent domain seizures for their university's planned expansion.
Some students' reactions:
“It’s hard not to side with the West Harlem community and feel like our school is an overwhelming dominating force,” said Zoe Forbath, a Barnard sophomore.
But John Lee, a Columbia sophomore who had never walked around this area prior to Dunn’s tour, didn’t think many students were paying attention.
“My friends and I, we tend to read comic books on Friday nights,” Lee said. “It’s kind of interesting or ironic that there were huge riots when Columbia tried to take over land [in 1968], but now there was more of an uprising about tailgating at football games than about this.”
Posted by lumi at November 22, 2005 6:51 AM