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growtilltall757 t1_j5oq66e wrote

Reply to comment by go_berds in Temple holds safety town hall after student attacked near campus by redeyeblink

I thought it was about the late night drunken carousing and developers of cheap student housing pushing locals out. Maybe that was yet another era. I missed the defund era was out of school for 10 years before that became a protest phrase.

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31November t1_j5orudp wrote

It’s all relative. Better to deal with drunk students than lose a massive university in the neughborhood providing jobs and an entire extra police force.

I don’t know what the alternative would be other than just leaving the area that is now Temple as just another poor neighborhood in Northern Philly.

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throws_rocks_at_cars t1_j5p18kf wrote

The university has been there for literally since the 1880s. Every single person that lives near the school had decided affirmatively to choose Temple as a neighbor.

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BasileusLeoIII t1_j5p3i1l wrote

What's more, it was an industrial white working class neighborhood. There isn't even an argument that the locals' ancestors were there before Temple.

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