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31November t1_j5orudp wrote

Reply to comment by growtilltall757 in Temple holds safety town hall after student attacked near campus by redeyeblink

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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