Fun with juxtaposition, university edition

Here’s an excerpt from an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, about how many colleges — especially Penn — have turned bad relations with the community around (for the most part) and are now much safer than they once were, say, 10-15 years ago:

Today, Penn is the among the hottest schools in the country — sitting smack in the middle of a clean and vital retail neighborhood where crime has been reduced by 49 percent in the past decade, and where students swarm the streets shopping at upscale stores. Penn has jumped in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings to No. 4 and attracts significantly more applicants — successes that school administrators attribute in large part to Penn’s “West Philadelphia Initiative.”

Ok? Now here’s the first paragraph of a story in Penn’s student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, which also ran yesterday:

A man was shot and killed early on Christmas morning in local campus eatery Philly Diner, located at 3925 Walnut St.

Now that’s media synergy!

Urban Colleges Learn To Be Good Neighbors [Washington Post]
One killed in shooting at Philly Diner [Daily Pennsylvanian]