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Last week, the Washington Post wrote an article mainly about how Penn has shed its image as a crime-ridden University and has improved its relations with the community extensively. This is true, to a point, but it was an odd article especially after the crime surge that took place on campus this fall. The article read:
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.”
And, just Sunday morning — when yours truly was in West Philadelphia no less — this happened:
Engineering sophomore Mari Oishi was shot at about 2:45 a.m. this morning near 38th and Sansom streets.
Whoo! Nothing bad ever happens at Penn!
Urban Colleges Learn to be Good Neighbors [WaPo]
Penn student shot at 38th, Sansom [Daily Pennsylvanian]
Jan 10: Fun with juxtaposition, university edition
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