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Monday, June 05, 2006
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Snapshots from Home Foggy Bottom Bland, blandly titled (“Town vs. Gown”) editorial about UD’s university in today’s Washington Post, which notes, as UD already has, that GW intends to use Square 54,  a large, currently empty space on its Foggy Bottom campus, “for investment purposes to fund the university's future needs.” That is, not for anything related to university life.For a variety of reasons, the residential Foggy Bottom neighborhood is fighting this one in the courts. “[I]t is the lack of trust between GWU and the community that has landed the university in court on other occasions and is once again taking the school back before a judge," says the Post. "It need not keep coming to this. City leadership has a stronger and more conciliatory hand to play than it has thus far. Surely there's a constructive role here for Mayor Anthony A. Williams.” More background from dcist. |