Ross Bender wrote:
What really bugs me about her razzamatazz is the fact that while I've
lived here 22 years as of June 2, I didn't notice any sudden magical
transformation when she blew into town. As other long and longer-term
residents have been witnessing on this list, this has always been a
pretty fine place to live, and lots of people have made it that way. A
million-dollar flackette waving her wand and puffing herself apparently
has made a big impression on some gullible folks, but I just don't see
it that way.
KAREN ALLEN wrote:
Penn/UCD badmouths this neighborhood to this day. Penn still markets
itself by exaggerating how they singlehandedly waived their magic wand
and turned this "post industrial wasteland" of ten years ago into the
heaven-on-earth we see now. And now, as Ross pointed out, they've even
wrote a book about it. UCD still implies that without them, all that we
now see is a mere mirage that will disappear as if someone pulled the
plug on the TV.
As if the neighborhood was a mere abandoned shell, or worse, were full
of residents who were too lazy, or stupid, or both, to do anything about
the "horrible" conditions without the all-knowing Penn there to ride in
and rescue everyone. And as if the same economic changes were not
happening in places that did not have Penn's beneficence bestowed upon
them.
amen and amen.
the whole premise of 'out of the ivory tower and into the
streets' is that there's a 'crisis' on the streets. but it
seems that those in the ivory tower who get to name and
solve this 'crisis' don't really get out of the ivory tower:
http://www.upenn.edu/penniur/about_mission.shtml
btw the other week at clark park I spotted a used condom,
right under a farmers market table. what those farmers must
think of us!
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