A few years
ago, Penn had a campus that in many places looked the way our
College Ave campus looks today. Here, for instance, is a picture
of an area on the edge of campus. See if it reminds you of anything
at Rutgers -- the first few blocks of Easton Ave, say:
Penn spent some
money on campus renovation.
Today, the same
area looks like this:

One Rutgers
student who saw the two pictures said "What this picture
shows is a university that treats its students as first-class
citizens. At Rutgers, the money goes into paying million-dollar
coaches. Couldn't the alumni get together and do something about
the shameful condition of our campus? Or do they just not care?"
Another student
said, "If Rutgers had spent the same $400 million on campus
renovation that's been poured down the sink of 'big time' athletics,
we could be waking up on a campus like this every day. What's
wrong with the BOG? Why aren't the faculty protesting this? Why
can't we get a real president who'd steer Rutgers in the same
direction?"
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