tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post110125485681140369..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: A University of Chicagoan Empire?Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1101332164614967192004-11-24T16:36:00.000-05:002004-11-24T16:36:00.000-05:00for the record, land in woodlawn is already too ex...for the record, land in woodlawn is already too expesive for the university to buy.<br /><br />land somewhere else, perhaps in certain other controversial locations...I cannot answer for.Nickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14363311128428661742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-1101278876145453022004-11-24T01:47:00.000-05:002004-11-24T01:47:00.000-05:00I'm not sure how the University can be considered ...I'm not sure how the University can be considered a colonizer of Hyde Park--it was established in 1892, back when the area was white upper-crust. Did the University do some Bad Things with regards to housing discrimination in the mid-twentieth century? Yes. But that doesn't make them a colonial entity--more like a reactionary entity (in the formal sense of "reactionary")<br /><br />That being said, if the University were to buy land in Woodlawn--that would have definite colonial overtones. (Personally, I think of the University as a quasi-medieval fiefdom a la the Free University of Berlin :)Maureenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17299105498066004159noreply@blogger.com