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College town 'poverty' exposed

Low-income students help win grant money

Stephen Koff and Bill Sloat

(Cleveland) Plain Dealer

Sunday, September 17, 2006

 

Bloomington, Ind. - This is the home of Midwest prosperity, a leafy Big 10 college town amid gentle green hills, with abundant intellectual life and a town square where you can get a $1.91 espresso or the latest Talbots classic fashion.

 

That, at least, is how many of the townsfolk and Indiana University students see it. Yet there's another, much less charming view of Bloomington ...

 

... More at http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1158482022226180.xml&coll=2

^I'd take about 20,000 more of those types of poor people--as long as you also provide a nice collegiate gothic campus and a top-tier DI football and basketball program. ;)

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