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VanDammeJamBand t1_j9kpvxy wrote

Kills me knowing universities will do this kind of shit all while spending millions on stadiums, rock climbing walls, dumbass useless activities to hook prospective students. Don’t get me started on Temple’s new “library”

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phillyFart t1_j9kv2za wrote

Wait till you find out how much the corporate staff salaries are

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99centstalepretzel t1_j9krka1 wrote

Ooooh, the football stadium thing still makes me so mad.

Oh, you don't want to pay rent to the Eagles to use a really nice field that already exists? Well, hire better people who can negotiate your deals better, then! That would be a cost-saving measure over building a whole new stadium that will already displace the people who live in North Philly, setting the latest shitty thing in the tenuous relationship that the university has with its local residents (among so many valid reasons).

Oh, what's that? It's not about the money, but "Temple Pride" or whatever? Oh, okay 😒.

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a-german-muffin t1_j9kz7wi wrote

> building a whole new stadium that will already displace the people who live in North Philly

The dead proposal was entirely on Temple-owned land — the issues were trash, noise and the stadium consuming an entire block of 15th between Norris and Montgomery.

Meanwhile, you have two landlords owning almost the entire stretch of 16th north of Montgomery, a bunch of LLCs snapping up properties along Norris, Carlisle, etc.—that displacement's happening regardless of the stadium, unfortunately.

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thecoffeecake1 t1_j9l51y8 wrote

This is the thing. I wasn't for the stadium if the neighborhood was against it, but the much bigger problem is the private student housing that keeps pushing further out into the neighborhood and affecting property values and housing costs.

I thought a solution could have been Temple agreeing to construct more student housing on campus (significantly more, like another Morgan sized building) and requiring all non-commuting freshmen and sophomores to live on campus in exchange for the stadium. Seems like that could've been a huge win-win.

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Friendly-Walrus t1_j9lmegv wrote

You mean improving property values?

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thecoffeecake1 t1_j9lnesa wrote

Would you like to explain to the class what kind of effect that has on low income, non-property owning residents

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templestate t1_j9mehvw wrote

Having known a few I am pretty sure the locals around Temple are not typically renters.

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Tall-Ad5755 t1_j9nhyxh wrote

Lots of generational homeowners…some go back 50-60 years.

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99centstalepretzel t1_j9l0mvr wrote

Oh, I know about the deeded land. The thing that is most frustrating still, is the problems that Temple still has to deal with, when it comes to their neighbors (landlords taking advantage of the real estate, trash, etc) in order to be "good neighbors" outside of the lip service that they do once a year for MLK Day of Service or whatever.

Nobody wants to work on long-term solutions to these problems, though. That's why gentrification (and what we saw on Super Bowl Sunday, with car-flipping) is still happening without the new stadium. And a new stadium is still not a good idea.

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Newer_Wave t1_j9l9tqm wrote

It was more than just the cost of renting. They wanted to build a football program to compete with other large football schools. You can’t have that without a stadium and surrounding activities. I don’t agree with it but it’s unfortunately the norm for college football.

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Equivalent_Wing_6450 t1_j9m8kkc wrote

meanwhile the education that students receive gets shittier and shittier. i mean, you should see the scabs they got covering the strikers’ classes. realtors teaching behavioral psychology. graded stats quizzes with questions like “do you enjoy statistics?”. suddenly having to buy a new textbook halfway through the semester. in person classes switching totally asynchronous. it’s a fucking mess

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kaiwrx t1_j9mwe68 wrote

If they didn't spend all that money building new things, they wouldn't have a bunch of tax write-offs. Colleges aren't for education, they're for making profits and keeping the cash $$$

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Barmelo_Xanthony t1_j9kx5lx wrote

This is just a problem with capitalism across the board and isn’t only limited to universities. Grad students and actual studies don’t bring in money while sports and recruiting new students do. Simple as that

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