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Buckeye_Democrat

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14. Maybe the surrounding community resents...
Fri Jul 2, 2021, 10:46 AM
Jul 2021

... the "elitist" students and faculty so much that they're refusing vaccinations out of spite?!

Can urban universities be better neighbors?
https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/policy/021021/can-urban-universities-be-better-neighbors
"In many of those distressed, disinvested communities, there was either a university or a hospital, or sometimes both, located either smack dab in the middle or immediately adjacent to the community — but for all intents and purposes, that institution might have been on Mars," Rutheiser, who is now a senior associate at Casey, said.

As American cities struggled with shrinking populations, job loss, poverty, crime and disinvestment through the mid-20th century, both Baldwin and Rutheiser said, universities were ill-equipped to pick up and leave. Instead, they adopted a bunker mentality that lingered for decades. "As I witnessed first-hand in Baltimore during the 1980s and 1990s, this defensive posture … generated deep mistrust, hostility and conflict between institutions and communities," Rutheiser said.


Reminds me of the portrayal of the Cutters in the film, Breaking Away, set near Indiana University.



With that movie ending in victory for the Cutters in the "Little 500" bicycle race against all of the smart-aleck college teams, of course.


EDIT:
And it's even worse for the population within Indiana University's zip code of 47405! Only 2.9% of them have received a first dose!
Link: https://hub.mph.in.gov/dataset/d0cb45af-c9de-40f5-9394-de367c17a7a1/resource/c496b384-f543-417e-912f-995caebf5fc0/download/vaccinations-by-zip-with-population.csv

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