You could say the same about the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC).
A fine school, in a terrible neighborhood.
“You could say the same about the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (USC). A fine school, in a terrible neighborhood.”
As an avid Notre Dame and UCLA fan, I utterly detest USC football. But for academics, it is a very good school, and has one of the best business schools and one of the best dentistry schools in the country.
But, you are right: It is located in a war zone. It wasn’t always like that, though. I remember back in the 1950s some of the areas on the other side of Santa Barbara Boulevard were quite nice, with large, stately homes, though by the 1960s the area was definitely changing. I don’t need to explain why that was.
There is this forlorn hope that these schools will revive these areas, but without mass deportations of the ferals it will never happen. Newark was talking a few years back about a “teachers village” in the small downtown; it would basically have to be a fortified compound. When describing the businesses that would cater to the gubmint employee “yuppies” they hoped to draw, the fatal flaw was exposed: The public (read: superpredators) would have access...