Perhaps Grandma didn't realise that any homes had been previously taken in this manner. I hate the Eminent Domain right. She has lived in this home for 56 years. I don't believe it's right to take it, even if they pay her fair market value. Why work all your life for your piece of the American Dream when, in your golden years, it can be taken from you so easily? Very sad commentary on the state of our culture today.
Amazing how it becomes somebody else's problem that a university failed to plan ahead. They should have set aside land for expansion when it was built. If they did that, but the university has grown beyond what was planned for, then too bad. Time to build up instead of out. Or time to build a separate campus.
Grabbing people's homes for a "sports arena" is a really poor excuse. A sports arena is not even part of their primary mission -- education.