$200 a month isn't negligible, and that sentence to me feels like it's deliberately constructed to hide somehing. And it seems incredibly disingenuous to fold the meal plan into the comparison, unless Stratum is *also* going to be feeding people.
Isabel On 7/28/07, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the article left out the stratum (formerly the divine tracy > hotel). [btw, what's with these latinated names for student > housing? the domus. the radian. stratum.] > > apparently (?) stratum is run by trammel crow. I don't > understand at this point how all these out-sourced > student-housing models fit in with the university's college > house system, which penn spends a lot of time and effort > developing and promoting. > > > anyway, according to the dp: > > > "Prices at The Stratum run around $150 to $200 more per > month than the most expensive housing and meal plan option > on-campus" > > Kewish [a senior associate of trammel crow] argued that > "we're not asking just the rich kids to come move in and pay > a lot of money. We're looking to provide all the students > with an alternative." > > > http://tinyurl.com/26l9u4 > > > .................. > UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN > [aka laserbeam(r)] - Hide quoted text - > [aka ray] > SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES. > "It is very clear on this listserve who > these people are. Ray has admitted being > connected to this forger." -- Tony West ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
