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Five years later, attention to stadiums and Islam

September 11, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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After 9/11, college campuses changed--in some unexpected ways.University of Florida administrators have focused much of their energy (and $500 million of their finances) on securing the school's stadium--but not its nuclear reactor, the Alligator reports. Muslim students at the University of Georgia have seen more racism--but also more converts, says the Red and Black. Meanwhile, at Penn State, students seem to have forgotten that one of the four plane crashes happened just two hours away from their campus.

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