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In April 1968, students occupied Columbia University in protest over the University’s efforts to expand and appropriate land in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in order to build a gymnasium. This project would have displaced low income and poor residents who lived in the vicinity of the University.
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Epstein, I. (2015). Introduction. In: Epstein, I. (eds) The Whole World is Texting. Pittsburgh Studies in Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-055-0_1
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