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Article Excerpt
Thirty-three armed robberies hit on or near the University of Pennsylvania's Philadelphia campus in September 1996. Broken glass, trash and sometimes discarded drug paraphernalia littered the area. Dark, empty streets made students and staff feel jumpy.
A month later, walking with his fiancee to his nearby apartment on Halloween night, Vladimir Sled, a 38-year-old Russian emigre and Penn biochemist, got caught in a scuffle with robbers. He was stabbed several times and died shortly afterward at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
That was the decisive moment, the indisputable signal, writes Judith Rodin in her just-published book, "The University & Urban Revival," that the great research university she then headed would have to make a radical turn.
Penn could claim great wealth, intellectual pre-eminence, Ivy...
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