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GWU to close campus dunng IMF/WB meetings
WASHINGTON (AP) - George Washing-
ton University will force nearly 5,400 students
to move out of its Foggy Bottom residence
halls during a five-day period surrounding the
anti-globalization protests that are expected to
swamp the city's downtown this month.
The decision, announced yesterday, is one of
the more drastic measures taken so far in
preparation for demonstrations on Sept. 29 and
30 that police predict could draw 100,000 pro-
testers to the site of World Bank and Interna-
tional Monetary Fund meetings just blocks
from the GW campus.
GW President Stephen Trachtenberg said he
reluctantly decided to close the university at
the recommendation of city police. In addition
to shutting residence halls, GW will urge stu-
dents living in private housing near campus to
leave the neighborhood. All classes will be
canceled, and all university buildings closed,
from the evening of Sept. 27 to the afternoon
of Oct. 2.
University officials said they're asking most
students to go home to their families or stay
with friends or relatives outside Foggy Bottom.
They said they're making emergency travel
loans and discount plane tickets available and
will provide temporary housing or free round-
trip bus transportation for some financially
needy students.
"If the campus is functioning, we add a com-
plication to anybody worrying about how to
handle crowd control," Trachtenberg said.
The announcement drew immediate criti-
cism from many students - some viewing it
as a disruption to their studies and others
decrying it as a roadblock to their involvement
in the demonstrations.
"I think it's completely the university overre-
acting," said Tanya Margolin, 21, a senior who
lives off-campus and is active in the anti-IMF
movement. "A lot of students who live on cam-
pus were planning to be active and participate
in the protests."
Executive Assistant Police Chief Ter-
rance Gainer denied that the move is
designed to stifle students' voices. "They
continue to have a right to be involved in
activities around the World Bank," he said.
"They just won't be able to do it from the
university."
With thousands of people working or study-
,ing at GW's downtown campus, the university
faced likely "traffic congestion as well as safe-
ty concerns" if it operated as usual during the
protests, Gainer said.
Mich of the GW campus will be cordoned
off behind a nine-foot-tall chain-link fence that
city police are planning to erect around a swath
of downtown as a security measure.
Just blocks from the White House, GW's
been caught up in many of the demonstrations
to hit the nation's capital. In the 1960s, students
from far-flung colleges unrolled their sleeping
bags in GW's student center when they visited
Washington to protest the Vietnam War. In
April 2000, during an earlier round of World
Bank protests, the university canceled classes
and barred overnight guests from residence
halls.
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