8-The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 7, 2001 H IGHER EDUCATION 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. 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