GWU evicts students to protect WB/IMF

[Lawrence]

> GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
> EVICTS STUDENTS FOR WB-IMF MEETING
> George Washington University has announced that all students must leave
its
> Foggy Bottom campus for a whole week surrounding the World Bank-IMF
> conference. The unprecedented eviction begins on September 27 and ends
> October 2. According to the university, "Residence halls in Foggy Bottom
> will re-open at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, October 2 and classes will resume at
> 4:00 p.m. that day. The University expects all students to leave the Foggy
> Bottom Campus area during this time period. Students will not be permitted
> to remain in the residence halls after closing. In those situations where
> this presents extreme difficulties, University officials will work with
> students who live in our Foggy Bottom residence halls to find alternate
> accommodations

It would have been a wonderfully humane, decent, warm-hearted, and kind act
had the National Guard sent a memo ahead like this to Kent State: "All
students should leave school and go home for the mid week of April.
Executions begin around 2 PM."