The Carrier Dome Controversy: Rewriting the Town-Gown Relationship Author(s): Donald J. Kirby Source: Change , Mar. - Apr., 1988, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1988), pp. 42-49 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40164593 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Taylor & Francis, Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Change This content downloaded from 130.127.238.233 on Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:05:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms /';-=09 )(8* =-0/'] This content downloaded from 130.127.238.233 on Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:05:37 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms THE CARRIER DOME CONTROVERSY "rewriting the town-gown relationship 1984, when Syracuse University activities," and that the Dome was in- paid the city of Syracuse $1.25 mil- deed taxable. Murphy delayed entering lion in contested taxes and interest an order, and for the next eighteen charges- its 1982 property tax bill months the city and university strug- on the 5O,OOO-seat stadium known gled to resolve the problem locally. Fi- as the "Carrier Dome" - colleges nally, on December 16, 1986, a new city and municipalities looked on with administration and the university an- anxious interest.