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Discuss “Trading places”

Just a year after establishing Forbes House, Carnegie Mellon spent one million dollars last summer to gut and re-outfit a former fraternity house on Forbes Avenue. The result is the Global Studies House, a specialized living community for first-years interested in learning about the many different cultures at CMU. However, these two communities may be short-lived, as they will be giving up their current locations next year.

The 29 students that call the Global Studies House home are both American and international students of almost all ethnic heritages. In an effort to make

cultural connections and increase general awareness of different areas of the world, the Global Studies House hosts numerous discussion forums, group activities, and teleconferences.

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