Berlin Wall is built again, as New College students confront walls, past and present

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The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago, ending an era of Cold War division between East and West, democracy and communism. At a time when U.S. culture is increasingly divided along partisan lines, students and professors at New College of Florida decided to build a Berlin Wall again, as a way of studying the history of divisions and how they persist today.

Ever since it went up in September, every Wednesday at lunchtime has been open graffiti hour at the wall, which stands in the center of the college’s Sarasota campus.
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