He uses it to draw tourists, travel writers and groups like the Democratic National Committee, which is looking at Boston, Philadelphia and five other cities as possible sites for the party' s 2000 political convention. There are 50 colleges within 50 square miles. That makes us America' s college town. Well, guess what, Boston. Philadelphia, too, could rightly be called America' s college town.
Trouble is, few here seem to know it.
No one coordinates visits by perspective students to ease the planning of multi-campus tours. No one represents all area schools at international college fairs. And no one has created a Web site link to all Philadelphia colleges at once. Boston has all of the above. The Sansom Commons at the University of Pennsylvania.