Columbia University Sued Over Mission of ‘Casa Italiana’
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Columbia University was sued by a group of families for allegedly failing to use their donations to promote Italian culture as the benefactors intended.
Several Italian-American families in 1927 donated $400,000 (worth about $5 million today) to the Manhattan-based university to erect La Casa Italiana, the “Italian House,” on school land, according to documents filed today in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan.