date:Aug 16, 2013
was more attractive, Mr. Arena said.
He declined to say how much Coke had bid.
Coca-Cola did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
Signs of the change were evident on CUNY campuses this week. At the Graduate Center, across Fifth Avenue from the Empire State Building, the only soft-drink machine in a first-floor lounge was an empty dispenser marked with the logo of Aquafina, a bottled water distributed by Pepsi.
At Brooklyn College, the Coke machines in the student union have gone u