Courting millennials, Clinton promises free tuition

Courting millennials, Clinton promises free tuition

PHILADELPHIA — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made it clear this week during a campaign stop at Temple University just how desperate she is for the millennial vote.

In an about-face from her proposal released in the summer of 2015, Clinton on Monday announced she and former rival U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) have come up with a plan that "makes public college tuition free for working families and debt-free for everyone."

Brown examines relationship of free speech to academic mission
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Brown examines relationship of free speech to academic mission

Stephen Beale

One year after becoming embroiled in a national debate over "safe spaces" from offensive speech, Brown University students and faculty received a crash course of sorts on freedom of speech and its relationship to the academic mission of a liberal arts college.

On Thursday, the Political Theory Project hosted lectures by Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a first amendment and civil liberties advocacy group, and Stanley Fish, an English scholar and law professor at the Cardozo School of Law who has famously questioned the concept of freedom of speech on campus.

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