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Huffington Post - Opinion Piece

November 23, 2011

Patricia McGuire, president, Trinity Washington University, writes: The pepper spray incident at UC Davis might ignite a new free speech movement --- and not a moment too soon! Higher education is in serious trouble right now --- and it's not just because of the scandal at Penn State or the tuition price spiral or athletics gone wild. The real trouble that higher education is in goes to the very soul of our existence as institutions supposedly dedicated to the free search for truth.

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