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When students spoke up for academic freedom

Students at Texas Tech and UT Austin are staging mock funerals to protest the restrictions on academic freedom being imposed by the boards of regents, in honor of Homer Rainey, a former UT president who was fired for defending academic freedom.

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When students spoke up for academic freedomStudents at Texas Tech and UT Austin are staging mock funerals to protest the restrictions on academic freedom being imposed by the boards of regents, in honor of Homer Rainey, a former UT president who was fired for defending academic freedom.
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