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In this Monday, March 20, 2017, photo, Iowa State University President Steven Leath answers questions at a news conference following the announcement of his selection as the next president of Auburn University in Auburn, Ala. Leath will begin his tenure in July. (Jim Little/Opelika-Auburn News via AP)
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FILE - In this April 7, 2011 file photo, Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Justice Department is investigating Hunter for possible campaign violations. The House Ethics panel has been investigating allegations that Hunter improperly used campaign funds to pay for tens of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, such as trips to Hawaii and Italy and tuition for Hunter's school-age children. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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A progressive student organization at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, has apologized after a social experiment involving racist fliers backfired. (KMSP)
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FILE - This April 22, 2014, file photo shows an employment application form on a table at a job fair in Hudson, N.Y. Middle-age white Americans with limited education are increasingly dying younger, on average, than other middle-age U.S. adults, a trend driven by their dwindling economic opportunities, research by two Princeton University economists has found. The economists, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, argue in a paper released Thursday, March 23, 2017, that the loss of steady middle-income jobs for those with high school degrees or less has triggered broad problems for this group. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File)
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. worried what voters would think if judges strike down state maps by ruling that one party was destined to too many seats. (Associated Press/File)
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Henry Sanchez, 18, is one of the students charged with rape. (Associated Press)
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Illustration on the Class of '21 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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Some pundits are applauding President Trump's push to defund arts organizations like the National Endowment for the Arts, arguing that "culture" comes from the home and not from government funding. (Associated Press)
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File - In this Oct. 22, 2012 file photo, college students study outdoors at the California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. California State University's governing board will vote Wednesday, March 22, 2017, on whether to raise tuition for the first time in six years. The nation's largest public university system says it needs to hire more faculty and add more classes to accommodate growing enrollment and insufficient state funding. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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File - In this Friday, Oct. 19, 2012 file photo, students study in a library on the campus of California State University, Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif. California State University's governing board will vote Wednesday, March 22, 2017, on whether to raise tuition for the first time in six years. The nation's largest public university system says it needs to hire more faculty and add more classes to accommodate growing enrollment and insufficient state funding. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
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Students and supporters protest outside of the California State University Office of the Chancellor as the CSU Trustees finance committee vote on a tuition increase on a 7 to 2 vote in Long Beach Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (Thomas R. Cordova/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Shiba Bandeeba, of San Fransico State, plays the bucket at a protest with other students and supporters outside of the California State University Office of the Chancellor as the CSU Trustees finance committee vote on a tuition increase on a 7 to 2 vote in Long Beach Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (Thomas R. Cordova/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Students and supporters protest outside of the California State University Office of the Chancellor as the CSU Trustees finance committee vote on a tuition increase on a 7 to 2 vote in Long Beach Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (Thomas R. Cordova/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Students and supporters protest outside of the California State University Office of the Chancellor as the CSU Trustees finance committee vote on a tuition increase on a 7 to 2 vote in Long Beach Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (Thomas R. Cordova/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Briana Rodriguez left of Sonoma State, and Jairo Barba, of East Bay State, protest with other students and supporters outside of the California State University Office of the Chancellor as the CSU Trustees finance committee vote on a tuition increase on a 7 to 2 vote in Long Beach Wednesday, March 22, 2017. (Thomas R. Cordova/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Vince Ziebarth, a Chicago high school teacher, isn't making any apologies after he says he was fired for refusing to teach a student who sat out the Pledge of Allegiance. (CBS Chicago)
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FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2011. file photo, fans dress up as students from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry make a butterbeer toast as Universal Parks & Resorts announces the Harry Potter attraction is coming to Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, Calif. Pennsylvania's Yuengling's Ice Cream launched a butterbeer flavored ice cream on March 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File)
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In this March 6, 2017 photo, Andrew Malhotra, Ivy Savidge, and Dwayne Santella students in the forensic anthropology course look through artifacts found from an excavation site as Dr. Cassandra Kuba and Dr. John P. Nass explain the materials, in California, Pa. (Thalia Juarez/Herald-Standard via AP)
