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Student Loan - College Debt Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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Nicholas Kristof (above, at Syracuse University's 2013 commencement) was taking hits from his liberal media compatriots this week. (Kevin Rivoli/AP Images for Syracuse University)
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Tyler Smith, 18, will continue to play on his high school's football team despite facing charges for two separate counts of rape. (KOMO News)
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First lady Michelle Obama talks with school children as they eat lunch in the East Room of the White House following the annual fall harvest of the White House Kitchen Garden in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Chef Geoff Tracy second from left, sits at the table. In celebration of Farm to School Month, the Obama invited students from Arizona, California, and Ohio to participate in the fall harvest. These schools were selected because they are participating in farm to school programs that incorporate fresh, local food into their school meals, and they teach students about healthy eating through school gardens and nutrition education.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Chris Minore, of Orange, Conn., performs the under chop technique at the Adirondack Woodsmen's School at Paul Smith's College in Paul Smiths, N.Y., on July 10, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**
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Students walk past the Phi Kappa Theta fraternity house at San Diego State University in San Diego. San Diego State University says it has suspended the fraternity until it completes an investigation of a student who was found dead at its house after a party.(AP Photo/Denis Poroy,File)
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Texas Tech freshman Regan Elder helps drape a bed sheet with the message "No means no" over the seal on the university's Lubbock campus. The university's chapter of Phi Delta Theta lost its charter recently after displaying a banner at a September party saying "No means yes" and accompanied by a graphic sexual remark. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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aftermath: Clemson students remember Tucker Hipps, who was found in a lake after going missing during a run with his fraternity. A slew of rush-related hazing deaths has college campuses considering removing Greek organizations. (Associated Press/the independent-mail)
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Michael Davis (left) and his wife Desiree lost their daughter Claire in a shooting at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, Colorado, last December. Arapahoe High School student Karl Pierson fatally shot Davis and then himself in the attack on Dec. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
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Students at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, have launched an environmental campaign urging classmates to urinate in the shower in an effort to save water.
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This Oct. 7, 2014, file photo, shows the entrance to Sayreville War Memorial High School in Sayreville, N.J. Students were charged with sex crimes Friday, Oct. 10, 2014, after an investigation into hazing on the school's football team that has canceled the rest of its season found they held other children against their will and improperly touched them, prosecutors said. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)
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The History Presbyterian Church that was used by union forces as a hospital after the battle of Franklin.
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The Hindu celebration of Phagwa is celebrated with all Surinamese, regardless of ethnicity or religion. (Photo: Courtesy Government of Suriname)
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In this screenshot from a video, Barack Obama, left, embraces law professor Derrick Bell, creator of race-based "critical legal theory," at a 1990 meeting of black students at Harvard Law School.
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FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 file photo, Vice President Joe Biden speaks to students, faculty and staff at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Biden is due to headline a Democratic campaign rally in Las Vegas, with a downtown appearance Monday, Oct. 6, 2014, to talk about raising the minimum wage. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson,File)
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Mississippi students bring down a goal post after their 23-17 win over No. 3 Alabama in an NCAA college football game in Oxford, Miss., Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Vice President Joe Biden dons a Joplin High School baseball cap during a dedication ceremony for a combined high school and vocational school that replaces one destroyed by a deadly tornado more than three years ago, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, in Joplin, Mo. (AP Photo/The Joplin Globe, Laurie Sisk)
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This photo provided by The Central Michigan University shows 1957 CMU graduate Dick Enberg posing at the student-athlete academic center named in his honor in CMU's Indoor Athletic Complex Friday, Oct. 12, 2007, in Mount Pleasant, Mich. (AP Photo/CMU, Robert Barclay)
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks to students faculty and staff at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
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Vice President Joe Biden spoke about the Islamic State at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Thursday. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)