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Tara Kane Prendergast (foreground), a Brown University senior from Colorado, joins fellow students at an informational protest on the Brown campus in Providence, R.I., on Friday, Feb. 10, 2012, to advocate for the school's financial support of the city. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

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President Barack Obama speaks to students and parents at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., Friday, May 4, 2012, about his efforts to prevent interest rates from doubling on federal student loans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama speaks to students and parents at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., Friday, May 4, 2012, about his efforts to prevent interest rates from doubling on federal student loans. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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**FILE** Students walk across campus April 30, 2012, at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vt. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks May 4, 2012, at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va. (Associated Press)

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**File** Harvard President Drew Faust (left) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield speak at a news conference in Cambridge, Mass, May, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney talks April 27, 2012, to students during a roundtable discussion at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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A woman leaves a banner after an April 29, 2012, demonstration against education and health care spending cuts in Madrid. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this April 22, 2012, file photo, Holly Ann Haley, 4, gets vaccinations at the doctor's office in Berlin, Vt., although the state continues to be embroiled in a debate about continuing to allowing parents to have their children skip the immunizations required for most to attend school. (Associated Press)

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When Joe Nelson asked his girlfriend, Rebecca Leet, to the Collierville (Tenn.) High School prom, he got down on one knee and gave her a ring — onstage in front of the audience that had just watched a school play on which both had worked. (Associated Press)