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It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship. — Juan Cole Copy Share Image
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I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
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A doctrine-teaching, character-building university, the Brigham Young University is dedicated to the building of character and faith, for character is higher than… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
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Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect. — Molly Corbett Broad Copy Share Image
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