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The University of Iowa has turned down a request from HBO to film "Girls" on campus, The Iowa City Press-Citizen reported. Hannah Horvath, the lead fictional character in the show, has recently been accepted to Iowa's very real Writers Workshop. But details of the plot lines that would be pursued at Iowa were not available, and university officials declined to elaborate on why they turned down the request.

 

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A photo illustration that highlights a quote from a recent American Association of University Professors statement on academic boycotts. The quote reads, "Individual faculty members and students should be free to weigh, assess, and debate the specific circumstances giving rise to calls for systematic academic boycotts and to make their own choices regarding their participation in them."
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In Defense of the AAUP’s Statement on Boycotts

John K. Wilson opposes academic boycotts but supports the AAUP’s controversial new statement nevertheless.

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