Student Activists Want Free Ride To College on Taxpayers’ Dime

Student Activists Want Free Ride To College on Taxpayers’ Dime

By Katie Lannan
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE

Students, educators and others who say the cost of a college education has ballooned out of control took their calls for relief to the State House on Thursday and said that if lawmakers don't act, they're prepared to ask voters to deliver results instead.

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Harvard Slave Photos Prompt Lawsuit By Woman Who Says She Is A Descendant

John Cronin

A Connecticut woman is suing Harvard University for using and profiting from two 19th century photos of two slaves she says are her ancestors.

She is asking a Massachusetts court to order Harvard to turn over the photos to her and pay unspecified damages, on the grounds that the slaves didn't give their consent to have their picture taken by a photographer commissioned by a Harvard professor in 1850.

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