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Article: TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE PRICE OF FREE SPEECH.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- September 5, 1996
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Byline: Dennis McCarthy
Free speech isn't free - not when it comes wrapped up in hate and a hood.
At Cal State Northridge this month, free speech is costing students $5,000 - $4,000 for David Duke, a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, and $1,000 for Joe Hicks, a civil rights activist. The men will debate Proposition 209, the measure which would end racial and gender preferences in public education as well as in state and local government hiring and contracting.
Judging by the pay scale, it looks like the Klan has a better booking agent than the civil rights movement these days.
Heck, for another few grand in student fees, the ...