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Article: TORRICELLI BACKS EDUCATION AGENCY
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- April 16, 1994
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DEVIN LEONARD, Staff Writer
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-16-1994
TORRICELLI BACKS EDUCATION AGENCY -- URGES GOVERNOR NOT TO CUT DEPARTMENT
By DEVIN LEONARD, Staff Writer
Date: 04-16-1994, Saturday
Section: NEWS
Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star
Harking back to former President Richard Nixon's efforts to have a
Marxist scholar fired from Rutgers University in the 1960s, Rep. Robert
G. Torricelli warned Friday that Governor Whitman's plan to ax the
Higher Education Department could open the door for similar threats to
academic freedom.
During a four-hour hearing at Douglass College in New Brunswick,
Torricelli, D-Englewood, told a higher education advisory panel
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