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BYU hires lobbyist
Brigham Young University paid the brother of a Republican congressman about $70,000 to lobby on its behalf in Washington, D.C., the Associated Press reported. Joseph Cannon, brother of Rep. Christopher Cannon, has urged his brother to act on collegiate matters at least twice since receiving money from the Utah university with Mormon ties.

Rep. Cannon endorsed a BYU-supported bill to exempt religious colleges from certain accreditation guidelines including discrimination against gay students and faculty, reportedly at his brother’s urging. Both brothers are BYU alumni.

Miami University offers free tuition
Thanks to a $10 million donation, Miami University plans to launch a program to fully fund tuition and fees for Ohio students with family incomes lower than $35,000, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The program, The Miami Access Initiative, will cover four years of higher education and is slated to start in fall 2007.

The school expects the program to help approximately 150 students in its first year thanks to a donation from a 1939 alumna who left half her estate to the university to help low-income students. Miami University joins institutions such as the universities of Minnesota, Virginia and North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which have recently announced similar programs.
—Matt Weeks

 
 
 


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