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The Other Cancel Culture: How a Public University Is Bowing to a Conservative Crusade <[link removed]> With a rising national profile and donor base and relatively little state funding, Boise State University should be able to resist pressure by the Idaho Legislature. Instead the university, led by a liberal transplant, has repeatedly capitulated. by Daniel Golden and Kirsten Berg

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