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Folk Studies Student on WBKO

  • Monday, December 4th, 2017

WBKO interviewed Folk Studies graduate student Joel Chapman as part of their coverage of a local rally against the proposed federal tax plan. The plan threatens higher education by taxing graduate student tuition waivers as income. 

 

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