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Tufts crew belongs on the water, not sidelined for bad puns

  May 04, 2012

Tufts University has a clumsy habit of intermittently trodding on the free speech rights of its students under the guise of promoting respect and civility on campus. So it’s not terribly surprising — yet still disappointing — that the university’s crew team has been grounded for wearing crass tank tops to the school’s annual spring fling. Wisely, the university administration has overruled the coach’s grounding of the team

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