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JMU Celebrates Its Spot in FIRE’s Top 7
It is certainly an honor to join the exclusive group of schools that earn FIRE's "green light" rating in our Spotlight database. But James Madison University (JMU) took it one step further and made FIRE's 2012 list of the seven best colleges for free speech. Check out this article in JMU's student newspaper, The Breeze, praising its spot in our top seven.
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