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Tune in to the CFN Conference--Going on Now!
Following last night's welcome reception and dinner featuring a lecture by scholar and FIRE Board of Directors member Daphne Patai, today's events at FIRE's third annual Campus Freedom Network conference are under way, to be capped off this evening with a keynote address by author and Brookings Institution scholar Jonathan Rauch. If you aren't attending the day's events but still want to tune in, watch the live-streaming video feed of the conference at the CFN's Ustream channel or at the CFN website. Conference attendees and FIRE staff will also be tweeting from the conference throughout the day, and you can follow the conference by using the hashtag #CFN10.
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