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Revolt of the MFAs, Round II

March 18, 2008

And, as the Chronicle reports today (subscription required), the students have won:

The University of Iowa has backtracked on a plan to post all graduate students’ theses online and make them freely available to the public. The reversal came in response to vigorous protests last week from students in the university’s prestigious graduate program in writing, who said that the plan could threaten the commercial value of their novels, plays, and other creative works.

Reax here and here (see the comments) and here.

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