UCLA chancellor faces faculty outcry over 9/11 statement, a test of academic freedom

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Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 200 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate.

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