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Week In Review: Mount Ida College Closing, Ashbrook Apology

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Mount Ida students and personnel gather outside of Alumnae Hall for a meeting with UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Robert E. Johnson. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)
Mount Ida students and personnel gather outside of Alumnae Hall for a meeting with UMass Dartmouth Chancellor Robert E. Johnson. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

This week, the University of Massachusetts Amherst announced they would be buying Newton's Mount Ida College for $75 million. The sale has angered some of Mount Ida's current students as well as attendees of UMass Boston.

Plus, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg testified before U.S. lawmakers on his company's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal. And we discuss former On Point host Tom Ashbrook's apology in The Boston Globe.

Guests

John Carroll, professor of communication at Boston University and senior analyst for WBUR. He tweets @johncarroll_bu.

Ed Lyons, Massachusetts Republican activist and political writer. He tweets @mysteriousrook.

This segment aired on April 13, 2018.

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