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Make your case here. why are you at today's protests? nyu as i understand is a private university, correct? >> it is a private university, but like a lot of the public universities, our tuition is also getting increased. our tuition gets increased an average of 6% every year which is above the rate of inflation but lots of our students attend on federally funded grants and loans so the broader national education cuts definitely affect us. >> claire, tell us what some of your friends in private school, at nyu, other schools and some of the public universities, what are they saying about the tui...

California faculty association. thanks so much, ladies, for joining us. >> my pleasure. >> let me begin with you, do you plan to join the protesters, the student protesters today? >> definitely i'll be there. >> okay. what's your biggest beef here? how are these increases in tuition impacting you directly? >> i've had a lot of struggles paying for school. i have three jobs and i'm a full-time student and i work over full-time with those three jobs added together. i definitely feel the fee increases. they affect be directly. >> does it worry you that you'd be able to finish that last year. >> i...

This, increasing the premiums on the pension insurance that companies have to pay. you know, who is really going to raise a stink about that? >> wasn't this sold under the guides of keeping us safer, originally? >> yeah, but i think you're missing the bigger story. >> i don't think i am. >> i do. i'm chairman of the board. there's not going to be a government shutdown. >> and that was the goal, right? >> this is a small price to pay for not having a government shutdown. when you have the government, you're going to see fee increases, tax increases -- >> but i have to say the government shutdow...

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