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From The Newsroom: Trials Of Low-Income College Students; AIDS In '80s Dallas

KERA | By Lyndsay Knecht
Published September 23, 2014 at 9:59 AM CDT
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When your classmates come from better-equipped high schools and you're low on funds, there's another level of stress - and graduating doesn't relieve all of it if you're packing debt.
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Top local stories this morning from the KERA Newsroom: Dianna Douglas takes us on the emotional rollercoaster of college hopefuls with few resources. And we hear from Penny Krispin, one of the first nurses to care for AIDS patients in Dallas, who remembers the onset of a baseless stigma. 

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Lyndsay Knecht
Lyndsay Knecht is assistant producer for Think. 
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