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Notre Dame’s professor of Sesame Street sues student journalists for ‘defamation’

13 July 2023

3:08 AM

13 July 2023

3:08 AM

Never trust a scholar of Sesame Street to know her legal terminology. Tamara Kay, a sociology professor at Notre Dame who studies the TV show’s cultural transfusion around the world, is suing conservative student publication the Rover for its coverage of her abortion activism.

Kay claims that two of its articles contained “defamatory and false statements.”

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