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"A South Carolina Senate committee has rejected the proposed cuts to a university&amp;#039;s funding over its featuring Fun Home on its recommended reading list. The College of Charleston had been threatened with $52,000 (\u00C2\u00A331,000) worth of cuts after it recommended Alison Bechdel&amp;#039;s seminal graphic novel on a list of challenging reads for its students.  The Finance Committee voted 11-7 against the cuts, reports The Associated Press. The $17,142 (\u00C2\u00A310,149)-worth of cuts, which University of South Carolina Upstate had been threatened with over its recommending Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, have also been thrown out. The College of Charleston recently announced that the off-Broadway musical adaptation of Fun Home would be coming to the university for two performances, thanks to Bechdel and its producers.  Right wing Christian groups objected to the recommendation of the graphic novel - which tells the story of Bechdel&amp;#039;s coming out and that of her closeted father - branding the acclaimed book as &amp;quot;pornographic&amp;quot;. Supporters of the college had warned that the cuts could be considered unconstitutional. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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