The government may not threaten funding cuts as a tool to pressure recipients into suppressing First Amendment–protected speech.

One of those candidates is family man Dean Franklin, who applied for the series in order to put himself "in uncomfortable situations and to test myself on how I deal with the tasks at hand".

Dean's List: Recognizes undergraduate students who achieve a 3.75 – 3.99 grade-point average for the term while completing at least 12 credit hours normally required for graduation.