University program promotes social service abroad

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Princeton University has launched a new program called the Bridge Year Program. It places students in a foreign country for a year and pays their core expenses. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with one of those students, Lizzie Martin, who’s says her time in India so far this year has been quite a change.

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