Emma Boettcher's 'Jeopardy!' win after James Holzhauer's 31-game streak 'is a victory for the humanities, at least for one night. But it shouldn't take winning a game show to pay off the cost of one's education,' writes David M. Perry for CNNOpinion
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Congratulations to Emma Boettcher, a librarian at the University of Chicago, who unseated 31-game winner James Holzhauer, a professional gambler, and won $46,801 on the game show 'Jeopardy!' She plans to make a donation to the information and library science program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she wrote her master's thesis on Final Jeopardy questions. Then she wants to pay down her student loans. David M. PerryHer win is a victory for the humanities, at least for one night. But it shouldn't take winning a game show to pay off the cost of one's education.Boettcher won convincingly, hitting a Daily Double early in the second round.
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