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Sandy • Utah students were joined by an influential ally in the fight against bullying Wednesday.Miranda Cosgrove, the 17-year-old star of the popular Nickelodeon TV show "iCarly," showed up at Crescent Elementary School to meet with more than 90 fourth-graders who had won a local radio station contest that revolved around bullying."It's a really great cause," Cosgrove told media after the event. She attended school until the fifth grade, she said, and had experienced bullying at school.The 93 fourth-graders won a competition sponsored by radio station 97.1 ZHT that rewarded the grade-level and school that had entered the most anti-bullying pledges on the radio station's Web site. The prize, which Principal Debbie Shumard learned about Friday, was that the fourth-graders at her school would take a break from studying state history to receive a visit from Cosgrove.
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