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Hall, a busy senior majoring in sociology who is also the president of the Black Student Union at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, cast her first presidential ballot for Clinton. “UMass is a liberal university, or is at least striving to be one, but we have had incidents of the hate crimes happening since I’ve been here.”.
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