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Many of Utah’s college students went back to campus this week. And, according to one local professor, they’re not in for the best experience.
“As students return to campus they’ll find far fewer international students (thanks to President Donald Trump’s disdain for most foreigners and their fear of ICE), frozen research grants (defunding everything from climate to cancer to community research), closed cultural centers (some, like the University of Utah’s Women’s Resource Center, have been around for more than 50 years), shrunken general