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Voices: “If you could change any social issue today, what would it be and why?”

KATHYVAN TRAN and GERARDO ZAVALA
September 19, 2016
ISABELLE SINIBALDI

This week, The Channels asked students, “If you could change any social issue today, what would it be and why?”

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