AMHERST, Mass. — Word of the new policy spread through Facebook, text messages and emails, leaving consternation and fury in its wake. The state’s flagship campus had announced this month that it intended to ban Iranian nationals from admittance to certain science and engineering programs, including physics, chemistry, and electrical and computer engineering, citing a 2012 federal law that limits the fields Iranians can study at American universities.
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