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Dispute fuels Tech activism By SEBASTIAN KITCHEN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Molding a student voting bloc to take on City Hall over a housing issue may have ramifications that go beyond purple houses and numbers of roommates, organizers say. Will students registered to vote in Lubbock begin to take more interest in local issues? Will they become a factor in local elections? That's entirely possible, says Colton Batchelor, Texas Tech Student Government Association external vice president. Historically, college students here show little inclination to vote in local elections, Batchelor says, noting that he, too, has been guilty of apathy. "I think, in general,...