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Is Clark Just Not Feeling So Euphoric Anymore?

Low Attendance At School Dance Brings Up Question Of A Changing Culture

By Beatrice Misher scarlet staff

The ticket sales for last week’s Euphoria dance were low. The dance, which is held twice a year by the International Student’s Association, has been seeing a slight decline in attendance over the past few years, according to club President Michino Hisabayashi (‘15).

“The past two or three Euphorias, our ticket sales have been plateauing at about 400,” she said, while estimating that approximately 120 tickets were sold for Saturday’s dance.

The sharp decline in attendance comes as a surprise, partly because the dance was planned in

the exact same manner as previous years. “It was unexpectedly low because we were doing the exact same things,” said Hisabayashi. These included posters, ticket sales, advertising, and a Facebook event. Yet, Clark students chose not to attend the traditional Euphoria dance.

Sam de Garis (‘17), explained his reasoning for not going to Euphoria as a cycle. “If people went, it would be fun,” he said, “But when no one goes because they think other people aren’t going, it’s not fun anymore.” This self-fulfilling prophecy seems to not only effecting Euphoria’s turnout. Hisabayashi said she continued on page 11

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Symbiotic or Problematic?

Clark’s Changing Relationship With Main South

By Alex Grayson, Pooja Patel, and Nikolas Wagner opinions editor, web editor, and scarlet stuff

3 UPCS students Walk to Clark to attend their Spanish literature class.

After three decades and millions of dollars invested in the Main South community, Clark University stands as a national model for institutions of higher education trying to overcome town-and-gown tensions.

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Through its commitment to the University Park Partnership (UPP), which created and sustains the nationally-recognized University Park Campus School (UPCS) – and its extension of home loans in conjunction with the Community Development Corporation (CDC) – Clark has dem-

onstrated its eagerness for community development.

Main South and Clark are intrinsically entwined in a relationship that is often characterized with pride but is still seen as problematic by many students and community members.

Many tend to agree with Jack Foley, Clark’s Vice President for Government and Community Affairs, who said, “Clark is a national model for how a university should work in its community and how it should work in partnership with its community. Since the mid-1980s, we have been at the table with our neighbors.”

Most critics recognize that the partnership is well-intentioned; they believe that Clark has not taken the correct approach.

Florcy Romero (‘15), a Clark student who co-founded Women Of Color in Solidarity, is one such critic.

“Clark University along with its students have a misconception of what it truly means to be engaged continued on page 4

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UPCOMING EVENTS [ Thursday, January 22 ] Hula Hoop Heaven: First Meeting at 6:00 p.m. on in the Bickman Fitness Center

[ Friday, January 23 ] Mystery Lounge Comedy Show at 8:00 p.m. in Tilton Hall Mystery Lounge Comedy Show - 8:00 p.m. in Tilton Hall

[ Saturday, January 24 ] Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving vs. Coast Guard Academy at 1:00 p.m.

Men’s Basketball vs. Springfield College at 1:00 p.m.

Mr. Clark Pageant at 8:30 p.m. in Jefferson 320 PEC Presents: Cougarfest 2k15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Grind

[ Tuesday, January 27 ] Come (Think About) Play: A Community Conversation at 7:00 p.m. in the Higgins Lounge ROCU Café Night at 9:00 p.m. in the Grind

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The Scarlet/News Clark Community Discusses Social Justice Issues

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By Nikolas Wagner scarlet staff

Despite the fact that there were no classes in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, there was no shortage of intellectual discussion on campus.

On Monday, January 19, over one hundred Clark students and faculty gathered in Tilton Hall for “Living the Revolution through Day to Day Struggle”, an event organized by students unaffiliated with an on-campus organization.

The goal of the event was to cre-

ate a dialogue on social, political, and economic injustices in the context of racial issues in recent events.

Ousmane Power-Greene, Ph.D., Associate Professor of History and Interim Chief Officer of Diversity and Inclusion at Clark, stated that “there was interest among students to have people who are involved in activism in light of the events this fall, so my goal was to help them think about the sorts of people they want to have come out to speak with us and once we figured out … we really wanted to get people who are doing the work in the field.”

Three guest panelists help facili-

tate dialogue and each had a different background in activist movements and organizations. Steve O’Neil was an organizer with Worcester-based E.P.O.C.H, which advocates for the rights of the incarcerated; Shara Smith of ClearPath Management Group, who has worked with Move To Amend; and David Minasian, an Organizer/Business Representative for the New England Carpenters Union based at Carpenters Local 107.

After Dr. Power-Greene introduced the panelists, each member individually sat with the audience members and engaged with them

in dialogues. After twenty minutes, the panelists would rotate to a different group so that they had time to speak with all of the participants.

The organizers of the event prepared discussion questions such as, “What role should white activists play in the movement for racial justice? How should institutions – such as Clark - respond to these issues? How does the individual activist effectively challenge structural inequality?”

The panelists provided their own insight into these questions based on their activist experience and also answered the participants individual questions. Afterwards, everyone reconvened to ask the panelists any final questions, including questions from the organizers themselves.

Each guest speaker offered a different, yet collectively cohesive perspective of activism, offering a complex image of justice and how to achieve it in modern society. Dr. Power-Greene, stated that was pur-

posely done to show the diversity of Dr. King’s work on local, regional, and national levels.

Shara Smith’s work focuses on advocating for an amendment to the United States Constitution that would ensure the rights of the constitution belong to the people, not “artificial entities” and would state that money is property, not speech.

She and her colleagues at E.P.O.C.H. felt that in order to solve other issues including climate justice and mass incarceration, the rights of people, not corporations, must be ensured.

In addition, she asserted that the issues facing many oppressed groups are similar and the only way to rectify those issues is for both privileged and underprivileged people to unite. She emphasized unity, often repeating that “so long as we are divided, we are manageable.” continued on page 5

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MAIN SOUTH CONTINUED continued from page 1

with the community,” Romero said.

“You have students who volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club maybe once a week. This is not solidarity. This is not community building. When in reality the everyday interactions that Clark students have with people [in the community] is what should be worked on.”

Romero, among others, believes that financial support in the community is not enough. Clark has invested millions and will continue do so in the foreseeable future.

PILOT Program Over the course of the next two decades, Main South and the City of Worcester are poised to collect more from Clark University. In September 2010, Clark formalized their ongoing partnership with the community through a twenty-year PILOT (Payment In Lieu Of Taxes) agreement.

(Under federal law, not-for-profit universities are tax-exempt as long as they provide a fundamental education service.)

The program stipulates that Clark will pay over $6.7 million in voluntary taxes to The City of Worcester by 2030. This covers the twenty taxexempt properties on Clark’s campus that are used for educational purposes.

This fiscal year, Clark will pay just over $290,000, a 2.5 percent increase over last year’s payment (to account for inflation). Additionally, Clark pays roughly $75,000 annually for its remaining non-exempt properties.

The PILOT contribution will directly impact the Worcester Public Library and the Main South community. The main project to be worked on was the rehabilitation of Univer-

sity Park (Crystal Pond). Roughly $1.5 million was allocated to the project in the hopes that it would cultivate an engaged environment.

The project has, so far, been successful and has managed to encourage involvement, with programs such as IvyChild’s Yoga in The Park being hosted over the summers.

Closing of Downing Street Also included in the PILOT agreement was the closing off of Downing Street (from Woodland Street to Florence Street), which was part of a larger federally-sponsored streetscape project. Of the payments from the program, $1.5 million were directed into the closing off of the street.

Clark cited a need for campus continuity and pedestrian safety as the largest motivating factor. Essentially a blind turn, crossing the street was considered dangerous, especially in the winter, when snow piled up on the sidewalks.

The closing of the street, however, was not universally accepted.

Worcester locals, who used the welltravelled road, expressed their displeasure about the decision.

“Clark University has gone from a school with three major buildings with a couple of dorms to an institution that’s dominating the neighborhood from Park Ave. to Main St., ” said David Bogoian, who grew up in the Clark neighborhood, in a 2012 interview with GoLocalWorcester.

“I’m not opposed to Clark University making a better campus, but this is just an example of a big institution pushing its weight around,” he said.

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Bogoian’s sentiments have been echoed across the community as Clark has expanded: In the mid-1990’s Clark committed a percentage of its endowment to support a revitalization effort in the Main South neighborhood. Foley said that revitalizing the neighborhood through the renovation helped to “drive out the criminal element.”

The Community Development Corporation’s (CDC) website declares that “Clark had the financial capacity to entice and leverage capital investment into the area.” This financial ability is the catalyst for much of Clark’s involvement in the community.

In addition to its involvement with the CDC, Clark offers financial incentives to faculty for moving into Main South houses - effectively giving salaried faculty an advantage over local residents.

Overall, Foley said that the CDC has brought $50 million in construction projects and $400,000 in property taxes.

University Park Partnership (UPP) Professors John Brown and Jacqueline Geoghegan of the Economics Department conducted research in 2009 to examine how the UPP affected the economic development in the immediate area: “Once [Clark] declared the changes in this neighborhood [such as the establishment of the UPP]… people started viewing the neighborhood differently and you can get that by looking at a number of indicators.”

According to Brown, the indicators are property prices, and the changes regarding how “potential investors in the neighborhood view the neighborhood itself as an investment opportunity.”

In 1996, Clark announced its partnership with UPCS, under UPP. UPCS is a grades 7-12 public school, in which children of families in the district are eligible for an enrollment lottery.

When UPP was announced, the price index for housing in the University Park neighborhood shot up above 80 percent, which was higher than the price index for housing in any ad-

University Park Campus School Success Principal Daniel St. Louis (B.A. ‘00/ M.A.T. ‘01), stated that, as UPCS was being established, it developed a signature curriculum: a six-year plan without any academic tracking.

In their middle school years, students take basic literacy and numeracy classes, but by their senior year, their schedule has an AP choice nearly every period, and they may even take college courses on Clark’s campus.

The UPCS students achieved outstanding scores on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System when compared to Claremont Academy, a school just located four blocks away from UPCS. St. Louis attributed UPCS’s success to elements of the school’s uniquely self-designed curriculum, including “student engagement, writing-to-learn, and active learning.”

According to Foley, it is a curriculum that paid off. Since 2003, 99 percent of graduating seniors have attended college. Currently, there are 23 students studying at Clark tuitionfree at the cost of $900,000 a year.

In spring of 2014, the percentage of UPCS students that performed at a proficient or higher level was around the state average, while the percentage of Claremont students who performed at the same level was significantly lower than the state level.

Clark Volunteerism “The (UPCS) kids view themselves as part of Clark. People here are used to seeing Clark professors in their classes, we have seven Master’s students at Clark teaching the kids,” said St. Louis.

Angel, who cited LEEP, said, “My impression is that many [Clark] students are proud of this neighborhood and proud of the way Clark has become involved.”

Brown added, “Clark’s leverage is really more the goodwill it’s generated … because of its commitment to the neighborhood.”

Apart from the student involvement at UPCS, Clark students are encouraged to engage with, and volunteer in, Main South. Many courses

even encourage working with the community for credit. Students, however, have noted the many problems associated with such motivating factors.

“Students go into the community for their own learning purposes rather than to engage with the Worcester community. It is hard because we are students and we are eventually… going to leave,” said one junior in the International Development and Social Change (IDSC) student at Clark.

“And so, it’s [currently] more of an extractive relationship than an uplifting one.”

“You have to ask to what extent is the Clark community responsible for Worcester’s community. Its purpose is to be university to the students; we’re not a part of Worcester’s government,” said Maria Zander (‘17).

Conclusion There was a time, before the 1980s, when Clark’s relationship with Main South was much more strained than we currently see it. Donna Rodrigues, former UPCS Principal and Main South native, can recall those times. “[Clark] really had never reached out,” she said in a 2011 Clark News Release, “no one was even allowed to walk through the campus.”

Clark maintained a stringent closed-gate policy until President Richard Traina decided that a change was needed.

Traina envisioned a symbiotic relationship with its Main South neighbors. He recognized that, on a pragmatic level, it was not in Clark’s best interest to block itself off from the community. Traina believed that a long-term investment in community engagement would pay off.

He is now remembered for steering Clark in its current direction at a time when it could have chosen two other paths: creating a fenced-community, or moving away from Main South completely. Instead he chose to steer us to where we are today.

The complications presented here are some of the results of that decision, and it is the responsibility of each member of the Clark community to consider where they stand.

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MLK Continued continued from page 3

Steve O’Neil works with current and former prisoners with the intent of replacing mass-incarceration with job creation. As a white male, O’Neil says that he and other white activists play an “uncomfortable role” in affecting change. He asked the group to raise their hand if they think they bear any type of racial bias, be it conscious or subconscious. Almost everyone in the group raised their hand, his included. O’Neil said that in social activism, individuals must become aware of their biases and imperfections, especially when those shortcomings are “compounded” into institutional settings.

David Minasian spoke about his work in the Carpenter’s Union and the personal conflicts he faces as an

activist. One of the issues he combats is wage theft, particularly that of undocumented workers, who are more susceptible to the crime. One student at the event asked Minasian about his opinion on Clark University and its involvement in what he considered gentrification. Minasian stated, “I’m in the business of gentrification,” because of the needs of carpenters for construction jobs.

Overall, the speakers expressed a sense that everyone has a role in activist work. The speakers did not concern themselves with racism directly, but how racism is built into larger, systemic issues in our society. The event expressed the continuation of Dr. King’s legacy through the activist work that is occurring today, rather than providing a history lesson and treating King as a relic of the past.

CUSC in Brief

By Molly Caisse contributing writer

Student Life Committee (SLC) announced that they will be hosting The Mr. Clark Pageant on January 24 beginning at 8:30 p.m. Prizes will be awarded to the first, second, and third place winners and the first place winner will be given the opportunity to participate in Mr. Worcester on Saturday, January 30.

President Brittany Klug (’16) announced that the Undergraduate Academic Committee is working in conjunction with CUSC to rename Academic Spree Day and Fall Fest.

Residential Life and Housing (RLH) is continuing work to fix the broken card readers which provide entrance to the Academic Commons and several of the undergraduate dorms. They expect to see repairs shortly.

Ali Laith (‘15) was appointed to the Safety Committee and Luke Schoppert (‘17) was appointed to the Finance Committee.

Grants: $1200 Scott Cambell – Investments and Trading Society Conference $2520 Clark Global Student Embassy – Community Service Project in Ecuador $1160 Themal Ellawala – Advocacy Day $800 James Henderson – EMT course

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Challenge Convention, Become a CEO

By Kate Summers news correspondent

BestColleges.com ranked Clark number 28 on their list of “The College With the Highest Number of Fortune 500 CEO Graduates.” The

list consists of 38 U.S. colleges and universities and were ranked by the total number of Fortune 500 CEOs that received an undergraduate or graduate degree from the school.

Schools are also evaluated on the number of degrees it has given out.

“This figure represents the number of degrees conferred to Fortune 500 CEOs prior to September 2013; if this number exceeds the number of CEOs, then it should be assumed that at least one Fortune 500 executive has earned multiple degrees from that college or university,” said BestColleges.com.

The third component is the Combined Gross Annual Revenue (in billion), which the website claims represents “the total earnings of all Fortune 500 companies represented

by CEOs who earned a degree from the given school.” They go on to explain that “while the list primarily

emphasizes the number of CEOs and degrees, it should be noted that gross revenue can also be used to evaluate the academic strengths of a particular college or university.”

Topping the list was Harvard University, which has a total of 25 Fortune 500 CEOs, 31 degrees, and a Combined Gross Annual Revenue $1,548.3 billion.

Clark has two CEOs, two degrees, and a Combined Gross Annual Revenue of $174.5 billion. The website said that Clark “hosts the Small Business Development Center for aspiring entrepreneurs to learn the fundamentals of running their own

company or startup.”

In August, Clark was ranked number 13 on Forbes magazine list of Most Entrepreneurial University.

Clark’s management program prides it’s ability on following the university’s motto of challenging convention and changing the word.

It teaches the necessary knowledge of the business world, “while teaching you the critical thinking and communication skills that are essential in a liberal arts environment and vital to the success of today’s managers.”

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CLARKIE of the WEEK

Dana Aronowitz Dana Aronowitz is the Night and Weekend Circulation Supervisor in the Goddard Library. She reads a lot, likes to bake, and is “terrible at knitting.” She is a runner but also a smoker, “which is confusing.”

Scarlet: How long have you been working at Clark?

Dana: Almost four years now. I started in March of 2011 in a temporary position and they offered it to me full time in May of 2011.

Scarlet: You graduated from Clark, correct?

Dana: I did, in 2010.

Scarlet: What made you decide to stay at Clark? Was it the job?

Dana: No. I worked in the library in my undergrad and then I moved home for like 6 months, and I didn’t really know what to do. I was making smoothies for rich Long Island people, which is where I’m from. I came up to visit a bunch of my friends at Clark and I went to say hi to my old boss who is now retired and she offered me a job. It was a real full time [job] and I didn’t really know what to do. I love libraries. I’ve always worked in them and so I just took it.

Scarlet: What does a typical workday in the library look like?

Dana: It’s a lot of supervising the students. I’m also responsible for the fines and fees notices that you guys all hate so much. A lot of stack maintenance; making sure all the sections upstairs are useable, clean, and tidy, which doesn’t always work out. It’s sort of a Sisyphean task at a university of this size. Mostly I’m there to make sure that there’s someone who knows everything about the library in the

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crew now. Which is cool to get life injected into long and never get tired of it, that’s a genius it but we’ve lost a lot of institutional knowledge right there. which we’re trying to get back.

Scarlet: How many times have you read it?

Dana: 4. I just finished it again. Which is why Scarlet: Is it written down anywhere? when you [asked] I was like , “I know his one!”

Dana: I hope so. [laughs] We’re kind of That’s my favorite big academic book. My screwed if it’s not. favorite book that I’ve been reading over and over again is Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, Scarlet: What’s your favorite part of the job?

Dana: When someone is really panicking about but that one’s just so much fun. Its about secrets and lies and print culture and technology not being able to find something. You know, and like how are they gonna work together in their paper’s due tomorrow and they don’t have enough sources, or they can’t find a book the world that we live in and so that one’s fun, but it’s for sure Infinite Jest.

Scarlet: Makes sense. So you know everything up there because it’s been misplaced. When about the library… you can get them the sources, when you can go Dana: You know I heard that come out of my up there and come down 10 minutes later with Scarlet: How many books do you read on average in a year? mouth and I was like , “maybe that’s not the the book. It’s such a nice feeling that you’ve Dana: That’s a great question. I’ve never tallied best way to put it.” I’ve been here for a long really helped someone, and you’ve really let time, I worked in the Goddard all four years of them see that the library has a lot more things them up, but I average about 3 a week. On my undergrad, and I worked in the archives.… than they thought it [did]. So my favorite part a good week. Like during finals I read none I do, I know the building really well, I know is showing the students at this university how cause I’m here till 2 a.m. with all you. But over the 2 weeks of winter break I must have read the people in it really well and I think I could much the library can really do for them. like 15. I don’t have homework, remember that. pretty much find any book. I feel pretty confiThere’s no homework in my life. So I work and dent in that. So yeah I stand by that.

Scarlet: What’s your least favorite part [of the then I go home and I read. job]?

Scarlet: So are there any secrets that we don’t Dana: [laughs] This is actually a question I get Scarlet: So what do you do in your free time know about the library? a lot. Sometimes I think students forget that besides reading?

Dana: Huh. It’s tricky ‘cause this is going to go I was very recently a student and I know that Dana: I hang out with my fiancé a lot. I in a newspaper. Anything that you guys don’t you didn’t really return the book on time. You live with him so we spend a lot of our time know? Well its not supposed to look like a book know? I don’t want to say [I’m] being treated together. We’re watching The Wire right now, from the aerial view. Everybody knows that like I’m out of touch, that’s not really what I now? mean but sometimes its difficult to convey that which is incredible. It’s intense. So we’re on I’m here to help you and we’re bros but there’s Season 4 so that’s all we’re doing right now.

You know when you just get like possessed?

Scarlet: A lot of people do. also rules and you need to follow them. You Dana: Okay. That makes me happy, because know we have policies in place because we have So I finished a book last week and I haven’t picked up another one since, cause he comes the designers had an idea with the builda lot of students and a limited number of reing and it was not that. Actually, I guess one sources. I think my least favorite part is having home from work and we just watch The Wire.

We try to watch television that both of us want of them heard that was the rumor and they to be an enforcer of policies. I’m still learning were like, “we would never be that obvious.” how to do that. [Laughs] I’m not super great at to watch. He plays guitar, so I listen to him do that while I read. I’ve been trying to learn the They were legitimately offended. It’s a really it…I make more exceptions than I should. ukulele but it’s harder than I thought. I’m not interesting building, but all the things I know about it are things that I probably shouldn’t Scarlet: So this question might be hard, what is good at it. I have 2 projects, which are knitting and playing the ukulele and I’m terrible at both put out there, you know. Like where doors lead your favorite book? And why? to and can you get on the roof or not. Things Dana: It’s actually not that hard. It’s Infinite Jest of them, so I give like an hour every couple of days and then I get frustrated. So maybe my like that. Anything that you would want to do

by David Foster Wallace. I don’t think there in the library that you’re not supposed to do has ever been another book written that more hobby is giving up on hobbies [laughs]. would take a key. accurately captured so many different types For some exciting stories about Aronowitz’s tenure of the human condition in one book. He was in the library, see the full version of this interview Scarlet: So you’re the key master? a man that really understood people. Now I Dana: Yeah, there are a couple of us. We don’t necessarily agree with what he says about on clarkscarlet.com. defend the key. We hold the key. Yeah, well people, which is that everyone is inherently bad one thing, it’s not a secret, but a thing about if you get to the core of everyone. I don’t agree Email scarlet@clarku.edu if you the library is that with retirements this year, with it, but I think his writing style, his ability have a suggestion for Clarkie of the we lost a collective, I think it’s 170 years of to sort of track like 25 different narratives Week! knowledge about the Goddard library in 5 through different walks of life and make you retirements. We’re working with a whole new keep reading a book that’s one-thousand pages instance something goes wrong. I’m there for student questions and supervising purposes.

I answer the phone [laughs]. Actually, lately I’ve been doing more reference, which is fun.

I’m not actually a reference librarian, but I’ve gotten to help with it and it’s really wonderful to get to really sit down with someone and talk about their research. That’s one of my favorite parts of it. But usually it’s sitting at my desk and typing, looking for books, and you know, making sure if anything bad happens there’s an adult there.

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They do not reflect the opinions of the editorial board, The Scarlet, or Clark University.

International Silence Why You Didn’t Know About Baga

By Molly Powers scarlet staff

The terrorist organization Boko Haram struck again on January 3 in Baga, Nigeria and other surrounding towns bordering the country of Chad, slaughtering as many as 2,000 civilians.

Amnesty International has described the attack as the “deadliest massacre” yet committed by the extremist group. However, if you live in the Western hemisphere, you probably heard more about the Charlie Hebdo shootings in France, which dominated the news cycle of that week.

Many have expressed outrage about the media’s failure to cover this latest tragedy in Nigeria, but at the same time, no one is particularly surprised, either.

The Western world has come to view the occasional terrorist attack or destruction of a village in Africa as “normal.” That kind of thing is within the realm of possibility in that area of the world, and it does not shock us when we hear about some new horrifying event that has happened there. A terrorist attack in France, however, does shock us, because that is not supposed to be within the realm of possibilities in the West. So one reason we did not see much coverage about the attack on Baga is a matter of mere proximity; France is physically closer to the United States, and we have much more contact with the country and its citizens. The Charlie Hebdo shootings felt like they happened in our own backyard, whereas there was an air of detachment to reports about the Baga massacre, as reporters struggled to confirm the details.

This, of course, is the other main reason Baga got so little attention: its location makes it extremely difficult to report on, whether we are invested in doing so or not. Northern Nigeria is a very dangerous place for journalists right now –

or for anyone – because of Boko Haram’s growing control over the region. Boko Haram aims to create an Islamist caliphate through a series of violent campaigns; razing villages, targeting civilians, and slowly but surely isolating northern Nigeria from any outside contact. Few traders are willing to cross the Kano border, which drastically cuts down on the region’s contact with other areas of Nigeria, let alone with the rest of the world. Boko Haram has also repeatedly targeted and bombed as many as six telecommunications companies in the northeast, so Internet and cell phone access has been greatly restricted. The citizens of northern Nigeria are not able to easily access the online community to share photos and news, nor are foreign journalists easily able to report on that news as it unfolds. Boko Haram’s goal is to completely cut off northern Nigeria from any outside communication or influence as this would be the most efficient way to spread their own extremist interpretation of Islam – and they are succeeding.

Boko Haram’s area of control is growing, and the government of Nigeria is proving incapable of stopping the terrorist group. The current president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has not made any statement on the attacks on Baga.

Analysts attribute this silence to Nigeria’s upcoming elections and Jonathan’s reluctance to draw attention to his administration’s inability to shut Boko Haram down.

The government’s silence is yet another reason why the situation in Nigeria should be given more attention by the Western world because it is further evidence that Nigeria cannot deal with Boko Haram without help from the international community. Boko Haram has been

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denounced as a terrorist organization by the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Nations over the course of the last three years. Thus far, however, little material aid has actually been granted to Nigeria by these countries or by the U.N. The coverage of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, which resulted in the deaths of 17 individuals, when juxtaposed with the Baga massacre, which resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths and is only the latest in a terrorist campaign that stretches back to 2002, seems to point to one uncomfortable conclusion: African lives mean less to us than French lives. Or perhaps African lives simply mean less to us than Western lives, or lives from developed countries. Or, perhaps, black lives are not as worthy of news coverage as white lives.

The regular destruction of Nigerian villages and slaughter of civilians should not be thought of as normal, it should be viewed as unacceptable both by Western media and by those who consume it. Northern Nigeria and the attacks of Boko Haram ought to be covered with much more regularity, and the fact that it is so difficult for journalists to do so ought to be an indicator to the rest of us of how bad things are in that region.

The White House has yet to comment on the Baga attacks, but hopefully this latest tragedy will put more pressure on the United States, as well as the rest of the international community, to focus more of their energy into taking down one of the most violent terrorist groups of this century.

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Arming SWAT with Corporation Status Poses Imminent Danger

By Jeremy Levine editor-in-chief

Alex Grayson opinions editor

To my fellow seniors: Four years ago, I was in a weird state of nostalgic panic. High school was ending. We were all going our separate ways, to various colleges and programs all over the country and the world. There were people who I liked in high school who I have not spoken to since graduation. At the time, knowing that this would happen disturbed me greatly.

Retrospectively, though, it does not bother me one bit, and this is probably the main cause of my current state of ambivalence toward the whole graduating thing.

Maybe it’s because I’m planning on sticking around Worcester for a year or so after I graduate, but the supposed-to-be-horrifying concept of the Clarkie Diaspora is not alarming me to the extent that I feel like it should. A good number of my friends are going to go their separate ways, and there’s a handful of them who I will never see after May. While this is a sad thing, it has not yet made me sad.

Mark Z. Danielewski, in his novel House Of Leaves (which is incredibly good, although I am not yet done with it), wrote that “maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing.” I’ve begun thinking of the college experience as a four-year period in which you learn to grow both intellectually and emotionally and learn to unpack both kinds of growth in terms of each other.

The Clark experience has been the discovery process that Danielewski referred to that allows me to not panic about this uncertainty.

It’s one thing to recognize the finality of the situation and to appreciate it, but being afraid of May 18 is not going to make anyone feel better. We’ll get there when we get there, and until then, let’s embrace the uncertainty and the not knowing as much as we embrace the now.

Have a great last semester.

In Massachusetts, a state that possesses ample law enforcement infrastructure, a debate is emerging over whether or not SWAT teams can consider themselves private corporations. In the state of Massachusetts, many police departments are overseen and managed by Law Enforcement Councils (LECs) The LECs represent a particular geographic jurisdiction within the state of Massachusetts, such as the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council (NEMLEC). However, some LECs are attempting to identify to the federal government as 501 (c) (3) entities. By making the claim that the LECs are eligible for 501(c) (3) representation, the LECs, and the SWAT teams they represent, may be recognized as private corporations. The

implications are staggering.

Should their requests be approved, heavily armed groups of police officers with the ability to enter personal homes and businesses will no longer be required to submit their records under Massachusetts laws and statutes regarding open records. They will have essentially made themselves immune to inquiries from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the federal government, or watchdog organizations such as the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). This presents severe issues for several reasons, not least of which those cases that include civilian casualties.

In their report on the Militarization of North American Police, the ACLU outlined that the grand majority of SWAT deployments in the observed period (2011-2012) originated from drug-related search warrants or suspicion of drugs within a residence or other space. In many cases, civilian

fatalities were caused when occupants could not comply fast enough with the heavily armed officers’ orders.

The original mission of the institution of United States civilian law enforcement appears to have been completely lost behind a smokescreen of eagerlyacquired grenade launchers, tanks automatic weapons, and militaristic secrecy.

Officers are being trained to view the public as the enemy. The limitations to the power of law officers equipped with such weaponry is next to nothing. The lack of such limits is having a negative effect on the democratic values the US was founded on, for there is clearly a corollary to be drawn between the militarization of police and the alleged rise in police brutality and officer involved shootings. If the LECs and SWAT teams have their way, then reports such as the one compiled by the ACLU and other groups will cease to exist, lost behind a veil of secrecy created by the police’s 501 (c) (3) statutes. These critical issues demand discussion if the public attitudes regarding the issue of militarization are to change and the police can be reigned in. The democratic values the US was founded on will surely falter and fade if the citizen organizations designed to serve and protect us continue to play secrets and soldiers.

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january 22, 2015

The Scarlet/Living Arts Sesame Street Live Panders to Unsophisticated Viewership

by Tyler Terriault

Classes starting, and naps departing, please just let me sleep a lil’ more.

Shoot for the stars! But be careful, because sometimes the stars will shoot back.

You ever get that feeling that you just skipped like all of your classes?

All praise be unto thy professors who cancel the first day of class.

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By Jeremy Levine editor-in-chief

The Hanover Theater, a swanky downtown venue complete with chandeliers and tuxedoed ushers, was overrun by toddlers this weekend who had come from far and wide for a production of Sesame Street Live: Make A New Friend (SSLMANF).

These tiny lovers of theater and their families experienced a production complete with electrifying music, full-body costumes, and worthwhile, albeit heavy-handed and occasionally problematic, morals regarding diversity and racial cooperation.

The high-energy jazz, coupled with challenging choreography for someone wearing a full-body costume, delighted its attendees and inspired them to dance in the aisles themselves, their light-up sneakers contributing to the production’s already-impressive lighting design.

The premise of the show is that Chamki, Grover’s friend from India (and a character on Sesame Street’s Indian counterpart, Galli Galli Sim Sim), is coming to visit for the day. Grover introduces Chamki to all of his friends on Sesame Street, who take a liking to her immediately and begin to inquire into her unfamiliar culture, eventu-

ally realizing that the differences between people (or monsters, for that matter) ought to be celebrated.

Which is all well and good, but SSLMANF failed to recognize more subtle, but still present, forms of inequality. When Rosita, a monster from Mexico, introduces herself, Chamki points out that “[she has] an accent too.” The show calls attention to Chamki’s already-obvious otherness with dialogue that no normal person would consider socially acceptable, thereby deepening the divide between her and the rest of the crew.

This self-imposed otherness that

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Chamki mentions reveals how not even monsters are immune to structural racism. She expresses surprise at how the Sesame Street gang is so inclusive and wants to do entire dance numbers celebrating her culture, implying that she has run into serious discrimination from other monsters in the past. Unfortunately, this widespread intolerance is not the subject of SSLMANF, but instead an undercurrent which the production expects its, shall we say, culturally illiterate target demographic to understand.

Speaking of underdeveloped writing, the plot is rather scattered.

SSLMANF partially spends its energy on Grover’s desire to show Chamki around town, her quest to choreograph a traditional Indian dance in order to surprise Grover, as well as Elmo’s seemingly unrequited friendship (in his words, a desire to “play”) with Abby, as well as a series of unrelated musical numbers, including continued on page 11

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Sesame Street Cont. continued from page 10

Cookie Monster’s “Me Want Cookies” to the tune of pop idol Aaron Carter’s “I Want Candy.”

While most of the show was high-energy and feel-good, it did

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bayashi said she has heard that other clubs hosting dances throughout the school year are facing similar drops in ticket sales and attendance.

Hisabayashi cited possible factors leading to the low attendance of this past weekend’s Euphoria as it being the first weekend back (and a three-day weekend at that), or the dreadful weather. “But more impor-

slow down to an extent for a reworking of Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold” as Grover and Elmo lamented the mixed signals that Chamki and Abby (respectively) were sending them.

Still, the number reeked of a patriarchal desire for the two monsters to control the lifestyles of their female friends.

SSLMANF reminds the sociallyconscious viewer that it is important

to understand the distinction between the aesthetic and the critical.

It is fine to clap your hands and sing along to the newly-arranged theme song and “The Elmo Slide,” but one must also understand the problematic components of a performance.

We can only hope that the preschool audience will draw such a distinction.

tantly,” she said, “ I think that less and less Clark students are interested in big dances like Euphoria”.

Hisabayashi remembers Euphoria dances selling out when she was a freshman, but reflects that now “More and more people are choosing alternate ways to spend their nights”.

Cora Torton (‘17) agrees, “I think that the culture of the student population here is changing.” “[Euphoria] is mostly for fun and for other people to come and have fun. But if Clark students aren’t coming out and having fun… ISA has the potential to do something else,” said Hisabayashi. According to Hisa-

bayashi, ISA is now thinking about only hosting one Euphoria dance next year in the fall, and then focusing their attention in the spring on the Gala After-Party.

With the culture climate at Clark shifting, Hisabayashi said that the ISA is considering how to move forward. Whether that would be creating a new event in replacement of the spring Euphoria is still undecided, Hisabayashi said that “If ISA members wanted to focus their energy next year creating a new event, I think that would be an exciting idea”.

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january 22, 2015

The Scarlet/Sports Cougars Assist Abroad Clark Athletes Help Build Classrooms For Elementary School In Dominican Republic

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By Kate Conquest scarlet staff

Eleven Clark student athletes escaped the winter weather and travelled to the Dominican Republic on a service trip. The group represented men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, women’s

rowing, and women’s tennis.

The program was run by Service for Peace and was mainly organized by volleyball player Courtney Pharr (‘17), one of the students on the trip. “Courtney really organized the whole thing, she deserves a lot of credit,” said her teammate Mia Cattaneo (‘17).

Directory of Community Engagement Micki Davis was the chaperone. She heard about Service for Peace through a former student.

“I was the contact and helped to coordinate logistics and pre-trip meetings the students…Everything went very smoothly,” she said.

For nine days the students helped build classrooms in an elementary school in the city of El Cidral, completing tasks such as mixing cement, sifting dirt, and weeding.

Members of the local community came out to help with the construction. The students admired was that only three of those locals were paid; all the others were there voluntarily.

The students found their interactions with the community to be a rewarding part of the experience. “We got to play with the kids from the community…One day we handed out gifts and face painted and played games with them. For me that was the best day,” said soccer player Mike Spanos (‘17).

Davis said her favorite memory was “visiting with women that had established a cacao cooperative to generate revenue”, which the Clark students were able to participate in and learn about as well.

The students stayed in homes of locals which were about the size of the average Clark dorm room.

They slept in cots on the floor with mosquito netting. Electricity was sparse and showers were taken out of buckets for lack of running water.

Two translators were present on the trip, but the students felt that even with the language barrier, they managed to feel a con-

nection with the locals through body language and context clues.

The student athletes described the Domincan people as giving, compassionate, and welcoming.

The trip had a huge impact on the students who participated. “[It was] the most amazing experience of my life and very eye opening,” said Spanos. “[They are] resource rich even though they’re so poor…always laughing, smiling, and enjoying each other’s company. They don’t have to always be on a phone or anything. Very humbling.”

Cattaneo and Spanos expressed their appreciation for things they felt they had formerly taken for granted. “I really appreciate a hot shower [now],” Catteneo said, while Spanos expressed his admiration of the Dominican’s commitment to conservation. “I personally have tried not to waste food,” he said. “You see the dishes in the caf piled with uneaten food but [the Dominicans] truly save everything and reuse it.”

Clark was well represented by the student athletes that participated in the experience. “I was very impressed with the Clark student attitude and willingness to connect with community members, try new things, and adapt to new situations,” said Davis. “It was a great trip.”

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SPORTS RECAP

By Scott Levine and Kate Summers sports editor and news correspondent

basketball The men’s basketball team traveled to Las Vegas to compete in the D3Hoops.com Classic. Their first game of the tournament was against Colorado College on December 28. The Cougars beat them 71-43. The Cougars fell short against the Hanover College Panthers in a 49-45 loss on December 30.

The team lost to WPI on Tuesday after a competitive first half.

Clark also played a close first half against Coast Guard Academy on Saturday, but managed to win this game thanks to a scoring run early in the second half. David Mercier (‘17), Joe Atkinson (‘17), and Matthew Woods (‘17) went a collective 7-8 from the free throw line during the first eight minutes of the second half during which the Cougars outscored Coast Guard 15-6. The team is 2-3 in conference play and 7-9 on the season.

The women’s basketball team left the Bowdoin Coastal Classic Tournament with two losses. On December 30 of the conference the Cougars walked off the court with a final score of 90-29. The Bates College Bobcats beat the Cougars with an 80-57 win on December 31.

The team has been struggling so far in inner-conference play, most recently coming close to beating Mount Holyoke in a 45-41 loss.

Aretha Sullivan (‘17) made two free throws to cut Mount Holyoke’s lead to two with 21 seconds to go, but the Paws iced the game with two free throws after being fouled with 14 seconds left. The Cougars are currently 1-7 in conference play and 3-13 overall.

courtesy of clarkathletics.com

swimming and diving

courtesy of clarkathletics.com

For the fifth year in a row, the men and women’s swimming and diving teams traveled to both San Juan and Guaynabo, Puerto Rico for their inter-session training. The teams trained five hours a day and competed in the international Copa Coqui meet on January 5.

The women’s swimming and diving team placed fourth in the Worcester City Championships on Friday and Saturday out of four teams. Despite coming up short in this annual competition against WPI, Holy Cross, and Assumption, Clark enjoyed second place times from Melissa Orzechowski (‘17) in the 1650-yard freestyle event and 500-yard freestyle event. Breanna Tucker (‘15) posted a second place score in the 3-meter diving event.

The men’s swimming and diving team placed third out of three teams in the Worcester City Championships on Friday and Saturday against formidable opponents in WPI and Holy Cross. Jack Hall (‘15) finished in the top-five in the 1650-yard freestyle and the 200-yard freestyle, while Steven Castiglione (‘18) managed to sustain his consistent production thus far in the season with fourth place finishes in the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events.

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january 22, 2015

COUGAR of the WEEK

by Scott Levine

Karina Urquhart (’17) transferred to Clark this school year and has been a top finisher in almost every meet for the women’s swimming and diving team. She recently placed second in the 200-yard Individual Medley (IM) on January 9 in a meet against Wheaton and Mount Holyoke.

Scarlet: What events do you compete in the most?

Urquhart: In the past I’ve done distance freestyle a lot, but this year, my coach is having me do a lot of IM and butterfly. It’s fun, I’m really enjoying it.

Scarlet: Why are you doing different events now?

Urquhart: I had a coach growing up who thought that specializing in events was never really a good thing, so I always kind of swam everything. If you didn’t have a time, she would put you in that event automatically, so I never really specialized in anything.

Scarlet: Do you prefer it that way?

Urquhart: I get bored really easy with the same thing over and over, so yeah. photo by jonathan edelman

Karina Urquhart women’s swimming and diving

Scarlet: How long have you been swimming?

Urquhart: Eight or nine years.

Scarlet: What led you to start swimming?

Urquhart: I started taking swimming lessons in fifth grade, but then I ran out of those, so I joined the swim team in my hometown. And I hated it [laughs], but I kept with it for some reason.

Scarlet: What made you keep with it?

Urquhart: I think I just liked the people. I just had friends that I could relate with on the swim team.

Scarlet: Was there ever a moment when you almost quit?

Urquhart: In junior high, I would be “sick” every day after school, so I would skip a lot of practice, but I swam with this girl who was really, really fast. And we swam together in high school during my freshman year and it was her senior year. When she graduated, it was like someone had to step up and take her position on the team, so I guess I kind of put it on myself, and then I started to work harder and started to like swimming.

Scarlet: Have you found a similar sense of camaraderie in college swimming as when you started out?

Urquhart: I sense it a lot more now.

Scarlet: A lot more now?

Urquhart: Well I’m a transfer student, I didn’t know if you knew that, but this is my first year here. I came in from Drew University. I’m a sophomore. Last year, there was no team aspect for me. I just didn’t really fit in there. I missed that a lot, and swimming got really hard without the team behind me.

Scarlet: How important does the team aspect play into swimming?

Urquhart: I think it plays in a lot. Probably equal to about the physical stuff, if not more.

Scarlet: Yeah, from an outside perspective, that seems like the main reason to stay with it. I can’t imagine people doing it without that team aspect.

Urquhart: [Laughs] Yeah. They’re the ones going through it with you, and they’re really the only ones who understand how much it sucks. But it’s a lot of fun here, and we have a lot of fun.

Scarlet: Do you have any other hobbies outside of swimming?

Urquhart: Ummm, sleeping? [Laughs] Does that count? No, I like art, and I used to like photography a lot, but I’ve kind of stopped with that for a little bit.

Scarlet: Are you majoring in art?

Urquhart: I’m a studio art minor.

Scarlet: What are you majoring in?

Urquhart: Environmental Science.

Scarlet: Does swimming get in the way of art?

Urquhart: Yeah, it’s hard to manage time.

Scarlet: What is Clark like during swim season? How do you manage this?

Urquhart: Well, right now, I got like ten hours of sleep last night so I’m great, but we usually swim before the crack of dawn, so it doesn’t really interfere with your day, except for the naps [you have to take]. I don’t know, it just takes a lot of time management and you have to get really good at it. And growing up swimming, you just become good at it.

Scarlet: I’ve heard from other people on the team that they usually manage their time much better during season.

Urquhart: Yeah. Outside of swim season, you have so much free time, and you think it’s going to last forever. It doesn’t.

Scarlet: How was the Puerto Rico trip with the team over winter break?

Urquhart: It was great. It was so much fun. I went on a training trip with my last team, and it just didn’t compare to this one. This one was so much better. I mean, it helps that I like everyone on the Clark team.

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The Scarlet/Puzzles CROSSWORD by Ted Randich

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3. River (and WWI battle) in France.

4. Truck and trailer renters.

5. Length of some worms.

6. Grow old.

7. Choose.

8. Forest in North Carolina?

9. Reservoir up the road (or pond?)

10. Judiciary field.

11. Full-length hike type.

12. Airport gropers.

13. Arachnid creation.

14. Preceding night.

15. Ice cream bite.

16. The sixth sense.

17. When you hear the name, he guarantees the pain.

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19. 13 across legend.

20. Snoop alter ego.

21. City of Thunder.

22. Metric of volume.

23. Boston to DC in 7 hours.

24. Not bueno.

25. Greek getup.

26. My kind of football.

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28. Bumbling bird.

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5. Othello enemy.

13. Is it a sport?

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29. Ambient music pioneer.

30. After-class action.

31. Be indebted.

32. Beastie Boy. 33. Pre-modern Britain-dweller.

34. Granite ivy.

35. Rival of Devils.

36. Top-hatted Prez.

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40. Road to Holden Reservoir.

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42. First whole number.

43. Be like this:  44. Person-mover.

45. Visit for fun.

46. Nucleotide strand.

47. Terrifying-looking 80s sitcom character.

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LAST ISSUE’S SOLUTIONS

Police Logs

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Reported by Maria Rotelli This past week there were six reports of suspicious persons, one report of suspicious activity, one disorderly persons report, one robbery, one check of student welfare, one report of larceny/forgery/fraud, two reports of vandalism, and one item delivered to the lost and found).

There were twelve incidents of the police helping lockedout students, five transportations of money, two electrical issues, five plumbing issues, one heating issue, three disturbances of the peace. One fire alarm that went off, and nine burglar alarms went off. There were thirteen incidents in which UP assisted random citizens, three incidents in which they assisted the Worcester Police Department, and two incidents in which they assisted other agencies. There were three calls for EMS, seven calls for UP escort, one emergency box call, three motor stops, one complaint, and eight miscellaneous incidents.

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what happens in The Scarlet office at 4:44 a.m. stays in The Scarlet office... sort of “So is she a Clarkie?” - Ethan “Yeah, she works here.” - Jeremy “I didn’t know that.” - Scott “Yeah we’re not just interviewing random people from like Seattle.” - Jeremy “Although we should.” - Matt “Wilma is a…” - Ethan “Seven-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin.” - Jeremy “She likes grapes.” - Ethan “I used to swim. I was a breastroker. It’s all about rhythm.” Jeremy “I’m sure there’s a joke in there.” - Ethan “And yet…” - Jeremy “It was too easy.” - Ethan

“Right, because you look for high-brow humor. Wilma is a seven-year-old from Madison, Wisconsin. She likes grapes!” - Jeremy “They also never explained how Grover met Chamki. I probably need to back up.” -Jeremy “There was a scene where the Count dressed up as Elvis.” - Jeremy “Did he sing like Elvis?” - Giles “Threeeeeeee o’clock rock! Fooooouuuuur o’clock rock!” - Matt, in the Count’s voice.

“I don’t brag about Connecticut, though.” - Nik “Do you think Bill Belichick likes grapes?”- Scott “Worcester? I hardly know her!”- Ethan

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