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THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892

VOL. 129, ISSUE 19

CLASS OF 2021 SURVEY 56 Percent of Respondents Plan to Protest on Campus, Half of Class Accepted Through Early Decision

Courtesy of the Obama Foundation

The garage will be built underneath Jackson Park.

Which ’16 candidate? Sanders (42%), Clinton (34%), Kasich (10%), Trump (2%), Other (22%).

Approve or disapprove of Trump’s performance?

Disapprove (86%) , Approve (10%) , No opinion (4%).

More liberal / more conservative than average UofC student? The same (51%) , Lib. (25%) , Con. (24%).

Parking Garage Plans Change

BY ALEX WARD ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The Obama Foundation announced today that the Obama Presidential Center’s garage will be under the Center, not aboveground on the Midway.

The Center’s design originally included a two-story, 450car parking garage on a patch of land at the east end of the Religious identification? Agn. (28%), Ath. (23%), Jew. (14%), Prot. (12%), Cath. (12%), Other (11%).

Open environment, allow speech / Positive environment, prohibit speech? Open (77%), Positive (23%).

BY HARI PINGALI MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

T he C hicago M aroon has asked incoming first-years to participate in a survey on topics ranging from family background to political identity to expectations for the future. This year, 544 out of the 1,740 first-year students, or just under a third of the class, provided responses. Over the past two years, the University has altered its admissions policies by accepting a larger class size and introducing two Early Decision rounds on top of the existing Early Action round. But how, if at all, have these changes altered the

Where did you grow up? City (34%), Suburbs (61%), Rural (5%).

Plan to protest on campus? Yes (56%), No (44%).

composition of the class?

Due to sampling biases from the voluntary nature of the survey, the results may not be perfectly representative. However, the results from the survey offer a detailed snapshot of the Class of 2021 and show some relationships between different aspects of a UChicago student’s background and opinions. In particular, income level, religion, and political identification seem to be related to the majority of student opinions and backgrounds. Despite the multiple changes in admissions in the past year, the makeup of the Class of 2021 follows many trends of previous years.

Midway, across Stony Island Avenue from the main site. The lost park space was meant to be compensated for by a landscaped roof atop the garage. The garage will now be constructed under the Center, with the entrance on Stony Island Avenue across from its intersection with 61st Street.

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Where are you from? Midwest (25%), Mid-Atlantic (18%), West (17%), New England (14%), South (12%), Other (14%)

Answers clockwise from top right. Full text of questions and more data can be found online. Answers rounded to the nearest percent. 544 students responded to the survey, which was sent to a list of Class of 2021 e-mail addresses. Graphs by Adam Thorp.

Demographics As in previous years, more female-identified than male-identified students responded to this year’s Maroon survey. There were three non-binary responses, including genderqueer and genderfluid. Specifically, almost 7 percent more respondents identified as female, even though the official University profile of the Class of 2021 reveals a slight majority of incoming students are male—52 to 48 percent.

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Senator Kwame Raoul gives a closing remark.

UCDems Host Attorney General Debate

BY EMMA DYER NEWS REPORTER

University of Chicago Democrats and College Democrats of Illinois hosted a public forum on Monday for candidates in the Attorney General of Illinois Democratic primary race. Seven of the eight candidates appeared at the forum, which was moderated by NBC 5 News political reporter Mary Ann Ahern.

The Urban–Rural Divide

The forum began with a brief introduction from each of the candidates and a statement from candidate Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering, relayed by a spokesperson.

Candidates began the evening by unanimously denouncing the actions of the Trump administration and asserting their favor of progressive policy.

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American colleges are often inacessible to rural students, writes columnist Natalie Denby.

Grounds of Being Goes Public With Rent Dispute

Bright Falters, But Netflix Still Shines

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The coffee shop published an open letter after negotiations broke down at the end of fall quarter.

Netflix’s latest attempt to disrupt the film industry is a fun diversion, but little more than that.

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Events 11/9–11/11 Today Obama Library CBA Info and Discussion University Church, 5655 South University Avenue, 6–7:15 p.m., free.

Supporters of a Community Benefits Agreement for the Obama library gather to make their case, with a special focus on the relevance of the issues to people of faith.

On Revolution Every Day Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 6–7:30 p.m., free.

Editors and curators Robert Bird, Zachary Cahill, and Christina Kiaer discuss Revolution Every Day, a Soviet tear-away calendar-inspired companion to the Smart Museum special exhibit of the same name.

The booklet features 365 calendar pages with entries of short essays and images that explore the many facets of revolution.

Wednesday Making Peace in Drug Wars Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 6–7:30 p.m., free.

How can states effectively curb drug cartel violence? UChicago assistant professor Benjamin Lessing examines the dynamic between Latin American states and powerful drug cartels in his first book.

Study Abroad Student Fair McCormick Tribune Lounge, Reynolds Club, 6–8 p.m., free.

Students in the College who have studied abroad will speak about their experiences. Study Abroad administrators will also be in attendance, answering questions.

Thursday Climate, Chemistry, Technology and Society: The University Responsibility Gordon Center for Integrative Research, Room W301/W303, 5:15–6:30 p.m., free.

2016 Benton Medal Recipient James G. Anderson will speak about the relationship between research done at the institutional level, the current state of technology, and the environment. Anderson is the Philip S. Weld Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.

First-Gen Night at the Museum Smart Museum of Art, 6–8 p.m., free.

The Smart Museum will host a reception and gallery tours to help foster community between first-generation students at the University. Guests are encouraged to bring an object that is meaningful to their background and share their story with others.

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Grounds of Being Goes Public With Rent Dispute

BY SPENCER DEMBNER NEWS REPORTER

On January 3, the Divinity School’s independent coffee shop, Grounds of Being (GoB), released an open letter about its rent negotiations with the Divinity School, publicly highlighting a months-long discussion about the coffee shop’s financial status. Grounds of Being staff have been in talks since June with Divinity School administrators, who are attempting to charge GoB rent for its use of Divinity School facilities.

Grounds of Being and its parent organization, the Divinity Students Association (DSA), formed the DSA/GoB Preservation Committee after negotiations with the Divinity School administration broke down at the end of fall quarter, and jointly released the statement.

The Committee plans to host a forum on January 12 at 10 a.m., in Swift’s third floor lecture hall.

The main issue under discussion is the possibility that Grounds of Being will be charged for its rent and utilities in the basement of Swift Hall, which have been free of charge in the past. Grounds of Being directs its profits toward DSA and argues that this provides critical funding for graduate students in the Divinity School. DSA uses the profits to fund travel for conferences and to provide emergency funding for students when needed.

“There’s really no way to pay any amount of rent without stripping DSA of something,” said Juliana Locke, one of GoB’s general managers.

GoB’s profits are not DSA’s only source of funding: It also receives approximately $27,000 yearly from student life fees that all

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accounts, and also of Grounds of Being Profits,” Simmonds said. “We want a contract that involves the DSA, Grounds of Being, and the Divinity School administration, that has an explicit figure for rent, and that lasts five to seven years.”

In addition, the counter-proposal asks the Divinity School for more transparency on its own financial issues.

“We’re hearing a lot about the financial situation of the Divinity School, and how it requires Grounds of Being to pay this amount of rent,” said William Underwood, GoB’s other general manager. “That’s another thing we have no documentation on. What is the financial situation such that it’s necessary to expropriate students of $35,000 a year?”

GoB and DSA say that they chose to go public because, by December, they had lost confidence in private negotiations with Divinity School Dean Laurie Zoloth and other administrators.

“It felt [like] we had come up against a wall,” Underwood said. “We were attempting to find points of compromise, [but] there just wasn’t someone on the other end of that negotiation.”

The Committee’s statement provoked a significant response on social media and elsewhere. Initially posted to DSA’s website, it was moved to its own site after the Divinity School unlinked DSA from the main Divinity School homepage.

In a statement, Director of Public Affairs Marielle Sainvilus expressed optimism about the negotiations.

“This discussion has been constructive, and the process has given confidence that any remaining issues can be resolved soon,” Sainvilus said in an e-mail to The Maroon.

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Divinity graduate students are required to pay. However, these funds can only be used for some activities. “[Student life fees] primarily can be used for social events and things that are open to the entire Divinity School community,” said Erin Simmonds, DSA’s president. “Any sort of social event that we host is funded through student life fees.”

On average, Grounds of Being makes $30–35,000 in profit yearly. The University’s most recent proposal includes no specific number for rent, but Committee members say administrators quoted $60,000 in previous discussions—$40,000 in rent and potentially $20,000 in utilities.

On its website, the Committee posted a formal proposal the Divinity School offered on January 5. In addition to paying rent, it asks GoB to integrate its finances with those of the University and begin accepting Maroon dollars. As an independent coffee shop, GoB has long been cash-only, but administrators argue this is unfair to students on financial aid.

The proposal also pledges to fund existing initiatives that are currently offered through the DSA. According to the proposal, “the administration is committed to ensuring that sufficient funds continue to be available to meet the needs of students for emergencies, programming and professional development.”

On January 8, the Committee released its counter-proposal, which agrees to accept Maroon dollars but doesn’t commit to paying any rent. The counter-proposal demands a binding contract with the Divinity School setting out the agreed terms.

“We’re calling for the instantiation of the DSA as the sole administrator of student life

ning in rounds by posing a question and allowing each candidate an answering period of two to three minutes. Candidates answered questions on marijuana legalization, the Quincy Veterans’ Home, possible rescission of Illinois sanctuary state federal funding, police reform, and sexual harassment.

All candidates agreed on the need for an attorney general with a desire to place a greater focus on the interest of the people rather than the politicians. Speaking about her law career, candidate Sharon Fairley said, “I have only represented the citizens of Illinois. Not corporate interests, the citizens.”

This theme was echoed by all candidates as they expressed the need to refo-

cus priorities on public interest, focusing less on politics and deals with organizations. “At some point the Illinois government became more about the politicians than it did about the people, and that absolutely needs to change,” Illinois State Representative Scott Drury said.

The field of candidates make this election unique. Candidates include former Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, as well as individuals with no experience as an elected official, such as Renato Mariotti (A.B. ’98), who promotes his position as a political outsider. Given concerns of corruption among Illinois politicians, particularly in the face of recent sexual harassment revelations in the state capitol, the attorney general race has allowed candidates to promote platforms

highlighting their role as replacements for politicians they claim have corrupted the Illinois legislature.

When asked about sexual harassment in the workplace in the context of recent events in the state capitol, Mariotti expressed his concern with sexual harassers writing legislation. In reference to Springfield gaining a reputation as a “frat house,” Mariotti said, “A frat house suggests people are getting drunk and having a party. But sexual assault is not a party, it’s a frickin’ crime.”

The forum ended with even more pronounced zeal for new political leadership.

As candidate Aaron Goldstein said, “Who would have ever thought that after the first African-American president, we would have a Nazi in the White House?”

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Remembering Marcus Raskin, Philosopher and Progressive Firebrand

BY LEE HARRIS DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

Marcus Raskin, (A.B. ’54, J.D. ’57), a philosopher, pianist, social critic, and founder of the influential Institute for Policy Studies, died on December 24 in Washington, D.C. He was 83.

His son Jamie Raskin, the Demo cratic R epresentative from Maryland, indicated that he died of heart failure.

R a s k i n’s i nd ic tment of American global power extended far beyond standard progressive critiques of conservatism.

He advocated a radical emancipatory politics that opposed corporate influence and criticized the hypervigilance of what he termed the “national security state.”

“Today political parties have little relevance because they are merely vehicles of personal ambition and unexamined vested interest,” he remarked in a 1975 article, “For A Radical Restructuring of the American Political System.”

A musical prodigy, Raskin left home at 16 to study piano at Juilliard, but decided shortly thereafter to come instead to the University of Chicago and study politics under theorists including Hans Morgenthau and Quincy Wright.

As a student in the College, Raskin met and tutored the composer Philip Glass in piano (A.B. ’56). In his memoir, Words Without Music, Glass attributed to Raskin his first serious training in piano music. “My real piano technique began

with Marcus, who instructed me on scales and urged me to play Bach,” Glass said. “Marcus gave me a good start, for which I will always be grateful.”

Raskin went on to attend the University of Chicago Law School, and after graduating, worked in Washington for Wisconsin Democrat Robert W. Kastenmeier, and later in John F. Kennedy’s administration under McGeorge Bundy. Skeptical from the outset of nuclear missile buildup, Raskin was a vocal critic of foreign policy in Cuba and Guatemala, and in 1963 left the State Department with Richard Barnet, another former official in the U.S. Arms C ontr ol a nd D isa rma ment Agency, to found the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS).

The Institute has been described as the first truly independent think tank. Unlike other contemporary research organizations, IPS turned down government funding, aiming at once to freely criticize reactionary policy and to advocate on Capitol Hill for progressive goals.

Writing in 1986 on the legislative inf luence of research institutes, Sidney Blumenthal argued that think tanks across the political spectrum, including the conservative Heritage Foundation, closely modeled their organizational structure after IPS. Blumenthal quotes Paul Weyrich, the first president of the Heritage Foundation and a leader of the New Right, looking to IPS as an example for legisla-

Courtesy of Institute for Policy Studies

Marc Raskin attending an event in 2009. tive influence. “If an operation as overtly left as IPS could get by with having an impact on the Hill, then a respectable conservative institution could have an even greater impact,” Weyrich said.

Raskin was arrested in 1968 for conspiracy to encourage men to avoid the draft, and went on trial as one of the Boston Five, a group of prominent critics of the Vietnam War including pediatrician Benjamin Spock, Yale chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., and author Mitchell Goodman.

In 1970, Raskin was instrumental in the publication of the Pentagon Papers when Daniel

Ellsberg contacted Raskin and Barnet about leaking documents from the highly classified study to The New York Times.

Raskin directed Ellsberg to Neil Sheehan, the New York Times reporter who broke the story.

In his 2008 essay “Paths for Reconstruction in the 21st Century,” Raskin denounced the concentration of American wealth in the hands of a few elites, the militarism of politicians who fail to learn from past errors, and the contradictions of a global economy that produces “a metastasized consumer good system for the relative few, debasement of artistic creativity,

[and] ecological destruction.”

Nevertheless, Raskin remained cautiously optimistic about the same radical emancipatory politics he had urged four decades earlier in his opposition to Vietnam, writing that “a world economy for the benefit and dignity of all people is an achievable objective that could assist the birth of a world civilization (not a world economy) once conceptions of equity and justice are introduced into the study and practice of political economy. The very character of economics would have to change so that the discipline is more than the distribution of scarcity for the have-nots.”

Faculty Call for Community Agreement for Obama Library...

BY CAMILLE KIRSCH ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Over 150 University professors have signed an open letter raising concerns about the Obama Foundation’s plans for the Obama Center.

The letter asks the Obama Foundation to sig n a Community Benef its Agreement (CBA) and expresses support for building the Obama Center on the South Side. However, it questions the decision to locate

the center in Jackson Park.

“Jackson Park, desig ned

by F rederick Law Olmsted, is on the National Register of Historic Places and is one of the most important urban parks in the nation,” the letter reads. “At a time of increasing complexity and pressure in urban life, Chicago should be dedicated to preserving our public parks as open areas for relaxation and play for all its citizens.”

The letter also expresses

opposition to the proposal to build a parking lot on a section of Midway Plaisance, another park designed by Olmsted. The Obama Foundation announced Monday afternoon it no longer plans to do this. New plans call for an underground parking garage at the Obama Center site.

I n add ition t o concer ns about diminishing parkland, the letter suggests that building the Obama Center at the Jackson Park site is unlikely

to spark economic investment in the surrounding area, which already includes the Museum of Science of Industry and the University.

Finally, the letter raises concerns about the Obama Center’s cost to taxpayers. According to the letter, infrastructure improvements related to the project will cost hundreds of millions of dollars. “We are concerned that these are not the best ways to use public funds to invest in the future of

Chicago,” the letter says.

As of Monday evening, 155 University of Chicago faculty members had signed the open letter. They included deans and professors from the College, the Physical S ciences Division, Social Sciences Division, and Division of the Humanities, as well as professors from the Divinity School, the Harris School of Public Policy, the Pritzker School of Medicine, and the School of Social Service Administration.

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valued stakeholders over the past months, the Foundation understands that many of those voices feel strongly that the parking for the OPC should be located within the OPC campus in Jackson Park,” the Foundation said in a press release. “ The Foundation has heard those voices, and has decided to locate the OPC’s parking underground in Jackson Park.”

At least one of the groups that had opposed the garage’s original location, Save the Midway, was invited to a December 20th meeting at the Obama Fou ndation’s headqua r t ers where potential changes to the garage were discussed, according to a story by the Chicago Sun-Times. A statement on the group’s website cites various reasons for opposing the garage’s original location, such

as the location’s encroachment on public green space and interference with Frederick Law Olmstead’s imagined natural conduit between Washington and Jackson Parks.

“Save the Midway is extremely pleased to learn that the historic, open, public parkland of the Midway Plaisance has been withdrawn from consideration as a possible site for a parking garage for the Obama

Presidential Center—nor will it it will be transferred by the City to the private Obama Foundation,” the organization’s cochair, Michael McNamee, said in an e-mail to T he M aroon.

“We appreciate the community interest in the site at the east end of the Midway and look forward to continuing to work with local community groups and residents on ways to improve it and make more it accessible,” the

Obama Foundation said in its press release. McNamee wrote in his e-mail that a foundation representative has told him the organization does not plan to request any part of the Midway from the city.

Obama Foundation officials have said that they hope to begin construction on the Center late this year and are aiming to open it in 2021.

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68 Percent of Respondents Reported That U of C Was Top Choice Continued from front

ratio of response rate was 51 to 49 percent. In public schools, however, the scale tips, with the respondents being 44 percent male and 56 percent female. The representation of different sexual orientation of the class is also similar to last year’s, with just over 75 percent of students identifying as straight, just under 10 percent as bisexual, and almost 6 percent gay or lesbian.

However, the ethnic composition of the Class of 2021 demonstrates a slight change from that of last year. The percentage of white students rose by almost 10 percent, from 49 percent to over 57 percent, with the percentage of Asian students following the same pattern, rising from 21 to 25 percent of the class.

At the same time, the proportions of black, Indian, Middle Eastern, and Hispanic/Latino incoming students fell compared to the previous year. Though the sharp increases in White and Asian proportions of the class are notable, changes in the racial and ethnic compositions of classes from year to year are common.

Student responses reflect the geographic distribution shown by the official University profile. The largest pools of students came from the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions, which each made up almost a fourth of incoming students. As usual, the plurality of students at UChicago came from the Midwest. 61.3 percent of first-years report coming from the suburbs, 33.6 percent from a city, and 5.2 percent from a rural area.

This statistic remains relatively unchanged from the previous year.

Religious Identity and Politics Despite the numerous changes to admissions instituted in the past year, many aspects of students’ religious and political identities remain relatively unchanged. Among the incoming class, 26.9 percent identified as atheist and 22.2 percent as agnostic. The next three largest religious groups—Jewish, Protestant, and Catholic students—each represent over 1/10 of the class; the remaining 10 percent of the class identified as Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, or Other. Christianity as a whole, however, was the second largest religious group, with 25 percent of students. When asked how religious they were on a scale of 1 (least religious) to 5 (most religious), 46.3 percent of the class answered with the least religious ranking (1), 23.3 percent with the next (2), then 17 percent (3), 9.4 percent (4), and just 3.9 percent with the most religious ranking.

Students were also asked to rate their political identification on a scale from 1 (most liberal) to 5 (most conservative). These results almost paralleled the trend of the religious identification, with an exception: 42.9 percent of respondents identify as moderately liberal (2), and 25.8 percent as very liberal (1). 20.2 percent of respondents identified as moderate, 8.5 percent as moderately conservative, and 2.6 percent as strongly conservative. Just over half, 55.9 percent, of students say they expect to participate in political protests and demonstrations as well. Interestingly, over 85 percent of students who identify as the most liberal and 60 percent of those that identify as moderately liberal expect to participate in protests, while only 13 percent of those moderately conservative and 28.5 percent of those very conservative expect to. It is easy to see that the less moderate students expect to be more active in political demonstrations than their moderate counterparts.

Religious and political identification also appear to be linked. The average political identity for respondents that identify as the least religious (1) is 1.92, or moderately liberal, while the most religious respondents (5) leaned conservative, with an average political identity score of 3.19. Although this trend was not found to be statistically significant, due to the small sample size of the more religious and conservative students, it still offers an insightful glimpse into the political and religious life of the class.

A surprising result arises when comparing the type of home environment with political identity, as city life is assumed to be more liberal than that of rural areas. However, students coming from a rural background identify as more liberal, with an average political score of 1.92, while those from the suburbs and city have scores of 2.16 and 2.29, respectively. However, this could be affected by a self-selecting bias, as students from rural areas that choose to attend university in the city could be different from the population of all rural students, for example.

When asked about politicians, a meager 3.9 percent of students approve of Donald Trump’s handling of the presidency, with 10.2 percent having no opinion, and the other 85.9 percent disapproving. When asked which political candidate from the 2016 election most closely resembled their political views, the plurality of students (41.9 percent) chose Bernie Sanders. Hillary Clinton ranked second (33.9 percent); John Kasich third (9.8 percent); and Gary Johnson fourth (3.2 percent). 2.2 percent of students said they most closely aligned with Trump.

Zero students identifying as strongly liberal approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency, with less than 1 percent of moderately liberal students and 1.8 percent of moderates approving of the same. On the other hand, Trump holds an approval rating of 17.8 percent with moderate conservatives and 64.3 percent with strong conservatives. Even more intriguing, however, is the percentage of each group that responded with no opinion: 0 percent of strong liberals, 2.6 percent of moderate liberals, 25.7 percent of moderates, 40 percent of moderate conservatives, and 21 percent of strong conservatives.

Alcohol and Drugs The trends for drug consumption follow those of the Class of 2020. 65.7 percent of students have consumed alcohol recreationally, marginally higher than the 61.9 percent of last year, with 66.8 percent planning to consume alcohol during college, a 1.1 percent expected gain in use when in college. However, 31.6 percent of students report having used marijuana recreationally before college, and 27.5 percent of students plan to use marijuana in college, a drop of 4.1 percent. This drop in expected marijuana usage was also detected in last year’s survey.

94.8 percent of the class responded “no” when asked if they have used any other drugs.

94.6 percent, or one fewer person, responded “no” when asked if they plan to use these drugs in college.

Family As in previous years, most students’ parents are college graduates. Many hold graduate degrees as well, with 64 percent of students’ fathers and 56.2 percent of mothers having completes graduate degrees. More than 90 percent of mothers and fathers have at least a high school education. 80.3 percent of UChicago students do not have a family member that attended UChicago previously, and 9.6 percent, or about half of the remaining 19.7 percent, of students have had at least one parent attend.

Familial education status correlated with students’ political views, specifically the approval rating of Trump: Respondents’ approval of Trump slightly decreased as parental education levels increased. Some high school education for the father and mother led to approval ratings of 7.1 percent and 7.7 percent, respectively, while graduate degrees for the father and mother led to approval ratings of 3.9 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively. Interestingly, however, if the father had an associate degree, the approval rating was 14.3 percent; if the mother had one, the approval rating was 23 percent. These were, by far, the highest ratings among the education groups.

UChicago students also have generally wealthy families, with the biggest bracket, 13.9

Dorm Preference? Campus North (50%), Max Palevsky (19%), Burton-Judson (13%), Granville-Grossman (9%), Snell-Hitchcock (7%), Other (2%)

U of C top choice? Yes (68%), No (32%)

percent, of students having a family income of over $500,000 per year. On the other hand, 14.4 percent of eligible respondents reported a family income of less than $60,000. 17.6 percent of respondents were unsure of their family’s income.

All income brackets reported a presidential approval rating less than 8 percent. The two brackets with highest approval were the $30,000–$60,000 and >$500,000 groups, with 7.7 percent and 7.8 percent, respectively. (The small sample sizes of the lower income levels also did not allow for statistical significance.)

On a positive note, UChicago students throughout all income levels are highly optimistic for the future, with a total average of 4.2 from a rating out of 5. Income level did not seem to correlate with students’ political or religious identities.

Education and Test Scores The majority (55.3 percent) of UChicago students this year comes from public schools, with 40 percent from private (parochial and non-parochial) schools. The remaining percent consisted of students having gone to both public and private schools throughout high school.

Students also tended to not have major jobs in high school, as 75.8 percent of students worked 0–5 hours per week in high school, and 89.1 percent of students worked fewer than 10 hours per week. One student reported having a full time job (40+ hours per week).

The average ACT score of students was 33.64, with the 25–75 quartiles being 33–35.

We could not report the average GPA of students, as different schools use different weighting systems that skewed the results; nor could we report the SAT score data, as the SAT scores from the new and old tests could not be separated. For the ACT, however, there was a slight correlation between income level and ACT score. Average ACT score at the <$30,000 bracket was 30.7, and scores steadily increased to 33.9 at the >$500,000 bracket. The Class of 2021 took an average of 8.3 AP/IB courses throughout high school.

18.2 percent of respondents reported hiring a private admissions counselor. 5 percent and 8 percent of the $30,000–$60,000 and $60,000–$100,000 groups hired one, while 22 percent and 28 percent of the $300,000– $500,000 and >$500,000 groups used their services. Wealthier respondents were more likely to hire a counselor, with the exception of

Plan to join Greek Life? No (62%), Maybe (27%). Yes (11%)

Applied/Accepted? Early Decision/Early Decision (50%), Regular Decision/Regular Decision (21%), Early Action/Early Action (16%), Early Action/Regular Decision (11%), Early Decision/Regular Decision (2%).

the $15,000–$30,000 income bracket, in which 18 percent of respondents hired an admissions counselor.

Students were also highly involved in extracurricular activities. Almost three-fourths of students participated in community service.

Many students were involved in sports, honor societies, and musical organizations, with 56 percent, 51 percent, and 48 percent, respectively, saying they participated in these activities.

Popular clubs of the Class of 2021 include academic bowl, debate, school newspapers, language groups, culture groups, student government, Model U.N., and theater, each with over a fifth of the class involved.

UChicago-Specific UChicago still remains the top choice school during application for students that currently attend, with 68 percent stating that UChicago was their number one choice.

Although this is 1 percent higher than last year’s statistic, this year saw the introduction of the two Early Decision rounds, so it would be expected for the top choice percentage to be somewhat higher. 31.5 percent of regular decision applicants and 59.7 percent of Early Action applicants saw UChicago as their top choice.

Most of the Class of 2021 comes from the early rounds of the application. In the application process, half (50.1 percent) of responding first-years applied Early Decision and were accepted Early Decision. A substantial 79.6 percent of students applied in one of the early rounds, with 16 percent of these students being deferred and accepted in the Regular Decision round. With so many students coming from the newly established Early rounds, it is surprising that the percentage of students that saw UChicago as their first choice hasn’t risen more than just a percent over the past year, as one would assume that more Early Decision and Early Action students would view UChicago as their top choice.

When asked whether it is more important for the University to maintain a positive learning environment by prohibiting certain speech or viewpoints, or to create an open learning environment by exposing students to all types of speech and viewpoints, even those considered offensive and biased, 76.8 percent of students consider the open environment to be more important. Of those who identified as strongly liberal, 58.8 percent found the open environment Continued on page 5

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to be more important, 79.7 percent of moderate liberals, 84.1 percent of moderates, 89.1 percent of moderate conservatives, and 100 percent of strong conservatives.

5.5 percent of students were recruited to play for UChicago in varsity sports, and 14.7 percent plan to walk on to a varsity sport. When asked about plans to play any club sports, UChicago students are rather undecided, with the most popular answer being “maybe,” at 38.1 percent. 68.7 percent, more than two-thirds of students, plan to work

part-time while in college as well.

Most students did not intend to participate in Greek life. 62 percent of respondents don’t plan on joining a fraternity or sorority, while 28 percent answered “maybe.” 49.6 percent of students listed Campus North as their top dorm preference, while the least popular dorm was Stony Island, which 0.92 percent, or five students, listed as their top choice.

Not surprisingly, the most popular anticipated major among respondents is economics, with almost a third of students, 32.6 percent, expressing interest in the subject. Other

popular majors include biology, political science, mathematics, and computer science, each with around 15 percent interest. The most popular double major interests include economics/political science, economics/ mathematics, economics/computer science, and mathematics/computer science. Less than 10 percent of students were undecided. There were 189 unique responses out of 537, suggesting the Class of 2021 expresses a lot of variety in its interests.

The majority of students did not receive need-based financial aid. 43 percent of students reported receiv-

ing some need-based financial aid, and 39 percent of students received merit-based aid. Financial aid did decrease as income level increased, as would be expected: at least 81 percent of those from income levels under $100,000 received need-based aid, and all respondents reporting income under $15,000 received aid.

The lowest bracket of need-based aid received was the highest $500,000 bracket, where 2.9 percent received need-based aid.

A final interesting correlation lies between admissions status and merit-based financial aid. Those accepted

5 Early Decision and applied Early Action/accepted Regular Decision displayed lower rates of receiving merit aid, with 30 percent and 38 percent respectively. The Early Action/accepted Early Action and Regular Decision groups received merit aid at a higher rate, with 59 percent and 47 percent, respectively. As UChicago would have to incentivize Regular Decision applicants to attend more than those from Early Decision, it makes sense for the Regular Decision merit-based aid to be higher.

See page 8 for additional sports-related graphs.

VIEWPOINTS The Urban–Rural Divide

American Colleges are Often Inaccessible to Rural Students

Natalie Denby American fault lines have not wanted for documentation. It would take a lifetime spent under a soundproof rock to miss the heavy racial, gendered, sexual, and regional divisions that run rampant in this country. Increasingly, however, the North vs. South divide has waned in political salience; the regional divide that once split the nation into mappable cultural blocs has lost ground to a new one, between urban and rural populations. In pinning down cultural mores, the key question is increasingly whether you live in a metropolitan area or the middle of nowhere—whether your particular plot of nowhere is in Texas or Maine is not the reveal it once was.

While the urban/rural divide has captivated public attention, no clear response has emerged. Although most of us theoretically object to mass divisions and bemoan the practical effect these divisions

have on the democratic process, we take some pride in belonging to our particular side, urban or rural.

Urban residents often take pride in their distinctly urban mores, and if they give a moment’s thought to the issue, are mildly relieved not to be rural. The same is true for rural residents, who likewise view “urban” culture with fairly unsubtle disdain. Pride and condescension make the urban/rural divide an unappetizing issue to tackle.

The urban/rural divide is readily apparent in the American college system. Great universities pride themselves on diversity, but their work is incomplete. Universities across the country, including UChicago, have done significant and laudable work in recruiting more racially and socioeconomically diverse students, but the student body still appears to draw disproportionately from urban areas. Where are the rural students?

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Not earning diplomas here, apparently. Skimming the halls of South, with each resident’s door helpfully advertising hometowns, I’m struck by the fact that we seem to have students overwhelmingly from urban areas across the globe—mid-sized to large cities and their suburbs.

Though T he M aroon ’s Class of 2021 demographic survey does not comprehensively poll the class, it, too, suggests that the proportion of students from rural areas is quite small, at a mere 5.2 percent.

The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that a little under 20 percent of the American population lived in rural areas as of the last decennial census in 2010. Estimates based on non-metropolitan county population instead peg the number at around 15 percent, but if you were working off of the background of UChicago students alone, you might dismiss that population as a rounding error.

There’s evidence that rural students are generally punching beneath their weight in U.S. higher education. The New York Times reported in 2017 that rural students were underrepresented in higher education, with only 29 percent of rural college-age youth enrolled in college, compared to 47 percent of urban youth. Rural students are also more likely to pursue an education at less competitive institutions given their high school performance, also called “under-matching.” You’d expect colleges like the University of Chicago to experience particular difficulty in recruiting rural students—ru-

ral youth appear to be especially leery of high-tier institutions.

But this isn’t true simply for the elite private institutions. Universities intended to serve large rural populations are struggling to recruit local populations as well. Consider the University of Michigan. A fascinating Politico article detailed the struggles of the university that once pitched itself as a school for “our plain boys from the log cabins” to enlist those same students today.

High school students from various pockets of rural/small-town Michigan described the University of Michigan as an unattainable, outof-state rich man’s school. Resentment against UMich is common in these areas, as the university’s median family income rises, in-state enrollment drops, and conservative suspicion mounts. The article noted that the same economic and state-based phenomena were happening at the University of Virginia and the University of Vermont.

A variety of other factors contribute to rural underrepresentation in higher education: limited high school resources, pressure from economically depressed communities, which fear a brain drain, and a lack of college graduates within families, who may also believe that diplomas are economically unnecessary. Throwing rural resentment of “urban elitism” into the mix doesn’t help. But this dangerous notion, that X or Y elite university wasn’t meant for people like me, is festering in rural America.

Many rural youth view higher education as a liberal urban gambit, not intended for them, and not

beneficial for them in either case.

As the Politico article suggested, the rise of need-based aid at prestigious universities has done little to allay the rural conviction that college is a prohibitively expensive undertaking, with few dividends and of little interest to rural students. Among low-income students in general, the price sticker on selective institutions is enough to discourage applications altogether—the average low-income high school student just doesn’t apply to selective schools at all, perhaps because they are unaware that need-based aid often makes selective institutions a cheaper option.

The underrepresentation of rural youth is more than a blow to geographical impartiality. If universities cater exclusively to urban populations, talented rural students will forgo the education that could improve their prospects.

A crucial step in the American Dream stands to be demonized by a population that might benefit tremendously from it. But colleges themselves also suffer, for obvious reasons. Most of us believe that a diverse pool of backgrounds and perspectives is a boon to classrooms; research suggests that teams with diverse backgrounds tend to perform better together than non-diverse teams. Improved rural representation would enhance that even more, and UChicago should keep that fact in mind.

Natalie Denby is a thirdyear in the College majoring in public policy studies.

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ARTS [1/9] TUESDAY The Smart Museum’s latest exhibit “The History of Perception” explores the ways in which we experience and make intelligible bodily sensations. The exhibit is a primary source for a class of the same name offered by the University’s Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge. Smart Museum, through April 22.

[1/11] THURSDAY 5–6:30 p.m. Three accomplished artists/activists, Syrus Marcus Ware, Jenn M. Jackson, and Precious Brady Davis,

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join for a conversation on “Art, Activism, and the Movement for Black Lives.”

To see Ware in action at the easel, stop by on Thursday, 2–5 p.m. or Friday, 11 a.m.–2 p.m. The Center for Gender/Race Studies, free.

6–8 p.m. The Smart Museum will be hosting first-generation college students for an evening of tours and activities, including a “show-and-tell” in which students will have the opportunity to share their own stories. Smart Museum, free.

[1/12] FRIDAY 7:30 p.m. Choreographed and performed

by students, UChicago Maya’s show Reflections examines the themes of representation and memories through dance. Logan East, $6 online/$8 at the door, performances continue on Saturday at 2p.m.and 7:30p.m.

group Apsara at Apsara Presents: Parinati and watch them explore transformation through classical dance, with guest performers from the South Asian Music Ensemble. FXK, Reynolds Club, $3 at the door.

[1/13] SATURDAY 6p.m. Law school alum and author Claire Hartfield discusses her book A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, about riots which were triggered by the death of a young black man for swimming too close to the “white beach” in Lake Michigan. 57th Street Books, free.

7 p.m. Come see Indian classical dance

[1/15] MONDAY 7:30 p.m. A multi-genre masterpiece, Ask Your Mama is a Grammy-winning composition of jazz, spoken word poetry, opera, and orchestra performed by the Chicago Sinfonietta for its 30th anniversary MLK tribute concert. Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Ave., $10 student rush/$62 general

Occam’s Razor Cuts Its Teeth at the Revival

BY DAVID NORTH MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Improv comedy troupe Occam’s Razor began its Winter Quarter circuit with a performance at The Revival last Friday evening. The group painted an absurd, eclectic, yet complete landscape filled with running gags, improv games, stand-up, and its signature brand of subtle humor.

For a modest entrance fee of a single dollar, the show began unconventionally— with an intermission. During this time, members of the group would approach the stage to retrieve their pants from second-year Shalma Wegsman with piano accompaniment from fourth-year Dan Lastres. This intermission was a microcosm of what would turn out to be Occam’s biggest

strength: variety.

Variety found its way into all levels of the performance. The group was able to vary the cadence of their deliveries, their punchlines, their characters, the games, and even the space around them in a grandexpression of nonlinearity. The Occam’s crew was an ever-shifting display of caricatures moving in and out of seemingly disparate vignettes, nimbly escaping to the next comedic moment by the time their joke lands and the audience understands the punchline.

The multiform layout of the performance was another example of their variety. After the intermission, the group played an improv game with all but one member displaced in the audience. The group managed its offstagespace well, such

as when third-year Lucy Johnson received and responded to dialogue from the rest of the group while dispersed within the audience. In a later standup, Lastres similarly integrated several audience members into his act. After the improv game, the group’s manager, third-year Patrick Doyle, was given a set of index cards and asked to be the MC. Between this segment and the following stand-up acts, it was never clear what was planned and what was improvised, but this ambiguity never detracted from the humor of the set.

Although Occam’s usually performs in the Reynolds Club FXK Theater, they seemed right at home in the Revival performing for a full house. Fourth-year Hanna Gregor had a strong performance, delivering some of the night’s best punchlines in

her extended sourdough-as-a-weapon bit or as one of many characters highlighting her comedic range. Fellow fourth-year Rubin Soodak also had a strong night, delivering intense and dynamic characters for each scene.

Yet nothing comes close to the laughs had whenever a member of the group would come to the stage and, in the course of joke telling or acting, take a bite of some fresh food, the most surprising of which was a raw egg. The whole ordeal felt like some kind of inside joke known only to the performers.

All in all, Occam’s delivered a well-curated performance. Go to one of their shows if you’re looking for laughs, fun surprises, and classic improv to get you through the quarter.

Bright Falters, But Netflix Still Shines

BY OREN OPPENHEIM MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The significance of Bright, now streaming on Netflix, has nothing to do with its mashup of genres or star power. The fantasy/buddy-cop hybrid featuring Will Smith is the streaming service’s next and largest (to the tune of $90 million) attempt at disrupting the film industry. Having revolutionized TV with its pantheon of popular series and made acceptable binge-watching entire series at once, Netflix now wants viewers to take it seriously as a destination for original cinema. Why shell out over $10 for a movie in theaters when you can just surf Netflix on your laptop, phone, or Wii U for the next great blockbuster?

The real question is, can Netflix actually make a great blockbuster? So far, its slate of original films has been hit or miss.

Okja (directed by Bong Joon-ho) was an excellent and clever exploration of capitalism, language, and giant pig antics; Death Note was trashy fun but offered nothing new on the themes of vigilantism and God complexes. But Bright, directed by David Ayer (End of Watch, Suicide Squad),dwarfs both of these in budget and scale, yet never transcends the status of a fun but forgettable popcorn flick.

The film follows Daryl Ward (Will Smith), a human, and Nick Jakoby (Joel Edgerton, wearing an impressive amount of prosthetics), an orc, both of whom are cops in the LAPD forced to patrol together.

Jakoby is the first orc in the LAPD and is anxious to prove his worth to his racist and unaccepting fellow police; Ward, however, is ashamed and annoyed that his car is the proving grounds for the LAPD’s new “diversity initiative.” To be fair, he is

Courtesy of Vanity Fair Joel Edgerton, Lucy Fry, and Will Smith star in Netflix’s latest feature attempt Bright, an underdeveloped fantasy/buddy-cop mashup.

also still haunted by one of Jakoby’s failures that ended in Ward getting shot and a culprit escaping. Yet their routine patrols end when the pair encounter the elf-like “Bright” Tikka (Lucy Fry) in possession of a magic wand, which is being pursued by an evil elf, Leilah (Noomi Rapace), in order to resurrect “the Dark Lord.” Yes, that was a strange sentence to write; no, it doesn’t make much more sense in the movie.

The world-building of Bright oscillates between stunningly realized and head-scratchingly unclear. It takes full advantage of its exciting setting: a modern-day alternate Los Angeles, replete with orc graffiti and elf-only elite neighborhoods.

While the setting is visually enticing, the

characters themselves remain underdeveloped and uneven. Jakoby is immediately likeable; he remains optimistic even as he deals with constant mudslinging and debasement from his fellow cops and orcs. Jakoby’s charismatic blend of an awkward but earnest orc cop propels the film forward.

However, it is harder to sympathize with Ward, who is written as mean and unlikeable.

It’s when the characters start referencing the distant past and its role in the present that things truly falter. In the film’s lore, the fate of the races was determined by a battle 2000 years before and the orcs, who allied themselves with the evil Dark Lord, were punished by becoming the world’s un-

derclass. Yet, without a clear sense of the threat that the Dark Lord once posed, it is difficult to feel invested in the film’s central conflict: Why should we care whether someone is trying to bring him back? Furthermore, any potential allegory about the dynamic between the three races also remains unexplored and underdeveloped.

Bright is a fun, if deeply flawed, twohour romp. At the very least, it proves that while Netflix may not always create an Oscar contender, it can create a quality movie that feels like Hollywood quality. While Netflix might not turn most people away from movie theaters, it’s made a compelling argument that well-made movies could also be just a click away.

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SPORTS Maroon Men Narrowly Drop Heated Contest MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY AUDREY MASON SPORTS STAFF

The University of Chicago men’s basketball team started off the new year with its 17th annual game against No. 10 Wash U. Although the Maroons were ahead for the majority of the game, Wash U struck back in the final few seconds to beat UChicago 79–78. The Maroons now have a record of 4–8 for the season.

UChicago started out strong, securing a 19–8 lead with three-pointers by fourthyear guard Jake Fenlon and second-year guard Jordan Baum, followed by a layup by third-year guard Justin Jackson.

With the entire team working together to score, the Maroons saw their largest lead at 29–13. Although their opponents

began to make a comeback, second-year forward Sam Sustacek brought the lead back to 39–29 with two consecutive layups. With another score by Fenlon at the end of the first half, the Maroons led the game 45–34 going into halftime.

To begin the second half, Fenlon scored another three-pointer, but Wash U bounced back, increasing the score until they were only behind by two points at 54–52. But, continuing with the theme of three-pointers, third-year guard Noah Karras and Fenlon each scored another three points to safely increase their lead to 70–58. With just four minutes left in the game, fourth-year forward Collin Barthel brought the score up to 76–69 with a layup. The Maroons’ defense couldn’t hold onto the lead, however, and

two free throws in the last six seconds for Wash U brought the opposing team ahead 79–78.

The top UChicago scorer of the game was Fenlon with 17 points, including five three-pointers. Behind him was thirdyear forward Ryan Jacobsen with 14 points and nine rebounds. Baum also had seven rebounds, eight assists, and scored six points. Barthel and Baum also brought in many rebounds, with six and seven respectively. Barthel scored eight points, while Baum scored six. In total, Wash U collected more rebounds, 45–38. At the end of the game, UChicago converted 35.5 percent on three-pointers, 84.6 percent on free throws, and 43.1 percent on field goals. On the Wash U side, the Bears made 23.1 percent of

their shots from deep, 41.9 percent from the field, and 82.4 percent from the charity stripe.“I thought we played well and did a great job executing our game plan despite the loss,” Karras said. “A lot of guys stepped up and made big plays throughout the game. Individually, I think I did my part in hitting shots and playing solid defense, though I think both could have done better at different points during the game. I’m going to focus on attacking the basket more and finishing stronger rather than trying to finesse.” Karras ended the game with three assists and one rebound, with a total of nine points scored. The UChicago basketball team will play a home game against New York University on Friday at 8 p.m.

Maroons Nab Big Win WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY DIESTEFANO LOMA SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons started off UAA play on the right foot, after heading to No. 22 Wash U and coming out with an 82–76 victory. This is the Maroons’ eighth straight win, improving their record to 10–2 on the season, and ending the Bears’ five-game winning streak.

This victory came from cohesion within the team. Second-years Taylor Lake, Miranda Burt, and Mia Farrell stood out as they helped lead the team in all aspects of the game. Lake was able to shoot the rock with ease, leading the team with 23 points, making four out of five threepoint attempts. She added on to her great game with three assists, five rebounds, and five steals. Burt recorded 15 points, three assists, and seven rebounds, while Farrell had 18 points, six assists, and

four rebounds. Each logged 33, 32, and 34 minutes respectively.

Going into halftime, the Maroons were trailing 37–32 but were adamant in erasing that deficit. As the third quarter came to a close, the score was just 62–60, with Farrell scoring 10 points in an effort to cut down the lead. It wasn’t until there was 3:41 left that UChicago finally took the lead 76–74, after Lake scored a threepoint shot from the wing. First-year Marissa Igunbor showed up and went 2-for-2 in field goals made in the fourth quarter to keep the game close, and finished the game with seven points. The UChicago defense maintained the pressure and stopped multiple possessions the Bears had. Burt and Farrell closed the game at the free throw line in order to secure the victory. The fourth quarter was in the Maroons’ favor, having outscored the Bears 22–14.

Third-year Olariche Obi also contributed, leading the team in rebounds for the game.This helped UChicago secure second chance points, having dominated that category 26–4. The bench also played an important role in securing the victory for the Maroons, scoring 17 points.

Lake spoke about their current eightwin streak, stating, “We definitely don’t feel any pressure because the only thing on our minds when game time comes is playing our best for 40 straight minutes and having fun. We’ve established a mindset going into UAA conference play to ‘Win the Weekend’ so it gives us that focus we need to make every game count and not look past any opponent.”

When asked about the team’s success, she added, “It has definitely come from the way we practice. We know the only way to get better and learn from our mistakes is to play at game speed and go as

hard as we would in a game in practice.

This has been so vital to our success because it puts us in game-like situations we are able to identify in practice and work on.”

This victory was an upset, seeing how the Maroons shot 34.2 percent from the field (27–79), while the Bears shot 51.7 percent (31–60). Ultimately, what led to the victory was that the Maroons managed to maintain their composure and ability to dominate in other parts of the game. The Maroons went on to shoot 37 percent from three-point range, compared to their opponents only shooting 21.4 percent. The Bears struggled with turnovers, as they had 25, as opposed to the Maroons’ 14. UChicago was able to take advantage of this, with 22 of their points coming off of turnovers.

The Maroons will face off against NYU on January 12, at 6 p.m E.T.

M AROON

SCORE BOARD SPORT

W/L

Opponent

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Wash U

78–79

Women’s Basketball

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Wash U

82–76

Only 5 Percent of Students in the Class of 2021 Were Recruited to Play Sports for the University

Recruited to play sports? No (95%), Yes (5%)

Planning to Walk on? No (85%), Yes (5%), Maybe (10%)

UPCOMING GAMES SPORT Wrestling

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Wheaton

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