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Kent State (1-1) is coming off a huge victory against Delaware State. The focus now shifts as the Flashes travel to Minneapolis this week to take Minnesota (1-1).
After a tie and re-election last spring, Isaac Floyd was elected the new president of Black United Students (BUS).
Social media erupted with a debate on whether or not a Texas 14-year-old was wrongfully profiled given the fact he’s Muslim.
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Kent State releases OHIO BILL CALLS FOR DEFUNDING OF ABORTION-PERFORMING ORGANIZATIONS record-setting 15th day numbers 2014
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42,214 41,005 Total Kent State Student Enrollment *All 8 campuses Ian Flickinger Administration Reporter
Allie Johnson / The Kent Stater Anti-abortion activists from the Viewers of the Word Church protest outside Planned Parenthood's Bedford Heights Health Center, which performs abortions. House Bill 294 could lead to the reproductive health organization no longer receiving government funding for breast and cervical cancer screenings, among other services.
Emily Mills and Allie Johnson Managing Editor and City Reporter Junior exercise science major Sam Anderson has been going to Planned Parenthood since she was 16 for birth control and other health services. “It would be very costly (for me to go somewhere else) and I’m a college student working three jobs,” she said. “Financially, for what I need, Planned Parenthood’s the best place for me to go.” However, it could soon become difficult for Anderson to continue to get care. Planned Parenthood, one of the nation’s largest providers of reproductive healthcare, could lose its government funding in Ohio after Rep. Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) and Rep. Margaret Conditt (R-Liberty Township) introduced House Bill 294 at the end of July. Conditt said the bill is meant to reduce the infant mortality rate in Ohio, which is 7.7 infant deaths per 1,000 live births. The national average is 6.4. “As a (majority) caucus, we’ve been committed to protecting the unborn, and this bill just continues that commitment,” she said. “This bill is literally to improve women’s health and to help (improve) the infant
mortality rate in the state of Ohio.” The organization has also been making headlines in recent months after videos surfaced earlier this year that allegedly show Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of fetal body parts for research purposes. While legal in some states, in Ohio it is illegal to experiment upon or sell aborted fetuses, which is categorized as abortion trafficking under Ohio Revised Code 2919.14. The fetal tissue donation is done for scientific research, which is legal with consent from the mother. However, the issue is the possible sale of fetal body tissue, which is not legal in many states. In Ohio, Planned Parenthood receives funding from government agencies, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through a competitive process with other local healthcare providers, said Diego Espino, vice president of community engagement for Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio. The governmental organization sends out a request for proposals, or RFP, for all healthcare agencies in the area that would want to apply for the funding. Each agency writes and submits a proposal
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stating why it should receive the funding and how it will be used. Once the governmental organization receives all of the applications, it awards the funding to the healthcare agency with the best proposal. House Bill 294 calls for the Ohio Department of Health not to give grants to organizations that perform, promote or contract with an entity that performs or promotes elective abortions. These grants include those related to the Violence Against Women Act for education and prevention of violence against women; the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act related to breast and cervical cancer screenings; the infertility prevention project; the minority HIV/AIDS initiative; and infant mortality reduction or infant vitality initiatives. Espino said abortions are only two percent of the services the organization performs. It also provides several reproductive health services, including HIV/STD testing, vaccines, birth control, emergency contraception, pregnancy testing and services, LGBT services and men’s and women’s healthcare.
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The School of Journalism and Mass Communication (JMC) held a Green Dot overview training session for students to learn about violence prevention on Wednesday in Franklin Hall. The event aimed at students sought to help them understand the importance of being able to identify potentially dangerous or violent situations. Green Dot is a national non-profit organization dedicated to violence prevention education. Green Dot is built on the premise that the community can measurably and systematically reduce violence, by the actions of individuals. Suzy D’Enbeau, an assistant professor in the School of Communication Studies, and Jennie O’Connell, director of the Office of Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services (SRVSS,) are certified Green Dot educators who led the session. S RV S S p ro v i d e s e d u c a t i o n a n d Brooke Forrest / The Kent Stater awareness to students around sexual Assistant Professor of Communication Studies Suzy D’Enbeau and violence and support services for those Kent State Marketing Assistant Taylor Nickel talk before a Green Dot who are impacted. session on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. This Green Dot meeting was a During the overview session, students special CCI overview training session.
Kent State’s Kent Campus set a record for enrollment for the seventh consecutive year, with the international student population rising to more than 3,000 students, according to the university’s official 2015 data report. The 2019 freshman class boasts the highest average ACT score (23), GPA (3.35) and second-largest class size (4,295) in university history. “Since 2010, the undergraduate student body has grown by 2,000 students,” said T. David Garcia, senior associate vice president for strategic enrollment management. “This is a really exciting time for Kent State.” Freshmen retention at the seven regional campuses rose from 56.9 percent to 58.2 percent. The Kent campus retained 81.2 percent of last year’s freshmen class, down from 81.7 percent in the previous class. Kent State’s graduate student body population also increased by 311 students, a five percent increase. The student body is made up of students from 103 different countries across the globe, totaling more than 3,000 students at the Kent Campus — a 348 percent growth since 2008. During last week’s Board of Trustees meeting, President Warren said she wants Kent State to be known as Ohio’s top destination for international students. “It’s funny. I had my picture taken with all of the international students for orientation. There were 500 of them on the steps of the M.A.C. Center,” Warren said during an interview last month. “It was just a sea of different cultures, people looking differently and thinking differently. I think there’s an excitement of international students being here (as a) part of the Kent State culture.” While the overall numbers exhibit continued growth, numbers in certain categories dropped. A total of 41,005 students are enrolled across the university’s eight campuses, down slightly from last year’s total of 41,214. Four regional campuses were the main contributors, dropping more than 100 students each: East Liverpool (-236 students, 15.9 percent), Trumbull (-220, 7.9 percent), Geauga (-194, 7.1 percent) and Tuscarawas (-122, 5.3 percent).
learned about Green Dot’s mission and engaged in small group activities designed to help them take proactive and reactive measures against violence. One of the activities that the small groups engaged in included imagining someone they love being put in a dangerous situation, seeing someone there who saw the harmful act about to occur, yet didn’t intervene. The students were then asked how the witness not intervening on their loved one’s behalf made them feel. A lot of the students answered with: scared, angry and asking the question, why didn’t the person intervene?’ Then the students were asked to picture the person witnessing the attack on their loved one stepping in to help, and were asked again how they felt after they knew the person intervened on their loved one’s behalf. A number of students answered with: happy, relieved and gratitude towards the person who intervened. O’Connell said she is passionate about providing safety on all college campuses. D’Enbeau said she has had someone come up to her every semester for the 10 years she has been at Kent State, to discuss a violent situation that may have happened
iflickin@kent.edu to them, or to someone they care about. Another activity that was done in the session was using both green and red Postit-notes and having the students write out acts of violence, as well as writing out acts that can prevent violence, on a drawing of Ohio. The red notes signified acts of violence on college campuses, while the green notes signified acts that can prevent violence. Some of the red notes included making homophobic comments, catcalling, calling someone obscenities, rape, student stalking and harassment. The students then placed the red notes on the drawing of Ohio. The green notes included: telling a trusted adult about an incident that occurred, being honest or opening up to someone that a person is worried about them, directly interfering in an act of violence and distracting someone from committing violence. Other ideas of how to prevent violence included wearing Green Dot bracelets to class in order to spread awareness, as well as posting a Facebook post telling someone they’re proud of them for stepping up to protect someone else.
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Fashion school flooded with new students Felicia Guadagni Fashion Reporter
Kent State University’s school of fashion has increased nearly 20 percent in the last decade. The increase in the school’s student body has been a gradual process, but the challenges of handling such a large volume of enrollment continues to test students and faculty alike. Fashion School director and professor J.R. Campbell said enrollment in the school accounts for 11 percent of Kent State’s incoming students, and the school’s total enrollment has increased from about 1,100 students in 2009 to about 1,700 students today. Over the past eight years, the school has experienced an almost 20 percent increase in new incoming freshman each year. To put it in perspective, 465 of the projected 4,200 incoming freshmen for all of Kent Campus this year alone are fashion students. “We are victims of our success, which is a good problem to have, but a challenge that we are dealing with,” Campbell said. The Fashion School has gained popularity in recent years and furthered its
reach nationally and internationally, way certain classes are taught and has with international enrollment jumping caused some instructors to alter their teaching methods. to about 120 students. Palomo-Lovinski said she has perAssistant professor Nöel PalomoLovinski said the Fashion School is sonally changed her teaching style and attractive to prospective students due occasionally has to give up opportunito its affordable and accessible nature ties for collaborative in-class discussions compared to other top fashion schools due to the large volume of students in the classroom. She also said how some in the nation. In addition, Campbell said the instructors for studio and lecture coursFashion School’s numerous study abroad opportunities are a reason for the school’s presence amongst the top fashion programs in the United States. However, while the increase in popularity of the school is positive, dealing with the increase in student body has been a learning process for everyone. Campbell said Max McCarty / The Kent Stater classroom stress Students walk out of The Kent State Fashion Building Tuesday, Sept. has changed the 15, 2015. The increase of enrollment has faculty questioning what
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es have implemented video demonstrations that are uploaded to Blackboard Learn in order to ensure everyone is able to attain the information presented in class. Lauren Pfieffer, senior fashion merchandising major, has noticed the classroom changes due to the large influx of students. “I think it is exciting because we do have a great Fashion School and it’s wonderful to have so many people passionate about it and pursuing it, but it is hard when classes have to be moved to other buildings to accommodate,” Pfieffer said. “They do have to expand in the future to help with this increase.” Palomo-Lovinski agrees with the call for expansion, “we need a new building,” she said. “We have faculty sharing offices because we have so many.” For now, Campbell said the focus is in tracking the need for specific courses and being proactive about advising students on classes to take. While there is a benefit for both students and faculty to have a robust and diverse student population, he said he hopes to balance out and have enrollment hover at around 1,500 students in the upcoming years.
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After a tie and re-election last spring, Isaac Floyd was elected the new president of Black United Students (BUS). BUS is the largest and longest running on-campus political organization that credits itself in being an advocate for all Kent State students. Floyd is a junior exercise science major, with a minor in sports medicine. Before being elected president, Floyd was the director of student relations. “I felt a sense of responsibility within the organization,” Floyd said. Floyd said that when he first came to Kent, he found a “home” in BUS. He also credits BUS for helping students of diversity find their voice at Kent State. “I never really understood what it meant to be apart of a predominantly white institution,” Floyd said. “As black people, we have to recognize our identity.” Floyd said he encourages all students to take interest in BUS especially over the course of the next year. “Our biggest goal this year is to help our constituents find purpose,” Floyd said. He said his biggest fear would be to graduate and not have a plan for life. BUS is taking the initiative to help Kent State students lay the groundwork for their future. Floyd said he wants students to understand that college is a wealth of opportunity
and as president, he wants to also help students recognize those opportunities. New to the BUS board this year as well is newly appointed Vice President Doneisha Hawkins, a senior construction management major, encourage all students to join BUS. “We want people to feel like they can come to us about whatever,” Hawkins said. Hawkins wants students interested in BUS to know that it is put into place to support students. Some of Hawkins plans this year include maing students politically aware and getting o u t a n d t a lking to more students about how BUS can help them. BUS holds mass meetings every first Wednesday of the month from 9 p.m. The next mass meeting will be held Oct. 7 in Oscar Ritchie Hall. BUS also holds weekly MaKayla Brown / The tables in the Kent Kent Stater S t a t e S t u d e n t Isaac Floyd, the new Center. The next president of Black BUS tables will be United Students, stands held Tuesday and outside of Oscar Richie Thursday of next Hall on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Isaac is a junior week from 2-4 p.m. exercise science major dgaither@kent.edu at Kent State.
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Kent State 1-1 is coming off a huge victory against Delaware State. The focus now shifts as the Flashes travel to Minneapolis this week to take Minnesota 1-1. “It’s good to see our guys bounce back, but it doesn’t get any easier for us,” said coach Paul Haynes. “It comes down to our preparation and our belief that we can get the job done." Coach Haynes feels the key to success this weekend is playing disciplined and taking advantage of every opportunity to put points on the board. “You can’t turn the ball over,” Haynes said. “ You can’t have crazy penalties and can’t make mental errors against good teams. We can go to Minnesota and win, but we have to do those things." Minnesota split its first two games against Texas Christian University and Colorado State. The Golden Gophers come into the game with the 20 ranked offen-
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PARENTHOOD Ohio Bill calls for defunding... “ Wi t h t h e d e f u n d i n g efforts they’re trying to do, it is once again to take Planned Parenthood out of this competitive process,” Espino said. “It will basically just say Planned Parenthood is not allowed to compete and even if they have the best proposal, the one that makes most sense, the one that is more fiscally efficient, Planned Parenthood should not compete in these proposals and should not be awarded anything.” Funding already in place would be taken away under the bill, Espino said. “(They’re saying) ‘We will take it away from you because we don’t want you to be part of that network of healthcare providers just because you are Planned Parenthood, and one of the services that you provide is abortion care,’” he said. Conditt said the bill is meant to ensure funding is used for the purposes for which it was created. “If federal funds come into the Ohio Department of Health, and they are specified that this is to be used for HIV and AIDS prevention, that the money be used for HIV and AIDS prevention, and that’s it, and not be used for elective abortions or anything like that,” she said. Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis said Planned Parenthood can continue to be funded privately. It should not however, receive government funding. “My tax dollars should not be going to Planned Parenthood,” he said. “They should raise money on their own or go out of business.” Espino said a poll of Ohio found many were opposed to any efforts to defund Planned Parenthood. “The reason why we are not going to be quiet about this is because it is taking. It is intended to take funding away from those populations that need it the most,” he said. In addition, groups including Ohio Right to Life are calling for Planned Parenthood’s contract withMedicaid to be terminated. C u r r e n t l y, M e d i c a i d reimburses Planned Parenthood for the services its clinics provide to patients who
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Green Dot session... Once the green Post-it-notes were on the drawing, the students put the green Post-it notes over the red ones. “We all experience barriers to intervening,” D’Enbeau said. Such barriers meant fear of ruining a friendship or reputation, embarrassment or for one’s own safety. Hannah Summerville, a senior communication studies major, participated in the session as well among the other attendees. “I love Green Dot,” Summerville said. “I already knew about it. But I wanted more indepth info and the fact that CCI was having this special session was perfect.” For more information about Green Dot at Kent State visit the website www.kent.edu/greendot. awohler@kent.edu
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Tom Brady: white-collar villain, blue-collar hero Jacob Ruffo Columnist Deflategate is (finally, mercifully) over with the lifting of Tom Brady’s four-game suspension, and people are not happy about it. The overwhelming response to this was that the Patriots got away with cheating again. The alleged kingpins of these cheating scandals are head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Brady. Many people out there really don’t like Brady because they say he’s arrogant, a pretty boy, a whiner and a baby. Well, here are some things you should think about before you talk about how much of an over-privileged baby Brady is. Unlike most future NFL quarterbacks, he was not simply handed the reigns of his college football team after signing. He did not play at all until his junior year, and then he was in a battle for the starting position with Drew Henson. If you don’t remember Henson don’t worry, you are not alone. The Big Ten at this point was known for their power running teams and stout defenses, so Brady did not get much of a chance to shine. In his junior and senior seasons combined he threw for 4,644 yards, 30 touchdowns and 16 interceptions. He was not drawing a lot of attention from the NFL with those numbers. In fact, some of the attention he drew was negative. His NFL Scouting Combine picture and 40-yard dash time are still laughed at occasionally on ESPN. With all of this in mind, it’s easy to see that unlike blue-collar heroes, such as Peyton Manning and Brett Favre, he was not taken in the first round. He was not even taken in the first 190 picks. At a lowly number 199 in the sixth round, our over-privileged, crybaby, pretty boy got picked. Clearly, now is when he evolved into a pretty boy and the NFL started handing him everything, right? Nope! His rookie year he threw three passes. His second year was all set for him to ride the bench again, until starting QB Drew Bledsoe was injured early in the season. Is now when our hero becomes the face of the franchise and demands the coach calls only passing plays just to boost his own ego? Again, nope! Armed with little receiving talent and a stalwart defense, Brady’s role was simple. Do not turn the ball over. Anything more than that was an added bonus. In 14 games he only threw 18 touchdowns that season. Fast-forward to now, after winning three Super Bowls, making 10 Pro Bowls and throwing for 50 touchdowns (an NFL record) while leading his team to 18 straight wins (an NFL record) including a 16-0 regular season (NFL record) in 2007, people think Brady is too arrogant. Has he not earned it? Has his off the field persona really trumped the grind and struggle he went through on the field to get to where he is? When I see pictures of him wearing UGG boots out with his supermodel wife, I don’t think “What a jerk,” I think, “Wow, he has absolutely earned every bit of that.” jruffo@kent.edu
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We stand with Ahmed in light of profiling issues
As nearly any controversy does these days, on Monday an incident in Texas sparked a social media movement on Twitter that’s still trending as of Wednesday. The situation ignited a debate on whether or not a Texas 14-year-old was wrongfully profiled given the fact he’s Muslim. The tweets, with the hashtag “#IStandWithAhmed,” were inspired by Ahmed Mohamed, who was arrested after bringing his homemade clock into school. Police officials and administration contended the clock initially appeared to be a bomb, and Ahmed was escorted from the school and told that he was under arrest for a faux bomb threat. Although the charges have been dropped, he’s suspended from his school until Thursday. CNN reports approximately 100,000 tweets have sprung up weighing in on the situation, including a tweet from President Barack Obama that reads, “Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. It’s what makes America great.” We, as an editorial board, tend to agree that Ahmed’s work should be encouraged, not just for his own growth as a future engi-
neer, but for other minority students like him pushing back against public perception. It may come to be found that the police, administration and the teacher who originally called for the clock’s confiscation did so without the consideration of Ahmed’s background, but the moment absolutely begs the question of stereotyping. Although we appreciate the concept of a school administration looking after the wellbeing of its students, we find this instance insinuates profiling more than it does a school protecting its kids. Perhaps it was a large misunderstanding as the local police department now says. But if stereotyping did indeed drive the motives of those who handcuffed Ahmed, we find the roots of the action absolutely deplorable. We hope that if there’s any positive from a student’s creativity being squashed and then publicized widely across the country (other than the fact Ahmed’s going to visit the White House next month,) it’s that we as a nation begin to have moral and ethical discussions regarding profiling. The above editorial is the consensus opinion of The Kent Stater editorial board.
Philosophy departments miss out by not including Eastern thinkers Eric Schwitzegebel Guest Columnist Philosophy professors in the United States have all heard of Confucius and the Daoist Laozi. Many have also heard of their approximate contemporaries in ancient China: the later Confucians Mencius and Xunzi; the easygoing skeptic Zhuangzi; Mozi, the advocate of impartial concern for everyone; and Han Feizi, the authoritarian legalist. But most of us have not read their works. As a result, most U.S. university students are not exposed to Chinese thinkers in their philosophy classes. In the U.S., there are about 100 doctorate-granting programs in philosophy. By my count, only seven have a permanent member of the philosophy faculty who specializes in Chinese philosophy. Ancient Chinese philosophers are more commonly taught in departments of history, religious studies, Asian studies and comparative literature than in departments of philosophy. The same is true—even more so—for Indian and other non-Western philosophers. Our neglect of ancient Chinese philosophers in U.S. philosophy departments is partly a remnant of our European colonial past. But is it justifiable on academic grounds? One might argue that Confucius, Laozi and others are not really philosophers; they are literary or religious figures, and their relegation to other departments is therefore appropriate. Although Mencius and Zhuangzi did not write in what we now think of as standard philosophical essay format, both offer persuasive arguments for positions in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of mind and epistemology. Unconventional format should no more disqualify Mencius and Zhuangzi from counting as philosophers than it disqualifies Nietzsche and Wittgen-
stein in the Western tradition. Confucius and Laozi are more fragmentary and less argumentative, but many ancient Greek philosophers are even more fragmentary than Confucius and Laozi. Nor do these philosophers rely on any narrowly religious dogma. Rather, they start from considerations that are for the most part intuitive and widely acceptable, even in the contemporary West. Mencius, for instance, builds a picture of moral emotions from observations about our sympathetic reactions to children in danger and our hatred of being treated disrespectfully. Someone intent on justifying the exclusion of these ancient Chinese philosophers might, alternatively, argue that they’re insufficiently important to warrant broader attention—that their philosophical work simply isn’t very good or very influential. That’s not right either. Mencius’ and Xunzi’s views of moral psychology are as interesting as any in the Western philosophical tradition, and their debate about whether human nature is good or bad is considerably more sophisticated than the famous corresponding debate between Hobbes and Rousseau. For example, Hobbes and Rousseau appear to infer our “nature” from dubious thought experiments about what people would be like absent any social structures, while Mencius and Xunzi are more psychologically realistic. Because the dominant academic culture in the U.S. traces back to Europe, the ancient Chinese philosophers were not taught to, and thus not read by, the succeeding generations. Ignorance thus apparently justifies ignorance: Because we don’t know their work, they have little impact on our philosophy. Because they have little impact on our philosophy, we believe we are justified in remaining ignorant about their work. In our diverse, globally influenced country, such narrow-mindedness shouldn’t fly.
The cargo pants trend needed to end before it started Jessa Schroeder Columnist In recent years there has been much debate over cargo pants. The trend is most commonly worn by the male population but it is particularly disputed amongst women when speaking about men. The rumors you have heard are true. We (or at least most of us,) want this trend to get lost. Why is the cargo pant so important you might ask? Why are we even talking about this? This is just a ludicrous column written by a girl who cares about fashion, right? According to industry analysts, “Fashion is a $1.2 trillion global industry, with more than $250 billion spent annually on fashion in the United States. Fashion and apparel industries employ 1.9 million people in the United States and have a positive impact on regional economies across the country.” Not only is there a thriving market and numerous job opportunities for fashion fanatics, appearance is also a way of expressing yourself. Fashion is a form of art that brings out the colors of your individuality. Aside from framing yourself, fashion is an excellent way to display professionalism and common sense. Would professionals wear wife beaters and cargo pants to work? The answer is no, because people with a good fashion sense want to be taken seriously, and not be seen as an amateur, or as a confused 13-year-old boy. If you are a guy reading this thinking “Wow, that is harsh.” You may adore your dorky, outdated pants, but that doesn’t mean you are not a nice person. In fact, you are probably a remarkably nice person, with the most phenomenal intellect and vibrant personality. And we love you, really—we are just trying to help you. If you have not noticed, most of the stores still selling cargo pants are generic brands. If you walk into Express you won’t find a cargo pant in sight. Why? Because they know and they get it. If you’re looking to find a pair however, you can make your way over to Dickies. Yes, Dickies. That’s the brand name you are trusting. This argument may be associated with the confusion men have about high-waisted shorts, maxi dresses and oversized sun hats. You just don’t quite seem to get it. And that is OK. Like Samantha in “Sex and the City” said, “It’s like the blind leading the blind.” We are just trying to get through life together, but we need direction. The truth of the matter is we are just as screwed up as you are. Let us try to get through life with a better fashion sense so we can be taken seriously in society, the workplace and beyond. Let’s put an end to the cargo pant trend, now and forever, and never look back. jschro11@kent.edu
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