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Check out Apple’s new product releases for 2021.
UNI Dance Marathon hosted their Orange Party Thursday at the WRC.
Sports writer David Warrington gives a preview of the 2021 World Series.
Graduation Fair prepares Panthers CAROLINE CHRISTENSEN News Editor
Prospective graduates for the 2021-2022 school year attended the Graduation Fair in Maucker Union Wednesday to prepare for fall and spring commencement. Students walked through a checklist which included applying for graduation, prepping for receiving their diploma, getting finances in order and RSVPing for commencement. The deadline for RSVPing for commencement is Nov. 10. Additionally the fair offered professional career advice for resume review, an opportunity to record a video message to loved ones to be played on the screen prior to commencement and a photo opportunity with a cap, gown and diploma cover. Fall graduation is set for Saturday, Dec. 18 and spring KARLA DE BRUIN/Northern Iowan graduation is May 13-14. Clockwise from left to right, the UNI Bookstore displays graduation attire and merchandise, Office of the Registrar representatives prepare to greet students, a student verifies information for graduation and the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships awaits students for financial counseling and advice.
Rod Library pursues textbook affordability for all Initiative aims to make class materials and textbooks accessible and affordable for UNI students VILMA GOMEZ PRADA Staff Writer
College students have long struggled with the expensive cost of textbooks for classes, with some students having to shell out hundreds of dollars each semester. The textbook affordability movement at UNI began more than five years ago and aims to make textbooks and class material more affordable for students. This initiative allows access to Open Educational Resources (OERs) that teachers and students can use in their courses. These materials are freely available to use, adapt, share and reuse. This year Rod Library was a recipient (in collaboration with the University of Iowa Libraries and Iowa State University Parks Library) of a $219,000 grant through the CARES Act and Iowa Department of Education. The money is being invested in training faculty teams at the
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As part of their textbook equity initiative Rod is encouraging faculty to write textbooks to use for certain classes.
three Regents institutions to create free, openly licensed course materials. Anne Marie H. Gruber, Ph.D., is the librarian leading this work campus-wide. Currently UNI faculty members working in the grant program are writing new textbooks for at least 15 popular UNI courses. These new textbooks cover topics in communication for college, career, civic life, methods of teaching early literacy, elementary
science methods, elementary Spanish and music theory. The expected savings for students is likely to be $300,000 per year once the textbooks are complete and implemented in courses. Some colleges are more involved than others, so students in some programs benefit from open textbooks, but others do not. In the past few semesters courses in the College of Humanities, Arts & Sciences have accounted for 75-95%
of the estimated student cost savings. Significant progress is being made in pursuing textbook equity, however the road to textbook affordability for all students is long. Although UNI is committed to supporting free open educational resources, there are no regulations specific to affordability. Faculty have the academic freedom to select the materials for their courses. Rod’s initiative for textbook affordability aims to inform faculty about issues related to textbook equity and about the more than 950 free openly licensed textbooks available. As an additional incentive, faculty and students receive support to create and license their materials. Gruber explains that in this initiative “faculty, staff and students who create course materials that they choose to openly license will not receive royalties like they would if publishing with a tradition-
al publisher. This is one of the reasons why incentivizing faculty for creating materials is important.” Gruber hopes continuing the textbook affordability initiative at UNI will make a difference. The price of textbooks increased 88% from 2006 to 2016. Some students skip meals to afford textbooks. Others avoid purchasing a required book having an impact on their grades. Some students change course schedules, drop courses or avoid particular courses due to textbooks costs. Students can contribute to this initiative by talking to your faculty about the importance of affordable classroom materials. Students can also check the list of the OERs available and encourage faculty to use these free resources in classes. Librarians at Rod can help students to find additional resources.
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Apple unveils new products THEO LOECKLE Staff Writer
Apple has announced new products on Monday Oct. 18, 2021, during their “unleashed” event. They revealed their new Airpods 3 with spatial audio, Homepod Minis that come in an array of colors and a new Macbook Pro with a fresh design accompanied with their new processors. Apple came out with a fresh design for the Airpods 3rd Generation. These new Airpods sell for $179, and they were designed to be somewhat of a hybrid model of the standard Airpods and Airpods Pro. Apple has removed the rubber ear tips on them which means gone are the days of active noise cancellation. The Airpods 3 include a wireless charging case that is compatible with MagSafe and come with a phenomenal battery life of up to six hours on a single charge and up
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Apple recently released new products including new Airpods 3, Homepod Minis and a new MacBook Pro.
to 30 hours of total listening time when in the charging case. And importantly, they’re sweat and water resistant with IPX4 certification, meaning they are splash proof no matter the direction. Apple also heavily optimized the sound quality on the new Airpods and they now have spatial audio. This means when listening to music you will full 360 audio when both Airpods that also have adaptive sound depending on your environ-
ment. Alongside the announcement of the new Airpods we saw Apple announce the HomePod Mini in three new colors red, blue and yellow. HomePod Minis are one of Apple’s most popular products that are only $99 that give off great sound quality. Nothing changed with the HomePod Minis besides the color. Similar to what they did with their iPad Airs and offering the HomePod Minis
in “bold” and “fun” colors to give them “personality,” as stated by Apple. The biggest reveal of the event, of course, was the announcement of the new MacBook Pros and the reveal of their newest high-end processors the M1 Pro and the M1 Max. A new size for the MacBook Pro was also shown, it now can come in a 14-inch size that looks very similar to their previous years MacBooks Pros. The 16-inch MacBook Pro still remains that also sports this redesign. Apple showcased the M1 chip in 2020 with the new 13-inch MacBook Air and Pro laptops. The M1 chip offered phenomenal performance and exceptional battery life for its average user, but lacked the necessary power for certain applications that were more hardware intensive. That’s where M1 Pro and M1 Max come in. These were designed with photographers, videographers and sound engineers all in mind in order
to give these users machines that will last long and outperform. The M1 Pro chip has 10 central processing unit cores and 16 graphic cores; already you can see this is a big upgrade compared to last year’s 13-inch MacBook Pro that has only a basic M1 chip with 8 CPU cores and only 14 GPU cores. M1 Max chip has 10 CPU cores and 32 GPU cores and both chips have eight high-end performance chips to assist in efficiency and background tasks. Both computers can reach up to 21 hours of battery life, and Apple has finally returned ports on the new MacBooks. Both computers see the return of magsafe chargers, an HDMI port, four USB-C ports and finally an updated camera that supports up to 1080p. The 14-inch MacBook starts off at $1999 and the 16-inch starts off at $2499 and both computers can be customized to have either a M1 Pro or M1 Max chip.
Day of the Dead Festival to be hosted at UNI On Monday, Nov. 1, UNIdos and Multicultural Theatrical Society (MTS) will be hosting a Day of the Dead festival at the Bertha Martin Theatre from 6-8 p.m. The Day of the Dead Festival aims to educate those who aren’t familiar with the tradition, but also to remember the ones that have been lost. This tradition originated in Mexico and goes through Nov. 1-2 and is celebrated throughout all of Latin, Central and Southern America. “This event not only encourages visibility for Latin students, but also honor,” co-vice president of MTS Julie Matta said. “Growing up, I was taught to honor those who came before me. We must value those who’s stories came before ours, as
they carry on through us. Being taught that our past is what ultimately makes our future selves and that we can go forward in doing so, carrying the weight of the souls who have passed not with sadness, but pride.” Matta is one of the coordinators of the event and aims to represent her community and ensure that they are reflected in the spaces of higher education. The event has been in the works for over a month and will include a variety of stations in the festival from food, music and an ofrenda. An ofrenda is a sacred space where people can bring pictures of their loved ones and have them displayed on a table with food, candles and vibrant colors. The purpose of an ofrenda is to welcome back those who are deceased and for families to spend time with their ancestors spiritually.
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Co-vice president of the Multicultural Theatrical Society Julie Matta (above) is a coordinator for a Day of the Dead Festival on Nov. 1 at the Bertha Martin Theatre.
Students around campus are encouraged to attend the event to celebrate and learn about the Day of The Dead. “I hope to encourage others to invite others’ world
views. Not only in an educational sense but personally as well. As a Latina woman, I hold my identity very close to me. It is the reason I speak the way I do, think the way I
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Cliques inside the workplace Cliques can be one of the most challenging part of bringing an effective team together
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Collaborating is one of the most important aspects entering the workforce, but continuing to network could help bring ideas and new perspectives in a collaborative space.
Are cliques still prevalent in colleges? Yes, they are definitely present. It’s never a bad thing to meet new people; college is a great opportunity to make new friends outside of your clique. College also gives you more chances to meet new people from different backgrounds. A few reasons clearly explain why college is quite different from high school. People are more likely to make friends with different types of people initially. It’s possible. I have seen it with a few groups of friends. But who do you really end up hanging out with after your first few months of freshman year? Are all of your friends totally unpredictable? In the
same vein, it may also occur the opposite way as people tend to feel comfortable around others who are like them, whatever their age. As such, cliques may develop in extracurricular activities or within majors. It’s important to acknowledge the faults of cliques and appreciate that it doesn’t need to do justice to your peers or be an essential thing that we measure our self-worth off of. It’s interesting to me that some of the friends I’ve made in college I probably wouldn’t have had if they’d been in my high school, purely due to conventions constructed by society. As an example, students may join Greek life to meet friends with similar interests, and many fraternities and sororities have certain group characteristics and traits that become known to those outside the group, which makes them easy to judge because of
the common traits all members share. The school is protected from many of the negative aspects associated with cliques. As long as cliques exist, we can only hope they accept the diverse student body who call our university home. Even if you believe all cliques end in high school, I am sure that you could identify several at your workplace if you sit back and think about all the people you work with or go to school with. Although a clique may appear more safe in numbers, just remember that companies hire and fire people. Therefore, fraternization shouldn’t be openly sanctioned by management, so that no group of people is promoted over another for socializing. It can be toxic to belong to a clique where there is always negativity or gossip about the leaders’ personal histories. Be
cautious of cliques where the leaders are making assumptions about you based on their past experiences. According to SEEK, an Australian human resource consulting company, almost half of Australians (49%) believe their workplace has cliques made up of small, close-knit groups. “Speaking up to colleagues or management is a good first step to identify what would help you feel valued and accepted at work,” SEEK psychologist Sabina Read said. “When these needs are met, the need to belong to the clique may lose some of its gravity.” Working with cliques at work can be challenging. However, understanding what is appealing about being in a clique, taking the opportunity to form personal relationships and having an action plan when you feel anxious can help. How long does it take to figure out what clique some-
one ran with in high school? It take no longer than seven seconds, according to ongoing research from Rachel Gordon, Ph.D., of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Gordon had college students look at seven-second video clips of 15-year-olds they’d never met and asked them to guess which clique the people were in. The study identified 12 cliques: populars, jocks, floaters, good-arts, fine arts, brains, normals, druggie/stoners, emo/goths, anime/manga, loners and racial/ ethnic groups. In high school, cliques might not be well-known to us, but we could describe the group by the traits they shared (skaters skate, jocks play sports, etc.). My conclusion is that it is always a wise decision to form friendships outside your cliques and social constructs. You never know who might come into your life!
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UNI Dance Marathon hosted their orange party on Thursday, Oct. 21 in the WRC. Members of Dance Marathon were pied in the face during the event. There was also a team bags tournament.
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PANTHER PORTRAIT: HOPEFULLY HAKIMA Afghanistan native adjusts to life at UNI while receiving her masters NKASA BOLUMBU Staff Writer
Hakima Afzaly is a UNI graduate student studying women’s and gender studies from halfway across the world. Her pursuit of knowledge has taken her many places from refugee schools in Pakistan to a women’s college in Bangladesh and now the University of Northern Iowa. Hakima Afzaly was born in the capital city, Kabul, Afghanistan, but in her culture she is actually from the province, Parwan. “Wherever your father was born, it is also where you’re from,” Afzaly explains. She lived in Afghanistan until the age of two, and then her family migrated to Pakistan for refuge to avoid the violence of the civil war. Pakistan is where she spent most of her childhood and teenage years as a refugee from one of the most war-torn countries in the modern world. She spent her primary and secondary years learning at an Afghan refugee school. Afzaly learned conditions and lifestyles in Afghanistan through the media. Afazaly explained that as an Afghan living outside of Afghanistan, this portrayal of Afghanistan became her internalized perception of her home country. She wasn’t looking forward to returning; in fact, she “didn’t want to go” because she was reminded of the potential horrors that awaited her. She was surprised to discover that not everything in the media was true. Upon her return to Afghanistan, she was relieved to see that life was improving after the Taliban
lost power and the United States had occupied the country. After she graduated high school in 2008, she knew that there were only two things she could do as an Afghan refugee: get married and have kids or stay and be a teacher. “I knew that I could do a lot more.” Afzaly said. Afzaly decided that she wanted to continue her education. Before starting university in 2009, Afzaly worked as an English tutor for students of all different ages and backgrounds. She then studied at Kabul University and to an all-women’s university in Bangladesh. She studied language studies and Asian studies in her five years at school. After graduating, Afzaly worked in three different government organizations until 2019: the Ministry of Counter Narcotics, The Forensic Science Organization and the American University of Afghanistan. Afzaly received her Fullbright scholarship, landing her here in Cedar Falls in 2020. Fullbright is a scholarship program that allows foreign students a chance to study here in the United States, as well as a study abroad opportunity for U.S. citizens as well. Having traveled to not only Bangladesh but other European countries as well, Afzaly was excited to continue this chapter of her life. Arriving here in Iowa, Afzaly felt a bit of a culture shock, but she was able to adjust with help from her Fullbright program coordinator, Stacy Lyman, who provided her with resources and help to finish her studies here. She
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Hakima Afzaly is a student from Afghanistan earning her masters in women and gender studies.
likes that UNI has very helpful people, saying, “If I don’t know something, I can always ask a student or professor and they’ll always help me.” She appreciates the library and additional resources available to students, and how understanding professors are when she’s having difficulties with a class. As for her studies, the Fulbright program chose UNI
for Afzaly because of her interest in women’s and gender studies. Afzaly chose her area of study because learning about women and gender helped her make sense of the world and society. “It’s like studying everyday life, making sense of patriarchy, women’s rights and men’s rights.” She enjoys the class discussions and how most agree that since “there is no
simple answer for anything, we don’t have to just blindly accept what we’ve seen or have been told by society.” She believes, “you have to learn the complications because the world is complicated.” In her major, she tries to understand how society functions, what are society’s problems and how has it affected both men and women. Afghanistan has a gap in the expertise of gender studies, and Afzaly wants to fill it. She believed that after she got her degree, she could go back and make gender departments within the Ministry of Women’s affairs as well as improvements to previous jobs she had. Now with the Taliban, things will be drastically different. As of right now, everything that Hakima had hoped for is being threatened by the Taliban, and since there’s no telling when they will leave, she has felt rather hopeless, not just for her future, but for her country’s as well. “Honestly, I’m not OK. My family is safe, but we can’t even begin to imagine what’s happening to the rest of our family in Afghanistan.” Afzaly’s final message is for everyone else in the world. “We can’t let a terrorist group decide the future of Afghanistan. How can we give power to the same group that destroyed Afghanistan 20 years ago? We can’t let history repeat itself. We can’t let the 20 years of women’s achievements in Afghanistan go to waste. Why is it that 20 years ago, everyone was so loud about fighting the Taliban, and now nobody cares? Is there really nothing that we can do?”
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El Festival del Día de los Muertos llegará a UNI El lunes 1 de Nov., UNIdos y la Sociedad Teatral Multicultural (STM) organizará un festival del Día de los Muertos en el Teatro de Bertha Martin de 6- 8 p.m. El Festival del Día de los Muertos tiene como objetivo educar a aquellos que no están familiarizados con la tradición, pero también recordar a los que se han adelantado a la otra vida. Esta tradición se originó en México y se extiende los días 1 y 2 de Nov. y se celebra en toda América Latina, Central y del
Sur. “Este evento no sólo fomenta la visibilidad de los estudiantes latinos, sino también el honor”, dijo la co-vicepresidenta de STM Julie Matta. “Al crecer, me enseñaron a honrar a los que vinieron antes que yo. Debemos valorar las historias de aquellos que nos precedieron, ya que continúan a través de nosotros. Me enseñaron que nuestro pasado es lo que, en última instancia, hace que seamos nosotros mismos en el futuro y que podemos seguir adelante, llevando el peso de las almas que han pasado no con tristeza, sino con orgullo.” Matta es una de las coordinadoras del evento y pretende representar a su comunidad
y asegurarse de que se vea reflejada en los espacios de educación superior. El evento lleva más de un mes en preparación e incluirá una variedad de estaciones en el festival, desde comida, música y una ofrenda. Una ofrenda es un espacio sagrado donde la gente puede traer fotos de sus seres queridos y exponerlas en una mesa con comida, velas y colores vibrantes. El propósito de una ofrenda es dar la bienvenida a los que han fallecido y que las familias pasen tiempo con sus antepasados espiritualmente. Se anima a los estudiantes del campus a asistir al evento para celebrar y aprender sobre el Día de los Muertos. “Espero animar a los demás
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co-vicepresidenta de STM Julie Matta (arriba) está ayudando a coordinar el próximo Festival del Día de los Muertos el primero de Nov. en el Teatro de Bertha Martin
a que inviten a las visiones del mundo de los demás. No sólo en el sentido educativo, sino también en el personal. Como mujer latina, tengo mi identidad muy cerca. Es la
razón por la que hablo como lo hago, pienso como lo hago y, en general, hago lo que hago. Es importante que te vean tal y como eres, con toda la belleza que pueda tener.” dijo Matta.
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Braves take on Astros in 2021 World Series
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The American League champion Houston Astros will meet the champions of the National League Atlanta Braves in the 117th edition of the Fall Classic. The Astros are no stranger to the big stage, having played in five consecutive ALCS’s and are playing in their third World Series in the last five years. Atlanta is returning to the big stage for the first time since 1999 and has not won it all since the midst of their 90s-era dynasty in 1995.
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After 208 days, 162 regular season games for each team and three rounds of the playoffs, it is finally time for the pinnacle of professional baseball. The 2021 World Series is slated to begin Tuesday, Oct. 26, between the National League Champion Atlanta Braves and the American League Champion Houston Astros. Competing in their 151st season as a franchise, and their 56th since moving to Atlanta, the Braves finished the regular season with an 88-73 record, finishing first in the NL East, 6 1/2 games up from the Philadelphia Phillies. The turning point in the season for
the Braves came in August. Facing a nine-game road trip, they dominated, sweeping all nine games and taking a commanding lead in the division that they would not relinquish. The Braves took on the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Division Series, defeating them three games to one. In the NL Championship Series, Atlanta took on the reigning World Series Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and pulled off an upset, winning four games to two to clinch their spot in the World Series. Making their World Series appearance even more impressive is the fact that Atlanta lost their star player, Ronald Acuna Jr., in July with a torn ACL. General manager Alex Anthopoulos made sever-
al midseason acquisitions to improve his team, trading for outfielders Joc Pederson, Jorge Soler, Adam Duval and Eddie Rosario, the latter of whom was this year’s NLCS Most Valuable Player. Carrying the load for the Braves has been longtime first baseman Freddie Freeman. After 11 years with Atlanta, Freeman is finally competing in a World Series. This is the Braves’ first World Series appearance since 1999, and they’re looking for their first World Series championship since 1995. Atlanta’s opponent will be the Houston Astros. Competing in their 56th season as a franchise, Houston went 95-67 in 2021, finishing first in the AL West, five
games in front of the Seattle Mariners. An early cold streak where they lost nine of 10 in a row couldn’t halt the Astros, who went on an 11-game winning streak shortly before the All Star break. The Astros took down the Chicago White Sox in the AL Division Series, three games to one. They continued their postseason run by downing the Boston Red Sox in the AL Championship Series, four games to two. It’s been a wide range of players getting it done for the Astros. They have had three separate players, Yordan Alvarez, Jose Altuve and Kyle Tucker, go over the 30 home run mark. Alvarez has been virtually unstoppable thus far in the postseason, hitting over
.400 and claiming the ALCS MVP in the series against the Red Sox. Houston has been something of a World Series regular the past few seasons, making an appearance in 2019 and winning it in 2017. However, many have called into question the legitimacy of that championship due to the discovery that the Astros were using video cameras to steal signs during home games. Games one and two of the series will be played at Houston’s Minute Maid Park, while games three, four and five if necessary will be contested at Atlanta’s Truist Park. If the series needs a sixth or seventh game, it will return to Houston.
FOOTBALL
NFL Week 7 recap: What happened to the Chiefs? HUNTER FRIESEN Sports Writer
With Week 7, the NFL was entering the second-third of the newly expanded 18 week season. In both good and bad ways, some team’s fates have already been virtually sealed. There’s still time to steer the ship around for those that need to, but that task only gets harder as the weeks progress. But before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s break down what happened this past weekend and see what it all means. The week started slowly with the usual less-thanideal Thursday night game between the Denver Broncos and Cleveland Browns. Cleveland’s Backup quarterback Case Keenum did what was expected of him by keeping the Browns alive while starter Baker Mayfield was out with a shoulder injury, which will likely sideline him for multiple weeks. A team that wishes they had a decent backup quarter-
back is the New York Jets, who lost second-overall pick Zach Wilson to a sprained PCL in a humiliating 54-13 defeat to the rival New England Patriots. He’ll be out for at least 2-4 weeks. In the meantime, Mike White will start in his place. It’s another bad turn of events for a franchise that seems to be cursed. Another team sharing in the quarterback struggle is the Carolina Panthers. The Jets shipped out Sam Darnold to the Panthers to make way for Wilson, a move that hasn’t benefited either team yet. Darnold has thrown seven interceptions in the past four games and has no offensive answers while superstar running back Christian McCaffrey has been out with injury. Rumors are starting to swirl of the Panthers making a trade for the disgraced Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson, who is facing 22 civil lawsuits for sexual assault. The Titans proved that they don’t need a quarter-
back as MVP-contending running back Derrick Henry threw a touchdown in a dominating 27-3 win over the Kansas City Chiefs. It was a typical day for the woeful Chiefs’ defense, but it was an unusually bad day for their offense as star quarterback Patrick Mahomes was held to the lowest amount of points in his regular-season career. The 3-4 Chiefs will take on the Giants, Packers, Raiders and Cowboys in the next four weeks. Things will need to change quickly or else a dramatic shakeup will be inevitable. While Derrick Henry’s pass was cool, the Titans have never been a team to score in style. Two other teams that haven’t been doing that as well are the Los Angeles Rams and Green Bay Packers. It hasn’t seemed to matter, as they both sit 6-1 and in guaranteed playoff spots. The Packers have had an easy schedule up until this point, so it will be interesting to see how they perform when they travel to the unde-
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The Tennessee Titans defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 27-3 last Sunday, dropping the Chiefs to a paltry 3-4 start on the year.
feated Arizona Cardinals this Thursday night. The Saints and Seahawks capped off the week with a rain-soaked Monday night game involving numerous blunders. Seattle lost their third straight game for the first time in 10 years, and are winless at home over three games, the first time
that’s happened in over 30 years. Quarterback Russell Wilson will come back sometime in November, but it looks like it will be too little too late. With the midseason point in the season approaching, teams are starting to really find out what their directions will be moving forward.
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FUN & GAMES
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45 Esteemed league member 46 N, in Morse code 49 Sparkle 52 Currencies 53 Irrationality 58 Bravo preceder 59 Host of the 2015 MLB All-Star Game 61 Not masc. or fem. 62 Prod 63 Gold brick 64 Fashion monogram 65 Jury member 66 Fluff, as hair
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