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Freedom to Tweet: Student speaks out using social media

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One student is taking to social media to push back against what she is calling a limiting of free speech on the University of Mary Washington campus.

Faith Pollard, a senior political science major, created the social media campaign #IStandWithFaith this past Monday after a confrontation with the Office of Disability Resources.

At the beginning of the semester, Pollard contacted the Office of Disability Resources in the hopes of receiving aid for a disability. What ensued was a series of back and forth meetings and confusion regarding medical records. By October, Pollard still had not succeeded in achieving the aid she desired and grew increasing frustrated with the duration of the situation.

Last week, Pollard posted a status on Facebook regarding her ongoing attempt to gain access to disability resources.

“Basically all it said was how unbelievable it was for Disability Services to just now be getting back to me 10 to 11 weeks later. It also said that they probably were sitting on my report for two to three weeks and didn’t tell me,” said Pollard, who has been in contact with the office since her first week of school.

Upon returning to the office several days later, Pollard was confronted by a disabilities resources worker who had seen the Facebook status.

“I was confronted by [the worker] with a printed out screenshot of my status. I explained to her why I was angry and why I posted it,” Pollard said. “But I left Disability Services thinking that I cannot say anything negative because I would be reported and then confronted. I left feeling implicitly told this is not welcomed.”

After discussing the situation with several friends, Pollard decided to speak up

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“I want people to be mad about the invasion of privacy, unprofessionalism on professor communication this employee’s behalf and infringement of freedom of speech,” Pollard said. “I want people to understand this is not okay.”

On Monday, Nov. 10, Pollard and friends created the Facebook event “#UMWDisability Social Media Pushback.”

Those attending the event were asked to use various social media accounts such as Facebook and Twitter to spread the message.

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Greek Life motion passes Student Senate MARIAH YOUNG Managing Editor

A motion to begin the process of establishing a nationally recognized Greek life system passed in the University of Mary Washington Student Senate and the Student Government Association’s Executive Cabinet this past week.

In a 15-10 vote, the Senate approved the process, while the Executive Cabinet, headed by SGA President Samantha Worman, passed with a vote of 3-0-4.

On Sunday, Nov. 5, Legislative Action Committee Chair Joe Dolan, Inter-Club Association President Matt MacAloon

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and Academic Affairs Council Chairperson Sarah Clay voted in favor of the motion, while Judicial Review Board President Kristy Ju, SGA Vice President Nate Levine, Honor Council President Catherine Purtell and Association of Residence Halls President Mia Boleis abstained from the vote. The other two members of the Executive Cabinet, Diversity and Unity Coordinating Committee Chair Kopper Carter and Commuter Student Association President Evan Smallwood were not present for the vote. Procedural order only calls for a vote by the SGA president in the event of a tie.

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ALISON THOET Editor-in-Chief

The Starfish online advising tool has been reintroduced at the University of Mary Washington this fall in an effort to streamline academic advising for students.

Starfish is a tool that performs as both an advising and early alert system, according to Kelly Graham, the director of Academic and Career Services.

“Our goal is for every student to be successful here at UMW, and this is just one way to reach out and make sure students know of all the resources available to support their academic success,” Graham said.

The program has been on contract at UMW since July 2011, according to Erma Baker, assistant vice president of business services.

The UMW website provides details on how to utilize the various aspects of Starfish, which are geared toward assisting students in their academic advising. Advisors can use Starfish to take notes on meetings with students that exist online, rather than in paper files and records.

“It could work,” said Samantha Amos, a junior psychology major. “Obviously we’re all going toward technology.”

Professors can use Starfish to track students’ progress in a course. Faculty may raise a “flag” on students for missing class or doing poorly on an assignment, but may also raise a “kudos” for students’

good work. Students are alerted to kudos but will not receive notifications for flags most likely until next semester, according to Graham.

“I really love it because I am able to alert other faculty and staff if the student is having difficulty. On the flip side of that, it lets me give students kudos,” said Gwen Hale, director of the Writing Center and Writing Intensive Program.

These flags fulfill the early-awareness aspect of advising for faculty on student issues, according to Graham.

“Starfish is all about focusing on student success,” wrote Provost Jonathan Levin in an email. “We know that if we can reach a student before a problem has become too entrenched to fix, then we can actually help that student.”

Freshman Emma Carolan commented on the newly implemented program.

“It sounds like a good tool that would be utilized, and it would be helpful for students,” Carolan said.

Information on student advisement is only available to academic advisors, and professors only have access to the students in their courses for the early-alert system.

All students and their records were added to Starfish in relation to Banner, according to Tim O’Donnell, associate provost for academic English and student success.

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University of Mary Washington The Jewish Student Association/Hillel paired with the James Farmer Multicultural Center for the event.

EMILY HOLLINGSWORTH Assistant News Editor

The University of Mary Washington Jewish Student Association/Hillel and the James Farmer Multicultural Center are partnering up to share the stories of Jewish Cultural Celebration with the UMW community.

The 11-day event, which began last Monday, Nov. 3 and ends tomorrow, Nov. 14, started with a kick-off meeting and dinner in Seacobeck Hall’s Smart Market and a movie night in Combs Hall. The JSA/Hillel and the JFMC also organized a traditional Shabbat dinner for students on Friday, Nov. 7.

The two organizations planned events and invited speakers to share their stories and expose students to Jewish history’s development. Two notable speakers included Holocaust survivor Marcel Drimer and keynote speaker Vanessa Ochs.

On Monday, the Kristallnacht Commemoration took place in room 411 of Lee Hall, which featured Porter Blakemore, associate professor of the department of

history and American studies, who led a discussion on the Holocaust.

Drimer, who also spoke at the commemoration, shared the story of how he and his family were forced into hiding during WWII. According to JSA/Hillel President Dahlia Somers, the students were able to ask him questions following the discussion and were able to speak with him at a gathering after the commemoration, where food was provided.

Drimer and his family ran from his Polish hometown to escape from German forces. At nine years old, a Ukrainian family agreed to hide Drimer, his family and nine other Jews in their stable. However, Drimer and his family were forced to take cover in a hole in the ground when they faced the threat of being found by Nazis.

They were liberated from the hole by the Soviet army several months later, in August of 1944.

The lack of nutrition and the cramped physical environment left Drimer malnourished and unable to walk. He had to relearn how to walk after being rescued.

Somers said she was especially excited

about Drimer’s attendance.

“It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Somers said.

Through Blakemore and Drimer’s discussion on the Kristallnacht, Somers said she hoped that students will gain an understanding of the plight of the Jewish people that extends beyond textbooks.

“We hope that everyone who comes will leave having learned something,” Somers said.

Ochs, who spoke on Nov. 12 in room 411 of Lee Hall, is a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia. Her presentation, titled “The Jewish Feminist Story: The History We Brought into Being,” focused on Jewish feminism.

This is the seventh year that the university has hosted a Jewish cultural celebration.

According to Marion Sanford, director of the James Farmer Multicultural Center, the events were a great opportunity for students to not only learn about Jewish culture, but to give Jewish students a chance to become more active with their heritage on campus.

“One of the great things about this event is the sense of pride that UMW students who participate exhibit, celebrating their own heritage and bring[ing] that to the campus and to the UMW family,” Sanford said.

The JSA/Hillel is one such group that has been excited to share their heritage with the university. In addition to putting together the Jewish Cultural Celebration, JSA/Hillel have also organized kayaking and apple picking trips earlier in the semester.

Somers said that creating a sense of community is an integral part of her faith and her involvement in the group.

“I like being in a community. You have a connection with other people, and you are able to relate with them. I think that having a community draws a lot of people to religion. You have a heritage and culture you can share with one another,” Somers said.

The JSA/Hillel will be working to extend that community to the university in the next year. In the spring of 2015, the JSA/Hillel is planning to partner with the Islamic Student Association to jumpstart a discussion on campus about stereotypes and speak with students about the conflicts currently taking place in the Middle East.

College Diabetes Network surveys Sodexo’s nutritional information HANNAH BRATTON Staff Writer

The University of Mary Washington chapter of the College Diabetes Network met at Seacobeck Hall on Thursday, Nov. 6 to compare the nutritional values of food items at both Seacobeck and Blackstone Coffee. In their research, the club discovered that Seacobeck did not provide sufficient nutritional information for students living with diabetes.

The group, which was founded last year by alumnus advisor Dan Browne, currently hosts six members.

Diabetes is a condition in which the body does not properly create or regulate necessary sugars. It is difficult for people with Type 1 diabetes to navigate food options when not provided prior nutritional information, since certain foods can cause blood sugar to rise and fall.

Rebeca Arm, a senior art history and museum studies double major, said she

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believes that Seacobeck needs clearer nutritional information, especially for its diabetic students.

“Nutrition information at Seacobeck is distributed by weight, and if they don’t let you serve it yourself, you can’t be one hundred percent sure that you are getting the right amount of food to keep your blood sugar in check,” Arm said.

CDN ran several tests on the food they decided to eat, looking on a website to see if they could find nutritional information, with varying results. One of their findings was that the cereal Apple Jacks did not have carb levels and only three cereals did.

Browne started the club shortly before graduating last spring. The College Diabetes Network is a national nonprofit that exists to support college students living with diabetes. It is chapter-oriented and Browne, who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of ten, formed the UMW chapter after sensing a need for the community at the school.

The goal of the club is to provide solidarity and raise local awareness of diabetes, as well as support area diabetes fundraisers. Everyone who is an active member of the club has either Type 1 diabetes or knows someone who does.

Freshman Katie Tucker said she enjoyed the sense of solidarity she has received from the club.

“It’s cool to meet other diabetics,” Tucker said.

The club members shared various issues they have dealt with as diabetics both on and off campus.

“A testing center I went to in Washington, D.C. wouldn’t allow my insulin pump and would only allow me to bring in glucose tablets,” said Tucker.

Likewise, Ann Higgenbotham, a junior history major, recounted the story of how her insulin pump died the night of the glow stick party during her first week away from home.

“College is the first time you’re on your

own away from your parents, and having diabetes, it’s the first time you’re responsible for keeping yourself from ending up ill,” Browne said.

The club is currently scheduled to wear onesies on Nov. 14, in the hopes of advocating for National Diabetes Awareness Day, one of the many events in November, National Diabetes Awareness Month. In addition, the group wears blue every Friday to advocate for diabetes awareness.

The organization recently threw a Halloween party for the Kids for A Cure group at Mary Washington Hospital, sponsored by nurse and diabetes education advocate Jenny Natividad. Kids for A Cure provides support for kids living with diabetes.

“It can be hard explaining why it’s such a headache to deal with keeping yourself healthy,” said sophomore Sarah Heisey, president of CDN. “Our club provides solidarity and it helps to know other people are in the same boat.”

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SPORTS New coach, new players, same goal

UMW basketball set to host tournament

ALEX BLOOM Staff Writer

CHRIS MARKHAM Sports Editor

With the season merely a few days away, the University of Mary Washington men’s basketball team is looking forward to getting back on the winning track following the most successful season in school history.

The UMW Eagles team will kick off their 2014-2015 campaign on Nov. 15th at 4 p.m. in the Anderson Center against Lynchburg College.

In 2014, the Eagles advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament following the capture of their second Capital Athletic Conference Championship with a staggering 25-6 record, the best in school history.

The Eagles also finished the year ranked eighth by D3hoops.com, their highest ranking ever.

However, the 2014 season is in the past and with Virginia Coach of the Year Rod Wood no longer at the helm, as he is now a member of the UMW administrative team.

Marcus Kahn’s is now leading the Eagles. Kahn was announced as the team’s head coach in late April and brings with him tremendous coaching experience as well as a long list of accomplishments.

Formerly the head men’s basketball coach at Cabrini College, over the past five years Coach Kahn has amassed the best winning percentage in the county as well as boasting a 153-27 record in his six seasons at Cabrini.

During his time at Cabrini, Coach Kahn led the Cavaliers to the Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight and Final Four.

The UMW women’s basketball team is also coming off of a highly successful 2013-14 campaign with an 18-8 record (10-6 CAC). A first round boot from the conference tournament sent the Eagles into the offseason looking for redemption.

Key returners for the Eagles will be sophomore captain Brianne Comden and senior Aubrey Howland. Comden was the Eagles’ second leading scorer and third leading rebounder last season with a sky-high field goal percentage of 44 percent. Howland was UMW’s third leading scorer and second leading rebounding in 201314.

The loss of seniors Sam Partonen and Aby Diop will be evident early on and the Eagles relied heavily on them last season. Diop provided the Eagles with a large presence in the paint and was UMW’s leading rebounder last year. Partonen, who consistently served as the Eagles’ floor general, was the leader scorer for UMW, averaging north of 11 points per game last year.

Despite the losses, the Eagles will still have the bar set high for the 2014-15

UMW Athletics Taylor Johnson is the lone senior on the team.

The coaching staff is not the only change that the Eagles will have to deal with this season. In 2014, a strong senior class that provided leadership and stability within the locker room anchored the Eagles.

With nearly half the team graduating or otherwise exiting the program, the Eagles will have to look to lone senior Taylor Johnson to lead the way this winter.

Johnson, who gained all CAC honors in 2013-2014, averaged 13.8 points per game and 6.5 rebounds per contest despite playing with stress fractures in both feet. A CAC Medal of Inspiration award winner, Johnson will be relied upon heavily this season.

Along with Johnson, the Eagles will have to count on a young core of talent to pave the way this year to hopefully another CAC title and NCAA Tournament appearance.

Transfer players from schools such as Virginia Commonwealth University and Longwood University will provide the Eagles with the depth they need to succeed in an increasingly difficult CAC.

Cinderella story for women’s soccer falls short

DAVID MERCER Staff Writer

After an unexpected run into the postseason, the University of Mary Washington’s women’s soccer team lost in the Capital Athletic Conference championship to Frostburg State on Saturday, Nov. 8.

After both teams went scoreless in the first half, the Eagles gave up two goals in the second and could not respond, sending themselves into the offseason on a sour note.

Despite their underdog status, the Eagles came into the game with a serious mindset and focused on one common goal: a CAC Championship.

“Everyone had high hopes of winning and continuing our season, but the loss will motivate us to work even harder to reach that goal and more next season,” said sophomore goalie Sara Armor.

The team is looking to use this as a boost to make them a better team all around. According to Armor, the Eagles feel that this one loss does not define them as a team.

UMW was riding an 8-1 home record as they entered the game, but was 4-6-2 on the road, where they spent the entirety of their CAC tournament run.

“I think we were so successful because of the team chemistry and how much heart everyone played with,” said freshman business major Taylor Decker. “I think I

Men's Swimming:

Nov. 8 @ Randolph-Macon (W) UMW: 104 RMC: 97

women's Swimming: Nov. 8 @ Randolph-Macon (W) UMW: 135 RMC: 56

campaign.

The Eagles begin their season with a home game in the Anderson Center against York College in New York in the opening round of the UMW Hyatt Place Tipoff Tournament on Saturday, No. 15 at 1 p.m.

Should they win, the Eagles will play again in the championship game on Sunday at the same time and place.

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UMW well represented in All-Conference teams: Men's Soccer: First Team: Riley Fisher Second Team: Conor Nogueira

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UMW Athletics After an incredible playoff run, the UMW women’s soccer team came one win short of a CAC title.

brought a lot of energy and a positive attitude to the team.”

Coming off the loss, the team is still hopeful about their future. The Eagles will lose substantial senior leadership due to graduation, but have more than enough youth and skill to compensate.

“I think we were successful in the end, but there was a lot of untapped potential so we could have been better,” said Maryfay Jackson, a sophomore psychology major.

Knowing that it could have been the seniors’ last game, the underclassmen on the team did all they could to earn one more game for their leaders.

“We played our hearts out for the seniors and we didn’t want that to be their last game, but the score didn’t show that,” Jackson said.

Despite coming up short in the champi-

onship game, the team did have an overall successful season. They finished with a 12-7-2 overall record and advanced to the CAC championship game as the bottom seed in the tournament, a feat only accomplished by few.

“I believe we were most successful when we were communicating well on the field and winning our individual battles,” Armor said.

Even with a team that has a lot of freshman and sophomores, the team clicked early and often and generated a special sense of chemistry, which helped to boost them to the CAC championship game.

The women are heading into the offseason motivated and ready to work hard so they can make it back to this position next year and capitalize on their opportunities.

Weekly Scoreboard Women's Soccer:

Nov. 8 vs. Frostburg State CAC Championship: (L) UMW: 0 FSU:

Upcoming:

Cross Country: Nov. 15 @ Regional Championships Men’s & Women’s Swimming: Nov. 8 vs. Howard

Second Team: Lizzie Weast Jessica Bednarcik Ashley Stephens

Volleyball: First Team: Dani Fiore (Rookie of the Year) Second Team: Emma Olson

Field Hockey: First Team: Carlee Budd Haley Kane Jenna Steele Second Team: Kathleen Namey Christine Downie Christine Loehr

Men’s Basketball: Nov. 15 vs. Lynchburg College Nov. 16 vs. Randolph-Macon Women’s Basketball: Nov. 15 vs. York (New York) Nov. 16 vs. TBD

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Editorial: Winter holidays arrive before winter

As the weather cools and the trees shed their leaves, signs of Christmas are already beginning to appear. Songs on the radio. Lights in the store fronts. Red cups at Starbucks. But in the middle of November, still weeks before Thanksgiving?

Fueled by pathos, tradition and publicity, Christmas is arguably the most anticipated holiday of the year. You would not buy Easter eggs three months in advance. If you bought Valentine’s flowers early, they would certainly wilt. And if you dressed as Freddy Krueger in July, there is a good chance you would be apprehended by law enforcement.

Christmas is an anomaly. We overlook the plastic evergreens lined up beside summer patio furniture in August.

We excuse the eggnog in September. We count these things as seasonal cheer and accept the early arrival.

Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and on occasion Ramadan further amplify the seasonal excitement. The holidays blend and interact in such unique ways. The red and green colors found in Kwanazaa kinaras echo the colors of mistletoe and holly. It is not uncommon to see Christmas trees topped with menorahs or red and white kippahs reminiscent of Santa’s attire.

We believe celebrating December’s holidays at this point is a little premature. Bing Crosby albums and ugly pompom sweaters, in our opinion, should be stowed away until after Thanksgiving.

There is a fine line between tasteful and

tacky, and timing has everything to do with it.

Marketers have been inching up the start of holiday sales every year for decades now. Coined as “Christmas Creep,” the phenomenon has never been more prevalent. This year, both Wal-Mart and Amazon launched Black Friday sales on Nov. 1. PayPal, the earliest of early birds, started seasonal discounts on Sept. 30.

Of course, retailers are not without good reason for starting early. Holiday sales represent 20 to 30 percent of annual sales according to William Cody, managing director of the Jay H. Baker Retailing Initiative at Wharton. Lengthening that window of time allows for greater consumer spending.

The city of Fredericksburg is no exception to the early promotion of festivities. Days before Halloween, lampposts downtown were adorned with evergreen garlands and cherry red bows. Moreover, the two-hour street parking was extended to four hours on Nov. 8 and that extension will carry through Dec. 31. More time to park, of course, ensures more to time to shop.

We encourage you to cherish these last few days of November. Enjoy Thanksgiving while it lasts. Call up your Mom and tell her you love her. Roast the turkey with your uncle. And most importantly, eat those mashed potatoes and gravy with all the gratitude you can muster.

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The fracking saga continues

Nestor Galiway/ Flickr ALICE BALDYS Staff Writer

As of Thursday, Illinois became one of twenty states in the U.S. to allow hydraulic fracturing. The controversial drilling practice involves the use of roughly four million gallons of water and 167 tons of chemicals per well in order to access previously unreachable shale oil with natural gas deposits below the surface of the ground.

The Barnett Shale deposit in Texas and the Marcellus Shale in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia are two major ‘plays’ in the industry. Not surprisingly, hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking,’ is criticized for the pollution it causes and its high use of water. The environmental impacts range from the construction of unsightly drill pads to the massive pollution of potable drinking water and the increased likelihood of earthquakes.

Widespread violation of state regulations, such as the 43 percent of drillers found to have violated regulations by the Department of Natural Resources in the state of Wisconsin are becoming more common. Drilling in Texas has occurred for over fifty years and it is estimated that the High Plains aquifer has declined by some 266 million acre-feet, a volume equivalent to two-thirds of the water in Lake Erie.

Many U. S. citizens are being forced to examine this issue from either an environmental or an energy policy perspective.

Environmentalists and concerned citizens

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imposed fracking bans in New York and produced controversial films like “Gasland” that explore the negative environmental impacts of fracking.

Proponents of hydrofracking include President Barack Obama, who supported natural gas extraction and hydraulic fracturing in his 2014 State of the Union address, saying, “Natural Gas, if extracted safely, it’s the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change.”

While responses to hydraulic fracturing and natural gas extraction in the U.S. have been mixed, it is clear that there is a need for regulation of industry to prevent water pollution. Former Vice President of Mobile Oil Louis Allastadt went so far as to say “Making fracking safe is simply not possible, not with the current technology or the inadequate regulations being proposed.”

Hydraulic fracturing is a controversial issue for Americans, especially those living in highly populated areas where shale plays are currently housed. In Virginia, fracking has been proposed in the George Washington National Forest close to the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay Watershed and the highly populated areas of Northern Virginia.

Whatever side of the issue you stand on, being informed and actively contributing to the conversation about energy polices could prevent future energy shortages and environmental pollution.

Letter: Student seeks freedom of speech and right to privacy

The University of Mary Washington

I am writing about the following questions: What is the role of university officials and employees regarding social media posts from students? When is it okay for an institution within the university to confront a student about a private social media post?

Is it okay at all? When does this turn into a violation of the First Amendment?

How should the institution confront the student?

I ask these questions because of a situation that occurred. I was confronted by an employee of Disability Resources about a Facebook post I had written regarding what I consider to be long delay in obtaining services. I expressed my frustration because I felt they had failed me and ultimately I was a disappointed client.

On one hand I can understand why Disability Resources would be concerned because something went wrong for me to be that frustrated and angry. But on the other hand, why does an institution that does not have access to my Facebook page feel it is okay to confront me with a printed screenshot of my private post?

My Facebook is only available to those who I have voluntarily friended. I left Disability Resources feeling as if I did not have the right to speak my opinion, it was not welcomed and would be reported by someone who is connected to the office.

Moreover, I felt it was an invasion of my privacy because my Facebook was not connected in any way to the university.

Not only was my privacy invaded and an authority figure confronted me about it, but then I felt I could no longer voice my negative opion.

It is not okay for an institution in any way to infringe upon a student’s right to free speech. This is a right we have as students and ultimately because we live in the United States of America. My Facebook was private and the only way the employee had access to my post was through another person. There would clearly have been a problem if I had posted hate speech or used names or been offensive, but the post simply voiced frustration.

The simple fact an opinion being negative does not give the institution a right to confront a student. While I appreciate that Disability Resources is concerned about students’ perceptions of their services. I

would argue that a University has no right to confront a student on the basis of social media unless the post actually violates some code of the university or public safety.

Furthermore, the Office of Disability Resources should only address issues with services.

The institution may approach the student with concern because there is clearly a problem that should be addressed, but the encounter should neither be implicitly or explicitly threatening or harmful towards the student.

The line was crossed when I was presented with a screenshot of my Facebook post, especially because I saw the printed screenshot be placed into my Office of Disability Resources file. Ultimately, there is gray area surrounding my original question. I think every case is unique but I also believe UMW would benefit tremendously if they set guidelines for their employees to follow about handling social media. This way it would be both easier for employees and students to know what is okay and what is not okay.

We are at the primitive stages of social media and it will continue to change rapidly and is not going away anytime soon. I strongly feel students have the right to their privacy of opinion. No one should be concerned that a negative post will be reported and lead to confrontation. If there is concern then this hinders the student’s right to free speech of their opinion. Also, I think the issue of how to approach a student is significantly important.

It was okay for Disability Resources to approach me on why I had such a negative opinion and reaction, but it is not okay to pressure a student to remove the status. It is not okay to have a blown up screenshot of the status that was taken from another source or retain the screenshot in an official file. There is a line and this line desperately needs to be established.

MAKE “I left Disability Resources feeling as if I did not have the right to speak my opinion, it was not welcomed and would be reported by someone who is connected to the office.”

Faith Pollard is a senior at the University of Mary Washington

Thursday, November 13, 2014

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Taylor Swift pulls music from Spotify, other muscians follow suit Spotify and SoundCloud defend the future of online streaming

MONA OSMER Viewpoints Editor

Taylor Swift’s most recent breakup will not be made into a typical melodramatic love song, but it has created a strong ripple effect in the music industry.

Last Friday, CNN reported that Swift removed all back catalogs of her music from the popular digital music service known as Spotify, which allows users to listen to a large variety of music for free online, as well as on their phones with a paid monthly membership.

Although this act has proven to be a strategic move by Swift to boost the sale of her new album, “1989,” many artists have followed suit in an attempt to reap the same reward.

And yet, “Spotify is now earning some artists more money than iTunes,” as was revealed at the 2014 Web Summit in Dublin, Ireland.

Furthermore, Spotify says that, “over 70 percent of its revenues go to artists, but just between $0.006 and $0.0084 is paid for each play, depending on the artist.”

Streaming services such as Spotify make music more accessible and easier to share. That is why they are succeeding in making revenues.

In fact, a similar service known as SoundCloud, promotes the creation of

music as well as the progression of underground musicians in the competitive music industry.

I am an avid fan of SoundCloud, and to put its effectiveness in perspective,

everyone.”

Launched in 2007, Soundcloud allows users to upload their own music and embed it anywhere, making the spread of music attain lightning speed.

I for one

I was listening to the sweet and soulful melodies of Sam Smith at least two months before he hit the charts in the U.S. Co-founder of Soundcloud Eric Wahlforss attests, “Making music is now for

do n o t w a n t the stigma that Swift has raised around online streaming to divert the use of these streaming centrals and the music that they are able to provide.

“The remunerative bit still has to be fig-

ured out,” U2’s lead singer Bono said at the Web Summit, but online streaming is “an experiment,” and the now looming future of the music industry.

I relish the fact that at one point in time we had to rely on radio stations to put out new music.

Now, I have it at the tips of my fingers: artists that have not yet been discovered or morphed by mainstream music.

Simply register and choose through the multitude of genres that Soundcloud has to offer. Based mostly off hash-tagging, users ‘streams’ become filled with artists and songs that have been tagged by genre, artist and song. Users can also search for specific artists and songs.

However, the future of online streaming is being scorned for its widening of the once elite pool of the music industry, how ironic.

Artists such as Jon Bellion, Logic and the previously noted Sam Smith owe their success to the sharing of music that has been made possible by these sites.

The growth of music promotes the growth of culture and widens our worldview.

Although, it is important that artists receive royalties for their music, it is also important that music be shared and enjoyed.

Athletes lose out on education at schools that put sports over learning COLEMAN HOPKINS Staff Writer

Illiteracy, useless degrees, fake classes, lack of financial compensation – these are the problems at the forefront of college sports today.

Every year, there is a three to four percent chance of a collegiate basketball player making it in the NBA draft. To make things even more challenging, there are also roughly twenty international players on average who participate in the draft.

With only two rounds and sixty total spots available for the hundreds of young men every year who graduate from NCAA basketball ranked colleges, it is plain to see that a career in basketball is highly competitive and highly unlikely.

Recent investigations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill show that, all too often, the school took to banking on their basketball players making it in the NBA. In fact, Chapel Hill is ignoring their athletes’ education entirely, going so far as to induct fake classes to act as substitutes for athlete academic coursework.

Chapel Hill has not only taken such questionable academic steps with just their basketball players, as a recent article on CNN shows, the University has indeed engaged in a similar practice with their football players. The overall scandal swirling around Chapel Hill has existed for nearly two decades, though the extent to which it has been understood has increased rapidly in the past months.

Mike McAdoo, an ex Tar Heel football player who lost his eligibility in 2011 for cheating, stepped forward in an interview with CNN in which he said that he took classes that “never met,” which became known as “paper classes” that existed in the African-American studies and communication departments. McAdoo went onto say that he had been interested in criminal justice when he came to the school but that his coaches and counselors pushed

him toward these “paper classes” because it would be easy for him and would allow him to focus on football.

In fact, McAdoo was not alone in these classes as, more often than not, they were filled with other athletes who were advised to take such classes because they would work with their athletic schedule.

McAdoo has since filed a lawsuit against UNC for kicking him off the team for cheating, an action he saw as a move to scapegoat him, rather than realizing that he was a victim of a system and culture that the athletic community was fostering and which the coaches denied existed.

McAdoo has not been alone in his effort to expose the university’s careless attitude toward athletes.

Mary Willingham, a former employee of Chapel Hill is also suing the school and has publicly denounced the university’s policies as illegal and exploitive.

The Chapel Hill scandal has come to light after a study within the university revealed findings earlier this year that student-athletes only read between a third grade and fifth-grade level.

In response to the initial break in the story, the university admitted that it had “failed its students.”

Adding to the drama is the movement within college sports to begin paying student-athletes for the revenues that they bring into their schools. Unfortunately, this effort is being viewed by some as highly political and in turn is being turned into a contentious issue.

Some critics have denounced this as nothing less than a “pro-sports” approach that can only hurt the players and the school by offering too much to the athletes. There is some evidence to support this: as McAdoo said, he got into UNC with a 2.9 GPA, which was roughly .7-1.4 points lower than his classmates’ high school GPAs. In light of this, some say that the trade for accep-

tance is actually fair since the students are getting access to a school they otherwise would not have gotten into.

On the other hand, proponents are using these new findings as proof to suggest that maybe the school is not really giving the athletes as much as you would expect them to. On the academic side of things, it appears as though that exchange is not as fair as previously thought. If athletes are not taking real classes, then are they really getting access to the school’s programs?

When considering that the university’s internal investigations collaborated McAdoo’s story, it is hard to argue that the perceived trade-off no longer exists. In fact, thirty administrators, the ex-head coach and McAdoo’s academic adviser all admitted that such a system existed and that it was essentially a scheme on the university’s part. If a student-athlete is not given the chance to be a student then their only hope would be to become a professional athlete.

However, becoming a professional basketball player is a very difficult feat, and becoming an NFL athlete is even more difficult, with only two percent of players making it in the draft. Being a pro athlete is an incredibly shaky career, and it is a huge gamble on the part of the school to assume that their players can all make it in the world without an education.

“I lost an education,” McAdoo told

CNN, going on to say that he had no trust in the school, that was supposed to have his best interests at heart, but he now has even fewer prospects on his horizon. While McAdoo and Chapel Hill are an unfortunate example, it is hard not to say that they are likely a microcosm of a larger problem in college sports.

North Carolina is a top fifty national university that is doing this for a football program that is middle of the road in the ACC, so just imagine what could be going on at a bigger, less prestigious, more football-centric SEC school.

Regardless of how you feel about college athletics or athletes, it is clear that the current system is broken and disproportionately benefits the schools at a serious cost to the players. To even things out, I believe that a reform is in order to ensure that the relationship between athlete and institution is a fairer one that involves more than just playing ball.

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‘Sunday in the Park with George’ brings painting to life at Klein Theatre

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ALISON THOET Editor-in-Chief

The stage itself became a canvas as the University of Mary Washington theatre gave life to Georges Seurat’s most famous painting in Stephen Sondheim’s “Sunday in the Park with George.”

A story of Seurat’s quest to create “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” dotby-dot, the cast came together to paint a story that affected generations to follow. Filled with love, obsession and ideals, and sprinkled with humor, UMW theatre took a brush of their own to Sondheim’s dramatic musical “This is a beautiful musical, it’s a gorgeous story that is an imaginative story of a very familiar painting,” said Gregg Stull, chairman of the department of theatre and dance.

Senior theatre majors Austin Bouchard and Judi Jackson once again took to UMW’s Klein Theatre and delivered their leads better than one would expect from college-level actors.

The first act is set in 1884 and followed George and the subjects of his painting.

Jackson, bustle tied tight and wielding a wicked funny bone, begins as Dot, the ever-complaining model and lover of George. Though George feels the same about Dot, his obsession with his

work leaves no room for anything but his art.

“James Lapine’s Seurat is an artist so focused on his work that his interpersonal relationships suffer because of his obsessive nature,” said Bouchard about his character.

As George depicts the many park visitors in his masterpiece, their lives are splayed out for the audience to watch, even down to the desires of the dog, which were expressed by Bouchard in a rather interesting monologue.

The set displayed either the park beautifully rendered with Seurat’s speckled painting style, or a screen of the renowned painting.

The second act jumps to modern day with a George reincarnate, the great-grandson of Seurat, who has begun his own work inspired by the light and color used by his ancestor.

Jackson and Bouchard stood out with their mature vocals, interspersed with tones from the talented company that culminated into the show’s harmonic “Sunday.”

The cast worked for months on the production, sometimes rehearsing for 12 hours at one time, in between full course loads and other responsibilities. Bouchard and Jackson did historical research in addition to the show rehearsals, studying Seurat, the era’s clothing and practicing characterization.

“The process has been a journey. It’s been

Shabbat dinner celebrates culture STEPHANIE CHAE Staff Writer

The Jewish Student Association kicked off the University of Mary Washington’s Jewish Cultural Celebration by hosting their annual Shabbat dinner in the faculty and staff dining room at Seacobeck dining hall. While this cultural celebration event is now traditional to the UMW community, it has only been around for a few years.

The Shabbat dinner is a weekly tradition that indicates the day of rest for the Jewish community. The Sabbath begins on Friday evening at sundown and lasts until Saturday evening, traditionally when three stars are visible in the night sky. The Jewish community begins the Sabbath with the Shabbat dinner, ceases any laborious work and spends the time with family and friends.

“It is one of those times that brings people together and celebrates culture. It is a good way to introduce the Mary Washington campus to what it is like to be Jewish,” said junior and co-president of JSA, Dahlia Somers.

The night began with a 20-minute service of the main prayer, followed by a Jewish dinner provided by Sodexo, consisting of potato latkes, potato knish, challah and kugel among other foods.

“Food is a major part of all the Jewish holidays because it is usually the center piece of the holidays. The Holidays are usually based around a dinner,” freshman Daniel Kehrer said.

While most of the people who were present were not Jewish and did not know the prayers, they had the opportunity to be directly involved in the service. The JSA printed out the prayers for the attendees.

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“It was really heart-warming to see everyone get involved,” said co-president of JSA Kelly Sanborn.

There was a larger participation from JSA members, faculty members and the staff of the James Farmer Multicultural Center rather than the students.

“It was a little disappointing, but I think everyone who was there left having gained something,” Somers said. “Social needs are met in other groups on campus. Also, you can be Jewish and not be involved in [JSA]. You don’t have to affiliate yourself with a group to be Jewish because being Jewish is a part of your heritage and culture.”

The Shabbat dinner was only one of the many events that the JSA hosted during their week and a half long Jewish Cultural Celebration. The Saturday after dinner, five girls from JSA went on a trip to Washington, D.C. On Monday, the JSA hosted a Kristallnacht Commemoration featuring a Holocaust survivor.

“I think it is very cool that the JSA is introducing the Jewish culture to the Mary Washington community because people don’t know that much about the Jewish culture,” Kehrer said.

challenging, exciting, filled with nuances and twists and turns, but they have made me a stronger actor,” Jackson said.

Jackson and Bouchard worked closely together to create the relationship between lovers, and later as family.

“She is extremely generous, extremely talented and an inspiring person to work with,” Bouchard said.

Jackson had similar sentiments about her acting partner, saying, “It’s been a joy working with him and finding new things everyday to add more texture and life to the very complicated relationship.”

Stull has worked with the two leads since their first show at UMW and said he believes “they are very talented actors who have worked hard to learn the truth of their characters.”

Stull has directed nearly 30 plays in his 22year career at the university, and he put his own spin on this show, originally written and directed

by James Lapine with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

“He is an incredible director who guides us with love and care and such a wide perspective that is unprecedented to any other director I’ve seen before,” Jackson said of Stull. “This could not have been a better show to end my musical career at Klein Theatre.”

Humans of UMW

By NANCY MILROY

Middle: “We’re UMW Parkour. Contrary to popular belief, we are not just stupid people jumping off stuff. We meet twice a week for an hour. I teach them basic to advanced moves, such as climbing, vaulting, landing, rolling, and safety stuff. Not just how to do awesome flips but how to do them safely. It takes actual skill to do something right.”

Left: “Parkour is from French, le parcours. It means “the way.”

We practice the most efficient and fun way to get from point A to point B.”

From left to right: Robert Clair, Carson Meadows and Mary-Kate McCleary Latkes are a traditonal Jewish food.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

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By LAUREN MOSSESO Staff Writer New this school year, the University of Mary Washington is allowing students to create their own Conceptual Living Communities. These communities allow students to form bonds and friendships over shared hobbies.

A CLC consists of at least eight upperclassmen students living together under a certain housing theme.

There are four CLCs this academic year: Cooking and Games for Everyone (CAGE), Green House, International Living Center (ILC) and UMW Dead Poets Society. CAGE is featured in this issue of the Blue & Gray Press.

CAGE was inspired by a group of friends who enjoyed spending time together and who wanted to find hobbies that would unite them. For the group, this was cooking and gaming.

“We’re just a group of friends with varied interests, and we wanted something that would bring us all together in one community,” said junior biology major Kimberly Kerns.

The group’s love of cooking and gaming, including video and board games, is apparent. In fact, CAGE’s interview took place in a kitchen while some members cooked chili and others played games on their portable devices. Everyone present was laughing and having a good time.

Gaming that takes place in the CAGE community is not serious and competitive; it is done for the pure fun of it.

“We do gaming for fun and entertainment, not for competition,” said sophomore geology major Kadie Bennis. “We don’t have three computer screens in our rooms playing different games at once.”

All of the members of CAGE agree they have bonded in this CLC. “We’ve all gotten so close” said sophomore Meredith Fierro.

“I enjoy our friendship and our strong relationships that form through our various events that we host and through living together,” Bennis said.

Members of CAGE room with one another and the rest of the CLC in suiting or adjacent rooms in Mason.

Along with living together, CAGE is required to meet at least once a month and host an open event for all students and a closed CLC event every semester. However, this CLC meets many times more than that.

“We have big gatherings all the time,” Kerns said. “Our meetings and events are usually unplanned and spontaneous.”

The students in CAGE plan to continue the CLC next year since they enjoy each other’s company while doing activities they love.

When asked how often CAGE members have an entertaining experience, sophomore psychology major Asma Noman replied, “We have one every day.”

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COAR gives back to Head Start Program NOELLE CARLSON Staff Writer

Community Outreach and Resources’ annual Head Start Gift Box Drive will be held in the Dome Room at Seacobeck Dining Hall on Friday, Nov. 14. Every year COAR teams up with the Head Start program to help the youth of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania.

Head Start works with the improvement and support of the development and school readiness of children from low-income families from birth to age 5, as well as encouraging the roles parents have as their children’s teachers to improve the parent-child relationships From 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, people can come and volunteer and wrap boxes for the drive.

This event is one out of the three main events that COAR hosts each semester.

COAR asks students, faculty and locals to fill gift boxes that will be sent out to a total of 314 girls and boys from both the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania area.

Along with Christmas music the event also provides hot chocolate for its volunteers to get people into the holiday spirit. There tends to be a large turnout for this event because it’s such a fun and easy way to give back to the community.

All people are welcome to gift-wrap but the filling of the boxes is what is important. One concern is that not enough people will want to fill a box because of the cost.

“There have been a lot of wrapping volunteers, but each year we manage filling up all the boxes”, sophomore political science major Ola Szczesna said.

Each box will contain essentials, including scarves, gloves, toys, and school supplies.

Sometimes the drive will seek for donations from places such as local dentist offices.

If people are not willing to fill an entire box with the listed items but still wish to donate individual items they can do so and drop them off at the COAR office in the basement of Seacobeck Hall.

Along with the gift box wrapping, COAR has teamed up with the Dorsey Scholars on campus. They will set up a table in which people can come and help make fleece blankets for donation. Along with the blankets they make, they also contribute to the Gift Box Drive by making some of the scarves that will go into the wrapped boxes.

“The whole organization is made up of UMW students who enjoy volunteering not out of obligation but the sheer want to help others”, sophomore environmental geology major Lauren Mosseso said.

COAR is an umbrella organization with many programs with a wide range of interests.

This Gift Box Drive is just one of the many ways the organization gives back to the community.

‘Interstellar’ gives out of this world performance ALISON THOET Editor-in-Chief

Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” is a fantastic and symbolic stretch of the imagination into space in an effort to save the human race from a starved and depleted Earth.

Fighting against the tyranny of authority, the questions of science and the virtual unknown of wider space, Cooper, played by a heart-wrenching Matthew McConaughey leaves his children to travel through wormholes and unknown planets.

The film is not only an expedition into the future of mankind, but of human nature, particularly family, kindness and the will to survive.

Cooper leaves behind his daughter Murph, short for Murphy’s Law, a scientific law that according to Cooper, means anything that can happen will happen. Mackenzie Foy has escaped the bounds of “The Twilight Saga” with her

stunning performance as the unbelievably smart daughter of a man who believes his journey is to leave his home planet.

The expedition is complete with Anne Hathaway as Dr. Brand, daughter of Professor Brand (Michael Caine), the brains of the operation to save the human species.

Two years in hyper sleep, then through the wormhole, Cooper and Brand journey to two different planets with various mishaps,

robots and even a run-in with Dr. Mann, played by Matt Damon.

The visual affects are astounding in this film, though the visceral affects felt by the audience at the phenomenal actor performances is out of this world in themselves.

McConaughey’s portrayal of a father to children that grow up quite literally on a different planet is hard to see at times.

Jessica Chastain as the older Murph forces tears from her father as payment for his non-kept promises.

Murph finally figures out the real truth of the expedition and an array of problems ensue for Cooper’s team.

For fear of spoilers, all that can be said is this film reaches another dimension with its plot, writing, cinematography and acting.

Nolan has created an astonishing film that makes viewers think simply for its vastness, and more widely for its possibility. It is a film that posits many questions, most of all: what do humans do in the face of extinction?

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Matthew McConaughey plays Cooper in the new space-thriller “Interstellar.”

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GREEK LIFE AT UMW

• GREEK LIFE | 1 with regard to all issues of student concern. Obolensky said. “In the past, there has not pressing issue regarding constitutional vi-

have Greek life at the university,” said Senate President Levine at the group’s weekly meeting on Nov. 12. “What it means is that the motion passed Executive Cabinet, that it’s been forwarded on to the administration for them to consider review.”

The original motion, proposed by student senator Raymond Santivasci on Oct. 22, was tabled for two weeks before actually being voted on.

During the first two weeks, there was heavy debate within the Senate.

“Personally, I felt the debates were fairly useless. The purpose of debate in Student Senate is to discuss the ideas and open our minds to different perspectives,” said student senator and political science major Benjamin Hermerding. “Senators were so entrenched in their opinion that they couldn’t see other opinions.”

In addition to passing the motion, the Senate also passed a motion for the University to conduct a scientific poll to study the university’s perception on Greek life. That motion passed the Senate and then unanimously passed in the Executive Cabinet.

“The SGA will work with the administration to create a neutral poll on the topic of Greek life,” said Worman. “At this time we do not have any details on the poll.”

Levine, a voting member on the Executive Cabinet, was one of the abstaining members on the Greek life motion. He stated that he chose to abstain because he is a member of one of the off-campus, but nationally recognized fraternities.

“I felt that there was a conflict of interest,” said Levine. “I have a obligation to my brothers, but I also have an obligation to represent the student body.”

Two of the yes-voting members of the Executive Cabinet, Joe Dolan and Matt MacAloon, are also members of the Kappa Sigma Rho-Chi chapter at UMW. “I would have encouraged them to abstain,” Levine said.

Worman stated that she believes the Executive Cabinet always votes in the best interest of the student body.

“They understand that they are representatives of their constituents, and I trust them to make the judgement call on if they believe that they have a personal conflict of interest in the matter,” Worman said.

Structure of Student Senate The UMW Student Senate works to represent the student body when passing motions. According to the current SGA Constitution on the Student Senate, “The Senate shall have the responsibility to legislate

It shall require a vote of fifty percent plus one of quorum of the Senate to approve any legislation before the Senate.”

Facing two weeks of tabling and debate, the motion regarding Greek life looked unlikely to pass because of stacking votes on each side within the Senate. According to Levine, the tabling continued because the debates occurring within the Senate were not reaching a resolution. In addition, the meetings were often spent on visitors, special speakers and other weekly Senate matters.

During the debate on Greek life, the Senate saw a steady increase in new senators being voted in every week, according to Levine.

“I know for a fact that those trying to pass the motion were trying to get other members to join, but so did the other side,” Levine said.

While single issue voters are usually not that productive in Senate, most of the members returned to Senate even after the initial vote on Greek life passed, said Senate Vice President Alex Obolensky.

“Every person who I talked to about joining Senate was interested before the Greek life motion came up,” Hermerding said.

Unlike the Executive Cabinet, in most circumstances the Senate does not participate in a roll call vote, meaning there is no way to see what senator voted in favor of or against motions.

According to Robert’s Rules of Order, which the Senate functions under, this is not required. While it is an option for the Senate, it is usually not necessary according to Obolensky.

“We tend to pass things unanimously whether it is in favor or against the motion,”

Every morning students on their way to class walk by an ivy-covered sign proclaiming an entrance to our campus; it reads, “Mary Washington College.”

This school may be a university now, but that sign signifies an enduring identity on the verge of being abandoned. Many students have expressed that this school is already a different place than it was for their Freshman Move-In day. Everyone from recent alumni to some observant freshmen have expressed this common feeling.

Given this widespread perception of a campus slowly spinning away from the students it is meant to serve, the University of Mary Washington Student Government Association should be extremely careful to promote a stable university community that can be recognized and desired by a majority of the students whom it is supposed to represent.

The recent movement toward establishing a nationally recognized Greek system would be the furthest erosion of the social and academic brands that have drawn students to Mary Washington for decades. Unfortunately, SGA’s democratic institutions are being manipulated to enforce the will of a vocal minority; the weakness of the representatives of the student body at the Executive Cabinet level is eviscerating SGA’s

Letter: No Greek Life, not like this ability to advocate in the best interests of the student body.

Last Wednesday, after three weeks of heated debate, Student Senate passed a motion in support of bringing Greek Life to the University of Mary Washington campus.

The motion was supported by a majority male coalition of senators, most of whom are themselves in a unrecognized Greek organization.

Additionally, a significant portion of the votes in favor were cast by senators who have limited previous experience in student government and seem to have been motivated to join Student Senate only by their own self-interest in creating a greater profile for their Greek organizations.

The vast differences between this coalition and our majority female, non-Greek affiliated university are obvious. Even more obvious is the deafness of this coalition to the will of the student body. After requesting a scientific poll of the student body’s opinion, they decided to proceed without waiting for the results of that poll or any input from the students they represent.

These actions demonstrate that this coalition knew the odds would not be in their

been a valid reason for using a roll call vote.”

Adhering to the Constitution According to Obolensky, one reason senators were able to join last minute is the “constitutional backwardness” that exists with the current SGA constitution.

Both Obolensky and Levine are working with committees within the Senate to make changes to the constitution that would update and clarify current aspects that are not being met.

“The current administration is not operating under the constitution, in fact they violated the constitution in many ways,” said Hermerding. “I think the biggest shame of all is that we have not run elections. If we had elections then the Student Senate would be more representative than it is right now.

Under the current system, special interests can push their agenda.”

On the other hand, Levine and Obolensky think the Senate is currently following the proper rules listed in the constitution, yet it needs to be updated to meet the current environment.

“We are legitimate under the constitution,” Levine said.

In order for any constitutional changes to take place, three-fourths of the Senate must approve the changes, followed by 50 percent of the student body plus one vote.

Unfortunately, according to Obolensky and Levine, the student voter turnout in most elections is too low to expect over half the student body to actively participate in a vote on constitutional changes.

“We are trying to get the constitution to work for the students,” Obolensky said.

Hermerding emphasized that the representation in Senate continues to be the most

favor if the student body were actually allowed to speak for itself.

The executive cabinet approved this motion by a vote of 3-0, with six cabinet members abstaining or absent. That is no mandate for the extreme change that recognition of Greek Life would bring to campus, and represents an abdication of the Executive Cabinet’s responsibility to head the Student Government Association.

As Student Senators, we are concerned that the Student Government Association is failing in its primary duty to advocate for the best interests of the entire student body, and is voiding its hard earned credibility by failing to stand up to the influential proGreek interest group.

I am joined by seven of my fellow Senator’s today - not necessarily because we believe an incorporation of Greek Life on campus to be fundamentally wrong, but because we are extremely concerned with the context in which it is occurring.

When the democratic institutions of student government are being abused by the flooding of Student Senate with pro-Greek members and the majority of the Executive Cabinet refused to even vote on the result-

olations. According to the Senate constitution “Each residence hall shall have at least one senator notwithstanding the number of residents in said residence hall.” Currently, the Senate does not have a representative from each residence hall according to the latest roster given to the Blue & Gray Press.

“I think more important than the constitutional changes that may or may not be taking place is the fact that the constitution that we have in place right now is not being followed,” said Hermerding.

Worman agrees that the Senate could be more representative in terms of gender and class, but student participation in Senate does not allow for that representation.

“For the past few years it has been difficult achieving representation from each residence hall as called for in the constitution, therefore Senate has been running on the basis of 50 signatures from each senator by their constituents to be voted into Senate,” Worman said.

Administration and Greek Life “I’ve been asking this question [about Greek life] for years at my lottery dinners.

It’s a student life issue,” said UMW President Rick Hurley. “The dominant opinion of students at dinner is that they came here because we didn’t have Greek life and I want to listen to what the students say.”

Hurley said he continues to reach out to students in order to hear perspectives about Greek life. This includes views for students and alumni.

“I have to respect what [alumni] say and listen to their expressions because I want to maintain their loyalty with the institution,” Hurley said. “But it is really about today’s students and those who are yet to come.”

While he is focused on student concerns, he also noted that more often than not alumni are not in favor of instituting a Greek life at UMW because, according to Hurley, they believe “it is not part of Mary Washington tradition.”

“I also get the same about starting a football team,” Hurley said. As of now, Hurley thinks that “our sports teams have substituted for Greek life.”

Hurley also noted that he has paid close attention to the effects of Greek life at colleges, noting his professional experiences at Longwood, a university that is 30 percent Greek, before working for UMW. “I’ve seen the good and the bad and the ugly. I don’t worry about the ugly side,” Hurley said.

The Senate motions now wait for further action by members of the administration. ing motion, something is very wrong.

It is time for the student body to stand up and be counted. Tell your SGA Executive Cabinet to stop sitting on the fence, and actually make the decisions they were elected to make.

Tell your UMW Student Senate to listen to the will of the student body they are supposed to represent – not their members’ narrow self-interest. Tell the administration that students of the University of Mary Washington – past, present, and future – want to live and study on a campus that they can recognize.

If they are clever enough, everyone here at the University of Mary Washington might even realize that the reason why students come here is not to live some stereotype of the modern collegiate system, but rather to engage in the unique academic atmosphere that Mary Washington now risks losing.

And for what? More parties, more privilege, and a few oversized Greek letters?

Alex Obolensky, Student Senator and Junior at the University of Mary Washington.

This letter is also signed by: Amanda Orchowsky, Calli Burkett, Benjamin Hermerding, Chris Dingus, Julia Michels, Kelli Musick, and Patrick Burnett

LIFE "I Wanna Get Better" Bleachers, Strange Desire (2014) Fronted by Fun. Guitarist Jack Antonoff, the high energy of the song gives it a summer-jam quality.

McAvoy quotes the lyric, “Now I’m standing on the overpass screaming at the cars,” that reminds her of UMW’s pedestrian bridge. The song as a whole gives her, “A weird sense of autonomy and freedom to reconcile that my life is on it’s own terms.”

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By RUTH BORDETT Staff Writer

“Chicken nuggets rule everything around me,” said English and linguistics double major, Moira McAvoy, who certainly has a way with words.

As a part of Class Council and member of the Finance Committee, McAvoy’s interests do occasionally extend beyond the child-approved food staple of chicken nuggets. Between her love for Fall Out Boy and distaste for American Authors’ “Best Day of Life,” McAvoy ignores indie street cred in favor of expressing her love for the wide variety of genres to which she finds herself drawn.

"I Can Lift a Car" Walk the Moon, Walk the Moon (2012) After recently seeing Walk the Moon in D.C. McAvoy said she had the opportunity to “Be the rebellious 15 year old I never was” "Champagne Supernova" and gain a new perspective on Oasis, this particular song. McAvoy de(What is the Story) scribes the song as having a low Morning Glory (1995) guitar that carries into drums at “There is a very specific soundtrack to college in America,” McAvoy the end. The song possesses a states, a soundtrack she believes contains heavy amounts of 90’s general sense of longing that lifts music and would be incomplete without Oasis. After many exaggerated at the end into hopefulness. renditions of the song and puns weaved into the title during her freshman year, the hit holds a lot of nostalgia for McAvoy.

"The Trapeze Swinger" Iron and Wine, Around the Well (2009) The fact that McAvoy wants this song played at her funeral stands as a testament to the manner in which this long-winded mortality-based song resonates with her.

Citing the beautiful songwriting of singer Sam Beam, who records under the name Iron and Wine, McAvoy describes the song as being “Like listening to a beautiful lyric poem…it is so weird, calming, small and human.”

"Gypsy" Fleetwood Mac, Mirage (1982) “A lot of people come to music through their parents, and both of my parents hate Fleetwood Mac,” McAvoy said. In spite of her mom’s distaste toward this classic rock staple, McAvoy considers the song to be perfect for this time of year. As a senior graduating this spring, the song’s melancholy tone speaks to the nostalgia McAvoy already feels for “…something that’s not over yet.”

Phi Beta Kappa hosts professor of neurology for Visiting Scholars Program

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Gregory Petsko is a professor of neurology and neuroscience who spoke to the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

JULIANNE KUHN nothing to lose and it wasn’t like I was go“At the moment, my area of research is Staff Writer ing to make a career out of that, it was just trying to cure Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinsomething to do for two years while I had son’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease,” Petsko said.

Last week, Gregory Petsko made a stop fun living in Europe.”

What he did not know was that it would His tone became increasingly serious as at the University of Mary Washington on become his passion.

Petsko earned his he compared neurodegenerative diseases his college campus tour with the Phi Beta Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1973 with a cento trying to make an origami bird. For the Kappa Visiting Scholars Program. tral interest in protein structures and funcproteins in human bodies to do their job, Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic tion. they must be folded up exactly right into a honor society in the country. Their Visit“I always try to counsel my students precise 3-D shape. ing Scholars Program has been around Petsko explained there are mechanisms since 1956, sending some of the nation’s that they shouldn’t panic if they don’t quite know what they want to do what they at work in every cell that recognize when best scholars to college campuses where should do then is do as many things as posproteins misfold and either refold it or get they join inot academic life for two days. sible and see what turns out.

They’ll find rid of it.

Some proteins, however, misfold Visiting scholars spend time in the classsomething,” Petsko said. in a way that these mechanisms cannot rooms, taking part in discussions, meeting Petsko spent years in academics, hidden cope with and they remain and build up and speaking with students and faculty and away doing research.

About ten years ago, over time.

In other cells in the body, like giving a public lecture on their topic of exhe came to the realization that he was not skin cells, there is constant renewal meanpertise. fulfilling his obligation to the public. ing that this misfolding does not have a During his presentation, Petsko talked “It seemed to me that we were failing as catastrophic effect.

The story is different about his experiences and how he came to a community to explain to the public that for the neurons in the brain. the field of biophysics. After graduating, he “The neurons you had as a child are the was offered a Rhodes scholarship for Ox- what we were doing was good for them,” Petsko said. neurons you have now. You don’t get any ford University to study classical literature.

He decided to become a public scientist, more once you’ve developed all your neuBefore reaching England, however, Petsko engaging with the public to let them know rons,” Petsko said. discovered that the man he was going to what the scientific community was doing When the misfolded, toxic proteins work for had passed away. After reassesswith the money they receive from donabuild up in a neuron, it could die. ing his options, he was told to go to David tions, foundations and taxes.

“That’s basically what happens with Phillip’s lab to learn molecular biophysics.

Currently, Petsko has a focus that could neurodegenerative diseases.

It’s as though “I said okay because there was nothchange the fate of millions. your origami bird has folded into a wad of ing better to do,” Petsko said. “There was

paper, but that wad of paper in the case of some neurons turned out to be toxic,” Petsko said.

Petsko’s origami bird analogy applies to the solution as well. If the bird is falling apart, the solution is to glue it. Petsko takes a similar approach to his search for neurodegenerative disease cures.

“We’re trying to make drugs that act like molecular glue to hold those proteins in their correct shape so that they don’t misfold,” Petsko said.

His team has developed a gene therapy for Lou Gehrig’s disease, also known as ALS, that will hopefully be ready to test on people in a year.

However, despite working to cure severe diseases, the most remarkable thing that he has seen in his entire life has nothing to do with science and everything to do with social change.

“I would say that the thing that has astonished me the most in my whole life has been the speed with which the gay marriage debate has shifted in favor of gay marriage,” Petsko said. “That it would eventually happen, I was sure, but I thought it would take 25 years. It’s taken 5 years.”

Before heading home to New York, Petsko gave a lecture on “The Coming Neurological Epidemic and What Science Is –and Should Be- Doing About It,” a lecture that he has also presented as a Ted Talk.

Though Petsko has spoken at many colleges around the nation he had specific advice for UMW students.

“I’ve spent two days here and attended classes and talked to students like… This is a terrific place with committed teachers and students who seem to be very bright,” Petsko said.

“And so I would say to you: “Aim High.

You have what it takes. Don’t aim too low; don’t sell yourself short. This is a good school with good students and if you’ve done well here you can do well anywhere at anything. Aim High. You’ll be glad you did.”

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NEWS Students celebrate anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall UMW joins the world in rememberance

assault There was an assault and battery in Eagle Landing on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 2:30 a.m. Prosecution was declined by the victim, but two students received administrative referrals.

SARAH GRAMMER Staff Writer

Students rejoiced at the fall of the Berlin Wall on Thursday, Nov. 6 as they celebrated the 25th anniversary of this historic event with a reenactment on the University of Mary Washington campus.

The styrofoam replica wall was placed on Ball Circle to commemorate the anniversary of the actual Berlin Wall’s fall on Nov. 9, 1989. On that historic day, members of East and West Berlin were finally able to freely cross the border for the first time since 1961. This was an important event in Germany’s history, as it allowed families and friends living on opposite sides of the wall to finally reunite.

Anneka Early, a junior German major with a minor in linguistics, is a part of UMW’s German Club. She participated in setting up and taking down the wall and also attended many of the German Club’s events held in the past few weeks that celebrated the anniversary, including a dinner in the faculty dining room later that evening. The purpose of the dinner was to “celebrate the fall of the wall,” according to Early.

The wall stood on the edge of Ball Circle to ensure that its presence would be noticed.

“We wanted it somewhere where it would be spotted easily on campus so students could get used to seeing it. Then when it was taken down it would be noticeable,” Early said.

Marcel Rotter, associate professor of German, started off the event with a speech that emphasized the importance of remembering the Berlin Wall and what its fall meant to the people living in Germany at the time. After he finished, Rotter released a group of approximately 20 students to demolish the wall. Many students witnessed the tearing down of the symbolic wall, but not all participated.

Junior German major Emily Gage found some humor in the event.

“It was funny because people just went running up to the walls and punching holes

POLICE BEAT

theft On Friday, Nov. 7 a theft was reported in Seacobeck Hall between 7:20 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. The case is pending.

vandalism On Thursday, Nov. 6, a student was reported for vandalization of Eagle Landing between 11 and 11:30 p.m.

The case is pending.

Daniel Antal/ Flickr Germans stand on the real Berlin Wall, which came down on Nov. 9, 1989 and reunited a divided Berlin.

through it,” Gage said.

Early also said she enjoyed the students’ involvement.

“Some people threw their whole bodies into the wall,” Early said.

Though there were humorous moments, neither Early nor Gage took the event lightly. Both agreed that this was an important event, not only in Germany’s history but the world’s history.

Gage noted that she was excited to be able to participate in recreating the event.

“The Berlin Wall is a huge part of German History and to replicate it on our campus was really cool to be a part of,” Gage said.

Early agreed, saying that the demolition of the Berlin Wall was instrumental in reuniting East and West Germany.

“It was a big deal then for Germany to reunite and come back into contact with the rest of the world,” Early explained.

The re-staged event was planned not only to commemorate the reunification of Germany, but as a teaching lesson for students as well.

“We were hoping to raise more awareness around campus about the wall. Students here are part of a generation that

wasn’t around to witness this part of history so we were hoping to make them understand its importance, ” Early said.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall was such a momentous event in history, Early and Gage said it was especially important UMW’s recreation was as realistic as possible.

Early described the parallel between the UMW community’s involvement with the demolition of the Berlin Wall with the actual event.

“For the most part it was realistic to how the real wall came down, it was a community event in a way,” Early said.

Gage, however, had a slightly different opinion.

“I guess it was realistic, but at the same time I feel like we weren’t able to encapsulate the actual feeling the Germans had when the wall came down because we weren’t separated from our loved ones for years and we didn’t have that feeling of freedom,” Gage said.

Universities around the U.S. hosted similar events, as well as major cities around the world. Germany celebrated the anniversary with thousands of lanterns lining the path of where the wall once stood.

On Sunday, Nov. 9, vandalism was reported in Eagle Landing at 1:15 a.m. A student was given an administrative referral.

liquor law violations On Monday, Nov. 11, an underage student was caught with possession of alcohol in Randolph Hall at 1 a.m.

The student was recieved an administrative referral.

The information was compiled with assistance from UMW Police Manager James DeLoatch and Fredericksburg Police Department Public Information Officer Natatia Bledsoe.

The Blue & Gray Press will publish the names of students who are formally charged by the University of Mary Washington Campus Police or the Fredeicksburg Police Department to have committed acts of extreme violence against members of the UMW community or pose a large threat to that community, when names are released to the public. The Blue & Gray Press will publish names and write articles about criminal acts on a case-by-case basis according to the aforementioned parameters.

Diplomat and alumna shed light on careers in the Foreign Service HANNAH BRATTON Staff Writer

To allow students an opportunity to learn about careers in the foreign service, Department of State Diplomat in Residence Terry Davidson provided an information session for interested students on Thursday, Nov. 6 in room 412 of Lee Hall.

The event was hosted by UMW’s Academic and Career Services.

Davidson has been a member of the Foreign Service for nearly 27 years as a public diplomacy officer. The session also featured UMW Alumni Catherine Romeo, a graduate of the class of 2013, who is now working for the Foreign Service. During the presentation, Romeo expounded upon her experiences in the field.

Davidson explained how he and his wife traveled as a tandem colleague couple, and about their experiences working in various countries and their upcoming assignment to Kabul, Afghanistan. Davidson explained that various skills, including language and strong interpersonal commu-

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nication can make one a better candidate for the Foreign Service.

Davidson and Romeo also distinguished between the five routes one can take in the Foreign Service, including consular, political, economic, management and public diplomacy. They showed various statistics of working within the Foreign Service, including the fact that although 75,000 people work in the U.S. Foreign Service, 45,000 of them are not U.S. citizens. They also told students about various pathways to working in the Foreign Service, including temporary and non-temporary internships.

“The Peace Corp can be a good pathway to a career in the Foreign Service as well, because the experience makes you harder and more disciplined,” Davidson said.

Davidson mentioned this in tandem with the internship opportunities.

Students had various reactions to hearing the diplomat speak.

“I came to see the diplomat speak to expand my knowledge of the topic, and I

am planning to pursue a career in the U.S. Department of State once I graduate, so this was encouraging to me,” Samuel Strader, a freshman majoring in political science, said.

Kenny Oliveira, a freshman double majoring in international affairs and economics, found Davidson and Romero’s information to be helpful.

“I came to find out more about the US Foreign Service and internships, and I think this gives me a better insight on my career plan of becoming a political/ economic analyst for a government agency,” Oliveira said.

In addition, the presentation showed students the variety of jobs the Foreign Service can offer.

“I want to work for the State Department in some capacity as a translator, and I

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came to learn more about the Foreign Service,” JC Sevart, a sophomore linguistics major said.

The event is one of the many specialized presentations put on by the Office of Academic and Career Services.

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Social media campaign brings awareness for free speech

•SOCIAL MEDIA | 1 speech matters. We as students have rights to express opinions without any form of intimidation.”

While the Tweets persisted through much on Monday, the campaign didn’t catch on as much as they might have hoped.

“This was a very isolated movement that didn’t really catch fire on social media. I had a lot of people like my Facebook status, but none of them shared or spread the word like I would imagine a truly successful social media blast would work,” said Maggie Stough, a senior English major who participated in the event.

Though the campaign was spurred by a desire for freedom of speech, the underly-

ing issue that many students saw was the need for professionalism and university guidelines in regards to students’ social media accounts.

“I want UMW to understand that social media is at its primitive stages and because it is not going away, UMW needs guidelines to figure out what their role is in social media what is acceptable behavior of their employees,” Pollard said.

Though the campaign was isolated to Monday, the students involved considered it a success.

“I think social media pushes give students a chance to really see what issues other students are facing on campus and the problems everyone should be aware of,” Stough said.

MAKE “I THINK SOCIAL MEDIA PUSHES GIVE STUDENTS A CHANCE TO REALLY SEE WHAT ISSUES OTHER STUDENTS ARE FACING ON CAMPUS.” - Maggie Stough

Advising tool reimplemented to focus on academic awareness •STARFISH | 1 that within the three months the program has resurfaced at UMW almost 400 faculty are using the system. “[Starfish] really allows us to fill in blanks and make sure we are taking care of the student,” Hale said.

Starfish was never completely utilized at UMW, though the contract continues through next school year. According to O’Donnell, Starfish, which was created in 2007 by David Raskin, a former Blackboard executive, was first introduced as a way to set up appointments between advisors and students, though this is a minor function of the program.

Starfish was reintroduced this year to focus more on advisor notes and the early-warning system for student advisement.

Much of the launching process for this year was discussed over the summer.

“There was conversation…to decide whether Starfish would be a good product to be using at UMW and the thought was, yes, it would be,” Graham said.

Levin agreed, stating, “Last spring, knowing we had two more years on the contract, I decided we’d work with Starfish to ‘relaunch’ the tool at UMW, looking to get more benefits from it.”

Hale participated in a workshop over the summer to learn the attributes of Starfish and how to use the tool to its fullest extent.

According to O’Donnell, a potential function of Starfish to be explored is the possibility of linking it with Canvas so flags may be automatically raised. This role is still being discussed and a pilot project involving interested faculty may soon be possible.

Starfish as an early alert and advising notes system was never fully utilized by UMW faculty and students though it was present before this most recent push for its usage, according to O’Donnell.

“My sense of it is that we’re two months in and we’re learning and observing how we’ve begun to interact with this tool,” O’Donnell said. “I’ve heard some folks say that they love it and some say they’re not real sure about it, and I think that’s to be expected.”

Levin highlighted the focus of Starfish as a tool to assist students in “navigating the challenges of college.”

“I think Starfish is an amazing tool, but it’s only a tool-- the real work is still done by students, faculty and staff advisors. Ideally, Starfish helps to facilitate that work,” Levin wrote.

SPORTS Men’s and women’s rugby teams win conferences, qualify for national tournaments

CHRIS MARKHAM Sports Editor

Late last spring, the women’s rugby team at the University of Mary Washington was crowned the national champion after their 36-22 win over California State Northridge in the Division II national championship game.

This year, the Eagles will have the opportunity to do it all over again after qualifying for the national tournament by virtue of their conference title earned over this past weekend.

UMW hosted the Capital Conference rugby playoffs at the Battlegrounds last weekend, inviting teams from George Washington University, George Mason University and Salisbury University to compete for the Conference championship and, ultimately, a spot in the national tournament.

The Eagles began with a match against GWU, an opponent they expected to have some difficulties competing against in the game. This expectation could not be further from the reality.

UMW dominated George Washington by a score of 111-0, advancing to the conference title game and a date with Salisbury.

“We were expecting a hard match, but by no means was it easy,” said junior Maddy Ernesto.

The title game against the Sea Gulls would prove to be a much more difficult test for the Eagles. Staying level with Salisbury for a majority of the match, the Eagles were sparked by a late game score

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Women’s Rugby keeps eyes on the prize: a second national championship

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to propel them over the top.

“It was a much more stressful match,” Ernesto said. “We had to work more as a cohesive unit.”

With the wins, the Eagles clinch a berth in the national tournament, looking to defend the championship they won in the spring.

The men’s rugby team will also join the women in the national tournament. The Eagles won the NSCRO tournament title hosted at the University of Richmond, defeating Duke University 35-27, earning them a berth in the national tournament as well.

Tim Brown The men’s rugby team won the NSCRO title this past weekend, defeating Duke in the championship.

The women went undefeated during the has changed and become more complicatregular season as well, going 3-0 and fin- ed, forcing players to play more than one ishing first in the South Division. position.”

Even more impressive is the fact that Both rugby teams are two of the largest the Eagles outscored their opponents 172- and most successful groups at UMW, mak36 in those games, proving to be the most ing the clubs some of the most sought after dominant team in their division. UMW was groups at the school. only outdone in the Despite the point-differential large numbers, “The level of play in rugby the teams emphacolumn by rival Salisbury, who has changed and become size that they are were +242 in that always looking more complicated forcing for new members. department.

The women do players to play more than one “We made it as not begin their far as we did last position.” tournament play year because of until late April. All the new people games played by we added in the -Maddy Ernesto them between now spring,” Ernesto and the playoffs said. hold little meanThe team did ing, as the results of their matches have no not experience a huge loss of senior leadimplication on their playoff seeding. ership, graduating only seven members.

The men’s on the other hand will play in However, this year the team consists of the Round of 32 on Nov. 23 against Neu- 16 seniors, providing an ample amount of mann University. A win then will put the leadership and motivation while also bring men into the next round of the tournament, the need for replacement players to attenwhich is to be played in late April. tion.

The teams will be working on fundamen“We are always looking for new playtals between now and then and working to ers,” Ernesto said. prevent injuries that could potentially deWinning a national championship is no rail they title hunt. easy feat, defending one even more so.

“We are focusing on working in more The Eagles will look to accomplish both of spread line, making us more cohesive,” of these tasks to add onto their already imErnesto said. “The level of play in rugby pressive resumes.

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