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Intellectual property policy revised

By Madlin Mekelburg

Intellectual property refers to a wide range of ideas and research products, including discoveries, inventions, writings and software produced by University employees and students. In certain situations, the UT System Board of Regents or a specific University owns intellectual property

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The existing UT System Intellectual Property Policy will be revised to clarify language discussing ownership of student ideas and creations following legislation passed in the Senate of College Councils.

created by its employees under conditions outlined in the UT System Intellectual Property Policy.

Meagan Abel, academic policy committee co-chair and author of the legislation, said there are no clearly stated guidelines in the policy for addressing cases involving students.

“The focus of the legislation was this idea that when students come up with an idea that is profitable and patentable, how can they go through the motions of having that done?” Abel said.

“We would like the policy to have clear language that references students.”

Currently, the policy

states its guidelines apply to System and University employees, and “anyone using the facilities or resources of the UT System or any UT System institution, including, but not limited to, students enrolled at a UT System institution.” The body

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Elisabeth Dillon / Daily Texan Staff After junior quarterback David Ash sustained a concussion against BYU, he returned two weeks later against Kansas State. But for a second straight game, he left early with concussion-like symptoms. Texas announced he was finished for the year on Nov. 25.

later, the Texas medical staff declared him finished for the season on Nov. 25.

The last few years have seen momentum in concussion awareness, ranging from high-profile documentaries such as “League

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of Denial” to rule changes implemented by the NFL and FBS that have attempted to curtail concussions.

Ash’s injury is far from the only example in sports of

The way Texas, NCAA rules treat football’s invisible injury

in for the first conference game against Kansas State just two weeks after the original injury.

He didn’t make it past halftime and hasn’t played a snap since. More than two months and seven games

Students, faculty split opinion on ‘dead days’

Students will have Monday and Tuesday of this coming week completely free of classes to prepare for finals, affectionately called “dead days.” But the University once dedicated a whole week for this endeavor, doing away with it in 1963, following a faculty vote on the topic.

In a Daily Texan article published Oct. 24, 1963, students expressed their frustrations on the change to the schedule of finals.

“I think it’s crummy,” senior Bob Hopson said. “The only time I ever study for finals is during dead week. This will probably make me fail.”

The majority of the students joined Hopson in their distaste for the change. But the decision was based solely upon faculty opinion, and most faculty members were in favor of the “abolition” of dead week.

Some students, though, supported the shortening of dead week to three days.

“Dead week was not effective, and I agree with the three-day reading period,” senior Ronald Edward Sheppard said. “The teachers didn’t really live up to [dead week].”

The main issue raised against dead week was the lack of actual studying done.

Junior Susan McGinness refuted this claim.

“I think a lot of the playing done during dead week is

Part two of a two-part series about head injuries in football and their effects

20 years of concussion experience. “It happens and no one can see a change in the physical appearance of the person.”

After sitting out a blowout loss to the Rebels, Texas brought him back

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CONCUSSIONS

Editor’s Note: This series explores personal and institutional responses to concussions, which have become an increasingly integral point of discussion surrounding football. Part one told the story of former UT running back Tre’ Newton, who stepped away from the game.

When junior quarterback David Ash took a hit in the fourth quarter against BYU on Sept. 7, no one thought anything of it. It wasn’t a vicious hit or one that rang his bell.

The training staff was unsure of the exact nature of the injury; the official injury report following the next week’s game against Ole Miss phrased his injury as head/right shoulder. “[A concussion is] an invisible injury,” said Kenneth Locker, a prominent athletic trainer in North Texas with

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Red River to close for hospital construction

Texas to meet Texas State in first round

By Amanda Voeller @amandaevoeller

Portions of Red River Street will close between March and October next year for street realignment, which will allow Seton Healthcare Family to build a teaching hospital on an enlarged tract of land, meant to accompany the future Dell Medical Center.

Because the University needs more room than it currently has for the medical district — which is projected to be more than 1 million square feet with the addition of the teaching hospital — the city agreed in August to reroute Red River

Street, city spokesman Clark Patterson said.

The curved portion of Red River Street near 15th Street will be vacated by the city in exchange for University land east of the street, Patterson said. This will extend Red River Street to East 15th Street.

At a UT System Board of Regents meeting in May, architecture professor Lawrence Speck said the realignment would allow for a more practical building structure. “[Red River Street] creates strangely shaped parcels of land, where the grid [that used to be in place] made for

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By Matt Warden @TheMattWarden

Last week, the Longhorns achieved their first perfect conference record in school history.

But that doesn’t matter now. The path to a second-straight National Championship begins with Texas State.

Texas (23-2, 16-0 Big 12) will be the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Women’s Volleyball Championship and host Sun Belt Conference Champion Texas State (24-12, 11-7 Sun Belt) in the opening round of action. Texas State may not have faced the same level of competition,

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Senior outside hitter Bailey Webster has been an offensive force for No. 1 Texas all season TOURNEY page 3 long, finishing second on the team behind Haley Eckerman with 308 kills.

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A student preps for finals in the Bill and Melinda Gates Complex on Wednesday night.

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CORRECTION Because of an editing error, a story about women in medicine that ran on the Dec. 3 issue of The Daily Texan mislabeled the subject in a photo caption.

The woman in the photo is pediatric neurosurgeon Patricia Aronin.

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much more sensible parcels,” Speck said.

The road extension, utilities, landscaping and other preparations are projected to cost $16.5 million, according to Dell Medical School preliminary documents.

The medical school, scheduled to begin construction in April 2014, will be built on land that is currently Centennial Park, University Operations spokeswoman

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which will in turn sublease to Seton, said Florence Mayne, executive director of real estate for the UT System. Because the land is zoned for various uses, including multi-family, general commercial services and general office uses, the UT System is requesting that the city change the zoning to public. “[The University] just came in and said, rather than have all this various zoning, which also gives you various development standards, we’ll just change it all to [Category P],”

Paterson said. “We’ll be under one big umbrella.”

Weldon said the University is working to ensure construction will not affect Waller Creek, which runs through Centennial Park.

“The university plans to improve Waller Creek … sure up banks, manage health of vegetation and water,” Weldon said.

“We see Waller Creek as a natural amenity, an asset to continuing the pedestrian experience we already have on campus.”

Students would sometimes recognize they did not take full advantage of dead week, but that did not convince them it needed to be shortened.

“I know I sometimes don’t use it to the fullest extent, but I do use it,” junior William Gross said. “I study more than one or two days out of the week.”

At the same time, other students realized that dead week was, more or less, ineffective.

“Dead week didn’t accomplish too much,” senior David Ross said.

Attitudes similar to Ross’s are what prompted the faculty to abolish the week in favor of only a few days

devoted to preparation.

The loss of studying time created many complaints, and several students voiced concern over the extended length of the semester.

“I don’t like the idea of abolition of dead week because, at least that way, students don’t worry about having to prepare for class,” engineering senior Ralph Knebel said.

This change to dead week came amid another schedule change in the spring semester schedule — the loss of a week of spring vacation — which only added to the frustration felt among students.

“One or two days is a poor substitute, especially since they take away spring

vacation, which to me is the only break in the spring,” Ross said.

Regardless of the fact that students have fewer days to prepare for finals than what was proposed in the voted change initiated in 1963, many students today still see this short interval between classes and finals as a personal vacation.

“I only have a few finals, so dead days are days for me to relax,” chemistry junior Ted Deng said.

Despite 40 years passing since the abolition of dead week, not much has changed with regard to students’ approaches to the days before finals.

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these things.”

Juan Sanchez, the University’s vice president for research, said he met with members of the UT System and Daniel Sharphorn, UT System Interim vice chancellor and general counsel, on Oct. 11 to discuss the possibility of addressing student intellectual property in existing policies.

“As far as I know, the University of Texas at Austin has never ever claimed IP that we believe belongs to a student,” Sanchez said.

“It’s just that the policy is not clear about it, and it creates confusion unnecessarily. I think that aligning the wording of the policy with practice and what we think is the right thing is good policy.”

According to Sanchez, Jim Phillips, a UT System attorney, said the System is planning to address concerns raised in the legislation. “[Phillips] told me

they’re working on either modifying the IP Policy, which will probably need to go to the Board of Regents, or issuing a clarification that we, the campuses and the students, can use,” Sanchez said. “It is in their hands. I think there is general agreement as to which way we should go, and that’s all I know at this point.”

Sanchez said he thinks by clarifying the regulations regarding student intellectual property the University will potentially influence policies at other schools as well.

“I think it is extremely important to pursue this issue because I believe that most universities in the U.S. are overreaching when they claim the intellectual property of students who are not employees of the University,” Sanchez said. “I think that we will be making significant progress for the entire community if we are very, very clear and explicit about that.”

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done at night after a hard day of studying,” McGinness said.

But most faculty members disagreed with McGinness on this premise.

“Students haven’t taken advantage of dead week, so it won’t make any difference,” marketing administration associate professor Robert M. Taylor said.

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Because the medical school’s construction will take away parking from the Erwin Center, there will be a parking lot in the medical campus area to make up for this, Weldon said.

The University is leasing the land to Central Health, a governmental entity that maintains health care facilities in Central Texas,

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continues from page 1 of the policy addresses the procedures in place regarding intellectual property generated by employees, but does not include language overtly addressing the property of students.

The Senate submitted the legislation to the System after it was passed in November. Abel said she hopes a change in the wording of the policy will encourage students to pursue research and the development of their ideas.

“With seeing how much students are creating software and apps, we just felt that there’s a larger amount of students in a capacity to create things that are in this gray zone of ‘is it copyrighted’ or ‘is it patented, and if it’s patented what’s the policy’, all of that,” Abel said. “We feel that the climate isn’t moving in such a way that students would feel inclined to create some of

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Several projects to increase fire safety in campus buildings will be completed throughout the spring and summer semesters.

The projects will update fire alarm systems in the Graduate School of Business Building, the McCombs School of Business, the Moffett Molecular Biology Building and the Flammable Storage Building.

“We chose to [update] the current systems in [the GSB, CBA, MMB, and FSB] because those buildings had fairly new fire safety equipment,” said Andy Adkins, project manager with Project Management and Construction Services. “It’s just a matter of updating to meet the current code.”

The first installation of the new alarm systems will be in the Moffett Molecular Biology Building and are scheduled to be completed in January.

Another project will complete the installation of a new fire sprinkler system in Sid Richardson Hall next summer.

“That building was not originally sprinkled [when it was built] in the 1970s,” Adkins said. “[Fire sprinklers and alarms] dramatically increase life safety. It is a quick response for any fire incident.”

Adkins said some people have misconceptions about how fire sprinklers work.

He said it is not like movie scenes where all of the sprinklers go off at once.

“The sprinkler heads have what is called a ‘fusible link,’” he said. “165 degrees sets off the head and when that happens the building will go into alarm.”

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In this May 11, 1982, file photo, J.D. Salinger, author of “Catcher in the Rye,” meets up with actress Elaine Joyce to see her performance in “6 Rms Riv Vu,” at the Alhambra Dinner Theater

Unpublished Salinger stories in Ransom Center leaked online

By Anthony Green @AnthonyGrreen

Three previously unpublished short stories by author J.D. Salinger surfaced on the Internet Thanksgiving day after an unauthorized duplication of the works were uploaded to file-sharing sites including Imgur and MediaFire.

Someone — who has not yet been identified — duplicated Salinger’s short stories “Birthday Boy” and “Paula,” which were accessed from the Harry Ransom Center’s reading room, and “The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,” which resides at Princeton University.

The mysterious uploader violated copyright laws, as well as the wishes of the now-deceased author when bounding the duplicated works together and selling them on eBay. Links to file-sharing websites hosting the three unauthorized works appeared on numerous threads on Reddit, a social content gathering site. The files have since been removed.

Salinger, the notoriously reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” had wished the short stories remain unpublished up until 2060.

Stephen Enniss, director of the Ransom Center, said it is important not to confuse privacy with copyright.

“While we go to great lengths to protect the privacy of living figures, it is difficult to know the wishes of the dead,” Enniss said. “As a research institution, it is important that we be attentive as well to the needs of students and scholars engaged in academic study and in the production of new scholarship.”

Manuscripts of both “Birthday Boy” and “Paula,” remain available in the Ransom Center both to view and copy for research purposes.

“Our research libraries are filled with unpublished materials that remain in copyright, and researchers visit our reading rooms daily to consult primary source materials that are not yet available in print,” Enniss said.

Law professor Oren Bracha said the center did not violate any laws regarding intellectual

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The Bobcats outhit their opponents by a combined 211 kills in 36 games on the season. Their defense seemed to be the attribute that kept the team in every game as they surrendered only 706 errors as opposed to 824 combined errors from their opponents.

Texas State’s leading offensive force, senior outside hitter Amari Deardorff, recorded 430 total kills on the season and posted a 3.23 kill per set average, which would have been good enough for the third-best average on the Longhorns. Her .302 kill percentage was higher than Haley Eckerman, junior outside hitter and Big 12 Player

property because there was no outright encouragement to duplicate the works.

“If you go to a public library and there’s a photocopier on the premises, and you photocopy a whole book, the library, specifically under the Copyright Act, is not liable for that,” Bracha said. “Now if they encourage people to make copies and help them specifically to engage in infringing activities, that’s something else. But just by virtue of not monitoring people who use their equipment on the site to make copies, even infringing copies, that doesn’t make the library liable.”

Enniss said the Ransom Center has a responsibility to inform researchers of the copyright status of collections of authors’ work.

“The Ransom Center’s responsibility is to inform researchers of the copyright status of works in the collection — as we do through our policies and through the database we maintain of writers, artists and their copyright holders — and to make sure we have assurances that any copies are being supplied for research only,” Enniss said. “We have done so.”

Melody Valadez, physics junior and author of young adult suspense novel, “Those Who Trespass,” said unpublished works being available for research purposes are helpful to other writers.

“As another writer, you can go and see their entire process and how much work they’ve put into it before the final product that you [see],” Valadez said. “And that’s helpful.”

Valadez said she can fathom Salinger’s hesitation toward allowing the public to view his earlier work.

“I can understand not wanting anyone to ever see early drafts because they’re usually pretty terrible,” Valadez said. “I think authors are usually scared of being judged by their drafts when they’re very aware of the problems they already have.”

Valadez said she believes the manuscripts help the reader better understand the author.

“To me, it’s the same as being able to read letters of famous authors or famous

mathematicians or famous historians because you get to look at the things going on around why they did what they did,” Valadez said. “You get a broader perspective on the final product.”

English professor Janine Barchas said she believes material an author may deem private has the potential to expand public knowledge about the author’s history, comparing the Salinger manuscripts to the hundreds of Jane Austen letters burned by her sister Cassandra.

“Thanks to Cassandra’s censorship, we will never know what Jane wrote that was so ‘scandalous’ that it deserved the flame,” Barchas said. “Times and opinions change. Together, scholars and caretakers should always try to take the long view. Content that may seem “inappropriate” or “too private” today may prove benign — or even central — with a little time.”

Enniss said he was unaware of the Ransom Center dealing with similar incidents of copyright infringement in the past, but said the center follows standard professional practices of similar research libraries around the country.

“As the center’s materials use policy expresses it, the aim of these policies is to balance the needs of patrons, the exclusive right of the copyright holder and the center’s own rights and responsibilities toward its collections,” Enniss said.

Bracha said copyright infringement is a little more complicated in the case of companies such as Imgur or MediaFire.

“The moment they either get a notice from the copyright owner or otherwise acquire specific knowledge that there’s some infringing activity going on and that they facilitated it, they have to do something about it or at which point they do risk legal liability,” Bracha said.

Enniss said the copyright infringement occurring in the Salinger case is currently a matter between the Salinger Estate and the individual responsible for uploading the unauthorized duplications to file-sharing sites.

of the Year, and fellow Big 12 First-Teamer senior outside hitter Bailey Webster.

If the Longhorns are able to get past the Bobcats, they will meet the winner of Texas A&M and UTSA, both of whom boast formidable records.

Texas A&M (18-11, 10-8 SEC) finished the season with a .253 attack percentage compared to just .205 for its opponents. Despite a shaky record, the Aggies’ possess a potent offensive attack, registering 14.3 kills per set while committing 75 fewer total errors than their opponents in 104 sets played.

The Road Runners of UTSA (24-7, 13-1 Conference USA) ran through their conference this season in a similar fashion that Texas ran the Big 12. UTSA used an offensive attack that surrendered 224 less errors than

its opponents while boasting a defense that held opponents to just a .159 combined hitting percentage on the season.

UTSA’s coach, Laura Neugebauer-Groff, boasts strong UT connections: Neugebauer-Groff captained the Longhorns to four Southwest Conference Championships from 19821985 and was named an AllAmerican all four times.

All three teams could potentially give the Longhorns a run for its money, but the team’s goal is to take the tournament one game at a time and the Bobcats are the first road block to a title.

“It’s the best Texas State squad they have ever had,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “We aren’t looking ahead. Our focus is Texas State and Texas State only.”

The Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center commemorated the last night of Hanukkah on Wednesday as members lit the last candle on a nine-foot menorah on the West Mall.

Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is a Jewish holiday celebrating the rededication of the Holy Temple and victory over oppressive SyrianGreeks in 165 B.C. The holiday is celebrated over eight nights.

Cari Cohen, Chabad’s executive board events chair, lit the Shamash, which is the leading candle in the center of the eight candles in the Menorah. After the candlelighting, the center hosted a party, though Cohen said focusing celebrations on the last night of the holiday is not typical.

“Since Thanksgiving and Hanukkah ran together this year, we’re celebrating tonight,” Cohen said. “We’re

going to be eating traditional Hanukkah food, like latkes and jelly donuts, and playing dreidel.”

Chabad’s Rabbi Zev Johnson said for him, Hanukkah is about positivity and the unification of Jews from all around the world.

“We are different types of people from all over the world, different backgrounds coming together in diversity, into one setting, we all have different personalities and different ways of expressing ourselves and our Judaism,” Johnson said. “But we come together and illuminate the darkness.”

Johnson also said he knows finals week creates stress for students, and said the message of Hanukkah — light prevailing over darkness — helps students de-stress and relax.

“Thanksgiving was amazing, but it was just one day. We come back to UT and there are finals and other darkness we have to deal with,” Johnson said.

“Hanukkah expresses light and hope.”

Johnson also said Hanukkah celebrations emphasize the importance of relying on one another to make a brighter world.

“We look for balance in our lives, we can move forward with strength, hand in hand together to illuminate this world through good things for ourselves and the environment around us,” he said.

Government junior Madison Lustig said she agreed with Johnson and said she was looking forward to relaxing with friends at the Hanukkah party.

“It’s a relaxing time to celebrate the last night of Hanukkah, it’s beautiful to even be able to light the candles on campus,” Lustig said. “Since Hanukkah and Thanksgiving were both celebrated together, [I] didn’t get that much of an opportunity to celebrate Hanukkah — it was so rushed. So that’s what this party is really about for me.”

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Chabad’s Rabbi Zev Johnson places the first of eight lit candles on a large-scaled menorah at the West Mall on Wednesday.

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University must confront claims of racial bias

On Nov. 14, Bev Kearney, former University of Texas women’s track coach, filed a wrongful termination suit against the University on the charge of gender and race discrimination — the latest twist in a news story that’s been hanging over UT Athletics since January.

With the lawsuit pending and much evidence left to be aired, the results of Kearney’s legal effort are still up in the air.

But the story behind it — and the implications about race, gender and student-staff relationships within it — has been getting far less attention from students than it deserves.

During Kearney’s 21 years at the University, she was lauded for her mentor-

Kearney and Applewhite — both coaches — had sex with students.

Kearney, an African-American female, lost her job and is currently unemployed. Applewhite, a white male, suffered a temporary pay cut and is currently a co-offensive coordinator of the football team.

ship of student athletes and involvement in the community, and held the honor of being UT’s first black head coach in any sport. She accepted awards for her performance on national television and was frequently invited to speaking events by UT administrators.

Granted, some questions have been raised about Kearney’s coaching techniques: An October article in Texas Monthly contained stories from former students who felt abused and neglected under Kearney’s coaching.

But it was a consensual affair with one of her former student-athletes that the University is claiming as its reason for Kearney’s termination, an affair Kearney failed to report until asked about it 10 years later.

According to University Policy 3-3050, a consensual relationship between “employees with direct teaching, supervisory, advisory or evaluative responsibility over other employees, students and/or student employees” may exist, though the University disapproves of one happening and the teacher or supervisor has an obligation to report the relationship’s existence.

In other words, the University allows for consensual relationships between employees and students. And yet, in an email to CNN.com, Patti Ohlendorf, head of the University’s legal affairs department, said: “In Intercollegiate Athletics and the

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coaching profession, it is unprofessional and unacceptable for a head coach to carry on an intimate relationship with a studentathlete that he or she is coaching,” indicating that Kearney’s termination resulted not from her failure to report her affair, but rather from having the affair at all.

But Kearney has not been the only member of the University athletic department to have sexual relations with a student. Soon after the University initially attacked Kearney, Major Applewhite, then an offensive coordinator for the football team, made public a “one-time” fling with a student trainer in 2009. At the time of his confession, he was an assistant football coach. While the University forced Kearney to resign, they punished Applewhite with a temporary pay freeze and then gave him a promotion and raise the following year.

In other words, Kearney and Applewhite — both coaches — had sex with students.

Kearney, an African-American female, lost her job and is currently unemployed.

Applewhite, a white male, suffered a temporary pay cut and is currently a co-offensive coordinator of the football team. And, when asked about the difference between the treatment of both by Texas Monthly, Ohlendorf responded by saying only, “We see [Applewhite’s case] as different … He’s not a head coach.”

From the outside looking in, the difference between an assistant and head coach seems not as monumental as the differences between Kearney and her colleagues in race, gender and background.

If Kearney was fired solely because of her actions, then the University needs to explain in greater detail how her case differs from Applewhite’s. In a case where racial and gender discrimination are alleged, the University has no right to be tightlipped in its comments and ambiguous in its policies.

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HORNS DOWN: TIME TO SHINE A LIGHT ON JUSTICES’ FINANCES

No such thing as a free grant

By Travis Knoll

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January, the month of the scholarship application deadline bonanza, is fast approaching. Fulbright applicants hear back in January on whether their applications are sent abroad. Applications for university research fellowships, such as the Foreign Language and Area Studies program, along with various other study abroad grants, are also due in January. Scholarships can open doors for students’ dream travel or research topic, or, more pragmatically, stem the tide of the substantial student debt they may be taking on. However, students should always be cautious when considering these offers. Some scholarships are purely merit based, but some have additional “service” requirements.

For example, I recently received a university email advertising an information session for the Boren Fellowship, which offers up to $30,000 to graduate students thinking of conducting research abroad.

The fellowship’s stated goal is to help students improve in languages the U.S. government considers critical to U.S. interests abroad, and the publicity materials specifically highlight national security as a common career path for recipients.

That load of cash sounds pretty good, especially when college debt is on the rise and funding and cheap loans are on the decline.

Forbes reports that a student’s average college debt reached $27,000 — primarily because of the rising cost of living. Federal grants have fallen from $52 billion to $47 billion since 2010, and federal loans, cheaper than their private counterparts, fell from $112 billion to $101 billion in the same time period.

There’s a catch to Boren though: The participant is obligated to serve in a federal position for a time equal to the grant period.

Fellows can post resumes to the Boren site but are not guaranteed a federal job by the program. If fellows fail to get employment on

Scholarships like Boren and programs like PSLF and LRAP are useful for those who know what they want to do. Nevertheless, can’t these programs, which prescribe where and when you work, create the feeling of a modern “indentured servant”?

their own after two years and after “exhausting all opportunities to fulfill the requirement to the federal government,” they must fulfill their service agreement “in an education position.”

The Boren Fellowship is part of a larger trend of scholarships and financial assistance programs that require students to commit to certain careers.

The Public Service Loan Forgiveness plan (PSLF), for example, allows recipients to pay down loans by working for eligible public service organizations. The recipient must also stay on a prescribed payment plan to get their loans forgiven in 10 years.

The UT School of Law has a special variant on this program, the Loan Repayment Assistance Program. This program combines the PSLF with another federal loan plan that reduces payment amounts based on income and is intended to encourage law graduates to work in public interest legal areas such as civil rights, immigration or disability.

Scholarships like Boren and programs like PSLF and LRAP are useful for those who know what they want to do. Nevertheless, can’t these programs, which prescribe where and when you work, create the feeling of a modern “indentured student”? Isn’t the University about exposing students to knowledge, and letting them freely explore the doors their degrees open? Shouldn’t we allow students free choice in seeking jobs?

Moreover, such a quid pro quo as described above could risk creating a mercenary mentality. Attaching strings to plentiful funding may get bright students in need of money to apply, but it may not attract workers who are truly enthusiastic about the job in the long run.

To be fair, plenty of programs give money without strings attached. UT is part of the Language Flagship Program, which allows qualified students language immersion opportunities in Arabic, Hindi or Urdu. The program is funded by the National Security Education Program, the same department that funds Boren, but does not require service. The Fulbright Scholarship, funded by the State Department, allows students to teach English abroad and conduct research with no strings attached. The Department of Education sponsors the Foreign Language and Area Studies scholarship but only requires that you take an eligible language and a course related to an eligible region of the world — Portugese and Latin America, for example. Some graduate students receive university fellowships from private endowments that cover their tuition and some living expenses in exchange for maintaining a 3.0 GPA. Students have to pay off their loans somehow. Programs such as the Public Service Loan Forgiveness and Boren can allow them to serve their community and pursue their interests without drowning in debt or having to work in the corporate world. That said, students should always investigate the strings and ideological assumptions behind funding.

Knoll is a first-year master’s student in Latin American studies from Dallas.

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Texas is consistently ranked in the bottom 10 states for mental health spending per capita, but now we can add another low ranking to our list of honors: according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Public Integrity, Texas ranks 32nd among the states and the District of Columbia for judicial disclosure rules. The rankings were based on whether state Supreme Court judges were required to disclose their investment holdings, household incomes, gifts and several other holdings and on whether those disclosures were then made available to the public. Sure, you may not care if the chief justice of the Supreme Court’s wife holds $1 in Google stock or $1 million — but it’s not hard to see that those holdings would become a problem if he were asked to judge a case involving the company. Unless, of course, you can’t see his holdings to begin with.

You may not care if the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court’s wife holds $1 in Google stock or $1 million — but it’s not hard to see that those holdings would become a problem if he were asked to judge a case involving the company.

HORNS UP: FAKE RESTAURANT BLOWS IN-N-OUT OUT OF WATER Next time you’re in the mood for the “cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast,” consider stopping at the new Big Kahuna Burger on Airport Boulevard. OK, it’s not a real restaurant, it’s just the facade of a fictional one — made famous in the opening scenes of Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film “Pulp Fiction” — over the normal front of the Stallion Grill. After Texas Monthly reported the change, Robert Rodriguez confirmed on Twitter that he is using the fake restaurant to film his upcoming TV series “From Dusk Till Dawn.” We’re way more excited about this than the new In-N-Out Burger, so please excuse us while we change into cheap suits and hang out in front of Big Kahuna talking about foot massages, TV pilots and the metric system.

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HORNS DOWN: PRINCIPAL TRIES TO BAN SPANISH IN HER SCHOOL Last month, a middle school principal in Hempstead tried to ban the use of Spanish in her school’s classrooms. According to KHOU, a news station in Houston, principal Amy Lacey handed down the order over the intercom Nov. 12. Lacey has since been placed on administrative leave and a letter sent home Monday assured parents that neither the district nor the school, 50 percent of whose students are Hispanic, had “any policy prohibiting the speaking of Spanish.” That should have resolved the matter, but students say that confusion still lingers.

Considering the students were just using the language to communicate with one another, we can’t help but think this was merely a discriminatory move on the principal’s part. We hope the school districts and administrators at the middle school settle this sooner rather than later.

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By Paepin Goff and Robert Starr In a 1971 study, experimenters asked a subject to rate paintings alongside a confederate who pretended to be part of the study. During a break, the confederate would leave and come back with two sodas, offering one to the subject as a no-stringsattached gift. If the subject offered reimbursement, the confederate would refuse it.

Unfortunately, there are no free lunches, and strings are always attached. Later on in the experiment, the confederate asked the subject if he’d be willing to buy raffle tickets for a fundraiser his old high school was doing. Perhaps it is not surprising that the gifted sodas resulted in subjects buying more raffle tickets than they would have otherwise. After all, the average subject wanted to reciprocate the gift.

It was unexpected that the subject ended up spending more on the tickets than the cost of the soda, attempting to “out-gift” the confederate.

In addition, researchers found that the degree to which the subject liked the confederate as a person was not as big of an impact as the social obligation to reciprocate the gifting.

The current idea is that the power of reciprocity is deeply ingrained in our brains. There’s an inherent sense of balance in

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our minds and it makes us uncomfortable to experience imbalance. Eventually, it does seem that we get over it — had the confederate tried selling the raffle tickets a week later, research suggests that the effect would disappear. But in the moment, we want to make right and don’t like feeling indebted to others, even strangers.

Oddly, this phenomenon extends beyond the personal sphere. In a study from 1986, subjects witnessed two exchanges: one fair and one unfair. They were offered the choice of either giving $5 to the person who initiated the fair exchange or $6 to the person who initiated the unfair one. The catch? However

much the subject gave away, he also got to keep. In other words, he could receive an extra dollar if he rewarded the cheater.

Did they do it?

Overwhelmingly, no. The majority of the subjects, 74 percent, accepted a $1 dollar penalty in order to do the right thing. There’s nothing personal at stake — the cheater didn’t cheat the subject, just a stranger — but there is something innate about fairness that makes us want to reward it.

This is why, unless we resort to trickery, like donating anonymously or inventing Santa Claus, there seems to be no such thing as an altruistic gift. This isn’t because people always expect

reciprocation for the gifts they give — it’s because we have a difficult time accepting gifts without providing something in return.

We also don’t tend to like people who won’t give us the opportunity to reciprocate. When given a loan with no expectation of return, subjects actually rated the one providing the loan less positively than if there was an included obligation to return the funds. Things get even stranger when you look at the results across three countries with very different economic and social perspectives — capitalist U.S., socialist Sweden and Japan, where obligation is heavily associated with assistance —

as one study did in 1973.

The findings naturally make things more complicated than the simple “give a gift get a gift” model. In the U.S. and Japan, when the loaner not only demanded the borrowed money back, but charged interest, the subject liked him less, but in Sweden, the subject actually liked them more.

In other words, while gift giving may be a human universal, as is the concept of fairness, the effects may vary wildly from culture to culture.

But research shows that even here in the U.S., while a gift may be a nice gesture, it comes with some uncomfortable baggage. As we head

Multimedia This week on Science Scene learn about Reciprocity and Consistency in gift giving Check out our video at dailytexanonline.com home for the holidays and unwrap packages filled with new socks rather than the Xbox One we really wanted, it’s probably best to try and hide the disappointment behind an equally unwanted gift offered in return.

After all, it’s the thought that counts, especially if that thought involves including a gift receipt.

Producer testifies O’Neal stole painting in UT lawsuit LOS ANGELES — A reality television producer told a jury on Wednesday that he believes Ryan O’Neal stole an Andy Warhol portrait of Farrah Fawcett done in 1980.

Witness Craig Nevius said he formed his opinion based on conversations with Fawcett and seeing the disputed Warhol portrait in the actress’ home in the final years of her life.

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“I believe he stole it,” Nevius testified about O’Neal. “I believe she owned it.”

O’Neal’s attorney attacked the credibility of Nevius, noting the producer had been removed from a leadership position on a documentary about Fawcett’s battle with cancer and had been involved in several lawsuits against O’Neal.

O’Neal says he had permission from the trustee of Fawcett’s estate to remove the artwork and contends

it was a gift from Warhol for facilitating the portrait session with the “Charlie’s Angels” star.

“The painting is mine,” O’Neal previously told jurors.

Nevius acknowledged that he never heard Fawcett say she owed both portraits, which she hung in her condominium in the final years of her life.

He also said he was unaware that O’Neal had been granted permission to take

the artwork when Nevius began lobbying the University to pursue a criminal case against the actor.

The University displays its version of the portrait in its Blanton Museum of Art and wants the second piece to display by its side.

O’Neal’s lawyer Marty Singer questioned Nevius about his campaign against the actor, which included an attempt to get the California attorney general and Internal Revenue Service to classify

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the Warhol painting held by the actor to be part of Fawcett’s estate. Both efforts were unsuccessful, Singer said.

O’Neal has sued Nevius for defamation in a separate case that is pending.

Nevius testified that he believes O’Neal and others close to Fawcett conspired to remove him from a documentary project that NBC aired on her fight with cancer. Fawcett died in June 2009.

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The University claims in its lawsuit that Fawcett left the painting to the school as part of a donation, but O’Neal took it from Fawcett’s condominium days after her death in 2009.

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The cerebrospinal fluid protects the brain from light trauma. With concussions, the impacts are more severe and not absorbed by the cushion.

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The helmet is lined with a custom fit cellular air pad system — typically made of foam — to try to reduce the impact of hits on the brain.

Helmets were originally created to reduce the number of skull fractures, intercranial bleeding and oral and eye injuries — not concussions.

Helmets warn users with a sign on the back that reads: “Contact in football may result in concussion/brain injury, which no helmet can prevent.”

New and specialized mouthguards were more effective in reducing concussions than generic and specialized helmets.

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But hits on the field aren’t the only issue; the recovery process presents problems, too. Ash didn’t just suit up and play Sept. 21 against Kansas State — he prepared all week. He watched video, studied plays and even went to class, all creating added stress on his brain.

“Because the brain is starved for energy, you don’t want to overtax it from an energy demand point,” Collins said. “One way to do this is working out and the other is school. Going to school and studying lengthens the time to recover from a concussion.”

Ash’s situation has brought the concussion prevention and management debate to the forefront in Austin. But doctors maintain concussion prevention more complicated than adding a few rules.

Locker said one of the biggest illusions centered around the concussion issue is the idea of the helmet being a safety regulation for concussions.

“The helmet cannot stop shaking the inside of the brain,” Locker said. “It’s a misnomer. Helmets are designed for skull fractures, not concussions.”

Locker said studies between old and new helmets find that better equipment doesn’t make a difference as long as it fits.

“It just has to feel good and fit,” Locker said. “If it comes off, the athlete is more vulnerable.”

Despite the advanced technology, the chance of injury is still there.

“It’s like an air bag in a car,” Locker said. “You can still die with the better technology.”

In fact, Locker believes that all the helmets do is encourage poor habits.

“No one tackles like they did in the ’70s,” Locker said. “They don’t tackle anymore. They just hit. If you take face masks off, they won’t hit anymore.”

That’s the biggest problem with concussion prevention — there is no way to stop the shaking of the brain. There’s no helmet for the brain; that’s the head’s job.

“You can’t stop the brain from shaking inside the skull,” Locker said. “If you can stop that, then you can prevent 97 percent of concussions.”

According to Collins, management is the key to aiding concussion recovery and preventing them from happening, and that starts with players and coaches.

“As someone who has been doing this for a long time, the biggest challenge I see is educating coaches on the basics,” Collins said. “What are the signs and symptoms? What decisions need to be made and how do I make those decisions?

Once they are educated, they can really help the situation.”

Texas followed the NCAA Recommended Best Practices for a Concussion Management Plan for Ash’s injury, a set of guidelines for all NCAA institutions. With no clear NCAA protocol, this is more Texas’ process than the NCAA’s plan.

It requires that student-athletes, coaches and other pertinent

Percent of athletes with concussions

career-threatening concussions: The NCAA estimates somewhere between 1.6 million and 3.8 million incidents occur in collegiate sports each year. Despite NCAA effort to develop a comprehensive protocol, concussion rates held steady between 2.2 to 3.8 percent from 2004-12, according to the NCAA injury surveillance program. The story of concussions and football are not just about the athletes who play the game, but the way institutions and governing agencies deal with them.

The NCAA mandates four steps in its handbook on how to deal with concussions. The process is outlined in a way to leave the bulk of the plans up to the discretion of each university.

For example, the handbook states that players are allowed to return to play after receiving permission from “a health care professional with experience in evaluation for concussion.”

The ability to return to play doesn’t require passing a standardized, nationally accepted test. It’s left to the discretion of the professionals on the sideline, most of whom are employed by the University. Ambiguity surrounds this injury, which is inherently difficult to diagnose on the sideline.

Concussions aren’t just head injuries — they are injuries to the brain, which the NCAA handbook defines as “a brain injury that may be caused by a blow to the head, face, neck or elsewhere on the body with an ‘impulsive’ force transmitted to the head.”

But Locker phrases it differently, calling them the most dangerous injuries in sports today.

“Concussions are from the shaking of the brain,” Locker said. “Not just head injuries.”

Repeated trauma before a full recovery worsens the issue, increasing the likelihood of long-term problems.

“If they sustain head trauma or concussions in their late teens and early 20s, the window for repetitive injury is lengthened,” Robert Glatter, an emergency medicine physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, told HealthDay in July 2012. “The long-term complications of repetitive head trauma can have lasting effects on younger athletes into their adult years.”

Long-term effects include brain swelling, sleeping problems, migraines, permanent brain damage and even death.

So when teams rush players back to the field from concussions early, it bothers concussion experts such as Michael Collins, who has served as a concussion consultant for the National Federations of High Schools and MLB, USA Rugby and the Pittsburgh Steelers. Collins recognizes a concussion as an energy crisis in the brain, which could lead to further potential effects.

“What we’ve learned is that during this energy crisis in the brain, don’t get hit in the head again,” Collins said. “There are a lot of potential effects of a concussion and it takes time to recover.”

Source: ncaa.org team personnel are educated annually on concussions.

Per Texas protocol, if a student-athlete sustains a mild head injury or exhibits signs of a concussion, he is immediately put through sideline screening by the athletic trainer. If he or she feels there is a positive finding for a concussion, Texas withholds the student-athlete from play for the rest of the day.

While much of the management up to this point has been monitoring behaviors and observing the athlete, the first measurable test has been created — the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT test, which was co-founded by Collins.

“The reason we developed ImPACT was because there was never a way of measuring the injury,” Collins said. “The ‘how many fingers am I holding up’ and smelling salts were used not too long ago.”

The system does more than determine whether or not an athlete has a concussion — ImPACT helps further concussion research.

“We realized, how you can ever study, research or manage something without a way to measure it?” Collins said. “Then we decided to develop it on a computer so it would be repeatable and can measure reaction time and can be widely used.”

Before the first practice at Texas in baseball, basketball, diving, football, pole vaulting, soccer and softball, the medical staff issues a baseline test through ImPACT. A concussed student is considered “cured” when his original performance on the exam matches his post-concussion test.

But all of this testing can sometimes fail. When athletes come back too soon, it can cause long-term issues.

“If there’s anybody in the world with the best medical advice, it’s the University of Texas,” Locker said. “I’m not disclaiming that. It’s an inexact science. You just don’t know. Just because you had one and got well doesn’t mean you’re not going to get another one.”

Evolution of the Riddell helmet 1930 Cobbled leather football helmet with rubber padding and a leather strap introduced.

1939 First plastic helmet introduced.

1940s U.S. government uses in World War II.

1949 First chin strap added after legalization of plastic helmet in 1949.

1951 First plastic bar guard added for the Cleveland Brown’s Otto Graham to protect his jaw — Paul Brown used the profits from this idea to create the Cincinnatti Bengals.

1957 Breakthrough face masks with the bar tabular, one again made for Graham.

1973 Riddell Ramrod Youth Helmet was the first tested interior ever with protective inside.

1963 Aerocells, or air inflation, added for a snug fit.

1981 First air cushion engineered helmet.

2002 Riddell Revolution invented to reduce risk of concussion.

First major innovation to football helmets in 25 years.

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From Beyonce’s Super Bowl extravaganza in January to last week’s debut of the “Bound 2” video, The Daily Texan Life & Arts staff fondly recounts some of the best pop culture moments, movies and music of the year.

Miley Cyrus at the VMAs Miley’s twerking incident, broadcast to millions at the Video Music Awards, is easily one of the most popular and strangely controversial moments in 2013.

“Me and Robin Thicke the whole time said, ‘we’re about to make history,’” the 21 year-old pop star said in an MTV clip. And Cyrus certainly did make history. Miley’s performance of “We Can’t Stop” was forever immortalized in almost every media platform, inspiring parodies and halloween costumes everywhere.

Kanye West Kanye West has once again managed to surprise and entertain with his annual antics, with this year perhaps being the most entertaining yet. The birth of his and Kim Kardashian’s baby girl, aptly named North West, along with the premiere of a new album, Yeezus,

Miley Cyrus Associated Press

and the subsequent hit music video to his song “Bound 2” all make for yet another year of the rapper’s wild success.

—Lauren L’Amie Kanye West — Yeezus Rather than build on the grandeur of his last album, West ruled 2013 with his harshest, most minimalistic and challenging record to date. Yeezus is an outburst of anger, a twisted representation of West’s inner psyche, and a complex masterpiece that stands amongst the best work the controversial superstar has ever made. 2013 belonged to Yeezus.

Waxahatchee — Cerulean Salt By mixing elements of pop-punk with influences like Liz Phair or early Cat Power, Katie Crutchfield has been putting out some

of the most emotionally resonant music of 2013. For a 22-year-old, these tales of heartbreak, frustration, and uncertainty serve as a pitch-perfect soundtrack.

—David Sackllah Vampire Weekend — Modern Vampires Of The City The NYC band’s third album is also their best.

Yet again combining undeniable pop hooks with intellectual themes, Modern Vampires of the City tackles love, life and religion in ways that no other band could do. It’s a pleasure to listen to, and fits perfectly with the college student psyche.

Lorde — Pure Heroine Perhaps the most important debut album from this year comes from Lorde.

Pure Heroine is a notable introduction from the promising new artist, and her musicality and themes will only develop more as she matures. It’s a concise representation of her melancholic style and will keep filling radio waves for a long time to come.

—Kris Ohlendorf The National — Trouble Will Find Me We screamed with Matt Berninger on 2005’s Alligator, we took long and pensive drives to 2010’s High Violet and now we are both crying and dancing along to this year’s Trouble Will Find Me. Arguably The National’s best release to date, Trouble Will Find Me is a perfect addition to the band’s already spectacular discography.

—Hannah Smothers

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Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton Associated Press

MOMENTS Beyonce — Queen Bey had quite the year in 2013. She reunited Destiny’s Child at the Super Bowl, debuted her self-directed documentary on HBO, chopped her locks off into a sweet pixie cut — and who can forget that time her hair got caught in a fan?

Too bad we are still waiting for a new album.

“Orange is the New Black” Admit it, we all went into a Netflix coma at some point this year to bingewatch “Orange is the New Black.” Now it’s time to go forth and prepare the microwave popcorn and candy in anticipation of season two.

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Selfie Like it or not, the word “selfie” is Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, beating out other winners like “twerk” and “bitcoin.” These words and more were added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online, though “double denim” still has my vote for word of the year.

—Elizabeth Williams Alice Munro winning the Nobel Prize for Literature Munro, often referred to as the master of the American short story, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature this year.

The Canadian author is the 13th woman to win the prize. At 82, and after 14 published works, the award is well-deserved to a woman regarded for her brief, but deeply affecting tales.

—Sarah-Grace Sweeney

FILMS

“Short Term 12” — Brie Larson’s natural, warm performance as Grace, a supervisor in a halfway home for at-risk kids, is only the beginning of what’s great about “Short Term 12.” The film plays out with genuine emotion, bringing viewers into the lives of the kids Grace oversees and effortlessly breaking the audience’s hearts with something as simple as a character detail clicking into place. This film didn’t make much of a splash upon release, but it’s a quiet classic, simply waiting to be discovered.

“The Spectacular Now” Teen romances are a wellworn genre, but “The Spectacular Now” is a surprise stunner, telling the story of borderline-alcoholic Sutter (Miles Teller) and good girl Aimee (Shailene Woodley). Teller and Woodley are both incredible in the film, and their chemistry gives way to an authentic, charming romance that perfectly captures the soaring highs and shattering lows of not only teen romance, but of growing up.

“Stories We Tell” “Stories We Tell” marks director Sarah Polley’s first excursion into documentary, and she still manages to make the genre distinctly hers, in line with her artistic pursuits and in keeping with her personal, observant style.

The film is equal parts memoir and mystery. Polley tells the story of her journey to find out who her real father is

after her mother’s infidelities are revealed and never strays from playing in the messy emotional territory inherent to the subject matter.

—Alex Williams “Gravity” A stellar movie about surviving catastrophe in space, Alfonso Cuaron’s epic is a visual masterpiece that uses 3-D so well it makes you believe that you are braving the elements of space. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney were praised for their excellent performances as astronauts struggling to get back to earth. While watching the film without 3-D or IMAX may lack a visual punch, the movie still deserves credit for a great plot and fantastic cinematography.

“Man of Steel” Zack Snyder’s reimagining of Superman takes on a darker tone and

delves into the psychology of one of the greatest superheroes ever created. A powerful movie that plays up intense action, the original story of Superman is given the similar face-lift that Batman received under Christopher Nolan, focusing on the angsty psychology of the protagonist. The result is a true blockbuster spectacle that shouldn’t disappoint fans of the comic.

“August: Osage County” A depressing but great film about women facing a family tragedy, “August: Osage County” boasts outstanding performances from Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts. Director John Wells tells a bitter story about the escalation of family feuds and the somber fact that not all relationships, even between blood, can end well.

—Alex Pelham

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