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By eli okun

Senior Staff Writer

A sma grup Iy Lagu stu-dents convened this weekend atthe Hope Club or an intimateconerence that brought togetherpp a prspts t -gage in a meaningul dialogueabout the Israeli-Palestinian con-t.

he Student Leadership Col-loquium, which included threeor our students rom each IvyLeague school, was organizedand unded by the Avi SchaeerFund. Following Avi Schaeers 13

death in February 2010, his amilyratd th ud t prmt thideals Schaeer worked towardduring his lie, particularly the

goal o starting dialogue aboutthe conlict and striving or itspau rsut. h da rthe colloquium originated romconversations Schaeers amily

and riends had about how best

t tu hs rts.At th quum ths wk-

end, those initial planners joinedorces with students, whose viewswere challenged through a serieso workshops, lectures, organizeddiscussions and spontaneous con-

versations all within a realatmsphr rspt, traand understanding, said aliaXs 5, th Brw stu-dt partpats.

Xeos, who is hal-Saudi andsad sh grw up harg mst-ly the Palestinian narrative othgs, ard abut th -

quium through JUDS 0650: His-try Zsm ad th Brth the State o Israel, a class she took

ast smstr. Euragd by thwelcoming atmosphere the Schae-

er amily brought to the collo-quium, she said she opened up

Schaefer 13 conference offers perspective on Middle East

Cortesy o the Av Schaeer Fnd

Students gathered at an event this weekend hosted by the Avi Schaeer Fund.

By katherine lonG

Senior Staff Writer

ur a yur phs, rwell rescind your admission, an-ud Admss Or MattPrice to the roughly 250 represen-tatives o the class o 2016 whoassembled Monday or the Early

Decision Admitted Students Day.Despite the chuckles, nearly everystudent in Sayles Hall reached orhs r hr pkt.

Better sae than sorry, saidBen Silverman 16 a little sheep-shy.

Almost twice as many studentsattended this years event or earlydecision applicants as last yearsinaugural event. Representativesrom the Oce o Admission andthe Bruin Club said the increasewas due to better planning andmr rsght.

Last year, it was kind o thrown

together at the last minute, said

Rebekah Stein, a Bruin Club exec-utive board member. Invitations toast yars md-Marh t wrst a w wks br th ttk pa.

Ts yar, w st ut ta-tions in (accepted students) ad-missions packets, Price said. Wealso used Facebook to publicize

By natalie Villacorta

Senior editor

University aculty and students trav-

eled to Vancouver, British Columbia

last weekend or the American As-sociation or the Advancement oSciences Annual Meeting. Assistant

Proessor o Environmental Studiesand Biology Heather Leslie partici-pated in a symposium on marineconservation and management andProessor o Biology Ken Miller 70spoke about the intersection o reli-g ad s duat. EmyHartman 12 presented her research

on pollen grain germination at thestudt pstr sss Saturday.

Its a ray u ad trds-pary mtg ad grat r stu-dents to attend, Leslie said, adding

that t yar th mtg w b Bst.

Ls spk abut drawg dierent knowledge bases romanthropology to economics to geog-

raphy to better understand howhumans are connected to marinesystms.

Te ocus o the symposium wasrecognizing that people are part oocean systems, Leslie said, drawing

on examples rom Narragansett Bay.

(Ts) s qut a bg sh trms th s ad as trms hw w us th s t rmpy ad maagmt.

In his talk, Miller suggestedstrategies or teaching students whohave reservations regarding the in-tersection o aith and science. Tiss a mprtat tp, s abut75 percent o college students saythy b Gd, h sad. Eryyear, he has a couple o studentsask him i they have to believe in

U. scientists present at natl conference

By aParaajit Sriram

Senior Staff Writer

Pre-med students enrolled in theUniversitys Program in LiberalMda Eduat ar t arad obligations. Tey have committed toa proession at the resh-aced age o r yars d, smthg mststudents are unwilling to do. Teyhave committed to a place a school

and a city where they will studyr ght smtms grug yars.Ad thy ha mmttd t a hgh strss, th urga adphysiological eects o which theyw pr rsthad, tp radg abut thm ttbks.

What sts PLME studts apartis their commitment to a eld so early

, sad Php Gruppus, assatda r mda duat.

When their undergraduate class-

mates leave campus aer convoca-

t, PLME studts wh tuon to the Warren Alpert MedicalSchool make the hal-mile trek downCollege Hill to the newly transormed

Md Sh budg th JwryDstrt. Fr thm, ar-g was never shrouded in ambiguity.Convocation is their commence-mt.

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Te workload medical studentstake on is without parallel in the un-dergraduate years, and this disparityis especially clear during the rst year,

Gruppuso said. From day one, thediculty o the subjects and the pace tstg s strkg.

Md sh s rgazd dr-ently rom undergrad, with a nal(exam) every three to our weeksstad at th d a smstr ...Its more o a marathon than a sprint.

From PLME to Med School: Moving off the Hill

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PLMEs commt to Brown or eght years beore they even arrve as rst years.

By aDam tooBin

Senior Staff Writer

Oren Lyons, aithkeeper o the On-ondaga urtle Clan and an inducteeto the National Lacrosse Hall oFame, addressed a crowded Perryand Marty Grano Center or theCreative Arts Friday and detailedthe history and culture o guh jeegawah hai known colloquially

as lacrosse. Te renowned NativeAmerican leader spoke prior toSaturdays lacrosse game betweenth ms arsty arss tam adthe U19 Iroquois National eam,which the Bears won 11-7 at Meister-

Kaa Fd. T Irqus Nat-as rprsts th s ats thIroquois League and are the onlyremaining Native American sporting

team sanctioned to play in ocialtrata mptt.

Lys dsussd a wd rag topics, including the history o la-crosse and global warming. Perhapsa testament to the physical prowesso lacrosse players, Lyons now inhs 0s dd t sw dw r ammt hs tw-hur tur.

Tough the lecture sometimesbecame somber usually overrefections on the historic trials oNative Americans Lyons kept

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the audience engrossed with storiesrom his childhood and his lacrossearr. I adt, h td his experience playing goalie againsta man whose shot was so hard ithad kd tw prus gas a problem unique to an era whenplayers took the eld without hel-mts. Luky, Lys sad wh thshot came his way, it only broke two

hs rbs.Lyons spoke about how lacrosse

games in his community transcendth physa, bmg mr tha

just a sport. Te games are tradition-

ally played or someone or some-thing in particular to honor orhp thm, h sad.

We can play it or the nation,r w a pay t r th wrd. Wcan play it or the bualos, or wea pay r th brds, Lys sad.

T sph usd arssand the Iroquois Nationals but alsotouched on a number o social is-

sues. Lyons highlighted a traditionalwtr Irqus gam ad SwSnake to make a point about thechanging climate. Tis winter is therst in his memory where it has notsnowed enough to allow or a game Sw Sak, h sad.

Environmental issues seemedto be at the core o Lyons politi-cal consciousness. In addition tothe warnings about climate change,he criticized the historical attacks

on the native fora and auna oNorth America by European set-tlers. When settlers struck out West,there were over 70 million bualos,

Lys sad. But that umbr tas w as 36 at pt, h addd.

Despite the occasional realityhk, Lys dss t anecdotes about lacrosse and theIroquois Nationals kept the moodlight and the crowd laughing. Hesad h was upst h had rgttto bring his wooden stick, whichwould have been a better demon-strat what ra arss s k

than the tupperware todays play-rs us.

Lyons also talked about NativeAmra trbuts t Amr-can history. He mentioned thatNative Americans ought on bothsides o the Revolutionary War anddisplayed a fag originally commis-sd by Grg Washgt thatthe Iroquois Nationals took as itsocial fag when it rst enteredtrata mptt.

Te game between Brown andthe Iroquois Nationals the ollow-ing aernoon was a competitivebattle. Tough Brown controlled themajrty th gam, th Irqusam ut th gat strg, jump-ing out to a 2-0 lead early. BrownHead Coach Lars iany 90 saidth Irqus tam dsrs a t credit or how it played. In additionto not being able to practice as oenas the Brown team can, most o theIroquois players are two to threeyears younger than their opponents Brws tam, ay sad.

Only players 19 years old andyounger can play on the U19 Iro-quois national team. Te ocial Iro-quois National team has successully

competed on the international levelsince 1987 the team currentlyholds the ourth position in inter-ata arss rakgs, bhdonly Canada, the U.S. and Australia.

But as a team that does not haveth u rghts a srg atbhd thm, th Irqus Nat-als aces distinct disadvantages thatthr tams d t. Ar th /attacks, ocials at the EuropeanU ddd t stp rgzgIroquois passports, and the teamwas unable to attend the 2010 World

Lacrosse Championship in England.

Lacrosse legend discusses sports history

You have to have endurance, saidGrace Chow 11, a PLME studentnow in her irst year o medical

sh.Niguiar Ahmedli 11, another

PLME studt hr rst yar, hasound the transition demanding butt mpssb.

I udrgrad, I ddt study -eryday. A ew days beore an examwas plenty o time to prepare, exceptor maybe biochemistry, she said.In medical school, the quantity omaterial is so great that it will beoverwhelming i postponed to theast mut.

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Ts yar, rst-yar studts dd

bttr tha mst prus rst-yarasss, ardg t a prrmaaayss th a smstr.

Ery rst-yar studt mad tto the second semester. Exam scoresaragd th hgh 0s. A passggrade in medical school is 70, andthese exams have something like 125qusts thm, Gruppus sad.Tey are more mentally preparedad ss tak abak by th mag-tud th wrkad.

PLME ad stadard md shadmits alike are coming better armedto tackle tough challenges. Tis maybe because more o them are studying

subjects like biology or biochemistry

as undergraduates, Gruppuso said.

But according to Chow, a humanbiology concentrator who tookmostly bio classes as an undergrad,medicine-related material studied atth udrgraduat a y g

s ar asg th trast.I dont think I could have pre-

pared more or medical school with-ut bg mda sh, Chwsaid. I wish I took more non-bioasss ad ray tk adatag th bra aspt PLME.

Studts as w ha ass tth w Md Sh, whh s ryp ad ght-d ad prds acalming atmosphere, Ahmedli said.

Te Med School which re-located last all rom the BioMedCenter, Smith-Buonnano Hall anda piecemeal abric o other build-ings and classrooms to a transormed

jewelry actory was designed withstudts md.

I think it is acilitating bettertrats btw studts, sadIsha Parulkar, a rst-year medicalstudent who received her undergrad-uate degree rom Columbia. Every-bodys there all the time. People kindo just end up staying there rathertha dsprsg.

Ahmedli said she knew what shesgd up r prr t matruatgto the Med School. My older PLMEriends prepared me or what was tom, Ahmd sad.

Forming relationships with oldermed students is one o the benets

PLME provides, and this idea o

mtrshp tus thrugh stu-dt aadms at th Md Sh.Academies are sel-contained unitsin which students rom all our yearscome together, along with advisers

ad a drtr, s that thy a haa mr prsa mmuty wthth Md Sh.

Students talking to one another is

probably the most important supportsystm. Just takg t ah thrabout how to study is so important,sad Gruppus.

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PLME students at the Med Schoolstay in Providence or eight yearsuntil they graduate with medical de-grees. For some students, that seemsk a traby g tm place, and some PLME students take

a prd tm btw udr-graduat ad mda sh.

Eight years is a long time, butgoing into PLME, you know this,Ahmeldi said. I think the two our-year time periods are so dierent thatit doesnt eel like a continuous eightyars.

And or some, more time in Prov-d mas mr tm t gagwth th ty. Wth th Md Shlocated down the hill, the programmay help acilitate this engagement.

I udrgrad, yur ray abubb Cg H, Chw sad.Since the Med School is in a dierent

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Campus ews 3the Brown Daily eraldednesday, February 22, 2012

By Sarah mancone

artS & Culture editor

he University will undraise $50million over the next ive yearsas part a w tat t -pand the Brown Institute or Brain

S. A arg prt thsunds will be used to pay or seven

new positions in the institute,said John Donoghue PhD 79 P09

P12, director o the institute andprssr urs.

Originally started as a pro-gram in brain sciences 12 yearsag, th tat bam a u-dgd sttut thr yars ag,Donoghue said. he collaboration

unites aculty and undergraduatesrom 10 dierent departmentsat th Ursty, udg u-roscience, biology, computerscience, physics and cognitive,gust ad psyhga s-ences. he institute providesUndergraduate eaching andResearch Awards, supports gradu-

ate students, unds aculty pilotprojects and sponsors talks andsmars a wth th ram bra s.

Brown has a very large andvery distinguished aculty study-g th bra, Dghu sad.

Donoghue recently broughtrward a pa t pad th -stitute by hiring aculty in spe-cialized areas, said Provost MarkShss P5.

he University then brought inoutside reviewers with knowledge

o neuroscience to advise Schlissel

ad Prsdt Ruth Smms th ds t urthr st the institute, which Schlissel saidwent spectacularly. he review-ers told him and Simmons thatBrown is as good as anybodyin brain science, Schlissel said,and that it is an important area orsarh whh th Ursty

shud st.his investment will mainly

und the creation o seven newtenure-track positions in theinstitute, Donoghue said. heinstitute is already in the pro-cess o searching or a molecularneuroscientist and a computa-tional neuroscientist to add toth auty, sad Barry Crs,prssr urs.

Hrg a w auty mmbrs trmy ps, Crssaid, adding that it requires ne-gotiating laboratory space, re-sources, equipment, technicians,graduate students and oten post-dtra studts.

Where people used to get$100,000, now they get $1 mil-, Dghu sad udgstartups or aculty-run labora-trs.

All 10 departments involved in

the institute will meet as a groupto discuss how these positions aregoing to be illed, Donoghue said.

he increase in aculty willbeneit the institute as well as

the Department o Neuroscienceby adding substantially to thediversity and quality o neurosci- ampus, Crs sad.hr w b mr prssrs tteach interesting undergraduatecourses, as well as more opportu-nities or undergraduate researchin brain science, Schlissel added.

o ind qualiied candidates,the institute has advertised inproessional journals, Schlisselsaid. Members o the Brown com-muty a as appy thy arnot already aculty members since

aculty already have the ability to

work with the institute, he said. .With a constrained budget and

a commitment to not divertingunds rom other University proj-ects, the institutes expansion islargely being unded by individualdonors who support brain science

tats, Shss sad.A modest amount o money

has b rasd arady, h sad.he Corporation, the Universityshighest governing body, ormallyaccepted $3 million donated tound a computational neurosci-ence proessorship at its Febru-ary meeting, as well as another

$1 million to support researchin neuroscience, according to aFb. Ursty prss ras.

I addt, a gt $.5 m-lion was recently given to undwrk urdgrat ds-ass, whh w tuay adto the establishment o a centeror synaptic and neurodegenera-t dsass, Dghu sad

Other sources o unding in-clude external ederal grants andcorporation and oundation part-rshps, Dghu sad.

hs tat prds a stprward th sttuts pa-sion. Members o the institute

are beginning to think aboutthe creation o a new building,which will be highly interdisci-plinary and represent the lavor Brw, Dghu s ad.

As it expands, the institutew tu ts apprah -usg rsarh udamtaunderstanding o brain unction,mata bra hath addevelopment o neurotechnology.

here are important levelso scientiic understanding wewould like to achieve, Schlisselsad.

Donoghue added that he wants

to incorporate into the instituteresearch on smart technology the elements o human thoughtthat are currently outside the abil-

ities o computers such as makinggrazats ad ts ra stuats.

here is something we can dothat computers cant, Donoghuesaid. he uture will be very ex-tg.

Fundraising to expandbrain science faculty

evolution in order to get an A inhs ass, h td a grup aumsSaturday ght at a Brw Cub

Vaur t.Miller himsel is Catholic and

explained how he has reconciled hisreligious belies with the concept oevolution. I properly presented,s d t b mprmsdor so-pedaled to accommodatereligious concerns, he wrote in thedsrpt hs AAAS tur.

Hartman presented her researchon pollen grain germination and

the resulting elongation o pollentubes aer pollen lands on a fower.Te research has potential applica-ts r bus, sh sad.

Te student poster session was

a ray grat way t tak abut myrsarh ad gt usd t spakgabout it with people who arent nec-essarily rom a plant biology back-ground, Hartman added. Morethan 150 students participated inthe session, a majority o whomwere rom the University o BritishColumbia or schools on the WestCoast. Hartman was able to attendthrough a research ellowship rom

the American Chemical Society,the academic portion o which shespent attending the AAAS meetingbaus sh watd t ar mrabout how to communicate science,

sh sad.Barry Connors, proessor and

chair o the Department o Neu-rs, Da Lpsmb, pr-ssr urs ad DadRand, proessor o biology, werenamed AAAS ellows this past No-vember or their contributions toscience but were unable to attendthe awards ceremony Saturday duet prr mmtmts.

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the event and scheduled it on aholiday, so most o the studentsha th day rm sh.

Te University admitted 556early decision applicants to theclass o 2016, meaning that nearlyhal o the admitted early appli-cants attended Mondays event.Tose present were overwhelm-gy rm Nw Egad ad thmid-Atlantic region, though closeto a dozen hailed rom the WestCoast or Midwest. Roughly ve

students traveled rom oreignutrs, ardg t t r-gazrs.

he best part o the day which included a tour o the cam-

pus, lunch in the Sharpe Reectoryand a discussion with a panel ocurrent University students washearing rom a aculty advisingpanel, said Peter Enriquez 16 oPughkps, N.Y.

Calling Proessor o Geologi-a Ss Ja us ray -sprata, h addd, Its a ttcliched, but she ended her speech

saying, Be bold. I thought thatwas the best advice o the day. Op-portunities arent going to makethmss. Yu ha t b bd,ad sk thm ut.

While at Brown, Enriquezhopes to expand on a nonprot hebga wh hgh sh adYoung Musicians Healing Haiti,whh rass my supprt a music school in Haitis capital,Prt-au-Pr.

While members o the BruinClub and Admission Oce calledthe event A Lunch on College

Hill, or ALOCH, among them-ss, thy ha pas t turth Eary Ds Admttd Stu-dts Day t a A Day O C-g H-typ t, St sad.

Its going to continue to be alunch, at least or a while, she said.

Early decision students romprevious years have voiced theirdisappointment that they were notinvited to ADOCH, Te Heraldrprtd ast Marh.

But Obi Onwuamaegbu 15,wh attdd ast yars ary d-cision admitted students day, said

the event answered my questionsad aswrd thm hst y.

I was pretty skeptical, becauseId never been to campus beorebg aptd ED, h sad. G-

ing to the admitted students daywas a hug r. T t tdme about a lot o things that I waslooking orward to doing and reas-

sured me that Id made the righth.

St, h sad, h am tschool and heard about ADOCH,I was pretty bummed that I wasnttd.

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Campus ews 5the Brown Daily eraldednesday, February 22, 2012

Fraternity of Evil | Eshan Mtra, Brendan Halne and Hector Ramrez

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to other participants and oundunexpected common ground,connecting in particular with a

Mdd Eastr Jwsh ma stu-dt rm Cr.

One o the most prooundthings or me was I made riends,to be honest with you, Xeos said.Ad that s just t smthg Iwould have ever imagined hap-pg.

Schaeer, who served in theIsraeli army or three years beorestarting at Brown in 2009, hada signiicant impact on campusdiscussions o the Israeli-Pales-tinian conlict during his time atthe University, sparking riend-ships and dialogue with Jonah

Fisher 12, Rahel Dette 13 andSami Jarbawi 12, his Arabicteaching assistant, among oth-rs, Fshr sad. w yars atr,those three riends served as prin-

cipal organizers and acilitatorso the colloquium that Schaeerand Dette had irst dreamed o,Fshr addd.

I was smwhat a stat shk r a t th wkd to see that coming to ruition,Fisher said. Its hard to know how

to memorialize a riend or a am-y mmbr. hs quumeels like it was a part or an exten-sion o the conversations I had

wth A.When the idea or the collo-

quium irst arose, all the plan-ners had to guide them was theirimagination. hey were inspiredby the example the Schaeer am-ily put orth o moving orwardrm thr gr prduty.

At the services or Avi, thisphrase, Seek peace and pursuet, kpt bg spk, sad U-versity Chaplain Janet CooperNs.

Ater Schaeers death, his am-

ily met with President Ruth Sim-ms, wh th sprad th da

o the colloquium to other IvyLeague presidents, Fisher said.Cooper Nelson also communi-atd wth hr hapa prs atuniversities last year to encourageth da.

Led by Schaeers brother Yoav,a tam 5 pad tsyor the weekend over the past yearand a hal, and Cooper Nelsonhelped search or a location. heHope Club was eventually chosenr ts mtur mrt, pra-taty ad rmaty.

he application process orBrown students looking to jointhe colloquium included an essayand an interview, though eachuniversitys process diered. Coo-

per Nelson said in uture yearsshe hopes to tweak the process sm sma ways.

O thg that w wud ddrty was w ddt rat awatg st, sh sad, whh b-am a prbm wh a studtdelegate rom Yale dropped outat th ast mut.

h studts wh am wrmostly Muslim and Jewish withvaried backgrounds, and theirinteractions were pivotal to thecolloquiums success, Fisher said.

he real work o the weekend,

in my opinion, was the encountero the students, he said, espe-cially given that many studentslead groups with opposing mis-sions on their campuses. hough

much o the weekend was intensead mta, th studts asmade time or un, Fisher said,makg us a gam rm adhag a ram party.

hat atmosphere was en-hanced by the amilial natureo the conerence, with Schae-rs parts tmaty dthroughout the weekend, CooperNelson said. She cited in particu-lar the speciicity o their care in

choosing ice cream sundae top-pings and turning down somebds thmss.

h rgy ths amy,

their sorrow, to work on this proj-t, I thk, t a us brath-ss, Ns sad.

As the students maneuveredthrough packed schedules, theconcept o narrative in under-standing others and expressingthemselves was a recurrentthm. Adam Watrs 5, ath-r Brw rprstat, sad hlearned, rather than continue toescalate the conversation, to step ad t try t shw th prsthat you understand what theyresayg.

It sms prtty tut adkind o obvious, but I think its

something that doesnt really hap-p a t th Isra-Past-a dsurs, Watrs addd.

Nizar Farsakh, a leadershipconsultant and ormer teachingw at th Kdy Sh Government, led a session orthe students on re-raming andre-understanding narratives thatFisher called one o the weekendsmost powerul moments. Wettms rsrt t spakg pattuds, Fshr sad. H sadh ard th sss wh ts mr mprtat t ask, Whare you, what have your experi-

ences been and how have theyb?

Xs sad partpats adit the interrogation session,because Farsakh asked studentsprbg qusts t r thmto re-evaluate the way they com-municate. Xeos added that thetechniques and skills she learnedwill be useul in how she ap-prahs t just th Isra-Pa-estinian conlict but any argu-mt sh utrs.

Farsakh sad ths das hapwru appats th rawrd.

Its basa y abut th art sprg at, s hw d yuget people to do an activity andthats dierent rom convincingpp that smthg s mpr-tant, he said. Its basically thatyou need to tell a narrative andnot just give a strategy or just un-d a patrm.

Ater absorbing so many ideasand stories, the individual uni-rsty dgats d Saturday night to discuss waysto bring what they had learnedbak t ampus. Watrs sad thcolloquium gave him renewedmomentum to approach the issue.

I had already kind o become

a little disillusioned in terms owhat ud b d (at Brw),he said. It was really nice andinspiring and rereshing to see thy wr st wg t wrk

with each other and they were stillwg t tak t ah thr, adnot a single person raised their th tr wkd.

Xs sad th grup hps tmeet with Simmons to discuss u-ture action on campus, and some thr das ud ratg autra spa t aatd wthanything, where people can cometogether to openly discuss and tryt udrstad athr, kthat at th Hp Cub.

Waters said such changes weremprat r th ampus m-munity, where he said the conver-

sation has become so polarizedthat many students choose not togt d thy ha mdr-at ws.

I think that would do a tre-mendous amount or inspiringpeople to be come re-interested ths ssu, h sad.

Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, aacilitator, trainer and consul-tant in conlict resolution wholed a session at the colloquium,sad sh mphaszd th d tmove past polarization by teach-ing students speciic communica-tion skills. For many o them,that really struck home when they

got into the heated conversationsad razd that thy wr ha-g thm a w way, ad as aresult they were listening to eachother and actually understandingah thr, sh sad.

Plans are already in the worksto make the colloquium an an-nual event. Cooper Nelson saidshe envisions generations o par-ticipants orming communitieson each campus over the years.While its not irm, we are al-rady pturg t yars prj-t, sh sad, spay bausit has the backing o many top

admstrat as.Xeos said she walked away

rm th r wth a wprspt. I b t judg-mta, sh sad. Ys, thy mayall on the opposite end o thepta sptrum, (but) srto a human level, its really nice tob ab t t wth pp.

Fisher said he was happy thecolloquium materialized andatuay ahd ts gas. hrgy was papab, ad ppray sad rmus thgs, hsaid. All o us involved in theplanning were just hoping that itddt p ad t was atuaya phma suss.

Supree Court considers affirativeaction case

The unted States Spreme Cort agreed to revew thelegalty o the armatve acton polcy at the unversty o Texas

at Astn yesterday. in 2003, the cort armed the rght o

colleges to consder race and ethncty n admssons decsons

n a case nvolvng the unversty o Mchgan.

The state o Texas crrently operates nder a 10 percent

polcy that atomatcally admts the stdents n the top

10 percent o ther hgh school classes to ther rst-choce

pblc college n the state. The plants clam that ths plan

elmnates the need to consder race n achevng a dverse

stdent poplaton. Armatve acton spporters arge that

the nversty shold be allowed to loo at applcants race and

ethncty to rther enhance ts degree o dversty, even t

can acheve some level o dversty wthot consderng those

actors. i hope the cort wll decde that all tre uT applcants

wll be allowed to compete or admsson wthot ther race

or ethncty beng a actor, sad Abgal Fsher, or whom theSpreme Cort lawst was led, accordng to an insde Hgher

Ed artcle.

Bll Powers, the presdent o the unversty o Texas at Astn,

ssed a statement deendng the mportance o havng the

lexblty to consder stdents many nqe bacgronds and

experences when admttng new classes. Cvl rghts leader

Reverend Jesse Jacson Sr. expressed n a statement that as

long as there are dspartes among races, race shold contne

to be a actor consdered n the admssons process, along wth

gender, class and ablty to thn and pay tton, accordng to

the insde Hgher Ed artcle.

The ederal dstrct cort and the u.S. Cort o Appeals

or the Fth Crct rejected the nverstys case beore the

Spreme Cort agreed to consder Texas system or revew.

Harvard students stage lirary sitinin protest aganst a nversty annoncement abot sta

redctons throgh ts Volntary Early Retrement incentve

Program, Harvard stdents resed to leave the lbrarys Lamont

Cae despte mltple warnngs rom polce ocers.

Losng lbrary prvleges s tantamont to explson, sad

Andrew Pope, a doctoral stdent, accordng to a Har vard

Crmson artcle. Nonetheless, stdents responded to the

coercve and neectve polcy by sleepng n the lbrary

overnght to broadcast ther objectons. Stdents hng sgns

and a banner that read No Layos and No Cts, whch Harvard

admnstrators removed the next mornng.

undergradates and gradate stdents deended ther

protest as a permssble orm o ree speech, gnorng warnngs

rom secrty ocers that revocaton o lbrary prvleges,

dscplnary acton and legal prosecton were possble

conseqences.

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Last Tursday, Gov. Lincoln Chaee 75 P14 stood with the leadership th Rhd Isad Sat ad Hus Rprstats t trduth raspary Pta Spdg At. I a pst-Ctzs Utdworld o potentially limitless, unregulated and undisclosed donationst s-ad SuprPACs, th b wud mak Rhd Isad a adr th ght r arr ad mr traspart ts. Spay, t wudrqur utsd grups ampagg bha rrda t dssth ddua drs supprtg thm.

While introducing the bill, Chaee argued that it would (make) thoseindividuals and organizations trying to infuence the outcome o ant autab t th pp Rhd Isad. Wh w appaudChaees strong stance against undisclosed independent expenditures and welcome the way in which this bill will bring much-neededtraspary t th stats pta adsap w ar trubd by thbills limited scope, applying beeed-up disclosure regulations only togrups adatg r bat masurs. W urg th grr t td

disclosure requirements to all independent expenditures, including those bha ddua addats.

Athugh muh th r abut Supr PACs has b usd th ata prsdta ra, th rs bg my ar bwg atRhode Islands door as well. Tis past winter, while the legislature debatedhw t rrm stat mpys pss, a grup ad Egag RhdIsad spt $67,000 prmtg th b.

I EngageRI started electioneering as it has publicly acknowledged itplans to do its major donors may remain unknown until aer ElectionDay. I ths past t y, r $. m was spt by utsdgroups trying to infuence state elections in Rhode Island. Under theraspary Pta Spdg At, Rhd Isadrs wud b abto access electioneering groups nancial reports in a timely ashion, andgrups wud ha t puby stat thr argst drs ry prt,ts, rad r trt adrtsmt.

Faa dssur s t a prt sut utsd grups astill saturate the airwaves with election advertising. But even whileshrg th rght t ths umtd spdg Ctzs Utd, thSupreme Court reiterated the importance o nancial disclosure, notingthat prmpt dssur pdturs a prd sharhdrs adtzs wth th rmat dd t hd rprats aut-ab r thr psts ad supprtrs.

Armed with knowledge about what interests are behind groups withpleasant-sounding names like And For the Sake o the Kids, a groupin West Virginia whose major donors were coal company executives citizens will be empowered to make a more inormed decision onEt Day.

W mmd Cha r takg a pub stad agast th dusinfuence o outside spending in state reerenda and supporting legislationthat would make Rhode Island a national leader in campaign disclosure.In the words o Senate President eresa Paiva Weed, Campaign nancedisclosure is absolutely vital to the health o our representative democracy.Ts s ss tru th as ddua ras tha that bat

measures. We hope that this act is only the rst step towards a campaignnance system that would apply to all groups, no matter what candidatesr auss thy supprt.

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pinions 7the Brown Daily eraldednesday, February 22, 2012

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mthds trprurshp. I hs p,h dds th pursut prt ad ps-ts ts bts, as h dtas arus tr-prurs wh, wg thr w s--trst, ha mprd sty by satsygsumrs subjt wats. I hs ast, h urags asprg sa -trprurs t ray hp th wrd bywg thr w ts r prtad bmg atua trprur(s).

Hs pt s a ad . I agr that,amg prgrsss, aptasm s r-bukd mr tha t s rsptd, dspt tsawsm rat ptta. Hwr, hspt s as smp. It grs th fawsad uas th audd prt mt,wh daug th hartab sa -

trprurshp that ud addrss thssam ssus.

Fr amp, rata ms, basd

th assumpt that huma bgsmak shrwd, rasab hs w-

g thr w trsts, rm th bass Pradas argumt. Fr th mst part, thsthry rata h hds. It gudsgd busss dss. But I b, asd may bhara msts, that thshuma rataty s t absut. W, asmprt humas, d up makg ms-taks. Rhard Fud Jr., th Lhma Brth-rs CEO wh bd t th bttr dthat hs bak was sud, dd up sg

ad ths s a srat stmat arud $2. b wh h sat atp thargst bakrupty Amra hstry.J Cassa, th h aa r Amra Itrata Grups FaaPrduts Ds, was rd ar h r-saw th dg ut $0 b sur-a subprm mrtgag bds, $0b that AIG udt pay bak whth tm am. Ad Sta ONa, MrrLyhs CEO ut 2007, dutu y wathdas hs mpay aumuatd $4 b

wrth rappy mrtgag bds ad d-rats, ats that d t hs tuarg.

Eah ths pp, ad ut-ss thrs d th 200 aa

rss, wr, ss, trprurs. F-wg th prt mt, thy ratyusd uprdtd tss rdt tgr uprdtd amuts m-y. Ad wg th prt mt, thymssd up, hurtg thmss ad thrpp. But I dt ma ths mstaks tb th us my um. Sa tr-prurs, wg thr w bs s-a just, ar mprt, t. I attmpt-

g t s th mst dut ssus,thy may mak ry mp pas adssu burdsm rguats. Ty maymss thr ga try. Or thy may wrs- th stuat wh tryg t addrss t.

Fraky, a ths mstaks, whthrthy ar dr by prt r harty, mat-tr a grat da. W at gr, rgt rwsh thm away. Hwr, t appaud thprt mt a, as Prada sms t d,msss th pt. Prts a dr bad d-ss that may hurt pp r a m-

s wthut a hm r a jb thrugh aut thr w. O th thr had, trtssy dm th r-markt -

ts that ha ratd ur mdrmy, as Prada tds may pr-

grsss d, s ry smpst. Capta-sm has but th prsprty that aws ust pursu th wrk sa trprur-shp th rst pa. Its ss wath sth rs ur prts.

S what shud w ud? Amr-a ad hr pp, thrughut hstry,ha staty b wagg ths dbat.Whthr t s Frak Da Rst s. Hrbrt Hr r Barak Obama s.Mtt Rmy, t s th sam dbat. O p stads ur t b th d-dua ad th grat, strut pwr hs w s-trst. O th thr stadsur ar r th argr mmuty ad urdsr t mata a rta amut q-

uty ad kdss. As I s t, Amrasutmat purps thrughut hstry s tr ths tw s thught, t r-az wthut dsmssg th thr.

As suh, wh srats k Pra-da drs th rtus th prt mtwh dsparagg th au sa -trprurshp, r wh prgrsss kmys rut th aus sa hartywh dgratg aptast ddua-sm, thy ar dg mr tha stabshga shaw argumt. I at, thy ar d-yg a u ha Amras ry ss.

kevn Carty 15 s a poltcal scenceconcentrator rom Washngton D.C. He

wold love to hear any responses andcan be reached at

[email protected].

The essence of America

Sprg Wkd s th argst ad mstwdy attdd t urrg am-pus br Cmmmt wk. Stu-dts agry atpat th bads, ag-z r gttg tkts ad shduthr wrk r study abrad pas arudth t. Sprg Wkd s a tm whpp gathr arg umbrs, shar wprs, try w thgs wk, wk ad jy sm th r thgs -g ards us. T rts ar what a-tat a ths. Wh t s st pssbt ha u Sprg Wkd whthryu k th mus r t, thg squt ar: T bads shud t suk.

What d I ma by suk? Obusy,ry has drt tasts mus, st s t pssb t pas a. Rgardss,smthg abut ast yar dd t ut t.Nt t bat a d hrs t dath, but Iwat t pr sm th ways astyars rts wr akg rdr tshd ght what shud b d r thmg wkd.

Wh I ha t d a st sur-y th studt bdy, mst pp yutak t w gady say that Sp Dggad MGM 200 wr amazg. Tyw as t yu that Dddy ad V th Rad 20 dd t mpar. I atI wud g stp urthr ad say thatast yar th rts wr abut as u

as hag yur ta har rmd by

Rs OD th pasat surprs gttg t s a sgat br-ty up s s rshadwd by th shrpa hag yur har pud ut. Swhat happd?

O majr ras ast yar was s ak-

ustr was that th Brw Crt Ag-y trd t d th sam thg as 200 adad msraby. Ty wr sussu twyars ag by hag d-sh rap-pr, a up hpstr bads ad a wthr dty bg am prs, ud-g Wa ad Majr Lazr. T prbmwth tryg t py ths up s that t

s t dat a sussu rmua.T 200 rts wrkd baus SpDgg ad MGM ar t prrm-rs, t baus appas t pp musas ad th thr t hpstrs. Ts autyg brught th sam typs grupst Sprg Wkd ast yar Dddy rSp ad V th Rad r MGM.T ups ha shkg smarts.T BCA shud b wary awg ths

t rpat ts yt aga, st w wd up

wth Far Fa ad Kgs L.Athr ras ast yar was ss su-

ssu s that t urtuaty had t bdrs. Ts was ut th BCAs tr.It at tr th wathr. Hwr,whr dd th sud hk r M-

ha Audtrum shud ha hs harghkd. Das Rast sudd k sm- yg r a garbag dspsa. Trmust b a way r that spa t sud r-mty k a rt ha. Furthrmr,th rt was pry st up r p-p wh had t stad th bahrs.Ty pad th sam pr as ths th

grud but gt muh ss au. T BCAshud ha spt a tra rt makgth dr rt wrth th my padt s t.

But austs asd, hr ar my sug-gsts r ths yar. Frst, th BCAshudt try t pas absuty ry-. Tr s d t gt a V thRad r ry Dddy. T grups shudb kwab, but t ssary w

kw. Dddy am at, payd a shrt

st ad usd hs brty as a us rt prrmg t th bst hs abty.W shud sk bads that ar th rsad ha smthg t pr.

Sd, t s urtuat that Cah-a happs t b th sam wkd. Ts

s us r t bg ab t put t-gthr a dt up. A quk gathrugh th bads shdud t pay atthat sta w pr that th st s thaust by ay mas.

Trd, th BCA may wat t atua-y rad th rsuts th ps whhstudts td thr prrs rSprg Wkd. I wud wagr a gdda my Rmy-sty say-g that w t put Dddy as thrh r a prrmr. T BCA s uky t w s ut th rts wth pra-tay ay prrmas, baus pp Sprg Wkd. It shud t abusths prg.

Tugh Im bg rta th BCA,w shud kp md that th rtsar t th y way t jy yursr th wkd. T artsts ar bughtwth a mtd budgt, ar a. Hwr,ths s us r th BCA t b u-rga stg bads. S w wky a d th mg apayps, wshud str t mak 202s Sprg Wk-d th bst r. Mayb th BCA shudgt rst ass t uds, th th rst th studt grups, th th Udrgradu-at Cu Studts. Tat sms ar tm ts t t.

Lcas Hsted 13 cant wat to get an

angry emal rom the BCA.

Lessons for Spring Weekend

One major reason that last year was so laclster was

that the BCA tred to do the same thng as 2010 and

aled mserably.

i beleve, as do many behavoral economsts, that ths

hman ratonalty s not absolte. We, as mperect

hmans, end p mang mstaes.

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BY kEViN CARTYopinions Columnist


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Campus ewsednesday, February 22, 2012

By auStin cole

Staff Writer

Te Womens Leadership Coun-

cil which seeks to promote phi-lanthropy and volunteerism andoer mentoring to the Universitysma studts ad aums hasbeen planning a conerence to cel-ebrate 120 years o womens historyat Brown. But aer President RuthSimmons who created the coun-

2004 aud hr rs-gat, th u has dddto shi the ocus o the conerence,slated to take place May 3-5, toincorporate bidding arewell to theUrstys prsdt yars.

At th hart ths s a rt

to really celebrate a remarkablyg hstry wm at Brw,said Nancy Ne 76 P06 P14,council co-chair. People tend toorget that Brown had women stu-dents long beore other universi-ts dd.

Tough celebrating womenshstry at Brw s a mprtataspect o the conerence, Ne saidth atts ad dsusss wbe geared more toward celebratingth urrt r wm thUniversity community. Te council

is excited about the prospect obringing in a wide range o wom- arus arrs ad aruslocations to showcase what the

abuus auma Brw d,

N sad.Tough many o the plans or

the conerence have yet to be nal-ized, Ne said it will include panelso women discussing topics relatedto womens lives, health, nanceand more. Also included in theprogram will be un, social piecesthat allow current students andalums to connect with one another,N sad.

Mary Vascellaro 74 P07 saidshe also hopes the conerence willexhibit the councils increasinglyinfuential role at Brown, which has

evolved over the past several years.Tough this all will mark the

councils rst semester without

Simmons, the council hopes to

continue to expand, Vascellarosad. It has tud t bud its mentoring and philanthropicprograms, including a programcalled Womens Launch Pad thatmatches council mentors withwomen in the senior class, oeringguda t graduatg srs asthey transition to lie aer college.

Te council also helps to osterphilanthropy in the Brown com-muty. Ts yar, th u dth Graduats th Last Dadchallenge and raised $1 millionor a matching und that will con-tribute to the Annual Fund. Tematching und will help display theus phathrp ut

ampus, Vasar sad.

Conference to celebrate history of women on campus

By aliSon SilVer

Senior Staff Writer

Te Swearer Center or Public

Service van carrying over 20 poundso ood donations does not encoun-ter much trac on its midnighttrips down the hill to KennedyPlaza. While most occupants o thehomeless shelter at the MathewsonStreet United Methodist Churchare sleeping, students rom BrownsFood Recovery Network unload theboxes o leover muns, bagels,pastries and packaged produce col-td rm ampus atrs ryevening. Te operation hardly takesay tm at a, but ah ghty -stallment o ood donations makesa dierence or the local Providence

mmuty.he network, a new student

group ailiated with Rhode Is-lands non-prot corporation WeShar Hp, ams t rdu wastand increase ood donation to localhmss pp by tg adtransporting leovers rom Brownsatrs ad a arts. T ga sguring out how to make moreood reach people and not the trashcan, said Shelby Wilson 15, one oth grups adrs.

Te network was rst established

by students at the University oMaryad ad w has partpat-ing chapters at Pomona College,University o Caliornia at Berkeleyand Brown. During his gap yearbeore starting college, Ben Chesler15 was working at Search or Com-mon Ground in Washington whenhe and several University o Mary-land students came up with the ideaor the group. Aer returning romSouth Arica, where Chesler do-nated ood rst-hand, he decidedh watd t brg th prgram tBrw. Last smstr, th atanetwork, which includes all the par-tpatg gs, datd 5,000meals, according to the networkswbst S ar ths sprg, th t-

wrk has rrd 2,000 mas.

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Browns chapter perormed itsrst ood recovery and delivery Nov.

11 and has been growing ever since.In addition to weekly contributions up t 200 puds d rmBrown Dining Services, studentsperorm a nightly pickup o leover

baked goods and packaged producerm th Bu Rm, th SsLibrary, the Rockeeller Library andBarus and Holley. With the use o a

Swarr Ctr a, th grup d-livers each nights donations directly

t th Mathws Strt hurh.Wh Chsr pthd th da

o the club to Dining Services,there was very little hesitation.Te group has regular meetingswth Assat Drtr DgServices Peter Rossi to work outgsts ad add w dg a-ts. Amst a th pratstak pa ar mdght, thd has b mpd at ah the pickup locations. Despite thelate hours, the trip is quick and easy,usually taking less than hal an hour

t mpt.o increase eciency, Chesler

said that the group is implementinga clipboard system to keep tracko the number o items collectedrom each campus eatery. Tey willalso record and report the weight othe daily donations. Any students

who have taken a driving coursewith a Brown insurance agent areauthorized to drive the SwearerCtr a usd t trasprt ddats.

Weve been having student

clubs take charge, Wilson said.T Brw Dmrats, St. Ath-ny Hall, Brown/RISD Hillel, em-POWER, Athletes in Action andth Dta au ratrty ar amgthe groups that have volunteered todr d.

Te Brown Democrats have been

involved with deliveries or the pasttwo weeks. Aer hearing aboutth Fd Rry Ntwrk rmChesler, one o the board memberso the Brown Democrats decided togt th grup d.

We have decided to help outwith uesday nights, said Emily

Regier 14, the groups civic involve-mt har. T grup was aradylooking or various volunteer op-portunities, Regier said, and as theyhave meetings on uesday nightsanyway, they decided to make itthr ght r d t adtrasprt as w.

Wilson said reaching out to ra-trts ad thr studt grups

is helpul as they oen have theirw ars.

Were still looking or more in-volvement all the time, she added.

Chesler said the groups greatestchallenge is that the closing times othe various cae carts and eateriesdr. Wr ray wg t takay d, mattr hw sma thquantity, but we cant be runningaround rom 7 to midnight everyght tg d, h sad.

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Te connection to the Mathew-s Strt hurh s part du tCheslers previous work with Hous-ing Opportunities or People Every-where, a student organization basedat th Swarr Ctr.

I just knew that (the church)was a place that was open to thisidea, he said. Te Mathewson Street

church operates one o the emer-gency winter shelters in downtownPrd ad stays p rm 7p.m. to 7 a.m. Because it is over-ght, th hurh ds t prda structured meal to people whouse the shelter. Te donations romBrown are distributed to the shelterupats br thy a thmrg.

Te network not only seeks tohp th hmss, but as t rasawareness about the benets o ood

dat gra.

Legally speaking, its a lot easiert dat d tha pp thk,Wilson said. In act, the EmersonGood Samaritan Food DonationAct o 1996, named aer ormerU.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, providesthat people who donate surplusood are not liable unless they showgross negligence. Food donatedto an approved agency is eligibler a ta rdut ha thoods appreciated value, accordingto the Food Donation Connectionswbst.

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d t th shtr.Blue State Coee has also agreed

t dat d t th haptr adthe group hopes to collect rommore businesses on Tayer Streetin the coming months, Chesler said.

Campus leftovers feed R.I. homeless

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Contributing Writer

Associate Proessor o Evolution-ary Biology Sohini Ramachandranreceived the Alred P. Sloan Foun-dation Fellowship or her research

mputata ad ut-ary molecular biology, accordingt th udats Fb. 5 prssras. h award s gratd tyug ststs wh ar rsgstars, th t grat s-t adrs, ardg t thras.

he ellowship includes a grant

o $50,000 to advance Ramachan-

drans research, which per tainsspeciically to evolutionary his-tory based on variations in thehuma gm r tm.

Im really interested in his-torical relationships between hu-ma ppuats ad th sga-turs thy a ur gm,Ramachandran said. Speciically,she studies topics like the matinginteraction between Europeansand Latin Americans during earlycolonization and the modern rel-evance o the genetic signatureso humans in Arica rom 100,000years ago. Her research is com-putational and statistical, using

data gathered across the globe tomathmatay map ut aspts th huma gm.

I eel really honored, Ram-ahadra sad. h Sa F-lowship has this really excitinghstry makg trbutst yug auty.

he oundation gives grants ght st aras but ybga gg grats mputa-tional and evolutionary molecular

bgy 2002, wh Ramah-adra bga graduat sh.

Each o the 126 recipients othe 2012 ellowship was nomi-

nated by a colleague and thenpkd by a dpdt pao scholars. Ramachandran wasnominated by Mark Bertness,har th dpartmt -gy ad utary bgy.

Shes a spectacular young ac-ulty member working on reallyinteresting problems, Bertnesssaid. He added that as a promising

emale scientist, Ramachandran

is a role model or young women st ds.

Ramahadra arrd at thUniversity in summer 2010 a-ter receiving her undergraduateand graduate degrees rom Stan-ord University and completinga pst-graduat yar at Harard.At Brw, sh sad sh has binluenced by the supportive andcollaborative environment in herdpartmt ad th pprtutyt tah udrgraduat studtsbgg ths yar.

h grat my sh w r-ceive will enable students doing

research with her to pursue proj-ts that wr prusy mps-sb du t ak udg, shsad.

Ive been wanting to generatesm data abrat wthpp Nwprt t t g-t data rm drt brds att ad shp that humashave domesticated, Ramachan-dran said. She plans to use thisdata to study how variation hashagd dmstatd brdsad what trats humas ha s-td.

Its just a nice, prestigiousrgt that ur w

junior aculty members has this rgt ths ary hr arr, Brtss sad.

Brw usuay has r twwinners a year, Ramachandransaid. Last year, two aculty mem-bers received this ellowship Dad Badr, assstat prssrin the department o cognitive,gust ad psyhga s-ences, and Anastasia Volovich,assat prssr physs.

It enabled me to continueresearch, Volovich said, whostudies wave amplitudes related to

the theory o motives in algebraic

geometry. he unds rom the el-wshp abd th physs d-partmt t brg dstgushd

visitors, she added, and will allowher to travel to some conerences.Volovich emphasized the unre-strictive nature o the Sloan Foun-

dation grant compared to othergrants. You can use it howeveryu wat, sh sad.

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