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Helping others

‘I want your
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Honor Society is
working with the
Central Kentucky
Blood Center to hold
the UK-Arkansas
blood drive today
from noon - 8 pm. at
The Commons on
South Campus, and
Friday from 9 am. -
4 pm. at the UK
Bookstore.

Scholarships

Show me
the money!

The Student Development
Council is giving away
five $1,000
scholarships for the
1999-2000 school
year. The scholarships
are open to any full-
time student at UK
(including graduate
and professional
students). You must
have a grade-point
average of at least
3.2, demonstrate
outstanding
leadership skills and
contribute to the
well-being of the
University and/or the
local community.
Applications are
available at the
Sturgill Development
Building, King Cultural
Center and the
College of Arts and
Sciences office. The
deadline is March 10,
with interviews to
select candidates
during the week
following spring
break. Ouestions go
to Andy Grotto, the
council's scholarship
chairman via e-mail
ajgrot0@sac.uky.edu.

and more

money!

The Otis A. Singletary
Awards, which
recognize one
freshman, one
sophomore, one
junior, and one male
and female senior
who have exemplified
superior involvement
through leadership
and service to UK and
the community, are
quickly approaching.
Applications are
available in the 203
and 106 Student
Center, and in each
college dean's office.
The deadline for
applicants is noon on
Friday, March 3.
Questions? Call the
Student Activities
Board at 257-8867 or
e-mail
ambrog0@pop.uky.edu

In need

Give It to me

Got anything worth
putting in the rail! I
bet you do, so give it

Clinton selling plan to young

A major priority: President's deputy director
promoting healthy debate on budget surpluses

By Karla Dooley
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

President Bill Clinton un—
veiled his plan for investing the
budget surplus in his State of the
Union address last month.

Now he's making it a top pri-
ority to take the proposal to the
youth of the nation. said Sylvia
Mathews, deputy director of the
White House Office of Manage-
ment and Budget.

“It‘s our hope that by having
as many people as possible un~
derstand the plan, then we can

have a good debate as a nation,"
Mathews said yesterday in a tele-
conference.

Clinton proposes investing 90
percent of the $4 trillion budget
surpluses expected over the next
15 years to save Social Security
for Generation X—ers. while at the
same time lifting the burden of
the national debt off of the pub-
lic‘s shoulders.

Under the plan. 62 percent of
the surpluses would be spent for
Social Security. 15 percent for
Medicare and 12 percent for Uni-
versal Savings Accounts. The. re-

maining 11 percent would be used
for discretionary spending, Math-
ews said.

In addition. the proposal
would cut down nearly $3 trillion
of the national debt. cutting pub-
licly held debt by two-thirds and
leaving it at its lowest level since
1917.

According to the plan. the life
of the Social Security Trust Fund
would be extended from 2032 to
2055. meaning that “a worker
who is 20 years old today will be
assured of a strong and stable
benefit when he or she retires."

In addition. the plan would
create new Universal Savings Ac-
counts. which would provide
monetary benefits to those who
save for retirement.

It would also lower the na»
tioiial debt. thcrcby lowering l11~
tcrest rates and allowing for
more economic growth.

Btit the proposal doesn't
sound so good to everyone.

Most Republican Congress
members favor a proposal that
would include tax breaks.

In a column last week. US.
Sen. .lim Bunning tR-Ky.) railed
the Clinton proposal. saying it
uses “accounting gimmicks" and
“dishonest bookkeeping" to
“maintain the illusion that he is
making a good faith effort to
strengthen Social Security at the
same time he is funding all his
new spending initiatives."

Bunning said (‘linton is
counting the $2.3 trillion surplus

 

How ”bout
that:

Center Mike
Bradley. who leads
the nation in field-
goal percentage,
improved his num-
bers on this dunk
during last night's
win over the Bull-
dogs of Georgia.

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people

in the Social Security ’l‘rust l'lllltl
twice, allowing him to “shocliorii
Stilt trillion in spending into that
$4.3 trillion trust."

"The itilltlrit‘l‘lll cl‘l‘cct ls
predictable. iiiassiyc budget
shortfalls. deficit spending and a
huge national debt left for our
children to pay.“ Bunning wrote.

(‘liiitoii can‘t use the moncy
for both paying down the debt
and Social Security. said Eric
Thompson. director of the (‘cnter
for Business and Economics Re
search. "I'd be suspicious ofthat
assertion."

But Thompson said whether
Clinton or the Republican (‘on
gross wins the battle over the sur
plus. thcrc should be positiyc re
sults for the nation.

Number of profs
not up to snuff

When it comes to hiring female professors. l'K is simply

According a survey released by the .»\tticrican Associa-
tion of University Professors. l‘K lies below the faculty av-
erage at 28.3 percent. ()f 1.813 full. associatc and assistant
professors. .313 are women. said .loan Mct‘aulcy. associate
vice president for Institutional Planning. Budgeting and

Despite these statistics. many professors say thcy‘rc con
iident UK will work its way up to the national aycrago.

"Partially. it‘s just a matter of time."
Stai‘r-liebeau. an assistant history professor. ”it takes a
while to become a full professor. so wc can ~iust hope that
maybe in 20 years there will be more female professors."

Rebecca Weaver agreed.

“Maybe things are unequal now. but we can holic they ‘ro
less unequal than they were 20 years ago." said Weaver. an
English teaching assistant. “I hope those statistics indicate

said (irctclicii

Female professors arc more likely to work at community
colleges. which usually pay less than itllll‘ryt‘ill' colleges and
universities. the survey said.

Many are not surprised by these results.

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ACADEMICS,

By Sarah Okrzynski

contmauniio waits},—

There’s help for
law applicants

A blessing? Kaplan officials say program
for LSAT can improve students' scores

Irwin took the Kaplan
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open to suggestions
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weather

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morrow, with a high
chance that it will turn
to snow by the evening.

Cats to landslide victory

By Matt Nay
SPORTSDAILV EDITOR

You know things are going
good when even the guy who cleans
up blood on the court gets a pat on
the butt.

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Everyone shines: Team effort, Jones injury helps

over outmanned Georgia

out and gave him a firm pat on the
rump.

Such is life two games removed
from the forgettable two-game road
losing streak. For the second
straight game. UK blistered a con-
ference opponent with suffocating
defense and a balanced scoring at-

’Dawgs fall again

the game) and 27 second-chance
points to bury a Georgia team that
spent most of the second half with-
out leading scorere and robotiuder
Jumaine Jones.

UK Head Coach Tubby Smith
said the rebounding was something
he expected beacuse of the Cats su-
perior size advantage.

“It (rebounding) was one of the
things we focused on this week.“
Smith said. “We, knew we wcrc
much bigger than Georgia. We did a

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Kentucky ranked UK‘s 92-71 thumping of an tack. good job of getting on the offensive
Kama] outmanned Georgia squad. the Seven UK players finished the boards. we were mising shots. but
Rupp Arena student section gave a game in double figure scoring. led putting them back in."

VOL “104 'SSUE “‘03 standing ovation for a UK trainer by Wayne Turner and Evans' 13 Georgia Head Coach Ron Jirsa.
——‘_“‘_ who had the unenviable job of wip- points each, but the real story was Smith’s former assistant. agreed
ESTABLISHED IN I892 ing up the blood from a Bulldog the most dominating rebounding that rebounding was the key,
INDEPENDENT SINCE1971 nose. As the trainer left the court. performance UK fans have seen in “I think Kentucky played a re
—-——-—— forward Heshimu Evans jumped a long time. The Cats used a 253
News tips? from his seat on the bench. reached first.ha]f rebounding edge (4924 for
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out trying to get itito law
school. check out the Pre-
Law Association. which will
i feature a guest speaker from
‘ Kaplan at 4 pm. today in MB
Miller Ilall.

Brenda Fitzpatrick from
the Kaplan Testing Servicc
will be speaking about Ka
plan's preparatory classes
that offer advice on prcpara»
tion for the Law School Ad-
mission Test. and answer
any questions students have
about the admissions
process. said .losh Robinson.
president ofthe Association.

Most students who have
taken the LSAT will tell you
it isn't easy.

“It was awful I hated it."
said Barbara Irwin. a politi
cal science senior. who pre-
pared for the test for months
and was pretty burnt out on
it by the time she took it.
is mentally
and spiritually draining."
said Michael Walker. an
agriculture senior. “It's a
stressful four hours."

Kaplan officials said the
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much.

Mcadous and Walker
encouraged Silili' Wis to talu-
thc courso

”It tcaclics i"'l‘ii_\' good
slt‘alcgics for :ikiiig llic
test.” Meadows said.

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take amplc lllll' to prepare
for thc LSA'l 11.1 but way
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utes to spire." she said.
This time 1H” allow time
for stress. distractions and
panic attai ks

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look at grail»: point aycragc.
letters of t‘t‘t‘tillllllt‘lltiillltill.
tht‘ kinds of classt‘s You look
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light-
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whole
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- “kl Jasper.
Rolling Stones
frontman. on
former Stmes
bodyguard and
current Min-
nesota Gov.
Jesse Ventura
proclaiming
Feb. 15 as
Rolling Stones
Day in
Minnesota.

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State matches of contributions

win with many universities

BOWLING GREEN ~ A Louisville woman
who gave $500000 to Western Kentucky Universi-
ty on Tuesday says a new trust fund created by
state lawmakers prompted her to contribute now
instead of years later.

Mary Nixon. 43, an executive at Tricon Glob-
al Restaurants. a corporation that owns Ken-
tucky Fried Chicken. Taco Bell and Pizza Hut.
had planned to contribute to her alma mater lat-
er in life, perhaps after retirement.

But the trust fund established last year by
the General Assembly. which pushes Nixon's gift
to $1 million. was such an incentive that “if there
was any way I could do this, I needed to do it
now," she said.

Nixon‘s gift is the latest evidence that the
$110 million trust fund is helping universities get
more private donations and raise their profiles.

The gift from Nixon, a 1977 Western gradu—
ate, means Western has qualified for nearly all of
its share of the onetime money set aside to match
private donations dollar for dollar and attract top
professors and researchers.

Official links people to TB exposure

A Fayette County health officer says the
same individuals were involved in three possible
cases of tuberculosis exposure in the area over
the last few weeks.

The incidents occurred at Lafayette High
School. East Jessamine High School and on board
a chartered jet flight, which carried about 350 UK
football fans to the Outback Bowl in Tampa. Fla.

Dr. John Poundstone. who heads the Fayette
County Health Department. said all three inci-
dents involved individuals who had active tuber-
culosis and possibly could have exposed those
around them to TB bacteria.

The disease can be spread when someone
with active TB coughs. releasing bacteria into
the air. Others can be infected if they breathe in
the bugs.

Poundstone declined to give details about the
cases. citing confidentiality. He would say only
the people with active TB were from another
county.

But at least two individuals with active TB
were aboard the Outback charter flight that left
Lexington Dec. 31) and returned Jan. 2. according
to a letter that Poundstone‘s office mailed last
week to all those who were on the plane.

Lafayette High School parents began receiv-
ing letters last week informing them that staffers
and students at the school might have been ex-
posed to TB by “some contract workers" who
were doing renovations at the school.

Similar letters also went out to parents of

   

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ABOUT THIS
CANDIDATE:
The Godfather
of Soul James
Brown says he
feels good -
about Pervls
Spann, a candi-
date for alder-
man. The singer
arrived at
Spann's South
Side campaign
headquarters in
a white stretch
limousine Sun-
day to endorse
the candidate
as a man who
"understands
our problems."

 

THE ‘BODY'
GUARD:

The Rolling
Stones got a
grand welcome
from their
former
bodyguard, who
happens to be
the new
governor of
Minnesota.
“He's done us
proud, hasn't
he?" a chuckling
Mick Jagger said
of Gov. Jesse
Ventura. "He's
been fantastic."

children attending East Jessamine High School,
stating that a person who had been in the school
“on numerous occasions" might have been in-
fected by TB and could have exposed others in
the building.

“The case in Jessamine County. the one at
Lafayette and the one on this airplane all in-
volved the same patients." Poundstone said.

The next step, he said, will be tuberculin
skin tests for those who might have been exposed
in the various incidents. to determine whether
any transmission of the disease occurred.

Firefighters remembered for spirit

LAKE WORTH, Texas v» Phillip Dean, a fire-
fighter and Sunday school teacher. was looking
forward to the birth of his first child this week.

Brian Collins, who taught children about fire
safety. was a father of two, with his wife due to
deliver a third this summer. Gary Sanders
learned everything he could about firefighting
and already had two years of experience under
his belt at age 19.

All three died Monday in a three-alarm blaze
at a Lake Worth church that investigators think
was caused by arson. In the smoky haze of the
smoldering remains. moist-eyed firefighters
struggled to balance their sense of duty with an
agonizing feeling of loss.

“It‘s something that is going to obviously
take a toll on many departments. not just ours.“
said Lt. Kent Worley of the Fort Worth Fire De-
partment. "The brotherhood and sisterhood is
such that we all lost a family member, regardless
of which department they are from."

Two of the men w Collins, 35. and Dean. 29,

were Fort Worth firefighters volunteering for

the nearby River Oaks department on their day
off. Collins was a 14-year veteran and Dean a six-
year veteran.

Comair adding on at airport

HEBRON a Comair is breaking ground this
spring to double the size of its passenger seating
area at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Interna-
tional Airport.

Officials are looking for ways to add to the
north side of Comair‘s spider-shaped Concourse
C and provide more space for employees and pas-
sengers.

“We don't have that nailed down yet." Tim
Zeis. Comair’s director of customer services.
planning and development, told the Kenton
County Airport Board on Monday.

For now. Comair is concentrating on expand-
ing the south side of the concourse. In March,
construction will begin to add up to 1,100 seats to
the concourse, which already has 1,250 seats for
passengers waiting for flights.

The $6 million. six-month project will include
two enclosed rooms for smokers and a food court.

Comair’s concourse opened in 1994 when the
airline handled 2.5 million passengers at the air-
port. Last year. the airline carried 5.1 million
passengers.

Compiled from wire reports.

 

Dartmouth
had plan 2
decades ago

By Jacob T. Elberg
THE DARTMOUTH

HANOVER. N.H. ~- While
Tuesday's announcement of
the trustees' plan to overhaul
social and residential life at
the College came as a shock to
most Dartmouth students, in
reality. it was a decision at
least two decades in the mak-
mg.

College President James
Wright will likely be remem-
bered as the Dartmouth presi-
dent who presided over the
revolution mandated by the
trustees' decision.

As the president who
will guide the creation of
what will be a dramatically
different Dartmouth. Wright
will be the inevitable recipi-
ent of whatever praise or
anger the changes bring. not
only in the coming months,
but for generations to come
it will be his place in the
history of the Wheeiock Suc-
cession.

But Wright cannot be
held solely responsible — for
better or for worse —- for the
groundwork which lies be-
neath the five principles laid
out by the trustees in their
vote two weekends ago.

“The Board has proba-
bly talked about (making a
major change to the Greek
system) off and on for 20
years." Wright said, who
added that the discussions
which culminated in the
trustees' initiative took
place throughout the 10-year
presidency of James O.
Freedman. as well as during
the tenure of Dartmouth's
14th president. David T.
McLaughlin.

But that is not to say that

Wright has not played a ma»
jor role in discussion of the
Greek issue.

As a member of the facul-
ty since 1969 and a member
of the administration for
most of the 18 years prior to
his appointment to the Col-
lege‘s presidency, Wright
made his opinions on resi-
dential and social life at the
College well known on a
number of occasions, at
times leading the discussion
and the call for a deemphasis
of Greek life on the Dart-
mouth campus.

The Wright report

In March of 1987 — in re—
sponse to a statement by the
trustees that the College needs
“to hasten aggressively our
progress toward making our
residential life system fully
consonant with our intellectu-
al purpose" W then College
President McLaughlin ap-
pointed an ad hoc committee
charged with creating a set of
specific proposals to improve
the quality of residential life.

The chair of that commit-
tee was history professor
James Wright, and the com
mittee eventually submitted
what is known as the “Wright
report."

Included in the Wright
report were recommenda-
tions that the College reduce
both the role of alcohol and
the influence of fraternities
and sororities on campus so
cial life. saying “The image
of Dartmouth as an institu-
tion that focuses on partying
as much as learning is an
unfortunate one and it is
certainly an inaccurate
one.“

 

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our Former basketball star Cameron Mills gave a little blood as part of the Central Kentucky Blood Center's annual till-Arkansas “Game for Lite" blood drive. I S 350.0. ml - 10200 ’Pm
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been based on. this effort, he said. With a hard work and dedication of
y The contributions Lach made Michael Lach." Williams said.
to UK don‘t end there. courage In 1996. Lach also became di-
In 1994, WllllS and Gene th - rector of MCFACTS —- Med-
Williamssvice president for W0!“ at IS ical Center Faculty Academic
mation ystems at UK, aP- Com utin and Technolo
proached the deans of various col- eXtremely Suppfirt cgnter, gy
leges with the idea of hiring out rare,” The center offers opportuni-
an information specialist from ties for faculty within the five
the College of Library and Infor- colleges of UK‘s Med Center
mation Sciences to help faculty 7 6"” m'm' to learn how to use technolo-
members better use technology. me 9'95”?” ‘0' gy better.
The SChOOI Of Pharmacy Information “He wore a number of hats,“
agreed to participate in the pro- Systems said Jordan Cohen, dean of

to get fans involved. said Dan Rearic, a
donor resource consultant.

“It started out with the Big Blue Crush
11 years ago and has expanded,” Rearic
said.

The “Game for Life,“ started five years
ago during basketball season before the
UK-Arkansas game, is similar to the “Big
Blue Crush” blood drive before the UK-Ten-

to give blood." Baker said.

Each year the number of participants
increase. she said.

Last year, the center received 815 pints
of blood, and Baker hopes to match that to-
tal this year — if not beat it.

Former basketball star Cameron Mills
came out to the blood center yesterday to
kick off the event. Mills said he donates as

The station will be at the Med Center
from 8 am. to 5 pm.

The bone marrow registry will also be
on hand to register students to donate mar
row. Baker said.

The Golden Key National Honor Soci-
ety sponsors the student drives. The win-
ner will be announced during the UK-
Arkansas basketball game this Saturday.
All blood donors will receive a “Game for
Life“ T-shirt.

 

 

fiAmsflisistant director
leaves lasting mark

By John flampler
STAFF WRITER

If you have ever checked a book out at
UK using the computerized card catalog,
your life has been affected by Michael
Lach.

Before Lach came to UK in 1980 as as-
sistant director of libraries for Public Ser-
vices. students at UK had to fum-
ble through card catalogs to find
a book.

Lach. who died in December
after a five-year battle with can-
cer. was responsible for imple-
menting the first-ever automated
system for libraries at UK, said
Paul Willis, director of libraries
at UK.

All subsequent computer sys-
tems built in the libraries have

E ject and Lach was selected for the
job. Williams said.

“Most pharmacy faculty have
some expertise in computer technology,
but do need assistance in innovative
methods of computer technology and
scholarly activity.“ said Dwaine Green,

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where guys like Mike come in.“
So Lach became a pioneer faculty
member. the first college technology coor-

' dinator at UK. He did this while going

through the first stages of cancer.
“He faced his illness with a courage

that is extremely rare," Williams said.

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“He would take massive chemotherapy
treatments in the morning and then be

He faced
his illness

back at his desk working by mid-moming.
It was quite remarkable. I've never seen
anything like it.”

The success of Lach at his new posi-
tion led to other colleges adopting similar
positions. The colleges of law, arts and sci-
ences, architecture, communications, A1-
lied Health, nursing and dentistry have
also adopted college technology coordina-
tors. The colleges of human
environmental science and
social work are currently
sharing one.

Lach became responsible for
recruiting new college tech-
nology coordinators and
training them. Williams said.
“A lot of the success both of
the faculty support and the
collegebased technology coor-
dinator program is due to the

pharmacy. “He had a multi-
tude of responsibilities."

While Lach did have an obvious im-
pact on the technology at UK. most of his
colleagues. family and friends agree that
his real strengths were his energy. com-
mitment and dedication.

“Anything Mike did. he did it with
great enthusiasm; and he did that in his
personal life as well as his professional
life." said his wife Edyth. assistant dean for
administration in the College of Medicine.

“Mike was very likable. and he made
friends easily." Willis said. “All of us in
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Into the ring: With filing underway, SGA officers say it
remains to be seen who will run for office next month

By Jill Gorin

scrim“

It's time for aspiring campus politi-
cians to gear tip for the spring campaign
for next year's Student Government As-
sociation oilices.

"Filing began on Monday. but we
won‘t know for sure who the candidates
will be tintil March 3." said Joe Schuler.
chairman of SGA‘s Elections Board of
Supervision.

(‘andidates for president and vice
president must run in pairs. Schuler
said.

Jimmy Glenn and Whitney Speaker
have already filed for president and vice
president as one pair.

“Whitney and l have been talking to
students all across campus telling them
our platform." Glenn said. “It‘s a great
way to get feedback from students. It's
truly an election when we do it this
way."

Their platform consists of several
issues. including student seating at bas«
ketball games. SGA funds. the selection
of teaching assistants and teacher evalu-
ations. he said.

“We feel that students need better
seats at UK basketball games.“ Glenn
said. “We have even had some basket-
ball players complain that they cannot
hear students cheering because our
seats are so far away."

Glenn said UK has basketball teams

equivalent with Duke and North Caroli-
na. but students get front row seats at
those universities' games.

The money left over in the SGA’s
coffers last year figures into another
platform.

“It bothers me that more students
don’t come and ask for funds from
SGA." he said.

Students pay an extra $3.25 with tu-
ition. used as SGA funds. Glenn said. Or-
ganizations should take advantage of this
and ask for money.

Glenn and Speaker said they also
want to have more student input for se-
lecting teaching assistants.

“A lot of undergraduates have TAs."
Glenn said, “yet. they have no say in
who gets selected."

Finally. the two candidates want to
make a direct link from the SGA home-
page to view the results of a teacher’s

Candidates go for broke

previous evaluations.

“They are on the Internet now,”
Glenn said, “but they‘re almost impossi-
ble to get to. We want to make the link
more accessible, because I believe it will
benefit students to know about the
teacher and the class before they sign up
for it."

Speaker said the SGA should be
more accessible to the average student.

“That‘s what we‘re here for." she
said. "It‘s all for the benefit of the stu-
dents."

No one has declared candidacy for
any senator positions. but many applica—
tions have been picked up, Schuler said.

Students wishing to be candidates
must first get an application and pay a
$30 fee. Next. they need to get petitions
signed by the student body. Then. they
must attend a meeting on March 3 to
discuss the rules and regulations for
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