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SG meeting
gives rise
to unrest

BySeanRose
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The Student Government Senate passed
an act to form a committee on campus safety
during last night’s meeting despite heated
discussions that were unruly at times.

The act, cosponsored by Sen. Mallory
Jenkins, a vicepresidential candidate, forms

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Party Plan to be uncorked '

Town and Gown Commission discusses
possible revisions to city ordinance

By Cara Blevins and Brad Hall
in: KENTUCKY mun

Better communication and
an added chance at redemption
are among the proposals to im-
prove the Lexington Area Party
Plan ordinance, and could come

as early as the March 22 meeting

“The Party Plan shouldn’t be
a catch-all law," said Clay
McGufﬁn, executive cabinet sec-
retary for the College Town Ini-
tiative. at last night’s Town and
Gown Commission meeting.
“The Party Plan is very vague

and should focus more on large,
high-risk parties."

McGufﬁn, a history junior,
proposed that a gathering of 20
or more people should constitute
a party

“Twenty is a number a lot of
people can agree on,” he said.
“Residents would do a better job
in keeping tally on who all is at a
pany”

Mike Meuser, a member of
the Aylesford Neighborhood As-

sociation, criticized the idea of
20 people constituting a party.
He said it ignores what is really
high-risk about parties and that
counting 20 people would make
this ordinance unenforceable.
Still, the improved communi-
cation shouldn’t stop with the
students. McGufﬁn said.
“Landlords have no idea
when their house is struck with
the Party Plan,” he said. “When

See Plan on page 2

a six-person committee for the fall made of
half senators and half students that would
conduct safety walks and give semester safe
ty assessments.

The act passed two weeks after a resolu-
tion urged the forming of a similar commit-
tee from one of Jenkins’ opponents Sen.
Andy Bates, a presidential candidate.

Bates said that he felt that “there is an ex-
treme ulterior motive” with a similar act fol-
lowing his resolution in between outbursts
by other senators.

At several points Senate President Nick
Phelps called members out of order and
shushed for quiet, expressing his frustration
with the Senate.

“I’m really disappointed in this body,”
Phelps said. “When things get done and they
don’t get brought to peoples' attention, then
things don’t get done."

A resolution to expand the 221-RIDE
night route was tabled last night under a
similar heated atmosphere. The senate will
hear the resolution at the next meeting in
two weeks.

Many senators wanted more details on
how much the expansion would cost, citing
that they did not want to approve a resolu-
tion without knowing they had funds to go
forward with the action.

Between bickering by several senators
speaking out of order, Sen. Ben Carter, also
Operations and Evaluations Committee
chairman, expressed his anger at the Sen-
ate’s attitude.

“To assume that somebody is doing
something for ulterior motives is a little
ironic,” Carter said. “Does anybody think
that this does anything better for the student
body or are we wasting 10 minutes of our
time?”

The senate approved to give $10,000 from
their budget surplus toward the development
of Channel 50.

The TV station will show around 20
movies a month while also acting as a com-
munication channel for UK organizations
such as SG.

“Channel 50 is going to become UK,’
Phelps said.

A referendum from UK Green Thumb en-
vironmental club was passed and will appear
on the SG ballot this March.

The referendum asks if students are in
favor of a six to eight dollar raise in student
fees to go toward renewable forms of energy
at UK.

Green Thumb obtained over 1000 signa-
tures on a petition that would put the refer-
endum on the ballot but were told that it
would not be approved because the petition
forms were changed while Green Thumb
was receiving signatures.

“The only problem is the one we caused,"
Phelps said of the potential disqualiﬁcation
of the signatures.

The ﬁrst vote of a constitutional amend-

BLACK HISTORY MONTH

men snuuuio | srm
UK administrator William Turner, a 1968 graduate of UK, has been vice president for university initiatives and associate provost for the past year and a half. His
office in Patterson Office e tower is decorated with pictures of family and mementos of his history and heritage.

INVISIBLE
N O LONGER

UK administrator seeks more racial visibility

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the kind of
evolution of what
was the point of
reforms in the 19503
and ‘608 a kind of
social formation
where we

ment passed last night as well. it must be ap
proved in two weeks by a three-fourths ma-
jority.

The amendment would put the SG
Supreme Court in charge of handling cam-
paign violations instead of the Election
Board of Claims, an appointed committee.

The group will appoint members for the
committee at the next meeting, pending the
outcome of the amendment.

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ond article in a ﬁve-part series
highlighting several key people
and institutions in UK ‘3 black
community —— and showing how
their posts will impact UK ’s fu-
ture.

William Turner remem-
bers being invisible.

He was one of many peo-
ple on campus that could
seemingly be seen through.

It was the 1960s. right in
the middle of the Civil
Rights Movement, and Turn-
er was a student at UK.

“it was a place where
most majority group mem-
bers can't imagine the lonelie
ness and the estrangement,“
said Turner, now UK's vice

president for university ini-
tiatives and associate provost
for multicultural affairs.
“When you walk across cam-
pus and other human beings
seem to look right through
you."

Tuner came about a
decade after UK was desegre
gated.

“I had a role in follow-

See Turner on page 3

acknowledge and
appreciate each
other’s differences
but rally around a
common set of
values.”

- William Turner

New ratings
system could ﬁx
Cats’ problems

Houston, we have a solution.

Take away minutes

For the past few games, Bran-
don Stockton had been out on the
floor with the announced start-
ing lineup, huddling up with
them before the opening tap

The senior guard would stand
with the starters for a while, talk
into the huddle, put his hand in
with the nest and walk to the

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UK sophomore guard Joe Crawford grabs a loose ball away from Georgia
freshman guard Billy Hinnphrey during the ﬁrst half.

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lifts UK over UGA

cats answered the wake-up call.
They held the Bulldogs to 35 per-
cent shooting on their way to a 68-
61 win in Rupp Arena to snap
their three-game losing streak
and improve to 169 overall and 65
in the Southeastern Conference.
“It was pretty clear who the
starters were going to be the last
two days of practice," said junior
forward Sheray Thomas. who
came off the bench to lead Ken-
tucky in scoring with 13. “Ravi
had excellent practices and Bran-

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Earlier this week Tubby
Smith introduced a new point sys-
tem in practice in hopes that re
newed competition for starting
spots would help jar the UK men's
basketball team out of its defen-
sive funk.

Smith hinted that the lineup
might get a major faceliﬁ depend-
ing on who ﬂourished under the
new arrangement. Last night
against Georgia he made good on
that claim, and the new-look Wild-

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don played well. That’s the kind of senior
leadership we needt

Despite the jolt of energy from the
starters. it was the reserves who put the
Cats in the driver’s seat. Trailing 107.
Smith went to the bench. Thomas
promptly sparked a wave of UK buckets,
scoring the first six points of a 150 UK
run that put the Cats up 22-10. Twice in a
row senior guard Patrick Sparks found
Thomas deep in the paint for dunks.

“(The assists) just got me going," said
Thomas. “It got my conﬁdence up and I
started making shots."

But the Bulldogs went on a 152 run of

their own at that point, retaking the lead
at 2524 with 1:42 to go in the half.

“Their 1-3-1 gave us a lot of trouble
during that stretch," said Smith. Georgia
used the zone defense to force UK into
ﬁve of their season-high as turnovers
during the run.

Randolph-Morris scored four of his
ten points on the last two possessions of
the half to send the Cats into the locker
room with a 28% lead.

In the second half the Cats twice ran
the lead up to 14 points, largely because
of inside dominance and good shooting.
UK scored 24 of its 44 points in the paint
after the break and outrebounded the
Bulldogs 25-13 in the second period to
give them a 46-26 edge for the game.

But despite the stellar post play and
50-percent shooting effort. the outcome
was in doubt with just 1:40 remaining.

After falling behind 57-43, Georgia went
to a full court press and forced the Cats
into another barrage of turnovers that
keyed an 11-2 burst and closed the gap to
5954 on a layup from freshman guard
Billy Humphrey.

“We never really ﬁnish the game in
the right way,” Smith said. “Late game
situations are something we have to im-
prove on.”

But four more points from Thomas
and a run-out dunk from Rondo sealed
the victory

Smith said his experiment with the
new practice system worked

“Other than taking care of the has-
ketball we played okay.” he said. “We’re
going to (grade players) every day from
now on.”

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can’t dig ourselves a hole." Stockton said.
“We need to get out and get a good start
and do things right.“

Stockton got a chance to put up or
shut up last night, as part of the top ﬁve
in the new evaluation system implement—
ed by coach Tubby Smith in practices
that determines the starters for the
games.

Stockton said he thought the starters
showed the team what he had been talk-
ing about in the pregame huddle.

“The guys know now that this is how
we can play." he said. “The effort’s gotta
be there.”

It was the only cure for a team with
no motivation.

“It’s good to shake things up every
now and then," said Moss. “1 think it's
OK."

Moss said the dethroned starters
shook off the shake up.

“We’re a team." Moss said. “We just
want to win games.“

That hadn't appeared to be the Case
in recent contests. including last week-
end‘s loss to an obviously outmanned
Vanderbilt squad and last Tuesday's de-
feat to a talented Tennessee team.

But with minutes up for grabs, all of
a sudden the Smith-isms. like diving for
loose balls, rebounding. and especially
playing defense, all don't seem so bad.

“Coach said his players that play de-
fense. and do the little things. got to
start." Stockton said.

The implemented rating system,
wherein each drill of each practice is
evaluated on tape and the coaches decide
who played the best. was a hit with the
coaches and the players.

“We‘re gonna do that every day."
Smith said.

“He asked us if we thought it was a
good idea. and we all said yes." Stockton
said.

Smith said he was pleased with the

way the new starters played.

“I thought they gave good minutes,”
the coach said. “They didn't make a lot of
mistakes."

UK ﬁnished the game with a season-
high plus-20 rebounding margin (46-26).
It also leashed the Dogs on defense. hold-
ing them to 34.9 percent shooting.

The ﬁrst step off the bubble is beat-
ing the teams you need to beat.

Georgia. for the second time this sea-
son. has proven itself to be the perfect
tonic for a struggling UK team.

But it takes more than single-digit
wins over cellar-dwelling conference op
ponents to ease UK's way from the purga-
torial bubble.

With ﬁve games left. the Cats are off
and running on what they Stockton
terms a “new season.”

But Sparks and the Cats know
they‘ve got their backs against the bub-
ble.

“We need every game pretty bad,"
Sparks said.

Now they’re motivated.

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tenants are given a citation. they don‘t
know whether or not the offense will
count as an enforcement action towards
the Party Plan ordinance."

Mike Muth, the father of Brian Muth
who died before the beginning of last
school year in an alcohol related inci-
dent, said in a four-page letter he sent to
the commission that landlords should be
more responsible and know if their prop
erty has received a strike in the plan.

Lexington landlord Craig Hardi. said
it isn’t that simple.

“How can you hold us responsible if
we can‘t ﬁnd out if there are illegal activ-
ities taking place?” Hardin asked.

McGuffIn said that the police should
immediately notify a landlord about a
strike on their property. but which Major
Barry Cecil of the Lexington Police De-
partment also said would not be an easy
task.

“It‘s impossible to make contacts be
cause landlords aren't the problem," Ce-
cil said. “We will look into putting to-
gether a website where you can query
crime on speciﬁc properties that way it
wouldn‘t put burden on us to publish it
and it wouldn’t put burden on (landlords)
to ﬁle an open records request."

The commission also discussed
adding another strike to the current two-

strike system, giving offenders another
chance before facing a one-year party
ban.

“We decided to bump it to three be-
cause the three strike system is used in
baseball and has been successful in other
areas of government." said McGufﬁn.

Mallory Jenkins. a Student Govern—
ment senator, said that the vagueness of
the plan sometimes confuses students.

“I talked to students who got a noise
violation and a strike towards the Party
Plan while having band practice.“ said
Jenkins. “It would be helpful to students
just to know what counts as a strike to
wards the Party Plan.”

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ing the lead of those who
desegregated the Universi-
ty of Kentucky. I was in the
next wave," Turner said.

It took some getting
used to for the Eastern
Kentucky native, whose
dorm had more people
than his hometown.

“You had to grow accus-
tomed to faces that looked
at you with kind of a va-
cant expression, and I was
from a town where every-
one talked to each other,”
Turner said.

Turner was born in
1946 in Lynch, Ky, in Har-
lan County, the fifth of 10
children of William Earl
Turner, a coal miner with
a third-grade education,
and Naomi, who finished
the 10th grade.

“My parents grew up
when, by and large, work-
ing class black people were
not candidates for educa-
tion beyond high school,"
he said.

But his parents also
turned that into a powerful
life lesson.

“Our parents taught us
there were people who had
a better house and a better
standard of living and a
better this and a better
that, but that they were not
better than us," he said.
His parents also taught
him a way to a better life.

“We were raised up in
an era of segregation
where we understood that
in order to be mobile, we
would have to be twice as
good as a white person and
settle for opportunities
half as good,” he said.

Despite the Brown v.
Board of Education deci-
sion that made segregation
illegal, Lynch Colored
High School was still seg—
regated when he attended
four years later.

“It was not equal. We
had the hand-me-down
books,” he recalled, but
said that didn’t affect the
quality of his education.
“I’m one who personally
bears witness to the fact
that not all aspects of seg-
regated life were bad.

“I received a perfectly
good education from first-
rate teachers,” he said,
adding that most of the 52
students he graduated with
finished college. “When I
came to the University of
Kentucky in 1964, I was
about as prepared as any-
one else.”

During his time at UK,
not all of his learning was
done in the classroom.
Much of his learning came
from a friendship with
then-faculty member John
Stephenson, who later be-

came president of Berea
College in Berea, Ky. until
shortly before his death in
December of 1994. A pic-
ture of Stephenson now
hangs in Turner’s office,
along with pictures of Vi-
vian, his wife of 36 years,
and his three children and
two grandchildren.

“1 think one of the
things I took away from my
relationship with John
Stephenson is that teach-
ers can have a profound ef-
fect, more profound than
they sometimes realize,"
he said. “I vowed that if
given the opportunity, I
would be an open, ap-
proachable person who
would give to students
(also).”

“John was important to
me in the sense of (learn-
ing from him) that the race
label, what is your ‘bag-
gage,’ those simplistic bar~
riers are so easy to pene-
trate, and if you can get to
a point beyond the stereo-
types and the labels to the
person, you’ll be surprised
how easy it is to get along,"
he said.

He also took a class
taught by Doris Wilkinson,
a professor of sociology
and the first full-time black
faculty member, who is
still at UK today.

“(Bill) is bright,”
Wilkinson said. “And hav-
ing come from Eastern
Kentucky gives him — as
an African-American male
— a different perspective
on the racial dynamic.”

Turner also went on to
be involved in student
groups, including being
president of the Black Stu-
dent Union in 1967.

“He was active in cam-
pus events and a popular
student among all racial
groups on campus,"
Wilkinson said. “Even his
instructors liked him!”

Turner went on to grad-
uate in 1968 with a bache-
lor’s degree in sociology. In
1971 he got his master’s in
sociology and in 1974 he
completed a doctorate in
sociology and anthropolo-
gy from Notre Dame and
authored several books
about blacks in Ap-
palachia.

In 2004, Bill Turner re-
turned to Kentucky, this
time as a member of the
administration, a father
and a grandfather, the lat-
ter two requiring him to
call on lessons learned in
his youth.

“Your family was very
important, your family
name, your relationship to
your elders and the sense
of community that en-
veloped us like fog on the
mountain,” he said. “If
someone could say to my
grandchildren that they
know I tried to be a good
person, that’s all I could

want to leave."

Just as important to
him was his new duty,
which wasn’t really new to
him at all, after his ac-
tivism and involvement in
college.

“This work I do now in
Multicultural Affairs and
this battle for diversity is
not something I fell into as
a result of this job title,”
he said. “It's the same as
what I was doing 40 years
ago (as a student), they just
changed some of the
words."

His new position does
give him some important

. hindsight.

“If I knew then what I
knew now, I would have
spent my time not picket-
ing basketball games for
basketball players. I would
have been mor oncerned
that we don’t ave more
black doctors and
lawyers,” he said. “I wish
that all people in the Com-
monwealth of Kentucky
would focus (as much) on
the quality of our life, the
quality of our education,
the quality of our educa-
tional institutions as they
(focus on) our athletic in-
stitutions."

He also said he has
some ideas for the univer-
sity’s pursuits in the field
of diversity.

“The university is at a
critical point in history
with regard to being a top-
20 university and we won’t
be able to make that claim
unless we look like one,
with a diverse (popula-
tion)," he said. “I also have
a goal for the ﬂagship in-
stitution. for where I work,
to become a beacon light
regarding diversity and re-
garding excellence across
Kentucky, where people
can look and see where
Kentucky found its roots
again."

Wilkinson, who now
works alongside her for-
mer student, is confident
in his ability.

“He brings specific
competencies to the posi-
tion that he occupies. in-
cluding his exceptional in-
terpersonal skills," Wilkin-
son said. “I am amazed at
the level of energy that he
continues to display and
the enthusiasm that he
demonstrates for the vari-
ous tasks he is assigned.”

Turner said he takes
his goal seriously.

“I still believe we are
our brother’s keeper —— our
brothers and sisters A and
I will continue, God will—
ing, trying to fulfill my
purpose in this regard," he
said, quoting Martin
Luther King Jr. “I’m saying
that I cannot be satisfied
‘until justice rolls like wa-
ter and righteousness like
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WHAT'STHEDEAL? I Demystifying campus trends

Spring break antics don’t
always stay in the past

I‘ll never forget the ﬁrst
night of last year’s spring
break when I broke my toe by
stubbing it into the balcony
guardrail of my Nth-story
suite. What was supposed to
point forward and look skin-
colored suddenly jolted 90 de-
grees to the left and turned
bruise-purple. Out of an
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You’ve heard it in the Von-
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holds especially true for col-
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ing during the week-long cele~
bration known as spring
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You also hear every year
in some spring break market-
ing campaign the words.
“What happens at ‘such and
such' stays in ‘such and
such.” However. as large as
this campus may appear. it al
ways seems that everyone (in»
eluding those you didn't vaca‘
tion with) already know about
the stupid things you may
have experienced before you

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that brought you home.

Before each spring break,
students are given advice —
better yet, survival tips w in
order to help see that every-
one has the safest traveling
experience possible. Not that
listening to a little insight
every once in awhile will hurt
you, but I am going to take a
further approach and offer
my thoughtful simplicity to
allow you to really grasp the
concept of playing it safe
when out of school territory:
Don‘t be stupid.

We are all guilty of having
done something utterly stupid
or embarrassing before, such
as regurgitating some pizza
you ate in front of about 500
people at the local amusement
park (OK, maybe that’s just
me). and afterwards we all
think, well, “What was I
thinking?"

Fortunately, growing up is
a phenomenal result that
comes out of stupidity (espe-
cially in your younger years).
However. let‘s be rational and
realize there is not a lot of
room for error once you get to
this point in your life. Not
only are we considered young
adults. but we have a whole
generation of youth and old
age looking for us to become
the future leaders of the
world (Can I get an Amen?
No. OK).

Much like I mentioned in
an article last semester. I
imagine it to be very challeng-
ing having to explain in a law
school application why you

were arrested as a sophomore
in college because during
spring break some dude spit
on top of your head from over
a balcony and you thought it
would be wise to start a ﬁght
over it.

And yes. they actually ask
questions like that on the
graduate school entry applica-
tions. Whatever rash deci-
sions our brains are capable
of making at times of stress
and vulnerability, it's never
worth it to actually carry out
those decisions.

While on spring break, be
smart. Just because you are
1,376 miles away and feel in
vincible to all sober specta-
tors. you still can’t get away
with anything. .

On the other hand, if you
happen to be at a high point
in your life right now. people
with at a lower state of mind
will be out to get you. That
means, even if you go the en-
tire spring break week with a
halo around your head, be
cautious because the second
you slip up the slightest bit.
anything can become quickly
blown out of proportion.

Always watch what you do
and look after your friends.
Whether you are traveling out
of the country or going back
home to visit the local pub
bartender safety is a measure
that can never be overlooked.

With spring break less
than a month away. prepare.
And don’t let any rumor mill
begin with you.

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Pam Anderson 'nays' the
Kentucky Derby

FRANKFURT Ky -—»
Pamela Anderson will not be
attending the Kentucky Derby
this year as a means of
protesting “forcing horses to
race for our amusement.“

The 38-year-old actress
and member of People for the
Ethical Treatment of Ani-
mals has vowed to never re-
turn to the annual horse rac-
ing event because of her op-
position to all forms of ani
mal cruelty.

“It makes me want to
avoid Kentucky altogether,
which is sad because there
are so many great people
there." said the “Barb Wire"
and “Baywatch" star.

“Like most people. I don't
want to support cruelty to an
imals. whether it's forcing
horses to race for our amuse-
ment or scalding chickens
alive for our plate," she said.
“We have to be more evolved
than this."

Although she attended the
derby in 2001 and 20m. Ander-

son has been involved in anti-
fur ads and a campaign to
raise awareness of alleged
abuse of chickens in process-
ing plants that supply Ken-
tucky Fried Chicken, based in
Louisville, with poultry.

KFC's parent company,
Yum! Brands, is the present-
ing sponsor of the Kentucky
Derby. Anderson said she was
not pleased with the sponsor
ship, although it was not the
main catalyst for her opposi-
tion.

“I‘m not shocked that KFC
is sponsoring the Derby," said
Anderson. “It‘s greedy compa~
nies using poor animals all
the way around."

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LOS ANGELES. Calif. —~
Whatever you have heard
about Katie Holmes and Tom
Cruise breaking up. it‘s not
true, said Arnold Robinson.
publicist for the couple.

Robinson‘s statement
came in response to a cover
story article in the Feb. 27 is-

sue of Life & Style magazine.
which will be published on
Friday.

“It should be known that
the story is 100 percent false."
said Robinson in the state-
ment on Tuesday. Mr. Cruise
and Ms. Holmes are still en—
gaged and are moving for-
ward with their wedding
plans. as well as planning for
the arrival of their child."

The Hollywood couple
announced their engagement
in June and Holmes’ pregnan-
cy in October. The article
claims that Holmes, 27, and
Cruise, 43, “plan to keep up
the Charade of their romance
until after their baby’s birth
this spring."

“We stand 100 percent be-
hind our story," said a repre-
sentative from the magazine

Makes you want to jump
up and down on a couch, does
n't it?

— Compiled from AP and
wire reports by Features
Editor Doug Scott.

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away sweetheart, scan-
dalous undergarments and
gossiping friends will sure-
ly play a role in your Valen-
tine's Day weekend plans if
you attend the opening of
“Intimate Apparel” today at
the Guignol Theatre.

“It’s about dreams, and
how and why people have to
give up their dreams — it’s
about hope," said Nancy
Jones, the play’s director
and professor of theater at
UK.

“Intimate Apparel" is
set in 1905 Manhattan. The
main character is Esther, a
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