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Couponing offers ways to save more than 50 percent. Opinion, page 2
Education students faced with Fit To Teach policy.News, page 3
WEDNESDAYSeptember 7, 2011
Vol. 94 • No. 14
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� e path to landing a job just got easier.
Texas Wesleyan Career Services is hosting the Career Extravaganza Sept. 19 to 23. � e career services sta� has come up with several events to bring to students’ attention the services the o� ce provides.
Sherri Mata, director of career ser-vices, said the week-long event will be engaging, fun and informative all rolled into one.
“I hope students are more apt to come see us a� er these events be-cause they realize that we can help
them,” Mata said. “I hope students learn professional dress, profes-sional etiquette, how to network, tips they can use when they get out of here.”
Mata said she hopes to make these events annual.
“I’m hoping that, by word of mouth, students will be excited about these events in future years and get their friends to attend the events, as well,” Mata said.
Robyn Bone, associate director of career services, said these are just some of the fun events they have al-ways wanted to incorporate into ca-reer services.
From noon to 2 p.m. Sept. 19 on
the mall is the Emergency Resume Clinic.
Bone said the Emergency Resume Clinic is a revamped form of the clinic they have o� ered students for years but not gotten much response from.
“Whether the student is starting from scratch or has a resume and needs it critiqued, we’ll help them with their individual needs,” Bone said.
From noon to 1:15 p.m. Sept. 20 in Martin Hall is the Dress for Success Fashion Show.
� e fashion show will feature stu-dents modeling clothes from Dil-lard’s with hair and make-up done
by professionals. Bone said there will be a DJ, spot-
lights and the event will be video-taped. She said there will also be a drawing for a $50 Dillard’s gi� card.
“� e models, we want anybody and everybody,” Bone said. “If we have all one nationality, all one body � gure, it’s not going to teach those that have di� erent shapes and sizes and colors that this is what they can wear.”
From 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 21 in Lou’s Pavilion is Dinner Etiquette.
Bone said the Dinner Etiquette event will teach students the proper way to eat in a professional setting.
“Pretty much learning how to eat,
which fork to use � rst, where do you put your drinks versus the bread plate, which one is yours, stu� like that,” Bone said.
From noon to 1:15 p.m. Sept. 22 in Lou’s Pavilion is Speed Interviewing.
Bone said the Speed Interviewing is like speed dating. Students will have � ve-minute interviews with 10 employers in person and � ve em-ployers using Skype.
“� ese employers have all agreed that they want to hire students a� er that,” Bone said.
Bone said the employers on hand will vary from sales, information
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� e Fort Worth Museum of Science and His-tory is hosting a 9/11 10th anniversary tribute World Trade Center exhibit
� e exhibit is free to the public and will open with an initial ceremony from 8:45 a.m. to 9:28 a.m. on Sept. 11 at 1600 Gendy St., ending at the time the North Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.
� e exhibit will house an artifact taken from wreckage of the North Tower to commemo-rate those lost during the events of 9/11.
� e artifact is a 6,500-pound beam made of three columns of steel.
Properly referred to as N-101 or Impact Steel, it was used to support three � oors that were two stories above the impact of � ight 11.
Colleen Blair, executive vice president of inno-
vation and engagement at the Fort Worth Mu-seum of Science and History, said the exhibit is to honor the the historical value of 9/11.
“� at day forever changed history,” Blair said. “We are just so proud to have this beam.”
Blair said that seeing the artifact in person puts the tragedy into perspective.
“It was an architectural feat of the 21st cen-tury and now it’s mangled,” Blair said. “And to look at it now it is emotional.”
Seventy other pieces from the World Trade Center have been assigned to Texas, but the artifact entrusted to the science and history museum in Fort Worth is the largest in Texas.
Madalyn Russel, junior theatre major at Texas Wesleyan University, said it is commendable that Fort Worth has such a huge piece of history.
“Even though it did not happen in Tex-as, we are still a part of the nation,” Russel said. “It’s good that Fort Worth is trying to be a part of the memory of September 11.”
Russel also said it is important for stu-dents to go the exhibit.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re young or old,” Rus-sel said. “� e past is what makes the future.”
Deserae Davis, junior exercise major, said she is excited about the exhibit.
“I think it will be really cool to see that,” Davis said. “Being that it’s the actual piece, I would enjoy that.”
Piece of 9/11 travels to Fort Worth
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Couponing serves as second job
There was a time not so long ago when I heaved a dramatic sigh at any little old lady in line ahead of me at Walmart, who always seemed to whip out a stack of coupons so thick, that I thought I ought to take a seat, because I was in for the long haul.
These days, I am that lady—only younger, and with more coupons than she ever imagined existed.
I would like to say that I had some grand epiphany—that one day I just decided to start saving money and clipping coupons on my own accord. But I most owe it to the newest show on the TLC channel, Extreme Couponing.
Even though every episode is es-sentially the same thing happen-ing with different people, it still has a strange appeal. $3,000 worth of groceries for $9? Yes, please!
In today’s economy, even if our wallets are not completely empty, we like to save money. Now, most of us don’t have 40 hours a week to clip coupons like the extreme couponers on the show. However, we’re all capable of an hour or two each week to cut coupons, make a shopping list and get to our near-est store of choice—a sort of mild
couponing really. The first time I saved more
than $100 on two weeks of groceries and personal care products on a routine trip to Wally World, I knew I would never make a trip to shop without coupons again.
However, just taking Walmart into consideration (a place we all hate to admit we sometimes visit more than once or twice a week), there are even more savings to be had.
Those executives who make the decisions for Walmart are defi-nitely in it to make money and crush the competition. Changing their policy to make it easier at the beginning of this year, Wal-Mart is one of the biggest stewards for price matching.
They will price match any rea-sonably close store on any prod-uct. Combine a price match with a coupon and sometimes you’ve got items for mere pennies, for free or better than free.
However, couponing is not something anyone can go willy nilly into and expect such high savings. It’s all about knowing how to play the game before and after you get to the store.
The first thing every person wanting to learn how to coupon must do is subscribe to a few of thousands of couponing blogs available online. Not only do these blogs tell you where the best price matches and sales are—they link you to printable manufacturers
coupons, which can be used in any grocery store accepting coupons.
Second, write all price match-es and items you would like to purchase down before you make it to the store, and know what your store’s cou-poning policies are.
Cashiers of-ten do not know their own store’s policy, so you may have to speak up at times when co-operation seems unlikely and knowledge is lacking on their part.
Third, don’t rush while you are in the store. Yes, it can take a couple of hours to get in and out of the store, but it definitely low-ers the stress level if you go down your list, and file each coupon you use in a single baggy after you’ve found the item and put it in your cart.
Plus, if you think about it, with it only really taking about an hour of prep time to cut coupons and
compile your list, and a couple of hours for the trip; if you save just $100, it’s like you have a job mak-ing near $34 an hour. Seems like a great bargain to me.
But if there’s one thing that someone takes away from this information I hope it’s this bit of advice: when you’re in the fi-nal stretch and getting ready to
make the venture through check-out, treat your cashier like he or she has been your best friend for 10 years. In this situation, a little sugar always goes further than vinegar.
A happy cashier equals a faster checkout, and in result, a happier you and less money having es-caped your bank account.
Residence hall improvements impress
With residence halls dating back to the 1930s, it could be a challenge to create a comfortable and welcoming dorm life for 21st century residents. Texas Wesleyan’s Residence Life staff conquered this challenge with the new renovations that have taken over Elizabeth Hall.
As a two-and-a-half year Elizabeth Hall resident, I feel more than worthy of saying that the new laminate floors and showers have made the rooms feel sufficiently cleaner. The comfort and home atmosphere that the Lizzy lounge chairs add is great.
These types of renovations show the Texas Wesleyan administrators are concerned with the livelihood of their on-campus residents and that they are more than willing to accommodate the needs and com-plaints that discerned in past se-mesters.
Last semester, I did have some objections to the price of Elizabeth’s single bedrooms being raised $1,000 more than Stella Hall, but with more privacy, cleaner bathrooms and wood floors, the money was well worth it.
Elizabeth’s lounge was also reno-vated summer 2010 and adds to the perks of living in the residence life. These renovations included a paint job, new furniture, a new flat screen television and two additional com-puters for resident use.
Although these too were nice chang-es, it is our rooms where we spend the majority of our time and this year, it is
our rooms that have become more like our homes.
To add to the clean sweep, all on-campus housing received new wire-less, energy efficient washing ma-chines and dryers.
As if having a clean room wasn’t enough, Wesleyan students will be breaking college tradition by walking around campus with clean clothes as well.
All of these washers and dryers are free to residents and have a fea-ture that allows the students to re-ceive a text message every time they are available.
Through all these changes, staff working in Residence Life have not only created a more comfortable and clean environment for their students to live in, but also support-ed the Blue Plus Gold Equals Green Committee as well as the gymnastic team’s “go green” efforts.
Facebook offers tool for employers to screen applicants
With the rise of social networks, more companies are looking at Facebook as another tool for the hiring process.
Some employers check the pro-files of their applicants and use that information along with back-ground checks, resumes and in-terviews to make their decision on whether or not the applicant should be hired.
The debate going on right now, between employers and appli-
cants, is whether or not it is ethical for employers to use Facebook as a means to approve or disapprove their applicants.
Employers should contin-ue to check their applicants’ Facebook profiles.
What applicants do not understand is that employers
want to hire the very best. They will use every outlet they can to distin-guish between the good and bad applicants.
I have heard people complain of several things related to this debate such as employers being too nosy, it’s an invasion of privacy and em-ployers need to keep professional and personal lives separate.
Applicants need to understand that when they are hired to work for a certain company, they are a part
of that company. They represent that company. No company wants to hire someone who will later embarrass them with inappropriate photos and com-ments.
Applicants also need to under-stand that a Facebook check is not an invasion of privacy. Anything posted online is available to every-one. If applicants don’t want em-ployers to look at their profile, then they should simply delete it during the time they are job hunting.
A Facebook check serves to help inform the employer just how mature the applicant really is. If they see pictures of the applicant in which he or she seems to not
be using his or her best judgment, or if they read lewd and inappropriate comments posted by that applicant, can the em-ployer really be blamed for choosing not to hire them?
Let us say for example an employer sees one of
their applicants tagged in a photo where he or she is passed out on the couch with sharpie written all over their face and beer bottles scattered across the floor. Who in their right mind would hire a person after see-ing such a photo?
Here is another example: an em-ployer searches one of their appli-cants and find that a candidate is badmouthing his or her last em-ployer. What does that say about that person’s work ethic? I’ll tell
you what it says: that the applicant is unprofessional online and un-professional in the workplace.
By searching their applicants, employers are given information they would not have otherwise dis-covered before hiring them.
Knowing that they have this type of information at their disposal, why would employers choose to not use it?
It is unrealistic to believe employ-ers will not search their applicants. They know Facebook is a powerful tool and they are going to use it.
Employers are looking for the candidates that demonstrate good judgment at all times, Facebook in-cluded.
If an applicant is mature enough to work in a professional setting, he or she should be mature enough to show good judgment on Facebook.
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Photo Illustration by Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffFor those interested in couponing, the Sunday edition of any major newspaper, including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Dallas Morning News. Some online blogs also offer printable manufacturers coupons that are not offered in newspapers.
Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler StaffLizzy Lounge chairs were one of the new additions to all resi-dence hall rooms, which were given several improvements over the summer before students returned in August.
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Faculty at Texas Wesleyan have implented a Fitness to Teach pol-icy to help education majors in the classroom.
� e Wesleyan School of Educa-tion decided to incorporate a policy at the beginning of the fall semes-ter that screens teacher certi� ca-tion program candidates in order to identify problems that could hinder students later on professionally. � is allows faculty at the School of Edu-cation to target these issues and de-cide whether the student is capable of completing the program.
Bill Newton, assistant professor of education, said the policy’s intent is to assist students.
“It’s really not intended to be a pu-nitive thing,” Newton said. “It’s kind of an early intervention opportunity for students that some of the profes-sors may identify as having some dif-� culties.”
Newton said the Fitness to Teach policy has been in place for several years informally at Wesleyan, but the faculty requested it be formalized and be used more consistently.
“All the undergraduate profes-sors should have it [� tness to teach policy] in their syllabi,” Newton said. “We will be posting it on the School of Education website.”
Joe Dryden, as-sistant professor of education, said there are many people that know many things but are not e� ective teachers. He said Fitness to Teach is designed to isolate students that need to develop certain skills that will help them in the classroom.
“� ere are a set of so� skills so to speak that a teacher has to possess,” Dryden said. “Emotional in-telligence, social in-telligence [and] the capacity to interact with children.”
Dryden also said this program could help students make a life changing deci-sion.
“Teaching is not for everybody,” Dryden said. “� ere’s a lot people out there that have been students for a long time who think teaching is easy and it’s really a rather demanding, di� cult job.”
According to the policy, stu-dents that show they need assis-
tance are given an improvement plan. Students that do not show improvement upon review may end up in a consequential situa-tion.
“If a student does not address
the issues in their remediation plan they may not be allowed to student teach,” Dryden said.
Julie McLaughlin, sophomore education major, said she thinks implementing the fitness to teach
policy is a move in the positive di-rection.
“I think it’s going to be help-ful,” McLaughlin said. “That way when you become a teacher you won’t be afraid.”
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New policy implemented for education
technology, marketing, � nance and computer science. She said Target and Boy Scouts of America will at-tend the event.
“Obviously, 15 employers don’t accommodate all of our majors but some are looking for all positions,” Bone said. “Some might be looking for � nance and IT, at the same time.”
From noon to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 23 on the mall is the culmination of the week with free food from res-
taurants in the area. Bone said the Dine Around Wesleyan event is to let students know about other din-ing options in the area.
Senior counseling intern Eronia Melesse said she and Bone spent more than a year hashing out the details for each of these events a� er the original ideas were conceived.
“I think these events will de� -nitely help a� er they graduate,” Melesse said. “When they’re try-
ing to get a job and have interviews and dinners with bosses and things like that. � ey’re going to learn tips they can keep for the rest of their lives.”
Timothy Reese, senior Spanish and comparative religion major, said he is looking forward to all of the events, especially the fashion show, speed interviews and eti-quette dinner.
Reese said he believes the eti-quette dinner will be most helpful.
“Absolutely it will be bene� cial,” Reese said. “If for no other reason
than they won’t embarrass them-selves in front of important people.”
Kimberly Shamshoian-Sakamo-to, freshman undecided major, said she is looking forward to the fash-ion show.
“I would enjoy the opportunity to see the di� erent out� ts and to really be able to see a put-together out� t that would be appropriate for going to an interview,” Sham-shoian-Sakamoto said.
Shamshoian-Sakamoto said she is also looking forward to the re-sume clinic.
“Personally, I need to work on a resume because I’m not sure which key aspects I need to work on and what really needs to be on there,” Shamshoian-Sakamoto said.
Bone said the Fashion Show, Dinner Etiquette and Speed In-terviewing events require prereg-istration.
For more information about the Career Extravaganza, contact the Career Services o� ce at [email protected]. Students can reg-ister on Career Link or walk into the Career Services o� ce.
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Photo Illustration by Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffThe Texas Wesleyan School of Education has put into place a “Fit to Teach” policy, which could affect all education students.
Arts & Entertainment
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Flashy costumes and funky drinks make 8.0 bar and res-taurant the perfect hot spot for a college bar hopper.
8.0 is located in downtown Fort Worth off Commerce and 3rd Street.
This restaurant by day turns into a bar by night with live entertainment and drink spe-cials Monday through Friday.
I happened to step into 8.0 on a night of two-stepping, where 99.5 The Wolf, a local country music station, brought out Charlie Shafter to perform for “Ranch Wednesday.”
8.0 has live entertainment Wednesday through Satur-day, each with a different theme. You can check out the website at http://www.eighto-bar.comto see the full sched-ule of performers.
Being a broke college stu-dent, I was excited to be able to enjoy live entertainment while sipping on a $3 Blue Thing, 8.0’s famous frozen margarita.
This isn’t the only drink they have on special. From 3-7 p.m. you can partake in half-price appetizers like the chicken nachos or cheese fries that I tried, or just enjoy a cold beer, wine or mixed drink.
Their specials include $2 wells, $3 Blue Things, $2.50 domestic beers, $5 margaritas and $3 house wines.
I tried vodka and sprite as well as a Blue Thing – both tasty and full of body.
The appetizers, on the other hand, were not as enticing. You really cannot go wrong with cheese fries topped with jala-penos and served with a side of ranch, but the chicken nachos were dry and rather flavorless. They were made with black beans that seemed to over-whelm the flavor and the cheese was not completely melted.
Overall, I had a great expe-rience at 8.0 and servers were more than willing to help out with any questions I had.
For two people, we paid a total of $20 and got four alcoholic beverages and two full-portioned appe-tizers. I would definitely go back to enjoy another Blue Thing and check out a new band.
Wednesday, Sept. 7, 8.0 will host country western singer Aaron Watson, who will be followed on Sept. 9 by the ex-travagant Le Freak, a ‘70s re-make band.
Bands hit the stage Wednes-days and Thursdays at 6 p.m. and finish about 10 p.m., but weekend bands get a later start around 10 p.m. and do not stop until closing time at 2 a.m.
I would highly recommend this bar to any college student. It is a place for a diverse group of people to come together and enjoy good music and af-fordable drinks.
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Downtown Fort Worth hot spot 8.0’s lives up to expectations
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Jordan Twine | Rambler Staff8.0 bar and restaurant is located in downtown Fort worth off Commerce and 3rd Street. 8.0 has live entertainment Wednesday through Saturday evenings.
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In-N-Out Burger trans-ports customers back through time to the 1950s, when burg-ers, fries and shakes were the staples of fast food.
The chain’s newest location opened on Aug. 8 at 2900 W. 7th St. in Fort Worth.
When I turned off of W. 7th, the line for the drive-thru was wrapped around the entire building.
John Petrov, manager of In-N-Out Burger on W. 7th said business has been very busy since it opened.
“We try to be more on quality than the speedy ele-ment of our name,” Petrov said. “We are more on quality and freshness here.”
As I walked through the door, I was greeted by smil-ing faces wearing vintage diner hats. All of the work-ers are required to wear the classic white button-up dress shirt and white slacks cov-ered by a red apron.
Once I got through the line, ordering food was as easy as one, two, three.
In-N-Out only offers three value meals, the Double-Dou-ble, the cheeseburger and the hamburger.
Petrov said they have in-corporated an animal style burger, which is burger of your choice with hand-leafed lettuce, tomato, a mustard cooked beef patty, pickle, ex-tra spread and grilled onions.
For the customers who want to limit their carbohy-drates they also have a pro-tein style which is a lettuce wrapped burger instead of a bun.
“I personally eat that a lot,” Petrov said. “It keeps all the juices inside the patty, and I personally like it a lot better.”
I ordered the number two without onions and toma-
toes. The burger size itself was an average size burger, but it was enough for me and Christopher Young, a Haltom City resident.
Young said the lines were really long, but it did not take long to get his food.
“You are in and out,” Young said. “It only took me 10 minutes to get my food.”
Young said the service was good and the food was good.
“The burger is actually juicy,” Young said. “The fries are not like regular fries, they are not greasy.”
Young said that In-N-Out is filling, so you don’t have to get a lot of food.
“I’m a big man, I eat a lot of food,” Young said. “I got the Double-Double with fries and a large drink for less than $7 and I couldn’t finish it all.”
Mackenzie Ashton of Fort Worth agreed with Young about the burger, but disagreed with him about the french fries.
“It was good, the food was good,” Ashton said. “The fries I’m not so crazy about.”
Ashton also said she liked the uniforms the staff wore.
“It seems kind of ridiculous how busy it is,” Ashton said. “But I guess people really want to try it.”
Prices for a hamburger start out at $3.40 and go up to $7.85 for the Double-Double meal. The fast food chain also offers chocolate, vanilla and strawberry shakes for dessert.
In-N-Out Burger was founded in 1948, in Cali-fornia by Harry and Esther Snyder. Harry’s idea of hav-ing a drive-thru hamburg-er stand with a two-way speaker system was quite different from the usual carhop drive-thru that his counterparts in the indus-try were doing. The Snyder family has no intention of taking the company public or franchising any units.
In-N-Out is open 10:30 a.m.-1a.m., Sunday through Thursday and 10:30 a.m. - 1:30 a.m. on Friday and Sat-urday.
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Fast food chain has Fort Worth residents ‘In-N-Out’
Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffCalifornia-born food chain, In-N-Out Burger, opened it’s newest location on Aug. 8 at 2900 W. 7th St. in Fort Worth. The 1950s-themed resturaunt only serves three value meals, the Double-Double, the cheeseburger and the hamburger. In-N-Out has no intentions of franchising any units yet continues to expand.
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Ten years past,but never forgotten
“I was dropping o� my daughter at school, and as usual, I had the radio on, and I kept hearing bits and pieces and about an acci-dent involving a plane crashing into a build-ing in NY.
However, I did not realize the scope of the day’s occurrences until I arrived to my univer-sity campus for work, and I noticed that al-most everyone (I mean
everyone) ... students and all ... were on the phone.It seemed unusual, but I parked and started toward
my o� ce because I had a class to teach in about one hour. When I got to my o� ce, another professor informed me about what was happening and I was shocked and numb. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know how to proceed with my day. “
- Dr. Patsy Robles-Goodwin, Associate Professor and Director of ESL Bilingual Programs
“My husband � om-as was traveling to Bos-ton for a seminar. He works for the Ameri-can Airlines Federal Credit Union.
When a co-worker at the company I was with at the time came in and told us about the at-tacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, I thought he was joking at � rst.
� en reality sank in as I heard that all do-
mestic air tra� c was grounded until further notice. I thought, ‘If all domestic air tra� c is grounded, that means American Airlines is pretty much shut down. And if American’s shut down, that means my hus-band is stranded.’
� omas came home that Saturday a� er a 40-hour bus ride to an apartment door I had decorated with yellow crepe paper in the shape of a heart and a quote from the Queen song ‘You’re My Best Friend.’ ”
- Jan Pettigrew Wilde, Alumna, Class of 1994
“I remember how worried I was because my brother o� en � ew in and out of Boston (as a United Airlines pilot) and even more worried when he was not answering his cell phone (turned out he was on vacation, in the mountains, and did not have a signal). I later realized that I was not concerned about any-one else; this bothered me.
But I also was not pleased with the collective re-sponse--even from Christians--that ensued. As egre-gious as that event was, it should not have led to a mass sentiment of all-out vengeance. From a Chris-tian viewpoint, this is not acceptable. And since 9/11, our nation has been in a downwardly-spiraling black hole of war that is not a justi� able position accord-ing to the Christian traditions of “just war” (an open-ended, perpetual war cannot be justi� ed).”
- Dr. Robert Flowers, University Chaplain
“I was on the toll way in Addison headed to work when I was listen-ing to WBAP news ra-dio. You could see other driver’s faces reacting to the news since we were in bumper-to-bumper early morning tra� c.
When the second plane hit the second tower, you could then see just about everyone had tears in their eyes and some peo-ple were openly crying and sobbing.
It was unreal in the sense you could see people cry-ing, but you were separated by a few feet of concrete, yet you could see the raw emotions on people’s faces. You just couldn’t do anything to console perfect strang-ers who were just feet away, but somehow you knew this a� ected all of America.
Since I was an working as an aerial photographer at the time, I didn’t realize it at the time this would change my career path forever.”
-Cary Poole, Dean of Students
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Christine � am, catering manager at Wesleyan, shares her birthday with a monumen-tal date, Sept. 11.
� e day � am turned 18 was the day the U.S. was attacked and forever changed.
Not only was � am’s birthday on Sept. 11, but she also was raised in New York.
� am was born in Monrovia, Liberia but moved to New York when she was 5 years old. She continued to live there until she moved to Texas at age 15. Her mother and brother also live in Texas, but her father still lives in New York.
She said it was a shock to her when she heard the news of the attack.
“[It is] not something you want to happen on your birth-day,” � am said. “It made me feel too depressed to actually celebrate.”
She said she and her family acknowledge her birthday but still keep in mind the signi� -cance of the date.
“It’s hard to be happy when you know what happened on that day,” � am said.
She said she prefers to do some sort of volunteer work on her birthday.
“Now I don’t really celebrate. I try to do things for others on my birthday,” � am said.
She said New York is an im-portant part of her life and she tries to visit once a year, ei-ther in the summer or during Christmas.
� am said she does not feel
like she lost her birthday, but gained insight on how caring people can be when dealing with loss.
Her brother, John � am, 19, is a student at St. Mary’s Uni-versity and a native-born New Yorker. He is also in the Nation-al Guard.
“I’m proud of him. He’s doing a great thing for his country,” � am said.
John said he enlisted last Oc-tober.
He said watching the second tower fall on television was a surreal experience.
“We would go to the World Trade Center all the time,” John said.
He said now that he is older and more experienced, he has more American pride.
“It’s things like that, that show
us we’re capable of uniting and we’ll be there for each other when the time calls for it,” John said.
John said they still tell � am happy birthday but are more preoccupied with the fact that it has been one more year since the tragedy.
“It makes you realize how time � ies,” John said.
John said he saw the remains of the World Trade Center the second and third year a� er the attack.
“It made me think of why someone would want to do that,” John said.
He said their mother, Anna � am, will visit New York for the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.
John said he does not think his sister lost her birthday ei-
ther; it only has more signi� -cance.
Tomika Steward, o� ce man-ager of dining services and co-worker of � am, said she has known � am for almost four years.
Steward said when she first found out about Tham’s birthday, her initial reac-tion was thinking her birth-day did not have the same meaning.
“She’ll always remember that,” Steward said. “It’s sad because you remember all the lives that were lost unnecessarily.”
However, Steward said she does not think it is a negative thing to have a birthday on Sept. 11.
“A very big thing in history happened on her birthday,” Steward said.
Birthday shared with life-changing event
“I was working in Hu-man Resources at Six Flags at the time & my husband (then boy-friend) was traveling a lot for his job.
When I heard the news on my way to work that day – I was in a state of panic because my hus-band was literally on a plane in the air when all this was happening!
� ank God he reached his destination un-harmed. He was with a few co-workers and they had to rent a car & drove all the way back to Texas from Chicago. � e events of that day are still hard to believe.
Although the events did not directly a� ect my life, it obviously had a great a� ect on our nation.
I only wish the patriotism that was shown in the months following 9/11 was still alive today.”
-DeAwna Wood, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations
“I was giving a logic exam when one student in the class returned and told me about the at-tacks. I was in the Busi-ness building and went into their o� ce a� er I had � nished giving the test. At that stage the south tower was still standing, and it didn’t look too bad. I went onto a joint session in Humanities, and Charles Martin came in and told us that both towers had collapsed. I was totaly aghast, since I have slides that I made from the top of the World Trade Center in 1987. � e horri� c loss of life, plus the destruction of the buildings (which were beautiful) devastated me. It was the worst day of my life.
For the next three weeks I could not even see pictures of the Twin Towers without weeping copiously. It was one horri� c day.”
-Dr. Bruce McDonald, Associate Professor of Religion
Erica Estrada
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McRae Elementary raise standardsJonathan [email protected]
Editor’s Note: � is is the sec-ond story in a series that takes a look at Polytechnic Heights schools and their e� orts to meet state acceptability re-quirements.
More than a year will pass before every elementary, middle and high school in the state will receive an academic accountability rating from the Texas Education Agency based on their students’ stan-dardized test scores.
� e time lapse, caused by members of the TEA’s deci-sion to create a new rating system based on the State of Texas Assessments of Aca-demic Readiness test being introduced during the 2011-2012 school year for the � rst time, means two things for schools in the Polytechnic area. � ey have to rebuild on the weaknesses from their previous scores while pre-paring for the challenges that will come from the next.
Administrators and fac-ulty at D. McRae Elementary, which was deemed academi-cally unacceptable earlier this year, have already begun planning their e� orts to im-prove student performance, yet they remain uncertain about the level of di� culty they should expect from the new test.
In addition to a� er-school tutoring, McRae principal, Kendall Miller said faculty will continue to focus on the quality of instruction throughout the day.
“� e bigger question is the new STAAR test,” Miller said.
STAAR will replace the Texas Assessment of Knowl-edge and Skills, or TAKS test, which was given to 3rd-12th
grade students beginning in 2003 to measure their aca-demic performance.
� e African-American sub-group at McRae scored an average 63 percent out of the required 70 percent of the reading portion of the TAKS and just missed the math portion, with only 63 percent of African American stu-dents meeting the required 65 percent.
� e STAAR test will be more rigorous than the TAKS, according to a TEA press release. In addition, students will have a limited amount of time on the STA-AR instead of having all day like they did on the TAKS.
To improve reading skills, Miller said 60 of the needi-est students were selected to participate in an after-school tutoring program beginning the week after Labor Day. Teachers, teach-ing assistants and tutors consisting of college stu-dents and degree-holders both will man the program.
At the time this was writ-ten, students were still tak-ing a skill assessment test to see if they needed to join the program.
The large number of eco-nomically disadvantaged children enrolled at the 840-student school qualify McRae for large amounts of Title I federal funding, which the school uses to hire analysts to help them best use their resources.
“We see what kids need help and how we’re going to help them,” Miller said.
Miller said his faculty, which contains only one new teacher and was serv-ing under him when the school was recognized by the TEA two years ago, fo-
cuses on keeping a positive atmosphere and a neat and clean environment to help improve performance.
Without mention of Mill-er’s remarks, Dr. Carlos Martinez, dean of the Texas Wesleyan School of Educa-tion, said quality person-nel and positive attitudes are the key to running an exemplary school inside of large, urban cities – which can otherwise prove diffi-cult.
Besides the stresses and poverty that come with the majority of students, ad-ministrators also have to deal with the overwhelm-ing amount of students that pack the hallways in inner-city schools, Martinez said. This, paired with the large amount of faculty required
to teach those students, make it hard for large schools to succeed.
“Some of these schools are so big, they’re difficult to manage,” Martinez said, referring to the schools which have 800 to 1,000 students enrolled. “The challenges are significant; the solutions are multi-variable.”
Those solutions, he said, are resilient teachers who can overcome language barriers and teach a room of 22 students with 22 indi-vidual learning styles.
“You have to know your stuff,” Martinez said. “Con-tent areas become key. You have to be able to take your box of tricks and modify it for various students.”
Martinez refers to a
teacher’s box of tricks as the skill-set or unique style he or she possesses to enhance the curriculum in an effec-tive manner.
A teacher does not get a box of tricks by attending class, but by getting real-world experience, some-thing a group of Wesleyan undergraduate education students were able to do during the summer.
Dr. Lisa Dryden, direc-tor of graduate programs in the school of education and professor of education, took her beginning litera-cy class to McRae during their Summer I semester this past summer. The class worked with 2nd and 3rd grade students in summer school there.
“I don’t think you’re real-
ly prepared [for the teach-ing experience] until you’re out there,” Dryden said.
Although some McRae students were facing dif-ficulties, such as language barriers or having experi-enced drive-by shootings first hand and had parents in jail, Dryden said the school was making a tremendous effort to help them.
“� e school is really reach-ing out to these kids to help them be successful,” Dryden said.
Dryden said the lesson that cut the deepest with Wes-leyan students, was about “being out in the trenches” is teaching not one student, but an entire class.
“What these kids re-ally need is a one-on-one,” Dryden said.
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Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffMcRae elementary is in the process of deciding which children need the after school program. When this article was written the students were still taking a skills assessment test to determine who will qualify for the program.
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The Morton Fitness Center is sponsoring seven walking teams for the Heart Association’s Heart Walk at 8 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10 in the Fort Worth Stockyards.
AAron Whaley, Morton Fitness Center director, said Wesleyan has been involved with the Heart Walk since 2007 as individuals, but this year is the first year Wes-leyan walkers have been involved in the event as teams.
“This year, the reason we got involved in it is because I was try-ing to make Wesleyan become a Heart Fit campus,” Whaley said.
Since 2007, the Wesleyan in-dividuals involved in prior races have raised $6,452 for the Heart Association.
“Our goal this year is to try and get $3,000 so, we’ll see,” Whaley said.
Whaley said individuals can make donations or team captains can raise money among team members. Whaley said a donation does not have to be made to par-ticipate in a team or in the walk.
Whaley said he has designed Wesleyan Heart Walk T-shirts which will be free to anyone but
Heart Walk participants get first pick.
Elizabeth Henson, library clerk, said she is a team captain and she got involved with the Heart Walk because she believes it helps people get started on an exercise regimen.
“I don’t have any personal ex-perience with the Heart Associa-tion because of health problems,” Henson said. “My mother and I walk together; we do 5K’s [5K is 3.5 miles long] all the time for lots of different associations, diabetes, heart, MADD, every-thing.”
Henson said there is a lot of en-ergy surrounding these types of walks.
“There are so many people there, it’s crazy,” Henson said. “It’s not like anything I’ve expe-rienced before.”
Henson’s mother, Michele Martinez, a retired software en-gineer at Lockheed Martin, said she likes to participate in walks to support the community and promote healthy living.
Martinez said she has not had any direct connection to heart problems but she has experi-enced the hardship with her friends. “One friend had a heart attack
very young, she was still in her 40s and then another friend had a stroke,” Martinez said. Martinez said the walk will be easy for stu-dents to do be-cause students walk all over
the Wesleyan campus every day.“A young person can get up and
walk a three-mile walk with no problems at all,” Martinez said.
Martinez also said she agrees with her daughter about the en-ergy and excitement during the walks. Martinez said the most en-ergizing part is crossing the finish line.
“I’m usually pretty happy that I’ve gotten across that line and we go and look for the first water
bottle,” Martinez said. “For me, it’s a sense of accomplishment that I managed to cross that line.”
For more information about joining one of the Wesleyan teams contact AAron Whaley at 817-531-7589.
To register for the Heart Walk, visit www.tarrantcountyheart-walk.org click on register, agree to the terms, then click on join a team, select Texas Wesleyan from the drop down menu.
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The Poly-Wesleyan Ki-wanis club is sponsoring a children’s magic festival at 3 p.m. Sept. 11 in Mar-tin Hall, to raise money for programs at D. McRae Ele-mentary and Sagamore Hill Elementary.
John Gonzales, commu-nity outreach coordinator for Texas Wesleyan and president-elect for Poly-Wesleyan Kiwanis, said in 2008 the Texas-Oklahoma division of Kiwanis con-ducted a needs assessment of the area and the eastside was the only part of Fort Worth that did not have a Kiwanis club.
Gonzales said it is a good organization to have since it serves the community and focuses on helping children.
Dr. Harold Jeffcoat, for-mer president of Texas Wesleyan, was approached in 2008 by the Texas-Okla-homa Kiwanis division about hosting an interest meeting, which resulted in the organization starting.
Gonzales said Kiwanis’ motto is ‘serving one child and one community at a time.
Kiwanis serves children by helping improve their grades through the Bring-ing Up Grades (BUGS) pro-gram.
Gonzales said the new
Kiwanis chapter specializes in service leadership pro-grams like BUGS and works exclusively with Fort Worth schools, D. McRae and Sag-amore Hill.
Kiwanis members also work with principals to rec-ognize any student that has brought up a grade from the previous six weeks.
“It does not necessarily need to be a certain letter grade, or number,” Gon-zales said. “As long as they [students] have brought up a grade, this encour-ages them to bring up their grades.”
Gonzales said there are a lot of children at the schools they work with that may not get that support from home or anywhere.
“This type of program really encourages them,” Gonzales said. “There is some good in bringing up your grades, and striving to do better.”
Gonzales also said the children get a certificate that says they brought up their grades, in addition to pencils, stickers or some kind of trinket.
Sandy Myers, Kiwanis member and grants and communications coordi-nator at Wesleyan said her favorite thing to do is dress up as Lucy Ladybug, her al-ter ego for the BUGS pro-gram, when she visits el-ementary schools.
“I am a bit of a ham so
playing Lucy is fun,” Myers said. “I have a strong com-mitment to the Poly area.”
Myers said she joined the Poly-Wesleyan Kiwanis be-cause she got to work with children.
“It was an opportunity to represent Wesleyan in the community,” Myers said. “I think it is important to be involved in the community to the extent that children should see examples of adults volunteering.”
Les Minear, secretary of Kiwanis said that on Thurs-day, Sept. 1 the Poly-Wes-leyan Kiwanis members organized a Key Club at Poly High School and Dun-bar High School. A Circle K club has also been orga-nized at Texas Wesleyan University. Minear said that he originally joined Kiwan-is to meet with some retired World War II veterans.
“I joined this club [Poly-Wesleyan Kiwanis chapter]
to have an option to do more things,” Minear said.
The C.J. Johnson Magic Festival will last about 75-90 minutes and includes seven to 10 major illusions. All proceeds will benefit Fort Worth elementary schools, high schools, local Key Clubs and the Kiwanis B.U.G.S. program.
Poly-Wesleyan Kiwanis club will be hosting a bas-ketball game featuring Harlem Ambassadors Pro-
fessional Show Basketball team in the spring. The Kiwanis organization has three different levels: Ki-wanis is for adults, Circle K is the college age group and The Key Club is for the high school age level. All three of these organizations work to achieve the same goal to serve the children of the Polytechnic area.
Tickets can be purchased for $10 by contacting Sandy Myers at 817-531-4957.
Poly-Wesleyan Kiwanis hosts magic show
Wesleyan teams laces up for heart walk
www.kiwanis.org | CourtesyPoly-Wesleyan Kiwanis is currently recruiting members at Wesleyan for Circle K which is the college-level of Kiwanis. They are looking for students interested in making a difference in the community and looking for students who like working with children.
http://www.heartofwisconsin.blogspot.com | CourtesyThe American Heart Associatio Heart Walk start at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday Sept. 10 in the Fort Worth Stockyards.
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Slabach encourages students to continue strivingAlejandra [email protected]
To set students on a positive path this fall, the Texas Wesleyan community gathered for an an-nual message.
On Aug. 30, students, faculty and sta� attended the 19th An-nual Academic Convocation in the Polytechnic United Method-ist Church.
Convocation commemorates the beginning of a new school year. � e keynote speaker for the event was Frederick Slabach, president of Texas Wesleyan.
Slabach said he wanted to fo-cus his speech on encouraging students to advance their criti-cal reasoning, writing and oral communication because they are skills necessary to succeeding.
“I hope that the students are interested, and continue to be in-terested, in the discussion of the critical thinking and reasoning,” Slabach said. “It directly relates to the economic future of our stu-dents.”
Slabach discussed the status of Wesleyan in the No. 1 tier of re-gional universities. It is ranked 71
in the USA Today 2011 edition of best colleges in west regional uni-versities.
“� is is the same tier as Trin-ity in San Antonio, Santa Clara in southern California and Gon-zaga University in Washington State,” Slabach said.
Slabach also described Wesley-an as a proud Methodist institu-tion and stressed the importance of being leaders.
“We’re proud to be a Method-ist university with a strong tradi-tion of providing students with the ethical and moral founda-tions they need to be leaders in their communities,” Slabach said.
Slabach emphasized the bene-� ts of attending a small university versus a large university, such as a smaller student to faculty ratio.
“� e student faculty ratio is 16 to one,” Slabach said. “I can tell from my own experience just how important it is that students get personalized attention so they don’t get lost in a large university.”
He focused the rest of his speech on the importance of critical reasoning.
He said his ideas for the speech originated from the listening ses-
sions he conducted with fac-ulty, sta� , students and alum-ni when he � rst took over as president at Wesleyan in the spring semester.
Patricia Sorrels, freshman bilingual education major, said she appreciated the em-phasis on writing and oral communication.
“It made me think about what I want to do with my education,” Sorrels said.
Sorrels said the overall con-vocation was good and she will be writing a re� ective es-say about it for her freshmen success class.
Bradden Van Noy, Stu-dent Government Associa-tion president, also spoke at the convocation, focusing his speech on inspiring students to persevere.
“I promise you it will not be easy, but it will all be worth it in the end,” Van Noy said. “I challenge you now to give ev-erything you have this year to better yourself through higher education.”
Van Noy said it is important for students to continue their educa-
tion and overcome any obstacles.Van Noy then discussed his chal-lenge as SGA president.
“You have my solemn vow that I will dedicate every facet of my
being to bettering our university,” Van Noy said. “As your new pres-ident of the Sudent Government Association, I will lead the charge to tackle issues.”
He concluded his speech with a prayer given by former Presi-dent George Herbert Walker Bush and reminding students the possibilities are endless.
Faculty attend interactive classroom grand opening
Erica Estrada | Rambler StaffThe Academic Convocation took place Aug. 30 in the Polytechnic United Methodist Church. Faculty wore their academic regalia to the event.
Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffMarcus Kerr, chief information offi cer, and Allen Henderson, provost, attended the Classroom.NEXT grand opening. The classroom is an interactive learning space designed by faculty and students. Rachel Peel | Rambler Staff
Elizabeth Alexander, associate professor of history and coordinator of sec-ondary education program in history, Tiffany Fitzhugh, senior history majoor and Fred Slabach, president of Texas Wesleyan posed together in front of the plaque with the names of Classroom.NEXT’s winners.
Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffPriscilla Torres, senior history major, played science pictionary using the newly furnished desks with built-in whiteboards and laptops to look up vocabulary terms.
Rachel Peel | Rambler StaffBryan Daniel, network operations director, and Christopher Faulkner, faculty devel-opment specialist, experimented with the smartboard, virtually dissecting a frog.
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� e Lady Rams soccer team took a hard fought victory against Mid Amer-ica Nazarene University at 3 p.m. Sept. 3 on Martin Field as they slide away with a 1-0 win in double over-time.
“It was another de� ning moment for the team,” Whitney Chappell, senior forward, said. “We put ourselves in the position of overtime and had to correct it.”
� e Lady Rams went head to head with the Lady Pioneers the majority of the game. Jessica Watton, junior for-ward, made several goal attempts early on, but none that stuck.
Going into over-time, Texas Wesley-an led 25-4 in shots, but still couldn’t seem to place the ball in the net.
It wasn’t until 4:01 minutes were le� in the second over-time play that Wat-ton was able to sink a goal and put the Lady Rams ahead 1-0.
“In the second overtime we pulled together as a team knowing the other team was more tired than we were to come out on top,” Karissa Olsen, soph-omore mid� elder, said. “We believed in each other and made it happen.”
Watton scored a header o� an assists by Olsen.
“We fought until the end and accom-plished our goal,” Chappell said.
By the � nish of the game, the Lady
Rams outshot the Lady Pioneers 29-6 and 9-1 shots on goal.
Junior goal keeper, Aubree Gallego, just barely fell short by one save for what would have been her third con-secutive shut-out of the season.
“We dominated played, start to � n-ish, and just couldn’t � nd the last pass or the � nishing touches until over-time,” Josh Gibbs, head women’s soc-cer coach, said. “I’m very pleased, and impressed, with this team. � ey keep � nding ways to win. Hopefully we can keep it going”.
� e Lady Rams as take on North-western Oklahoma State at 2 p.m. Sept. 9 at Martin Field as they race to con-tinue their undefeated record (4-0).
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Lady Rams take win, 1-0
Photos by Meisa Keivani Najafabadi | Rambler Staff
(Top) Stacei Popejoy, freshman defenser, goes for a steal against MidAmerica Nazarene University in an effort to seal the Lady Rams 1-0 win Sept. 3 at Martin Field.
(Left) Allison Walsh, freshman midfi elder, hustles to stop MidAmerica Nazarene University from advancing the ball in the fi rst round of overtime as both teams face off 0-0.
(Bottom) Aubrey Gallego, Lady Ram goal keeper, falls short just one save of having a three consecutive game shut out. The Lady Rams held MidAmerica Nazarene University scoreless and took a 1-0 win in double overtime.
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Texas Wesleyan’s Kiwanis club is teaming up with the Fort Worth Police Department to put on a charity basketball game next April.
“It’s truly going to be a commu-nity event,” John Gonzalez, incom-ing president of Wesleyan’s Kiwan-is club, said.
For the past three years, mem-bers of Kiwanis have hosted a fun-draiser for their organization in which the Harlem Ambassadors, an entertainment basketball team, came to the Sid Richardson Center to perform for youth in the area.
Gonzalez said the majority of money made came from ticket sales and sponsorship. However, Gonzalez said, because the Am-bassadors are so expensive, he wants to bring a more community aspect to the event and face off the Texas Wesleyan Kiwanis club and the Fort Worth Police Depart-ment.
Dr. Patsy Robles-Goodwin, di-rector of ESL and bilingual edu-cation and assistant professor of bilingual education, has been a member of Kiwanis for three years. She said she hopes this event as well as the magic show, which will be a fundraiser on Sept. 11., are things that will help Texas Wesleyan students to get involved.
Sponsors include the Texas Wes-leyan School of Education, Dr. Al-len Henderson, Texas Wesleyan’s
provost, and local members of the Fort Worth Kiwanis club, Robles-Goodwin said.
“We’ll make a little money and we give it back,” Robles-Goodwin said.
Gonzalez said the Kiwanis club is an international service orga-nization that is aimed at serving children. It has been in motion for three years at Wesleyan. He said the programs that Kiwanis offers are educational and leadership-based.
Robles-Goodwin described her passion for the organization and the power it has.
“Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to chang-ing the world one community and one child at a time,” Robles-Good-win said
She also said the power behind this organization comes from the international aspect.
“There are over 600,000 mem-bers all over the world and 15,000 clubs,” Robles-Goodwin said.
Gonzalez said the Bringing Up Grades or BUG program is in place at D. McCraw middle school in Fort Worth. Within this program, Kiwanis members and principals work with students to improve their grades. He said by the second six-week period of school, a stu-dent who has improved a grade by even one letter earns a prize.
Robles-Goodwin said to add some fun to the event, teachers will show up to the middle schools
participating in the BUG pro-gram dressed like bugs.
“Not every student gets en-c o u r a g e m e n t from home,” Gonzalez said. “But the com-munity does want them to succeed.”
Another pro-gram Gonzalez said is a big part of Kiwanis is Key Club. This club has found a home at both Polytechnic and Dunbar high schools. Gonza-lez said students that are a part of this club partici-pate in leader-ship and service projects.
“Last year the Po ly [ te ch n i c ] club cleaned the neighborhood around the school and improved a local park,” Gonzalez said.
“Everything we do we give back to the community,” Robles-Good-win said.
Currently the majority of Wesleyan Kiwanis members are a part of the Ed-ucation Department, Gonzalez said.
“I think the people are great and the projects they’ve done in the past have been really positive,” Dr. Carlos Martinez, dean of the School of Education, said. “But it’d be great to see more involvement from students.”
Robles-Goodwin said Texas
Wesleyan does have a student chapter called the Circle-K, which could aide in the efforts of the Ki-wanis club and other service proj-ects. Any students who are inter-ested in getting involved should contact her at [email protected].
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