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Health news

An issue
with weight

5

Percentage of college
women who are bulimic
in the United States.

1

Percentage of teen-age
girls who develop
anorexia nervosa in the
United States.

10

Percentage of those
girls who may die as a
result of anorexia
nervosa.

80-90

Percentage of women
who dislike their bodies,
according to one
American study.

70

Percentage of women
who are preoccupied
with their weight.

40

Percentage of women
who are continually
gaining and losing
weight

50

Estimated percentage of
adolescents who are
dieting.

95

Estimated percentage of
people who suffer from
eating disorders are
women.

35

Amount, in billions of
dollars, that the diet
industry has become.

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By Matt May
SPORTSDAILY EDITOR

What looked like possibly
the most disheartening Senior
Night ever at UK turned into a
classic. as the Cats blew apart
Vanderbilt in the second half
on their way to an 88-63 victo-

ry.

All the fanfare and good
vibrations of a pre—game cere-
mony honoring UK’s trio of
seniors -— Wayne Turner.
Scott Padgett and Heshimu
Evans «— turned into a horri-
fied silence just 12 minutes
into the game.

Turner. who has engi-
neered UK’s Final Four train
the last three seasons. stole
the ball from Vanderbilt's Ati-
ba Prater, sprinted down
court, but didn’t get off the
ground on a dunk attempt.
Turner came crashing to the
floor in a heap, holding his
knee. After a few minutes. he
slowly walked to the locker
room. as a Rupp Arena crowd
of 23,797 sat in shock.

With his grandmother
seeing him play at UK for the
first time. Turner shook off

iver convincing win over Vanderbilt
for last home game; 3 seniors say farewell

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the strained left knee, started
the second half and finished
the game with 15 points, four
assists and three steals. The
comeback led Head Coach
Tubby Smith to joke after the
game. “He was trying to play
possum."

After all involved had re-
covered from Turner’s scare.
UK took care of business, es-
pecially the seniors. who
scored 23 straight points early
in the second half. The run.
which featured two steals and
lay-ins by both Turner and
Padgett, threes from Padgett
and Evans, and a no-look pass
from Turner to Evans. dour
bled UK‘s 15-point advantage.

Smith said he was happy
to see the seniors go out with
such a solid performance.

“I was very impressed
and pleased with the seniors."
Smith said. “They finished
strong at Rupp and had out-
standing careers. It’s a good
feeling when you coach young
men who work hard and ap-
preciate the opportunity to be

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Policy outlined at meeting

Students will be students: Stockham outlines alcohol

policy, shows how binge drinking spurred questions

 

By Amy Ernst
CONTRIBUTING WRITER

UK/ Neighborhoods Committee can
agree on one thing — when it comes to
drinking. boys will be boys. and girls
will be girls, but they must take respon~
sibility for their actions.

Dean of Students David Stockham
began the committee's meeting last
night with background on the alcohol
policy that took effect July 1. 1998.

Stockham said the policy called for
a dry campus, an increase in alcohol ed~
ucation and campus recreation. house
directors in all Greek housing and reno
vation of Greek housing. Until this poli-
cy. fraternity houses were exempt from
the alcohol ban.

“Fraternity houses were the last
venue that you could have social activi-
ties with alcohol," Stockham said.
“What we discovered there was that
sadly. they had become a venue for un-
derage drinking."

        

Binge drinking was one of the key
issues that spurred this policy. he said.
Stockham cited the study on binge
drinking in higher education conducted
by Harvard School of Public Health. a
study that said about 40 percent of col-
lege students binge drink.

Josh Knipp. former president of
the Interfraternity Council, said he
thought the percentage was overesti-
mated and is improving for UK stu-
dents. But neighborhood residents still
had concerns about students' behavior
off-campus.

“I rent to fraternity members that
probably represent three different fra-
ternities." said Rick Bryant. landlord of
Touchstone Properties. “Their parties
have doubled and tripled in size."

William Turnbull. a resident on
East High Street and member of a local
neighborhood association. defended the
students. but pointed out that some—
times they were irresponsible.

“Most people involved in the neigh-

T

he Student Newspaper at the University of Kentucky.

borhood association like living there."
Turnbull said. “They like living near
students. What they don't like are the
abuses . We expect our students to be
good citizens of the community."

Billy Burton. assistant chief of po.
lice. said it's difficult to say if the num-
ber of citations has increased because of
a spillover from campus drinking. be
cause enforcement has increased large-
ly compared with recent years.

Stockham addressed three themes
that universities across the nation are
adopting to deal with student behav-
ior.

First. communication that students
are accountable and responsible for
their actions in the community.

Second. the university needs to en-
hance education on appropriate behav-
ior in the community. Last. enforce-
ment needs to be enhanced.

At the next meeting. neighborhood
residents will give a presentation on
their views of the problems. along with
a presentation from city police.

The next meeting is scheduled for 4
pm. to 6 pm. March 10. in the library of
the Maxwell Street Presbyterian
Church, 180 E. Maxwell St.

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Hoops turn to circus

Last hurrah: Final home game festivities
provide antics by the end of the night

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SIMON SIAFF IRIIER

Notes from a three-ring Se.
nior Night:

The scene was set; a big top
should have been atop Rupp
Arena last night. From high-
wire walking and falling by one
senior guard to a Vanderbilt
stuntman making a dive into a
pile of reporters, it was well, in
teresting.

The big top nearly came
down with 8:12 left in the first
half when senior ringleader
Wayne Turner went for a steal,
ran the length of the court,
went up for the score and pop.
He went down, hopped once
and fell on his back in pain.

“My leg locked,” Turner
gave as play-by-play. “And I felt
a sharp pain."

His backup, Saul Smith,

gave his angle from the bench.
“All I could think was two
words: Get up,” Smith said. “I
knew if he got up, we'd be fine."

He did get up, with assis-
tance. And he hobbled to the
locker room where he didn't re-
emerge until the second half.

“The first thing I thought
was Derek (Anderson)," Turner
said. meaning his former team-
mate who tore his anterior cru-
ciate ligament in January of his
senior season and returned for
only two foul shots the rest of
the season. “I was just laying
there praying that I would get
another chance to play the
game."

He did get another chance,
and he made the most of it in
front of his grandmother, Vir-
ginia Kimble, who was there to
witness her first game in Rupp
Arena.

Turner returned to start in
the second half with what
Coach Tubby Smith called a
“strained left knee," and he
scored 13 of his 15 points and
handed out all four of his as-
sists.

He helped spark a 308 run
that put Vanderbilt out of com-
mission.

“Obviously tonight was
Wayne Turner’s night," Vandy
Coach Jan van Breda Kolfl” said.
“He obviously was a catalyst
early on (in the second half).
We had a hard time matching
up against him."

Lion tamer

Center Jamaal Magloire
was ejected from the game for
two technicals with 9:25 to go in
the second half for what he
thinks was fighting.

His first technical was a
double T in the first half be-
tween him and Vandy’s Tony
Williams. Williams was origi-
nally called for the foul, but a
little conversing between refer-

ees went a long way as Ma-
gloire was whistled for an off-
setting T.

“I was just diving to the
floor.” Magloire said after the
game. “I thought I did a good
job on defense. Nothing hap-
pened that first time."

The second time, referee
Anthony Jordan T’d up the UK
big man for what he called
fighting. Magloire said he did-
n’t intentionally hit VU’s Dar-
ius Coulibaly, but he might
have grazed him.

“IfI was going to hit some-
body, you guys would know,”
Magloire said to reporters later.
“I get my double fouls and my
personal fouls. but I’ve never
clenched my fists and intention-
ally hit someone.”

Coach Smith was not at all
pleased with the second techni-
cal. He said he didn’t see it. So
he went to referee David Dodge
looking for answers.

“He never told me. You
know, I don't know. He just told
me he called a technical."

 

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Wildcats roll into

ByAdaIISm

SIAFF WRITER

Tubby’s Cats won’t be the
only UK team causing a ruckus
during this year’s Big Dance.
The women‘s team is ready to
make a name for itself in
March, as well.

Bernadette Mattox’s club
charted a school—record seven
Southeastern Conference wins
after whipping South Carolina
last Sunday, 93—65. With three
wins over ranked teams and an
RPI rating of 17, the Cats hope
to receive a bid in the NCAA
Tournament for the first time
since the 199091 season.

But UK (18-9, 7-7) must first
take care of business in the SEC

Tournament today against Ole
Miss (15-11, 6-8 SEC). Mattox is
confident going in because of
her team’s regular season
schedule, in which the Cats
posted their best record enter.
ing the tournament since fin-
ishing 209 in ’91.

“When you look back on
our schedule, it’s been very
tough,” she said. “We’ve beaten
a lot of good teams, and that will
help us get in (the NCAA) even
if the (SEC) tournament doesn’t
go as well as we expect.”

Despite getting bumped
from the sixth to the seventh
seed in the SEC Tournament,
neither the Cats nor their coach
were fazed.

Mattox knows every oppo-

nent the Cats face in Chat-
tanooga will be a challenge.

“Anyone you play is going
to be a tough matchup," Mattox
said. “You have to be ready to
win. We didn’t start preparing
(for Arkansas) yet, so there was
basically no difference."

A lot of UK’s success this
season has revolved around its
starting point guard, Erica
Jackson. The junior netted a ca-
reer-high 30 points in the win
over South Carolina, shooting
12 of 15 from the floor and 4 of 5
from behind the arc.

“This is Erica Jackson’s bas-
ketball team,” Mattox said. “She
has done a great job as the quar-
terback and has taken it upon
herself to lead. She’s a winner."

SECS

Jackson, a junior college
transfer, has been quite a sur-
prise.

“She exceeded (where they
thought she‘d be) much quicker
than expected,” Mattox said.
“She understands what we need
as a point guard, and the other
players have confidence in her."

After winning its last three
out of four games, Mattox
thinks her club is clicking on
all cylinders.

Could a win streak, confi-
dence and a proven floor leader
be the right mix for the Cats to
claw through Chattanooga?

“All the teams are close,”
Mattox said. “We just have to
take it one game at a time and
let the chips fall as they may.”

 

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a (UK) player."

Evans, who finished with 14 points and five rebounds, said
playing in front of family was special. and he didn’t cry as he
speculated on Tuesday that he might.

“I was (emotional), but I didn't cry,” Evans said. “I'm very
happy. My family was here, they come to all my games, but it‘s
just good to see them."

For Turner, his family — especially his grandmother —
seeing him play in person for the first time was something he
said he wouldn’t forget.

“I figured it was her (grandmother) first trip down here, so
I didn’t want to play only half a game," Turner said about his
injury. “It was really special. They always talk about watching
me on TV and wonder what Coach Smith and Kentucky are
like. I was just happy she got to see me.”

Padgett, who shrugged off a rough start to finish with a
double-double of 16 points and 10 rebounds, said he knew he‘d
play well, but wasn’t sure about the crying thing.

“I told my mom if she was going to cry to not get my atten-
tion,” Padgett said. “I knew if I saw her crying, then I would
cry.
“I envisioned playing well, but not waiting until so late in
the second half to do it. Getting a dunk on Senior Night was
great because I don’t dunk much.”

 

Gambling hurts

Money talks: Former football player and
ex-wife of football star to talk on betting

SIAFF REPORT

The Athletics Association is hosting a sports betting
awareness seminar in Memorial Coliseum tonight at 7:30.

Dennis Lundy, a former Northwestern University football
player, and Michele Schlichter, the ex-wife of former Ohio
State quarterback Art Schlichter, will be the quest speakers.

Schlichter will discuss her experience as the wife of a gam-
bling addict. According to a UK news release, she has present-
ed written and verbal testimony on compulsive sports gam-
bling and its effect on family life. She has also written articles,
appeared on television and hosted radio talk shows to deliver
her message.

Schlichter will likely talk about how gambling cost her ex-
husband his freedom, his reputation, his career and his family.

Lundy was charged with lying to a federal grand jury in
December while investigating sports betting at Northwestern.
Twice he was accused of lying after he denied that he deliber-
ately fumbled in a game against Iowa in 1994, and when he de~
rsiied placing a bet on Northwestern’s ’94 game against Ohio

tate.

Lundy, along with three former Northwestern teammates.
has been charged with perjury. He plead innocent to the
charges in December.

Schlichter and Lundy will speak to an audience comprised
primarily of UK student-athletes, coaches and athletics depart-
ment staff. The seminar is also open to the public and admis-
sion is free.

The seminar is part of a continuing education program
sponsored by UKAA. It is the fifth in a series of sports betting
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Workers getting customer service training
to avoid making students ‘feel like a moron'

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coumsurmo mum

Complaints about “surly"
computer lab attendants
should be going down this se-
mesterm, because Student
Computing Services has start-
ed a customer training service
course for lab attendants.

“We have grown so quick
ly that the emphasis has al-
ways been on technology,"
said Peggy Akridge, manager
of Student Computing Ser-
vices labs. “Now we need to
work on our student employ-
ees.”

“I think it‘s a great inita-
tive," said Sandra Gray, publi-
cation manager for Desktop
Support and Publishing Ser-
vices. “It’s a skill you can use
in a lot if ways once you learn
it.”

Teresa Mclver, documen-
tation, hiring and training co-
ordinator for Student Com-
puting Services, implemented
the customer service training
session. She was not available
for comment.

Akridge said Student
Computing Services hires
more than 150 students, and is
one of the largest employers of

students on campus.

“For many, it’s their first
job, some of them have never
had formal customer service
training," she said.

Akridge said students
have always received basic in-
struction about basic policies
and procedures.

“Now we try to get them
to understand the impression
they leave on people," she
said. “We try to make them
aware of the way they present
themselves to people."

Akridge said she received
complaints from faculty and
students.

Now she hopes to avoid
bad impressions, like the one
made upon Jennifer Swain. an
English junior.

“The lab attendant made
me feel like a moron," Swain
said. “You could just hear the
huff and puff as he had to get
up to come and help me."

Jay Varellas. an English
freshman, isn’t happy with lab
attendants. either.

“They don’t seem to be too
happy to help you,“ he said.
“I’d say the overall attitude is
really surly.”

Renee Robbins, a hospital-
ity management sophomore.

thinks the changes have been
beneficial.

“Before, they‘ve been real-
ly rude," she said. “They act
like you should already know
how to do everything. But I
went in last week to create an
e-mail disk, and the attendant
was really helpful."

Kevin Hale, an economics
senior who has worked in the
Boyd Hall micro-lab for three
semesters, said he under-
stands the need for the train-
ing program.

“I guess for some people
it's a pretty legitimate thing
to go through," he said. “I had
a couple of bad experiences
with attendants before I start
ed working here. But, it's real-
ly common sense stuff, you
have to be really brain~dead to
not know some of these
things."

Hale, who recently went
through the training, said it
lasts about an hour. The new
policy. put into effect this se-
mester, is mandatory for all
lab attendants.

Student Computing Ser-
vices has also put comment
and suggestion cards in the
William T. Young, Margaret 1.
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and Economics and Health
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it's time for campus to catch up

By Jeffrey Tanenhsus
IHE DARTMOUTH

HANOVER, N.H.
— Eighty-three per-
cent of students re-
sponding to a poll by
The Dartmouth on
Feb. 11 said they sup-
port the continuation
of single-sex fraterni-
ties and sororities at
Dartmouth.

Others, though,

i are voicing support

for the controversial
initiative announced
by the College’s Board
of Trustees and Presi-
dent James Wright,
which includes creat-
ing a new system
structure Wright said
will not be “built on
single-sex houses."

A few dozen stu-
dents have even coa-
lesced to form Stu-
dents for a Free Dart-
mouth * a group that
communicates mostly
over BlitzMail and

was founded by alum-
nus Bill Kartalopou-
los and freshman Phil
Rutherford. The con-
cept was a counter-re-
action to the over-
whelming protests
against the Trustees”
announcement by
members of the Greek
community.
“Following the
decision, the campus
environment seemed
unwelcoming to any-
one with a different
View, so I decided to
create an alternative
presence on campus
to say it’s OK to have
a different View,” Kar-
talopoulos said. “Our
goal is not to create
an organization with
a specific agenda and
to get students to sup-
port that agenda.”
Rutherford said
life at Dartmouth
could be drastically
better in coming
years, depending on

what students decide
to do with the money
the Trustees have
pledged to devote to
building a new social
system. The Trustees
have said they will
spend “tens of mil-
lions of dollars“ on the
initiative if need be.

“If we use that
money wisely, it will
improve our only
weekend option now,
which is getting
drunk. Hopefully oth-
er options will exist,"
Rutherford said.

But the members
of the student group
are not the only stu-
dents at Dartmouth
who support an over-
haul of the College’s
social system. A sig-
nificant minority of
students are looking
atthe Trustees’ an-
nouncement as an un-
paralleled opportuni-
ty for improvement,
rather than a threat
to the Greek system.

“This (decision) is
a great thing. People
would be crazy to
pass up an opportuni-

ty to change (Dart-
mouth),“ senior Shau-
na Brown.

Brown, president
of the Afro-American
Society, is one of nine
students on the task
force, which serves as
a receptacle to collect
and organize informa-
tion and opinions.

Like Rutherford,
Brown emphasized
student responsibility
for reshaping social
and residential life.

“I’m someone
who has accepted that
responsibility,”
Brown said.

Significant alter-
ations to the social
structure, primarily
those involving Greek
life, are seen by some
students as a welcome
change.

“The Greek sys-
tem is a relic of a by-
gone age that was cre-
ated to nurture indi-
viduals to be leaders
of an exclusive soci-
ety and to unify an
elite class," Kar-
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‘A cavity won’t be covered’

Graduate students are in the dark about fate
of health care as officials ask for health fee

By Mark Valerie"
cmvus rmron

The graduate student
health care proposal is expect-
ed to pull through. but many
expect the loss of an important
limb.

Susan Mains, the graduate
student in geography who
wrote the original proposal,
said she was told at a meeting
Monday that the proposal may
emerge from the President‘s
Cabinet with one alteration:
Graduate students will still
have to pay the health fee.
which comes at around $257
per year.

Fitzgerald Bramwell. vice
president of Research and
Graduate Studies. will suggest
Mega Life Insurance cover-
age. which is worth about

$500, she said.

"This just isn't competitive
with other schools," Mains said.

Bramwell presented the pro
posal to the President's Cabinet.
where it is being discussed and
may be modified, Mains said.

Unfortunately. Bramwell
told Mains he was “reluctant
to discuss details until the de~
cision package is finalized."

Bramwell was not avail
able for comment.

The original proposal
would pay the health fee and
the cyst of Mega Life for full-
time research assistants.
teaching assistants and fellow-
ship graduate students.

“They were talking about
$800 coverage, then it fell to six
(hundred), then to five (hun-
dred)," Mains said.

Kasi Jackson. a graduate

student in biology. is not sur-
prised.

“I knew they were having
trouble finding the money,”
she said.

Many graduate students
insist the coverage will not be
competitive if it doesn't in-
clude the health fee.

"I had a friend who’s get-
ting her master’s at (Universi-
ty of North Carolina-Chapel
Hill) and she has full health
coverage." said Michelle
Howard, a pharmacy graduate
student. “If UK wants to be-
come a top research institu-
tion. they have to offer some-
thing more competitive than
$500 Mega Life."

Mains said there is still
time for student input and en-
courages students to write to
Bramwell and express their
concern. Howard worries that
might not be enough. She has
been trying to improve the
health care coverage for gradu-
ate students within the phar-

macy department for the last
four years, an effort that has
been nothing but frustrating,
she said.

“It‘s like talking to a brick
wall." she said. “They act like
they‘re listening, but nothing
ever gets done."

Several graduate students
have mentioned having a
“sick—out," she said. to draw at-
tention to the issue and send a
message to the administration.

“They’re talking about tak—
ing a couple of days off as a
means of protest, and not doing
teaching and research assistant
responsibilities," Howard said.

The sick-out would only be
done as a last resort, Mains
said. The way Howard sees it,
the current health package is a
last resort.

“As it is now, our coverage
is only accidental and cata-
strophic," Howard said. “The
only way to get teeth work is if
they‘re knocked out. A cavity
just won't be covered."

U. Wisconsin
OKs wage hike

BADGER HERALD

MADISON, Wis. - The
campus minimum wage will in-
crease by 50 cents, after a UW-
Madison committee‘s vote Mon-
day to raise all student wages
by 9.52 percent.

The Student Employment
Wage Plan Committee report
will be forwarded to Vice Chan-
cellor John Torphy, who is ex-
pected to approve the commit-
tee‘s recommendations.

Once formally approved.
the campus minimum wage
would increase to $5.75, with
workers at an intermediate lev-
el earning $6.25. The salary for
advanced employees will rise to
$6.80.

Effective in August. the
wage increase will be applica-
ble to students employed in stu-
dent unions. recreational sports
facilities, health services and
campus libraries, among other
activities.

Monday’s vote followed an
ongoing debate over campus
wages.

Student activists have ar-
gued wages have not kept up
with inflation, while adminis-
trators say tight budgets cause
salary constraints.

Associated Students of
Madison sponsored a referen-
dum last spring asking for stu-
dent opinion of a campus living
wage.

. During the spring elec-
tions, voters approved a $7.50
wage for student workers.

Based on these results, the
committee‘s student represen-
tatives proposed a two-tier
wage structure for campus
wages.

The proposal would pay
students in positions funded by
ASM a minimum wage of $7.50,
with the price difference donat-
ed directly by ASM.

 

fl’i‘mhe Flutie Fac

A strong relationship: An athletic team's
success means more applications for schools

By Jayson Blalr
THE DIAMONDBACK

COLLEGE PARK. Md. It
didn't seem to matter that
Northwestern had been consis-
tently ranked in the top tier of
American universities and that
its J. L. Kellogg Graduate
School of Management regular-
ly ranked among the top five
business schools in the country.

Or that the law and med»
ical schools had been ranked
within the top 25 in the nation.

Despite all the academic ac—
colades. officials at Northwest-
ern. located only 12 miles out-

side of Chicago. say that the pri~
vate institution did not start
capturing the enormous nation—
al recognition it now relishes
until 1996. when Wildcat head
football Coach Gary Barnett
took his team to the Rose Bowl
for the first time in 47 seasons.

That academic year, appli-
cations for admission jumped
27 percent across campus.

The law school saw appli-
cations jump by 15 percent.
And while the Wildcat athlet-
ics might sport purple. black
and white jerseys. everybody
was seeing green as merchan-
dise sales skyrocketed.

Some call it the “Flutie Fac-
tor," named for the tremendous
attention Boston College began
to receive during the career of
All-American quarterback
Doug Flutie, who threw a fabled
touchdown pass to beat Miami
in 1984. At Northwestern, David
Van Zandt, dean of the law
school, likes to call it “the Rose
Bowl effect.“ Others call it
“mission-driven athletics."

Regardless of what it is
called, University of Maryland
officials hope to capitalize on
the success of the No. 5 Ter-
rapin men‘s basketball team, a
team many have high hopes
for, including even a possible
NCAA Final Four appearance.

If that Terps make it to the
Final Four. the direct financial
benefits, money from the

01'

NCAA, will be shared with oth-
er schools in the ACC. officials
said, but the indirect benefits
that the campus hopes to capi-
talize on, officials say, is im-
measurable.

Carol Halstead, the presi-
dent of College Connections, a
New York marketing and pub-
lic relations firm that consults
higher education institutions.
said that the free publicity cre.
ates an awareness that can be
capitalized on.

“Take St. John‘s or Con-
necticut for example.“ Hal-
stead said. “It just puts you on
the map.

“If a team puts a college or
university on the map and they
become the talk of cocktail par-
ties it just becomes a part of
your awareness," she said.

 

 

 

 

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