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Satellite beams college to Appalachia

By JIM MCNAIR
Copy Editor

disigned to contribute to the im-
provement of the region’s one nighta week and receivecredits
socioeconomic condition. The total from the college they are regstered
project is called the Appalachian with. Tuition varies among the
Educational Satellite Project. colleges which participate in the
Essential to the development of project
this educational technology was the Three courses are being beamed
Appalachian Regional Commission lhmughout Appalachia this spring:
the purpose of which Is “to initiate “Teaching the Young Handicapped
new directions in promoting Ap~ Child. An Overview"; ‘Simple
palachia s overall economic Gifts: Teaching the Gifted and
devel0pment. " Talented" and “Designing Success
Before the AESP began, con- Strategies".The last course teaches
tinuing education and career administrators, counselors and
development programs were dif- teachers in elementary and
ficult for people in the isolated parts secondary schools how to deal more
of the region to obtain. Universities effectively with students.
andcollegeswere often toodistant to At first glance, the satellite-
attend and communications lines television method appears to be no
were either nonexistent or different than ordinary educational
inadequate for conventional means TV. AESP, however, goes farther
of broadcast transmission. than TV in that it provides direct
Today, graduate and un~ instantaneous feedback from the
dergraduate courses are offered on student in the regional classroom to
a regular semester basis. Persons the instructor in the broadcasting

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Volume LXIX’ Number 105 an independent student newspaper
Thursday. February 23, I978

sign up for the course, attend class site at the Taylor TV studio.

The AESP program involves
videotaped lectures shown at the
beginning of each class, live
seminars between broadcast in-
structors and students at the
receiving sites. on-site discussions,
assignments and periodic reviews
and exams.

Not all of the receiving sites in
Appalachia are capable of twoway
communication via satellite. During
the live seminars many sites must
send questions in through alter-
native channels such as teletype or
telephone.

According to Dr. Nofflet Williams,
head of the AESP Resource Coor-
dinating Center in Bradley Hall, the
technology for full two-way satellite
communication is available and
“will be used eventually to tie many
sites.”

While Appalachia is often
stereotyped as the. domain of
outhmses, bad roads and family
feuds, it is one of the most advanced
regions in the nation in the field of
satellite ethcational training.

Behind the dense facade of forest-
cov a'ed mountains lies a network of
communications stations which link
a satellite 22,300 miles above the

r ‘ earth to remote and not-so-remote
// locations in Appalachia.
Via the satellite, the stations are
BROADCAST / capable of receiving audio and one-

STUDIO ‘ 1 way video broadcasts that originate
from the UK Taylor Education
Building. In turn, the stations
transmit messages back -—some
through space, others by radio,
teletype or telephone.

The formats and subjects of the
broadcasts vary, but all are

 

 

 

 

 

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Continued on page 5

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Black enrollment changes

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worry some UK officials f

By GIL LAWSON
Kernel Staff Writer

UK Minority Affairs officials are
expressing growing concern about
the problem of the university’s small
black enrollment. While figures
show total enrollment unchanged in
the past three years, there has been
a steady decline in the number of
students who return to school in the
next acadanic year.

According to figures from the
admissions office, only 287 of the 465
blacks enrolled at UK in 1975-76
returned to school the following
year. These figures represented a
decline from the previous year when
322 blacks returned to UK from the
same previous total enrollment of
465 during the 1975-76 academic
year.

Jerry Stevens, director of the
Office of Minority Affairs, said while
the figures are comistent with
studies indicating a higher drop-out
rate for blacks than for whites, most
blacks return to school after missing
a semester or a year.

Stevens estimated that 15-20
percent of black freshmen drop out
of school, but said the chances of
black students quitting school
permanently are about the same as
those of whites.

According to Stevens, there are
several reasons blacks have
problems in college. “The biggest
problem is the lack of understanding
of a strategy that can be applied to
lead to their success," he said.

“I find many of our students are
not being prepared to function at the
college level." Stevens added.

Saturdays and nights

Law students catch up

By CRAIG DANIELS
Kernel Staff Writer

While many students are still
feeling pressure from instructors
catching up on work postponed by
January's blizzards, UK law
stud aIts are attending Saturday and
evening classes to satisfy their
accreditors.

College of Law Assistant Dean
Paul VanBooven said the college’ 5
faculty decided the five snow days
had to be made up to meet at-
tendance requirements set by the
American Bar Association. The ABA
is recognized by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare as
the accrediting agency for law
schools.

Strict adherence to ABA
requirements is a priority since in
most states, including Kentucky, an
individual must graduate from an
ABA-accredited law school to be
eligible for state bar exams.

According to VanBoovaI, the ABA
requires a full-time law student to
complete 1,200 class hours (of 50 to
60 minutes each) in not less than 90
weeks.

UK was scheduled to meet this
minimum requirement when the
semester began, VanBooven said, so
that class cancellations made extra
days necessary for compliance.

VanBooven said plans for making
up the missed days were discussed
at two meetings — the first after the
initial three days of the semester

One of the biggest problems is that
many minority students are the first
in their families to go to college. This
can cause problems in adjusting to
the new environment of a college
campus, Stevens said.

A program to help incoming
minority students is in the ex-
perimental stage. Natalie Cobb,
student advisor for Minority Affairs,
said the program is designed to give
a minority student both academic
and personal support during his
freshman year. Officials say they
are evaluating the program to gauge
its success,

Stevens said that while such a
program is essential, its goal should
be to bring forth the capabilitcs
minority students already possess.

Continued on page 5

were canceled, another after a
blizzard forced closing for another
two days.

The suggestion to hold classes
during spring break was quickly
dismissed, VanBooven said, became
of student and faculty vacation
plans. The idea of extending each
class for five minutes was rejected
because many professors keep their
classes Overtime.

Extending the school year was
rejected because it would conflict
with intersession and graduates’
plans. An extension would have also
constituted a change in the official
school calendar, requiring approval
by the University Senate.

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BECAl'SI-I OF THE (‘OAL SIIORTAGE in Kentucky,
25 pa‘cent electrical cutbacks are likely even if the
United Mine Workers strike is ended soon. officials

Such cutbacks would almost certainly result in some
industrial layoffs. said Eugene Mooney, executive
director of the Public Service Commission.

Mooney said even if a coal contract agreement were
reached immediately, it probably would take 10 more

It would be at least two weeks after that before
delivery of union coal returned to name]. he said, and
conservation measures still would be necessary in the

PROJECT AHEAD KICKS off its first semester at
UK. placing women over 25 in local business in-
temshipsin addition to supplying career planning. For

nation

TllE SOFT (‘OAL INDUSTRY REFUSED last night

to accept an offer by the United Mine Workers‘
bargaining council to settle the 79day coal strike based
on a tentative agreement with an independent coal

producer.

Labor Secretary Ray Marshall said the Bituminous
Coal ()perators' Association “declined to respond“ to

bargainers.

vitation"
union.

the union‘s offer which he presented to the industry

Marshall also said the indistry “declined my in-
to join in face-to-face negotiations with the

Govanment officials said there would be a meeting
at the White House early Thursday‘ ‘to determine the
future course of action

Sources familiar with

the negotiations said.

however. the government was prepared to begin the

process of facilitating contract agreements between
the union and individual BCOA-member companies. a
move that could lead to the breakup of the employers
bargaining group.

today

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Not just planin'

Rice Cox. a UK cabinctmaker for twelve years, planes wood in the carpentry shop of
the UK Service Building.

 

WHILE ('0.r\l,-STAR\'ED MIDWEST utilities are
announcing power cutbacks to stretch their short
supplies, efforts to deliver what coal is available are
being hampered by weather problems. violence and
getting rail cars to the proper places.

In isolated situations. tons of coal have piled up at
nonunion mines in the South and West became of
difficulties in transportingit. Industry and government
officials said yesterday.

Within the past It) days. several thousand Idle
railroad coal cars from the East have been sent West to
help with emergency shipments of coal from non-union
mines to utilities in the Midwest and East

TIIE lltll'SE REVERSED ”SELF and gave final
congressional approval yesterday to a request by
President Carter to stop construction of the last two
prototypes of Ihc B-lz strategic bomber.

The House \ 0ch 234 to 132 to go along with the Senate
in scrapping tlie P.-l project

Congress had already endorsed Carter's decision to
halt any further production of the plane but the House
earlier had insisted thefinal two planes the fifth and
sixth copies shmld be built

.\ III'NMAN IN SPRINGFIELD. tilllt). cornered on
II rural road after an abortive bank robbery traded two
.young hostages for a getaway car yesterday. but he
kept their father captive as he fled 57 miles eastward
before aulhorities sloped him again.

The gunman. who had sworn he would not be cap-
tured alive was brought to a hall on a street in an In-
dustrial area here about an hour after authorities
allowed him to leave a highway near the Ohio-Indiana
line where hehad been trapped since Tuesday evening.

FBI agents and police were negotiating in efforts to
persuade the man. identified only as Don, to surrender
and release his remaining hmtage. postal worker
Robert Hermann of West Manchester. Ohio.

weather

M0“ ENDING IATE TUDAY. Highs in the mid to
upper 205 Decreasing cloudiness tonight. with lows
from the mid teens to the low 20s Mostly sunny
tomorrow with highs In the mid 20s to mid 30s

 

 

 

  

 

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Policy deserves support
KSU makes wrse move

toward full integration

In these times of “reverse discrimination”
charges, it doesn’t seem inappropriate at all for
a university to get flak for having too large a
percentage of black students.

That’s been exactly the case at Kentucky State
University in Frankfort, and the numbers have
borne out that charge. What’s more, KSU has
been criticized for having an out-of-state
enrollment well above the state Council of
Higher Education’s enrollment policy.

KSU’s full-time student body is 85.7 percent
black. An almost equal percentage of the part-
time student body is white, taking classes in the
evening The result is that KSU’s student body
virtually changes color at sunset.

Predominantly black KSU has never been a
favored institution in the Bluegrass state. It
receives fewer state funds per pupil than other
Kentucky schools and its faculty is the lowest-
paid, when compared with benchmark schools.

But the situation at the Frankfort school may
bgin to change. In a speech given Tuesday, KSU
Presideit James Butts said efforts are under
way to recruit white students (three white
recruiters have been hired, he said) and to
decrease out-of-state enrollment.

“Kentucky State is no longer a historical black
institution," Butts told the Frankfort Chamber of
Commerce. “It is an institution that has an
obligation to provide an education to all Ken-
tuckians.”

“This Unive‘sity must discriminate against
ignorance, not race,” said Butts, who is the only
black president of a Kentucky university.

KSU’s image and effectiveness would benefit
from a more integrated student body. If statisics
mean anything, that integration is likely to
happen. There has been a national trend in
recent years of blacks attending traditionally
white schools more and more, and enrolling in
traditionally black schools less.

According to the survey of the National
Association of Land Grant Colleges, 60.8 percent
of black students were enrolled in 17 “black”
schools in 1968. That was 17 schools out of 361
surveyed. 1111976, almost 70 percent of the black
student population was at predominately white
schools.

It’s uncertain whether the school will be able to
decrease it‘s out-of-state enrollment. KSU has
been a popular choice for blacks from other
states, although recruiting efforts are made
difficult because the school is situated between
the University of Louisville and UK.

The council’s 20 percent maximum figure may
be unrealistic for the next few years, unless out-
of-state fees are raised to punitive levels.

That move woud be unfair, and is not needed
as lon gas the KSU administration can get in step
with other schools, and operate an integrated
university. We congratulate Butts for moving in
the right direction, and urge support for KSU’s

policy.
Rubin’s decision
was ’equalitarian’

US. District Judge Carl Rubin was right when
he ruled that women should be allowed to par-
ticipate in contact sports — those sports
traditionally reserved for boys.

The decision affirms the intent of the Four-
teenth Amendment of the US. Constitution,
which says individual rights can only be violated
to serve important government interests.

The ruling is also eminently sensible and
egalitarian. As women are beginning to get equal
opportunity in business, politics and indistry,
why should athletics be different?

The Rubin decision is being appealed by the
Ohio High School Athletic Association. If the 6th
US. Circuit Court of Appeals upholds it, the
decision would influencce Michigan, Ohio,
Kentucky and Tennessee— the states in the
Cincinnati court’s jurisdiction.

The rules for Kentucky high schools would be
unaffected, though. The idea of girls playing
contact sports here was apparently so strange
that no prohibitions were ever included.

Women deserve to compete with men for the
chance, however slim, to win fame and glory on
a gridiron or wrestling mat. They must also be
ready to accept the consequences; to get blocked
and tackled just as hard as men.

If a girl’s high school does not offer a separate
women’s team comparable to the men‘s squad,
she should get to play with the latter if she has
the ability. ‘

Of course, there will be some problems to
overcome, and not just stale puns like “illegal
use of hands.” For example, national wrestling
rules require opponents to weigh in side by
side -— in the nude.

The problems and weird moments will be
worth it, though, to give more people a chance to
participate in the sports they like to play. And
who knows? Maybe Fran Curci will find the
quarterback he’s looking for: a great leader with
fantastic speed who can throw the ball 80 yards
on a line. Named Sheila.

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Letters to the Editor j

 

Close Rupp

In lightof the emergency situation
regardingthe impending energy and
heat crisis, we suggest the follwing
measure which could significantly
aid Vice-President blanton's efforts
to conserve fuel for Lexington and
the Univusity community.

Cancel all future use of Rupp
Arcna for home basketball games.
The games could stillbe played. say
on one of the courtsat the Seaton
(enter, and fans could still follow
the results through extensive
coverage in the Kernel. Thus we
could eliminate the enormous
treating and lighting load of Rupp
Arena during game time, and as a
side benefit could save substantial
cntrgy by eliminating radio and
television coverage, thereby
reducing extensive use of _ both
broadcasting and receiving
equipment.

l’crhaps the Wildcats, as the
Number One team, could set an
example that would be followed by
all the other teams in the SEC and
cvm the entire NCAA. Then we
could truly be Number One in the
conserving hearts of our country!
l’ulling together we can lick this
thing likc we did the Cuban Missile
( ”S's I‘Incrgetically yours.
thc I'Invironmental Growth (‘hamhcr
(‘ollege of Agriculture

'Hall must fall?’

How many potentially great
seasons must Joe Hall ruin before
he‘s asked to seek employment
elsewhere, preferably out of
basketball? Hall’s recent public
criticism of his players is as inex-
cuseable as his incompetence as a
A'oach. .: . .

L K should have beaten LSU, but

"the team has obviously had no work

 

The editors reserve the right to

 

The Kentucky Kernel welcomes letters and
commentaries submitted for publication. Articles
must include the signature, address, phone num-
ber, year and major if the writer is a student.
Commentary authors should have expertise or
experience in the area their article pertains to.

The Kernel editors have final decision on which
articles are published and when they are published.

Letters Policy

The best-read

edit submissions

on either. a press or a defense
against the four-corners offense; of
course UK has not lost a game to the
l‘our‘corncrs since March, so why
bother with ancient history?

Maintenance of motivation and
morale is a very important part of a
coach‘s job. and he must engender
loyalty and respect in his players to
accomplish this. But the players‘
game tension level and their com-
mcnts indicate that Hall's methods
have developed little but hatred and
disdain.

This year‘s version of the Wildcats
includes at least five players of All-
Amcrica caliber. among whom is a
guard who demonstrates that he has
much more knowledge of basketball
than his coach eva‘y time he steps
onto the court: why not send Joe
Hall to Florida until April and let the
players coach themselves to an

. NCAA championship?

Don Twy man
Medical Student

 

 

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errors, or libelous statements. All letters and ‘
commentaries become the property of the Kernel.

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Coal Strike . . . miners’ leadership divided

  
 
  
   

By JEFFREY GREENHOUSE

Today the 160,000 members of the
United Mine Workers Union are in
the 7lst day of their increasingly
bitter strike against the coal
operators and energy conglamorate.
Over the past 3 or 4 years the
U.M.Ws and their leadership has
been very divided and large num-
bers of wildcat strikes have taken
place throughout the eastern
coalfields.

The coal indrstry wants to make it
tough on miners to participate in
wildcat strikes in order to control
coal production. Many of these
wildcat strikes have taken place
over safety and health conditions. It
is strange that in the wealthiest and
most powerful country in The world

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miners have such a high rate of
black lung disease and fatalities
dues to mine disasters, while in
other western nations such as
Australia, Germany, and England
these fatalities are almost non
existent.

In many cases these strikes are a
matter of life and breath. The coal
indrstry is demanding that miners
who participate in wildcat strikes be
fined at the rate of $20 a day. It is
believed this penalty would help end
unauthorized strikes and increase
coal production.

A simple method might be for the
coal indtstry to set humane safety
and health standards for mining and
invest the capital for the technology
to comply with these standards. The
coal indistry. should be able to af-

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ford this investment as the miners
share of the coal dollar has shrunk
from 49.3 cents in 1969 to 35.8 cents in
1977 representing a loss of 13.5 cents
out of every dollar in 8 years.

Is there a conscious effort on the
part of the coal operators and the
energy conglomorate to destroy the
U.M.Ws? Gulf Western and other
energy conglomorates fill the Wall
Street Journal up with onethh-page
advertisements for investors to pick
coal. Coal is a sure winner as
President Carter’s energy policy
calls for a doubling of coal
production by 1985. Coal owners
show great interest in potential
profit but none in the environmental
matters or the impact of this in-
creased production on the lives of

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the people of Appalachia who inhabit
the coal fields.

Up until the last week and a half
there has been little. if any, national
media coverage of the U.M.Ws
strike. The isn’t especially strange.
since that energy conglamorates
own a large part of the media.

In the last week and a half, the
media has made it seem that the
rank and file are unhappy with their
wage package while nd mentioning
anything about health and safety
conditions. By insulting the U.M.W.
and not dealing with health and
safety standards in negotiations the
coal industry is trying to stall a
settlement.

The leadership of the miner‘s
union h been divided in the last 3
or 4 years and the coal industry feels
that this stalling strategy represents
a threat to the union. It is true that
destruction of the U.M.W. would
represent great control of coal
production and in turn higher profits
for the absentee owners of the
energy conglamorates.

The supplies of coal used in in-
dustry and by utilities is dwindling.
Hundreds of millions of dollars are
being lost as a result of the strike.

Citizens effected by the strike
want some kind of action. Various
miners across the coal fields are
talking of creating sectional unions.
or a different union to represent
each area. The coal owners are
heping that President Carter will

invoke the Taft-Hartley injunction
and force the miners back to work.
which would effectively undermine
the U.M.W.‘s leadership and
bargaining position.

Though the U.M.W. has had in-
ternal strife. miners understand the
meaning of solidarity and endure
great hardships to make sure that

the U.M.W. not only survives but
wins its demands. Everyone in the
mountains—whether they are pro or
anti U.M.W.—must admit that
without this union and its history of
struggle the standard of living of all

coal miners (union or non union)
would not approach what it is now.

Jeffrey Greenhouse holds a
Master‘s degree in Social Work—
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f'oluumist John Cooke. pictured
above. whose drug~fed rantings
usually occupy this space, fell ill
this week while in the line of duty.

t‘ookc went underground last
\H‘t‘k. conducting extensive and
dangerous research in pursuit of
the real story behind the current
tlu epidemic.

l‘nfortunatcly. his manuscript
The Flu lipidemic is a Media Hype.
\ias taken from him before he
could deliver it, He is currently at
home Ill bed. a victim of the very
cvil he sought to expose.

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ls UK in it for the money?

By Dan Crutclier

“That rankles my ass!" —
Mr. Natural

Having attended this
university erratically since
1970, I have become fairly
confident of my ability to
recognize and avoid the
various administrative pit-
falls that can ersnare the
unsuspecting student. In fact,
I have even been awarded a
nicelyembellished piece of
paper as testimony to this

ability.

About 10 days ago,
however, I received a
noticfication from the

university which has forced
me to condude that my
confidence is ill-founded, or,
more accurately, that that
confidence is in itself a pitfall.
I had been lulled into com~
placency; I had lost that
instinctive wariness that is
necessary for survival in any
jungle and I am, literally,
paying for it.

The particular trap in
which I am now caight is the
university’s new policy
regarding late payment of
fees.

Previously, (from at least
1972 until last semester)
students had at least 30
calendar days from the
beginning of the semester to
pay their fees, with $5 added
on for late payment. After
that point, if one wished to
remain on the rolls, it was
necessary to pay a $25
reinstatement fee.

The new policy, instituted
just the semester, allows
only 10 class days for late
payment (with no extra
charge). after which point
one must pay a $50 rein-
statement fee to be restored
to the university’s good
graces

This is probably very old
news to most of you. After all,
the university‘s spent ova
$8,000 publicizing this policy
change in the Kernel, in the
class sclidulc book, in various
mailings, etc. I feel no little
guilt in confessing that the
first I heard of the change
was in that notification to
days ago which said my
reg'stration had been can-
celled, and would remain so
unless I paid my fees ($92)
and the $50 reinstatement fee.
And while I‘m in a confessory
mood I may as well concur

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that, indeed, I have not paid
my fees — for various
reasors, a severe crisis in
asset liquidity being up-
permost among them.

I should also mention that

late-paying students), then
the theory behind the policy
must be sound.

I concede that the numbu‘
of delinquent students will
drop significantly as the

dless of the intentions behind
the policy change. the effect.

students, is punitive. And for
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there is an appeals process, in
case one feels he is being
treated unfairly or there are
mitigating circumstances.
Obviously, the university
does not consider lack of
funds a mitigating factor, as
my appeal was denied.

Permit me to suggest a
different set of assumptions:
suppose that the phenomenon
of more students paying late
is directly related to the
generally higher cast off
living for students, in the
form of higher rent. utility
bills, food, tuition, etc. (No
one can reasonably argue
that wages for the kind of jobs
that most students work have
risen pr0portionately.) Does
it then make sense to give
them less time to pay and
then charge more when they
don't pay on time?

This university maintains
(in a nice bit of Skinnerian
doiiblespeak) that the in-
creased reinstatement tee IS
more “incentive" to pay
early rather than more
punishment for paying late.
As proof of its efficacy. Judy
Marshall cites the fact that
there were fewer students
paying late this semester
than last. The reasoning here
is that if the results of the
policy are as expected (fewer

“incentive" is increased. But
what interests me more is
what happens to the few ~
usually those in the most
difficult circumstances 4*
who are left. They are in
creasingly punished, and
finally squeezed out
altogether. because they
cannot come up with the
money, or because they have
any of a myriad of personal
problems that the university
does not recognize as valid or
mitigating.

If the university is
primarily concerned with
numbers. it has an effective
policy. If it is primarily in-
terested in the welfare of its
students. it has a counter-
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l'niyeisity officials claim
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pressure from the state
legislature In fact. they say
that this is only a step
towards the legislature‘s
ultimate goal of total pre
payment of fees I don't doubt
this is true. it sounds like the
kind of idiocy in which the
legislature specializes

llut it that is the case. then I
say it is theduty of l'niyeisity
adliiinisttators to plead on
behalf of students rather than
submit and then pass the
brick upstairs

I would like to suggest some
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students to take who are
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