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WHAT’S INSIDE NEWS, PAGE 2 Temple Student Government’s Parliament is looking for ways to reform its internal operations.

INTERSECTION, PAGE 17 Students discuss their plans to celebrate the Lunar New Year, despite being far away from their homes and families.

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TSG

Parliament considers long-term reforms

At its first meeting of 2020, dent body, said Issa Kabeer, ParliaParliament unanimously ment’s vice speaker.

Maya White, Parliament’s Colpassed two resolutions.

BY HAL CONTE Assistant News Editor Leaders of Temple Student Government’s Parliament are considering several reforms to strengthen its internal operations.

Drew Gardner, Parliament’s speaker, is considering a rule to require TSG leadership to remain in their positions long enough after new members are elected in order to ensure a smooth transition, he said.

“It’s extremely vital for this position for leaders to carry over and, you know, if they want this position, know that when the new electees come in the next year, they’re going to have to assist in training them,” Gardner said.

Parliament will review its bylaws at their meetings and propose changes to it, finalizing them by the end of the spring, he said.

Gardner is considering adding two seats to represent Greek life, which were removed two years ago, he added.

But since its creation in 2018, Parliament has struggled to fill its seats, and the 30-seat legislative body has yet to reach full capacity this academic year. Eight seats remain open after several members dropped out during Winter Break, Gardner said.

The executive branch campaigned on making Parliament inactive in Fall 2019. The executive branch walked back its stance after Gardner was able to fill approximately two-thirds of the legislative body’s seats before the beginning of the semester, The Temple News reported.

Parliament will also reassess which seats to add and which to take away based on interest from the stu-

lege of Public Health representative, said she thinks Parliament needs to advertise itself to the student body.

“I personally hadn’t really heard too much about Parliament positions,” White said. “I think they’d really benefit just from promoting themselves and increasing visibility of the people who are running, so that students can see who is representing them and have a say as opposed to [Parliament] being more behind-the-scenes.”

Arshad Shaik, an at-large representative, said Parliament does not need to be well-known to be effective at serving the student body.

“I don’t think we should always just try and like, think of ourselves as like, ’Oh, we need to be relevant, like, oh, we need to promote change and, like, try to be the biggest name on campus,” Shaik said.

On Monday, Parliament unanimously approved two resolutions.

The first called on the executive branch to ask Temple’s administration to make it easier for students to vote in the 2020 General Election, either by excusing them from class or closing the university. The second resolution calls on the executive branch to issue statements of support for international students on TSG’s social media.

Representatives are considering creating a tutoring program for adults with disabilities, developing a voluntary online module to teach students about diversity, and proposing improvements to the Flight app, which processes requests for Temple’s evening shuttle. hal.conte@temple.edu @conte_hal

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ADMINISTRATION

Arts, culture top newly appointed dean’s agenda Emilia Zankina will begin her new role as dean of Temple University Rome on May 1.

BY ABBY WILSON For The Temple News

Growing up, Emilia Zankina’s father traveled the world as a choreographer, which inspired her passion for traveling and love of languages, she said.

Zankina learned to be fluent in several languages, including English, Bosnian, Croatian and Italian. She encourages those around her to travel and expand their knowledge of other cultures, she said.

“I firmly believe that international education, it’s a life changing experience,” she said. “You know when you leave your own country, you can look even at your own self and your friends and culture through a different lens … and, I think, develop a fuller understanding of yourself.”

Zankina, the provost at American

University in Bulgaria, will begin her role as dean of Temple University Rome on May 1, she said. The university announced her appointment on Jan. 14.

She will succeed Fay Trachtenberg, Temple Rome’s acting dean, who took over after Hilary Link, the school’s previous dean, left to become the first woman president of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania last year.

Link has been in contact with Zankina for the past month and believes she will do an amazing job as dean, she said.

“I have really enjoyed getting to talk to her and understanding her, I think, very intuitive sense of what both the challenges and the opportunities are,” Link said.

Temple Rome offers internships and courses in seven academic areas, according to the Office of Education Abroad and Overseas Campuses. Since its establishment in 1966, more than 13,000 students have participated in Temple Rome’s programs.

Zankina has served as provost of American University in Bulgaria, an American liberal arts institution with approximately 900 students, since 2016, according to a university release.

She previously worked as the associate director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

A former professional dancer and one-time student at a performing arts high school, Zankina hopes to build a legacy at Temple Rome by introducing more programs about arts and Italian culture, she said.

Zankina would like to see students take more classes about Italy, she said.

“This could be in business, it could be in literature, it could be in political science, so that when students get there, they have the possibility to really develop an understanding and appreciation for a different culture in a different country,” she added.

As a teenager, Zankina lived in Ita-

ly and studied abroad at the University of Pittsburgh, she said. She credits her career path to a class on revolutions in Eastern Europe that she took in her senior year with Ron Linden, a professor emeritus of political science at the University of Pittsburgh.

As a result, Zankina switched her major to political science and went on to earn her Ph.D. in international affairs with a focus on political science and public policy at the University of Pittsburgh, she said.

Zankina absorbed everything Linden taught in the course and was willing to share her experiences with others in the class, Linden said.

Linden was also a part of Zankina’s dissertation committee, where the two became close, he said.

“She’s passionate and committed about undergraduate education,” Linden said. abigail.wilson@temple.edu

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COMMUNITY

City Council to review Broad Street business district The district would charge businesses an annual fee in exchange for community services.

BY COLIN EVANS News Editor Philadelphia’s City Council introduced a bill to approve the North Broad Business Improvement District, a proposed zone that would provide community services in exchange for an annual fee paid by commercial property owners and landlords, on Jan. 23.

North Broad Renaissance, a nonprofit community organization, is leading the effort to create the district. The organization, which currently provides cleaning, landscaping and marketing services to businesses on Broad Street between City Hall and Germantown Avenue, has held meetings with residents and business owners since May 2019.

The bill cannot be voted on if more than one-third of businesses that would be included within the district’s boundaries send objections to City Council within 45 days of the Rules Committee’s planned public hearing on the proposed district, per City Council rules.

A date for the public hearing has not been set, but it could happen in as early as six weeks, said Shalimar Thomas, executive director of North Broad Renaissance.

If the district is created, each of its approximately 265 property owners on the proposed section of Broad Street would pay 0.0012 percent of their property’s value to help expand and improve North Broad Renaissance’s ongoing community services, Thomas said.

For example, Temple Rainbow, a restaurant on Broad Street near Susquehanna Avenue, would pay $255 a year based on its property value, according to the Philadelphia Office of Property Assessment. 7-Eleven on Broad Street near Diamond would pay $1,238.

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In addition to its current services, North Broad Renaissance would add security guard patrols to the district as part of its goal of promoting safety along Broad Street, Thomas added.

Council President Darrell Clarke, who represents the fifth district, which encompasses Main Campus, as well as Councilwoman Cherelle Parker, who represents the ninth district, are co-sponsors of the bill.

“Council President Clarke supports the North Broad Business Improvement District, and we support the wishes of members of the nearby community

who are supporting the BID,” wrote Joe Grace, a spokesperson for Clarke, in an email to The Temple News. “This is also important because it supports the ongoing sustainability of the North Broad Street Renaissance, which is vital to what’s taking place in this part of North Philadelphia.”

Paul Moore, a 1985 biology and anthropology alumnus who owns the building where Yummy Pho is located on Broad Street near Norris, said he opposes paying for the district because Temple already provides security and trash cleaning services near his property.

“I don’t see any real need for it, at least on Temple’s campus,” Moore said.

Anthony Logan, who has owned Flambo Caribbean Restaurant on Broad Street near Parrish for three years, said that he is not opposed to the idea of the district but that right now, he is too burdened by taxes and other expenses to immediately support it. “[The district] is music to my ears, but I just can’t afford it right now,” Logan said. colin.evans@temple.edu @colinpaulevans

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COMMUNITY

Student tutoring program enters final semester

Through GEAR UP, Temple students have worked with students in city schools since 2017.

BY HAAJRAH GILANI For The Temple News One day, as Hannah Anderson was walking out of Kensington Creative & Performing Arts High School, a group of students she had tutored the previous semester ran up to her.

The students told Anderson, a senior neuroscience major and coach in Temple’s Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs, that she was a reason why they came to school every day.

“When I heard that, I truly almost started crying,” Anderson said. “I was hoping to make an impact on students, but that instance really showed me the significance of our work.”

Temple’s participation in GEAR UP, a college-preparatory program for local students funded by the federal government, is set to end this semester as the program’s seven-year grant runs out, said Patience Lehrman, interim director of Temple’s Center for Professional Development in Career and Technical Education.

Temple has sent tutors to six local high schools since it joined the program in 2017, said J.T. Kendall, the program manager at Temple’s Intergenerational Center, which runs GEAR UP. The Philadelphia Network of Higher Education for Neighborhood Development, a consortium of more than 30 colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area, and the School District of Philadelphia collaborated on the grant, according to PHENND’s website. Six Philadelphia-based universities, including the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University, work in 54 secondary schools through the program.

Temple tutors work in Frankford High School, Thomas A. Edison High School, Benjamin Franklin High School, Penn Treaty School, Kensington High School and Kensington Creative & Performing Arts High School, Kendall said. @TheTempleNews

CLAUDIA SALVATO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Kayla Mercado, a tutor with GEAR UP, works on geometry assignments with Thomas A. Edison High School student Laura Alvarez on Jan. 24.

While GEAR UP cannot be automatically renewed by the district, the school district could apply for a new grant to allow the program to continue, though the process could take years, Kendall said.

To become tutors, Temple students were required to complete an application, receive clearances from the university and attend mandatory trainings and orientations, Kendall added.

Kayla Mercado, a junior nursing major, is a tutor at Thomas Edison High School. A two-year member of GEAR UP, she spends five to 15 hours a week sitting in the back of Surine Sobrinsky’s geometry class, answering students’ questions, she said.

Being a first-generation college student helped Mercado connect with the students at Edison, she added.

“Just being able to say that I too am one allows a connection to be made, so

they’re easier to trust with the college process,” Mercado said. “Just knowing that there’s someone else who’s in their shoes who’s in college now, just being able to see that as an approachable dream.”

Mercado often works one-on-one with students to answer quick questions and provide specialized help to those who are struggling, Sobrinsky said.

“They tend to ask her first before me,” he said.

Marci Monaco-Vavrik, a senior sociology and human development and community engagement major, has been a GEAR UP tutor for three years, assisting a social studies teacher at Benjamin Franklin High School in addition to being a member of the GEAR UP program committee, which provides additional support for the program’s coaches and mentees, she wrote in an email to The Temple News.

“It was so heartwarming to see the

student’s excitement and curiosity about college,” Monaco-Vavrik wrote. “It reminded me that, besides their teachers, I might be the only person they know who went to college, and reaffirmed why I joined GEAR UP in the first place.”

Melrose Patton, a secondary English education major who tutored in a math class at Edison, used the free time she had with students to talk to them about their lives outside of school, she wrote in an email to The Temple News.

“That is how they will respond to you,” Patton wrote.

The Intergenerational Center is working to develop a program in which Temple students help high school seniors, who were in GEAR UP and commit to Temple, transition before their first semester, Kendall said. haajrah.gilani@temple.edu

Colin Evans contributed reporting.

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COMMUNITY

Funds allow continued support for more students The Urban Youth Leadership Academy reflects on a semester of including girls in the program.

BY RUMEESA SYED For The Temple News “Why can’t we be doing the same thing with the young women,” Alexus Moran, an urban education master’s student and program coordinator of the Urban Youth Leadership Academy, asked herself.

UYLA, a high school and college-prep program run by Temple’s College of Education, had been only for middle school boys since it began in 2016. That changed when the program opened to include girls last fall.

Juwan Bennett, a doctoral student in the College of Liberal Arts and former coordinator of the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Black Male Engagement, founded UYLA to help young, Black male students get into college, he said.

The program was able to include girls after receiving a $30,000 grant from the Lasko Family Foundation and $10,000 of in-kind support from the College of Education, according to a university release.

Seventh- and eighth-grade students from Paul L. Dunbar School on 12th Street near Montgomery Avenue and Dr. Tanner G. Duckrey Public School on Diamond Street near 15th are selected by their principals to participate in UYLA, Moran said.

Program facilitators meet with the students twice a week from September to June. The program is focused on improving career readiness and college access for students, Moran said.

Students also take weekly music lessons with Beyond the Bars, Bennett said, a nonprofit that helps Philadelphia youth to express their emotions through music, working to break the cycle of incarceration and violence that some face, according to its website.

The UYLA cohort of girls and the

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JUWAN BENNETT/ COURTESY The Urban Youth Leadership Academy is a high school and college-prep program. In Fall 2019, the program received funding to allow young girls into the program for the first time.

cohort of boys have helped each other become better students and showed each other how to be more assertive, Bennett said.

“Having the girls present and there in the joint sessions was really able to help us with the boys by helping them get serious about their work because a lot of times they like to joke and play around,” Bennett said.

Likewise, when the girls are hesitant to share their thoughts, the boys encourage them to speak, Bennett said.

Moran has also seen the benefits of opening up the program to girls.

“Being a Black woman, it’s a hard world to navigate with higher education, especially being a first-generation college student,” Moran said. “Being able

to be what you needed when you were younger is the way that I like to look at it.”

UYLA students value their time in the program.

“I think it’s is a great program that could teach me a lot about leadership, and I am very lucky to be apart of the first set of girls they added to this program,” said Najiah Wilson, an eighthgrade student in UYLA. Chloe Starks, an eighth-grade student enrolled at UYLA, said she is appreciative of the opportunity to participate in the program.

“I love all the things they are doing and how they take advantage of our time to help us,” Starks added.

UYLA helped Dymir Evans, an

eighth-grade student at Duckrey, become more of a leader, he said.

“And because they expanded to girls, that means the girls can get the same opportunities that I’m getting,” Evans added.

This semester, UYLA plans to work with student-athletes in Temple’s FLIGHT Academy of Leadership, a leadership training program for student-athletes. Bennett said. Student-athletes of FLIGHT would mentor UYLA students, becoming pen-pals to their mentees and attending Temple sports games and community service events together, Bennett added. rumeesa.syed@temple.edu

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Students: Know your rights when you’re renting Students must learn how to ad- lease with another group of tenants.

“I just wish there was a way that vocate for themselves when living off campus for the first time. we could hold these people accountable

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TYLER PEREZ OPINION EDITOR

ast spring, I rushed into my apartment, my phone open to a stream of angry texts from my roommates. I turned on every faucet I could find, only to come to terms with the situation.

The water was

shut off.

Paid for by our landlord at the time, we were without running water in our four-bedroom apartment for the next five days. Our plumbing was shot: we had to shower at friends’ apartments and dorms, even using plastic water bottles to brush our teeth.

Only recently I learned the standards of living at my apartment were likely in violation of the Implied Warranty of Habitability, a Pennsylvania law requiring landlords to provide their tenants with housing that is “safe, sanitary and healthful,” according to the Housing Equality Center of Pennsylvania. But at the time, I didn’t know my rights.

I was a new renter, unsure how to advocate for myself. If I did, maybe I’d have safe and healthy housing sooner.

The majority of upperclassmen live off campus, according to Temple University’s Office of Off-Campus Living, with a number renting for the first time.

As the 2020-21 academic year approaches, it is essential to have a strong understanding of one’s rights as a tenant.

For Raksha Balaji, a junior finance major, living in her first off-campus apartment grew tiresome when her management company didn’t answer her phone calls and emails about renewing her lease for the upcoming year. When she finally got a response after weeks, the company said they already signed the @TheTempleNews

without having to take legal action,” Balaji said.

Holding landlords and management companies accountable is typically a difficult pursuit.

For example, in cases where tenants withhold rent when landlords are refusing to make necessary repairs — something they’re legally allowed to do — landlords are barred from taking retaliatory evictions against their tenants due a local fair housing ordinance, WHYY reported in December 2019.

Still, there were about 2,300 retaliatory evictions in Philadelphia violating this ordinance in 2018, with 42 percent filed in the months before conducting a proper inspection of the complaints made, WHYY further reported.

In the unfortunate case when students are threatened with eviction and cannot afford a lawyer, they would be entitled to free legal representation due to the city’s “Right to Counsel” law, passed in November 2019, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Tenants with an annual gross income of $24,980 for a single person would be eligible.

This semester, Sydney Rebhun, a junior communication sciences and disorders major, walked into her apartment to broken pipes, causing her toilets and bathtub to overflow with dirty, feces-filled water that flooded the bathroom, hallway and a bedroom, she said.

Her landlord only offered her small compensation and later a maid service unequipped to treat the situation. At one point, Rebhun’s landlord refused both to further help or provide the property manager’s contact information, she said.

When she realized that the situation wasn’t going to improve, Rebhun called CBS 3 to report on the story. That day, the landlord arrived with cleaning help.

“It wasn’t until the news got involved that they agreed to have a restoration service,” Rebhun said. “Before

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that, it was just a $150 credit.”

I began writing this column intending to encourage students to learn their rights, and while I still stand by that, it’s clear that even when tenants do advocate for their rights, they’re ignored.

So long as tenants are abiding by the terms of a lease, landlords should be willing to make any necessary repairs and communicate with their tenants.

“My landlord is never here,” said Olivia Hansberry, a senior dance and psychology major living off campus.

“In terms of the maintenance requests I make, it’s almost as if I’m not heard. I try to call the office and I don’t get any response from them. Everything is in terms of email, which is really frustrating if I’m having an emergency.”

As students sign leases for the upcoming academic year, it’s essential that landlords work to make their properties

livable, clean and properly maintained.

Likewise, students should gain a strong understanding of their rights and responsibilities as tenants.

“We encourage students to know and stand up for their rights as tenants regardless of who they are renting from,” wrote Doretha Starling, administrative assistant for the Office of Residential Life and Housing, in an email to The Temple News.

Students can review their tenant rights and responsibilities at the resources page on the Office of Off-Campus Living’s website.

Signing a lease for the first time should be an exciting transition into adulthood, but with the exploitative practices of some property managers, it’s becoming a nerve-wracking prospect. tyler.perez@temple.edu @tyler7perez

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EDUCATION

Erasing student debt could benefit Pennsylvania Pennsylvania has one of the highest rates of average student debt in the country.

On Jan. 14, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unveiled a plan to eliminate millions of dollars of student loan ABBEY HELTERBRAN debt on the first FOR THE TEMPLE day of her presNEWS idency, without needing congressional approval, CNBC reported.

Three other Democratic presidential candidates — Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana — support free or debt-free tuition at a four-year public university for middle- and low-income families, the Washington Post reported.

The total student loan debt in the United States is currently $1.6 trillion, with the vast majority of that from government loans, at $1.5 trillion, Vox reported earlier this month.

“I just can’t imagine making that payment,” said Tommy Nyfenger, a freshman undeclared major. “My boss at my old job is 40 years old, and she still pays $200 a month or something like that for her college.”

Student loan debt is a huge burden on graduates in this country, and Warren’s proposal has the potential to affect the lives of so many adults crippled by debt. Even if it doesn’t work as Warren anticipates, publicly endorsing a plan like this will open the conversation around the student debt crisis, leading us closer to a solution.

The student debt crisis is especially relevant for students from Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania has the second highest average student loan debt, with an alarming 67 percent of Pennsylvania students taking out loans to finance their education, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported earlier this month. The average debt per student in Pennsylvania is apletters@temple-news.com

Pennsylvania $37,061

proximately $36,193.

At Temple, the average student loan debt is $38,108, even higher than the state average, according to Penn Live. This is fairly in line with other state schools, like the University of Pittsburgh, which has an average student loan debt of $38,322, and the Pennsylvania State University Lehigh Campus, where the average student loan debt is $38,922, according to that same Penn Live survey.

“We’ve just accepted that, over the course of our lives, we’re gonna be paying this off forever,” said Dominique Davis, a junior biology major who expects to have $70-80,000 in student loan debt by the time she finishes graduate school.

This policy could also work against the uneven distribution of economic burden across socioeconomic groups, as the student debt crisis disproportionately impacts African American borrowers as opposed to others, CNBC reported.

Twenty years after finishing school, white college graduates have an average

of $1,000 of student loan debt remaining — for Black students, that number is $18,500, according to a September 2019 study by the Institute on Assets and Social Policy at Brandeis University.

“When you take debt out of the equation, you level the playing field,” said Joseph Paris, an assistant professor of higher education.

While Warren asserts her plan is possible under provisions made in the Higher Education Act of 1965, it would also imply she could spend around $1.4 trillion to absolve mass amounts of student debt without congressional approval, the Chronicle reported.

“One of my first and chief concerns is whether the federal government has the infrastructure in place to forgive the loans of thousands of people across the nation,” Paris said. “Part of that is establishing and verifying clear eligibility criteria.”

Nevertheless, wiping out student loans would have an overall positive

benefit on the country: it could increase gross domestic product and reduce unemployment, while only having a minimal effect on the federal budget deficit, inflation and interest rates, according to a February 2018 study by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

Once loans are forgiven, people are also less likely to file for bankruptcy or default on medical bills, National Public Radio reported in July 2019.

The idea of mass forgiveness of student loans sounds like a dream for those who still owe thousands, but Warren’s proposal seems to be very real. While every proposal has flaws and there can always be speculation, this proposal is bringing much needed attention to a problem that hits close to home for college students.

Student loan debt plagues millions, and we can be part of the solution by casting a vote. abbey.helterbran@temple.edu

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THE ESSAYIST

A battle with my self-doubt

A student discusses their imposter syndrome as a woman in academia attending a research convention.

BY RACHEL BERSON For The Temple News When I was first notified two of my research papers were accepted by the National Communication Association Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, I emailed the convention headquarters to make sure there wasn’t a mistake.

I submitted both papers on a whim, one about neo-Nazi rhetoric and the other about neurodivergent representation in media, fully prepared to receive a rejection letter in response.

A few weeks after sending the submissions in, I made the decision to spend my Fall 2019 semester in Tokyo at Temple University Japan. I didn’t take it into consideration because I assumed I would not be attending.

Even after I was accepted and sent in my convention registration, received the necessary grant money to pay for my flight home and notified my TUJ professors I’d be missing class for a week, I kept waiting for some kind of rejection.

It was one moment of many where I struggled with my imposter syndrome, which Psychology Today defines as a sense of self-doubt about one’s successes.

This pattern of behavior — succeeding at something and immediately doubting and devaluing that success — was all too common to me. I remember the process of applying to colleges and worrying that the acceptances I received weren’t actually real. I don’t know where this sense of self-doubt came from, but it’s one I have carried with me throughout my academic career.

I arrived in Maryland jet-lagged,

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stumbling out of my Uber into a hotel lobby filled with fellow conference attendees. They all seemed to be much older than me, exuding an air of professional confidence I didn’t share.

That night, I sat with my friend

Grace, another Temple student who had been accepted, in our hotel room, talking about how nervous we were.

We were both presenting on the second day of the conference, so we decided to spend our first day attending some of the

other panels.

As women in academia, we took an interest in one particular panel dealing with imposter syndrome. That afternoon, we sat side by side in a circle of folding chairs with about 30 other women, all of whom were older than us and highly accomplished.

I thought about the irony of attending a panel on imposter syndrome and still feeling painfully out of place.

But that feeling didn’t last. As each woman spoke about her personal experiences confronting anxiety and selfdoubt, I felt less like an outsider. Every one of the panelists was incredibly successful, yet the unapproachable confidence I observed on the night of my arrival seemed to slowly fade away, replaced by openness, vulnerability and humanity.

Each woman emphasized the importance of having a strong group of friends and colleagues to rely on for support.

Despite the fact I also struggle with imposter syndrome, I am fortunate to be surrounded by a network of people, both within my major and throughout my life in general. My relationships are a check and balance on my own self-doubt.

Whenever I wonder if I’m worthy, I’ll remember I have a loving partner, close friends and encouraging professors to remind me I belong.

I still struggle with imposter syndrome. I don’t think those feelings go away easily. But I feel as though, after attending this panel, I am better equipped to counter them.

That day, I thought about raising my hand and sharing my own experiences, but I was too nervous.

Next time, I won’t be. rachel.berson@temple.edu

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HEALTH

Regardless of religion, vaccinate your children Forty-five states allow religious exemptions for mandatory vaccines, including Pennsylvania.

On Jan. 14, a New Jersey bill that would prohibit unvaccinated children from attending school unless they have a medical excuse failed to pass, the Philadelphia InCHRISTINA quirer reported.

MITCHELL FOR THE TEMPLE The bill, SenNEWS ate NJ S2173, would have no longer recognized religious reasons as an exception for mandatory vaccinations, in addition to clarifying provisions for medical exemptions, according to the proposal statement.

I went to Catholic school from kindergarten through 12th grade. In nearly a dozen years of going to services and reading the Bible, not once did I recall learning that vaccinations were unethical. My teachers and priests urged us to get the flu vaccine every year.

In fact, leaders of nearly every major religion encourage their members to vaccinate their children, the Inquirer reported, proving the anti-vaccination movement isn’t based on religion at all.

By allowing your child to go to school unvaccinated on the grounds of religious beliefs, you’re putting other children at risk of potentially life threatening and positively avoidable diseases.

Vaccines work by using a weakened or dead part of a disease germ to stimulate the immune system into producing antibodies, according to the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention. After an individual is vaccinated, they develop an immunity to that disease without having to actually be exposed to it.

The CDC validates the benefits of vaccines in its own research, and the World Health Organization affirms any

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possible adverse effects from vaccinations are mild, incredibly rare or scientifically rare. There is also no link between vaccinations and the development of autism spectrum disorder, despite a growing belief otherwise, according to the CDC. “Not vaccinating your children can affect many other people, especially the most vulnerable populations, such as babies, the elderly or immunocompromised,” said Susannah Anderson, a social behavioral sciences professor at Temple University. “Choice is important when it comes to individual decisions, but the evidence supporting vaccines is so strong and established that there isn’t a sound argument against it.”

Despite strides in public health over the past few years, 45 out of 50 states either allow religious exemptions, “personal belief” exemptions or both for mandatory vaccinations, the Inquirer reported.

Both New Jersey and Pennsylvania are among them.

In 2019, an estimated 1,282 cases of measles were reported, including 17 in Pennsylvania and 19 in New Jersey, ac-

cording to the Inquirer. At Temple last spring, there were 186 reported cases of the mumps, including nine individuals who were not students or faculty at the university, The Temple News reported.

“You can see how quickly these things spread in close-knit communities,” said Quinn McHugh, a junior public health major and the co-president and secretary of Eta Sigma Gamma, a public health honor society chapter at Temple.

“Like everyone is so interconnected at school, and think of all of the things that you pick up and you touch.”

Previously, Temple did not require students to be vaccinated, but following the outbreak, it currently mandates vaccination prematriculation, The Temple News reported.

“We do, unfortunately, allow religious and medical waivers,” said Mark Denys, director of Student Health Services. “We are following Pennsylvania state law, so we cannot go against it.

When people fill out the waiver for religious reasons, we don’t verify or question them on it, but we do use pretty harsh and aggressive language. If you refuse to comply, you may be held out of

class and quarantined to your house, and you are choosing to possibly endanger others.”

Although 82 percent of Americans support a public school requirement for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, according to a Jan. 7 study by the Pew Research Center, religious exemptions rose by 53 percent in the last five years, the Inquirer reported last August.

“If a child is participating in the public good that is public school, schools should have expectations in place that all kids must be vaccinated,” Anderson said.

While you have the freedom to decide whether you vaccinate your child, the real freedom is feeling safe sending your child to school without the fear that they’ll get sick. You can choose not to vaccinate your child, but the responsible and selfless choice is deciding to vaccinate your child for the sake of protecting other children who cannot be vaccinated.

“I don’t see any harm in helping yourself and others keep from getting sick,” McHugh said. “We have these for a reason, it’s here to help us.” christina.mitchell@temple.edu

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RESEARCH

Family’s fund supports development of ALS care

The money raised supports a team of clinicians working to find a cure for the disease.

BY MATT STROUT For The Temple News

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ast summer, Mollie Elkman noticed her mother-in-law was experiencing alarming health symptoms.

Elkman’s and her family immediately brought her mother-in-law to Dr. Terry Heiman-Patterson, director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders at Temple University.

A series of tests revealed the heartbreaking truth a month later; her mother-in-law had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, due to a gene mutation that allows the disease to be passed down to offspring.

In hopes of advocating for patients and families dealing with ALS, Elkman and her husband Daniel started the ALS Genius Fund. The fund raises money for the ALS Hope Foundation to support Temple’s MDA/ALS Center of Hope and Neuromuscular Research Laboratory. The money from the fund supports a designated team of “geniuses”, or researchers working with the fund.

The name “Genius Fund” emphasizes two things; the role of genes and genetics in ALS, and the brilliance of the medical professionals working for a cure Elkman said.

Elkman approached the ALS Hope Foundation asking if they could do something for research that would focus on the gene, said Jamey Piggott, director of development and community outreach at the foundation.

The fund has raised more than $20,000 since August 2019, which Piggott said is “unheard of.”

“We don’t want to tell another sad story about ALS,” Elkman said. “What we wanted to do instead, was shine a spotlight on these genius doctors and scientists who are really paving the way @TheTempleNews

for treatment and a cure.”

Being a rapidly progressive disease, ALS typically causes death within 34 months when the patient is first diagnosed, Heiman-Patterson said. Eventually, the disease takes over the body.

“It’s a progressive weakness,” she added. “It can start in an arm and a month later the other arm is involved.”

Heiman-Patterson, the “Head Genius” of the fund is also the director of the MDA/ALS Center of Hope, and a neurology professor at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine.

The fund brought together a number of medical professionals from throughout the city to help collaborate on fighting ALS, she said.

“We can’t be provincial, we have to drop down the barriers,” Heiman-Patterson said. “If we’re gonna make progress we have to work together, we don’t want reduplication. We want to share ideas and move things forward.”

The money from the Genius Fund goes to the ALS Hope Foundation and The Center for Hope to also give patients care, Heiman-Patterson said. Part of the funding also goes towards the labs for new equipment.

Guillermo Alexander, a professor in the department of neurology at Drexel University College of Medicine and the researcher with the fund, are currently testing on mice to see how their genes react to ALS mutations.

Elkman wants the doctors to be able to dedicate their time to find a cure and helping patients instead of fundraising.

“There’s something wrong with the medical system when these brilliant doctors have to raise money in order to provide the standard level of care,” Elkman said.

Along with the research being done in the labs, the Center for Hope emphasizes providing clinical care and educating families and patients on what it’s like to live with ALS. The disease can make life hard for patients and their families, giving them

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Latoya Weaver, a patient services coordinator for the MDA/ALS Center of Hope, and Dan Mergner, ALS Hope Foundation respiratory therapist, discuss patient care at the Neurosciences Center on Jan. 21.

ISAAC SCHEIN / THE TEMPLE NEWS Dr. Guillermo Alexander, a professor at Drexel University College of Medicine, conducts research into the mechanisms of selective vulnerability responsible for cell death on Jan. 21.

a “feeling of helplessness,” Elkman said.

But, she believes the best way people can help fight it is by supporting the people who have the ability to make a difference.

“I personally can not cure ALS but

I can help the people who can,” Elkman said. matthew.strout@temple.edu @TheRealStrout

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ON CAMPUS

Health student org promotes Latinx representation The organization strives to unite undergraduate Latinx students pursuing medical professions.

BY SIANI COLÓN For The Temple News In middle and high school, Alexa Quiñones saw few other students that looked like her. When she came to Temple, she noticed the same problem in her chemistry and biology lecture halls.

“I realized that I hadn’t really come across any Latino students in any of my major courses,” said Quiñones, a senior health professions major. “It was always a struggle finding people that I could relate to.”

Quiñones started SALUD, Student Association of Latinos Unidos por la Diversidad, an undergraduate pre-health organization for Latino students on Main Campus.

Originating from the Spanish word “salud,” meaning health, the organization’s main goals are to increase Latino representation in various health fields, provide a safe space to promote mental health and assist students who may be struggling, Quiñones said.

“We want to unite the community on Temple’s campus that are pursuing health professions,” Quiñones said.

As a student juggling two jobs along with coursework, her first two years were lonely, she said.

“I was just so overwhelmed looking around and not having anybody that looked like me, not having anybody that I could easily relate to because it’s not very often you find a lot of Latino students pursuing health medicine,” she added.

Quiñones eventually found community in the Black Professional Health Association, but wanted a Latino organization for all health students at Temple.

With the help of former BPHA president Brianna Spell, she began discussions about creating SALUD in Spring

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2019, Quiñones said.

Only 6.2 percent of those accepted to United States medical schools during the 2018-19 school year were of Hispanic or Latino origin, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Twenty-two percent of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s Class of 2021 are “underrepresented in medicine,” according to the school’s website. The Association of American Medical Colleges defines underrepresented in medicine as “those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population.”

As of now, Quiñones said there are 15 students interested in the organization. She wants to host meet-ups where students can eat, study and check-in with each other, hoping to create a support system resembling family.

Melissa Alvarez, a junior health professions major who is working at Jefferson Frankford and Jefferson Torresdale hospitals, said she has not seen a Latino resident since she began in October.

“It would be so helpful to be surrounded by a group of people who are going through a similar experience,” she said. “Students of color, in general, have to work ten times as hard in a field that’s predominantly white.”

Quiñones hopes to have SALUD’s first meeting next month and plans to host a discussion panel as its first event in mid-March. The panel would be a question and answer style composed of students from various health professionals in both undergraduate and graduate schools.

Quiñones attributes the underrepresentation to Latinos viewing college as a “mountaintop” that seems unreachable and pessimistic about their chances of acceptance.

“I am lucky enough to have been raised in a home where education was the top priority,” she said. “I think a lot

CLAUDIA SALVATO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Alexa Quiñones, a senior health professions major and founder of SALUD, stands in front of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple’s Health Sciences Campus on Jan. 24.

of Hispanic students don’t really have that mindset.”

Jordan Juarez, a first-year medical student and co-president of Lewis Katz School of Medicine’s Latino Medical Student Association, believes the addition of SALUD can help combat the “imposter syndrome,” or the intense feeling of inadequacy, that students face.

“I feel like there’s this myth that you need to be this perfect 4.0, leader of 10 clubs and have cured a disease to ultimately get into medical school,” he said.

“That really got to me and I heard this from a lot of students as well.”

SALUD will also provide resources for professional and personal development by including a mentorship program to connect undergraduate and graduate students within Temple. They’re partnered with LMSA to connect students to graduate student mentors and Quiñones hopes to partner with more organizations from all health care fields.

“Such a big part of medicine itself is the idea of always teaching the next generation or the next class, but also learning from people who might even be just one year older than you,” said Arnav Shah, a first-year medical student and mentorship chair of LMSA. Shah believes that having providers who look like the communities they serve increases communication between them and patients.

“It’s so important to have doctors who understand where you’re from, not in a literal sense of understanding, like where you can speak the same language,” Shah said. “But also just the cultural background that influences the way that you seek healthcare in the first place or how you think about health and wellness in general.” scolon@temple.edu @Siani_Colon

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STUDENT LIFE

Nighttime delivery service resells ice cream pints

Students can message their orders through Instagram to be delivered to them six nights a week.

BY YU CHEN For The Temple News As roommates both on a pre-med track, Tony Alexander and Murtaza Bandukwala found themselves running to the store three to four nights a week to get ice cream during homework sessions.

“We are tired of us constantly going to 7-Eleven or going to [Fresh Grocer] and just spending a lot of money just to buy ice cream,” said Bandukwala, a senior biology major.

This semester, Alexander, a senior biology major, and Bandukwala created TUCreamery, a student-run ice cream delivery service on Main Campus. They run the business through @tucreamery on Instagram, where they take direct message orders and post weekly menus.

Around Temple’s campus, pints of ice cream retail between $5-6 at stores like Fresh Grocer, 7-Eleven and CVS, according to their websites. TUCreamery resells pints of ice cream and delivers them for $6 each.

“No one can beat a pint of ice cream for $6 and they know it,” Bandukwala said.

The business has received 65 orders since opening on Jan. 13. It’s open for delivery from Monday through Thursday from 7 p.m. to 12 a.m. and Friday to Saturday from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Customers can pre-order throughout the day and schedule their delivery times.

Alexander and Bandukwala buy bulk pints of ice cream from BJ’s Wholesale Club and Walmart to have a range of flavors of Ben and Jerry’s, Häagen-Dazs and HALO TOP,” Alexander said. The two stockpile their ice cream in a freezer in their apartment.

The business changes their menu selection every week based on Alexander’s online research of the most popular flavors of each ice cream brand, he said.

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to expand to offer vegan and dairy-free products, which Alexander and Bandukwala plan to add in the future.

“TUCreamery is a really good idea that a student created,” said Alexandra Pietralczyk, a freshman psychology major. “I got one pint, and I thought the price was reasonable because of the type of ice cream that I got the first time.”

TUCreamery is a local business, which makes Pietralczyk more inclined to support it, rather than national snack delivery services like GoPuff.

“Convenience is everything and I don’t wanna go to 7-Eleven to pick up ice cream,” said Kunti Patel, a junior marketing major.

TUCreamery is Alexander and Bandukwala’s first business and they make all of its deliveries. Most of TUCreamery’s earnings go back into the business to buy more ice cream, which they’ve invested around $300 in so far, Alexander estimates. He expects them to turn a profit next month, he added.

However, TUCreamery’s business model is accommodating because they “listen to what students want,” said Bandukwala.

“From start to finish, it was good business,” said Michael Tedla, a sophomore undeclared major. “They work with me really well, they have a good selection of flavors. I got a flavor that I really like. I don’t really have to step outside.”

Alexander feels satisfaction from personally delivering ice cream and connecting with students, he said. He added they want to expand their business and continue it after graduation.

“I say in a year, we want, at least have a few employees and a few more delivery people and a lot more organized infrastructure as a business,” Alexander said.

Bandukwala said he and Alexander enjoy using the business as a way for them to bond over sweets with other students.

“To be able to do this is very satisfying for us, just be able to provide this type of option to other students on cam-

ERIK COOMBS / THE TEMPLE NEWS Murtaza Bandukwala and Tony Alexander, both senior biology majors and co-founders of TUCreamery, deliver ice cream to sophomore advertising major Nick Tuverson at his apartment near Oxford and Carlisle streets on Jan. 27.

ERIK COOMBS / THE TEMPLE NEWS Murtaza Bandukwala and Tony Alexander, both senior biology majors, began TUCreamery, a student-run ice cream delivery service.

pus,” Bandukwala said. “We’re both able to see the potential for TUCreamery.” chen.yu@temple.edu @19ychen

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LUNAR NEW YEAR WORD SEARCH LANTERN RAT DRAGON RED ENVELOPES DOG RABBIT OX MONKEY

TIGER HORSE ROOSTER RAM PIG SNAKE FESTIVAL

2020 GRAMMYS CROSSWORD DOWN

ACROSS

1.Tyler, the Creator’s album that won the award for best rap album

2.The best R&B album of 2020

3.The best rock song and best rock performance by Gary Clark, Jr. 4.Best reggae album of 2020

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5.Camila Cabello performed this song in dedication to her father 6.The first ever South Korean act to perform at the Grammys

7.The artist won best traditional R&B performance and best urban contemporary album

7.The artist who performed “Old Town Road” with BTS, Mason Ramsey, Billy Ray Cyrus, Diplo, and Nas

9.The best rap song by 21 Savage featuring J. Cole

8.The 2020 record of the year,

by Billie Eilish

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LIVE IN PHILLY

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Artists convene over pancakes and body paint

On Saturday, Underground Arts hosted Pancakes and Booze, a pop-up art show that hosts shows in North America and Europe. The show offered free pancakes and showcased more than 80 local multimedia artists.

Ralph Marley, 26, from Wilmington, Delaware, showed two paintings and clothing he designed.

“I create art to keep myself inspired,” Marley said. “It’s like a daily journal so I can remember each day...also to keep my energy flowing, gain a positive perspective, and always keep growing, and just find ways to help the collective because ultimately you want to find ways to help the collective get better.”

There were also live DJs and body painters decorating models throughout the space.

Elia Mettei, 21, stood in undergarments while artist Shaunia Bronson, 22, painted her torso and arms. Mettei likes to model and views art as a beautiful way to express oneself, she said. She decided to model for Pancakes and Booze when she saw Bronson, who she went to high school with, call for models on Instagram.

“It’s awesome because she doesn’t have an exact painting that she wants to paint, she’s just kinda going by feelings and I feel like she’s working with my energy and my body, and that makes it personal,” Mettei said. @TheTempleNews

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ALUMNI

Brand shows ‘the beauty of Haiti’ on Shark Tank

Two Haitian-Americans started a dition to their products being sold at women, and could create jobs and allesustainable business to help pro- Whole Foods Market and on Kreyol Es- viate poverty. sence’s website.

“We went back to what we know vide jobs to Haitians.

BY NATALIE KERR For The Temple News On Jan. 12, Stéphane Jean-Baptiste and Yve-Car Momperousse appeared on Shark Tank, exactly 10 years after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti in 2010.

The three million lives that were threatened in the 2010 earthquake was one of the things on their mind as they pitched their brand.

Jean-Baptiste, a 2006 communications alumnus, and Momperousse went on ABC’s Shark Tank, a show that gives beginning entrepreneurs the chance to earn investors, last month to pitch their beauty brand Kreyol Essence.

The brand’s inspiration comes from Haiti, as it employs female workers in the country and sources products for its shampoos, oils and pomades from it. Their products include Haitian black castor oil, Kreyol Essence’s signature ingredient.

The brand was not offered investment from any of the Sharks, but announced that their products will be sold at Ulta Beauty, a beauty chain store, across the United States in April, in ad-

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While on the show, Jean-Baptiste and Momperousse felt a responsibility to authentically represent their Haitian-American community, they said.

“What better way to show the beauty of Haiti,” Jean-Baptise said. “We can change people’s perspectives of what they think about Haiti by focusing on the natural and amazing botanical ingredients we have coming out of the country.”

The idea for Kreyol Essence started in 2010, a few months before the earthquake, when Momperousse’s hair started falling out after it was burned from a straightening treatment in a hair salon. The Haitian castor oil she used as a child in Haiti was unavailable on American markets, so she and her partner Jean-Baptiste decided to fill the gap by creating their own products.

In the aftermath of the earthquake, however, they initially wanted to put their business idea on hold and focus on providing relief to victims. They worked with other Philadelphia residents to raise $100,000 for the Haiti Earthquake Relief and Rebuilding Fund.

But the two learned Haitian castor oil had the potential for social impact if they worked with local farmers and

in our Haitian community, which is the Haitian castor oil,” Jean-Baptiste said.

Kreyol Essence uses quality ingredients and has a name and design packaging that helps “tell the story of Haiti,” he added.

“I’m about buying natural and ethically made products and as a physician, I am very mindful about how products and things can affect us,” said Josya-Goya Charles Laurent, a physician and customer. “I’ve used other natural products but the difference is that is they are personable, they are very much in tune with their customers.”

Soroya Pognan, patient safety analyst and Kreyol Essence customer said they like supporting the business because they can trace the products back to Haitian workers.

“I know that somewhere a woman’s life is being made better when I buy it, not only do I enjoy and Stephane and Yve-Car enjoy benefits, but so does that person,” Pognan said.

The hardest part of their business process has been raising funds because as entrepreneurs of color they don’t have access to capital and connections, Jean-Baptiste said.

ZANDREA ALI Senior English major I think that Philly is actually really sad about it, seeing that he was from here and he’s a legend.

In 2017, credit approval for small Black-owned businesses was 19 percent lower than white-owned firms, and of those approved, only 40 percent of minority-owned businesses received full funding, compared to 68 percent of white-owned firms, according to the Washington Post.

“We found ourselves really having to turn every stone, knock on every door and make our case from buyers all the way down to investors where they don’t necessarily understand our demographic or our business model or what we’re really trying to do here,” Jean-Baptiste said.

Going forward, Jean-Baptiste said he and Momperousse hope to build their team and continue to maintain their vision of a beauty brand that serves Haiti by always focusing on going back to the consumer and improving their experience.

“For me, its a best-kept secret, a lot of us grew up with [Haitian castor oil],” Laurent said. “When I saw it displayed on the shelf at Whole Foods, it brought a tear to my eye, to see the beauty of Haiti being shown in this way.” natalie.kerr@temple.edu

PAUL PHAM Sophomore finance major Everyone is mourning together, which is good, but overall, it’s heartbreaking. It makes me look at life a little bit differently.

JAMES COTTONE Senior political science major

BRIAN KURUVILLA Junior finance major

Having his life cut so short in such a tragic way is certainly going to leave this community hurting.

It’s going to have somewhat of an impact because he was born here in Philly. I think Philly should do something about it.

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LUNAR NEW YEAR

Celebrating the Lunar New Year far from home

Students reflect on the family and traditions they miss as they celebrate the Lunar New Year.

BY GIONNA KINCHEN Intersection Co-Editor

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hen Quan Liang was 11 years old, he moved from China to the United States. If he had to describe the Lunar New Year in one word, it would be “family.” “[Lunar New Year] is the most important time because usually in my family, everybody is busy with their job, they live in different cities, but within that time period of Lunar New Year, everybody gathers around and everybody has a good time,” said Liang, a senior accounting major.

The Lunar New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year, Vietnamese Tet and Korean Solnal, among others, is a week-long festival that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar.

The holiday typically falls between Jan. 21 and Feb. 20, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Nhi Nguyen, a freshman management information systems major who moved from Vietnam to America when she was 4 years old, said the Lunar New Year is a time for families to “put aside differences” and “celebrate the connection [they] have with each other.”

Families gather on Lunar New Year’s Eve and Day and children receive red envelopes filled with money called “lai see” in Cantonese. They serve traditional dishes like Chinese yuanxiao, or sticky rice balls, which represent family unity. On the last day of the Lunar New Year, there is oftentimes a lantern festival, where families will gather to light colorful lanterns and honor deceased ancestors, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

“Most people in the states might think Christmas or Thanksgiving is their big holiday,” said Serena Zhang, a senior @TheTempleNews

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accounting major who moved to the U.S. from China when she was 19. “And definitely in Chinese culture, Lunar New Year is the biggest cultural event that everyone has to go home [for]. Whenever you work or wherever you work, you have to go back to your hometown.”

For many students, going home for the Lunar New Year is impossible due to distance.

Xinjian Li, a senior graphic and interactive design major from China, said celebrating the Lunar New Year away from his family has been difficult.

“The Chinese New Year is after Winter Break here, so I have to go to school,” Li said. “So, it’s kind of hard to go back to China to celebrate. International students don’t have family here, so they just celebrate with their friends.

You don’t really feel [a sense of] real home here.”

Nguyen said her family celebrates the Lunar New Year with their church, neighbors and friends because their extended family does not live in the U.S. “Particularly with my family, we don’t really have much family here in America,” Nguyen said. “So on the holiday, it’s more of a volunteering day for us. Our church puts on a little New Year festival. Every single year we offer services, so this year, I’m participating in a few dances…and we help come up with a few carnival games.”

The cultural differences surrounding the Lunar New Year in the U.S. and China has been jarring, Zhang said.

“I never felt like [Lunar New Year] was that big of a deal until I came to the states where like no one actually celebrated,” Zhang said. “I can’t really celebrate with my family…I’m not saying I’m a homesick person, but every year when

it comes to Lunar New Year, I get homesick really, really badly.”

Liang said he wishes the Fox School of Business would promote celebrating other cultural holidays, like the Lunar New Year.

“Despite having a lot of international students from all over...that study in Fox School of Business, [the school] doesn’t really show their appreciation,” Liang said.

“We’re not asking to like give us a show...all we are asking is if people are going to celebrate Christmas, and there’s always going to be a Christmas theme event inside of Fox School of Business... all we’re asking for is some recognition because it’s as big a deal as Christmas for us,” he added. gionna@temple.edu @gionnakinchen

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Students celebrate Lunar New Year on campus The Confucius Institute held its mal will represent each new year, Time fourth annual Lunar New Year Magazine reported.

Lunar New Year traditions include celebration on Monday.

BY CATHERINE O’CONNELL For The Temple News The Confucius Institute at Temple University hosted a celebration on Monday to ring in the 2020 Lunar New Year, which started on Jan. 25 and ends on Feb. 4.

Entertainment included traditional Chinese activities, like a Chinese tea making table, a calligraphy display, a paper cutting activity and various live performances.

Lindsay Fink, a senior global studies major, who was working at the event, discussed the importance of this celebration on campus.

“There’s not a lot of Chinese New Year events in Philly, so it’s nice to have something on campus,” Fink said. “Like, imagine living somewhere where there’s no decorations for Christmas.”

Since Spring 2016, the Confucius Institute has been providing Chinese language resources for international and domestic students, including a Chinese tutoring program, interpreters for Chinese students during student conduct cases and summer trips to China for Temple students and faculty.

“As a center that promotes Chinese culture and language, it is important for us to hold a Lunar New Year celebration to share the holiday and its traditions with others,” said Ashley Phifer, coordinator at the Confucius Institute. “It also provides our Chinese community here on campus a place to celebrate the holiday with others.”

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cleaning one’s bedroom on Lunar New Year’s Eve “to bring good luck to the new year,” said Yingru Zhao, instructor at the Confucius Institute.

“In China, it is the greatest and most important festival…it’s like Christmas,” Zhao said.

Po-sung Hsu, a first year business analytics graduate student, attended the event. His family always comes together for the Lunar New Year, he said.

“On Chinese New Year’s Eve, we [family] have a reunion dinner, and after, the parents and grandparents give out red envelopes with lucky money inside,” Hsu said.

Observing cultural holidays and taking part in celebrations can make students feel more connected with the language they are studying, Zhao said.

“To learn language, you need to know a little background about the culture...in Chinese textbooks we learn about food and Lunar New Year … we celebrate Lunar New Year here because it evokes emotion, despite not being in China.” Zhao said.

Freshman advertising major Alea Burns, who is currently taking a Chinese language class, said she was at the event to familiarize herself with the culture.

“I’m planning on studying abroad in China next year, so I want to dip my toe into the culture,” Burns said.

The Confucius Institute exists to make students feel at home no matter where they’re from, Phifer said.

“Overall, we’re here to provide a safe, warm, inviting environment for any student that comes to our office,” Phifer added. catherine.oconnell@temple.edu

CLAUDIA SALVATO / THE TEMPLE NEWS (From left to right) Qiwen Yuan, Eddie Chia-Hao Hsu and Aris Tang perform “The Triad of Plum Blossoms,” a traditional Chinese song and dance, at the Confucius Institute at Temple University’s Lunar New Year festival at the Student Center on Monday.

CLAUDIA SALVATO / THE TEMPLE NEWS Aris Tang, a management and information systems major, plays the zheng at the Confucius Institute at Temple University’s Lunar New Year celebration at the Student Center on Jan. 27.

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THE ESSAYIST

On the model minority and other ‘tired tropes’

A student writes how stereotypes of the Asian community have impacted her life.

BY KARISSA GORNICK For The Temple News Racial awareness hit me for the first time in first grade, when a girl in my class called me a “chink” and used her pointer fingers to pull back her eyes in a slant, like my eyes.

I remember in fifth grade when my neighbor told me to go “back where I came from,” and I responded indignantly that he was a moron because I was born in Philadelphia. He also told me that all Asians look the same and told his friends I was going to eat my dog.

I experienced early on what it means to not be pure white in America.

My mom immigrated from Taiwan when she was 15 and grew up in New Jersey, Wisconsin and then Pennsylvania before settling down with my dad in Yardley, Pennsylvania. My dad is a white Philadelphian, but he’ll say he’s Polish. They met at Drexel University as my mom was studying for her MBA and my dad for his Bachelor of Science.

Growing up, I learned that Asian employees will give better service to my mom because she orders dinner and exchanges pleasantries in Mandarin, but when I go to Chinatown my Asianness is questioned, and my servers speak in English to me.

The difference is clear. My mom was born in Taiwan, and I wasn’t. She’s an authentic Asian, born and raised in East Asia, and truthfully, I’m a bad Asian.

I don’t speak fluent Mandarin and I’m more Americanized than I’d like to admit.

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ditional meal, we all wear red to encourage good fortune in the new year, and my brother and I each get a hong bao, a red envelope filled with some money to celebrate good luck and fortune. We’ve seen the parade with the dragon costume and fireworks in Chinatown, but only a few times. It’s not a huge occasion for us.

Still, I cling onto the Asian part of me by drinking bubble tea, watching anime and Studio Ghibli films and eating dim sum, trying to emulate Asian authenticity to feel like I belong in the community.

But I’m not white enough for Americans either. I’m part of the “model minority” or the idea that Asian Americans experience privileges other minorities of color do not. This trope refers to how well the Asian minority can assimilate into mainstream American culture and avoid discrimination.

At 5 years old, I was already trying to assimilate to the white majority I grew up around. I used to be fluent in Mandarin, but my mom told me I stopped because all the kids at school spoke English. I didn’t want to be different from

my friends.

But the privilege to be a model minority is incredibly problematic. It ignores that these “privileges” not given to Asians with darker skin tones, like South Asians and Pacific Islanders.

Still, this label makes me feel like I have to fulfill the stereotype of the hardworking, overachieving Asian. In reality, things were different. My mom only pushed me to do my best and never expected me to be some sort of prodigy.

Sometimes I wish I had “tiger parents, ”demanding high levels of achievement, making me play piano and sending me to medical school, just so I could be the perfect Asian that people assume I am rather than proving them wrong.

My heritage affects every aspect of my life.

When I was applying to colleges, my parents told me I get “points for diversity” because they look for minorities, and Asians are known to be smart and hardworking. As I started dating, I learned Asian women were fetishized by white men with “yellow fever.” I like when people are curious about my heritage, but it can be uncomfortable when men use my race as a pick-up line, like, “so what Asian spice are you?”

In the end, I know I can’t be accepted as just Asian or just American, but I accept my “halfy” heritage and embrace it. I take my shoes off in the house. I meditate, and there is always freshly cooked white rice ready.

On the other hand, growing up in America has made me driven, independent, opinionated, and Philadelphia has definitely made me loud. Now, I want to tear down the tired tropes and prove that I’m more than what people think I should be. k.gornick@temple.edu

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AROUND CAMPUS

Lunar New Year event to highlight language, culture Temple faculty discuss the im- learn about the zodiac.

Learning culture goes hand-in-hand portance of understanding a culture when learning its language. with learning language, said Yun Zhu, an

BY NICO CISNEROS Intersection Co-Editor When Liz Ursell tried to learn Mandarin Chinese, she struggled with learning the different meanings of written characters and verbal inflections.

“There’s a pretty high degree of memorization,” she said. “You have to balance having the right tone, using the right character, and then think of all the other things you don’t typically have to think about, like the meaning of your sentence.”

Understanding these obstacles helped Ursell in her role as the assistant director of the Language Lounge at the Student Success Center, which hosts the Conversation Partners program. The program began offering Korean and Chinese tutoring options in Fall 2019 after its staff saw an increase in student interest.

“New languages usually come to the center because students who have approached us asking for support, particularly with Chinese,” she said.

Now in its fourth year, the center’s Lunar New Year Party, which is on Friday, will include activities like guessing holiday taboos and traditions, making dumplings and learning calligraphy. This year, the celebration will incorporate activities geared toward helping attendees learn to say greetings in Mandarin and to

associate professor who has taught Asian studies courses on Chinese language and literature.

“When we say that we study a language, language is not really that abstract, it has to come from a context,” she said.

Cultural context helped Zhu learn English as a child. Born after mainland China launched its “reform and opening up” policy, Zhu believes the country had a “consensus recognition” at the time that learning foreign languages like English would be beneficial.

“I still remember that even when I was in kindergarten, we heard alphabet songs, [and] there were very popular TV programs in English,” she said. “Our teachers hosted film clubs, and we were exposed to some original materials like books.”

This kind of exposure is important to improving language, Ursell said.

“I think, learning English in the classroom is very different from living life,” she said. “There are things that we take for granted, things as simple as knowing how to order coffee, knowing how to respond quickly, things related to American pop culture. These are things most Americans assume that everybody knows.”

Cultural exposure is also important for people learning their heritage language, said Lu Zhang, an associate professor of sociology. According to the

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Center for Applied Linguistics, a heritage language is spoken by a family or community that isn’t the primary language used in society.

For second-generation Asian Americans, Zhang said learning culture and language is important to keep heritage alive, especially in the era of globalization, a topic she has researched extensively.

“I think the impact of globalization has been to remind people how important it is to keep your heritage language and keep your heritage culture, but that to have two different languages and cultures is really helpful for you to understand not only both cultures but to give you a lot of opportunities,” she added.

Zhu believes that being multilingual and multicultural is an important way to combat the trap of “information cocoons,” or when we are immersed in things we already know and do not expand our knowledge.

“You have to have some knowledge about the entire world, not just people immediately close to you, these days especially,” she said. “I think, just to experience something not so familiar to ourselves, to get to know other people’s stories, to understand other people’s perspectives, that really can help us understand the world a lot better.” nicole.cisneros@temple.edu @nicomcisneros

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Moore: ‘That’s why so many people loved him’ Damion Moore changed his number after his former AAU teammate Wayde Sims was killed in September 2018.

BY ALEX McGINLEY Assistant Sports Editor On the night of Sept. 27, 2018, Damion Moore tagged Wayde Sims in an Instagram post. Sims never replied.

The next morning, Sims was shot and killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. following a fight outside a party.

“It was just so bad,” Moore, senior center, said. “I don’t know how to explain it. It was so bad. That was my best friend, so it was heartbreaking.”

Sims, a forward on Louisiana State University’s men’s basketball team, was 20 years old and about to start his junior season. Dyteon Simpson was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, The Advocate reported.

Moore and Sims played for the same Amateur Athletic Union team, the Louisiana Elite, starting in their sophomore year of high school.

This season, Moore changed his number to 44 to honor Sims, who wore the same number at LSU. Moore wore 23 in his first three years at Temple.

Even though Sims’ death occurred before Temple started its 2018-19 season, Moore wanted to wait until his final year at Temple to change his number, he said.

“He’s just as caring and compassionate about people as Wayde was,” said Fay Sims, Wayde Sims’ mother. “It just shows how special Wayde was to Damion that he wanted to change his number.”

Moore woke up with a lot of text messages on the morning of Sims’ death and was initially confused about what happened. After reading a news article someone sent him, Moore started to cry, he said.

After finding out about Sims’ death, he just wanted to be by himself, Moore

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J.P. OAKES / THE TEMPLE NEWS Senior center Damion Moore prepares to shoot in the Owls’ 66-59 loss to Penn at the Palestra on Jan. 25.

said. He watched old videos of himself and Sims to remember him.

Moore took a few days off from basketball after Sims’ death and attended his funeral in Baton Rouge with his AAU teammates.

“It’s just a wonderful thing when you get to meet back up with players that you played with,” said Herb McGee, a senior guard at the University of South Alabama, who played for the Louisiana Elite with Moore and Sims. “Obviously, it’s not wonderful meeting up the way we met up, but everything happens for a reason and God has a plan for everything that happens.”

Not only was Sims beloved by his

AAU teammates, but he was also beloved by his teammates at LSU, Moore said.

“We never took anything personal when we wanted to talk to each other about how we played or anything,” Moore said. “We never judged each other. Everything was just on to the next game. Him as a person, he was just so loving and caring. That’s why so many people loved him down there in LSU.” Moore has appeared in nine games this season, averaging 1.9 points per game and playing 8.1 minutes per game.

At first, it was tough for Moore to transition back to basketball after Sims’ death, but now he is not as hard on

himself when he makes mistakes on the court, he said.

“You could tell I was frustrated with everything I did because I wanted to be perfect on the court for [Sims],” Moore said. “But now, I just take my time.

Knowing me playing hard, playing physical, actually working and doing good on the court, I look up. There’s a lot of pictures of me just looking up and that’s who I’m talking to and thinking about.

It’s an honor for real. If he was here today, I’d tell him how much I love him.” alex.mcginley@temple.edu @mcginley_alex

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Poor shooting overshadows Owls’ strong defense The Owls have the worst shooting percentage in The American Athletic Conference.

BY DANTE COLLINELLI Assistant Sports Editor

Through 19 games last season, Temple men’s basketball was 15-4 with a 5-1 record in American Athletic Conference play.

In the same stretch this season, the Owls are 10-9 with a 2-5 record in conference games and have lost six of their last seven games.

Temple has played strong defense so far this season but has been unable to find consistent scoring to supplement its defense. The Owls are allowing opponents to shoot 39.1 percent from the field this season, which ranks fifth in The American.

“Approach practice like a winner, and you will get good results,” coach Aaron McKie said. “We wish we were undefeated at this point, but we are not.

So we have to make some adjustments, maybe start to do some things different to get ourselves out of this tailspin.”

The Owls average 8.2 steals a game, which ranks third in The American. Junior guard Nate Pierre-Louis leads the team with 39 steals, and senior guard Quinton Rose is second on the team with 38.

Pierre-Louis is third in the conference with 2.1 steals per game, while Rose is fourth with 2.0 steals per game.

Temple is also holding opponents to 28.7 percent from three-point range, ranking second in the conference.

“I thought early on, even though we didn’t score the ball, I thought our defense was solid,” McKie said on Jan. 25.

“Again, we are putting too much pressure on our defense because of our offense.”

The Owls average 67.4 points per game, which ranks 11th in The Amer-

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JEREMY ELVAS / THE TEMPLE NEWS Senior guard Quinton Rose attempts a layup during the Owls’ 66-59 loss to Penn at the Palestra on Jan. 25.

ican while shooting just 40.2 from the field, which is last in the conference.

Rose averages a team-leading 15.4 points per game despite shooting a low 38.1 percent from the field. Pierre-Louis averages 11.1 points per game and is the only other player on the team averaging more than 10 points per game.

Pierre-Louis is shooting just 39.2 percent from the field and is struggling to finish inside the paint.

“People who play this game long enough go through different phases,” McKie said. “Finishing, not finishing, making shots, not making shots, you can go down the list. That’s where our trouble starts.”

Rose scored 21 points in the team’s

most recent game against Penn (8-7, 0-2 The Ivy League) on Jan. 25, but he took 25 shots.

Temple took 10 minutes to score against the Quakers and shot 30.7 percent from the field in total. The Owls struggled to make wide-open layups and three-pointers during the game.

“It didn’t really feel good,” Rose said.

“We weren’t making shots early, like there was a lid on the basket. We had to rely on our defense for the most part. It was good. It took us a while to get going offensively.”

The Owls will have an opportunity to turn around their shooting struggles against weaker defensive teams this week. Temple’s next two games

are against Connecticut (10-9, 1-5 The AAC) on the road on Wednesday and at home against East Carolina (9-11, 3-4 The AAC) on Saturday.

The Huskies allow 70.8 points per game, which is seventh in the American, and the Pirates allow 69.3 points per game, ranking ninth in the American.

“We gotta put the ball in the hole,” McKie said. “It is being comfortable. It is being confident. Whether it is attacking the basket getting in there and finishing in traffic or being confident and knocking down open shots.” dante.collinelli@temple.edu @DanteCollinelli

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

New coach commits to immediate AAC success Bochette posted a record of 29-24- new coach wants to compete right away, Nick Bochette’s former team 6 from 2016-19 as the head coach of junior midfielder Julia Dolan said. went to the NCAA Tournament the Great Danes. In his time at Albany, Over the last two seasons, Dolan, a three times in four years.

BY DONOVAN HUGEL Women’s Soccer Beat Reporter Nick Bochette’s biggest problem right now is finding a legal parking space.

After coaching at the University at Albany for three years, Bochette is adjusting to life in Philadelphia.

“I’ve played and coached in Philly a couple times, but have really only been here for recruiting purposes honestly,” he said. “I took the subway in for the first time and that was a whole new thing.

I’m still figuring out all the ins-and-outs of, you know, trying not to get my car towed and things like that.”

Bochette was hired as the Temple women’s soccer head coach earlier this month after former coach Seamus O’Connor resigned in November 2019.

O’Connor served as coach for seven seasons, in which the Owls amassed a 50-73-11 record.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 LACROSSE “In high school, our whole team is really close, so just coming here just the chemistry has carried over,” Koch said.

They have known each other for about seven years, Barrella said. Winters and Koch are members of the same fraternity, Kappa Delta Rho, Winters said.

Barrella and Koch have been playing together since junior varsity. They enjoyed playing together, Barrella said.

“Koch has been a gamer his entire

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the team made the NCAA Tournament three times.

Bochette enjoyed his time at Albany and “could have stayed there indefinitely,” but the decision to move to Temple wasn’t a hard one, he said.

“One of the things that made my eyes was the growth potential at Albany was in a very different stratosphere,” Bochette added. “Our goal here is creating a program that competes in the American Athletic Conference. From the standpoint of where me and my family make decisions, this is something we really want to pursue.”

Bochette wants to be competitive in The American Athletic Conference right away with the current players rather than waiting for his own recruits, he said.

The Owls have failed to win a game in the AAC Tournament in their last four tries.

It’s a “confidence builder” to hear her

team captain, has started 37 of 38 games and recorded one assist in 3,050 minutes played.

“It just shows what type of coach, but also what type of person he is that he wants to start off on the right foot with us,” Dolan said. “Especially with the upperclassmen on the team, we’re in our last year or two. He’s coming in and wants to have the most successful season possible, and he hasn’t even seen us play yet. It’s a confidence builder because we know that he’s going to come and give us his all, and we’re going to give that to him in return.”

Bochette knows he needs to develop a team identity before they can compete in the American Conference Tournament, he said.

Last season, the Owls struggled keeping possession of the ball and scoring goals. They averaged 0.89 goals per game and scored zero goals in nine of 19 their games.

career that I’ve played with him,” Winters said. “He always wants to win and he’s going to make the necessary plays to make that happen.”

They all provide a different skill set, which helps the offense be precise and efficient, coach Chris Berkelbach said.

Winters, a media studies and production major, is playing his fourth year with the team.

“He’s one of our strongest scorers on the team,” Berkelbach said. “He leads by example and knows where to be on the field. He’s someone we heavily rely on once the season rolls around. He’s been

helping us create this culture we have now and he always has high energy, he’s a great piece of our team.”

Barrella, an engineering major, may not be the biggest or fastest player on the field, but Koch said he finds ways to score.

“He’s a very silky finisher inside, he’s not the fastest or the biggest, but he is always open and catches the ball if you throw it to him,” said Koch, a finance major. “He’s got great stick work inside.”

The 2020 season will start on Feb. 15 against Central Connecticut State University at Geasey Field. The team

“Every soccer team wants to be a very possession-oriented, Barcelona or Manchester City-esque team,” Bochette said. “Certainly my preference is always to have more possession. But in the interim, we want to develop an identity both offensively and defensively that the girls feel comfortable in.”

After O’Connor resigned, Dolan and the rest of the team were “upset” by the news and nervous about who would replace him, but after meeting with Bochette, they’re excited to see what the next few months have to offer, Dolan said.

“We didn’t expect that, and it just happened all kinda quickly,” she added. “[O’Connor] recruited all of us, so I think we were all shocked. But after meeting with [Bochette], we’re all really excited to get started with him. This change is going to help the program a lot.” donovan.hugel@temple.edu @donohugel

will compete in the Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association for the first time this season.

While the team is competitive, the trio enjoys the chance to go on trips with their teammates.

“Whenever we go on road trips we end up always having so much fun,” Winters said. “Whenever we get together we have a good time. We have the same kind of humor and grew up in the same culture.” cayden.steele@temple.edu @caydensports

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CLUB SPORTS

‘CHEMISTRY

CARRIED OVER’

Several members of the men’s club lacrosse team were former high school teammates.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2020

BY CAYDEN STEELE For The Temple News

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ine Pennsylvania high schools have more than one graduate on the Temple University men’s club lacrosse team.

Senior Owen Winters, junior Matt Barrella and sophomore Chris Koch all graduated from Hatboro-Horsham High School in Horsham, Pennsylva-

nia, where they were teammates for the Hatters’ boys lacrosse team.

Hatboro-Horsham is one of two high schools that has contributed three players to the club.

The three players are now key contributors to Temple’s club lacrosse team, where their experience playing together in high school helps their team on the field now.

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JEREMY ELVAS / THE TEMPLE NEWS (From left to right) Sophomore attacker Chris Koch, junior attacker Matthew Barrella and senior attacker Owen Winters walk on the field during practice at the Temple Sports Complex on Jan. 23.

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