October 16, 2025 Student Life Newspaper, WashU In St. Louis
MAKING THEIR MARK
In largest exhibit yet, Kemper showcases 70 female artists. (Scene, pg 4)
WOMEN AND ENGINEERING
A student’s take on the W&E center’s closure. (Forum, pg 6)
FROM D.C. TO WASHU Rep. Josh Gottheimer speaks on campus. (News, pg 3)
Students commemorate hostages two years after Oct. 7, react to news of their return
Students passing Mudd Field last Thursday, Oct. 9, may have noticed sets of chairs and tables on the eastern portion of the field. The furniture, which consisted of tables set with plates and silverware and pictures of Israeli hostages taped to 48 chairs, was part of a commemoration event organized by seniors Tim Mellman and Charlie Weingarten in collaboration with Jewish student organizations.
Mellman and Weingarten held the event to remind the WashU community of the 48 hostages, 20 of whom are still alive, who were held in Gaza for over two years after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack.
Weingarten is co-president of WashU Hillel’s student board and worked in partnership with leaders of the Jewish Student Association (JSA) and WashU Chabad to coordinate the event. She said that her goal was to create a peaceful space for community members to remember both those killed and those taken hostage during Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7.
“We wanted to honor their memory and also remember that these are real people with real stories,” Weingarten said.
Weingarten said she feels like discourse online about the conflict has had the effect of deemphasizing the
humanity of the hostages.
“I think a lot of people view this conflict from the aspect of social media and online platforms, where the human nature of it can get a little complicated,” Weingarten said.
“[We wanted to remind] people these are real people, and this is why the Jewish community does what we do. These are the people we’re advocating for.”
The event featured lists of the individuals killed on Oct. 7 and a list of people taken hostage by Hamas who have since been rescued and recovered. Weingarten said that the event, which lasted from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, was preapproved by University officials.
Junior Matthew Isaacs, co-president of Chabad, said that he went to high school with one of the hostages taken captive during the attack, an Israeli-American named Edan Alexander. Although Isaacs did not know Alexander personally, he said that the fact that they went to the same school was particularly impactful on him. Alexander was released this past May.
“It hasn’t been talked about enough that there are hostages, some of whom are American, that have been taken captive by terrorists, and some of them for over two years,” Isaacs said. “I think this is really important to bring attention to.”
ELIZA STULMAN
JUNIOR SPORTS EDITOR
The No. 2 WashU and No. 6 Case Western Reserve University women’s soccer teams both held unbeaten records going into the conference matchup on Oct. 11. Only one team would come out undefeated. In a hard-fought match between two of Division III’s best squads, WashU kept its near-perfect record, winning 2-1.
The start of every game is a critical time to gain the advantage, but it was even more so for Saturday’s game. In eight out of the first 12 games of
Attendee Dahlia Levy is a senior and transfer student from Scripps College who transferred in the fall of 2025 because of what she described as a “very antisemitic” atmosphere at her previous institution. She contrasted the environment of Scripps with that of WashU, noting that there were no counterprotestors at the event, something which she felt was unique to the University.
the first goal is a big difference because it changes the momentum and look of the game,” head coach Jim Conlon said.
In a timely manner, senior forward Ella Koleno collected a blocked shot from senior midfielder Grace Ehlert, depositing the ball in the lower left corner of the goal in the 20th minute to put WashU on the board first.
Fourteen minutes later, sophomore forward Olivia Clemons registered her ninth goal of the season to put her team up 2-0. With the Bears failing to score again for the rest of the game, this goal became the game-winning marker.
“WashU is one of the few schools
half, the Spartans still had not taken a shot on sophomore goalkeeper Kassidy Lanthier.
In the second half, however, the Spartans registered their only goal of the game in the 64th minute. While it, as Conlon said, put the team on their heels a little bit, the Spartans’ goal ultimately did not hinder the Bears’ ability to demonstrate their skills.
The Bears’ 2-1 victory at Case Western marked the team’s first conference road win this season. All eight teams in the University Athletic Association (UAA) are nationally ranked, so playing a conference game away is a par ticularly crucial indicator of
that is able to just have something for Oct. 7 that’s not turned into something different,” she said. “Oct. 7 is a very specific day that is specifically [a] tragedy in Israel.”
Weingarten emphasized that she was thankful for those who helped make the event possible and hoped that the event bridged division around the war in Gaza.
“I’m really grateful to the campus community,” Weingarten said. “We hope that people on both sides can come and peruse and learn the stories of the people who have been impacted.”
CHRISTIAN KIM
JUNIOR SPORTS EDITOR
This past Saturday, Oct. 11, the No. 4 men’s soccer team traveled to play University Athletic Association (UAA) opponent Case Western Reserve University. Despite several injuries at the start of the season, this year is panning out to be the team’s most successful since 2021, when it was
L’Hommedieu being called on to make a couple of saves.
However, it was the Bears who grabbed a rather fortunate goal against the run of play. After earning a corner, Susee stepped up to take the ball. He delivered it to the near post, and amidst the crowd of players, nobody cleared the ball as it bounced into the net. Susee was credited with the goal for his first of the season.
ELIZABETH STUMP MANAGING NEWS EDITOR
Jewish students set tables for the hostages that remained in captivity two years after Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
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‘Uplifting immigrant voices’: WashU students found new immigrant justice club
education, and action.
Amid attacks on student visas and increased ICE arrests in Missouri, junior Jaqueline Marquez Salgado founded Response in Action: Students for Immigrant Justice (RAISE), a new studentled organization at WashU “dedicated to uplifting immigrant voices,” according to its Instagram bio.
Marquez Salgado, the acting president of RAISE, said she was motivated to start an immigration justice club this semester after reading headlines about ICE arrests over the summer.
“I just broke down in tears because I was feeling so much anxiety,” Marquez Salgado said.
Marquez Salgado recruited sophomore Valentina Leon Vasquez and senior Ambar De Santos to help found RAISE. Vasquez and De Santos now serve as Vice President of Administration and Vice President of Outreach, respectively.
Together, Marquez Salgado, De Santos, and Vasquez crafted the vision for RAISE with three main pillars: advocacy,
Following a general body meeting (GBM) with over 40 attendees, the executive board is now establishing committees for members to pitch ideas and provide feedback in response to student interest in RAISE.
Vasquez was eager to join Marquez Salgado’s efforts to start an active discourse about immigration on campus. She said her own experiences immigrating to the United States from Lima, Peru, 10 years ago motivated her to advocate for immigrant justice starting in high school.
“At such a young age, I was exposed to the hardships of the immigration process,” Vasquez said. Vasquez was already volunteering for the St. Louis Rapid Response Line when the club began forming.
The hotline, organized by a coalition of immigrant service providers, attorneys, and organizations, tracks ICE activity and provides support to families of detainees. Once trained, volunteers take calls from St. Louis area residents impacted by ICE activity. Vasquez recalled that during her first shift, she spent four hours helping a woman locate a friend who was detained by ICE, an experience she
described as “impactful” but also “heartbreaking.”
“People share their story in a moment of vulnerability … it’s precious to be able to hear that,” Vasquez said.
Vasquez emphasized the impact WashU students can have by volunteering at the St. Louis Rapid Response Line, as staffing limitations sometimes cause the hotline to miss calls. By training students to volunteer for the hotline, RAISE aims to help eliminate missed calls. The group has already held four volunteer trainings for students.
Simultaneously, Marquez Salgado described volunteering as “draining,” constantly hearing about the violence families are facing.
“I’ve had family members who also have been through the same experiences, so feeling like sometimes I identify with their experiences is … difficult to navigate,” Marquez Salgado said.
RAISE plans to organize spaces for student volunteers to discuss and process experiences from the hotline and protect their own mental well-being.
“We’re not just volunteers. We’re students first,” Marquez Salgado said.
One of RAISE’s pillars is to educate students about immigration policy. Recently, RAISE hosted a GBM with Stephanie Shady, professor of “Introduction to Migration Policy and Politics” in the Department of Political Science.
“My training has equipped me with the skills and passion for education, so I try to use that platform to teach students how to analyze the immigration policy landscape,” Shady wrote in an email to Student Life. She also encouraged students to use their own skillsets to advocate for immigrant justice.
Shady said that while advocacy doesn’t always have tangible effects immediately, she believes it is still important in the long run, and encourages students to overcome the “efficacy barrier.”
RAISE is working towards materializing its third and final pillar, advocacy. Vasquez noted that RAISE is seeking Student Union recognition to ensure the long-term sustainability of the organization and to gain access to funding to support advocacy work.
Outside her position in RAISE, De Santos is part of efforts to unveil and
tackle Missouri county jails’ contracts with ICE, creating a financial incentive to arrest and detain people. She said she hopes to eventually see more WashU students get involved with this kind of community-based work and stand in solidarity with the city’s diverse immigrant community.
“A lot of people do not think of Missouri or St. Louis as places that are in need of justice,” De Santos said.
Senior Natalia León Díaz, Vice President of the Association of Latin American Students (ALAS), emphasized ALAS’ commitment to uplifting RAISE’s work to support undocumented immigrants in St. Louis.
“[RAISE’s founding members are] longstanding ALAS members and collaborators, so we are committed to collaborating to advance immigration justice,” León Díaz said. León Díaz also highlighted the need to advocate for immigrant students on campus.
“We have yet to see any address or comment from higher WashU administration about the immigration crackdown, broader ‘know your rights’ communication to the
entire community, or support for our immigrant students … this is but another instance in which WashU hides under the guise of ‘institutional neutrality’ to pander to the Trump administration,” she said.
Governor Mike Kehoe recently authorized the National Guard to assist ICE in Missouri, sparking concern about heightened ICE activity. Vasquez said that this makes RAISE’s work more important now than ever.
“It’s hard to tell what we can do or plan out way ahead of time,” Vasquez said. She said that RAISE hopes to recruit now and plan for the worst.
Though students do not have the resources to materially change the national landscape of immigration policy, Marquez Salgado urged students to continue standing in solidarity with immigrant communities.
“Acknowledging our privilege as WashU students, we have both the responsibility and the power to amplify voices in the immigration community, talk about these injustices, and mobilize against them,” Marquez Salgado said.
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Since the commemoration event took place, the 20 living hostages were released to Israel this Monday, Oct. 13, in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel through a peace plan brokered by President Donald Trump. Under the plan, the remains of 28 deceased hostages are supposed to be returned to Israel in the near future.
Senior Ilan Barnea, whose parents are both Israeli, expressed that in response to the Oct. 7. attack, the Jewish community — both at WashU and globally — united in hoping for the release of the hostages.
“We spent two years in fear, anguish, and grief, wondering and praying about the fate of our brothers and sisters, alive and dead, held by Hamas,” Barnea wrote in a comment to Student Life. “After two years, almost to the date, there is a sigh of collective relief around the community that those still alive have finally returned to us and that the ugliness of the last two years can begin to conclude.”
Senior Lauren Eckstein commented on the experience of staying up Sunday night in anticipation of the return of the hostages.
“Like so many others on this campus, I stayed up well into the night, glued to the TV, struggling to believe that the remaining living hostages would actually return home safely after 738 days. I am beyond grateful that they have, but cannot be whole until every hostage is returned,” Eckstein wrote.
One member of the WashU community, senior Dillon Corsair, is friends with Edan Alexander, the
former hostage who was released in May.
“Every second that the hostages remained in captivity felt like another second of the Oct. 7 massacre and, as someone close to a former hostage, like a part of me was missing,” Corsair wrote in a statement to Student Life.
“Now, after so long, there is a sense of resolution and optimism, which I really hope will extend to the war itself and the future of the Palestinian people.”
First-year law student
Lila Steinbach and senior Max Schreiber — co-founders of Jewish Students for Palestine — wrote in a joint statement to Student Life that they celebrate the release of the hostages in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees. They noted that there are many more Palestinians still held by the Israeli government.
“More than 9,000 Palestinians remain detained by the Israeli military, including more than 450 children,” they wrote.
They encouraged readers to reflect on differing language in reference to those held captive by the two sides, saying that the inconsistency undermines the humanity of the Palestinian people.
“We urge people to notice the difference in language when referring to Israeli victims versus Palestinians — Israelis have constantly been referred to as hostages, implying victimhood and helplessness, whilst Palestinians released in this deal have been primarily referred to as prisoners — a term associated with having committed a crime,” Steinbach and Schreiber wrote.
Student Life reached out to two Palestinian students. One declined to comment for this article and the other did not respond immediately to requests for comment in time for publication.
Margot Kades, co-president of the Hillel Advisory Board, expressed gratitude about the return of the hostages and urged continued vigilance.
“I urge people to remember what it was like to wake up on Oct. 8, 2023, and channel that energy into combating Jew hatred around the world,” she wrote.
Sophomore Adi Solomon wrote that he “couldn’t even begin to express the relief” he felt when he learned that the hostages had been freed, but he is still waiting for the return of the deceased hostages to Israel.
“Beyond everything else, I just wish I could be there in Israel to celebrate the return of loved ones, celebrate life and a hope for the future,” Solomon wrote. “There has been far too much suffering in Gaza and this news of the deal and the hostage release brightens my hope for a peaceful future.” Five Jewish student groups — WashU’s Jewish Advocacy Council, Hillel, Chabad, JSA, and Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus (JLIC) — are holding a vigil to remember lives lost on Oct. 7 this Thursday, Oct. 16, at 6:30 p.m. in Brookings Quadrangle.
Editor’s Note: Tim Mellman is a Newsletter Editor for Student Life and was not involved with the writing, editing, or reporting of this piece.
‘Not
a way to run a country’: Congressman Gottheimer discusses shutdown, compromise, and college campuses
research involved in life saving
Rep. Josh Gottheimer spoke to a select group of WashU students about the ongoing government shutdown, the state of American universities, bipartisanship and compromise in Congress, and the future of AI in a fireside chat last Friday.
Gottheimer, a Democrat representing New Jersey’s Fifth Congressional District, was joined by Andrew “Andy” Bursky, the chairman of the WashU board of trustees. Invitations to the event were emailed to selected attendees, including members of Student Union and WashU Hillel as well as graduate students and students who are New Jersey constituents.
Gottheimer held a meet and greet with students at a reception after the event. Later that evening, Gottheimer, who is Jewish, met with a smaller group of students from WashU Hillel and Chabad to have Shabbat dinner.
Student Union president and senior Ashton Lee introduced the event. He said that he found the discussion to be “enlightening.”
“We have a great ally in Washington [D.C.] for the University [in Gottheimer],” Lee said in an interview with Student Life following the event.
While Gottheimer expressed reluctance about revealing details of negotiations in public, he said that there are ongoing talks between members of the House of Representatives and the Senate to find a resolution to the current impasse in the ongoing government shutdown. The House is currently out of session at the behest of Speaker Mike Johnson.
“I will tell you that many of us are working right now
in the House and the Senate together to try to work something out, and I’ve been working assiduously since this shutdown happened to try to figure out a way forward,” Gottheimer said. “We have many ideas on the table, and I’m hoping we are able to get past them.”
Gottheimer emphasized the urgency of ending the shutdown, noting its impact on Americans and federal government programs. During a government shutdown, nonessential federal workers are furloughed and essential workers are expected to work without pay.
“[The shutdown is] very dangerous to seniors, for food, to our veterans, to our service members,” Gottheimer said.
“Projects get frozen, there’s no certainty — shutdowns are not a way to run a country.”
Gottheimer complimented WashU’s administration and the University’s national standing, specifically praising its response to campus protests and its emphasis on letting students “have these debates with civility.”
“Your reputation in Washington, around the country, among people who look at universities, is at the top. … I’d much rather have a WashU kid than a Harvard kid,” Gottheimer, a Harvard alumnus, said. This comment resulted in a round of applause from the audience.
Gottheimer said he agreed with President Donald Trump that some kind of action should be taken against universities that mishandled the protests over the war in Gaza. However, he expressed concern about “that process,” noting that the Trump administration’s recent cuts to research funding could harm medical advancement.
“The idea that in that process, we would punitively punish research, healthcare
medicine makes zero sense to me,” Gottheimer said.
He also criticized the administration’s recent actions against international students.
“In the same way, it makes zero sense when we train a very smart mind that comes out of WashU and then don’t let them stay here to actually work in our country and give back and help our economy,” Gottheimer said.
Bursky affirmed his belief in free expression while acknowledging that it requires a balance, including certain regulations of protests on college campuses.
“[Campuses] have been places where we have worked hard to sustain the freedom of expression and free exchange of ideas,” Bursky said. “On the other hand, these are also places of community — they’re places where we want all of our citizens, no matter what their beliefs are or where they come from, to feel safe, like this is home.”
Gottheimer agreed with Bursky’s opinion and argued that a balance was necessary on campuses.
“I’m a huge believer in academic freedom and expression, and that’s what’s great about our country,” Gottheimer said. “But how you do it really matters. And that’s so a) others feel welcome, and b) so that people are not isolated and excommunicated from their community.”
In contrast to WashU’s response to protests over Gaza and allegations of antisemitism on campus, Gottheimer criticized universities like Columbia and Rutgers that he said “completely blew it.”
He said that while WashU has remained a space where Jewish students feel safe on campus, students and administrators from other elite institutions “pushed out”
Jewish students from their campus communities.
“I think you’ve seen a lot of universities take a look afterwards and say, ‘We didn’t handle this right,’” Gottheimer said in an interview with Student Life after the event. “And a lot of students did not feel welcome in the classroom, in their dorms, and on campus.”
Junior Matthew Isaacs, a constituent who worked for three summers in Gottheimer’s office, commended the congressman’s bipartisanship.
“I think what always has made him such a great politician, in my mind, is that he really emphasizes bipartisanship and kind of crossing the partisan divide to actually get things done that people care about,” Isaacs said.
Bursky, who has worked with Gottheimer in his capacity as a cofounder of the centrist political organization No Labels, also praised Gottheimer’s bipartisan credentials.
“Josh [Gottheimer] and I’ve been friends for a long time — I have enormous respect for this guy,” Bursky said. “He’s
taken stands at times that have been exceedingly unpopular, and when he believes he has something important to say and he knows it’s unpopular, he’ll just say it louder.”
Gottheimer has been a part of compromises in Congress as a member of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus. He said, however, that some of his colleagues are “purely performative.” Gottheimer also said that he believes members of Congress can find agreement on 90% of issues and that members of Congress should use civility when legislating.
“When we vote, you’d be shocked — most things that will get on the floor we agree on. … Most bills, you can find common sense ground, bipartisan ground,” Gottheimer said. “What gets the most attention is the fights.”
Gottheimer highlighted the value that building relationships has played for him in his work in Washington so that he has channels of dialogue to the other side during crises like the ongoing shutdown.
Gottheimer, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, specializing in the
Middle East region, also discussed his experience visiting nations like Jordan and Iraq and collecting information from on-the-ground sources. When asked by Bursky whether the recent ceasefire in Gaza would lead to a lasting peace, Gottheimer said that he was “hugely optimistic.”
Gottheimer also warned against the spread of disinformation and AI deepfakes and advised students to be “really critical about what you read” and to learn how to effectively use AI in their future careers.
“If you know how to actually implement it and maximize it, right, and be smart about how you use it, you’ll be really successful. But if you don’t, that’s when you’ll be left behind,” Gottheimer said.
Overall, Gottheimer emphasized the importance of maintaining democratic processes and the free exchange of ideas in a respectful manner.
“I want you to really feel that it’s OK to have different perspectives and debate,” he said.
Congressman Josh Gottheimer and chair on the board of trustees, Andrew Bursky, discuss the state of American universities.
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Temporary exhibit takes over Kemper Art Museum
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This fall, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is showcasing its largest exhibit ever, taking up almost the entire first floor of the museum. The traveling exhibit, called “Making Their Mark,” highlights the works of over 70 female artists in the Shah Garg collection — a foundation created by Komal Shah and her husband to spotlight the contributions of women in art.
“It was first shown in New York, then at the Berkeley Art Museum, and now here at WashU,” museum director and Chief Curator Sabine Eckmann said. “It’s not only in terms of quantity an important collection, but also in terms of quality.”
“Making Their Mark” includes works from celebrated artists, emerging figures, and long-overlooked talents that have never been displayed before.
“If you look at all the works in the show, … I think there are many, many artists who have been overlooked, so it’s nice to feature them here for the first time,” Eckmann said. In order to weave together the very diverse collection, the works are divided by thematic elements. Within one section, there are artists born over a century ago and young upand-comers sharing the same ideals.
“We wanted to make sure that we really have works close and in dialogue with each other, which show this kind of intergenerational conversation between artists,” Eckmann said, speaking to how the museum decided to arrange the pieces. “So to have works by artists who were
Curators organized the exhibit by theme, featuring artists from different generations side by side.
born in the 1900s and then in the 1920s and ‘30s, with artists who are just emerging … that was very important here for us.”
Throughout the exhibit, there are six overarching themes: “Gestural Abstraction,” “Painting and Technology,” “Craft Is Art,” “Of Selves and Spirits,” “Disobedient Bodies,” and “Luminous Abstraction.” Each theme takes up a different room in the exhibit.
The first theme, “Gestural Abstraction,” features works like those of Aria Dean, who blends sculpture and special effects software to create art.
“There’s this theory that painting is always alive because of the gesture, the individual gesture of the artist,” Eckmann said. “There is some liveliness to the medium. And that is sort of at core in the first section.”
The unique pieces displayed presented different challenges fitting into the museography of Kemper. For example, a piece by American abstractionist Howardena Pindell required the canvas to be nailed directly to the wall.
“All these works arrive, and then you decide where they go. You do that way in advance. And so usually I work with a designer or the curators. And also the director, assistant director of
exhibitions, and many people in our facilities department … and with those people, I then actually work when I hang the show,” Eckmann said. “I decide on spacing and on height, and if it really looks good, if we have nice sideways side views and things like that.”
The exhibit was slightly adapted in order to both represent St. Louis and fit into the context of WashU. Eckmann specifically referenced how the museum’s research led them to believe that the works of Suzanne Jackson, despite Jackson being from St. Louis, were never actually shown in the city.
“There are many artists that are actually really very well known, but have not been presented in St. Louis at all, or only in … smaller ways,” Eckmann said. “It’s not only great for Washington University, but for the entire city.”
While the exhibit is on display, there will be a lecture on artist Joan Mitchell on Oct. 26, and a panel with artists Katharina Grosse and Mary Weatherford, both of whom are featured in the exhibit, on Nov. 19. Both events are completely free. WashU faculty can also request guided tours of the exhibit for the length of its run. The exhibit will be on display until Jan. 5, 2026.
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SPORTS
Sam Buckley’s journey to being one of WashU and D-III’s best volleyball players
When WashU volleyball head coach Vanessa Walby first met Sam Buckley, she immediately noticed one thing about Buckley besides her talent on the court: her competitive spirit.
“When we worked with her firsthand, we saw her competitive spirit, and she asked really good questions,” Walby said. “We liked how ‘spicy’ she was, and her mindset. And we really liked how much she wanted to win.”
Four years later, Buckley’s competitiveness has made her one of Division III’s best volleyball players. The WashU senior is one of only three players in program history to tally over 2,500 career assists and 1,000 career digs and is on track to put herself into WashU’s record books for single season assists.
Over the past four years, Walby has come to know Buckley as one of the team’s key leaders. Despite being one of the best players in WashU volleyball history, Buckley leads with a humble attitude and strong work ethic. Buckley has led the No. 10 WashU volleyball team to a 14-3 record this season and three consecutive appearances in the NCAA tournament.
“As much credit as she gets from a lot of other people, [Buckley] is probably the most humble person I have ever met,” Walby said. “She gets a lot of eyes on her all the time … but she wants to get in, do her job, make other people better, and go home.”
Buckley has been no
stranger to accolades throughout her career. In her first-year season, she won American Volleyball Coaches Association Freshman of the Year. Buckley has been named to the All-UAA (University Athletic Association) First Team every season of her WashU career, and most recently was named UAA Athlete of the Week on Sept. 28, lapping visiting teams in assists and sitting second in assists-per-set in all of D-III.
“It’s definitely an honor,” Buckley said about surpassing both marks. “These are kind of stats that accumulate if you’ve been playing since freshman year and also we’ve played a lot of matches and sets, so it’s kind of expected at some point, but it’s definitely an honor.”
WashU first appeared on Buckley’s radar when family and friends suggested she apply, and she attended an elite camp — a common way for coaches and recruits to get to know one another.
Buckley was drawn to WashU by its competitive volleyball program that has won 10 national titles as well as a strong business school. The senior is pursuing both her undergraduate degree and master’s in accounting and hopes to pursue a career in accounting after graduation.
Once she arrived at the Field House, it was evident she would become an integral part of the team.
“She made an immediate impact,” Walby said. “We had three setters her freshman year, and she really worked hard in her freshman year to make that impact right away.”
Buckley immediately began putting up numbers in her first year in St. Louis. As a first-year, she averaged 10.57 assists per set, led the team with 1,289 assists, and was fifth on the team in total digs with almost 300. In her sophomore season, Buckley continued to lead the team in assists with 1,284 and moved up to the third most digs on the team with 355.
Entering her junior season, Buckley continued increasing her dominance on the court with 1,472 assists, putting her just shy of the top-10 single season assists in program history and third on the team with 313 digs. In 2024, Buckley had over 50 assists in six matches with the most, 63, coming in a September matchup against Case Western. In 2024, only seven opponents put up over 50 assists against the Bears.
In fact, in her four years at WashU, Buckley has always tallied at least 20 assists in each match. In her last two seasons, she has never tallied under 29.
Through Oct. 12, Buckley has tallied the second most assists in D-III at 857 and averaged 10.85 assists per set — the third best in the nation. She has also earned over 50 assists in four games this season with her season high of 64 against Simpson College on Sept. 20.
Throughout her four years in St. Louis, Buckley has grown into an increasingly important leader on the team. In her senior season, she has used her role to motivate younger players and build up their confidence on the court.
Buckley has created her leadership style by drawing from former leaders on WashU’s team like Michaela Bach and Jasmine Sells while putting a twist on what it means to lead one of WashU’s most historic programs.
“I’m really trying to incorporate their grit and their passion into leading with my own twist,” she said.
Throughout her time at WashU and on the volleyball team, Buckley has worked hard to perfect her leadership abilities. According to Buckley, during her junior year she began to focus on ensuring her body language was “positive no matter what the score is.”
She also realized that she could use her position on the team to encourage others to become better through her work ethic and focus on perfecting all aspects of her game.
“I think she’s a good kid,”
Walby said. “I think she has good strong morals, good values, good work ethic, but I think she’s taken more people with her along with that. I think the only way programs get better is if you have people who want to make other people better.”
Off the court, Buckley has been involved with WashU’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) where she is in her second year as treasurer and is a member of SAAC’s strategy team.
“It’s a great group of people,” Buckley said about SAAC. “[They] are all very hard working individuals who care about both school and their teams. … It’s so great.”
Sam Buckley has etched her name in the WashU record books, but she has yet to advance past the second round of the NCAA tournament. In her final season, Buckley hopes to take the team further.
In double-overtime thriller, football ekes out win over
MATT EISNER MANAGING SPORTS EDITOR
In the second overtime period of the WashU football team’s game against Carthage College on Oct. 11, junior quarterback Levi Moore was running out of options.
The Firebirds’ defense had taken away the pass game, so Moore was forced to run. After immediately breaking a tackle from a Carthage lineman, the 185-pound scrambling quarterback broke two more tackles, diving into the end zone to give WashU the lead. The Bears would hold on to win 31-23, barely defeating a Carthage team that they
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“I think that the big piece that we will continue to grow off of is how gritty we were to find a way to win,” Conlon said. “I thought our
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“[Susee’s] goal was huge for us,” L’Hommedieu wrote in a statement to Student Life. “Case [Western] is a disciplined team that doesn’t concede a lot of goals, so for us to get an early goal and let the game open up a bit was massive. We’re at our best when the space between the opponents gets bigger and we can find solutions between the lines.” However, the Spartans
beat by seven scores last year.
For the second straight week, WashU football was been tested by one of its College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) rivals. Last week, a late rally from Illinois Wesleyan University nearly eliminated a 23-point WashU lead. This week, a scrappy Carthage defense held its own against WashU’s strong run game. Neither CCIW opponent, however, could put the finishing touch on an upset. With the season halfway done, WashU improves to 4-1 on the season, the lone blemish to its record coming at the hands of No. 1 North Central College. After scoring over 40
women did a great job of locking down and making sure [Case Western] didn’t get the equalizer in the second half. So I think we’re
maintained their foot on the gas for the rest of the first half. L’Hommedieu saw four more shots head his way, but only needed to make one save. For his contributions against Case Western, L’Hommedieu was named UAA Defensive Player of the Week. In the second half, the Bears challenged the Spartans’ defense. First-year forward Sebastian Valdes, who has had the most playing time
points in three of their four games entering play Saturday, the Bears started uncharacteristically cold on offense. The first five WashU drives ended in punts, and the Bears did not have a drive of more than six plays until the end of the second quarter. Meanwhile, Carthage managed two rushing touchdowns, missing the extra point on its first score. With seconds to go in the second quarter, Moore connected with sophomore wideout Ryan Bienstock for a touchdown, giving WashU its first points of the game.
The Bears took the lead early in the fourth quarter, as Moore ran in for a touchdown. With just four
gonna build off that grittiness we’ve had and try to build that momentum from there.”
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out of any player for the team this season outside of L’Hommedieu, had the team’s first shot of the half in the 49th minute. First-year Daniel Kochen and Susee then forced back-to-back saves in the span of two seconds in the 60th minute.
Despite increased offensive pressure from both sides, L’Hommedieu made two more crucial saves to shut out the Spartans, securing the 1-0
minutes left in the contest, WashU extended its lead with a receiving touchdown from junior receiver Makael Carter. However, the Bears missed the extra point, giving Carthage an opportunity to tie the game. The Firebirds scored with just 31 seconds to go. An unsportsmanlike conduct call against Carthage pushed its extra point attempt back 15 yards — taking away the two-point conversion to win, but Carthage still converted the extra point. WashU had an opportunity to drive down the field after the touchdown with three timeouts, but a holding call pushed WashU’s offense back. Moore and the WashU offense chose to kneel out
conference rival Carnegie Mellon University at home on Sunday, Oct. 19. Now that the rest of the regular season play consists of
win for the Bears.
The starting defensive core for the Bears, made up of L’Hommedieu, junior Quentin Gomez, first-year Miles Newman, and sophomores Quentin Wallace and Luca Violone, earned their third consecutive third clean sheet.
“I think we’ve grown a lot as a defensive unit,” L’Hommedieu wrote. “A lot is asked of our back line because
the remaining time and send the game to overtime, tied at 20.
Carthage got the ball first and came tantalizingly close to the end zone, but a muffed snap on the 2-yard line and an incompletion forced the Firebirds to settle for a field goal. On WashU’s drive in the first overtime, the Firebirds successfully halted the Bears’ run game. Sophomore kicker Matias Adrogue nailed a tying field goal, keeping WashU in the game. The contest was the first time in 12 years that WashU football had gone to a second overtime period, and just the second time that Carthage had ever played in double-OT
UAA matchups, each game is especially critical for the Bears to defend their status as national champions. “While it was a nice win,
of the way we play. They have to be switched on all 90 minutes, and understand how each other plays, and that just takes time. Everyone who has been a part of the defense this year has put in a lot of work to become a more cohesive unit and I think that’s been reflected over the last few games.”
Susee spearheaded the attack in this game, leading the line with two shots on goal. Overall, the Bears were
Buckley and the No. 10 Bears have their hopes set on making the national championship game.
“I would love to win [the national championship] and the UAA Championship,” Buckley said. “That would be the biggest thing ever so really just those two things would be phenomenal.”
Walby echoed Buckley’s sentiment of how meaningful a conference title and deep post-season run would be for Buckley.
“She’s among the elite with WashU but I think no matter how many accolades she wins, … she would give all of it up if we would just win the big one,” Walby said. “She really is selfless with a lot that she does and she wants to win a conference title really bad and she wants to get to the Elite Eight and put our team in a really good situation.”
Carthage
in program history. WashU got the ball first in the second period, with Moore and junior running back Matthew Kinoshita stringing together short runs to inch closer to the end zone. Moore then scored his second rushing touchdown of the game to put WashU back in the lead. On the two-point conversion, the Bears converted on a fleaflicker reception by Moore on a pass from senior quarterback-turned-receiver Luke Johnston. The Bears stuffed the Carthage offense on their final drive, clinching the Bears’ fourth victory of the season. WashU will return to Francis Field on Oct. 18 to face Elmhurst University in a CCIW matchup at 1 p.m.
it was just one win,” Conlon said. “You need six or seven of them to win the league, and I think that’s more what we’re focused on.”
outshot 10-8 and had to soak up pressure for large parts of the match, but Susee’s unexpected goal ensured the Bears return with another win under their belt. Now 2-0, the Bears sit squarely atop the UAA standings. Their next conference clash, and the team’s Latiné Heritage Game, are this Sunday, Oct. 19, against Carnegie Mellon, who are 0-0-2 in UAA play thus far.
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The quiet closure of the Women & Engineering Center
The Women & Engineering (W&E) Center in the McKelvey School of Engineering was founded in 2023 to foster a community that supports female engineering students navigating their collegiate and professional careers. Over the summer, the W&E Center closed with no explanation.
As a senior in McKelvey and a vice president for the WashU Society of Women Engineers (SWE), I saw how instrumental the W&E Center was in supporting SWE’s success. With the help of the W&E Center’s funding, SWE hosted networking dinners, mentorship events, and professional panels, and under the leadership of the W&E Center’s former director, Christine Dearmont, the center became a lifeline for many of us. It was a place where women engineers could talk openly about their experiences in a field still largely dominated by men. One of the center’s most impactful programs was Women & Engineering (WE) Day, which brought together students, alumni, faculty, and staff to share advice and encouragement for women pursuing engineering. Many who attended described feeling inspired
and more confident in their academic and professional paths.
After the W&E center closed, McKelvey administrators sent no explanation via email, announcement, or statement to students. Instead, the center’s digital presence quietly vanished. The webpage disappeared from WashU’s site, the Instagram account was deleted, and even a podcast produced by McKelvey featuring Dearmont and her work with the W&E Center was taken down. I only learned about the closure through my club leadership role, not through the administration. To this day, the administration has not publicly addressed the decision to close the center or the impact its closure has on the female students it was designed to help.
I understand that WashU, like many universities, is navigating difficult financial circumstances, as Chancellor Andrew D. Martin mentioned in the webinar shared by the University on Oct. 6. Additionally, attacks against diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at universities across the U.S. are being launched by the Trump administration. As StudLife previously reported, mentions of DEI initiatives have been taken down from WashU sites.
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During a meeting with SWE this summer, a McKelvey staff member shared that WashU’s Office of General Counsel advised the closure of the center. This action signals a worrying willingness to yield to political pressure. WashU leaders should stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on DEI programming. They should have allowed the center to continue to operate and benefit the student body. For women in engineering, these initiatives are often the bridge to internships, mentors, and careers in spaces that remain challenging to enter and thrive in. According to McKelvey, in the fall of 2025, women made up 38% of engineers pursuing an undergraduate degree and 24% of students pursuing a master’s. Nationally, only 20.4% of graduates in engineering, manufacturing, and construction are women, according to the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap 2024 Report. If the closure of the W&E Center was unavoidable, the University still owes its students transparency and accountability. That means clearly explaining why the decision was made, what factors led to it, and how WashU plans to continue supporting women engineers. Silence erodes trust; transparency rebuilds it.
WashU can do better. If institutional centers supporting the diverse student population are cut, the administration must meaningfully invest in student organizations that continue this work. Groups like SWE, the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), and Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (oSTEM) are already building inclusive spaces for engineering students. While student groups contribute meaningful work, a dedicated center with paid, experienced staff provides the structure, accountability, and funding necessary for sustained impact. The University should also commit to publicly disclosing
future changes to programs affecting underrepresented students instead of quietly deleting them from the website.
WashU is silently cutting valuable professional development programs. As students, we can’t afford to stay silent. McKelvey administrators should reinstate the W&E Center.
Replacing Sodexo with local eats
I’m a picky eater, always have been, always will be. When I first got to WashU, my biggest worry wasn’t my mattress (Tempur-Pedic, thank you very much), my roommate (a good one), or my schedule (actually great); it was the food.
This month, I grabbed a sandwich from Collins Farms and accidentally ordered the wrong one, so I stashed it in my fridge and wandered over to Qdoba. While waiting in the overwhelming line (and remembering why I’d only bothered with this once before), it occurred to me: I have not been eating where I had anticipated I would.
I assumed my meals would all come from the WashU-run dining halls, the Danforth University Center (DUC) or Bear’s Den (BD), since they would have the classic burger and pizza, which you can’t really go wrong with. But the truth is, I kept gravitating toward the local food spots and independent restaurants featured on campus, like Beast Craft BBQ, LaJoy’s Coffee Cafe, and Collins Farms.
I may be a picky eater, but that doesn’t stop me from at least trying new things (whether I end up liking it is
what’s up in the air). When I eat at BD or the DUC, I find myself defaulting to the “local” options: seasonal dishes, St. Louis-style meals, or food from vendors with real roots in the community. Although I only end up liking the food half the time, the food I do like tastes 100 times better than the usual options at the DUC and BD.
Other students seem to agree, preferring food from independent restaurants on campus in comparison to the copy-and-paste Sodexo foods.
Over the past few weekends, I ate with friends at off-campus spots like Fitz’s and Blueberry Hill. We inhaled the food, and I discovered that food made by independent restaurants feels authentic, like it has a story behind it. Family recipes. Passion. Pride. Compare that with the standardized, one-size-fitsall meals churned out by Sodexo, which serves more than 400 other universities.
While this food is made by hand by cooks and workers who care about our meals, the recipes don’t feel unique. They are meant to be massproduced to serve a variety of palates and tens of thousands of students a day.
One of our university’s commitments is to be “In St. Louis, for St. Louis,” yet our current food services are one
of many factors that hold us back from this goal coming true. WashU prides itself on exposing students to new cultures, perspectives, and experiences. But when it comes to food, outsourcing everything to an impersonal corporation undermines that mission; it denies students access to food that’s actually representative of local culture.
A campus’s food often plays a huge role in the culture at the school, as students often congregate and eat with friends and classmates. The space in which these students hang out is often tied to the food they eat. For example, if I want a good panini, I go to Collins Farms in AnheuserBusch Hall, where I eat with peers under the glass pyramid ceiling. If the food is tasty, students stay to savor the meal, and they interact more with peers. If we want to build a community here at WashU, we have to start with the food.
Sodexo does provide food from different cultures through some of its food stations, but the food tastes like a cheap copy. Real cultural food comes from people within the culture who have been making the food for generations, not from a company trying to check boxes across 425 campuses. Sodexo at WashU wants to
be a jack of all trades, but that comes at the cost of being a master of none.
WashU should align its food with its values. As a university, we should partner with only local restaurants and chains, showcase St. Louis’ food culture, and support small businesses while feeding students real meals. If each brand focuses on its own cuisine, we can still have a variety of food and
mastery of the cuisine.
Some may be concerned with the price of this switch, and that is fair; however, the lasting impact outweighs the initial issues. As previously stated, students are mainly eating at independent food spots, creating long lines. If all of our food spots act like this, this will evenly distribute lines. This creates efficiency, less time spent waiting for food, and an increase in profits, which will cancel out the initial costs.
We don’t need “mystery meat gyros” or generic DUC pizza buried in mozzarella. We need meals that feel intentional, not industrial. Let’s quit this imitation of cultural foods and commit to a dining experience that is exclusively composed of local restaurants.
College campus debates and the slow death of American dialogue
On Sept. 10, 2025, the United States may have witnessed the bleakest instance of political violence in the 21st century. Charlie Kirk, founder of the conservative activism group Turning Point USA (TPUSA), was shot and killed at Utah Valley University. While debating a student on the issue of transgender mass shooters at the event with around 3,000 students, Kirk was shot in the neck and pronounced dead later that afternoon.
This act of political violence is a grotesque stain on our democratic system that demands unambiguous, bipartisan condemnation. Yet, the tragedy forces us to ask the question: do these open forums for debate on college campuses, widely championed by Kirk and other conservatives, provide an adequate stage for civil political discussion? To me, and many others, it seems more like a political spectacle. We cannot allow performative politics to obscure the truth while searching for civic unity.
Videos of Charlie Kirk interacting with students from both sides of the political spectrum, and similar interactions with other political personalities, pervade social media, particularly on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Stop to watch a video of Kirk and you’ll see virtually the same scene unfold every time: Kirk seated under his tent, arms crossed, looking out to his challenger encircled by a sea of MAGA-hat-wearing students. The challenger will ask something along the lines of, “How do you respond to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians?” and Kirk will retort, “Do you think Israel has the right to exist?”
“Why do you think abortion should be legal?”
“Do you think murder should be legal?”
“How can you justify Second Amendment rights when gun violence is endemic in America?”
“Well, how many of those gun deaths were the result of gang-related violence?”
There are many instances where Kirk, calculatedly, twists the challenger’s
question into a whole different politi cal or moral puzzle, evading the question at hand. Then, having cornered his challenger in a rhetorical dead-end of his own making, Kirk’s loyalist crowd erupts into a roaring jeer, declaring victory. This isn’t proactive dialogue, it’s public humiliation — modern-day tarring and feathering. Likewise, some of Kirk’s opponents have not shown the respect they demand from him either. In one instance, a megaphone-wielding provocateur interrupted Kirk’s discussion, forced himself to the center of the crowd, and repeatedly branded Kirk an agitator and liar. During a debate about abortion on the YouTube channel Jubilee — a channel that often hosts debates on a variety of issues — one of the interlocutors caustically remarked, “His smile is creepy.” How did Kirk’s opponents expect him to converse with unadulterated decorum when they themselves did not practice what they preached?
In the quest for a broadened perspective, we cannot treat dialogue like a boxing match.
Otherwise, each opponent, after taking a brutal hit, will return to their corners, itching to hit harder in the next round. And if one boxer knocks the other out, the defeated boxer doesn’t immediately yield to the victor, but instead leaves the ring with burning resentment. Democratic ideals have never called for the subjugation of our enemy’s view and the exaltation of our own; to do so would be to debase ourselves to the level of tyrants and autocrats. So we must ask ourselves, what benefits do both sides receive from these rallies?
TPUSA’s benefits seem to be twofold: to invigorate young conservatives and fill their coffers. TPUSA’s challengers get a platform to attempt to ridicule Kirk and express their disdain for his ideology. In either case, none of these is the intended end of dialogue. Dialogue is a means by which we search for the truth. Profit incentives and ideological hate give birth to a bastardized dialogue — one whose
end is oriented to division and inflammation, not truth.
Ultimately, Kirk’s assassination was not a one-off incident; it was the culmination of increasingly hateful and divisive rhetoric spewed from both sides of the aisle. These debates, like the ones TPUSA hosted, have not remedied the virulent contempt that is endemic to our politics. Malaise has turned to illness, and if we desire to heal our deeply infected society, it requires the effort of every member. It is every American’s duty to recognize and reverse the onset of this democracydestroying infection, born of divisive rhetoric. Therefore, I call upon all Americans, not just college students, to restrain themselves in the face of anger and hatred. Wherever we WashU students find ourselves — whether in the classroom or in an informal conversation — we must not emulate the toxic debates we see online. To safeguard our society, we must first safeguard our campus against pernicious rhetoric. Like a disease, it spreads from the mouth and permeates our campus and the nation. How do we prevent disease? We must purify the air we share by speaking with honesty, restraint, and respect.
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Sidechat isn’t community; it’s performance
You’re finally on campus and looking to meet new people. Lo and behold, you find Sidechat! You think to yourself, “This is so great! Now I can see what some other people are up to.”
At first, the app is fun. You’re scrolling, in agreement with random posts about Bear’s Den food and how the Qdoba line is too long. You went in thinking you’re in on a campus joke, but you soon realize you are on a page in the WashU Burn Book. Suddenly, it’s not just jokes or someone complaining about their classes, but people making mean comments about their peers, professors, and campus staff they’d never say out loud. Some of these posts have turned into recurring threads that target specific people.
Sidechat is a social media app designed primarily for college students, allowing users to log in through their school emails and post, comment, and send direct messages anonymously. On paper, it’s perfect. Everyone’s in on the same inside jokes, and there’s a sense of common struggle in everyday life we can all relate to. For a campus where it can feel hard to connect, having a shared space is powerful. But are we really connecting?
Sidechat is part of a long line of anonymous apps, like Yik Yak and Whisper, that all promise the same thing: connection through anonymity. Every single one follows the same cycle: initial excitement, sudden popularity, rapid descent into gossip and toxicity, and eventual decline.
Sidechat isn’t special; it’s just the latest reboot of a tired script. Yes, anonymity can be freeing. You’re honest, unfiltered, bold, and real. But it’s also a breeding ground for snark iness and pettiness. And the design of the app adds to this issue. The upvote and downvote system turns posts into “karma farming” com petitions. Sidechat gives you “karma” for every upvote you get. Think of it as the “like” button on Instagram. The harsher, funnier, and more outra geous your posts are, the more upvotes you get. The more upvotes, the more “popular” you feel, even if people don’t know who you are.
The shift happens slowly. One minute, you’re upvoting a post about how “chem lab is the worst class you’ve ever taken,” and the next, you’re sucked into gossip about people you don’t know, but somehow have strong opinions on. Anonymity changes the rules of the game. It’s easy to gossip when your name isn’t attached to a post. It’s easy to exaggerate or outright lie when you will never be called out. And it’s easy to
on the other side of the screen.
We like to pretend these posts don’t matter, but they do. If you’re the one being dragged, even vaguely, you know it. Maybe you brush it off, perhaps you laugh along, but the anxiousness and fear stay. The posts, even if not directly targeting us, feed our insecurities and make us hyperaware of how we’re perceived because we know we might be posted if we slip up or stand out in the wrong
funniest, who’s the wittiest, and who’s the boldest at throwing shade?
And let’s not ignore the mental health angle. WashU students already juggle stress, pressure, and competition. Adding an app where you can be roasted by your peers, anonymously, publicly, and without recourse, doesn’t exactly scream “supportive environment.”
Some people will roll their eyes and say, “It’s free speech.” Sure, technically it is. The First Amendment protects your right to speak your mind without censorship, but freedom of speech on an app doesn’t and shouldn’t mean freedom from consequences.
And when the platform itself erases accountability by allowing anonymity, consequences disappear.
On a college campus, “free speech” has become a buzzword thrown around whenever someone wants to defend saying something cruel, offensive, or flatout false. The irony?
Sidechat doesn’t actually expand speech; it flattens it. Instead of debates, you get one-liners. Instead of dialogue, you get driveby snark. People may argue that these posts are just jokes, but not all “jokes” are harmless. Hiding behind anonymity to spread gossip or make cruel comments isn’t noble. It’s lazy. I’m not here to tell you to delete Sidechat. Let’s be real: you won’t. I won’t. It’s addictive. It’s funny. It scratches the itch of wanting to know what everyone else on campus is thinking. But we should at least know what we’re signing up for and rethink laughing at gossip about others. Sidechat isn’t a community. It isn’t a place for connection. It’s entertainment, and entertainment often comes at someone’s expense. If WashU wants to be a place of real connection, actual free speech, and students lifting each other up, then Sidechat can’t be our go-to form of communication. It’s fine for a laugh or a quick scroll, but let’s stop pretending it’s a community. Because the truth is that Sidechat isn’t our campus talking; it’s just our insecurities, typed out and upvoted. If you’re actually looking for connection, text a friend, join a group chat, or, maybe, talk to people face-to-face. Radical idea, I know. So the next time you scroll, I urge you to remind yourself that Sidechat is not a bonding activity; it’s performance. And perhaps we should reconsider letting a Burn Book serve as our campus yearbook.
10/09 WINNERS
CAPTION CONTEST
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