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The senior project team of Brian Kaufman, Nick Leeburg, Tony Lin, and Micah Reich won the 2013 ASHRAE Student Design Competition in the Applied Engineering Challenge category. Their project was a Portable Solar-Powered Freezer designed for portability, ruggedness, effective off-grid operation, and cost-effective assembly using readily-available materials. This type of technology would be invaluable to developing countries, who typically have no means to store, preserve, and transport perishable food and medicines. The team will be travelling to the national ASHRAE conference in New York this January to accept their award. The faculty advisor for this project was Dr. Nicole Okamoto.
Another senior project team consisting of Luis Reyes, Michael Gallegos, Yiu Yip, Derek Delgado, Jin Yu, and Robert Deaver, placed third in the same category. This team was jointly advised by Drs. Okamoto and Yee.
The faculty advisor for the ASHRAE student club is Dr. Okamoto.
Senior project team with unit (minus solar panel). L to R: B. Kaufman, N. Leeburg, M. Reich, and T. Lin.
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I started writing this post about a month ago. Then I thought twice about it and decided to give it another month to see if Orton was still…not bad. Well, as my father would say, so far this year, Orton has been really not bad. At the beginning of the year, I was one of the many saying the Bears had no clue re their QB situation. I knew for sure the Grossman shouldn't start (we all knew that), and despite not knowing for sure about Orton, I insisted that the Bears would have been better off cutting all of their QBs and starting over with the 2008 draft (and picking up a veteran free agent or two). In fact, at one point, I wrote a lengthy post re the Bears personnel decisions here, and in this post I ripped the QB decisions in particular. My argument at the time (I believe anyway) was compelling and backed by stats. But I don't think it's a stretch to say at this point at least in 2008, Orton is proving me wrong. He looks quite good this year. Here are his stats for 2008:
- 62% pass completion rate (about average)
- 10 TDs 4 Ints
- 91.2 QB rating
- 1669 yards (6th in the NFL)
- 4-3 record
Now, these aren't exceptional numbers, leaving us all hope for a meltdown yet. And his career QB rating, despite his 91 rating so far this year, is still just 72 – so there's plenty of room for him to screw up and we're only half-way through a season. But so far this year, for the sake of accountability, I just want to put out an alert to folks that I may be having to eat some crow a little later this year if Orton continues to even be decent.
The Bears, however, still suck.

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In other question, Ron Maimon says that he thinks string theory is the physical regulator. I did not know that string theory regularize divergencies.
So, Q1: How does string theory regularize the ultra-violet divergencies of the "low-energy" (Standard Model) fields? And Q2: Why it doesn't regularize its own divergencies.
By regularization I mean that the theory is ultra-violet finite before removing the regulator.


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In upcoming thriller "The Grey," Liam Neeson stars as an oil rig worker who survives a plane crash only to be forced to fight for survival in the harsh Alaskan wilderness. Neeson reunites with his "A-Team" director Joe Carnahan, and the movie is due to hit theaters in January of next year.
But never mind all that.
Because thanks to its first official trailer, this movie will forever be known as the one where Liam Neeson fashions Wolverine claws out of broken mini-bottles of booze and punches wolves.
Once again: Broken mini-bottles of Stoli. Used to punch wolves. BY LIAM NEESON.
This movie can't get here fast enough. This is going to make "Taken" look like "Love, Actually."


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Revenue officials from Minnesota and Wisconsin have settled a key issue to reaching a tax reciprocity agreement.
Separate studies by the two states find Wisconsin would owe Minnesota about $69 million to compensate for the tax revenue it would lose if residents who live in one state and work in the other file a single state income tax return.
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The division of the natural and applied sciences celebrated its signature summer research program with a dinner that highlighted the depth and breadth of the activity on campus.
Some 153 students conducted research collaboratively with members of the faculty this summer. The total includes not only Hope students but also students from other colleges and universities as well as 17 area high school students who participated through Project REACH (Research Experience Across Cultures at Hope). The REACH representation also included two high school teachers.
The division held its fourth annual undergraduate research celebration on Thursday, July 9, at the Haworth Inn and Conference Center. Those attending this year's SURF (Summer Undergraduate Research Function) event included the students who conducted research this summer as well as their faculty mentors, other members of the campus community, and friends of the college and community leaders.
The keynote presentation was by Dr. Maria Burnatowska-Hledin, who is the Frederich Garrett and Helen Floor Dekker Professor of Chemistry and Biomedicine at Hope. Her research involves the protein VACM-1/cul 5, seeking to understand the role that it may play in preventing the growth of cancer cells. Since joining the faculty in 1992, she has mentored more than 80 student researchers and has received more than $1.2 million in grant support.
The event also included presentations concerning research by students and faculty representing each of the division's eight departments: biology, senior Jeanne Oxendine of Sterling Heights; chemistry, senior Camille Riddering of Belmont; computer science, senior Kim Klask of Pinckney; engineering, senior Joel Blok of Schoolcraft; geological and environmental sciences, senior Peter Van Heest of Holland; mathematics, sophomore Jessalyn Bolkema of Flushing; nursing, Paulette Chaponniere, associate professor of nursing; and physics, Evan Pease, a visiting junior from Kenyon College.
Learning through research has been a teaching philosophy at the college for more than half a century. The late Dr. Gerrit Van Zyl, who taught chemistry at the college from 1923 to 1964, is widely recognized for developing research-based learning at Hope in its modern sense. More than 100 years ago, biologist Dr. Samuel O. Mast had designed research laboratory space for the college's Van Raalte Hall, which opened in 1903.
Hope has received recognition in a variety of ways for its emphasis on undergraduate research. For the past seven years, since the category debuted, the "America's Best Colleges" guide published by "U.S. News and World Report" has included Hope on its listing of institutions that are exceptional for their emphasis on undergraduate research and creative projects. Hope ranked fourth in the nation when the category debuted in 2003; the institutions are no longer ranked, but only 33 are on the list in the 2009 edition. The guide also includes Hope among the top 100 national liberal arts colleges in the U.S.
Among other indicators, Hope was one of only 10 liberal arts institutions nationally recognized for innovation and excellence in science instruction by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with an "Award for the Integration of Research and Education" in 1998. In addition, the bulk of the resources that support the college's research program in the sciences come through competitive research grants from external sources such as the NSF, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Homeland Security, private foundations and corporations. During the 2007-08 school year, Hope held approximately $3.5 million in support of faculty research projects, approximately 50 percent of which was from the NSF.
The dinner also anticipated a milestone that the division will be commemorating with events throughout the 2009-10 school year. Chemistry and physics became independent departments in 1909, a centennial that the division is using as an occasion to celebrate all of the departments in the natural and applied sciences. The commemoration will include a variety of departmental seminars as well as a book about the history of the division that is being prepared for publication later in the fall.


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Referring to a post on All Things BIM ("Moving Forward With LOD"), the USACE M3 document utilizes the AIA LOD definitions and classifies the built environment with a minimum level of required information from design and construction teams.
They did a nice job in categorizing the built environment their own way and then including references to Omniclass, Uniformat, AND MasterFormat. You can even filter the Scope-LOD-Grade worksheet in column A to show different level of specificity (as in Uniformat, Level 1, 2, 3 and 4).
LOD gets a 'Grade'USACE has utilized only the 200 and 300 levels of development, and has limited use of 100. They specify the LOD in only one column and then they have introduced a concept of 'grade' as an additional qualifier to the LOD. Here's the explanation of the Grades according to USACE:
A = 3D + Facility DataWhen you put the LOD together with Grade, you get an interesting interpretation of the original level of development scheme.
B = 2D + Facility Data
C = 2D Only (drafting, linework, text, and/or part of an assembly)
+ = Original grade (A, B, or C) adjusted for contract changes and field conditions
Also note that Record Modeling and As-Builts are included in the USACE minimum requirements. The plus (+) symbol next to all There is often a question in our industry about the difference between the two and my opinion is as follows:
- Record Model - Design model that has been updated with any recorded changes (usually via RFI or Change Order) during the construction process. The model is NOT updated with in-field conditions. This seems pretty straight-forward for geometry - much different when you're talking about data.
- As-Built - Design model OR fabrication model that has been updated according to installed conditions. Again, if we're talking about data, that usually means serial numbers and other detailed information that would not be part of the design model.
At an Autodesk University panel presentation, the team from USACE clearly explained that they see the Record Model and the As-Built Model as THE SAME THING. Notice in the image above that the column heading is "RECORD MODEL (AS-BUILTS)." Remember this if you are working or will be working on a USACE project in the near future.
Modeling RequirementsThe CAD/BIM team at USACE has also created a worksheet for "Modeling Requirements" that lists a very broad statement for each major building system - organized to Uniformat Level 2 specifications. This presents a potential 'scope-creep' situation for design teams in that the Modeling Requirements do not describe different levels of modeling specificity. This type of modeling specification is being examined by the LOD Specification Workgroup of the AGC and AIA mentioned in the All Things BIM article above.
Why is the Modeling Requirements table potentially dangerous to a design team's scope of work? Here's an example...if we look at D40 Fire Protection, the requirements are as follows:
"All Fire Protection elements including all piping, valves, and seismic bracing shall be modeled with necessary intelligence to produce plans, elevations, building/wall sections, riser diagrams, and schedules where applicable."At a more generic level of development (200), an engineer would likely not include valves and seismic bracing; therefore, where do these requirements apply?


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is something that refers to symptoms having pain either caused by general compression or irritation of one of five nerve roots giving birth to sciatic nerve, or by compression or irritation of the sciatic nerve. Either compression of lumbar nerves L4 or L5 or sacral nerves S1, S2 or S3, or rarely, compression of the sciatic nerve creates sciatica.
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The most common causes of
are: pelvic imbalance, Piriformis muscle tightness, and lower back joint disruption. Pelvic imbalance causes the Sacro-Iliac joints to tighten which then allows the muscles in the buttock to go into spasm, leading to sciatica.
is back pain that then travels down your leg. I can be a "pain in the butt" to pain in your feet. The biggest fear you probably have is that it will get worse and you may end up needing surgery.
Nutrition, a health care, plays a vital role in the natural treatments of sciatica mentioned below. These have enzymes and other naturally occurring phyto-nutrients that can boost immune and hormonal systems protecting you from diseases.
If their posture is wrong when they are sitting and standing, unfortunately doing the exercises will provide the person with only a small amount of relief from the condition. It is important that when using these exercises a person should be carrying them out twice a day and should only be doing them under the supervision of an expert such as a fitness instructor.
So... To stop your sciatica now you need to address the Piriformis muscle tightness and the lower joint issues. The pelvic imbalance needs correcting but this helps to stop your
returning mainly, although it will also reduce your pain quickly.
Exercise Therapy Exercise therapy refers to the implementation of exercise with a specific goal in mind. An exercise therapy program may be supervised or unsupervised. Supervised exercise is usually part of a physical rehabilitative program. Patients may be provided with simple exercises, which they can perform at home. Home exercises are often provided to help improve flexibility and restore the strength required to stabilize a joint region. Some exercises are provided to help reduce the risk for injury or re-injury. A spinal stabilization exercise program is often used to strengthen muscles around the spine to reduce excessive or abnormal joint and spinal region movement patterns. Physical Therapy Physical therapy often includes the application of modalities such as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, heat, cold and iontophoresis in an attempt to reduce pain and inflammation. In some cases a combination of these approaches may be used. Manual approaches such as joint mobilization or joint manipulation may be applied during the course of physical therapy. The patient may be entered into a progressive exercise program to improve flexibility, muscular strength and endurance. The patient may be referred to an outside facility for aquatic therapy. Work Injury Rehabilitation Evaluation of the injured worker may require a functional capacity evaluation (FCE). The findings serve as a baseline of physical performance capacity at the workplace. If significant deficits are found a course of work conditioning/work hardening may be implemented. This involves the implementation of postural retraining and a course of specific exercises. Onsite or simulated job analysis may be recommended to help design the best therapeutic approach. An ergonomic or workplace assessment may be implemented to provide further insight into the rehabilitative requirements and to assist in the implementation of preventive measures. The practice of chiropractic and acupuncture is based on providing care without drugs or surgery. At LSRC, our doctors are well trained in disease prevention, clinical nutrition and the science of tissue recovery and repair. Our doctors understand the steps required to promote maximum musculoskeletal tissue recovery and repair and return you to an active lifestyle! "
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Yes it is important that a person does rest for a couple of days after the symptoms have appeared but after this they should take up some form of light exercise. Preferably they should be looking to do exercises which will help to strengthen and stretch the muscles in their back.
The second stretch is to do the same as above but hold your ankle over your opposite knee with one hand and then use the other hand to pull your knee towards that opposite shoulder. This will create a greater stretch.
The Acupressure technique is even simpler... A simple Acupressure point to reduce muscle tension is on the back of your knee. Just come in from the outside of your knee where your hamstring tendon is, the depression there is an Acupressure point for muscular tension. Simply hold this point on both knees at once and rest your hands there for at least 5 minutes. The longer you hold the point the more the tension will reduce.
The problem is that sciatica is a set of symptoms rather than it actually being a diagnosis in itself. Therefore before it can be treated using either traditional prescribed medications or natural ones, a doctor will need to carry out various tests in order to give the correct diagnosis.
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The best way to ease tension off the Piriformis muscle is to both stretch the muscle and to use Acupressure to reduce overall muscle tension. Stretching the muscle involves you lying on your back and pulling your knee towards your opposite shoulder. This stretches the Piriformis muscle; if you don't feel tightness in your buttock then you need to use a different stretch.
At times, pain in the lower back and gluteal region suggests sciatica and it does not suggest the root of the pain but just denotes a group of symptoms. Tiredness increases
and it becomes terrible in the evening but improves in the morning.
can give birth to numbness in the affected parts of the body and it can also create problems with controlling the leg.
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Lower back joint disruption also causes
as the sciatic nerve is created by the lower joints. If these joints fail to move freely then the nerve at its source becomes irritated.
Piriformis tightness is a common cause as the sciatic nerve either runs through the muscle or next to it. If the muscle tightens the sciatica nerve becomes irritated and
However there are more natural ways in which a person can treat this condition without them having to resort to using medications which can have other side effects. Although a lot of doctors will recommend that their patients take as much bed rest as possible, in a lot of cases this can actually make the condition worse rather than helping to alleviate the symptoms.
To help joints move more freely is just as simple, all you need to do is to press gently but firmly on the joint that is sore. You will notice if you press in some directions the pain feels a little worse - like a bruise. If you pres in this direction while you breathe in and out, your body will actually correct the joint and ease the tension around it.
In fact the majority of sciatica is simply fixed. Although disc injuries cause
they are not the majority of sciatica cases. They only attribute approximately 10% of
You might have a familiarity with terms like chiropractic or osteopathy if you face anything like pain or sciatica problem. Chiropractic is something that throws light on problems related to musculoskeletal system and nervous system and on its impact on the overall health condition. This aspect of health care interestingly denotes the inherent recuperative power of the body curing itself being devoid of any help of drugs or surgery. This natural treatment assumes the fact that if natural intelligence can develop one cell into a complex human being having billions of cells, it is also capable of curing the body provided it is devoid of any disorder in the nervous system.
Spinal Manipulation Joint manipulation is used to help promote an optimum the tissue repair process through the various stages of healing. Tissues tend to recover and remodel consistent with the stresses placed upon them during the healing process. Some movement is required for the tissues to heal strong and flexible enough to allow normal joint movement and to adequately withstand physical loads placed upon the tissue. In each stage of repair, methods are used to lessen pain, reduce extent of injury, aid in remodeling of granulation tissue, break adhesions as they develop, and most important, attempt to prevent chronic joint stiffness and /or a potential chronic pain syndrome from developing. Spinal manipulation is most effective if it is used in combination with muscle therapy, correction and maintenance of proper posture, home and in-office exercises and stretching, and proper work and home ergonomics.
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Today's match between Venus Williams and Alona Bondarenko became the stage for showcasing EleVen's third tennis outfit for the twelfth-seeded American.
Roger, part deux?: The all-black ensemble debuted the day after Roger Federer unveiled his tennis tuxedo look. Venus' gear consisted of a ladies' polo (with EleVen's crest on the breast), a pleated skirt, a headband, and wristbands. She sealed the deal with some nice bling — two pairs of earrings and a ring on her right hand.
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When used effectively, PowerPoint can add to a presentation. Consider the following basic tips when using PowerPoint.
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The World Food Programme will start to suspend its operations in parts of the country Houthi rebels control as soon as this week if the group does not agree to implement a biometrics system intended to prevent aid fraud, the head of the UN agency said on Monday.
WFP Executive Director David Beasley told the UN Security Council he had signed agreements with the Houthis on biometric registration of aid recipients starting last December, but "every time we got close to actually putting those agreements into place, there would be a new roadblock."
If the WFP does not receive "assurances" that these agreements would be honoured, "we will begin a phased suspension of food assistance, most likely towards the end of this week," Beasley warned.
Discussions on putting a biometrics system in place have been ongoing for months, after a series of allegations - both in the media and by WFP itself - that Houthi-aligned local officials have diverted aid by manipulating the lists of beneficiaries, re-selling stores of food aid, and falsifying records.
The UN's food aid agency delivers monthly rations, cash, or vouchers to 10.2 million people in Yemen - its largest operation in the world. On Monday, UN relief chief Mark Lowcock told the Security Council there were "famine-like conditions in dozens of places across Yemen".
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The WFP says biometric registration of a new database of aid recipients, already in place in some parts of Yemen that the Houthis do not control, would ensure aid gets where it is supposed to. But the Houthis have objected to the programme on the grounds that they, rather than the WFP, should be in control of the data.
The WFP first suggested in May that it was considering a "phased suspension" of its activities in Yemen because of the delay in implementation, but this is the first time the agency has publicly given the Houthis a timeline.
Two UN officials and a Houthi source - all three requested anonymity because they weren't authorised to speak to the media - said that while meetings on the issue are ongoing, WFP has given the Houthis a deadline of later this week to agree to the biometrics programme before it begins to suspend aid deliveries.
A source inside the Houthi-run National Authority for the Management and Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or NAMCHA, confirmed that WFP had said it would stop operations in Sana'a only if the Houthis did not agree to the biometric registration by the agency's deadline.
"We refuse the enrolling of beneficiaries in a biometrics programme because it is counter to national security," the NAMCHA source said, adding that the Houthis were still in talks with the WFP to find an alternative to the biometrics programme.
At the Security Council, Beasley said stopping operations "goes against every fibre of our being", but that it might be necessary to protect the "integrity" of the United Nations. "I am begging the Houthis... to let us do what we do best: save lives," he said.
For more than four years, Houthi rebels, officially called Ansar Allah, have been fighting the internationally recognised (but mostly exiled) government of President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi and its allies in a Saudi Arabia and UAE-led coalition.
The war has left more than 20 million people "food insecure" by the UN's estimate, and led to widespread malnutrition, an unknown number of deaths from hunger, and consistent warnings that the country is on the brink of famine.
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If the WFP does decide on a suspension, the announcement will be made from the WFP's headquarters in Rome, according to a leaked email sent on 13 June by WFP Yemen country director Stephen Anderson. A WFP source confirmed the authenticity of the email.
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In the email to staff, Anderson said a "partial, phased suspension [in food assistance] remains the option of last resort, one we hope to avoid," and that while talks were ongoing to head off the stoppage, "we also need to be prepared to take action in order to preserve the accountability of the Yemen operation."
"In the event of a suspension, nutrition programmes for women and children will continue," the email stated.
One of the two UN officials said aid would first be paused in the Houthi-run capital city of Sana'a, but it wasn't yet clear how many people could be impacted.
The UN official said that if the stoppage does happen, beneficiaries in Sana'a might be notified by text message that they would not be receiving their rations. The official added that the WFP hopes to continue negotiations with the Houthis even if food deliveries are slowed in Sana'a and possibly other Houthi-controlled parts of the country.


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This article addresses the question of whether and how internal wars can lead to state building. I offer a new conceptual framework for understanding the varied effects of internal conflict on state capacity, as measured through taxation. Contrary to the general scholarly consensus that internal wars make states fail, I hypothesize that like external wars, internal wars can lead to increased taxation when they enhance solidarity toward the state among the elite and motivate the state to strengthen and territorially expand the tax administration.
On the basis of theories of cultural reproduction and rational choice, we examine whether access to study-abroad opportunities is socially selective and whether this pattern changed during educational expansion. We test our hypotheses for Germany by combining student survey data and administrative data on higher education entry rates. We find that studying abroad was socially selective during the entire observation period. Selectivity increased between 1991 and 2003 and hardly changed thereafter. Unexpectedly, the expansion of higher education does not explain this development.
American Indians experience forms of domination and resist them through a wide range of decolonizing processes that are commonly overlooked, misidentified, or minimally analyzed by American sociology. This inattention reflects the naturalizing use of minoritizing frameworks regarding tribal members and ethnic rather than political conceptions of American Indian nationhood, membership, and identity.
I critique Glenn's article on settler colonialism and Bonilla-Silva's article on critical race analysis from Indigenous perspectives, including racial genocide and world-systems analysis, to cover five centuries of global systemic racism during the conquest of the Americas, by Spanish and English colonizers and United States imperialism. I also propose macro-structural, comparative-historical analysis of racism including the destruction, resistance, and revitalization of Native Nations and American Indians.
The author makes the argument that many racial disparities in health are rooted in political economic processes that undergird racial residential segregation at the mesolevel—specifically, the neighborhood. The dual mortgage market is considered a key political economic context whereby racially marginalized people are isolated into degenerative ecological environments.
The American Sociological Association signed on to a letter with 287 U.S. business, science and engineering, medical and health, and higher education organizations urging Congress to swiftly complete action on the FY 2017 appropriations process and to include robust investments in scientific research.
Political-economy, which conceptualizes space as a resource over which different groups struggle, has long been the dominant perspective in the study of urban conflict. However space is also a cultural object from which actors derive particular meanings. In order to understand how meaningful interpretations of space give rise to urban conflict, this paper examines the architectural expansions of two Toronto museums.


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Augustana Team Competes in World Mathematics Contest
Three Augustana students participated in the 2010 Mathematical Contest in Modeling, competing against 2,254 teams representing institutions from 14 countries. The contest was primarily an online competition.
Alumna Receives Award for Teaching
Ann Hollander Hanson-Hobot, class of 1985, is the recipient of a 2010 Teacher Outstanding Performance (TOP) Award from the Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota.
Augustana Commencement May 22 at Sioux Falls Arena
Three hundred and twenty-nine students will participate in the ceremony beginning at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, May 22, at the Sioux Falls Arena. In addition to the conferring of degrees, four faculty awards will be presented.
KDLT: Augustana Students Conduct Study on Sioux Empire Fair
Augustana students are behind a new report, coming out next week, surrounding the Sioux Empire Fair. KDLT spoke with students involved and their professor Dr. Marcia Entwistle about the study.
Dr. Ann Pederson Receives 2009-10 Faculty Recognition Award
Dr. Ann Pederson, Professor of Religion, received the Augustana Student Association Faculty Recognition Award for her outstanding teaching and contributions to the Augustana community.
Fairmont Junior Wins Augustana Covenant Award for Service
Brady Holm, an Art and Communication Studies major, is the recipient of the Augustana Covenant Award for Service. Each week Holm devotes 10 hours to Journey of Healing in the Arts at the Sanford Cancer Center.
Argus Leader: Dr. Julia Bennett Leaves a Legacy
Dr. Julia Bennett, associate professor of theatre, is an actor, director and 'dreamer.' Bennett is leaving Augustana after 21 years, but is also leaving a legacy as a wonderful talent and influential teacher.
Women's Golf Wins NCAA Super Region 3 Championships
After leading for the majority of the tournament, the Augustana women's golf team has won the NCAA Super Region 3 Championship in Lake City, MN. Three Vikings finished in the top 10 individually.
Mary Moline Wins Augie Pride Award
Mary Moline, office coordinator for the Nursing Department, is the recipient of the 2010 "Augie Pride" Award, an annual award recognizing exceptional service by an Augustana employee.
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If you had tuned in to Fox Sports North on Wednesday night, you were treated to a supernova-like outing from left-hander Francisco Liriano. The Twins starter blew through the Baltimore Orioles' lineup, racking up a remarkable nine strikeouts, but managed to only last three innings as he burned out bright and quick.
I realize that striking out this bunch of Orioles is about as easy as getting accepted to St. Cloud State. For instance, the Birds' sixth hitter, Mark Reynolds, has struck out in almost 40% of his plate appearances dating back to 2008. Likewise, Derrek Lee and Adam Jones both have k-rates above 20% in that same period of time. Ditto for outfielder Nolan Reimold. Vlad Guerrero – while not much of a strikeout candidate – swings at everything not tied down. Mix in a weak hitting Cesaer Izturis and back-up catcher Craig Tatum and Liriano's ownership of this lineup, as impressive as nine outs all on strikeouts were, should not come at a complete surprise.
Had this been a game against a more historically patient team like the Yankees or Red Sox, Liriano may not have lasted even the full three innings. His fastball was constantly up in the zone and was frequently bailed out by his secondary offerings that hitters flailed at. His slider was solid while the velocity differential likely aided in keeping his changeup from being crunched as it routinely came in belt high. Nevertheless, because of the errant command, he continually found himself throwing four or more pitches per plate appearance, burning through more bullets than a Brian De Palma movie.
Not surprising, both the coaching staff and Liriano sounded less than satisfied by the gaudy strikeout totals. Said manager Ron Gardenhire on his 76-pitch performance:
"It was a little bit out there. But he got his work in and got to 70-plus pitches to build his arm strength up. But we were just hoping he'd get to five or six innings, not three. There were a lot of punchouts, but I'm sure Frankie was a little bit disappointed by the way he threw the ball tonight."
Liriano's comments echoed his manager's sentiments:
"I need to go deeper in the game and not try to strike everybody out. I wasn't really happy with how I pitched tonight."
There's the rub for Liriano. In order to reduce the amount of strikeouts to lower his overall pitch count, he has to allow the hitters to put the ball in play more frequently. Of course, you will have to excuse him for not putting 100% of his faith in his defense to convert the out based on their track record in 2010.
Aside from Adam Jones's at bat in the third inning in which he tried to put a hole in the sun with one of Liriano's fastballs (not a bad location down-and-away), the Orioles managed to test the Twins defense just twice the rest of his outing. In the first inning, Jones fought off a pitch and gorked it on the other side of shortstop Alexi Casilla and in front of the suddenly beefy Delmon Young. One batter later, Guerrero bled another pitch through the infield between short and third.
Two weakly batted balls, two hits.
To me, this epitomized last year's season for Liriano. Stop me if you've heard this before, but when it came to help from his defense, he was one of the most unlucky pitchers in the game. Aside from Tampa Bay's James Shields, Liriano was the runner-up for recipient of the Least Fortunate Pitcher Award, posting the second-highest batting average on balls in play (BABIP). Essentially, despite wielding some dominating stuff – leading baseball in swinging strikes, posting below average line drive rates, walk rates and allowing just nine home runs – Liriano finished the year with having the second fewest amount of balls in play converted to outs behind him.
What it amounted to was a death by paper cuts. Death, in terms of his pitch count anyways.
Normally I come to the table bringing statistical analysis or other such evidence to back-up the majority of claims I make here. This time, I'm making a purely speculative statement. It seems to me that based upon my recollection of the hits Liriano's allowed last year many of those were similar to Jones and Guerrero's singles on Wednesday night. Again, nothing too dangerous: a simple bouncer past an outstretched infielder or a blooper that fell in front of a charging outfielder.
In the end, those of us that are sabermetrically inclined tend to attribute that to bad luck. But what if those results are more than just bad luck? What if there is a bigger root cause that we're not able to measure at this point?
As we all know Liriano is a strikeout-oriented pitcher. Roughly a quarter of all of his match-ups have ended with the hitter grabbing some pine. I am certain his fielders are acutely aware of this fact too, possibly making them wonder just want they are doing out there and who is that cute girl three rows above the dugout? Perhaps lulled into a less attentive state by anticipating Liriano to single-handedly dismantle the opposing lineups, his fielders do not get the same jump as they would with someone like Nick Blackburn on the mound who they know a hitter is going to put a ball in to play (for better or worse). Suddenly, with Liriano on the mound, those borderline bouncers and dying quails are a step or two out of reach as the fielders are not nearly as vigilant as they otherwise would be with the high-contact pitchers out there.
Yes, you could try blowing this entire theory out of the water but simply invoking someone like the Tigers' Justin Verlander. Verlander, who averages 4.03 pitches per plate appearance (more than Liriano), exhibits a lot of the same qualities as Liriano but managed to produce a significantly lower .283 BABIP. Why, you would then ask, would a pitcher who seems to labor more through each match-up receive better defense? To that point, I have no real answer. It could have something to do with the makeup of their respective rotations. Detroit's brimming with pitchers who tend to amass large pitch counts whereas the Twins boast pitchers who own three of the four lowest pitches per plate appearances spots. Then I would add, stop being a jerk, I'm just sharing a theory.
Indeed, once the technology like FIELD f/x is finally released, we will have a better understanding if that is actually a factor. Through the FIELD f/x system, we will be able to say with some certainty that Shortstop X is able to get to more groundballs Y distance away when Pitchers 1 through 4 are on the mound but his range is reduced when Liriano is pitching. Until the day that we are able to quantify and measure it, this remains conjecture.
You can't often get a zebra to change its stripes and Liriano has developed as a strikeout artist and remains one. That said he needs to attempt to make inroads towards lowering his pitch count in 2011. What I would like to see is a hybrid of the strikeout artist and one that can dial up a grounder on one pitch occasionally, if for no other reason, to keep his fielders on their toes. After all, strike outs a fascist and ground balls are democratic – or so the Crash Davis idiom goes.


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Classics Professor Jeremy Hartnett '96 says you can learn much about a place's history by looking at faces. That was certainly true in the College's Salter Hall Friday afternoon as he prepared to deliver the 32nd Annual LaFollette Lecture in the Humanities.
There was the smiling face of his mentor, Professor of Classics Emeritus John Fischer H'70, making a rare return to campus from Louisville to watch his former student deliver the College's most prestigious lecture.
There was Kathe Hartnett, Jeremy's mother—former administrative assistant for another of Jeremy's mentors, Professor Bill Cook '66—beaming alongside her husband, Dale, here from Geneseo, New York, and Jeremy's brother Dan '99, and his wife, Laura, in from Kenyon College.
There was Hartnett's former student Mitchelll Brown '10, feeling fortunate to have presented a lunch talk on the same day his former teacher receiving this honor.
As Hartnett stepped to the podium, you could learn something about the bond of teaching and learning just by watching their expressions—not to mention those of the professors in the audience who taught Jeremy when he was a student here.
Then there were the faces on the screen as the archaeologist began his presentation, the portraits of people who lived about 2,000 years ago when the Roman Empire extended to Egypt, where these images were made.
"When we think of the Romans, images of giant buildings and great leaders are easy to conjure in our mind's eye, and you can be sure the Romans intended to leave these impressions. But another type of image, more fragile and more personal, has haunted me over the decades," Hartnett said as faces from antiquity were projected on the screen. "These are the so-called Fayum portraits, and they shape how I try to do social history of the broader populace."
"I do not study Roman art because it is seductively gorgeous; with rare exceptions, it is not handsome. But these images of individual Romans I find singularly affecting. The portraits seem to capture the subjects' personalities… and the way that the subjects' humanity leaps off the wood panel has led me to choose these paintings as my topic today, even though I don't study them directly in my research."
For Hartnett, the portraits—which were painted on wooden panels attached to mummies from the Coptic period at a time Rome occupied Egypt—demonstrate the complexity and richness art and imagination bring to the study of ancient history.
"The Fayum portraits offer a rich cultural mélange," Hartnett said as summarized some of the theories concerning the more than 900 portraits. "Their deeply personal portrayals encourage nuanced and textured reading of history. They defy easy categorization."
"They remind of us of the dangers of applying labels when we try to write history. Life is messy; culture is complicated; and all-encompassing explanations rarely satisfy."
After describing scholars interpretations of two of the portraits—theories that have proven flawed—Hartnett asked: "How often do we, in the humanities or in liberal arts endeavors more broadly, shape our inquiries by putting ourselves, our categories, and our attitudes first, rather than re-imagining our investigation from the perspective of the people we are studying?"
The task becomes even more difficult when scholars attempt to understand the lives of the less wealthy and powerful in ancient societies. The detailed study of inscriptions and artifacts have provided stockpiles of data to be analyzed—an approach Hartnett referred to as "history from 1,000 feet."
"But there's something unsatisfying about considering Roman society from 1,000 feet," Hartnett said. "Such approaches threaten to obscure personal agency and reduce individuals to data points. While we might make out contours of populations and inhabitation patterns from on-high, we can't see discrete and distinct people. We see lots of heads in the crowd, but no faces."
"We need both analysis and imagination," Hartnett added. "And that's why I have the Fayum portraits on my mind when I'm writing about Roman antiquity. They put us face-to-face with individuals, pushing us to recognize their full humanity and to imagine their lives in all their complexities.
"When we look at these portraits, we don't treat Romans as a chorus singing in unison, but as a seething and somewhat discordant mass of particular personalities, hopes and dreams, loves and losses. Thinking or writing about these individuals sometimes means chocking our claims full of "might's and "may's, but history written in the subjunctive isn't all that bad.
"When we give ourselves some latitude, we trigger an empathetic view of our subjects; leaving behind our own world momentarily, we envision theirs with its own rules and struggles; we consider our subject's sentiments, motivations, and tactics.
As the screen went dark, the ancient faces disappeared from the screen, and the house lights shone on the faces in the Salter Hall audience, Hartnett concluded: "When we re-emerge into our own time and place—as when we set down a moving book, step out of a great movie, or clear customs after returning from abroad—we might see our world not as something we've always known, but somehow anew."


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Last night, on my quest to figure out if Atremedes' gongs are bugged, I made the mistake of venturing to the official dungeon and raid forums. I'm not sure why I thought that there would be much useful information there, but I really wanted to explore every avenue to see if we were dealing with a buggy encounter, or frankly, just botching a mechanic and not playing well.
(For those curious – gongs were not zeroing out our sound. It was suggested that perhaps it was just a tick of the searing flame that got off the same time as the gong, but people's sound was more than the 7 that would be created by that tick, so I don't know if that is it. I still have not found an answer – so if anyone has any insight, I'm all ears).
Anyhow, back to the point. The forums not only failed to have any helpful information, but when I arrived, what I was exposed to was enough tears to flood the Nile. I am not exaggerating. The majority of the posts were akin to "thanks for killing WoW for the 'casual' player, Blizzard". And so I proceeded to read through some of these posts. And the Cliff's notes version of the majority of the complaints is basically "the game is too hard".
Of course, I have been enjoying myself immensely this expansion. I have found things challenging, and I have had a good time working through the challenges that I have been presented with. Of course, I also wouldn't call myself "casual" in any sense. So, naturally, this got me to thinking about the complaints literally flooding the forums and the validity of said complaints.
I thought perhaps what I would do was go through some of the more popular complaints individually, and work through my thoughts that way.
Heroic Dungeons are too hard.
I actually thought about this complaint long and hard, and after a good bit of deliberation, I have come to the conclusion that, with an exception here and there, I do not think that they are "too hard". Challenging? Yes. Requiring intelligent play? Yes. Impossibly hard? No.
I thought a little bit about why people may feel that they are over the top, and I came up with a few things.
1) People are "gaming" the system to be able to queue for heroics. And by that, I mean people are stacking their bags with higher iLevel gear that they are not wearing in order to be able to queue into heroics. This in turn means that you have a lot of undergeared people trying to play content that they aren't geared to play. And while perhaps this would work for a guildmate, it generally isn't going to work out so well for the general public.
Blizzard placed requirement restrictions on queues for a reason. It was their intent that you had geared up through the later questing zones, faction rep and via normal dungeons before entering heroics. As a result, it was also their intent that you actually have experience with the regular dungeons before you entered them on heroic. And to me, this makes a lot of sense. The assumption has been made that you not only have experience in these dungeons already, but that you also have quested and instanced yourself into a respectable set of gear. And believe it or not, the instances actually get easier as your gear improves. You are not supposed to be able to immediately queue for heroics the second you hit level 85 without some effort.
In turn, that means that those people who have "cheated" the system, many of who are now complaining that things are "too hard", have made things more difficult than it needs to be because they didn't put forth the pre-requisite effort required to succeed. I'm not saying that the gear will solve 100% of the problems, but I also have a hard time feeling bad for someone who didn't follow the intended path, is exploiting a loophole, and is now upset that things are "too hard".
2) People are undervaluing crowd control. Yes, there is a lot of trash. Yes, some of the trash pulls are devastatingly brutal. However, a lot can be solved by making use of the tools in your group and employing adequate crowd control. The only instance that I've found we've had trouble with having adequate crowd control has been Shadwofang Keep, as a result of all of the undead.
Crowd controlling even one or two mobs in a very large pull can have an enormous difference on how trash pulls go and how stressed your healer and tank are. When looking at your party, note that Blizzard has added an almost ridiculous amount of crowd control abilities to the game, and all classes have the ability to contribute to crowd control at any given point in the instance. If you aren't sure about what kind of CC your group has, just ask them.
Take the time to mark mobs if you are the tank. Ask for crowd control instead of just charging in and praying that you have a healer that can keep you alive. If you are DPS, play smartly. Do not be that idiot that breaks the sheep 100 times, or starts nuking the rooted mob instead of the mobs that are not CC'd. If you are a healer, use your defense abilities to save your ass if something comes loose. Don't be afraid to root/fear/stun/hex. I can't tell you how many times Nature's Grasp has saved me on a bad pull. I just pop it and kite/root the mobs beating on me, and then go hug my tank until he can get them under control.
3) People don't want to have to learn new content. What I mean by this is that I think too few people actually take the time to analyze how boss fights work, and where they are falling apart if it goes wrong. However, this is part of the learning process. If you died on boss fight, do you know why? Did you miss a mechanic? Do you understand the mechanic so that you know how to avoid it in the future?
Do you ask your group "what happened" or "ok, so how do we fix this" before making another pull? Or, like so many, do you just run back belly-aching about how terrible your group is and blindly do the same exact thing again? Remember – Albert Einstein taught us that Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results.
Blizzard wanted to make instancing challenging again. They wanted to engage you, the player, and make you think and make smart decisions. So, yes, sometimes you will have to decide if it's more important to DPS or lose some DPS while you are moving – yet keeping yourself alive. You will have to make a decision if it's best to tank that boss on a wall, or in the middle of the room. You will have you think through your heals and make good choices – and sometimes chose who to let live and who might die.
Now, I certainly cannot speak for everyone else, but I like a challenge. I like that I cannot just mindlessly run through things, sneeze on them, and watch them fall over. I like that it takes a bit of elbow grease. Sure, it means that I may wipe a few times while I'm sorting through it all, but I like that my skill is being pushed and in turn is making me a better, smarter and more experienced player.
To be fair there are a few encounters that I think are a tad over the top. Now, I am not above admitting when I think there are a few exceptions and a few things are perhaps a bit out of line with the rest of the content.
The bearded Rock Guy in Stone Core, for example. I think that his slam is too unforgiving on the tank. Yes, the tank should be penalized for not moving out of it – but I do not believe that it should kill him outright. (I also think it's crap that the bosses spell reflect desyncs from his paralyze ability, in what I can only assume is a bug, making the fight that much more annoying). The Worgen boss in SFK is another example. A really solid group can still struggle with keeping up with the adds and getting the boss down before they are overwhelmed. I do think that perhaps he could be toned down just a touch.
But outside of just a very small few, I think that a little learning, some patience, and some knowledge of your class (skill) make most of the encounters fun and very achievable.
4) People lack patience. And this is big. Learning takes time. No, you probably aren't going to enter into a group where everything is exceptionally smooth. There will probably be a wipe here or there that you need to recover from. You may need to work through a boss strategy to achieve success. You need to be a little patient while the general community is learning the new content. People giving up after three or four wipes is a huge part of the problem.
5) People aren't communicating. And this is huge. So very, very huge. And something that we are learning more and more about as we get further into raiding. In fact, when something goes wrong in a raid I've taken to asking the person "did you communicate that to us" when analyzing the problem. An example: I missed my interrupt because I was stunned/knocked back/feared". My reply "did you let us know so someone else could cover it". Communication solves so many problems.
Sure, in a dungeon, perhaps you won't have that level of communication, but you can set up each pull and offer instructions on the pulls if you are a tank. You can set up a "HELP" macro that lets the tank know mobs are beating on you if you are the healer. You could even set up a macro to communicate that you are out of mana, so that the tank knows to cycle some cooldowns and the DPS knows not to expect heals.
Alternatively, if you have a vent server, and you are OK with other people hoping onto it, feel free to see if the group wants to get on. We've invited PuGs into our vent for our 5 mans a few times and have found that not only have the not minded hoping into vent, but have been a lot of fun to chat with as we clear through the instance.
Regardless of which venue you opt to communicate in, communicating with absolutely make your instance experience that much better.
Heroics Dungeons take too long to complete and I have limited time to play.
I think that this complaint goes a bit hand in hand with the problem that I addressed above.
I have completed all of the heroics available, and by far the two longest are Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep. Actually, I will openly admit to swearing every time I see the SFK load bar pop up on my screen, just because of how long the instance takes to complete. That being said, our Heroic SFK run last night took under an hour to complete.
Granted, we were an all guild group and 4 of the 5 of us had completed it before, but even when we were learning it, we still only took 2ish hours to get through what I think is the longest instance in the game. I understand that at this very early stage of the game instances to take longer to complete because you have to take that "learning" step, but I do not believe that if you have a group that works with the suggestions I've given above they are prohibitive for those that only have a few hours to play.
Additionally, if you are crunched on time, I might suggest working with a guild group. If you aren't able to do that for whatever reason – try to find a steady group within your server that you can run with. And perhaps even try to create an all server group of people that you know before utilizing the LFD tool. I can also say that as more people learn the encounters that are available to them, they will become "easier" for the general community to complete, just based on the number of people familiar with them.
And, in short, if you don't have a couple of hours to dedicate to the game, perhaps refrain from utilizing the LFD tool until you have more time to commit to playing.
I have to wait in Queue for 40 minutes and then get a fail PuG.
Unfortunately, this is a bit of the risk in working with the LFD tool. However, there are a limited number of tanks and healers that queue in, and with the rewards for participating in groups as a guild, this number is diminished even further. This is actually a complaint that I do see a little bit valid when it is coupled with the "I have limited time to play" concern above. Unfortunately, I'm not entirely sure that there is anything to be done about it if you are utilizing the LFD tool. It's just one of the downfalls/risks of utilizing the tool.
I would again suggest looking for guild groups and server regulars if you are able to do that. Of course, if the PuGs can fix half of what was suggested in my first point, there would likely be less "Fail PuGs", however we should probably focus more on what we have more individual control over 😉
I got kicked by my group so they could invite a guildmate before the last boss.
Unfortunately, I have had guildmates that have experienced this very complaint as well, and I'm going to flat out say that it's a problem. Anytime a group has at least 3 people from the same guild, you run the risk of being vote kicked for no reason. Hell, I've even read about people attempting to be more polite about it and asking a person to leave so that they could invite a guild mate.
And you know what? THIS IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE THING TO DO.
Any way that you slice it, this is rubbish, and I think that people have every right to complain about this. People who do this are being unfair to the poor guy that has contributed for most of the instance, and sat in queue for 30 minutes or more to get into the dungeon. My take on it is that if you guildmate wanted to go he should have joined in the group with you. If he didn't that's his problem and you shouldn't penalize the other members of your party because all of the sudden you have a guildmate that wants in the instance. If you want guild rep – queue as a full guild group at the start.
I do think that this is something that Blizzard needs to fix, however I don't know what the fix would be. Maybe set the threshold to receive guild rep at the first boss? So once the first boss is killed it will only recognize the number of people from your guild that started the instance no how many of your guild mates may join later in the instance? Of course that penalizes those legit groups who have people drop and guildmates come to the rescue.
In Conclusion – No, I do not believe that Cataclysm has killed "Casual" play. However, I do believe that Cataclysm requires smarter play from players, which I do appreciate. Even the simplest games, such as solitaire, are supposed to challenge you, the player. I really don't think that WoW should be any different in that regard. I welcome a challenge, something that pushes me, and for me I think a return to challenging the player and making them think, makes WoW a better game.
And since I pretty firmly believe that being a good player has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of hours you log, I do not think that "casual" play is impossible or dead. I just think that more of the general community needs to recognize the new challenges and subsequently adjust their play to face them.
How about you? What do you think? Do you share any of these concerns? Do you disagree with my assessments?


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Events Calendar
Lecture: "Irish Immigrant Girls in New York"
Hofstra University Professor Emerita Maureen Murphy will deliver the lecture, "Irish Immigrant Girls in New York."
Date: September 24, 2019 - September 24, 2019
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Former Coleman Chapel in Murphy Hall
Hosted by the Irish Studies Program
The lecture is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24, in the former Coleman Chapel in Murphy Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information, email Dr. Tim Madigan at firstname.lastname@example.com.
About the Lecture
A unique aspect of Irish migration to the U.S. was the predominance of young women traveling alone. Between 1883 and 1908, 307,823 young Irish women arrived at the Port of New York. Most of the girls who were not met by family or friends were assisted by the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary for the Protection of Irish Immigrant Girls. The Mission was the inspiration of Charlotte Grace O'Brien (1845-1909), the daughter of William Smith O'Brien, who was deported to Tasmania for his part in the 1848 Rebellion. Murphy has led the research into the rich archives of this extraordinary institution and her lecture will explore this fascinating story.
About Dr. Murphy
Professor Emerita Maureen Murphy was the Joseph L. Dionne Professor of Teacher Education at Hofstra University. She serves, with John Ridge, as historian of the Irish Mission at Watson House Project which has produced a permanent exhibition, a travelling exhibition and a website with records digitized for 45,000 immigrant women who passed through the Mission. A frequent visitor to St. John Fisher College, she is the author of Compassionate Stranger: Asenath Nicholson and the Great Irish Famine (Syracuse University Press). In 2015, she was given the President's Award for service to Ireland. In 2017, she was named "Gael of the Year" by the Irish Echo.


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The primary role of the Council is to:
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- Staff projects assigned by the Cabinet
- Evaluate and recommend improvements to the College's planning process
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Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness, Research, Planning and Assessment (Liaison to Cabinet)
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The President and Vice Presidents will appoint the general membership of the Council. The membership will represent each grand division. Chair of Council, in coordination with the Cabinet, will periodically review membership of the Council to ensure appropriate representation from each grand division of the College.
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