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Wednesday , Nov. 19 ,1975 Th e Lima N e w s C lCity school integration options ponderedBy L Y N N B R O N I K O W S K I

News Stuff W riterThe Lima c i ty school sys tem wasinformed Tuesday tha t to ignoreH E W orders fo r strict desegrega-tion compliance is to face loss offederal funding as well as possibleinterference from the justice de-par tment .In a 5-hour meeting Tuesdaywith K e n t State Center fo r E d u c a -tion Development and Stra tegicServices ( K E D S ) personnel, schoolofficials discussed various opt ionso f plans to meet with th e f e d e r a lorders to desegregate the schools.The or iginal ,dead line establishedby the Office of Civil Rights fo rcompliance w as tod a y .Mrs. Sue Basinger . pres iden t ofth e board , ind ica ted Tuesday tha tthe sys tem has asked for an ex-tens ion and during a regular lyschedued s tudy sess ion Thursdaynight th e board m ay pass a resolu-tion of in ten t to comply, so tha t itwill be eligible for the extension.A minori ty s taff ing plan mus t befiled with the Off ice of Civil R igh t sby Dec. 10. Mr s. Basinger said,while a s tuden t ass ignment planmust be filed by J a n . 6. for theschool system to be in f u l l c om-pliance.D r. J a m e s Ervin . d irec tor ofKEDS. told board members tha t toresist the federa l orders wouldmean possible action by the U.S.Department of Jus t ice . H e ind ica t-

ed t h a t t h e H E W w o r k s withJustice to bring th e sys tems intocompliance.A t t e n d in g T u e s d a y ' s m e e t i n gwere Supt. Ear l McGovern . M r s .Bas inger . board members . Alber taLe e. M a r jo r i e R oh d e s. W or km a n :board member e lec t Be t ty JaneGeiger. city schools pup il person-ne l coord inator Merlyn Sykes, an dcity la w direc tor assistant ScottMorr is .The meeting with Er v in a n d aKEDS consultan t James H aggar ty .came at the re quest of the schoolboard, which expected h im to giveadvice in d r a w in g up a desegrega-t ion plan acceptable to OCR.IThe decision to seek advice fromth e f e d e r a l ly funded assistancecenter , came, folio wing a two-and-a-half hour session Nov. 6 be-'tween th e school board and O CRofficials.;In an Oct. 6 letter of findings.O CR charged th e system with "theexistence of rac ia l ly motivatedpolicies an d prac t ices with respectto the assignment of studen ts andfaculty," an d ordered th e systemdraw up a desegregat ion planwithin 45 days ..Mrs. Basinger was critical of thetime schedule saying. "That's anincredible t ime schedule tha t theyhave demanded because if they( O C R ) ar e really interested in aneducationally sound policy, it isn'tSubdivisionsguidelinesare studiedN ew co u n t y - w i d e s u b d i v i s i o nguidelines was the target of ameeting Tuesday night be tweenmember s of city council and theLima-Allen County Regional Plan-ning Commission.Procedures adopted short ly af te rWorld War I I h a ve created poorconditions fo r roads an d dra inagein a three-mile radius of the city.Henry Hollinger. a spokesman fo rthe RPC told councilmen.

Th e proposed subdivision regula-tions would help correc t some plan-ning problems. Holl inger sa id. H eadded he hoped th e regula t ionscpuld be adopted by all the sub-divisions.-Al tho ugh Hollinger said therea'ren't an y "radical changes" inth e regulations, he said they wouldbe more extensive an d bet ter de -fined. Requirem ents for public im-provements an d dra inage are ex-tensive, h e a dded .~ However, there are still somecontroversial areas within th e re-gulations which must be ironedout. Hollinger told th e councilmembers. One of the areas is thesection dealing with tree plan t ingsan d landscaping. A provision requiring that fivepe r cent of the subdivision be setaside for "greenspace" w as delet-ed f r om th e committee's f i rs tdraft. Builders are not particularly op-posed to setting aside a portion ofland fo r public use. but are con-cerned about a lack of interestabout w ho will maintain th e pro-perty, the councilmen were told.Ci ty . Plann ing Director RichardSchroeder a c knowl edged therehave been some problems with theopen space maintenance, but saidhe thinks setting aside a portion ofthe subdivision should be viewedby the developer as part of the de-sign approach.Another area of concern w aswhether deve l oper s will be re-quired to provide curbs, guttersan d sidewalks.Committee officials stressed theyhave no t completed th e regulationsan d some of the questions will beanswered before the guidelines arefinished.Meetings with other subdivisionsas well as interested groups suchas th e builders association si il lmust be held before th e final d r a f tis drawn, officials said.

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Sue Basingerthe way th is sys tem has everoperated in ins t i tut ing any newc on c e p t s . N ew c on c e p t s h a vealways been in troduced on a pilot

program basis and I am support iveof that policy."D u r i n g T u e s d a y ' s m e e t i n g ,McGovern reviewed three s tuden tt ransfer plans which might workfor the system.He ind ica ted tha t th e th ree plans"stay a w a y from t ransporta t ionan d redrawing district lines."T h e three s t u d e n t t r a n s f e rpolicies, labeled A, B. and C. are asfollows, M c G ove r n e x p la in e d : P L A N A ;The m ajor i ty to m inori ty policy.Under th is policy s tuden ts in Whi t -tier. Je ffe rson and Garfie ld . th eschool system's three e lementaryschools presen t ly ho us ing over 50per cen t blacks, could t ransfe r toany school in the district in whichthey would be in the minor i ty .The white s tuden ts in those 11schools which a r e p r e d omin a n t lywhite, could t h e n t r a n s f e r to W h i t -tier. Je ffe rson and Garf ie ld . But.black s tuden ts now in those 11

schools which ar e p r e d omin a n t lywhite, could no t transfe r out .PLAN B: Similar to plan A , thispolicy would allow the volun taryt ransfe r of black s tuden ts in W h i t-tier. Garf ie ld . Je ffe rson . Ed ison .Lowell and Fa u r o t to schools whichare predominantly white .White s tuden ts in the six pre-dominant ly whi te schools could no tt ransfe r out , nor could black s tu-dents in the p r e d omin a n t ly whi teschools t ra nsfe r ou t . P L A N C: The Columbus p lan.

Named for i t s s imi l a r i t y to a planno w being used in Columbus, thisplan would p e r m i t an y s tud e n t inth e sys tem to t r a n s f e r to anyschool, as long as "the t ra nsfe r im-proves th e r a c i a l ba l a n c e of theschool."As an e x a m p l e , McGovern citedI r v in g E le me n ta r y School, which is99.5 per c e n t w h i t e . W h i t e studentsat that school could t ransfe r to any

school in Lima, providing a mor ee q u i t a b l e r a c i a l b a l a n c e i sachieved .M c G o v e r n c o n t i n u a l l y n o te dTuesday that the d istrict is not in-terested in i m p l e m e n t i n g atransporta t ion sys tem, so, in thee v e n t o f s t u d e n t t r a n s f e r st r a n s p o r t a t i o n w i l l b e t h eresponsibility of the s tuden ts an dthe ir paren ts .Mrs . Bas inger sa id in order tom a k e th e p r og r a m workable. "W emay have to offer subjects at thee l e me n ta r y l e ve l in one schoolwhich would m a k e the school at-t rac t ive to s tuden t t ransfe rs . "Kn o w n as "magnet schools ."Ervin sa id th e es tablishment ofsuch schools is one of the "v i a b lea l te rnat ives" open to the schoolboard .Noting t h a t an y desegregationoptions are s t i l l "volun tary" on thepar t of the school board . Erv in toldth e boa r d , "Y ou ca n still m a k e an ydecis ions y o u w an t w i t h i n th eStaff minority ratio givenfor 14 elementary buildings

Shuffling s taff in order to c omplywith an Office fo r Civil Rightsi OCR) or d e r to desegregate the ci-ty school system's 14 elementary-schools, is the task which liesa h e a d f o r L i m a ' s s c h o o l a d -min is tra tors and school board .A 10 per cen t minor i ty staffingra t io must be used in each e lemen-tary an d secondary building in thedistrict in or der to comply . Ten percent-of th e sys t em' s staff is con-s idered in the m inori ty ca tegory.C on c e r n o v e r n on c ompl i a n c estems from a let ter sent to the dis-trict by O C R . w hi ch charged th esys tem with "the exis tence ofrac ia l ly m o t i v a t e d policies andp r a c t i c e s w i th r e s pe c t to theassignment of s tuden ts an d facul-ty."During a meeting Tuesday withDr . J a m e s Ervin . d irec tor of theKent State Cente r fo r Ed uc a t ion a lD e v e l o p m e n t a n d S t r a t e g i cServices (K E DS ). KEDS 'consul-tan t James H a g g a r t y . and theschool board, Supt. Earl McGovernreveiwed the present staff m a k e u pof the district.McGovern ind ica ted tha t he an-ticipates a "volun tary t ransfe r" ofstaff to take place. Otherwise cen-tral admin istration will have to re-assign teachers.O CR officials have stated thatth e D e p a r t m e n t of Health andEducat ion an d W elfare a llows afive pe r cent up or down leewaydistrictwide for elementary schoolsin meeting their standards.McGovern revealed Tuesday th eminority staffing structure of thesys tem, poin t ing out the num ber ofminori ty teachers presen t ly ineach building, and what i t wouldtake to bring each building into

Lima/andupdateVictory dinner setTh e Lima Y M C A membershipenrollment d r ive closes Thursday-even ing w ith th e vic tory d inner at6:30 p.m. at the Y M. The campaigni s seeking $ 3 0 , 0 0 0 i n n e wmemberships. In formation aboutY M C A p r o g r a m m i n g o rme mbe r s h ip costs m ay be ob-tained by contac t ing th e front deskof the YM C A .C AC meets ton ightTh e Lima-Allen County Com-munity Action Commiss ion willhold its regular monthly meetingat 7:30 tonight in Memoria l Hall .Monthly reports from th e CAC'svarious programs will be inc ludedon the rout ine agenda. The meet-ing is open to the public.Elida open house.

Parents of students in gradesseven through 12 at Elida HighSchool ar e invited to attend anopen house ton ight f rom 7 to 9 .Magicians performTh e Northweste rn Ohio Magi-cians Association will meet at 7:30p.m. Sunday at the Farmers Bankof Elida. Sieve Kruse will performmagic while Doug Ferguson willlecture.Retarded citizensAllen County Council for Re-tarded Citizens will meet a t 7:30p.m. Thursday at Robin RogersDay Services Center. 546 S. Collett.Th e program will include a regularbusiness session rather than thedinner meeting o r i g i n a l l yscheduled.UW meet canceledDu e to a lack of basiness on itsagenda, th e board of th e UnitedW ay of Greater Lima cancelled itsregular monthly meeting today.Th e board wil l meet again in De-cember to consider final action O P1976 allocations to m e m b e ragencies.

H EW c ompl i a n c e .M c G o v e r n r e l a t e d th e s t a f fbreakdown ' in each building asfollows:Edison : 16 staff me mbe r s , in-c l u d i n g t h r e e m i n o r i t i e s . T h eschool would have to reass ign oneminority staff m e m b e r .Emerson: 14 t e a c h e r s , n ominorities. The school would h a veto employ at least on e minor i tyand not more than two.Faurot: 15 teachers, inc lud ingone mino ri ty. The school is bas ica l-ly in co m pl iance , but poss iblycould have two min ori t ies on s taff .Garf ie ld : 19 teachers, includingfive minori t ies . The pr inc ipal isblack. The school would have to re -assign th ree minori ty s ta ffe rs .Hor a c e M a n n : 1 3 teachers, in-c lud ing one minori ty and not moreth a n tw o .I r v i ng : 23 teachers, inc lud ingtw o minori t ies . Th e school is inc o m p l i a n c e , bu t a s an opt ionminority staf f ing could go as high

as th ree-Je ffe rson : 16 teachers, includingtw o minori t ies . M cGovern notedthis school is in compliance fornow.L i n c o l n : 1 5 t e a c h e r s , n ominorities. The school would haveto employ a m i n i m u m of one andpossibly two.Longfellow: seven teachers, nominorities. Th e school would haveto employ at least on e minori ty.Lowell: 18 teachers, inc lud ingthree minorities. Th e principal isblack. The r a nge of mino ri ty s ta f-fing is one to three, which m aymea n the reassignm ent of one staffm e m b e r if the principal is in-cluded.Roosevelt: 18 teachers, inc lud ing

tw o minori t ies M c G ov e rn said theschool is in c ompl i a n c e fur now.W a s h i n g t o n -M c K i n l e y : 1 9t e a c h e r s , i n c l u d i n g t h r e eminorities. Th e r a n ge fo r minori tystaffing is be tw e e n one and th ree ,w hi ch- mean s r e a s s ign me n t of onestaff m e m b e r could be cons idered .W e s t w o o d : 1 2 t e a c h e r s , n ominorities. Th e school w o u l d re -quire a minori ty s taff ing ra t io ofone or two.W hit t ie r : 33 t e ache rs , including10 min or i t i e s . The pr incipal i sblack. The school would h a ve to re-ass ign f o u r an d p o ss i b l e f i v eminor i ty staff me mbe r s .In c h a r g i n g th e c i ty schoolsystem with "de libera te segrega-t ion", HEW legal advisors a re will-ing to admit "there may be avar ie ty of innocent reasons aboutwh y kids get into the schools wherethey are."B u t , a c c o r d i n g to an H E Wvideotape, presented to the schoolb o a r d T u e s d a y . "Faculty i bassigned by cen tra l admin is tra t ionan d when black faculty membersar e assigned to schools with a dis-proport ionate number of black s tu-dents, this assignment of teachersis d on e on the bas is of race andviola tes the 14th amendm ent."School board president Sue Bas-i n g e r sa i d T u e s d a y th e s t a f ft ransfe r plan might d iscourage th eschool system from hir ing add i-tional black staf f . Sh e expla inedtha t "every year tha t yo u increaseblack staff you disrupt the schoolstaff."In response to M r s . Basinger ' spoin t , Ervin sa id . " We a re sav ingtha t once yo u have gotten to apoint of h a v in g a reasonably pro-po r t ion a t e n um be r o f min o r i ty

Earl McGovernstaff m e m b e r s in each school, yo uhir ing prac t ices would remain th esame to keep the staffing p r opor -t ionate ."H e fur ther expla ined . "OCR w i l lexpect you to ha ve a plan . I t mightsay. 'w e ( s c h oo l board) will at -tempt f i rs t to use re t i rements andreplacements , but if we do not re-ceive t h e m , we will do it this way. '"OCR is asking you for a plan toma ke it happen , on e which w o u l dgive some ind ica t ion tha t i t isworking. You w ou ld h a \e to in-dicate to them you would be us ingn a tu r a l attrition if you could to hireblack s taff , then rationalize thetransfers," Ervin added .Hagg arty noted th a t in the stafft ransfe r plan presen t ly being con-sidered, th e system "just meetsthe suggested 10 per cent."H e indicated th e system should"look over th e long range plan an dbuild a minori ty staff in line withthe n umbe r of minori ty s tuden ts inthe district. This could be donet h r o u g h s o m e s o r t of an af-f i rmative act ion plan ."Th e minori ty s tuden t ra t io in thecity school system is 30 per cen tblack to 70 per cen t white.

Budgeting procedure reviewindicated for UW agenciesBy M A R I L Y N E L W E R

News Staff W riterC oun c i l of Agencies wil l re -consider a s e g m e n t of a budgetingprocedures policy adopted by itand the United W ay board duringpre-campaign activities earlier thisyear.Th e council, composed of ex-ecutive directors f rom U n i t e d Wa ymember a genc i es , will meet at11:45 a.m. Thursday in the RedCross chapter house .The segment of the budge t ingprocedures po l i c y i n que s t ionstates tha t i f the U nited W ay fa i lsto meet its goal dur ing th e fundcampaign, m e m b e r agencieswould receive an across-the-boardreduction in proposed allocationsby the per c en t a ge of amount notraised.It appears the U n i ted Way cam-paign will fall sh o r t of its S839.920goal this year by approximate lyfour per cent .In light of this budgeting policy,seven United W ay agencies will re -ceive less funds in 1976 than theyreceived this year, according toPalmer Cance. Council of Agencieschairman.V a n c e said t h i s mor n in g h edoesn't believe th e public gavefour pe r cent mor e funds this yearto the United W ay campaign sothat seven member agencies wouldreceive a smaller allocation in 1976than this year.The counci l cha i rman said th epolicy w as developed "in goodfaith" earlier in the year, but tha tno one had the foresight then to re-alize that three agencies would re -ceive a combined total increase ofmore than $24.000 w hi l e sevenagencies would receive less fundsBath school boardTh e Bath school board will meetat 7:30 tonight in Ihe board officeof the Bath M i d d l e School. Th eboard will act on resolutions locomply with the "Sunshine Law."an d Title IX legislation which pro-hibits sex discrimination in th eschools.

in 1976 than th is year. Thesefigures include th e four pe r cen tacross-the-board reduction as pre-scribed by the budgeting policy.Palmer acknowledged tha t th eU n i t e d W a y bud get c om mi t t e egave larger percen tage increasesto t h r ee a genc i es ba sed upongreater needs . However , he point-ed that the system of across-the-board reductions would defeat thepurpose of the United Way andcreate hardships f o r s e v e nagencies.With th e four pe r cent across-the-board cuts in proposed allocations,the breakdown would be : three Un-ited W ay m e m b e r agencies wouldreceive a combined tota l of mor ethan $24.000 over this yea r , on eagency would rece ive an increaseo f more th an $1.000, seven agencieswould receive increases of less

than SI,000 with most rece ivingless than - S 5 0 0 an d seven agencieswould receive less than they re -c e i ved this year, r a n g i n g indecreases f rom $40 to S3.352. ac-cording to data supplied by Vance .Th e council chairman said heha s received a n u m b e r of callsfrom United Way mem ber agencyexecutive direc tors an d volunteersabout the policy.As a result of these calls, th ematter will be b r ough t up at theC oun c i l o f A g e n c i e s m e e t i n gThursday. Jim Nau d of the UnitedW ay bud'get comm ittee a lso will bepresent at the meeting for the dis-cussion.In other business, the council willelect new off ice rs and make ap-poin tments from i ts membership toth e United W ay board at its me e t -ing.Youngsters helpingdirect holiday parade

More tha n 200 young people willassist with the fourth annual W LIOHoliday Parade at 2:30 p.m. Sun-day in uptown L i ma . These youths,organized by Jun i o r Achievementof Greater Lima and the BlackhoofDistrict of the Shawnee Council ofBoy Scouts, will help move th eparade along its two-mile routethrough th e center o f L im a .This year's pa r a de , uh ich ushersin th e holiday season locally , h ast h e t h e m e "Happy B i r t h d a y .U.S.A." an d will fea ture marchingbands, giant balloons depicting ele-ments of the American Bicenten-nial, equestrian units an d floats.More than 1.000 ma r c h er s w i l lparticipate in the even tThe parade route will begin atth e corner of M a in and Ribbystreets, proceed north on Main toNorth Street, go west on North loPierce Street and continue southon Pierce to Lima Senior HighSchool

To facilitate in the preparationand to assist in the mo v emen t ofth e W L I O parade, parking will bebanned from cer ta in streets begin-ning at 8 a.m. Sunday, according tocity engineer David Grisez,Those areas inc lude the east sideof the 500 block of South Pierce, th esouth side of the 1 00 block of WestKibby. both sides of Main fromKibby to North, both sides of Allan-t ic and McDonel from South Shoreto Kibby, both sides of South Shore.Ohio and O nta r io from McDcmcl loM e t c a l f a n d t h e n o r t h w e s tquadran t of the Public Square.In addition, parking a long th eisland in the northwest quadran t ofth e Public S qua r e w i l l be removedat 7 a .m. Fr id ay to accomm odatethe grandstandTh e P ub li c W or ks Dep ar t men twill be posting "n o pa r k in g" signsalong these streets Saturday m o m -ing. However, the park ing restric-tions will no t begin unti l ibc de-signated t i m e s

guidelines. You can still say no tofedera l funds , but you as a boardhave to make tha t decis ion ."Ervin added , "It is no use fight-ing the courts. You 're going to losean d it's going lo cost you a lot ofmoney. Y ou h a ve the responsibilityto make it right."H e e x p l a i n e d t h a t a s c h o o lsystem is not equal unless it is f u l l ydesegregated . ;"T o l ive in today 's world, ;amul t i -cu l tu ral world when we h a veto m o r e an d m o r e d e a l withminori t ies , the education of ourkids both black and white, is notcomplete un less chi ldren deal w i t hk i d s o t h e r t h a n t h o s e l i k ethemselves ," E r v i n saidBoard scoldsnew memberover actionsP e r r y School boa r d me mbe r -e lect C harles Ha tcher was scoldedby the boa r d Tue s d a y night for hisus e o f t h e s c h oo l ' s t h e r m of a xmachine to p r in t his own e lec t ioncampaign ma te r i a l .Ha t c h e r , w ho a t t e n d e d th e Tues-da y me e t in g , a d mi t t e d he hadma d e a mis t a ke an d apologized toth e board . H e also said he t h ou g h the acted in good fa i th in pa y in g theschool S15 for the prin t ing cos ts .In i ts le t te r sen t to Hatcher , thePerry board s ta ted . "The Perryboard of e d uc a t ion feels t h a t you raction was not the kind they expecto f a boa r d c a n d id a t e o r m e mbe r . "Board p r e s id e n t Char les L u sk .wh o s igned the le t ter , said tod a yt h a t d e s p i t e H a t c h e r ' s " u n -for tunate mis t a ke " th e boa r d w i l lextend every cooperation in work-in g with h im. "W e ' r e s u re he ' l l bea good board member." Lusk saidTh e school board Tuesdav m h to f f i c i a l l y r e c o g n i z e d " T h eAncho re t t e s . " a 70-member or -ganized drill team, as a part of themarching band .Th e Perry board will hold aspecial meetin g on Dec 9 at 7:30p.m. to evaluate the super inten-dent and build ing pr inc ipals . Sincethe meeting concerns discussion ofa personne l matter, th e boa r d w i l lgo into executive session, a c c o r d -ing to Supt. Albert Wilgus.The board will also hold a specia lmeeting at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 15 o dis-cuss school board polic ies an ditems which a ppea r on the D ec. 16meeting agenda.Th e Dec. 15 meeting replaces thes tudy sess ion wh ich is usually he ldpr i o r to the boa r d ' s r e gu la r ly -scheduled monthly meetings, \ \ i ththe enactment of the "SunshineLaw. ' ' closed study sessions are nolonger legal, except under ce r ta incircumstances.The school board se t a policy tocomply with the "Sunshine Law."which requires public notificationo f a l l me e t i n gs . Th e me a s u r epassed Tue s d a y is s imilar to theon e passed M o n d ay night fay thecounty school board .Per sons wishing to receive acopy of the agenda prior to them e e t i n g s , s h o u l d s u b m i t astamped, self-addressed envelopeto the clerk of the board. Personssubmitting evelopes will constituteth e mailing list.Persons w i s h i n g to r e c e ivecopies of the agenda , should sub-m it a s tamped , se lf-addressedenvelope, plus 50 cents to the clerkPer sons s ubmi t t i n g e n ve lope sshould write on the outside of theenvelope which i tem they are re-questing.Th e school board a lso approveda policy, which states t h a t any or-ganization using th e Perry schoolsystem n a m e , should submit acopy of curren t cons t i tut ion an dby-laws, s t a t ement of purpose, of-ficers na mes , addresses an d p ho n enum be rs , meeting dates, t ime s an dlocation, to the school board.

T h e or ga n iza t ion s a l s o mus thave board approval for any f u n draising projects they holdB us stops an d t imes were alsoapproved by the school board. Acomplete list is avai lable in thesuper i n t endent ' s an d clerk 's of -fices.Escapee triostill eludesla w dragnet

High w a y Patro l officials said :morning three of th e f i v e escape*. from Lima Stale Hospital S a tu r d a yn i g h t c o n t i n u e t o a v o i d a p -prehension.Remain ing at l a r ge ar c Jerome-Stanley. 22. of Detroit and LeonardSingleton. 23 and E rvm G r e e n . 25 .both of Cleveland

Wanted f lyers an d description?.o f th e th ree w e r e released n a t io n a l -ly M on d a y even ing by the N a t io n a lCriminal Invest igat ion Commit teeT h e o t h e r t w o i n m a t e s u h opart ic ipated in th e breakout nn- inpobce cus todyServices d e a d l i n eT han k sg i v i n g c h u r c h s > - n i c c swill be published in Th e L i maNews next Tue s d a y Deadl ine forrece iving mate r ia l at th e offices al1 2 1 E High is noon Monday

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