Pope Leo XIV’s University Holds Second International Sustainability Conference Despite His Absence

 Pope Leo XIV’s University Holds Second International Sustainability Conference Despite His Absence

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Oct 16, 2026 

For Pope Leo XIV, sustainability is a moral responsibility. Building on Pope Francis’ mission to protect our “common home,” Pope Leo XIV has continued to emphasize the connection between environmental care, human dignity, and the protection of the most vulnerable. 

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God’s Spooks: Religion, Spying, and the Cold War

by Matthew Avery Sutton

January 15, 2026

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

—John 8:32, inscribed on the wall at CIA headquarters, Langley, VA

In the early years of World War II, the U.S. State Department asked all American personnel living near enemy lines in China to return home. Baptist missionary John Birch refused to leave. God, he believed, wanted him in Asia. For years Birch had worked with local Chinese communities. He knew their language, their customs, and the layout of their land. He soon put this knowledge to work—not just for God but for Uncle Sam. In 1942 his life took a dramatic turn when a squadron of bombers led by Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle crashed in the Chinese countryside. The American airmen had taken off from a carrier in the Pacific, dropped bombs on Tokyo, and then flown toward safety in China, where they parachuted from their planes as their fuel supplies ran out. When Birch received word of the raid and subsequent crash, he rendezvoused with the soldiers and helped them navigate through enemy lines and to freedom.

Birch’s performance impressed the Army and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). They saw in Birch a loyal foot soldier who knew the Chinese language and understood the geography and politics of the region. They put him to work, baptizing him in the waters of covert operations. During and immediately after the war Birch provided the OSS with intelligence on Chinese communism while still fronting as a missionary. He was eventually captured by communists and killed, becoming the first “martyr” of the Cold War. He later became the inspiration for Robert Welch’s extreme right-wing, anti-communist John Birch Society. Birch’s work for the government revealed that religious activists could make extremely valuable contributions to American intelligence services. But his death also demonstrated the potential consequences of mixing faith with work for the U.S. government.

What follows investigates the complicated relationship between the CIA and religion. Since its inception, the CIA has used missionaries and other religious activists for intelligence and espionage work; it has used religion as an effective propaganda tool, and its agents have even posed as clergy. CIA agents and religious activists managed to keep their partnerships mostly hidden until the 1970s. But in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, numerous journalists and then Congress began scrutinizing the agency more closely. They revealed to the world that the CIA had been employing missionaries to further its agenda and that some religious activists were receiving substantial rewards for their work on the government’s behalf. In fact, the CIA and religious activists have long collaborated to achieve numerous policy goals.

In recent years, historians of religion have worked to better embed their narratives in the rich and complex historical contexts in which their subjects acted, linking issues of faith and belief to the ebbs and flows of particular environments. Historians Jon Butler, Paul Harvey, and Kevin Schultz have called for better integration of religion into more “mainstream” American history. The case of missionary-CIA collaboration answers that call by demonstrating how important it is for scholars to understand the many ways that religion functions in ostensibly nonreligious spheres. In the specific case of intelligence and espionage, religion had tangible impacts on American covert activities abroad. CIA-missionary relationships highlight underexplored intersections between religion and foreign policy; they expose in new ways the complicated nature of church-state collaboration; and they offer fresh insights into the many ways in which religion functions in nontraditional spheres.

At the same time, historians have much to learn by probing how and in what ways individuals and religious groups have benefited from their cooperation with the government. The State Department has often helped missionary groups expedite visas and gain entry into new regions of the world in return for their collaboration. Some government agencies have also provided humanitarian ministries with cash, food, and other supplies, subsidizing and supporting their work. Missionaries have received equally valuable, even if less tangible, benefits as well: many have found satisfaction in the conviction that in serving Uncle Sam, they were serving God. Despite the official disestablishment of religion, these partnerships illustrate how the state can serve as a historical actor, substantially aiding, or substantially undermining, a wide variety of missionary ventures.

Historic divinity school is offering the first doctoral degree in ‘AI and Moral Agency’

By YONAT SHIMRON
Updated 6:20 PM EDT, July 29, 2026


(RNS) — At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier and Baptist minister founded a school in Raleigh, North Carolina, to provide formerly enslaved people with religious literacy.

Now that same school — Shaw University — wants to provide literacy of a new kind: AI literacy.

Starting next year, Shaw’s divinity school plans to offer a new degree track: a Doctor of Education (or Ed.D) in Artificial Intelligence and Moral Agency.

As the AI spreads and performs more and more tasks traditionally done by humans, the divinity school wants to get ahead of the curve and probe its moral implications.

“We say Shaw was created to provide leadership in building literacy,” said Mark Harden, dean of Shaw University Divinity School. “We (half)joke this is our second calling because we’re building AI literacy for vulnerable communities with an emphasis on social justice and ethics.”

In June, the divinity school secured the go-ahead from the regional accrediting body, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. It is now working on receiving a seal of approval with the Commission on Accrediting at the Association of Theological Schools, a network of 280 graduate schools of theology across the United States and Canada.

Shaw’s AI degree would be the first among the ATS network in either the master’s or doctoral level, said Chris Meinzer, ATS’s chief operating officer. Several divinity schools have begun offering solo classes in AI and ethics.

In December, Notre Dame’s Institute for Ethics and the Common Good received a $50 million gift from the Lilly Endowment to support the so-called DELTA network that will provide practical resources for pastors, churches and schools to navigate challenges posed by AI. DELTA stands for dignity, embodiment, love, transcendence and agency — which it believes are the core Christian values. (RNS also receives grant support from the Lilly Endowment.)

“Almost everybody we’re talking with and working with in higher education right now is just getting really serious about how issues involving artificial intelligence are really shaping a lot of the ethical questions that we want to study going forward, and a lot of the formation work that we need to do with our students,” said Meghan Sullivan, a philosopher and director of the Institute for Ethics and the Common Good at Notre Dame.

La Sierra University Selects Lesbian to Give Commencement Address

June 25, 2026 NewsHound



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RIVERSIDE, Calif. – On Sunday, June 14 almost 400 La Sierra University graduates celebrated their graduation to a commencement speech by California State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes.

A Democrat, Sabrina Cervantes currently represents the 58th Assembly District, which comprises portions of the Inland Empire. Sabrina was first elected to the State Legislature in 2016, and from 2022-2024, served as Chair of the California Latino Legislative Caucus. She is also the first openly LGBTQ+ hispanic person to represent Western Riverside County in the Legislature. “Sabrina and her ‘wife’, Courtney, are the proud parents of triplets.”



Other speakers were Sam Leonor (of One Project infamy) and Criston Arthur, the previous provost of Andrews University.

Arthur spoke for the Lavender (LGBTQ+) Graduation on June 5. To the LGBTQ+ Lavenders Arthur said “You are La Sierra,” affirming that the university community is “big enough for all,” and expressing his support for them.

Leonor spoke at the baccalaureate.

The lesbian State Senator Sabrina Cervantes gave the commencement address.

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I wonder what Harold Marshall Sylvester (HMS) Richards (who has a building named after him on LaSierra campus) would say about this lavender graduation? I wonder what he would say about them having a lesbian with a ‘wife’ give the commencement address?

What do you say about it?

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Loma Linda University And Their LGBTQ+ Support Group

May 29, 2026 NewsHound



Loma Linda University is a faith-based institution historically rooted in Seventh-day Adventist Christian teachings. They traditionally affirmed a biblical view of sexuality (male-female marriage, with sexual relations reserved for that context). We still do. But look at them:



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This LGBTQ+ program frames homosexual, bisexual, transgender, and related identities as something deserving a dedicated "safe space" for affirmation, "self-acceptance," coming-out discussions, and navigating "religion and spirituality" conflicts. It positions these identities as neutral or positive variations to be celebrated and supported with institutional resources, staff time, and a designated facilitator (Jana Boyd), while emphasizing confidentiality to shield discussions from outside scrutiny.

Critics (like Fulcrum7, for instance) would argue this represents institutional capture by contemporary gender and sexuality ideology rather than neutral support. And they are right.

Instead of offering compassionate pastoral care or counseling aimed at alignment with the university's professed Christian anthropology (human sexuality as defined by God in the Bible), it normalizes behaviors and identities that many religious traditions, including conservative Christianity / Adventism, view as disordered or sinful (Leviticus 18:22).

By providing an official platform for "sharing common experiences" and "increasing understanding" around these topics, the group risks functioning as an echo chamber that reinforces confusion, discourages repentance or desistance (especially concerning for students and those with gender dysphoria), and pressures the broader campus community to affirm contested claims about identity.

The "not a counseling or therapy group" disclaimer is telling — it avoids professional accountability while still addressing deep psychological and spiritual matters. In a religious university setting, resources might be better directed toward biblical counseling, addiction recovery, anxiety/depression support, or family strengthening in line with historic biblical truth, rather than subsidizing identity-based activism that conflicts with Adventism’s biblical teaching on human sexuality.

Much of our contemporary culture sees inclusion as the ultimate virtue and exclusion the ultimate vice. Equality is the new moral righteousness of ideologically-captured (former) SDA institutions. So how do we see this? We see this as another example of church institutions quietly shifting from their founding principles toward secular progressive orthodoxy under the banner of "inclusion."

To put it in street lingo, ‘They gone.’

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“Yet from the days of your fathers You have gone away from My ordinances And have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” Says the Lord of hosts. “But you said, ‘In what way shall we return?’ (Malachi 3:7).

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Loma Linda University Health Study Links Egg Consumption to Better Brain Health

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Loma Linda University Health Study Links Egg Consumption to Better Brain Health

A new study from Loma Linda University Health suggests that regular egg consumption may help lower the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease among older adults, according to an article in the Loma Linda University Health news, by Ansel Oliver.

Researchers found that adults aged 65 and older who ate at least five eggs per week had up to a 27% lower risk of Alzheimer’s compared to those who never ate eggs. Even moderate intake showed benefits, with participants consuming eggs one to three times per month showing a 17% lower risk and those eating eggs two to four times weekly experiencing a 20% reduction.

The findings were published in the Journal of Nutrition in a study analyzing data from approximately 40,000 participants in the Adventist Health Study-2 cohort over an average follow-up period of 15.3 years.

“Compared to never eating eggs, eating at least five eggs per week can decrease risk of Alzheimer’s,” said Joan Sabaté, the study’s principal investigator.

Researchers said eggs contain nutrients linked to brain health, including choline, lutein, zeaxanthin, omega-3 fatty acids, and phospholipids that support memory and cognitive function. The study examined both direct egg consumption and eggs consumed through baked and packaged foods.

“Research supports eggs as part of a healthy diet,” said Jisoo Oh, the study’s lead author.

“Seventh-day Adventists do eat a healthier diet than the general public, and we want people to focus on overall health along with this knowledge about the benefit of eggs.”

The study received partial funding from the American Egg Board, while the original cohort data was funded by the National Institutes of Health.

It’s also important to note that Seventh-day Adventist church founder, Ellen White, discouraged the consumption of eggs.

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La Sierra SDA University Church Plans Gay Graduation Celebration

La Sierra SDA University Church Plans Gay Graduation Celebration

April 27, 2026 NewsHound




Blending Adventism with Lavender Graduation is like mixing used motor oil with fresh orange juice. It profanes the sacred with rainbow glitter poured over the altar.

Yet on June 5, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in Sierra Vista Chapel at La Sierra University Church in Riverside, Kinship Sabbath School will host its Lavender Graduation for the “LGBT+ Class of 2026.”

They celebrate “resilience and resistance.” It is a resistance to the plain Word of God. This is no innocent ceremony. Lavender graduations began in the 1990s to celebrate what Scripture calls sin. Now it invades a Seventh-day Adventist chapel. Graduates wear lavender stoles, hear their identities cheered without repentance, and turn a house intended for worship into a platform for pride — the very spirit God resists (Proverbs 16:18; James 4:6).

Friends and “chosen family” will applaud as rebellion is renamed righteousness.

Liberal adventism (lower case intentional) thrives on this. It craves cultural applause, trading “Thus saith the Lord” for “Thus feels the culture.” Biblical authority bends to personal experience.

Objecting to this abomination will get you called ‘homophobic.’ The sad truth is these people are Biblephobes and Holinessphobes.

Notice the profound difference beween this Seventh-day Adventist school and Biola University, a non-Adventist school.

"Biola’s Position on Marriage and Sexuality

“Biola University’s position on marriage affirms the goodness of sexual relationships as designed by God to be expressed within the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman. More information on the University’s theological position regarding human sexuality may be found in its Board of Trustees’ approved Statement of Biblical Principles: God’s Intentional Design for Life.

We believe that sexual activity outside of marriage, behavior involving or having the potential to lead to sexual activity outside of marriage (including, but not limited to nudity, cohabitation, pornography), and sexual activity between two persons of the same sex (whether or not married) is contrary to God’s intentional design for sexuality. Living out God’s intent for sexual expression, while requiring sacrifice at times, is ultimately a source of freedom (John 10:10). Biola hopes to foster a community where living according to this intent helps each person thrive personally, relationally, and spiritually.

Biola’s Position on Gender

Biola University’s position on gender affirms the goodness of God’s creation of humankind as male and female. Specifically, in its Statement of Biblical Principles: God’s Intentional Design for Life, Biola states, “We believe God created all things and set in place the laws of nature, not according to random chance but according to his perfect, miraculous and purposeful plan...God created the natural world and called it good, and after he created male and female he declared his creation very good.”

Our sex as male or female is a biological given of the individual human person from conception made manifest at birth, and is a stable characteristic of the person determined by God’s creational intent.”

Wow.

Terrorist lecture at UC Berkeley — symptom of a much bigger problem

By Tammi Rossman-Benjamin

Published April 24, 2026, 5:43 p.m. ET


A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber released from Israeli prison in November 2023 as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack.

Berkeley’s response was to invoke free speech, insisting that the university must remain content-neutral toward protected expression.

But the deeper threat to academic freedom at Berkeley is not a single student-sponsored event. It is the conduct of faculty who are using departments, speaker series, official academic programming, and university authority to turn anti-Israel activism into institutional practice.

That conduct was recently on display in UC Berkeley’s Rhetoric Department, which sponsored a talk titled “Anti-Zionism Is Not a Luxury.” The event was promoted as one that “articulates and embraces an affirmative anti-Zionism,” calls for “the end of a Zionist world,” and presents anti-Zionism as “a vital necessity of existence.”

A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis, a failed Palestinian suicide bomber released from Israeli prison in November 2023 as part of the hostage-prisoner exchange following Hamas’s October 7 attack.

Nor was it a one-off for the Rhetoric Department. Since Oct. 7, 2023, it has sponsored or co-sponsored more than a dozen similarly one-sided anti-Israel events, raising an obvious question: Why would a rhetoric department become a reliable sponsor of activist programming?

The answer lies in the political commitments of the department’s members. Half of Berkeley rhetoric’s faculty, including the chair and other senior leaders, signed a statement issued just days after Hamas’ attack on Israel that openly took sides in the war — declaring solidarity “without hesitation” with those “who fight for justice in Palestine,” endorsing an academic boycott of Israeli universities, and omitting any mention of Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians.

The Rhetoric Department is far from unique. According to recent research, from fall 2023 through spring 2025, 34 Berkeley departments sponsored or co-sponsored 40 Israel-related events with an anti-Israel bias, and none without.

The pattern is unmistakable: The 10 Berkeley departments that sponsored the most anti-Israel events were all led by faculty who had publicly backed an academic boycott of Israel.

These aren’t random student groups organizing protests. These are professors using their institutional authority to advance a political agenda.

ROTC students subdued and killed Old Dominion University gunman, officials say

 

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From Tehran to Columbia: Inside America’s Student Intifada

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A small Jesuit school in Denver has quietly become a pipeline for powerful Republicans surrounding Trump

By Dave Smith
October 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM EDT

Regis University in Denver

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A Catholic university nestled in the Rocky Mountains has quietly produced a surprising number of figures who now occupy influential positions within President Donald Trump’s political sphere and the broader conservative movement.

Regis University, a 148-year-old Jesuit institution in Denver, has become an unexpected common denominator among conservative leaders who have shaped American politics for decades.

The connection includes two women in Trump’s orbit currently making headlines: Erika Kirk, the new CEO of Turning Point USA following her husband Charlie Kirk’s assassination, and Lindsey Halligan, Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia; both earned degrees from Regis.

But their alma mater has produced a much broader network of conservative power brokers who have shaped American politics for generations.

Regis University, which serves about 2,700 students, was able to confirm to Fortune that Erika Kirk was a student there from fall 2007 through the end of fall 2009, and Lindsey Halligan did graduate from the school in 2011, but offered no further comment.

Dr. Ben Carson Concludes Fall Speaking Tour with Turning Point USA at the University of Kentucky

December 12, 2024

Dr. Ben Carson, Founder and Chairman of the American Cornerstone Institute (ACI), addressed students at the University of Kentucky at a joint event with Turning Point USA (TPUSA) on November 20, 2024. Read More



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University Study Finds Fire Did Not Bring Down World Trade Center Building 7 on 9/11

University Study Finds Fire Did Not Bring Down World Trade Center Building 7 on 9/11

AE911Truth Staff

September 3, 2019


On September 11, 2001, at 5:20 PM, the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed into its footprint, falling more than 100 feet at the rate of gravity for 2.5 seconds of its seven-second destruction.

Today, we at Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth are pleased to partner with the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) in releasing the draft report of a four-year computer modeling study of WTC 7’s collapse conducted by researchers in the university's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The release of the draft report begins a two-month period during which the public is invited to submit comments. The final report will be published later this year.

We invite you to read the report and to watch Dr. Leroy Hulsey’s September 3rd presentation at the UAF campus, where he first announced his team’s findings.

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Jesuit university blocks Ben Shapiro event, saying it prompts ‘hateful speech’ from protesters

By Avery Anapol - 11/29/18 07:20 PM EST 34




A Jesuit university has blocked a proposed event featuring conservative writer Ben Shapiro, citing the possibility of “hateful speech” by protesters.

Officials at Gonzaga University in Washington state rejected a request from the school’s College Republicans chapter seeking to bring Shapiro to campus, according to conservative college news site Campus Reform.

Judi Biggs Garbuio, Gonzaga’s vice president of student development, reportedly said in the denial that Shapiro’s speeches “routinely draw protests that include extremely divisive and hateful speech and behavior, which is offensive to many people, regardless of their age, politics or beliefs.”


Biggs Garbuio also cited the school’s Christian mission, as well as safety and security concerns about the event.

“Gonzaga University is committed to the human dignity of every individual,” Biggs Garbuio wrote. “This is the core of our mission based on the teachings of Christ Jesus, and the foundations of the Society of Jesus. We stand in solidarity with vulnerable members of our community who may be targeted for discrimination, ridicule, or harassment by others.”

Shapiro, the editor of conservative website the Daily Wire, has been blocked from speaking by a number of universities, including DePaul and California State University, though Shapiro showed up at the latter anyway.

Olivia Johnston, president of Gonzago College Republicans, told Campus Reform that the school’s response to the event shows that they “have made it clear diversity of thought [is] not welcome.”

“I refuse to accept a University that only supports strictly liberal thinking,” she added. “The hypocrisy must end.”

The Hill has reached out to Shapiro for comment.

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Masked men attack Jesuit University in Nicaragua

Antonio De Loera-Brust

May 29, 2018

In this April 24, 2018 photo, demonstrators protest in honor of those who have died during anti-government protests in Managua, Nicaragua. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga, File)



Since protests directed at the Sandinista government in Nicaragua began in April, the Jesuit-run University of Central America has been a hub of student activism and, as a result, a target of violence. On Sunday, Father Jose Alberto Idiaquez, S.J., the rector of U.C.A., condemned the latest attack on his university as government-sponsored.

In a statement addressed to the Nicaraguan people, Father Idiaquez announced that U.C.A.’s campus in Nicaragua’s capital city of Managua was attacked on May 27 at 12:45 a.m. by a group of masked men in vans. The attackers shot a mortar at two campus guards.

Since protests directed at the Sandinista government in Nicaragua began in April, the Jesuit-run University of Central America has been a a target of violence.

“Although they did not manage to hurt or kill our watchmen, this was their intent, based on the charge of gunpowder used and the nearness of the shot,” Father Idiaquez said in his statement. 

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Linda Katehi resigns as chancellor of UC Davis

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BY CASSANDRA VOGEL | STAFFLAST UPDATED 2 MINS AGO

UC Davis Chancellor, Linda P.B. Katehi photographed in the reading room at Shields Library on the UC Davis campus.


Linda Katehi stepped down as chancellor of UC Davis on Tuesday after an investigation led by the UC Office of the President found she had violated university policies.

In May, Katehi was placed on 90-day paid administrative leave to allow outside investigators to look into allegations that Katehi may have violated university policies. UCOP had appointed Melinda Haag, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California and current San Francisco attorney, to lead the independent investigation.

According to a UCOP statement, the investigators determined “the chancellor had exercised poor judgment, not been candid with University leadership, and violated multiple University policies.”

The investigation was conducted amid controversy regarding UC Davis administration’s decision to pay consultants more than $175,000 to filter search results pertaining to police pepper-spraying student protesters in 2011, as reported by the Sacramento Bee. Both the pepper spray incident and the subsequent clean-up efforts occurred while Katehi was serving as chancellor.

2016-2017 ASUCD President Alex P. Lee said UC Davis students were relieved at the news of Katehi’s decision to step down, adding that her resignation was “long overdue.”

“I’m seeing all over social media a lot of the same kind of relief — in a good way — some celebration, a lot of people talking about the content of some of the report and what UCOP had said,” Lee said. “We still want the results of the report published, we still want to talk about accountability — this is just the start of the road.”

In the meantime, UC Davis Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter will continue to serve as the acting chancellor, while Katehi will resume her position on the UC Davis faculty. A search for her a permanent replacement will begin immediately, according to UCOP.

“Today’s news ends a period of uncertainty at UC Davis,” Hexter said in a statement. “The resolution announced by UC President Janet Napolitano permits us to focus all our efforts on moving the campus forward so that we can serve California, the nation and the world ever more effectively.”

Check back for updates.

Cassandra Vogel is an assistant news editor. Contact her atcvogel@dailycal.org and follow her on Twitter at @cass_vogxz.

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