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Chairman

Austin Chu G

Editor in Chief

Nick Bushak ’10

Business Manager

Mark Thompson ’11

Managing Editor

Steve Howland ’11

Executive Editor

Michael McGraw-Herdeg G

News Staff

Editors: John A. Hawkinson ’98, Jeff Guo ’11, Natasha Plotkin ’11; Associate Editors: Pearle Lipinski ’12, Maggie Lloyd ’12, Ana Lyons ’12, Robert McQueen ’12; Staff: Vinayak Ranade G, Daniela Cako ’09, Elijah Jordan Turner ’11, Jingyun Fan ’12, Ziwei Hao ’12, Camille Z. McAvoy ’12, Natasha Nath ’12, Sandhya Rawal ’12, Zeina Siam ’12, Joy E. Lee ’13, Meghan Nelson ’13, Jessica J. Pourian ’13, Yuliya Preger ’13, Divya Srinivasan ’13; Meteorologists: Brian H. Tang G, Allison A. Wing G, Angela Zalucha G, Elizabeth Maroon ’10, Vince Agard ’11.

Production Staff

Associate Editors: Divya Chhabra ’13, Connor Kirschbaum ’13, Aislyn Schalck ’13; Staff: Alexander W. Dehnert ’12, Joanna Kao ’13.

Opinion Staff

Editors: Joseph Maurer ’12, Ethan Solomon ’12; Staff: Florence Gallez G, Alejandro Rogers B. G, Gary Shu G, David Weinberg G, Keith A. Yost G, Josh Levinger ’07, Daniel Yelin ’10, Ryan Normandin ’13.

Sports Staff

Editor: David Zhu ’12; Staff: Aaron Sampson ’10, Michael Gerhardt ’12, Nydia Ruleman ’12, Russell Spivak ’13.

Arts Staff

Editor: S. Balaji Mani ’10; Associate Editors: Maggie Liu ’12, Samuel Markson ’12; Staff: Sudeep Agarwala G, Bogdan Fedeles G, Matt Fisher ’10, Joyce Kwan ’10, Joanne Y. Shih ’10, Kevin Wang ’10, Tracy Kambara ’11, Sun K. Kim ’11, Emily Nardoni ’13.

Photography Staff

Editors: David M. Templeton ’08, Andrea Robles ’10; Associate Editors: Vibin Kundukulam ’11, Jessica Liu ’13, Sam Range ’13; Staff: Vincent Auyeung G, David Da He G, Perry Hung G, Sheng-Ying Aithne Pao G, Arthur Petron G, Melissa Renée Schumacher G, Martin Segado G, Noah Spies G, John Z. Sun G, Scott Johnston ’03, Martha Angela Wilcox ’08, Peter H. Rigano ’09, Eric D. Schmiedl ’09, Biyeun Buczyk ’10, David Chen ’10, Helen Hou ’10, Monica Kahn ’10, Corey Kubber ’10, Diane Rak ’10, Jongu Shin ’10, Christian J. Ternus ’10, Michael Yu ’10, Dhaval Adjodah ’11, Jasmine Florentine ’11, Dan Kubaczyk ’11, Michael Y. McCanna ’11, Michael Meyer ’11, Aaron Thom ’11, Allison M. Alwan ’12, Yuanyu Chen ’12, Rachel Fong ’12, Jessica Lin ’12, Rui Luo ’12, Andrew Shum ’12, Meng Heng Touch ’12, Jennifer L. Wong ’12, Feng Wu ’12, Arfa Aijazi ’13, Cole Houston ’13, Sunny X. Long ’13, Elijah Mena ’13, Oscar A. Viquez Rojas ’13.

Campus Life Staff

Editor: Michael T. Lin ’11; Staff: Roberto Perez-Franco G, Christine Yu ’11; Cartoonists: Michael Ciuffo ’11, Ben Peters ’11, Michael Benitez ’12.

Business Staff

Advertising Manager: Greg Steinbrecher ’12; Operations Manager: Sherry Yan ’11; Staff: Wendy Cheng ’13, Moya Chin ’13, Jennifer Fong ’13.

Technology Staff

Director: Quentin Smith ’10.

Editors at Large

Contributing Editors: Caroline Huang ’10, Jessica Witchley ’10, William Yee ’10, Arkajit Dey ’11, Monica Gallegos ’11, Robin L. Dahan ’12; Senior Editors: Brian Hemond G, Charles Lin G, Andrew T. Lukmann G, Ramya Sankar G, Satwiksai Seshasai G, Shreyes Seshasai G, Benjamin P. Gleitzman ’09, Ricardo Ramirez ’09, Nick Semenkovich ’09, Angeline Wang ’09, Praveen Rathinavelu ’10.

Advisory Board

Paul E. Schindler, Jr. ’74, V. Michael Bove ’83, Barry S. Surman ’84, Robert E. Malchman ’85, Deborah A. Levinson ’91, Jonathan E. D. Richmond PhD ’91, Karen Kaplan ’93, Saul Blumenthal ’98, Frank Dabek ’00, Daniel Ryan Bersak ’02, Eric J. Cholankeril ’02, Jordan Rubin ’02, Nathan Collins SM ’03, Keith J. Winstein ’03, Akshay R. Patil ’04, Tiffany Dohzen ’06, Beckett W. Sterner ’06, Marissa Vogt ’06, Zachary Ozer ’07, Omari Stephens ’08, Marie Y. Thibault ’08, B. D. Colen.

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