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SUMMARY:Book Talk: “When All the Men Wore Hats: Susan Cheever on the Stories of John Cheever”
DESCRIPTION:When All the Men Wore Hats is a sympathetic and illuminating account of the stories of John Cheever\, and the intersecting life and work of the legendary writer John Cheever\, as told by his eldest daughter.\n\nThe Stories of John Cheever\, published in 1978\, brought together some of the finest short fiction ever written. The collection was honored with the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award\, and it would go on to sell millions of copies and to define the American short story and shape generations of writers. Cheever’s chronicles of modern life both emerged from a distinctly American culture and also created it—inspiring everything from Mad Men to a Raymond Carver story\, from rock songs to a Seinfeld episode. \nGrowing up\, Susan Cheever\, John Cheever’s eldest child and only daughter\, read what he read\, heard what he heard\, bantered and gossiped with him and her brothers and mother at the dinner table\, and later watched her father type on the cheap yellow paper he favored. A daughter much like Susan appears in many of Cheever’s stories and a family much like theirs is at the center of his writing. \nIn When All the Men Wore Hats\, Susan Cheever looks back on her father’s work and seeks to understand the connections between art and life. How did a bit of local gossip\, a slice of Greek myth\, and a new translation of Madame Bovary somehow become a brilliant gem like “The Country Husband” or “The Swimmer”? In her 1984 book Home Before Dark\, published two years after her father’s death\, Cheever wrote movingly about her father and the secrets he kept\, but here\, years later\, she tells the story of the remarkable stories themselves\, six of which appear in full in the book’s appendix. \nSusan Cheever is the author of many books on American history\, the most recent of which is Drinking in America: Our Secret History\, published in 2015. She is also the author of numerous novels; My Name Is Bill: Bill Wilson—His Life and the Creation of Alcoholics Anonymous\, a biography of the Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson; and Home Before Dark\, a memoir about her father\, John Cheever. She has taught at Bennington College and currently teaches at the New School in the MFA program. \nEliza Griswold\, a poet\, a translator\, and a contributing writer covering religion\, politics\, and the environment\, has been writing for The New Yorker since 2003. Her books include Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church and Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. She is a Ferris Professor at Princeton University\, where she directs the Program in Journalism. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Program in Journalism and Labyrinth Books.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/book-talk-when-all-the-men-wore-hats-susan-cheever-on-the-stories-of-john-cheever/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Freedom of the press? Journalism in the 'fake news' era
DESCRIPTION:National security reporters in Washington are being threatened by the federal government for doing their jobs in ways that are reminiscent of some of the world’s most notorious authoritarian regimes. Journalists are often called “hacks” or liars” – sometimes in the middle of the White House press room. Their personal safety is increasingly at risk. With the recent arrest of Don Lemon and the FBI raid of Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson’s home\, it’s clear that we are all bearing witness to an extraordinary moment in history. The first amendment is under attack. \nIn this talk\, veteran national security correspondent Erin Banco (Journalism) and Fara Dabhoiwala (History)\, author of “What Is Free Speech? The History of a Dangerous Idea\,” will discuss how we got here and the potential consequences we could face as a society as a result of the further restriction of the freedom of the press. \nPresented by the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism. Lunch talks are open to University faculty\, students\, and staff. Space is limited. RSVP required here. \n*Please note\, RSVP form requires University log-in credentials
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/lunch-talk-erin-banco-and-fara-dabhoiwala/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T163000
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SUMMARY:AI x Journalism: Transforming the News
DESCRIPTION:Join the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) for this special event on how artificial intelligence is changing journalism and news. \nAI is already remaking newsgathering\, audience engagement\, and the dissemination of fact and evidence-based journalism. In this panel discussion\, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis\, gathering and checking facts\, ensuring source security\, and what’s to come. Panelists include: \n\nHilke Schellmann\, Emmy Award-winning reporter and CITP Fellow\nMadelyne Xiao\, CITP graduate student and former fact-checker for The New Yorker\nDylan Freedman\, machine-learning engineer and journalist working on artificial intelligence initiatives at The New York Times\nAnjanette Delgado\, Group Managing Editor for the Hearst Connecticut Media Group\n\nThe discussion will be moderated by Eliza Griswold\, director of the Program in Journalism\, with journalists and thinkers posing critical questions about the AI revolution. \nOpen to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Princeton Humanities Initiative.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/ai-x-journalism-transforming-the-news/
LOCATION:Chancellor Green Rotunda
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SUMMARY:Student Workshop | Hands-On Workshop in AI for Journalists
DESCRIPTION:Join New York Times reporter and machine-learning engineer Dylan Freedman\, and CITP’s Madelyne Xiao and Hilke Schellmann for a two-hour workshop on AI-assisted journalism. Dylan will share detailed case studies of why and how he used AI tools for reporting challenges at The New York Times (and what not to do). Come with questions about best practices\, fact-checking\, and designing AI-driven workflows for your own reporting projects. \nOptionally\, you’re welcome to bring your laptop/tablet if you’d like to ask questions about online tools and datasets. \nThis workshop is open to enrolled journalism students and students pursuing the journalism minor; space is limited. Registration is required by March 16. The location will be announced to registered participants prior to the event. \nSample projects from participating panelists: \n\nDylan Freedman\, NYT\, “Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.” [link]\nDylan Freedman\, NYT\, “Trump’s Speeches\, Increasingly Angry and Rambling\, Reignite the Question of Age” [link]\nHilke Schellmann\, CJR\, “I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism”: [link]\nMadelyne Xiao\, USENIX Security\, “Machine Learning for Misinformation Detection”: [link]\n\nThis event is presented by the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and the Center for Information Technology Policy\, and co-sponsored by the Princeton Humanities Initiative.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/student-workshop-hands-on-workshop-in-ai-for-journalists/
LOCATION:Location TBD
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SUMMARY:Secret Stories of Migration: Cars\, Coffins\, Cash\, and Other Encomiendas
DESCRIPTION:A daughter reunites\, after 20 years\, with a father she never knew. A son builds his parents a mansion he will never visit. A mother waits by the side of the road for the coffin returning her son to his childhood home. These stories of migration unfold over decades and across generations\, reaching far beyond today’s headlines. \nAcademy-award winning filmmaker Purcell Carson (Journalism) has spent the past 10 years listening to Guatemalan migrants in Trenton\, New Jersey—mothers and fathers\, entrepreneurs and mourners\, lovers\, hucksters\, and dreamers. Using observational cinema\, oral history\, material culture\, social media\, and personal archives\, she documents the lived realities of migration and reverse migration in the Americas. \nIn this interdisciplinary lunch talk\, Carson will give examples from a work-in-progress\, and discuss the porous borders between journalism\, history\, and cinema with U.S. historian Rosina Lozano (History). \nPresented by the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism. Lunch talks are open to University faculty\, students\, and staff. Space is limited. RSVP required here. \n*Please note\, RSVP form requires University log-in credentials
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/lunch-talk-purcell-carson-and-rosina-lozano/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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SUMMARY:Reporting on Iran From Afar
DESCRIPTION:Join investigative journalist Nilo Tabrizy as she discusses her experiences reporting on Iran from the United States. \nNilo Tabrizy is an investigative journalist specializing in open-source reporting methods and forensic journalism. She has worked for The Washington Post\, The New York Times and Vice News. She is co-author of For The Sun After Long Nights\, a book about the 2022 women-led uprising in Iran and how journalists told the story of those protests from inside and outside Iran. It was longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/reporting-on-iran-from-afar/
LOCATION:Room 002\, Robertson Hall
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SUMMARY:Mother Emanuel: Faith and Forgiveness Ten Years After the Charleston Church Massacre
DESCRIPTION:Few people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston — Mother Emanuel — before June 17\, 2015\, when a young white supremacist massacred nine Black worshippers at an evening Bible study. Although the shooter had targeted the first AME church in the South to agitate racial strife\, he could not have anticipated the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted the South since the earliest days of European settlement. \nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Kevin Sack (Journalism) spent a decade researching and writing “Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\,” which explores the remarkably rich 200-year history that brought the church to its lowest moment. During this lunch talk\, he will discuss the newly published book in conversation with Judith Weisenfeld (Religion)\, chair of the Department of Religion and a scholar of African American religious history. \nPresented by the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism. Lunch talks are open to University faculty\, students\, and staff. Space is limited. RSVP required here. \n*Please note\, RSVP form requires University log-in credentials \nRelated reading: \nDebbie Elliot\, Andrew Craig\, Samantha Balaban\, NPR\, “10 years after the deadly church shooting\, a new history of ‘Mother Emanuel” \nNYT Staff\, The New York Times\, “The 10 Best Books of 2025”
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/lunch-talk-kevin-sack-and-judith-weisenfeld/
LOCATION:16 Joseph Henry House
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SUMMARY:REPORTING FROM BEIJING with Jonathan Cheng ’05
DESCRIPTION:It has become a cliché that the U.S.-China relationship is the world’smost important bilateral relationship. But how does it feel on the ground\, and what tools do Western journalists have in reporting on one of the world’s most important — and most difficult-to-cover — countries? Jonathan Cheng ’05\, who has spent the last seven years in Beijing leading The Wall Street Journal\, including through the long COVID-19 years\, shares how the country and the reporting environment have changed during that time. \nJonathan Cheng is the China bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal\, overseeing the Journal’s coverage of the world’s second-largest economy across a range of areas including politics\, economics\, business\, technology\, and society. He oversees a team of more than two dozen correspondents and researchers in Beijing\, Shanghai\, Hong Kong\, Taipei\, Singapore\, and New York with responsibility for the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.  Previously\, Jonathan was the Seoul bureau chief for the Journal\, running coverage of the Korean peninsula\, including North Korea and South Korean politics and business. He began his career as an intern in the Journal’s Hong Kong bureau\, and has also worked as a markets reporter in the Journal’s New York office.  Jonathan speaks English\, Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese\, French\, and Korean. A native of Toronto\, Canada. He graduated from Princeton University with a degree in history. He lives in Beijing and has traveled to North Korea twice. \n\n\n\nSponsors\n\nEast Asian Studies Program\nCenter on Contemporary China\nProgram in Journalism
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/reporting-from-beijing-with-jonathan-cheng-05/
LOCATION:219 Aaron Burr Hall\, 219 Aaron Burr Hall\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08544\, United States
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SUMMARY:On Journalism and Scholarship: Kevin Sack in Conversation with Avram Alpert about “Mother Emanuel”
DESCRIPTION:Sack will present his book Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race\, Resistance\, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church\, a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice. Sack and Alpert will then talk about the importance of scholarship for Sack’s public writing\, and what scholars and journalists can learn from each other in terms of presenting research to general readers. \nPart of the Writing Program’s Public Scholarship Initiative\, in collaboration with Labyrinth Books. Co-sponsored by the Program in Journalism. \n\nFrom Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Kevin Sack\, Mother Emanuel is a sweeping history of one of the nation’s most important African American churches and a profound story of courage and grace amid the fight for racial justice.\n\nFew people beyond South Carolina’s Lowcountry knew of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston—Mother Emanuel—before the night of June 17\, 2015\, when a twenty-one-year-old white supremacist walked into Bible study and slaughtered the church’s charismatic pastor and eight other worshippers. Although the shooter had targeted Mother Emanuel—the first A.M.E. church in the South—to agitate racial strife\, he did not anticipate the aftermath: an outpouring of forgiveness from the victims’ families and a reckoning with the divisions of caste that have afflicted Charleston and the South since the earliest days of European settlement. \nMother Emanuel explores the fascinating history that brought the church to that moment and the depth of the desecration committed in its fellowship hall. It reveals how African Methodism was cultivated from the harshest American soil\, and how Black suffering shaped forgiveness into both a religious practice and a survival tool. Kevin Sack\, who has written about race in his native South for more than four decades\, uses the church to trace the long arc of Black life in the city where nearly half of enslaved Africans disembarked in North America and where the Civil War began. Through the microcosm of one congregation\, he explores the development of a unique practice of Christianity\, from its daring breakaway from white churches in 1817\, through the traumas of Civil War and Reconstruction\, to its critical role in the Civil Rights Movement and beyond. \nAt its core\, Mother Emanuel is an epic tale of perseverance\, not just of a congregation but of a people who withstood enslavement\, Jim Crow\, and all manner of violence with an unbending faith. \nKevin Sack is a veteran journalist who has written about national affairs for more than four decades and has been part of three Pulitzer Prize–winning teams. A native of Jacksonville\, Florida\, and a graduate of Duke University\, he spent thirty years on the staff of The New York Times\, where he specialized in writing long-form narrative and investigative reports\, often related to race. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution\, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine. He was previously an Emerson Collective Fellow at New America and teaches journalism at Princeton University. \nAvram Alpert is a generalist in the humanities. He works to understand what values we should live by in our connected\, chaotic\, and potentially catastrophic times. His writing has appeared in Aeon\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and elsewhere. His most recent book is The Good-Enough Life.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/on-journalism-and-scholarship-kevin-sack-in-conversation-with-avram-alpert-about-mother-emanuel/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:Verse and Voice Poetry Festival Keynote: Robert Pinsky
DESCRIPTION:Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky presents and discusses “Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems” and “On Poetry\, Democracy\, and Culture” with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eliza Griswold. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout “Robert Pinsky: The First Two Books of Poems:” \nAward-winning poet Robert Pinsky’s first two collections—”Sadness And Happiness” and “An Explanation of America”—announced the arrival of a major new voice in American poetry. Now\, these acclaimed books are presented together in a single volume featuring a new preface by the author\, introducing a new generation of readers to the groundbreaking early work of a beloved poet. “Sadness And Happiness” explores everyday subjects such as the streets and oceanfront of Pinsky’s hometown of Long Branch\, New Jersey\, while the long title poem of “An Explanation of America” examines personal and national myths as it transports readers across the country. \nAbout “On Poetry\, Democracy\, and Culture:” \nFor Robert Pinsky\, poetry’s individual\, human scale as a fundamentally vocal medium—with poems brought to life by one person at a time—gives poetry a unique importance in American and democratic culture and society. This book brings together two compelling works of criticism by the former poet laureate—”The Situation of Poetry” and “Democracy\, Culture and the Voice of Poetry\,” in which he makes a passionate and eloquent case for the vital role of poetry in a democracy. \nAbout the Author: \nRobert Pinsky is an award-winning American poet\, essayist\, and translator. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry and the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He served for three terms as the U.S. Poet Laureate\, during which time he founded the Favorite Poem Project. His many books include “On Poetry\, Culture\, and Democracy” (Princeton)\, the memoir “Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet\,” and the poetry collections “Proverbs of Limbo\, At the Foundling Hospital\, and Selected Poems.” His bestselling translation of Dante’s “Inferno” won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Among his other awards and honors are the William Carlos Williams Award\, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize\, the PEN/Voelcker Award\, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. He is distinguished professor emeritus of English and creative writing at Boston University. \nIn Conversation: \nPulitzer Prize-winning journalist\, translator\, and poet Eliza Griswold\, director of the Princeton University Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism\, has been a contributing writer for The New Yorker for more than two decades\, where she has extensively covered religion\, politics\, and the environment. Since 2016\, she has served as a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. Griswold has written and translated several books of nonfiction and poetry\, including “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2019; “I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan\,” which she translated to English from Pashto; and a recent book of poems\, “If Men\, Then.” Her most recent book\, “Circle of Hope:  A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church\,” builds on years of Griswold’s immersive reporting to tell the story of a Philadelphia church and a community in crisis. \nFor more poetry programming\, see the digital brochure for “Verse and Voice: A Festival of Poetry” taking place from April 18-May 4 at the library.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/verse-and-voice-poetry-festival-keynote-robert-pinsky/
LOCATION:Princeton Public Library (Community Room)
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SUMMARY:"Bramble"
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed poet Susan Stewart discusses her new poetry collection with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and poet Eliza Griswold.  Bramble is a meditation on difficulty and the powers of nature. \nIn the Biblical book of Judges\, the bramble is a figure of destructive leadership\, thwarting the lives of trees. In ballads and fairy tales\, roses grow “‘round the briar” in tragic contrast to heroines who are enveloped by the thorns. One of the oldest English words and an even older symbol\, “bramble” reminds us of the entangled and unending struggle that comes with living in time and searching beyond appearances. The rough thicket presents impediments\, yet it also bears fruit and delicate flowers. With Bramble\, Susan Stewart has composed a book of many forms\, including satires\, elegies\, meditations\, and songs. Bramble is also an exploration of the act of making such forms. The book’s three sections— \n“Mirror\,” “Briar\,” and “Channel”—link lyric time to our lives as they are situated in history and nature. Reflecting upon illness\, grief\, and change\, the poems follow the progress of day and night\, the movement of the seasons\, and the path of water from springs to the sea. \nSusan Stewart is a poet\, critic\, and translator. Her previous books of poetry include Columbarium\, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and Cinder: New and Selected Poems. A MacArthur Fellow and a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets\, she is also a member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her most recent prose books are Poetry’s Nature and The Ruins Lesson. \nEliza Griswold\, a poet\, a translator\, and a contributing writer covering religion\, politics\, and the environment\, has been writing for The New Yorker since 2003. Her books include Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love\, Power\, and Justice in an American Church and Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. She is a Ferris Professor at Princeton University\, where she directs the Program in Journalism. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts\, the Humanities Council\, and Labyrinth Books.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/bramble/
LOCATION:Labyrinth Books\, 122 Nassau Street\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08542\, United States
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SUMMARY:JRN 314 Film Screening: The Legacy of Lead / El Legado del Plomo
DESCRIPTION:The Trenton Project presents “The Legacy of Lead / El Legado del Plomo” on Wednesday\, May 6 in C112 Briger Hall. \nThis public film screening will feature four documentary shorts by the students in  JRN 314 The Art and Practice of Documentary: Environmental Justice Filmmaking in Trenton\, taught by Purcell Carson (Journalism). There will be a short reception starting at 6:00 PM\, followed by the screening. \nFilms by: \n\nSynai Ferrell ’26\nRaphaela Gold ’26\nHahyeon Kim ’29\nElla Kowal ’29\nPayge Neals ’26\nLoreta Quarmine ’27\nClara Schneider ’28\nStella Szostak ’26\n\nMany thanks to our university co-sponsors: The Program in Journalism\, the Princeton Humanities Initiative\, the Program in Community Engaged Scholarship (ProCES)\, the Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture\, Urbanism and the Humanities\, the Department of Geosciences\, the Program in Environmental Studies\, the High Meadows Environmental Institute\, the Digital Learning Lab\, Urban Studies\, African American Studies and the Program in American Studies.
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/jrn-314-film-screening-the-legacy-of-lead-el-legado-del-plomo/
LOCATION:C112 Briger Hall
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SUMMARY:Audio & Ideas: Exploring the Possibilities for Scholarly Podcasting
DESCRIPTION:Podcasting is already a medium for scholarship\, and there are dozens of so-called “academic podcasts” in existence. Indeed\, the New Books Network aggregates an enormous number of podcasts on everything from political science to literary theory. However\, the majority of these podcasts consist of “author interviews\,” which use only a fraction of audio’s potential to reach the listener the way that highly produced\, scripted\, expertly sound-designed and edited podcasts are doing in other parts of the culture. There is an opportunity for scholars to take charge of their own productions\, and serve a growing intelligent public that is increasingly turning to podcasts to both continue its education and learn about the pressing issues and topics of our time.  It is a public intellectual problem\, for which audio journalism has an answer. \nThe panels will address the way intellectuals of all kinds are using audio to generate new scholarship. While the commercial podcast universe has expanded and contracted in the past decade\, the world of academic podcasting has grown at a steady\, if modest\, pace. This may present the university with an opportunity.  At a time when the market has turned its back on highly produced podcasts\, perhaps this is a good time for intellectuals of all stripes to explore the possibilities of idea-driven\, narrative audio work within the context of the academy. \nFULL SCHEDULE HERE. 
URL:https://journalism.princeton.edu/event/audio-ideas-exploring-the-possibilities-for-scholarly-podcasting/
LOCATION:301 Wooten Hall
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