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Chairman

Benjamin P. Gleitzman ’09

Editor in Chief

Nick Semenkovich ’09

Business Manager

Austin Chu G

Managing Editor

Jessica Witchley ’10

Executive Editor

Michael McGraw-Herdeg G

News Staff

News and Features Director: Angeline Wang ’09; Editors: Arkajit Dey ’11, Jeff Guo ’11, Natasha Plotkin ’11; Associate Editors: Ryan Ko ’11, Emily Prentice ’11; Staff: Curt Fischer G, Ray C. He G, Ramya Sankar G, John A. Hawkinson ’98, Daniela Cako ’09, Mei-Hsin Cheng ’09, Diana Jue ’09, Ji Qi ’09, Kirtana Raja ’09, Yiwei Zhang ’09, Yi Zhou ’09, Nick Bushak ’10, Yuri Hanada ’10, JiHye Kim ’10, Joyce Kwan ’10, Jenny Liu ’10, Manisha Padi ’10, Joanne Y. Shih ’10, Yan Huang ’11, Elijah Jordan Turner ’11, Lulu Wang ’11, Jessica Lin ’12, Robert McQueen ’12; Meteorologists: Cegeon Chan G, Garrett P. Marino G, Jon Moskaitis G, Michael J. Ring G, Roberto Rondanelli G, Scott Stransky G, Brian H. Tang G, John K. Williams G, Angela Zalucha G.

Production Staff

Editor: Steve Howland ’11; Staff: K. Nichole Treadway ’10.

Opinion Staff

Editor: Andrew T. Lukmann G; Staff: Gary Shu G, Keith A. Yost G, Josh Levinger ’07, Ali S. Wyne ’08, Krishna Gupta ’09, Aditya Kohli ’09.

Sports Staff

Editor: Aaron Sampson ’10; Staff: Albert Ni ’09.

Arts Staff

Editor: Praveen Rathinavelu ’10; Staff: Bogdan Fedeles G, Andrew Lee ’07, Tyson C. McNulty ’08, S. Balaji Mani ’10, Tina Ro ’10, Kevin Wang ’10.

Photography Staff

Editors: David M. Templeton ’08, Andrea Robles ’10, William Yee ’10; Staff: Vincent Auyeung G, Alex H. Chan G, Alice Fan G, David Da He G, Perry Hung G, Maksim Imakaev G, Dmitry Kashlev G, Arthur Petron G, David Reshef G, Martin Segado G, Noah Spies G, Scott Johnston ’03, Christina Kang ’08, Martha Angela Wilcox ’08, Chelsea Grimm ’09, Ana Malagon ’09, Peter H. Rigano ’09, Eric D. Schmiedl ’09, Jerzy Szablowski ’09, Diana Ye ’09, Daniel P. Beauboeuf ’10, Biyeun Buczyk ’10, Arka P. Dhar ’10, Mindy Eng ’10, Helen Hou ’10, Monica Kahn ’10, Samuel E. Kronick ’10, Diane Rak ’10, Jongu Shin ’10, Dhaval Adjodah ’11, Monica Gallegos ’11, Michael Y. McCanna ’11, Michael Meyer ’11, Kari Williams ’11, Sherry Yan ’11, Rachel Fong ’12.

Campus Life Staff

Editor: Charles Lin G; Staff: J. Graham Ruby G, David Shirokoff G, Jason Chan ’09, Sarah C. Proehl ’09, Michael Ciuffo ’11, Michael T. Lin ’11, Christine Yu ’11; Cartoonists: Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer G, Roberto Perez-Franco G, Ben Peters ’11.

Business Staff

Advertising Manager: Mark Thompson ’11; Operations Manager: Michael Kuo ’10; Staff: Neeharika Bhartiya ’10, Jennifer Chu ’10, Heymian Wong ’10, Connie Chan ’12, Sandra Chen ’12, Mengjie Ding ’12, Joseph Maurer ’12, Eric Trac ’12.

Technology Staff

Director: Ricardo Ramirez ’09; Staff: Quentin Smith ’10.

Editors at Large

Contributing Editors: Rosa Cao G, Brian Hemond G, Valery K. Brobbey ’08, Caroline Huang ’10; Senior Editors: Satwiksai Seshasai G, Shreyes Seshasai G, Jillian A. Berry ’08, Omari Stephens ’08, Sarah Dupuis ’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, B. D. Colen.

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