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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0"><span data-markjs="true" class="markfnhk50ei4 ContentPasted0" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">This week, July 31st through August 4th, is the final week to vote</span>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Please navigate to <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.genderandlanguage.com/elections-2023__;!!HXCxUKc!xQSszwsk6eAe3JnLKiseukmHVjPy78WyeM42PQk5v6YTQSyxMiqRTbIGyab6Vn8f28M4_AXBhsUm3Q$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">https://www.genderandlanguage.com/elections-2023</a> to
see the candidates and the available positions.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">After you have read their bios and statements, please scroll to the bottom of the page, where you will find the link that will take you to the election ballot.</div>
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<div style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px" class="ContentPasted0">Thank you for your time and active participation! We appreciate you!<br style="box-sizing:content-box" class="ContentPasted0">
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<span style="margin:0px">Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures</span><br>
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<span style="margin:0px">517-355-2400 (Office)</span><br>
<span style="margin:0px">517-353-5250 (Fax)</span><br>
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Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of YAHWEH ELOHIM, and JESUS our LORD. 2 Peter 1:2 This is my perspective. Hope you share yours.</font></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; color: black;"><span style="margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"></span></span></span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; padding: 0in; color: black;">I
am not always immediately able or available to respond to emails; thus, my responses, at times, will be delayed. Additionally, I am typically away from my email </span><span style="margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">after</span><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">9
pm Monday </span></span><span style="margin:0px;caret-color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">through
Friday and on weekends</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> P</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">leas</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">e
note that emails sent outside of these times may </span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">not
be </span><span style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px;">immediately addressed.</span></span><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;margin:0px"><o:p><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11pt;margin:0px"></span></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;"><u style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont;">Land Acknowledgment:</u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black;">Michigan State University occupies the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary Lands of the Anishinaabeg – Three Fires Confederacy of Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi peoples.
In particular, the University resides on Land ceded in the 1819 Treaty of Saginaw.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; color: black;"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: start;">The United States resides on Native Land and was built on the backs of kidnapped and enslaved Africans.</span></div>
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