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Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel's Tween Empire

Almost immediately after High School Musical’s January 2006 release, the network hastily cobbled together a massive press tour for the cast. There was no time to coach the kids or ease them into it after the film’s ratings and chart success. They needed to capitalize on the momentum ASAP.

Disney flew the cast to New York to perform on Today. They sat down with Life, Seventeen, Teen Vogue, Teen People, Bop, J-14, and dozens of other outlets. Monique Coleman joined Dancing with the Stars. Hollywood Records—which didn’t have the capacity to sign all of the main actors as solo singers—chose to forge record deals with Corbin Bleu and Vanessa Hudgens, while Ashley Tisdale signed a separate deal with Warner Brothers. (At the following year’s Radio Disney Music Awards, the Hollywood Records executives morosely observed the throngs of fans angling to catch a glimpse of Ashley. “Did we make a mistake?” Bob Cavallo asked Abbey Konowitch. Looking back, “I don’t think we made the wrong decision,” Konowitch said. “But, it was an awkward time.”)

While Ashley had been on a slow-burn rise to fame with Suite Life, the rest of the cast were thrown into the deep end without a life raft. Unlike the talent who appeared on Disney Channel Original Series, many of the movie actors didn’t receive robust media training—because few journalists had been interested in covering past DCOMs. “We didn’t get media training. Our media training was experience,” Corbin said. “It’s insane how much press we did. I mean, just weeks upon weeks of eight- hour days, ten-hour days, press junkets. It seemed like it never ended.”

(Former Disney Channel PR head Patti McTeague said the High School Musicalcast would have been “briefed” prior to doing any media interviews. “The briefings included message points,” she said, “but to encourage authentic interviews, we asked that interviewees provide their own anecdotes and point of view in interviews. It’s an acquired skill.”)

It was impossible for any of the High School Musical stars to leave their homes without being recognized. From the moment they were out in public, they were met with starstruck kids and pushy parents. Beyond just the excitement of meeting a celebrity, it seemed like everyone was eager to assess if they were actually “good kids” whom the children of America should be hoping to emulate. There was constant pressure to be polite, perky, and endlessly accommodating, no matter how rude or uncomfortable an encounter might be.

“I remember developing so much anxiety over it,” Corbin said. “We had become these role models, and especially ‘Disney role models.’ I felt this pressure to have this positive attitude, and I never wanted to create any sort of negativity whatsoever.”

Their High School Musical contracts, like those for many Disney Channel Original Movies, came with an explicit “morals” section, broadly stipulating that they couldn’t behave in a way that would “degrade” themselves in society, bring “public hatred, contempt, scorn, or ridicule,” or “shock, insult, or offend the community or ridicule public morals or decency.” And the baked-in expectation of what representing the Disney brand entailed was a hazy yet omnipresent force.

“It was definitely something that was just expected and not really ever explained,” Lucas Grabeel said. “One of the questions I’ve been asked the most in interviews is, ‘What advice would you give to kids?’ Or ‘What do you want to say to kids looking up to you right now?’ It’s like, how are we great role models from just making a movie? You do realize that we’re just actors who got a job dancing and singing and being super cheesy in this movie that totally blew up.”

From the network’s side, as with all Disney Channel projects, “At the end of the day, it’s a job,” former original programming head Adam Bonnett said. “These kids have a job to do, and part of that job is ensuring that they’re consistent with the values of The Walt Disney Company.”

The High School Musical kids were also making a significant amount of money. Yet there were no Disney financial advisors assigned to educate the talent and their families on how to navigate this influx of wealth, whether it was from the films themselves or the outside deals they were being offered because of their Disney success. There was no guidance on how to save and budget or how to assess what a good deal looked like versus a scam.

“All of a sudden, coming into good money as a sixteen-year-old, my family was definitely not equipped to know what to do with it,” Corbin said. “My parents did well, but the kind of money that I started making was not something that we had ever experienced before. So many actors, myself included, went to business managers and handed every- thing over—and it’s not the best thing to hand over that kind of control.”

With both the Cheetah Girls and High School Musical franchises in play, the Disney Music Group began to test the waters of doing concert tours with Disney Channel’s made-for-television acts. After the proven success of a 2005 Cheetah Girls Christmas tour, Disney’s Buena Vista Concerts and AEG Live plotted an extensive fifty-plus-date High School Musical: The Concert tour that would take the film’s cast across the United States and South America from the end of 2006 through the spring of 2007. Contracts were drawn up and sent to the six main High School Musical cast members to sign. Everyone agreed, with one exception: Zac Efron. “Zac made the decision not to do the concert tour. He was like, ‘I didn’t sing it, so I’m not doing it,’” Rich Ross said. “That was disappointing.”

Drew Seeley took Zac’s place to sing Troy’s parts on tour, and Kenny Ortega, who had ample experience choreographing and directing tours for Cher, Michael Jackson, and Gloria Estefan, returned to direct the live show. In addition to the songs from the film, Ortega worked to incorporate elements of the cast’s numerous side projects in the setlist: Vanessa and Corbin performed tracks from their Hollywood Records releases. Ashley was given permission to sing three songs off her solo album, even though it was a Warner Brothers project. Monique did a bit of ballroom dancing in a nod to her Dancing with the Stars run. And Lucas served as emcee.

The tour sold out arenas across the country, packing in audiences of screaming kids and their indulgent, or at least tolerant, parents. “I’ve driven Lynyrd Skynyrd and Led Zeppelin, and I’ve never seen fans go crazy like this,” one of the tour bus drivers told the cast. “You guys are like the fucking Beatles.”

In South America, the shows were bigger, often filling entire stadiums, and the crowds were rowdier. The performers were given military escorts to and from their hotels and the venues. At one airport, an official took their passports and refused to return them unless they took pictures and signed autographs for his children. “That time on the road was the best two months of my life. But it was also some of the darkest moments, as well,” Lucas said. “The scale of everything was just unimaginable. They worked us so hard. I mean, we didn’t really have days off. And you get to these moments of like, what am I doing? I am a monkey performing on a stage.”

They were just getting started.

Within two weeks of High School Musical’s January 2006 premiere, the network had ordered a sequel and approached the cast to sign new single-film contracts, just as they had done with the casts of Zenon, Halloweentown, and any past Disney Channel Original Movie deemed worthy of a sequel. The previous September, Gary Marsh had been promoted to a newly created position, president of entertainment for Disney Channel worldwide, overseeing the development and production of all original programming across the globe under network president Rich Ross. And Marsh took a heavy hand as the High School Musical sequel progressed

Peter Barsocchini returned to write the script, this time inspired by his youth working as a caddy at a country club. The sequel would follow the gang out of East High as they spent the summer at a country club owned by Ryan and Sharpay’s parents and learned a hard lesson in classism. While Ryan and Sharpay vacationed, the rest of the kids would toil away at summer jobs as cooks, lifeguards, and caddies. And since Sharpay had been a breakout character from the first film, she’d be given even more to do this time. The movie’s budget increased from $4.2 million to a previously unheard of $6 million, and the pressure manifested tenfold.

After the cast finished the US leg of the concert tour, they only had a week off before going back to the studio to record the soundtrack for High School Musical 2. Two weeks later, they were in dance rehearsals and then on location shooting for a month. When they returned to East High to shoot the sequel’s opening scenes in April, classes were in session for the school’s actual students. The local teens would lean out of their classroom doors and squeal when they caught a glimpse of the actors in the hallway. The cozy sanctuary of a set had become a fishbowl.

But production on High School Musical 2 primarily took place at the members-only Entrada resort in St. George, Utah, about four hours south near the Arizona and Nevada borders. The venue, with its red rocks, waterfall pool, and eighteen-hole golf course, made an excellent stand-in for a New Mexico country club. And the main cast members could unwind in their adjoining casitas, which they stayed in at the property’s The Inn at Entrada. In their downtime, they helped each other with laundry, ordered takeout, or occasionally coerced an obliging cast member to prepare a home-cooked meal for everyone. Once or twice, some made the ninety-minute journey south to Las Vegas to party.

But mostly, they worked. And worked. And worked.

The sequel doubled down on the musical campiness of the first film. There’s Sharpay’s glittering, Busby Berkeley-esque poolside ode to consumerism, “Fabulous.” And the subliminally flirty “I Don’t Dance” duet, where Ryan and Chad have a jazzy, tension-filled showdown on a baseball mound that culminates in them, without explanation, wearing each other’s clothes. “Clearly, when you go back and watch it there is so much sexual innuendo in there, and it’s amazing,” Corbin said. “I personally don’t think I was aware of it at the time.”

But no number more exemplified the agony and ecstasy of teendom than Troy’s literal spiral on a golf course, “Bet On It.” The solo song required Zac to run, twirl, and tumble across a setting-sun–dappled golf course, racing headfirst into the throes of an existential crisis. Because the sequence takes place at dusk, Ortega and the team only had a twenty- to thirty-minute window each evening to film it at golden hour, meaning the “Bet On It” shoot actually took place over two weeks. Every evening, Zac and the crew would stop whatever other scene they were shooting to rush to the golf course and capture a segment of the track before the sun set. Much of the choreography was crafted last minute, based on the environment and lighting they had to work with that day. “Okay, jump on these rocks now!” or “Let’s strut up this hill!” They’d decide on the spot.

“Zac was so trusting and so committed to any idea that Kenny and I would throw at him,” choreographer Chucky Klapow said. “We didn’t feel like it was silly or camp at the time. We felt like it was strong and powerful. It wasn’t until we saw all the chunks cut together at the end that we realized, oh, this is a lot.”

Also a lot: the level of attention being paid to the film throughout the shoot. Disney PR had now deployed a round-the-clock team to take on-set photographs and record behind-the-scenes footage for electronic press kits and interstitials. Reporters visited the set to observe the shoots and interview those involved. Whenever a scene wrapped, they’d grab a performer for interviews before releasing them to take a brief break. “Everyone was so famous so quickly,” dancer Bayli Baker Thompson said. “The set had gotten a lot tighter, people were a little bit more stressed, because now we had this thing to live up to.”

Lucas had torn his meniscus while working on a separate movie project and had pushed through the pain during the High School Musical concert tour. Although there’d been a massage therapist, chiropractor, and nutritionist on the road, the grueling schedule—and on-stage cartwheels—had exacerbated the injury. Now, on set for the sequel, he required a back brace and knee braces, and during one on-set interview he mentioned to a reporter that he was feeling better because he’d taken a Vicodin that day. He was swiftly reprimanded by the film’s producers. “I was like, what? It’s true. I’m in pain. I took a painkiller. I’m not abusing it. My body is fucking falling apart,” Lucas said. “They were like, ‘Publicity- wise, you can’t say that you’re taking Vicodin while you’re shooting a Disney movie.’ I was like, okay, cool, well, no one told me.”

Prop master Scott Arneman had worked on most Utah-shot Disney Channel productions since 2001’s The Luck of the Irish. The stress and chaos of High School Musical 2 made him stop working with the network for a decade. Because the attention on Disney Channel con- tent now mirrored that of the greater Disney brand, Arneman’s job had become less about choosing the best props for a scene and more about jumping through endless red tape on clearances and approvals. (One lesson learned the hard way: The High School Musical prop team had made a replica of Ashley Tisdale’s actual pink-jewel-encrusted cell phone for Sharpay’s device in the first film. When the company that had accessorized Ashley’s original phone saw the film, Arneman recalled, they sued Disney for using their design without permission.)

And Ortega’s expectations for the film had also reached near impossible heights. He pushed for perfection from everyone working on the sequel, and his flair for dreaming up creative changes on the fly had gone from requesting those changes to demanding they happen at a moment’s notice.

“Kenny was out of control. Now, he had all this authority to just say, ‘We need headsets for this dance number!’ It’s 9:30 at night in St. George, this tiny town, where am I going to get headsets for all these dancers?” Arneman said. “On the first film, he was totally reasonable and fun to work with. But by the second one, it was, ‘I want this! I want that! Make it happen.’ It went from fun to ‘Oh, God, I’m going to cry. I can’t wait till this night is over.’”

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The internal dynamics of the cast were another roller coaster. Zac and Vanessa had been dating since their early declaration of love during the first film’s rehearsals. But there were occasional breakups and on-set fights. “He was the sun and moon to her,” Lucas said. “Poor girl.” Later, during the third film, Vanessa asked Barsocchini if she could use his office. He obliged. “I hear her dragging Zac into this office,” he said, “and then I just hear yelling.” He added, “Do you know how long relationships last at that age? That was a real blessing to hold it together for three movies.”

Ashley and Vanessa had developed a close friendship that was also fiercely competitive. Some days, they would be as tight as sisters. Other days, they didn’t speak. Lucas said he and Monique were “kind of together for a minute,” then went back to being just friends. And the tension that he and Ashley had harbored at the callback auditions basically continued throughout their entire HSM journey. “We were not close. We were not good friends. Let’s be honest, okay?” Ashley has said of her relationship with Lucas. “We hated each other.”

But, most crucially, in the year and a half between filming High School Musicaland High School Musical 2, Zac had become a Star with a capital “S.” High School Musical made America fall in love with him, and the opportunities beyond Disney Channel were aplenty. While everyone else had been traveling on the High School Musical concert tour together, Zac had filmed Universal’s movie musical Hairspray with John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Queen Latifah. Universal reportedly paid him a mere $100,000 to play teen idol Link Larkin, but at least they hadn’t done him dirty by subbing in someone else’s singing voice. Zac felt like he was becoming valued by Hollywood at large—if not by Disney. Now, on the High School Musical sequel, he had enough cachet to stand his ground and do all his own singing.

“Personally, I feel no competition with the cast because I’m not going for the same things they are,” he told a New York Times reporter on the set of High School Musical 2. “A lot of them are doing teen music things, and tours, various TV deals and other Disney TV movies and Disney albums. That’s the last thing I want to be doing at the moment.” He added, “I’m setting my sights a little bit higher.”

A division had formed. Zac, while still kind and polite, returned to Utah with his dream of becoming a full-fledged Hollywood star within reach. He was more aloof with the cast and crew and mainly kept to himself or with Vanessa. The principal actors had all been seen as equals while making the first film. Now, Zac had been singled out as the one with the most promise. And the rest of the cast noticed. “It’s hard when you’re going through that and people are getting asked different questions and getting different jobs, when you started basically at the same spot,” Lucas said. “It was a huge adjustment.”

By the time of High School Musical 2’s release in August 2007, Disney Channel knew what they had on their hands. The sequel got a proper red carpet premiere at Disneyland, attended by most of the network’s stars, plus celebrity parents eager to score points with their kids. Cindy Crawford and her brood arrived by helicopter, and even company VIPs Mickey and Minnie Mouse made an appearance.

More than 17.2 million viewers tuned in to the US premiere of High School Musical 2 on August 17, 2007, allowing it to handily beat the series finale of The Sopranos that had drawn 11.9 million viewers on HBO two months earlier. High School Musical 2 was the most-watched basic cable telecast of all time, beating the previous record held by a Monday Night Football game on ESPN in 2006. And with kids eleven and under, who accounted for 6.1 million of its viewers, it was the most-watched TV broadcast of all time.

“Take a bow, Disney Channel entertainment [president] Gary Marsh, Rich Ross and the rest of the exec team that backed the notion of a kid-friendly tuner last year when most of us were going, huh?” Variety wrote at the time. “The kids of today—singing and dancing, Mickey and Judy style? Just goes to prove the industry cliche about zigging when others are zagging.”

Disney Channel had become a domineering force in cable television. It was now available in more than ninety-two million homes and steadily topping the prime-time ratings for all of basic cable. But unlike most television networks, the value in the ratings bonanza for Disney Channel didn’t lie in increased ad revenue. The value was in how those eyeballs on the channel could translate into merchandise and music sales. And because Disney owned the publishing and the masters of all the network’s original songs in their entirety, the profits were massive.

“You’re talking about a seventeen million audience for High School Musical 2,” Disney music executive Mitchell Leib said. “What? Is every kid in America watching the Disney Channel? The answer is yes. And then guess what? Is every kid in America buying a Cheetah Girls soundtrack and a Hannah Montana soundtrack and a High School Musical soundtrack? Yes.”

But not all High School Musical news was good news. In early September 2007, just weeks after High School Musical 2 premiered on Disney Channel, someone leaked private photos of Vanessa Hudgens posing in her underwear and in the nude. Vanessa was eighteen at the time of the online leak, but the amateur photos had reportedly been taken years earlier when they were sent to a former boyfriend.

Rich Ross was in Australia on a business trip when he awoke to the story splashed on the front page of a local newspaper. “I knew then that, clearly, it was going to be everywhere,” he said.

Back in Burbank, Vanessa came to Anne Sweeney’s office in tears.

“That was one of the most heartbreaking moments I remember,” said Sweeney, who was then the president of the Disney/ABC Television Group. “It was not an interrogation. It was more of an, Oh, God, how could this happen to this kid? How in the world does someone get access to a child? And the word to underscore was ‘child.’ She was just a kid.”

The public distribution of the images, which happened without Vanessa’s involvement or consent, amounted to child pornography. Disney lawyers swooped in, highlighting that Vanessa was underage when the photos were taken and threatening severe legal action to any outlets that posted the images. “I remember feeling so angry at whoever it was who was out there exploiting her,” Sweeney said.

But the novelty of celebrity hacks and the persistent idea that Disney stars should be infallible role models meant that a frenzy of judgment and shaming of Vanessa ensued. “It was at a moment in time where celebrities were starting to realize that what they thought was private wasn’t necessarily staying that way,” Ross said.

For many pundits and commenters, the blame lay more on Vanessa for taking the photos than on the person who betrayed her and leaked them. “She’s damaged,” one L.A. mom told Reuters. “She’s got this teeny- bop audience, young preteens and younger, who are admiring her and thinking she’s this wonderful, pure innocent person.” And the public messaging from Disney Channel did little to change these victim-blaming perceptions.

“I want to apologize to my fans, whose support and trust means the world to me,” Vanessa wrote in a curated statement days after the leak. “I am embarrassed over this situation and regret having ever taken these photos.”

Tabloid rumors swirled that Disney was planning to axe Vanessa from the third High School Musical film, for which cast negotiations were ongoing. But Disney stressed that they were still in talks with all of the main cast. “Vanessa has apologized for what was obviously a lapse in judgment,” then–Disney Channel PR head Patti McTeague said in a statement. “We hope she’s learned a valuable lesson.”

Despite the scolding tone of that statement, those on the ground say that behind the scenes, the matter seemed to be handled with a more compassionate hand by the network brass. “What I heard in the hallways wasn’t, ‘This is a property. We don’t want to fuck it up,’” High School Musicalwriter Peter Barsocchini said. “There was an attitude from people like, ‘She’s just a kid. Give her a fucking break.’”

Looking back, the network executives reiterated to me that they never considered removing Vanessa from the film or punishing her in any way. “We made the decision that Vanessa was part of the family, and she was going to stay part of the family,” Ross said. The stated “lesson” they imparted on Vanessa, Sweeney said, was, “Protect yourself. Protect your privacy. Protect your being.”

“From a Disney perspective, it wasn’t, ‘You’re a bad girl. You shouldn’t have done this,’” Sweeney reflected sixteen years later. “It was, ‘You’re a young woman. Be careful out there.’ I know the media ran with it like this scolding, but she was surrounded by a lot of women in corporate jobs who didn’t want to see anything bad happen to her.”

Women, while not as prevalent at the executive level as men, played crucial roles in Disney Channel’s ascent. (Exhibit A: executive vice president of production Susette Hsiung, who oversaw the projects’ budgets and was described by one male producer as “a tough motherfucker” who was “in many ways, the heart and muscle and brain of keeping the operation going.”)

By this point, Sweeney was overseeing all of Disney’s television properties, including ESPN and ABC. And she was long familiar with the sexism that permeated the media landscape. When Paramount chief Sherry Lansing had stepped down three years prior, Sweeney took on the mantle of “the most powerful woman in Hollywood.”

Yet, when Sweeney joined the other Disney executives to pose for photos with the cast at the High School Musical 2 premiere, a tabloid identified her as “Zac Efron’s mom,” assuming she must have been accompanying him to the event. “The sexism was rampant. It was constant. And I didn’t take the time to think about it very much, or react to it,” she said. “I just kind of parked it.”

The Vanessa incident highlighted to Sweeney and the rest of the executives that the nature of celebrity—especially what was expected of young female celebrities—was rapidly changing with the dominance of the internet and the rise of social media. It was clear there was more that needed to be done to protect and train Disney Channel’s stars, but it would take until 2009, after the High School Musical franchise had ended, for institutionalized action to take place.

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Bridgeport Youth Sports Sign-Ups in May

Young students will have the chance to get a start in the Bulldog athletic tradition at Bridgeport Exempted Village School District, when Bridgeport Youth Sports football and cheerleading sign ups open at the beginning of May. Second-through-fourth graders interested in football may sign up at 5-7 p.m. Monday, May 6 and 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, May 12 in the Moran center, 68583 Scott St., at Lansing. There are limited positions of 25 per team and students must weigh at least 55 pounds. The cost is $110 per child. Cheering sign-ups will also be held for second-through-sixth graders at a cost of $100 per child, and pep squad cheering for preschool-through-first graders for $50 per child. Uniforms and insurance fees are included in the cost to play and cheer. Bridgeport Youth Sports Football Commissioner Bailey Sieber said students are welcome on both sign-up days. He said third and fourth graders interesting in signing up for football must be younger than 10 years old before Sept. 1, and fifth and sixth graders must be younger than 13 before Sept. 1. They will be fitted for jerseys and uniforms. “The only thing kids will need to sign up is themselves,” he said. “The rest of the stuff will be handed out during the summer.” Sieber said youth football has proven popular in the district. “We’ve had some really good years in the past, good turnouts. We’ve been averaging about 20-30 kids per team, so we’re hoping to keep those numbers active and keep those kids involved,” he said, adding there were spots open. “We’re really in need of third and fourth graders, but we really are taking anybody. We lost a lot of sixth graders last year. I think we had 16 come through the program,” he said. Sieber spoke about the benefits of early experience in sports. “Especially if you’re a new kid coming up and getting involved,” he said. Sieber said youth sports are a good way for young students to learn habits that will benefit them through their school careers and possibly later in life. “It’s a great way for you to make friends with some of your classmates and create kind of a deeper bond with them. Also I think team sports in general helps to keep kids accountable for their schoolwork and things like that. It gives them something to work toward, teaches them a little bit of a work ethic,” Sieber said. “From an athletic standpoint, they’ll learn all the basics of football and a general understanding, so when they get to middle school and high school they’ll at least have a good grounding in the sport,” he said. “As well as having fun.” He said the Bridgeport community is enthusiastic in support of athletics. “Our games get very big. We have a lot of people that usually show up. They’re a lot of fun. They’re full four-quarter games, eight minutes a piece, and every kid gets a chance to play. We do our best to keep everybody working. As long as they’re having fun and learning that’s really all we care about. Of course winning is wonderful, but for that age having fun and learning the game is the priority.” The games are at noon on Sundays. They will kick off the last week of August and will continue until mid-October. Anyone with questions should call Sieber at 740-359-5800, cheering coach Alexis Bell at 740-340-8007, or Abbey Roberts Salm at 304-281-0477. Bridgeport Youth Sports is not affiliated with the school district, so do not call the district for information. Read the full article

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jcmarchi · 9 months ago

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First-year MIT students gain hands-on research experience in supportive peer community

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First-year MIT students gain hands-on research experience in supportive peer community

During MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) this January, first-year students interested in civil and environmental engineering (CEE) participated in a four-week undergraduate research opportunities program known as the mini-UROP (1.097). The six-unit subject pairs first-year students with a CEE graduate student or postdoc mentor, providing them with an inside look at the interdisciplinary research being conducted in the department. Overall, eight labs in the department opened their doors to the 2024 cohort, who were eager to take advantage of the opportunity to collaborate with current students and build a community around their interests.

“The mini-UROP presents an opportunity for first-year students to experience the diverse climate and sustainability research happening in our department,” says CEE department head and JR East Professor Ali Jadbabaie. “Fostering hands-on experiences in a collaborative, supportive educational environment is central to our mission of preparing students with the skills needed to positively shape the future of our society, systems, and planet.”

The mini-UROP also benefits the graduate students and postdocs who take on the role of mentor. Mentor support is a key component to completing a successful mini-UROP project and requires graduate students and postdocs to hone their leadership and teaching skills.

“I’m always interested in mentoring undergraduate students and to have someone help me with my project,” says postdoc and mentor Yue Hu. “Participating in this project made me excited that my research attracted undergraduates’ interest.”

Guiding students through interactive workshops

Preparation for this year’s mini-UROP began at the end of November, when participants attended the Lightning Lectures, an event that served as an opportunity for the mentors to give lightning-fast pitches on their research projects. First-year students then ranked the projects that they were interested in working on and were matched according to their preferences.

The interdisciplinary nature of the department’s research offered participants a wide range of projects to work on, from redefining autonomous vehicle deployment to mitigating the effects of drought on crops. Once each of the 11 participants were matched to a project, the mini-UROP Kick-off Lunch brought students and mentors together and ensured each group had an open line of communication.

Throughout the duration of the mini-UROP, participants attended three workshops led by Jared Berezin, the manager of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Communication Lab (CEE Comm Lab). The communication lab is a free resource to undergraduates, graduates, and postdocs in the CEE community, providing one-on-one coaching and interactive workshops. Held on Fridays during IAP, the workshops helped students contextualize their research and ensure they were able to explain the scientific concept of their work during presentations.

“Students were fortunate to have research mentors in the lab, and my goal was to provide communication mentorship outside of the lab,” says Berezin. “Our weekly workshops focused on scientific communication strategies, but perhaps more importantly I’d prompt them to talk about their projects, ask questions, and brainstorm together. They really embraced the opportunity to foster a supportive peer community, which I think is a core part of the CEE experience.”

A significant challenge students face while completing the program is condensing their research down to a clear and concise two-minute presentation. To assist with this task, the third workshop featured a presentation by CEE Comm Lab fellow Matthew Goss, providing students with a preview of how their own presentations may take shape. Students also had the option to meet with Comm Lab fellows to practice presenting and get feedback.

“The final talks were impressive, and I was proud of the students for approaching both their research and communication challenges with such curiosity and thoughtfulness,” Berezin remarks.

Reinforcing research interests

Iraira Rivera Rojas, a first-year student interested in materials science and environmental engineering, worked with Yue Hu, a postdoc in Associate Professor Benedetto Marelli’s lab. Their project used biodegradable polymers, specifically silk fibroin, to make particles that can be used to encapsulate agrochemicals, lessening their negative impact on the environment. Regenerated from silk cocoons, the silk fibroins are used as a building block to revolutionize the agriculture and food industry.

“When I saw the project description, it was a mix of both of my interests,” Rojas says. “I thought it would be a good way to try out both fields.” While she is still deciding which course she will major in, she says that participating in the mini-UROP confirmed her interest in the field.

Working with mentor Jie Yun, a graduate student in Associate Professor David Des Marais’s lab, Sheila Nguyen and Ved Ganesh used biodiversity to increase crop drought resistance. Nguyen and Ganesh studied barely, oat, wheat, and Brachypodium, and compared how these plants grow under conditions of drought stress. Currently, a separate model must be trained for each plant species and type of cell. The project aimed to develop a machine learning model that can generalize to different species of plants and cell types.

Vinn Nguyen and Diego Del Rio worked with mentor Cameron Hickert, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Cathy Wu’s Lab. Their project focused on making autonomous vehicles safer and more reliable, specifically in areas transitioning on and off highways. As self-driving cars gain popularity, reports of crashes and similar incidents demonstrate deficiencies in the current system. Nguyen and Del Rio sourced satellite imagery and applied computer vision techniques to investigate the safeness of these areas. The goal of their project was to design an infrastructure-supported approach to autonomous vehicles that allows passenger to comfortably work, play, and connect with partial autonomy.

Jordyn Goldson worked in the Terrer Lab with her mentor Kathryn Wheeler, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Cesar Terrer’s lab, on a project focused on plant senescence. As warmer temperatures lengthen plants’ growing period each year, total annual photosynthesis increases along with the amount of carbon plants remove from the atmosphere. Her project investigated if model performance differs between predicting visually assessed timing versus remotely sensed timing. The findings can help advance knowledge of the mechanisms behind forest canopy color change and the ability of forests to capture more carbon by growing longer, mitigating climate change.

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Membership Site vs. Online Course: Which Is Right For Your Business?

In today's digital world, there are many ways to monetize your knowledge and expertise online. Two popular options are creating a membership site or offering an online course. But how do you know which is the right fit for your business? This article will compare membership sites versus online courses so you can determine the best choice for you.

What Is a Membership Site?

A membership site is an online platform where users pay a recurring fee, often monthly or yearly, to access premium content and resources. The membership site platform allows you to host your content behind a paywall. You can create multiple membership levels with different benefits, content access, and pricing. Members typically get added value like community forums, Q&As with experts, downloadable guides, member-only webinars, discounts, etc. You continue creating, curating, and delivering new content and value to members. This recurring and predictable revenue makes membership sites a great passive income stream.

When To Choose A Membership Site

Membership sites work well for established experts and businesses with a solid content base. They allow you to leverage and repurpose existing content, programs, and resources. The continuity of a membership model keeps members engaged long-term. Some examples of effective membership site niches include health/wellness coaching, freelance writing, fitness training, financial planning, online business consulting, and more. A membership site could be an excellent choice if you can consistently provide high-value content to members each month.

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Some key advantages of using a membership site model include: - Predictable recurring revenue that builds over time - Ability to segment and upsell members to higher tiers - Ongoing customer engagement with new content and community - Deeper relationships and increased customer loyalty - Can incorporate content from other monetization methods like online courses - Mid to high price points compared to one-time purchases like online courses

What Is An Online Course?

An online course lets you package your expertise into a structured learning program delivered digitally. It is typically focused on teaching a specific skill or helping students achieve a tangible outcome. Online courses are one-time purchases, often sold through your own platform or on marketplaces like Udemy. Online course content is usually video-based, with short lessons that students complete in sequence. You can include PDF workbooks, quizzes, assignments, community forums, and more. Course lengths vary greatly, but most are over six hours, spanning four to eight weeks for students to complete fully.

When To Choose An Online Course

Online courses are ideal for tangible skills and topics that can be systematically taught. For example, courses work well for learning web design, photography, marketing, software programs, cooking skills, and other technical abilities. Courses allow you to teach the same materials at scale. They can attract new audiences and position you as an authority in your niche. Beginner-friendly topics and high-demand skills that can be taught online are best suited to courses. A popular online course can become a significant income stream with the right marketing. While sales are not recurring, courses depend less on ongoing content creation.

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Some of the major upsides to selling online courses include: - Attract new student leads and expand your audience - Deliver high value through a comprehensive learning program - Sell at any price point from low cost to premium pricing - Passive income potential after the course is created - Showcase your expertise as an authority in your field - Offer certifications or credentials upon course completion - More scalable than highly individualized coaching and services

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Now that you understand the basics of membership sites versus online courses, let's recap some of the key differences: - Memberships provide recurring revenue; courses offer one-time sales - Memberships require ongoing content creation; courses teach static materials - Memberships build relationships and community; courses focus on structured learning - Memberships offer varied content types, courses center on video lessons and materials - Memberships can monetize existing content assets; courses teach new specialized skills - Memberships work for broad topics; courses work for tangible teachable skills

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Ex-Cal coach Yann Hufnagel admits trying to solicit reporter for sex

Alleged sexual harassment that led to the firing of a California assistant basketball coach involved a female journalist who was sent sexual innuendo-filled text messages and whom the coach acknowledged "trying to trick" into his apartment after a game, according to an investigative report released Tuesday.

Written findings from the university's seven-month investigation of former assistant men's basketball coach Yann Hufnagel show the inquiry was opened after the reporter sent head coach Cuonzo Martin an email detailing the unwelcome advances. The reporter had also communicated her concerns to Martin by phone six weeks earlier, according to the report.

The allegations included an encounter with Hufnagel in the parking garage of his apartment building a year ago.

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The names of the reporter and the news organization she worked for were blacked out from the findings made public Tuesday, a day after the investigation was completed and Martin moved to fire Hufnagel, 33.

During his interview with the investigators from UC Berkeley's office for the prevention of harassment and discrimination, Hufnagel disputed several details of the woman's account.

He said he didn't drink at the bar that night and that he drove her to his building garage, where he planned to park on the top of a double-decker spot.

"With all candor, I was trying to trick her into going upstairs," Hufnagel said, according to the report.

He told investigators that he asked her several times to go up to his apartment, then drove her back to her car when she declined. After that, he realized the reporter was "a total ditz" and "not a good fit," the report states.

The report states that Hufnagel acknowledged wanting to have sex with the woman but did not think his behavior was inappropriate because she did not work for the university. He characterized their relationship as flirtatious and said she never had given him any indication the "locker room" texts he sent her were unwelcome.

The journalist told investigators that she felt trapped into tolerating Hufnagel's behavior over a period of six months because she relied on him as her "singular" source of news about Cal's basketball program.

After she rebuffed him, she said, he stopped providing her with information and she was let go from her reporting assignment.

UC Berkeley also will be reviewing Martin's role in reporting the allegations to the university.

"To dispel any doubts about Coach Martin's role, the university will be initiating a review of all of the documents and communications related to his actions," athletic director Mike Williams told the San Francisco Chronicle in a statement late Tuesday night. "We firmly believe the results will support our confidence in Coach Martin."

Hufnagel is at least the fourth UC Berkeley employee in the past year to face sexual harassment allegations that were substantiated during campus investigations.

UC spokesman Dan Mogulof said Hufnagel would be paid until the termination proceedings initiated Monday are completed.

Hufnagel's contract gives him eight days to respond to the move, and the firing will not be final if he chooses to contest it, Mogulof said.

Hufnagel told ESPN on Monday that he was "crushed" by his termination.

"I can't believe it. I'm blindsided," Hufnagel said. "I never imagined this would be the outcome.

"Cal has been incredibly slow-moving in the process. I'm in the process of hiring a legal team to exonerate my name."

Hufnagel joined the Golden Bears' staff in 2014 after Martin was hired. Before coming to Cal, Hufnagel spent one season at Vanderbilt and four seasons at Harvard. He also was a graduate assistant at Oklahoma, where he worked with Blake Griffin. Hufnagel built a reputation as an impressive recruiter who helped compile highly ranked recruiting classes at each of his stops.

"You're talking about a guy who's part of your staff and a family member," Martin, who is in his second year coaching Cal, told reporters Monday during a conference call. "We continue to push forward. It's not an easy thing, but we'll find our way."

The fourth-seeded Golden Bears play in the NCAA tournament Friday against Hawaii.

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What Is Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) and How It Helps

Have you ever felt like there's a hidden power within you waiting to be tapped into? You may not have heard of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) yet, but it's a fascinating tool used in the world of personal development and wellness that can help you unlock your potential and get you on the path to leading a happier, healthier life. In this blog, I’ll explain what NLP is, how it’s applied in everyday life, and the incredible benefits it can offer.

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Warnings: none but this series will be NSFW in future chapters // Word Count: 1,125

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If there was a better term to define hockey practice with twenty-five girls between the ages of six and eight Kelsey couldn’t think of it. Yet it was the highlight of her week; a welcome respite from the daily grind of college.

As one of her girls tripped over nothing and then quickly got back to her feet while proclaiming loudly that she was fine, Kelsey found herself laughing and moved to try to wrangle them all into the next drill of the day.

Hockey was something that Kelsey had a love hate relationship with. There was nothing better than the feeling of ice under her blades, the sound of sticks on pucks, or seeing one of her girls discover or perfect a new skill. At the same time though, hockey was a toxic boys’ club which emphasized toughness, patriarchy, and group think over health, inclusion, and progress. What made matters worse was that her Uncle was essentially part of the former group.

Greg Carvel, coach of the UMass Amherst Minutemen hockey team, was her Uncle having married her Aunt, and to say that the two of them did not see eye to eye on many things was an understatement and a half. Primarily, the fact that Kelsey and her female cousins had never played hockey growing up because hockey was for boys, not girls raised numerous issues between them. In fact, it wasn’t until Kelsey was in high school and she snuck her way onto men’s rec teams or into games with friends from school that she taught herself how to play.

Within just a couple years, all while preparing for college, she’d started a new chapter of a girls’ learn to play program which was now in its fourth year; its existence and participants becoming her pride and joy.

But with a new year and new season came new challenges and this year it was the rink that they had previously used. It had closed for repairs over the summer and still hadn’t reopened causing Kelsey to search for another rink to use.

That was how she had ended up at UMass’s practice rink having used her Aunt to con her Uncle into letting them use the university’s rink for an hour and a half each week. After all, the University could afford to give back to the community a little bit at least. And it wasn’t like the team could be on the ice 24 hours a day anyway.

Checking that her volunteers from a local high school team were managing alright, Kelsey skated around gathering up some pucks and chatting with a few of the girls who had finished the current drills. So far the first week of this season had gone smoothly and she was pleased to see all of the girls having fun, laughter ringing through the rink.

“Coach K! Coach K!” With the call for her echoing, Kelsey turned to find the voice calling for her. Spotting one of her youngest skaters waving at her, Kelsey narrowed her eyes at the man standing beside her dressed in track pants and a Umass hockey hoodie, slides on his feet instead of skates.

Skating over she could tell by the expression on his face that he was sent here by her Uncle and she wasn’t going to like what he had to say.

“What is it Faith?” She asked with a resigned sigh.

“Coach decided he wanted to start on the ice instead of in film so you’ve got ten minutes.” Given that she was supposed to have at least another half hour, Kelsey couldn’t help but be pissed at her Uncle. He could schedule his practices whenever he wanted and now he was infringing on her one session of the whole week.

Ignoring the Minutemen’s captain’s look of apology she skated over to the gate and popped her skate guards on with practiced ease before storming through the halls to her Uncle’s office. Any complaints or protests from athletes getting ready for practice were brushed aside because she was on a mission.

Deep down she knew that chewing her Uncle out wouldn’t change anything today but she also wasn’t about to show him that she could be walked all over without a fight. She wasn’t one of his athletes who would answer to him blindly. She was an adult, she was a coach, and she deserved to be shown some respect. He could have given her a heads up earlier or had the balls to do it himself instead of sending one of his lackeys to do it for him. But no, Greg Carvel thought about himself and only himself. And once again, it was the girls who would suffer.

After stating her mind, Kelsey stormed back out of his office mumbling under her breath all of the things she thought about her uncle. She didn’t hear the footsteps approaching as she turned around the corner and suddenly she ran face first into a broad chest. Quickly, hands flexed around her upper arms to keep her stabilized.

“Woah there. Claws in. If you're looking to hide a body the woods behind Silvan are probably better than the rink but I wore my good pants today so let's maybe not..."

The voice that spoke was soft toned and light and teasing and as she stepped out of the grasp, Kelsey recognized the guy it belonged to as Taylor Makar. She only recognized a few players on her Uncle’s team because she tried to avoid them as much as she could, but given the amount of talk around her Aunt’s house this summer about him and his brother seeing his face had been unavoidable. Though her initial thought was how dare he make a joke right now, it had already had its desired effect of throwing her off kilter enough to dampen some of the anger rolling through her.

Looking him up and down dressed in joggers, she smirked softly, a playful tease finding its way through.

“If those are your good pants I’d hate to see the bad ones.”

His laughter followed her as she dashed back to the ice to wrangle her girls, trying to figure out some off ice training they could do until their parents arrived to pick them up.

Once all the girls were gone, Kelsey headed back to her mod at Hampshire and the mounds of homework she still needed to finish for her Epidemiology of Women's Health class as well as her course on Healing: Western and Alternative Medicine. Her life could be pandemonium more often than not but somehow, somehow she knew that tonight wouldn’t be the last time she crossed paths with Taylor Makar.

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It is a dialogue Akim Aliu has been seeking to advance ever since the Blackhawks’ second-round pick revealed on Twitter that his coach in the minors, Bill Peters, had “dropped the N-bomb” on him during the ’09–10 season “because he didn’t like my choice of music”.

Aliu hoped his revelations would spark a long overdue reckoning for the white-as-ice hockey world and its shut-up-and-stick-handle culture.

As another season begins, Aliu believes the league is no closer to truly reckoning with its racial issues. And in the 14 months since his tweets, he’s grown more fed up than ever with the game that he continues to love, even if he hasn’t always felt that it loves him back. “It’s not hard to figure out our sport is suffering,” Aliu says. “Whatever the NHL is doing is clearly not working. It’s just posturing, window-washing, nonmeaningful half measures. That’s all it is.”

On Dec 5, 2019, at 3:38 p.m., Aliu sent the first message in a text thread that he titled, Hockey Diversity Committee. Initially composed of about 10 NHL players of color, within two days the chat swelled to 20-plus.

There was plenty to discuss. In the league’s 103-year existence, no team has employed a Black general manager. ...On-ice representation isn’t much more diverse. In addition to the 18 Black players who appeared in more than five games in 2019–20, the league counted just a handful more identifying as Asian (eight), Indigenous (six), Hispanic/Latino (four) or Arab/Middle Eastern (four).

“There’s that sense of loneliness we’ve all felt,” says Wild defenseman Matt Dumba, who is Filipino Canadian. “Who do you tell when you’re going through these things, besides your family? None of your teammates are going through it. And what am I going to say to a GM, an older white gentleman, who hasn’t seen the game the way I have?”

The forum that Aliu wanted, though, never materialized. Some players were spooked that he included his lawyers on calls and wondered whether he was trying to rally support for himself.

“I think guys were concerned with Akim wanting to sue,” says Trevor Daley, a defenseman who recently retired after 16 years in the NHL.

Other players voiced concerns about the career risk of speaking out... A few players dropped off the thread without explanation. “It was completely dead,” said Aliu.

The Hockey Diversity Alliance officially launched June 8, with... a message for the NHL: “We are hopeful that we will work productively with the league to accomplish these important changes.”

In response, the NHL invited the HDA to spell out its objectives in a virtual meeting in late June with Bettman and Kim Davis, who had been hired from a corporate advisory firm in 2017 to focus on diversity and inclusion. The players saw an opportunity to tell the commissioner about their encounters with racism in the sport.

Joel Ward spoke about being bombarded with racist tweets from Bruins fans after his Game 7 overtime goal for Washington eliminated Boston from the 2012 playoffs. Wayne Simmonds discussed having a banana thrown at him by a fan during a 2011 exhibition. Daley recounted how his then Ontario Hockey League coach John Vanbiesbrouck called him the n-word in 2003. (Vanbiesbrouck resigned shortly thereafter, acknowledging the slur. He is now an executive for USA Hockey.) Evander Kane described a fan yelling at him to go play basketball as he sat in the penalty box in Colorado during the 2019 playoffs. (Kane says he reported the incident to an on-ice official, but “there was zero follow-up” from the league. In the past, the NHL has said that the teams were aware, but the issue never reached the league office.)

As members began blasting Bettman for not doing more to prevent these incidents, the commissioner seemed to grow defensive. Citing various NHL diversity initiatives during his 27-year tenure, he then asked the players what they had done and where they had been in the fight against racism. He quickly backtracked, but the damage was done.

“I think he knew he had put his foot in his mouth,” Kane says. “Everyone on that call has done a lot of things on their own to grow the game within our own communities. A comment like that really rubbed guys the wrong way.” (Through a spokesperson, Bettman declined comment.)

On July 14, two weeks before the season restarted, the HDA presented Davis, Bettman and other league officials with a PowerPoint deck titled, Our Ask of the NHL. Much of the request focused on an eight-point “HDA pledge” that the coalition wanted the league to sign; items included specific hiring targets for Black personnel in league and team front offices (including 5% Black hockey-related personnel by the end of 2020–21) and funding of $100 million over the next decade (or just above $300,000 per team, per year) to back grassroots initiatives and other programming. The HDA also asked for various antiracism displays during the upcoming playoffs, such as changing the blue lines to black and painting the HDA logo on the ice. Kane recalls Davis and Bettman commending the presentation’s thoroughness. “I was hopeful,” Kane says.

But disappointment soon followed: The NHL built its postseason messaging campaign around a catch-all hashtag, #WeSkateFor, lumping the Black Lives Matter movement with the pandemic and other unrelated causes. “It’s like showing up to the breast cancer fundraiser and protesting that there’s other diseases, too,” Dumba says.

-Excerpts from The Fight Over Hockey’s Racial Reckoning by Alex Prewitt, 19 Jan 2021

If you read one thing today, let it be this

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