diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/VClassDao.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/VClassDao.java
index 7c9ce1e02..e3f696491 100755
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/VClassDao.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/dao/VClassDao.java
@@ -2,11 +2,10 @@
 
 package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao;
 
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.BaseResourceBean.RoleLevel;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.VClass;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.VClassGroup;
-
-import java.util.List;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.VClass;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.VClassGroup;
 
 public interface VClassDao {
 
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/VitroRequestPrep.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/VitroRequestPrep.java
index 275280f98..5142bf791 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/VitroRequestPrep.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/filters/VitroRequestPrep.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import com.hp.hpl.jena.query.Dataset;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.identifier.RequestIdentifiers;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.ServletPolicyList;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.ApplicationBean;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.BaseResourceBean.RoleLevel;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroRequest;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.WebappDaoFactory;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.filtering.WebappDaoFactoryFiltering;
@@ -123,9 +122,6 @@ public class VitroRequestPrep implements Filter {
     		log.debug("Found a WebappDaoFactory in the session and using it for this request");
     	}
         
-        RoleLevel role = RoleLevel.getRoleFromLoginStatus(req);
-        log.debug("setting role to "+role.getShorthand());   
-        
         VitroFilters filters = null;
 		        
         filters = getFiltersFromContextFilterFactory(req, wdf);