Page Layout ⇒ Modifications to IEEE Template

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I would like to modify the IEEE template so that the lines which display the "Manuscript Received *date* Corresponding author: name (email)" are not displayed. If I comment out that code, the text blocks are still formatted so that a space is left.

I am fairly new to LaTex but even after doing a bit of research, I did not immediately see resolution. The code that defines what goes in that space is found in the author block, like this.

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\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Slow\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}slow@school.edu\\ School of Electrical Engineering, University , State 00000 USA}% <-this % stops an unwanted space
\thanks{Manuscript received August 14, 02013. Corresponding author: S. Low (email: slow@school.edu).}}

I do this instead.

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\author{\IEEEauthorblockN{Slow\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}}
\IEEEauthorblockA{\IEEEauthorrefmark{1}slow@school.edu\\ School of Electrical Engineering, University , State 00000 USA}% <-this % stops an unwanted space
\thanks{}}

But the space where that line would be at the bottom left corner of the first page is still there.

And help would be appreciated.