“It’s so wonderful to see that purely artistic, even engineering re search, that makers go through, not simply making pots to use on a daily basis, but looking for ways for them to have meaning, to have sound, to have engage ments that would be meaningful in average daily lives as an entertain ment form,”Strand said.
The exhibit was on display in the Fuller Dome through Wednesday, Aug. 31.
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John Justice, another co-curator, focused on the Af rican portion of the exhibit. One of the larger items in the exhibit, a spiked Lobi vessel, was one with which he worked very closely. Justice said that it was meant to protect medicines and water in the context of its original“Comingculture.from a heavy sci entific background,” Justice said, “it’s fascinating to see that the way they built these pots served to keep any and all contaminants out of it. So it wasn’t only protecting the water on the biological side, but it was also serving a spiritual purpose in familyLaurashrines.”Strand, a professor in the art and design depart ment, attended the curator talk. Strand teaches courses in volving indigo dyeing, screen printing and weaving, among other things. Strand said she was particularly interested in the talk because her husband is a potter, and found her favorite exhibit to be that of the “whis tling” pot, a vessel which imitates the sound of an animal when poured. “I’m so excited about this notion of the pouring ves sel, the notion of an engineering quality … that they discovered. Clearly from the images and the sounds that we heard, they developed a lot of sound mechanisms. It’s very cool,” Strand said. Strand said she was incredibly im pressed by the cycle of development and experimentation that the makers of these pieces of pottery went through to produce the items in the exhibit today.
Erin Vigneau-Dimick’s graduate class revealed their pottery exhibit at the Fuller Dome, featuring brief speeches by the students and several wall panels full of information on the history and origins of this pottery. Vigneau-Dimick is executive curator of the university mu seum, from which the artifacts in this exhibit were taken. The theme of the ex hibit was “Earth, Water, Fire”, reflect ing the elements needed for the creation of pottery.“Wehave a partnership with the Full er Dome,” Vigneau-Dimick said. “The gallery was created through a grant from the Meridian Society.” The exhibit features pottery from in digenous American civilizations, African cultures and Mediterranean peoples across a wide range of time periods. Abbie Schaefer, co-curator and museum stud ies grad student, wishes to use the exhibit to breathe life back into the vessels and un cover deep con nections notthatEarth.ourselvesbetweenandtheSchaefersaidtoday’sshowwouldbepossiblewithout pre liminary work done by the class of 2019.“Because of the pandemic,” Schaefer said, “there was kind of a gap in how and what we were able to present … this was the first year that we were able to actually pull from the museum’s permanent collec tion and put something on display in person for people.”Schaefer said that they had a collec tion of the class of 2019’s documents, most of which were prototypes for the ex hibit that would have been set up before the pandemic.“Theystarted with the big ideas, and we kind of took those and ran with it,” SchaeferEmilysaid.Eckles, a PhD student in the history department, said that the course was an incredibly hands-on experience. Students involved themselves in hand picking artifacts and designing la bels and historical supplements, agreeing with Vigneau-Dimick’s comment that the class was an incredibly involved one. Eckles said that the pro gram students met twice a week for class, but many came in an hour earlier or stayed an hour later than their class times required because of the immense work ahead of them.
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“This kind of feels like a reward for doing all those previous courses leading up to this,” Eckles said. “It was both very difficult, but one of the coolest things I’ve ever done.”
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LIV KRAUS reporter Low enrollment has caused many stu dents and faculty members to rework their schedules for the fall semester.
Pearson said class cancellations can be uncomfortable for professors, espe cially when their prep work has already been“Typically,completed.what you try and do is put them into a course that’s much more of a routine kind of thing for them,” Pearson said. “They should have something pretty well prepared and are comfortable kind of moving into that.”
Jordan said in many instances when a class is canceled, it will come back in a different form. For example, a scheduled in-person class might be switched to an online class instead.
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Tom Jordan, coordinator for policy, communication and issues of concern, said factors like enrollment numbers and whether a course is required for a stu dent’s degree are considered when decid ing to cancel a specific class.
“Now that we’re in kind of this recovery mode, it’s interest ing, because we’re looking at dif ferent ways that we could serve the community outside of those traditional classes,” Ettling said. “Could we offer the opportuni ty for folks … to sit in on online sections? Are there other, differ ent offerings we could allow folks to join in on the credit side? … Hopefully we’ll have a larger ar ray of classes that people can stilltheyEttlingbooks,theirServiceTextbookaccessprovideddentscardfrom.”chooseEdustuaretofortextbutsaidareresponsible for paying any course-specific fees and are often restricted from courses with safe ty hazards. Weder said they also have to receive instructor approv al to take the course and must be able to fulfill other potential re quirements for the course, such as having internet access. The program is primarily designed for those who want to pick up a particular skill or learn more about a subject, but not necessarily have a desire to earn a degree, according to Weder. “You don’t necessarily need the credit to build up a diploma for your career on your resume [and] you still gain all those knowledge and skills that can help you going forward,” Wed er said. “It’s also popular with a lot of older folks who, you know, still want to stay active and still learning and part of
“I think some of the efforts to try to keep that relatively painless will involve things like being much more attentive to efficiencies, faculty use of time and that sort of thing, which will then derivatively have impacts on courses that are underen rolled,” Pearson said.
“We’re careful because if the mini mum is 10, and we have nine, we often let those classes run,” Jordan said. “If the minimum was 10, we have one, we some times cancel those classes.”
Lack of resources causes certain class cancellations for fall semester
Pearson said no students would be prevented from graduating due to class cancellations.“Nocourse that is required for a ma jor or graduation or anything like that will be canceled,” Pearson said. Jordan said administration tries to practice effective communication skills with students so they have time to enroll in another“We’reclass.not changing the day, we’re not changing the time,” Jordan said. “Those are some of the things that we would do to kind of squeeze out a little more optimization in the schedule and sometimes those changes happen at the last minute.”Pearsonsaid you don’t want to cancel classes too early in case more students de cide to enroll in the course, but you also don’t want to cancel too late so students have enough time to enroll in another class
“Whatinstead. is actually contractually agreed on between the faculty and ad ministration at the university, is that noti fication for faculty will be made and then in turn, students no later than two weeks before the first day of class,” Pearson said.
DAMIAN MORRIS multimedia editor SIUE has brought back the ability for those not en rolled in the university to take courses through a program calledChuckEducard.Weder, office man ager for online services and edu cation outreach, said Educard is a course auditing program that allows people to enroll in a uni versity course without receiving credit. This is available to any one 16 years or older and not currently enrolled as a for-cred it student at the university for a $60 Weder,fee. who recently took over as head of the program, said Educard originally shut down in 2021 due to COVID-19 and is now in a recovery period. Mary Ettling, director of online ser vices and educational outreach, said although the program was originally targeted toward those wanting to sit in during in-per son classes, they are looking to expand their options.
Jordan said the administration tries to deploy faculty, educational spaces and classrooms in a way that effective ly utilizes talent, space and resources to help students move forward in their academic careers.
“It’sinteresting,becausewe’relookingatdifferentwaysthatwecouldservethecommunity.”MaryEttlingDirectorofonlineservicesandeducationaloutreach
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“We cancel a lot of things as a way to do record keeping and other stuff because ultimately, scheduling is about optimiza tion of resources,” Jordan said.
“One of the circumstances that might result in a modality change is an accom modation for a disability,” Jordan said. “If a faculty member gets an accommodation through the ADA process, one of the ac commodations that they might get is re moteJordanteaching.”said some classes are canceled due to staffing issues. He said in those sit uations, they will attempt to hire someone else who has the appropriate skill set to teach the “Somecourse.classes are easy to find people who are qualified, and obviously much more that say higher division, more spe cialized classes, sometimes those can be more difficult to fill,” Jordan said.
the past, Weder said this can be a useful tool for young people to explore their interests as well. “[It] can be really valuable for [high school students] to es pecially learn [about] a certain field, something that would be good for a career for them to go into,” Weder said. “Would this be a good major for them once they soon start going to college? Is the college environment right for them? I think it’s a really valuable tool for younger high school students as well.” For more information about Educard, go to the SIUE Online Services and Educational Out reach’s registration page.
Jordan said the university established minimum enrollment thresholds that, if not met, can result in classes getting can celed. He said the administration follows what is called the “5, 10, 15 rule.” The 5, 10, 15 rule is a general rule stating that there should be at least 15 students for a 100-200 level class, 10 stu dents for a 300-400 level class and 5 stu dents for a 500 level class.
Christopher Pearson, department chair of philosophy, said his department hasn’t dealt with many class cancellations this semester, but he expects more courses to be affected in the spring.
Jordan said last minute changes to staff can affect courses. “We have people retire, leave, resign, and a class that had been staffed during that entire cycle all of a sudden two months before is not staffed,” Jordan said.
Biden also looked to draw a broader contrast between Dem ocrats and Republicans on crime issues, weaving in his own accom plishments and sketching new plans to boost police. He pointed to the $350 bil lion in 2021’s American Rescue Plan to enable local communities to keep more officers on the beat — and the fact that every Repub lican in Congress voted against it. And he outlined a new “Safer America Plan,” which would put an additional 100,000 police of ficers on the street and invest in crime prevention programs.
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Biden also alleged that some Republicans have suggested that political violence “might be nec essary” if the Justice Department charges Trump with crimes — a possible reference to South Caro lina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s recent warning of “riots in the streets” if Trump is prosecuted.
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Biden says he has no inside knowledge of the Justice De partment’s investigation of his predecessor and possible 2024 opponent. His oblique references to the investigation on Tuesday, however, suggest that he believes voters should be weighing it as a campaign issue.
“When it comes to fight ing crime, we know what works: officers on the street who know the neighborhood,” Biden said, noting that he has also taken executive action to end the use of chokeholds and no-knock warrants by federal police of ficers. “And as we hire more police officers, there should be more training, more help and moreBidenaccountability.”alsotouted bipartisan gun safety legislation enacted this summer in response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The law, which expanded background checks on gun buyers between the ages of 18 and 21 and created incentives for states to enact red flag laws, was only an incremental step, he said, but also the first tight ening of the nation’s gun laws in 30“Ityears.took 30 years. And we beat the NRA!” Biden bellowed, noting that “the vast majority” of Republicans voted against it, sug gesting they were “intimidated” by the NRA. “But we took on the NRA and we won. And we’re not stopping here. I’m deter mined to ban assault weapons in this country.”Asserting that the 2nd Amendment is “not absolute,” Biden described how parents of children killed in Uvalde had to provide DNA samples to iden tify victims because of what the gunman’s AR-15 weapon did to their bodies. “What the hell’s the matter with us?” he shouted into a quiet auditorium. “It’s time to ban these weapons. We did it be fore, we can do it again.” Even as Democrats have rebounded politically over the summer, Republicans, who have hammered Democrats at the local level as violent crime has increased, hold an 11-percent age-point edge on the issue of crime, according to an ABC News/Ipsos poll this month. Biden has been working to dig Democrats out of that politi cal hole since long before the Jus tice Department investigation of Trump’s unlawful possession of classified material spilled out into the open.Inhis State of the Union address in March, Biden’s decla ration that he wanted to “fund the police” made headlines, even as it drew the ire of many Black voters and activists frustrated by the lack of progress on criminal justice reform. Biden followed that up during an appearance in New York alongside Mayor Eric Adams, tying Adams’ success ful tough-on-crime messaging to hisHeown.reprised that rhetoric again in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, describing his plan as one that will help law enforcement and al low Americans to feel safe in their communities. “When it comes to public safety in this nation, the answer is not defund the police. It’s fund the police,” he said. The event inside a gymnasi um on the campus of Wilkes Uni versity, Biden’s first of three trips to Pennsylvania over the next week, was something of a home coming for the Scranton native — and an opportunity for Dem ocrats on the ballot this fall to show a willingness to campaign at the president’s side. Josh Shapiro, the state’s at torney general and Democratic nominee for governor, addressed the crowd shortly before Biden took the stage and spoke about how he worked with the president to close a loophole to curtail the spread of “ghost guns,” unregis tered weapons that are often used in violent crimes.
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., re minded the crowd about the three pieces of landmark legisla tion that Biden has enacted in his first two years: the American Res cue Plan, the Bipartisan Infra structure Law and the just-passed Inflation Reduction Act.
“The list of things we can thank him for is too long,” Casey said.
“No one should be en couraged to use political vi olence,” Biden said, calling the increase in threats to FBI agents in the aftermath of the Mar-a-Lago search “sickening.”
As Trump blasts FBI, Biden claims law and order mantle for Democrats
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After a remarkably produc tive month in Congress, Dem ocrats have major legislative ac complishments to trumpet on the campaign trail this fall. But Presi dent Biden traveled to Pennsylva nia on Tuesday to address a stub born liability for his party: crime. His argument, however, was hardly a defensive one. Two years after Republicans blamed Democratic candidates for activists’ calls to “defund the police,” Biden is working to flip the script and convince voters that his is the party of law and order. To make his point, Biden noted that many Republicans have excused criminal behav ior by Jan. 6 insurrectionists and defended former President Trump’s withholding of classi fied documents. Some Republi cans have even called for defund ing the FBI following its search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, he said. “A safer America requires all of us to uphold the rule of law,” Biden said. “To this day, the MAGA Republicans in Congress defend the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6,” not ing that officers died as a result of the“Don’tinsurrection.tellme you support law enforcement if you won’t condemn what happened on the 6th,” he continued. “For God’s sake, whose side are you on? You can’t be pro-law enforcement and pro-insurrection. You can’t be a party of law and order and call the people who attacked the po lice on Jan. 6 ‘patriots.’”
Russell Lee, a graduate student study ing kinesiology, is a graduate as sistant in facilities, operations and the fitness floor. On top of that job, Lee said he enjoys training others as well.“I was once a beginner as well in the weight room, and I never really had an introduction or never really had anyone show me the ropes. I think this is a good way for me to contribute to helping others realize that it’s not something super intim idating. You don’t have to be pulling 300 pounds off the floor. There are so many benefits you can get just from exercise,” Lee said. The event also provided a chance for students who hadn’t worked out for some time to get acquainted with some of the new equipment in the fitness center.
The event was hosted by Campus Recreation and involved fitness center staff, mainly personal trainers. The mis sion of the event was to help those who don’t understand gym equipment learn firsthand how to use it by example.
“I think all of the individuals that we have working today are excited about the idea of helping people become com fortable and familiar with something that they’re excited about,” Couch said.
SIUE Alumnus Brett Sheroky (far left) graduated with a bachelor’s degree in speech language pathology and spent about a decade working in the field. However, in 2020, he signed his first publishing deal with SeaGayle Music, jump-starting his career as a country artist. The SIUE Alumni Association hosted a pre-show reception to honor his accomplishments, at the Venue on Main in his hometown of Belleville, Illinois.
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Last Saturday’s weight room begin ners breakfast aimed to combat gym in timidation and give beginners a more in teractive training experience.
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Salina Regmi, a senior integrative studies major, said she hasn’t tried weight lifting in some time, but the event gave her opportunities to relearn.
“There are a lot of people that might be intimidated by coming to the gym, they just don’t know what they’re doing or they just don’t feel comfortable some where they’ve never been,” Deck said. Deck wasn’t the only fitness lov er on staff however.
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“You find the people that like that chase after the same things that you do stylistically, and things that are important to them when you write songs” Sheroky.
“If you share those same sort of interests, and you’re good … You just tend to gravitate towards those people and that becomes sort of like your crew … and then 9 times out of 10, anybody that’s successful, their crew is too because you kind of bring each other up.”
Couch also said the personal trainers were available to help answer questions if attendees wanted to try out movements or machinesMichaelthemselves.Deck,a junior business ma jor, is a student facility supervisor and fitness attendant for Campus Recreation. He said his own experience with fitness is what made him initially work there, but that this event gave him the opportunity to share that with others.
Amanda Couch, the fitness opera tions manager for Campus Recreation, said the event had been talked about since last year and was finalized over the sum mer. Couch said the event aimed to help students feel more comfortable going to the fitness center on campus and get to know some of the staff.
“It has been a couple years since I’ve been in a weight room and there’s some new machines I wanted to check out,” Regmi said. “There were some ma chines where I struggled using it in the past, but today I got some help on how to get better form.”
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Amanda Herd of Ferguson, Missouri said she was excited to snag some seedling garlic at the“Ifestival.canstart garlic in my own garden and learn more about it,” Herd said. “I have the care taker, the Polish white and I’m looking forward to getting the German gourmet red and the California easy.”
Julia and Trey Baird of O’Fallon Illinois ran the Jew elsieBee’s Homemaker Hippie stand, and said this was their first year at the festival. “We sell tie dyes, and I make homemade soaps, and lip balms
“I love Mark, he brings me all sorts of good stuff. All sorts of garlics and everything,” Julia BairdMoresaid. information about Gateway Garlic farms can be found at its Facebook page.
A large crowd gathered at the amphi theater in Edwardsville City Park on Aug. 19 as the actors prepped the stage. The actors’ outfits glistened in the sun and the set had no drapes; rather, there were wooden panels that had see through slits creating a design. The magical aspect of “A Midsummer’s Night” was enhanced through these illuminating images. The musical choices were certainly unconventional. This rendition continues to stand itself apart from others, as, stay ing within the genre of Afrofuturism, the music is heavily synth-based and rhyth mic; oftentimes the audience would join in with the actors by clapping to the beat. The plot remained conventional to Shakespeare’s original work. The begin ning starts with a dispute between Ly sander (Mel McCray) and Demetrius (Ricki Franklin) over a woman named Hermia (Rae Davis). Both McCray and Franklin portray the two with a tough guy BRUCE DARNELL reporter attitude, as they shoved each other and de clared loudly that they’d be ready to fight and kill each other at any time. Davis’s portrayal of Hermia shows her hopeless situation, as tries to convince her father Egeus (Christina Yancy) to let her marry the one she loves. Yancy acts as a brick wall, brushing off everything that Hermia says and constant ly trying to convince the Duke to handle the situation. Asha Futterman, who por trays Duke Theseus, gives off a booming authoritative aura, and speaks concisely and with Tiélereconfidence.Cheatem soon appears on stage as Helena, who desires Demetrius. Cheatem’s performance throughout all the play was extremely fluid and exagger ated. Their performance brought so much energy to the experience. Soon the story transitions into an act ing company being assigned their roles. This is where Franklin’s strongest perfor mance is shown as the actor Nick Bottom. Bottom is the comic relief of the story, and Franklin certainly delivers on this. Almost every line and action is given with com ical intensity, and the final performance in front of Duke Theseus was one of the highlights of the entire play. Even though this was their 18th per formance, every actor managed to keep the energy high and the audience engaged. The only dull moment came from the technical difficulties in the beginning as we all sat in silence waiting for the show to begin. Not once did I lose interest in the actors’ performance, nor did I ever find myself bored.
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EMILY STERZINGER editor-in-chief and just natural stuff. I use es sential oils in all my soaps,” Julia BairdNicksaid.and Dave Faust of Eu reka, Missouri, who ran the stand for Faust Bee Ranch, said that this wasn’t their first time at the festival, and that it was different in the“Itpast.was a different event last year, because it was up in Iron Barley and they did the Tomato Fest at the same time, and they did a BLT competition; it was re ally pretty cool,” Dave Faust said. In addition to many variet ies of garlic available, the festival also featured other garlicky foods and other forms of garlic, such as garlic ice cream, black garlic, gar lic hot sauce, garlic vinegar and Lautrec garlic soup.
“A Midsummer’s Night Dream,” as done by the amazing acting company, di rector Tre’von Griffith, and many others who brought the show to life, is a refresh ing take on the classic work that brings the showing up to date with our current lives If you’re free for an evening and hap pen upon a live showing of Shakespeare, Afrofuturist or not, you should take the time and enjoy the performance, as the love and care put forth by everyone in volved is certain to stick with you long after the curtain call.
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Julia Baird said she was ex cited to be at the event, and that she loves any food that has garlic in it.
The Afrofuturist rendition of “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” by William Shakespeare was an enjoyable contempo rary vision of Shakespeare’s classic work, keeping the core of the story while dra matically changing the presentation to better fit our modern day.
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Two stands at the festival sold a wide variety of garlic by the pound.
JewelsieBee’s Homemaker Hippie offered various homemade soaps for sale.
The St. Louis Garlic Fest featured various vendors, many garlicky foods, and sever al varieties of bulk garlic sold by theGatewaypound.Garlic Farms own er Mark Brown runs the festival. The location, Lamp & Lantern Village in Town and Country, Missouri, was new to the fes tival; it was previously hosted by the restaurant Iron Bar ley’s High Hog Ridge in High Ridge, Missouri. The change in location was due to the passing of Tom Coghill, the owner of the restaurant.JenCoghill of House Springs, Missouri, Tom’s wife and co-owner of Iron Bar ley’s High Hog Ridge, said Mark Brown would always come to their restaurant to run the festival.“Myhusband just passed away in March, so this is the first time they did it out here, and we wanted to come out and support [Mark],” Coghill said. Some of the vendors at the event included the Faust Bee Ranch, JewelsieBee’s Home maker Hippie, Steampunk Brew Works and Gaia’s Torch.
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Afrofuturism is a genre that focuses on the general African population infused with advanced technology. A popular ex ample of this would be “Black Panther”, with the hidden country of Wakanda ex emplifying the technological advancement that defines Afrofuturism.
The cast will preform 24 shows in the Metro East, shown here on opening night at the Kiener Plaza in St. Louis on Aug. 2.
Each and every actor embodied their role entirely, while also bringing in some of the modern elements with speech and even recording TikToks mid-performance. While the latter may have been only im plied, it certainly entertained me and the rest of the audience.
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Boomers tend to scoff at the idea of student loan forgiveness, often claiming that young people should simply work like they did to pay for college. What they don’t understand is that the cost of tuition has skyrocketed, and working your way through college has become nearlyAccordingimpossible.to an article by Business Insider, overall college costs are twice as high as in the 1970s, even when adjusting for inflation. In today’s dollars, boomers paid $39,780 on average, while Gen Z is paying $90,875 on average. Furthermore, as of 2016, college was 80.9 percent of women’s median incomes, and 51.8 percent of men’s median incomes. In 1971, those percentages were 58.6 and 20.4,Inrespectively.1970,boomers could afford private school tuition by working a minimum wage job full-time during the summer and about 15 hours per week during the school year. However, in 2021, a student would have to work a minimum wage job 100 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.Ofcourse, this depends on the state’s minimum wage. In Illinois in 2021, a student would have had to work 26 hours per week year-round to pay one year’s tuition. In Washington, which has one of the highest minimum wages in the nation, a student would only need to work 10 hours a week. However, in New Hampshire, which has one of the lowest minimum wages in the nation, a student would need to work 45 hours a week to afford one year’s Snowballingtuition.costs are another issue, as many graduates end up paying several times their initial loans in interest despite making all their payments. Most people getting loan forgiveness have paid their debts many times over, and are still shackled to them. Some argue that to minimize or avoid the cost of student loans, young people should opt for trade school or community college, or live at home to save the cost of room and board. It’s true that these can be great options for some, and can certainly help, but they aren’t the end-all, be-allThosesolution.with a bachelor’s degree have average lifetime earnings of $2,268,000, while those with some college have average lifetime earnings of $1,547,000. For those with only a high school degree, that number is $1,304,00. College graduates are also 47 percent more likely to have health insurance than Additionally,nongraduates.while there is nothing wrong with staying home during college, many students attend a university that offers them the best scholarships or has the best opportunities for their intended career path, which may not be within commuting distance. College can also be a great time to grow as an individual, meet people from other walks of life and learn to be independent without being fully on your own, and living on campus is a way to do these things. Another common talking point from those who oppose student loan forgiveness is that it’s not fair to those who had to pay off their student loans. While it’s understandable that people who paid off their student loans may feel cheated, this is a dangerous way of thinking. In order to make social progress, younger generations should have opportunities and advantages that previous generations
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“The president is not above the law.” This phrase was used very frequently following Donald Trump’s presidency, especially during the Jan. 6 committee’s hearings. Since there are so many legal cases involving Trump that are pending, some Americans, myself included, are curious to see if Trump will actually be convicted of a crime. The obvious historical parallel to draw to is former presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. After Nixon’s resignation because of the Watergate Scandal, Ford took office. As acting president, he contacted Nixon’s lawyers and told them he wanted to pardonAccordingNixon. to Ford’s televised address, he wanted to pardon Nixon because it was in the best interests of the country to do so, and the scandal was a “tragedy” that every American played a part in. He also said the “tragedy” could either go on forever, or he could put an end to it then by pardoning Nixon — which he did. For clarification, Ford’s decision to pardon Nixon was unpopular among Americans; his approval rating plummeted from 71% to 50%, according to Gallup. It was also unpopular to Nixon himself, who initially told Ford he didn’t want a pardon because he had done nothing wrong. During these discussions, where Ford had to talk Nixon into accepting a pardon, Ford’s only stance was that Nixon sign a statement of contrition, stating remorse for what happened. Nixon declined to write one, and Ford pardoned him anyway. For decades, it was unclear to many why Nixon was pardoned. His crimes had been revealed, and the general public had had enough of him. However, in an article from journalist Bob Woodward, Ford was quoted as saying the true reason behind the pardon was his friendship withThisNixon.isnot a story of friendship, however. It is a story of the most powerful man in the country being held accountable for his actions, only for his successor to step in and prevent him from facing justice. In my opinion, it’s unlikely that Donald Trump will be convicted of any crimes. But, if he is, he should not be pardoned, just like Nixon should not haveAnbeen.argument often cited is that it would be incredibly disheartening for the U.S. — as well as the rest of the world — to see a former president face criminal charges. But, isn’t it more disheartening that the president had done something criminal? And furthermore, isn’t it more disheartening for the president to get off scot-free for doing something criminal? Some may say if their crimes are revealed, the president does not get off scot-free. Their public image is tarnished. To those people, I point to former President Bill Clinton. His use of power, as the president, to coerce intern Monica Lewinsky and others into sexual activities was made very public, and he still shows up at every Democratic National Convention. The general public can turn against someone all they want, but if that person has wealthy friends and money of their own, they will most likely be fine, no matter how heinous the act.Ifthe U.S. democracy needs to be restabilized and made healthy again, then we need to start by proving that presidents can be convicted of crimes. We need to show that we are a nation of equals, where no one, not even a former president, deserves special privilege.
An unmatched rival since 2008, Loyola again proved to be unmovable by the Cougars. Since that year, the Cougars have only faced Loyola four times, counting this game. In 2008, the Cougars faced Loyola in an away game on Oct. 10, losing 1-0, and started the back and forth home and away games be tween the two teams. The next time they faced Loyola in 2013, the Cougars were on home turf. This particular performance proved to be their best, with the Sept. 13 game ending in a 1-1 draw. The Cougars owed their goal to midfielder Cassidy Sherman of Algonquin, Illinois. Sher man was assisted by midfielder Chelsea Smith of Collinsville, Illinois and midfielder Sarah Dog gendorf.This would also be the match where SIUE made the most shots at 17 with only 6 on goal. In their third meeting, Loyola again held the homefield advantage and met the Cougars’ challenge from their 2013 meeting. In this Aug. 22 game in 2021, Loyola beat the Cougars 3-0. Following their fourth championship title in the MVC, Loyola then for the first time in their short history of playing the Cougars met them in a consecutive match-up last Sunday, Aug.In28.this particular game, the Cougars were back at Korte Stadium. Despite being back at home, however, the Cougars still fell to Loyola in a 2-0 loss. In this match, junior goalkeeper Taylor Spiller of Cincinnati, Ohio, made her current season high with 4 saves, 3 in the first period and 1 in the second.
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Having graduated last year, Kassi dy Dexheimer of Washington, Illinois, provided a standout performance in 2021, holding the only times under 19 minutes for the 5k and under 23 minutes for the 6k. For the men’s team, Junior Ro land Prenzler of Edwardsville stood out for the 8k being the only runner under 26 minutes and having a lead of almost 2 minutes in the 10k at 32 minutes.
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Freshman forward Savannah DeFini of Gretna, Nebraska makes her way towards Loyola’s goal in their game on Aug. 28.
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Cross country to begin season at first meet at EIU Walt Crawford Open Friday The men’s and women’s cross country teams take to the road once more for the 2022Bothseason.teams had similar performanc es last semester, with placements being relativelyIndividually,low. however, specific ath letes stood out.
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