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support beyond the polls
A stretch of land on the side of Highway 140 in Bethalto, Illinois, boasts several conservative-leaning signs and flags, along with a vendor selling President Donald Trump memorabilia. The vendor, who wished not to be named, came to Missouri to “turn the river red” and said he was asked to sell on the land. He offers discounts to those who hold positions such as first responders, teachers and who are veterans. He plans on continuing to sell merchandise after the election. I Mackenzie Smith / The Alestle
Group for statue removal holds first protest GABRIEL BRADY reporter
Senior psychology major Mahdi Gourdine, of Edwardsville, shares prose about what it’s like to be Black in America and how statues often serve as microaggressions. I Khoi Pham / The Alestle
With the process of renaming Ninian Edwards Plaza officially underway, Our Edwardsville has made it clear their work is nowhere near done. This weekend, they showed this in a new way: they hosted their first protest. The protest, which took place in the plaza, consisted of about 50 people. Those people chanted, sang and read poetry. Information was read on Edwards’s history as a slave owner and active opposer of Indigenous people. At the end of the protest, chains were wrapped around the statue’s ankles, and a sack was placed over its head. This was done while Asher Denkyirah, a
graduate student in business administration management from Glen Carbon, Illinois, read the names of Edwards’ slaves, and the protest observed a moment of silence for the slaves and Indigenous people that Edwards harmed. The statue’s head was covered in this way so that Edwards would not be present for the memorialization of the dead. One of the speakers during the protest was Deb Lovekamp, of Collinsville, Illinois, who is a member of FOURward, a local group that promotes educational equity and policy reform. Although she is not Black, Lovekamp said she feels this movement is important to everyone, regardless of identity. Lovekamp also said
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Keath C. Smith-Bogay, a 19-year-old from St. Louis, who is accused of shooting a woman at The Reserve apartment complex in Edwardsville Saturday afternoon. Smith-Bogay has been charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, and his bail has been set at $250,000, according to the warrant. Police arrived at the scene at 2:23 p.m, finding the victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. Edwardsville Police Chief Jay Keeven confirmed that the victim was transported to a St. Louis-area hospital. “The victim knew the suspect and we are waiting to speak with her,” he said on Saturday. “At this point, we do not believe her injuries are life-threatening.” He said they believe the victim and the suspect were romantically involved. Police are still searching for Smith-Bogay, who fled the scene before they arrived. He was last seen at a MotoMart on Riverview across the river in Missouri. Major Michael Fillback from the Edwardsville Police Department said the area is safe. “We don’t believe there’s any danger to the community or the campus,” Fillback said. Fillback said the victim is expected to recover from her injuries. He advised anyone who sees Smith-Bogay not to approach him and instead call their local police department.
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In case you missed it: Republicans lead in Madison County ELIZABETH DONALD copy editor
Republicans took the lead in final but unofficial results this week for Madison County’s leadership. County Chairman Kurt Prenzler defeated former regional superintendent Bob Daiber with 70,539 votes to Daiber’s 62,327, winning a second term despite several controversies and infighting between Prenzler’s administration and the Demo@thealestle
cratic leadership that had held most of the leadership roles in Madison County since World War II. Prenzler called the election “a good night for the citizens of Madison County,” and thanked voters for “their vote of confidence” in supporting him and the other Republican leaders taking county-wide offices. In other county races, Republican Tom McRae won the circuit clerk race against Democrat Amy Gabriel; Republican Tom @thealestle
Haine defeated prosecutor Democrat Crystal Uhe for state’s attorney; and Republican David Michael defeated Democrat Joe Silkwood for auditor. However, longtime Democratic coroner Steve Nonn won reelection over challenger Adam Micun. Vote totals include all 225 precincts in Madison County, including the early and absentee vote totals. Among county board members, all but one contested race went to the Republican candidates. This solidifies a Republican The Alestle
majority on the board established in 2016, which was the first time Madison County’s board was majority-GOP since World War II. Democratic incumbent Jack Minner held his seat for District 18, but the board is now 18 Republicans to 11 Democrats, picking up three seats. A binding referendum reducing the county’s maximum tax rate from 0.20 to see ELECTION on page 3 alestlelive.com
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BY THE NUMBERS
COVID-19 at SIUE
New confirmed positive cases (from tests conducted by SIUE and self-reporting):
Oct. 23 - 29: 8 students, 1 faculty/staff Oct. 16 - 22: 8 students, 4 faculty/staff 14-day new positive tests: 16 students, 5 faculty/ staff All prior weeks positive tests (Aug. 1 - Oct. 15): 119 students, 20 faculty/staff Total positive cases: 135 students, 25 faculty/staff
Tests conducted by SIUE
Oct. 23 - 29: 169 Oct. 16 - 22: 74 14-day new tests conducted: 243 All prior weeks tests conducted (Aug. 21 - Oct. 15): 666 Total tests conducted: 909
Positive cases identified by SIUE testing:
Oct. 23 - 29: 3 Oct. 16 - 22: 3 14-day new positive cases: 6 All prior weeks positive cases (Aug. 21 - Oct. 15): 26 Total: 32
Tests by Week in Madison County Source: Madison County Health Department COVID-19 Dashboard
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Percentage of isolation/quarantine space available on campus (as of Oct.
29): 99 percent
Source: Health, Reporting, and Testing page on SIUE’s COVID-19 website, as of Oct. 30
COVID-19’S impact on Madison County
Madison County is part of Region 4, which was placed back under added mitigation measures Oct. 28. The region has been above the 8 percent threshold for test positivity 7-day rolling average since Oct. 20. All of Illinois is currently operating under added mitigations, with Region 2 in the northwest part of the state being the last region to have measures enacted, going into effect on Nov. 4. Region 4 is now under the following precautionary measures: -Bars and restaurants must close at 11 p.m. and may not open earlier than 6 a.m., and indoor dining cannot be offered. -All gatherings are limited to 25 guests or 25 percent room capacity, whichever is less. -Casinos must close at 11 p.m. and abide by the same regulations as bars and restaurants when serving food and drinks. -Party buses cannot operate.
Source: dph.illinois.gov.
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she was happy to see both Our Edwardsville and FOURward gain support. “This relates to everybody. When you’re talking about helping everyone, it should be everyone. Yes, this is focused on Black Lives Matter, but it’s evolved past that. I’m talking about women, [transgender] people and the LGBTQ[+] community, Hispanics, Indigenous people, all of them,” Lovekamp said. “To say that this doesn’t relate to you [because you aren’t Black], you’re human, it absolutely relates to you.” Romeo Spells, a senior sociology major, from Belleville, Illinois, said he was happy to see many different people supporting the relocation of the statue, even though he only recently became involved. Spells led the group in song throughout the protest. “I heard about [Our Edwardsville] recently. Ezra [Temko, assistant professor of sociology,] was one of my professors, and he sent me an email, and asked if I would be willing to help sing some songs … which led me into looking into it more,” Spells said. “I like to see the support that we’re having out here. It’s not just people here with signs. There’s people driving by, honking from the road.” Senior psychology major Mahdi Gourdine, of Collinsville, Illinois, read a poem they wrote during the p. Gourdine said they knew of Edwards’ history before now, but they are happy that there’s a movement to contextualize his history. “I was aware of the history of the statue a couple years ago when I took a class at SIUE called Race and Ethnic Relations, and I started learning the history of the town. At the time, it was a lot more controversial to be against the statue. Then, one of my former professors [Temko] sent me a link through Facebook and asked if I wanted to put together something,” Gourdine said. Despite having strong opinions on the statue of Edwards, Our Edwardsville does not want the statue completely destroyed. According to Spells, this is because the group does not want to erase history, but explain it. “A lot of times, when we look at racial issues, we kind of see it as this divide, us versus them. But it should be everyone in it for everyone else,” Spells said. “So, by not destroying the statue, but having it moved to an educational location, we can preserve the history that some people are worried about, and add the context that’s missing from a lot of historical elements in our daily lives.” One of the many SIUE community
members in attendance at the protest was Assistant Professor of Psychology Susan Dieleman. Dieleman and her husband, Jason Breen, recently moved to Edwardsville from Canada, and she said they were both happy to see a movement like Our Edwardsville in their new home. “This is a cause that’s near and dear to my heart, and as new residents of Edwardsville, it was nice to see an opportunity in our community to contribute to the kind of Edwardsville that I know I would like to see and actually live in,” Dieleman said. Breen said he and Dieleman fought for similar causes in Canada, and they were happy to keep protesting in the U.S. According to Breen, a big issue is that statues are sometimes seen as authorities on Protesters cover the statue’s head with a burlap sack and place history. chains around its feet as they honor the victims of Edwards’ “Coming from actions. | Khoi Pham / The Alestle Canada, we supported aboriginal rights there, and it’s great to committee representing our group, with see that fight continue here, where I don’t another member as well. Other communithink it’s as large a part of the mainstream ty members and other leaders, some from conversation as it would be north of the SIUE, have been asked to join the commitU.S. border,” Breen said. “I think it helps tee as well.” to distinguish between monuments and Denkyirah said Our Edwardsville is history as two distinct things, and how not happy to help prepare the lithograph or all historical figures deserve to be monu- plaque, but she also said this is not all that mentalized.” Our Edwardsville wants. According to Denkyirah, this protest “We will be helping in terms of writing has been coming for a long time. Denky- the lithograph, but we don’t believe that is irah has been a leader in Our Edwardsville, our main goal that we want. Our main goal and she said after several months of work, is still relocation, but we’re hopeful that the city council seems to be finally respond- being part of the committee will at least ing to the group’s demands. provide some support for that push for “There is an ordinance to rename the change,” Denkyirah said. “The city counplaza, which is a great first step, and we cil has been quoted saying they want unity, believe that eventually there will be an or- and the lithograph and plaque will provide dinance to remove the statue, and relocate that, but we believe that the statue in and it to a place that can provide proper his- of itself, in its place does not provide unity, torical contextualization. They’re planning so that’s where we are now.” on creating some kind of committee. They For more information, visit the Our want to add a lithograph, and a plaque, Edwardsville Facebook page. The Alestle and we will be a part of this committee,” will continue to follow this story as it deDenkyirah said. “I will possibly be in the velops.
News in brief
Safety bulletin issued following flashing incidents
SIUE PD issued a safety alert Nov. 2 after two instances of flashing were reported on an SIUE bike path. SIUE Police received a report of a man exposing his genitalia to a woman while she was walking on a bike path near the Gardens at SIUE on Oct. 31. The department had received a similar report on Oct. 18, with the suspect matching the same description. While responding to the Oct. 31 incident, SIUE Police located a suspect matching the description. The suspect fled on foot and reportedly swam across Cougar Lake, exiting through the woods near the 400 side of Cougar Village, as officers from Edwardsville, Glen Carbon and Madison County assisted SIUE Police in pursuing him. The suspect evaded arrest, and SIUE Police are continuing to pursue leads to locate him. Anyone with information is asked to contact SIUE Police at 650-3324. The suspect is described as a white male in his mid-30’s, approximately 5’11 - 6’ tall, bald and of thin, muscular build.
Planned mandatory COVID-19 testing program hits wall
Previous plans to implement a mandatory COVID-19 testing program in the spring have been derailed, as the test SIUE planned to use is still seeking FDA approval. SIUE had planned to introduce a pilot testing program in November using a saliva test developed by University of Illinois; however, this test has not been approved on the anticipated timeline. In a recent address to the campus community, Chancellor Randy Pembrook said the university is exploring other testing options, such as using another saliva test developed somewhere else or maintaining the voluntary system in place now. Pembrook said they expect to have an answer by the time students leave for Thanksgiving Break.
Search underway for Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
SIUE’s university leadership team will be growing with the addition of a Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Chancellor Randy Pembrook announced this new position in September, and the search to fill the position has now begun. The search committee is being led by Cornell Thomas, the School of Dental Medicine’s diversity, equity and inclusion officer and assistant dean for Admissions and Student Services. The responsibilities of the Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion position will include the following: serving as the Edwardsville campus’ chief diversity officer, leading the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, working with the Anti-Racism Task Force to implement its initiatives, chairing the Bias Incident Response Team, leading diversity training for employees and working with the SIU System’s new vice president for diversity and the Diversity Advisory Council. The committee expects to have finalists for the position selected by early 2021.
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Pritzker pressures local officials to enforce mitigation orders
PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois
As state leaders continue to face pushback from the restaurant industry and even some county and municipal governments regarding COVID-19 mitigation measures, Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday put pressure squarely on the shoulders of local elected officials. “The fact is that local officials who are not doing the right thing are the ones who are going to be responsible for the rates of infection going through the roof, and our hospitals getting overrun and people are dying if they don’t enforce the rules,” Pritzker said during his daily briefing in Chicago. “That is why those rules exist.” Beginning Wednesday, all 11 regions of the state’s reopening plan will be under enhanced mitigation orders to control the spread of the virus because they have seen sustained periods of test positivity rates over 8 percent and, in some cases, dangerously rising hospitalization rates. The last region to cross those thresholds was Region 2, in west-central Illinois, where the enhanced mitigation measures take effect Wednesday. Those mitigations include closing bars and restaurants to indoor service as well as limits on the size of public gatherings and social events. But the restaurant industry has pushed back hard against the orders, arguing there is insufficient data to show that bars and restaurants have been a significant source of virus spread in Illinois. Those establishments went through several weeks of mandatory closures during the early phases of the pandemic, and they say another extended period of closure will force many of them out of business permanently. Officials in Springfield and Sangamon County announced Tuesday that they will take a “phased approach” to enforcing the orders, starting with limiting indoor seating at bars and restaurants to 25 percent of the establishment’s capacity. That announcement came on the same day the Illinois Department of Public Health announced that 3,594 people in the state were being hospitalized with COVID-19, the largest number since May 28. IDPH also reported Tuesday that 6,516 new cases of the disease and 68 virus-related deaths had been confirmed over the previous 24 hours. “We know that the places that are remaining open, they’re having large gatherings and defying these rules are, in fact, spreading locations,” Pritzker said. “These are places that are amplifying the virus across the state. And so, you know, when you’ve got double-digit positivity rates in your area, as is the case in Springfield, then the local officials need to take the laws that are on the books and the regulations that we’ve put forward and the orders that we’ve asked people to follow and enforce them locally.”
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Republicans fare well in Madison County, local candidates weigh in on wins, losses NICOLE BOYD copy editor
After election night resulted in many Republican wins in Madison County, local candidates from both sides of the aisle offered responses to the outcomes and plans for the future. Incumbent Kurt Prenzler (R) won reelection as the Madison County Board Chair. “I’ve learned a lot over the past four years and I hope I can use that to be better,” Prenzler said. In a statement, Prenzler thanked taxpayers for their support. “It was a good night for the citizens of Madison Country. I want to thank the taxpayers for their vote of confidence in what we have done by reducing property taxes and increasing employee accountability. The voters overwhelmingly approved our tax cut referendum,” Prenzler said in a statement. “And the voters increased the Republican majority on the country board from 15-14 to 18-11, a pick up of three seats.” Bob Daiber (D) from Marine, Illinois, ran against Prenzler and said Democrats could not
withstand increased Republican support in the area. “I just think it’s evident by the numbers that there was a strong Republican wave that came through Madison County. That’s why the majority of us lost. Only incumbent Steve Nonn withstood it. There was a lot of resources put into this Republican win, I think from the presidential election all the way down to these local races, and we just couldn’t withstand it. We just couldn’t overcome it,” Daiber said. “So I felt we did our very best. We did everything we possibly could to win and we just came up short.” Daiber said he is considering ways to stay involved in the community and has not made any decisions about running again. “I’m willing to sit back and think about what I’m going to do. I’ll probably be involved with things professionally in education and continue to make community contributions in my retired capacity as an elected official, and I will always probably be involved somehow in supporting candidates,” Daiber said. “Not making any decision for another run.” Incumbent Rodney Davis (R) won reelection for state rep-
resentative against Betsy Dirksen Londrigan (D). Londrigan addressed her supporters in a virtual press conference Wednesday morning. “For our team, last night did not turn out the way that we planned or the way that we worked for, but 2020 has kind of been like that, hasn’t it?” Londrigan said in a press conference. “At every turn, when issues were thrown up, we figured out how to clear them, and we ran a very strong, issue-oriented campaign, and I’m so proud.” Londrigan called on citizens to engage with elected officials to make democracy work. “If you want the Affordable Care Act maintained, and essential health benefits protected, if you want to make sure that you have coverage and aren’t discriminated against because of preexisting conditions, you have to engage with your representative. Democracy is not a spectator sport. It requires each of us to do our part, and that doesn’t stop,” Londrigan said. “Elections come and go, representatives come and go, but the job of the American citizen is constant.” To contact Davis, visit his website.
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0.18 percent swept the vote with 96,734 to 27,032 votes. Non-binding questions on the county ballot affirmed voters’ support for requiring the state legislators to vote on their pay raises each year and against allowing retirees on a county pension to return to work and earn a salary. Madison County also overwhelmingly opposed the statewide ‘fair tax’ amendment. The state legislator and Congressional races involve many counties outside Madison County, but the three Congressional seats in the metro-east each saw a Republican winner. Incumbents U.S. Reps. Mike Bost (R-Murphysboro) and Rodney Davis (R-Taylorville) won reelection in the 12th and 13th Congressional Districts respectively, and in the 15th District seat formerly held by U.S. Rep. John Shimkus (R-Collinsville), Republican Mary Miller defeated Democrat Erika Weaver. Shimkus is retiring after 24 years in Congress and will teach at SIUE next year. Vote totals are final but unofficial until the results are certified in a few weeks.
Admissions attracts high school gamers to campus through livestream event with SIUE esports teams JOHN MCGOWAN reporter
While in-person tours are still being held on campus, they aren’t running at the rate they used to SIUE Esports and the Office before the pandemic, according to of Undergraduate Admissions Wilke. This event is one of many have teamed up for the upcoming virtual events Admissions is holdEsports Exhibition, where incom- ing this semester to get incoming ing college freshmen interested college freshmen interested in in SIUE can watch exhibition SIUE. The list includes a Housing matches and ask questions about virtual presentation being held esports and SIUE. There will be two sessions of on Nov. 17 and throughout Dethe event held at 5 pm to 6 pm, cember, various virtual academic and 6 pm to 7 pm, streaming on sessions for the different schools, Twitch on Nov. 13. The matches and even a Virtual Transfer Oriare being played by the Overwatch entation on Dec. 4 for incoming and Super Smash Bros teams, and transfer students. Wilke said these and other they will be playing their respective games in the first session, virtual events aren’t replacements along with Valorant and Rocket for in-person tours. “I don’t think it’s a replaceLeague in the second session. Chicago Regional Admission ment [for in-person tours] so much Coordinator Stephen Wilke said as it is us working around the situation that’s the event will going on be a good opright now, portunity to “I don’t think it’s a and tryget incoming replacement [for ining to find college freshto get man gamers person tours] so much ways students interested in where they SIUE. as it is us working want to be “ We ’ r e around the situation … SIUE’s bringing the campus is demographic that’s going on right awesome, at SIUE that it’s a plays video now, and trying to find and real selling games compoint for petitively, or ways to get students people who for fun, as well where they want to be. visit. Nothas bringing ing is going students from STEPHEN WILKE to be able high schools Chicago Regional Admission to replace in the area that Coordinator taking a also play video tour around games, and we’re sort of letting them meet campus,” Wilke said Senior chemistry major Timeach other and ask the questions othy Cockrell, of St. Libory, Illithat they have,” Wilke said.
SIUE opened an esports arena in Bluff Hall in January. While the arena is not currently in use due to the COVID-19 pandemic, SIUE’s esports teams are still practicing and using video games to connect with potential future Cougars through a partnership with SIUE Admissio ns. | Mackenzie Smith / The Alestle
nois, is the Vice President of SIUE Esports. He said showing off the Esports Teams is a good strategy to bring in new students. “The esports genre itself is rapidly expanding … A lot of kids nowadays grow up with esports. They grow up with video games. They grow up seeing the competitive side of it, and they want to push themselves harder and faster and higher,” Cockrell said. Senior psychology major David Sissac, of St. Louis, is the President of SIUE Esports. He said an event like this had been in talks for a while. “The virtual visitation sessions were a way where admissions and the esports program could collaborate on an event, which was something we had been discussing for years past. Under COVID, it seemed like the
perfect opportunity for us to make that collaboration come to light,” Sissac said. According to Cockrell, Admissions was receptive to this idea and its ability to abide by COVID-19 restrictions. He also said this event will be a good opportunity for the Esports Club. “Until now, our biggest blast out into the world was the grand opening of our arena. That brought so, so many eyes, and they looked, and they liked what they saw. The problem then was COVID happened – progress was stopped … This is our opportunity to regain that momentum,” Cockrell said. Students can check out upcoming Admissions events at their website, and they can learn more about SIUE Esports at their website.
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Above is a photo timeline of the Civil Rights movement and Black activists from abolition to the Black Lives Matter movement today. Malcolm X is the third photo from the left in the middle row. He was a popular figure during the Civil Rights movement and created the Organization of Afro-American Unity. | Photos courtesy of Wikimedia, the Library of Congress and Dominick Oranika
Malcolm X’s daughter joins Arts & Issues to discuss race, legacy and more DALTON BROWN copy editor
The Arts & Issues Event “Living the Legacy to Empower the Future” was a conversation held Oct. 29 between Assistant Professor of Political Science Timothy Lewis and Ilyasah Shabazz, an author, professor and daughter of activist Malcolm X. Shabazz highlighted parallels between her father’s history of activism and today’s Black Lives Matter movement. According to Grant Andree, the director of SIUE’s Arts & Issues performing arts and speaker series, the idea to have Shabazz speak came from some reading he was doing over the pandemic. “I wondered then if any of
his daughters … whether they gave public appearances — and so I started Googling, and Ilyasah Shabazz was on the roster of one of the agencies I work with all the time, so it worked out to be … a nice coincidence, and that’s how it all came together,” Andree said. Before getting into the questions, Shabazz said she is actually one of six daughters of her parents, and that everywhere she goes, she feels a need to acknowledge them. During Malcolm X’s early life, he was brought into an orphanage after his father was killed by white supremacists and his mother was admitted to a mental hospital. According to Shabazz, his challenges didn’t stop there. “We know that his teacher told him, as he was the head of his class, the president of his class, that for Malcolm wanting to be a lawyer, that that was not a realistic goal for the n-word, and that he should focus on being a carpenter,” Shabazz said. Growing up in the Jim Crow era, he would learn to use the values his parents raised him with to navigate his environment, which is the subject of Shabazz’s children’s book about Malcolm X. She said she wrote the book so young people could see a positive representation of themselves
while they learn some history, although This pattern of injustice would conshe was initially met with skepticism. tinue from Shabazz’s father’s life into her “I remember when I first said that I own, as Lewis transitioned the conversawanted to do a children’s story on Mal- tion to the modern day. colm X … many people were like, ‘how “It seems that we’re in this moment can you write a of racial awareness children’s book now in the Uniton Malcolm X?’ ed States, and it’s “My father said that Well, Malcolm largely due to the was a child,” this generation would see video of George Shabazz said. Floyd’s murder,” that those in power have Lewis said. “On one “And, Malcolm did not go to jail hand, I’m glad that misused power … and and miraculously there’s this spirit of they will demand change. allyship from white become smart, compassionate, America … and on It’s important that … we responsible; these the other hand, I’m are values that insulted, because understand that Black were instilled in Black people aren’t power is not exclusionary, saying anything new him by his parents.” it simply says that every- … how should Black Due to the people navigate this one deserves a seat at historical misnew space of nationcharacterization al racial awareness?” the table of humanity. of her father, Shabazz said Lewis asked a growing global Ilyasah Shabazz Shabazz to set the awareness of these Author and professor record straight. issues was actually “[White hisone of her father’s torians] go as far predictions, citing to present Malcolm X as this radical Mus- Black Lives Matter protests that happened lim that preached the hate of the white in all 50 United States and several counman,” Lewis said. “Why do you think tries abroad. there’s this tendency to present him as an “My father said that this generaangry, violent man rather than this one tion would see that those in power have who really valued inherent human dignity misused power … and they will demand of everybody?” change,” Shabazz said. “It’s important “Because you put a mirror on those that … we understand that Black power with immoral acts,” Shabazz said. “We is not exclusionary, it simply says that evcan’t forget the trauma that surrounded eryone deserves a seat at the table of huslavery, we can’t forget the injustices … manity.” the institutionalized racism … Malcolm For more information on Ilyasah basically took a mirror and just put it up Shabazz, visit her website. For more into all of those who were committing these formation on SIUE’s Arts & Issues, visit awful acts.” their webpage.
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RateMyProfessors proves to be a valuable tool during social distancing DAMIAN MORRIS reporter
With COVID-19 limiting peer interaction, students are becoming increasingly reliant on other forms of communication. This includes using RateMyProfessors to size up prospective professors and instructors. Freshman exercise science major Olivia Miller, from Quincy, Illinois, said she has been using RateMyProfessors, a website where students leave reviews on their college professors, as a means to get to know her professors. “I trust it because, especially right now with COVID and everything, there’s not an easier way to meet my professors, so I’ve been using RateMyProfessors to see what classes I want to sign up for for next semester,” Miller said. Sophomore medical biochemistry and business finance major Kelly Bunselmeyer, from Ava, Illinois, said she uses RateMyProfessors because she trusts her peers to give better judgments on professors than professors could give of themselves. “I know that I’ve looked at RateMyProfessors for every teacher that I’m taking, and I definitely base my teachers off that,” Bunselmeyer said. “Mostly just because it’s other students,
like, teachers are always just going to talk the highest of themselves. I like to also talk to other teachers about the teachers I want to take, because they always have the inside source.” Sophomore Biological Science major Adi Hernandez-Nesbitt from Geneseo, Illinois, said while she doesn’t use it as much as her peers, she does use it sometimes, but believes it can’t be used in all circumstances. “Overall, I like RateMyProfessors. I don’t use it as much as other students,” Hernandez-Nesbitt said. “Mostly just because a lot of my major courses, there’s only one class that’s available, but for some of my gen eds I do like to use it just to kind of see which teachers are the best.” However, Hernandez-Nesbitt said whether she will trust the review depends on how the comment is written. “I like to get good grades, so to know that someone else is putting in effort doing what I would do, to know how they did is pretty nice,” Hernandez-Nesbitt said. “It depends on how sophisticated a comment sounds or how reliable a comment sounds.” Bunselmeyer said if the professor has a score of two or above, she will look at the comments to see if they will be a good match for her learning style.
“If it’s a score better than two or above, I’m just like, ‘okay, I’ll look at the comments,’ and then most people who do give them a bad score, they’re like, ‘the exams were so hard, it was based off this,’ but everyone’s different in the way that they learn,” Bunselmeyer said. “For the most part you can always find some comments that are like ‘well, this is how the exams work;
this is how the tests work; they do assign homework; it’s hard.’” Miller said she also likes to use RateMyProfessors as a way to know a professor’s teaching style. “I like to see how they teach, like if they go through the lectures well, or they just throw up some PowerPoints and expect you to take notes,” Miller said. “Some people make comments about ‘everything they say is
going to be on the test’ or ‘he throws in other aspects that you didn’t teach in class.’ I know that there’s some people who just go on to write bad reviews, but I try to look at all of them and take them all into consideration. I look more at the comments because people go more in depth as to why they wrote the rating.” For more information, visit RateMyProfessors.
Education during COVID-19 teaches professors to adapt NICOLE BOYD copy editor
After two half-semesters of virtual teaching, professors are learning to connect with their students in new ways, but it can still be challenging to get the level of engagement they want. Josie DeGroot, professor of applied communication studies, has taught one asynchronous class and is currently teaching two online synchronous classes. She said her experience in computer-mediated communication has helped in understanding the role of technology in forming relationships. “You’ve probably heard your older relatives saying, ‘oh, technology is ruining communication,’ you know, ‘kids these days.’ And it’s frustrating because the theory is actually — and research points out — that relationships become even more intimate online than face-to-face. It takes a longer time. It does take a little bit longer, so instead of the class really gelling in week six, it’ll be like week 10 … and so it’s just patience,” DeGroot said. Jonathan Pettibone, psychology professor and undergraduate program director for the Department of Psychology, teaches research methods virtually, through a synchronous lecture on Fridays.
Pettibone said he wishes more students would turn on their cameras during lectures. “I’d like to see a few more cameras if possible, but that’s just because I give a better product when there’s a human on the other end of the line. It’s the same way; it’s a social interaction and it goes both ways, and it’s a better, more interactive lecture if I see people,” Pettibone said. DeGroot said it’s frustrating when people assume online teaching is easier than teaching in person. “Online takes longer than faceto-face. You really have to plan a lot more and it requires a lot more creativity, and that’s the frustrating part when people are like, ‘oh, they’re teaching online, it’s so easy, why can’t they teach more sections,’ or ‘why does it cost the same?’ It’s like, well, it’s harder. It takes more resources,” DeGroot said. “And we didn’t sign up for this either. We know
the students want to see us in the classroom and we want to see you too; that’s why we do this.” Pettibone said he has learned through teaching virtually how much he misses students.
“It becomes a little harder and harder to find the motivation to keep producing videos and lectures when you don’t necessarily know how people are reacting to them, right? And something that you certainly miss is that when I do a video lecture, that lecture goes exactly where I want it to go,” Pettibone said. “There’s
nobody to ask questions, there’s nobody to pull us in other directions and sometimes those other directions that we go in are really useful as a teacher because they tell me about what students need to know, what they don’t understand.” Pettibone said he was surprised to see many students using online learning as an opportunity to work more, but that may mean they have less time to focus on schoolwork. “For those of us that are fully online, I think that students have a little less time than I would’ve hoped to be able to keep up with this firehose of content that I’m producing, quite frankly. And I’m getting a little tired of the firehose. It’s hard to keep it going full-stream all the time without that interaction,” Pettibone said. Pettibone said he has started sending notifications for office hours to encourage students to interact. Some students have attended office hours just to talk, Pettibone said.
“I guess I was surprised that initially some of the students who were coming by … really didn’t have anything to talk about, they just wanted to talk. They weren’t talking about the class, they were just talking … just wanting to chat,” Pettibone said. “So I suspect some of that is just due to increased isolation that we have or some feeling of distance from the class while we’re taking all these classes online.” Charles Berger, professor of English, teaches an online asynchronous class, an online synchronous class and an in-person class. According to Berger, transitioning a seminar class from in-person to Zoom has not required major adjustments. “Participation, it varies, but it always does. There’s students who like to talk more or students who talk less … that seems very natural, actually. Not too much in the way of adjusting had to go on,” Berger said. “I would say, when I think more deeply about it, the difference I think is really more for the student than the teacher in the sense that I don’t know how well the students have come to know each other.” To find out how online learning has also affected students, check out The Alestle’s previous coverage.
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We’ll have four years with the president – we can wait for the results THE ALESTLE STAFF editorial board
Given the significance of this election, and the current state of the pandemic, the results of the 2020 presidential election may not be announced any time soon. We have to remain patient, because something of this importance requires time and effort. Predictions have been thrown around, but these predictions could be skewed because of the increased number of mail-in ballots this year. Millions of people cast their votes prior to Election Day, and 10 states mailed ballots to every registered voter, according to the Washington Post. Some states are allowing ballots that are postmarked on or before
Nov. 3 to be counted. Illinois is accepting ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 until Nov. 17 according to The New York Times, but Missouri is not accepting ballots after Nov. 3. Since ballots are accepted until mid-November, we could be waiting weeks for the official results. This will not be the first election to release results after Election Day. The election of 1920 was the first election to have the results returned to the country on the same day, and this continued long after. However, the election of 2000 was a close call, so former Vice President Al Gore and former President George W. Bush were both announced winners of the electoral votes in Florida, but both were retracted. The
recount delayed the announcement of the official winner of the election until Dec. 12. Although officials don’t foresee the results of the 2020 election taking quite that long, Election Day has many people continuously refreshing Google to see the progress of the votes. Pushing news organizations to put out results prematurely will lead to the spread of inaccurate information. Retracting news before it spreads is almost impossible, so it’s better to be patient and wait for the final votes to be counted than to broadcast underdeveloped numbers and results. Politics have been circling social media for months, and the next few weeks will not be any different. It is important to re-
member that anybody can post anything on the internet, and you should always refer to reliable sources when looking at the results of the election, as they can change daily depending on the state. If it becomes overwhelming, it is OK to limit the time you spend on social media to give yourself a break. We at The Alestle understand it can be difficult to spend days or likely weeks not knowing who the president will be. This country takes pride in our ability to vote, and it should be exercised in a way that allows all voices to be heard. If it takes a few extra days, the accuracy of the results will be worth it, because the future of our country relies on them.
I used to love Kanye – here’s why I didn’t vote for him DALTON BROWN copy editor
I would’ve written in Kanye West for president in a heartbeat a few years ago, when I still wanted a pair of Yeezys — but in 2020, I can’t even support who he’s become as a person, much less as a presidential candidate. When West said at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards he would run for president in 2020, I brushed it off as an empty promise, much like his album release dates. In 2016, when he said he would’ve voted for Donald Trump shortly before storming off the stage of his Saint Pablo Tour and being hospitalized, I brushed it off as an isolated mental breakdown from which he would recover. But in 2018, when West told TMZ he thought 400 years of slavery sounded like a choice to him, I could no longer brush it off. My entire body cringed in disapproval, and I rescinded any support I had for him as a person. Fast forward over a few controversies to 2020, and what I thought was an empty promise is now reality — months after the Federal Election Commission’s
filing deadlines for several states, West announced his 2020 presidential candidacy anyway. He still managed to get on a few ballots, but for those he couldn’t, he tweeted an instructional video on how to write his name on your own ballot. I cannot stress enough how bad an idea this is, or ever was. His campaign website, kanye2020.country, has the aesthetic of a mismatched Microsoft Word document. It features a religious poem about the future, some campaign ads, his Joe Rogan podcast episode, some overpriced merchandise and 10 parts of his presidential platform with accompanying Bible verses, in that order. Part one sets the tone by insisting we reinstate prayer in the classroom to somehow promote our Constitutional freedom of religion. But those Constitutional authors, who fled religious persecution from the British, wrote freedom of religion into the First Amendment so that one belief system wouldn’t be imposed by a government on its people. West’s demand that our children pray in their classrooms directly contradicts the freedom of religion he
claims to promote. West’s religious stances spread to his political viewpoints as well. “Let’s see if the appointing is at 2020 or if it’s 2024 — because God appoints the president,” West said in a Forbes interview last summer. Of course, no discussion of West’s policies would be complete without bringing up his stance on abortion. West said in a podcast interview with Nick Cannon that his political party, The Birthday Party, derives its name from kids having more birthdays, as West is unmistakably pro-life. “Planned Parenthood was set up and placed in minority communities to kill Black people,” West said. When Cannon asked how West would respond to those who claim he can’t speak on this as a man, West said, “I have to go to the Word. God says he knew you before you were in the womb.” I hate to break it to you, Yeezy, but your personal religious beliefs are not a good enough reason to strip away the reproductive freedoms of countless people. They’re also not a good enough reason to deny medical science.
“It’s so many of our children that are being vaccinated and paralyzed,” West said. “So when they say the way we’re going to fix COVID is with a vaccine, I’m extremely cautious. That’s the mark of the beast.” Claims that vaccines have adverse effects on children have been medically discredited for years. The last thing we need during a global pandemic is another president who doesn’t believe in science, especially when it comes to vaccines. I understand not wanting to vote for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden, but this election has never been about what we wanted. It’s been about what we’ve needed since 2016, a president who’s qualified — and despite what Mr. West believes, God does not appoint the president, humans do. That being said, learn from my mistakes as a former fan and don’t brush off West’s problematic nature as a joke. America can’t handle another celebrity president who doesn’t believe in science or understand how our government works. If you wrote in West for president, don’t do it again in 2024.
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Through the combination of racism and sexism hurled at them throughout history, Black women have become one of America’s many marginalized groups. Now, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the nation, Black women in sports have been able to use their platforms to speak up for what they believe is right. The Black Lives M a t t e r march held here at SIUE at the end of September was one of the many displays of activism created by Black women in sports. In July, the WNBA announced their entire season would be dedicated to Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot to death by police in March. Recently, almost every major league has made a statement on the Black Lives Matter movement. Sociology professor Isais Smith, whose research focuses on the sociology of sport, said the WNBA spoke up on these subjects before the NBA. “[The WNBA teams] were the first ones to be outspoken about what was happening with the Black Lives Matter movement and Breonna Taylor. Yet, in society, many people didn’t even really hear about until the overall heaviness of the situation until the NBA adopted what they’d already done,” Smith said. Black women have long been faced with the stereotype of being loud, an-
Black female athletes lead fight for social justice, at SIUE and all over
gry and aggressive. During a recent lecture on Black women in sports from the Tucker Center at the University of Minnesota, Akilah Carter-Francique, the executive director for the Institute for the Study of Sport, Society and Social Change at San Jose State Universi- t y , said even the most famous B l a c k female athletes have to avoid this stereotype.
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“Venus and Serena Williams know this all too well … Together and separate they have endured negotiating the cultural terrain of national and international professional tennis. Being non-white, and not male, blonde-haired, blue-eyed, places Black women in the ‘other’ category, and they are not allowed the fortitude to express their anger,” Carter-Francique said. One of the orga-
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nizers of the Black Lives Matter March on campus, senior women’s basketball forward Zaria Whitlock, of St. Paul, Minnesota, said she has struggled avoiding this stereotype as a Black female athlete at SIUE. “[I feel] as though everything that I do will be attributed to my entire race, to my entire gender, that kind of thing. Just feeling that burden always, and then having to not only experience my life as a subject of the world, but also knowing that I’m an object of other people’s subjectivity,” Whitlock said. Whitlock also said she was afraid to speak up at times due to fear of fitting into the stereotype. “Knowing where I’m socially placed within our society, I have that debate with myself – that internal battle of ‘do I say something?’ … ‘Do I just ignore it and push through?’” Whitlock said. Rita Liberti at California State University East Bay, whose research focuses on 20th century women’s sport, said she believes this stereotype developed because Black women were breaking gender roles. “It’s a way we think – ‘we,’ meaning white society – Black folks have disrupted traditional notions of women as subservient, submissive, et cetera,” Liberti see GENDER GAMES on page 8
“To be live without really being live:” SIUE Athletics introduces Cougar Connection DAMIAN MORRIS reporter
As SIUE Athletics are unable to compete due to COVID-19, the department is keeping audience and team engagement high through Cougar Connection videos and Isolation Conversation podcasts. Athletics Communication and Video Production Associate Jeff Bailey came to Broadcasting and Media Relations Specialist Joe Pott with the idea of Cougar Connection because he missed doing live broadcasts and wanted to get as close to that as possible. “We started with the fall sports that got postponed,” Bailey said. “It’s kind of just a way to let our fans know that we’re still here, and we’re still practicing, and we’re still working hard and getting prepared for the spring. To be live without really being
“Cougar Connection was live.” viously came out of isolation,” Pott started Isolation Con- Pott said. “It was just a chance more of an idea to showcase some versation over the summer as a to do a little bit more in-depth of our programs and our teams ... way to speak with the coaches conversations. It was essentially Just getting a little more personand keep fans informed about like a podcast with some of my ality as opposed to just talking, which, I think, is more what their teams were what Conversation was, up to. [it] was just a straight “As soon as we interview,” Pott said. found out that fall “I think [we are] doing sports were going to be a little more interesting pushed, and we weren’t things, showing some going to have the actual personality, showing live broadcasts that we some of the facilities, normally would have, different things like we wanted a way to realthat, so I think that’s ly keep information and the big difference.” news out there about JEFF BAILEY Bailey said this was these teams, so this was athletics communication and video production also a chance to showa good way to do it,” specialist case what the teams Pott said. Pott said Cougar Connec- guests, and actually, I think we’ll and coaches wanted to show off tion will not be replacing Iso- get back to doing some of that.” as well. “It also forced us to kind of lation Conversation, but rather Cougar Connection and Isocomplementing it. lation Conversation have differ- sit down with the teams and get “I think it’s an addition, so ent, but complementary, goals, creative,” Bailey said. “I didn’t want to do just a coach’s talkback the Isolation Conversation ob- according to Pott.
“I didn’t want to do just a coach’s talkback show, I wanted other elements in it to make it student-athlete driven, to show the personality of these teams.
show, I wanted other elements in it to make it student-athlete driven, to show the personality of these teams.” Bailey said the idea for Cougar Connection’s format came from his almost 20 years of working in TV news, where they used to use a TV news package format as a sports special. Pott said they tried to accomplish showcasing the teams’ personalities through creative segments that give the athletes a break from the repetition practices entail. “We really approached it like a TV show, to be honest,” Pott said. “We have a couple of different segments set up, and we usually center it around an interview with the head coach, an interview with student athletes, and we’re trying to do fun segments.” Bailey said the hiring process see CONNECTION on page 8
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want the students who work for me to feel free to push their creative envelope as far as they want, and I’ll be there for whatever they need in order to make it look exactly how they want it as well.” One of the students workers who helped with Cougar Connection was Alex Austin, kinesiology major and graduate assistant from Chicago. Austin said he had video editing experience prior to taking the
job, but no actual recording and live recording experience. He said this job came out of a hidden love he held for video. “I did a lot of helping set up and shooting B-roll during it, since it was a live show and they were producing kind of on the spot,” Austin said. “I was just catching athletes in action, and just trying to get the B-roll while they were still doing the actual Cougar Connection during prac-
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political activists. Matter of fact, they turned away from that title, but that doesn’t mean that they didn’t inspire people and force change and force us to rethink how we think about folks … political activism happens in lots of different ways,” Liberti said.
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