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SIUE’s c u r re n t budget situahas tion caused some departments to cut costs by removing office phones. Departments affected include English, history, sociology and criminal justice. Lynn Miller, office support specialist for the department of sociology and criminal justice studies, said the individual departments chose to cut their phone costs, as opposed to some of the other alternatives. “Our faculty decided to do this because they did not want to have to cut someone’s salary, miss some classes or take on a bigger load of teaching,” Miller said. While the decision made seemed to be the best possible choice in the realm of options, history professor Steve Tamari said he would have preferred if someone with more insight on the whole budget situation made the decision. “I didn’t think we were equipped to make a decision like that, but my colleagues said that if we didn’t cut the phone, we might lose some people, which I understand. So we were between a rock and a hard place,” Tamari said. “I think it should’ve been people with the bigger picture deciding what is most necessary… I think it’s unfair that some people have phones and others don’t. I don’t think the decision should have been left to us.” To other parties, it seemed the individual departments would have a better idea of what they could afford to lose. Budget Director Bill Winter said the decision has allowed individual departments to figure out how they wanted to reduce their budgets because they have the most insight to their circumstances. “Sometimes it’s a balancing act for having a central policy or procedure that everybody has to act as opposed to giving some discretion within the individual departments to do what is best in their environment,” Winter said. Although the departments were allowed to decide how to reduce their own budgets, Tamari said he wants to know the financial impact of him losing his phone. “I miss my phone, and I just wish I knew exactly that not having it was serving a greater purpose,” Tamari said. “I’m not convinced because I don’t know.” According to Winter, the lack of phones reduces monthly costs and does not completely eliminate the phones within the departments. “For employees to have a phone, there has to be a monthly charge paid,” Winter said. “I do
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know that each department still has phones in their central offices, so their secretaries have phones.” In spite of the importance of phones to professors, some students do not think they will miss the landlines. Junior biomedical major Nikki Adams, of San Antonio, TX, said she is more concerned with the lack of money than the lack of phones within the professors’ offices. “I can see why phones would be beneficial for students, but in my personal opinion I do not feel they are necessary. I haven’t called any of my teachers because I either see them face-to-face or communicate with them via email,” Adams said. “My question is, with all the things I pay for in my tuition that I have not and probably will not use in my entire life, why are they making budget cuts, and how much will phones really impact that?” According to Winter, the fewer students graduating in the Midwest from high school, and the decreasing Illinois state appropriation, have led to the need for budget cuts. The university is always forced to find a balance between providing a useful education and continuing to be affordable. Winter said the university had to decide in a short time how to implement the decreasing of costs in the most efficient way possible. “One of the issues is trying to decide, as a university, when we have this large amount of budget we need to cut, is how we handle it. Do we try to target certain areas or do we do across the board where everybody gets an equal cut?” Winter said. “We decided, in the time we had allotted, that probably the best plan in the vice chancellor area was to distribute across the board budget cuts. So then, it was up to the vice chancellors to determine. So in the case of our college of arts and sciences, it was up to the dean to determine how the cuts should happen. And so as a result, there are about 19 departments in the college of arts and sciences, and they decided that each department should choose how they would do it.”
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give the best education in a financially efficient way. “Now, we even have online classes, where students are emailing or texting the faculty members or using some sort of online way to contact them all hours of the night. Part of the added challenge in all of this is trying to figure out is what is the technology we use and all of these different things to be the most accessible to students, but also to manage our costs,” Winter said. “I don’t like budget cuts. It’s not anything we want to do. It’s just having to face the reality of the economic conditions and the situation that we’re in. So we’re trying to do our best to navigate through this.” Cutting telephones was not the most ideal way to reduce the budget. Tamari said there were many reasons people needed to call him. “Students would call me and let me know things like if they were going to be late to class. My colleagues called me. My kids’ school called me on that phone usually. I called around departments. I usually used my phone to talk within the university,” Tamari said. “I think phones are essential to the mission of our university, at least for some of us. I mean what if every person in the university had the opportunity to opt out? If the whole university had the option to opt out of phones, I bet you would’ve had more people without phones than you do now because some people don’t want their phones.” The lack of phones in professors’ offices has also increased the phone calls coming into other offices in the departments. Miller said although she is handling the situation, often by telling student to email their professors, she preferred when students could call their professors directly. “This has increased the phone calls that are coming in on our main line, so we’ve had to spend more time with that. We’re handling it pretty well. We’re sending emails to the faculty,” Miller said. “We
I miss my phone, and I just wish I knew exactly that not having it was serving a greater purpose.
It seemed most reasonable the individual departments decrease their budgets in their own ways. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Narbeth Emmanuel said each department was asked to reduce its budget by a certain percentage. “Each department had to reduce their budget by… 2 percent. So each department looked at how they could reduce their budget by 2 percent in different ways,” Emmanuel said. “Each department approached it in slightly different ways. The departments know better than I do about their own budgets. That way, each one could make a decision that was in their best interest.” With changing times, a solution to economic problems is not a simple one to find. Winter said one of the difficulties in situations like these is figuring out how to
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just work with it and roll with it, but I think it’s much better when they have their own voicemail because then it goes directly to their own voicemail. Especially when it’s students, because then they're trying to relay something to me, and I’m not their instructor. I don’t know everything that goes on. I don’t know all of the rules.” Many feel the way technology is progressing the necessity of telephones is decreasing. Chancellor Julie Furst-Bowe said she rarely finds the need to use her [office] phone. “When I was teaching, I rarely had students calling. My phone rarely rings here now. When you set up a meeting, you email. I think students tend to use email,” Furst-Bowe said. “We’ve seen that quite a few universities over the
past several years that have decided, as a university, to do away with landlines and rely on electronic communication.” As technology grows, the need for landlines will continue to decrease. Jennifer Vandever, associate vice chancellor for information technology and chief information officer, said the Internet is providing more alternatives to telephones, and it’s important that the university provides the most ideal form of communication. “Landline telephones have been a reliable form of communication for the past 40-50 years but are rapidly being displaced by mobile phones, email, text, chat, instant messaging and others,” Vandever said. “When we installed the current telephone technology, it was the most reliable way for people to connect individually with one another from a distance. That has clearly changed and there are a variety of alternatives, with the marketplace offering new choices at a near constant pace. ITS is currently working with our vendors to develop a plan and will be debuting new communication choices for the campus over the course of the next year.” For now, Vandever said the best alternatives to phones are email and Blackboard. “Without a phone, I would think email would be the best alternative,” Vandever said. “Also, Blackboard offers some synchronous and asynchronous communication tools. The instructional designers in ITS can meet with faculty members to discuss what would work best in each situation.
If the departments that decided to get rid of their phones decide on a more appropriate alternative to reduce their budgets, Emmanuel said they can. “If they don’t like the decision, they can change their minds anytime they want,” Emmanuel said. “It’s not an irreversible decision.” Although the economic times call for difficult financial decisions to be made, Emmanuel said SIUE continues to prevail. “Our reputation continues to be valued in the state. We not only provide an affordable education, but we provide a value added education,” Emmanuel said. “We have a good future ahead of us. We will have many challenges ahead of us, but as a good institution, with good intentions and good people, we will find ways to weather the storm into calm waters and move the institution forward.”
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Reformed Honors Program rebrands university There are 360 honor students on campus that will see the university begin the process to build up its Honors Program to offer more learning opportunities. The Honors Program currently consists of two required courses. Honors 120 is a freshman seminar course that works on the students’ writing, speaking and reasoning skills as they begin their college education. The second required course is Honors 320, normally taken in a student’s junior year and it is designed as a problem course that focuses on the problem and gives ways on how to effectively solve it. Students also have to take eight courses from Lincoln Breadth areas, which are general education classes with non-honors students. Honor students also get priority enrollment and exemption from all the foundation requirements of their majors.
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Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Narbeth Emmanuel said he has a vision of what he would like to see the Honors Program grow into. “We have to establish and develop a very innovative, very creative structured honors program that is both challenging and rewarding to students who want to be a part of it,” Emmanuel said. “I would like to see an honors program that has three to five different prongs. One is taking integrative courses together [to] be mentored by good faculty. Two is giving students opportunities to study abroad, do a learning service project and develop internship opportunities for their career paths.” Honors Program Director Eric Ruckh said he is very enthusiastic about making the program more robust. The goal for the Honors Program is to have a plan put together by the end of the spring semester, and then have it implemented within the next 18 months. “It’s crucial that the institu-
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tion be able to target and draw in students that would otherwise not think of SIUE to come here in order to maintain enrollment,” Ruckh said. “Having a robust, vibrant honors program is a way to target class or a set of students that we would otherwise without it, not be able to draw.” Changes that have been discussed include more of an integrated curriculum, like expanding the amount of courses so 20-25 percent of the student’s curriculum counts as honors credits and as a Springboard seminar for honors students. Honors Program senior political science and history major Nasir Almasri, of Chicago, said the honors program would benefit all students on campus. “I think that the fact that we are refocusing on our honors program right now is a lot of things for the university. I think a good, solid honors program is key to how you improve a school,” Almasri said. Almasri said being an honors student has enhanced his collegiate experience. “I think something that is important that we kind of undervalue, even with the current setup of the Honors Program, is that when you have other honors students, you have deeper, more intellectual conversations. I think that is important,” Almasri said.
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# ! The Alestle, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s student newspaper, recently won a national award during the 93rd annual Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers National College Media Convention in Philadelphia, Penn. The Alestle was in the Top Ten for overall excellence in the Best Of Show — Four-Year Weekly Tabloid category, the most competitive of all the categories in the contest. Editor-in-Chief Hailey Huffines accepted the award on behalf of the entire staff. Managing Editor Mady O’Reilly and Faculty Adviser Tammy Merrett-
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Murry were also at the ceremony, as well as other editors and staff. The Alestle competed nationally against several other four-year school newspapers from across the country, including top student newspapers from Hawaii, Chicago, North Carolina, Nebraska, Washington, Vermont, New York, Oregon and Virginia. Entries in the competition were judged for general excellence by members of the Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Advisers. “Consistently placing in the Top Ten in a national Best of Show competition such as this shows the hard work, intelligence and dedication of the stu-
dents who make up the Alestle staff,” Alestle Program Director Tammy Merrett-Murry said. “It’s a lot to live up to year after year, and the staffs always rise to the challenge in the toughest category. I’m very proud.” The Alestle has placed several times in recent years in national Best of Show competitions at the Fall National College Media Convention in the Four-Year Weekly Tabloid, Large School Website and Four-Year Special Edition categories. The publication regularly wins several awards in the annual Illinois College Press Association contest as well.
SIUE joins universities nationwide in sexual assault prevention Revisions to SIUE’s current Sexual Assault Misconduct and Relationship Violence Policy and Procedures are being finalized before taking place later this semester. Chad Martinez, director of Equal Opportunity, Access and Title IX Coordination, introduced the newly-approved rules and regulations during the Student Government meeting on Friday, Oct. 31. Since the “It’s On Us” campaign started, SIUE has been working to make a stronger, more clarified policy. “Obama has really made this a point of focus. About three or four years ago, they started putting out guidelines for universities, and so this is what we’ve produced,” Martinez said. Martinez said there are laws by which SIUE must abide, including Title IX of the Amendments Act of
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the United States Education Amendments of 1972 and the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013. The draft of the policy has already gone through the Chancellor’s Council as well as the Policy Council. “Our obligations are not only to any individual, but to the campus community as a whole,” Martinez said. “So, we need to make sure that the environment is safe and free of harassment for everyone.” According to Martinez, the policy prohibits all sexual misconduct — sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking and sexual exploitation. SIUE’s goals include informing students of the resources available to them, educating them about sexual assault, consent and what it means, and changing the policy every year or so to enhance the safety of the campus environment. !
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10-22-14 Officers responded to Peck Hall for a report of a student who had threatened a professor. The caller, who was also the professor, stated the student was being profane and threatened to follow him out of the building. A suspect description was distributed to the officers and the student was located in the quad. 10-23-14 A caller reported a group of 1012 subjects chanting and moving from the Engineering Building area to the Art and Design area. Officers were not able to locate the described action in that area.
recognize and thank those members of our campus community who have served this country as members of the United States military. You have our deepest appreciation and respect for the sacrifices made on our behalf. To those students, staff and faculty who have proudly served...we owe you a debt of honor. You have been away from family and friends, deferred your educational goals, and put your very lives at risk to defend the ideals of liberty and freedom. It is a privilege to have you as part of the SIUE family.
Officers checked the wooded area near Bluff Hall and several subjects fled when the officers attempted to make contact. The officers identified and spoke with the individuals involved. No further information was given. Mitchell L. Stichter was arrested for theft of service. He was processed and released with a notice to appear. An officer responded to North Circle Drive at University Drive regarding a traffic accident between two vehicles. No injuries or blockage were reported. An ambulance was dispatched for a female who was conscious and breathing, but complained of a neck injury. The subject was transported to Anderson Hospital and her vehicle towed by Brown’s Towing. 10-25-14 While unlocking a vehicle for a student in Evergreen Hall parking lot, the officer spotted drug paraphernalia in the vehicle. Natasha R. Trotter was arrested for possession of paraphernalia. Trotter was transported to the SIUE Police Department where she was processed. Trotter was released with a notice to appear and escorted back to Evergreen Hall.
A subject said that the day before, he and his roommate got into a verbal argument. The subject stated he struck his roommate and a fight ensued. Officers spoke with the roommate, and neither person wished to press charges. 10-28-14 An officer met with a resident of Woodland Hall who reported that someone entered her room, nothing was taken or disturbed, but an odd note was left on her bed.
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An officer responded to 405 Cougar Village regarding a call stating there was a resident who was not taking his medication that was threatening his roommates with knives. An ambulance was dispatched and the subject refused medical trans-
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10-31-14 An officer took a phone report regarding a resident, stating she came back to her room from lunch and her door was propped open, and it looked like someone had gone through her belongings. Nothing was reported missing. Officers spoke with a driver of a vehicle in reference to occupants reportedly throwing eggs at other vehicles. The driver vehemently denied throwing eggs or loaning her vehicle to anyone else who would have done so.
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port. The subject was detained and transported to the SIUE Police Department for questioning.
Officers were requested to Woodland Hall parking lot by a resident assistant in reference to an underage male who was severely intoxicated. An officer arrived on scene and requested EMS for the subject who was breathing but unresponsive. The subject was transported by Edwardsville EMS. 11-1-14 Officers responded to Bluff Hall for a call that an underage male was drinking and intoxicated. The reporting party said the subject was headed to his room. The officers said the suspect was in his bed, asleep upon their arrival, and would follow up with him the following day. Alexander C. Lane was escorted from Bluff Hall to the SIUE Police Department where he was arrested for unlawful consumption of alcohol by a minor. Lane was processed and posted $150 cash bond, was released and escorted back to Bluff Hall. Ryan M. Lofton arrived at the SIUE Police Department for a follow-up arrest and was arrested for unlawful consumption of alcohol by a minor. Lofton was processed and released with a notice to appear. 11-2-14 An officer responded to 430 Cougar Village for an active fire alarm. The fire alarm was activated by cannabis smoke and was restored. Several subjects fled the residence. David V. Kingly was transported to the SIUE Police Department and was arrested for criminal trespass to residence. Kingly was processed. He was unable to post bond and was transported to Madison County Jail. An officer took a report of a battery that occurred at Prairie Hall. Jacquelyn C. Obah and Shantell M. Henry were taken into custody, transported to the SIUE Police Department and arrested for battery. EMS was requested for Henry. Both subjects were processed, issued a notice to appear and released.
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Ending the misery Hiring Joe Maddon good first step for Cubs While some have looked at the Chicago Cubs’ hiring Joe Maddon as a good sign due to his experience and record with young teams, the most important thing to take away is that the Cubs have a new mentality.
Ben Levin Alestle Sports Editor Since Lou Piniella left in 2010, the Cubs have had three managers who have compiled a team record of 295-390, with none of those managers getting close to a playoff berth. Signing a five year contract, Maddon is likely going to be with the Cubs for at least the duration of the contract. Maddon comes in with a 781-729 career record as a manager, two American League Manager of the Year awards and an AL pennant under his belt. He knows how to win, but success will not be rapid.
By keeping Maddon around, the team and players will be given time to grow — an area the Cubs have struggled with in the past. With a young major league team and a blossoming minor league system, Maddon’s laid back attitude will allow for players to mature. With a top-10 minor league system, Maddon fits in well with the Cubs current organizational structure. If prospects pan out, he should be able to take advantage of their upsides to put a successful team on the field. It will be important for fans to remember Maddon is not being brought in for immediate results. Many of the prospects the Cubs are looking to in the future are not ready for a big league call-up, and the major league club still has large problems in the starting rotation. The team is in one of the most competitive divisions in Major League Baseball and cannot expect to quickly win a division title. With the Cardinals, Reds, Pirates and Brewers all competing in some
aspect, the National League Central Division will not be an easy win for the team. The fans must also insist the team does not rely exclusively on the minor league system. The club must ration its resources better than it has in past years — there should be no more Edwin Jackson-like signings — and know which players are worth investing in. This is where Theo Epstein should come in because knowing how players can help the team is the exclusive reason he was hired. In Boston, he found players to help create a World Series championship team, and will need to use his insight to build a team in Chicago like this. By combining Maddon and Epstein, the Cubs have set up their off-field talent for a winning future, but it will be the on-field athletes that prove if the team is a winner or a pretender.
Students should focus on nutrition facts, not buzzwords Organic is a buzzword in today’s marketplace. The o-word, for most people, stands for overpriced or overrated but this does not have to be the case. If people were more accepting and supportive of scientific advances in food technology everyone would have a chance to have healthy affordable options.
Amanda Turner Alestle Online Editor To combat the organic overlords, we should pay attention to the technological advances that allow for healthy growing environments and soil replenishment. As the global population increases, space for growing crops decreases.
Like most college students I usually have very little padding in my bank account. I can get the basics — ramen, milk and cereal — but little else. It really comes as no surprise that when splurging for, let’s say, a pear, I am not going to take the time to make sure it is organic. I am just going to pick the one that costs less. It would not be economically responsible of me to buy organic everything on my budget. Furthermore, even if foods have a shiny little sticker proclaiming themselves fresh and clean, they are often not. This is the difference between organic and certified organic. If it is not certified, then it might as well be a conventional product, full of pesticides and antibiotics. If you are fooled into buying uncertified organic, a reasonable assumption being that it does in fact say organic on the packaging, then you are just
throwing your money away. What we really miss out on by buying the non-organic items is the nutritional content. We get less vitamins and minerals from the foods that are treated for bugs and disease because it depletes the soil in which our food is grown. We get a lot more filler food, which admittedly keeps us full, but does not fuel our bodies in the same way. To imagine a world of purely organic foods is ludicrous. We need to focus on finding a way to make things healthier in the future without all the labeling and high prices. Until then, all we can do is just keep buying groceries and taking vitamins to try to make up the difference.
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making magic ‘Dance in Concert’ glides through the ages with alumni, student choreographed pieces Choreography and alumni hold the spotlight of Dunham Hall Theater as the Department of Theater and Dance presents the 45th anniversary of “Dance in Concert.” Director Kristin Best-Kinscherff said “Dance in Concert” includes a variety of distinctive pieces, all personalized by the choreographers. They are using six alumni choreographers. She chose choreographers near Edwardsville, such as distinguished alumni and co-workers. “If they were in the area, I knew they would be able to work with the students on a regular basis,” Best-Kinscherff said. “If we brought in choreographers from L.A. or somewhere further away, they would only get to work with the students for a shorter amount of time. We wanted people that were able to come in on a weekly or biweekly basis so the students were able to learn the most from them.” Best-Kinscherff said as one of the choreographers herself, her work is titled, ‘I Spied Myself,’ a piece she choreographed in 2006 in graduate school. “It’s a tango-based dance, with movement in the jazz genre,” Best-Kinscherff said. “It’s a very technical dance in terms of the foot work. It’s eight women and it has turned out to be a great challenge for them.” Best-Kinscherff said restaging a piece is never an easy task; it can become somewhat of a struggle. “A work is created on a certain group for their capabilities and for whatever the concert is,” Best-Kinscherff said. “Whenever you take that to a different group, they don’t necessarily have the same style or movement qualities. It’s not just teaching them a dance, its really teaching them how to do the movement. None of the girls in the piece had any experience with ballroom dancing and even though it’s not a ballroom dance, it has that tango flare to it; so teaching them to how to hold their hands and carry their body and the different stances has been a really great challenge for them.” Best-Kinscherff said creating a piece and arranging choreography is a very creative process. “It starts with a concept that can be based on the music, the movement or an idea that you had for a statement that you want to make,”
Best-Kinscherff said. “All choreographers work differently. I particularly start with having some sort of statement — something that’s going on in my life or the world that inspires me to create something. Then I’ll start the movement and keep trying music until I find something that really fits with it. So then it’s working the music in with the movement and making everything fit together.” There will be nine pieces in total, six choreographed by alumni, two by current faculty and one by a student dancer. For alumna Lynn Bobzin, of Chicago, the rehearsal process was intense since she is in a different location from the dancers. “We had a very short window of time where I could actually be present in the studio to create the work with the students; we had five rehearsals to create the piece,” Bobzin said. “You have to get a lot done in a short amount of time; what happens is you condense the creative process down to a millisecond of what the time it takes to craft a work would be. It’s high stress, but also very exhilarating.” Bobzin said her piece is titled “corps. pouvoir. mechanisme,” which translates to “body. power. mechanism.” “What we were examining was this idea of being invaded or invading; this broke down to issues of power mechanics and dynamics,” Bobzin said. “The whole piece has a mechanical, militant feel to the movement and the music. Things are very sharp; it’s very physically driving. It’s got a steampunk design costume-wise; it had this dark feeling to it, kind of grungy and industrial.” Bobzin said now teaching choreography professionally, she considers it a privilege to be asked to come back and choreograph for this concert. “It’s an honor to be now viewed as a professional in this field,” Bobzin said. “That’s sort of eye-opening for me because I feel honored to be thought of in that regard, that the caliber of my work is something they want to exhibit and share with the community.” Best-Kinscherff said the idea for an alumnicentered theme came from a presentation she saw in the spring. The presentation gave her the idea to contact Alcine Wiltz, the founder of the dance program at SIUE. Once she contacted him, he mentioned the idea of getting in touch with alumni. Best-Kinscherff said the dance department is comprised of many young dancers, with few upperclassmen. “It’s been really beneficial from them to learn from the alumni,” BestKinscherff said. “Even [to learn] what goes into making a dance
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piece, as opposed to a dance recital or three minute short works. These are much longer, at least 12 minutes long.” One of these upperclassmen, however, is student choreographer Sterling Allen. Allen, a junior dance major from Peoria, said while enrolled in a composition class, she had to choreograph a full piece, five minutes or longer. Her piece, titled “Loosely Connected,”
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staff and faculty have really helped me a lot. I’m excited to continue to grow as a choreographer, to premiere this work on the main stage and continue to grow from this experience.” This is the third year BestKinscherff has been director of this concert, something that comes with her title as head of the dance department. Best-Kinscherff said being not only director, but a cho-
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was chosen to be featured in this year’s “Dance in Concert.” “My piece is centered around mental disorders; my dancers are portraying they are in a mental institute,” Allen said. “Everyone has different traits and characteristics that display these disorders. Charles Manson is a big role in my piece; I took a lot of quotes from his interviews when he was talking about how people who live in these jail cells and mental institutes are very loosely connected to the world. It’s really interesting; they really get into the characters and I’m excited to see it on the main stage.” Allen said it means a great deal to her to be chosen for the role of student choreographer. “Once I leave college, I would love to persue a career as a professional dancer, but I would also love to expand my work as a choreographer and continue to set pieces,” Allen said. “All of the
reographer as well has been a challenging role. “I’m not only looking at the show as a whole, but I also become selfishly involved with my own piece,” Best-Kinscherff said. “It can be a challenge to step back from all of it and look objectively.” Best-Kinscherff said a reception will be held after Saturday night’s performance to further honor the alumni. “The whole “Dance in Concert” celebrates the anniversary,” Best-Kinscherff said. “In relation to that, we are having the reception for alumni. Alcine will also be there, in hopes of reconnecting with some of his former students.” The 45th anniversary of “Dance in Concert” will be held at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12-15, and 2 p.m. Nov. 16, in Dunham Hall Theater.
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Women’s soccer makes SIUE history Despite losing 2-1 to Southeast Missouri State University on Friday, Oct. 31, the women’s soccer team made history, ending the season as co-regular season Ohio Valley Conference champions. The 8-2 conference record is the best win-loss ratio the team has accomplished since joining the OVC and Division-I soccer. Head Coach Derek Burton said the team has come a long way in a short time period. “It’s been a long road with challenges, but it’s definitely really rewarding, especially this year,” Burton said. “To get a conference title in our third season of being able to compete in the conference is really a point of pride for our program and for our athletic department.” On Friday, the Cougars took an early deficit against SEMO in the 25th minute. Senior forward Breana Beine hit a through ball to sophomore forward Natasha Minor, who scored her eighth goal of the season.
Burton said the early goal motivated his team to play at its top level. “I don’t think it really affected us all that much,” Burton said. “Other than just making sure that we had a bit more urgency the rest of the game and certainly in the second half. We played with more urgency
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and competed at a pretty high level in the second half.” The Cougars retaliated in the 75th minute to tie the game at 1-1. Sophomore forward Kayla Delgado got her fourth goal of the year by sneaking the ball past the opposing goalkeeper. The game did not remain tied for long, as in the 85th minute, SEMO scored the game-winning goal. After junior goalkeeper Jennifer Pelley blocked an initial shot by the away team, senior midfielder Torey Byrd put the ball past Pelley to finish the Cougars. Burton said the game was well played by the Cougars, but they could not find a second goal. “I think it boiled down to just taking our opportunities,” Burton said. “In any sport, but especially in soccer, if you don’t take the opportunities when you have them or you don’t get a favorable bounce one way or another, that can make the difference in the result in a tight game like that.” Before the game, seniors forward Michelle Auer, defender Samantha Jones and defender Brianna Schmitt were honored in their last game at Korte Stadium. Burton said the three have played a big part in the team’s success this year. “[Jones] is certainly a leader and someone who can take the reins of our team,” Burton said. “[Auer] is a leader in how she plays and brings her veteran savvy to the game to be able to score goals and create goals with her competitiveness. They’ve definitely been a big part in bridging the gap from our transition from Division II to Division I.” Due to the loss, the Cougars took the No. 2 seed in the OVC Tournament, giving the team a first-round bye, but it will have to travel to Cape Girardeau, Mo. Burton said the team will not take its first opponent lightly, despite the day off. “It’s not enough just to have a bye,” Burton said. “You have to come out and play and compete at a high level no matter what. It’s not like a team is going to come in and let us walk over them because they played the day before. Certainly, we’ve been in that position
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Volleyball improves to 4-8 in conference then just playing with a bit more fire.” Senior libero Chelsea Colclasure ended the match with a season-high 30 digs. Saturday, the Cougars grabbed yet another five-set victory over Southeast Missouri State, winning by score of 2517, 22-25, 23-25, 25-18, 15-12. Torre ended the night with 19 kills and a career-high seven service aces. Held had a double-double,
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8K record broken at conference meet The men’s and women’s cross country teams made history finishing in third and seventh place, respectively, at the Ohio Valley Conference Championship on Saturday, Nov. 1. On the men’s side, the team’s third place finish is the best in school history. Head Coach Eileen McAllister said the team was excited for its rank, but could have finished higher in the standings. “The guys ran really well,” McAllister said. “It was a little bittersweet because they greatly improved from last year and definitely outperformed where they were picked coming into the season. They were three points out of second, which is too close, but obviously you can’t be disappointed with third either.” For the men, junior Clint Kliem set the school record for the best time in an 8K. Kliem ran the race in 24 minutes, 36 seconds, which was good enough for eighth place overall at the competition. McAllister said Kliem went out and accomplished a goal he had made for himself. “[Kliem] had decided that he wanted to compete for a top spot and put himself in the mix right from the beginning,” McAllister said. “You knew going into this
meet, this is something he had his sights set on and something he was determined to do. He just expected that. That’s what he wanted to do, and he went out and performed.” Sophomore Keith Meyer and junior Nick Moore finished in 13th and 14th place, respectively. Meyer ran a career-best 24:52. Moore finished the race with a time of 25:02. With three finishers inside the top 14, the men’s team walked away with three All-OVC runners, the best the team has ever done at the competition. McAllister said she expected the athletes to compete well. “I could see it all along,” McAllister said. “I think it surprised other people just because obviously they don’t practice with us. You couldn’t tell we were there from some of our meet results earlier in the year, but I could see it was in their grasps. This is what they were projected to do.” McAllister said the reason for improvement on the men’s side is the friendly competition between teammates. “We finally have a good, solid training group,” McAllister said. “There’s some quality in there where guys can train with each other and push each other. | pg. 11
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Our number one runner was different several times this year, and in practice it’s always different because they’re competing and pushing each other.” On the women’s side, six runners set personal bests in the race, including junior Kirby Hale, who led the team with a time of 18:19, good enough for 21st place. McAllister said she expected more from the team. “The women’s race, we improved a spot from last year,” McAllister said. “We had a lot of [personal records]. I just still think we have a lot more; we’re better than seventh place. We just haven’t shown it. They haven’t put it all together basically. We’re still young so there’s still learning, but they left stuff out of the course.”
Junior Conradette King, freshman Haley Miller, junior Haley Briggs and freshman Jess Clarke finished in the top five for the Cougars and set personal records in the process. McAllister said personal records are used as a measuring stick more in the sport, so she was still disappointed in the finish. “The [personal records] are great, and it’s a step in the right direction,” McAllister said “Again, if our [personal records] aren’t putting us in a competitive level in terms of the rest of the conference, then we still have to get better. We still have some work to do to compete at the conference level. That’s the ultimate goal.” Due to the nature of the sport, McAllister said personal bests are not as important as points.
“Unfortunately, with cross country it’s about place,” McAllister said. “Times are great, and we also use that as measurement, but at the end of the day, even if the times are slow but your place is good, you still win the meet.” The teams’ next meet is at the NCAA Division-I Midwest Regional, where the runners will compete to go to the NCAA Championships. “We are just sticking to the training plan,” McAllister said. “We’re adjusting here and there for individuals, but it’s just sticking to the plan that we outlined at the beginning of the season. We get to back off with some of the volume.” The Midwest Regional starts at 12 p.m. Friday, Nov. 14.
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