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“ SEVEN ” swimmers have quit at SIU due to Hanson’s abuse -Athlete 2
AMID ALLEGED ABUSE COVER-UP ON WOMEN’S SPORTS TEAM “He [Geoff Hanson] frightened me to the point where I would not be able to able sleep before I went to practice.” - Athlete 2 Then Athletic Director Liz Jarnigan congratulates players after the game on Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019 after the Salukis’ 76-65 win against the Tennessee Tech University Golden Eagles. Isabel Miller | @isabelmillermedia Ryan Scott | @ryanscott134 Oreoluwa Ojewuyi | @odojewuyi Nick Karpinski | nkarpinski
The Equity and Compliance Office has launched an investigation into allegations made by SIU women’s swim and dive athletes saying their coach, Geoff Hanson, emotionally and sexually abused them since 2019, according to Chancellor Austin A. Lane. Athletic director Liz Jarnigan has since been fired. Two former athletes, referred to as Athlete 1 and Athlete 2, spoke anonymously to The Daily Egyptian about their experiences with Hanson. The former athletes requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. Athlete 1 said Hanson inappropriately commented on athletes’ swimsuits in front of the team, made sexual comments about team members feminine hygiene,
touched an athlete’s inner thigh in front of the team, consistently threatened to remove athletes’ scholarships and went over the maximum 20 hours of training per week, which is regulated by the NCAA. In a meeting on Oct. 9 2020, multiple swim and dive athletes had a meeting with The Equity and Compliance Office, where Jarnigan was present. The sources said they described Hanson’s conduct and have yet to see any corrective measure. Athlete 1 said parents of two team members notified Lane of their abuse allegations via email on Sept. 7. Jarnigan was fired on Sept. 9. Lane has directed athletes’ and parents’ concerns to the interim athletic director, Matt Kupec, who is the chief executive officer of the SIU Foundation. Lane released a statement on Sept.
10 thanking Jarnigan for her work at SIU and announcing a national search for a new athletic director. The Daily Egyptian asked Lane for comment regarding athletes’ abuse claims. He said Sept. 7 was the first he heard about them, and he can’t confirm that they resulted in Jarnigan’s termination. “We’re going to make sure our student athletes are safe and that they feel like they can not only compete, but go to class without any form of harassment or intimidation,” Lane said. “That will be our commitment to our student-athletes.” The Daily Egyptian repeatedly reached out to Jarnigan for comment. She directed all questions to her attorney. The Daily Egyptian did not hear back from Jarnigan’s attorney prior to publication. “[Jarnigan] knew about these reports and she did not do anything,”
Athlete 1 said. “She never talked to Geoff [Hanson] about fixing this situation.” Athlete 2 said seven swimmers have quit at SIU due to Hanson’s abuse. Athlete 2 said Hanson disregarded athletes’ mental health with excessive training hours and repeatedly threatened to take away scholarships if athletes did not comply with his training requests. “He frightened me to the point where I would not be able to sleep before I went to practice,” Athlete 2 said. “I was so anxious about showing up to practice and feeling like he doesn’t even care if I’m there or not. I always felt like he didn’t even want some of us there.” The Daily Egyptian reached out to Hanson multiple times for comment and did not receive a response. Athlete 1 said they brought these abuse claims to the assistant
swim coaches and said Hanson told them to not report the claims to the administration. “They just know that he’s going to use everything in his power to get his way, and if they stand in his way, then they’re going to go down,” Athlete 1 said. Sports editor Ryan Scott can be reached at rscott@dailyegyptian. com or on twitter @ryanscott134 Editor in Chief Oreoluwa Ojewuyi can be reached at oojewuyi@ dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @odojewuyi. Graduate contributor Nick Karpinski can be reached at nkarpinski@dailyegyptian.com.
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Lieutenant Colonel Jessica Dwyer gave a speech during the Patriot Day Ceremony at SIU. "On September 11th, 2001, I was a sophomore physics major attending the University of Mary Washington college in Fredericksburg, Virginia," Dwyer said, "My Concepts in Biology class just started at 8:30am, and this is Eastern time remember, and let out at 10am. This means the time I left Jepson Hall, both the World Trade Center buildings had been struck, as had the Pentagon. And the South Tower had collapsed." The Patriot Day Ceremony was held by the City of Carbondale to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021 at Altgeld Hall at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo
City of Carbondale commemorates 20th anniversary of 9/11
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On a quiet Saturday morning, the City of Carbondale held a Patriot Day Ceremony that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in 2001. The ceremony was held outside Altgeld Hall at Southern Illinois University that began with the hoisting of the American flag and had guest speakers Carbondale Mayor John “Mike” Henry and Lieutenant Colonel Jessica Dwyer. “On September 11, 2001, I was a sophomore physics major attending the University of Mary Washington college in Fredericksburg, Virginia,” Dwyer said, “My Concepts in Biology class just started at 8:30am, and this is Eastern time remember, and let out at 10am. This means the time I left Jepson Hall, both the World Trade Center buildings had been struck, as had the
Pentagon. And the South Tower had collapsed.” Dwyer would go on to tell a story of her uncle who was working in the South Tower when the North Tower was intentionally hit during the attack. The ceremony ended with a moment of silence and the ringing of a bell at 9:28 am Central time, when the North Tower fell in New York City. Saturday marked two decades since the violent terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. that killed thousands of individuals including first responders who answered the calls during the attacks as well as those who fought off the attackers and crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Flight 93. Staff Photographer Jared Treece can be reached at jtreece@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @JaredtMedia.
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Members of the Army and Air Force ROTC programs at SIU unfold the flag to be flown during the Patriot Day Ceremony held by the City of Carbondale to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021 at Altgeld Hall at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo
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9/11: The Domino effect lingers 20 years later Oreoluwa Ojewuyi | @odojewuyi
The toxic dust that fell as the World Trade Center towers collapsed 20 years ago continues to cast a dark shadow over America. 9/11 created a domino effect that would transform American culture and society for decades to come. On the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the twin towers the Daily Egyptian worked alongside River Region to tell the stories of those who lived through the attacks, reported the news and those who would grow up in a world shaped by this traumatic event. Lindsay King, assistant lecturer at the school of journalism at SIUC, was a junior at the University of Kentucky when two planes hit the trade center on September 11. She was watching the “Today Show” when the second plane hit. As a local NBC affiliate, King had to deliver information on the attack to the public as swiftly as possible. It was the first time people reported without confirming the information or source. “We were like sponges, we wanted to absorb everything that we were hearing. We had no idea what was going on. In this country, we’ve never experienced anything like that. I think the closest thing would probably be Pearl Harbor,” King said. Pearl Harbor caused decades of discrimination against Japanese Americans. 9/11 reshaped the course of history and put a target on the backs of Brown and Muslim people all over the world. The media played a significant role in the way Muslim people were portrayed after the attacks. When the media began to report on the terrorists, the words Muslim, extremist and terrorist became synonymous. “That’s so dangerous because in a way, every Muslim was linked to this group … They became attacked because of the people who flew the planes into the towers,” King said. “I think that was the time when you kind of see how dangerous the media can be.” Sophomore public health student, Dania Abou-Jabal, a hijabi Muslim, was born in November 2001, just a few months after the attack. Abou-Jabal said the media has perpetuated negative stereotypes of Muslim people. “The Islamic religion is really a peaceful religion and we are peaceful people. It really is sad to see the media portray Muslims as either being terrorists or women that wear the hijab as being oppressed. It really is just the wrong narrative that is put out to the American people and just the world in general,” Abou-Jabal said. Growing up in Carbondale, Illinois, Abou-Jabal said she was fortunate to live in a diverse and understanding environment; however, when she and her family left the bubble of safety and acceptance to visit other cities they received a negative reception from the public. “I have heard multiple comments.
Photo of the wreckage of the twin towers which fell after the attacks on 9/11. Photographed by US Department of Defense
I’ve been called a towel head, I’ve been called a terrorist. I’ve been told to go back to my own country, even though I was born and raised here in America,” Abou-Jabal said. Annie Hammock, managing editor of the Daily Egyptian, woke up to the tragic news of the attack 20 years ago. At the time of the attack, Hammock was working at CNN, 17 years into her professional TV career. “There were people in their homes who were able to just sit and take it in. We had to process it and we had to get it on the air and in a way that was going to help those people at home, do their processing,” Hammock said. Hammock and her coworkers repeatedly consumed traumatic content in order to deliver the news to the public. “Some of the images were horrific and most notable being the people jumping off the building. I think it may have run once or twice on air before the executives said ‘no there’s no purpose to it,’” Hammock said. “These were real people who were jumping to their deaths, fearing a much worse fate with being burned to death. They had two choices, die in a horrible fall or they can be burned to death. To get into their heads was difficult.” Although the station decided to stop showing the horrific videos, the images have been burned into Hammock’s mind. Hammock said many journalists did not realize that they were developing PTSD from the repetitive viewing of these videos. 9/11 was the most difficult event she covered as a journalist — King was diagnosed with PTSD years after the attacks occurred, linked to her coverage of the event. “How do you stay detached and objective when planes are crashing into buildings that helped define the best of what we are (innovative, bold, welcoming of other cultures). How do you write, edit, produce, report
any of it when two iconic towers crash to the ground and fear clings to you like the dust they became? You. Just. Do,” Hammock said in a blog post years later. Robert Spahr, interim director for the School of Media Arts, lived in Manhattan, New York at the time of the attacks. A single father, Spahr lived with his then 5-year-old son in the lower east side.
my hand?’ I grabbed him and we ran across Sixth Avenue. The planes were really low so I thought they were gonna swoop in and bomb us,” Spahr said. With no landlines or TV, information was scarce in New York, but the fear began to mount. “The rest of the world was experiencing it through a screen and I didn’t see any of it on a screen until late at night,” Spahr said.
“I really hope that the American people could just talk to a person within the religion of Islam, and really just have a one on one, open conversation, even if it turns into a debate.” - Dania Abou-Jabal Sophomore
“I jumped in a cab because I was worried I was going to be late for work,” Spahr said. “I noticed a lot of people looking south as I was headed north pointing up in the sky … I see a puff of smoke above the World Trade Center.” Spahr didn’t think too much of the attack until one of his coworkers said a second plane hit the World Trade Center. When recounting the events that occurred that day Spahr broke down in tears. Spahr said there was no information about the attack. “At that point all the information you got was on the street because all of the antennas were in the World Trade Center,” Spahr cried. “The towers were still standing, there was a big hole and F16s circling.” As soon as Spahr heard the news of the second plane crash, he got a cab to go to get his son. As the F16s approached Spahr thought they were going to attack the capital. “My son’s five at the time, and he’s like ‘Dad why are you squeezing
Spahr said the atmosphere in New York changed that day. Generation Z has developed under a heightened state of fear and tragedy. “We’re just now leaving Afghanistan. So the United States’ longest wars ended just a couple days ago … the soldiers who started to go fight after 9/11, their kids are now enlisted in fighting. That’s a lifetime of war,” Spahr said. Spahr said the results of our divisiveness creates a fear of “others.” “We have militarized ourselves, we’re looking inward with the same intensity that 9/11 caused us to go out and invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11,” Spahr said. Salwa Ahmed, senior social work student at SIUC, was only 1 years old when the 9/11 attacks occurred. Still, the reverberating affects of 9/11 continue to impact her as a Muslim Indian American today. “I grew up in Glen Ellyn, and that’s a predominantly white area so I grew up thinking ... Muslims were the bad
guys, Muslims are terrorists. I always felt like I had to defend myself … I shouldn’t have to defend myself, it should be a given that not everyone is a bad person based on their religion,” Ahmed said. Ahmed recounted an instance when a preschool teacher called the FBI to her family’s home. When her younger brother was in preschool he jokingly said ‘oh I threw a grenade’ in conversation with his friends about the video game Halo. “She overheard the conversation and actually called the FBI on us. I remember it so vividly … I remember I answered the door when they came to our house and I was just like, ‘What’s going on? Who are you guys? Why are you here?’,” Ahmed said. Although Ahmed said she experiences several similar instances throughout her childhood, this was not an isolated incident but instead a footnote in a series of microaggressions and discrimination to come. “I noticed my dad always gets pulled aside at the airport and gets a little extra screening done, they ask for his ID when they don’t ask for anyone else’s,” Ahmed said. She said discrimination is an “almost routine” part of her daily life as a Muslim and as a Brown woman. In the Black community parents sit their children down for “the talk” — a cautionary conversation that prepares Black American children for the racism and discrimination they will endure. According to Ahmed and Abou-Jabal, a similar version of “the talk” is given to Muslim American children to protect them from harms way because of their religious beliefs. “A lot of Muslim parents tell their sons, don’t grow your beard long, don’t talk about Muslims or Islam too much in public … don’t talk about like your religion too much,” Ahmed said. Abou-Jabal encourages people to make Muslim friends and to educate themselves before passing judgment on a community of peaceful people. “I really hope that the American people could just talk to a person within the religion of Islam, and really just have a one on one, open conversation, even if it turns into a debate,” Abou-Jabal said. 9/11 caused two separate national tragedies that are still impacting American society today. The pain from that day lives on in those who experienced it, documented it, and the innocent who were — and are — targeted as a result of it. Tragedies have a way of unifying people with empathy and compassion, but they can also ignite a fire of hate that divides us. As we reflect on the last 20 years since this horrific event occurred we continue to learn how to restore our humanity and empathy for one another. Editor in Chief Oreoluwa Ojewuyi can be reached at oojewuyi@dailyegyptian. com or on twitter @odojewuyi.
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SIU-C steps up to fight COVID-19 William Box | wbox@dailyegyptian.com
Professors in the fields of microbiology, fermentation sciences, and biochemistry at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIU-C) have taken on projects locally and statewide to help combat and document the spread of COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. The first case of COVID-19 in the US was documented in January of 2020 in Snohomish County, Washington, just north of Seattle, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. In February, the first cases of community infection began to appear in California. By the end of March the US was reporting the largest number of infections of any nation. At that time, Dr. Scott Hamilton-Brehm, assistant professor of microbiology at SIU-C, began work on producing the Viral Transport Medium (VTM) that would go on to be used by the Illinois Department of Health (IDPH) to test for and track COVID-19 as it began to spread through the population of the state. “So when they take the test and put that thing up your nose and they put it in the tube, that solution is made of a certain medium preparation to preserve it so it can go to testing, and Illinois was about to run out,” Hamilton-Brehm said. Hamilton-Brehm said the IDPH asked all available facilities that were capable of creating the VTM to do so. He said at the time, SIU-C was using remote learning, but he called current and former students to aid in the production of the solution. “We couldn’t get plastic items, labels weren’t sticking onto the vials for tracking because we weren’t prepared for mass production,” Hamilton-Brehm said. “ I told my workers ‘we need to step up here, the state was calling and for two months we made the solution.” Hamilton-Brehm and his team were able to produce a shipment of 150,000 vials, the second largest of all facilities to do so, to be sent to Springfield, where it was distributed to IDPH facilities across the state. “We bought the state the time they needed to make the deal with companies to make millions. We couldn’t scale up to that, but to this day I’m floored at what we did,” Hamilton-Brehm said. In the first week of March 2020, Dr. Matt McCarroll, director of the Fermentation Sciences Institute at SIU-C, was participating in the Pittsburgh Conference in Chicago. The conference is a gathering of analytical chemists which takes place annually for the purpose of sharing new data and information in the field. While at the conference, McCarroll came up with the idea of using the equipment and materials available in his lab to create hand sanitizer that could be used to help stop the spread of COVID-19. “When I got back from that meeting, I met with my staff member and we went through and got the WHO recipes, formulations that were required and what was required to properly and legally produce it,” McCarroll said. McCarroll said the production of the sanitizer began in June and ended in July of 2020 and produced approximately 700 gallons of sanitizer. He said that amount was given away on campus and sold in the community at a low cost as well as being given to the SIU-C Alumni Foundation to be distributed as free swag. McCarroll said the process of making the sanitizer involved the mixing of chemicals into a medical grade purified alcohol known as ethanol. He said the chemicals are made to render the alcohol undrinkable, to prevent the drying of hands, and to dilute the fluid to a safe concentration. “The basic process of making the sanitizer is
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pretty simple. The tricky part is making sure that we do it safely,” McCarroll said. McCarroll said his team got around this problem by using a machine that could mix the solution without needing to expose it to open air, potentially releasing harmful fumes. Inhaling ethanol vapors can lead to choking, coughing, and irritation of the respiratory tract, according to the UK Public Health Department. McCarroll said the potential fire risk of having purified ethanol provided additional difficulty in the beginning of the manufacturing process. He said this danger prompts strict regulations from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and required the group to work closely with the Center for Environmental Health and Safety on campus. “During the early days of the pandemic there was such a shortage of ethanol to make hand sanitizer with that the Food and Drug Administration loosened the regulations for how pure the ethanol had to be,” McCarroll said. “Ours was unique in that way because we used medical grade and it has a much cleaner smell to it than more impure sanitizers.” McCarroll said he is working on a study with colleagues to test the impurities of the commercial grade sanitizers made during the pandemic and the product made by his lab. He said initial testing showed some commercial sanitizers showed the amount of impurities in
the ethanol used were 400 times higher than the solution made at SIU-C. By January of 2021, the number of new cases in the US was at its height with over 200,000 new infections every day and nearly two million tests being administered daily. At this point, Dr. Keith Gagnon, an associate professor of biochemistry at SIU-C, was working on mapping the genes of the COVID-19 virus when he and his colleagues discovered the most dominant variant of the virus in the US, known as 20G. “We found the variant in January and at the time one in every two people in the US had this particular variant,” Gagnon said. “It was fascinating because it was uncharacterized. Nobody knew about it.” Gagnon said his purpose at the time was to build a tree showing the different variants branching off of the original COVID genome. When he and his team discovered it, the 20G strain had been called 20C-US, but they changed the name when they discovered the prevalence of the strain throughout the US population. “The variant had about five or six mutations that all seemed to have occurred about the same time,” Gagnon said. “So either there was maybe a Patient Zero where all of these mutations occurred or a number of these mutations just happened in a short timeframe.” Gagnon said this brief timeframe of mutation is how variants are defined from the original virus.
He said the likely reason this variant fell under the radar was because the mutations did not affect the spike gene of the virus, which would have allowed it to better bypass the immune system and made the virus more infectious. “There are also some parts of the virus that are unchanging, these are called conserved regions,” Gagnon said. “Those parts of the virus that don’t change very often are the parts that we want to make vaccines for.” Since the discovery of the 20G variant, his lab at SIU-C has been working with the IDPH to continue mapping the variants being publicly spread in the region as well as the state as a whole. Funding for the work originally came from the School of Medicine and research grants through SIU-C and the Chicago Coronavirus Assessment Network Initiative. The lab now receives funding through the IDPH to continue their work in genomic sequencing. “I think what’s important is trying to educate yourself on how the virus works,” Gagnon said. “I think the science is there, and getting vaccinated is a wise thing to do. I’ve been following the mRNA vaccine technology for years and I think it’s a blessing that it was mature enough to help with the pandemic at the time we needed it. Staff Reporter William Box can be reached at wbox@dailyegyptian.com.
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Cairo Port development expected to bring new business to region William Box | @wbox@dailyegyptian.com
Funding totalling $40 million from the Rebuild Illinois Fund is being set aside for an overhaul of the river port in Cairo, Ill. which state politicians and regional partners hope will halt a century of economic and population decline. Cairo, established by slaveholding investors William and Thompson Bird, among others, at the juncture of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers was hailed by writers such as Charles Dickens as “a mine of Golden Hope.” The city expanded rapidly during and after the US Civil War, during which Gen. Ulysses S. Grant set up Camp Defiance, a training and resupply station which freed and self-emancipated Black people flocked to from the south. “It was already building with bricks the last time I saw it - which was when Colonel (now General) Grant was drilling his first command there,” Twain said in his book “Life on the Mississippi.” “Cairo has a heavy railroad and river trade, and her situation at the junction of the two great rivers is so advantageous that she cannot well help prospering.” The economic decline has left the former hub of traffic and opportunity with a population of less than 2,000 and fallin, and
“I think once we get this project started, it’s going to grow and grow for years. The keyword here is hope. The people see hope.” - Larry Klein Alexander-Cairo Port District Authority chairman of the board a poverty rate of 34% according to the US Census Bureau. Republican Senator Dale Fowler represents the Illinois Congressional District 59 which includes Alexander County where Cairo resides. Fowler was elected to the Illinois congress in 2016, and since then has made the funding of improvements to the area a key part of his platform. “I was introduced to this project just within the first few weeks of being a member of the General Assembly,” Fowler said. “I really started doing a lot of research, and just really fell in love with the project.” Despite its geographical advantages, the population of the city declined in the 20th century as steamboats were replaced with barges and new bridges were built to bypass the city. Additionally, long-standing
racial tensions within the city, that flared up in the lynchings of Blacks and race riots, created an enclave of Black residents in southern Illinois where they had mostly been driven out. The downturn of commerce, and a postWorld War 2 extension of housing credit to White Americans, resulted in White flight from the city, mirrored across the US. The changing economic and racial dynamics laid the foundation for Black uprisings in the 1960s and ’70s. Fowler said the lobbying process began under the administration of former governor Bruce Rauner with an initial proposal for $1 million in funding for the project. The funding was approved in the 2019 fiscal year before being expanded on in 2020 by Pritzker. “Gov. Pritzker came on board and we wanted to go after some of that funding in the Rebuild Illinois bill,” Fowler said. “The more he learned about the project, the more they fell in love with it as well.” The project was verbally committed to in a meeting with Pritzker and Republican Senate Leader Bill Brady in 2020 with a promise of a “chunk” of the funding being directed to the Cairo port improvements. That chunk was specified on August 4, 2020, when Pritzker, in a public statement with Fowler, said the state will provide $40 million in total funding with an initial $4 million to secure the appropriate permits and agreements to begin the project. Larry Klein, chairman of the board of the Alexander-Cairo Port District Authority said the committed funding will encourage businesses to come to the area to fill vital roles necessary for the port to function, including a place to transport goods onto and off of barges as well as grocery stores to feed the transporters. “They want to stop somewhere where they can get everything they need while they offload,” Klein said. “They still need to be able to receive groceries, fuel, potable water, everything you take for granted at your house every day they have to restock those items.” Klein said having services is not enough to encourage traffic to stop.It is also necessary to provide additional cargo to reload onto emptied barges. “Barges do not make money running around empty,” Klein said. “That’s just like a semi driver, if they’re just running a flatbed down the highway, it’s just costing them money. So, they have to have an incoming product and an outgoing product, and I feel we can secure both.” Klein said the project is the result of a public-private partnership, with private investors and companies contributing to the funding of the improvements with the expectation of a return on investment. He said there were a number of nondisclosure agreements around the project, but there is
significant interest in the opportunities the port improvements will bring. Klein said with 80% of the nation’s inland waterway traffic passing through the area going both upstream and downstream with the amount of traffic expected to double by 2030. The port improvements are expected to generate revenue not only for Cairo or Alexander County, but for the entire region including southeast Missouri, western Tennessee, and western Kentucky. Bill Miller, a consultant with the West Kentucky Regional Riverport Authority, said he believes the improvements will provide additional revenue for the area, and make road systems safer by utilizing the riverways to transport large quantities of goods inland. “I believe that by developing both sides of the river we can have a connection for distribution jobs,” Miller said. Miller said one of the primary factors they are looking for with the improvements is the implementation of environmentally friendly technologies. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the transportation industry worldwide accounts for approximately 29% of all carbon emissions, more than any other industry. “It takes longer to come up by water. I won’t disagree with that, because, yes, if you take cargo by truck it can get here a lot quicker,” Miller said. “But, you have to run 70 to 80 trips with your truck to get the same amount of cargo. All that road wear and tear, as well as the safety factor, and that’s the issue.” Miller said most ports along the east and west coast are congested, and the unloading of cargo at their ports is inefficient. He said the US railway system is effective at moving cargo from the east coast but the system is lacking in bulk operations that can handle the amount of cargo that flows to, from and within the nation. Miller said by developing the area with appropriate port infrastructure it will bring in opportunities to create a large hub of transit and production at the heart of the nation that can be used to receive goods, and export agricultural products abroad from the region as well. “Right now, if you take a look at it economically, hopefully someone could set up a bakery to do baked goods with the grains and soybeans around here,” Miller said. “You could go into some food manufacturing, all kinds of things with the agriculture around here.” Fowler said building will begin at the port by September 2022. “Just in the last year or two, the property being bought and sold, the cleanup, some of the rehabbed houses, the people coming to town to see the history that lies here, it’s been exciting,” Fowler said. “It’s good to see people buying vacant lots, and the speculatory investment knowing this project is going to come to fruition one day.” Klein said he thinks the current improvements are only the beginning of a large-scale shift in the area to becoming a nexus of transportation. “I think once we get this project started, it’s going to grow and grow for years,” Klein said. “The keyword here is hope. The people see hope.” Staff Reporter William Box can be reached at wbox@dailyegyptian.com.
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Women for Change march hopes to bring the community together
Janiyah Gaston | @janiyah_reports
Women for Change is hosting a March for Unity motorcade Saturday, Sep. 18. Women for Change, was founded in 2017 after a shooting incident near the Eurma Hayes Center. Ginger Rye-Sanders, the president and founder of Women for Change, said her house was nearby the shootout. RyeSanders said she was motivated to start the organization due to outrage and the fear that her grandson could have been harmed in the shooting. “He heard the shooter, and ran towards the young man that had fallen due to the gun fire, and he knelt over and tried to help him,” Rye-Sanders said. “My grandson could have been hit because bullets do not have eyes.” After the incident, Rye-Sanders said she and a group of concerned local women met with the mayor, city manager, police department and a neighborhood service person. “The only people that came to my rescue were women,” Rye-Sanders said. “Ever since that time, we have been a voice in the community to educate and inform the neighbors.” Women for Change members organized their first march in Sep.2017, according to The Southern Illinoisan. Rye-Sanders said the event is intended to bring together any organization working to “ban discrimination, and come against disparity,” in Carbondale. “We network with a lot of organizations
“We must come together, and collectively be people that will change what is going on in Carbondale.” - Ginger Rye-Sanders Women for Change president and founder
in town. We go to their events. We support them. They support us,” Rye-Sanders said. “I know a lot of times there are divisions with organizations. We want to bring notice to the things that bring us together.” In past years, Women for Change organizers hosted a big party after the march, Rye-Sanders said, but this year they are settling for a motorcade and a brief park meetup. Throughout the year, Women for Change organizers also host voter registration drives, a community garden program and food drives. “Our community suffers from food insecurity so we give away everything for free,” Rye-Sanders said. The motorcade will start at Rock Hill Baptist Church and travel to Attucks park, places that Rye-Sanders said have significant meaning to the Carbondale community. Reverend Lenus Turley was the minister of Rock Hill Baptist Church. Turley helped
organize the March on Washington, marched in Selma, Ala. and was a community advocate for incarcerated Black men. Attucks Park, named after Crispus Attucks, the first person to die in the Revolutionary War, was donated by a Mr.Gibbs so kids could have a place to play, Rye-Sanders said. March for Unity is scheduled to go from 11 a.m. till 2 p.m. “We must come together, and collectively be people that will change what is going on in Carbondale. Now, we say we want to do it. We say that it is in our mission statement, and we need to do more than say it. We need to really really be about change,” Rye-Sanders said.
Staff reporter Janiyah Gaston can be reached at jgaston@dailyegyptian.com or on Instagram at @janiyah_reports.
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among “top programs” partnered with Delta’s pilot career path
Tyne Haverkate completes her preflight on the Cessna 172R at the Southern Illinois Airport Set. 3, 2021 in Murphysboro, Ill. Sophie Whitten | @swhittenphotography Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis
Delta Airlines is recruiting prospective pilots at Southern Illinois University Carbondale through the Propel Pilot Career Path Program, according to an Aug. 24 announcement. Established in 2018, the Delta program has partnerships with 14 schools, all of them four-year universities or flight schools, according to their website. Manager of Pilot Outreach Kevin Mason said Delta started the program in anticipation of a pilot shortage. “There was a pending pilot shortage early across not just Delta but the entire aviation industry both in the U.S. and globally,” Mason said. “Delta knew this was coming and put together a team back in the 2017 timeframe to think about how we should look at sourcing pilots in the future.” In the past, Delta would have pilots from the military and various regional airlines to apply for pilot positions and wanted to develop new sources to recruit future pilots from, Mason said. “What we wanted to do was create a program where we could proactively recruit pilots,” Mason said. “The two different sources from which we do that are collegiate aviation students who are enrolled in professional flight programs as well as our own internal employees.” Mason said Delta calls it a qualifying job offer (QJO), meaning the students must graduate, become an instructor to build toward airline transport pilot (ATP) minimums, pick from two pathways offered and eventually work for. “We have an application window that we host once a year, usually during the fall time frame,” Mason said. “Students who are enrolled in our partner universities who are a junior, senior or a graduate within the past six months are all eligible to apply.” Interim Director of the School of Aviation Michael Burgener said this is their first partnership
with a major airline and major international carrier. “Our alumni that work at Delta contacted us and asked us if we wanted to be a part of it when they heard Delta was doing this,” Burgener said. He said a pilot has to go through various phases in flight training and certification before flying for Delta. Because SIU-C’s aviation program is subject to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulations, students are required to have one thousand flight hours which they gain as a flight instructor after they graduate. “When they get to one thousand flight hours, a lot of the faculty will leave and work for a regional airline for a couple of years,” Burgener said. “What this program does is it allows Delta Airlines, a major airline which is the destination for most of my students here, to come in, interview students, and the ones that they want to hire, they’ll go ahead and hire them.” At the moment SIU-C’s aviation program has around 300 students flying, and Delta interviews the top students for a possible position in their program. “It’s the same program that all the other students go through,” Burgener said. “What these students do that apply for the Propel program is they’ll be interviewed by representatives from Delta Airlines, and the ones that Delta wants to hire they’ll hire as students and progress through the different steps.” Burgener said having a company like Delta helping students on their career path is incredibly valuable to the school. “Delta only does this with top programs... The vast majority of flight schools are at two-year schools or even airports,” said Burgener. “In order to be competitive in the aviation education business, you pretty much have to have programs like this.” Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @jamilahlewis.
Tyne Haverkate does a preflight check Sept. 3, 2021 at SIU Automotive Technology in Murphysboro, Ill. Chris Bishop | @quippedmediallc
SIU freshman Tyne Haverkate checks the fuel for contamination and settlements on the Cessna 172 at the Southern Illinois Airport Sept. 3, 2021 in Murphysboro, Ill. Sophie Whitten | @swhittenphotography
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A truck sits outside the barn at Flock Farms Sept. 12, 2021 in Anna, Ill. April Glays, the co-owner of Flock Farms has been managing the farm for a year now, raising chicken, sheep, turkey and pigs. “We do a lot differently, first of all we are only one of two farms in Southern Illinois that is animal welfare approved, and basically what that entails is that we have a third party auditor come out here and they come and check on our animals to make sure we are doing things in the most humane ways possible that are up to date in terms of research and so I think that sets us apart,” Glays said. Dominique Martinez-Powell | @dmartinez_powell.photography Janiyah Gaston | @janiyah_reports
On Sunday Sep. 12 the Neighborhood Coop hosted their annual Farm Crawl event. This year the Farm Crawl was a self guided tour. People traveled to different farms with a farm pass they purchased at the Neighborhood Co-op office. The farms that the community visited included Wichmann Vineyard, Bison Bluff Farms, Rolling Oak Alpaca Ranch and The Flock Farm. Wichmann Vineyard is a family owned and operated business. Co-owner Johanna Wichmann said that her family does all the work on the farm from grape growing to wine making. Attendees Pam Moore and Marshah Foote said they loved the vineyard. “It is a beautiful place. The owner is very sweet. This is the first time we met him, and [he] is very knowledgeable,” Foote said. Moore said that the vineyard’s winemaking process was interesting, and she enjoyed watching it. Bison Bluff, also a family run business, is managed by Margaret Kruse, the daughter of owner Clifton Howell. Bison Bluff specializes in raising bison for meat production. They have been a part of the Farm Crawl for two years. Kruse said the bison not only eat grass, they are fed hay that they grow on their farm. “We make sure they get the extra minerals that they can’t find in the soil and grasses here. Right now it has been so dry they have to stay in the field,” Kruse said. Kruse said they rotate them out to make sure the grass and the bison stay healthy. Rolling Oak Alpaca Ranch, started by Morgan Stevenson and her mother Judy Horpker, produces quality products with alpaca fur. Stevenson started the ranch after finding out the ancient Incans used alpaca fur products for royalty. Rolling Oak has been a part of the Farm Crawl for about five years with the exception of last year. Stevenson said alpacas require a bit more care than other livestock. “Our pastures were ripped out and reseeded
with a pasture mix that is good for them ,and we get special hay… We shear them once a year, trim their toenails about twice a year and we’ll trim their teeth up if they need it at shearing time,” Stevenson said. Although a lot of work goes into raising alpacas Stevenson said she is grateful that the alpacas bring joy to anyone who visits. Rodrigo Ramirez, an attendee, said he enjoyed coming to the alpaca ranch and appreciates the Farm Crawl as a great way to bring people together. “Being able to pet the alpacas was fun. We got to come up close and personal with them, and being able to pet them was nice,” Ramirez said. Sue Chaney, another attendee, shared Ramirez’s sentiments about the Farm Crawl. “I think it helps the community know we have many local food sources, and they are easily available at farmers markets and the Leaf Program, and it makes everyone aware they can support their local farms and farmers,” Chaney said. The final stop on the Farm Crawl was Flock Farm, a family run business that is co-owned by April and Brent Glays. Flock Farm specializes in raising chickens, goats, sheep and pigs to produce meat. This was Flock Farm’s first year involved in the Farm Crawl, and the Glays were excited to show their farm to the people of Carbondale. “It has only been running for about five years now, and this is the first year that we really felt we had enough to show to the community as far as our contribution to the local food economy,” April Glays said. Farm Crawl allows anyone to go onto local farms to see how their food is made, and it also allows them to try out some locally grown products. “Plus it is understanding the health of soil. These smaller farms in our region do a lot to supply the people that live here, so that we don’t need big outside farms in order to be sustainable,” Dion said. Staff reporter Janiyah Gaston can be reached at jgaston@dailyegyptian.com or on Instagram at @janiyah_reports
Farm Crawl attendees mingle with Alpacas during Farm Crawl Sept. 12, 2021 at Rolling Oak Alpaca Ranch in Makanda, Ill. “Honestly our best part of opening up to people is seeing the joy the alpacas bring them,” Morgan Stevenson, one of the owners of Rolling Oak Alpaca Ranch, said. Dominique Martinez-Powell | @dmartinez_powell.photography
Chambourcin grapes move through Crusher/Destemmer during farm crawl demonstration Sept. 12, 2021 at Wichmann Vineyard in Cobden, Ill. “One very Unique thing about Wichmann Vineyard is that it is family owned and operated. Not only do we own it, we are also the people doing all of the work here,” Johanna Wichmann said. Dominique Martinez-Powell | @dmartinez_powell.photography
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Kiana the alpaca poses for a photo during the Farm Crawl Sept. 12, 2021 at Rolling Oak Alpaca Ranch in Makanda, Ill. “Well we stocked the Neighborhood Co-op with our dryer balls and our soaps and five years ago they reached out to us and asked if we would be on the crawl and that was our first time doing it and we have been doing it every year they have had it since.” Morgan Stevenson, one of the owners of Rolling Oak Alpaca Ranch, said. Dominique Martinez-Powell | @dmartinez_powell.photography
Goats graze in the field Sept. 12, 2021 at Flock Farms in Anna, Ill. “This is our first year that we will be a part of farm crawl so it is super exciting for us.” Amy Glays, Owner of Flock Farms, said. Dominique Martinez-Powell | @dmartinez_powell.photography
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“The most basic and intuitive way to solve labor shortages is to raise wages.”
85%
“mostly-blue collared industries” reported experiencing labor shortages
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“mostly-white collared industries” reported experiencing labor shortages
“Employers of mostly blue-collar workers have been much more affected by shortages than those of mostly white workers.” Source: The Confrence Board - Research Report | conferenceboard.org
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Labor shortages influence the future of the labor market
Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis
As Delta Variant cases skyrocket, labor shortages are affecting many small businesses everywhere. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, since June of this year job openings surged to a high of 10.1 million and hires rose to 6.7 million. Separations, quitting or termination, rose to 2.7 percent, and layoffs remained steady 0.9 percent. The separations rose to 5.6 million at the end of June in different job categories like professional,business services, goods manufacturing,state and local government etc. The statistics track from last year-present. They show that most of the job openings come from the categories of professional and business services, retail, and food services. Hires came out to 72.1 million, separations came out to 65.2 million with a net employment gain of 6.9 million. Even with employment in the state nearing six million, the employment to population ratio is 58.2 percent. Some companies are seen trying to adapt to what they will get employees in with Target recently offering full-time and part-time employees “company-paid tuition” as stated by Forbes. In an interview with the Daily Egyptian, general manager of Don Taco, Paula Godinez, brought up concerns of labor limits. “Oh we are very worried right now. We’ve
seen a lot of people getting sick so we are getting worried about that,”Godinez said. “It’s really hard to find people to work right now to do the labor.” Godinez said students make up around 40 to 50 percent of their business. “They [students] like to party and they call late at night,” said Godinez. “I’m sure that we get some local people too, but we can see an increase when school is back on.” Trained economist and social data scientist at Oxford University Fabian Stephany looks at a different perspective of the labor market moving to more remote work. “There are several big trends influencing the labor market. One of them is obviously the pandemic and economic repercussions that come with COVID-19,” Stephany said. “Another one that has started before the pandemic but is now amplified by the pandemic is the shift towards remote work.” There’s no specific demand to have to do work where the employer is, said Stephany. It’s a shift to the delocalization of work. Another trend is the employees want for flexibility is if an employer can provide the needed flexibility, said Stephany. Flexibility ranges between companies that will probably show a big difference in each of them. “For example, a company like Twitter said already I think half a year ago that they will allow all of their employees to work from wherever they want,” said Stephany. “For other companies, they
hesitate to do that but also they often lack the resources to do that.” Stephany also brings up the fact that benefits are mostly given to very skilled workers because they are an asset to their workplace. “When it comes to the divide between companies giving the flexibility which becomes for very skilled workers for top skilled workers more and more of an asset, more of a premium for their work,” Stephany said. In the future, Stephany expects to see remote
work becoming more casual within the labor market. “It’s becoming clear that the right to work remote or the flexibility to work remote more often is a new feature on the labor market,” Stephany said. “There’s clearly a tendency that remote work has now become one of these tokens.” Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @ jamilahlewis.
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Saluki Soccer loses senior day game vs Bellarmine University Joseph Bernard | @Jojobernard2001
The SIU Women’s Soccer team lost their senior day game against Bellarmine University by a score of 2-0. The Salukis managed to outshoot the Knights 10-7 with four on goal and matched the Knights in corner kicks with three each. Highlighting the Salukis on offense were junior forward Liz Brechtel, freshman midfielder Ashley Scesniak, and sophomore midfielder Ashlyn Henrie. Brechtel led the Salukis with two shots, both of them being on goal. Scesniak also had two shots, with one of them being on goal. Henrie came in substitution with a shot on goal as well. Sophomore forward Sam Dodd, junior midfielder Kaitlin Ducharme, senior forward Kaitlyn Stone, sophomore forward Mckinley Stiff, and junior defender Katy Quinn, all added one shot Junior goalkeeper Maddy Alaluf was the starter against the Knights. She gave up both Knight’s goals and saved one shot off of seven faced. The Match started off slow for both teams, but after the first 21 minutes the Knights got the first goal of the game by forward graduate student Sarah Buse and assisted by sophomore defender McKenna Hamm. The Salukis ended the first half down 1-0 even though they outshot the Knights 3-2 and had more corner kicks than Bellarmine 2-0. The second half started off similar to the first half, with not much going for both teams, but Buse had yet another goal for the Knights after 18 minutes of play coming back from the half. That would be her second goal of the day. The Salukis couldn’t get anything going for them after this point on offense and came up empty on more shots late in the second half, losing the match 2-0. SIU continues their season in Carbondale Friday against Missouri State University in the first Missouri Valley Conference matchup of the season with a 6:30 p.m kickoff time. SIU freshman defender, Kylie McDermott, goes head to head with a Knight player during the Salukis’ game against Bellarmine University, where the Knights won 2-0 against the Salukis on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021 at Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo
Sports reporter Joseph Bernard can be reached at joseph.l.bernard@siu.edu or on twitter @ Jojobernard2001.
Salukis bounce back after losing first game of Saluki Invitational
Cole Daily | cdaily@dailyegyptian.com
The Southern Illinois women’s volleyball team hosted the Saluki Invitational on September 10 and 11. In their first contest against the Panthers, they lost in five sets, where it was a battle. The Salukis won the first two sets, but the Panthers stormed back to win three in a row. Eastern Illinois senior hitter Danielle Allen led all players with 22 kills, while sophomore Tatum Tornatta led SIU with 18. Freshman setter Anna Jaworski led all players with 54 assists. SIU won their second match in a three set sweep. The Salukis led the game in nearly every statistical category, aside from blocks where USCU totaled nine to SIU’s five. Sophomore Nsia Gittens led the way with 14 kills, with Jaworski added on 33 assists. Senior Katy Kluge gave the team a defensive burst with 13 digs in the game. The Salukis led the whole match against Alabama State and won in three sets. The most the Hornets scored in a set was 15. Gittens had 16 kills to lead the game. Kluge had four aces to help the team, and Jaworski totaled 28 assists. The Salukis play their next game Friday, September 17 against Central Arkansas at 1 pm in Cape Girardeau, Missouri Sports Reporter Cole Daily can be reached at cdaily@dailyegyptian.com
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Southern Illinois loses in a heartbreaker to Kansas State Cole Daily | cdaily@dailyegyptian.com
SIU lost to Kansas State in a tight contest, where the Salukis led at halftime on Saturday night. Kansas State started the game by driving down the field, and sophomore running back Deuce Vaughn ran it for a four yard touchdown. SIU started the game with a six yard run by sophomore running back Justin Strong. However, sophomore quarterback Nic Baker threw an interception in the preceding play, marking SIU’s first turnover of the game. However, immediately after, sophomore safety Clayton Bush intercepted the ball from senior quarterback Skylar Thompson. Thompson suffered a lower body injury after attempting to block for Vaughn on a running play. He would not return to the game. Kansas State then made the score 14-0 after a quarterback run by sophomore quarterback Will Howard.
The Salukis then converted two fourth down opportunities on a drive that led to a field goal. This drive included 16 plays for 75 yards to make the score 14-3. Early in the second quarter, Wildcats’ Vaughn took the ball to the house a second time, making the score 21-3. The Salukis then forced two fumbles from the Wildcats — one by Vaughn, and then another at the hands of Howard. After the first fumble, the Salukis converted the turnover by scoring after Javon Williams ran it in for their first touchdown of the game. The Salukis were unable to convert a 2-point conversion after the touchdown, making the score 21-9. Williams scored again after a punt by the Wildcats at 4:14 left in the half. The score became 21-16, Wildcats with the lead. SIU continued this run by capping it off with a pick six by sophomore cornerback PJ Jules.
This gave the Salukis the lead that they took into halftime. Head Coach Nick Hill said he was incredibly impressed with how the defense was able to take the ball away from their opponents. The Salukis forced four turnovers in the game. “I can’t say it enough...the effort from Coach Petrino in having those players ready to roll. They (the defense) play with a ton of passion and effort,”Coach Hill said. At halftime, SIU held the momentum, and it looked like SIU could take control of the game from there. However, the Wildcats defense made the right adjustments heading out of the break. Kansas State took the lead in the third quarter with a field goal, making the score 24-23 at the 5:56 mark. Early in the fourth quarter, SIU missed a field goal in an opportunity to retake the lead. The Wildcats gave SIU an opportunity to score at 7:15 in
the 4th quarter, but the Salukis weren’t able to capitalize. Kansas State then drove the ball down the field, and Vaughn ran it in at the 1:57 mark. This gave him his third touchdown of the game and made the score 31-23. Southern Illinois got the ball back, with an opportunity to send the game to overtime. This was derailed by the Kansas State defense, where they forced a fumble with 19 seconds left in the game. Williams said the Kansas State defense was a lot to handle in the second half. “The defense came out with a good plan, and we just didn’t reach out and get what we wanted. That happens in football and we’re just gonna try and learn from it to get better,” Williams said. Quarterback Nic Baker totaled 176 yards with 0 touchdowns, one interception, and a fumble. Williams helped the Salukis with 46 yards rushing and two
touchdowns. Senior wideout Landon Lenoir led the team with 63 yards and six receptions. For Kansas State, Vaughn had a great game, totalling 125 yards from scrimmage and 3 rushing touchdowns. Head Coach Nick Hill said he was proud of how his players performed in front of a Power five opponent like Kansas State. “Proud of our guys’ effort, I think I can say that every day, practice or game...this one makes me sick to my stomach. It makes me feel we should’ve won that football game, “ Hill said, “I really can’t say enough about how outstanding of a job our defense did tonight.” The Salukis hope to bounce back in their next game against Dayton University on September 18th at 6 pm. This will be the Salukis first home game of the year. Sports Reporter Cole Daily can be reached at cdaily@dailyegyptian.com
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Community organizers call for police reforms
Following violent traffic stop, arrest of Kiveon Crawford Joel Kottman @JoelKottman Local community organizers are calling for police reform after a video, recorded on Aug. 28, showed Kiveon Crawford, a twenty-eight-year-old Herrin man, wrestled to the ground, handcuffed and tasered twice by Herrin police after refusing to comply multiple times during a stop for what was a minor traffic violation. After an evening bowling with his fiancee and children, Crawford was stopped for having a nonworking tail light, police said. Police video shows officers gave Crawford several verbal warnings to remain in his vehicle, but he kept refusing, saying he was in pain because he’d just had a vasectomy. Police body cam and dash cam footage show officers warning Crawford he would be arrested, then approaching him and trying to handcuff him. When Crawford repeatedly resisted, officers tased him twice. “I feel like Kiveon drove into his own driveway, got out of the car and then he put his hands on the hood. He then told them he just had surgery and did not want to sit down in the car any longer because it was uncomfortable,” said Chastity Mays,
a member of Race Unity Group and associate director of the non-profit A Gift of Love. Mays said that there have been too many traffic stops where black people complied with officers orders and still wound up dead. “So all that saying Kiveon should have complied I don’t agree. How about we have police who see
“I’m not going to say that Crawford resisting was right but I’m going to say that he didn’t deserve a tasing. That’s excessive force. He didn’t deserve the second one when he was handcuffed,” Maxwell said. Crawford said the police stopped him because he was “driving while black.” The Herrin police department wrote a post on
“Watching out for your fellow citizens is how we all should be living and thinking.” - Chastity Mays Member of Race Unity Group Associate Director of A Gift of Love
us all as human and have a conversation with the individual instead of being racist and using excessive force,” Mays said. Nancy Maxwell, the director of Southern Illinois Unity Coalition, said that Crawford tried to explain to the officer about his medical condition and the officer did not care.
its Facebook page disputing allegations the stop was racially motivated, and said it released the two police videos so the public could see events as they played out. “We don’t know what’s inside that vehicle. We don’t know why it took him so long to stop. There’s so many things going through an officer’s mind,” said David Dorris, the Herrin chief of police. Crawford now faces charges of driving with a broken light and resisting arrest. The incident sparked a protest outside Herrin City Hall on Sept. 9. Scores of protesters were met with a group of Blue Lives Matter activists. Mays helped organize the protest. She said people in the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) community have historically been treated unequally by police locally and nationally. “We have horrible experiences with the police,” Mays said, “I have several white friends who are never worried about being pulled over by the police,” Mays said. Mays and Maxwell, said protests, while important, need to be a jumping off point, and to lead to further community action. Mays said people should work to implement policies that reduce interactions with police, such as the care worker program developed by Carbondale Spring, or to send unarmed officers to police minor incidents. “This type of program mimics what is being done in Colorado by the STAR program and CAHOOTS where teams of mental health professionals and first responders respond to mental health calls instead of police officers,” Mays said. Mays said police watch programs, networks of organizations documenting police activity could also be useful in decreasing violent interactions with police. “Watching out for your fellow citizens is how we all should be living and thinking,” Mays said. Maxwell said the Crawford case could have been less violent if the police officers had spoken and acted more respectfully. “If the police wanted to be more communitylike, they could tell him that there’s this place up the street that might help you make sure you get your tail light fixed,” Maxwell said. “It seemed so purposeful like the police were saying, ‘you didn’t do what I said so let me show you that this is what happens when you disobey me’.” Mays said there is not an official police watch program in Carbondale or Southern Illinois, but there are several networks and organizations that she feels she can call on for help such as Race Unity
Group and Southern Illinois Unity Coalition. Maxwell agreed, saying, if officers know they are being documented and watched then they will be more careful in how they respond to incidents. Ed Yohnka, director of communications and public policy for the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, said it is difficult to tell what is common practice based on a single incident. “That is why collection, analysis and real study of data is so critical,” Yohnka said. An Illinois Department Of Transportation study published in August showed According to an article on Week.com, Black people in the state are 2.8 times more likely to be pulled over for a minor traffic offense compared to White people. ACLU of Illinois Staff Attorney Rachel Murphy said, after getting a citation, people feel harassed and racially profiled and less likely to trust authorities or law enforcement in the future. Maxwell said she’s also been subject to dubious traffic stops by police. “I got stopped one night because the police told me, this was in the good city of Marion, that they had never seen my car before,” Maxwell said. “I have a driver’s license, I have insurance, I have alternating plates on my car and I wasn’t breaking any traffic laws.” Mays said police use rules, like those involving traffic stops, as a pretext for targeting BIPOC individuals. An omnibus criminal justice bill signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker in February will require law enforcement officers to issue citations rather than arresting people at traffic stops when the rule takes effect in January 2023. Maxwell and Mays agreed local police departments should be working to implement the rule sooner, but weren’t convinced the rule would stop incidents of police violence in the community. “I am not sure if the new requirement will prevent incidents like Crawford’s in the future because first police have to see BIPOC people as humans who deserve respect before policies and new procedures will be effective,” Mays said. Maxwell said there needs to be a relationship built between police and the community they serve. “There’s mistrust on both sides and therefore there’s fear because mistrust is always coupled with fear,” Maxwell said. Maxwell and Mays said the best way people can help to implement these criminal justice rules sooner is by attending local city council, school board and county board meetings. “All police officers or chiefs or heads in this area should be trying to make sure that we do not have a George Floyd incident or anything similar to that and by doing that they can listen to the community when they have concerns,” Maxwell said. Mays said there is a network of organizations in Southern Illinois, like Sunrise Movement Southern Illinois, Carbondale United and the Dentmon Center, pushing for changes locally, but they often lack monetary support. Maxwell and Mays said racial justice organizations continue to need allies. “The entire country, not just Southern Illinois, should feel ashamed that it is 2021, and BIPOC people are still fighting for basic equal rights,” Mays said. Staff writer Joel Kottman can be reached at jkottman@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @JoelKottman.
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Gus says: How come in Texas it is “my body my choice” when wearing a simple and proven life saving mask....yet also in Texas a victim of rape is now forced to carry their rapist’s child or potentially pay a fine that they cannot afford? You really can’t have it both ways there.
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A journalist remembers 9/11 Annie Hammock | ahammock@dailyegyptian.com
When students asked me to recall my experiences from 9/11, I knew it would be tough. On that day in 2011, I was working at CNN in Atlanta, far from the horrific events, but in the epicenter of the network’s coverage of them. Last week’s interview with Daily Egyptian Editor-in-Chief Ore Ojewuyi and River Region Evening Edition Executive Producer Mikayla Morris lasted less than 20 minutes, but it all came rushing back,left me sick to my stomach, spent, longing to crawl into bed, cover my head and sleep until the memories subsided. I can’t imagine how all of the anniversary coverage has affected those more directly impacted by the terrorist attack. But I know I wasn’t alone among my former colleagues. There is a CNN Alumni group on Facebook and many of the conversations of that day focused on the lingering PTSD felt by many journalists. I was reminded of a column I wrote years ago, which touched on the difficulties of covering a world-altering event that cost us so much in terms of lives lost, feelings of safety erased and trust undermined. That column follows: 9/11: Ready for our close-ups? The first day of class a student asked what was “the hardest story” I ever had to cover. The question caught me by surprise because the answer seemed so obvious. But today’s young adults came of age in a world filled with terror. Few would know what it felt like to have a
“How do you write, edit, produce, report, any of it, when two iconic towers crash to the ground and fear clings to you like the dust they became? You. Just. Do.” - Annie Hammock Faculty managing editor
so recently achieved sense of safety and peace ripped apart in a way far more frightening than the “Day After” nightmares of the Cold War. I worked through many tragedies while at CNN Headline News. The Challenger disaster was a gut blow reminder that our pioneering spirit is not without hubris and often comes at an enormous cost. The Columbine shootings were devastating in their immediacy and intimacy. Could anyone not feel compelled to reach out to the wounded and desperate boy hanging from a second story window, knowing death stalked him from behind. But the attacks of September 11, 2001, were a crucible for working journalists. How do you stay detached and objective when planes are crashing into buildings that helped define the best of what we are (innovative, bold, welcoming of other cultures). How do you write, edit, produce, report, any of it, when two iconic towers crash to the ground and fear clings to you like the dust they became? You. Just. Do. I often think how news presentation has
evolved since that day, especially with the embrace of citizen journalism. We have eyes and ears everywhere now and they offer us perspectives both wider and closer, some of which we might wish to un-see and un-hear. About a year ago I read an evocative passage in Dan Gilmor’s book We the Media, in which he talked about how very different our memories of September 11th would be had today’s technology existed then. What if someone on Flight 93 had been shooting cell phone video when Todd Beamer declared, “Let’s roll,” and it had somehow survived the crash? What if all the tourists snapping photographs on that strikingly blue day in New York had rushed to upload their images to news organizations. Would it be exponentially more terrible to see hundreds of angles of the planes slamming into the towers? Or would each view desensitize us to the horror? Our ability to observe news from any sort of detached distance is gone forever. Now it is a matter of what, and if, we filter. Did we need to see Neda’s agonized death mask in
order to fully grasp the helplessness and rage of a subjugated people six-thousand miles away. Did blurring her face steal her power? Where is the line between informative and gratuitous? These questions, of course, are not new to the age of citizen journalism. The bloom of smoke and tendrils of debris falling away from a doomed shuttle. The searing moments of Patrick Ireland’s struggle to save himself. We are compelled to be voyeurs to tragedy and have been since the earliest of humans shared their stories. Journalists “on the job” September 11 told the story but were unable to immediately share in the shock and grief being absorbed by our audience. We served them best by writing, editing, producing, reporting and the rest of it, for hours and days before we could collapse in our own bed of pain. It was a great relief to me when we started filtering the images. Freezing the video before the second plane plowed through glass and steel, shelving pictures of frantic people flinging themselves to their deaths. It allowed a respite from the worst of what we were covering. But I don’t think I’ll ever be sure if relief is reason enough to restrict. So, yes, September 11th was the most difficult day I ever worked through as a journalist. But struggling through my own raw emotion was in many ways less burdensome than deciding how to manage the sensibilities of others when faced with the dilemma: what to present the audience when all of these new views of tragedy make each of them so profoundly more personal.
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