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(From right) Logan McNear, president of the SIU Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering, exhibits the team’s robot, Saluki Flux, Monday while team members Nathaniel Mitchell and Clint Phillips stand by.

The team is made up of electrical and mechanical engineering majors and took second place at the ATMAE annual conference Oct. 27 through 29 in Panama Beach City, Fla. FOR THE FULL STORY PLEASE SEE PAGE 10.

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Cheng unlikely to take maximum leave days RYAN VOYLES Daily Egyptian Chancellor Rita Cheng said Tuesday she is unlikely to take more than four unpaid leave days this school year. “At this point, we look at everybody being the same on this campus,� she said. “Whether in symbolic form, (the) provost and myself taking a few extra days is not going solve anybody's problems. We did some analysis, and there is no way without being punitive to not have it across the board for all employees.�

Cheng addressed approximately 400 faculty and staff Tuesday in Ballroom D of the Student Center in a

town hall meeting. She discussed the university's budget deficit, as well as the unpaid leave days she has implemented for the school year.

The question of how many leave days Cheng and other administrators would take was raised by Carolin Harvey, an accountant in the division of higher education, who asked Cheng whether she would follow the example of SIU President Glenn Poshard.

Poshard said Friday he would take six unpaid leave days this school year. He said Duane Stucky, vice president for finance and administrative affairs; Paul Sarvela, vice president for academic affairs;

and Jerry Blakemore, vice president and general counsel, would take five unpaid leave days.

The rest of the Office of the President’s staff will take four unpaid days, Poshard said.

Cheng said she has done much to help the university such as donate money to the SIU Foundation, which brings the money back to the university. She said it would take more than her taking a couple of leave days to make up SIUC's deficit. “I'm not going to be putting my stuff in the coffer,� she said. “I could work for free for 10 years and still not make up the budget.�

Cheng sent an e-mail to all mem-

bers of the campus Nov. 3, in which she said there would be four unpaid closure days implemented this school year. The likely days listed were Nov. 24, Dec. 23, Jan. 3 and March 15, days on which classes do not take place.

Cathy Lilley, an accountant in the college of science and representative from the Association of Civil Service Employees, asked Cheng why it was not possible for there to be voluntary leave days, where staff could choose how many leave days they could take so others would not have to take the leave days. “I will personally give six days. ...

The goodness of the people on this

campus will come out to help those people who make $20,000 a year,� she said. “Can't we just give it a try?�

Lilley said some civil service staff workers, if forced to take leave days, would not be able to pay their water bills or buy their children presents for Christmas.

Cheng said voluntary closure days would go against the guidelines set by the bargaining contracts, but she said there could be a possibility to set up an emergency fund at the foundation for those who wanted to help those in need.

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Coach Callahan remembered as selfless, caring NICK JOHNSON Daily Egyptian Bryant George didn't have to say a word when his freshman year at SIU overwhelmed him. Dan Callahan, his coach, just put an arm around him. “He looked at me one time and he said, ‘B.G., are you overwhelmed yet?’�

George said. “He said, ‘You know what? We'll do this together.’ He stuck with me through the rough times and the easy times.�

And George, now a pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, is certainly going through rough times now,

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t least now he’s not suffering, and at least now he’ll never miss another baseball game that any of us ever play again, and he’ll never not be a part of his daughter’s life. They’ll always just be one prayer away, and that’s the best way to look at it.

as is everyone who knew Callahan, who died Monday at the age of 52 after a battle with a rare form of skin cancer.

For George and other SIU baseball players past and present, 'Coach Cal' was more than just skipper of the illustrious program.

Junior infielder Chris Serritella

— Bryant George former SIU baseball player said he still doesn't know how Callahan found out his grandmother was sick when Callahan recruited him two years ago. “He didn't know me too well but ... every day he would call me or email me. He’d always be asking how my family was doing,� Serritella said.

“He was just a really kind and caring guy. He meant a lot to the program; he meant a lot to Carbondale.�

Serritella said the players noticed their coach's condition worsening, but Callahan never made anything about himself.

The clubhouse and community

will miss his humor and comforting presence, he said. “We always knew he was battling a disease, but nobody really expected it to come to this. It was really a big shock to us,� Serritella said.

On June 8, George became the 21st player coached by Callahan to be drafted to the MLB. Callahan is the second-winningest baseball coach in Saluki history with a record of 442447-1 record in 16 seasons as head coach.

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SIGMA KAPPAS GATHER TO REMEMBER FALLEN SISTER Sigma Kappa sisters Kimberly Armes, a junior from Sesser studying English, and Jordan Thorngren, a junior from the Quad Cities studying pre-med biological sciences, pass a candle Tuesday outside the Sigma Kappa house during a vigil for Andrea Will, an

Eastern Illinois University Sigma Kappa sister who was murdered Feb. 2, 1998. Sigma Kappa chapters across the United States held vigils Tuesday, the day the man convicted of her murder was released after serving 12 years in prison, to increase awareness about domestic violence in memory of Will.

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JACOB MAYER Daily Egyptian Kathleen Plesko says it is a challenge for Disability Support Services to make budget cuts, but has been able to find other income sources to fill in what the cuts took.

Plesko, director of Disability Support Services, said the department has found additional money through the sale of materials such as Braille documents, electronic textbooks and remote interpreting services.

She said those services are first made available to SIUC students, but when they no longer need them, the department can sell them to other institutions.

Lisa Caringer, coordinator for students with sensory disabilities, said the remote interpreting service allows the department to work with universities in several states to provide services and make money while allowing the department to use its four interpreters more effectively.

“It just provides us a way to keep a qualified staff without eating into the university’s budget,” she said.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs pays the salaries for the five full-time employees in

the department, so Disability Support Services made cuts to strictly its operating budget, Plesko said.

The department had to give up all of its state-funded travel money for employees because of the cuts, but employees can still travel with money from the other income sources, including grants, she said.

“We will not travel on state dollars,” she said. “I just don’t think that would be conscionable at this time.”

She said the department has been able to provide veterans with services through grants from the Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs.

“We’re able to offer a safety net to veterans with or without disabilities with that funding,” she said. “So that’s been a source that has allowed us to stay state-of-theart in those areas.”

Doug Falasco, a senior from Elmhurst studying psychology who served two tours in Iraq, said Disability Support Services helped him transition back to school life and has services specifically for veterans.

He said the budget cuts have not had an effect on how he uses the services.

“They tend to maintain that program pretty well,” Falasco said.

“What the students need up front is always going to be there for them.”

The department also received a $10,000 grant from a student’s parents to train the staff in how to treat students with Autism Spectrum

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Disorders, Plesko said.

As the university faced a $15.3 million shortfall coming in to fiscal year 2011, Chancellor Rita Cheng said in an e-mail to university personnel Aug. 2 that she had asked each department on campus to submit plans for an average 4 percent reduction in its budget for the fiscal year. The SIU Board of Trustees approved this year’s budget Sept. 16, which listed the 4 percent cuts as saving $7.3 million.

Cheng also said at the State of the University address Sept. 30 she asked all non-academic units to cut an additional 1 percent from their budgets for the coming fiscal year.

Plesko said the cuts forced Disability Support Services to look for other ways to fund its services, but it had gone out to find additional sources of income long before this year’s budget cuts became necessary.

Bryan Dallas, learning disability and assistive technology coordinator for Disability Support Services, said he works with more than 200 students and makes sure any new technology the department has is available to any student who may need it.

So far, Dallas said the budget cuts have not stood in the way of anything the department has wanted to do.

“It hasn’t kept us from doing anything,” he said. “We’ve always been able to get what we needed. Maybe it will in the future, but we haven’t had an issue yet where there’s not been access to one of our students.”

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Disability Support Services staff interpreter Patty Erwin uses sign language to translate messages for a student via Skype Tuesday in Woody Hall. The interpreter listens to a professor at one location then uses Skype to sign the messages to students in other locations.

Plesko said the cuts have not affected the students the department serves in any way, and the university has made sure that wouldn’t happen.

“Nobody has required us to sacrifice a single dime of service to our students — ever. That’s never been touched,” she said. “The monies that we earn in those other programs are to keep a staff that is extraordinarily well-trained and credentialed, get them to places where they can learn more about their fields and supplement technology.”

Plesko said the Disability Support Services staff has been willing and eager to learn new ways to provide the services students need.

“There is only a handful of us,

but people took on extra duties and learned new technologies and went to conferences and came home with ideas, and we turned those into something,” Plesko said.

“We didn’t just let them lay around and gather dust.”

If more cuts become necessary, Plesko said the department might have to cut more of its operating budget and would look for more sources of revenue.

“I pride myself on solving problems,” she said. “If I were challenged to look for more, I would do that.

It’s just a time of shared sacrifice. It’s a really bad time.”

Jacob Mayer can be reached at jmayer@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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Convenience, cost factor into students’ eating choices SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian Matt Kent says finishing off a McDonald’s cheeseburger between classes is not the only option in the Student Center.

Kent, director of dining services, said students typically grab what they think is fastest food available without considering the other healthy options available in the Student Center.

“We grew up thinking McDonald’s is fast food, when in reality, we may be waiting in line longer there than at the salad bar,” he said. “I think it is just perception.”

Students like Ariyel Jefferson-Ray and Jeanette Coronado said healthy options exist in the Student Center, but the unhealthy options are typically cheaper and more convenient.

Coronado, a graduate student in foreign language and literature from Tinley Park, said she eats at the center for its convenience, but tries to avoid it because it is unhealthy.

“I try to leave campus as much as possible when I can, or I try to bring something and at all costs try to avoid eating here because the food that would be healthy is pretty pricey, and college budgets don’t really encourage $7 lunches these days,” she said.

Coronado said students think about a combination of both convenience and price when they eat at the Student Center.

“For me, the price is a major factor, and then, of course, this is the only place on campus where you can go get food,” she said. “We are pretty limited.”

Jefferson-Ray, a sophomore from Chicago studying physiology, said she eats at the center multiple times a week during breaks between classes and she normally chooses fast food

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because it tastes good.

“There is fast food everywhere and then there is Blimpie, which is somewhat healthy, and Starbucks, which is tons of calories,” she said.

“So no, it’s not really healthy, but it’s delicious.”

She also emphasized students’ need for quick food during the day could be why they do not eat healthily, as most students try to get in and out of the Student Center and head back to class.

Kent said healthy options in the center are just as fast as greasy, fried fast food.

“At Rio, for example, there is lean beef and chicken, vegetables and refried beans or black beans for a healthier option,” he said. “Really time-wise, it’s either faster or just as much time as you are going to spend waiting in line for McDonald’s or Chick-fil-A.” Lori Stettler, director of the Student Center, said though there are healthy options in the Student Center it is up to students to choose healthy foods.

“A salad can be a healthy alternative, but if you choose to load it up with cheese and lots of dressing, it’s not going to be a healthy option,” she said. “You kind of have to make those choices for yourself. The healthy options are there, but sometimes we don’t make the choices we ought to make for our bodies.”

Stettler said two years ago, when the Student Center signed a 10-year

contract to renovate the dining options in the center, student input was taken into consideration.

“They asked for healthy choices, but the number one thing they asked was for us to be cost-conscious in price point with regard to making sure there were options available that were affordable for them,” she said. “So we negotiated in the contract that there had to be specials everyday such as combo meals where you can get pasta, bread and a drink for a certain price, that kind of thing, so we could be cognizant of students’ pocketbooks.”

Stettler said she is always open to looking into new options and input from students, but she has to weigh what is beneficial for both the students and the university.

Coronado said the fast food restaurants in the Student Center are there because those corporations can afford to be there. She said she would like to see another new option such as Panera Bread.

“I read recently in an article that (Panera Bread) was voted among the top 10 healthy fast food options, so something like that would be really good because even though there are options that are unhealthy, you can make conscious decisions, and there are more healthy options available,” she said.

Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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GUEST COLUMN

Help Haiti, where misery grows Bob Ray Sanders McClatchy Tribune

The poorest country in our hemisphere can’t seem to avoid calamity, which comes frequently and disguised in viciously destructive forms.

Having long endured the plagues of abject poverty, neglect and government corruption, the people of Haiti today continue to suffer from their latest afflictions brought on by earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, mudslides and disease.

One wonders how much one people can endure and how much the rest of the world will allow them to suffer.

Despite what one self-righteous televangelist has said, Haitians have not been cursed by God because some people on the island of Hispaniola practice voodoo. They

are not evil people who have been damned to unending torment.

They have fallen victim to both natural and man-made disasters, and yet there continue to be signs of resiliency in the wake of unthinkable loss and hardship.

It is still difficult to imagine the severity of the earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12, destroying its capital city, killing well in excess of 200,000 people, injuring 300,000 more and leaving more than 1 million homeless, many of them living in overcrowded, unsanitary tent cities with little left except hope. Their conditions are not likely to change for the better anytime soon.

Our nation and people around the world did respond with aid, resources and dedicated volunteers willing to help. The response was so great initially that there was no way all of the assistance could be coor-

dinated through the tiny country’s damaged air and sea ports.

I was particularly proud of the individuals and companies from North Texas who not only sent monetary donations but packed their bags and went down to help.

Several teams of doctors from the area went to treat the injured.

Church groups that already had missions on the island wasted no time in starting rebuilding efforts, and companies and giant corporations like AMR (parent of American Airlines) and Alcon Laboratories immediately began shipping food and medicine.

There are still foreign volunteers and relief organizations on the ground in Haiti, but they have been overwhelmed by the need, a need that grows with every approaching rainstorm or hurricane and new epidemic.

Our attention span can be quite

short, and we tend to shift our focus to wherever the national media direct us.

It’s not uncommon for the media to have a “crisis of the week� and, with each new disaster, we forget about the old one even though it doesn’t go away, not for the people who are suffering and dying.

While we have been distracted by other pressing stories, some serious and some frivolous, the situation in Haiti is growing worse with the outbreak of a cholera epidemic.

There have been almost 10,000 confirmed cases of the disease, which the country has not seen in 50 years. More than 600 people have died since the outbreak.

Health officials fear cholera will continue to spread rapidly through the encampments across Haiti, including its capital of Port-au-Prince, still home to more than 2.5 million people.

The pictures of ill children and the

elderly being carried to overcrowded hospitals and clinics are haunting.

Overworked aid workers try desperately to treat them for their ailments but unfortunately can do little to treat the conditions that help breed the disease.

Haiti still needs help from the international community. The great shortages of housing, clean drinking water and medical supplies make it difficult to fight off this latest menace.

All I ask is that we not forget these people.

We must encourage our government to do more, and we should continue to support those groups like the American Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders that have people on the front lines of this battle.

Pray for them.

But also, be a person who will help answer their prayers.

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Not everyone hates health reform implementation

The following editorial appeared Thursday in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Emboldened congressional Republicans are predicting a rocky couple of years ahead for the health-care overhaul that they disparagingly call “Obamacare� as they hatch plans to scuttle the law by holding up funding for key elements.

But they had better act quickly.

Millions of Americans already are enjoying tangible benefits from the health-care law, and they’re not likely to look kindly on having those benefits

weakened, much less revoked.

The list of benefits so far includes: required coverage of preventive services such as childhood immunizations and cancer screenings for women; a ban on denying coverage for children with preexisting medical conditions; letting young adults still at home remain on their parents’ health plan; barring insurers from setting lifetime limits on coverage and a $250 rebate for seniors facing the Medicare “doughnut hole� in drug coverage.

As of January, there will be added

incentives for family doctors who work in underserved areas, and cost controls on insurers to ensure premiums are used for health care rather than executives’ salaries.

A year from now, additional funding will be provided for community health centers, the centers that Republicans have offered as their solution to the problem of 50 million uninsured.

So the GOP’s guerilla-style tactics to slow and even reverse health reform could well prove unpopular with

growing numbers of citizens as the benefits of the Affordable Care Act — its official name — take hold.

That, of course, is the message President Barack Obama’s aides should, and will, try to get out in the months ahead.

One of the other problems with the GOP strategy is that it does not appear to offer anything to replace the health-care reforms.

Granted, more could be done to find ways to reduce costs. Even Obama admits the law isn’t perfect and will re-

quire adjustments with time.

But the Republicans’ focus so far is solely on upending the law’s implementation in an effort to force Obama to agree to changes. So much for all of that GOP talk on the campaign trail about simultaneously repealing and replacing the supposedly objectionable aspects of the law, right?

If the strategy proves to be merely more party-of-no maneuvers that do nothing to improve Americans’ access to affordable, quality health care, that’s bound to make people really sick.

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Chancellor Rita Cheng addresses a full audience Tuesday in Ballroom D on Tuesday at the Student Center for a town hall meeting to address issues concerning the university budget as well as unpaid closure days.

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Phillip Garcia said Tuesday he was pleased Chancellor Rita Cheng showed up to meet with the university community.

“I was glad that she actually, finally engaged in a public dialogue,” Garcia, a graduate student in social work from Elmhurst, said. “That was a first, and very refreshing.”

Cheng addressed approximately 400 faculty and staff Tuesday in Ballroom D of the Student Center in a town hall meeting. She discussed the university's budget deficit, as well as the unpaid leave days she has implemented for the school year.

Garcia said he was disappointed to see many people did not have much information on the issues at hand, which kept the discussion from focusing on the principle issues.

Garcia said the numbers that have been presented at different meetings around campus have continued to change, except the $2.6 million that the closure days will save.

He said he did not come out of the meeting completely satisfied, and he thinks there is a deeper problem at the university than just financial problems.

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“You could donate money to the foundation, then they could write a check for those in need,” Cheng said.

Rickey McCurry, vice chancellor for institutional advancement, said he and administrators would look into it.

Cheng said during the town hall meeting that the challenges facing the university were a result of the loss of money from the state, as well as

“I think that the lack of good faith bargaining with the faculty, in a way that these administrative closures that were forced on everyone without any sort of dialogue back and forth, means that those numbers, although they are definitely an issue, there’s also more of an issue, and that’s the way that this university is run,” Garcia said.

Gary Apgar, an associate professor in animal science, food and nutrition, said he was surprised with some of the questions that were asked at the meeting.

“I think we have to be a little more inclusive and a little more accepting of maybe taking an economic hit in salary just to save jobs,” he said. “I’m disappointed with some of the comments that were made. It looked to me to be a little petulant.”

He said he now understands the chancellor’s position and hopes the comments at the meeting represent a minority of the overall opinions.

Lu Lyons, the supervisor of graduate school admissions, said she would willingly take her closure days to help fix the problem and hopes people realize something has to be done.

She said she was pleased with the discussion at the meeting, and it did not change her opinion of the situation.

“It’s good to let everybody get out their frustrations and give (Cheng) an

opportunity to explain some of the policies and how they were decided upon,” Lyons said.

Cheng said it is important to have everyone involved to help fix the budget and with closure-day situations so certain people aren’t singled out.

“People are upset if they think they are going to need to take the days and others aren’t,” she said. “They want everybody to be involved, and it’s really important for us, as well, to meet the financial goal.”

However, Garcia said other options would cause less damage, but they have not been addressed. He also said he thinks Cheng is not used to working with unions and wants to fix the budget any way possible.

“It’s clearly not an issue about the budget,” he said. “It’s clearly about the statement she is trying to make.”

Overall, Cheng said her goal was to share information with everyone at the same time to cut down on rumors, and she was pleased with the candid opinions people shared.

“I also got a real sense of the generosity of people and some of the suggestions we might not be able to implement the way they want, what they’re thinking, but we can get the same outcome,” she said.

internal problems such as declining enrollment. She said the challenges need to be faced now.

“Historic changes are not in the distance for higher education; they are at our doorstep,” Cheng said.

She said the loss of federal stimulus money, the veteran grant and tuition money put SIUC in a $15.3 million deficit at the beginning of the school year. She said the deficit is down to $5.7 million, which will be solved by unpaid days or other

alternatives such as layoffs.

Cheng said it was important for the university to come together to solve the problems.

“Together I believe we will create an even deeper sense of pride that is shared by all members of this campus, the local community and the community at large,” she said.

Ryan Voyles can be reached at rvoyles@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254.

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College looks to return to enrollment glory days LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian G a r y Kolb says he wants the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts to return to its glory days of enrollment.

When the college formed in 1993, roughly 750 undergraduate students were enrolled. By 2001, the college was the fastest growing on campus. It nearly doubled in size without the faculty and resources to handle the capacity, and began to intentionally bring enrollment numbers down to a more manageable level, said Kolb, dean and professor for MCMA. Kolb said the goal was to bring numbers down to 1,200 and hire additional faculty and staff.

“We (reached that goal), but unfortunately, we kept going,” he said.

“I think the big mistake was we did almost zero recruitment in this college for about five years.”

When Kolb became dean of the college in 2008, he said one of his goals was to increase enrollment by 20 to 25 percent in three years.

“Well, it's gone the other way, unfortunately, despite our efforts,” he said. “As the university population goes down, the whole boat sinks. I'm not ready to say that we failed because it takes three to four years to really begin to turn things around.”

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Nicholas Gresham, a junior from Chicago studying the Communications Building. River Region is one of radio-television and political science, talks to many attractions recruiters use to draw students to coworkers Monday in the River Region Newsroom in the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts. in journalism majors, Kolb said the col- riculum dramatically in the last year for the better,” he said.

Clare Mitchell, assistant dean of lege submitted a proposal in October or two,” he said. “It's now a multito add a sports media specialization platform journalism program, and student affairs for the college, said the in radio-television and journalism, that's exactly where we needed to go to college uses its hands-on learning approach to recruit students. which had been in high-demand from modernize the curriculum.”

The college held its second annual For both the university and students. The athletics department approached the college in April re- MCMA, spring semester enrollment MCMA Expo Recruitment Event on questing to have a class with MCMA numbers are up compared to this Wednesday, bringing in more than students who would produce video time last year, he said.

100 prospective transfer or high “How that is going to pan out school students. MCMA Registered content for the new video scoreboards in Saluki Stadium and SIU Arena. The when we get to 10-day enrollment Student Organizations and departclass has been successful so far, he said. counts, I don't know, but I do think ments within the college help out with “We've really revamped the cur- we are starting to see some changes recruitment, she said.

“We trying to promote to students ... that we’re one of the best in the state for what we do,” she said. “The faculty and student groups are what sell us.”

The college debuted its first Girls Make Movies Summer Camp in July, a five-day residential camp, where 12 radio-television and cinematography instructors volunteered to teach 15 high school students the art of story-telling with moving images, she said.

“Their families attended a screening the last night to watch the films the students created,” she said. “Each of them came away with a film.”

Faculty members have stepped up and helped in recruiting, she said.

Volunteering faculty members will participate in a calling campaign today by making phone calls to students who have been admitted into one of the college's program for spring and fall, Mitchell said.

“There’s definitely a sense of urgency,” she said. “We definitely want to build our college up.”

Jason Hartz, MCMA academic adviser, said the college is targeting community colleges with strong media programs. He said the college is focusing on the St. Louis area because Missouri students have been offered in-state tuition for SIUC. Hartz said when the college can get students to make it to campus, students not only interact with faculty but are able to work with the equipment SIUC offers.

“We try to stress the practical application of the program,” he said. “There's theory involved, but the nice thing about our college is you get hands-on experience right away.”

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Apple says iTunes will sell music from Beatles, most prominent holdout from iTunes.

London diamond dealer pays record $46 million for rare ‘fancy intense pink’ gem

A royal wedding in Britain’s future as Prince William gets engaged to Kate Middleton

Obama’s hopes for Russia nuclear pact fade as key GOP lawmaker withholds support

SEAT TLE — “Beatles for Sale” is finally for sale on iTunes — along with the rest of the Fab Four’s albums, from “Please Please Me” to “Revolver” to “Abbey Road.”

The Beatles had been the most prominent holdout from iTunes and other online music services. On Tuesday, Apple Inc. said its iTunes store will start selling downloads of songs and albums from the group, in an agreement with the Beatles’ recording label, EMI Group Ltd., and its management company, Apple Corps Ltd. Apple will sell 13 remastered Beatles studio albums, the two-volume “Past Masters” set and the classic “Red” and “Blue” collections. People can buy individual songs for $1.29 apiece or download entire albums, at $12.99 for a single album and $19.99 for a double.

For $149, Apple is also selling a special digital box set that includes a download of the 41-minute movie of the Beatles’ first U.S. concert, “Live at the Washington Coliseum, 1964.”

G E N E VA — A rare pink diamond smashed the world record for a jewel at auction Tuesday, selling for more than $46 million to a well-known gem dealer.

London jeweler Laurence Graff paid $46,158,674, for the 24.78-carat “fancy intense pink” diamond, which he immediately named “The Graff Pink.”

“It is the most fabulous diamond I’ve seen in the history of my career and I’m delighted to have bought it,” Graff said in a statement released by auction house Sotheby’s, which offered the stone at its Geneva sale.

The sale price was almost double the $24.3 million achieved by the blue 35.56-carat Wittelsbach-Graff diamond in 2008. That was also bought by Graff.

“This is the highest price ever bid for a jewel at auction,” said David Bennett, the head of Sotheby’s jewelry division, as the auction room in Geneva’s luxury Beau Rivage hotel erupted into applause.

LO N D O N — Thirty years after the fairytale nuptials with the unhappy ending, Britain will finally have another big royal wedding: Its dashing helicopter-pilot prince — second in line to the throne — will marry the lovely commoner who may someday become queen.

Prince William and Kate Middleton bubbled with joy Tuesday evening in their first public appearance since the palace announced their engagement after more than eight years of dating. Their wedding will be next spring or summer.

In a poignant symbol for William, his betrothed wore the sapphire and diamond engagement ring that belonged to his late mother, Diana.

“I thought it was quite nice because obviously she’s not going to be around to share any of the fun and excitement of it all. This was my way of keeping her close to it all,” William said.

WASHINGTON — In a blow to President Barack Obama, chances faded Tuesday for Senate approval of a major nuclear arms treaty with Russia this year, tripping up one of the administration’s top foreign policy goals: improving relations with Moscow.

Obama has been pushing to get enough Republican support for a vote before the Democratic majority shrinks by six in January, and was optimistic just over the weekend about sealing perhaps his most significant foreign policy achievement.

Part of the task included winning over Sen. Jon Kyl, the leading Republican senator on the New START agreement, who has demanded more funds for the U.S. nuclear arsenal as a condition for approving the treaty. The White House proposed adding $4.1 billion to modernize the arsenal and officials traveled to Kyl’s home state to sell the pact, according to a congressional aide.

But the senator wasn’t sufficiently impressed.

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Students devoted to robotic success

SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian

While some students slept or studied, one group of students built a robot.

The SIUC Association of Technology, Management and Applied Engineering, a Registered Student Organization, spent about 20 hours a week for two months, often late into the night, preparing for a national competition in which they placed second overall, said Logan McNear.

McNear, a senior from Norris City studying electrical engineering and president of the RSO, said the 14 students in the organization work yearround for the competition at the end of October.

“We were given the task in February, and we spent the spring semester coming up with pencil drawings to figure out how we were going to do the task,” he said. “Over the summer we had it drawn on a computer, and then on the first day of school we all got together and started building it.”

The head-to-head objective this year was for the robot to dig up a pipe — on its own — out of sand in a playing field, he said. The robot was given the name “Saluki Flux” because it uses magnetism to pick up the pipes.

“The driver of the robot could maneuver the robot from the starting area to the autonomous area, but once there, the driver could not touch the controls,” McNear said. “Points were given to the robot with the most pipes at the end of the three-minute round.”

The two-day competition, held in Panama City Beach, Fla., featured nine teams from across the country.

This is the third year in a row the club has placed second in the competition, but Bruce DeRuntz, associate professor of technology and the adviser for the SIUC chapter of the

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technology association, said it was a tough task.

“The sand down in the gulf is completely different than what we are used to, and most of the teams designed their robots to travel on sand you would play volleyball on, and they got down there and just sank and couldn’t compete,” he said. “Our guys made some changes and were there to contend for a championship, not just compete.”

DeRuntz said second place in a national competition is bigger than just bringing national attention to the school.

“We are the only school who has won second place three years in a row,” he said. “The teams we face always know SIU is who they will have to face in the national championship.”

The competition was judged using different aspects of engineering, including a technical report of the robot, a poster explaining the robot and how it worked, presentation of the poster, the head-to-head competition and the robot's mechanical design and electronic methodology, McNear said.

Coraviece Terry, a junior from Mounds studying electrical engineering, said SIU had a team for each of the criteria judged and they all worked together for the finished project.

DeRuntz said the competition allows the students to apply what they are learning in the classroom into a hands-on experience.

“So often now, you just go to classes and you hear lectures, but these students in particular chose this major

— Bruce DeRuntz associate professor of technology because they love hands-on work,” he said. “Getting the opportunity to design and create your own robot is a terrific way to learn tools and applications that they would get in an industrial technology education.”

Terry said the best part about the club is the camaraderie and working together in a diverse group of people.

“Even though we are all from different parts of Illinois and have different backgrounds — like a lot of them are from small farming towns and I am not — we still work well together,” she said.

DeRuntz said he has noticed the students' incredible dedication to the project over the nine months of work.

“They planned to have it finished a month in advance, but they ran into some challenges and these guys bonded together as a team and refused to be defeated all the way until the end,” he said. “They will do whatever it takes to be successful. They just have a great spirit, great attitude and they have this vision of becoming national champions, which I think they will achieve very soon.”

McNear said he hopes the recent win gets students interested in joining the club and will help anyone get hands-on experience.

“This is what we have a passion for, and we are trying to build that passion,” he said. “This takes on every aspect of engineering; electrical, mechanical, just everything.”

Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

Corporation to bring LMFAO to Carbondale on Christmas Tour RYAN SIMONIN Daily Egyptian Zach Samson used to throw parties as a college student, but now he parties like it’s his job.

As the owner of Hottest College Parties, LLC., a corporation devoted to promoting and coordinating social events for college students, Samson said he has chosen Carbondale as one of his newest locations in which to expand his business.

Samson said his corporation specializes in booking nationally recognized musical acts for concerts as well as throwing themed parties in college towns that otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity.

“I picked southern Illinois because it used to be a real big party school in the 1990s and early 2000s. Halloween used to be crazy there, and we just wanted to bring

the party back, as we like to say,” he said.

After researching venues, Samson, a Chicago native, said Sports Blast in Carbondale was the perfect place for a pit stop in HCP’s Christmas Tour which will welcome LMFAO on Dec. 3.

Samson said the event is not a typical concert because there will be a “Sexy Santa, Ugly Sweater” theme making it more of a party atmosphere where attendees can dress up for a chance to win a spring break trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Samson said the LMFAO performance at Sports Blast will not be a one-time occasion, as he plans to host a party featuring a different artist or celebrity every six months in Carbondale.

Rod Sievers, spokesman for SIU, said the university has had a party school reputation in the past, but he said he believes the stigma

has changed with the times.

He said college has changed during the years, and there is too much at stake for college students to be partying all the time.

“This group will come into town and it will be a lot of fun for a day or two, and then everyone has got to go back to the business of getting a college education,” Sievers said.

Joel Fritzler, member of the Carbondale city council, said musical groups frequently come to Carbondale and it doesn’t affect the city’s image.

“The city welcomes any type of musical entertainment. I know that is one of the things that keeps me in Carbondale, is all of the live music that is available here in southern Illinois,” Fritzler said.

Ryan Simonin can be reached at rsimonin@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 274.

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45 YEARS OF LOWERING EARS Ron Kempfer cuts hair for residents of the Community Integrated Living Arrangement home at his barbershop in Chester. Kempfer has cut hair in Chester for the last 45 years. He said he started cutting hair in

Carbondale in June of 1963 and moved his business to Chester two years later. “I got married and she didn’t want to live in Carbondale, so I said I would come here for a year. I’ve been here ever since,” he said.

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CHRISTINA SPAKOUSKY Daily Egyptian There are now five registered candidates running for mayor of Carbondale, which means a primary election will be held Feb. 22.

Carbondale business manager Brent Ritzel and City Councilman Steven Haynes filed nominating petitions for mayor just before the close of business Monday, making them the fourth and fifth candidates. A primary election will be held to narrow the field to four candidates for mayor, and those four candidates will appear on the April 5 general election ballot.

Eight candidates have filed for the three open city council positions with four business days left to file. Those people are Jane Adams, Lee Fronabarger, John Holt, Donald Monty, Hugh Williams, Jerrold Hennrich, Jessica Bradshaw and Janet Donoghue.

Former SIUC Chancellor and mayor candidate Sam Goldman said because the midterm elections have just ended, people aren't too interested in elections right now, but this election will be just as important.

his is going to be a very important election. A new mayor will be selected, half the council will change and we’ll be seeing new faces. It’s going to be a very interesting time.”

— Sam Goldman former SIUC chancellor and mayor candidate

“This is going to be a very important election,” he said. “A new mayor will be selected, half the council will change and we'll be seeing new faces. It’s going to be a very interesting time.”

If five additional candidates file for the open council positions, a primary election to narrow the city council field to 12 will be held in addition to the mayor primary.

Interested residents can pick up nomination packets until 5 p.m. Nov. 22 in the City Clerk's office at the Civic Center.

Christina Spakousky can be reached at cgray@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 258.

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SIU baseball coach Dan Callahan died at his home Monday in Carterville. Callahan had been battling

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Before SIU, Callahan spent five seasons as head coach at Eastern Illinois, compiling a record of 153-158-1.

SIU Athletic Director Mario Moccia called Callahan one of the most well-respected coaches the university has ever had.

Even when he had the right, Callahan never complained about the needs of the program, Moccia said.

“He was always grateful with what he had, and said, ‘Hey, we'll make do with what we have,’ and he was just a tremendous example, I think, for ev-

neurotropic melanoma, a rare form of skin cancer, since 2006.

erybody on just how to conduct yourself,” Moccia said.

George said he considered his former coach a second father who helped him in all aspects of his life even after he left SIU. “He always told me that we have built-in excuses, and if you choose to follow those excuses, that's when you limit yourself as a person and as a ball player,” George said. “And he said whenever you learn to not use those excuses, that's when you truly become a better person and a better ball player.”

A “Celebration of Cal’s Life” will be held from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday at

Abe Martin Field to honor Callahan’s life.

Following the celebration, a reception hosted by the Callahan Family and Saluki Athletics will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Stadium Club at Saluki Stadium.

Callahan is survived by his wife Stacy, his daughters Alexa, 19, and Carly, 14, and his parents Ann and Gene.

“At least now he’s not suffering, and at least now he'll never miss another baseball game that any of us ever play again, and he'll never not be a part of his daughter’s life,” George said. “They’ll always just be one prayer away, and that's the best way to look at it.”

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SWIMMING

Dry training helps Salukis’ strength, strokes

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RYAN SIMONIN Daily Egyptian The Salukis added another piece to their training puzzle this season as the swimmers have mixed in and out of the pool training.

Coach Rick Walker said the team has participated in more dry land training, which has made the team stronger in the water.

Walker said the team has implemented running and abdominal work with medicine balls, as well as using stretch cords to practice the strokes, all of which have been very effective.

“It helps to accentuate what we are already doing in the pool, and they have just seemed to really respond to that,” Walker said.

Though the men’s team sits at a 2-2 record on the season and the women at 2-4, Walker said the team has seen success in the pool. The men's team beat University of Kentucky and both the men and the women's teams have notched wins against Missouri State.

Walker said the team's success has not been directly related to its changes

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Freshman freestyler George Minkel practices Tuesday at the Edward J. Shea Natatorium in the Recreation Center. The Salukis in training, but more based on its attitude toward training.

“They believe it is helping them. I think it is helping them and they are just taking it and running,” Walker said.

Sophomore Jessica Anderson said the training has helped because

it provides the team with training that can’t be done through exercises in the pool.

“It is something that’s not a monotonous 20 hours in the pool every day. It gives us an opportunity to work on things like core strength, agility and quick reaction drills,” Anderson said.

have implemented many different training techniques to improve upon last season’s record.

Junior Matt Parsons said the team has also seen changes in the training in the pool. He said the training has been split into different race categories of sprint, distance and middle distance, which allows the swimmers to hone their individual skill sets.

“I feel like it has helped people

to be more specific to their races so when they get up to race, they know exactly what they need to do,” Parsons said.

Ryan Simonin can be reached at rsimonin@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 274.

PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

SALUKIS STAKE OUT FOR SCHOOL SPIRIT From left to right, Araceli Rios, Marie Medina, Sonia Mayol, Crystal Gonzalez and Maria Arzate make signs to support the men’s basketball team Monday while sleeping outside in line for Tuesday’s game. Sam Donets, a junior from Glenview studying radio-television and a

member of the Dawg Poung Executive Board, organized the event, which provided free pizza, soda and poster boards courtesy of 710 Bookstore. “I want the school spirit to come back around with the basketball team,” Donets said.

“With ESPN coming here, I thought ‘Why not start a new tradition?’”

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Daily Bark It looks like the south will be stronger. Colorado is weak but Arizona, Utah and USC are always good. I think Oregon will dominate the north with their only challenge coming from Cal or Stanford.

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With the creation of the new Pac-12 do you think the South Division — USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Utah and Colorado — will be superior in NCAA football strength over the North Division — California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, Washington and Washington State?

Both Oregon schools are always tough, and Stanford, Cal and Washington are all solid programs. I’d give the edge to the North.

Coleman, you need my glasses. The two divisions are basically the same, with USC and Oregon being dominant and all the other teams being average or slightly above or below.

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Salukis’ scoring problem continues in loss BRANDON LACHANCE Daily Egyptian Coach Missy Tiber's Salukis had problems scoring in exhibition and the season opener, and they struggled with the same problem Tuesday against Tennessee State University, losing 57-43.

“Offensively, we were horrible,” Tiber said. “As a coach we have to figure something out. We're going to have to be more disciplined and more structured. Being a head coach for 11 years, this is the first time I'm going to have to run a set play every single time down the court.”

Tiber, whose first offensive plan is to run a fast break, said the fast break will still be option one, but if the opposing team makes a basket and the defense is already in place, then they will have to run set plays.

The Salukis went on a 7-2 run to start the game using the fast break, but after Tennessee State hit backto-back 3-point shots and SIU made a free throw, the game was tied at eight. Tennessee State continued hitting threes while the Salukis couldn't score from anywhere on the court.

At the end of the first half, the Lady Tigers held a 33-17 lead, going 6-of-12 behind the 3-point line and 11-of-28 from the field while the Salukis were 4-of-31 from the field and 0-of-10 from the 3-point line. The Salukis finished 23 percent from the field on 13-of-56 from the field.

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Besides helping other Salukis score and driving the lane for baskets of his own, Freeman was a nemesis defensively to

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Tiber said Armstrong is a playmaker and a leader on the court.

“She is like our dream point guard and she was on the wish list at the top, and for that to become a reality ... we were pretty pleased that we were able to get her,” Tiber said.

Freshman Olivia Patterson

In a pre-game interview sophomore guard Teri Oliver said SIU needed to drive the ball into the lane more. Although they penetrated the lane early, the Salukis stopped halfway through the first half and relied on jump shots, which were not going in. The Salukis were 0-of-15 from the 3-point line for the game.

The inside game plan returned in the second half and was credited for most of the Salukis' second half points, including inside baskets by senior forward Eboni Crayton, freshman center CiCi Shannon, senior forward Katrina Swingler and junior forward Charnise Mitchell.

Mitchell said the lack of scoring during games could be because some players are not used to playing people other than their teammates. Mitchell said her goal for the game was 15 points and 10 rebounds, which she fell just short of, finishing with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

“Some people play better in practice and then when they get into a game situation it's a different thing because they're playing against different people,” Mitchell said. “In practice, you run the same plays with the same people, but when you get into games it's a whole different situation.”

In a pregame interview, Tiber said the Salukis needed to grab more rebounds against Tennessee State so they could run their fast break game and limit the scoring chances for the

GEORGE LAMBOLEY | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Freshman center CiCi Shannon grapples for the ball Tuesday against a Tennessee State player

during the women’s basketball game at the SIU Arena. The Salukis fell 57-43.

Lady Tigers. SIU out-rebounded the Lady Tigers in the first half 27 to 21, including 13 offensive rebounds, but couldn't turn the extra opportunities into points.

Crayton said the team has to find

a way to put the ball into the basket.

“We just have to find a way to score. We have to put the ball in the basket; it's that simple,” Crayton said. “We'll be better.”

SIU's next game will be against

Northern Illinois at 7 p.m. Friday in SIU Arena.

Northeastern, forcing turnovers by constantly pressuring the ball and drawing three charges, including two in the second half.

Teague was also a defensive presence as he led the team with 11 rebounds and three blocks,

which were the only blocks in the SIU box score.

Freeman said turnovers have been a problem with the team because of mistiming.

“It might be we’re being aggressive at the wrong time,

like the zone. The zone was so expanded we realized the middle was wide open but it took us so long to figure it out that it hurt us,” Freeman said.

The Salukis' next game will be the start of the Chicago Invi-

tational Challenge against Austin Peay at 2:05 p.m. Sunday in the SIU Arena.

said the recruits have the ability to play the team's up-tempo game.

She said she is excited to able to play with some of the best in the country and to see what they will bring to the team.

“Haynes, Edwards and Armstrong can all get up and down and they just fit in naturally with us, and Patterson is someone we can pound the ball inside with,” Tiber said.

The men’s team picked up forwards Tony Bryer, of Norview, Va., and Harry Whitt, of Salt Lake City, on the first official day of scholarship acceptance, and later in the week the Salukis picked up forwards Treg Setty, of Maysville, Ky., and Dantiel Daniels, of St. Louis.

“Looking at the Illinois game, we needed size and we went and got it,” Coach Chris Lowery said.

“We sign kids who are tough, versatile and who have size. We knew going in that we had to get some length and some interior presence along with some guys that can play different postions.”

He said the most important part of recruiting is finding the players who want to play for the team. Lowery also said tradition, the gym and the level of success are part of recruiting, but the team

is the most important recruiting tool out there. He said the players recruit better than any coach.

“They are all good kids and they want to put our uniform on, and that is the key. You got to recruit kids who want to be here,” Lowery said.

Brandon LaChance can be reached at blachance@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 282.

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BRANDON LACHANCE Daily Egyptian The Salukis and the Northeastern University Huskies entertained ESPN viewers with an overtime thriller Tuesday as the Salukis lost 63-62 due to turnovers and questionable calls by the referees.

SIU and Northeastern entered overtime tied at 60 and only managed one basket apiece until officials blew their whistles with 2.3 remaining on the clock and the score tied at 62.

The Huskies missed a jumper, which led senior forward Carlton Fay and junior forward Mamadou Seck to both grab for the loose ball.

Seck told Fay he had the rebound but the referee took it as a timeout call though the players were facing away from the officials, Lowery said.

The Salukis were out of timeout calls and were charged with a technical foul. Northeastern's senior guard Chaisson Allen then hit one of the two free throws to give his team a one-point victory after Fay's last-ditch pass sailed into the arms of a Northeastern player. The game aired live on ESPN as part of its 24-hour NCAA basketball promotion.

In the postgame conference, Lowery said he didn't blame the referees for the loss but instead blamed his team's 23 turnovers and poor offensive communication. SIU out-rebounded the Huskies by seven, had a better shoot-

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A referee calls a timeout while Mamadou Seck and Carlton Fay are tied up with a loose ball Tuesday at the SIU Arena. The Salukis were ing percentage from the field (44 to 36) and won every other statistical battle except for steals, where Northeastern led eight to one. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We missed some layups. We got it inside when we had to,â&#x20AC;? Lowery said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just can't have turnovers like that where they're not even pressured. There were turnovers where we were a little frayed. We didn't step in, we didn't penetrate.â&#x20AC;?

The end of regulation came down to free throws as Fay went to the line with 23 seconds remaining and SIU down 60-59. He

made one to tie the game and SIU fouled Northeastern on its next possession. But the shooter missed his chance to give the Huskies the lead, as his shot clanked off the back of the rim.

After not scoring a point in the first half, Fay scored nine in the second while senior guard Jack Crowder did the exact opposite, scoring nine in the first but none in the second.

Northeastern coach Bill Coen said limiting Fay was his team's top priority. The Huskies started the

out of timeouts and were assessed a technical foul, which resulted in a 63-62 overtime loss to Northeastern. game playing man-to-man defense but because their post players got into early foul trouble, Coen switched to a zone, which created difficulties for the Salukis. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was effective for us and it generated some quick offense for us, which we needed because we were a little dead in the water,â&#x20AC;?

Coen said.

Northeastern opened the second half on a 15-6 run as they pushed the ball for easy fast break baskets against the Salukis' slower transition defense. SIU's 33-27

halftime lead, which they built up to 10 points early in the second half, became a 42-39 SIU deficit in four minutes.

The Salukis found a way to hang in the game as Fay and senior guard John Freeman led the team offensively with scoring and decision making. Freeman and sophomore center Gene Teague led the team with 13 points a piece.

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Salukis sign strong freshmen classes for next season RYAN SIMONIN Daily Egyptian With the 2011-2012 recruiting season over, the Salukis came away with steals as both teams signed players to address their needs.

The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team picked up a recruiting class ranked 43rd in the nation and first in the MVC by All-Star Girls Report. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This class for next year should

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his class for next year should be the turning point for our program. The class of 2010 now is laying the ground work, and the 2011 coming in should help us get to where we definitely want to be, and the 2013 class should close the deal .

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be the turning point for our program. The class of 2010 now is laying the ground work, and the 2011 coming in should help us get to where we definitely want to be,

and the 2013 class should close the deal,â&#x20AC;? Coach Missy Tiber said.

Highlighting the 2011 class of four is Ariel Haynes, of Chicago, a four-star ESPN HoopGurlz Top-

100 recruit who was ranked 94th overall in her class and 18th overall in her position.

The Salukis picked up another four-star recruit in Falon Ed-

wards, of Bolingbrook, where she helped her team to back-to-back Illinois Class 4A C state championships.

Rounding out the class of four was Jaleesa Armstrong, who played on the same team as Haynes at Bogan High School in Chicago, and Alexus Patterson, from Knoxville West High School.

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