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Brenda Winkeler let go as head volleyball coach JOE RAGUSA Daily Egyptian Brenda Winkeler is no longer the head coach for the SIU volleyball team, following a 9-18 campaign in 2011 during which the Salukis dropped their last 12 games.

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to another position inside Saluki Athletics, but athletic director Mario Moccia said they haven’t decided what her role will be. “Certainly I think Brenda put her heart and soul into the job, but we were just unable to break into the upper half of the league,� Moccia said.

A message left on Winkeler’s

voicemail was not returned Sunday.

Winkeler was hired in 2005.

The team made the Missouri Valley Conference tournament twice in her tenure, but SIU never went beyond the first round.

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Project brings access to water in Kenya JACQUELINE MUHAMMAD Daily Egyptian

For Americans, turning on a faucet to wash their hands or take a shower is a daily part of life, but for the average Kenyan citizen, water is scarce.

Shoeman Water Projects, a non-profit charity, collects new and used shoes and donates them to retailers in developing countries, who then sell the shoes and use funds for well-drilling rigs and water-purification systems to Kenyans in need of clean water. The Shoeman project has collaborated with SIUC and is collecting shoes for a well to be drilled in Kasarani, Kenya.

The Shoeman project will be collecting donations of shoes until Dec. 15. Boxes are placed on the north side of the Student Center, and volunteers ask that all shoes be tied together.

Nearly 1.1 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, according to the

Shoeman website. Hygienerelated diseases and the lack of sanitation account for almost 2.2 million deaths each year. In Kenya, 57 percent of the population has access to clean drinking water, and Kenya is classified as a water-scarce country.

Ruth Manyara, a senior from Kijabe, Kenya, studying event planning, said her parents set up feeding centers through various churches in Kenya, and offered children a free meal once a day. She said many places where the feeding centers are located are in a dry area where there is no access to water.

She said after she and her parents met Vic Hammer, a volunteer for the Shoeman project at Vine Community Church in Carbondale, her parents explained the need for clean water in Kenya and they began to make plans to raise money for wells at the feeding centers.

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Carbondale Middle School marching band and flag team walk down Illinois Avenue Saturday during The Lights Fantastic Parade. The parade has been held for 21 years on

the first Saturday of every December. “It’s a family event,� said Greg Borowitz, a two-year parade float veteran. “I have nieces and nephews that came out to enjoy it.�

Lights Fantastic Parade burns bright 21st annual parade draws droves into downtown ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian Christmas was on the streets Saturday night as the 21st Lights Fantastic Parade lit up downtown Carbondale. “It was as good as always,� said Paul Matalonis, of Carbondale.

More than 60 participants signed up to take part in the parade, which draws about 10,000 people a year, said Meghan Cole, executive director of Carbondale Main Street. “It’s 21 years in the making, and it’s definitely grown,� she said.

Spectators filled the sidewalks from the corner of Mill Street and Illinois Avenue to Jackson Street and down Washington Street to Walnut Street.

If the December night was too cold for them, people could find refuge in businesses and enjoy free cookies and hot chocolate. Most, though, wrapped themselves in blankets and fared the cold air.

The weather was actually quite good, especially compared to previous years, Matalonis said. One year, he was inside a truck pulling a float and could see the suffering on the faces of the crowd, he said. That wasn’t a problem this year, and he said everyone he saw was having a good time.

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Lauren Strandberg, a senior from Schaumburg studying fashion design merchandising, participates in The Lights Fantastic Parade Saturday on Illinois Avenue. The 710 Book Store sponsored the Christmas float and

assigned employees Strandberg and Danielle Cacioppo, a senior from Schaumburg studying interior design, to ride on the float in the parade. “I just love dressing up as an elf for the season,� Strandberg said.

the parade is that it brings people together to celebrate as a community.

It may also have a positive economic effect for downtown businesses, but as with summer’s Sunset Concerts, that’s really secondary, he said.

He said his favorite float was WDBX’s, especially when it projected colored lights onto the side of the Varsity Theater.

Participants' jobs in the parade varied, from manning traditional floats, taking part in marching bands or disguising themselves as the local Jedi order.

Steve Fields, store manager of the Marion Home Depot, said it took

about five hours and $50 to build their float, which promoted the store’s Kids Workshop.

He said this was their first time doing the Lights Fantastic parade, but they’ve participated in other Christmas parades. What sets Carbondale’s parade apart from others is that it takes place at night. “It gives it that better effect,� he said.

Lance Williams, of Brehm Preparatory School, said they do a float every year, and this was his sixth year helping with one.

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Four unions ratify contracts SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian The Faculty Association was the last of the four Illinois Education Association unions to ratify their contract that will end in June 2014.

The union membership approved the contract Wednesday after the Departmental Representatives Council unanimously approved it Nov. 17.

“While we are disappointed that it took 16 months of negotiations and a strike to reach this agreement, the agreement will help us defend academic freedom, shared governance and academic priorities

on this campus,” said Dave Johnson, FA spokesman. “We are proud of the hard work, resilience and dedication by our members that has made this progress possible.”

The union and administration’s bargaining teams had been negotiating contract terms since June 2010 when the previous one ended.

The approval comes after the union was on strike for a week during negotiations and a tentative agreement was reached Nov. 9.

Early Nov. 3, the day the strike began, the FA’s three sister unions approved tentative agreements that also had to be

ratified by the membership.

The Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association also approved their contract Wednesday with 94 percent of voters in approval. Graduate Assistants United approved their contract Nov. 21 with 91 percent of voters in approval, and members of the Association of Civil Service Employees unanimously approved their contract Nov. 16.

All four contracts still have to be ratified by the SIU Board of Trustees.

The next Board meeting is Friday.

Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 255.

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Students study for finals week ASHLEY ZBOREK Daily Egyptian With final exams a week away, many students are focused on their study schedules.

Morris Library will offer extended hours from Friday to Dec. 16, but some students don’t take advantage of the library’s extended hours or resources, said Hillary Huber, research assistant in Library Affairs.

Lindsey Kirk, a freshman from Batavia studying exercise science, said she has never been to the library and does not plan on going any time soon.

“I’ve never had a reason to go,” she said. “I do all of my studying in my room or in the hub lounge of my dorm. Also, I just don’t want to walk all the way there, especially if it is cold or rainy outside.”

But Huber said she does see an extreme rise in the number of students who visit the library during finals week.

“The library starts to become packed with students studying for finals around this time every semester,” she said Sunday. “Still, I know there are so many students who do not take advantage of our resources and extended hours.”

Morris Library has a Writing Center, tutoring centers, a math lab, computers and equipment, study areas and research assistants.

Danielle Roszko, a freshman from Chicago studying early childhood education, said she sometimes visits the library.

“I have been there to use some of the resources like the Writing Center and tutoring, but I have never gone just to study,” she said.

Roszko said she knows many people who have never been to the library.

“I don’t know anyone who goes to the library just to study,” she said.

“I think it’s a great opportunity, I have just never taken advantage of it.

I know it’s there and I might as well be using it, I have just never taken the initiative to go over there.”

Roszko said she is going to try studying for finals at the library.

Benjamin Wuelling, an undecided freshman from Valmeyer, said he never thought he would use the library during college, but goes at least once a week.

“It is the easiest place for me to study,” he said. “I pack up all of my work and just sit in there alone for hours.”

Wuelling said he prefers studying in the library rather than his residence hall because there are fewer distractions.

“Trying to study in my dorm is the worst,” he said. “There are always people being noisy in the hallway, my friends are always stopping by to

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Megan Ryan and John Schumacher, center, seniors studying speech communication and public relations, work on a project Sunday at say hi and my room just has a lot of distracting stuff in it. I know I will be spending majority of my time (in the library) during finals week.”

Wuelling said he is an avid user of the library’s Writing Center.

“I use the Writing Center every time I have a paper due,” Wuelling

Morris Library. Beginning Friday, the library will have special hours to help students prepare for finals and complete projects.

said. “It is such a helpful resource for me. Now I think of it as if I didn’t use the Writing Center, I would just be accepting a bad grade.”

Kirk said the Writing Center is the only resource she is aware of.

“I only know about the Writing Center because my English teacher

advocates using it so much,” Kirk said. “I’ve never felt the need to use it, though, because I already get decent grades on my papers.”

Ashley Zborek can be reached at azborek@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 268.

Students celebrate holidays differently CLAYTON ARMSTRONG Daily Egyptian American and international students gathered Sunday at the Stone Center to share the ways they celebrate winter holidays.

University students from all over the world interacted with each other, shared their holiday traditions and participated in activities at the International Holiday Party, which was held

by International Students and Scholars. Carla Coppi, director of International Programs and Services, said the party has been a tradition for 20 years.

She said the purpose of the party is to show international students some of America’s winter traditions, such as decorating gingerbread houses and Santa Claus visits, while also learning how other parts of the world celebrate.

Sana Haque, a graduate student in education from Pakistan, said Christmas is a holiday for her, but for different reasons than Christmas. “(Pakistan) is not a predominantly Christian country,” Haque said. “(Christmas) happens to be the birthday of the founder of our nation (Muhammad Ali Jinnah), so it’s a holiday for us anyway.”

Haque said having these two holidays on the same day allows Pakistanis who are Christian to have the day off so they can celebrate their own way.

Haque said she will celebrate the holidays

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with her family in New Jersey, where her sister is getting married. She said they will also check out some of the festivities in New York.

Flora Trujillo, a graduate student in business from France, said the ways French and American people celebrate the holidays are similar.

“We celebrate Christmas the same way here, with gifts and shopping and family gatherings,” she said.

Trujillo said she plans to go home to France for the holidays to spend time with her family and go skiing in the Alps.

Sometimes students travel to escape the cold and visit places they’ve never been.

Qaiss Alokozai, a graduate student in economics from Afghanistan, said he and a few of his friends plan on travel to Miami during Christmas break. He said he is also going to spend some time in Orlando and celebrate New Year’s in New York City.

“Usually in Afghanistan, there is no specific plan,” Alokozai said. “People don’t usually make specific plans but they spend the holidays with their families.”

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Twin brothers Devin and Kevin Lim, of Cambodia, watch their parents build a gingerbread house Sunday during the holiday celebration at the Stone Center.

The celebration was held by International Students and Services and included a visit from Santa Claus, holiday food and crafts.

He said students have a winter break in Afghanistan, but adults work. Because the parents are working, he said they do not typically exchange gifts.

“People are concerned about their own living, and they don’t have time to think about

holidays,” Alokozai said.

He said teenagers road trip with friends to different cities in Afghanistan during winter break.

Alokozai said teenagers sometimes travel to Dubai, Europe or America.

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“First and foremost, you look at our team's record and specifically the last two years with an eighth-place finish and a 10thplace finish,” Moccia said. “We just felt that it was just time for new leadership in the volleyball program.”

Moccia said a national search will begin for Winkeler’s replacement, but assistant coach Tammi Fries and Peter Chang are not candidates. He said it would be up to the new head coach to retain them, but they will still be assistant coaches until their contracts end in January.

Winkeler’s contract was on a continuing basis while she was the

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Hammer, of Sparta, has volunteered with the Shoeman project for three years and said after he talked with Manyara’s parents, he felt connected to their situation and wanted to help.

“I’ve seen people walk five miles to a dirty stream — the same stream where cattle are drinking and relieving themselves — (to wash) their clothes," he said. "Kids are bathing and this is where they are getting their water."

He said he will never forget how people rationed their water, and how precious it was because it was so far away.

Manyara said she has rationed water before and understands how badly communities need clean water. She said she went to her parents' feeding center

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The float consisted of several giant gift boxes covered with numerous Christmas lights.

Philip Nickels, a student at Brehm, said the float was constructed during two weeks as a class project, and the idea came from the students.

“I think it’s going to go really well,” he said beforehand.

Monday, December 5, 2011 head coach, but Moccia said Friday they switched her to a one-year contract with the reassignment that will expire in December 2012.

Moccia said he met with the players to discuss the reassignment, and no players intend to leave the program due to Winkeler’s departure. However, the status of Taylor Pippen and Lindsay Hutchinson, SIU’s two commits for 2012, remains unclear.

A message left with Chang’s voicemail to clarify the recruits' status was unreturned Sunday.

“As a student-athlete, I think the news always has a tendency to catch one off-guard,” Moccia said.

"We just want them to focus on the final exams that are coming up.”

Despite the struggles on the

court, Winkeler’s team had a 3.35 cumulative GPA in 20102011, which earned the American Volleyball Coaches Association Team Academic Award for the sixth-straight season.

Juniors Alysia Mayes and Bailey Yeager were named 2011 Honorable Mention MVC ScholarAthletes. “(Winkeler) put all of her efforts into the program, and we‘re certainly appreciative of her efforts,” Moccia said. “This is just one of the business aspects of college athletics, that we just need to do better on the court. We need to be more competitive.”

two years ago, and although the people were extremely poor and in need of water, she saw children who were still joyous.

Peter Gitau, Kenyan native and associate vice chancellor of Student Affairs, said a chance for SIUC students to connect with people in Africa is a great experience for students to enhance themselves culturally.

He said he remembers growing up and traveling long distances for water, and the best way to improve life for the people of Kenya is to make sure they have clean water.

“You can’t have cleanliness without water, and chances are if you have to travel far to get a bucket of water, you are going to use the water for what is considered very critical,” he said.

“Over here, when you go to the bathroom there is a running tap; if you wear a shirt one day, you

can clean it; you can take a shower because water is available. Those are not things that people would do that often when you have to go five miles for a bucket of water.”

He said the Shoeman project allows students to engage with Kenyan citizens other than through media. He said whether students make donations of time, money or actually travel to Kenya, it allows them to be involved globally.

Manyara said she wants people to realize getting water through a tap is a privilege.

“It’s hard to understand when you’re living where you’ve never had to go without water or never had dirty water come out your faucet," she said. "You take it for granted."

Rick Johnson, of Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Home Solutions, said he began making floats for the parade six years ago to promote his business. Now, Rick’s Towing and the Train Inn Bed and Breakfast have joined him.

He said he probably hasn't gotten a single customer because of the float, but it’s fun nonetheless.

This year’s float was tropicalthemed, and featured a smoke-

spewing volcano.

Johnson said the whole design grew out of the desire to make the most of a smoke machine. It also featured blaring music, and he said about 40 people pile onto the float.

“We always try to be the loudest, if not the brightest,” he said.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at jragusa@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

Jacqueline Muhammad can be reached at 536-311 ext. 259 or jmuhammad@dailyegyptian.com.

Eli Mileur can be reached at emileur@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 266.

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Putin's party losing support in parliamentary vote LYNN BERRY Associated Press MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's party struggled to hang onto its majority in Russia's parliamentary election, polls and official results showed Monday, suggesting Russians were wearying of the man who has dominated Russian politics for more than a decade.

Rival parties and election monitors said even a result of around 50 percent was inflated, alleging ballot-stuffing and other significant violations at the polls. Many expressed fears that the vote count would be manipulated.

Putin wanted to see his United Russia party do well in Sunday's election as a sign of popular support for his return to the presidency in a vote now three months away. Despite the sobering setback, he was still expected to have little trouble reclaiming the position he held from 2000 to 2008.

Putin has systematically destroyed any potential challengers and most Russians do not see any credible alternatives, despite growing dissatisfaction with his strongman style.

Grumbling over pervasive official corruption and the gap between ordinary people and the superrich has become widespread.

Putting a positive spin on the disappointing returns, Putin said, "We can ensure the stable development of the country with this result." But he appeared glum when speaking to supporters at United Russia headquarters and limited his remarks to two sentences.

United Russia held a two-thirds majority in the outgoing State Duma, which allowed it to change the constitution unchallenged. But the party is increasingly disliked, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy and known to many as the "party of crooks and thieves."

The Communist Party appeared to benefit from the protest vote, with exit polls and the early returns predicting it would get nearly 20 percent, up from less than 12 percent four years ago.

But Putin should still have no serious difficulties getting his laws passed. The two other parties in parliament also looked set to gain seats, and both have consistently voted with United Russia. Even the Communists pose only tempered opposition.

The results with about 62 percent of the precincts counted showed 50.06 percent for United Russia. This was in line with an exit poll conducted by the VTsIOM polling agency that had United Russia tallying 48.5 percent and another done by the FOM polling agency that had it winning 46 percent of the vote. The two polls were reported by the two state television channels.

Complete results were expected at 12 a.m. today.

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Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, with the emblem of the United Russia party in the background, visits the United Russia party headquarters in Moscow Saturday. registered voters cast ballots, down from 64 percent four years ago.

Only seven parties were allowed to field candidates for parliament this year, while the most vocal opposition groups were barred.

Several parties complained Sunday of extensive election violations aimed at boosting United Russia's vote count, including party observers being hindered in their work.

Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov said his party monitors thwarted an attempt to stuff a ballot box at a Moscow polling station where they found 300 ballots already in the box before the start of the vote.

He said incidents of ballot-stuffing were reported at several other stations in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and other areas. In the southern city of Krasnodar, unidentified people posing as Communist monitors had shown up at polling stations and the real observers from the party weren't allowed in, Zyuganov said.

Russia's only independent election monitoring group, Golos, has come under strong official pressure and its website was incapacitated by hackers on Sunday. Golos was still able to field more than 2,000 observers, and they reported numerous violations, director Liliya Shibanova said.

She said many of the violations involved absentee ballots, including so-called "cruise" or "carousel" voting where people with the ballots are

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Police: Indiana man, 25, drowns at Starved Rock State Park UTICA — Police say an Indiana man has drowned at Starved Rock State Park in north central Illinois.

Illinois Conservation Police identified the man as 25-year-old Dane Simmons of Lafayette, Ind. Police spokesman Robert Frazier says Simmons was hiking with two other men on Saturday when they veered off a trail and into a restricted area. Frazier says Simmons slipped and fell between 25 and 40 feet into the Illinois River.

The other men tried to rescue him.

Simmons’ body was later pulled from the river and he was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.

The other men were hospitalized for hypothermia and released.

Frazier says charges are pending for the two men for disregarding signs marking the restricted area.

bused to multiple polling stations. Many people complained that they were forced to get absentee ballots and hand them over to their bosses.

Shibanova said some of the worst violation were in the Volga River city of Samara, where observers and election commission members from opposition parties were barred from verifying that the ballot boxes were properly sealed at all polling stations.

Social media were flooded with messages reporting violations. Many people reported seeing buses deliver groups of people to polling stations, with some of the buses carrying young men who looked like football fans.

In Moscow, several journalists, including a photographer for The Associated Press, were briefly detained after taking pictures at a polling station.

Mikhail Kasyanov, a former prime minister during Putin's first presidential term, said he and other opposition activists who voted Sunday are under no illusion that their votes will be counted fairly.

"It is absolutely clear there will be no real count," he said. "The authorities created an imitation of a very important institution whose name is free election, that is not free and is not elections."

In a number of Russian regions, the official results differed sharply from the exit polls, with United Russia doing far better than the polls indicated.

A few dozen activists of the Left Front opposition group tried to stage a protest just outside Red Square on Sunday, but were quickly dispersed by police, who detained about a dozen of them. Later in the evening, police said they arrested more than 100 other opposition demonstrators at another Moscow square and about 70 in St. Petersburg.

The websites of Golos and Ekho Moskvy, a prominent, independent-minded radio station, were down on Sunday. Both said the failures were due to denial-of-service hacker attacks. Ekho Moskvy's site came back up after the polls closed.

Golos, which is funded by U.S. and European grants, has come under heavy official pressure in the past week after Putin accused Western governments of trying to influence the election and likened recipients of Western aid to Judas.

Shibanova, the Golos leader, said its hotline was flooded Sunday with automated calls that effectively blocked it. Prior to the vote, many of the group's activists were visited by security agents, while Shibanova was held for 12 hours at an airport and forced to hand over her laptop.

The group had compiled some 5,300 complaints of election-law violations ahead of the vote, most of which were linked to United Russia.

Roughly a third of the complainants — mostly government workers and students — said their employers and professors were pressuring them to vote for the party.

Stolen Santa returned to Ind. man with $100, note of apology

Two giant pandas fly from China to Scotland

Former school custodian gets prison for child porn

UNIONVILLE, Ind. — A southern Indiana man has gotten an early Christmas gift: A 16-foot-tall inflatable Santa Claus stolen from his yard has been returned with $100 and a note of apology.

Jason McClaren told The Herald-Times that someone returned the deflated Santa to his Unionville yard early Saturday in a trash bag that also contained the money and note.

He says the anonymous note makes it clear that the person who returned the Santa wasn’t the thief who took it and two 6-foot tall penguins this past week.

The penguin decorations are still missing.

The typed note states: “Returning your property is the right thing to do, and apologies for the thief who took it in the first place.�

McClaren says he plans to use the $100 to buy more decorations.

B E I J I N G — Two giant pandas have flown from China to Scotland, where they will become the first pandas to live in Britain in nearly two decades.

The pandas, named Tian Tian and Yang Guang — or Sweetie and Sunshine — munched on bamboo at Chengdu airport ahead of their trip and arrived in Edinburgh later Sunday.

The pandas are to stay for 10 years at Edinburgh Zoo, where officials hope they will breed during their stay.

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland will pay more than $935,000 a year to China for the loan of Sweetie and Sunshine, not including the expense of imported bamboo.

Britain’s last giant panda lived in London Zoo until 1994, when it was returned to China.

J O L I E T — A former custodian at a Chicago-area high school has been ordered to spend 15 years in federal prison and pay $20,000 in fines on charges that he possessed and transported child pornography.

Forty-eight-year-old Anthony Skoien of Joliet pleaded guilty in February to charges that he made thousands of pornographic images of children. Authorities say he later made those images available on a file-sharing program.

Skoien was working at Plainfield South High School when arrested in August 2010.

Federal prosecutors say nearly 6,000 of the 7,500 children have been identified.

A judge also ordered Skoien to spend 15 years on post-prison supervised release.

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‘Anamalice’ challenges reality of humanness LAURAANN WOOD Daily Egyptian What would you do for fame?

Would you exchange the only attribute that set you apart from anything else for instant stardom’s sake?

Set in the darkest corner of the biggest city on a street that has no name, “Animalice,” a play written and directed by Nico Wood, presents the dismal story about a young woman, Alice Mudwater (Lindsay Greer, a graduate student in speech communication), who seeks shelter from inclement weather in a gallery curated by the cunning Domina Peabody (Andrea Baldwin, a graduate student in speech communication). After a few intimidating discussions and a seductive deal-sealing dance, Domina convinces Alice to sign her humanity away, all in the name of underground fame.

Things aren’t as smooth as they first seemed, though, as Alice wakes up the next day to find herself locked in a cage as the prisoner of her own desire. Instead of showcasing a famous art exhibit, she is turned into one as a part of Peabody collection called “Don’t Feed the Animals.” Desperate to escape containment and reclaim what she lost, Mudwater teams up with a Doormouse (Hunter Fine, a graduate student in speech communication) and a Cuckoo Clock (Kyle Cheesewright, a graduate student in speech communication) to overthrow Peabody’s art show and prove that Mudwater is more than what she’s been reduced to by the devious curator.

The play’s message rang clear, dictated through Peabody’s dialogue: “Humanness is like money or time. People believe in it, and that’s what makes it real.”

Wood, a graduate student in speech communication from Chicago, said her main goal with the play was to push against the idea that being human isn’t all that it’s cracked up

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Lindsay Greer, a graduate student in speech communication, sits in a cage and talks to the Cuckoo Clock Friday while playing Alice Mudwater during “Animalice” in Kleinau Theatre. “Animalice” is a 45-minute play written and directed by Nico Wood. to be. Wood said it’s nothing more than a construction that people invented and believe in.

“The way that we understand what it means to be a human, at this day and age, is starting to change,” Wood said. “Many of the things that we thought only a human can do, a computer can do now. Many of the things that we thought were uniquely human characteristics we find very prevalent in other species, like animals and even plants.”

With all the technology and machinery to outshine humans’ qualities, what, then, do we have left to help relieve feelings of inferiority? An art patron in the play said it perfectly. “The beauty is in (our) aliveness.”

Mildrea Hood, a sophomore from Chicago studying radiotelevision, said though computers and robots may be able to do most of what people can, nothing can replace the emotions humans can freely express with one another.

“We can love, we can smile and we can laugh,” Hood said. “And we have a persistent nature to break free of our bondage and issues.

Robots and computers can’t come close to that.”

Michael Maxwell, a sophomore from East Moline studying radio-

television, said he didn’t know what to expect from the play, but he came in with an open mind and agreed with the feelings of originality and creation that were presented throughout. Maxwell said he also picked up on the idea of humanity not being worth all that it used to.

“I even agree with that,” he said.

Hood said she thought the play accurately portrayed the lengths some people are willing to go to just to get their name recognized.

She said it doesn’t help much, either, when there are people like Peabody out there who are trained to manipulate the vulnerable.

“Especially was the case with Alice: She didn’t think she had anything to lose, so she just gave it all away,” Hood said. “People just want to be seen. They hardly think about the legacy they are actually going to leave behind.”

For the last couple thousands of years, humanity has been trying to find its center. However, as Doormouse narrates in the play’s beginning and conclusion, “Centers shift, and concepts move on to search for that next bright spark.”

Lauraann Wood can be reached at lawood@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 263.

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People seek holiday deals at police auction Police divest themselves of bikes, electronics ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian People filled the Thomas Elementary School gym Saturday to try and snatch up bargains at the semi-annual unclaimed property auction of the Carbondale and SIUC police departments.

“Whenever I see what I want, I bid on it,” said Monecia Allen, of Carbondale.

The auction, conducted by Doerr Auction Service, featured various unclaimed property acquired by the two departments. Video consoles and games, DVD players, Care Bears and a remote-control Escalade were all up for bid, but the item of the day was bicycles, lots of them.

Ray Doerr said there were about 150 bikes in all, which filled a sizeable portion of the gym’s floor space.

David Kidd, of Carbondale, said he’s attended the auction for 20 years.

He said he started coming to get bicycles for his children, whose were always stolen, so he started keeping a stock of extra bikes.

“They had their bikes stolen as quick as I could buy them,” he said.

Kidd said while he enjoys the auction, all the property for bid reveals how rampant petty theft is in Carbondale. Ironically, one year, he won a watch, but when he went to claim it, he said, it had been stolen from the auctioneers.

Ethan Suttles, a sophomore from Anchorage, Al., studying marketing, loads a bike for Jamal Wilkerson, of Carbondale, Saturday during the Police Auction of Unclaimed Property at Thomas School. Wilkerson’s mother, Cynthia Henry, said she and This year, Kidd won a Bianchi bicycle for $130, $5 more than the price he set for it when he viewed all the bikes before the auction.

Kidd said he probably got a pretty good deal on it, and it was going to be his son’s Christmas gift.

Allen scored a PlayStation 2 for $40, which she said will be a Christmas present for her daughter.

Allen said she’s been coming for four or five years, and it’s a good way to do Christmas shopping. She said she

can get good prices and, as an added bonus, it’s an exciting way to shop.

Ron Moore, of Raleigh, said he was on the lookout for bikes as Christmas gifts for his nieces. He said he had been to Mt. Vernon’s police auction, which featured more surprising items, and he bought a lot of gas masks one year.

“We expected more than just bikes,” he said.

Kidd said the Carbondale auction has featured some amusing items in

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her son come every year and buy bikes from the auction to give to friends. A Carbondale Police Department representative said there were between 150 and 165 bikes for auction, as well as several personal and electronic items. the past, including a full hydroponics system.

Bikes are good enough for some people though.

Sid Harlen, of Marion, said he bought eight bikes at last year’s auction with plans to resell them. However, he ended up giving away four and still has some of them, he said.

Harlen brought his two grandsons along, and said they planned on going to another auction that day.

“I enjoy an auction, but you get

to stand all day … that’s part of the challenge,” Harlen said.

Doerr said there’s definitely a culture of auction-going in southern Illinois, and people fare long hours of standing and bad weather to make their bids.

“People get addicted to them,” he said.

Eli Mileur can be reached at emileur@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 266.

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Jumbles: OFTEN GILLS EXOTIC DELUGE Answer: When the men entered the room for the speed dating, they went in — SINGLE FILE

Aries — Today is an 8 — Channels are open for harmony at home and work. You’ve got the energy and confidence to make it all happen. It’s a good time to ask for money. Smile.

Cancer — Today is a 7 — Service is the secret to your success. The more you give, the more you receive. Emotional balance and communication come easily.

Libra — Today is a 9 — Others have more to provide than you know. Open a new partnership opportunity. Together you can solve an old puzzle (and invent new ones).

Capricorn — Today is a 7 — An investment in your home is okay. Figure out clever ideas to get what you need for the best use of resources. You love the results.

Taurus — Today is a 5 — Don’t listen to the monkeys out there, or the ones in your head that try to put you down. Don’t lose faith. Keep looking and find what you love.

Leo — Today is an 8 — Send support to someone on the front lines. Extra work is paying off, so pay it forward. Write down directions, and explain. Let your conscience be your guide.

Scorpio — Today is a 7 —Your capacity to get things done quickly and efficiently earns you major points. Fire up your financial engines, and use that creativity to bring in cash.

Aquarius — Today is a 9 — You can find almost everything on your list today. Money’s coming in, and you’re having fun. Find incredible bargains today, and save a bundle.

Gemini — Today is a 7 — Your friends are there for who you are, not for what you have. Set priorities within your budget.

Don’t get lost in the material.

Phone a relative.

Virgo — Today is an 8 — You feel reassured, and overcome obstacles with ease. The right words come easily now. You’re convincing and charming. Make that pitch.

Sagittarius — Today is an 8 — A match in love is available now.

Write a romantic poem or letter, and seal it with a kiss. Money looks better, but avoid spending what you don’t have.

Pisces — Today is an 8 — The two of you shine. You’re in action, and it’s coming up roses.

An abundant harvest lets you share generously. Give thanks all around.

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Treg Setty played those games with a broken jaw and a broken wrist.

“I knew he’d be tough. I knew that he wanted to compete and play,” Korn said.

“That was the thing that stood out the most to me, other than him being really skilled offensively.”

Korn and head coach Chris Lowery were quick to pull the trigger on a scholarship offer to Treg Setty, who said it was the first one he got and the only one he really considered when it was offered before his junior year.

“I was getting a bunch of calls from schools, but I wasn’t getting any offers,”

Treg Setty said. “It was early on. I didn’t really expect to, but (SIU) called, and right when I talked to Coach Lowery, the first thing he said was he wanted to offer (a scholarship). I barely even knew him, but I knew right then that, heck, if he’s offering the first time he calls me, he obviously wants me.”

Korn said it was refreshing to recruit someone who already knew as much about the program as Treg Setty did.

“He knew stuff from not just recent, but he knew our ‘past’ past real well, too,” Korn said. “It wasn’t like he was a kid who’s an hour away — he’s six hours away, so I thought that was pretty impressive. You know that was a kid who wanted to be here.”

Sports Treg Setty committed when the Salukis were just a year removed from their last Sweet Sixteen and NCAA Tournament appearance, but he said the struggles of the last few years didn’t deter him from coming here.

“I honestly didn’t even look into that.

I paid attention and listened to what the coaches said, but I never really looked into how they were doing,” Treg Setty said. “Once I committed, it was kind of a done deal. I didn’t want to do anything that would strain me away from them because I felt comfortable.”

Treg Setty said Lowery was actually the first one to bring up the team’s recent struggles during a visit to Treg Setty’s high school, Mason County, after

Daily Egyptian he already committed.

Now Treg Setty is part of a recruiting class that features nine newcomers, including five freshmen. Treg Setty is fourth on the team with 24.8 minutes per game, and Lowery said he likes the mismatches Setty has against other forwards.

“Most of his shots aren’t lay-ups.

He creates lay-ups, and I think that’s off the bounce,” Lowery said. “Everybody knows his reputation. They’re running at him to shoot threes, and he’s doing a good job of getting by them.”

Treg Setty said he likes the role he has with the team. Even though they’ve gotten off to a 1-3 start this season, he said he likes where the team can go in

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the next four years.

Korn said he’s excited for the opportunity to coach such a versatile player, even though they see him strictly as a forward who has the skills of a guard.

“If you ask him, he’s going to be running the point next year, cause he thinks he‘s the next Gordon Hayward,” Korn said with a laugh. “He gives us an offensive punch that we’re lacking right now.

He’s very crafty, knows the game well.

A lot of stuff he has you can’t teach.

He just does it instinctively on the court.”

Joe Ragusa can be reached at jragusa@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

Saluki Fast Start brings national win CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian Personal bests and first-place finishes were common throughout the Saluki Fast Start, as the combination resulted in the nation’s top collegiate mark of the season.

The Salukis opened the season Saturday with 11 event titles, two NCAA qualifying marks for the indoor championships and a No. 1 mark in the nation in the women’s weight throw by senior thrower Jeneva McCall.

Coach Connie Price-Smith said the Fast Start carries more weight than some people may realize.

“I personally like to see some people get in and get qualified right off the bat,” Price-Smith said. “If you can do that at this meet, then

it’s going to take a lot of pressure off of you when we start going to the bigger meets.”

She said the meet was an overall success not only for McCall but the entire team. Price-Smith said this type of event gives her an opportunity to gauge the progress the athletes have during the fall, while also considering the areas in need of improvement.

She said a meet this early in the season also gives the athletes a fresh evaluation, while adding tangibility to the progress thus far, particularly for some of her less-experienced athletes.

“The better you can compete now, the more comfortable you are,” Price-Smith said. “I think it was really good for some of the freshmen because I think they competed really

well, so it will give them a little confidence coming into some of the harder stuff when we come back in January.”

Though tighter competition will come later in the season, the Salukis dominated the field events. The men placed in seven of the top eight in the weight throw, took the three top spots in the shot put and four of the top five spots in the pole vault, including senior Cody Doerflein’s top mark of 5.08 meters.

The women also displayed their presence as they claimed the top seven spots in the shot put and the top five in the weight throw.

McCall, who had the top mark in both the weight throw with a nation's-best distance of 23.02 meters and the shot put with a 17.38 meter throw, said the Fast Start

ended with mixed emotions for her.

She said it was comforting for her to know that her extensive training is worth the time and effort, but a lingering leg injury become a concern.

Her top national mark came in her first throw of the meet; however, her leg limited her progression for the remainder of the event.

“Today, in my mind, was a tragedy because I couldn’t finish my last throw,” McCall said. “As far as how I threw, or how far I threw, I’m excited. I’m pleased with it because I’m better than where I was at my best last year.”

In addition to the field events, SIU had success in the running events.

The Salukis had four top-10 finishes in the women’s one-mile

run, with freshman Allison Gallo and freshman Mobola Rotibi taking the first two spots. Gallo finished with a time of 5:12.91, nearly 17 seconds ahead of Rotibi.

The men had runners in the topfour of the 60-meter dash, and had three in the top-five of the 200-meter dash, with senior Brandon Deloney and freshman Eric Reeves leading the way with the first- and secondplace finishes.

Senior and multi-event athlete Malaikah Love also had a big day as she won both the women’s long jump and triple jump, and placed second in the 60-meter hurdles.

“Usually this first meet tells you a lot about conditioning, how it's been going, how your body has been taking it,” Love said. “It’s a good thing to open up as well as I did.”

Salukis take another step backwards with loss BRANDON WILLINGHAM Daily Egyptian Normally cats flee from dogs.

This time, however, bragging rights go to the cats who succeeded by holding their ground during the second half of the game.

The Salukis (2-4), with freshman guard Cartaesha Macklin leading the way with 20 points, continued into a two-game losing streak as they fell short in overtime against the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Cougars (4-2) 70-60 Saturday at the SIU Arena.

SIUC was unable to contain its two-point lead against the Cougars at the end of regulation, when SIUE’s junior center Raven Berry grabbed an offensive rebound and scored as time expired to force overtime. The Cougars dominated the game with a 47-35 rebounding advantage and 20 offensive boards.

Head coach Missy Tiber said the team needs to improve and perfect its rebounding in order to come out on top.

“I thought our defense in the second half was pretty solid, but we cannot rebound the basketball to save our life,” Tiber said. “One possession under two minutes we gave (SIUE) five shots at

and they luckily turned it over.”

The Cougars were led by their guards, sophomore Jazmin Hill and freshman Katie Hempen.

Hill finished with 12 points, while Hempen added 11.

With the exception of junior guard Teri Oliver, the team’s leading scorer with 12 points, three Saluki starters — freshman forward Ariel Haynes, sophomore point guard Brooke LeMar and senior forward Charnise Mitchell — shot 4-for-13 in field goals and accounted for only 12 points.

Tiber said additional players must contribute and consistently perform well to win games.

“Obviously we need more scoring, but we need to rebound,” Tiber said.

“We’re an up-tempo team, not a halfcourt team. We don’t have back-to-thebasket type players right now, and if we don't rebound we cannot run.”

Macklin said the team’s biggest downfall is learning how to close games and come out with a victory.

“I feel we are playing timid,” Macklin said. “We’ve got to learn how to finish.

We’re young and have to learn how to build momentum for ourselves.”

Oliver said overtime was the biggest turning point for the team, but it just couldn’t pull away with the win.

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Coach Missy Tiber reacts to a play in Saturday’s game against Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville at the SIU Arena. The SIUE Cougars “They had a 5-0 run in overtime after hitting a buzzer-beater,” Oliver said. “It's all about momentum, really.”

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scored a buzzer-tying basket to lead the game into overtime. Salukis scored five baskets in overtime, but lost to the Cougars in a 60-70 final score.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Thursday before a fivegame road trip, with tip-off set for 7:05 p.m. at the SIU Arena.

Brandon Willingham can be reached at bwillingham@dailyegyptian.com or 536-331 ext. 269.

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for Salukis JOE RAGUSA Daily Egyptian Freshman forward Treg Setty fondly remembers the Salukis' run to the Sweet Sixteen in 2002, and has been a fan of the program ever since.

He said when he was only 9 years old, he couldn’t imagine he’d be suiting up for SIU. “It was actually my brother who first jumped on the bandwagon, and you know when you're young, anything your older brother does is awesome,� Setty said. “I even bought an SIU jersey and used to wear it to school. People would ask me who the Salukis were and I always had to say they were real good, and then I ended up committing there. It's just

crazy how things work out.�

Setty, a native of Maysville, Ky., was still learning the fundamentals of the game at the time, mostly from his parents, Tim and Kim Setty.

Both played basketball in college, though Tim Setty’s career ended after a hip problem sidelined him, and Kim Setty got pregnant with Treg Setty’s older brother, Trevor, when she was 18.

Trevor Setty was the 20102011 NAIA tournament MVP for national champ Pikeville College, and Treg Setty is now in his first year at SIU. Treg Setty said his parents always helped them finetune their guard skills. “The reason I play out on the perimeter is because my whole life, we never figured I’d be very tall

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Freshman forward Treg Setty goes up for a shot Nov. 25 against Chicago State University at the SIU Arena. Setty was recruited by the Salukis as a guard

because my parents weren’t very tall, especially my mom,� Treg Setty said. “She always pushed me to be a guard and work on my dribble and try to get better out on the wing.�

Treg Setty is now 6-foot-9, and starting at forward for the Salukis in place of another freshman, Dantiel Daniels, who is sidelined with a strained groin.

Treg Setty said his parents always wanted him to be a guard, regardless of how he sized up against kids his age. “Growing up, there’d be times where I’d be tall, and then I would stop growing and everybody would grow and be the same size as me, then I’d grow again,�

Treg Setty said. “I remember one of my old coaches said he knew a lot of kids

but started as a forward in the game. Setty averages 7.5 points and 24.8 minutes per game as the fourth most-played Saluki on the team.

who ‌ always played (center) down on the block and didn’t move or anything.

Then, they’d grow up to be 6-foot post players who had no chance to play college ball.�

There were several times when Treg Setty thought he was done growing. He said he was around 5-foot-11 in middle school, when he began playing point guard and shooting guard for his team.

In high school, he just kept growing.

Even assistant coach Brad Korn, one of the lead recruiters for Treg Setty, saw him as a guard when SIU initially scouted him. “He was really skilled at the perimeter, but then he grew a little bit, and he grew a little bit, so then he started

playing a little bit in the post for his high school team,� Korn said. “But he was still able to retain those guard skills that he had, and then when he came here on his visit he was as tall as me. That hadn’t been the case the entire time we were recruiting him.�

Korn saw Treg Setty when he was playing for the Nashville Celtics AAU team in the summer of 2009 before his junior year. He said they were impressed with what Treg Setty, 6-foot-5 at the time, was able to do on the court. But it was something that one of Treg Setty’s coaches told Korn after the games that really stuck out to the coaching staff.

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