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SIU Board of Trustees approves faculty salary increases SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian SIU Board of Trustees member Don Lowery requested that one item from the agenda at the trustees meeting Thursday be voted on separately. Lowery said he could not approve the changes in faculty and administrative payrolls while union members at SIUC are
still without contracts. He said he had a problem with the item as it was phrased, because it included contract requirements from union agreements, as well as new hires and promotional increases during a hiring freeze. “As I stated in the July meeting, until we have reached an accord with all our constituents, I must oppose all further promotional or pay increases and all new
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hires,� he said Thursday at the meeting in the conference center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. SIU President Glenn Poshard said of the 31 faculty pay increases, 14 people are non-tenure track and have gone from term to continuing positions as a result of collective bargaining. Please see BOT | 4
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Happy goes healthy: McDonalds’ September initiative TARA KULASH Daily Egyptian McDonald’s locations in southern Illinois will begin phase two of an initiative to make healtier Happy Meals. Short Enterprises owns nine McDonald’s locations in five counties
in the southern Illinois region. The Healthy Southern Illinois Delta Network approached the company in January with an idea to cut down the calorie count in Happy Meals. The method suggested was to offer white milk and apples in the meals instead of fries and a soft drink. Short Enterprises
agreed, and in March they experimented with the project every Tuesday. Katie Goss, Short Enterprises’ public representative, said the response was overwhelming, so they’ve decided to try it every day for the month of September as part of national Fruits and Veggies Month.
“We’re here as a family organization to promote that we do have healthy choices,� Goss said. “We’re not here to be a parent, but we do want them to know that we do have these choices and it’s something that we’re going to push strong for.� Short Enterprises wants to make
customers aware of healthier options because of the rising childhood obesity rate, said Caleb Nehring, senior health initiatives representative from the American Cancer Society and a founder of the campaign. Please see MCDONALD’S | 7
GREEK LIFE GOES ON
ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian All but one of the houses on Greek Row are empty. This is Greek Row’s last year as the oncampus home of SIUC’s fraternities and sororities. “Their useful life was coming to an end,� said Andy Morgan, fraternity and sorority life coordinator. Greek Row consists of several residence halls on Douglas Drive which have served as the chapter houses for the university’s fraternities and sororities. Morgan said the number of chapters using the buildings has declined over the years, and now that the buildings no longer meet the state’s requirements for campus residence, they are being vacated. Morgan said even when the buildings were built in the 1950s, they were already out of date and built on an overstretched budget. He said the state passed a law about four years ago that required sprinkler systems in on-campus housing, and the university decided not to add them to Greek Row and the Triads. Morgan said the university hired an outside firm to conduct a study on the demand for and financial feasibility of rebuilding Greek Row. He said he believes the findings will be presented sometime this fall and there are many considerations to make in the decision process. “It’s like buying a car,� he said. The Board of Trustees decided Thursday to convert one of the buildings, Wakeland Hall, into an administration building for the First Scholars Program. Two of the last sororities that lived in Greek Row, Alpha Gamma Delta and Sigma Kappa, decided in 2011 to move off of campus in fall 2011. Only Delta Zeta chose to remain in their chapter house for the last year before the buildings are vacated. Delta Zeta president Chelsea Bertelsmann said her sorority actually voted to move off campus, but the decision was cancelled to give new members a chance to have the experience of living in a chapter house. “It’s somewhere everyone can go to feel like they’re at home,� she said. She said the sorority was able to work out a deal with University Housing to live in the house this year. Delta Zeta member Cayla Wegner said unlike previous years, the house doesn’t have its own cook. There’s also a resident assistant and maintenance personnel who clean the house. Please see GREEK | 4
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Greg Rathert, a temporary worker for plant and service operations, lays brick Thursday in front of Shryock Auditorium. Richard McGriff, brickmason foreman for the
Physical Plant, said construction of the steps and patio, which began around mid-August, will most likely continue through November.
New Shryock steps to have pieces of historical Old Main LAUREN DUNCAN Daily Egyptian More than 40 years after the university’s first building burned down, part of its interior will be built into a display on campus. Plans have evolved into placing artifacts from Old Main, a historic SIUC building that burned down in 1969, along the main steps of Shryock Auditorium, said Phil Gatton, director of plant and service operations. The Physical Plant began construction to replace the entrance steps for Shryock roughly one month ago. Gatton said the incorporation of Old Main into the steps began after the historical significance of the brick patio near the bottom of the steps was questioned by university architects. “We first looked into what we were going to replace the brick with, and we needed to find out if the brick that was already there had any ties with Old Main, because nobody was around here when that patio was originally installed,� he said. Eric Jones, clerical assistant of the University Museum, said terracotta tile medallions originally placed in the en-
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t’s good stewardship for the buildings that we have. Even though we don’t have any buildings on the historic register, we still want to try to follow some of their guidelines when we can and keep the old nature of the buildings. —Carol LePere staff architect for the physcial plant
tryway of Old Main date back to 1887 and will be placed along the new Shryock steps. Jones said the square tiles have been in storage since their removal from Old Main. “These pieces have not been seen by anyone in a long time,� he said. Jones said Shryock’s location is an appropriate location for the tiles because of Shryock’s proximity to where Old Main stood. Old Main was rebuilt in 1887 after the original building burned down in 1882. It was rebuilt just west of the base of Shryock’s steps and was the only building on campus until Altgeld Hall was built in 1896. “It’s certainly a position that would be appropriate, so it’s more likely to be remembered,� he said. “As far as preserving the presence of Old Main, it is a good idea.�
Carol LePere, staff architect for the Physical Plant, said two of the tiles have been cleaned and will be installed in the brick walls alongside the steps. She said $70,000 has been allocated to replace the pavers and $50,000 has been set aside for Shryock steps and retaining walls, which are expected to be complete in October. LePere said the style of bricks that are affected by the Shyrock renovation are about 50 to 60 years newer than what would have been used in Old Main. Once preservation was no longer an issue, LePere said Old Main’s possible significance led to the idea to incorporate it into the step replacement at Shryock. Please see SHRYOCK | 4