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RYAN VOYLES Daily Egyptian While some students around campus continue to sweat it out in the classrooms, the Physical Plant continues searching for efficient ways to cool everyone down. Under the current system, many on campus buildings are connected to a central heating system, which provides either hot or cold air throughout the campus — not both, said Phil Gatton, director of the Physical Plant. One of the biggest challenges facing any change to the heating system is how rooms across campus are being used, Gatton said. One room in a building might be cold, yet the room next to it would be warm because of having been turned into a computer lab. “Some rooms may have a need for cold air, while the one right next to it will be needing warm air,� he said. “Because every space is serving a different purpose, every room has different heating needs. And that wasn’t foreseen when these buildings were built, because they couldn’t see the type of equipment being put in rooms.� Although it is possible for every building to have its own standalone chilling system, the cost of the systems and manpower would be too much, said Brad Dillard, associate director of facilities. “The more individual units we have, the more expensive it is to manage and monitor every one of them,� he said. “It also requires more staffing and manpower to make the conversion and constantly monitor what’s going on.� Many older buildings on campus have a two-pipe system, which allows the transfer of either hot or cold air, said Scott Weber, supervising engineer of the physical plant. He said whenever one of these buildings is remodeled, like Morris Library, the construction of a fourpipe system is a top priority. That system would allow the plant to provide hot and cold air to campus at the same time, Gatton said. “The idea is if we could get our buildings to be four-pipe systems, then to have stand-alone chillers that could operate year-round and provide cooling into the loop during traditional off-season peaks,� Gatton said. Please see HEATING | 2
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Mary Vannice, left, a freshman from Champaign studying animal science, Dani Eichholz, a sophomore from Windsor studying animal science, and Nelli Grzes, a freshman from Schaumburg studying
hospitality and tourism administration, lie out in front of Campus Lake Monday. Vannice said they liked to take advantage of the warm weather and the rays.
Lifelong fan chooses tickets first STILE T. SMITH Daily Egyptian With a new football stadium and the dimensions of the SIU Arena changing in 2010, someone had to have the first choice in season tickets. That person was Greg Cook. Cook, owner of Cook Portable Warehouse, made a donation of $1 million to the Saluki Way project in January 2008, the largest donation to the project so far. Athletic Director Mario Moccia said the seat selection process was a two-tiered process. Those who made a “major donation� or a donation of $25,000 or more were put into the first group — about 170 people. After that, Moccia said a points system determined the order those 170 fans would get to choose seats. Moccia said points are accumulated for lifetime membership of the Alumni Association, each $100 contributed to Salukis athletics, each consecutive year of Varsity Club membership and more. Cook said his father, John Cook, began taking him to football and basketball games when he was 5-yearsold, and he has been a season ticket holder since he was in his 20s. “It was something, first of all, that the university and community
needed, and secondly that it was going to benefit not just Carbondale but the entire southern Illinois by having our university be at a higher standard than it is already,� Cook said. Cook said he made the donation to honor his father, who died in 2005. Cook said he went to school at SIUC in the 1970s, studying business administration. Moccia said Cook and his wife, Nancy, have been vital assets to the athletic department. “They’re tremendous fans across the board,� Moccia said. “Greg, through a ton of hard work, has also been fortunate in the business world, and he has chosen SIU to give back a lot of his good fortune. That’s of critical importance for our success.� Moccia said after the first groupselected seats, the remaining people who expressed interest in season tickets — about 1,850 people — would choose seats based on the points system as well. Cook said he would stay in section A in the SIU Arena, close to where his old season tickets were located. He said he acquired a total of 16 season tickets in the new football stadium, 10 in the skybox and six more in the bowl. Nancy Cook said she and her husband grew up in Carbondale,
and started dating in high school at the age of 16 when they began bonding over Saluki athletics. She said when she was pregnant with her first child in 1985 she wore a shirt that said, “Make room section A, future fan on the way,� and they raised all three of their children around Saluki athletics. “There they were raised with coloring books until they were lying on the floor keeping score during the games,� Cook said. “So they
went from playing with toys to becoming fans and keeping score.� She said she and Greg felt it was important to donate to Saluki Way. Greg Cook said, thinking as a businessman, Saluki athletics needed the donation. He said the athletic department brings in money when people eat at the restaurants, shop at the mall and stay in Carbondale’s hotels. Please see COOK | 2
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Greg Cook, of Carbondale, stands in front of the new SIU football stadium Wednesday at the construction site on campus. Cook was recently informed that he would have first choice of season-ticket seating in the new SIU Arena and the, yet to be named, football stadium.