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take idea to international competition STEPHANIE DANNER Daily Egyptian

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Three-year-old Patrick Greene Jr., right, gets his hair cut Tuesday by his father, Patrick Greene, of Carbondale, at Illusions Barber Shop on West Walnut Street. Patrick Greene, shop manager, said Illusions, which has been around for about 10 years, sees family members as well as many regular customers from as far as Mt. Vernon for cuts. Paresh Darji, a returning customer from Marion, said he became a regular customer three years ago after stopping at the family business on his daily commute. “I keep coming back because they are such great people,” Darji said. “It’s on my way home, and I enjoy stopping.”

Experts blame GOP split for two-week government shutdown MATT DARAY Daily Egyptian Political experts at SIU say the split within the Republican Party is to blame for the government shutdown, now entering its third week.

But the Marion Tea Party denies fault and instead blames the president.

David Yepsen, the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute director, said the shutdown could dramatically hurt our economy, especially since it is recovering from a recession.

“I think it’s a terrible situation for the country,” he said. “I think it poses some real threats to our economic growth.

We’re already seeing it in the stock

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think it’s a terrible situation for the country. I think it poses some real threats to our economic growth.

— David Yepsen director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

market, and I just think it’s not healthy for a fragile economy to be jerked around like this.”

According to a poll by CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation from October 9, 63 percent of respondents are angry with the Republican Party. Yepsen said these polls show a strong dislike for the Republicans because of the split within the party that started several years

ago with the creation of the Tea Party.

He said this split has caused Republicans to take a lot of heat and could lower the number of voters for their party on all levels of government. It may even cost Republicans the White House in the next presidential election, he said.

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Phone donations help exploited women JORDAN VANDEVEER Daily Egyptian Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon presented a $5,000 check to two regional domestic violence shelters to honor Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The checks were donated from Verizon Wireless after Simon collected 1,000 cellular phones to give to the company.

Verizon donates $10 per cell phone with a maximum of $10,000 each year. Friday completed Simon’s third annual cell phone drive, which has reached the maximum

each year. Phones were collected at Simon’s office, the Illinois State Fair, DuQuoin State Fair and the Department of Central Management Services and donated to Verizon’s Hopeline program.

Simon said she wanted to choose shelters this year that do great work serving domestic violence survivors with limited resources.

The Women’s Shelter in Cairo and HOPE in Rochelle each received a check.

“This money means that we will be able to expand on our efforts to provide a safe and secure environment for the women and children who come to our program

in need of our services,” said Jeannine Woods, executive director of the Cairo Women’s Shelter.

Every year, the Cairo Women’s Shelter and its sister agency, Guardian Family Services in Metropolis, Illinois serve around 600 domestic violence survivors, many of whom are unemployed or hold minimum wage jobs. HOPE serves around 450 survivors each year, according to the presentation’s press release.

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Senior Marketing major Alex Hutchinson will have 90 seconds to convince judges at the Elevator Pitch contest in Chicago that he has an idea that will revolutionize how college students eat.

Hutchinson can’t give the details of his innovation before the contest. But he says that he will pursue it win or lose.

Saluki CEO corps, a campus Registered Student Organization, is teaming up with Small Business Development Center, a city organization that helps people develop small business, and the university’s School of Business to send Hutchinson to the Oct. 31- Nov. 2 Elevator Pitch competition in Chicago. He will make his pitch to real investors for either a cash prize or idea sponsorship.

Robyn Russell, director of the Small Business Development Center‘s Business Development & International Trade, said the competition gives young entrepreneurs worldwide a chance to start their business and practice for a business pitch for future investment opportunities.

Very few students are chosen to go the Elevator Pitch Competition and SIU is fortunate to have a guaranteed space for one student, said Jenni Janssen, the coordinator for External and Executive Education and faculty adviser for Saluki CEO corps.

The university has sent a student to the competition for the past five years and is now allotted an automatic space because of the university’s competition frequency. Saluki CEO Corps held a competition Oct. 9 to prepare competition and decide who would attend.

Hutchinson believes he has a good chance in the competition because his idea is something the public needs and is a subject very close to his heart.

He was chosen after a preliminary round to the Elevator Pitch Competition, where students gave their pitch to a board of judges from their sponsors already mentioned and the SIU College of Business. Participants gave a 90-second pitch that answered the international competition’s main questions such as the type of business, addressed need, market size and opportunity, qualifications, product or service cost, anticipated profit per item or service and specific amount of investment needed for individual services.

“I won because I was the best qualified with the best idea and presentation skills,” Hutchinson said, “I was the he most prepared and the most confident in the product because of my experience with my product.”

Janssen said the investors could choose to help any student’s idea even if he or she doesn’t win the competition, and the winner will receive $3,500 to help fund his or her business idea. It is also a way for young entrepreneurs to receive feedback from investors, she said.

Hutchinson said he was excited for the opportunity to meet the investors.

“I want to get my idea exposure to a real investor and get my name and idea out there so I can make my dream a reality,” Hutchinson said, “It would mean more to me than any cash prize.”

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want to get my idea exposure to a real investor and get my name and idea out there so I can make my dream a reality. It would mean more to me than any cash prize.

— Alex Hutchinson senior in Marketing

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“We are going to use a portion of those funds to be able to help women repair their cars,” Ruth Carter, executive director of HOPE, said. “So they can get to the resources, they can get to court, they can get to jobs and to child care.”

The Hopeline program takes the collected phones, refurbishes them and sells them with all proceeds going to support local domestic violence shelters and programs. Phones that are not in good enough condition for the drive are recycled. This program also helps the domestic violence agencies

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This shutdown does not show that there is a problem with a twoparty democratic system, Yepsen said, but rather the Republican Party has to figure out where it now stands politically.

“This has happened before in our process in this country,” he said.

“We’ve seen parties dissolve over splits. I mean, it happened in the Civil War, and I don’t think the Republican Party is in danger of dissolving or anything like that, but I do think the Republican Party has some internal problems it needs to work out.”

Pam Ward, a member of the Marion Tea Party, said she thinks all conservatives think the shutdown is the Democrats or president’s fault.

“I believe they are trying to make conservatives look bad, they’re trying to make the Tea Party look bad, and I believe all along, it’s the president’s doing,” she said.

Ward said the hate aimed at the Tea Party is baseless because they are just a group of concerned Americans with conservative views who believe in the Constitution and have a strong stance against the Affordable Care Act. She said her party is in

acquire phones equipped with prepaid minutes for domestic violence victims to use. Dorothy Jones, associate director of Strategic and Government Accounts at Verizon, said this program is nationwide and has grown a lot since it’s start in 1995.

“Everyone has cell phones, and when you buy new ones what do you do with the old one? You can donate it,” Simon said.

Simon said though $5,000 may not seem like much money to some people, it will greatly impact the two shelters.

“We’re really excited, particularly excited for me, to be making the presentation here at the SIU Domestic Violence Clinic, which I helped to get

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t’s a way for you to learn about domestic violence, to learn about the importance of domestic violence in people’s lives, whether they have a case that comes to you as a divorce case or as a personal injury case or something entirely different. But for you to know about domestic violence is going to make you better lawyers no matter what you do.

— Sheila Simon Lt. Gov. of Illinois

going,” Simon said.

The checks were presented Friday to the shelters in Kaplan Hall, SIU’s Domestic Violence Clinic. Simon, a former law professor, helped found Kaplan Hall, where as a part of the School of Law, students in their second or third year work directly

with domestic violence victims from Jackson, Williamson and Union counties and provide free legal representation in seeking protection orders. The students are assisted by an experienced lawyer.

“It’s a way for you to learn about domestic violence, to learn about the

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his has happened before in our process in this country. We’ve seen parties dissolve over splits. I mean, it happened in the Civil War, and I don’t think the Republican Party is in danger of dissolving or anything like that, but I do think the Republican Party has some internal problems it needs to work out.

— David Yepsen Paul Simon Public Policy Institute director

favor of having Democrats and Republicans come together in order to end the shutdown.

A failure for both sides to compromise is the main reason the shutdown is still in effect, Ward said.

“There’s no compromise,” she said.

“It’s like one end against the other.

(Democrats and Republicans) seem to be at each other’s throats.”

Bridging the gap between all parties to better the country might be hard to accomplish at this time, Ward said, and she doesn’t know whether the two parties will be able to fix the mess the shutdown is creating.

John Hamman, an associate professor in political science, said the shutdown shows a flaw in the U.S. government that allows small parties such as the Tea Party to have enough power to block legislation.

“I think a problem we have is this really is a problem of limited

government and the ability of a minority to block the will of a majority,” he said.

Hamman said the country runs on a limited government with many parts, which makes it easier to stop legislation than pass it. He said the impasse on budget agreements came from the Tea Party refusing to sign off on the government’s budget unless changes are made to the Affordable Care Act. However, blaming a party for the shutdown is not a solution because the problem lies within the government’s setup, Hamman said.

“When you get into a situation like this, the rules and the structure just allow this to happen, and it’s inevitable that these things are going to happen from time to time,” he said.

Kenneth Mulligan, an associate professor in political science, said the reasons for the shutdown are vast, but the main reason is for Republicans to

attempt to block the Affordable Care Act one last time.

“There are many different facets and factors involved here,” he said.

“One is this is a last-ditch effort on the part of Republicans to try and appeal or delay Obamacare, so if they don’t find a way to stop it now, it’ll just keep moving along.”

Mulligan said it is ironic that Obamacare is being blocked because the website for the new healthcare is not working, and the care could be delayed. He said another factor in the shutdown is the recently large level of governmental partisanship compared to how small it has been in the past.

The shutdown could have effects on both Democrats and Republicans alike, he said.

“Congress is the most unpopular institution in the country outside of, let’s say, terrorist organizations,” he said. “Their approval ratings have

importance of domestic violence in people’s lives, whether they have a case that comes to you as a divorce case or as a personal injury case or something entirely different,” she said. “But for you to know about domestic violence is going to make you better lawyers no matter what you do,” Simon said.

been down in the range of 10-20 percent in recent times, so they’re already very unpopular. For them to proceed doing something unpopular is probably not good for them.”

While the shutdown is a serious issue, Mulligan said, it is not as devastating as people are making it out to be. He said very few people will be affected by the shutdown as long as it ends within the next few weeks and the real concern is if the country can reach a deal on its debt limit.

Considering the bipartisan impasse, Mulligan said the odds of a third political party coming into power from the shutdown, or in general, is pretty much zero.

“Third political parties in the United States do not succeed,” he said. “They always get co-opted by one or both of the major political parties.”

As of press time Tuesday, the government has not found a solution to the shutdown, but scheduled meetings were in place Tuesday afternoon in order to find a solution before the impending debt ceiling decision.

Matt Daray can be reached at mdaray@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254.

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Galactic diamonds may be Earth’s best friend AMINA KHAN Associated Press Diamonds are forever, unless you’re on Saturn or Jupiter.

Loads of the super-hard stones may be floating among the gas giants’ fluid layers and melted into liquid further into their depths, a pair of planetary scientists proposed this past week.

The research sprang from very humble beginnings soot in Saturn’s atmosphere, said Kevin Baines, a planetary scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Baines was studying thick yellowish ammonia clouds in Saturn’s atmosphere when he noticed other extremely dark clouds cropping up as well.

“It’s almost like clockwork in the southern hemisphere, where we were studying these thunderstorms,” said Baines, who is part of the science team for

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Janssen said having students attend the competition would get the university’s name out to prospective students.

“Any time you can compete with some other top notch universities is a good thing,” she said.

As a Elevator Pitch Competition competitor, Hutchinson will also have a chance to win the People’s Choice Award for his idea. He said he will post to YouTube a short film

NASA’s Cassini mission and also works at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge in California. “Whenever you have a thunderstorm, you get both these types of clouds.”

The dark stuff turned out to be soot, bits of pure carbon with no internal structure trapped in frozen ammonia, he said. But where was this soot coming from? Baines and collaborator Mona Delitsky, a planetary scientist at California Specialty Engineering in Pasadena came up with an idea.

Saturn’s atmosphere is mostly hydrogen, Baines said, but about 0.5 percent of it is methane, a molecule made up of carbon and hydrogen. During a thunderstorm, lightning can fry that methane to a crisp, releasing the hydrogen and reducing the carbon to little black bits. The researchers think those bits of soot are blown up into the ammonia

clouds during the thunderstorms.

“So we have this reservoir of carbon dust,” Baines said. “The natural question is, what happens to the carbon dust eventually? Eventually it’s going to drift on down.”

The researchers think that as the soot particles fall, they start to find one another and glom together. These bits of pure carbon may also act as seeds that pull the carbon atoms out of methane molecules they meet, further fueling its growth.

By the time the soot particles have floated several hundred miles within the planet’s atmosphere, the heat and pressure crush the carbon into graphite, with atoms arranged into two-dimensional structures layered on top of one another.

While it has some crystalline order, graphite’s still pretty soft. Those twodimensional layers rub off easily, which is why it’s so useful as pencil lead.

about his idea and why it is important to the community and university.

The person with the most “likes” will win. Hutchinson said it would mean the world to have people learn about this idea and further his exposure.

Sponsorship or not, Hutchinson said he plans to carry out his idea even after he graduates. Janssen said she believes he has the will to accomplish his plan because he has already owned a small lawn care business while attending school. He has also previously had an internship with Edward Jones

Investment Firm, which she said has furthered his knowledge in investments and how to go about finishing his idea. He said the Saluki CEO corps has also provided good insight to small area businesses and how they operate.

Russell said the Small Business Development Center helps entrepreneurs who want to start or expand a business, and it supports young entrepreneurs. The center sponsors and assists Saluki CEO corps by helping them attend competitions as well as host them.

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TRUDY RUBIN

The Nobel Peace Prize committee blew it big time on Friday.

It could have electrified the world by giving the prize to Malala Yousafzai, the courageous Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban because of her crusade for girls’ education. She was the odds-on favorite to win.

And by fortuitous coincidence, Friday was also the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child, with a focus on promoting girls’ education.

What a global statement the Nobel committee could have made by handing Malala the prize on that date, one year after she was shot. How inspirational for the cause of girls’ education, which is critical in helping developing countries thrive.

Instead, the award went to the little-known U.N.-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is dismantling Syria’s poison-gas arsenal. Sorry, but this choice is bizarre. Sure, the OPCW is doing important work, but it is only implementing a political deal that might not be fully honored — and that won’t stop the Syrian regime from killing more thousands with conventional weapons.

Honoring this obscure organization won’t inspire the world.

The choice did please the Taliban. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban called the decision “very good news” and praised the committee for “not selecting this immature girl for this famous award.” He warned that, given another chance, “we will definitely kill her, and that will make us feel proud.”

The Taliban’s reaction shows why Malala was the perfect candidate for the Peace Prize.

“For Muslim countries, she stands for the difference between those who want progress and peace and those who live by violent terror,” said Farahnaz Ispahani, a former member of the Pakistani parliament who has received death threats for her human-rights advocacy.

Yet this 16-year-old’s importance extends beyond the Muslim world. In many developing countries, the barriers to female education seem overwhelming. It is far easier for girls from privileged families to rise to prominence than for those from poor or middle-class families.

Malala’s personal history as the daughter of an educator father and an illiterate mother from Pakistan’s remote Swat Valley proves these odds are surmountable.

“She showed that with male family support, a young, rural girl can develop ideas and a belief

system (that rivals) many world leaders,” said Ispahani, now a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. “The Nobel committee missed a huge opportunity to make the prize relevant to ordinary people around the world.”

Of course, Malala has won plenty of recognition. She just received a top European human-rights award. Her memoir of life in Swat has just been released; it is titled “I Am Malala,” a reference to her reply when a Taliban boarded her school bus and asked, “Who is Malala?” just before he shot her. On her 16th birthday, in July, she gave an eloquent speech at the United Nations calling for “education for every child.”

She has become the face of a cause that needed a charismatic advocate. There is overwhelming evidence that girls’ education, especially at the secondary level, has a transformative effect on health, poverty, and economic growth in less developed societies. Yet more than 30 million girls worldwide don’t go to school.

Go to the website for the Day of the Girl (www.un.org/en/events/girlchild) or search for #dayofthegirl on Twitter, and you will find a wealth of ideas on how to facilitate girls’ education, from improved school transportation, to mobile technology that reaches remote areas, to corporate mentoring to help girls acquire work and leadership skills. The group Vital Voices

has helped set up the Malala Fund to help girls in developing countries get schooling (www. malalafund.org).

But this cause still faces resistance in many countries. Pakistan has one of the most dismal records, with 60 percent female illiteracy and one of the lowest overall literacy rates worldwide. It’s no coincidence that it’s also plagued by Islamic extremism and violence.

Nor is it surprising that Malala has noisy critics in Pakistan. Some resent that her campaign lays bare unpleasant facts about her country; others claim it’s a Western plot. After a year of medical treatment in England, it’s unclear when she can safely go home.

So even if the Nobel committee had done the right thing, Malala might not have enjoyed a warm reception in her country. The only previous Pakistani Nobel laureate, the late physicist Abdus Salam, was never honored at home because he belonged to the minority Ahmadi sect, which many of his countrymen decry as heretical.

Yet I can’t help thinking how Malala’s fellow schoolgirls in Swat would have cheered had she won, and how her prize would have inspired girls around the world. Her achievements speak for themselves without a Peace Prize, but the Nobel committee lost an opportunity to do something great.

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Russian court refuses bail to captain of Greenpeace ship McClatchy Tribune MOSCOW — A court in Murmansk on Monday refused bail to the captain of a Greenpeace ship whose 30-member crew has been detained in the north Russian city after it sailed to an oil platform to protest drilling.

The court sided with prosecutors who argued that Peter Willcox, a U.S. citizen, should remain behind bars because he could hinder the course of justice or go into hiding, Russian news agencies reported.

The court also denied bail to

Argentinian activist Camila Speziale and New Zealander David Haussmann, bringing the number of rejected appeals for bail in the case to nine, according to Greenpeace.

The hearing of a 10th activist, Cristian D’Alessandro of Italy, was postponed to Tuesday, the environmental group said.

Greenpeace has appealed the detentions of all 30 of the crew members.

The appeal hearings were expected to last until at least next week.

The 28 activists and two journalists were arrested after their ship was seized by the coast guard Sept. 19, one day after the protest. They were charged with

piracy, which carries a jail term of up to 15 years, and the court sanctioned their detentions for two months.

Willcox had earlier been fined $620 for refusing orders to sail his ship, the Arctic Sunrise, to Murmansk, the Interfax news agency reported. The vessel was subsequently towed.

A veteran activist, Willcox was the captain of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985 when it was bombed by French agents, killing a photographer.

Greenpeace has called the accusations trumped up and demanded that Russian authorities release the crew and return their ship.

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Default or not, US already has endangered its credit rating KEVIN G. HALL McClatchy WASHINGTON — Credit ratings agencies may not wait for a default to downgrade U.S. government creditworthiness.

Standard & Poor’s downgraded U.S. government bonds to AA from AAA amid the August 2011 debt ceiling debacle. The other two major ratings agencies — Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings — didn’t follow suit at the time, but Fitch said late Tuesday that it had put the United States on a watch list, which means U.S. bonds might be downgraded.

Fitch promised to resolve the status before the end of March, depending on the outcome of the political squabbling, which could extend into next year even with a short-term resolution now. And S&P doesn’t rule out a downgrade.

For now, it’s a warning that politicians are showing just why U.S. bonds no longer are considered to be worthy of the gold-plated AAA status. The AA designation means that U.S. bonds are now considered a riskier investment than those issued

by Canada or Germany.

S&P spokesman John Piecuch told McClatchy it was “worth reiterating that this level of discord, which is not consistent with a AAA rating, is a dominant reason the U.S. sovereign rating is no longer rated AAA.” Financial markets weren’t waiting

for the downgrade, which reflects a greater risk of default and might push interest rates up.

Big money-market players such as Fidelity Investments and JPMorgan Chase have been dumping shortterm U.S. bonds. Citigroup spooked the markets Tuesday by telling its customers it was in good shape because it had unloaded U.S. bonds.

That’s hardly a vote of confidence, and investors buying bonds that mature in the next six weeks were demanding on Tuesday an interest rate equal to what they’d usually seek to hold a riskier six-month bond.

It all leads to the question: Why hasn’t there been another downgrade?

At Fitch, the signals in the current fight are warning signs that are worth watching closely.

“The U.S. risks being forced to incur widespread delays in payments to suppliers and employees, as well as Social Security payments to citizens — all of which would damage the perception of U.S. sovereign creditworthiness and the economy,” the Fitch statement said.

Fitch added that the U.S. standing in the world is at stake, too.

“The prolonged negotiations over raising the debt ceiling ... risk undermining confidence in the role of the U.S. dollar” as the world’s top currency, Fitch said, “by casting doubt over the full faith and credit of the U.S.” Moody’s Investors Service was more optimistic, citing a much lower deficit than was the case in 2011 and

an improving economy.

“We believe the government would continue to pay interest and principal on its debt even in the event that the debt limit is not raised, leaving its creditworthiness intact,” Moody’s said in an Oct. 7 report.

A spokesman declined further comment Tuesday.

A ratings downgrade means that some big institutional investors no longer can hold U.S. government bonds in their portfolios because they’re allowed to hold only those with the AAA rating. And the interest rate the government pays investors who buy 10-year bonds influences what it costs consumers to borrow for items that require longer payoffs, such as mortgages or car loans.

“The long-term outlook is still as unsustainable as ever. As we get closer to the debt limit (deadline), depending on what happens here you might find the ratings agencies taking another look at this and being more negative,” said Bob Bixby, the head of the budget watchdog group Concord Coalition.

The question of ratings-agency silence will only grow if Congress allows the Treasury Department to run out of the “extraordinary measures” it’s deployed since May to ensure that creditors are paid in full. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew has said that’s Thursday, although the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office thinks it will happen sometime after next Tuesday.

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Minnesota moves forward with Kill away JON KRAWCZYNSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — In his first full press conference as acting head coach at Minnesota, Tracy Claeys was quick to point out that he doesn’t see himself as the head coach at all.

The defensive coordinator is filling in while Jerry Kill undergoes further treatment for epileptic seizures that caused him to miss the second half of a game against Western Illinois in September and the entire game at Michigan on Oct. 5. Kill took a leave of absence last week to meet with doctors to try and get a better handle on his condition.

“I really don’t look at it as (being the) head coach,” Claeys said on Tuesday. “It’s Jerry Kill’s program. It will always be his program.”

There is no timetable for Kill’s return to the sideline, but Claeys did say that he does not expect him to be there when the Gophers (4-2, 0-2 Big Ten) play at Northwestern (4-2, 0-2) on Saturday.

Claeys said he spoke to Kill on the phone on Monday night for the first time since he left the team to seek more in-depth help on dealing with his seizures. Kill told Claeys that he was “feeling good” and the two friends talked about the team’s performance two weeks ago at Michigan and some things to focus on going forward as the team looks for its first Big Ten victory.

Claeys has coached with Kill for nearly two decades, but he brings a more even-keeled demeanor to the sideline than the fiery Kill. Those differences aside, Claeys said he feels

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comfortable in the role, which he has filled each time Kill has not been there because of a seizure.

“I really am. I’d rather not be here,” Claeys said. “With coach, the thing that we can’t replace is he’s a good friend and great fan of the kids. That’s where we miss him, having him around on the practice field. But we’ve had to do it before as a staff and I feel very comfortable and very confident.”

Kill and his main assistants, including Claeys as defensive coordinator and Matt Limegrover as offensive coordinator, have been together longer than any staff in the nation. Claeys has filled in for Kill when seizures have caused him to miss game action a handful of times, including four times in three seasons at Minnesota.

But they’ve never been in this position before. Each time Kill went down with a seizure in the past, he returned to work the next week without missing a beat. This time around, no one is sure when Kill will be able to return to the team. When the university announced Kill’s leave last Thursday, Claeys said he wouldn’t be stunned if he saw Kill show up on the sideline in Evanston, Ill., ready to take over against Northwestern.

It doesn’t look like that will happen, and when he does come back is anyone’s guess. The players,

— Tracy Claeys defensive coordinator

meanwhile, can only refer back to the experiences they’ve had with Kill being out in the last three years as they try to move forward without him.

“We’re thinking about coach. He’s obviously in our thoughts and our prayers,” Hawthorne said. “That’s a strength of this staff, having been together for as long as they’ve been.

Everything’s kind of just keep doing what we’ve been doing. We’re just trying to keep going.”

Claeys did say that Mitch Leidner will start at quarterback on Saturday against the Wildcats. Leidner and Philip Nelson have been sharing the starting duties, a flip-flopping system that started when Nelson injured his hamstring earlier in the season.

Nelson could see some action for a series early in the first half, but Claeys made it clear that Leidner is the man for now.

After getting beaten 42-13 at Michigan without Kill two weeks ago, the Gophers were off last week and go into Evanston a little more prepared for life without their head coach.

“He’s an awesome guy and he’s in our thoughts and prayers,” center Jon Christianson said. “But it’s one of those things that, he’s one of the most competitive guys I’ve ever met in my life. To see him have to take a little time off, it just drives us to get better and keep going.”

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Junior running back Malcolm Agnew, left, runs after senior quarterback Kory Faulkner hands off the ball Sept. 28 during the Salukis’ 28-27 victory against Youngstown State University at Saluki Stadium. Agnew lead the Salukis with 113 yards on 25 carries Saturday at the University of Northern Iowa. Agnew scored the game-winning touchdown off a pitch from Faulkner on SIU’s second play of overtime. The 24-17 win marks the Salukis’ second consecutive road victory against a top-10 team.

TERRANCE PEACOCK Daily Egyptian As SIU gets set to face its toughest test this season, one thing is certain: The running game powers the Salukis.

The Salukis have outgained their opponent on the ground in each of the team’s four wins. In Saturday’s win against Northern Iowa, SIU outrushed the Panthers 177 yards to 37.

Junior running back Malcom Agnew has flourished in his first season wearing maroon and black with his shiftiness and big-play ability. Agnew ranks fourth in the Missouri Valley Football Conference with 86.8 rushing yards per game and sixth in the conference with 99.0 allpurpose yards per game.

He has recorded three 100-yard

rushing games this season and has run for at least 97 yards in all of SIU’s wins.

In contrast, he has been held under 60 yards in SIU’s losses.

There is no doubt Agnew deserves a lot of credit for how well this season’s offense has played, but Coach Dale Lennon said the core of running backs and the offensive line deserves credit as well.

“Malcom is a good running back,” Lennon said. “We have a good scheme for him, and we complement him with Tay Willis and Ken Malcome. Both of them aren’t too far behind. I don’t like to think of it as having a No. 1 back.

All three of those guys are critical for our success. A lot of credit has to go to the offensive line, which I think has vastly improved.”

Much acknowledgement goes to the run defense as well. SIU has made opposing backs a non-factor all season.

Thanks to the run defense, the Salukis held Northern Iowa under 40 yards rushing; the Panthers were averaging 168 yards rushing for the season. UNI’s David Johnson was held to 19 yards with an average of 1.7 per carry. Johnson was second in rushing in the MVFC going into the game with an average of 138.2 yards per game.

SIU ranks second in the MVFC and

fourth in the nation in rushing defense, giving up an average of 84.9 yards per game on the ground. The Salukis’ next opponent, North Dakota State, leads the conference and is 21st in the nation in rushing offense.

Saturday will be a battle at the line of scrimmage, and whoever wins the battle up front will most likely come away with the win.

Lennon said North Dakota State’s offense will present a tough matchup, but the Salukis are ready for the challenge.

“Every offense is different,” Lennon said. “What you want to do is shut them down. You want to get them into manageable downs when you have a defensive advantage. That’s the challenge with the Bison.”

Despite winning the last two games on the road against top-10 ranked opponents, Lennon said there is no room for the Salukis to be cocky.

“Our backs are up against the wall,” he said. “We are coming out fighting. We are coming out in survival mode. I don’t know how you can be overconfident when you are just trying to survive.”

Terrance Peacock can be reached at tpeacock@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.

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Salukis start season with new mindset TYLER DIXON Daily Egyptian The Salukis’ roster for the upcoming season will not only feature new players but also new attitudes that Head Coach Barry Hinson has instilled in his team.

After a 14-17 finish overall and a 5-12 conference record last season, the Salukis added many new faces to try and right the ship of last year’s team.

Senior forward Bronson Verhines is one new face. The Woodlawn native and his brother, junior guard Dawson Verhines, won the national championship at Rend Lake College last season.

“I’ve grown up watching SIU. I’ve grown up in the SIU vicinity, so just to be able to have the opportunity to play here even though I only have a year I mean it’s cliché but it’s a dream come true,” Bronson Verhines said.

Hinson brought up the use of a hybrid player during the press conference. Freshman guard Sean O’ Brien is 6 feet 6 inches tall and can handle the basketball.

O’Brien said he is looking for the opportunity to expand his game.

“I like it a lot. Playing the hybrid is nice. You can play multiple positions,” he said. “I just try to be as versatile as possible to help the team out.”

A key rule change to the upcoming season is the charge/block rule. Hinson said he spoke to an official last week who said not to be surprised if a point guard fouls out in the first half.

Senior guard Desmar Jackson said it’s all about how the game is supposed to be played.

“It’s all about decisions and knowing the rules and just knowing basketball,” he said.

The rule will be important for players around the basket to know when to attempt to draw a charge. Hinson said the game is about to change for the fans. It will be a European type of basketball with more scoring and more blocks, he said.

Senior forward Davante Drinkard said he isn’t too worried about the rule change.

“I’ve never really had problems fouling in the paint,” Drinkard said. “I’ve held my own with every big man I’ve ever guarded.”

Hinson said freshman forward Bola Olaniyan won’t have a problem in making his fouls count.

“Bola’s going to set the all-time fouls record at SIU,” Hinson said.

Hinson said his team had a lot of off-court

problems last season, but this season has been completely different.

“We actually got to coach basketball,” he said.

“Last year, we didn’t get to do that.”

After his success last season, Jackson has a lot of expectations coming into this season. Hinson said the team’s best player isn’t only about basketball skill.

“I expect your best player always has to be your hardest worker. He has to be a leader by example, whether it’s on the floor or off the floor,” Hinson said. “Desmar struggled with every one of those last year. With that being said, I think he’s improved in every one of those areas. He’s certainly done all that is expected of him.

Jackson was sixth in scoring last season in the Missouri Valley Conference with an average of 15.1 points per game.

Jackson said if the team puts in the effort, the rest would fall in place. “(We need to) do better than last year, make sure we all concentrate on playing hard,” he said.

“If we play hard, I feel like good things will come to us.”

Hinson said his team faces two challenges this season.

“Our biggest challenge right now, we have two challenges, the schedule we put together and all the new guys,” he said. “It’s a blender right now” The schedule won’t be easy for the Salukis, especially with their first game of the season being on the road against the University of Missouri.

They also face regional rivals in Murray State, Western Kentucky and Austin Peay.

Three-point shooting was another discussion topic for the upcoming season, and Hinson said the team has nowhere to go but up in that area.

“It can’t get worse. It’s impossible,” he said. “It absolutely cannot get worse. My wife could shoot better from the 3-point line than we did last year, and she is a horrible athlete.”

Hinson also wanted to emphasize the importance of the university’s Homecoming weekend. He said if schools such as Louisville, Kansas or Kentucky came into SIU Arena, it would sell out. It should be the same for football with North Dakota State coming in this weekend, he said.

“People should come up to the ticket gates and be told that the only seats left are on the berm,” he said. “I hope that’s what we are able to do.”

Tyler Dixon can be reached at tdixon@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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Head coach Barry Hinson, left, and senior forward Davante Drinkard demonstrate a drill Tuesday during the men’s Media Day practice at SIU Arena.

Hinson said during a press conference that he was pleased with the team’s preseason performance. “You want to coach to perfection, and we are nowhere close to where we want to be,” he said. “At the same time, I like that there are a few things we can introduce here. I think the transition for a lot of the players has been easier and smoother this year.”