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Midwest poverty rates rise to 13.9 percent TARA KULASH Daily Egyptian A survey released by the U.S. Census Bureau states the Midwest’s poverty rate has gone up by .6 percent from 2009 to 2010.

The survey was released Tuesday and defined the Midwest as Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,

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Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The number of poverty stricken Midwest residents went from 8,768,000 to 9,148,000, and increased from 13.3 to 13.9 percent.

The survey reported poverty rates have gone up by .8 percent nationally.

The bureau stated the Midwest rate is not statistically significant because

the used sample population could not represent the Midwest as a whole.

Amy Terpstra, spokesperson for Social IMPACT Research Center at Heartland Alliance, said even without the numbers, the poverty problem in the Midwest clearly is not going away.

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Nicklow: New financial model needed to push university beyond budget crisis LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian

Kimberly AsnerSelf, associate professor in educational psychology and special education, listens to John Nicklow, provost and vice chancellor, respond to her question Tuesday during the Faculty Senate meeting in the Kaskaskia Room at the Student Center.

Asner-Self was concerned about the negative effects on students and the university if the number of faculty in a department decreased. She said with fewer professors, fewer classes would be offered, leading to longer college careers for students and a negative reputation for SIU. “It’s a downwards spiral,� Asner-Self said.

deemed necessary, such as the hiring of two new deans this year, Nicklow said.

He said with this new strategy, the university can look beyond its budget crisis by implementing a streamlined hiring method for all colleges. “It is a necessary step. One of the steps is simply maintaining the status quo, not losing anymore,â€? Nicklow said. “Another is growing, to do that we have to allow growth to occur strategically‌ If we simply do things as we’ve always done them, we’re going to get the same results.â€?

The provost’s office is in charge of allocating money to colleges at the start of each fiscal year but is left with a massive deficit because it overallocates funding to colleges with declining enrollment and lesser demand, he said.

Nicklow said Tuesday the idea is that the department and college would have to justify the position before it can be filled once the financial model is in place. “Frankly, (the provost’s office) overcommits to a far greater extent than we should even think about,� he said. “Then we end up with a situation at the end of the year where we have to fill the deficit.�

Despite some colleges’ desires to fill vacant positions, John Nicklow said he hopes to have a new financial model in place this year that requires each college to justify filling a position.

Nicklow, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said Tuesday during the Faculty Senate meeting in the Student Center Kaskaskia Room that he put together a task force to evaluate how to best proceed with what is referred to as ‘position control,’ or the ability to pull funds from colleges with vacant positions and declining enrollment to reallocate the money to colleges that are showing signs of growth and have greater demand.

Nicklow said colleges that show signs of enrollment growth — the College of Agricultural Sciences, up 9.1 percent; the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts, up 5.4 percent; and the College of Science, up 6.2 percent — are those which may need additional faculty or funding.

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Smoke Lab wraps up five years of research Applicant deadline extended because of high success rate SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian

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The Smoke Lab, which is part of the Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory, ends its five year study which examined the cessation of tobacco use amongst smokers. Dr. David Gilbert, director of the Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory, said the long-

term goal of the nearly $3 million study is to help doctors choose whether using nicotine patches or taking a pill is the most effective method for patients to quit smoking based upon their genetic makeup as well as personality and psychophysiology.

The deadline for a study to help people quit smoking has been extended for participants in order to reach more people.

David Gilbert, director for the integrative neuroscience laboratory, said even though the deadline for participants to apply to be in the last group in the Smoke Lab study was originally Friday, the study was so successful that money was moved around and the deadline has been extended to around Dec. 1.

Gilbert, a professor in clinical psychology, said he began the fiveyear project because of his interest in how personality and genes relate to substance abuse.

Once smoke lab participants – who could be students, faculty, staff or community members – go through

a screening process to confirm eligibility, they are put in the program to quit smoking. The program has an 80 percent success rate in helping tobacco smokers quit and remain smoke-free for a 67-day period, according to a flier for the study.

Norka Rabinovich, lab coordinator, said the study is unique and has received many grants because of the in-depth counseling for participants.

She said lab assistants work with participants both before and after they quit to help them succeed by talking about their stress levels and how to avoid it so they will not face possible risk situations. “In terms of my part, I have the honor of watching people walk through changed and we have been doing that with our projects for the last 20 years,� she said.

Gilbert said the lab has received almost $3 million in grants from the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the National Institutes of Health. He said some money goes to the university.

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Money allocated at the beginning of each fiscal year stays within the college.

“In essence, with the realignment, what we’re saying is ‘we’re not just going to hand it out to start with. We’re going to keep (money) central,’” Nicklow said.

“It’d be like the employer saying, ‘let’s pay the bills and then make sure we pay you a fair wage.’”

He said one college in particular has 22 open positions and low enrollment but would prefer to fill all existing positions. Doing so would not be justifiable, he said. After the meeting, Nicklow declined to comment on which college he was referring to.

Jose Ruiz, a professor in aviation management and flight and Faculty Senate member, said Tuesday during the meeting he doesn’t believe a committee or someone outside of his college is the best candidate to decide what justifies filling a position in the college.

“Speaking to some of my colleagues, the sense I’m getting from a lot of the faculty is that they feel territorial about centralizing manpower position to the provost’s office and honestly, I feel the same way,” he said. “I haven’t really wrapped

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“It is one-of-a-kind, in a sense, because we want everyone to maintain abstinence,” he said.

Gilbert said if participants remain abstinent from tobacco after the study is complete, they can receive up to $1,150.

Rabinovich said the study looks at understanding the person as a whole, so they are more likely to remain abstinent. Participants fill out questionnaires, so their personalities can be better understood, she said.

Gilbert said a major goal of the study is to find what treatment works best for whom, and whether Zyban, an antidepressant medication that helps people quit, or nicotine patches, work best for individuals.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011 my arms around it, and I’m having difficulty accepting this.”

Both Ruiz and Kimberley AsnerSelf, associate professor in educational psychology and special education and member of the Faculty Senate, said they were concerned about not having enough faculty members to teach required courses if the new strategic realignment was in place.

At the meeting, Kenneth Anderson, professor of geology and Faculty Senate member, said he is concerned that this particular financial model is now the only option to be looked at when there were additional models under consideration at the last Faculty Senate meeting.

“Now, from the conversation taking place now, I presume this is fairly complete, that this is the model we're going with,” Anderson said.

Nicklow said many details have to be worked out before the strategic realignment could go into effect, which may be sometime this year.

“We are headed this direction ... we are certainly looking at all the details and how it would be implemented,” Nicklow said.

He said there is still much to work through before the new strategy could be implemented.

“It’s a major change in how we handle (hiring),” Nicklow said after the meeting. “(It’s about) making

sure people know how to request positions and workflow. These sound like minor details, but they are major issues.”

Nicklow said when someone leaves or retires, he and the committee would evaluate whether the position is still needed or if it could be combined with another.

“There will be programs that have trouble justifying why they need a position, and it’s not the program that has accreditation. It’s not the program that has a great growth and demand, and it’s not the program that is sustainable,” he said. “It’s the program that frankly may not be viable (and) isn’t as high of priority as some of the others.”

Nicklow said the university’s current financial model lacks the flexibility needed to support demand in particular colleges.

“It’s been surprising to me, as a relatively new provost, to come in and see that the opportunity for strategic investment really is absent,” Nicklow said. “This is a step that would allow ... if you look around campus, you'll find that these areas where demand is high, that there is support for this because it allows for strategic investment.”

“We found that (nicotine patches) in a previous study were especially helpful with people of a certain genotype,” he said.

The study also looks at gender, personality type and age.

He said the other part of the study is how and why people react differently to medications.

“This is the reason we measure brain waves before people quit in response to a number of conditions and then during the quit stages,” he said. “We bring them in a number of times to see if the medication has an effect on their brain waves and on their emotions. Men might differ from women in the way they respond to the medication and more anxious people might benefit from others.”

Matt Picchietti, graduate research assistant, said he has helped collect data for the study since 2006.

“Interestingly, this study has broken many records in terms of magnitude among quit-smoking research studies,” he said in an email.

He said the study is among the longest in quit duration and has had the most participants.

Gilbert said approximately 90 people have completed the study during the five-year study.

Rabinovich said the study is looking for about six more female smokers for the last cohort.

“We are looking for multicultural, diversed, genderbalanced projects to help have a better understanding of what it takes to go through the process of change,” he said.

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 255.

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

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“If it didn’t increase, it didn’t decrease either,” Terpstra said.

She said while the national rate of unemployment is at 9 percent, Illinois’ is at 10 percent which is even higher.

Terpstra said for every three out of four job seekers in the nation, there isn’t a job available for them. She said the situation is even more serious in the Midwest.

Manufacturing jobs used to supply the region with employment, Terpstra said, which paid decent wages and were available for people right out of college. She said since those jobs are disappearing, though, the positions that replace them do not pay nearly as much.

Mike Heath, executive director for Good Samaritan Ministries, said he’s seen the rate of people who come into the Carbondale homeless shelter rise the past year. He said at the same time, funding for the center has been slashed. He said it lost 52 percent

of its emergency shelter grants and the food bank supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been cut by at least 62 percent.

In 2010 the center provided approximately 27,000 meals to 4,000 families, and this year, Heath said he predicts it will serve 28-29,000 meals.

“We only have so much room,” Heath said. “We have a waiting list, and we can handle about 30 people in our emergency shelter. We haven’t had any openings in awhile. As soon as someone leaves, someone else comes right in.”

He said residents are allowed to stay at the shelter for 30 days in order to have time to look for more permanent accommodations.

Heath also said he noticed more children have come to the shelter.

“For a long time last year, we had very few children, and now we’ve had a run of mothers with kids and a lot of them are under school age,” he said.

Heath said the size of families has also increased.

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News their families in together because of the economic situation,” he said.

“Grandparents are moving in and kids are coming back home after graduating from college because they can’t find jobs.”

Terpstra said she could think of a few ways to help correct the poverty issue.

“There’s a number of things that our decision makers need to be thinking about,” she said. “One of them is that we do not slash services to people experiencing hardship.”

She said food stamps, Medicaid and Earned Income Tax Credit help stimulate the local economy; as soon as someone receives food stamps, they will spend it in a local grocery store.

She said unemployment insurance benefits need to be expanded because so far it’s kept 3.2 million people out of poverty nationally.

Local and preferred state estimates on poverty will be released Sept. 22.

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Daily Egyptian mascot ready for comeback Gus Bode gets makeover decided by readers.

SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian One student has been at the university for almost 55 years.

Gus Bode, a short shaggy-haired cartoon character with no facial features and only wearing glasses, has embodied the Daily Egyptian to many alumni, said Jennifer Wig, a former editor-in-chief at the DE. Bode was known to comment on stories, make daily witty remarks about happenings on the front page and refer readers to inside stories.

Bode first appeared in the paper in 1956 when the paper was still known as The Egyptian. Former faculty advisor for the Daily Egyptian, Charles Clayton, decided to attribute the quote “We hear the recruiters had slim pickings this year. The grades must have been better than expected,” to Bode on the front page.

A group of former students created Bode and named him after a church janitor, Phillip August ‘Gus’ Bode, from one of the student’s hometown.

In 1961, when the paper became a

daily newspaper, Bode was just a pair of eyes.

Wig said during her time at the DE, fall 1999 to spring 2003, Bode served as the staff 's editorial comment on stories that mainly students would read. ‘Gus Says’ was located at the top of the front page almost every day, she said.

“We had our news stories in the paper, and Gus was there to kind of provide the obvious comment everyone was thinking but were not able to say,” she said. “He provided a student's perspective on stories. He was a student himself, as a character.”

Lindsey Smith, a former editorin-chief, said in her four years at the DE, from Spring 2007 to Spring 2011, Bode’s role in the paper varied.

“When I first got to the paper, Gus was a pretty big deal. He would be on the front page every single day and he was the voice of the paper,” she said. “About a year after I was there, he kind of faded.

His presence isn’t really known in the paper right now.”

Smith said one reason he was not included as often is because there wasn't someone on staff who could come up with things for Bode to say on a daily basis.

“There wasn’t really much effort to include him after my first year there,

and that was for various reasons.

Whether it was not necessarily having someone on staff that was witty enough to come up with things every single day that would be relevant for what readers cared about on the voices page, or if that was just them kind of forgetting about him,” she said. “Most of us new to campus didn’t even know who he was.”

Allison Petty, a former editorin-chief for the fall 2008 semester and spring 2009 semester, said when she was editor, she kept Bode around because of his legacy at the university.

“Even though he was funny and cheeky and clever, we were always mindful that he was a big part of the Daily Egyptian’s continuity.

We turn over staff every four years as people graduate, but Gus Bode has been part of the paper for decades,” she said.

Smith said when the layout of the newspaper was redesigned in January 2009, the debate between the staff was whether to have a designated place on the front page for Bode.

“Newspapers don’t really have a mascot, and so that was one of the issues when the DE progressed if we were going to keep the mascot,” she said. “If we keep him, we can keep the identity of the paper, but if

we get rid of him, in some people's opinions it would make us look more professional and less like a college newspaper.”

Bode stopped appearing on the front page consistently in January 2009 after the redesign, she said.

One of the most controversial things Bode did was refer to women as ‘chicks’ on the front page.

He said, “If God had meant women to be equal, he’d have made ‘em men.”

As a result a group of women students on campus released a chicken into the newsroom and put pieces of raw meat on the desks.

Petty said shortly after a story ran in fall 2007 about SIU President Glenn Poshard and the plagiarism allegations regarding his dissertation from SIUC, a life-size Gus Bode, made out of newspaper, was found outside the newsroom with “internal organs” coming out of him.

“The DE caught a lot of flack for that ... a lot of people liked Dr. Poshard and they thought this was bad for SIU’s reputation, so a lot of people were very anti-DE,” she said.

“I think we were supposed to take it as a threat or something but mostly it was just funny.”

Wig said she remembers getting phone calls when people did not like

what Bode said, but she said that was a reason to keep Bode.

“We were a student newspaper and you want to push the envelope a little bit. And really, Gus was a student and the idea was to say something a student would say,” she said.

Don Lowery, member of the SIU Board of Trustees and SIU alumnus, said when he was a student in the 1970s, the first thing he looked at when he picked up the paper was what Bode had to say for the day.

“As a student, I was very receptive to him,” he said. “Gus was exactly what journalism should be. An impartial observer, quick to tell the story, don’t slant it one way or another and give the people the information and let them make up their mind.”

Smith said if Bode were to come back he would have to be branded in a different way because students on campus do not know who he is.

In an effort to revive Bode, the Daily Egyptian has an online poll can students can visit dailyegyptian.com and choose which Bode they'd like to hear from.

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

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Architecture students help New Orleans community Visit to Lower Ninth Ward gives students different perspective on life.

KARL BULLOCK Daily Egyptian Students in the School of Architecture traveled to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward to rebuild what Hurricane Katrina destroyed.

The students left Sept. 5 and returned Saturday from thier trip to design a school, church and residential area, and find a place to build a grocery store. Their design projects were meant to help bring back what Hurricane Katrina - a storm that hit the U.S. Gulf Coast Aug. 29, 2005 and demolished beachfront towns, killed almost 1,800 people and displaced a million people - destroyed.

Michael Brazley, associate professor of architecture, said the university has a long-standing involvement with Lower Ninth Ward because two years ago, faculty and students worked with Reverend Willie Calhoun and Jon Johnson, who are neighborhood activists in the Lower Ninth Ward, on two different projects.

Brazley said Calhoun invited his class of 16 students to come down and work on the design of a grocery store, which the Lower Ninth community does not have, and a junior high school.

Brazley said Calhoun wanted them to help with residential work which led to the projects being created.

The students and Brazley had no outside money and paid for everything on their own, he said.

Two years ago, students and faculty in the School of Architecture helped with the construction of the school that SIUC students helped design and six

residential blocks around the school.

“The residential blocks around the school is our first project requested by Calhoun and a state representative he worked with,” he said.

Cori Kirk, a junior from Lawrenceville studying architecture, said some of the people had not returned because they had no school for their children or the money to rebuild their homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

“They didn’t have enough money and insurance would only cover their house for $60,000 and the cost of actually building a brand new house was $100,000,” she said.

Kirk said there were families who had homes for generations taken from them because the paperwork which showed entitlement to those homes were washed away in the floods.

“They couldn’t prove that this was where their roots were,” she said.

Brazley said the population of residents in the Lower Ninth Ward decreased from about 18,000 to 5,000 people. He said many of these residents were homeowners who owned property in their grandparents’ name.

“Katrina wiped out all the paperwork, so they couldn’t prove that the land belonged to them,” he said.

“They can’t come back and therefore the city buys up all the property.”

Kirk said the residents also had to deal with contractor fraud as well. She said residents would save their money to have the house built, then contractors would take the money, build the foundation for the house and skip town, leaving with all the money.

Maegan Mifflin, a junior from Bethalto studying architecture, said what she observed was the number of people who did not return to the area due to the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

“There were so many houses that were boarded up and in shambles,” she said. “There are people who own the land but can’t afford to rebuild on it so they’re out somewhere else.”

Mifflin said there were vacant lots and parts of houses but residents could not do much about it because they did not have the money.

“It’s like the city hasn’t done anything to those lots and those properties that are just still trash,” she said.

Devon Armstrong, a junior from Vevay, Ind. studying architecture, said there were houses where you could still see the damage from Hurricane Katrina and nothing has been done about it.

He said it seems as if the city only cares about certain areas.

“There are houses where you can tell the hurricane came through and destroyed part of it and it’s still standing there,” he said. “It’s like they haven’t done anything.

Students who went on the trip said the visit to the Lower Ninth Ward helped them appreciate how fortunate they are to not have been displaced from their homes or have to rebuild their lives.

Mifflin said she was thankful to have a sense of who she was and where she comes from.

“The people that have been displaced don’t really have a sense of identity,” she said. “People in New Orleans identify with a lifestyle and they’ve been taken out of that lifestyle and their homes. You identify with a place where you reside.”

Alan Kirkwood, a junior from Chicago studying architecture, said he was thankful for the location of his residence and how he has not experienced a situation like the residents of the Lower Ninth.

“As you look back on their situations with Katrina that comes and wipes out everything that you know, there’s nothing that has come through and damaged anything in my life,” he said.

“I’m thankful that I haven’t faced that, and just looking at them down there makes you grateful.”

Karl Bullock can be reached at kbullock@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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Hard times have spawned great art, but not in these hard times

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Economists and politicians told us that the recession was over, though some of them now worry about it taking a double dip. For those of us living farther from the ledger sheets and closer to the reality of what’s happening in our towns and on our streets, this has been and remains a depression.

It’s hard to make the word stick, however, because we haven't developed the iconography yet.

We don’t have bread lines, dance marathons, guys selling apples on street corners or men jumping from high buildings because they’ve been wiped out in the stock market.

The pain and suffering has only been superficially covered by the news media, but it has surely not been addressed by our artists. In the 1930s, John Steinbeck chronicled the Depression as it played out in the lives of the Joads, his fictional Okies. He invented those memorable characters to vivify all the abstractions of the

policymakers and to give literary voice to the suffering so many nonfictional Americans were experiencing.

There were a raft of other artists who also were telling the tale, making people see, hear and feel the pain as only the arts can do. There was Dorothea Lange taking photos and Woody Guthrie writing songs.

Hollywood was doing its part too, and not only with a movie version of Steinbeck's novel. Unlike current audiences, moviegoers in the ‘30s were persistently reminded of what awaited them when they resumed their lives outside the theater. Even “King Kong,� generally conceded to be pioneering escapist fare, begins with Fay Wray in a bread line.

In our own times, when Iraq and Afghanistan war vets are suffering double-digit rates of unemployment, you can't find much mention of those veterans and their struggles in our movies. But, in 1932, “I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang� gave cinematic life to the kind of men who would march on Washington as part of the Bonus Army, a legion of out-of-work World

War I vets who squatted in the nation's capital to bring attention to their plight — an appeal that was ultimately met not with aid but with violence.

Even musicals like “Gold Diggers of 1933,� which gave us the song “We're in the Money,� is structured around the story of war heroes who were shamed by the need to seek inadequate public assistance. There also were more overtly political films in 1933, movies like “Wild Boys of the Road,� a gritty portrayal of unemployed young men jumping freights to find work.

A few recent indie films have provided glimpses of what the Joads might look like in this new century. “Winter's Bone� comes most forcefully to mind but mostly the moviemakers are far removed in their own lives and products, from what the majority of Americans are living through now.

Musical artists too are looking the other way. What hit song of the last three years gives voice to our time in the way “Brother Can You Spare a Dime?� gave voice to the 1930s? Where are the songs that

evoke images of vacancies in the shopping malls, people driven from their foreclosed homes and couples whose marriages are shattered by the frustrations of their hardships?

A long time ago, during an early peace march through San Francisco, I remember a young guy in an apartment a couple of floors above the street putting a speaker in his window and blasting Bob Dylan singing “The Times They Are A-Changin’ “ to the protesters marching by. The feeling of support and solidarity that music contributed on that day was palpable, and it came at a time when public sentiment had not yet turned against the Vietnam War. Years later, in a none-too-brave new world, I attended a Dylan concert in the months following 9/11. The “senators and congressmen� Dylan had once referenced in his old song were then talking about taking us to war in Iraq. I hoped on that night the protege of Woody Guthrie would say a word or two about the times we were living in. But he said nothing, having long since decided he didn't

want to be an oracle and didn't want to speak except through his songs.

For many fans, it would have been balm to us had Dylan used even the slimmest portion of his art to provide the sense of solace he’d given so many dissenters long ago.

A few months after seeing Dylan, I saw Jerry Seinfeld. It was a few weeks after the shoe bomber had attempted to blow up an airplane. No one goes to see Seinfeld for political commentary, but he made a joke about the shoe bomber. It was therapeutic, allowing us to laugh at the boogeyman. It was art employed in the interest of sanity.

It’s been said that humor is our shield against insanity. So far, we’ve mostly been crazy this century, and there hasn't been much shielding us from it. Comedians such as Jon Stewart, Will Durst and Bill Maher, have filled the vacuum the other arts have abandoned.

As much as anything, the arts define the times, sketching a portrait of a moment in the life of the nation and the world, marking a period in ways it comes to be viewed by people who live through it and by people who come after. But the tale of our times is mostly being told by our unwillingness to tell it.

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Theater to play historic Murphysboro films BRENDAN SMITH Daily Egyptian The Liberty Theater has been a staple of downtown Murphysboro for almost a century; it has gone through many phases, changes, owners and purposes.

The venue now stands as a community arts center for the town with an unparalleled rich history, said Lois Murphy, current theater owner and president.

The theater will add more to its historic resume by screening an unseen series of historical footage films about Murphsyboro this weekend, as apart of the town's annual Apple Festival.

In the early 1920s, filmmaker Charles C. Fetty was wellknown for going across the country and making films that highlighted hardworking small towns.

Rebecca Ensor, an architectural historian and Murphysboro resident, said a woman in California called her and said there was a movie done in Murphysboro. She found that the Jackson County Historical Society had the film. “The story goes: Somebody brought a box of junk into the historical society. They were cleaning it out and here they found bits and pieces of this film,� she said.

Murphy said those bits and pieces were sent to a lab and salvaged together into a historical document.

The film, “Murphysboro 1926,� paints a portrait of the southern Illinois town almost 90 years ago. It, along with two other historical pieces entitled “A Day in Hollywood� and “Murphysboro 1936,� will debut this weekend. “It’s extremely exciting to have a piece of evidence like this for our town,� said Murpysboro resident Donald Daniels. “Many of these stores have been here for over 100 years, and it'd be interesting to see them on film at that time.�

Originally opened in 1913 by resident Jim Marlow, the theater was sold to Kerasotes Theaters in 1968 and closed its doors as a commercial theater 30 years later. “Kerasotes had an agreement with the city that if they left the theater, it couldn’t be used for mainstream films,�

Murphy said. “We wanted to save the theater for the city and we made it an entity for its own. It’s now run by a board and is a non-for-profit organization.�

Ensor said the Liberty is instrumental in depicting not only the town’s history but the country’s. She said the Liberty is a time capsule. “The American cinema and particularly the Liberty Theater from it’s very onset showed flickers; it was a store-front theater,� Ensor said. “All of

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the changes the American movie theater has gone through, we see evidence of that in the Liberty Theater.�

Ensor noted the theater’s humble beginnings when the theater showed small 20-minute films. As movies expanded to the full-length-features we know today, the theater added concession, comfortable seating and art-deco architecture.

Murphy said she recognized many faces in the film from living in town for so many years and knowing residents and their families. She said what impressed her the most was that in just a year before in 1925, the town had just experienced a horrible tornado that caused severe damage.

However, she said the film did not focus on the destruction at all and had an overall uplifting feel.

The film, Ensor said, shows a glimpse at American history she typically doesn’t see, particularly for small towns. “What struck me more than anything (from the film) was the business,� Ensor said. “It was the physical activity with the stores and the people; I wish we had more of that. I wish we had that back, and there’s a lot of people in town fighting to have that again.�

Brendan Smith can be reached at bsmith@dailyegyptain.com or 536-3311 ext. 258.

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Exhibit brings voice to Carbondale Arts JAMES JONES Daily Egyptian Exhibits at the Carbondale Civic Center and the Varsity Center For the Arts house the local artists’ work for a showcase hosted

by Carbondale Community Arts.

Mike Farris, an art professor at Shawnee Community College, Dan Johnson of Alto Pass and glass artist Jan Thomas of Murphysboro helped launch the

two new exhibits.

The event began Friday and will run through Sept. 30. Participants were selected from a jury show which took place in January.

Nancy Stemper, executive director of Carbondale Community Arts, said judges chose participants to create and display work for the fall. She said the exhibit embraces all forms of artistic expression, which includes woodwork, pottery, glass art and

three dimensional sculpting.

Farris provided unique twodimensional paintings for the exhibit and named his themed collection “Rejection Notice.”

“This best describes the paintings because the goal through the artwork is to reject the attitudes of sentiments that divide and stratify us or that justify complacency in the face of injustice,” Farris said.

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artists within the southern Illinois community a voice in the world of arts where they may not have one because of the rural location.

“Southern Illinois is rich in culture and art, qualities that these featured artists absolutely show in their work,” Stemper said.

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Cancer -- Today is an 6 --Do it yourself to save money ... every penny counts. The expensive wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the best. Conserve resources and energy, and relax with a good book later.

Libra -- Today is a 7 -- There may be a tendency to be too harsh on yourself now. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go down that tunnel. Listen to a friendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good advice, and get plenty of rest.

Things will look different tomorrow.

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Put in the correction.

Taurus -- Today is a 7 -- Wait until later to discuss an upcoming purchase. If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get what you need close to home, look further away. A loved one understands you without words.

Leo -- Today is a 6 -- In todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obstaclecourse,makesuretofollowthe rules and avoid dangerous shortcuts (especially where moneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s concerned).

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Aquarius -- Today is an 8 -All of a sudden, everything starts making sense. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you wish you could capture special moments in a bottle to savor later? Just drink them in. Take photos, maybe.

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Virgo -- Today is a 6 -- You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to try to understand everything. Let your emotions take you where you want to go.

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Pisces -- Today is a 9 -- Work on what you love and the money will follow. If you make a mess, just clean it up and move forward.

No time for complaining. No romance yet, either. Stay focused.

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“Hopefully everyone stays healthy, including myself,” Miller said. “We all know we can play well. … We should win tournaments.”

He said his injury is completely healed, and he now focuses on improving the consistency of his drive.

“If I can hit the ball in play, then I will be fine,” Miller said. “I (tend) to hit balls out of bounds or in the water, and you can’t play from those spots.”

After last season’s eighth-place finish in the MVC tournament, Miller said the time to win is now.

“We’re all getting older, and half the team will be gone next year,” Miller said. “We have to win something for the seniors that will be leaving.”

The seniors on the team are Jared Harp, Joey Goelzhauser, Jaime Stocks and Richie Williams, and coach Newton said he expects all of them to compete for one of the five spots this year.

“Our expectation is for the players to continually better,” Newton said. “If we get better, the rest will take care of itself.”

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Despite the connection between what an athlete takes in and what they consequently put out, Gibson said team diets vary from person to person.

Sparks said this has been the case in the past, as the team has seen ace performers who have lunched on either side of the food pyramid.

“We’ve had All-American distance runners who have Mountain Dew and pizza diets.

Then we’ve had All-American

athletes that eat what would be called the perfect diet,” Sparks said.

Sophomore runner Kulayifi Haji didn’t have much of a choice during August when he fasted in observance of the Islamic month of Ramadan.

Haji said he ate only before sunrise and after sunset. He said he struggled with his physical performance because of the lack in food consumption, yet he still continued to compete.

“I was stronger mentally.

That’s what helped me to run during the day,” Haji said.

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Sparks said as a coach, one of his greatest worries is dorm food. If one isn’t careful, he said the unlimited amount can lead to overindulgence of unhealthy food choices. He said coaches take this into consideration and try to counsel athletes accordingly.

“It’s important on both sides of things,” Sparks said.

“You’ll get kids that eat too much, then you’ll get kids that don’t eat enough and we try to counsel on both sides of that.”

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Without a hot start, next season could be tough for SIU

JOE RAGUSA Daily Egyptian Maybe if I worked a little harder on my jump shot back in high school, I could be on my way to Hawaii for Christmas with the SIU men’s basketball team.

On second thought, playing the three toughest opponents in four days might ruin the fun.

The team announced its full schedule Sept. 8 and its nonconference opponents are, at best, unimpressive. SIU fans will come to the games and expect the Salukis to thrash their smaller regional rivals such as Chicago State, SIUE and Saint Louis, but fans could be in for a rude awakening “With our schedule, we’ve gotten back to the right mix of regional rivalries along with one big-time tournament,” head coach Chris Lowery said in a Saluki Athletics press release.”We have opportunities for success as well as opportunities to play some of college basketball’s elite programs.”

SIU starts the regular season against a few lackluster opponents beginning with Old Dominion University, a team that just became

a NCAA Division II member earlier this month. Saint Louis could be easily overlooked after a 12-19 season in the Atlantic 10 last year, but they still have a few guys left from the team that beat the Salukis 71-61 in 2009.

SIU fans would need to travel to Boston, though, to see their most intriguing match-up; a rematch against the Northeastern squad which beat the Salukis 6362 in overtime on ESPN’s 24-hour college basketball tip-off marathon Nov. 16, 2010. The Salukis were up by as much as 10 points early in the second half, but they floundered the lead and ended up losing the game because of a technical foul after an SIU player supposedly called a time out when they had none left.

“The turnovers were humongous. We out-rebounded them, we got them to shoot 36 percent. We should win the

basketball game, especially when they’re on the road,” Lowery said after the game.

The first games last year were no indicator of the struggles SIU faced once conference play started, and this year could unfold the same way since the Salukis’ non-conference schedule features four rematches from last season. Western Kentucky comes to town Dec. 7 after returning from a 12-point deficit to beat the SIU 53-46 last year. WKU guard Steffon Pettigrew went off for 15 points last year, but he graduated along with two other leading Hilltoppers scorers of last season.

By all accounts, the highlight of the entire season is going to be the ESPN Diamond Head Classic in Hawaii Dec. 22-25.

“An invitation to play in this prestigious tournament shows that the Salukis are still a respected brand,” said Athletic Director

Mario Moccia in a press release.

SIU has been featured on ESPN several times in the last few years, so it shouldn’t be surprising that it got tapped for another tournament on its family of networks. They open against Kansas State, a team that was bounced out of the second round of the 2011 NCAA Tournament. SIU will play either UTEP or Clemson afterwards, and both teams made postseason tournaments.

If SIU can hold its own against the teams in Hawaii, the outlook for conference play will look as bright as the sun over Hawaii’s beaches.

If not, SIU will look like another no-name school that was trampled by the bigger ones with absolutely no momentum as it heads into conference play. On the bright side, if your heat breaks down this year in the dead of winter, just ask Lowery for the space heater he’ll be sitting on.

Bears W.R. Williams eager to make good impression ANDREW SELIGMAN Associated Press LAKE FOREST — Roy Williams understands he’s under scrutiny, that the doubts will linger until he shows he can still produce.

The spotlight’s on.

The Chicago Bears open the season at home against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, and if Williams is going to win over his doubters, now is the time.

There are plenty of questions surrounding the former Pro Bowl receiver after a disappointing run in Dallas, like whether he can get open or hang onto the ball, and he did little in the preseason to ease those doubts.

“I totally understand that,” Williams said. “I know I played on quote, unquote, America’s team and

everybody watched it and watched what happened down there. And I know it’s not a clean slate here until Week 1 is over and then we’ll see what happens. So I understand where fans are coming from.”

The Bears signed Williams to a one-year deal after he got released by Dallas, hoping he will perform more like the player who made the Pro Bowl for Detroit with 1,310 yards receiving in 2006. Mike Martz was his offensive coordinator then and he’s got the same job with the Bears now.

If Williams excels, the move could pay big dividends. If not, well, the risk was low, but the Bears made it clear they’re banking on the good, old Williams when they made him the No. 1 split end over Johnny Knox.

How long that lasts remains to be seen.

“Am I unsure? Heck, no. I’m good. I’m comfortable. I’m ready to make plays,” Williams said. “I know if I mess up, it’s going to be blown out of proportion. I’m not the perfect player. I’m going to mess up. But other than that, I’m ready to go.”

One of the knocks on the Bears in the past was they stuck too long with certain players, like Rex Grossman or Adam Archuleta or Mark Anderson, but Williams might not be on such a long leash.

He’s not a big investment, and he got outplayed in the preseason by the man who got knocked down to the No. 2 spot.

Knox had six catches for 86 yards and Chicago’s only receiving touchdown. In his limited time,

Williams had two catches for 33 yards, and he had his difficulties hanging onto the ball, too.

He wasn’t targeted in the preseason opener against Buffalo. He had three passes thrown his way the following week against the New York Giants without a reception, although two probably could have been caught, and in the third preseason game against Tennessee, Williams let a pass from Jay Cutler over the middle go through his hands on the game’s second play from scrimmage. The result was an interception.

“The ball that I dropped in Tennessee, he whipped that thing in between I don’t know how many people,” Williams said. “I was surprised that it got through all that. I asked him the other day, ‘Man what is your most

impressive throw ever?’ He was like, ‘Man, I’ve had a bunch of those.’”

Cutler, he said, “makes throws that I haven’t seen in a long time.

Impressive.”

For Williams, it means he has to be ready.

He couldn’t practice until Aug. 4 and he acknowledged he wasn’t in football shape when he started. A few weeks ago, receivers coach Darryl Drake made it clear that Williams would be demoted if he didn’t step up his performance.

Now? “Yeah, he’s ready,” Martz said. “He’s in real good shape. He’s back into what we do offensively, the terminology, how we run the routes, all of those things, and I think he and Jay have got a nice feel there.”

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Players ice injuries after long weekend

KEVIN TAYLOR Daily Egyptian The SIU menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s golf team has established a consistent amount of success during the past several years.

Since head coach Leroy Newton took over the program before the 1996 to 1997 season, the team has become a perennial contender.

The team finished an uncharacteristic eighth in the 2010 to 2011 Missouri Valley Conference tournament, and the only member from that seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roster not to return is David Griffin. Last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s was the first time since 2003 that the team failed to finish in the top four of the MVC tournament â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something the players and Newton have not forgotten. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guys, as well as myself, are out to prove something,â&#x20AC;? Newton said.

Newton, who enters his 16th season as head coach, has quietly established a program in contention for the MVC title year in and out. Newton said he will rely heavily on juniors Brandon Cauldwell, Jeffrey Miller and Jake Erickson. The team is heavily stacked with seasoned veterans; the youngest player, George Tate, is a sophomore.

Tateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s age will play no factor in how much he plays, Newton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When George was a freshman, he stepped up for us and played several tournaments,â&#x20AC;? Newton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We look at how well the players are scoring and contributing, not necessarily if they are a sophomore or a freshman.â&#x20AC;?

Erickson recently won his third straight amateur golf title in July and said he expects even more improvement this season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am expecting a lot of myself,â&#x20AC;?

Erickson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Being a junior, I have experience and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m starting to know what to expect on the course because of it.â&#x20AC;?

Newton said he has been somewhat surprised by Ericksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rapid improvement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A little faster than I expected, but he has been getting better,â&#x20AC;? Newton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He played well this summer. You can tell he is getting more confident.â&#x20AC;?

Cauldwell finished in a tie for 11th at the MVC tournament last spring and was the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best golfer.

Even with his low scores, Cauldwell said he still knows he needs to improve. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hoping to lower my scoring average a little bit,â&#x20AC;? Cauldwell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over the summer I worked a lot on my short game, specifically my putting.â&#x20AC;?

Miller was out with a sprained ankle for most of the 2010-11 season and said he looks forward to a healthy campaign this upcoming season.

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David Pickard, left, a senior from Oak Park, and Bryan Boemer, right, a senior from St. Louis, rest Tuesday in the athletic training room while treating ankle injuries sustained during the SIU vs. Ole Miss game Saturday.

Pickard, an offensive tackle, was helped off the field by the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athletic trainers during the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s third quarter. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice having (a week off from games), so it should be fine for Missouri State,â&#x20AC;? Pickard said about his ankle.

Healthy diet improves performance for runners NAREG KURTJIAN Daily Egyptian Nutritionist Whitney Howser says skipping meals tends to be an issue for cross-country runners, despite itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s negative affect on performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You put gas in your car to make the car run,â&#x20AC;? Howser, assistant athletic trainer, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only way you can get your body to run is if you put food in it. Otherwise itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not going to go anywhere.â&#x20AC;?

Howser said SIU crosscountry runners tend to skip meals early in the day, therefore she stresses the importance of breakfast and lunch. She said itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extremely important for athletes to be aware of their caloric intake.

She said maintaining a healthy diet is important in sports and is something that varies for every athlete. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As much strain as they are putting on their body, they have to remember that they need to have not only the right amount of carbs to fuel the workout but the right amount of protein after to help rebuild their muscles,â&#x20AC;? Howser said.

Head coach Matt Sparks said he leaves it to his athletes

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Lacey Gibson, a freshman from Carbondale studying physiology and a runner for the cross-country team, eats breakfast in her residence hall room Tuesday at Thompson Point. Gibson is a vegetarian and said she to make the right decisions on what to take in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of those things that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make suggestions on but not necessarily make requirements about,â&#x20AC;? Sparks said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody has their own set way of doing things as far as what they like to

typically mixes several types of cereal along with nuts and dried fruit for breakfast. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important for athletes in particular pay attention to what they eat in order to maintain optimal physical condition.

eat, what works for them and what doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t work for them.â&#x20AC;?

Freshman runner Lacey Gibson said she has been a vegetarian since eighth grade.

She said eating healthy allows her to feel and perform better during a race.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely something that factors into my running,â&#x20AC;? Gibson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t eat well then I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t perform well. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily think it has to be a vegetarian diet; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what works for me.â&#x20AC;?

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