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dailyegyptian.com January 20, 2021 Vol. 104, Issue 1
Bost continues to defend Trump
Aftermath of insurrection
GAU President on Biden debt plan
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SIU chancellor, Austin Lane, poses for a portrait in his office on Monday, Aug. 17, 2020 in Anthony Hall at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo Students, Welcome to the spring semester! I hope you had a relaxing break and are ready to be inspired and engaged when classes start on Tuesday. We look forward to working with you throughout the semester, whether you live on or off campus and whether your classes are online, in person or both. We heard from a lot of you during the fall that you wished there were more things to do safely on campus in order to be involved and engaged. We are in the process of creating a menu of opportunities – including athletic events and student activities – to help. We’ll share it as soon as it’s ready. Be assured that everything we plan will be reviewed carefully to ensure that we have followed all required safety precautions. All of the safety measures you followed in the fall — wearing masks, social distancing, washing hands — remain in place. Cleaning protocols for classrooms, residence halls and office
buildings continue. As in the fall, testing will be available to all students throughout the semester. In addition to drive-through testing, oncampus testing will resume the week of Jan. 25. Watch for updated information at the COVID-19 testing information site. You can find information about the university’s COVID-19 response and planning, including thespring semester and Saluki Safety plan, at siu.edu/ coronavirus. You may also email us at pandemicinfo@siu.edu with questions. Remember that the university is open to assist you in person, by phone and via email. Pleasesee contact information and hours for offices that support and serve students. Thank you for doing your part to keep our community safe. We look forward to connecting with you as we launch the semester. Sincerely, Austin A. Lane Chancellor
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Bost continues to defend Trump
Refuses interview about link between challenging election results and Jan. 6 insurrection Kallie Cox | @KallieECox Republican Rep. Mike Bost (IL-12) continues to defend President Trump and refused to be interviewed about links between Trump’s false election fraud claims and the riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Last week, the Daily Egyptian reported contacting Bost over a dozen times, but he declined to comment or answer additional questions regarding his decision not to certify the electoral college votes of Arizona or Pennsylvania, or his decision to vote against impeaching Trump. Eventually his press secretary said he would be willing to answer questions only in writing. The questions and his answers are below: The DE’s Questions: What was his experience at the Capitol on Wednesday? Does Representative Bost still support President Trump after the Riots? Why did Representative Bost object to the certification of the election results in Arizona and Pennsylvania? Why did Representative Bost sign on to the brief supporting the Texas Lawsuit challenging the election results? Does Representative Bost see a link between challenging the validity of the election results and the riots that occurred Wednesday? What would Representative Bost like to say to his constituents who are still reeling from Wednesday’s attack on democracy? Bost’s Responses: “On Wednesday, I had gone back to my office after votes and was watching the debates on the House Floor on my television. Around 1:00pm I stepped outside to see what was happening across the street at the Capitol.
All of a sudden, I overheard Capitol Police officers shouting about needing reinforcements over a nearby officer’s radio followed by what sounded like a riot grenade. My staff and I went back into our office and stayed there until the Capitol police gave us an all clear to leave. Once it was safe, members returned to the House floor to carry out our constitutional duty of certifying electoral college votes. The Constitution is very clear: state legislatures set the rules for states in conducting their elections. However, in both Pennsylvania and Arizona, election laws were changed by entities that were not their state legislators. I voted to object to the electoral votes of both of these states not because of claims of fraud – that is something that is decided by the states and the courts and not Congress – but because, in my belief, they failed to meet that constitutional standard. This was also why I signed the Texas amicus brief. What happened at the Capitol last Wednesday was unacceptable and un-American and those that broke into and ransacked the Capitol will be held accountable for their actions. In order to truly heal our nation, we need to turn down the temperature and tone down the rhetoric. The Electoral College votes have been certified and we will have a new president sworn in on January 20th. Both President Trump and congressional leaders are committed to a peaceful transfer of power next week, and we must continue working to ensure that the transition is as smooth as possible.” A petition to recall Bost from office had 2,224 signatures as of publication.
Editor-in-Chief Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ KallieECox.
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Congressman Mike Bost addresses the crowd with President Donald J. Trump, during the Murphysboro campaign rally, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, at the Southern Illinois Airport. Isabel Miller | @IsabelMillerDE
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Trump supporter reflects on events at the Capitol
Leah Sutton | @LeahSutton_
After weeks of sitting under her red tent in Vienna, Ill., Doris Miller, 87, concluded her fundraising for President Trump after raising $8,350 and looks forward to the possibility that he might run for president again. Although a lot of Vienna locals have supported Miller’s efforts, she said she has still been called a “racist” and a “nazi.” Miller believes the election was stolen and it should be further investigated due to ballot dropboxes, “no check-in signatures,” Election Day registration, “blocking the windows” and “not letting the poll watchers in.” She expressed concern that there had been thousands of people at the pro-Trump rallies while it seemed that Biden “hid away in his basement” rather than rallying his supporters. “If I’m still here, this side of the grass, when he runs again, I will be in my front yard under the red tent for Trump,” Miller said. On Wednesday, Jan. 6, Trump supporters rallied in Washington D.C., which ended in destruction to the Capitol Building and
panic amongst lawmakers in the building. When reflecting on the current events in the U.S. Capitol, Miller remembers the three Trump rallies that she had previously attended in Indiana, Cape Girardeau, and Murphysboro. “I’m just saying that all of the rallies that I went to with people who were for Trump did not act like that,” Miller said. She expressed that she believed that the riot in the capitol was not Trump’s fault saying that, “he told them to be peaceful, what more could he do?” “All summer, city after city were burning. Police stations, courthouses, businesses; police were told to stand down. They did not condemn this. Even the historic church downtown by the White House was set on fire. Statues were torn down and when Nancy Pelosi was asked about this, she said, well I never did care much for statues. ‘People will do what they do,’ that was her attitude. When Chris Cuomo was asked about the protestors he said, please tell me where it says protestors are supposed to be polite,” Miller said. As a result of the insurrection
Doris Miller, 87, of Vienna, Ill. poses for a photo inside her house with framed photos of President Trump and a photo of her shaking hands with the president Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 in Vienna, Ill. Miller shook Donald Trump’s hand when she went to the “Make America Great Again” rally in Evansville, Ind. Miller is an avid Donald Trump supporter that sells Trump merchandise in her front yard and sends all of the profits to President Trump. “So I send it [profits] weekly or maybe every two weeks. But, I send it all to him. We don’t even take our lunch money out of that, because we want every cent to go to Trump.” Miller said. of the radicals in the Capitol, the number of National Guard troops present at Biden’s inauguration is continuing to rise and is currently at 21,000.
On Friday, Jan. 8, Twitter released a statement that said due to the recent Tweets from Trump they had decided to “permanently suspend the account due to the risk of further
incitement of violence.” “Twitter is the only way that he can get his message out because only Fox would tell us what was really going on and they didn’t only tell us, they showed us videos of it and the rest of them hid every good thing that he did and said everything good about the other side,” Miller said. “I think President Trump is the only one strong enough, smart enough, and has guts enough to have stood up to the foreign leaders. He loves his country and the other side, the way I see it, they love themselves, money, and power,” Miller said. In Miller’s opinion, she believes Democrats view the right wing as dumb, poor, illeritate, ignorant and deplorables. “I think it was Barack Obama who said that we cling to our God, our Bible, and our guns. This was said in a way of making fun of us and that’s the only true thing that they ever said and this is true I stand for God, I have Bible studies in my home every week and I sleep with my gun under my pillow,” Miller said. Photo Editor Leah Sutton can be reached at Lsutton@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter at @LeahSutton_
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SIU School of Medicine: How can you fight the pandemic?
Jerry Kruse, MD, MSPH Dean and Provost, SIU School of Medicine & CEO, SIU Medicine
• Battle of Antietam, 07/17/1862: 3650 deaths • COVID-19, 01/05/2021: Welcome back from the holiday 3775 deaths break. I hope you had a safe time • COVID-19, 01/06/2021: of rest and renewal. Unfortunately, 3963 deaths the holiday break was not a time of • COVID-19, 01/07/2021: safety in the United States as the 4033 deaths COVID-19 pandemic continued to The really bad news now is this: As surge. shown above, that record was broken Many harrowing stories have the next day. On January 6, when shocked the health care system again. attention understandably shifted to In the Los Angeles area, the supply of Washington, DC, there were 3,963 oxygen needed for medical treatment COVID-related deaths. January 7 was depleted and hospital admissions saw 4,033 people perish. Daily death exceeded the capacity of both regular tolls of this magnitude are occurring hospital beds and ICU beds. Because day after day after day after day. This the hospitals were overwhelmed with is a crisis of monumental proportions COVID-19 patients, Los Angeles that we, as a society, have not yet Emergency Medical Services workers appropriately addressed. were instructed not to transport Now we, as a society, have another patients who likely wouldn’t survive chance to respond appropriately. and to give less oxygen to transport The COVID-19 vaccines provide us patients. But that is not the worst hope, and opportunity, to effectively news. combat SARS-CoV-2, the virus On Tuesday, January 5, 2021, the responsible for COVID-19. If we United States experienced the largest double-down on preventive measures number of deaths from a single cause and assure that 80 percent of the or event for a 24-hour-period in its population receives the new vaccine, history. There were 3,775 deaths due this is the light at the end of the to COVID-19 on Tuesday, January tunnel — the cavalry is here! 5, exceeding by 125 the number Vaccines are among us of deaths at the Civil War Battle of Two U.S. pharmaceutical Antietam. Here are some reference companies — Moderna and Pfizer points for deadly days in American BioNTech — have developed and history: rigorously tested vaccines that use • Pearl Harbor, 12/07/1941: a new mRNA method. They have 2341 deaths been approved for emergency use by • D-Day, 06/06/1944: the FDA. The U.S. military began 2500 deaths dispersing the vaccines across the • 9/11 terrorist attacks, United States in December. Astra 09/11/2001: 2977 deaths Zeneca has developed a third vaccine
that operates through another new mechanism, and it is also nearing FDA emergency approval. Many more companies have new vaccines in the pipeline. So plenty of doses are available now and more will be manufactured. There is no concern about that. However, the path to actually giving the shot of the vaccine is complicated, with protocols cascading down from the federal government and CDC, to the states, to the counties, and finally to the administration sites. Protocols are not standardized, and administration rates for the vaccines have been disappointing. If we are to stop this pandemic, re-energize our work places and return to a more normal lifestyle, it is up to each one of us to do our part to ensure that the rate of vaccine administration increases rapidly. These vaccines can do the trick. They are the products of new and exciting technology that will forever revolutionize the world of immunization. One former FDA official, when comparing vaccines for COVID-19 to traditional vaccines, gave both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines the grade of A+. I agree; A+ it is. And here are the reasons. The safety and efficacy of these first two vaccines is impressive. They decrease COVID infections by 95 percent and are safe for almost everyone. The vaccines have not been studied adequately in pregnant women, though initial signs indicate that safety is likely.
Pregnant women should discuss this collectively worked on coronavirus vaccine with their physician. They vaccines for several decades, and have not been studied in children, they rose to the challenge in 2020 and they should not yet be utilized under extraordinary circumstances to in immunocompromised people rapidly produce vaccines specifically or those who have severe allergic for COVID-19. My hat is off to reactions. them all. Both vaccines require two doses, Vaccinations are a time-tested, administered about a month apart. scientifically proven way to protect The side effects are similar to those yourself, your loved ones and those in experienced with influenza vaccine: the community. But they only work if mild fatigue, perhaps a headache, and we use them. transient soreness in the arm at the So here’s my strongest injection site. More severe reactions recommendation: For your safety, for are rare. the safety of all those around you, and The vaccines introduce coated for the safety of Americans through mRNA (messenger RNA, genetic herd immunity to COVID-19, please material that contains instructions for get the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as making proteins) into a few cells. The you can. It is safe and effective. mRNA guides the cells to produce a Stay vigilant fragment of the spike protein found The COVID-19 infection rate for in the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Illinois and for the SIU areas is not protein fragment is antigenic, which rising as it is in much of the U.S. We causes your own natural immune are in a better position than most parts response to protect against COVID of the country. Let’s take advantage of infection. it. There is a common misconception There is much work to do. that the mRNA vaccines alter a We must get the vaccine, and we person’s own genetic material. This is must diligently continue our other not true! The coated mRNA does not safety recommendations. You know reproduce in the human body, and is these well: quickly broken down and eliminated. • Do not travel domestically or The mRNA never enters the nucleus internationally of the cell, and does not interact with • Avoid gatherings whenever or alter any of your genetic material in possible any way. • Wear a mask As a leader in the medical and • Maintain distance of at least 6 feet academic communities, I wish to take • Wash your hands frequently a moment to salute the scientists who Thank you for all you have done have spent their careers learning how to get us to where we’re at now. Have to engineer these novel and potent confidence that better days are ahead vaccines for our welfare. They have for all of us in 2021.
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‘Tribune Bookends’ retire after 42 years combined teaching Nicolas Galindo | @ngalindophoto
With a combined 59 years of journalism experience and 42 years of teaching, the ‘Tribune Bookends’ are retiring from Southern Illinois University. Photojournalist and Journalist in Residence, Phill Greer and William Recktenwald, respectively, are set to enjoy their retirements after illustrious journalism and teaching careers. Recktenwald came to the School of Journalism in 1998 after 20 years of working at the Chicago Tribune. During his time as a reporter, Recktenwald was a Pulitzer prize finalist multiple times. The largest story he contributed to was during his time with the Better Government Association aiding in investigating corrupt city of Chicago building inspectors. The Chicago Sun-Times purchased a building with numerous violations, installed cameras and posed as the tavern’s owners as inspector after inspector came to the bar expecting to be paid-off to keep the place ‘in business.’ The investigation detailed how corrupt some city officials were and resulted in numerous charges and firings from the city level all the way up to the state level. After a close friend at the Tribune died unexpectedly, Recktenwald decided he was going to retire on his 58th birthday later that year. “I came in the next day, said I wanted to talk to the City Editor,” Recktenwald said. “I said, I feel bad about Jim Gallagher. One of the things I want you to know about Jim is that I am six months younger than he is and come my birthday, I’m out of here.” Shortly after that meeting, Recktenwald
returned to his desk and his phone rang on the other end was his next job opportunity and the voice of Mike Lawrence, who was with the Southern Illinois University Public Policy Institute, later renamed to the Paul Simon Institute. “Mike says, ‘we’ve got some money here at SIU and I understand that you want to bail out and retire in six months,’” Recktenwald said. “Have you ever thought about teaching?” Recktenwald had been Pictured are William Recktenwald (left) and Phillip Greer. Photos courtesy of SIU on Lawrence’s radar since he was working at the Tribune, where he was Recktenwald said. “I had a 50 minute class Despite the joy both had teaching, they known as the ‘Patron Saint of Interns’ since and after 40 minutes, I ran out of things to agreed one of the worst days for their teaching Recktenwald mentored so many interns who say, so I said ‘dismissed.’” careers was the death of student Ryan came to work at the Tribune. During the class, Recktenwald noticed Rendleman. “They said it was pretty easy work, not the attentiveness of the students and how “That was a down moment,” Greer said. “I really work work,” Recktenwald said. After enamored they were to know they had a watched the students that night, good grief. numerous interviews and trips from Chicago professor who has actually worked in the I stood outside in a circle and said ‘now we to Carbondale, Recktenwald accepted a industry, doing the things he was teaching have to go put out a paper.’ And they put out teaching position at the university. about. a paper.” “On my last day at the Tribune, they threw Looking back on his teaching career, Recktenwald recalls the death as “the worst me a party and I said ‘where’s the cake? I got Recktenwald said “it was fun. I genuinely day in my life.” to get going, I start my new job tomorrow,’” enjoyed dealing with students. I should spray “I walked into the DE office and it’s busy, Recktenwald said. paint ‘Reck was here’” they’re right on deadline,” Recktenwald said. Recktenwald recalls his first day of teaching Phil Greer started his teaching career at “A couple of people looked up. One girl looks young journalists. SIU in 2000 after 24 years of also working at up and says, ‘something bad has happened.’ “I went for my first class and somebody the Chicago Tribune and 15 years previously Phil says ‘look, Ryan Rendleman was killed suggested a textbook. I looked at the textbook working at various newspapers in Illinois. in an automobile accident.’ The whole and saw how it was structured out and I Greer was the Director of Photography newsroom wept. It was an awful day.” said ‘well, I’ll just tell them war stories,” at the Tribune and before that he was Chief Shortly after the accident, Recktenwald Photographer. During his time with the requested a tree, with a plaque be planted near Tribune, Greer was able to be on the ground the entrance to the School of Journalism in covering the Mexico City earthquake in 1985, memory of Rendleman. the Nicaraguan Revolution, and various other Despite that low point, both professors news events. took immense pride watching students Greer grew up in Southern Illinois and grow and become successful working in the graduated from El Dorado High, shortly journalism industry. after he was drafted into the Air Force and “I always said with Southern, ‘we’re the sent to Vietnam. He learned photography little engine that could,’” Greer said. “We through the Air Force until his enlistment didn’t have the resources that Illinois had, expired. or Northwestern had. But we had heart and Recktenwald was able to help recruit Greer desire. We had students here who had work to teach at SIU where he was able to educate ethic and that’s how we achieved the things numerous talented photojournalists through we achieved. I’ve taught at Northwestern and the program. I’ve taught at Illinois and I would rather teach “I enjoyed, immensely, working with at SIU.” young people. There were some really great Recktenwald’s plan for retirement is he relationships formed,” Greer said. “A lot of hopes to get vaccinated against COVID-19 them still stay in touch with me over social so he can once again go travelling. Those that media.” know ‘Reck’ knows he loves to travel and he Greer didn’t plan on teaching for a full 20 has been to over 75 countries. years when he first started in 2000. “I’m not the same as I used to be,” “When I started teaching here, I said I Recktenwald said. “I’m getting old.” was only going to stay five years. five years Greer would like to get back into doing turned into ten. ten turned into fifteen. photography. fifteen turned into 20,” Greer said. “I always “I’m not dead yet! There’s some things I’d saw when I looked at the students, just like to do,” Greer said. “I think my health another year. One more year and maybe we is pretty good, my knees are shot. I’d like to can get this done or we can achieve this or go back and do photography. I’d like to stay do that.” in touch with my former students and help Greer was able to accomplish quite a bit where I can.” with his classes, since he was able to bring The halls of the journalism department are photojournalism students to work on The going to feel a bit sadder now without these Cairo Project, a hardcover book detailing the two fixtures being around anymore. everyday living in Cairo, Ill. He was also able Stay in flight and thank you for your 42 to publish Illinois’ Hidden Gem, another years of teaching and touching as many lives hardcover book detailing the Shawnee as you have. National Forest. Greer has been instrumental in helping Managing Editor Nicolas Galindo can be SIU achieve the notoriety as one the best reached at ngalindophoto@gmail.com or on photojournalism programs in the Midwest. Twitter & Instagram @ngalindophoto.
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Health center denies nurses’ grievance Administration refuses to conduct contact tracing
Kallie Cox | @KallieECox
employers should inform their employees of positive cases of COVID-19 in their workplace. Héctor Rosa, a staff specialist with the INA, said the administration denied the grievance on the basis that it was “untimely.” “They tried to use the fact that the pandemic started in April to say that we should have filed back in April but that is ridiculous because how do we know that they were doing tracing or not if nobody was infected,” Rosa said. Rosa said the INA is appealing the decision which is what is bringing it to arbitration, but it could be a slow process. “With COVID, it’s made it even slower,” Rosa said. “So I have no idea how long it will take. It could be anywhere from a month to a year, the arbitration both parties have to give their side and then the arbitrator has to give his or her ruling.” Jamie Beckman, president of the nurses union at SIU, said as health
SIU’s Student Health Center’s administration denied a grievance by nurses of the Health Center who filed it after the administration failed to notify them of their exposure to another nurse who tested positive for COVID-19. The Health Center said they aren’t responsible for contact tracing. The matter will now move to arbitration. The Illinois Nurses Association filed the grievance with the Health Center on Dec. 11 after it alleged the university refused to alert health center staff that one of the nurses tested positive for COVID-19 and they may have been exposed. Lori Stettler, the vice chancellor for student affairs and the administrator the health center reports to, said in response to this: “As we have stated previously, all contact tracing is done by the Jackson County Health Department.” Both the CDC and Illinois Department of Public Health say
care professionals, taking care of students and staff should be seen as the most important thing. “I’m angry that they decided to go this way when all they had to do was say they would notify staff as per the CDC and IDPH guidelines suggest,” Beckman said. Rosa said he doesn’t understand why the administration is not taking the safety of the staff and student body seriously. “It makes no sense that parents are sending their students to this university thinking they’re going to be [safe], safety is a priority and management is pretty much saying it’s not a priority. I really don’t think that’s right,” Rosa said. Dr. Ted Grace, the health center’s director and Dr. Paul Bennett, the medical chief of staff did not respond to requests for comment as of publication deadline. Editor-in-Chief Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @KallieECox.
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Aftermath of insurrection in D.C. State Capitol remains calm but gaurded
Photos by Jared Treece | @bisalo A National Guardsman stands at a road closure in front of East Capitol Ave on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021 in Springfield, Ill. Gov. JB Pritzker called 250 members of the Illinois National Guard out to keep watch over downtown Springfield after the FBI sent out a memo informing law enforcement agencies of potential riots at state capitols across the country leading up to President-Elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration on Wednesday.
A National Guard truck blocks the entrance of an underground parking garage outside the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, Ill.
Capitol police officers confront Eric Cutler, left, of Springfield after he crashed his car into a section of barricades surrounding the streets around the Illinois State Capitol building.
Members of the Illinois National Guard stand lookout at a road closure at West Monroe Street outside of the capitol on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2021 in Springfield, Ill.
A Springfield Police Department emergency response vehicle drives away from the state capitol. Security measures in Springfield have increased in the days leading to President-Elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration due to the concern of potential riots.
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Meet the Daily Egytian’s first female adviser, Julia Rendleman
Jamilah Lewis, @jamilahlewis
SIU’s School of Journalism has hired SIU alumna and photojournalist Julia Rendleman as the interim adviser for the Daily Egyptian. She is the first woman to hold the adviser position. A freelance photojournalist originally from Makanda, Ill., Rendleman now lives in Richmond, Va., and works for various news outlets such as Reuters, The Washington Post and The New York Times. Rendleman previously worked at SIU as an instructor and taught classes the fall of 2020. Rendleman received her education at Loyola University New Orleans with a degree in photography and later went to SIU to earn her graduate degree in photojournalism. While at SIU, she worked for the Daily Egyptian, which helped her build her professional portfolio. “I really like storytelling and I think that it can have great impact, and my time at SIU and at the Daily Egyptian taught me to care about my community and community storytelling,” Rendleman said. Rendleman said the DE is an attractive aspect of SIU’s journalism program and is way for students to get real-world
experience in a newsroom. Prior to attending SIU, Rendleman lived in New Orleans and Chicago, and worked as a music venue photographer and wedding photographer, respectively. “I’m really, really excited for this opportunity and it’s interesting because if it wasn’t for COVID-19 and everything being virtual I wouldn’t have this opportunity to be the interim advisor to the Daily Egyptian,” Rendleman said. “It’s sort of the silver lining on an otherwise pretty crappy situation.” Rendleman’s best-known photograph, taken June 5, 2020, features two Black ballerinas posing in front of a monument of Confederate General Robert E. Lee in Richmond. The photo followed shortly after the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “It was 11 in the morning but I noticed these ballerinas kind of posing around it with their mothers,” Rendleman said. “So I went and talked with their mothers and I asked them ‘Is it ok if I take their photos?’” With Richmond having been the capital of Confederacy, the toppling of Confederate statues there is a way of repurposing the city from its dark history, Rendleman said. Shortly after the photo was published, it went viral.
Rendleman said she didn’t know how much publicity the photo would get until the next day, when it was posted all over the world, gaining recognition from celebrities like Reese Witherspoon and Courtney Love. “Hundreds of people have reached out to me about it and I still get emails almost every day about it,” Rendleman said. “It was all these [positive] things for them in a really hard year.” Rendleman said her goals for the DE are to continue building on the legacy of community storytelling and build a community relationship within the organization. In addition, Rendleman is the first-ever female advisor for the DE and feels that it’s long overdue. “It is an honor and a privilege to tell people’s stories and for them to trust you with their story to make their photo and I just carry that with me,” Rendleman said. “That’s something that my professors at SIU taught me, what a privilege it is to do this job.” Rendleman will be with the DE until the full-time position is permanently filled, for which she will also apply. Rendleman’s photography work can be found on her website. Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @jamilahlewis.
The Daily Egyptian is accepting applications for newsroom positions for the Spring 2021 semester. For employment, all applicants must be in good academic standing and be enrolled in at least 6 credit hours.
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GAU President calls Biden debt cancellation plan ‘drop in the bucket’
Jacqueline Boyd | @jacqueline_ciera
Jason Flynn | @dejasonflynn
Anna Wilcoxen, the president of Graduate Assistants United at SIU, criticized a proposal by PresidentElect Joe Biden to move a $10,000 student debt cancellation proposal through congress. An aide from the incoming Biden administration confirmed the plan on Jan. 8, according to CNBC. The announcement comes after months of public pressure on elected officials by a variety of organizations to make student debt cancellation part of a COVID-19 relief package. Near the beginning of the pandemic, a coalition of Illinois labor groups, including Service Employees International Union Healthcare, National Nurses United and the Chicago Teachers Union called for debt forgiveness as part of a slate of state financial relief programming. Two hundred thirty eight organizations signed on to an open letter in November demanding the incoming Biden administration cancel student debt by executive order on the first day of his presidency. CJ Clark graduated from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in May of 2020 with $15,000 in debt. He said he also believes there should be a plan to address the student debt situation. “COVID has changed a lot,” Clark said. “I really think that it’s opening people’s eyes more towards the fact that, the education itself gets to a point where, the amount of money doesn’t even seem like a real amount just because of how many digits there are.” Linda Flowers, the president of the Carbondale branch of the
“I don’t see why, if we can bail out businesses, billion dollar, trillion dollar businesses, we can’t bail out those people with student loan debt.” Linda Flowers NAACP Carbondale branch president NAACP, compared the student debt cancellation to previous business relief programs. “Back during the housing collapse in 2008, we bailed out the automobile industry, we bailed out the bank industry, and then those industries have gone on to thrive, right. Here with COVID we are bailing out the airlines,” Flowers said. “I don’t see why, if we can bail out businesses, billion dollar, trillion dollar businesses, we can’t bail out those people with student loan debt.” Student debt troubles are more pervasive among black graduates who are five times as likely as their white peers to default on their student loans according to a report by the Brookings Institute. “That’s like the gap between everything else in this country,” Flowers said. “Just like medical, education, everything bad, COVID, seems to have a disproportionate impact on the black community. So does the student debt crisis.” A variety of plans to deal with student debt cancellation have been proposed including one by Bernie Sanders to cancel all student debt, and more conservative proposals to cancel $50,000 in student debt drafted by Elizabeth Warren and
Chuck Schumer. “There are a lot of folks who might say, what could you possibly need all that money for, and those folks are probably people who went to school in the 90’s or before, you know, fees and tuition and other things, just cost of living skyrocketed,” Wilcoxen said. “$50,000 is still a drop in the bucket to people who are getting PhDs, but $10,000 is even obviously a tinier drop in that bucket.” The average student loan debt for SIUC undergraduate students is $25,285, and the average student loans debt for students getting graduate and professional degrees is $49,410 according to SIUC Director of Financial Aid Dee Rotolo. Collin Bullock graduated from SIUC in 2007 with a degree in creative writing and never had to take out loans, but said he’s still in favor of cancelling all student debt. “As I understand it, Biden could do an executive order to cancel all of it,” Bullock said. “I think that that’s obviously going to be unpopular with people with a lot of money because, at this point in 2021 America, debt is really the only thing we produce at a large scale anymore.” Though cancellation would provide relief for people with student debt, it would have no
immediate impact on SIUC because the university does not hold the federal loans that would be targeted according to Rotolo. Flowers said one of the core issues with student debt, now, is that students are no longer able to find jobs that pay enough to manage the expenses they’ll take on after leaving college. Between 1990 and 2020 the average cost of tuition and fees increased from $3,800 to $10,560 according to a report by the College Board. Wages for college graduates only increased by 2.8% between 1990 and 2015 when adjusted for inflation according to a report by National Association of Colleges and Employers. “When I graduated from college, you were pretty much guaranteed a job if not in your field of study, a job in a field where you could make a living wage,” Flowers said. Flowers said she now sees graduates are often pushed into lower wage jobs. When Bullock left SIUC he started working three jobs, one as an aide to special needs students, another as a substitute teacher, and a third at a “porn shop” to make ends meet.
“The drivers of the economy are, you know, middle to lower class people ultimately,” Bullock said. “If you forgive people’s student loan debt, you know what they can do? They won’t default on mortgages, they can start businesses, they can buy things, they can buy things locally, they can keep things going.” Adam Holbrook went to SIUC for undergraduate and graduate degrees, and now has $30,000 in debt from his graduate education. “I’m very fortunate that I do not have undergraduate debt because I would not have spent as much time with my own personal development, and learning the things that I did in college if I had to worry about paying off tens of thousands of dollars of debt,” Holbrook said. “I think now getting an undergraduate degree is sort of comparable to 40 years ago going through high school, as far as what jobs that will net you and what salary it sort of corresponds to.” Holbrook said he’s hopeful that the conversation he sees around student debt cancellation has changed, in part because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “I think the people that I see on Facebook posting memes, now, about give us our $2,000, and anything related to pandemic economic troubles are the same people who, two or three years ago are posting about, like, anti-welfare memes and stuff.” Holbrook said. “As cynical as it sounds. There are a lot of people in this country who are unwilling to advocate for change unless it affects them directly.” Staff reporter Jason Flynn can be reached at Jflynn@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @dejasonflynn.
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Love is in the air but so is COVID-19 Young adults adjust to dating during the pandemic
Courtney Alexander | @___Courtney_alex23______
Combined with possibly living on one’s own for the first time, taking college classes, working part- or full-time jobs and living through a pandemic, dating as a young adult can be a major challenge. While many individuals in their late teens and early 20s are undertaking these new responsibilities and navigating their freshly-beginning careers, many young adults are also exploring their own identity, sexuality and romantic interests. Topped with the various obstacles the COVID-19 pandemic has placed on individuals’ abilities to meet new people in person, travel and spend time indoors with crowds, dating as a young adult can exacerbate feelings of isolation and loneliness, or even develop codependency for alreadyestablished relationships for couples who have been forced to spend more time at home together. Communications expert Dr. Christine Bacon, Ph.D, said that young adults are at a stage in their lives where they are exploring what they like, who they are and they are setting standards to identify what they want out of a partner. “You guys are at the prime of your life, this is the time where you should be sampling, experimenting with men and women, to see if this person is for you,” Bacon said. Bacon said that the pandemic is affecting how young adults go out and interact with one another. With limited interactions, young adults can’t go to as many social spots and as a result, there’s been a decrease in hook-ups and an increase in online dating. “As you’ve noticed, there’s the maskers and the anti maskers, depending on who you are. So people who are afraid aren’t going out and hooking up with people like they would have before,” Bacon said. Before pursuing a
relationship, Bacon recommends starting off slow and building a friendship first before taking the relationship to the next level. Starting with a friendship can help young adults bond emotionally before any sexual intimacy occurs, this can help create a strong bond first before moving forward. “You’re at such a vulnerable time in your life where you should be enjoying life, and you have these imposed boundaries,” Bacon said. “I tell people, be cautious, don’t make out with a stranger on the street, but go and hold someone’s hand, and spend time at a restaurant with someone and talk to a person.” Emily Lloyd, engagement manager at One Love Foundation, said One Love creates educational tools about relationships, and the foundation connects with young people in a language they can understand and identify with. The One Love Foundation is a non profit organization and they have educated millions of young people about relationships through workshops, in person classes, and the central focus is on
identifying the signs of unhealthy and healthy relationships. The foundation was created to honor a young woman named Yeardley Love, who was killed by her exboyfriend. “Recognizing that no relationship is going to be perfect, the difference between healthy and unhealthy behaviors can help,” Lloyd said. “So we hope that people learn how to practice healthy behaviors, there’s educational workshops that we create that teach how to communicate boundaries, help a friend who is in an unhealthy relationship, teach people how to navigate breakups, and access resources.” Identifying an unhealthy relationship can be difficult for young adults, but recognizing the red flags in a relationship early on could help escape an unwanted situation before things escalate further.
“Isolation, intensity, manipulation, guilting, and there’s more on that list of ten, but the key is to recognize that 100 percent of us will do unhealthy things, it’s how we respond to that unhealthy behavior is what really matters,” Lloyd said. These behaviors during the pandemic may increase as a result of restrictions and less interactions, recognizing the signs can help young adults leave an unideal situation. Chris Wienke, professor of sociology at SIU, said dating standards for young adults is primarily the same for the majority of older adults, and relationships can vary for every individual. “I don’t know if I have a definition. I think that’s a varying construct that will depend on the individual,” Wienke said. “There’s characteristics that make up the individual, the status or stage in life, historic context, social context, culture context, all those sorts of things. What’s healthy, what’s unhealthy changed over time and varies from place to place.” Young adults typically have an idea of what relationships should be like since they are consumers of the media, the internet, socialization of parents, interacting with peers, and exposure to religion can provide insight on what’s healthy and what’s not. It’s also essential for young adults to identify their expectations so they can protect themselves and avoid unwanted exposure to unhealthy situations. “Having a clear set of expectations, understanding what is a healthy relationship is a starting place, what they define as a healthy relationship. If they can understand that, get a better grasp of that, it may take some time, maybe even counseling to identify what is healthy for them,” Weinke said. “It may take some experience, trial and error, what’s healthy to them, what’s unhealthy to them. But having general expectations is one way to avoid being in an unhealthy or toxic relationship.” Courtney Alexander can be reached at calexander@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at ___Courtney_alex23______.
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Sports
‘Trust the Process’
Adam Warfel | @warfel_adam
Jeremy Chinn has become a namesake for NFL fans, and is one of the leading candidates for the defensive rookie of the year award after this season. Chinn led all rookies in tackles with 117, 67 of which being solo tackles. Two forced fumbles which ended with returns for touchdowns are also on Chinn’s case for the award. Chinn broke the record for rookie safeties for tackles in a year previously held by Cincinnati’s Jesse Bates in 2018 which was 111 tackles. To add to his stat line, Chinn received back-to-back Defensive Rookie of the Month awards in October and November. The Fishers, Ind., native had put up 60 tackles throughout the months of October and November as well as one interception and a forced fumble. Shortly after Chinn returned two fumbles for a touchdown in the Nov. 29 game against the Vikings, the Carolina Panthers released a hype video prompting a nickname for him. On Dec. 5, 2020, the Panthers social media team put out a video across their social media platforms including Instagram naming Chinn the King Swiper. Saluki fans who watched Chinn play in Carbondale had an idea of the force he would be in the NFL before the Panthers picked him 64th overall in the second round. In his four years at Southern across 38 games played, he had 243 tackles to go along with six forced fumbles. Chinn’s season highs in sacks, tackles and interceptions occurred during his senior season in the fall of 2019. He forced 15 tackles against Western Illinois on Nov. 16, 2019, and followed that impressive performance up with one sack against North Dakota on Nov. 23, 2019. Earlier that same season in 2019 Chinn secured two interceptions against South Dakota on Oct. 26. In the fall of 2018, in the middle of Chinn’s junior season at Southern,
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SIU graduate Jeremy Chinn finishes successful rookie season in NFL
Saluki graduate Jeremy Chinn reacts on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019, during the Saluki’s 7-21 loss against the North Dakota State Bison. Isabel Miller | @isabelmillermedia current senior inside linebacker Bryce Notree noted the leadership abilities of Chinn. “He was one of those guys you wanted to be around,” Notree said. “Being around him you know you have to make the right decisions on and off the field.” Jeremy Chinn: The king swiper of safeties – Daily Egyptian (quotes are from this article) Even during his junior year at Southern Illinois University, a season in which the Saluki defense struggled giving up 5,317 yards of offense and
59 touchdowns. In an article from Oct 18, 2018 in the Daily Egyptian, Chinn remained positive. “Trust the process,” Chinn said. “We’re working every single day, we’re never going to give up.” No one could have guessed how Chinn would have performed before this season started let alone making a name for himself as one of the best defensive rookies in the NFL. Looking back to before the draft in April 2020, Chinn rose in several rankings after a great showing at the NFL combine in Indianapolis.
Chinn put in 20 repetitions on the bench press tying him for fifth among safeties adding a 40-yard dash time of 4.45 a 41-inch vertical jump and a 138-inch broad jump which all ranked in the top three among safeties. What makes Chinn’s rise in the NFL even more interesting is the fact that the current safety played running back most of his high school career in an article from Oct. 18, 2018 Chinn said this: “I played [cornerback] in high school,” Chinn said. “Really running
back was my primary position.” Chinn committed to Southern as a cornerback, but after coming to campus in 2016, current cornerbacks Coach Marty Rodgers chose to convert him to safety. Since 2016, the rest is history for Chinn as the NFL rookie awaits for the NFL honors ceremony on Feb. 6 of this year to see if his name is called for defensive rookie of the year.
Sports reporter Adam Warfel can be reached at awarfel@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @warfel_adam.
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Salukis prepare for delayed swimming and diving season
Madeleine Cieszynski competes in the three meter dive on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019 at the SIU vs. Arkansas-Little Rock swim meet in the Dr. Edward J. Shea Auditorium. Cieszynski placed in sixth with a score of 204.90. | Carson VanBuskirk | @carsonvanbDE Ryan Scott | @RyanscottDE
The Southern Illinois University men’s and women’s swimming and diving programs missed out on an opportunity to compete in postseason play due to the pandemic in 2020, but they will have an opportunity to get another shot at the Missouri Valley Conference title. In the 2020 season, the Saluki women’s team finished second in the MVC conference tournament and are ranked second in the conference’s preseason poll. The men were third place in the Mid-American Conference last season. Head coach Geoff Hanson said he expects SIU to be a contender in the conference and is pleased to see their ranking. “Finishing second last year was great, our goal is always to win. I think that being regarded as one of the top tier teams is where we expect to be. But nobody has proved anything yet and I think we got a lot of secret weapons that no other team knows we have,” Hanson said. Adam Cernek, a sophomore who competes in the backstroke and intermediate, won multiple conference awards including MAC co-swimmer of the year and freshman of the year. He also set two
university records in his freshman season in the 100 yard and 200 yard backstroke. “It’s hard to say where I’m at right now, but the practice form looked to be good so I think if I manage to keep it up there’s a pretty good chance [to improve on last seasons times],” Cernek said. Cernek said the team’s biggest goals are improving their times and preparing for conference. He added he wants the team to improve to at least a second-place finish in the MAC championship tournament, which is April 8 at Miami (Ohio) University. Cernek also added he wants the team to move up to at least second place this season in the conference tournament. Sierra Forbord, a senior who competes in the butterfly and freestyle, said she was excited that the women’s team was ranked second in the MVC preseason poll. “Working hard this season is going to be really important and just focusing really hard and coming together as a team to be better overall,” Forbord said. Cassidy Lounsbury, a senior who competes in the butterfly and freestyle, said the team will need to come together this season more than
before. “I would love to win a conference championship, but second place is amazing as well,” Lounsbury said. The swim and dive program has a lot of newer and younger competitors this season after losing 23 seniors total; 13 women and 10 men. “The new freshmen are pretty fast and I bet they’re gonna be pretty hungry so I think the team dynamic is good,” Cernek said. “It was really sad to lose a lot of the seniors, a lot of them were super fast too and contributed a lot to our team. We also brought in a ton of new freshmen and they have a lot to offer to our team as well,” Forbord said Fordbord and Lounsbury said they will try to lead by example and help the younger members of the team. Hanson said his team had been dealing with positive COVID-19 tests along with adjusting to practices. The team has also had to split up practices to socially distance the team. “For us as coaches, it means double, maybe triple the time on the pool deck when we could normally train the whole team together, but that’s ok, that’s our job. We had
basically the whole summer with no training and then a long winter break so we’re charged up and ready to push through the spring semester,” Hanson said. Hanson also said some members of the team didn’t have access to a pool during the summer and that slowed some people down in preparation for the upcoming season. “The women’s team doesn’t get to train with the men as much as we usually do which is kind of weird and some people I see more often than others since we’re split up so much,” Forbord said. Lounsbury also said that practice has looked different this year. “We don’t get to practice all together as a team anymore, we’re all split up. It’s been a big change but for the most part I feel like I’m still getting the same out of practice as I would have without COVID,” Lounsbury said. The team’s season will officially begin on Feb. 12 at Evansville, a late start to their usual October season kickoff. “We feel good about it, it gives us time now that we’re back to give us some breathing room where we don’t feel like like we gotta be ready for our big meet in five or six weeks,”
Hanson said Cernek said the team was able to get in the full 20 hours of practice most weeks and commented on the season delay. “It’s another four weeks of practice so it’s another four weeks of getting better hopefully,” Cernek said. Forbord said it was different not being able to go home during Thanksgiving and winter break this year. “Having our season pushed back, honestly will be really good for us. Because from now until April, when conference is, will all be training, we won’t have any interruptions,” Forbord said. Forbord said the meet against Missouri State on March 5 and 6 is the one she looks forward to the most. “As a senior it’s kind of nice for us because we get that extended season, just a little longer to actually do our sport a little more. But it will give us a little bit of that extra time, that extra few months that I think if we use it to our advantage we can make it really positive for us,” Lounsbury said.
Sports reporter Ryan Scott can be reached at rscott@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @RyanscottDE.
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