| @SophieWhitten Please see RETURN 6 Two women carry rugs into the dorms Aug. 19, 2022 in Carbondale, Ill. Sophie Whitten | @sophiewhitten_ p. Auditory2 Processing Disorder p. Canceling10 “Batgirl” is bad for everyone p. BalloonCentralia4Fest p. Salukis12 ramp up for fall season THE Daily Egyptian SERVING THE SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY SINCE 1916. DAILYEGYPTIAN.COM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2022 VOL. 106, ISSUE 2 1, 2, & BEDROOMS3AVAILABLEGrabaroommatefor$300-$350perperson! 805 E. Park Street (618)549-0335 | (618)549-0895
Southern Illinois University began to buzz with life once again this weekend as new and returning students arrived on campus.While on Wednesday, Aug. 17, Carbondale was a quiet, calm town, interrupted only by the construction that persisted through the summer, by Saturday, Aug. 20, it was bustling with eager faces, ready for the fall semester to begin.
On Thursday and Friday of last week, students, with the help of their families and friends, moved into their dorm rooms, lining the streets with cars waiting for their turn to unload bags of clothes, bed linens and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. The air smelled distinctly of Clorox wipes and cardboard boxes as parents and students sat with piles of belongings while others wheeled bins of their possessions back and forth from their cars to their rooms.However, move-in day saw a major difference this year compared to recent years: loosening COVID-19 restrictions. At the beginning of the month, SIU Chancellor Austin Lane wrote an email welcoming the students to campus, explaining the new COVID-19 guidelines. According to Lane’s email, masks are no longer required, but are still recommended, and testing is no longer required for most people on campus. These loosening restrictions have opened a much appreciated door of normalcy in university housing as students began returning to campus.
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For the past two years, students have had a limited number of guests they can bring with them while moving into their new rooms, but this year, SIU Senior Associate Director of Housing Operations Jim Hunsaker said, “That’s all removed.”
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If off-campus entertainment is what you’re looking for, check this out! Every August, the city of Du Quoin hosts the Du Quoin State Fair at its fairgrounds on the south end of town. This is a special year, as the fair is celebrating its 100thWith Anniversary.awidevariety of vendors, rides and entertainment, this centennial anniversary is sure to have something that everyone can enjoy.
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The following is a first person account of living with an invisible disability. In this case, Dean Reece also has a visible disability - cerebral palsy. He explains how that complicated his education:Living with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is like living in a world that wasn’t made for you. But, it’s not like the struggles a person in a wheelchair faces accessing poorly designed spaces. Auditory Processing Disorder often presents in individuals who are perceived to be very bright and thus have no need for adaptive communication strategies at all. (Read When sounds collide: what auditory processing disorder is - and isn’t) Individuals who live with APD are often thought of as lazy, for lack of a better word. It’s a disorder not often discovered until years or decades later when a person seeks treatment for something else unrelated to the disorder. Unfortunately only an elite few know what to look for. Here is my account of living with APD. Just remember that my social presentation is quite a bit different than others because of my use of a wheelchair.WhenI was very young, my father noticed I was significantly cross-eyed. I also remember, around this same time, doctors and some of my teachers thought I might have a seizure disorder. I went to the fancy hospital in Omaha, Nebraska where an electroencephalograph (EEG) was performed over a three-day period to check for the occurrence of abnormal activity. But the tests came back normal. They determined I “was just not paying attention.”
The Grandstand entertainment this year features several well-known names in country music headlining shows, as well as the “I Love The 90’s Tour” featuring Montell Jordan, Tone Loc, Young MC and Rob Base. Jeff Foxworthy is also scheduled to appear and there will be two nights of dirtcar racing.Other special events include the queen contest, lip sync battle, beard contest, washer and cornhole tournaments, not-so-newlywed show, backseat driving contest, and much more.Avariety of other attractions include the twilight parade, high school marching band contest, various carnival rides, craft vendors and food vendors.Formore information about schedules and events, visit the fair’s website. Staff reporter Erica Loos can be reached at eloos@dailyegyptian.com.
By the time fourth grade rolled around, the adults around me did not adjust their communication styles toward me. What transpired was anything but a positive school year for me. Ten pink slips! Yes, you heard that right, ten slips. I was the only student in a wheelchair and the student with the most disciplinary write-ups. How was that possible? Was I really the worst behaved individual in the place? No! Inow know I had anger expression problems because of a listening disorder and a more obvious disability. Neither I nor anyone else completely understood how the conditions played a role in my communication challenges. In fact the two conditions I live with are not what they are just assumed to be. By the time 5th grade rolled around, I was much calmer. I only had two disciplinary referrals that year but neither were serious. When I got into 6th grade, I was in an upbeat mood all the time. The aide who was assigned to me would quiz me all time about upcoming assignments and tests. This continued into 7th grade until the end of 1999 when my father’s employment relocated us to Mount Vernon, Illinois. Once we arrived here, not only was my apartment situation a disaster but so too was my brief stint in the second half of 7th grade. My aide at the time behaved more like an immature juvenile rather than a mature staff member. It also seemed like any form of disability in general was nearly impossible for any school staff to understand. Onaweekly basis my father would have to explain to staff that I could read signs on the wall just not long paragraphs in textbooks because my eyes would get too tired from muscle strain. In Minnesota, I was an A/B student. In Mount Vernon, I was a C/FWhatstudent.followed from Mount Vernon was a year long of full special education with coursework that was way below my intelligence level. There were also a lot of other students with behavior issues I just could not understand. During the last quarter of the school year, I was allowed to take a regular health education course. The problem here was that a few assignments were late. My teacher’s policy was if an assignment was more than a day or two late it was automatically 30% of the total grade. I also had to stay after school just a few times for missing homework, which my teacher deemed laziness, but that I knew was yet again an auditory processing problem. When I entered high school, it was an experience like no other to me. My freshman year, I was once again in an upbeat mood all the time. My first aide had a challenging time wanting to correct incorrect responses. He was a very reassuring and calming comfort to me during the most difficult time of my life. By the time my sophomore year rolled around, it had a polar opposite effect on my mood. At my high school, the food nutrition science teacher was one of my all-time favorites. Despite that, she had a very strict late homework policy. She would assign four or five big assignments every night. No matter how hard I tried, I just could not keep up. I was moved to nearly full special education once again. I thought for sure I had bipolar disorder. I didn’t! At this time however, I had more going on than just keeping up with homework. My home life was absolutely miserable. This was in large part due to both my father and my step-mother not understanding characteristics of my behavior correctly. Events were so bad at one point I had two interventions with the Department of Children and Family Services. Both times, DCFS could find no reason to remove me from the home. However, after the first one, our caseworker informed my family about what is now commonly known as Neuro Restorative. My family was ecstatic about me receiving extensive physical and occupational therapy in hopes of increasing my mobility independence. Others include hometown.
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So let 30 years of misunderstanding begin. In elementary school I was prescribed the Attention Deficit Disorder medication Ritalin, but it had little effect in my opinion. There were many times when teachers would pull me out of class because, in their view, I appeared to be purposefully zoning out and not paying attention. Throughout most of elementary school it was anything but pleasant for me. My father’s approach to helping me with homework was largely the same as his response to my physical disability: “Help yourself!” Now, I just want to tell you straight up, my entire educational experience was tough, though third and fourth grade were exceptionally hard on an emotionalThroughoutlevel.third grade, I remember my teacher would speak to me in an aggressive but firm tone when my behavior was off task or disrespectful. Unfortunately, no one was able to connect the dots and realize many of the issues I was experiencing were due to undiagnosed and untreated auditory processing problems.
Battle being familiar with all of the above, has put a positive spin on“Iit.just liked the name trap and came up with an acronym for it. T.R.A.P. stands for ‘transformation requires accepting the process,’” he said. “ I’m really trying to change the negative stigma of what a trap stands for and change people’s perception of it.” Unlike most gyms, The Trap’s mantra is to allow the trainers and clients to be themselves and not care what others will think. Some commercial gyms have a sameness in their sleek interiors. The Trap plays energetic hip-hop and Trap music tunes that further personify their desire not to sugarcoat their fitness facility.
The Trap is a blackowned business, both Battle and Sturgeon pride themselves on a wide range of clients. “It’s very diverse,” Battle said. “We have a variety of ethnic groups that come in. Black, Caucasian, Middle Eastern, Filipino and Hispanic.”Sturgeon points out that women are also a considerable part of their business diversity initiative. With yoga classes and women’s Trap fitness, promoting women’s health is a key goal of the business. The couple said a bright spot of the business is its attention to being unique and its pride in Black and hip-hop culture. The word Trap can mean different things to people. Generally, it’s synonymous with having no escape or exit. In urban communities across the country, people consider their systematically oppressed neighborhoods as a trap. In fact, it inspired a sub-genre of hip-hop entitled “Trap Music,” in which musicians voice their feelings about living in povertystricken predicaments and making a way out through songs.
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Working out and reaching your fitness goals can sometimes feel like you are the metaphorical hamster running on the endless spinning wheel, or, even better, you are trying to free yourself from an inescapable maze. However, “The Trap” training facility, unlike its name, offers its clients the path of freedom to reach their fitness goals.The Trap Training Facility is run by the one-two punch of owners Johnathan Battle and Alyssa Sturgeon. Both attended Missouri Valley College and are undergraduate school sweethearts. Battle earned a bachelor’s degree in exercise science, while Sturgeon earned a bachelor’s in sociology and minored in psychology. However, when Sturgeon decided she wanted to earn a master’s degree in social work back in Carbondale, Battle agreed to come with her and start a fitness gym in town. He began training out of the couple’s one-bedroom apartment, parks, client’s homes, or really anywhere we could train, Battle said.The move to Carbondale would only motivate Battle to expand his passion into a future fitness franchise. The Trap moved to several locations on both East Main Street and West Main Street. However, it wasn’t until July 2021 that the business moved to perhaps one of the most popular areas in town, Illinois Street. Today, the business trains about 15 to 20 clients per day. In addition to personal training sessions, The Trap offers beginners boxing, yoga and 30 minute HIIT classes. However, their most popular attraction is the women’s Trap fitness classes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Any newcomer to the women’s Trap fitness class will have their first session free of charge.“Anybody can join the class at any fitness level because we have an advanced version of each exercise and a modified version,” Battle said.Although
“If people see The Trap, they may not know who we are, what we do, or they don’t want to know who we are all together. But it goes back to us being true to ourselves,” Sturgeon said. The Trap is rapidly evolving, and the trainers do not plan to do the same things they currently do six months from now. Soon, The Trap plans to create a website to expand its presence in the community. It already has social media accounts on Instagram and Facebook. The Trap also will roll out online training for clients across the country. There are also plans for the business to expand to the Atlanta area. Battle intends for The Trap to be the best gym in Illinois and the best in the nation. The owners promote a confidence and a feel-good story that runs through the facility. After receiving her master’s degree, Sturgeon worked at a middle school for two years and then decided she wanted to join Battle in training. She believes they’ve developed a training experience that is unlike anything you’ve experienced before, Reviews suggest customers agree. On Google, Stephanie V. said “Prompt on questions, very professional and really educated on nutrition and fitness. While Juanita R. said “I can’t wait to see what the future holds for The Trap.” Staff reporter Mannie Henderson can be reached ehenderson@dailyegyptian.com.at
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“It’s peaceful. It’s a beautiful night. It couldn’t be better,” Greenwalt said. “Best time in the world to come to this.” Greenwalt said the festival has grown quite a bit since the last time she came, but the food was just as tasty. This year, she came with first-time attendee Pam Cagle who was excited to see the balloons for the first time. “It’s just a good family thing,” Cagle said. Stephanie Sachtleben, who has been with the Centralia Balloon Fest since its birth in 1990, said that’s exactly what the balloon fest was designed to be: a family thing. Sachtleben and her husband, who is the Foundation Park superintendent, were part of the Come Home to Centralia committee in 1989 when leaders in the community decided Centralia needed an event to draw people back to t e town. At the time, Danville, Illinois had a large balloon festival, so the Sachtleben family decided to look into it. A few months before Centralia’s first balloon festival, Sachtleben went to Danville to experience the festival for herself.“We went up there and it was at the airport and it was hot and dry and dusty,” Sachtleben said. “People stood by the chain-linked fence to seeAccordingthem.” to Sachtleben and her husband, that wasn’t what they wanted for their balloon fest. In Danville, the balloons would fly down between the runways and then leave. In Centralia, they wanted a more personal experience with the balloons. They wanted people to be able to get close to the balloons and interact with them.But that first balloon fest didn’t go quite to plan. “The first night, Friday night, was all here. Everybody was really hyped up and excited, and I can remember [...] one of the first balloons [...] it starts
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This past weekend, as Carbondale students were packing their bags for the first day of school, the people of Centralia, Illinois, were packing their lawn chairs and blankets for the annual balloon fest Friday, Aug. 19 through Sunday, Aug. 22.
For many Southern Illinois natives, the Centralia Balloon Fest is home to numerous memories with family and friends of walking around with a corn dog in one hand and a lemon shake up in the other, watching hot air balloons slowly come to life while craft vendors sell jewelry, toys and artwork in the distance. You can’t help but feel joy while strolling through Foundation Park during the festival. There are children playing in the grass with marionette animals, families laughing with each other on picnic blankets and hundreds of people taking photos with the balloons as the pilots ignite the burners, sending hot flames through the colorful fabric of theForenvelopes.vendors at the park, the Balloon Fest is a time to reach around 40,000 potential customers, according to the See Centralia website. According to the Centralia Chamber of Commerce website, there were more than 100 vendors this year in the food and craft fair. We Make Stuff, an art studio based out of Odin, Illinois, was told to check out the festival by a tie-dye vendor who had been at the park in previous years, and the owners decided to give it a Onetry. of the artists, Erin Grapperhaus, said she was enjoying the festival and her experience with the vendor fair has made her want to come back again in the future. “It’s been really nice,” Grapperhaus said. “I definitely think we’re going to do it again.”Forfirst time visitors to the events, the Balloon Fest can be enchanting. Chris Greenwalt first came to the festival ten years ago with her grandson and enjoyed her time and wanted to return once more to see it again.
Lego figures stand on display for purchase Aug. 20, 2022 at the Centralia Balloon Festival in Centralia, Ill.
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News | Page 5Wednesday, August 24, 2022 to go up, and it was so cool, but just within seconds, a wind hit it and it was down. And it started raining. And that was that night. And it pretty much rained most of Saturday. We didn’t get anything up out here,” Sachtleben said. Luckily, Kaskaskia Community College hosted the balloons on Sunday, according to Sachtleben, where the balloons finally were able to “Thatfly.was where they actually got to fly,” Sachtleben said. “Finally getting to see them take off, that Over the past 32 years, the balloon festival has continued to grow.“Thirty-two years for an event like this is pretty freaking amazing,” Sachtleben said, “and I know back when we hit 20, people were thinking, ‘Oh, it’s about to hit its peak,’ but what has really kept it together is the thought that went behind it.”
Balloon operators use a burner to fill one of the hot air balloon with hot air in preparation for the Balloon Glow Aug. 20, 2022 at the Centralia Balloon Festival in Centralia, Ill.
A pilot ignites the burner of a hot air balloon Aug. 20, 2022 at the Centralia Balloon Festival in Centralia, Il.
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This year, the park hosted almost 40 balloons, and one of them was extra close to home for the Sachtleben family. said. “We did this to get the family together and I’m so glad we did because it worked [...] we had a really good Accordingtime.”to the Sachtleben family, the balloon fest brought the family together from all parts of the country, including Seattle, Atlanta and Chicago. But the familial aspect of the Centralia Balloon Fest doesn’t end with the Sachtlebens. It encompasses the entire community. “People put a balloon on their porch, and everybody gets into it Sachtleben said. “It’s a community involvement all around.” The Centralia Balloon Fest has grown into a family tradition for many members of the Southern Illinois community, but last Saturday, incoming storms threatened to keep the pilots from inflating the balloons. With the news already looming that the balloons weren’t allowed to fly, attendees waited patiently around the pond in hopes that they’d still get to see the balloons inflate before the night ended. the crowd that the balloons were allowed to inflate. Pilots began quickly getting their balloons off the ground and excitement started to build among the park guests. As the night came to a close, the announcer finally said the familiar commands over the loudspeakers, “Balloons, glow! Balloons, flicker!”
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Samantha Sachtleben (far right) watches her family play together Aug. 20, 2022 at the Centralia Balloon Festival in Centralia, Ill. “This year our family decided to sponsor a hot air balloon… it been a great kind of family reunion and it’s pulled in my sisters who live all over the country,” Sachtleben said.
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“When I first started, I thought, ‘I’ve got to go, I’ve got to quit.’ But then I wouldn’t say it as much… maybe once or twice a month. But, you know, I really enjoy working for Carmelita, she’s a really good boss, one of the best I’ve ever had,” Wright said.She said the best part about working at the CWC is the tight-knit family nature of the job and the community-oriented nature of the work, especially as led by Cahill. “[This work’s] not for everybody,” Wright said. “Most of the people we serve here are in some type of crisis. If you’re homeless, you’re in some type of crisis because homelessness is a crisis. But if you can’t shut off that stress and compartmentalize, you’ll take home a lot of people’s feelings and behaviors that you don’t know what to do with.”
The cool indoor air is a pleasing contrast to the oppressive heat and humidity of the Southern Illinois summer. The center is calm and peaceful, despite the number of people in crisis. “These buildings used to be called ‘U-city,’” said Carmalita Cahill, who heads the center. “They were dorms, then they were classrooms. The building across from us used to be a police station. Southern Illinois Health was in here, Centerstone [outpatient medical services] used to be here, the Special Olympics offices were here. This place has been used in all sorts of different ways throughout the years.” The Carbondale Warming Center (CWC) is a homeless shelter, open to the public and run by a team of people with years of experience working with individuals in crisis. At the helm is Cahill, a middle-aged Black woman with graying hair and a smile that shines from behind her mask, joking with her friend, Teneshkia Wright and daughter Angela Pierce. “For the population that we serve, just general hygiene and washing your hands can mitigate the passage [of disease]. If you don’t have that, then what does that do to that person while they’re already marginalized and looked down upon,” Cahill said Cahill has been the administrative director for the CWC since December of 2019, just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic reached American shores. A veteran of the social work field, she has led the facility as the virus prompted an expansion of duties expanding its hours to include 24/7 availability for people in crisis.“The warming center has been an entity since 2016,” Cahill said. “The basic idea was how we had those out there that couldn’t thrive in the existing shelter structure or where there wasn’t enough room.” After moving from Pennsylvania to Ohio for a decade then back to her hometown of Pittsburgh, Cahill moved to Carbondale to be closer with recently discovered family. Taking the experience of working in various local shelters in the places where she settled, Cahill found work in Southern Illinois at the Good Samaritan House, another local homeless shelter, before finally landing at the CWC, where she would be promoted to executive director in December 2019.
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Cahill said her position was originally intended to be for only four months, but the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic increased her term indefinitely as the need for a location where the homeless can shelter in place was made apparent to local officials.
The hot July sun beats down on the aging façade of the once student dormitory, then public housing and now homeless shelter. Residents sit on plastic chairs in the shade, shooting the breeze and playing card games while others keep cool inside. Signs fill some of the windows along the asphalt parking lot leading up to the glass double door asking for masks to be worn indoors to prevent the spread of disease. Warnings tell of 15 minute wait times between leaving the premises and being allowed inside the Carbondale Warming Center.Through the doors sits a cooler filled with ice and bottled water next to a hand sanitizer dispenser. Opposite the station is a glass window to the office, filled with supplies of all types and with a large clock with the space between the numerals 12 and 1 shaded in red.
Cahill said she approaches the work with a mindset of helping people in need and helping to change her world for the better. “Wanting to [help people], I think, is just a part of who a person is. It can be an outrage and you can be upset, but change only comes when you choose to make that difference and be the kind of change you want to see,” she said. As if on cue, a number of residents made their way into the building, asking to make phone calls or resupply a bathroom or seemingly just to make small talk. According to Pierce, this type of behavior is typical.
“It was a bit of a culture shock,” Pierce said. “The main thing I noticed was a lot of people don’t ever finish high school, and where I’m from it’s the one thing most peoplePiercedo.”said another major difference is the status of the help that tends to come through, which is seasonal and often fluctuates with students attending nearby Southern Illinois University (SIU), often relying on students in their Social Work program to fill in gaps during the colder months.
“To keep our guests as close to the center as possible, we try to provide everything they will need while they’re here,” Cahill said. “Between Noon and 1 P.M. we bring out a little rolling machine with paper and loose tobacco so the guests don’t have to leave the premises. Meanwhile, in that time, we’re doing a lot of educating on how to keep healthy and get the resources they need to Piercesucceed.”said the onset of the pandemic provided new opportunities to help the guests of the center by giving them a place to operate from instead of subsisting on the streets.“COVID didn’t really make the work difficult, we just started serving in different ways,” Pierce said. “Everyone had to be indoors. Trying to explain that to people who are already going through crisis is a little hard, but they eventually got it.” Wright said working at the CWC was difficult at first, but being friends with Cahill and having a little time to get used to working with needy populations made it easier to acclimate to the job.
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What they did not realize when they signed up, is going to a place like Neuro Restorative is not like going to a restaurant where you have a choice of veggies or french fries. The agency looks at your whole person. This includes everything from speech and language, psychological, behavioral and educational and employment assessments in addition to physical and occupational therapy. When the speech language pathologist did her assessment on me she diagnosed me as being slow processing. Evenwith a diagnosis, it had little effect on my school’s and my family’s response towards me. In fact, it was made worse because Neuro Restorative made no plans for aftercare for speech therapy as they did for physical and occupational therapy. The speech therapist just assumed I would get speech therapy at school, but I never did. The only thing that did happen was a meeting between Neuro Restorative and my step-mother in an attempt to make my school experience as much like Neuro Restorative as possible. It was actually far different. I will just tell you the public school system in the United States has to provide all the services you find at Neuro Restorative as a matter of law. The catch here is they cannot be performed at the same level as a rehab center. They can only be performed to the extent they benefit your school education. My family did not like that. When therapy services are administered in the school school system, it is usually done at the expense of one or multiple class times. Therapists are more often than not seen as an enemy to the educational process from the teachers’ perspective, because it’s just one more thing they have to deal with. This is especially so for speech and occupational therapy because the need for these services isn’t so obvious to the untrainedUnfortunatelyeye. for me, I desperately needed speech therapy. When teachers often see that a student like myself has no speaking difficulties the perceived need for speech therapy intervention goes completely out the window. The school turned to artificial means of getting me through the high school experience that are not therapeutic in the long term. My aides would often finish work when I could not. The teachers would intervene and tell them to stop only a handful of times. I was not the only student treated in this way. It honestly just has to do with how well the teacher or aide understands the issues on the student’s plate. While K-12 accessibility is a matter of law, passing college is not. I enrolled at SIU immediately following my high school graduation at father’s persistence. My struggles with cerebral palsy were just a small fraction of what I had to deal with to obtain my bachelor’s degree. Large volumes of reading were the biggest obstacle here. On the bright side, though, I didn’t have to worry about attendants being on my case constantly about getting work done. Large volumes were problematic for three main reasons. First, my brain does not process visual information quickly. Second, because Disability Support Services does not provide homework helpers, outside of class I had to do all my reading through electronic text reading software. That strategy is great until the disability office doesn’t have the book you need for a particular class in its database. When that happens the disability office solution is to take the binding off the book and scan the pages manually so that a screen reader will pick it up. When I would get these books back words would be read in syllables or just gibberish that could not make sense to any human. In order to compensate for this problem, I had to hire tutors from outside of class to read and slowly type out my papers for me. Sometimes I would get free volunteers if a student needed volunteer hours working with a student or a person with a disability, but other than that I was on my own. Even with volunteers, it wasn’t exactly a free ride for me. Many of them thought I just needed help with typing. They did not realize all the puzzle pieces that have to fit in just the right way in order for me to complete a paper successfully. I would often get labeled as unintelligent by these people or be accused of purposefully cheating. Even if I dictated a sentence to an assistant, their entire demeanor would tell me I was automatically wrong. A lot of times, I would get asked (and I still do) if I use speech dictation software. And the answer is no. First, when I speak, my vocal patterns are too different to train the program effectively. Secondly, my auditory processing component means everything before I get to the actual typing of the paper is the most challenging part for me. Being compared to others in wheelchairs is something that happens to me almost every time I turn around. This is especially so when a teacher or counselor believes a person they know or work with has a more severe form of impairment than I do and in turn works harder than I do. My response to them is usually pure silence, out of respect, but I’m really full of rage when this occurs. The only time it is ever appropriate to compare people in wheelchairs is if the functional independence goals are almost exactly the same. Sometimes one just needs to realize another peer in the exact same situation may not exist. What does exist, however, is the ability to make choices about how each of us respond to the utmost challenges of a given situation. Sometimes truly the best gift you can give to someone is the admission of “I don’t know.” I can guarantee you this APD is something you either know or you don’t. I will also promise you this: misinterpreting APD for laziness is something that will be remembered for a lifetime. From what I’ve been able to gather over the past 30 years or so is that our entire education system is genius at figuring out a student’s intelligence level. What we have not yet even begun to talk about yet is what happens when a student has intelligence that can’t be accessed.
Specialized educational alternatives can be the best option for some students and adults. Staff in these areas know how to read situations for exactly what they are and how to address instances of inexcusable behavior with compassion rather than overbearance. Though K-12 is standard, Neuro Restorative-like programs are not. It would be wise if this could be reevaluated in some way. I know some of you are going to strongly disagree with me when I tell you I think Carbondale is one of the worst places in the United States a person like myself could be. I say this because, in this community, there’s been a long time reputation in regards to people in wheelchairs and other profound disabilities.
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The truth is Carbondale just has a larger sample size of people with obvious disabilities so people just assume they know more than they really do. Maybe someone’s hidden disability is not APD. However, being activity aware of symptoms and specific behavioral characteristics is the only efficient way of getting to the truth. You and I have a clear understanding of what the truth is - that’s the only way the Carbondale community and society as a whole will become a more peaceful and approachable place.
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“Getting involved in talking to your classmates and getting out of your residence hall room and going to athletic events or the RSO’s that are so numerous here on campus and getting involved is very important,” he said.
“It was such a fantastic turnout,” Hunsaker said. “We saw a lot of students who looked like they were alone but by the end of the night they had a friend group already established. Hunsaker is optimistic that more events and opportunities will return to campus as COVID-19 restrictions lessen and people are allowed to gather in large groups again. “There are tons of resources for students who don’t feel like they are connected,” he said. “[...] we will help a student navigate this university to make them as successful as possible.”
Editor in Chief Sophie Whitten can be reached at swhitten@ dailyegyptian.com or on Instagram at @sophiewhitten_.
On Thursday, Aug. 18, SIU hosted Light Up the Lake, where students could play volleyball, eat s’mores and meet new people.
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Hunsaker said there are a lot of unknown resources that students don’t even think about, that are available here on campus.
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“[Students] are used to bringing their parents and their grandparents and really making it a family affair, and we’ve really seen that this year where students are again bringing the grandparents with them, and the grandparents get to experience the student move in as well,” Hunsaker said. That’s not where the dissimilarity ends, though. SIU is seeing a near three-percent rise of students living in the on-campus residence halls and about a four-percent increase in total students living in university housing, according to Hunsaker. With this influx of students, the once single dorms are now being assigned as doubles for new incoming students.
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“Students are having roommates again, which is always a good thing for us and for the students to experience that real college experience of having that roommate and making those new friends,” Hunsaker said. While COVID-19 restrictions changed many aspects of college life at SIU, another thing that is slowly returning to its full extent on campus is events and opportunities to connect with other students at SIU.
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The second track of this cup was Snow Land, this track was first released on the Nintendo Gameboy Advance. It was really fun to play because most of the course was played on ice and I got to drive around penguins.Atthestart of the race, I started driving on an icy road. While I was driving on the road, I had to avoid penguins walking into the road. Once I got off the road I had to drive on a patch of ice, and had to be extremely careful when it came to drifting because, if I did it too late or early, I would fall into this hole in the ice.
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The next track was Mushroom Gorge, which came out on the Wii. At the start of this track, I drove on a dirt road leading to two diverging paths. For the first lap I took the first path, which took me straight to a cave full of mushrooms I had to bounce on in order to reach the finish line. On lap two, I went through the second path which allowed me to get closer to the higher mushrooms so I could get ahead faster. The final track was Sky High Sundae. This track is a brand new addition to the Mario Kart franchise and includes a lot of inclines. Throughout the entire track, the player drives through this ice cream themed world. I first started out in an ice cream shop then drove off a ramp that took me directly through an ice cream cone. After the cone, I had to drive up a bunch of stairs that lead me to this giant ice cream loop, probably my favorite part of the track. Wave two of the DLC did not disappoint. I enjoyed pretty much every track. It surprised me when they added the new track Sky High Sundae because, when the announcement for the DLC came out, I expected all remastered courses. For wave three, I hope they add more new tracks because playing new tracks is always exciting.
Nintendo released its second wave of downloadable content for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on August 4. The cups for this wave are the Turnip and the Propellor Cup. I was really excited for this wave to be released because I enjoyed playing the first wave (see review) and could not wait for the next wave to come out and to see what tracks were going to be added next. Before I started racing the new tracks I had to pick out my character and design my kart. For my character, I chose Yoshi because he is my favorite. When it comes to what I would be driving, I always pick karts because I think they are easier to drive than bikes. The first track I went through was New York Minute in the Turnip Cup. This track was released on the Mario Kart Tour mobile app.When the race started, I drove through Times Square and then turned into Central Park. As I was driving through the greenery, I had to make sure I did not turn too early or late because I would end up in the grass, which would slow me down. Once I got out of the park, I ended up back in the square. When driving back through the square, I had to avoid tour buses and taxis and, on the second lap, it had me drive through the back end of the park. As I made it through the park, it took me back to Times Square. The final lap is set up the same as the second, but a part of the park that was not available to drive through in the first two laps is now open. The new area has you go through a parking garage. The New York Minute track was my second favorite track in this cup. One of the things I enjoyed the most about it was being able to drive through the square and just the overall detail that went into that area. The next track, Mario Circuit, was originally released on the Super Nintendo. This track was set up like a regular race track, but just with certain elements from the Super Mario game on the sidelines such as the blocks that you hit to get items and the giant piranha plants. When I played this track by myself, it was not as exciting as if I would have played with my friends because I was racing against computers.Kalimari Desert was the third track in the cup and was first featured on the Nintendo 64. I really enjoyed it, because it had a healthy amount of obstacles that kept me on my toes such as avoiding the train. When I started the track, I had to be careful of which way I drifted because if I did it too early, I would end up stuck in the sand. During the second lap, you end up driving on a railroad track for the rest of the lap. For me avoiding the train while I was on the rails was hard because if I went over too far I would hit the train. On the third lap I spent the rest of the race driving through the railroad tunnel. The final track of this cup was Waluigi Pinball, which was my all time favorite track in this cup. Waluigi Pinball was released for the DS version of Mario Kart. Throughout this track, I was driving inside a giant pinball machine. When the race started, I was shot through a portal that sent me to where the pinball gets processed in the pinball machine. Once I made it through, I drove into the actual game area. While I was driving through the area I had to avoid getting hit by pinballs. I say this track was my favorite because I thought it was fun to drive through an actual pinball machine, and trying to avoid pinballs was twice as fun. The second cup, the Propellor Cup had equally fun tracks, the first track was the Sydney Sprint, Which came out on the Mario Kart Tour which takes you through Sydney, Australia.Therace started by driving around a well known port in Sydney, Port Jackson. After driving around the port, I drove briefly through the Sydney Opera House. Before having to drive over a speed ramp. Once I made it across the ramp I continued the race driving past a carnival area. I then ended up driving past a train track. During the second and third lap the track reversed and I had to drive around the edge of the port. Driving through that area required me to make a lot of sharp turns in order for me to get to the multiple speed boosts at the end.
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Rating: 9/10 Nope: Jordan Peele makes his triumphant return, with his third original horror film, “Nope.” Following 2017’s smash hit “Get Out” and 2019’s “Us,” Peele continues to solidify his place as a modern master of the genre. The film shows his take on the sciencefiction/alien invasion subgenre, but it still has the unique sense of terror and dread that Peele has sharpened in his previous two features. Most excitingly, this is his first true venture into a blockbuster film and in moments shows a lot of kinship with the filmmaking style of Steven Spielberg. Nope is a razor-sharp technical marvel, rich with thematic depth and is easily the best movie of the
Top Gun: Maverick: Also in May, the follow-up to 1986’s “Top Gun” was finally released nearly 40 years later, after numerous COVID-related delays. The film also is Tom Cruise’s first film in 4 years, since “Mission Impossible: Fallout.” Cruise was notorious, in the press, for continually pushing back the film’s release date, refusing to have it released on streaming and positioning it for a period in which people were comfortable to go back to the theaters. When it did finally release, it received endless praise and, as previously mentioned, destroyed multiple box officeTherecords.filmis a technical marvel and is truly a beautiful cinematic experience on the big screen. It’s at the height of what can be done on this scale within the medium. And while my audience cheered and clapped throughout the film, I couldn’t help but think “the movies are finally back.”
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ThisRating:summer.9/10summer showed a lot of promise with some truly spectacular movies/shows. The industry is finally seeming to fully recover from the repercussions of the Pandemic, and we are seeing the fruits of so many long-delayed projects. 2022 is poised to be a historical year for film and television alike, which is quite relieving considering just two years ago, everyone was unsure if they would ever be the same. Staff reporter Zaden Dennis can be reached at zdennis@dailyegyptian.com and you can find his other reviews at letterboxd.com/Zadenator.
Entertainment and Culture | Page 11Wednesday, August 24, 2022 Historically, the summer has always been the most exciting time to be a movieSincelover.“Jaws” blessed the silver screen in 1975, birthing the modern blockbuster (and is aptly getting a theatrical re-release this September), May through July has been the most coveted spot for the year’s biggest and most successful films. 2022 is no different, but also is the first true “return” of the traditionally packed summer slate since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. It seems that things are back in full swing, with “Top Gun: Maverick” soaring to the thirteenth highest grossing film of all time, and is still playing in cinemas across the world, nearly three months into its release. But now, in the current era of massive high-budget shows often matching or exceeding the budget of some films, television has started sharing some of the summer real estate, with streaming services similarly holding onto their biggest draws until the summer. The latest season of “Stranger Things” reportedly cost $30 million dollars per episode, which would total to an estimated $270 million dollars for their newest fourth season. This unprecedented scale easily makes it Netflix’s largest show, and the most expensive television show of all time.Statistics aside, it’s clear that just as many people are tuning into these huge television events as people are going to the theaters, and often exceeding them. There were a multitude of excellent series that either continued or started this summer, although not all on the scale of “Stranger Things”. Here is a rundown of all the biggest and best films/shows of the summer, some of which you may have missed, but can still catch up on. Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of KickingMadness:off the summer in early May, Marvel Studios released the long-awaited sequel to 2016’s “Doctor Strange.” It came fresh off the heels of the character’s last appearance in “Spider-Man: No Way Home” just six months prior. While “The Multiverse of Madness” created a lot of excitement among superhero fans, it arguably created more for fans of Sam Raimi. The film was Sam Raimi’s first in nearly ten years. He is most well known for his work on “The Evil Dead” series and the original “Spider-Man ‘’ trilogy starring Tobey Maguire. Raimi has been directing for more than 40 years and, as an auteur filmmaker of horror and superhero movies, it was easy to have high hopes for the “Doctorfilm.Strange and the Multiverse of Madness’’ is easily one of Marvel’s best films and it’s no surprise considering the level at which Raimi works. It’s the most stylish and easily the most horror-influenced entry in the franchise. The film has quickly become one of my favorite superhero films and hopefully will continue to influence Marvel to let more creative filmmakers have a larger fingerprint on their Rating:8/10projects.
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The Boys: This Amazon original series saw its return this summer, with the third season kicking off in June and ending in July. The extremely R-rated adult superhero series continues its streak of balancing shock value with its most socially poignant season yet. It ups its stakes and introduces the alluded-to, fascinatingly psychotic new character, “Soldier Boy,” a Captain America clone played perfectly by Jensen Ackles of “Supernatural” fame. While this season serves up more of the witty dialogue and entertaining ultra-violent action sequences that made the first two seasons so captivating, this season edges it into masterpiece territory. With a horrifyingly accurate parallel between the show’s main villain, “Homelander,” and former U.S. president Donald Trump, as well as many other biting pieces of nihilist political satire. While at times, it couldn’t be more on the nose, I think that’s just what the show wants to be and maybe exactly what we need.
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Stranger Things: Another long-delayed follow-up to finally release this summer was the fourth season of “Stranger Things.” It also saw numerous delays due to COVID but finally came back bigger than ever, with its first seven episodes being released on May 27 and the last two on July 1. This marks the most expensive and longest season of the show yet. Right off the bat, this season showed it wasn’t messing around, with continually impressive production and stakes higher than ever. It takes more risks and creative choices than the show has since its first season, and they all pay off in the end, making it the best season yet. “Stranger Things” continues to be endlessly entertaining in its penultimate season and proves itself as one of my favorite pieces of television in the last decade.
In the film industry, it’s easy to get stuck on the “what ifs.” This is especially true today, when hundreds of projects are greenlit every month, just for a large chunk of them never to be completed. In our currently superheroobsessed industry, there are loads of films that never see the light of day. More recently, following “SpiderMan: No Way Home,” fans have obsessed over the rumored details of Sam Raimi’s long-canceled “SpiderMan 4” as well as the canceled follow-up to Andrew Garfield’s “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” with fans even petitioning to get them made now, decades later. We have even seen fans clamor to create a tangible product, in “Zack Snyder’s Justice League,” a film that, by all accounts, wouldn’t have ever happened without the fans demanding it. Taking it back even farther, most people have, at some point, come across the infamous photo of Nicholas Cage donning the Superman suit for the longcanceled Tim Burton-directed “Superman Lives.” A film that has been canned since the 90s still generates obsession with what it could have been like, even going as far as having a documentary made about the film. One thing connects all the aforementioned films (aside from “Zack Snyder’s Justice League”), they never got past the pre-production stages. But what if these films were completely shot and even far along into post-production? People would be even more fervent to get their hands on any bit of the thing. This was the case for the recently canned “Batgirl” from Warner Bros. studios, which was slated for release on HBO Max, later this year. This caused an immediate uproar across the internet, with fans immediately devising ways in which the film could still be released, even going as far as to suggest employees working on the film’s post-production to leak it all online. But why did this happen? What would the studio stand to gain from canceling a film that has already cost a budget reportedly nearing $90 million? To start, Warner Bros. has just had a massive shift in corporate leadership, with their new CEO David Zaslav. Variety reported that he decided to cancel the film because it did not line up with the interests in a shift the company is making to prioritize theatrical releases over streaming. This new leadership wants to make higher budget projects that are comparable to the current model of Marvel Studios. Reports state that the $90 million film had little chance of recuperating its budget with a theatrical release, nor an HBO Max release. With some sources hypothesizing that this decision is purely financial, as it would likely be more profitable for the company to receive a tax break for not releasing it. Zaslav has made it clear he is operating the company with profits and business strategies taking priority over creativity. Which is not a surprise or even illogical, considering Warner Bros. is, in fact, a multi-billion-dollar company. But to go as far as to deem the work of hundreds of people, not worth even releasing, that far into production, and to take a fat check rather than allowing the crew’s creative efforts be even slightly validated, is simply insulting.While$90 million is nothing to scoff at, for a company worth over $33 billion, one would think that they could afford to make slightly less than what they wanted to respect the efforts of the filmmakers involved.Theevents surrounding this unprecedented move from Warner Bros. is emblematic of a huge problem in the current film industry, still reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic. Most large studios are attempting to compete with the likes of Disney, with every film costing around or more than $100 million. That then creates a business model which suggests, if a film doesn’t make astronomical amounts of money, nearing one billion dollars, it was not a success. A recent example can be seen in Disney-Pixar’s “Lightyear”, which made more than $200 million at the box office this summer. But it is still considered a large flop for the studio, since its production budget was also $200 million. The business model of spending these insane amounts on every film and trying to position them all as huge events that can’t be missed by anyone, is simply unsustainable. Even for Disney, a company which takes up 52% of the industry’s market share, you cannot expect every film to perform in this way, even when you forcibly craft them around pre-existing properties andWarnernostalgia.Bros. is clearly attempting to imitate Disney’s model, especially with their superhero properties, but this is not what the industry needs or the people want. The DC branch of the studio was just starting to shape up to provide creative and unique takes on the genre, providing things that Marvel Studios weren’t, with films like “The Suicide Squad,” “The Batman” and “Joker” in recent years. While not crafting an insufferably precise universe, they were providing films that were more driven by creative freedom among their filmmakers. But with the shift in leadership and the decision for “Batgirl”, this exciting era is quickly being snuffed out. While many hope “Batgirl” will still somehow make its way into the light in some form, this will likely go down as a cornerstone moment for the streaming industry and the superhero genre at large. With direct to streaming films having budgets nearing $90 million, and shows like “Stranger Things” and the upcoming “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” nearing or exceeding $300 million per-season budgets, it’s also becoming a clearly unsustainable model.The industry’s focus on making every release be tied to already popular properties, creates an expectation for the releases to be huge moments that everyone needs to stop and watch. But when these “events” happen three times a month, the market becomes oversaturated, and each subsequent release becomes less and less exciting. And when companies like Warner Bros. make it clear that these projects, no matter how seemingly massive, can be cast out in a moment’s notice, it’s hard to be optimistic. Staff reporter Zaden Dennis can be reached at zdennis@dailyegyptian.com and you can find his other reviews at letterboxd.com/Zadenator. for
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“People can take a lot of time, or they can take a little bit,” Cahill said. “But if you force somebody to go quicker that isn’t ready, I’m more likely to see them again in a few months and it can be just as bad as not helping at all.”
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Anna Wintour is 72 years old and manages to still keep people on their toes in the fashion world for her expert eye. Something you can blame the youth for is continuing to feed into the capitalistic world we live in, and continuing to give money to greedy corporations. We contribute to the global crisis just as much as the older generations, as we all have wasting issues, buying clothes that are only going to last until you lift your arm too high and you pop a rip in the armpit, but with fabric so cheap it would be easier to just throw it out rather than mendThereit. will always be a great divide between the generations, over anything!
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Continued from 6 “When they see we’re doing something, all of a sudden everybody wants everything under the sun,” she said jokingly. The others nod their head in agreement, sharing a few jokes before focusing back in. “But, in all seriousness, we get people from all over the Southern Illinois region,” Cahill said. “We’ve really had people from all over. We had one woman who came from Montana because family said she and her infant son could stay with them, but then she got here and they were just as bad off as she was.” The look on her face drops a little as she remembers but picks back up almost instantly.
I still twiddle my thumbs in anticipation of leaving while some old folks talk my ear off. And I am quite positive that most of them roll their eyes as I talk about my views and question them. That’s just life. I feel as if that is human instinct though, to break away from old teachings and ways. Times change, hemlines shoot up and down, but grandmothers and old folks alike will always have something to say.
While the center provided the mother a place to stay, she was able to get on her feet again, according to Cahill. She began attending GED classes, got a job and moved on to secure her own apartment from there.
“It may sound weird, but some people come to the shelter to heal, and that takes time,” she said. “It’s traumatic, and we accept there’s trauma from other events, but we don’t look at that as trauma as a society even though that disrupts the safety and security that you feel you can offer yourself or your family.”Cahill said the most important thing the CWC gives people is a place to gather their strength and connect with local resources to move forward with their life but making sure that takes place in the appropriate timeframe for them.
The group begins to shift a bit as Wright starts gathering her belongings to spend time with her grandchildren before they move to Texas the next day. Cahill and Pierce start organizing the office to prepare for the eventuality of their use while some downtime still exists. The day wraps up for all three as the sun begins to set. The air begins to cool and the residents start trickling their way into the building to prepare for the coming meal. Each one has a safe, healthy place to stay thanks to Cahill and her employees.
There is a great divide between generations when it comes to anything, and the one I deal with the most would be fashion. I always find myself trying to be a median for both sides, as I can understand them. Older people complain about the clothing of the youth and its lack of taste and modesty, and the younger generation, most of the time, winces at some things that older folks get off the rack at the local Cato. They don’t understand each other, and can you blame them? I shall not blame the older generation for having such a problem with today’s fashions and clothing. Most of them remember the days when clothes were, for the most part, sustainable and made of more quality materials. Most older women remember either making their clothes, or having them altered to fit. Clothing that is now deemed vintage is usually made of better, long-lasting materials. People used to take care of their clothes, being careful to keep them in good shape and mending them when needed. I will blame them for the not so ideal beauty standards that were set for us. The small degrading remarks many of them make about weight and things that people cannot control are astounding and out of pocket, but oh so common. I blame them for capri pants and making suntanning a melanomaSomethingcatastrophe.important to note here is that my generation has never truly seen quality clothing on the rack in our lifetime. I am sure many could argue this, but with where we are at this stage of capitalism and with the cheapest options of anything and everything you could ever want just at our fingertips, companies have decided in the last twenty years to start producing things at a lower quality. There is a mighty difference between a well made antique piece of furniture that took craftsmanship and working hands to make and something produced for barely a few bucks by IKEA. People used to save for months for the nicest things, and cherish them forever. Now they would rather buy the cheapest thing, but have to replace it more often than others because of the lack of quality. One cannot blame the youth for having poor taste if the designers that are giving them to us and making them popular are mostly women of a certain age. If the girls are wearing not enough clothing and the boys look sloppy, that is probably because someone higher up in the fashion world has approved it, and the higher ups are not only in status, but also in age.
Staff reporter William Box can be reached at wbox@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ William17455137.
I consider myself a pretty “in the know” person when it comes to fashion. Although I don’t always dress the part, I try to keep myself up to date on the latest trends and what is walking down the runways. Not often do I get shocked by something that someone is wearing, as I have either seen it before, or have tried something similar, but nothing prepared me for what I was going to see on this occasion.Iattended a birthday party for a family member recently, and everything was wonderful. The food was delicious, the atmosphere was great, and everyone was having fun, until one of the newest trends waltzed its way through the doors of the Knights of Columbus.
“I can see her nipple rings,” I muttered through my teeth to my sister, as everyone’s eyes in the joint made their way to this girl’s chest. As soon as the words left my mouth, that little voice in my head told me it wasn’t very nice. I am all for bold choices and trying something new, but I still got so shocked. Why? Since over-analyzing everything on earth is a frequent pastime of mine, of course I really beat myself up over initially passing judgment on someone for simply expressing themselves. Why, that is exactly what most of the people I walk past everyday do to me. I picked on myself about it for days, as any good Catholic lets guilt eat them away to nothing. I even tried pinning it on my religious upbringing, which could be partly to blame, but I really wanted a better, more forgiving reason that I was flabbergasted at the sight of someone’s piercings making themselves known to theIfroom.youunderstand what it’s like to be an outsider to the world, you would be able to comprehend my childhood. Most kids didn’t talk to me because I only spoke about Judy Garland and quoted the musical “Anything Goes.” Do you know who loved me though? Old women. I remember being a little boy and sitting up at my father’s barbershop, just gabbing away at the old Bettys that were getting their weekly wash and set. My eyes gleamed as they achieved their bouffant hairdos, and quite honestly complained about everything they could imagine. They helped shape my style into what it is now. My grandmother is not like most women of her age. Maws plays bunco with her gals, and is even part of a rug hooking club called the “The Happy Hookers,” but she wouldn’t be caught dead in a cat sweater. She has continued to evolve her fashion, and strays away from fads and fashion trends of the youth. She has an amazingly trained eye for good things, and can pick out a quality piece of clothing, or antique, from a pile of crap. If there is any person’s opinion in the world that I respect and look forward to, it would be this woman’s. While standing in an antique store in Paducah, Kentucky, on an excursion with my aunts and grandma, I noticed my grandmother’s eyebrows raise. If you know her, you know that this is her unaware, thinking face. She was staring at a woman standing at the counter of an antique store full of primitive and colonial decor, all priced at whopping numbers, wearing hot pink short shorts and a neon tank top. As I stood in what I can only describe as Little House on the Prairie, I knew what was on the docket when we got to the car.
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“That woman did not look too good,” my Maws declared while buckling her seatbelt and gesturing to the woman in the hot pink shorts who was now outside loading a literal washboard into her minivan. We all giggled in agreement and moved on. There would be nothing wrong with the outfit to some, but athleisure is not something in Maw’s vocabulary. She was right, as she usually is. I would compare her style in clothing to the incredible Martha Stewart, usually in staple pieces and neutral tones, all while donning a pair of “cloud steppers.”
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“She called here, and I asked if she could get here and she did. The next day we went and got the baby’s stuff and we started working with them,” she said.
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On March 15, Saluki athletics announced Roberts’s hiring as the second-ever women’s soccer coach in program history. Roberts previously was a head coach at Grambling State, Ball State, and UT Martin, accumulating a record of 150-92-45 in 15 “Craigseasons.has an impressive track record in building soccer programs at other institutions and has demonstrated a strong commitment to student-athlete development,” interim Athletic Director Matt Kupec said at the time of hiring.
On November 2, 2019, the Saluki soccer team walked off the field at Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex having won its fifth game in program history against the visiting California Baptist Lancers. It was the final game of the inaugural season for the women’s soccer program, a campaign that ended with a 5-10-2 record. Three years later, the team is still searching for its sixth Whatwin.followed that first year became a string of seasons to forget. The 2020 season was postponed to the next spring, and ended with an 0-6-3 record with only one goal scored all year. Most recently, SIU finished 0-15-1 in fall 2021, extending its winless streak to 26 games. The tough stretch for Saluki soccer came with a few asterisks. The COVID-shortened 2020-21 season forced SIU to play a tough schedule, almost exclusively facing established Missouri Valley Conference opponents. The team then faced a quick turnaround of only a few months before the next year, which was its worst yet record-wise. As the 2022 season kicks off, the team looks to put that stretch of futility in the past, as it enters the Craig Roberts era.
Although no longer a brand new program, SIU women’s soccer continues to face the challenge of building a team from the ground up. With a new coaching staff, it gets a fresh start at that process.
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“It’s a brand new start with inheriting this program,” Roberts said. “We’ve laid down a lot of new values, a lot of new standards, expectations, and also trying to implement the environment that we want — definitely a family, wellconnected team. We have a sisterhood within the team.”Before a team can start winning, it needs to establish a good culture. Emphasizing togetherness, the team might be facing an uphill battle, but the results they have from this season onward will be won or lost together.
“I feel like everybody’s on their toes, myself included,” junior forward McKensey Bunch said. “Everybody’s ready to go, especially with the new coaching staff bringing all of the new material to the table… I think we’re ready to just dive in and get to Thework.”firstgame of the year, the home opener against Lindenwood, saw the Salukis face a familiar result: a 2-0 shutout. While the score was not to be desired, the play on the field represented the first step of what will be a long process for the team to dig itself out of rock bottom. “Our focus has got to be on taking the positives out of each game,” Roberts said. “For 60 or 70 minutes of this game, we took a lot of positives out of the game and what we’re going to do now is dissect the last 30 minutes and just make sure that we correct those mistakes.”
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SIU Women’s soccer team coach, Craig Roberts, watches his team as he coaches the first game of the season at the Lew Hartzog Field Aug. 18, 2022 in Carbondale, Ill.
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Saluki soccer will face a tough task on the road against Missouri on Thursday, before returning to Carbondale for a three-game homestand beginning on September 1 with Alabama A&M. Staff reporter Brandyn Wilcoxen can be reached at bwilcoxen@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ BrandynWilcoxen new era begins for Saluki soccer under coach Craig Roberts
“I talked to some of my teammates recently and we’ve said it feels like a breath of fresh air. Finally, we’re getting the coach we know we deserve,” Dodd said. According to Dodd, Roberts has the women participate in more team-bonding activities. He believes their play on the field will improve if the team plays for each other.
Southern Illinois plays Incarnate Word for its first game of the season on Saturday, September 3. The following week, the Salukis play rival Southeastern Missouri State. If there is a game the team has circled, it’s War of the Wheel weekend. The heated rivalry runs deep between the two teams. SIU won last year’s contest with little trouble, and they hope for a similar result this“That’syear. always a big game for us. It’s a game we always want to go out and win so we can use it as a kickstart,” Combs said. The Salukis’ women’s soccer team was first to compete this season. The Dawgs faced Lindenwood on Thursday, Aug. 18, at home and lostIn2-0.the past two seasons, SIU women’s soccer left something to be desired, not winning a single game in the 2020 or 2021 season. However, after last year’s disappointing season, SIU decided to fire Grant Williams and begin a coaching search. That led SIU to Grambling State’s Head Coach Craig Roberts. Junior forward Sam Dodd said Roberts has been the light at the end of the tunnel for the Salukis.
“What’s best is a mix of [upperclassmen and underclassmen] and we just didn’t have that last year. We have a better balance this year, so we should do better,” Garcia said. Garcia said the team made serious changes this off-season to improve multiple facets of their game.“Our ball control is much better this year. The new players that have come in should help us a lot,” Garcia said. Whether it’s two teams hoping to recover the status of their programs, or one that has to face the wrath of lofty confidence from fans, each athlete believe they have the talent and guidance for them to go the distance at Southern Illinois.
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The Salukis are back on the field and on the court this fall, and each team has its own goals for the upcoming season. With a new athletic director at the helm, Tim Leonard, all teams hope to positively represent SIU athletics thisSoonsemester.enough, SIU football will make their re-appearance on September 3rd with hopes of making a deep run into the playoffs thisLastseason.season,
“We know we haven’t had a whole lot of success in previous years, but this year it actually feels like we have a shot to win the conference,” Dodd said.The SIU women’s soccer team isn’t the only group that hopes to boast a culture change. Last year, the Southern Illinois volleyball team ended the season on an abysmal 0-19 run. The Salukis didn’t manage a single conference win. That being said, senior hitter Nataly Garcia thinks the team has reached its turning point.
Dodd said those activities include; spending time at Campus Lake, a team-only talent show, and spending nearly every meal together.Thecoaching change seems to have had an impact, as the Salukis won every single exhibition in the spring pre-season as well as their one exhibition in the fall. Dodd said there is a belief system with this team that she hasn’t felt before.
“In the past it felt like it was more about individual performances, but now you can feel a shift,” Dodd said. “Off the field, we have been doing all sorts of team bonding.”
“Regardless of who we’re playing, what our ranking is, or what we did the week before; it’s a new week and a new opponent. We know they’re going to play their best which is why we need to bring our best on the field,” Combs said. The players want to get off to a hot start like they did last year, and they hope to continue that success through the late months. It may be tougher this year, due to the fact that SIU has to play FCS powerhouses like Incarnate Word, #1 North Dakota State, and #21 Northern Iowa this year. “We’ve shown in the last couple of years that we can beat anybody. That’s a good feeling obviously and it’s good that this team has that experience,” Combs said.
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Southern Illinois started its FCS schedule going 6-0 and climbed as high as #3 in the FCS power rankings. However, the Salukis finished the season going 2-4, and sophomore linebacker Branson Combs said the team got too“Wecomfortable.sawsome success and became too satisfied as to where we were,” Combs said.
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Southern Illinois opens this preseason as the #9 team in the FCS, according to NCAA.com. Combs said the Dawgs feel no pressure with the subsequent increase in expectations.Thisyear, the emphasis will be on blocking out a lot of the outside noise. SIU football wants to take each week one at a time while getting better in the process.
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“It just feels so different. This year, it’s just a different vibe. We are very positive,” Garcia said. Last year’s club was critically young. The dawgs couldn’t match the experience that other teams brought to the court. SIU boasted multiple starting underclassmen, which could have been a reason behind the struggling record. But now, Garcia said, the team has felt its trials and tribulations, which will help the players succeed.
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