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VOL. 103, ISSUE 29
WEDNESDAY, september 23, 2020
SIU Board of Trustees approves tuition waivers for low-income students
Local flower shops struggle due to COVID-19 Page 3
Saluki Unity sponsors a run / walk event for social injustice Page 5
Dustin Clark | @dustinclark.oof
Danny Connolly | @DConnollyTV
The SIU Board of Trustees met Thursday via Zoom and approved the SIU System Commitment plan to attract low-income students by fully covering their tuition. In order to be eligible for the waiver, students need to come from a family with an annual income of $63,575 and have less than $50,000 in assets determined by FAFSA. “A high priority of this board has been to provide higher education access to all, without regard to age, race, gender or economic status,” J. Phil Gilbert, chair of the SIU board of Trustees, said. “I think what we’re doing here as a system is going a long way in providing that access to everyone who wants a college education.” These tuition waivers are designed to cover everything left after financial aid such as Pell grants and state grants, for all four years. The grants cover mandatory fees and tuition, they do not cover other costs including housing, course costs,
and textbooks. “Once they get need from all those other places, the institution will cover whatever’s remaining on their tuition and mandatory fees,” President of the SIU system, Dan Mahony said. In order to be eligible for the tuition waivers, students must also be from Illinois, attend a high school in Illinois and apply before the priority deadline of March 1. The SIU System Commitment will be offered to freshmen in fall 2021 at both the Edwardsville and Carbondale campuses. SIUE will also be test-optional starting in Fall 2021 for both admission and scholarship. SIUC went testoptional last year for admission and will not require a standardized tests for scholarship placement. At the meeting, SIU approved its budget for the year, including a 6% budget cut. “It is our intention to balance our budget again this year. In order to do that, we will implement a budget cut
of six percent of general operating cuts,” Vice Chancellor for Finance and SIUC Budget Director, Judy Marshall said. Chancellor Austin Lane said that the cuts will be made through lapped salaries and reallocation of departments in the reserve. “The governor has asked state agencies to prepare for an additional 5% cut,” Gilbert said. “We’re doing the best that we can with what we have.” Marshall said SIU housing is losing $1.2 million in revenue by not allowing students to return for the two weeks after finals. Marshall said Saluki Athletics is working to cut $3 million in FY 2021. “We are aware of the challenges associated with the athletic program and will work towards a current solution,” Marshall said.
COVID-19 rules, restrictions impact local tattoo shops Page 7
Women for Change continues to Staff reporter Danny Connolly can be reached at danieljconnolly17@gmail. com or on Twitter at @DConnollyTV
help community amid pandemic Page 9
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SIUC releases its Underrepresented Groups Report Danny Connolly | @DConnollyTV
At the Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday SIU announced its minority enrollment numbers and said their goal is to hire more diverse tenure-track faculty members. All three SIU schools released their Underrepresented Groups Report at the meeting and announced efforts to promote more racial diversity. The Underrepresented Groups Report is an annual report on the demographics of racial minorities and students with disabilities in higher education. All Illinois public colleges and universities make this report that is then presented to the governor and General Assembly by the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Todd Bryson, SIUC’s Associate Chancellor for Diversity, presented the report for the Carbondale campus. SIUC announced it had 216 African American freshman or transfer students and for the fall 2020 class, 25.3% of first-time students are African American, the highest percentage since 2016. “I’d like to note African Americans comprise just 14.6% of the Illinois population,” Bryson said. Overall, minority enrollment is at 27.6%, up 0.4% from last year. This does not include international students, who make up 8.1% of the student body, Bryson said. In fall 2019, 7.1% of faculty and staff were African American. “We have long noted that a large percentage of our faculty and staff demographics are not where we want them to be,” Bryson said. “We know this does not reflect our student body and often leads to students who find barriers in finding a faculty or staff member who best understands them.” SIU is hoping to hire 25 tenure-track faculty members and their goal for fall 2021 is that 20% of tenure track professors will be African American, and 30% overall will be from underrepresented groups. “We are confident that if we are intentional about creating a workforce that better matches our diversity and population, we will achieve this goal,” Bryson said. SIUE also announced it has the most racially diverse class of new and transfer students in their institution’s history. “This is an intentional effort that the SIU system under the leadership of Dr. Mahony is making.” Ed Hightower, vice chair of the SIU Board of Trustees, said. “It’s very good to see.” Staff reporter Danny Connolly can be reached at danieljconnolly17@gmail.com or on Twitter at @DConnollyTV.
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Flower shops struggle during global pandemic Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis
Local flower shops are doing all that they can to stay afloat after several months of cancelled events. Jerry Brooks, owner of Jerry’s Flower Shoppe in Carbondale, said sales went down right when everything closed in March and they have been trying to recover since. “When the governor closed so many businesses down it was devastating,” Brooks said. “It was our prime spring season of the year and lost all of those holidays.” According to Brooks, he and his employees sometimes wouldn’t even go into work because they had nothing to come in for. At one point in early spring, they stayed home for a period of ten days, then returned to work in April with a bit of business. “It was just daily things. People sending other people flowers for various occasions,” Brooks said. “Things like ‘Hope you get through this,’ and ‘Get well’ and anniversaries.” Brooks said at first, they weren’t allowed to deliver flowers to hospitals, but now they can as long as they have their temperatures taken and go through a symptom screening process. Brooks started the flower shop when he was 21 years old with the help of his parents, and has been in Carbondale for 55 years. The only other time something like this had affected his business was when a series of riots broke out in Carbondale back in the 1970s, around Mother’s Day. “Well, we’re doing pretty good right now we’re back up in sales comparable for the same time last year,” Brooks said. “There’s just so much that went down the drain in the meantime that it’s difficult to recover the recoup and try to get everything caught up.” Steve Conder, owner of Weller the Florist, has been operating his business for 40 years and said nothing like this has ever affected his business before. The small amount of business he did get was for birthdays, since people couldn’t see their families at parties. But, Conder said Mother’s Day was rough since senior citizen homes wouldn’t take his flowers with the fear of spreading COVID-19 through them. “We couldn’t deliver there because they were afraid our flowers had COVID,” Conder said. “So people [were] going a little over extreme on it and after people start to know what the thing [COVID-19] is, then we started getting our business slowly coming back.” At first, when Conder would make his deliveries, he would leave their arrangement on the porch and call them to let them know it’s there, eliminating face-to-face interaction
with any customers. Now he can make deliveries with face masks on. Conder said at the beginning of the pandemic, similar to Brooks, he didn’t go into the shop for several days following Gov. JB Pritzker’s state-wide stay at home orders, and if he did he would make the deliveries and go right back home. Conder runs his business by himself, and he said this has put a lot of stress on him, even to the point of affecting his health. “It was very stressful. I ended up having a stroke,” Conder said. “I don’t think it was because of COVID; there were other things that led up to it. But that was a lot of stress.” Conder said he was up three percent in sales from January to February, and in March sales dropped 87 percent, and he has been trying to recover the best he can. Conder predicts that it will take a year and a half to recover for what he lost. Emily Smith is one of the owners of the family business Cinnamon Lane Flowers and Gifts that has been in Murphysboro since 2008; and as the pandemic’s impacts on businesses grew more serious, their business started slowing down. “We were still good as far as business went, we were scared. Just kind of nervous about what was going to happen,” Smith said. “But as far as the business aspect, we were still good, we were still getting a lot of orders and so that didn’t really affect us very much.” Smith said as business slowed down during the spring and early summer, it started to affect their revenue, especially around fall time when Murphysboro would have their annual apple festival. “I had a couple with a private small wedding ceremony that they just bought flowers in bulk or they just had the bridal bouquet and that was it,” Smith said. “But it wasn’t near as much as what we would usually have. So, we’re definitely feeling a great loss.” Smith said she can’t predict when the business will recover from their debt; they’re just hoping for the best and that business will start to come back over time. Cinnamon Lane Flowers and Gifts remains active on their Facebook page as well, updating customers with videos and photos of their arrangements available for sale. “I’m just trying to stay as positive as possible and waiting for things to get back to normal if they ever get back to normal,” Smith said. “We’ve not been able to get plants through COVID. I think we’ll definitely recover, it will just take some time.” Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @jamilahlewis.
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Jerry Brook arranges flowers into a vase before it goes out on a delivery on Sept. 17, 2020, at Jerry’s Flowers in Carbondale, ILL. Ana Luiza Jacome | @aluizaphotography
Jerry Brook adds finishing touches on an arrangement before it is delivered to a local customer on Sept. 17, 2020, at Jerry’s Flowers in Carbondale, ILL. Ana Luiza Jacome | @aluizaphotography
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61 SIU Carbondale students placed in quarantine or isolation on campus in August Rana Schenke | rschenke@dailyegytpian.com
Since Aug. 9, 110 students were placed in quarantine and 34 students were placed in isolation in SIU Housing, according to information obtained by the Daily Egyptian through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Daily Egyptian previously reported 48 students were quarantined and 13 students were placed in isolation in the month of August, based on data from a previous FOIA request. New data obtained indicates between Sept. 1 through 19, 62 students were placed in quarantine and 21 students were placed in isolation in university housing. According to the CDC, people who have had close contact with someone with COVID-19 are placed in quarantine, while people who are sick or have tested positive for COVID-19 (with or without symptoms) are placed in isolation. No students were placed in quarantine or isolation in university housing Aug. 1–8, so the data from August spans 23 days. In that time, 61 students were placed in quarantine or isolation, with 79% of them in quarantine and 21% in isolation. The September data spans 19 days, and in that time, 83 students were placed in quarantine or isolation, with 75% of them in quarantine and 25% in isolation.
Since Aug. 9, 144 students have been placed in quarantine or isolation in SIU Housing, with 76% of them being in quarantine and 24% being in isolation. The 83 quarantines and isolations in the 19-day September time span make up 58% of the total amount, while the August instances, over 23 says, make up 42%. Between Sept. 1 and Sept. 5, 26 students were placed in quarantine and seven students were placed in isolation in university housing. In its Sept. 2 report of active cases associated with campus, SIU reported nine active cases on campus. SIU’s weekly reports include all active cases, not only new cases. The numbers received in the FOIA request of students quarantining/isolating include only students who were newly placed in quarantine/isolation for that week. Additionally, the quarantine/isolation data is broken down by weeks starting on Sundays, while the weekly active case report is released every Wednesday. These differences in reporting methods may account for discrepancies between the active on-campus cases and students newly placed in isolation. In the following week, Sept. 6 through 12, nine students were placed in quarantine and five were placed in isolation.
of students Quarantine & # 30 Isolation Rates 27 24 at SIU Fall 2020 21 18 “According to the CDC, people who have had close contact with someone with COVID-19 are placed in quarantine, while people who are sick or have tested positive for COVID-19 (with or without symptoms) are placed in isolation.”
Information obtained by the Daily Egyptian through a Freedom of Information Act request.
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On Sept. 9, SIU reported nine active on-campus cases. Between Sept. 13 and 19, 27 students were quarantined and nine were placed in isolation. SIU’s latest weekly report, released on Sept. 16, listed five active on-campus cases. The next report is set to release Sept. 23. According to the August data, from Aug. 9 to 15, the week before classes began, two students were placed in quarantine and one was placed in isolation. In the first week of classes, Aug. 16 through 22, 15 students were placed in quarantine and two were placed in isolation. On Aug. 20, SIU released the first report on active cases associated with campus and did not report any active on-campus cases. The following week, Aug. 23 through 29, 28 students were placed in quarantine and six students were placed in isolation. On Aug. 26, the weekly active cases reported by SIU included three active on-campus cases. In the two days ending the month, Aug. 30 and 31, three students were placed in quarantine and four were placed in isolation. SIU currently does not publicly release quarantine numbers. Managing Editor Rana Schenke can be reached at rschenke@ dailyegyptian.com
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Saluki Unity sponsors a run / walk event for social injustices
Saluki Unity, a student-athlete led group, sponsored a Run/Walk event on Saturday, Sept. 19 at the Banterra Center at SIU to bring awareness to social injustices and systematic racism in the United States and helped raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Illinois. “With everything that’s been going on in the country [...] every team has come together. This is an opportunity for everyone to show what Salukis’ athletics is all about, which is diversity, unity, togetherness. There’s not a place for racism,” SIU head football coach, Nick Hill said. Athletes from different sport teams at SIU came out to show their support. “I’m here to support the social injustices and everything that is happening in this country. I’m here to show my support and be a voice to the community who don’t have a voice,” Kyra Hunter, a SIU volleyball player said.
Kyra Hunter, SIU volleyball player, walks among other student-athletes at SIU during the Run/Walk event put on by the Saluki Unity on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at SIU. Hunter wears a face mask with “I can’t breathe,” a phrase that is associated with the Black Lives Matter movement as it has been a phrase used by victims of police brutality. Hunt said, “I’m here to support the social injustices and everything is happening in this country. I’m here to show my support and be a voice for the community who don’t have a voice.” The Walk/Run event raised money for the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo
Photos by Jared Treece | @bisalo
A group of kids ride bikes during the Run/Walk event put on by Saluki Unity, a student-athlete led group that centers around diversity issues on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at SIU. The walk helped raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo
Above: Members of the SIU football team listen to Nick Hill as he addresses the crowd before the Run/Walk event put on by Salukis’ Unity, a student-athlete led organization on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at SIU. The event also helped raise funds for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Illinois. Tina Carpenter, CEO of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southern Illinois says, “It’s a win-win. It’s a win for the athletic department and the university and it’s a win for us. Bringing the awareness and visibility to what we do is important.” Jared Treece | @bisalo
Right: A few furry friends participated during the Run/Walk event put on by Saluki Unity, a studentathlete led group that centers around diversity issues on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at SIU. The walk helped raise money for the Boys and Girls Club of Southern Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo
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‘It takes a university’
Administrators discuss fall enrollment numbers, strategies Rana Schenke | @dailyegyptian
This fall, SIU’s enrollment numbers showed a 2.8% drop from last year. Despite the continued decline in enrollment, SIU’s director of undergraduate admissions, John Frost, said he was extremely pleased with this year’s numbers, since the university was expecting the numbers to be down between eight and 10 percent. “For us to be only down 2.8% in a pandemic, I mean come on, [...] that was a win for us, to be honest,” Frost said. Frost was appointed as admissions director in March 2020. He previously worked in the broadcast journalism field, but transitioned to higher education when he became a recruiter. He moved on to hold administrative positions in admissions at different universities before coming to SIU. Frost said he was also excited about this fall’s increases in firsttime college students and students from southern Illinois. First-time college student enrollment increased 31.2% to 1,361 students, and 202 first-time students (including transfers) are from the southern Illinois area, a 32.9% increase, according to an enrollment fact sheet provided by SIU’s chief communications officer, Rae Goldsmith. This year also saw an increase in the freshman-to-sophomore retention rate, which currently stands at a 20year high of 80.6%, according to the enrollment fact sheet. SIU chancellor Austin Lane, also in his first year at the university, attributed the retention rate increase to face-to-face initiatives held before the pandemic, as well as faculty working with students.
“Now we’re going to have to do whatever we did times two because of the pandemic,” Lane said. “Every support service that we have on campus, every, whether it’s tutoring or academic support or student life, effort is going to have to be critical in helping our students move forward so that we can retain them at those rates that we’re seeing now.” Lane attributed the overall enrollment numbers to new strategies used this year, including the decision to make ACT/SAT scores optional. “I think test optional opened up the eyes of a few students across not only southern Illinois but across the state,” Lane said. Frost said it took all of the departments on campus working together, along with the community, to get the enrollment numbers seen this fall. “As we all have heard, it takes a village, right, but I think it takes a university,” Frost said. “It takes a university to be able to provide that experience of a community, that you have a place here in southern Illinois.” Lane said the university’s target area for recruitment is the southern Illinois region. “We really believe to increase our enrollment, we have to start at home and that means we’ve got to recruit students that are right here in our backyard,” Lane said. “Whether they’re from Carterville or Carbondale or Murphysboro or Marion, [...] you name it, all the way up to Nashville or Carlisle. We’ve got to claim this area as ours.” Lane said SIU will be launching a partnership with Carbondale Elementary School District superintendent Daniel Booth to start forming connections with local students early. “Our university is going to be
“It takes a university to be able to provide that experience of a community, that you have a place here in southern Illinois.” - John Frost SIU director of undergraduate admissions
a bridge to students as early as the third grade,” Lane said. The university will be using summer camps and STEM camps to get elementary students on campus and interested early on in different careers. Lane said SIU students will also be helping with the partnership and he will be working with leaders of registered student organizations on campus to set up reading programs with local students. “[They’re going] to read to students, to volunteer service hours to students, so it’s a two way street. We’re not just recruiting to get students, we’re trying to build relationships with those students early so they will select us in the future,” Lane said. Frost said SIU’s engagement strategy is the number one thing that gives SIU an advantage over other schools. “We’re not gonna be order takers, we’re gonna be dream makers,” Frost said. Frost said this means instead of just handing a student a pamphlet for the program they are interested in, recruiters will ask students what the program looks like for them and what they want to accomplish. “We want to get to understand who you are and what you’re looking for and make sure it’s a great fit,” Frost said. Frost said even prior to the
pandemic, the admissions office was engaging with prospective students virtually. “So when the pandemic hit it wasn’t as earth-shattering for us as it was for other people,” Frost said. “All our coordinators were already prepared to be able to engage this way.” To help increase enrollment in the future and develop strategies to do so, Lane set up an enrollment committee, chaired by Frost and Lori Stettler, vice chancellor of student affairs. The committee will be holding its first meeting Sept. 22, according to Frost. The committee is made up of around 50 members from the campus and the community, Frost said. “Enrollment is what we call mission number one at the university right now; it’s everyone’s job, we’re saying, to be a recruiter, to be a person that’s knowledgeable about how students can get into SIU,” Lane said. “It’s everyone’s role, not just the admissions director or mine.” Lane said the committee will meet frequently to strategize and monitor progress in each of the areas the committee is seeking to increase. Within the committee, there are four task forces: the enrollment funnel task force, the strategic planning task force, the community outreach and branding task force
and the internal events task force. Frost said the enrollment funnel task force will look at the student experience from initial interest in SIU to registering for classes and look at how to improve in that area. The strategic planning task force will look at planning ahead so the university is prepared to deal with situations like the current pandemic, Frost said. The community outreach and branding task force will be focused on how the university and community can work together to attract interested students. The internal events task force will be focused on utilizing campus events to get prospective and current students to enroll or stay at SIU. Lane said the committee will be holding all-university Zoom efforts later on to share the strategies being implemented and receive feedback. “Sometimes we’re the only ones that know about [our strategies] and that’s our own fault,” Lane said. “We need to be communicating our efforts to the entire community so that they can help spread the word.” Frost said he hopes to see an enrollment increase next year. “I would love to be up next year, that’s what I would love to be, but we also got to be realistic,” Frost said. “[We’ve] never been in this before, so we don’t really know what this looks like.” Frost said the university has a plan and they are looking at a possible 3% increase in freshman numbers, transfer numbers and overall enrollment. “If we can get to that 3%, we can land in a really solid place,” Frost said. Managing Editor Rana Schenke can be reached at rschenke@ dailyegyptian.com.
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COVID-19 rules, restrictions impact local tattoo shops Madison Taylor | @taylorm08
Guidelines and restrictions have been placed on businesses statewide and tattoo parlors are no exception, but local shops in Carbondale are taking different approaches to these rules. Bomber Crew, Artistic Minds and Tuff Luck Tattoo, all located in Carbondale, are all working differently but are still open and running safely. “We’re staying busy and everybody’s booked,” Dakota Dodds, an employee at Tuff Luck Tattoos said. With the limited number of people allowed in the shop Tuff Luck has lost revenue Dodds said. Owner of Artistic Minds John Beyler said business for his shop hasn’t been too badly impacted, as they haven’t had a shortage of clients. According to owner, Roger Ziegler, since reopening Bomber Crew Tattoo has had steady business, but is still taking precautions. To protect against the spread of COVID-19, Artistic Minds and Tuff Luck require customers to wear face masks, wash their hands upon entering and bring no extra guests with them.
Tuff Luck is not doing piercings right now because they want to be safe and take precautions Dodds said. All three businesses have implemented new procedures for cleaning safety. Tattoo shops are normally required by the Illinois Department of Public Health to clean instruments and work stations, but since the pandemic, cleaning for these establishments has intensified. Bomber Crew Tattoo has implemented more hand sanitizer for customers and is enforcing a mask rule. “The shop is wiped down regularly every day, every station is cleaned after every client but we’re really just implementing the mask a lot more,” Ziegler said. Artistic Minds has hand sanitizer at every desk and has free masks in case a client forgets to bring one. They also take customers’ temperatures as an extra effort. “We also use cavicide wipes or sprays to clean everything that kills up to HIV each day,” Beyler said. Besides adding extra safety precaut to shop protocol, the owners of these businesses have also provided financial help to their employees. Along with personal face shields,
Artist Minds also helped its employees by offering them extra money if they were struggling due to the pandemic. “If anybody’s down with money we help them like that just any kind of person,” Beyler said. Tuff Lucks’ owner Dustin Mendenhall also helps in the same manner. “My boss is definitely a really good guy that offered help if I needed it personally,” Dodds said. Ziegler said he encourages his employees to be healthier during this time and eat better, so their bodies can be more prepared if they do get COVID-19. “I think it’s very important for us to feel safe doing our job and for our clients to feel safe and secure when they come in,” Dodds said.
Staff reporter Madison Taylor can be reached at mtaylor@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @taylorm08
Chloe Schobert | @chlo_scho_art
Tattoo artist, Matt Stanton, rests at his booth in between appointments on Thursday Sept. 17, 2020 in Carbondale Illinois. Artistic minds is currently only taking customers by appointment on Tuesday - Saturday 12pm - 8pm. “In the new place we’ve gone to handless soap dispensers and have started social distancing. We’re appointment only too. We’ve pretty much already been doing most of the other stuff to begin with. Keeping things sterile, cleaning in between appointments, wearing masks, that kinda thing,” Stanton said. James Allen | @skyclopsphotojamboree
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Carbondale Women for Change host annual Big Event
Jessica, left, hands Margaret Chambers a bag of free seeds on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at the Red Hen community garden in Carbondale, IL during the Women for Change Big Event. “My husband is like really big in the community, trying to bring the community together, and focus on community issues. So we tend to support and do what we can do to help the community,” Chambers said. Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography
Photos by Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography On Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020, the Carbondale Women for Change group hosted their annual Big Event. The Big Event was moved to the Red Hen community garden in Carbondale, IL for the
first time and included a Unity Motorcade Parade, a tour of the Red Hen community garden, plant giveaways, free produce, and more.
Aur Beck cooks fresh, local vegetables for the Big Event attendees on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020 at the Red Hen community garden in Carbondale, IL. Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography
Above: Zylon, 8, picks out some fresh tomatoes at the “Big Event” hosted by the Carbondale Women for Change on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. During this event, fresh garden vegetables from the Red Hen garden were given out to the community. Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography Left: Volunteer, Scarlett, makes hand-picked flower bouquets from the Red Hen community garden in Carbondale, IL on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2020. The Women for Change group hosts the Big Event each year to bring the community together and reap the benefits of having a local community garden. Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography
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Campus Election Engagement Project aims to convince students to vote in November Oreoluwa Ojewuyi | @odojewuyi
As the 2020 election approaches, volunteering and voting are critical parts of the electoral process, and the Campus Election Engagement Project has been working to help get students involved in the process. CEEP is a nonpartisan election project led by SIU administrators, faculty, staff and students that focuses on student engagement in federal, state and local elections. CEEP fellows, like senior political science major Diamoneek Green, help students register to vote, learn voting rules, distribute candidate guides and hold educational programs to encourage students to get involved in elections. “It’s hard to find unbiased information quickly over the internet. As a nonpartisan organization we don’t care who you vote for, we just want to get you engaged,� Green said. Green has done research on attitudes towards voting and found there is a widespread distrust of government and overall confusion of the election process. “Voter suppression is real. I believe that if we don’t act now, and inform and engage people, the voter turnout will decrease further,� Green said. Green said younger generations have a historically lower voter turnout because of the obstacles that they face to vote. “Students have been marginalized when voting because they face so
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many obstacles with voting including out of state voting, mail in voting and absentee ballots. It’s so easy to mess up one step and not be able to vote,� Green said. Green is supervised by faculty advisor Sarah Marbes, who works at SIU’s Center for Service-Learning and Volunteerism. “When there are elections my job has to pivot and get students interested in voting,� Marbes said. Gayl Klam has been a member of the League of Women Voters (LWVJC) since the 1970s and is now the current president of the Jackson County chapter. According to Klam, the LWV looks at political issues outside of the election on state, local and national levels to help voters make informed decisions come election season. “We aim to help as much as we can to keep the electoral system of our country open to the public and help the public understand the issues that are related to the electoral system,� Klam said. The process of voter engagement has drastically changed since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Green. When the pandemic hit, CEEP and LWVJC turned to forms of no contact engagement and virtual meetings.  “The number of polling places have been reduced around the country due to the virus. I think that a lot of people are overwhelmed by the process. They
might not have the time to educate themselves on how to properly participate,â€? Green said. Voter engagement programs like CEEP and LWV have hosted candidate forums, virtual meetings, and have online spreadsheets that compare candidates, issues and platforms. The LWVJC has worked alongside CEEP to figure out how to register voters in accordance to Coronavirus safety precautions. “I created 150 posters with CEEP who had housing distribute them across the SIU campus. Each of these posters had a QR code on it. They can scan the code and it will take them directly to the state site that will help them register to vote,â€? Klam said. According to Marbes, in the 2016 election, only 70% of students who registered to vote actually cast their ballot. Marbes hopes students will take the next step and actually vote in the 2020 election.Â
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“It’s an act of democracy because you are personally shaping your government and it’s choices. Voting is one huge way to take action,� Marbes said. Green said she aims to see political change at SIU, with the university joining a research program called the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE). “It provides feedback on students’ voter participation and discusses the campus climate for political learning and engagement. It also reports correlations between student learning experiences and voting,� Green said. The goal of NSLVE is to provide the university with information about their students’ voting habits. “We need to be cognizant that students will only be here for four years and we want them to take their experiences at university into the world. Young people have a lot more political power than we think, when
we use it people will respect us,â€? Green said. Gayle said if young people opt out of voting in elections, a whole point of view has lost its representation. “We all come into elections with a slightly different point of view. Young people have common backgrounds and interests because of the culture they grow up in. They bring a different feeling toward things then do other generations,â€? Klam said. Voting is a critical part of democracy, the root of democracy is at the local level and works its way to the federal level according to Green. Potential voters who are interested in learning more about candidates, issues, and platforms can access nonpartisan information on the CEEP website at campusselect.org Reporter Oreoluwa Ojewuyi can be reached at oojewuyi@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @odojewuyi.Â
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Analysis: RBG’s successor could push the Supreme Court to end abortion rights and Obamacare David G. Savage | Tribune News Service
The death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg could allow legal conservatives to take full control of the Supreme Court for a decade or more, imposing a historic shift to the right with vast implications for U.S. jurisprudence and society at large. A conservative court could use its majority to overturn Roe vs. Wade, which guarantees a woman’s right to abortion, and strike down Obamacare and its promise of health insurance for millions, including those with preexisting conditions. A more conservative court would be likely to strike down affirmative action laws and many current gun control regulations, possibly including laws in California that limit the carrying of firearms in public or restrict the sale of semiautomatic rifles. After decades of frequent 5-4 decisions that kept a relative balance in major court rulings, a decisive 6-3 conservative majority also could stand in the way of future progressive legislation from Congress. President Donald Trump said Saturday he expects to nominate a new justice next week to succeed Ginsburg and it “most likely” will be another woman. He predicted the necessary Senate hearings and confirmation vote will go “very quickly,” although he did not offer a timeline. If Democrats score big wins in November and capture the Senate, they are likely to press ahead in Congress with proposals to expand social programs and put new taxes and regulation on corporations and the wealthy. But even if passed into law, those measures will face legal challenges from the right. In the past, it was often said the future of the Supreme Court depended on the outcome of the presidential election. The winner of White House would have four years to fill vacant seats on the court. But in this presidential election year, conservatives could win a lock on the Supreme Court for a generation even if Trump is soundly defeated by Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The outcome will turn on whether Senate Republicans will march in line behind Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to confirm a conservative jurist by the end of the year. That’s far from certain, but Trump is hoping to make it a reality. The Supreme Court now has five Republican appointees who lean right, and none appears likely to retire anytime soon. The youngest, Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, is 53, and the eldest, Justice Clarence Thomas, is 72. Liberals breathed easier this summer when Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who is 65, joined with Ginsburg and the court’s other liberals to strike down a Louisiana abortion law, to block Trump’s repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for young immigrants known as Dreamers, and to uphold rights for LGBTQ employees. In doing so, the chief justice sent the message that he wanted to steer the court on a middle course and avoid a sharp turn to the right. That meant the retirement of moderate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy in July 2018, and the Senate confirmation three months later of the more conservative Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, 55, have had little effect on the
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court’s direction so far. But if Trump can replace the liberal Ginsburg with a solidly conservative jurist in her 40s, the court would have five reliably conservative votes without the chief justice. That would cast doubt on the future of Roe vs. Wade, the abortion ruling that has been a target of the conservative legal movement since the 1980s. At least half a dozen Republican-led states have adopted laws to ban some or nearly all abortions, hoping to force the more conservative Supreme Court to reconsider its precedent. So far those laws have been struck down or put on hold. But that could change at any time. Trump has also put dozens of new conservatives on U.S. appeals courts, including in the South and the Midwest. If one of those courts were to uphold a state abortion ban, it would send the issue to the Supreme Court and force the justices to decide whether to uphold or strike down the right to abortion. Ginsburg’s death has also raised new doubts about the future of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, the most far-reaching social legislation in a generation. The Supreme Court’s conservatives fell one vote short in 2012 of striking down the law. On Nov. 10, a week after the election, the justices are scheduled to hear a constitutional challenge to the healthcare law that was widely seen as a long shot.
A conservative judge in Texas and a 2-1 appeals court ruling in New Orleans adopted the notion that the entire law may be voided as unconstitutional because Congress in 2017 voted to eliminate the penalty for not having insurance. This was seen as a victory by conservatives, including Trump, because it effectively ended the much disputed “mandate” to have insurance. The challengers, including Trump’s lawyers, argue that the mandate was crucial to the law and that all of it -- including the protections for people with preexisting conditions -- must fall with it. The case is called California vs. Texas because California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is leading the blue states’ defense of the law. The Trump administration has taken the side of the red-state challengers led by Texas. Until Friday, that challenge looked highly doubtful, since Chief Justice Roberts and the four liberal justices had voted twice to uphold the law. But Ginsburg’s death could lead to a 4-4 split, which would have the effect of upholding the lower-court ruling. A more conservative court likely would also target some gun control laws. For the last decade, the Supreme Court has said that Americans have a right to keep a gun at home for self-defense, but the justices have refused to go further and hear Second Amendment challenges to laws in California and elsewhere that limit the carrying of firearms in public or restrict the sale of
semiautomatic rifles. Four of the conservative justices have signaled they would like to hear challenges to those laws, but Roberts has balked. A strengthened conservative court could also put in jeopardy affirmative action policies in colleges and universities nationwide. This comes as California voters weigh Proposition 16 and decide whether to repeal the state’s 1996 ban on affirmative action. Roberts has long believed the government may not use race as a factor for awarding benefits or making other decisions, including the drawing of electoral districts. He has not won a majority for that view, however. In 2016, shortly after Justice Antonin Scalia died, Kennedy joined with the liberal justices to uphold an affirmative action policy at the University of Texas. That defeat did not end the battle. The same challengers who sued Texas launched a lawsuit against Harvard University alleging its admissions office regularly discriminates against Asian American applicants. Regardless of the outcome in the federal courts in Boston, that case will be appealed to the Supreme Court, giving the court’s conservatives another opportunity to strike down affirmative action.
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SIU Football returning to field
Staff Report
On Sept. 21, SIU football announced via Twitter that it would be taking the field on Oct. 23 to play against Southeast Missouri State University at Saluki Stadium. The team initially announced the cancellation of the SEMO game
on Aug.14, but will now play with reduced capacity, which according to a press release from the athletics department, will be addressed at a later date. In August, the Saluki athletics department made announcements about the postponement of football
and other fall sports until the spring of 2021. Despite the Missouri Valley Football Conference voting to push its season back until spring, teams are allowed to play in up to three non-conference matchups. The game in October against SEMO
will count as a non-conference matchup for SIU. Also returning to action are the Marching Salukis who will perform at the game. Director of the Marching Salukis, George Brozak invited the 2020 members of the band to
voluntarily participate in the event via email. According to Brozak, the band will not march on the field but will instead “play socially-distanced music in place.” Start time for the game is set for 6 p.m.
Touch of Nature base camp is now back in business
Durley Thomas, 21, cleans up a life vest after being returned at Base Camp inside of the Student Recreation Center on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Ana Luiza Jacome | @aluizaphotography Janae Mosby | @mosbyj
SIU base camp is now open for business after being forced to close due to COVID-19. Located inside the Rec Center across from the west weight room, base camp rents outdoor equipment like tents for individuals to use. Assistant director of outdoor education Brian Croft said base camp will stay open all year to keep people outside. Base camp is not limited to SIU students only -- members of the community are allowed to rent equipment along with student organizations, Croft said. “People ask me what my job is and I say my job is basically to get as many people in the southern Illinois community outside,” Croft said. Because people are spending more time outdoors during the pandemic, base camp is a first-class place to find the equipment they need for their outdoor activities. “Right now our most popular items are boats, a lot of people are hitting the water, but we also do tents and stoves for camping and things like that,” Croft said. Base camp has a variety of items to rent to patrons from coolers and boats, to tents, sleeping bags and backpacks, Croft said.
According to the base camp website, other equipment available to rent are lanterns, cooking utensils and cooking sets, a dutch oven and a portable toilet. Trip-specific equipment for things like water camping and rock climbing are also available to check out. “The rental program is the best way, I think, to get people outside because gear is expensive and if you look at our prices we want to make it as inexpensive as possible,” Croft said. Base camp coordinator Max Walsh said people can rent from base camp for as long as they need the equipment. “If someone needs [equipment] for a very long time we can work something out, but typically people don’t take equipment for more than two or three days at a time,” Walsh said. Base camp also helps people plan their trips when they are not sure of what to do. “There is a lot of experience within the staff and not everyone knows what it takes to plan a safe and effective trip,” Walsh said. Base camp plans on preparing spring break trips and white water rafting trips once COVID-19 is under control. They also will have clinics like learning to stand up
Sydney Pogue, 23, fixes a kayak, one of the most rented items at Base Camp on Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Ana Luiza Jacome | @aluizaphotography
paddle board, Croft said. Due to COVID-19, the base camp has to follow certain guidelines to keep customers safe while they are renting. Social distancing rules were also put into place inside of base camp. People come in one at a time and masks are required in the building. Also, most of the interaction takes place outdoors so customers can social distance, Walsh said. All the equipment in base camp is cleaned regularly to guarantee the
safety of the customers. “Everything is getting cleaned. We’ve got a solution that the Rec center uses on all of its machinery. Every time equipment comes out it’s sprayed down entirely and it is allowed a whole week between rentals,” Walsh said. Every piece of equipment has its own type cleaning procedure to ensure it is being cleaned properly. “The outdoor industry, as a whole, really worked with all the [outdoor] programs to say this is
how you clean [equipment]. How you clean a climbing harness is different to how you clean a life jacket,” Croft said. Base camp is only open on Monday and Friday from 4-7 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m.12 p.m. in order to quarantine all the gear.
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