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Carbondale community gathers to honor the life of Breonna Taylor
VOL. 103, ISSUE 31
SIU Housing relocates RAs, makes University Hall overflow isolation unit Danny Connolly | @DConnollyTV Keaton Yates | @keatsians
Editor’s Note: The identities of some of the resident assistants in this story are anonymous and some use aliases because the RAs involved feared retaliation and losing their jobs due to University Housing’s media policy.
Michael Coleman and Jerricha Griffin lead the protesters around downtown Carbondale on Friday, Oct. 2. Around 30 people showed up at the Justice for Breonna Taylor event. Taylor, of Louisville, Ky., was killed by Louisville Metro Police Department officers as the result of a ‘no-knock warrant.’ Recently the grand jury decided that the officers would not receive any charges for Taylor’s death. Jared Treece | @bisalo Oreoluwa Ojewuyi | @odejewuyi
Demonstrators gathered on Friday for the “Justice for Breonna Taylor” protest at the Carbondale Police Department. The event was organized by SIU political science senior and community activist Michael Coleman. The march began at the Carbondale Police Station and continued along the Carbondale strip before returning to the police department. Local businesses donated gift cards, gift certificates and art to be raffled off during the event. All the proceeds from the raffle tickets will be donated to the Louisville Bail Out Fund. Coleman said he has acted as a median between the city and the public, pushing for systematic change and prompting discussions concerning institutionalized racism in Carbondale and all over the United States. “I am here today because Black women deserve more, period. They do not receive the justice and ramifications
that they deserve,” Coleman said. “I want to educate the community to let them know that Black women are mistreated on all levels and we have to do better for them.” Following the march, Coleman introduced four different speakers who expressed their feelings about social justice, Breonna Taylor and their experience as Black people and as Black women. Camille Davidson, dean of the SIU Law School, came to speak in support of her students and community. “I say to my students, you should find your passion, follow it and be zealous advocates, and tonight they are here with respect for the death of Breonna Taylor and asking for justice,” Davidson said. Davidson said her experience as a Black woman and the grand jury’s decision in Taylor’s case only made her want to fight harder for racial equality. As a lawyer, Davidson said she hopes to see a system that protects all Americans.
“I’d like to see a system where we are not so quick to criminalize everything. I believe there are many situations when the police are called and they shouldn’t be. I want a system that helps people before we punish them,” Davidson said. Dan Asonye, a second year law student at SIU, was a speaker at the event advocating for the importance of voting and police reform. “We’re here to create awareness for Breonna Taylor, for young people to get themselves involved and engage in the political process because it’s our duty,” Asonye said. Asonye then spoke on police reform. “I hope to see the end of qualified immunity. This immunity gives the police a lot of protection and leeway. As we have seen, there are cases where immunity allows officers to get away with murder,” Asonye said.
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Resident assistants in Wall and Grand and University Hall were given less than 24 hours’ notice telling them they would be relocated to accommodate isolated students who tested positive for COVID-19. The Daily Egyptian attempted to contact Jon Shaffer, the director of housing, for comment on this story four different times via email and left a message with his assistant. He did not respond as of publication deadline. According to the Housing Student Employee Agreement, housing employees are not to represent housing to the press or media unless they are told to do so directly. Because of this agreement, RAs have been told not to speak to the media and have expressed a fear of retaliation for speaking publicly to the Daily Egyptian, and have asked to remain anonymous now and in the past. An RA who asked to remain anonymous, “Mark Jones,” said most of the 16 RAs working at Wall and Grand or University Hall were notified the afternoon of Sep. 18 that they would be randomly reassigned to a different unit on campus by noon the next day. On Sept. 19, Housing assigned six RAs to continue to work at Wall and Grand, eight more will work at University Hall, and two RAs were relocated to Evergreen Terrace Apartments. “As the numbers in Jackson County were increasing, we decided it would be wise to have more isolation space available to students in the event that we needed them,” Lori Stettler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said. The RAs in University Hall will not be in direct contact with quarantined students, Stettler said.
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Kaschia Houston is a junior at SIU studying statements by Coleman. psychology and political science, and minoring in “We are all one community; we cannot progress as a sociology. community unless we all recognize the issues within our According to Coleman, Houston spoke at prior community,” Coleman said. protests for Breonna Taylor and was asked to speak again Friday evening. Staff Reporter Oreoluwa Ojewuyi can be reached at Houston said the event was an opportunity to shed oojewuyi@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @odojewuyi. light on Black women’s voices, plights and struggles. “We are at the frontline of protests but we are a footnote in history. We deserve to live in a world that doesn’t hate us because we have the audacity to exist,” Houston said. In regards to police reform, Houston said she considers herself an abolitionist. “The police system needs to be dismantled and rebuilt but as of right now, I am just hoping it can be defunded,” Houston said. Jerricha Griffin, a third year law student and president of SIU Law Social Justice Initiative, helped organize the event and acted as a speaker. Griffin said she agrees with Houston’s sentiment that Black women are often ignored by the social justice movement. “A Black man’s gender typically works in his favor, a white women’s race typically works in her favor. Feminism is nothing without womanism,” Griffin said. “Breonna Taylor’s interests are not just black women’s interests, they are human interests.” Griffin said she often feels fearful in encounters with the police. “Black is power and womanhood is power. It is because of that power that we are chained by society. They are afraid of us,” Griffin said. Griffin compared Black women’s relationship with American society with an abusive relationship. “America is the husband that beats us physically then breaks us down mentally and when those two things don’t work, America kills A protester holds a sign with the names of Black us. We are divorcing ourselves from this country people who have been victims of police brutality outside the Carbondale police station on Friday, Oct. 2, and this system,” Griffin said. The event ended with a raffle and closing in Carbondale, IL. Jared Treece | @bisalo
Co-organizer Jerricha Griffin, a law student at SIU, speaks during the Justice for Breonna Taylor event at the Carbondale police station on Friday, Oct. 2, in Carbondale, IL. Griffin spoke about the disrespect that Black women face in today’s society. Jared Treece | @bisalo
Nancy Maxwell (left), of the So. Illinois Unity Coalition and Cree Sahidah (right) of Project Human X, listen to speakers during the Justice for Breonna Taylor event at the Carbondale police station on Friday, Oct. 2, in Carbondale, IL. Local artists in the Carbondale area donated artwork to be raffled off during the event. Jared Treece | @bisalo
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A group of protesters marches towards the Pulaski County Detention Center on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, in Ullin, IL. The facility is operated by ICE and has 78 confirmed cases of COVID-19. The protest was put on by the Southern Illinois Immigrant Rights Project and Midwest Council for Civil Rights. The goal was to demand health inspections for inmates. Jared Treece | @bisalo
Protesters gather after reports of poor living conditions at detention center
George Wiebe | gwiebe@dailyegyptian.com
American prisons and detention facilities have been criticized recently for their poor response to COVID-19. The Pulaski County Board of Commissioners released a statement to the community regarding an outbreak of COVID-19 at the detention center back on April 7, leading to argument that health concerns were not being addressed within the center. The last updated report done by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care reviewing the conditions in the Pulaski County Detention Center was conducted in January, 2017. The Southern Illinois Immigrant Rights Project (SIIRP) and the Midwest Council for Civil Rights organized a rally to protest the poor living conditions at the Pulaski County Detention Center in Ullin, Illinois on Saturday. The detention center currently acts as a holding facility for individuals detained by ICE officers. According to Michelle Peeks, one of SIIRP organizers, the facilities are unsafe, with detainees not being given access to masks, and getting placed within close proximity to one another. At 11 a.m., protesters gathered outside of the detention center
where they were met by two security guards, and told not to get closer to the facility. The guards refused to make comments about the event or disclose any information. The rally began with chants led by Michelle Peek who said, “Power to the people, no one is illegal,” and “Say it once, say it twice, we will not put up with ICE.” Around 45 protesters attended the event. Once settled in, a series of speakers addressed the group. One of these speakers, Dr. Ana Migone, a Peruvian immigrant, spoke about the moral necessity to raise awareness when issues of human rights are at stake. “Indifference is the opposite of love,” Migone said. Martha Ruiz, a graduate of SIU, also spoke to the group of protesters and led in chants “Ni A protester points at the staff members of the detention center outside the Pulaski County Detention uno mas,” meaning: “Not one Center on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020, in Ullin, IL. The event was put on by the Southern Illinois Immigrant Rights Project and Midwest Council for Civil Rights. Jared Treece | @bisalo more.” “Not one more person needs to be in this place, not one more “It’s time for all of us to stand up with the lack of health care being the organizers, Mckenzie Eston person needs to die in this place,” and make the changes that need to provided to the individuals being announced the group would be Ruiz said. happen.” detained. returning soon. Chastitee Mays, a member of the The rally went on for another two “It is the bare minimum to make Southern Illinois Unity Coalition, hours following the same pattern of sure these facilities are inspected for came to the event as a show of chants and speeches by protesters. health measures; the fact that it’s solidarity with the protesters. Alex Grabowska, a Carbondale not is terrible and embarrassing,” Staff reporter George Wiebe can be “We’re here to put a spotlight resident who works at SIU, said Grabowska said. reached at gwiebe@dailyegyptian. on what is happening,” Mays said. his reason for attendance had to do At the end of the rally one of com
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SIU alumni give the gift of socks
Ryan Scott | @ryanscottde
CRU SOX is a charitable organization created by SIU alumni Angela and Edward Davis. The organization sells socks on their website, and with each pair sold another pair of socks is donated by the company to Project 150 and other organizations in the Las Vegas area. Before starting CRU SOX and getting married, Angela and Edward met while attending Marion High School. Angela and Edward both attended SIU, later Angela taught at Carterville intermediate. Edward worked at Carbondale Middle School, Brehm Preparatory Marion and Carterville in a non teaching position. Edward said he thought many of the kids he saw weren’t being reached how he had hoped, so he started to look for new ways to help them out. Edward said he didn’t think the students were being helped enough in the classroom Edward said he always wore different socks while teaching to stand out to the students. He once wore bunny themed socks that some girls in his class brought in as a joke
expecting he wouldn’t wear them. While they were teaching a guest speaker came to the school and spoke to the students and staff about giving to those in need and that started the idea. The guest speaker said socks were the number one item of need for America’s poor. After that Edward said he knew he wanted to do something to help students. Angela and Edward were at a dance concert for some of their former students and were talking to them about what they wanted to do. Edward said he came up with the idea right after they had left the dance to start a socks company. Edward said they then started working on making designs and creating the company. They decided to use socks for their organization not only because they are so needed but also because they are much more affordable to make and sell than shoes. Edward said he was a dorm parent at Brehm preparatory school in Carbondale for some time. So he met students from all over the world there and many of those students thought the organization was a great idea and should expand to more countries.
They took time designing the whole company they launched and have had a lot of success helping students in the Las Vegas area Edward said. Angela said many schools in their area have uniform dress codes so “socks are something they can kind add their own little style to.” “We always look for an organization that like not only are they just giving stuff out but they’re really trying to make a change and help people better themselves and improve their quality of life” Angela said. Angela said they found an organization named Project 150 in Las Vegas that helps displaced and homeless teenagers. They help kids find jobs and they have a learning center to tutor and do homework. They help students apply for scholarships and just help the unfortunate youth in the area have an easier life. Project 150 is the organization that they have started with but they have started to expand and are open to suggestions on where to donate too next. They have also been donating through social workers that they know who meet kids who are in need Angela said.
Both Angela and Edward are working on CRU Sox together. The organization teamed up with the lead vocalist for the band Biohazard Billy Graziadei. Edward said he listened to music all the time growing up while mowing lawns and had a Biohazard tape in his walkman that he listened to often. Edwards said he had a mutual friend of Billy’s that was touring with him and they met him after a show. Angela and Edward told Billy about the organization and he thought it was a great idea. So Billy has been a huge supporter of the organization since then. Billy said about meeting the Davis’s that they talked about the idea before it had been launched after one of his concerts. The Davis’s wanted some help on how to launch their business with the success that they knew Billy had previously had. On his thoughts when he first heard of the idea “ to me the give back is something the three of us all paralleled with and that was a big thing for me I love that aspect of it.” Billy said the success can be measured not by profits but by how much they’re giving away for free. On how he has helped grow
the business Billy said he has a lot of connections and is good with marketing. Billy has helped bring in brand ambassadors that help to grow the businesses. Billy has helped recruit the singer of Crazy Town and ignite. The ambassadors are given codes that give their fans 10% off their purchases when they buy from CRU SOX. “You can’t take what you make in the bank when you’re gone but the mark that you leave on society and on people’s lives last forever” Billy said. At CRU SOX for every extra pair over one an extra pair is donated so if you buy one they donate one, buy two they donate 3 and so on. Edward said they have had an order of 20 where they donated 39 pairs. The socks can be purchased https:// www.crusox.com/ CRU SOX has been featured on Market Watch as well as many other websites on businesses to watch to be successful in the future and cool ideas for businesses. Sports reporter Ryan Scott can be reached at rscott@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @RyanscottDE.
SIU Housing relocates RAs, makes University Hall overflow isolation unit Continued from pg. 1 While Jones said Housing asked the RAs for reassignment preferences, he said no one wants to move at this point in the semester. “Asking us to list our preference feels like a slap in the face when the reality is they probably already know who is getting moved and who isn’t,” Jones said. Jane Doe, another anonymous RA, created a petition to ask University Housing to let RAs work their desk duty while living in their current housing assignments. It has been signed by over 200 people as of Oct. 5. “If you sign this petition, you are showing your support for WAG and UHall RAs to be allowed to reside safely in WAG while performing the newly expected duties decided by University Housing instead of being forced to relocate,” the petition reads. This petition was sent to Travis
Pierce, director of residence life, Jon Shaffer, director of housing, all hall directors, and assistant hall directors and they have not commented, Doe said. The RAs were notified of the reassignment on Sept. 18, and were asked to give their preference by 9 a.m. on Sept. 19. According to Max Murphy, an anonymous RA, the reassignment was announced at noon, Sept. 19, and they were expected to move to their new assignment by Monday, Sept. 28. “The refusal of not moving would result in job termination,” Murphy said. “They quoted that, more or less in those exact words.” If they refuse to move, RAs will lose their housing package, which includes their room, meal plan, and monthly stipend, and they would have to pay to cancel the contract.
While terminated RAs would not have to pay for the period they worked, they would have to pay for the remaining semester. Doe said this meeting induced panic attacks in five separate RAs and mental health has yet to be addressed. Students living on the second, third, and fourth floors of University Hall have been moving into one of the towers on East Campus. This relocation is to make room for these three floors to be overflow for the isolation. Penelope Miller, an anonymous RA working at the towers who previously worked at University Hall before the Fall 2020 semester, estimates around 80-100 students lived in University Hall before they were forced to move to the towers. Miller said she had three University Hall residents move onto her floor.
While having a resident move midsemester is fairly common, a group of residents is rare. “It was frustrating to me, just to be dropped with all these residents and have no information about them and what the situation was,” Miller said. SIU Housing’s plan will include requiring all RAs assigned to work at University Hall to work the front desk instead of typical RA duties like rounds and weekends on-call. They are expecting them to live in University Hall in case of an emergency. Stettler said RAs were distributed based on need and their responsibilities have been changed. The professional staff are still responsible for the direct care of isolated students and RAs are not expected to have responsibility of direct care, Stettler said. Murphy said, “The biggest
concern is a lack of transparency and communication between the RAs and the housing administration, which has been an issue for many years.” Murphy said Housing is allowed to move RAs in the case there is a departmental need, which he said is in their handbook. Stettler said this is not the type of fall semester that anyone could have envisioned. “If we all continue to work together we can keep each other safe and healthy,” Stettler said. Staff reporter Danny Connolly can be reached at dconnolly@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @DConnollyTV. Staff reporter Keaton Yates can be reached by email at kyates@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @ keatsians.
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Commission helps bridge gap between city and community
Janae Mosby | @mosbyj
The Human Relation Commission has been serving the Carbondale community since 2003 and their mission is to help the citizens of Carbondale with issues they have and to bridge the gap between the city and the community. The HRC is a city council appointed commission that serves as an advisory board to the city. “The first real mandate for the Human Relation Commission was in response to police behaviors towards minorities. We had students who were unjustly accused and arrested because they were Black,” vice-chair of the HRC and professor in the Department of Africana Studies Dr. Joseph Brown said. After that, the community demanded that there be an oversight for those issues. The targeting of young, black men for being Black has always been part of the reason for the HRC’s existence, Joseph Brown said The commission is a place where many different people come together to discuss the issues of justice, equity and fairness. “The main purpose of the whole commission is to give those who feel like they don’t have a voice, a voice,” chair of the HRC Stephanie Brown said.
The HRC holds meetings on the first Monday of every month, and during these meetings, social groups around Carbondale are welcome to talk about events they are holding, Stephanie Brown said. “We have six or seven groups that actually report in at every HRC meeting, like Racial Justice, Carbondale Race Unity and Neighborhood Alliance. Those are just a few,” Commissioner Anita Brown said. Citizens of Carbondale can also attend the meetings to address any issues they are having concerning the city. “We, as a board, will listen to their complaints, help them file complaints and take it to the city council,” Stephanie Brown said. The HRC helps to build relationships between the people in Carbondale and to offer support if someone encounters an issue with race, color, religion, sex and a number of other issues, Anita Brown said. “The commission is supposed to create opportunities and an environment where people feel safe, where people feel listened to and where advocates for the marginalized can come and speak,” Joseph Brown said. Also, the HRC wants to encourage people who are working
“The main purpose of the whole commission is to give those who feel like they don’t have a voice, a voice.” - Stephanie Brown Human Relation Commission chair
on social justice issues and give them a place where they can meet and talk to each other, Joseph Brown said. Last month, the HRC hosted a meeting for all the community civic organizations. The purpose of this meeting was to help the HRC understand what the organizations’ missions were so they could help accomplish it. “At our last meeting, we had an open town hall forum where we invited community groups to come and talk about what they are doing in the community so they can get to know us, but also so we can get to know them,” Anita Brown said. A member of the Carbondale Police Department attends the monthly commission meeting along with giving a report. “We request that we get semiannual reports from the Carbondale Police Department and any other police department
that interacts with people in the Carbondale city limit,” Stephanie Brown said. These reports contain any complaints and any interaction with the general public. The HRC looks over these reports to see if there are any concerning trends, Stephanie Brown said. The HRC is working to make Carbondale a better place for the people living in the area by implementing special programs. “It is my goal as the chair to make sure we are providing educational and other programs that prompt equal rights and opportunities for all people,” Stephanie Brown said. No issues have been brought to the commission concerning COVID-19, but they are taking precautions to ensure the members safety. “It’s been a challenge with COVID because we were meeting face-to-face once a month and we
didn’t meet for a while. We’ve only had a couple of meetings on Zoom that resumed in the late summer,” Anita Brown said. Though they are not meeting faceto-face, the HRC is still working on bringing awareness to racial issues and social inequalities. They hold open discussions for people to come and voice their issues. Other issues in Carbondale that the HRC is currently focusing on are reducing violence on all levels, racial unity and helping the economically underserved whether it was because of COVID-19 or other reasons, Anita Brown said. “Even though we are not meeting in person, we still want people to feel like they have a voice,” Stephanie Brown said. In the future, the HRC is hoping to get involved with the next nationwide chief of police election. The Human Relations Commission is also looking for SIU students that are interested in joining the commission as student representatives. “We have to hear from the young people because the young people on our campus really are our present and our future,” Joseph Brown said.
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Staff reporter Janae Mosby can be reached at jmosby@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter at @mosbyj.
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Youtuber Cody Bret brings an interesting hobby to southern Ill.
Sara Wangler | @sara_Wangler
Southern Illinois native Cody Bret started diving to help and connect people to things they’ve lost, and this hobby suddenly got thousands of followers and went viral. The Daily Egyptian spoke with Bret about his start into his hobby of diving and the reasoning behind it. DE: What made you start a diving Youtube channel? “I’ve been wanting to dive for years,” Bret said. “The Youtube thing just kind of happened.” Starting out, Bret recorded himself on a dirt bike with a cheap camera. “I’d attach the camera to a bucket and ride around,” Bret said. “Then I’d stitch the clips together.” Youtube sat dormant for Bret for six to seven years, since then his channel has grown to 2.05k followers. “I just got back into it and applied something I loved,” Bret said. Bret said he wanted a fun, yet clean hobby. “If you’re from Southern Illinois, you know there really isn’t much to do,” Bret said. “So
I made up my own fun. I’d go out and free dive a lot.” Bret said he would find little things at first. “I figured I’d go scuba diving, I could go deeper and breath for longer,” Bret said. Bret got his license to dive and updated his equipment. “There aren’t many divers in the area, there’s one that I know of but he dives in a facility,” Bret said. “I want to dive everywhere.” Bret has since found various items from rings, to sunglasses and returned them to the original owners. DE: Do you have an education in marketing/how do you promote yourself? “I’m self-taught in marketing, I run all of my social media accounts,” Bret said. I’ve gotten messages from companies that want me to work with them.” Bret has also been in grocery stores handing out his card and spreading the word about himself. “I’ve over 400,050 members on Facebook from all of my pages,” Bret said. “I’m involved with a lot of things, I sell on Amazon and eBay, I’m into social media marketing for
other companies, I did relationship counseling for a while, financial advising, and I was a personal trainer for years.” Bret said scuba diving is all out of pocket, which can be expensive. DE: Where have you been and where do you see yourself going? “I’ve traveled all over the country and dove places,” Bret said. “I’ve had people want to pay me to dive and find something, but their reaction is payment enough.” Bret said he has only been diving for three to four months. “In the amount of time I’ve been doing this, the farthest I’ve been is Florida,” Bret said. “ I went down for a week, came back home then wanted to make more content, so I drove ten more hours and filmed more.” Bret said he plans to venture to different countries when traveling is safer. “I got a message from someone in the Philippines about a dive, I’d love to go,” Bret said. “As far as the future, I hope to grow my channel and travel.”
Bret said he has found stuff people have seen before. Things like rings, necklaces, sunglasses, and a seven-foot snake. “ I haven’t come across anything too crazy yet,” Bret said. “ I did have a guy ask me if I had found any teeth recently.” DE: How has the pandemic affected you/if at all? Bret said the restrictions with the
pandemic haven’t affected him. “It would if I went out of the country obviously, when I went to Florida it was the height of everything,” Bret said. “ I just kept to myself, it didn’t prevent me from anything.” Staff reporter Sara Wangler can be reached at swangler@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter at @sara_ Wangler.
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Carbondale farmer’s market conti
Loretta Warner enjoys a snack from the Humpday Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL. Ana Luiza Jacome | @aluizaphotography
Al Morgan, a local Native American artist, plays a flute at the Humpday Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL. Morgan makes and sells jewelry, dreamcatcher, baskets, and more. He began creating art when his wife got sick from Parkinson’s as a hobby and has continued to expand the types of art that he makes. “I like to sell to people in person, I like to talk to people,” Morgan said. “I’ve got blood from three native tribes as well as good ole’ Appalachian Scotts Irish and we had little things like that [flute] that we used to try all the time.” Morgan used to be a history and science teacher and said that he is able to teach people to play the flute as well. Leah Sutton | @ leahsuttonphotography
Marla Biller sells homemade baked goods at the Humpday Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL. Biller and her family, along with some family friends, bake all of the baked goods that get sold at their stand at the farmer’s market. Biller said that her favorite of the pies was the pecan pie. Leah Sutton | @ leahsuttonphotography
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inues to thrive during pandemic Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis
Richard Bochantin, DuBois, ILL., sells a variety of watermelons, spaghetti squash, pumpkins, and peppers at the Humpday Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL. “I always use crimson [watermelon] or sangria [watermelon] and then I got these big melons. They sell pretty good too,” Bochantin said. “The sangria [watermelon] is a different texture, the meat inside. This one [crimson] is more blocky, you know, chunky. This one [sangria] is more smooth.” Bochantin said that he would have orange watermelons next year due to the number of inquiries that he has had this year. Leah Sutton | @leahsuttonphotography
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Carbondale’s farmer’s market is successfully adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic. “We started with a drive-thru market for the first couple of months. Nobody was allowed to get out of their car, we had no walkthroughs, everybody wore their masks of course,” Stahlheber said. “We did that for a while and that became an impossible way to do the market. So we did the open air and we’ve had to make changes. Especially earlier in the market selling season.” Stahlheber said the drive-thru went fine for the few months they did it, but the challenging part about it was customers having to wait in line for one to two hours and in the end, it became too much for the sellers and buyers. “We have seen a decrease in the amount of buyers, I think people are still afraid or cautious about coming out,” Stahlheber said. “We have had to limit the number of sellers we have because of the social distancing. We’re very careful to try to do space between the vendors so we can’t have as many vendors as we normally do.” Stahlheber said local farmers are always trying to find ways to be more sanitary and safe with their foods. Some vendors have made the change to have one person handle money and another handle the product to make things safer on their part. Natalie Branca is the owner of Mario’s Mama Pet Bakery and has been a regular vendor at the Carbondale Farmers Market for the past eight years. When COVID-19 first broke out, she was afraid of what it meant for the farmer’s market. “I was worried that we weren’t going to have it. I was happy when they went ahead and did the drive-thru market which was how they started out,” Branca said. “I was very pleased when they separated us out and made it possible for our customers to actually walk up and talk to us and ask questions.” Branca said with the drive-thru they didn’t space out the vendors that much and with the wait, the customers had to deal with it made things difficult. So when they decided to open back up for walk-up customers and space the vendors out, it worked better. Branca said she’s not really worried about the market closing now unless there was a spike in the community. “I think that if there was a big spike especially if they knew it was connected in some way to somebody, a vendor or something at the market that...I don’t know necessarily that the market would close,” Branca said. “But I think when word got out there may be a lot of customers would be afraid to come.” If the Farmer’s Market were to close, Branca feels that her business would be able to survive with online and telephone orders, but it would be hard since the market is her main source of business. SIU graduate and Carbondale resident Colleen Ryterski and her sibling Scott Ryterski have been coming to the market for the past few years now. Colleen Ryterski feels that the vendors are handling pretty well but finds it a little uneasy that the market is not heavily enforcing COVID-19 restrictions on the customer’s end. “I think the vendors are handling things as best as they can by the way that it looks,” Rysterski said. “Some of the folks here aren’t masked, so that is a little unsettling.” Scott Ryterski said at the food pantry they drew circles on the floor to keep people separated. If the Farmer’s Market bought some sidewalk chalk and drew circles six feet apart they could enforce social distancing. “I feel like the farmer’s market is a good way to spend money locally and I’m able to still help my community in you know not a dangerous way but coming out to support local things in a time of need and doing the best that I can to stay safe during the time,” Ryterski said. “I’m wearing a mask and everything so hopefully, I’ll be as safe as I can be and just hope that everyone else is doing their part.” The farmer’s market continues to do well with community support and loyal, long-time vendors. “I think we’ve been around for so long and we’re kind of an establishment here in Carbondale,” Stahlheber said. “People love to buy local and support local farmers and businessmen and they also like the fresh produce.” Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @ jamilahlewis.
Left: Virginia Rinella buying watermelons from Richard Bochantin. “This is my first experience [here] and I like it” Rinella said. Bochantin has been selling his products at the famers market for about 4 years. Bochantin said that after COVID-19 started, the city shut down the farmers market on city property, so they decided to move to a new location, the parking lot of Gold’s Gym in Carbondale, ILL; Bochantin also said that since moving to the new location they have seen more people stop by. Ana Luiza Jacome | @aluizaphotography
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Online forum discusses LGBTQ and Hispanic/Latinx communities
Amber Koteras | @AmberKoteras
Lindy Wagner, director of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, hosted an inclusive conversations forum on Oct. 2 to produce in-depth conversation on the struggles of LGBTQ+ Latinx individuals. The forum was a joint effort, combining special conversation specific to Hispanic and Latinx heritage month and LGBTQ+ history month. Wagner began the webinar with conversation on the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, FL. The shooting occurred on June 12, 2016, when the gay nightclub was hosting a Latin night event. “Over 90% of the victims were of Hispanic/Latinx background, and half of those were of Puerto Rican descent. Four were Dominican, and three Mexican citizens were killed, three Colombians and two Canadians,” Wagner said. The discussion of the shooting developed into conversation of the convergence of the LGBTQ community with the Hispanic/Latinx community. “It’s important for us to talk about
Lindy Wagner hosts the Inclusive Conversations: Hispanic/Latinx LGBTQ+ Community Event via Zoom on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020. The event was meant to discuss the problems with diversity and ways of thinking. “I am happy that the people who showed up for this were willing to share things from their life and their the term Latinx,” Wagner said, “Why some are using it regularly and some are never using it.” Hispanic, Latina and Latino, though widely accepted terms, are contextually based and are defined differently and widely by individuals. The term Hispanic is widely connected to someone who is Spanish-speaking. Wagner included that while she could identify herself as Mexican, she identifies as biracial because she doesn’t speak Spanish. Others who stay away from
referring to themselves as Hispanic cite their reasoning as historical, colonization-related issues. Some do not wish for their racial identity to be determined by the colonizers who established the history of the identifier “Hispanic.” “There is distinguished gender in the Spanish language,” Wagner said. This gender-based aspect of the language is what led to the term Latinx. Latino represents a male, and Latina represents a female. In choosing to replace the gendered
characteristic of the word, it becomes inclusive to more of the LGBTQ community. Those who identify as nonbinary or simply do not fall on the gender spectrum were given a word they could comfortably use to express the ethnic side of their culture. The term “Latinx” brought up concerns about putting partial Western language into a cultural term. In explanation of the infringement this word might cause one to feel, Wagner described it as colonization of language. Finding affirming racial identity was compared to that of finding affirming pronouns within gender identity. “There is obvious direct correlation and relationships [...] upon race as well as sexual identity,” said Wagner. The question of how to ask someone how they identify themselves, and how to do so comfortably, was raised by participant Miriam Roccia. Roccia pointed out that asking for someone’s affirming pronouns is becoming an act that is more accepted within society, questioning how to include racial identity in that movement. “Every community has these evolving words, evolving terms of identity,” said Wagner. Context is a large factor in every situation, and asking about identity is
no different. Is there any way to ask such a question without it sounding like a microaggression?” said Heather Casner, a customer service specialist within Student Employment at SIU. Wagner emphasized that using affirmative wording is very important. Wagner talked on microaggression, using the question, “What are you?” as an example. She explained she has been asked the question many times in reference to her ethnicity, delineating how it is objectifying. “Microaggressions happen because someone has done something, they’ve said something, that’s hurtful because they don’t know what it means,” said Wagner. Travis Fulk, a participant in the webinar, mentioned the immense need for education on issues concerning identity, whether that be within the Latinx community, the LGBTQ community or anywhere in between. “I think it’s a really interesting thing, the way society adjusts to these things - relearning and unlearning,” Fulk said. “There is so much need for the education of it.” Staff reporter Amber Koteras can be reached at akoteras@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @AmberKoteras.
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Project Human X keeps hopes high during COVID-19
Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis
Owners Marquez Scoggin and Cree Sahidah Glanz had heard of COVID-19 earlier in the year and were worried about how it would spread and affect their business. Glanz and Scoggin found their space for the art center in August 2019. But even with the center being fairly new, they’ve had support from the community for the past few years as they use to host art parties in their apartment. “Even when COVID happened, we still had no doubt that we would still have the continued support of the people that do love this business,” Scoggin said. “When human beings come here, they love the experience.” Glanz and Scoggin made the decision to close their doors in early March as they started to watch everything unfold in America and stayed closed for three months. They felt it was the best decision for then since their daughter Masterpeace was born on March 10. “Being a new parent, a new mom, and having to shut down the business during COVID-19, it’s a load of stuff to deal with, but great things have blossomed out of it oddly enough if we look at the cup half full too,” Glanz said. “We got to spend a lot of time with our daughter during quarantine. She got non-stop attention.” Even with COVID-19, Scoggin and Glanz said they never lost hope because they had people that loved going to the art center giving them continuous support. “We knew that it was going to be challenging, but I think what we’re trying to say is where our hearts are at, is we aren’t the type of people to ever give up,” Glanz said. “So we knew that if we didn’t give up [and] we kept hope, stayed creative and used our brain power to find a way to adjust to what the world is facing, when the time is right, then
we’ll be just fine.” Scoggin said he felt that COVID-19 forced them to become more creative and take a more optimistic approach to things. “We never closed the business because of how slow it was moving,” Scoggin said. “We closed the business when we came to the conclusion that it [COVID-19] was here in America and it was prevalent.” Scoggin said closing the doors of the art center and him losing his serving job at Longbranch Café put a large financial burden on them. “When we first started Project Human X, we had less than $1,000, and a lot of dreams,” Scoggin said. “So when COVID started happening, we definitely were in a position where we could have used a lot more money.” Scoggin and Glanz turned to social media to keep the art center alive by doing live painting tutorials on Facebook. They’ve always used social media but it gave people outside of the community to connect to Project Human X. “As we were doing that [virtual tutorials] we were paying close attention to what was happening in America,” Scoggin said. “What’s happening with other businesses, what protocols are they taking for creating the safest spaces for their guests to still be able to come.” They opened back up in August hosting outside paint sessions. They had three tents, all spaced out with people wearing masks, being socially distanced, and using hand sanitizer. Graduate student Eyaan Mahone has known Glanz for six years and Scoggin for two years and is a regular patron at Project Human X, going every weekend. “[When] I walk inside their doors, they are so transparent and so loving as far as how they interact with not just me, but just everyone there that comes into their building,” Mahone said. “I’ve been there plenty of times
SIU alumnus, Marquez Scoggin, holds his daughter while giving a tour of Project Human X on Sept. 22, 2020. “When we open our doors, our doors are open to everyone,” Scoggin said about his and Cree Sahidah Glanz’s business. Tiffany Young | @photographybytiffa
SIU alumna, Cree Sahidah Glanz, hands out blank canvases at Project Human X on Sept. 22, 2020. Tiffany Young | @ photographybytiffa and every time I go, it feels even better than the last time.” Mahone met Glanz in his freshman year when they worked at Trueblood Dining Hall together. Glanz invited
Mahone to the art parties in her apartment with Scoggin and Mahone said he loved everything about it. Despite the spike in the pandemic recently, Mahone said he feels the
business for Project Human X is not slowing down and this is due to its close location to the SIU campus. Project Human X is currently hosting art events inside with three tables that seat 18 guests total. They post information concerning upcoming events to their Facebook page and their official website. Participants are required to wear masks and all of the tables are socially distanced with air purifiers helping to clear the air of pathogens. As far as future events, Project Human X is holding a fundraiser for the art center on Halloween weekend from Oct. 30 to Nov. 1. The fundraiser is meant to help the art center financially and to allow community members to have fun painting on Halloween. Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @jamilahlewis.
Candidates for 115th district representative debate
Madison Taylor | @taylorm08
Randy Auxier and Paul Jacobs, candidates for representative of the 115th district, participated in a debate via Zoom on Sept. 30. This event was moderated by Dorcy Prosser of the Jackson County League of Women Voters and sponsored by their organization and the Carbondale Public Library. Auxier, from the Green Party, is a professor of philosophy and communications studies at SIU. Auxier is author and editor of over twenty academic books. His opponent, Paul Jacobs from the Republican Party, has been an optometrist for almost four decades. Jacobs graduated from Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, Tennessee.
Auxier said. Jacobs introduced himself as the Republican nominee for state representative. “I have been an optometrist for nearly four decades and have had my first winery for almost twentyfive years. I’ve had other successful businesses and have created hundreds of jobs for Illinoisans,” Jacobs said.
Candidate for the office of the 115th Illinois Representative, Paul Jacobs, discusses small businesses in Illinois via Zoom on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2020. James B. Allen | @skyclopsphotojamboree Prosser: What distinguishes you from other candidates? Auxier said he went to school during the desegregation of public schools and that had a strong effect on him.
“I think the difference is between me and Mr. Jacobs, it will be evident enough as time goes on. I do consider myself a progressive conservative but that’s in the very broad conservative,”
Prosser: Given the significant economic impact of SIU, what are your strategies to preserve and promote this vital economic engine? Auxier said he has a few ideas on how to keep consolidation in the Illinois university systems. “I believe the turnover and leadership position at SIUC has been terribly detrimental to not only the morale on campus but getting any type of firm plan
in place to lead this university forward,” Auxier said. “I’m very optimistic about the current leadership and faculty [...] and I think as a state legislator, I can do a lot to work with the leadership at SIUC going into the future and what happens with higher education in Illinois.” Jacob said he’s not too optimistic about SIU’s future. “The way they approach everything is cuts. They cut across the board because everybody wants to be fair but they need to go where everyone’s making money. They’re making money in law, they’re making money in automotive and aviation. They need to not cut those parts when they begin to cut back,” Jacobs said.
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SIU board to extend tuition waivers to transfer students
Staff Report
The Board of Trustees announced on Sept. 17 that it will be providing tuition waivers to incoming freshmen who are Illinois students whose family
income is below $63,575. SIUC announced on Tuesday that it will be extending the availability of these waivers to transfer students. These waivers will cover tuition and mandatory fees for four consecutive
semesters, according to the release. To qualify for the waivers, applicants must have a family income that is $63,575 or below and assets below $50,000 based on their submitted Free Application for
Federal Student Aid. They must also be Illinois residents who attended an Illinois high school and transfer students must have a GPA of 2.0 or above and 26 or more completed credit hours, according to
the release.
up in the dark in the winter for no reason that I can figure out. I prefer permanent standard time pretty much since I keep getting up at dawn every day,” Auxier said. Jacobs also said he would rather have standard time. “I keep getting up at 5 every morning with no alarm. I think it’s hard on me to change with the fall when the springtime changes it’s very difficult takes about a week or two to get used to so I could just go through the year with Standard Time,” Jacobs said.
when we made 10,000 gallons of wine, we were taxed at 18 cents a gallon. [...] Seven years into it, all of a sudden that tax went to 79 cents a gallon,” Jacobs said. “We have too many regulations and way too many taxes. We need to cut taxes and decide where to spend the money.” Auxier said it was important to say he’s not a Democrat or Republican. “If you send a Republican or Democrat to the state house, they’ll be a part of a caucus that likes to work in lockstep, both sides. I think I can go up there and listen to you and say what you think. I don’t have to agree with anyone,” Auxier said.
and sending him an invitation. “Thank you for the excellent work that you do and encouraging people to cast an informed vote and to vote. The second thing is I’m awfully pleased at the stability of this conversation,” Auxier said. Jacobs said he appreciates developing in southern Illinois with his business and winery and thanked the League of Women Voters for inviting him also. “I’m here to bring back the state. I want a balanced budget, I want to reduce expenditures and stop tax increases. That has to be fixed so we can all enjoy your retirement and remain here in Illinois,” Jacobs said.
Prosser: Final closing remarks Auxier said he wanted to thank everyone for putting the event together
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Candidates for 115th district representative debate Continued from pg. 11 Prosser: What can the legislature do to combat the opioid and meth crisis? Jacobs said he doesn’t think the legislature can do much without family values. “We have to realize that we have addictive personalities in every family,” Jacobs said. “The war on drugs many times is said well, it’s not working, it’s not working because we just have just as many people as in the penitentiaries now as we did when we first started the war on drugs.” Jacobs said the way to combat this issue is with recovery systems like Gateway that use counseling and rehabilitation. Auxier said he shares Jacobs’ stance on this issue. “The big pharmaceutical companies that are very well trained have a role,” Auxier said. “I think
that going after the doctors is not the best idea but going after big pharmaceutical companies is the better idea.” Auxier said treatment is preferable to incarceration, but some people’s addictions are stronger than the incarceration deterrent. Prosser: What is your position on the bill that was passed by the Senate last year to enact permanent daylight savings time? Would you favor permanent daylight savings time, permanent standard time or continue as we have with the twice yearly clock changes? Auxier said he would rather use permanent standard time because he likes getting up at dawn. “I would say permanent Daylight Time is still going to have you getting
Prosser: This is a chance to talk about something you feel strongly about and why. Jacobs said he thinks regulations are terrible. “With my winery 25 years ago,
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SIU v. SEMO game rescheduled Staff Report
The upcoming SIU football game against Southeast Missouri is being rescheduled for Oct. 30 at 6 p.m., according to a press release from Saluki Athletics. The reschedule is the result of positive COVID-19 cases within the SEMO football team. The game was previously scheduled for Oct. 23. Along with the announcement of the game’s rescheduling, the SIU Athletics Department also released information regarding ticket policy and safety protocol for the matchup. Tickets and seating for the game will be restricted to season ticket holders, SIU students and player families, with the stadium being limited to 20% of its normal capacity.
All game attendees will be required to socially distance from one another and wear masks or facial coverings that can only be removed when eating or drinking. Tailgating is prohibited and seating will be assigned. Seating and stadium capacity will be reassessed if Jackson County enters onto the state of Illinois warning list for COVID-19, according to the release. Stadium resources such as restrooms, first aid and concession stands will be open for fan use, with hand sanitizing stations set up around the stadium. “We’re excited to bring football back to our campus and community, and I’m confident in our ability to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for the fans who can attend the game,� Saluki athletic director Liz Jarnigan said in the Oct. 6 release. “In these
trying times, sports provide a welcome break from the hardships we’ve all endured throughout the pandemic.�  According to Assistant AD for Ticketing Bryce Williams, “new season ticket� purchases will be available to other fans. This includes admission to the SEMO game and four games in the spring. The release said SIU students will be able to request tickets online until Oct. 23 at 5 p.m. Those who request tickets are required to pick them up at the Banterra Center ticket window on Oct. 26 and 27, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Death match wrestling claws its way to Southern Illinois
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Stride Pro Wrestling Academy hosted a taping of their wrestling event, “Stride Pro Wrestling: Chaos,” on Sept. 12, in Carterville, Ill. Two wrestlers, known professionally as Zakk Sawyers and Dalton Diamond, took time to speak with the Daily Egyptian. Sawyers and Diamond are both experienced wrestlers with over a decade of experience in the independent wrestling scene. In recent years Sawyers has been in retirement, instead choosing to begin working on his own wrestling promotion. With the help of Diamond and a team of several others, that promotion has come to fruition in the form of a hardcore wrestling promotion. Being longtime fans of classic hardcore wrestling promotion company Extreme Championship Wrestling, Sawyers and Diamond aims to make their new promotion, “Anna Fight Underground,” a faithful recreation of ECW’s style and aesthetic in a modern context. “We’ve really gone to great lengths to book our card. You know, we grew up watching some of these guys, and the fact that they’re at our show really means something to me. I mean, it’s New Jack, that’s crazy to me,” Sawyers said. Sawyers said he aims to make “Anna Fight Underground” a true hardcore show, with weapons and all. “We really wanna treat the art form with the respect it deserves. The kind of violence we’ll be portraying won’t be for the faint of heart, but it’s our art and this is how we express it,” Sawyers said. With a large card and celebrity meet and greets, “Anna Fight Underground” is set to debut Oct. 15 in Anna, Ill. “We’re really excited for the show. Nervous for sure, but excited. I really do think we’re gonna have a fantastic opening show and I’m beyond proud of the work everyone has put into the show up to this point,” Sawyers said.
Wrestler Zakk Sawyers poses for a portrait just before his match on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, in Carterville, ILL. Sawyers is an independent wrestler, having wrestled professionally for 13 years. From his first match all the way back in June, 2007 to September, 2020, Sawyers has travelled all over the country with the wrestling business doing what he loves. James B. Allen | @skyclopsphotojamboree
Zakk Sawyers attempts to pin Dalton Diamond while referee Casey Brinkmeier begins the count down on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, in Carterville, IL. The match took place at the Stride Pro Wrestling School in Carterville where aspiring wrestlers come to learn the foundational skills required to step into the squared circle. (James B. Allen | @skyclopsphotojamboree)
Dalton Diamond chokes Zakk Sawyers against the ropes on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020, in Cartersville, ILL. Being a hardcore show with deathmatch style wrestling, Zakk aims to portray a level of violence that is far from what is conventional for professional wrestling outlets like the WWE. “The deathmatch is an art. It may make people uncomfortable, but the truth is it’s not for those folks. This is performance art on a level a lot of people aren’t accustomed to,” Sawyers said. James B. Allen | @skyclopsphotojamboree
Dalton Diamond braces for an incoming chop from Zakk Sawyers on Saturday, Sept. 12, in Carterville, ILL. Diamond and Sawyers have been preparing for their debut event for over a year, and have utilized the connections they’ve made in the wrestling business to ensure they can book the talent they want. James B. Allen | @skyclopsphotojamboree
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Women’s Basketball Missouri Valley Conference schedule released Ryan Scott | @RyanscottDE
The Missouri Valley Conference has released the SIU women’s basketball schedule for the upcoming season. Last season, Missouri State won the regular season conference title with a 16-2 conference record. SIU came in 7th with a 8-10 conference record. The conference tournament was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic while the Salukis were at the arena preparing for their first round game. The conference season for SIU will start with two road games at Indiana State and the University of Evansville on Jan. 1 and 3. The Salukis’ first home game will be played against Bradley University on Jan. 8. The regular season will end with three home matchups against Missouri State, and Evansville, with the final game on March 6 against Indiana State. “Within our conference, I don’t think there are ever games that stand out to me,” Saluki head coach Cindy Stein said On the difficulty of the schedule, Stein said there are no longer any guaranteed wins like there were a few seasons ago when they joined the MVC. Makenzie Silvey, a senior guard for the Salukis, said she thinks the team will need a quick start to the conference season with a difficult start on the road against Indiana State and Evansville on Jan. 1 and 3. Stein said the Northern Iowa and Drake games on Feb. 19 and 21 might be the toughest for SIU with the distance that they have to travel for the game combined with those teams being competitive in the conference. Gabby Walker, a Saluki senior forward, said she is excited for all of the conference games and said she is especially excited for the opponents that they lost to both times they played last season. Silvey said she is disappointed that the team wasn’t able to play out the conference tournament last season. She said she thinks the team “had a lot of games that we lost that were close, so I think that’s
“There was always one quarter every game where I feel like we might have let ourselves down, where we lost a lead or lost our momentum.” - Gabby Walker Senior forward
encouraging for this year.” The team should have won at Drake last season and let the game slip away in their 91-76 defeat on Feb. 7, Walker said. “There was always one quarter every game where I feel like we might have let ourselves down, where we lost a lead or lost our momentum,” Walker said of last year’s team. According to Stein there will be no home court advantage if no fans are allowed. “It’s tough for any kind of competitor to play in a quiet gym,” Stein said. Silvey doesn’t think that limited capacity will affect them very much as they don’t get very many fans in general at home games. Silvey said “on the road I think it will help a lot” since some of their conference opponents get a lot of fans. If there are less fans allowed than normal it could feel strange playing in an empty gym, Walker said. Walker said she is worried about families being allowed if no fans are permitted at all. Walker says the team should be grateful if they get to participate in front of anybody. The Salukis full conference schedule is available at https:// siusalukis.com/sports/womens-basketball/schedule Sports reporter Ryan Scott can be reached at rscott@dailyegyptian.com or on twitter @RyanscottDE.
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