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How lower level schools can address racial bias in the classroom

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Carbondale Educational Service District (ESD) 95 punished Black children at disproportionate rates to their white peers, according to the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) data.

Students that are the subject of discipline measures, especially suspensions or expulsions that remove them from classroom activities, have significantly more trouble succeeding academically, said Travis Riddle, a data scientist at the National Police Foundation.

“By the definition of the discipline you’re missing time in school that I think makes it hard for students to achieve to the level that they might otherwise,” Riddle said.

Riddle received a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University in New York, and is the author of Racial disparities in school-based disciplinary actions are associated with county-level rates of racial bias. He said that while there are schools that are sufficiently improving student disciplinary measures, many are “doing a poor job.”

“I think it’s worth considering how that continuum exists, and what determines whether a school is on one end or the other,” Riddle said.

An interactive map from Riddle’s research indicates Black students in Jackson County are at high relative risk for suspensions and very high relative risk for in-school arrests compared to their White peers.

The most recent DOE data set, collected in 2017, showed that Black students accounted for 48% of enrollment in Carbondale ESD 95, but received 76.2% of in-school suspensions and 80.6% of out-of-school suspensions.

White students, who accounted for 28% of the district’s enrollment, received 11.9% of in-school suspensions and 8.2% of out-of-school suspensions.

The percentage of Black students in the district has increased every year since 2011, the earliest year DOE has records made publicly available.

Carbondale ESD 95, which includes Thomas, Parrish, Lewis and Carbondale

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FIERCE! Music Theater RSO returns with an original production

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Middle schools, have increased enrollment every year since 2011, from 1,296 to 1,546, according to DOE data.

Black students were suspended at disproportionate rates every year data was publicly available.

While the disparity in discipline clearly exists between Black and White students, the gap is decreasing as increasing numbers of Black students enter the school district.

Officials from Carbondale ESD 95 and the individual schools did not respond to interview requests from the Daily Egyptian.

One way to continue to reduce the disparity is to create rules that are clear and unambiguous, Riddle said, which limits situations where a student’s actions or tone might be open to interpretation by a teacher or administrator.

“If a teacher says [a student] was disrespectful that’s a little too vague and ambiguous,” Riddle said. “If you have those really kind of tight guidelines and

procedures then it makes it more difficult for these kinds of disparities to manifest.”

Riddle said narrow, clear guidelines don’t stop bias from manifesting, but lessen the impact by reducing the number of situations in which certain kinds of discipline might be employed. Riddle said a big problem in school discipline issues is people who do not want to acknowledge racial disparities exist in schools.

“If something doesn’t coincide with your worldview or your beliefs it makes it hard to acknowledge it, it makes it hard to acknowledge it, or if you see that information is threatening,” Riddle said.“If you could get people to have, sit down, like one on one conversations with another person, and develop relationships over time with those people and have them come to understandings about, you know their different backgrounds and their differing experiences,” Riddle said.

The anticipation was thick in the air of the performance hall of the Old Baptist Foundation as FIERCE! prepared to put on its first showing in two years.

FIERCE! performed “Magic To Do” from Oct. 21 to Oct. 23. The group is a studentled Registered Student Organization (RSO) at Southern Illinois University (SIU) founded in 2015.

The group generally produces one full-scale musical and several smaller cabaret performances each year.

Performances by the RSO were put on hold in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic while the school moved to a remote learning style. The cast and crew are wearing masks for all 2021 performances and ask all in attendance to wear masks as well.

“Magic To Do” is an original production written and directed by the president of FIERCE!, Nini Xiong. Xiong is in her fourth year pursuing a bachelor’s in Musical Theater. Auditions for the production took place on Sept. 10 and 11.

“We had to get the script done in three days because we had auditions, and started casting people the following week,” Xiong said.

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Men struggle to be heard during Domestic Violence Awareness Month

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Though at least one in four men experience domestic violence, myth and stigma often prevent them from reporting incidents where they’ve been victimized, advocates like child counselor Rose Berkman, say.

“Abuse suffered by men at the hands of partners of any gender is less often recognized as a problem because we are not socialized to see it,” Berkman said.

Nearly a quarter of men in the U.S. have experienced some form of contact with sexual violence in their lifetime, according to the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.

Chris Wienke, the undergraduate director for the Department of Sociology at Southern Illinois University said that of all intimate partner homicides, about 25% of the victims are men.

Berkman, who works at the Carbondale Women’s Center, said those statistics are likely an undercount, as people face many obstacles in reporting their abuse.

“There are so many reasons people don’t report violence stigma, shame, lack of access to services, worry that law enforcement wouldn’t respond, etc.,” Berkman said.

Gender bias is also a factor in reported statistics, said O.J. Duncan, chair of the Rainbow Cafe LGBTQ+ Center Board of Directors.

“Many places are required to put a perpetrator and a victim in paperwork,” Duncan said. “Gender bias comes into play, and men are listed as perpetrators even if they did less harm and were also a victim themself.”

Approximately 40% of domestic abuse cases include both partners abusing the other, Duncan said, not just violence going one way.

Less than half of domestic violence incidents were reported to police, according to the 2017 National Crime Victimization Survey, and 80% of victims of intimate partner violence did not receive assistance from service agencies in 2015, according to U.S. Bureau of Justice statistics.

Duncan said many people believe men cannot be victims of domestic violence because of perceptions of men being physically stronger, sexually aggressive or having more agency to leave any given situation.

“A National Violence Against Women Survey from

2000, showed 27% of women and 19% of men have been pushed or shoved by an intimate partner in the past year; 22% of women and 17% of men have been slapped in the previous year; and 4% of women and 2% of men have been hurt by a knife or gun in the previous year,” Weinke said.

At least one study showed women were injured in domestic violence incidents at more than twice the rate of men, Weinke said.

“Men are told that they cannot be victims by police, and are not believed. Police won’t even file a report.

Sometimes police even laugh at them, and make fun of them,” Duncan said.

He said the case of abuse between Amber Heard and Johnny Depp is illustrative of how men and women are held to different standards, as Heard received less backlash than Depp despite evidence of her own abusive actions.

“People often believe that women who abuse were just fighting back, and won’t believe that they were the perpetrator,” Duncan said.

Janine Armstrong, president of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Registered Student Organization at SIU said one reason men may be less likely to report abuse is a fear of emasculation.

“We associate masculinity with strength and selfsufficiency. Admitting that they have suffered abuse can hurt their self-image as a man,” Armstrong said.

She said the mindset that it is okay for a woman to hit a man is toxic.

Armstrong said abusers use their power to intimidate, control, or punish the other person.

“Some people who become abusive for a time may not know how to communicate in healthy ways. Therefore, they turn their anger or sadness against the other person.

The latter individual is more likely to seek help once their behavior is called out,” Armstrong said.

Armstrong said that it’s important to acknowledge domestic violence affects LGBTQ+ individuals as well.

“A lot of work has been done to create support for victims who are women, but not much has been done to support non-binary people and men as victims,” Duncan said.

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Immigration, human rights, diversity The Hispanic and Latinx community at SIU

Kiersten Owens | kowens@dailyegyptian.com

The celebration of Hispanic and Latinx month was recently recognized at Southern Illinois University. Events were held the entire month from Sept. 15 through Oct. 15. Some of these events included seminars, festivals, classes and movie screenings. Coinciding with the celebration, thousands of Haitian migrants were camped at the United States-Mexico border in hopes of seeking asylum in the US. There are a number of Hispanic and Latinx student organizations at SIU including Hispanic Student Council, Latin American Student Association (LASA) and Latino Cultural Association (LCA).

LASA is a student organization that provides its members with ways to learn about, share and embrace their Latin heritage. LASA held a seminar on Sep. 29 titled “Intricacies of Hispanic/Latinx Identity,” which intended to clarify the common misconceptions that some hold about the identities of Hispanic and Latinx people.

Jose Burgos Vasquez is a graduate student and a teacher at SIU. He teaches Spanish and English as a second language. Burgos is Venezuelan and is the president of LASA at SIU. “So far the activities have been meaningful and fun,” Burgos said.

“In the future, it would be great if more strategies were implemented to engage and spark the curiosity of American students in these activities. The rate of participation is probably one out of ten.”

Burgos said he wants people to understand that Latinos are a part of a vast demographic and realize that there are more than 20 countries that speak Spanish in the world. Burgos said generalizations and stereotypes of those who are Hispanic show that people really misunderstand the vastness of all the different cultures that fall into the single demographic.

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at SIU and a member of LASA, is from Puerto Rico, and he said coming to SIU was something new to him. Alonso said he had seen the racist behavior of Americans on the internet but was amazed to see that Hispanics at SIU had a voice and were able to express themselves.

Alonso said the events during the Hispanic and Latinx heritage month were well administered, and he thinks that showing the heritages of Spanish speakers to non-Spanish speakers is amazing. Alonso said he thinks education in the US should offer Spanish lessons for people starting at a younger age and should teach people about the different practices of cultures that fall under the demographic.

Daysi Rodriguez, president of the Latino Cultural Association, along with Vianey Sanchez, vice-president of LCA, are both Latino students at SIU. The two met at the kick-off event for the Hispanic and Latino heritage month and decided to become officers for the LCA, which had been inactive beforehand.

Rodriguez, who was born in Honduras, said she was very happy with the celebration held

by SIU for Hispanic and Latino heritage month and felt that the events provided information for undocumented students and brought the community together.

“I’ve heard multiple times of students that will reach their senior year or will graduate and not realize that there is a bigger Hispanic and Latino community here on campus or won’t even know about any of the resources,” said Rodriguez.

Sanchez was born in Michoacán, Mexico and went to high-school in DuQuoin, Ill. She said before this year, she had never celebrated Hispanic and Latinx heritage month, and the experience felt weird because it was new to her.

Sanchez said she was pleased to learn more about the indigenous people from the town in which she originated from through the film screened during the kick off event for the month ‘Footprints in the

Sky,’ created by Daniel Rodriguez.

She was also pleased with the art exhibit ‘Nativas’ that was put up in the Morris Library.

‘Nativas’ was created by artist Juana Duran Charicata, who is from Michoacán. The paintings depicted the migrant upbringing in her life and showed strong indigenous women that worked picking fruits and vegetables in fields.

“There’s a certain level of normality that comes with her paintings and I definitely can’t view them in the light that everybody else views them because it’s so familiar,” Sanchez said. “To some other people it might be exotic.”

Sanchez is a recipient of Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which is a immigration policy in the United States that offers people who were brought to the US as children temporary protection against removal from the country.

Those who are recipients of DACA are required to renew their case every few years. Sanchez said the processing of paperwork for renewal is sensitive and specific, therefore, it usually involves the hiring of an attorney which has cost Sanchez over $400 each renewal.

Sanchez said there are programs such as the Immigration Project that offer assistance in filing the paperwork for renewal. Each initial DACA application costs $495 and each renewal costs $410 regardless of whether people get accepted or not.

Every college Sanchez applied to flagged her as an international student due to her being a DACA recipient and required that she take multiple written and oral exams just to be admitted. She said she applied to colleges early in order to receive the financial aid offered by schools to early applicants but was denied that ability because they required citizenship.

Rodriguez and Sanchez said they had both recently learned about somebody who was flagged as an international student and had to

pay more than double the price of tuition compared to his peers at a community college. Undocumented students face challenges with organizational systems that lack proper recourses to assist them.

“Every place I have applied to I’ve learned that I need to look for those resource centers, and if they don’t have one maybe it’s not for me,” Sanchez said.

Sanchez said she chose SIU because of the resource center for Hispanic and undocumented students and is thankful to have that center to assist DACA recipients at the college as well as Hispanic and Latinx students.

Being undocumented is just one of the many struggles that immigrants face in the United States. Sanchez said Hispanic and Latino communities are also still feeling the effects from the Trump administration. Donald Trump campaigned on building “the wall” between the United States and Mexico and is quoted on many occasions stating anti-immigration rhetoric.

Sanchez said the Hispanic and Latinx community felt more hostility and discrimination during the Trump presidency than they had felt in the years prior.

“That was a super dark time,” said Sanchez. “I don’t know how scary people think it actually was for the Hispanic/Latino community during his presidency, but it was a really frightening time for the undocumented students in the country because we were being threatened.”

Recently, thousands of Haitianmigrants traveled to the US/ Mexico border to seek asylum in the US from their country which has suffered from the destruction of earthquakes and the assassination of their president. The Biden Administration flew a majority of the migrants back to Haiti, after they had travelled thousands of miles to get to the border.

Burgos said he fled from Venezuela about five years ago. He

received an assistantship and started working at SIU last year. He said immigration laws are not friendly, are economically discriminatory and are especially difficult for those who lack documentation due to coming from countries that violate human rights.

Burgos said he waited over 15 months to receive his passport and many more months to complete the other forms that were necessary in applying for different statuses of immigration.

“I want people to understand that immigration is a by-product of corruption and human rights violations,” Burgos said. “For people who walk for weeks leaving everything behind, the only thing that they want is food and shelter.”

Burgos said countries have agreed to protect those who are facing human rights abuse and said there are international laws that make democratic governments responsible for helping those in need.

“Also, another interesting thing about immigration is that diversity usually brings strength for both migrants and local communities,” Burgos said. “Migrants come with a grateful heart for the most essential things and will work incredibly hard towards contributing to their host communities if given the chance.”

“Sadly, politicians have constantly failed when it comes to delivering what they’ve promised.

So it’s the people who have to be aware of these situations and be kind to one another,” Burgos said.

“No one but an immigrant would ever understand the trauma and the pain that has forced them to flee from their countries by any means.”

The Hispanic and Latino resource center is located on the first floor of the student resource building and is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

focuses on sexual abuse.

“Male victims can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline and its youth-focused project, Love is Respect. In 2016, about 12,000 male victims called, about 9 percent of victims who identified their gender. That’s about double the about 5,800 male victim callers from 2010,” Weinke said.

The Carbondale Women’s Center has also made steps toward accommodating non-female victims of abuse, Duncan said, including removing the symbol for female from their logo.

“In the past I would not have called them a resource for men, but I feel comfortable now,” Duncan said.

SIU also has resources for

victims of abuse.

“We have an amazing confidential advisor here at SIU in the wellness center, Rebecca Gonnering, who can give survivors advice without having to report it if someone decides they don’t want to,” Duncan said.

Berkman said abuse can be reported through medical offices or police departments, and that there are options such as orders of protection which provide a barrier between survivors and their abusers.

“Reporting to the police also allows for the possibility of criminal charges to be filed, although we never want to promise that this will lead to the justice they want,” Berkman said.

Duncan said men have most of the same avenues as women in regards to

abuse in the legal system. However, in practice, gender bias factors heavily in how they are treated.

“As with many victims of abuse of any gender, they are treated very poorly in the legal system, and often it is too painful to keep trying to get legal recourse,” Duncan said.

People of all genders should be educated that they can be both perpetrators and victims of domestic abuse, and what that abuse can look like, Duncan said. “[A] good way is to tell our stories, and be visible. People need to see that men who are their friends and family have been victims of abuse,” Duncan said.

Duncan said it would also be helpful to remove gendered language

about abuse because the, “men as perpetrators, women as victims,” narrative is steeped in misogyny.

“It assumes that women are always pure and innocent, and men are always evil dark predators in all situations. It doesn’t recognize the full humanity of women or men, and the complex nature of abuse. It also does not fit with the facts of abuse,” Duncan said.

SIU events during Domestic Violence Awareness Month include the Clothesline Project, Sexual Healing Workouts, and Take Back the Night.

Staff reporter Kiersten Owens can be reached at kowens@dailyegyptian. com.

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Weinke said that as of 2017, there were two shelters in the U.S. exclusively for male victims of domestic violence.

This is, at least in part, the result of language the Violence Against Women Act that allows for segregated victim services Duncan said.

“Most programs created in the last 50 years deem it necessary to the essential operations of a program to segregate by sex,” Duncan said.

“Programs that serve women generally get preferential treatment, through bias rather than written law.”

Duncan said there are still resources available to male victims of abuse, including 1in6.org, which

Staff reporter Joel Kottman can be reached at jkottman@dailyegyptian. com and on Twitter @JoelKottman

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The new and old in Afghanistan Ryan Jurich | rjurich@dailyegyptian.com

On August 31, 2021 the United States announced all military personnel had withdrawn from Afghanistan, ending a war which began almost twenty years ago.

Andrew Bacevich, doctor of international history and West Point professor, recently spoke with the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute on the Afghanistan situation.

“Certainly, the evacuation was mishandled and embarrassing. But the big story is what happened 20 years prior to the evacuation.”

From the 1950s to the early 1970s, Afghanistan saw a period of growth and liberalization, transitioning from a constitutional monarchy to a one-party democracy via a nearbloodless military coup in 1973.

Under the supervision of Daoud Khan’s military government, hopes were high that Afghanistan might one day become a functioning, modern democracy.

With significant funding from both sides of the Cold War, improvements in equality, education, and the economy allowed cities like Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, to begin to look more and more like modern western ones.

Though the Kahn-lead government received significant

Soviet support, on the 28th of April 1978, a Marxist-Leninist revolution overthrew the ruling government. The Saur Revolution ignited 43 years of conflict in the country, including the involvement of the Soviet Union, US and NATO forces, and the rise of groups like the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

From 1979-1989, the Soviet Union fought a protracted war to support the new government from an uprising of various insurgent groups and Islamist reactionaries - a war which now seems eerily similar to the one the United States has recently withdrawn from.

“We [the US] set out to do two things,” Bacevich described to Paul Simon presenter John Shaw.

“We set out to create a legitimate government in Kabul [and] we set out to create security forces [...] that would be able to provide for the security of the country. And the evidence shows that we failed drastically on both counts.”

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Afghanistan was abandoned to fight a prolonged civil war, leading to an estimated death toll in the hundreds of thousands.

Following the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush declared a “War on Terror,” Afghanistan included. On October 7, 2001, the US and its

allies launched Operation Enduring Freedom, officially beginning the war with an invasion and occupation of most of Afghanistan.

Bacevich said, “We demonstrated the limits of our ability, the limits of our military capacity [...] so the grand plan of the Bush administration never got past Iraq.

And indeed, the grand plan ended up with us having a protracted war in Iraq, a protracted war in Afghanistan, that Bush passed on to his successor, [President Barack] Obama, and Obama passes on to his successor [President Donald] Trump.”

After more than 20 years of fighting, the United States followed the Soviet example. While the US evacuated over 120,000+ military and civilian personnel, the operation was marred by administrative fumbles, attacks on US troops, and the surprisingly quick collapse of the Afghan military. The debate on whether any of the US’s strategic objectives were achieved by the war rages on, but even more alarming is the thought that the country may once again collapse as it did after the end of the Soviet invasion.

Dire concerns have also been raised about what will happen to those left behind in the wake of the American withdrawal, and

whether the new governing regime will seek retribution on those with connections to the West.

Southern Illinois University (SIU) hosts a number of Afghan students, many of whom still have family in Afghanistan or other ties to their home country. While specific students could not be contacted due to privacy and security concerns, the SIU Center for International Education discussed what SIU is doing during the crisis.

“We are deeply concerned about the situation in Afghanistan and its impact on both students and graduates who face an uncertain future,” Professor Andrew Carver, executive director for international affairs wrote.

“SIU has a long history of supporting students and scholars from regions of conflict and instability. That experience is helping the university mount a rapid response to the crisis in Afghanistan,” Carver said.

When asked about programs SIU has put in place to assist students, Carver spoke in specifics.

“First, evacuation requests from students and scholars with ties to SIU are coordinated with staff members in the offices of the U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth and Congressman Mike Bost. Second,

International Friends Club, a community volunteer organization affiliated with SIU’s Center for International Education, mobilized an emergency response team to offer assistance to students. Third, the Center for International Education is working successfully with the Institute of International Education (IIE) to secure additional financial support,” he said.

Carver noted the need for a continuing response to the upheaval, saying “the crisis is not over and our efforts are ongoing.”

In the 1970s, rights for women and other minority groups all seemed to have a chance for improvement. The adoption of a democratic constitution--even one which favored a near dictatorial one-party state--set Afghanistan on a new path. Growing economic prosperity, a strengthened secular education and administration, and friendlier relations with other nations all seemed to indicate the possibility for a brighter future.

Whether any of these hopeful developments might be seen again remains, for the time being, unknown.

Staff reporter Ryan Jurich can be reached at rjurich@dailyegyptian.com.

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Xiong said the RSO consists of approximately 20 students including performers, choreographers and technical crew.

She said she enjoys overseeing the group, and encourages other students interested in theater to join.

“This group is an opportunity for everyone to perform,” Xiong said. “I love it because it’s student-run, and it’s open to anyone who wants to try theater, not just for theater students.”

The play itself is a “jukebox musical,” meaning its story is original but uses songs from other media in the place of original music. The musical tells the story of a trio of children taken on an adventure to the world of Illumination, a parallel world where magic has been locked away in the Book of Magic.

The trio, Lilly, Sage and Clark, embark on a quest, aided by the Light Lady, to prevent the Book of Magic from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord.

The production had live music, performed mainly on piano, and choreographed dances on stage and in space made between rows of seating, which immersed the audience in the scenes.

From start to finish, “Magic To Do” was high-energy, and excelled at maintaining the interest of the audience. Each member of the cast contributed speaking lines to the story, and many of the music selections were taken from recognizable productions to draw the audience into the fun.

Coley Zralka is a third year transfer student from the University of Illinois UrbanaChampaign (UIUC). She is in the Art Education program at SIU, and this was her

“This group is an opportunity for everyone to perform,” Xiong said. “I love it because it’s student-run, and it’s open to anyone who wants to try theater, not just for theater students.”

- Nini Xiong

President of FIERCE!

first production with FIERCE! “I transferred here during COVID, so I’m excited to be signing up,” Zralka said. “It’s mostly music and theater majors here, but all people are welcome.”

Zralka said she was unable to perform for two years, even during her time at UIUC, due to COVID. She said she performed three or four productions each year before the shutdowns, and appreciated the opportunity FIERCE! gave her to perform again.

Abby Ohlau is a first year student pursuing a bachelor’s degree in musical theater. She was cast to play Lilly in the production.

“It’s almost like family here,” Ohlau said.

“It’s nice that it’s all students, and everyone gets to do what they want to as opposed to having professors direct things and tell you what to do.”

Ohlau said she expected the audience to enjoy the unique experience. She also

expected people to look at this showing and recordings for any future performances of the production.

“It’s really interesting, because no one’s ever performed this before,” Ohlau said. “But, it’s lots of fun, and a good show. I’m proud of Nini. She did very well on it.”

Hayden Hotchkiss is a first year student in musical theater, and performed in productions throughout his schooling career.

“I think FIERCE! is awesome because I wasn’t able to be a part of any other productions,” Hotchkiss said. “It’s great that, even as a freshman, I get to be a part of a show when a lot of schools don’t even allow that for first year students.”

Hotchkiss said FIERCE! is a good place to get started if one is interested in musical theater.

“This is a great way to get started or keep your skills fresh,” Hotchkiss said. “It’s

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an especially kind, caring and supportive atmosphere.”

Carolyn Ridler played Clark in the production of “Magic To Do.” She is currently a second year student studying theater performance and this is her first year as a part of FIERCE! Ridler said the previous year only included one official production by the theatre department at SIU, with FIERCE! remaining inactive in the 2020 year. The year’s theater department performance, called “New Faces 2020,” consisted of several small, virtual performances to acquaint watchers with the new students in the school. The production was performed via Zoom and shared a common theme of conspiracy theories.

With the return of FIERCE! this school year, and with Xiong taking the position of president, Ridler said the RSO feels very organized.

“I’m very surprised by how professional it is,” Ridler said. “I wasn’t really sure what to expect going into it, but going throughout the rehearsal process I was very excited and pleasantly surprised to see it was just like any other theater production I’ve done.”

Ridler said she appreciates the professionalism and dedication of Xiong in her position as director and president.

“I knew that Nini was the director, and that she would be running this, so I had the expectation that it would be well run,” Ridler said. “I have a lot of respect for her.”

Staff reporter William Box can be reached at wbox@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ William17455137.

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Karen Samuel, the director of Rainbow’s End, a child development center in Carbondale, teaches children 6 weeks to 9 years-old, said they teach kids to embrace different cultures through books and toys.

“We follow an anti-bias curriculum, which celebrates and accepts all cultures, beliefs, and holidays. We have materials in the classrooms which reflect different races, ethnic backgrounds, and abilities,” Samuel said.

Samuel said they also invite parents to talk about the different holidays they celebrate.

“We celebrate differences by using multicultural materials and toys… We also invite parents in to talk about the holidays they celebrate or to share something from their culture or country,” Samuel said.

Rainbow’s End tries to encourage students to embrace other cultures, Samuel said, and trains teachers to stay aware of these situations and handle them accordingly.

“They are taught to be sensitive to all cultures and beliefs, and to be inclusive in all activities and interactions with the children… They should be aware of how they are speaking or reacting to children to ensure that all children are treated the same,” Samuel said.

Rainbow’s End’s discrimination policy is the same for all faculty that work at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. “[Racial bias incidents] would be handled on a case by case basis, and would not be tolerated,” Samuel said.

Samuel said that they take these situations very seriously, and will not tolerate any bias regarding a student’s race from teachers.

“Our classrooms are evaluated by our state assessors to ensure that we are meeting this standard… We are so fortunate to have a lot of children of different races and cultures at our center so it is naturally incorporated into everything we do,” Samuel said.

Dr. Cheng-Yao Lin, the coordinator of SIU’s elementary education department, said he makes an effort to expose his students to different forms of math tools and equations to open them to different cultural norms in education.

Lin said incorporating different cultural components into the learning process can help reduce bias.

Lin said he teaches Verdic multiplication which is an ancient Hindu method of math and other methods from different countries such as Japan, Russia and Egypt.

Lin said that he shows his students different countries’ ways of solving problems, such as from a Japanese elementary school textbook, because he feels that it will allow students to see that the American way of solving a math problem is not the only way to solve a problem.

Riddle said another good starting point would be having people sit down for one-on-one conversations to address issues of discipline disparity, though it may seem time consuming or impractical.

“Develop relationships over time with those people and have them come to understandings about, you know, their different backgrounds and their differing experiences,” Riddle said.

Staff reporter Janiyah Gaston can be reached at jgaston@dailyegyptian.com or on Instagram at @ janiyah_reports.

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Bring the Black student body together: Black Affairs Council Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis The Black Affairs Council (BAC) at Southern Illinois University Carbondale plays an important part in making sure the Black RSOs on campus run as smoothly as possible.

According to its Facebook page, the organization’s mission is to “address cultural, social, educational, and political concerns of Black Students at SIUC, and within the local community.”

BAC Coordinator Grace Gunn, a third year student, said she found out about BAC her first semester after being invited to The Black Experience event by her Africana Studies teacher Dr. Brione Lockett.

“He invited our class to The Black Experience networking social,” Grace Gunn said. “They had food, and let you meet the staff, union Black staff, RSO leaders and community leaders.”

Gunn said she loved BAC when first hearing about it, especially with her family’s ties to the organization through her father, Dwight Gunn.

When first learning about BAC on campus, Grace Gunn said she expected them to be more active.

“I wish that they had had a bigger presence on campus,” she said. “ I had a pretty good impression of them, and I thought it seemed like they were full of intelligent people who were connected to people on campus.”

Grace Gunn wanted to join BAC because she saw a need for Black students to help make the campus better, she said.

“I always feel like it’s important for Black students at a White institution to be a part of the organizations that are made for them to help influence the campus,” Grace Gunn said. “I wanted to be a part of those conversations that affect me as a student at the school.”

BAC is made up of multiple coordinators, comptrollers,

public relations people, executive board members and a resource department to help Black RSOs and the Black student body with any problems they have, Grace Gunn said.

She said she is grateful for all the opportunites BAC has given her for her future, she said.

“It has gotten me in rooms that I didn’t think I would ever be in,” Grace Gunn said. “ It’s helped me be a part of making change on campus and it’s helped me build my resume so much in ways that a lot of people don’t get to build their resumes and get certain opportunities that others can’t get.”

SIU Alum and former BAC member, Kevin Winsted was the chief coordinator of BAC from 2004 until 2007, starting at the Black Togetherness Organization, he said.

Similar to Grace Gunn, Winstead wanted to belong to a Black community in a majority White university.

“Being at a PWI institution in the early 2000s, there was a need for community,” Winstead said. “There were certainly African American students, and they typically clustered within the towers and Allen Hall in my undergraduate, but organized community was something that I was very much seeking.”

Winstead said BAC was affiliated with the Chicago chapter of the Black Panthers in the 60s, since a large number of Black students at SIU come from the Chicagoland area.

“You get literal people like Fred Hampton and the Chicago Black Panthers and its whole agenda of mixing people of color, and combining their political power,” Winstead said. “[And it’s] happening at a time where the university was just coming out of housing integration and things of that nature.”

Winstead said the relationship between Black students at SIU and Carbondale Police in the 60s was not a good one.

“Coming out in the 60s were students during the segregation era, students found themselves in a shootout with Carbondale

police,” Winstead said. “That was the kind of attention that the Black Affairs Council was founded on.”

Students were creating their own political power, and, back then, it wasn’t about networking, but survival, Winstead said.

He said he’s proud of the progress the organization has made,especially with the last several coordinators these past years being women, and seeing more Black women’s organizations created.

“In my era, I had the privilege of witnessing the Black Women’s Task Force get development,” Winstead said. “Its relationship to further scholastic development of Black feminism and Black feminists thought that happened, and I think that’s had a lot of positive impact on the Black Affairs Council and the community.”

Special Advisor of the National Association of Black Journalists at SIU, Eyaan Mahone, has been working with NABJ for more than six years, and BAC has always been there to help, he said. “[They help] different RSO fairs, Black RSO fairs, especially more recently this year,” Mahone said. “Just setting up our table having some games and things like that for people who have an interest in the RSOs to come play.”

Mahone said NABJ would work with BAC regularly on events they need publicity for or extra help, he said; and he encouraged Black students who want to join a Black RSO to go to BAC. “Just go inside the office, and just this let them know that you’re interested in which specific RSO you want to go into,” Mahone said. “Tell them what your plans are as far as your major and after graduation, and I think the BAC would definitely help and guide [students] in the right direction on which RSO to join just to broaden your horizons.”

Staff reporter Jamilah Lewis can be reached at jlewis@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @jamilahlewis.

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Fall Fun: Orchards and More Only 20 Minutes Away Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis

As Fall weather blankets Southern Illinois, there are a variety of ways for locals to get hands-on with the region’s autumnal bounty. Farms such as Flamm Orchards and Rendleman Orchards offer a variety of fall activities a short drive from the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale campus.

Flamm Orchard, located in Cobden, Illinois, has operated since 1888, making this year it’s 133rd season, sixth-generation Owner Austin Flamm said.

Flamm Orchards has a retail stand that sells fresh peaches, strawberries and apples that are harvested from the orchards, he said.

Depending on the season, different fruits will be available, Flamm said.

It is apple season right now, from late August up through about Thanksgiving, he said.

“We also have an on-site fruits and cream stand where it’s actually my grandmother’s recipes for strawberry shortcake, peach cobbler, apple pie and apple dumplings,” Flamm said.

“The apple dumpling is extremely unique. There’s an entire apple inside of a dumpling” Flamm said. “We joke a lot of times, yeah, be careful when you eat one of those because it’ll ruin your meal because it is a meal itself.”

Each bakery item can be taken as a single serving with ice cream, or customers can take the whole pan home, Flamm said.

Cobden and the surrounding areas are very supportive of Flamm’s business and he always makes sure to give back as

“We have a lot of our old original buildings that you can see, and people are really amazed by the fact that we are intact from 150 years, and that we still utilize a lot of those buildings and barns in our business and that we’re a true working farm.”

- Michelle Sirles Rendleman Orchards owner

much as he can by providing fresh fruit and delicious treats, he said.

As far as SIU goes, Flamm and his family are huge Saluki basketball fans and always love coming to support the team, he said.

Flamm is very supportive of all the students who come out to visit the orchard and the success of the university is something that he is proud of.

“We are also big fans of the football program, seeing them being number four in the nation right now is an impressive feat and it brings great positive light to this area of the world that doesn’t always get it ” Flamm said.

Located in Alto Pass, Illinois, and only a 24 minute drive from campus, Rendleman Orchards is a big hit with students at SIU, fifth-generation owner Michelle Sirles said.

What started out as a business raising livestock and vegetables, quickly turned into an orchard because of how well the apples and peaches grew on the hillside with the beautiful weather, Sirles said.

“We have a lot of our old original buildings that you can see, and people are really amazed by the fact that we are intact from 150 years, and that we still utilize a lot of those buildings and barns in our business and that we’re a true working farm,” Sirles said.

Rendleman Orchards has a retail Farm Market, open seven days a week from the end of June through Halloween, Sirles said.

Apple cider slush and apple cider doughnuts draw customers to Rendleman, Sirles said.

What makes Rendleman Orchards appealing to SIU students is the “U-Pick” flower fields, pumpkin patches and beautiful, original buildings for amazing pictures, Sirles said.

On the weekends, food trucks and coffee vendors are available, along with other activities, Sirles said.

Sunflowers in the fall and Zinnias in the summer are the flowers in the U-Pick flower fields and many SIU students are often found taking cute fall pictures in the fields, Sirles said.

She said she’s seen sororities taking their recruitment videos out in the flower field and pumpkin patch last year and this year.

Sirles and her husband met at SIU, where her husband was in the College of Agriculture. His parents also met at SIU, so there’s a long university history in the family at Rendleman, Sirles said.

Rendleman Orchards is supportive of SIU students and always loves seeing them come to paint, draw, take pictures or make films, Sirles said.

Sirles has hired many SIU students in the College of Agriculture and has always worked with their schedules, she said.

Sirles said she enjoys seeing all the students and their families

on homecoming week or family weekend because it’s a chance to show them what’s in the surrounding areas outside of SIU. “We think it’s really wonderful that they support local businesses, but also become aware of what all businesses are in the region,” Sirles said. “We would actually love for them to build a life here and stay in southern Illinois.”

Rendleman is hosting its first ever Pups in the Patch Costume Contest on Oct. 24, from 12-3 p.m., Sirles said.

The contest will include food vendor Deep South and coffee vendor Bold Blooded Company, Sirles said.

There will also be pup-focused vendors including Crude Carnivore, Mario’s Mama, and Pure Pet, Sirles said.

Sirles said the sponsors for prizes are PAWSitive Pet Perfection and Rendleman Orchards.

All proceeds from registration will go to Saint Francis Care and entrants can pre-register their pup here, Sirles said.

Southern Illinois is also home to many fall festivals, including the Mekanda Mushroom Festival.

While it has already happened this year, it was so successful organizers are already planning another event for next year, host Katherine Accettura,said.

“It was a celebration of local mushrooms that grow locally in the forest, as well as mushrooms that are grown by our friends,” Accettura said.

Mike and Jess Hatfield who run Flyways Family Farm helped grow culinary and medicinal mushrooms for the festival, Accettura said.

Activities included mushroom hikes, where attendees could ID and forage mushrooms, and various workshops to learn about uses for medicinal and edible mushrooms Accettura said.

Accettura said there were about 200 people who attended the event, and 75% were from out of town from places like Tennessee, Central Illinois, Missouri and Chicago.

The Hatfields who are also members of Missouri Mycological Society sponsored the event with other vendors, Accettura said.

“We also had a juried artists’ market and mini-farmers’ market,” Accettura said. “We had local and regional artists who created mushroom and woodland themed art.”

The date for the 2022 mushroom festival is currently set for Oct. 14 through 16 and Accettura said she’s hopeful there will be more workshops, mushroom hikes, and a local chef to create more mushroom dishes,.

“We appreciate everyone who came out this year to celebrate our very first event,” Accettura said. “With such great feedback we are excited to host even more people and...educate more people.”

Staff reporter can be reached at carolynd@dailyegyptian.com.

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IN FULL SWING

SIU medieval combat club member, Gary Harness, goes in for an attack during a match. SIU Medieval Combat Club is a full contact combat sport that is medieval fantasy inspired where participants engage in different combat style games with a variety of boffers, also known as foam weapons on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 northeast Morris field at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo Jared Treece | @jaredtmedia

Scan the QR code to watch SIU’s Medieval Combat Club in full swing.

If you happen to be walking around Morris Library on a weekday evening and see a group of people hacking away at each other with foam weapons between Faner Hall and Morris Library, that would be the Medieval Combat Club practicing.

Boffers, also known as foam weapons, are primarily used to conduct combat against opponents. Most weapons are crafted by individuals but must meet restrictions from the Belegarth Medieval Combat Society.

The Medieval Combat Club is a full contact combat sport with medieval fantasy inspiration .

Colin Curtis is the president of the Medieval Combat Club.

“So we are a foam-boffer weapon combat sport. We are part of Belegarth Medieval Combat Society, which is the national society. The society encompasses crafting, fighting, and some other historical aspects. But we mostly focus on the fighting,” Curtis said.

Curtis has been a part of the club since he first got to Southern Illinois University. “I actually heard about the club when I was here on a college visit a couple of years ago. So ever since I heard about it, I have been wanting to join. I finally got the opportunity to join when I transferred here,” Curtis said.

Gary Harness, a criminal justice major, joined the club at the beginning of the semester.

Harness said the Medieval Combat Club set itself apart from the other RSOs on campus.

“You get to come here and pick up foam swords and hit your friends,” Harness said.

From time to time, the club also gets involved with other Belegarth societies nearby. “We do occasional competitions. Recently, we’ve kind of

been on hold with everything else. Usually twice a year, we’ll go up to U of I and fight with them. There are a couple other national events we do,” Curtis said. “Mostly it’s field fighting, but some of the bigger events are actually camping events. You go out there, and camp for a couple of nights, and it’s just fighting everyday.”

This year, the club has been able to return to attending competitions. Member Gary Harness recalls, “I went to the Numenor opener back in September. It was pretty great. There were 50 to 60 people all out with foam swords, hitting each other,” Harness said.

“We do free-for-alls. That’s about how you start it. And then, after that, it’ll move into big line fights where they’ll split the number of people down the middle, and have you fight each other, and see which team is left standing.”

SIU Medieval Combat Club practices twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays from 5pm-7pm on Morris Field, in front of the Library and Faner Hall.

Staff Photographer Jared Treece can be reached at jtreece@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ jaredtmedia.

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Several participants engage in combat during a SIU Medieval Combat Club practice game. SIU Medieval Combat Club is a full contact combat sport that is medieval fantasy inspired where participants engage in different combat style games with a variety of boffers, also known as foam weapons on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 northeast Morris field at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo

Participants stand in a group before next combat game during a SIU Medieval Combat Club practice game. SIU Medieval Combat Club is a full contact combat sport that is medieval fantasy inspired where participants engage in different combat style games with a variety of boffers, also known as foam weapons on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 northeast Morris field at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo

“You get to come here and pick up foam swords and hit your friends.”

-Gary Harness SIU Medieval Combat Club Member Left: SIU medieval combat club treasurer, Emma Ruemmler, does a quality control check as each arrow is fired at an assistant. SIU Medieval Combat Club is a full contact combat sport that is medieval fantasy inspired where participants engage in different combat style games with a variety of boffers, as so known as foam weapons on Monday, Oct. 18, 2021 northeast Morris field at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo

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Halloween Drag Show Celebrate the spooky season in Carbondale with wicked-awesome, family-friendly Halloween festivities and events!

7:00 PM | The Varsity

Halloween-Themed Glow Paint Night 6:00 PM | Project Human X

SaTuRdAy, OcT. 30 Safe Halloween 10:00 AM | Murdale Shopping Center

Halloween Comicfest 10:00 AM | Castle Perilous Games and Books

Candy Walk 12:00 PM | Downtown Carbondale

The Great Carbondale Pumpkin Race 1:00 PM | Mill St. Underpass

Live at Washington and Main 4:00 PM | Washington & Main Street

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The Pumpkin Glow 6:30 PM | Oakland Avenue Nature Preserve

Halloween-Themed Glow Paint Night 6:00 PM | Project Human X

Indoor Movie Night 7:00 PM | SIU Student Center

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Illinois Humanities hosts discussion on mass incarceration

Kiersten Owens | kowens@dailyegyptian.com

An array of Illinois organizers, artists and community members attended a webinar focused on community based strategies to address racial issues in the legal system.

The webinar began with a video premiere, which showcased discussions among members of the Carbondale community who have been affected by mass incarceration.

The video was produced by Illinois Humanities in partnership with VAM STUDIO. Gabrielle Lyon, executive director of Illinois Humanities, said a conversation about the justice system is critical in order to build the community and strengthen civil engagement.

The video premiere was followed by a panel discussion about the incarceration system, and how it disproportionately affects people of

color, especially Black people..

Topics that were touched upon included how the incarceration system is designed to make people disappear, how generations of Black people are imprisoned together, which results in families being in the same prison, and the rising number of women that are incarcerated, which leads to some of them giving birth in prison.

The panel members also shared their mechanisms of activism and community tools to inform others of the many resources that are available and different ways that one can contribute to a cause that benefits the Carbondale community.

Kim Henry, a mental health and substance abuse counselor in the Carbondale community, has 20 years of experience working with the incarceration system with a focus on the long term impact that imprisonment has on the offender and their family.

“I have a loved one that’s been incarcerated for 24 years,” Henry said. “We can march, and do everything we want to do. But until we get senators, mayors, and those people out, there’s not going to be any real change.”

Quianya Enge, a community navigator and educator, is the executive director of Beyond the Walls, a mobile resource unit created to help aid individuals who have been directly impacted by incarceration.

“It’s very important to me that we know our rights and responsibilities as community members,” said Enge. “We need to know that this system was set up to dismantle the power of the black community. So, when we go into those spaces, and we are communicating, and we’re talking to them, we need to go in there with action steps as well.”

Micheal Coleman, a student at Southern Illinois University at

Carbondale studying Political Science, serves as committee member for the Rainbow Café, an LGBTQ resource center in Carbondale.

Coleman said, “I feel that a lot of people who are marginalized aren’t very well versed in a lot of their rights.. that’s something that’s very needed especially when you have an interaction with a police officer.”

Nick Smailigo, a graduate student at SIU-C who studies Philosophy, is a founding member of Flyover Social Center and the Carbondale Spring. The Carbondale Spring is a local grassroots organization that promotes redirecting municipal funds toward community based initiatives.

“I think it’s really important when we talk about mass incarceration to understand that, it wasn’t an accident that this happened, and that this was the US government’s political response to the Black

Freedom Movement,” said Smailigo.

Richard Neal Bey, a social justice activist, has been working in urban communities throughout the state to address issues such as alcoholism and gang violence. He works with an amatuer cycling program for children with cancer and also a bike group for children in the Carbondale community.

“There’s so much to cover,” Bey said. “If we all start with our local groups in our local areas, from there we can make a change.”

Meredith Nnoka, Envisioning Justice Fellow, facilitated the discussions.

Chastity Mays, assistant director of non-profit organization Gift of Love Charity, helped facilitate the discussion among the panelists following the video presentation.

Staff reporter Kiersten Owens can be reached at kowens@dailyegyptian. com.

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Seven athletes inducted into Saluki Hall of Fame

Brandyn Wilcoxen | @Brandyn_2020

Seven former Salukis, including three first-time eligible athletes, became the newest members of the Saluki Hall of Fame on Oct. 15, during a ceremony at the Charles Helleny Pavilion in the Banterra Center. The ceremony was part of Homecoming 2021, taking place the night before the annual Homecoming football game.

Randal Falker was a two-time First-Team All-MVC selection, helping lead Saluki men’s basketball to three NCAA Tournament appearances including a Sweet 16 run in 2007. Thirteen years removed from his final game, the school’s all-time leader in blocks doesn’t remember all the accolades he earned at Southern Illinois, but instead the memories he made with the people he met along the way.

“I learned here that the memories of things that happened once the ball stopped bouncing was what mattered to me the most,” Falker said.

Another basketball player joined Falker in the Class of 2021: Saluki women’s all-time leading scorer Cartaesha Macklin. Macklin was a three-time All-MVC selection and, in 2016, led SIU to a 20-win season and the program’s first postseason appearance in nine years.

Macklin came into a program that had won eight games the previous year. In her freshman and sophomore years, the Salukis won five games each. Despite Macklin performing well on the court, the team was not in a good position.

“I was getting a lot of individual awards, but my team, I didn’t feel we were where we needed to be,” she said.

Macklin discussed her

“I say being a Saluki means everything to me, because this is where it all started. I didn’t know where my life would begin. I remember that I was so scared of where I would go.”

- DeAnna Price SIU alumnus, Olympian, 2019 Hammer Throw World Champion

unexpected pregnancy in the winter of 2013-14, which was an emotional and difficult time for her in the middle of her collegiate career.

“I really began to reflect and appreciate the people who came before me,” Macklin said. “I look out in the crowd and I see Miss Charlotte West, who was a pioneer for Title IX. And a person like me who was pregnant, in the past wouldn’t have had the opportunity to continue to play.”

With Macklin’s induction, she became the first women’s basketball player in the Saluki Hall of Fame out of more than 300 inducted since 1978. Since she graduated in 2016, this was Macklin’s first year of eligibility.

Also inducted was fellow 2016 graduate and first-year eligible athlete DeAnna Price. Price was a two-time NCAA Champion and five-time All-American primarily competing in the hammer throw.

She set the U.S. record for the hammer throw and became just the second woman in history to surpass 80 meters. She finished eighth in the hammer throw event at both the 2016 and 2020 Olympics and won gold in the 2019 World Championships.

Price was a multi-sport athlete

in high school, playing softball, volleyball, and basketball. Track and field was meant to just be “something I can enjoy,” she said.

Three trips to state and two school records later, Price was on her way to Carbondale to throw for Southern Illinois.

“I say being a Saluki means everything to me, because this is where it all started,” Price said. “I didn’t know where my life would begin. I remember that I was so scared of where I would go.”

“I’m a firm believer that when you surround yourself with positive people, you get positive back in your life,” Price said.

One of those positive people Price cited was John Smith, who was the next former Saluki to be inducted into the Class of 2021.

Smith was an eight-time MVC champion thrower, and an AllAmerican in the indoor shot put in 1984. Smith held both the indoor and outdoor shot put record at SIU. Smith went on to become the throws coach at SIU, mentoring 49 All-Americans and 63 MVC champions, including Price.

“Pretty much all I did growing up was play sports and work,” Smith said. “The more I played sports, the less I had to work.”

Smith was a thrower for SIU in

Women’s Soccer lose final road game of season against UNI Joseph Bernard | @Jojobernard2001

SIU’s Women’s Soccer team (0-14-1, 0-6 MVC) made their final road trip of the season this weekend to Cedar Falls Iowa to play the Panthers (6-8-2, 3-3-1 MVC) where they lost, 3-1.

The Salukis were outshot on the day by a 5-14 margin, with only three of their shots being on goal.

SIU also out fouled the Panthers 6-0 and allowed more corner kicks by the Panthers by a margin of 9-6.

Highlighting the match for the Salukis was junior midfielder Christy Murauskis, who tallied SIU’s lone goal on the day on her only shot attempt. Also tallying shots on goal were junior forward

Emma Spotak and freshman midfielder Ashley Scesniak, who tallied one each.

Junior goalkeeper Maddy Alaluf started at goalie for the Salukis. She gave up all three goals but tallied three saves for herself as well.

The first half didn’t go the greatest for the Salukis, as they only tallied two shots compared to the Panther’s nine. SIU also ended the first half down 2-0.

UNI’s first goal came within the first nine minutes of play by freshman forward Ashley Harrington.

The Panthers doubled their lead with less than three minutes left of play at the 42:20 mark

with a goal by junior defender Sandra Thimen.

In the second half, the Salukis tallied their fifth goal of the year at the 65:33 mark by Murauskis.

However, a goal from UNI by Thimen at the 81 minute mark sealed the game for the Panthers at 3-1. Thimen was assisted by Harrington on the play as well.

The Salukis will come home to play their final game of the season on Thursday Oct 28 against Indiana State University with a 4 p.m kickoff time.

Sports reporter Joseph Bernard can be reached at joseph.l.bernard@ siu.edu or on twitter @ Jojobernard2001.

the ’80s. When SIU eliminated the throwing coach job during his freshman year, somebody needed to step in and coach.

“That was my introduction,” Smith said. “And we just started getting it done.”

Southern Illinois’s reputation as a powerhouse in track and field was promoted by Smith, who has spent four years with the program as a student-athlete and 12 as a coach.

“You think of SIU as a midmajor school. SIU is known for basketball,” Smith said. “But around the world, SIU is known first for track and field.”

Smith was one of two inductees from the 20th century. The other was Damon Jones. Jones was a three-time All-Conference tight end, including first-team in 1995 and 1996, and was named to SIU’s All-Century team in 2013. Jones finished third all-time in receiving yards and fifth in receptions at the end of his Saluki career.

In accepting his enshrinement, Jones acknowledged some mistakes he had made along the way. Specifically, he mentioned when he had transferred to Carbondale from the University of Michigan.

“I came here not knowing what I was going to be,” Jones said. “I

thought I had lost my way as a young adult.”

When he arrived at SIU, Jones remembers being anxious about joining a new team. On his first day, Jones noticed he was getting looks from people on campus.

When he saw the newest edition of The Daily Egyptian, he figured out why.

“I was on the cover of [The Daily Egyptian]. It was a big full page, like I was some football savior,” Jones said. “And I was like, ‘oh my lord, what are my teammates gonna think of me?’”

Jones would eventually live up to that hype,becoming the 23rd Saluki to be drafted into the NFL, where he spent 5 years with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

The 27th Saluki to be drafted in the NFL - coincidentally also a tight end - joined Jones in the Class of 2021. MyCole Pruitt was a two-time First-Team AllAmerican, three-time First-Team All-MVFC, and set the school record for career catches and catches in a season.

Pruitt now plays for the NFL’s Tennessee Titans, which prevented him from attending the ceremony in-person.

Also missing the ceremony was Meg Viggars, who plays volleyball professionally in France. Viggars was a two-time All-MVC selection and helped lead Saluki volleyball to 23 wins and a bid in the NCAA Tournament in 2015. She is the only player in school history with at least 800 career kills, 2,000 assists, 1,000 digs and 300 blocks.

Staff reporter Brandyn Wilcoxen can be reached at bwilcoxen@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ Brandyn_2020

Saluki Volleyball falls to Loyola-Chicago Cole Daily | cdaily@dailyegyptian.com

Southern Illinois battled the LoyolaChicago Ramblers on Oct. 22 in Gentile Arena. The Ramblers took home the win after four sets in front of their home crowd.

The first set was close throughout, but the Ramblers went on a scoring run late and won the set 25-21.

Loyola-Chicago started off the second set strong after junior hitter Addie Barnes had two important blocks to give the Ramblers momentum. Loyola-Chicago then jumped out to a 15-8 lead.

The Salukis started a major comeback to make the score 24-23.

However, Loyola was able to score one final point and end the match 25-23.

However, SIU rallied in the third

set, and won 25-16. The Salukis jumped out to a 15-9 lead and never looked back.

Southern Illinois’ momentum wasn’t sustainable however, as the Ramblers stole the fourth set 25-21.

The top players for SIU were junior Nataly Garcia and sophomore Alex Washington. Garcia totalled 16 kills, two assists, and eight blocks.

Washington helped the Salukis with 14 kills, eight blocks, and an ace.

Freshman setter Anna Jaworski led the game with 38 assists. Senior Katy Kluge led the team with ten digs.

The Salukis’ next game will be against Valaparaiso University on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 5 pm.

Sports Reporter Cole Daily can be reached at cdaily@dailyegyptian.com

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From gridiron to behind the scenes SIU’s Stone Labanowitz continues his successes through sports media

Joseph Bernard | @Jojobernard2001

Though former SIU quarterback Stone Labanowitz may not have earned the starting role this year for the Salukis, he has started to make a name for himself in other areas.

Following the news he wouldn’t be the starter this year, Labanowitz has been making strides in the sports media field throughout many different types of work.

Labanowitz is working four different jobs right now for different sports companies, including a part-time gig with the Miami Dolphins organization, being a behindthe-scenes crew member for various ESPN daytime shows, partnering with EnterPRIZE Sports and taking part in the Sports Gambling podcast.

Labanowitz spent his college years majoring as a radio, television, and digital media student, minoring in electronic sports media, and of course spent a lot of time as a quarterback for Advanced Software Analysis Junior College, the University of Mississippi, and ultimately SIU for two seasons.

During his time at SIU, Labanowitz led the Salukis to their first playoff win since 2009 in the 2021 spring season, which caused there to be some debate as to who should be the starter the following season. Ultimately, teammate Nic Baker won the starting job and Labanowitz left the program and ultimately his playing career.

Labanowitz said it wasn’t the move he wanted, but he had other opportunities lined up professionally.

“This is something that was always planned for me and I didn’t have any time to waste. I had to go get it now if I wanted to be successful right away. If I waited a bit, who knows what would

SIU quarterback, Stone Labanowitz (6), warms up before the game against South Dakota State on Sunday, May, 2, 2021 in Brookings, S.D. SIU went on to lose 26-31 against the Jackrabbits. SIU Athletics | Tom Weber, Jr.

have happened, so it was kinda cool to see it all happen as fast as it did,” Labanowitz said.

So fast, in fact, it could have been easy to become overwhelmed with so many new things on his plate. Instead, he said, the experiences brought out the best in him. EnterPRIZE Sports founder, Dan Seravalli said Stone’s transition into working for them has gone as smooth as it could.

“The first thing he did for us, he was by himself and we expected him to make some content for us, but he made so much content for us that we didn’t even use it all. It was great that he went above and beyond, so the transition was phenomenal for him and it was as good as it

gets,” Seravalli said.

The team at EnterPRIZE Sports has an Instagram page where it posts various types of content involved in college sports, and even more specifically, college football. Some of this content includes sending a team member out to a college on gameday and getting different types of interviews done as well as interacting with the students and fraternities across campus.

Seravalli said he’s sent Labanowitz out to some of these colleges on gameday because of his relatability to these college students.

“Absolutely. I’m 25, and he’s younger so he’s just removed from college. He knows what the ins and outs are of college and definitely can relate to those kids a little better than us,” Seravalli said.

Labanowitz’s enthusiasm for all things sports media isn’t new. Saluki offensive coordinator Blake Rolan said Labanowitz’s love for the social media world was evident from the start.

“You could tell early on that he had a gift for gab and could talk about all different types of stuff and was really involved with social media and was a great personality on top of all of that.

I could see him bringing something unique to any organization or company,” Rolan said.

Rolan was a huge influence on Labanowitz during his time at SIU. Labanowitz said Rolan helped him in a lot of different ways that weren’t even related to his play.

“He really shook my life right away and I don’t think he knew it. He knew how I thought and knew the right way to coach me and that was

monumental to me. I think he helped me make my decisions later on in my SIU career and he was almost smiling on my way out in a good way.

I owe him a lot no doubt,” Labanowitz said.

Labanowitz spent most of his life so far as a quarterback for teams from high school all the way to last season with SIU. However, he said he probably enjoys his life more now than he did before.

I’m around football 24/7 now. So at times I feel like I’m still in it. Of course I’m not dropping back in the pocket, but it’s still very much a part of me and always will be. I’m just a lover of sports.

I’m more excited about the life side of things right now compared to playing football,” Labanowitz said.

Seravalli said Labanowitz’s time as a college athlete gives him a much easier time when talking to current college students whenever he’s on assignment for EnterPRIZE. “He played college football, so he relates really well to what we’re doing with college football. He has the same humor and the talent to interview people so I think it’s a really good mesh of things. He’s a great person to work with.

He’s open to trying anything for us and works really well with us,” Seravalli said.

Rolan also lauds Labanowitz’s gift at making connections. He said it was always evident.

“The ability to connect and the desire to reach out and know all different types of people was definitely a strength of his. He could really connect with coaches and all different types of players and always seemed interested in other people’s lives and experiences,” Rolan said.

Rolan also noted Labanowitz’ was his ability to get beyond anything that might get thrown in his way.

“He’s certainly an overcomer. He overcame some injuries and didn’t necessarily get the scholarship he wanted going out of high school.

He was always ready when the time came and found a way to make it work even when it didn’t always look the greatest sometimes,” Rolan said.

Seravalli said it was a pretty quick decision to bring Labanowitz onto his team once he finally met and interviewed him.

“We knew right away. It was a great fit for what we do and his personality matches what we do perfectly and I think it’s just the start to a lot of good things to come. I think the future is going to be bright not only for him, but for all of us here,” Seravalli said.

Sports reporter Joseph Bernard can be reached at joseph.l.bernard@siu.edu or on twitter @ Jojobernard2001.

Saluki women’s golf places 9th in Ozarks National Invitational

Brandyn Wilcoxen | @Brandyn_2020

Saluki women’s golf finished ninth at the Ozarks National Invitational in Hollister, Missouri. The three round tournament spanned from Monday until Wednesday. SIU shot the best third round of any team outside of the top three, riding that performance to a tie for ninth at 58 over par.

Leading the way for SIU were sophomore Waew Anuvran and junior Ayanna Habeel, who each shot 14 over par to tie for 35th among individuals. Coming in at 18 over par were graduate students Rose Bundy and Moyea Russell, who each tied for 47th.

Junior Megan Breslin rounded out the top 5 for the Salukis, shooting 24 over par en route to a 58th place finish. Sophomore Janie

Samattiyadeekul competed as an individual, finishing in 51st place at 19 over par.

SIU’s ninth place finish matches the team’s best this season with their ninth place performance at the Hoover Invite in September.

While that tournament consisted of only 11 teams, the Ozarks National Invitational had 15 teams participating.

With the completion of the Ozarks National Invitational on Oct. 20, Saluki women’s golf has finished its schedule for the 2021 calendar year. It will next compete in the Lady Bison Bay Point Classic in Panama City, Florida on Feb. 7-8.

Staff reporter Brandyn Wilcoxen can be reached at bwilcoxen@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @Brandyn_2020

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SIU Football regroups before 2nd half of season during bye week Cole Daily | cdaily@dailyegyptian.com

Before the Salukis next game against Northern Iowa on Oct. 30, the team gets a break with a bye week. That gives SIU the chance to catch its breath after a roller coaster of a season.

The bye will help the Salukis work out the kinks on both sides of the ball. Southern Illinois is on a five game win streak, but their last three games have been decided by a score of three points or less.

Senior safety Qua Brown said players now have the time to correct themselves.

“We just had a pretty long stretch of playing football, from fall week to these seven weeks we just played. The biggest emphasis of this week is getting back to full health and getting ready for these coming weeks,” Brown said.

In Southern Illinois’ last game, the Salukis defeated North Dakota 31-28. However, if it were not for two missed field goals in the final few drives by North Dakota’s junior kicker Brady Stevens, the story could be very different.

Head Coach Nick Hill said the Salukis are happy they squeezed by with a win during Homecoming.

“It’s a big win for us. I think our guys know we can play much cleaner and much better, but with some of that you have to give the credit to North Dakota,” Hill said.

Senior wide receiver Landon Lenoir said North Dakota came out and surprised them, but the Salukis’ resilience helped them pull out the win.

“They just had a great scheme [...] I feel like we figured it out when we went into halftime, and came out and our guys made some big

time plays,” Lenoir said.

However, teams are known to have struggles, and many get better after a bye week. In the National Football League (NFL) last year, the Buccaneers, during seven-time NFL champion quarterback Tom Brady’s first year with the team, were 7-5 before their bye.

After their bye week, the Buccaneers went 8-0 en route to a Super Bowl victory.

Brown said the Salukis hope to have a similar outcome. The SIU football team has put a lot into improving certain areas of its game.

“Just as far as the defense, we want to make sure we’re a better tackling team, and we just want to be more dominant overall, Brown said.“We’ve figured out that a lot of the mistakes we’ve made this season are minor and fixable.”

During the bye week, Brown said, the players work on keeping themselves in shape while also getting the rest their bodies need.

“The bye week definitely helps you recover, but you don’t want to fall out of that midseason shape. We’ve had three practices this week where we’ve gotten good work in,” Brown said.

The bye isn’t only about improving on weaknesses for the Salukis, but remaining consistent in their strengths.

“You have to have good workouts. Our strength staff will do a great job of keeping their bodies activated and going, and then we’ll get a good week of practice,” Hill said.

The bye week also allows for the players to rest physically. The long stretch of the football season can be very difficult to go through, so any break does wonders.

“For us, we just gotta rest up, get as much rest as we can, and when we come back after that Saturday night on Sunday morning, we just gotta lock in and build our momentum,” Lenoir said.

Hill said the players have deserved this rest after a good start to the season.

“We’ve went seven in a row against a pretty tough schedule, and so our guys and coaches have just been exhausted, mentally and physically,” Hill said.

A bye week can not only be physically relieving, but mentally as well. Brown said the bye week is important for his mental health.

“We don’t typically go as hard as we do on a regular game week [...] we have a lot more time to relax, focus on school, and take your mind away from football,” Brown said.

The Salukis are face-to-face with the pressure they have put on themselves by going 6-1 (4-0 in the Missouri Valley Conference).

The Salukis will be heavily favored in the rest of their games this season.

Lenoir said SIU is ready to step up to the pressure.

“We’ve got a long season ahead of us. We’ve got plenty more opportunities, plenty more

games to complete, and we still haven’t played our best football yet,” Lenoir said.

There are four games left on the schedule for the Salukis, and Brown said they are taking one game at a time.

“We’re going to have to be very successful in these final weeks of the season. We really want to come out victorious in every one of those games,” Brown said, “We understand they’re good teams and they’re going to give us everything they have.”

For Southern Illinois football, this week is about the players. Without an opponent to play for the weekend, the Salukis can work on themselves and try to maximize their potential for the final stretch.

“We need to take a couple days here, we need to heal up, and our young guys gotta continue to get better, and we’ve gotta look at some things on some plays,” Hill said, “It’s a great time to self-scout, how teams are taking some things away that we’re doing, how there’s some tendencies, and really go at the back half of this schedule.”

Sports Reporter Cole Daily can be reached at cdaily@dailyegyptian.com

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