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Community action: The battle against opioid addiction

Graduate student/assistant at the SIU Med Center of Rural Health, Hend Jadalla, shows student Makenzie Gaines how to use Narcan Nasal Spray Oct. 26, 2021 outside of the SIU Student Center in Carbondale, Illinois. “This way you’re gonna save somebody’s life, because many people just die before even the ambulance comes,” Jadalla said. Dominique Martinez-Powell | @dmartinez_powell.photography

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Southern Illinois University’s School of Medicine is helping combat the opioid epidemic by freely distributing nasal spray that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.

The Illinois Department of Human Services is assisting the medical school, and other community organizations, by providing naloxone (NARCAN) to the public. Naloxone is an opioid antagonist, binding to opioid receptors and potentially reversing and blocking the effects of opioids.

NARCAN can be used to reverse the effects of overdoses from heroin, morphine, oxycodone and many kinds of prescription pills. It is designed for community use, as no special training is required to use it.

Brent Vanham is the project coordinator for the Substance Use Disorder Leadership Program, which is housed in the Center for Rural Health and Social Service Development at the medical school. Van Ham coordinated three events over the past few weeks to help distribute NARCAN to SIU students and members of the general public in partnership with Breaking the Chain and The Community Action Place.

“We’ve been coming over every other week and we’ve had very good reception,” Vanham said. “Typically we show up with 100 and 20 units. Each box, which is one unit, has two doses in it.”

Will Nicholson gets out of bed every day to help people struggling with addiction get compassionate help.

Nicholson, a former opioid user, works for Community Action Place, a Southern Illinois nonprofit that offers services to the community by providing clean syringes, overdose prevention training, harm reduction supplies, ttesting for sexually transmitted diseases, contraceptives for practicing safe sex, prEP enrollment and naxolone.

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Environmental racism: A lasting legacy of discrimination

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Environmental racism is typically the institutional intersection of economics and racially biased outcomes, which often involves environmental contamination.

“Through policies like redlining, covenant laws and zoning, people of color couldn’t get federally funded mortgages to be able to move to certain areas,” said Jessica Crowe, interim chair of the school of sociology. “You still see those effects today and they’re still technically in some areas even though they aren’t legally enforceable.”

Crowe said the racist policies of the past can still impact community members’ ability to take political action because communities rely on social networks to affect political change. People in non-White communities in the United States are more often removed or kept separate from social networks of political and business leaders.

The City of Carbondale held a memorial dedication to celebrate the workers of the former Koppers railroad tie site on Oct. 17, shining a light on the legacy of environmental racism and its effect on what are often communities of color.

According to an interview done between Melvin “Pepper” Holder, a community leader and activist, and Amelia Blakely, a writer for the nonprofit Pulitzer Center, “Koppers was the main economic driver for Black families to settle in Carbondale.”

The Koppers site was operational from its opening in 1901 to its final closing in 1991 and was situated in the northeast part of town, according to the interview. During this time, the site treated wood with creosote, a distillation of tar from wood or coal used to coat the wood and prevent it from degradation due to exposure to the elements.

Evidence existed as early as 1775 that soot and tar could contribute to cancer development, however, the easy availability and affordability of the substance made it popular with the advent of railroads and ancillary industries like railroad tie producers.

Used creosote on the site would be held in a lagoon onsite until it could be recycled. However, the lagoon would flood with large amounts of rain, contaminating the soil and seeping into the groundwater underneath. Due to segregationist redlining policies, for the majority of the plant’s time of operation the only communities affected by the environmental poisoning were the nearby Black communities.

An article published in the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives in December of 2004 made clear that solving the problem of environmental health hazards must also include an effort to address the lasting racially imposed social conditions.

The article was written by Gilbert C. Gee, a professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Devon C. Payne-Sturges, Associate professor with the

Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health.

The article is titled “Environmental Health Disparities: A Framework Integrating Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts.”

“The elimination of disparities in environmental health requires attention to both environmental hazards and social conditions,” the article said.

The article said the two major challenges to this involve understanding how social processes can exacerbate environmental issues and understanding why some specific groups experience greater numbers of illnesses and more severe illnesses when compared to other groups.

The article argues the stress of living in disadvantaged communities can weaken the immune system, making members of the community particularly vulnerable to the effects of environmental racism.

“Residential segregation leads to different experiences of community stress, exposure to pollutants and access to community resources,” the article said. “When not countered by resources, stressors may lead to heightened vulnerability to environmental hazards.”

Jessica Crowe, interim chair of the school of Sociology at Southern Illinois University (SIU), said the echoes of racism and racist policies are still visible if you know where to look.

Crowe said another good example of the ways communities affected by environmental racism can push back against the issues they face is that of Roxbury, a community in Boston.

From 1963 to 1983, the neighborhood lost more than two thousand homes due to an outbreak of fires during a period of time when White populations were leaving the community, and lots were abandoned and undeveloped.

The town had a predominantly Black population, and local companies began dumping industrial waste into the abandoned lots. This contaminated the groundwater in the area, sparking an effort to prevent the illegal dumping and bring attention to the matter.

“It took them years, but they formed a community group, and started getting word out about this issue they were having,” Crowe said. “They started making contacts with people who did have some power and resources.”

Crowe said the first efforts came from a Boston city movement primarily led by White, upper-middle class landowners called the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA). The original plan put forward for the renovation of the area did not involve community members or leaders.

Following community backlash, the community organized its members by going door to door to form a group known as the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI).

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SIU Housing Office putting staff safety last Janiyah Gaston | @Janiyah_reports

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, students employed by University Housing have been under extreme pressure while doing their job and focusing on school.

According to the Housing Student Employee Agreement, University Housing employees are not to represent housing to the press or media unless they are told to do so directly. Many employees have been threatened with firing if they are caught speaking to members of the press.

Resident Assistants (RAs) and Academic Peer Advisors (APAs) are required to communicate with students on their floors, but they’re often not clued in to important information themselves.

“I feel like transparency needs to be there,” said one anonymous RA, identified here as John. “It feels like a lot of things are kind of shrouded until we feel safe to do it, but then it’s too late.”

It often seemed like supervisors were “playing it by ear” a lot of the time, especially during the peaks of the pandemic.

“You could see it as [taking] advantage of RAs, like, okay this is where we need them, we’ll send them there. We can get them to do

it,” John said.

During the fall 2020 semester, when Southern Illinois University officials were refusing to publish numbers of students and staff that had contracted COVID-19, according to past reporting by the Daily Egyptian, RAs raised complaints about safety concerns. For months, infected students were not relocated to isolate in quarantine, and RAs were at times told to keep student infections secret.

In October 2020, RAs in Wall & Grand Apartments and University Hall were moved with just 24 hours notice to set up a space for isolating COVID positive students.

At the beginning of the Fall 2021 school year, university officials refused to say which dorm, if any, would be used for isolating COVID positive students.

John said there should be more transparency between the housing staff and the university if the staff will be able to do their jobs effectively.

Another anonymous RA, who will be referred to as Jake, said in addition to housing not communicating with them, the pay does not match the work they do and there is a lack of respect for the staff.

“I believe the sentiment was told to us at a meeting once that we were workers first,

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perform tasks that do not line up with their job description.

“There was an incident in which housing staff was expected to respond to a suicide call or possible suicide, and that’s beyond their duties,” Anna said. “The police should have been involved at that exact moment rather than being told the duty phone should have been called.”

Anna said the supervisors can improve in a lot of ways when it comes to communicating.

“They can improve by, one, being more enabling in their communications because there are times when they, like I said, they don’t talk to us very much,” Anna said. “We might hear one thing from our supervisors, and that’s our weekly meetings.”

Anna said the communication between supervisors and staff is virtually non-existent and they do not tell staff how they can do their jobs better.

“I don’t think housing takes into account that we’re students,” Jake said. “You don’t get enough to justify what you have to give for this job.”

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

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mayor to acknowledge the problem, Crowe said. The group used the publicity to gather additional support, creating additional efforts to clean up the dumping sites. The support allowed the community to push for the election of a mayor who was amenable to

students second, which a lot of people were not happy with,” Jake said.

Jake said, although their housing and meals are paid for, the amount they get paid, around $100 a month, is not enough to live on.

RAs have tried to push for better wages and more flexibility from the university in the past. In November 2018, the Graduate and Professional Student and others supported a change to housing employment rules that would allow RAs and APAs the opportunity to work a second job.

In September 2020 the Daily Egyptian reported RAs were denied hazard pay, despite being mandated to repeatedly work in spaces with high transmission risk like dining halls.

Jake said work time like training and side work are often not factored into RAs compensation.

“We pretty much worked over a 40 hour work week to do training. Usually we were scheduled from 8am to 8pm. And they would expect us to do other stuff outside of that like bulletin boards, door decks and all the other stuff they want us to get done, and all this I’m pretty sure isn’t even counting as a month that we’d be getting paid for,” Jake said.

An APA, referred to here as Anna, said housing employees are often asked to

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reform, and sympathetic to their cause.

Crowe said this rise to prominence and political support led to the group becoming the first community-based nonprofit organization in American history to use eminent domain to seize undeveloped land. DSNI filled these lots with low cost homes and placed them under a land trust which kept prices from inflating.

“This is a community that is pretty poor, and doesn’t have a lot of resources,” Crowe said. “But they had leaders who took control, and formed a community group. Then, they built and used their social capital to build a network with people outside the community that could help them, and they were quite successful.”

Crowe said the uphill battle of fighting against institutional discrimination can be discouraging, and progress can be stalled or reversed at times. However, constant battling has led to institutional change in the last seven decades.

“It’s slow moving, and it’s not to say those gains can’t be undone,” Crowe said. “So it’s a constant battle that one can’t let up on.”

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

“It’s a struggle every day and that’s what people don’t understand exactly,” said Nicholson. “I just lost my best friend on the 28th of August... He was off of it, and then did it once again.”

Breaking the Chain is a registered student organization at SIU that serves as an oncampus resource to raise awareness on the effects of substance use disorders.

Crystal Kendzior, president of Breaking the Chain, said she has held the idea of the organization in her mind for a long time.

She is inspired by her own experiences with people who have been addicted to opioids and wants to create a community of support to help prevent addiction from reoccurring.

“Every addiction changes the chemistry in your brain, but coming off of opioids is especially hard because the withdrawal will make you feel like you’re in more pain than you ever were, even before taking medication, and it can feel like you’re dying,” Kendzior said.

Breaking the Chain attends community events and participates in community activities to learn about and provide awareness on opioid addiction and recovery. It welcomes any student who is passionate about the issue to fight for its cause.

Angie Bailey is the system director of the community benefits program at SIH. She said SIH has also been funded by the IDHS to distribute NARCAN. All of the hospitals in the area have an emergency department where anyone is able to go and get it free of charge, with no paperwork required.

Bailey said counties in the Southern Illinois region collaborate through coalitions and other efforts to combat opioid overdose. Every other month, leaders of all the coalitions meet to discuss updates on their efforts.

“It’s one of those things where there always could be more, and there could always be more volunteers, and there’s always more work to be done. It’s really an issue that affects

so many,” Bailey said.

Anybody is encouraged to join both the coalitions and their action groups. Bailey said whoever wants to volunteer can reach out to Sandra Schwartz, community health coordinator at SIH. Joe Cernvantez, Jackson County State’s Attorney, said he plans to create a drug court there, and provide assistance to those who struggle with drug addiction.

“Substance abuse disorder is a disease.

We have been treating diseases as crimes,” Cervantez said. “Substance abuse disorder does lead to criminal activity, but we have to treat the underlying cause of the substance abuse disorder, not just the crime.”

Cervantez said drug courts help participants recover from substance abuse disorder. He said the aim of drug courts is to reduce future criminal activity by helping individuals with their substance disorder.

“As an alternative to incarceration, drug courts reduce the burden of cost to the community that are usually associated with repeatedly processing low level nonviolent offenders through our court system,” Cervantez said. “So, we’re making the community safer because putting them away for a year or two years or three years doesn’t solve the problem.”

Cervantez said when people are put in jail for drugs, they aren’t getting treatment.

Therefore, when people with substance issues get released, they go right back into their environment.

Cervantez said he hopes to prevent this by potentially supporting some form of medication assisted treatment and access to behavioral counselors in jails.

For more information on Illinois opioid usage, go to ilpmp.org.

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

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Forgotten bodies: Missing white woman syndrome Oreoluwa Ojewuyi | oojewuyi@dailyegyptian.com

Garbielle “Gabby” Petito, 22, was reported missing on Sept. 11 by her family in Suffolk County, N.Y., after a cross country trip with her fiance, 23-year-old Brian Laundrie.

The couple embarked on what was meant to be a four month long van life journey that was subsequently cut short by Petito’s disappearance in late August 2021. Petito’s body was discovered in Wyoming’s Bridger-Teton National Forest on Sept. 19. On Oct. 21 Laundrie, a prime suspect in Petito’s murder, was found dead in Myakkahatchee Creek Envrionmental Park in North Port Florida.

As an avid true crime consumer, I saw Petito’s name repeatedly disseminated across the most commonly consumed media outlets, Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, and in the most unusual places like social media video app Tiktok.

The media seemed entranced by Petito’s case naming her “America’s daughter.” The national spotlight on this young girl left me wondering where this media spotlight is when those who don’t fit the bill of “the girl next door” go missing.

No one deserves to endure the pain and hardship that Petito endured at the time of her death. No family should have to endure the pain of her loss and the lingering questions they are left with.

However, is the same compassion, urgency and empathy extended to less attractive victims, people of color, older people, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+, those at the lower end of the socioeconomic chart, or people

with traditionally “taboo” jobs like sex workers?

The stories of Shannan Watts, a pregnant white woman from Colorado who was brutally murdered by her husband along with her two young daughters, or Jon Benet Ramsey, a little girl who died mysteriously on the night after Christmas in her home in the late ’90s, or Natalie Holloway, an 18 year old woman who went missing on her high school graduation trip to Aruba in the early 2000s, were covered extensively and seared into the public consciousness. How many of us know and can name the missing bodies of Black and Brown men and women in the United States?

“Missing White Woman Syndrome” is a phenomenon in which incidents of missing, young, white women and girls, typically from middle to upper class backgrounds, receive widespread, national and international media attention for months,even years on end. The same level of coverage isn’t extended to those who do not fit within eurocentric standards of beauty. This gap in attention creates a hierarchy among victims, unequal distribution of resources devoted to cases.

Addressing “Missing White Woman Syndrome” requires an intersectional approach. It involves all aspects of race, gender, age, social status and perceived attractiveness.

All of these factors contribute to the complexities of this problem and gap in our coverage.

(White) Women We Love , a 2005 Washington Post article by Eugene Washington, detailed the damsel in distress trope.

“A damsel must be white. This requirement is non negotiable. It helps if her frame is of dimensions that breathless cable television reporters can credibly describe as “petite,” and it also helps if she’s the kind of woman who wouldn’t really mind being called “petite,” a woman with a good deal of princess in her personality,” Washington said. “She must be attractive — also nonnegotiable. Her economic status should be middle class or higher, but an exception can be made in the case of wartime.”

This begs the important question of what bodies are worthy of protection and justice in our society. During the search for Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie investigators found several bodies that were simply labeled as “not Gabby.” These bodies were not named by several news outlets.

A body of an unidentified homeless man was found in Mobile, Alabama as the police searched for Laundrie.

Robert Lowery, a father from Texas, was found at Teton Pass in National Forest on September 8. The body of 33 year-old Josue Calderon was found in Watauga County, North Carolina on October 9. The body of 55 yearold Sara Bayard was found in Douglas County, Colorado on October 14.

The bodies of newlyweds, Crystal Turner and Kylen Shulte were found dead at a campsite near Moab Utah.

All of these people did not fit the damsel in distress bill.

In 2016, attorney and sociologist Zach Sommers, conducted an analysis to test the “Missing White Woman” phenomena. Sommers examined every story about missing persons from four main news outlets.

He cross referenced missing persons coverage from these media outlets with the FBIs missing persons database and found that Black people and men are disproportionately less likely to receive media coverage in comparison to the rate at which they go missing. Sommers also found that white women and girls received coverage in almost half of the news articles examined.

The media’s role is not to interfere with or solve these cases but it is our job to make people care about the forgotten bodies.

As a journalist, reporting on missing persons cases is something of professional and moral responsibility.

Coverage of these cases, and the attention news coverage generates, translates to money, police effort, inquiry among internet sleuths, search parties, information hotlines and more.

The decisions of what and how things are reported is directly related with the racial, gender and funding structures of newsrooms. Newsrooms in the United States are disproportionately white, male, straight structured around for-profit advertising.

I examined this phenomena through a solution oriented approach.

I recognize many of these problems exist in my own newsroom, where I am the only Black person in a position of leadership. We are responsible for determining what is newsworthy. In our editorial choices about missing persons cases, we must reflect the demographics of these cases with our coverage. This goal can be reached if we make an effort to infuse the newsroom with diverse identities, backgrounds, and outlooks.

The responsibility does not only

lie on us as the disseminators of the news, but also on the consumer. Give your clicks, attention, and focus your online sleuthing on cases of missing persons from disproportionately underrepresented groups. If news corporations see the impact and increase of the interest in these missing persons cases, continued coverage will soon follow.

Public relations representatives of police departments should make the effort to provide and highlight a balanced representation of missing persons cases to news outlets.

I leave you all with an assignment.

Look up 35-year-old Black mother of three, Tiffany Foster of Newnan, Ga. who went missing on March 1, 2021. Look into the case of 24 yearold geologist Daniel Robinson who went missing in Phoenix, Arizona on June 23 2021. Pay attention to the 710 names of Indigenous people who went missing in Wyoming from 2011 to 2021.

These people deserve a voice, their lives matter, their families deserve answers and they deserve to come home safely.

Gabby Petito’s case is a tragedy that rightfully rocked the nation.

Her story was deserving of all of the news coverage it received that subsequently helped the police with the investigation of her disappearance.

Still, victims who do not look like Petito deserve to be cast under the same spotlight, and to be met with the same urgency. They are not just forgotten bodies, they are someone.

Editor in Chief Oreoluwa Ojewuyi can be reached at oojewuyi@ dailyegyptian.com.

USG votes for the return of pass or no pass option Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis

On Oct. 28, the Undergraduate Student Government posted a request from the university on their Facebook page in regards to the recent mental health crisis on campus.

The post states that last Tuesday, Oct. 26 the USG Senate unanimously passed Senate Resolution 22-01 to reestablish the Pass/No Pass system for this semester.

Other requests to the University include a campus-wide mental health survey, options to re-enroll students who withdrew from classes before Oct. 24, a housing study, review of the academic calendar, and declare a state of emergency, and close school for three days this semester.

People from the community are showing their thoughts on the resolution with some agreeing because of the backup on mental health services, others worried about student’s progress with the Pass/No Pass system being able to affect a student’s GPA. The Undergraduate Student Government held a vote on whether

to extend the pass or no pass grading option for this semester.

The Oct. 26 resolution passed unanimously.

The resolution states, “there has been an increase in students on campus that are suffering through the financial pressure of paying for school, supporting their family and supporting their individual needs to survive.”

The resolution also acknowleged the ongoing trauma students might being experiencing following multiple shootings this semester in which SIU students were victims, including the murder of Keeshanna Jackson.

Senator for University Housing Zachary A. Martine said the last few months on campus have been rather eventful, and not in a good way.

“We had a loss of a student, and we had two more students that have been shot over the weekend,” Martine said.

“In addition to that, I’m sure a ton of petty crimes have also happened, and things have traumatized our students.”

As an Academic Peer Advocate,

Martine said he has a different perspective after talking to student’s professors about where they’re struggling.

“They [freshmen] have been pulled out of schools as juniors ,[and] never really got to finish maturing as juniors and seniors,” Martine said. “Here they are being thrown into the mix [of] University… [it’s] a very different environment.”

Martine said the pass or no pass grading option is popular because it takes pressure off students, but he sees a small downside to it.

“If you take passes on all your classes, you don’t have a GPA,” Martine said. “So you need to have at least one or two classes to be able to anchor your GPA.” Senator for Black Affairs Council Regine Morgan said it’s important to give freshmen this flexibility because of the recent violence towards students, and to allow students time to adjust to campus life in person.

“Our students’ mental health is at top-most this year due to the campus violence and the COVID-19 virus,”

Morgan said. “Especially from their background, [and] adjustment from being mostly remote and online until now.”

Morgan said because the majority of students have in-person classes, the pass or no pass grading option would give students a chance to adjust while still furthering their education.

She said it will be just as useful to students as it was during the Fall 2020 semester.

“A lot of kids still hadn’t gotten used to learning online. That switch and change, it was really a lot for us,” Morgan said. “Coming in person, especially into college courses, I think it’s just as bad. We need it just as much.”

Even if the resolution isn’t passed, USG will still be ready to provide mental health and emergency resources, Morgan said.

“We’re going to be really strict on what we offer because a lot of freshmen don’t know,” Morgan said.

“They’re just going through these issues alone.”

SIU Student Trustee Shaylee

Clinton, a member of Counseling and Psychological Services, said she’s seen the mental crises students are going through this semester, and how the services offered at SIU are backed up.

“There just isn’t enough support for the amount of students that we have,” Clinton said. “Last time I checked, which was two weeks ago with CAPS, there is an 80 person waitlist.”

Students who want an intake appointment might have to wait until spring semester, so they’re still having to struggle with their mental health along with the stress of college, Clinton said.

“Counseling outside of the university costs lots of money that our students don’t have,” Clinton said. “COVID-19 has also put a huge financial barrier to a lot of our students, so this pass, no pass option is about giving them an opportunity to focus on their mental health and their future and their financial health.”

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

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Spreading the unknown truth: ADHD awareness

Carolyn Dickte | carolynd@dailyegyptian.com

Kara Berg, Pastor at Watseka First United Methodist Church, always knew she was creative, couldn’t sit still and was overly talkative at a young age, so she wasn’t surprised when she found out she has ADHD, she said.

Berg’s son, Cary, was also diagnosed with ADHD and the two decided to treat the disorder together, Berg said.

“It was probably one of the best things I did because it completely changed my life meditating and regimented and working on structures and systems,” Berg said.

Setting deadlines, trying to stay as organized as possible and finding motivation are huge factors to overcoming ADHD symptoms, Berg said.

Berg will reward herself with sweet coffees every once in a while to build the dopamine in her system in addition to getting enough sleep, exercise and a healthy diet, she said.

“During my time at SIU [Southern Illinois University Carbondale], my friend would always say, you are like the ADHD poster child, and I kind of took offense to it because I didn’t even understand what she meant,” Alexis Wica, an ADHD advocate, said.

Wica said time management and short term memory are the two main struggles she has to deal with because of her ADHD. Berg said she wants those struggling with ADHD to know

that they are not alone and that learning your brain type is a huge factor for success.

“I heard a quote the other day that I absolutely have to get a shirt made out of: ‘ADHD sabotages my life on a daily basis’,” Berg said.

Brehm Preparatory School is a nonprofit boarding school located in Carbondale, IL. whose mission is to teach students with learning differences and disabilities from grades 6 through 12, Director Jeremy Robbins said.

Brehm empowers students to look at their disabilities or disorders through a positive light and see how much potential they have, Robbins said.

One third of the students at Brehm are on the autism spectrum and many have unidentified anxiety or depression that affects learning, Robbins said.

“We have students who have dyslexia, or what is considered a language based learning difference,” Robbins said.

Brehm has an education plan that looks at the aspects of a student’s learning and life skills such as independent living skills, social and communication skills, and academic skills, Robbins said.

The class sizes at Brehm are typically no more than six students in a small group in which teachers teach to meet a student’s individual needs, Robbins said.

Robbins’ hope for Brehm is that the students there will build success in college/university and beyond, he said.

ADHD diagnosis depends

on the demographic and environment, it’s usually detected during early childhood though, Robbins said.

“Yeah I mean, a lot of it depends on the environment in which the young person is identified and how attitudes and mindsets, you know that accompany I think having a growth oriented mindset, you know is crucial,” Robbins said.

Wica is part of an online group called adhdactually, run by an Australian woman with around 300 members, she said.

“We don’t all hop on at the same time or anything like that but we do body doubling sessions for accountability purposes…”

Wica said. “I don’t think that my medicine without my body doubling session group, would necessarily be as effective by any means.” Wica said.

Eating disorders are common in the ADHD community because of the lack of dopamine and control, most of the time without even knowing it, Wica said.

There are a lot of misconceptions about having ADHD, so being part of the ADHD community will provide the support needed, Wica said.

“Finding this group and other people with ADHD genuinely has changed my life and would love to spread the resources with folks” Wica said.

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

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Helping people re-enter society: The Center of Empowerment and Justice Jamilah Lewis | @jamilahlewis

The Center for Empowerment and Justice is a support center in Carbondale helping people get back on their feet after exiting prison and rehabilitation centers.

Established in 2017 by Jim Chapman, who moved to Carbondale from Chicago, the center offers court support, laundry services, bike repair, housing assistance and employment assistance.

CEJ Executive Director Jennifer Fertali, said the project started after Chapman met Rock Hill Baptist Church Pastor Sindeney Logwood, who ran a shoe shine stand for people to make money.

“Jim had spent much of his career in prisoners, civil rights cases and prisoners medical claims cases,” Fertali said. “Jim wanted to provide support for folks coming out of prison back into the community.”

After a while Chapman opened the center for special events, but had to scale back operations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,Fertali said.

“We have reduced hours that were open currently because we’re entirely volunteer staffed, as opposed to, to paid staff,” Fertali said.

Hours have been changed to 12 p.m. to four p.m. instead of the usual 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and services like court support were

moved online, Fertali said.

CEJ member Nathan Colombo, said one of the first successes the center had was their visit to Centerstone with people transitioning from incarceration.

“We will simply socialize with folks and the results that we saw from socializing with folks from engagingand community building… years later, the results of that in folks like Solomon

projects outside the center, like the “Tiny House Project” which provides housing for low income and houseless people, “Solar Energy” which is a solar panel tree that provides power to residential and commercial properties, and “Challenging Homelessness.”

“We’re still working with folks who walk into our door day to day saying, ‘I’m concerned about my housing situation, either don’t have

“Whether that’s incarceration, extreme poverty, and homelessness, addiction or substance issues… any number of things that folks may be facing in life, we’re there to meet them where they are, and see if we can help them.”

- Nathan Colombo CEJ Member

[X Young] who’ve become a successful notable business owner,” Colombo said.

Providing a safe space for people to figure out their next steps in life is why CEJ provides the services that they do, Colombo said.

“Whether that’s incarceration, extreme poverty, and homelessness, addiction or substance issues… any number of things that folks may be facing in life, we’re there to meet them where they are, and see if we can help them,” Colombo said.

CEJ staff and volunteers also worked on

it, or what I have is under threat,’ and then we work with folks to get them in a stable situation,” Columbo said.

Solomon X Young said he got involved with the center after being in a Centerston halfway house where he met Pastor Sidney Logwood who became his business partner, Young said.

Young said he was attracted to entrepreneurship because of his plan to start a small business, then found out Logwood and his wife operated a barbecue business in Murpysboro.

“After talking to him from time to time he agreed to mentor me and helped me start a business,” Young said. “ We came to the agreement that we’re going to start a food stand so we bought a hotdog cart and we began to work.”

With the recent passing of Jim Chapman in August, the CEJ board got together and planned to continue the journey of helping the community, Young said.

“One of my goals is just being involved with them as I would like to see them get involved with more work,” Young said. “That was how I started, you know, someone being able to mentor individuals who are coming from maybe transitional housing, some type of transitions, and finally decide they want to do something with themselves.”

Young, Colombo and Fertali said they feel that CEJ has made an impact on the Carbondale community.

“Our hope is to find the gaps in services and then find the people that are experiencing those gaps in service and provide them whatever service we can determine that they need is both the center and the client,” Colombo said.

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

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Story by: William Box | @william17455137 Photos by: Jared Treece | @bisalo Leimomi Campbell gets down low during her performance during the Spooktackluar Halloween drag show on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 at the Varsity Center in downtown Carbondale, Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo

Fabulous costumes and performances drew in crowds from across the Southern Illinois region to the historic Varsity Center for a night of games and entertainment.

The Varsity Center in Carbondale hosted a Halloween themed drag show on Oct. 29, which sold out all available tickets online prior to the pre-show opening.

The Varsity Center is a performance art venue and event center in downtown Carbondale, Ill. It regularly hosts live music, film and theatrical performances.

Performances included halloween themed dance and lip synching performances from queens Jodie Santana, Leimomi Campbell, Idina Rimes, Christina Garnette, Blanche DuBois, and king Faim Lee Jewls.

The Halloween show featured drag kings and queens from as far as Paducah, KY. The host of the night was queen Christina Garnette and proclaimed “Godmother of Drag” Blanche DuBois served as the night’s emcee.

“A lot of people are intimidated by drag queens, drag kings or gay people in general,” DuBois said. “When they leave here, they’re always accepting, and they can teach their children to accept and love everybody.”

DuBois said drag performances typically sell out at the door if not beforehand. She said she enjoys entertaining audiences, and likes the over-the-top costumes and glamor.

“You never know what you’re gonna see,” DuBois said. “I love to wear outrageous, crazy costumes.”

DuBois said drag shows are held monthly at the Varsity Center and occasionally held at the local bar, Hangar 9. Other shows are held in Royalton and Hurst, Ill. The night began with lip synched acts from the performers showcasing unique costumes and providing additional souvenirs to patrons for $1 donations like

bags of candy, plush toys and flowers.

Candy, snacks and alcoholic beverages were available for purchase at the in-house concession stand and included specialty Halloween themed drinks.

The night was broken into three sections with audience participation events giving patrons time to interact with Blanche and the other performers. The first event was a game of musical chairs with a game for children 12 and under and a game for adults, each with gift cards for prizes for the victors.

The night also included an audience costume contest. All who wished to participate were invited to the stage, where they gave their name and what their costume was intended to be before presenting to the night’s staff serving as judges.

Faim Lee Jewls’s performances were accompanied with rock music and props which would splash the front row audience members with fake blood.

“I’ve been on stage consistently for the last 15 years,” Jewls said. “I’ve been all the way to Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky. I’ve performed in several states all over.”

Jewls said he organizes shows out of Harrisburg and routinely travels around Southern Illinois to perform wherever anyone wants to hold a show. He said whenever a show is available he tries to have DuBois make an appearance.

“Working with Blanche, she’s the mother of all drag in Carbondale,” Jewls said. “She’s a living legend in Carbondale, and we’re both reigning king and queen for Southern Illinois right now for Pride.”

Drag queen, Leimomi Campbell, comes to the stage for her performance of the night during the Spooktackluar Halloween drag show on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 at the Varsity Center in downtown Carbondale, Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo

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Page 8 Jewls could be seen making himself available to the audience. He would talk and take pictures with audience members, and encourage them to purchase tickets for upcoming shows early before they sell out.

“Working with Blanche, she’s the mother of all drag in Carbondale,” Jewls said. “She’s a living legend in Carbondale and we’re both reigning king and queen for Southern Illinois right now for Pride.”

During breaks in the performance, Jewls could be seen making himself available to the audience. He would talk and take pictures with audience members, and encourage them to purchase tickets for upcoming shows early before they sell out.

“I enjoy entertaining, and being on stage,” Jewls said. “I enjoy seeing the crowd and their reaction, and knowing they’re having a good time.”

Jordan Maynor was an audience member at the show. He has previously attended shows in Carbondale, and was pleasantly surprised to see the different types and age groups of people in attendance.

“I thought it was interesting seeing such a wide variety of people at the show,” Maynor said. “Drag is something that’s sometimes hidden away, as if it’s adult-only.

But everyone there, of all ages, was having a great time.”

Maynor said he enjoyed the halloween theme, atmosphere and costumes.

“October, Halloween in particular, is my favorite time of the year,” Maynor said. “I’m always a fan of a good costume contest, and I love seeing the work people put into their costumes.”

The costume contest began shortly before the intermission. It featured students and adults displaying their own costumes with a cash prize for the top three contestants. Judges decided the winners during the intermission and announced them at the end of the break.

The first place winner, dressed as a Disco Barbie and Ken pair, received $50 in cash. Second place was a steampunk, beaked, plague doctor with suit, mask and matching cane and received $35. The third place winner wore a Chucky doll costume and won $25.

A fourth honorary winning contestant was dressed as an alabaster doll and received free candy and soda from the concession stand and a free Varsity Center tee shirt.

The acts continued after the intermission with the king and queens all performing another song and dance number. After the last round of performances, DuBois gave the curtain call and gave the audience a chance to applaud them.

The night of celebration finished out with all the performers coming onto the stage and inviting the audience to dance and sing along to “Time Warp,” a song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

DuBois thanked the audience and the Varsity Center for allowing the event, giving special thanks to Executive Director Cara Recine and President of the Board of Directors Bill Robbins. Additional shows will be hosted at the Freedom Bar in Hurst, IL on Nov. 6 and at Hangar 9 on Nov. 13. Additional drag shows will take place at the Varsity Center on Nov. 19 and Dec. 17.

“We definitely want to thank the Varsity here, and thank Cara and Bill for having us here,” Blanche said. “When we didn’t know if it would take off when we first did it, but we really appreciate them.”

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

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Blanche DuBois gives away stuffed dogs during the Spooktackluar Halloween drag show on Oct. 29, 2021 at the Varsity Center in downtown Carbondale. Jared Treece | @bisalo

Jodie Santana during the Spooktackluar Halloween drag show on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 at the Varsity Center in downtown Carbondale, Illinois.

Jared Treece | @bisalo

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Drag queen, Leimomi Campbell, comes to the stage for her performance of the night during the Spooktackluar Halloween drag show on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 at the Varsity Center in downtown Carbondale, Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo

“I thought it was interesting seeing such a wide variety of people at the show. Drag is something that’s sometimes hidden away, as if it’s adult-only. But everyone there, of all ages, was having a great time.”

-Jordan Maynor Audience Member

Drag King, Faim Lee Jewls, does a performance based off the film American Psycho with Jewls playing the role of Patrick Bateman during the Spooktackluar Halloween drag show on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 at the Varsity Center in downtown Carbondale, Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo

Blanche DuBois comes to the stage dressed as a car during the Spooktackluar Halloween drag show on Friday, Oct. 29, 2021 at the Varsity Center in downtown Carbondale, Illinois. Jared Treece | @bisalo

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Humans of SIU Monday on campus

T’Andrea Jones, a member of the Vanity Fashion Fair Models, gets a pile of shaving cream to the face for a fundraiser Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 at Faner Plaza at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo

Shaylee Clinton sits outside of Starbucks in the SIU Student Center Nov. 1, 2021 in Carbondale, Illinois. Clinton said she loves the outdoors and sharing it with others. Sophie Whitten | @swhittenphotography

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Allison Hoefert, a physician assistant major, studies inside Faner Hall. “I always wanted to do medicine and it [SIU] was close to home,” Hoefert said Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo

Jude Grissom, a history education major and student worker in Faner Hall, reads on his phone Nov. 1, 2021 at SIU in Carbondale, Illinois. “I just want to educate children on history that hasn’t really been taught [...] I want to broaden people’s understanding of the world,” Grissom said. Sophie Whitten | @swhittenphotography

Aidan Walters, an English major, sits outside a classroom in Faner Hall Monday, Nov. 1, 2021 at SIU. Jared Treece | @bisalo

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Carbondale’s Annual Great Pumpkin Race Julian Castillo | @julcastillophotography

If you happened to be walking downtown on Mill Street underneath the overpass this Saturday, October 30th you may have seen a large crowd full of kids and adults holding custom pumpkins with wheels.

This was the annual Carbondale Pumpkin Race and Costume Parade. The annual event allows people of all ages to compete, to see who has the best designed and the fastest pumpkins. On Saturday morning the town folk gather at Mill Street where they race their pumpkins down the hill as the first one to the bottom wins. The winner with the fastest pumpkin in the standard Pumpkin Race is awarded a trophy and a $100 prize but there’s also the Mayor

Branding Grand Prix where the pumpkin with the best time wins a cash prize of $250.

Although it was a cold and cloudy fall morning, the race was filled with community members wearing Halloween costumes.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, last year’s festivities had to be canceled. People were excited to be back this year, competing with their fellow neighbors. The pandemic has taken its toll on everybody this past year and a half and people are starting to be comfortable being around large crowds again.

No matter what the weather may be, people are still looking forward to having a sense of community.

Even though this event is designed to be a family fun event, there are some who try to get

an edge and cheat, according to Marcia Sinnott, event organizer, since 2013.

“In case of a cheater pumpkin, Saluki alum and two time Olympian DeAnna Price with her great ‘Hammer of Justice’ will smash the pumpkin,” Sinnot said.

Many pumpkins were smashed throughout the day; some entrants were not pumpkins, but watermelons. Other participants were not interested in winning, and instead just wanted their pumpkins to be smashed. A big part of the race was the smashing of the pumpkins as kids would all chant “Smash it smash it!” right before Price smashed it and the pumpkin guts splash all over the kids who cheered in excitement.

The race was filled with local celebrities like Price, Judge Diane

Daugherty, who hosted the event; and Miss Illinois Isabelle Hanson, who was given the job of “the great pumpkin catcher.”

The audience loved the special guests who brought a charismatic and fun show to the street. There were many great pumpkins that were raced that day, but the winner was a family with their mummy-themed pumpkin who won the trophy and got the $100 prize.

The Great Pumpkin Race brings the community together as a Carbondale tradition. It will continue to bring the community together as they build creative and fun ideas with pumpkins they compete with their friends,family, organizations. Attendance and participants are growing every year, and with more special

Scan the QR code below to see a recap video of the event.

guests making appearances, the future looks bright for the Great Pumpkin Race.

Staff Photographer Julian Castillo can be reached at @ julcastillophotography.

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Saluki Soccer falls to Indiana State 3-1 in season finale

Joseph Bernard | @Jojobernard2001

The SIU Women’s Soccer team, (0-151, 0-8 MVC) took on the Indiana State Sycamores (6-7-3, 4-2-2 MVC) in the final game of the fall 2021 season on Thursday afternoon. The Salukis lost in a hard fought match with a final score of 3-1.

The Salukis were slightly outshot by a 11-9 margin, with six of their shots being on goal and ten of ISU’s shots being on goal.

The Sycamores managed more corner kicks than SIU with seven of their own while SIU managed only three.

Highlighting the offense was Sam Dodd, who tallied her first goal of the season off of her only shot on the day. Also worth noting was junior forward Liz Brechtel who tallied

three shots, two being on goal, and junior midfielder Christy Murauskis who tallied two shots on goal for herself as well. Junior midfielder Kaitlin Ducharme also had a shot on goal, while senior Ellie Lewis and junior defender Katy Quinn had one shot each.

Freshman Ary Lougher was in at goalkeeper for the afternoon. She allowed three goals by Indiana State in the second half, but managed seven saves off the eleven shots she faced.

The Sycamores got off to a fast start, with three shots already in the first four minutes of play. Luckily, things turned in their favor quickly after, with SIU earning a lead later in the first half.

The Salukis can thank Sam Dodd for giving them the lead midway through the

first half. Her goal put the Salukis up 1-0 at the 31 minute mark of the first half. SIU managed to keep that lead throughout the rest of the first half even after and went into the locker room with a 1-0 lead.

Despite leading, the Salukis were actually soutshot 6-5 at the half, with five of ISU’s shots being on goal and four of SIU’s being on goal. Luckily for the Salukis, freshman Ary Lougher managed saves on all of ISU’s shots on goal, giving her five in the first half alone.

In the second half, the Sycamores offense attacked aggressively and with a penalty kick at the 10 minute mark, junior midfielder Chloe Kooker tied things up at 1-1. Later at the 15 minute mark, a Sycamore corner kick set up a goal for senior midfielder Alise

Emsar, who was assisted by junior midfielder Celeste Wahlberg to give the Sycamores a 2-1 lead. To seal the win for the Sycamores, at the 32 minute mark freshman midfielder Chloe Tesny scored after an assist by sophomore forward Audrey Stephens to make it 3-1 late.

A Saluki push late was halted by the Sycamores and SIU would drop this match with a 3-1 final as their fall 2021 season came to a close with this match.

The Salukis will be back in action next fall as they did not make it to the Missouri Valley Conference tournament this year.

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

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Paul Simon Institute hosts author and diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford Ryan Jurich | rjurich@dailyegyptian.com

This past week, former U.S. diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford sat down for a conversation with John Shaw of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute as part of the Institute’s Understanding Our New World series. Together they discussed her experiences in the field and in the State Department, as well as her book reflecting on those experiences, The Dissent Channel.

Born in Mississippi, Shackelford obtained a Bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. She served in various capacities working at Booz Allen Hamilton and at the law firm of Covington & Burling before going on to work for the United States State Department.

Shackelford first spoke about what inspired her to work in international studies, and her first experiences in pursuing that goal. “I knew at a pretty young age that I wanted to do something involving justice and law,” said Shackelford. “I did a study abroad in South Africa [and] I was fascinated by apartheid history and how it might mirror my own home state’s background. That set me on a path to want to do something more international.”

In her role at the State Department, Shackelford worked as a Foreign Service Officer in Somalia, Kenya, Poland and South Sudan.

In South Sudan, Shackelford served as a Human Rights Representative, where she helped organize the

“I had completely bought into the idea that the United States Government was a force for good in the world, and that I could be part of that.”

- Elizabeth Shackelford Former U.S. diplomat

evacuation of US citizens and associates after the outbreak of the South Sudanese Civil War in 2013.

She would later be awarded the Barbara Watson Award for Consular Excellence, the Department’s highest honor, for her work there.

It was this last crucial deployment that Shackelford discussed with the Paul Simon Institute. “I had completely bought into the idea that the United States Government was a force for good in the world, and that I could be part of that,” said Shackelford while reflecting about her optimism for her work. “It didn’t take long to recognize when I got South Sudan, that this is not how this story is going to play out.”

The Republic of South Sudan was born out of a 2011 referendum held by the government of Sudan to decide whether to grant the region independence. A reported 98.8% result in favor of independence meant that South Sudan would be recognized as a sovereign nation, taking with it nearly 75% of Sudan’s valuable oil supply.

While the transition was celebrated by governments around the world, and especially by the Obama administration, conflict began almost immediately. Apart from internal struggles, which included the infamous Joseph Kony’s “Lord’s Resistance Army”, the new South Sudanese government found itself immediately beset by intense foreign aggression. It was with these threats in mind that the U.S. government began to push its influence into South Sudan.

“Once I was on the ground, I began to see that the story and the narrative that we were telling about South Sudan in Washington D.C. was very different from reality,” said Shackelford. “There was still a level of buying into this being a success, [yet] it became very evident to me early on that we were turning a blind eye to some really horrific behavior by the [South Sudanese] government.”

In 2013, the President of South Sudan accused members of his government of attempting a coup, leading to an almost immediate

outbreak of hostilities. By the end of the year the country had plunged into civil war. Despite the closer involvement of the United Nations, which had established a peacekeeping force in the country in 2011, the vi olence only escalated.

A tenuous peace deal was reached in 2020, but only after the deaths of some 400,000 people, and the displacement of millions of others.

“So much about diplomacy is about relationships, and that works in good ways and in bad ways,” said Shackelford when discussing the problems she noticed with the State Department. “But there’s this inability to use those relationships to push back harder. It created a learned behavior where we’re going to shake our finger at human rights abuses, but we’re not going to do anything about it, and we’re going to continue to support the government in power.”

Shackelford’s growing disillusionment with US diplomacy, heightened by changes in government policy she saw under the Trump administration, resulted in

her submitting a letter of resignation to then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in 2017.

“I remained very frustrated at watching our policies there [in South Sudan] continue on the same path of supporting the government,” said Shackelford when asked about her decision to resign from the State Department. “I thought about it [resignation] for months, and I woke up one day and felt that I could no longer be certain that I was doing more good than harm.”

The resignation letter Shackelford penned would turn out to be a stinging criticism of both U.S. foreign policy in general, and U.S. foreign policy under Trump. It would be featured on multiple national news outlets, foreign policy journals, and popular debate shows.

“It was unexpected”, said Shackelford of the response her letter received. “But it gave me a sense that Americans care about what happens in the State Department.”

Shackelford’s book on her experiences, The Dissent Channel, has received multiple favorable reviews and awards. It is recommended to anyone interested in international studies, U.S. foreign policy, or nonfictional tales of adventure. Her full interview with John Shaw, as part of the Institute’s Understanding Our New World series, is available for free on the Paul Simon Institute’s youtube channel and website.

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

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Down go the Dawgs: Salukis lose first FCS game to #16 Panthers Cole Daily | cdaily@dailyegyptian.com

On Saturday, Oct. 30, #3 SIU (6-2; MVC 4-1) faced off against #16 Northern Iowa (5-3; MVC 3-2) after a bye week where the Salukis had time to recover. The Salukis fell to the Panthers 23-16 in a Missouri Valley Conference battle.

The Salukis started off the game with a bang after sophomore quarterback Nic Baker completed a pass to junior wideout Avante Cox for a 39 yard completion. SIU capped off the drive with a 48-yard field goal by senior kicker Nico Gualdoni at 12:51 left in the first quarter. Salukis on top, 3-0.

The Salukis continued with that momentum after freshman linebacker Branson Combs got an interception during UNI’s first drive. The Salukis weren’t able to follow this up, however, after Baker fumbled the ball at 7:24 and the Panthers recovered.

Senior linebacker Bryce Notree received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after both plays, therefore he was ejected from the game. Freshman linebacker Branson

Combs said the defense helped the Salukis keep the game within reach, but there were still places they could’ve been better.

“Defense had some big plays including some takeaways, but in the third quarter we let them pound the ball down the middle [...] and we gotta be a little better on that.”

Combs said.

Northern Iowa scored a field goal with 5:35 left in the first quarter to tie the game, 3-3. The field goal was scored by sophomore kicker Matthew Cook.

The score stayed 3-3 until the second quarter.

SIU failed to convert a fourthdown conversion to start the second quarter, but they immediately got the ball back after a fumble recovery by freshman defensive tackle Gianini Belizaire at 13:47 left in the second quarter.

However, the Salukis were not able to capitalize on the turnover.

SIU managed to get their second score of the game at 9:33 in the second quarter after Baker threw a 52-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Landon Lenoir.

Salukis regained the lead 10-3.

Southern Illinois continued their defensive prowess and got the ball back so Gualdoni could hit his second field goal of the game. This time a 47-yarder to make the score 13-3.

UNI closed the half with a 31 yard field by Cook to make the score 13-6 heading into the half.

The Panthers got the ball to start the second half, and they took advantage. Sophomore quarterback Theo Day threw a touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver Sam Schnee with 10:58 left in the third quarter. This touchdown tied the game 13-13.

The Salukis answered with a 33 yard field goal by Gualdoni to make the score 16-13.

However, the Panthers wouldn’t back down, and the Panthers grabbed their first lead of the game at 2:49 left in the third quarter. Day threw a touchdown pass to senior tight end Kyle Fourtenberry to make the score 20-16.

Combs came up with his second interception of the day at 14:50 in the fourth quarter to help the Salukis gain momentum.

SIU was not able to capitalize

on the turnover as Baker threw an interception right away to junior cornerback Benny Sapp.

Southern Illinois managed to get a stop and the ball back but Baker threw another interception at 8:01 after a tipped ball by Northern Iowa.

After both teams stopped the opposing teams’ drives, UNI’s Cook made a 42-yard field goal to make the score 23-16.

With an opportunity to tie, this drive was the Salukis’ last hope at a victory.

The Salukis drove the ball all the way from their own 25 to inside their opponent’s redzone. On fourth and goal, Baker threw the ball to senior wide receiver Jerron Rollins on the left side of the end zone.

The pass was broken up by sophomore cornerback Omar Brown, sealing the victory for the Panthers.

Hill said a big factor in Southern Illinois’ loss was not being able to score a touchdown but instead, settling for a field goal.

“It comes down to being solid in the redzone. When we get that

opportunity [...] we have to execute and we have to come away with seven,” Hill said.

Combs said this game is going to hurt the team for tonight, but they will be ready to get back at it.

“The most frustrating thing obviously is we came out with a loss. It’s a team thing where we all have to get better, but we’re going to move on and be better next week,” Combs said.

The top performers for the Salukis were Lenoir with four receptions for 93 yards and a touchdown, and Cox with six receptions for 84 yards.

Hill said Southern Illinois is very happy to have Cox back in the lineup after his injury. He said Cox has the ability to make dynamic plays and that’ll be able to help the team down the stretch.

On the defensive side, Combs came up big with 6 tackles (including a pivotal fourth down stop) and two interceptions.

The Salukis will hope to bounce back next Saturday, Nov. 6, against Missouri State at home.

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

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

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