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DECEMBER 2, 2009

VOLUME 95, NO. 66

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EVAN DAVIS | D AILY E GYPTIAN Louis Butcher, a Carbondale resident and city employee, listens as residents voice their concerns to Mayor Brad Cole and other City Council members Tuesday. Residents spoke out against Cole’s proposals to privatize Carbondale’s sewer and water management and to increase the sales tax.

Community members lined up at Tuesday’s City Council meeting to voice their disapproval of Mayor Brad Cole’s suggestion that Carbondale sell and privatize its water services. The suggestion was one of many brought to the council by Cole at the end of the Nov. 17 meeting, where it discussed possible revenue options for the city’s projected budget deficit of more than $5 million in fiscal years 2011 and 2012. At the meeting on Nov. 17, Cole estimated that the sale of city-run water services would grant the city $42 million, which could be used to pay off the inflated police and fire pension funds and repay city debts. Resident Chuck Peprock told the council he researched the effects of water privatization in both Atlanta and Urbana. When Atlanta sold its water to United Water, a privately owned company, residents suffered services outages and unclean water that took days to fix, Peprock said. Peprock quoted an Atlanta City Council member who said, “We have done all sorts of things poorly that have aggravated the citizens … but I never run into anything that has aggravated my constituents more than the inability to provide clean tap water.” City leaders in Atlanta tried in the late 1990s to turn over the city’s water services to a private company, but were forced to back out in 2003, just four years into a 20year deal, according to an article on water privatization published two weeks ago in the Chicago Tribune. Atlanta regained public control in response to cost overruns, service problems and breakdowns, the article stated. The same Tribune article also said homeowners in Illinois’ DuPage and Will counties will pay 30 percent more for their water next year if a private operator wins state approval for a rate hike. Resident Berardino Baratta said he would like to see a public trust that would protect the Carbondale’s water services from being privatized in the future. Baratta said the privatization of water services is simply a short-term solution.

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“One of the things that cities have been doing is looking into alternative energy with their new constructions and retro-fitting their existing constructions … the budget issue today won’t go away tomorrow, even if we address it,” Baratta said. Baratta said he would support an increase in both a property tax and sales tax. Cole said there has been neither solicitation for a bid for the city’s water services nor any specific interest by a private company and asset sale is simply one of many budget options the council must weigh. Councilman Chris Wissmann addressed citizens directly, saying it’s not enough for them to oppose privatization. “We need some real specifics,” he said. “You need to decide on a tax package you can live with and tell (the council) what it is.” The council will decide whether or not to raise sales taxes and levy a property tax at its next meeting on Dec. 15. Councilwoman Mary Pohlmann proposed several tax-based solutions for the projected deficit, one of which was a partially abated property tax coupled with a quarter of a percent sales tax increase. Pohlmann said the best solution would be an increase in only the sales tax because implementing two taxes is hard to justify. Councilman Joel Fritzler said privatization of water services hasn’t been remotely successful in other communities and that he favors a sales tax increase to put less financial obligation on the smaller portion of residents and more on the visitors and commuters who use the city’s services. Please see COUNCIL | 2

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Chancellor Sam Goldman is confident the university will see an increase in international enrollment in fall 2010 thanks to recent trips overseas. Goldman and several other university officials visited China, Taiwan and India last month in hopes of setting up new arrangements with universities in each country. “We saw nine different universities in about 12 or 13 days, and all of them were very receptive,” Goldman said.

Goldman said he expects about 150 to 200 students from China, Taiwan and India to enroll in fall. University officials here will select who is accepted, Goldman said, and those students will receive an alternate tuition rate, paying the same price as in-state students. Goldman said the university has 18 students from the University of International Business and Economy in Beijing enrolled this fall, and he said he hopes to have 10 more students from the university in Beijing enrolled in spring 2010. “I am very, very optimistic about international student enrollment,” Goldman said. “At one time, we were among the top-10 in the

country (for international enrollment). We’re not there anymore and so we need to go back to where we were.” Goldman said Zhengzhou University, located in the Henan province of China, has promised to provide $80,000 to $100,000 annually to establish a Confucius Institute on campus. The Chinese university would also provide two faculty members to teach Chinese language and culture, Goldman said. He said the Institute would most likely be housed in the foreign language department of the College of Liberal Arts and will be put together by David Wilson, associate dean and director of the Graduate School.

“Zhengzhou University is very interested and wants to be a partner in this,” Wilson said in a press release. “We will put our team in contact with the people at Zhenzhou to put together the application. We hope to have that done by the end of February.” According to the Associated Press, there are nearly 60 Confucius Institutes or Centers throughout the United States, mostly at state universities, and 396 globally in 87 countries. According to the official Xinhua News Agency, the Chinese government plans to establish 500 worldwide by 2010. Goldman said the university is also going to establish an SIUC center at I-Shou University in Taiwan to assist in international recruitment. There are currently

two SIUC centers at the university in Beijing and at Zhengzhou University. Goldman said that particular university also has a high school attached, providing an opportunity to directly recruit international students for undergraduate programs. “The high school offers students in ninth through 12th grade a track for studying abroad,” Wilson said. Goldman said he believes the increase in international enrollment will happen gradually and eventually lead to huge numbers of international students. The university needs to focus on recruitment in that area to boost international enrollment, he said, but continue to recruit in all other areas. “All in all, China was a very successful experience,” Goldman said.

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Gov. Pat Quinn arrives today to break ground on the new Transportation Education Center, which will house both aviation and automotive programs. The groundbreaking of the $63.3 million center will be at 1:50 p.m. today at Southern Illinois Airport. The new transportation center was funded through a statewide capital construction plan signed into law by Quinn in July and through the Illinois Capital Development Board. The new building will replace the dilapidated, World War II-era facilities, some of which were destroyed in the May 8 storm, being used by the automotive technology department on the Carterville campus. According to a press release, construction is expected to take about two years.

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An H1N1 vaccination clinic will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in the Alumni Lounge of the Recreation Center. Vaccinations are free for SIUC students with a student ID and a driver’s license. The clinic is only for students and community members who are considered high risk, including pregnant women, anyone 24 years old or younger, people who live with or care for infants younger than 6 months, health care and emergency personnel and anyone between 25 years of age and 64 years of age with a weakened immune system because of certain chronic medical conditions such as asthma or diabetes. Updates for future H1N1 vaccine clinics will be posted on the Student Health Center Web site at http://shc.siuc.edu.

If the property tax were reinstated, landlords would pass on the increase to college students in rent increases, Fritzler said. In other business Tuesday, the Carbondale Police Department swore in three new officers and Councilwoman Corene McDaniel was formally presented with the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award.

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EVAN DAVIS | D AILY E GYPTIAN Mayor Brad Cole listens to the concerns of his constituents in Tuesday’s Carbondale City Council meeting. The large crowd in attendance stood and applauded after the first Carbondale resident to voice his opposition to the privatization of the city’s water management finished speaking.

Police Blotters Three arrests were made early Sunday when Carbondale police officers responded to a disturbance at the 2400 block of W. Main Street, a police report said Tuesday. Mario Hernandez Mendoza, 22, was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery and mob action, while Santiago Francisco, 19 and Dominga Leyva Villanueva, 34, were arrested on suspicion of mob action. All three are Carbondale residents. The victim of the assault, who police did not identify in any way, was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale for treatment of minor injuries.

Two more burglaries occurred during Thanksgiving Break, Carbondale police reported Tuesday. Property was stolen from a residence at the 300 block of E. College Street on Nov. 27 and from a residence at the 500 block of South Graham Street between Nov. 20 and 29, reports said. Police encourage anyone with information regarding these or other crimes is encouraged to contact the department at 457-3200 or Crime Stoppers at 549-2677. Anonymous tips may be submitted.

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RECYCLED REINDEER Linda McMillen, a member of the advisory board for the School of Art and Design, touches up a reindeer leg that is part of a flying reindeer display at the fifth annual Art Over Easy Art Auction & Gala at the Surplus Gallery at the Glove Factory Monday. The wood used for the display is from the May 8 storm. The event is a major fundraiser for the School of Art and Design and a time to showcase graduate students’ and community artists’ work. The event is at 4:30 p.m. Friday. EDYTA BŁASZCZYK D AILY E GYPTIAN

When the state decided it was not going to fund the Integrated Assessment Program during the summer, Jena Hoover thought she was out of an internship needed for her major. The grant was restored July 1, and Hoover has not looked back. Hoover, a graduate student in social work from Saint Genevieve, Mo., said Shari Selander, director of child welfare programs, had accepted her application earlier in the summer. “I was going to leave my job and just come and work for them,” Hoover said. “She called me about a week later and said not to quit my job and she couldn’t pick me right now because she wasn’t sure if the program would even exist.” The purpose of the Integrated Assessment Program is to provide a complete comprehensive assessment for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. Selander said the workers in the program meet with the children and conduct interviews with the biological parents, or any other significant adult involved with the case, to determine the needs of the children and families. Selander said the goal of the meeting is to determine if it is possible to return children to their parents. “If it’s not possible, then our screeners will also make other

recommendations that would be in the best interest of the child in order for them to gain permanency in their own life,” Selander said. Hoover said as part of her internship, she has helped with research and observed the workers who do the screening for the children. “I’ve had the opportunity to do two parent interviews, and I’ve written up one report for the parent,” Hoover said. Hoover said she has been very happy to gain the experience with the Integrated Assessment Program. Mizanur Miah, director of the School of Social Work, said a lot of hard work and lobbying went into getting the program’s funding restored. “I personally went door-todoor,” Miah said. “Even on my own time, I took a leave of absence, vacation time, to go and do those.” Miah said the funding for the grant totaled about $4.8 million Selander said the program is crucial because it covers 84 counties in Illinois. “It’s definitely been viewed as the leader among all the contracts,” Selander said. Selander said the program also sees very little turnover because of the support it receives from the university, as well as the effect they have seen on the children and families in Illinois. Miah said the program employs about 54 people.

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In 2001, Jason Pargin was blogging in his spare time when he wrote a story for Halloween, adding to it the next five Holloweens. Now those stories are being turned into a feature-length film. Pargin, who writes under the pseudonym David Wong, condensed his Halloween tales into a novel titled “John Dies at the End.” Word began to get around on the Internet spurning a publishing deal and the attachment of director Don Coscarelli (“Bubba Ho-Tep”, “Phantasm”) to adapt the novel into film. Pulse was able to talk with Pargin after he had just returned from Los Angeles to his home in Marion. Pulse: First off, can you give me a quick synopsis of the story? Pargin: It’s just a horror-comedy about a pair of twenty-something college dropouts in the Midwest who don’t have a whole lot in their lives. They come across a drug that lets you see these evil spirits that run the world. It comes down to them to stop these guys, and they are woefully unequipped. That’s where a lot of the comedy comes from. There is not a lot of straight horror-comedy where it’s overly silly, it’s supposed to be scary but still very funny. Pulse: Was this an idea you had been kicking around for awhile?

Pargin: This was in 2001 when I was just blogging in my spare time, and I have never had anything published, but there was an audience on the Web site. That Halloween, I wrote a piece as a campfire story and every Halloween I added to it. So after about five years I had something that I thought was novel-length. By that point, word of mouth had snowballed. Pulse: Why was the book first available online? Was there trouble finding a publisher? Pargin: I hadn’t shopped it because I thought it was too ridiculous. After the word of mouth spread, a small horror publisher contacted me, asking me if I wanted it published.That’s when it took off. Pulse: Setting the story in the Midwest with a couple of slacker types as the heroes, was any of this based on real-life experiences, minus the otherworldly parts, of course? Pargin: It plainly takes place in southern Illinois, in a rundown version of Carbondale combined with the worst parts of Cairo. It is a city where large sections have been abandoned making it spookier, there are lots of empty storefronts. It adds a depressed air to the whole thing. I intentionally gave the town a different name so I wasn’t scaring tourism away (laughs); it just gave a better horror setting. Pulse: How did the movie deal come about? Were you shopping it or

were you approached? Pargin: Don Coscarelli just emailed me out of the blue when it was in limited paperback run; the title caught his eye. I thought it was a hoax or something, and I didn’t reply because it seemed ludicrous. I finally replied and ended up having to go out and hire an attorney for contracts. It was all very surreal. He bought the rights and got me a new publishing deal (Thomas Dunne Books). It’s remarkable when you rewind five years and it’s me writing this on the Internet for a few friends. Pulse: What is your role with the film? Are you consulting or anything? Pargin: I’m not officially involved with the film, and I honestly don’t know the first thing about a screenplay. I didn’t include a request or anything giving me a draft of the script or anything. He’s (Coscarelli) the one who knows how to write a movie, and I trust his taste. If he wants to make changes I’m perfectly fine with that. Some of the worst book-to-film adaptations are the most right-on ones. Pulse: What are you working on now? Pargin: The next book I write will be the sequel, and I’m negotiating with the publisher now. I still have only written one novel, so I have no clue what the process is for sitting down and writing one.

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David Winston, of Brooklyn, was 18 years old when he signed up to join the Army in 1985. “Coming into the military is something I always wanted to do because my mother had two brothers in the military, and after I saw their pictures, I said ‘I want to get in the military,’” Winston said. Winston served in the Persian Gulf War as a physical therapy technician in Saudi Arabia. He provided therapy for wounded soldiers. “That’s all I did – help people who were injured,” Winston said. But that’s where things changed for Winston. He began to feel ill and took a lot of sick leave while in the Middle East. “I kept going on sick leave,” he said. “I had all these headaches, headaches, headaches.” It wasn’t long before Winston was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “That’s the one thing that got me out of the military — they don’t want anyone with multiple sclerosis because it’s an incurable disease,” Winston said.

Today, Winston is mostly paralyzed because of the disease and lives at the Marion Veterans Affairs Community Living Center, a component of the Marion VA hospital. He said he has lived there for nine years. Winston acknowledges there have been some problems at the Marion VA hospital, which has been under fire since 2007 after the Chicago Tribune first reported that nine patients died because of substandard conditions. “Being here is steady now — at one point in time they had a whole lot of mice and a whole lot of ants. The mice would find whatever I had, and they’d be chewing away at it and eating it,” Winston said. Overall, Winston believes the conditions at the hospital have improved. He said he occasionally receives visitors, but nurses at the hospital said he has only been out of bed three times in the last six months — each time for an interview. “My favorite thing is being left alone,” Winston said. Despite his desire for privacy, Winston said most of the veterans in Marion enjoy visitors. “When it comes to the veterans here, the only thing they want is to be heard. They just want someone to talk to,” Winston said.

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WA S H I NGTON — President Barack Obama is dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assures the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Christmas. The escalation — to be completed by next summer — is designed to reverse significant Taliban advances since Obama took office 10 months ago and to fast-track the training of Afghan soldiers and police toward the goal of hastening an eventual U.S. pullout. The size and speed of the troop increase will put a heavy strain on the military, which still maintains a force of more than 100,000 in Iraq and already has 68,000 in Afghanistan. Obama’s Tuesday evening speech to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., to be broadcast nationally, ends three months of exacting deliberations that won praise from supporters and criticism from opponents. Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Obama was “dithering,” too inexperienced to make a decision on the troop buildup requested in September by commanding Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

Senior officials said Obama would underscore his commitment to stabilizing Afghanistan and scouring corruption out of the government of President Hamid Karzai. Obama has vowed to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a safe haven for alQaida boss Osama bin Laden and his terrorist organization. Most of the new forces will be combat troops. Military officials said the Army brigades most likely to be sent will come from Fort Drum in New York and Fort Campbell in Kentucky. Marines, who will be the vanguard, will most likely come primarily from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. There will be about 5,000 dedicated trainers in the 30,000, showing the emphasis on preparing Afghans to take over their own security. And the president is making clear to his generals that all troops, even if designated as combat, must consider themselves trainers. Announcing a start to a U.S. withdrawal by July 2011 does not tie the United States to an “end date” for the war, officials said. They all spoke on condition of anonymity because the speech had not been delivered. The address could become a defining moment of the Obama presidency, a political gamble that may weigh heavily on his chances for a second White House term. It represents

the beginning of a sales job to restore support for the war effort among an American public grown increasingly pessimistic about success — and among some fellow Democrats in Congress wary of or even opposed to spending billions more dollars and putting tens of thousands more U.S. soldiers and Marines in harm’s way. A new survey by the Gallup organization, released Tuesday, showed only 35 percent of Americans now approve of Obama’s handling of the war; 55 percent disapprove. Even before the president spoke, his plan was met with skepticism in Congress, where Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and liberal House Democrats threatened to try to block funding for the troop increase. Sen. Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs a military oversight panel, said he didn’t think Democrats would yank funding for the troops or try to force Obama’s hand to pull them out faster. But Democrats will be looking for ways to pay for the additional troops, he said, including a tax increase on the wealthy although that hike is already being eyed to pay for health care costs. Another possibility is imposing a small gasoline tax that would be phased out if gas prices go up, he said. Meanwhile, Republicans said that setting a timetable for withdrawal would demonstrate weakness.

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SE AT T LE — A lone officer on patrol in the middle of the night Tuesday spotted a stolen car, its hood up and engine running, and pulled over to check it out. As the patrolman sat in his cruiser, a burly man with a large mole on his cheek came up from behind. The officer turned and instantly recognized the most wanted man in the Pacific Northwest — the ex-con accused of gunning down four cops at a coffee shop. Moments later, Maurice Clemmons, 37, lay dead in the street, shot by the patrolman after Clemmons made a move for a gun he had taken from one of the slain

officers, police said. Clemmons’ death brought to an end two days of fear across the Seattle-Tacoma area and one of the biggest manhunts the region has ever seen. Dozens of police officers milled around at the scene afterward, some solemnly shaking hands and patting each other on the back. “Good thing he wasn’t able to get the gun out here or we might have had a different ending to this whole thing,” Pierce County sheriff ’s spokesman Ed Troyer said. “The officer in Seattle did a good job of making sure he went home safe tonight.” Clemmons eluded capture thanks to family and friends who provided him with shelter, cell phones, cash and first aid for the severe belly wound he suffered when one of the

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dying officers in Sunday’s coffeeshop rampage got off a shot, police said. Six to seven of those associates were being arrested Tuesday. Among them were an accomplice who drove the getaway truck after the rampage and Clemmons’ sister, who bandaged him up and gave him a lift to a house in Seattle, police said. “Some are friends, some are acquaintances, some are partners in crime, some are relatives. Now they’re all partners in crime,” Troyer said.

It was not clear exactly where Clemmons was while on the run. Police rushed from place to place, following tips that often came up empty or yielded only accomplices. They searched homes and apartments around the city and cordoned off a park after a report of blood in a restroom. On Sunday, Clemmons briefly took refuge at a house in the city’s well-to-do Leschi neighborhood, slipping away before police

surrounded the home in an all-night siege that ended when SWAT officers stormed the place and realized he wasn’t there. Clemmons has a violent, erratic past, and authorities in Washington state and Arkansas — where thenGov. Mike Huckabee in 2000 commuted his 108-year prison sentence for armed robbery and other offenses — are facing tough questions about why an apparently violent and deranged man was out on the street. On Sunday, six days after posting bail in Washington on charges of raping a child, Clemmons walked into the coffee shop in suburban Tacoma and killed four uniformed Lakewood police officers as they caught up on paperwork on their laptops, police said.

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Horoscopes

By Linda C. Black

Today’s Birthday — As the year unfolds, you discover that mental effort applied skillfully to career issues involves more than logic. You need to develop hidden opportunities that only surface when you are willing to dive in. Everyone around you believes you can work miracles, and somehow you do.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — Your best results come from activities behind the scenes. Plenty of time to go public later.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — Use your abundant energy to move group projects forward. Others agree to your terms, but not without some discussion.

Scorpio (Oct. 23—Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Another person presents an idea that matches up beautifully with your thinking. It involves action. Don’t be shy. Publicity works wonders.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 6 — You find yourself moving into new mental territory. Your imagination goes wild, and you forge ahead with new projects. Gemini (May 21-June 21) —Today is an 8 — Someone communicates long-distance to give you an original idea. Work out a solution privately and then present it to your closest neighbor. !"#$%&'&(')&(*+,-(."(&/0)(+"12(0"%3#4(/4-(567865(7"9( :,4(7"%-(7"/+-&+.;(0"4'/,4.(&<&+8(-,*,'(=('"(>?(@"+(.'+/'&6 *,&.("4()"1('"(."%<&(A3-"B32(<,.,'(111?.3-"B3?"+*?3B?

Cancer (June 22-July 22) —Today is an 8 — Your vision is only limited by your imagination. You see the path to your dreams clearly. Go for it! Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Deal with what’s right in front of you.You have plenty going on, but handle the problems of the moment first.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is an 8 —You have tons of energy and no clear sense of where to use it. Check out the environment first, and take an independent direction.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — The world beats a path to your door today. Will you be at home to answer? Take advantage of the opportunity. Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is an 8 — You don’t have to move at the speed of light. In fact, you’re better off taking things step by step, noticing opportunities as you go. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — You’re still on the right track, and you see your goal ahead. Bring an associate on board who has the energy and know-how you need. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Whatever you set in motion in the morning carries you through the day. Work with the materials on hand. Clean up after yourself.

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009

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Sports

SWIMMING & DIVING

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Ryan Simonin DAILY EGYPTIAN

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Four years ago, swimmer Therese Mattsson came from Sweden to southern Illinois to join the Salukis. Now she is one of the team’s leaders and one of the most successful Salukis in her four seasons at SIU. In her career, Mattsson was named to the All-Missouri Valley Conference First Team in 2006 and in 2007, and she posted 11 firstplace finishes in the 2007-08 season. She was named MVC Swimmer of the Week six times as well. SIU swimming and diving head coach Rick Walker said Mattsson has a similar work ethic to teammate Kirsten Groome, who has 13 first-place finishes this season. “She is very much like Kirsten Groome because she earns everything that she gets,” Walker said. “She is one young lady that I know if I turn around and have to go do something that she is going get things done, and that is the difference between a great swimmer and a mediocre swimmer.” With the Salukis’ season only half over, Mattsson has already compiled 11 first-place finishes. Mattsson posted two first-place finishes in the Salukis’ victory over Division II national champion Drury University. She swam

SUZANNE CARAKER | D AILY E GYPTIAN Therese Mattsson, a senior from Stockholm, Sweden, works on her butterfly during practice Wednesday at the Edward J. Shea Natatorium. Mattsson took first place with a time of 1 minute, 51.38 seconds at the Nov. 19 meet against Drury University. her best time of the season in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 51.38 seconds and followed with a win in the 100-yard freestyle (51.93). Mattsson heard about SIU’s swimming program through former Saluki swimmer — and

Swedish native — Dennis Hedo. “I picked SIU because I knew it had a good team with good coaches and swimmers, and it wasn’t too fast or too slow,” Mattsson said. “It was a perfect fit for me.” Junior swimmer Marcela Teixeira said Mattsson’s work ethic

has set the standard for the team. “She is always at practice on time and working hard and putting up amazing times,” Teixeira said. “We all look up to her, and if she can do it, then we can do it.” Walker said Mattsson is a swimmer that everybody on the

team should look to as an example of success. “For her, every race is like a championship,” Walker said. “She has high expectations going into a meet, and she is very good at evaluating afterwards, which is hard to juggle.”

FOOTBALL

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TALLA H A S S EE, F l a. — Bobby Bowden orchestrated one of the great runs in college football, building Florida State into a powerhouse that produced two national titles, dozens of All-Americans and some of the most memorable missed field goals ever. Bowden said Tuesday he will end his 44-year coaching career after the Seminoles play in a bowl game. Bowden was done in by a combination of off-field woes, too many defeats and coach-in-waiting Jimbo Fisher ready to take over. “Nothing lasts forever, does it?” a relaxed-looking Bowden asked during video interview conducted by school officials. “But I’ve had some wonderful years here at Florida State, you know it. Hadn’t done as good lately as I wish I could have, but I’ve had wonderful years, no regrets.” The 80-year-old Bowden will retire as the second winningest coach in major-college football behind Penn State’s Joe Paterno. The folksy coach has won 388 games at Samford, West Virginia and Florida State, where he spent the last 34 seasons. Bowden was faced with the option of coming back next season with diminished control over the program, giving Fisher more power. “We’ve got one more game and I

look forward to enjoying these next few weeks as the head football coach,” Bowden said earlier Tuesday in a statement released by the school. The Seminoles are bowl eligible at 6-6, and were awaiting word on where they will play. They’re also awaiting word from the NCAA on whether 14 victories in recent seasons will be vacated because of an academic cheating scandal. Bowden won two national titles at Florida State, in 1993 and 1999. Among his top achievements is a string of 14 straight seasons ending in 2000 when the Seminoles won at least 10 games and finished ranked in the top five of the AP poll. Florida State was 152-19-1, an .864 winning percentage, during that span. He has a 315-97-4 record with the Seminoles, but his teams were 73-42 the past nine seasons. “He set records of achievement on the field that will probably never be equaled,” Florida State president T.K. Wetherell said. “Bobby Bowden in many ways became the face of Florida State. It was his sterling personality and character that personified this university.” FSU officials announced after the 2007 season that Fisher, the offensive coordinator, would succeed Bowden. The end of the Bowden era has been brewing for years, and the call for change only grew louder this year,

STEPHEN M. DOWELL| M C C LATCHY TRIBUNE Florida State coach Bobby Bowden leaves the field after a 37-10 loss to Florida at Ben Hill Griffen Stadium in Gainesville, Fla., Nov. 28. when loss after loss, many coming in the final minutes, began piling up. The regular season ended with a sixth straight loss to bitter rival Florida, a 3710 blowout. A football lifer, Bowden modeled his career after his idol Paul “Bear”

Bryant, the legendary Alabama coach who died shortly after he retired in 1982. “After you retire, there’s only one big event left,” Bowden has said over the years. “And I ain’t ready for that.” Bowden seemed to be in good

humor during the video interview, saying his family doesn’t have to worry about his well-being. “Now, you know I have to go out and get a job. Can you believe that?” he said. “I’ve got to go get a job. I ain’t had a job in 55 years.”

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Sports

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RYAN VOYLES rvoyles @siu.edu

I want to say it’s too soon to call them the worst team of all-time, but really — 17 straight losses? And it’s not like the Nets have even shown a pulse in those games; they get beat up on more often than a fat kid during recess. They already fired their head coach and still got beat by 29 by the Lakers. They do not have any star players, let alone competent players.

Yes, losing 17 straight is absolutely horrible. The Nets play so far has been lackluster and repugnant at best. Every time I see them on TV, I find myself reaching for the remote control. Every facet of their game is disgraceful. Bottom line: The Nets have taken all of the integrity out of losing.

RYAN SIMONIN rsimmy @siu.edu

Clearly the Ryans have not watched the Nets this season. Yes, New Jersey

JEFF ENGELHARDT is a bad team, but no, they are not the worst in history. The Nets have had jengel @siu.edu

their superstar Devin Harris on the sidelines most of the season along with Yi Jianlian, who had a promising start. With a roster consisting of Harris, Jianlian, Courtney Lee, Brook Lopez, Chris Douglas-Roberts and Terrence Williams, the potential is there.

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The SIU athletic department announced the Hall of Fame Class of 2010 on Tuesday. Members of the six-person class include Kent Williams and Jerry Jones (basketball), Tom Koutsos (football), Al Levine (baseball), Dana Olden (volleyball) and Cheryl Venorsky (softball). Williams is fifth in school history, earning 1,537 points helping the Salukis resurrect the men’s basketball program at the beginning of the decade. Jones was a force down low for SIU in the late 80s,

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Dillard, who carried most of the weight of the Salukis’ offense on his shoulders last season after a seasonending injury to point guard Bryan Mullins, said having Brown-Surles takes some of the pressure off him and adds it to the opponent’s defenders. “Either one of us can handle the ball, so they can’t just focus on one ball handler,” Dillard said. “One guy is going to get the outlet pass, because either one of us can bring it up, and we both find people in

becoming only the second Saluki to ever average more than 10 rebounds a game. What Williams was for basketball, Koutsos was for football. He recorded three 1,000 rushing yard seasons at the beginning of the 21st century, and remains SIU’s career leader in rushing yards (4,715), rushing touchdowns (52), 100-yard rushing games (22) and rushing attempts (988). Levine led the Missouri Valley Conference with a 1.71 ERA in 1991 before going on to play in the major leagues for 10 seasons, pitching in relief for seven different teams. Olden remains one of the most

prestigious volleyball players in SIU history, as she holds 13 top10 statistical rankings in her career. She is first in school history in career block assists (333) and second in career kills (1545), attempts (3784) and blocks (154). Venorsky ranks among the most talented — and intelligent — athletes in school history. A twotime First-Team All-MVC selection, her biggest accomplishment was winning the GTE Academic All-American-of-the-Year award in 1991, where she held a perfect 4.0 GPA. She was also a talented softball player who is still in the top 10 in hits (sixth), stolen bases (sixth) and runs scored (eigth). All six will be inducted in a ceremony on Jan. 8, 2010.

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e has charisma, he’s sharp, the guys like him, so we haven’t had to do anything really to show that he’s my family or we’re going to coach him differently. He’s done everything himself.

— Chris Lowery men’s basketball head coach

transition, so we really put people in a bind and make them kind of rush on defense.” Lowery said he has been impressed with Brown-Surles’ work ethic. “Everything he’s done, he’s

earned,” Lowery said. “He’s played extremely hard. He has charisma, he’s sharp, the guys like him, so we haven’t had to do anything really to show that he’s my family or we’re going to coach him differently. He’s done everything himself.”

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FOOTBALL

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A familiar face returned under center for the Salukis Tuesday. Quarterback Chris Dieker took part in his first practice Tuesday at McAndrew Stadium since he underwent surgery in late October for a broken left clavicle. Head coach Dale Lennon said he did not want to rush Dieker, but instead ease him into the practice routine. “We’ll take it as the situation presents itself,” Lennon said. “If he feels any pain whatsoever, we will pull him immediately. That is what we are curious about, too — about how much he can practice.” Dieker suffered the injury in the second quarter of the team’s 27-8 victory over Youngstown State on Oct. 24. An honorable mention to the AllMVFC team last season, Dieker had compiled 1,272 yards and 10 touchdowns in just more than six games this season before going down with the injury. After undergoing surgery the week following the fracture, Dieker sat out for two weeks before he started conditioning to regain his stamina and flexibility, Lennon said. He said getting Dieker into shape was the first concern before he returned him to practice. “He’ll have to make sure that the wind is there and work with the legs,” Lennon said. “He’s been working with our strength coach, so he’s had a pretty thorough conditioning before coming back to practice.” Redshirt freshman Paul Mcintosh has filled in while Dieker has been on the sidelines. McIntosh has added a whole new running element to the Salukis’

EDYTA BŁASZCZYK | D AILY E GYPTIAN Junior quarterback Chris Dieker makes a pass during the 27-20 win against Northern Iowa Oct. 17 in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Dieker returned to practice Tuesday after suffering a broken left clavicle Oct. 24. offense since taking over for Dieker against Youngstown State. He has thrown for 839 yards and eight touchdowns in just more than five games. But it has been with his legs where McIntosh has made the biggest impact. He is already second on

the team with 525 rushing yards and six touchdowns. McIntosh said he will keep his focus on William & Mary, and not let anything distract him. “I can’t think about the position right now,” McIntosh said. “I’ll do what the coaches tell me to do, but

as of now, my complete focus is on William & Mary. I can’t let anything else take me off of that thought.” Lennon said he would not discuss the quarterback situation at the moment, and that McIntosh is the quarterback for the immediate future. Lennon said for now, the team

would merely evaluate Dieker and make sure he is able to practice. “We’ll have to see how he feels after practicing and seeing if he is in any pain,” Lennon said. “What we have to find out is whether Chris Dieker would be available if needed. That is the whole mentality right now.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

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DAILY EGYPTIAN RVOYLES@SIU.EDU

For the second straight season, the Salukis are relying on a freshman to provide some relief at the point guard position. And just like Kevin Dillard before him, Kendal Brown-Surles has been up to the challenge. In four games coming off the bench this season, the true freshman has averaged 19.8 minutes with 7.3 points and 3.3 assists per game while filling in at point guard. Head coach Chris Lowery said Brown-Surles provides a change of pace at the point. While Dillard likes to make his own shots, Lowery said Brown-Surles uses his speed to blow by people before passing to an open player. “He’s a change of pace,” Lowery said. “He’s extremely fast, and everything that we said we wanted to get as a backup for Kevin, we think we’ve got in him.”

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t’s a big step, but I work hard at it everyday. I’ll keep going out there and giving it my best.

The relationship between Lowery and Brown-Surles goes beyond the court though — Lowery is Brown-Surles’ cousin. Lowery said he would coach a family member like he would any other player on his team, and though he cares about BrownSurles as family, on the court it is all business. “I’m coaching him now, whereas before it’s always been relatives and that relationship,” Lowery said. “I’m much more stern with him and geared toward him getting better opposed to just being a friend.” Brown-Surles said he has welcomed the chance to play for the Salukis, and to fill in behind Missouri Valley Conference

— Kendal Brown-Surles freshman point guard preseason player of the year honorable mention Kevin Dillard. “It’s a big step, but I work hard at it everyday,” Brown-Surles said. “I’ll keep going out there and giving it my best.” His best so far has been a lift for the Salukis. In the last game against University of Illinois-Chicago, Brown-Surles had six points, six assists and four rebounds in 25 minutes. Even when he is not playing the point, Brown-Surles has been able to score. He is shooting 44 percent from the field and has made 5-of-11 three-pointers this season. Please see BASKETBALL | 11

Freshman guard Kendal Brown-Surles blocks a Henderson State player on Oct. 31 at SIU Arena. The true freshman is averaging 19.8 minutes a game with 7.3 points and 3.3 assists while sharing point guard duty with Kevin Dillard. EDYTA BŁASZCZYK D AILY E GYPTIAN