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Overall enrollment falls near 40-year low Freshman enrollment highest in 20 years SETH RICHARDSON Daily Egyptian The 10-day enrollment figures released Tuesday showed a marked improvement in freshman enrollment, despite a decline in overall enrollment.

Overall enrollment decreased for the ninth straight year, falling from 18,847 to 17,964. This marks one of the lowest enrollments in 40 years.

Chancellor Rita Cheng blamed the enrollment numbers on a small 2010 freshman class and expressed a need to work back up from that low point.

Transfer student enrollment has also decreased, something Cheng attributes to rough economic times.

“[The drop] was mostly economy driven,” she said. “Students are staying longer at community colleges, or not going to college because of the cost.

They’re coming back, but slowly.”

Despite the drop in overall enrollment, freshman enrollment grew by more than 12 percent from 2,286 to 2,571. The freshman class is the largest it has been in 20 years. Cheng attributed this to a complete overhaul of how SIU is being marketed to new students.

“We revamped our branding and marketing materials, expanded the number of students who got those materials in the mail and social media, increased our advertising, increased our presence in cities across the state and

the region, expanded our open house and new student orientation and we expanded our scholarships,” Cheng said.

She went on to say that the university had faltered in previous years with new student recruitment.

“We weren’t doing all the things that we needed to do,” she said. “We were late, our materials weren’t as sharp as our competitors and we weren’t sending a strong message about the quality of our faculty and our academic programs. If you don’t do that right, how is a 17-yearold going to know that SIU is a place to consider.”

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Dandy Martin, a junior from Gurnee studying computer science, performs a backside overcrook Friday during a Southern Illinois University Skate Society skateboard session at the roller rink on Wall St. “Part of the romance of skating here is you have to be creative due to the lack of creative facilities,” Martin said. The organization SIUSS raises money to one day build a skate park and promote skateboarding in Carbondale.

State Governor candidate Dillard announces running mate MATT DARAY Daily Egyptian Kirk Dillard’s choice for Lt. Governor is set and it’s one of southern Illinois’ very own.

Dillard traveled around Illinois Tuesday to announce his partner, Jil Tracy, for his bid to become Gov. of Illinois. Tracy is a former

Carbondale and Anna resident who also attended and graduated from SIU. Choosing Tracy was a way to show people that the entire state is important and not just the Chicago area, Dillard said.

“I have had the privilege and the honor of working with all of the regions in the state of Illinois,”

he said. “And today, with my announcement of Jil Tracy as my choice for Lt. Gov., I am making the down payment on the promise that I will be a Gov. for all of Illinois.”

Tracy has the experience and judgement needed to get things done, Dillard said. He said their goals are to provide Illinois with

the leadership it lacks, create jobs and take care of the state’s pension problem and financial situations.

The future of the state is a huge problem that needs to be addressed, Tracy said.

“I’m honored and humbled to be chosen as Lt. Gov.,” she said.

“As a state representative, I’ve enjoyed working for the people

of western Illinois, but like all of you, I’m very concerned and I love this state.”

Tracy was born in Carbondale and raised in Anna. She also attended SIU, where she graduated with honors in political science and earned a law degree.

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Corrections The article printed Sept. 3, titled “Carbondale granted high speed internet,” should have said the project will run from University Mall on Illinois Rt. 13 to the west side of town.

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Oldest Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase dies at 102 CHICAGO — Nobel Prize winner Ronald Coase, a pioneer in applying economic theory to the law, has died at age 102. The former University of Chicago professor was the oldest living Nobel laureate before his death Monday at a Chicago hospital.

Coase died after a short illness, said University of Chicago Law School Dean Michael Schill, who spoke to Coase’s caregiver who was with him when he died.

The British-born economist won the Nobel in 1991 for expanding economic theory to include simple but neglected concepts such as property rights and overhead costs.

His work generated a new way of thinking about government regulation, without condemning all regulation as bad, Schill said.

“It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Ronald on the law,” Schill said. “Ronald was one of the founding fathers of (the field of ) law and economics.”

Coase was born in suburban London in 1910. He wore leg braces as a child and was sent to a school for “physical defectives,” he recalled in a biographical essay he wrote for the Nobel Prize organization. He hadn’t taken Latin, so a degree in history — his first choice — was impossible.

That became “one of those accidental factors which seem to have shaped my life,” he wrote, and eventually led him to the study of economics.

Coase’s ideas grew from roots in the real world. In the 1930s, while a student at the London School of Economics, he toured U.S. factories.

What he learned from talking to business owners shaped his first significant paper, “The Nature of the Firm,” published in 1937 when he was in his mid-20s.

His second influential paper, published in 1960 and titled “The Problem of Social Cost,” made the case that parties in a dispute — such as a railroad and a farmer — can negotiate ideal agreements without government intervention as long as property rights are clear. The idea, called the Coase Theorem, still helps policymakers think about when taxes are appropriate to resolve problems such as industrial pollution.

In a 1997 interview published in the journal Reason, Coase talked about studying the effects of government regulation using realworld cases.

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SIU professor delivers keynote speech in Honduras STEPHANIE DANNER Daily Egyptian Because of her teaching and administrative experience, Dr. Lisa McClure, associate professor of rhetoric and composition, recently served as the keynote speaker at the VIII National Conference for Teachers of English in Honduras.

The American Embassy-sponsored conference, held from Aug. 5-17 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is held every other year to provide university and high school teachers with ongoing training in teaching English as a second language.

Ronda Dively, associate professor of rhetoric and composition, said organizers sought McClure’s help with the conference because of her success at SIU. Dively said McClure has

helped many international students succeed in the English department, while also instructing them on different teaching techniques.

“She has developed quite a reputation as an excellent innovative educator,” Dively said. “And students who have experienced her course would certainly back that up.”

Dively said she believes that McClure’s connections with students and faculty in the English department are the reason she was chosen by the embassy to have this high honor of traveling and representing the university and representing the country.

McClure said learning English is important for the people of Honduras in order for them to receive more education. This, McClure said, will then lead to better jobs.

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admire the teachers in Honduras. There are some classrooms that don’t even have chairs and the teachers are doing everything possible to help their students learn, regardless of what they have or don’t have.

— Dr. Lisa McClure associate professor of rhetoric and composition

Part of McClure’s goal included the incorporation of technology in ESL classes.

“I admire the teachers in Honduras,” McClure said. “There are some classrooms that don’t even have chairs and the teachers are doing everything possible to help their students learn, regardless of what they have or don’t have.”

She said she thought it was important the people learned English so they would have a greater

opportunity to succeed in both their native country and around the world.

Jennifer Hewerdine, a Ph.D. student from Murphysboro studying rhetoric and composition, lauded McClure’s accomplishments.

“McClure is a fabulous teacher in terms of pedagogy, and she is a great mentor for students who are learning to teach,” she said.

McClure said she believes teaching and learning are always valuable and she believes she made an impact on

the people attending the conference and their future students. While she taught several different workshops, many integrated technology in the classroom, including two titled “Changing Learning Environments” and “Inquiry-Based Learning and Student-Centered Classrooms.”

“While opportunities are not the same because many people do not have access to the latest technologies, our students live in the same world,” McClure said. “As educators, we must keep in mind that regardless of how little or how much we have, we must do the best for all of our students in preparing them for a world that is driven by technology.”

Stephanie Danner can be reached at sdanner@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 257.

Two-year law school instead of three becomes possibility CHRISTOPHER M. HICKS Daily Egyptian As the government looks at ways to minimize college costs for students, the traditional law degree may soon receive an update.

President Barack Obama said Aug. 20 he believes law schools should consider cutting their programs from three to two years as a way to reduce college debt. The theory behind this idea is controversial among many within the legal community and profession. Some are calling into question how much experience students would receive preparing for the bar exam and whether students will be ready to practice law without the extra year.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Mark Brittingham said the change could work but it may require law

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Cheng also said that the school has greatly expanded the number of high achieving students on campus, leading to a higher retention rate than in previous years.

“Our honors program has tripled in three years,” she said. “That means we will have higher retention numbers because students will not have as much difficulty in their

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ost student debt is acquired during the undergraduate career and more is piled on during law school without much regard to the return on their investment. Imposing a two-year law school may or may not be cheaper than the current structure and format that is currently being used.

— Mark Brittingham Clinical Assistant Professor of Law

students to take summer courses. The type of things one learns in the field typically does not prepare them for the bar exam, he said “Most student debt is acquired during the undergraduate career and more is piled on during law school without much regard to the return on their investment,” Brittingham said.

“Imposing a two-year law school may or may not be cheaper than the current structure and format that is currently being used.”

first year because their academic preparation is higher.”

The university also saw an increase in international and online enrollment at a rate of 10.7 and 36 percent, respectively. The College of Engineering and the College of Sciences and Applied Arts also experienced overall growth.

Seth Richardson can be reached at srichardson@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 257.

John Erbes, Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical & Experimental Education, said he likes the idea but it would force some law schools to restructure their curriculum, which typically involves field studies in the third year, in order to accommodate such a change.

“The idea is not very different on how many law schools are operating today,” he said.

Students also said they could see pros and cons with the president’s proposal.

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Tracy serves on the pension conference committee and is one of six members on the Legislative Ethics Commission. She has also served on the Special Legislative Investigation Committee and was a member of the impeachment committee that investigated former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Some attendees of the press

Tom Drysdale, a third-year law student from Streator, said in theory the plan is a good idea but in practice it might have some problems.

“The problem I see with the proposal is that students may miss much needed knowledge that can only be acquired from the classroom in the third year that heavily prepares them to do well on the bar exam,” he said.

Many third-year law classes generally prepare students to do well on the bar exam. With the third year being cut out

conference were thrilled with the choice of Tracy as Lt. Gov. Larry White, an Anna resident, said Dillard and Tracy have his vote because he knows Tracy cares about the area and he has known her for a long time.

“Jil is from Anna, her mother is a wonderful friend of mine, and I taught Jil in high school,” he said.

White said he knows Tracy works hard and will stay true to her word. He said he hopes she gets elected to office

and students having field experience in the profession they may not do as well, Drysdale said.

Another student said two years could work, but students will have to be dedicated and responsible.

Shanna Crafts, a third-year law student from St. Peters, Mo., works as a law clerk in the Student’s Legal Assistance Office. She said working there really gives her great experience and prepares her for a future career in the legal profession.

“You enter the law field not really knowing what you are doing and learn as you go,” she said. “This time next year I will probably be as prepared as I am now.”

Christopher M. Hicks can be reached at chicks@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254.

and makes changes in the state.

Louise Williams, an Anna resident, said she came to support the Dillard campaign because she thinks they are trustworthy individuals who well solve her issues with the state.

“I came out today because I (wanted) to say that I wanted to move out of Illinois because it is so corrupt,” she said. “We’re taxed heavily and southern Illinois gets ignored by the Chicago politicians and I feel it’s important (to) get back to the basics.”

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Dining Hall hours extended in pilot program ELIZABETH ZINCHUK Daily Egyptian Students now have more options in regards to on-campus dining as University Housing has extended Starting this semester, the Trueblood Dining Hall near Brush Towers will stay open on weekdays until 11 p.m. whereas it previously only stayed open until 7 p.m.

days a week, from four to 11 p.m., compared to last semester when the areas were open from 11 a.m.

Crystal Bouhl, the assistant director of marketing, said the later hours with Trueblood were introduced as a pilot program this year, and that if the expanded hours are successful that Housing will look into expanding the hours for Lentz Dining Hall as well.

possible for the best value possible,” Bouhl said.

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hile the express areas are convenient, we encourage our students to eat in our dining halls because they offer many more nutritional choices and are a better value.

the dining halls said they were not authorized to talk about the hour changes.

Sarah Smith-Whitehead, a freshman from Skokie studying premusic, said she thinks the change “It’s convenient because sometimes I have class later and want to take a nap afterwards, and when I wake up the dining hall is still open when I am hungry,” Smith-Whitehead said.

Greg Zimay, a sophomore from Cary studying chemistry, said he also appreciated that Trueblood is open later but doesn’t quite understand why Lentz Dining Hall wouldn’t also open later.

Point got a little cheated out,” Zimay said.

Zimay said students who wanted

— Crystal Bouhl assistant director of marketing

would have to make an undesirable walk in the dark across campus to Trueblood.

Zimay said.

Ashley Porter, a freshman from Oak Park studying pre-medicine, said she thinks the problem is the dining halls don’t have extended hours on the weekend.

“To me, it would make more sense to have more hours on weekends when students have more time,” she said.

Bouhl said housing works with the Residence Hall Association, a group comprised of students living in the residence halls, to help make decisions in changes every year with the dining program.

She said the express areas, which are more geared towards convenient,

grab and go food, often provide less nutritional value than the dining halls do, which is why housing decided to encourage dining hall eating with cutting the hours of the express areas and adding more to Trueblood. Boul said with both dining and express areas open late, students could choose which one they prefer.

“While the express areas are convenient, we encourage our students to eat in our dining halls nutritional choices and are a better value,” Bouhl said.

As far as students who want to spend their meal points in the express areas, Bouhl said they would need to compromise.

“Students who wish to use their dining plan as points in the express areas will need to do so early in the

week,” Boul said.

Smith-Whitehead said she didn’t feel like there was an issue with cashing out her meal points early like Bouhl suggested.

“I haven’t had any issues with it so far,” Smith-Whitehead said.

Zimay disagreed with SmithWhitehead and said going to the express area is often a pain.

“It’s much busier now than it was last year, so I don’t even see the point of going there anymore,” Zimay said.

Roxcine Pabillore, a senior from Oswego studying information systems technology, said he didn’t mind the express areas closing on their hours but for the reason that he just didn’t like what express “Grinnell (Eastside express) is kind of just junk food,” Pabillore said. “I like to eat a lot but watch my diet so Grinnell was never my

Elizabeth Zinchuk can be reached at ezinchuk@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.

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Editorial Policy Our Word is the consensus of the Daily Egyptian Editorial Board on local, national and global issues affecting the Southern Illinois University community. Viewpoints expressed in columns and letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect those of the Daily Egyptian.

Editorial Board Kayli Plotner Editor-in-Chief

Karsten Burgstahler Weekender/Pulse Editor

Ashley Zborek Opinion Editor

Terrance Peacock Sports Editor

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Saving the orange tree Americans might soon need to get used to apple or grape juice as their breakfast drink of choice — unless, that is, they’re willing to pay exorbitant prices for orange juice.

Or maybe scientists, plant breeders and farmers will manage to save the day, using two critical but often-disparaged technologies: chemical pesticides in the short run and genetic engineering in the longer term.

The pestilence that is devastating Florida citrus is a disease called citrus greening.

It is caused by a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, which is spread by small insects called psyllids. The bacteria infect the tree’s phloem, thereby blocking the flow of nutrients, causing yellow mottling on the leaves and asymmetrical, bitter fruit that never ripens.

Infected trees die within about five years, during which time they serve as a reservoir for psyllids to spread the disease further.

There is no known cure, but it can be slowed by frequent spraying with large amounts of chemical pesticides.

Greening has seriously compromised citrus production in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian peninsula and was discovered in July 2004 in Brazil. In 2005, the disease was found in south Florida and has since spread to sites in all counties that grow commercial citrus in the state. It has also been found in California but is not yet widespread here.

Several strategies that use genetic engineering techniques are being pursued to produce orange trees resistant to C. Liberibacter.

(Because resistance hasn’t been found to occur naturally in citrus varieties anywhere in the

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world, conventional cross-breeding techniques are not an option.)

The approaches range from incorporating a gene from spinach or pigs into orange plants to using viruses — bacteriophages — that prey on bacteria (but are completely harmless to other organisms).

Some of these strategies have been used with stunning success in other crops to enhance resistance to various pests and diseases and to introduce other characteristics.

The vast majority of corn, cotton, canola, sugar beet and soy grown in the United States have been genetically engineered with modern molecular techniques. And for more than a decade, most Hawaiian papayas have been engineered to resist a pest that in the 1990s was devastating the state’s production.

More to the point, neither farmers nor consumers are unfamiliar with foods that have been genetically modified in some way.

With the exception of wild game, wild berries, wild mushrooms and fish and shellfish, most everything in our diet has been genetically improved by one technique or another. (Even some heirloom fruits and vegetables.)

Since the 1930s, plant breeders have performed “wide cross” hybridizations in which large numbers of “alien” genes are moved from one species or genus to another to create plant varieties that otherwise cannot and do not exist in nature. Common commercial varieties include tomato, potato, oat, rice and wheat — hardly fearsome “Frankenfoods.”

However, even with modern molecular techniques, the genetic engineering of trees is a slow process, and citrus growers are desperate for solutions that will buy them time until diseaseresistant trees can be developed and tested and are yielding fruit.

One promising approach focuses on

killing the prolific psyllids. Currently, there is only one effective treatment: a soil drench of neonicotinoid (“neonic”) pesticide (derived from the naturally occurring nicotine found in plants) at the base of the young citrus tree’s trunk. This enables the chemical to be taken up through the roots, which keeps it from affecting other flying insects or pollinators, as spraying can.

Important research is underway that could expand the use of neonic treatment to large, mature, fruit-bearing trees as well as young trees, once the safety and effectiveness of the treatment have been demonstrated to the Environmental Protection Agency.

It must be shown to protect the tree from both psyllid attack and citrus greening infection; and it must not harm bees, show up in harmful amounts in fruit or juice or have other adverse environmental effects.

So far, the results have been promising — excellent news for Florida’s citrus farmers.

Genetically engineered trees resistant to citrus greening are no doubt the eventual solution to this scourge, but it may take a decade or more to develop reliably resistant, reproducible orange trees that can serve as a basis for the industry.

In the meantime, without the protection currently being offered by neonicotinoid soil treatments, the U.S. citrus industry and its associated infrastructure would probably be gone by the time genetically engineered citrus trees become commercially viable.

If we are to preserve Florida’s $9-billion orange juice industry — and citrus crops in California and Texas when the disease spreads further — we will need to rely on the best technologies available. That means coming to terms with safe and rational genetic engineering and the innovative applications of systemic neonic pesticides.

Dear editor, It was my privilege to bring the Marching Salukis to Champaign-Urbana this past Saturday for our game against the Fighting Illini, and I would like to express my gratitude to those who made the trip possible: First, to the students, faculty and fans of the University of Illinois. At every turn, my students were treated with kindness and respect. Fans we passed while on parade around the stadium were gracious and polite. People said, "Good morning" and offered encouraging comments.

This is the true measure of sportsmanship, and it was greatly appreciated.

I would also like to thank the Division of Intercollegiate Athletics for their hospitality and for allowing us to appear in Memorial Stadium in support of our team.

On behalf of every student, I would like thank the fire and emergency crew members stationed behind us under the stadium who tended to our students. With a heat index of 105, and clad in black wool uniforms, many of our members were overcome. Even removing our jackets did not work for everyone, and the emergency crew members were right there to check vital signs and help the band members cool down.

The emergency crew and the U of I athletics concessions director deserve special thanks for providing several additional bottles of water to the band during this difficult time. Several times, I offered to pay for additional water so the band could have more, but was told each time that there would be no charge. Again, this is a sign of a program with sportsmanship, care and class.

Finally, my sincere thanks to the members of the Marching Illini, and the entire U of I band staff; especially my colleague and good friend Barry Houser and interim director of bands Dr. Linda Moorehouse. Barry and I share the same philosophy that the rivalry on the field should not translate to our students. We are there to entertain. We also both wanted for the two bands to work together, and hopefully form new and lasting friendships. I think we succeeded.

Planning for this endeavor started over a month ago, and continued while both of us were in band camp, and into the first week of classes.

I appreciate the sacrifice Professor Houser and Marching Illini made in their rehearsal schedule to allow our visit with them friday night and saturday morning before the game.

We hope you, the audience enjoyed the halftime performance by both bands. As an alumnus of the University of Illinois, I am proud of the way my students were treated by my alma mater. Thank you Dr. Houser, Marching Illini, and all students and fans. You are a model which all other programs should aspire to become.

Very sincerely yours, George Brozak, ed.D. (University of Illinois) Associate Director of Bands Southern Illinois University

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Pulse Black Blacks gets ‘Tough’ on new E.P. JAKE SAUNDERS Daily Egyptian There is a sound on the horizon as well as the foreground, a sound that drives and stirs nostalgia into the wakefulness by day as well as within the dream under black night. This is the sound the Black Blacks create in their latest music.

The band, which formed in southern Illinois more than a year ago, is fronted by Clay Bonifecius, the only remaining member since the band’s formation. The band’s punkrock sound enraptures the ear with infectious rhythm of exploding pace, exploring influences such as The Ramones and The Misfits, as well as The Riverdales and The Lillingtons.

Fellow musician Bob Zulu asked to join the group upon seeing the band during a 2012 performance.

Bonifecius and Zulu have known one another around the music scene since their individual moves to Carbondale in 2000. With Bonifecius on lead vocals and Zulu performing backup, both incorporate their individual styles with the guitar, occasionally swaying from rhythm to lead and viceversa, with Zulu sporadically taking up bass.

Other band members include Jeff Funburg, who plays bass for the band, as well as guitar for local band The Copyrights, where he performs

with past Black Blacks member Taylor Spray.

Bonifecius said the group wanted to find a name that would match their dark sound.

“There are just like a million rock bands called Black-something-orother, so I thought, to be ‘black to the core,’ we would be Black-Black,” Bonifecius said. “That’s also why most of the content in the songs are mean spirited. To kind of keep it on that level, we don’t really have any ‘nice’ songs. That’s kind of the plan in moving forward.”

The group has just released a new E.P. entitled Smells like Mean Spirit, conveying popular tracks such as “Take Your Lumps” and “Tough Guy.” The E.P. recording session was finished within a matter of hours, during which all members were able to lay down their entire instrumentals.

“It was real easy,” Zulu said. “We told the guy recording us that we wanted to do 16 songs. He laughed at us because we wanted to do all of the drums in one night and our drummer knocked it out in two hours. Each one of our parts took about two hours . . . vocals and postproduction took a little longer.”

The album was recorded at musician Morgan Demling’s studio, where the band had complete creative control in recording their 16-song set list.

“Everything took about two takes for the most part, and that’s all the vocals were two takes, just to make sure that there would be enough to make everything sound good,” Bonifecius said.

The E.P., which was cordially recorded alongside their L.P. AR15, possesses two bonus tracks for listeners. There are six songs in total on the E.P., two of which are unique and made specifically for the record, as well as two covers.

The band is also considering an acoustic performance, Bonifecius said.

“In a different environment to what we would normally do, yeah, I’d be open to maybe doing a couple of our songs acoustic and maybe doing some covers,” he said. “I really like ’50 and ’60s music like The Crystals and The Ronettes. I wanted to do some of their songs anyway.”

The band intends on releasing their full-length album soon, with a tentative release date by the end of the year, they hope to release it onto both vinyl and cassette.

Tracks from the E.P. can be found online on TheBlackBlacks. bandcamp.com, where the E.P. can be purchased for $2.50. Listeners can also purchase it at Carbondale’s Plaza Records for $3.

Jake Saunders can be reached at jsaunders@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 261.

Artist turns 9/11 stories into song VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press NEW YORK — A dozen years after 9/11, an American musician has turned memories of grief into survivor songs — some of them surprisingly joyous.

Composer and pianist Jake Heggie said Sunday that his new album titled “here/after (songs of lost voices)” is meant “to create a sense of hope and newness that can come from the grief. Otherwise, the people who did it win.”

The singers, including baritone Nathan Gunn and soprano Talise Trevigne, tell the stories of 9/11 survivors from around the country, expressing feelings about lost loved ones as they sort belongings left behind. One set of songs is called “Pieces of 9/11.”

A firefighter from Texas Task Force 1 who had combed through the smoking ground zero rubble says, “And everything belonged

to somebody/To somebody gone/ And we all belonged to each other/ From that moment on.”

Songwriter Gene Scheer, a Grammy award nominee, listened to real people to find words for the lyrics.

Adults and children shared sometimes whimsical stories about dead spouses, fathers and friends — even about the pregnant woman who perished on United Flight 93 that crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers fought back the terrorists.

Her surviving husband faces the emotionally tricky questions, in the words of one song: “What’s beyond your anger? What’s beyond your sorrow?”

The double CD will be released Oct. 21, by PentaTone Classics.

The stories from 9/11 are not static — etched in history, said the composer.

“A dozen years later, stories continue to emerge, evolve and

yearn to be told,” said Heggie, who lives in San Francisco and relied on New York resident Scheer to interview survivors.

They all have one thing in common: None is a New York resident, though the city is the site of their loss.

There’s a reason, Heggie said in a telephone interview.

“I wasn’t in New York, I didn’t see the smoke and destruction, and yet my life changed that day — everyone’s life changed that day,” said Heggie.

But people outside the city were somewhat left out “because there was an ownership of grief taken by New Yorkers — and of course they had a right to it.”

So after Sept. 11, 2001, he said, he looked for ways “outsiders” like him could mourn and grieve — and hope.

“That’s why I wanted to write this piece,” Heggie said.

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Runners participate in the “Color Me For Hope Fun Run” Monday in Marion. Mindy Hammond, executive director of the Hands of Hope Clinic organized the event. “This race raises money for Hands For Home Clinic which serves the needs of working low-income families without insurance in Johnson, Williamson, and Franklin Counties,” Hammond said.

‘True Blood’ will end in 2014 PATRICK KEVIN DAY Los Angeles Times LO S A N G E L E S — HBO is finally putting a wooden stake in heart of its vampire show. “True Blood” is set to end in 2014 at the conclusion of its seventh season.

The network made the announcement Tuesday with a statement from HBO President of Programming Michael Lombardo, who said, “Together with its legions of fans, it will be hard to say goodbye to the residents of Bon Temps, but I look forward to what promises to be a fantastic final chapter of this incredible show.”

Though the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse and the various vampires, werewolves, witches and other creatures that populated her backwoods Louisiana home are still popular (the recently

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concluded sixth season average 10.6 million viewers per episode), there seems to be a sense among its creators that it’s time to move on.

Series creator Alan Ball stepped down from his show runner duties at the end of the fifth season and author Charlaine Harris, whose novels were the basis for the show, published her 13th and final Sookie Stackhouse novel in May. One final book, called “After

Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse,” will be published in October and serve as a kind of epilogue to Stackhouse’s literary adventures.

As for the HBO incarnation of the character, she’s got 10 more episodes, under the guidance of new show runner Brian Buckner, to wrap up her adventures.

The final season of the show will debut sometime next summer.

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WORLD & NATION Obama heads to Russia summit looking for support of Syria strike S T. PE T E R S BU RG, Russia — President Barack Obama heads this week to a global summit in Russia, hoping to rally international support for his bid to launch a military strike against Syria.

Backing from global partners such as France and Germany could boost Obama’s chances of securing support from Congress for military action when lawmakers arrive back in Washington next week from summer recess. But allies are treading cautiously, particularly after the British Parliament shot down Prime Minister David Cameron’s request for military action. And Obama’s call to seek approval from a divided U.S. Congress further muddles the global calculus. He visits Sweden Wednesday, then arrives in Russia on Thursday.

“His decision makes it so much more complicated to build that coalition,” said Heather Conley, a former State Department official and director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. “What does he say to (French President Francois) Hollande when Obama doesn’t know if or when congressional authorization will be there? This is a complicated challenge of building diplomacy.”

“I don’t expect every nation to agree with the decision we have made,” Obama said Saturday. “Privately, we’ve heard many expressions of support from our friends. But I will

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ask those who care about the writ of the international community to stand publicly behind our action.”

European leaders have suggested waiting for the United Nations, and Conley said she expects “more questions than answers” from U.S. allies. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a weekend interview with the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine, said the use of chemical weapons in Syria had “broken a taboo” that “cannot remain without consequence.” But Merkel ruled out German participation “without a mandate” from the U.N., NATO or the European Union.

One impossible sell for Obama: summit host Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose government is Syrian President’s Bashar Assad’s chief political and military ally.

Obama and Putin aren’t talking, and the meeting of the Group of 20 —representing the world’s wealthiest and emerging economies — has as its focus the global economy. Still, the summit is likely to be overshadowed

by Syria and the icy relationship

between Putin and Obama, who last month canceled a pre-summit Moscow meeting with the Russian leader amid mounting tension.

“There is no chance that Obama could persuade Putin,” said Steven Pifer, a former ambassador to Ukraine and a Russia specialist at the Brookings Institution, noting that Putin dismissed the Obama administration’s intelligence report on Syrian chemical weapon use as “unimaginable nonsense.”

Obama will run into Putin in St. Petersburg, but any interactions will be “short, polite and cool,” Pifer said.

Russia routinely quashes U.S. efforts at the U.N. to censure Assad, but Putin’s response to the U.S. “in the end may be quite measured, because does he really want to make St. Petersburg about Syria?” Pifer said. For Putin, the G-20 is a “big show in his hometown of St. Petersburg, designed to showcase Russian leadership on the world stage,” Pifer said.

Obama’s first stop will be Sweden — a trip added after Obama scrapped the meeting with Putin. The staunch

U.S. ally has shown a “robust level of engagement” — it contributed troops to the war in Afghanistan and to operations in Mali and was on standby for operations in Libya, said Europe specialist Conley.

In Russia, Syria will only serve to underscore divisions between the U.S. and European countries, which want Assad removed, and China and Russia, who fear Assad’s ouster could prompt regional destabilization and the rise of unfriendly governments.

“The mood of the principal players, the Europeans, the United States, the Russians and Chinese, I would have to think would be very, very sour,” said Andrew Kuchins, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Although the tension with Russia doesn’t rise to the level of the Cuban Missile Crisis or the more recent Russia-Georgia war, the two leaders’ relationship is likely “the worst personal relationship between U.S. and Russian — perhaps even U.S. and Soviet — leaders in history,”

Kuchins said.

Though Russia observers are pessimistic about rapprochement, the White House says it is working “productively with Russia on a range of issues,” including counterterrorism exercises with its military and missile defense discussions.

“Even as we paused on holding the bilateral summit with Russia, we’re absolutely prepared to cooperate pragmatically,” said a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity as a matter of White House policy. “We’re going to continue to be driven by our mutual strategic interest, and I don’t see that cooperation should halt even as we have differences on tactics.

Russia and the United States have had relations that are often marked by both cooperation and contested policies. So this is not new for us.”

In fact, U.S.-Russian relations have been deteriorating over the last 18 months over Russian disinterest in cutting nuclear weapons, its freeze on U.S. adoptions of Russian children and its treatment of human rights activists.

Lawmakers are pressing Obama to raise U.S. concern over the adoption ban to Putin; gay and human rights activists are pressing Obama to take a firmer stance against anti-gay legislation that Putin signed into law in June. Obama denounced the laws but dismissed calls to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Illinois says prostitution MARTHA IRVINE

C I C E RO — Cops in the Chicago area call it a “track,” a stretch of street known for its steady sex trade.

Women in tight, scant clothing stand in high heels on street corners along an industrial strip in suburban Cicero. Customers, usually men, slow their cars and roll down a window.

“How much?” they ask.

Some might see these interludes as exchanges between consenting adults, or at the very least, consenting criminals, if the prostitute is, indeed, an adult and seemingly free to come and go as she pleases. They may call it a victimless crime, seeing domestic prostitution as something very different from human sex trafficking - with its cross-border abductions and brutal coercion - a scourge that’s come to the forefront of news in recent years.

But are they so different, after all? Increasingly, experts in the field are saying no, and applying the label human trafficking to homegrown prostitution. And now more lawmakers, police and prosecutors across the country are starting to shift their view on this, too. Increasingly, they are focusing on arresting traffickers and customers (pimps and johns, as it were) and on getting help for prostitutes.

“It’s almost similar to a domestic violence issue,” says Michael Anton, commander of the Cook County Sheriff’s vice unit, based in the Chicago.

“A lot of (people) say, ‘Well, they can just get out.’

“Well, it’s not that easy.”

As of this year, Illinois became one of several states where prostitution is no longer a felony.

It’s also one of a growing number where a minor cannot be charged with prostitution, even as a misdemeanor. Meanwhile, prosecutors in Cook County, which includes Chicago, have set up a human trafficking unit and, in recent years, have been using new state laws to put more traffickers in jail.

Cook County Sheriff’s police also run regular sting operations to ticket customers who proposition undercover female police officers, or who use popular escort websites. The johns must pay a fine. Police also impound their cars.

“Dear John,” read billboards the department has posted near various tracks: “If You’re Here To Solicit Sex, It Could Cost You $2,150. We’re Teaming Up To Bust You.” The money funds a rehabilitation program for prostitutes, and Anton says his vice unit officers have never arrested the same customer twice.

“I’m not saying we’ve stopped it,” he says. “They might be going to other areas. But we haven’t seen them again.”

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CHICAGO — When city students arrived for the first day of school under the blazing temperatures of a Midwest heat wave, staff greeted them with some unusual school supplies: water bottles, fans and wet towels to drape around their necks.

What they couldn’t always offer was air conditioning.

“It’s kind of hard to focus because everyone was sweating,” said Deniyah Jones, a 12-year-old 7thgrader at Nash Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side, which has just a few window units for the entire fortress-like brick and stone building.

This year’s late August heat exposed a tug-of-war in school districts that are under pressure to start school earlier than ever but are unable to pay to equip aging buildings with air conditioning. Parents who worry hot classrooms are a disadvantage for their kids are issuing an ultimatum: Make classes cooler or start the year later.

“Thinking about air conditioning — we can’t even afford new textbooks,” said Bement Community Unit School District Superintendent Sheila Greenwood, who oversees a tiny district of 380 students about

20 miles southwest of Champaign, Ill. Many people can recall school days spent inside ancient, brick-construction buildings that on sweltering days seemed as hot as pizza ovens. But hot classrooms are becoming a bigger problem for schools than in years past, and increasingly, getting a “heat day” is as common for students as a “snow day.”

As temperatures soared past 90 last week, some Midwest schools gave students extra water and bathroom breaks or canceled afterschool activities. Districts from St. Joseph, Mo., and Frankfort, Ind., sent kids home early.

In Fargo, N.D., five schools got the week off, and schools in Minneapolis closed down, too.

“I was up on the third floor and it was 93.8 degrees in the classroom and the kids hadn’t been there in hours,” said Matt Patton, superintendent of a one-school district in Baxter, Iowa. “You put 20 bodies in there and it will go up to at least 95 and you can imagine all the sweat on the desks and textbooks.”

For years, schools have been moving to start the year in late or mid-August rather than just after Labor Day, when it is typically cooler.

Part of the reason is that schools need more training days for standardized testing and new academic standards. Holiday breaks have also grown longer, and administrators say the only direction they can go is back into August.

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TERRANCE PEACOCK Daily Egyptian Although the SIU football team came up short Saturday, dropping their season opener against Illinois 42-34, I predict the Salukis may have gained some new fans with their resilient performance.

Despite the loss, the Salukis showed us when their backs are against the wall, they don’t shrivel up and die, they rise to the occasion and keep fighting until the play clock hits

all zeroes.

There were two instances throughout the course of the game when it looked like the Illini were going to walk away with an easy win.

The first took place late in the second quarter, when Illinois drove the field and scored a touchdown with 17 seconds left in the half to take a 25-7 lead into halftime. Their second chance came late in the third quarter, when the Illini returned an SIU kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown to increase their lead to 39-17.

In both cases, the Salukis could have given up. No one expected them to beat Football Bowl Subdivision opponent Illinois anyway. They could have traveled back to Carbondale content with being 0-1 and began preparing for Saturday’s Eastern Illinois game.

But instead, the Salukis showed heart. The same heart SIU showed in 2012 when the team won three

AARON GRAFF Daily Egyptian Coming off a sub-par season can be hard for players and coaches alike. But sometimes it can create an opportunity to better the team in the offseason.

That’s exactly what coach Cindy Stein and the women’s basketball team hope to accomplish.

One of Stein’s first moves after being hired as head coach for the women’s basketball team was demanding that each of the players learn the Saluki fight song. She hopes this tactic will instill school pride in her players.

“It’s all about school pride,” Stein said. “I mean we wear Southern Illinois Salukis on our chest every game, every practice. We are representatives of our university and we should know it.”

straight games after starting the season 2-3 to crawl back into playoff contention. The same heart the Salukis will need throughout this season to get back into the playoffs for the first time since 2009.

The Salukis showed us that fans should never count them out, because they never count themselves out.

The Fighting Illini wasn’t the only opponent SIU faced on Saturday.

SIU also battled against the heat.

The temperature reached 95 degrees Saturday with a heat index of 108. The heat played a huge factor, with one of the officials being rushed to the hospital midway through the game because of heat exhaustion.

Senior linebacker Brian Presume said he even had to take himself out of the game a couple of times because of the heat. That didn’t stop him from recording a team high 10 tackles Saturday.

The heat may have also played a role in the Salukis’ lackluster

Stein said she wants the players to sing the fight song after every home game, and hopes the pride will encourage fans to rally along with the team to help increase the team’s fan base.

She expects attendance at the beginning of the season to be low, but hopes it will grow as the season progresses.

Stein is not only focusing on team pride and school spirit, but on leadership. When a player does something right, such as helping a teammate during conditioning, they earn leadership points.

Points can be earned in multiple ways. Stein has started a competition among the players with the point system.

Each player is evaluated after practices and workouts, and the player with the most points gets to wear a superman shirt during practice.

Junior guard Cartaesha Macklin said the

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performance in the first half Saturday.

The offense struggled in the first half. The Salukis converted only five first downs in the half with 84 passing yards and 28 yards on the ground.

The first half of Saturday’s game looked like a repeat performance from a very inconsistent 2012 offense.

But something changed in the second half and things started clicking.

Faulkner started spreading the ball around to his playmakers and finished the afternoon throwing for 312 yards with three touchdown passes. Faulkner’s 312 passing yards set a school record for most passing yards in a season opener.

Coach Dale Lennon was impressed with his quarterback’s resiliency.

“Kory Faulkner played a gutsy game,” Lennon said. “He kept pulling himself off the turf. He was playing hurt and didn’t want to come out. That’s what you want from your

players enjoy the competition and think Stein’s tactics of making the players gain pride will bring them closer as a team.

Junior guard Mercedes Griffin said it has already gotten pretty competitive among the players.

“Everybody is looking forward to trying to wear it,” she said.

The players and coaches are behind each other every step of the way, and are becoming a unit quickly under a new system.

“I think it’s exciting that she really believes in this school and is behind us on that,” senior forward Jordyn Courier said.

The team’s goals for the season are simple.

They want to get better, and they want to win as many games as they can. Stein plans to make the team better by working on basketball fundamentals.

quarterback: a guy that the team can rally around.”

The defense forced two turnovers in the second half, including an interception by sophomore safety D.J. Cameron that led to a Saluki touchdown and recorded five sacks.

If it wasn’t for Illinois sophomore defensive back V’Angelo Bentley’s 100-yard kickoff return touchdown in the third quarter, the outcome of the game could have been in SIU’s favor.

The Salukis’ relentless comeback fell just short, but if anything was taken away from their performance, it’s that a lead against SIU is never safe. The Salukis have a down, but never out, mentality. They need this mentality to navigate through a tough schedule and reach the playoffs.

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“You take care of the ball, you make free throws, you make layups, and you play defense,” Stein said.

The players agree that Stein has a sense of humor, but said that she is still primarily focused on driving the players to the best of their ability.

“She’s awesome, she’s definitely going to challenge you in every way possible, mentally, physically and emotionally,” Macklin said.

“She’s very strict and very disciplined, but she also has a sense of humor.”

The new season for Saluki women’s basketball begins Nov. 15, in a home game against the University of Central Arkansas.

Aaron Graff can be reached at agraff@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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Running back McCall dismissed from football team TERRANCE PEACOCK Daily Egyptian Head Coach Dale Lennon announced Tuesday that junior running back Mika’il McCall has been dismissed from the team for disciplinary reasons.

“Due to team disciplinary policies, Mika’il has been dismissed from the team,” Lennon said in a Saluki Athletics Press Release. “The focus of our team remains on our game preparation for Eastern Illinois.”

McCall is the brother of former Saluki All-American track star Jeneva McCall.

McCall, who transferred to SIU from Iowa after the 2011 season played in 12 games for the Salukis and started five. McCall appeared in two games for Iowa during the 2011 season before breaking an ankle.

He returned late in the season, but was later suspended for unspecified reasons.

Last season, McCall played in all 11 games making four starts. He was second on the team with 489 rushing yards, tied for eighth in the Missouri Valley Football Conference with nine total touchdowns and was third on the team with 662 all-purpose yards last season.

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On Saturday against Illinois, McCall got to start and rushed for 24 yards on seven carries and a touchdown. McCall also fumbled in the second quarter of Saturday’s game, which later led to an Illini touchdown.

Lennon said the Salukis have sufficient depth at the running back position. Junior running backs Ken Malcome and Tay Willis both received carries in relief of McCall on Saturday. Junior running back Malcolm Agnew dressed for Saturday’s game, but did not receive any playing time due to a hamstring injury.

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Junior running back Mika’il McCall, center, drives through a tackle Saturday during the Salukis’ 42-34 loss to the University of Illinois at Memorial Stadium in Urbana. Head coach Dale Lennon announced Tuesday that McCall has been released from the team due to disciplinary reasons. McCall had seven carries, 24 yards and a touchdown Saturday against Illinois

Volleyball team loses heartbreaker in home opener TYLER DIXON Daily Egyptian The Salukis lost a thrilling five set match against Middle Tennessee State in front of a large crowd Tuesday at Davies Gym. SIU and MTSU competed for over two hours in a match that looked as if it would only last three sets, but the Salukis fought back and pushed the Blue Raiders to their breaking point.

The Salukis entered the match on a two-match losing streak; they lost to IPFW and Duquesne on Saturday. Middle Tennessee was also coming off a loss to the 24th ranked team in the country, North Carolina.

The Blue Raiders took the first two sets of the game by a score of 25-22. MTSU had a combined 31 kills on their 50 points in the first two sets and were led by sophomore Chelsea Ross with 17 kills.

Head Coach Justin Ingram said his team showed grit and toughness after Friday’s five set win against Connecticut. The

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Senior outside hitter Jessica Whitehead goes for the kill Tuesday at Davies Gym. The Salukis lost to the Middle Tennessee University Blue Raiders 3-2. SIU will continue play this weekend at the K-State Invitational in Manhattan, Kan.

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team found that grit again in last night’s third set. SIU trailed 13-10 in the third, and then scored 15 of the next 18 points to take the set in commanding fashion, 25-16. “(I’m) pretty pleased about the kind of fight we showed,” Ingram said.

Sophomore Taylor Pippen finished the game with 16 kills, and was a key component in several blocks. Pippen is one of only four players that returned from last year’s squad. She said the older players on the team need to lead the newcomers.

“The veterans on the team definitely need to step up,” Pippen said. “We have so many new faces on the team.”

After taking the fourth set 25-23, the Salukis set up a fifth and final set against MTSU, who Coach Ingram said had characteristics of a former heavyweight champion.

“Playing Middle Tennessee is like playing Mike Tyson,” Ingram said. “You have to be able to sustain some of those punches.”

With 11 newcomers on the team, it’s easy to use youth as an

excuse but Ingram said his team can’t use that as a crutch anymore.

“We can only use that we’re young so often, and that was this weekend,” he said.

After the many ups and downs of the match, it ended rather abruptly on a controversial net call. Middle Tennessee State took the final set 16-14.

Senior Jessica Whitehead led the Salukis with 18 kills in the loss while freshman Meg Viggars ended the match with 10. Viggars added 12 digs as well.

Coach Ingram said his team knows what they are capable of.

“The team’s a good team, the team’s believing that we’re a good team,” he said.

Pippen said the third set showed what their team can be for the rest of the season.

“Third game, everything was just flowing,” she said. “It showed us the team we can be, and the team we’re going to be.”

Tyler Dixon can be reached at tdixon@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 282.

laying Middle Tennessee is like playing Mike Tyson. You have to be able to sustain some of those punches.”

— Justin Ingram volleyball coach