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City closes buildings just in time for move-in

Cobden celebrates 74th annual Peach Festival

ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian The city of Carbondale closed three buildings and part of another owned by Campus Habitat Tuesday, potentially leaving scores of tenants to find a new residence until the owners address building code violations.

The issues with the buildings are mostly related to unrepaired storm damage and fire safety, said Kevin Baity, assistant city manager for economic development.

City Council member Jane Adams said about 15 percent of the city’s rental population live in buildings owned by Campus Habitat. Baity said he could not say exactly how many tenants would be affected by the closures.

Campus Habitat’s buildings at 511 S. Graham, 508 S. Wall (both currently unoccupied) and 820 W. Freeman and 25 of 146 rooms in 600 W. Freeman were posted uninhabitable, according to a city press release.

Baity said all of Campus Habitat’s seven buildings have issues, but the ones closed were in violation of health, life and safety regulations which would make them uninhabitable by the city’s standards. He said Campus Habitat has addressed some issues and failed to address others.

According to city documents, city inspectors have found dozens of violations in Campus Habitat’s buildings since March. Inspectors found water damage, holes in ceilings and walls, loose carpeting, malfunctioning air conditioning units, water leaks, improper roof maintenance, pealing paint and several fire safety violations dealing with proper fire doors, smoke detectors and fire extinguishers.

According to the release, there are 14 days to vacate the affected buildings. Baity said if anyone is still living in the buildings by the end of that time, they and Campus Habitat will be issued citations. Once required changes are made, residents can move back in.

Campus Habitat is a New York-based company which operates properties in eight states across the country, according to its website.

Ryan Shreeve, regional manager for Campus Habitat, refused to comment and told a reporter for the Daily Egyptian to leave the company’s building at 511 S. Graham Ave. immediately or he would call the police.

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Workers repair the damaged roof Thursday, Aug. 4 of a Campus Habitat apartment building on Graham Avenue. The property is one of several inspected by the city this week. Entry to the buildings was marked as limited, only allowing residents inside to gather their belongings.

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Caden Shelton, 6, of Dongola, rests on his horse Saturday while waiting to ride in the Cobden Peach Festival Parade with family and friends. The 74th

annual Peach Festival included carnival games, peach-themed foods, a parade and a peach queen crowning.

Former SIUC lecturer runs for Irish president

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TARA KULASH Daily Egyptian A former SIU lecturer is running in the Irish presidential election.

Michael D. Higgins, 70, was a sociology lecturer in the spring of 1973 at SIUC before he turned to politics.

According to his official website, Higgins was nominated by the Irish Labour Party to run for president of Ireland. He earned 37 of 57 votes for the nomination. “I’m very honored, very pleased and I intend to have a very energetic campaign that will bring me all over the country,�

Higgins told the press shortly after winning the nomination.

The party does not plan to control Higgins’ campaign, said Eamon Gilmore, a Labor Party leader. “We are going to respect from today Michael D.’s independence as a candidate the same way we will respect Michael D.’s independence as president when he is

elected,� he said.

Higgins is also an honorary adjunct professor at the Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He’s served as a Galway City and County council member and mayor of Galway. He has also written three books of poetry. “I can’t think of a better way of spending the next seven years,� Higgins said in the Leitrim Observer. “I am standing because of my belief in the Irish people and in a real Republic based on equality of respect and the recognition of the dignity and participation of all citizens.�

Higgins said in an address at the Red Cow Hotel on July 28 that he doesn’t need a campaign slogan because “people know what Michael D. stands for.�

The four central ideas Higgins said he stands for are inclusive citizenship, the creative society, a real republic and Ireland in the world.

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the citizenship of people of all ages and backgrounds.

As minister for arts and culture, Higgins said he finds the creative society a crucial part of his presidency. He said he believes Ireland has potential for extraordinary achievement in arts, design, heritage, craft and digital technology.

When speaking of a real republic, Higgins said, “If elected president of Ireland, I will support those initiatives where citizens are again

actively striving for a shared vision of our nation.�

Higgins said the central idea of Ireland in the world is based on Ireland’s international reputation. He said he wants Ireland to be recognized for its art, culture, and humanitarian and peacekeeping work.

The election date is set for October 27.

Tara Kulash can be reached at tkulash@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 273.

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Japan ignored own radiation forecasts ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press NAMIE, Japan — Japan’s system to forecast radiation threats was working from the moment its nuclear crisis began. As officials planned a venting operation certain to release radioactivity into the air, the system predicted Karino Elementary School would be directly in the path of the plume emerging from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant.

But the prediction helped no one.

Nobody acted on it.

The school, just over six miles (10 kilometers) from the plant, was not immediately cleared out. Quite the opposite, it was turned into a temporary evacuation center.

Reports from the forecast system were sent to Japan’s nuclear safety agency, but the flow of data stopped there. Prime Minister Naoto Kan and others involved in declaring evacuation areas never saw the reports, and neither did local authorities. So thousands of people stayed for days in areas that the system had identified as high-risk, an Associated Press investigation has found.

At Karino Elementary in the town of Namie, about 400 students, teachers, parents and others gathered in the playground at the height of the nuclear crisis stemming from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Many ate rice balls and cooked in the open air.

They were never informed of the predictions that they were at risk. In an interview with the AP, Namie’s mayor said it took more than 24 hours for him to realize — from watching TV — that the evacuees were in danger. He sent buses to move some of them out. But, unaware of the risks, they were taken to another part of town also forecast to be in the plume’s path. Most were left to fend for themselves. “When I think about it now, I am outraged,� Principal Hidenori Arakawa said. “Our lives were put at risk.�

Documents obtained by the AP, interviews with key officials and a review of other newly released documents and parliamentary transcripts indicate that the government’s use of the forecast data was hamstrung by communication breakdowns and a lack of even a basic understanding of the system at the highest levels.

It’s unclear how much radiation people might have been exposed to by staying in areas in the path of the radioactive plume, let alone whether any might suffer health problems from the exposure. It could be difficult to ever prove a connection: Health officials say they have no plans to prioritize radiation tests of those who were at the school.

But the breakdown may hold lessons for other countries with nuclear power plants because similar warning systems are used around the world.

This was their first test in a major crisis.

The Japanese network — built in 1986 at a cost of $140 million (11 billion yen) — is known as SPEEDI, short for the System for Prediction of Environment Emergency Dose Information. It has radiation monitoring posts nationwide and has been tested in a number of drills, including one the prime minister led for the Hamaoka nuclear facility just last year.

Even so, according to the prime minister’s office, Kan and his top advisers never asked for or received the data. Despite taking part in the Hamaoka drill, Kan admitted he didn’t understand how SPEEDI worked or how valuable the data was.

“I had no idea what sort of information was available,� he told Parliament on June 17. “I didn’t know anything about it then, and there was no way I could make a judgment.�

In two post-crisis assessments, a report to the International Atomic Energy Agency and an annual white paper on science and technology, his government has said the network “failed to perform its intended function.�

A senior member of Kan’s crisis team, Nuclear Safety Commission chief Haruki Madarame, went so far as to say the SPEEDI data was no better than “a mere weather report.�

He said the predictions were of no value because they lacked accurate radiation readings.

Some of the system’s monitoring capabilities were compromised by the tsunami and ensuing power outages, and the utility that runs the Fukushima plant, TEPCO, did not provide readings of its own.

But SPEEDI officials say Madarame’s position reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of what their system is designed to do.

When the amount of radioactivity that has been leaked is known, that is entered into its system, along with weather and terrain data, and a hazard map is generated. If the amount is not known — as was the case with Fukushima — a standard and relatively low value of one becquerel is used.

While that won’t show the actual radiation risk, it will show the general pattern and direction of the plume. Then when the size of the leak becomes known, the map can be updated. If the actual leak turns out to be 100 becquerels, for example, the results would be multiplied by 100.

That technique allowed SPEEDI to produce reports hours before officials began venting disabled reactors — when there would have been less radiation to measure outside the nuclear plant even if the system’s monitoring equipment had been working perfectly.

In the Fukushima case, later data proved the forecasts to be highly accurate. Most of Namie, for example, has since been declared too dangerous for habitation.

Md. mom who killed son agonized over school costs

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WASHINGTON — Ben Barnhard finally had reason to be optimistic this summer: The 13-year-old shed more than 100 pounds at a rigorous weightloss academy, a proud achievement for a boy who had endured classmates’ taunts about his obesity and who had sought solace in the quiet of his bedroom, with his pet black cat and the intricate origami designs he created.

But one month before school was to start for the special-needs teen, his mother, psychiatrist Margaret Jensvold, shot him in the head, then killed herself. Officers found their bodies on Aug. 2 in the bedrooms of their home in Kensington, Md., an upper-middle class Washington suburb. They also found a note. “School — can’t deal with school system,� the letter began, Jensvold’s sister, Susan Slaughter, told The Associated Press.

And later: “Debt is bleeding me.

Strangled by debt.�

Although family members said they were stunned by the killings, they also said Jensvold had become increasingly strained by financial pressure and by anguished fights with the county public school system over the special-needs education of her son, who had an autism spectrum disorder. They said the school district — apparently believing it could adequately educate Ben — had refused to cover tuition costs for the boy to attend a private school for special-needs students. Jensvold didn’t have the money herself and didn’t want to return her son to public school, where relatives said she felt harshly judged and marginalized and where Ben had struggled.

“It was a huge stress,� Slaughter said. “It’s very hard being a single parent under any circumstances, but to have a high-needs child is overwhelming.

And then to have him inappropriately placed in the school, and have the school fighting with her, was really traumatic.�

Jensvold also offered an explanation for taking her son’s life. “She did mention in the note that she knows people whose parents committed suicide when they were children and how difficult and traumatizing that was, and she didn’t want to do that to Ben,� Slaughter said. “It is very true,� she added. “I can’t imagine Ben ever recovering from the loss of his mother.�

Special needs education is an emotionally freighted issue, perhaps especially so in Montgomery County — an affluent region where parents tend to be actively engaged in education and where schools are highly regarded nationwide.

School district spokeswoman Lesli Maxwell said that privacy laws prevented her from discussing the particulars of Barnhard’s case, but that the district offered vast options for its 17,000 special-education students and will refer students for private schooling when it can’t meet their needs.

Jensvold, a Johns Hopkinseducated psychiatrist specializing in women’s health, was passionate and determined. She made news in 1990 by filing a gender discrimination lawsuit against the National Institute of Mental Health, where she was a medical staff fellow. A judge ultimately ruled against her, calling her version of events an “illusion.� She later had her own private practice but most recently was working at Kaiser Permanente.

She also was a protective mother, constantly fighting with Montgomery County schools over how best to accommodate her son. He was her world, said her divorce lawyer, Robert Baum. “She came with an album of pictures of her in a very warm and endearing type of situation,� he said. “Her arms around him playing outside, amusement parks, all the types of things you’d love to see of parents dealing with their kids.�

Ben was an active infant — his family nicknamed him “ATB,� or AllTerrain Baby — but became increasingly withdrawn and isolated, and relatives said as a child he developed an autoimmune disease that’s sometimes triggered by strep. A divorce court filing lists 18 specialists involved in Ben’s care, and Jensvold’s own suicide note hints at some of the child’s difficulties: “writing problems, migraines, hearing things� — and “a bit paranoid.� “Ben’s needs — unable to meet Ben’s needs,� Jensvold wrote in her note, according to Slaughter.

He had a small group of friends and enjoyed origami, animals and picking tomatoes with his grandmother, his father said. But school was difficult for him, and his weight — topping 275 before his weight loss-program — made him a target for teasing. He found comfort with even more food. “He used to say, ‘Mom and Dad, I don’t want to go to school. I don’t want to deal with those people. They’re mean to me and they hurt me,’� recalled Jamie Barnhard, Ben’s father and Jensvold’s exhusband. “It broke both of our hearts.�

The couple placed their son in the county’s special education program, but Barnhard said his son struggled in the system. He spent about nine months at Wellspring Academies, a weight-loss

PROVIDED PHOTO |ASSOCIATED PRESS boarding school in North Carolina, returning in the spring more than 100 pounds slimmer and more confident. “He wanted to ride his bike. He wanted to be a kid again,� Barnhard said. “He wanted to go out and have fun. He wanted to fly airplanes with his dad. He wanted to just do anything.�

But there were still concerns about where to send Ben to school.

Jensvold appeared consumed by his education at her father’s memorial service last spring, Slaughter said. She confided that she was having trouble paying the roughly $50,000 tuition for Ben to attend Wellspring. She presented a binder about five-inches thick detailing his academic needs, along with a chart showing how his IQ scores had fallen over the years.

At the end of June, Slaughter wrote her sister to say their mother would pay for Ben’s education for the coming year.

Jensvold had planned to enroll her son

in the Ivymount School, a Rockville, Md., private school specializing in autism and other learning disabilities.

Tuition there ranges based on a child’s needs, but can be more than $60,000, the school said Monday. Her mother said she’d send a check.

In her final months, Jensvold only sporadically communicated with her family, as she had for years, Slaughter said. Emails to Jensvold frequently went unreturned, mail sometimes unopened.

Ben spent July 4 with his divorced parents aboard his dad’s restored boat, treading past the Washington Monument with a picnic dinner of barbecue and fresh pineapple. It was a final moment of serenity.

He died a month later. One day after his body was found — co-workers hadn’t heard from Jensvold for days and newspapers had accumulated outside the house — a $10,000 check from Jensvold’s mother arrived, Slaughter said.

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Campus Habitat has addressed safety and building code issues as they’ve come up, said Rob Martin, executive vice president of operations for Campus Habitat.

“I’m not going to lie. They’re old buildings, so things happen,” he said.

He said as of Aug. 5, the work on the buildings was very close to being done, and the company has been spending the summer trying to keep up with damage from storms in the spring.

He said he had been very pleased so far with the city’s relationship with the company.

He said the city’s inspectors had been helpful in making

suggestions in how to improve the buildings’ conditions, and Carbondale had been one of the best communities Campus Habitat has dealt with.

Baity said affected SIU students will be able to seek legal assistance from SIU Legal Services and John A. Logan students and nonstudents can seek assistance from Land of Lincoln Legal Services in the law building on campus if they need to.

Students will be handled on a case-by-case basis, said Steven Rogers, director of Students’ Legal Assistance.

Rogers said should students have to seek assistance, it wouldn’t be the first time Student Legal Services has gotten complaints about Campus Habitat.

“We’ve had problems with

Campus Habitat and continue to,” he said.

He said the number of complaints about the company has been uncommonly high for a landlord.

Martin said he would expect legal services to hear bad things about the company as people go there only with complaints, and he said the company has a policy of not commenting on any specific complaints.

The university is exploring its options in terms of temporary housing for any SIU students, said Rod Sievers, assistant to the chancellor for media relations.

“We don’t want to lose those students,” he said.

Martin said Campus Habitat is also prepared to help temporarily house any tenants if they find

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 themselves without an apartment.

City Council member Jane Adams said she is skeptical of Campus Habitat’s intentions to fix problems with its buildings.

She said housing in Carbondale is an issue that extends beyond the current Campus Habitat situation.

“There has been very little reinvestment over the past 20 years in many of our apartment buildings, also many of our rental housing units,” she said.

She said one way to improve the situation would be to require a license for property managers, which would force them to learn the city’s building codes and would give the city a stronger tool to enforce its rules. She said currently, the city can issue fines, but landlords may or may not

actually pay them. She said she has put the issue on the table, but it would be some time before any new code could be finalized.

Ran Li, a graduate student from China, said though she had just arrived in town, her impressions of her room and the management at 820 W. Freeman had been positive so far.

Undergraduate Student Government vice president Spencer Tribble said he worked for Campus Habitat in June and July as a leasing agent and had a negative experience. He said tenants were coming to the office every day with complaints and would often return with the same problem after it was supposed to have been fixed.

“The city is doing the right thing,” he said.

Global partnerships aid enrollment increase for internationals KARL BULLOCK Daily Egyptian SIUC's summer enrollment for international students increased 5.8 percent from summer 2010 to 2011, said Carla Coppi, director of International Programs and Services.

Coppi said she attributes the increase in enrollment to two elements: word of mouth and international students making themselves available for intersession and summer classes.

"There is nothing better than the good word and goodwill that is spread from one student to another and on to a family member or friend about their good experiences they have at SIU," she said. "No publication, website, Facebook or Twitter account can compare with the positive experience a student receives when they attend a university."

Coppi said international students can take six to eight hours of intersession classes, which are offered from May to June, then a student can take two more courses when the summer term begins as an opportunity to knock off a semester or year of classes in the U.S. "It's very expensive for international students to study in the United States," she said.

"The faster they graduate, the faster they can move on with their careers and their lives that await them."

Many of SIUC's Indian students were able to complete a master's degree in electrical engineering in one and a half years by taking intersession classes, Coppi said.

Chancellor Rita Cheng said the rise in enrollment is the result of a concerted effort in marketing and branding both nationally and internationally with the

university. She said institutions in China and India help with marketing and admissions costs through traditional marketing material.

"We have great programs with a reputation for drawing students from around the world," she said.

Cheng said the university builds international research partnerships, which allow SIUC to exchange students with another university overseas where research is being conducted.

These student exchange programs consist of one-to-one or group-to-group exchanges set up in international partnerships and are research linkages, Coppi said. Faculty members befriend colleagues in their field, leading to an exchange during collaborative research.

Coppi said the university has three successful recruitment hubs in China that are extended into student exchanges. The hubs are

international universities, which serve as recruitment centers where colleagues review applications and profile prospective students to make sure SIUC is a good fit for them.

"It's important to make sure we can fill their educational and career goals," she said.

Coppi said these centers save SIUC a considerable amount of money from traveling abroad and trying to gather these students.

"We are able to tap into our colleagues at these centers to do a lot of our pre-screening," she said.

"These centers are really driving a lot of students in our direction."

There are also a variety of programs such as International Coffee Hour to introduce American and international students to each other, said Elaine Conrad, coordinator of Community Programs.

"At our coffee hour we can have up to 20 or 30 different

countries represented," she said. "International students are interested in building friendships and connections with American students."

International Coffee Hour has sponsors such as business and community groups, not just SIUCaffiliated members, Conrad said.

She said the programs are overseen by volunteer coordinators, and it's these volunteers who make the programs soar.

Coppi said it's important for them to roll out the red carpet when a new student arrives from a place so different.

"For faculty, staff, students and peers, we all have to do that," she said. "We don't end great service at orientation. We continue a gold-standard service throughout the duration of their program."

Karl Bullock can be reached at kbullock@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 255

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Fighting birth control policy makes no sense The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Friday, Aug. 5: The Obama administration decision requiring insurance companies to cover birth control with no co-pay costs easily ranks as the best medical development of the year.

But when it comes to women’s health issues, America still has a lot of work to do. It speaks volumes that Viagra — the drug to improve men’s sexual performance — was covered

by Medicare six years ago, with little debate. And yet it’s entirely possible that if a Republican wins the White House next year, the new regulation will be overturned before it even goes into effect in 2013.

Sandy Rios, vice president of Family PAC, is one of many conservatives who don’t seem to have a problem with Medicare paying for Viagra. But she’s outraged that one of the best preventive medical tools for women — one that will surely reduce the abortion rate that she decries — will now be more readily available. She also falsely implies that it’s taxpayers, rather than insurance companies and policy holders, who will foot the bill. “We’re $14 trillion in debt and now we’re going to cover birth control, breast pumps, counseling for abuse?

Are we going to cover pedicures and manicures as well?� she asked.

This is the sort of backward

thinking that advocates for women’s health must deal with when politicians debate what should be a scientific issue. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, for example, still believes that high school sex education courses should teach “abstinence only,� despite overwhelming evidence that it’s ineffective in preventing teen pregnancy.

The United States has one of the highest rates of unintended pregnancy in the world’s most developed nations.

Half of all pregnancies in this country are unplanned, some because co-pays deter too many women from getting birth control.

Conservatives such as Rios and Perry ignore the fact that these

pregnancies cost U.S. taxpayers more than $10 billion a year, including fetal and infant care costs. California is a role model for saving taxpayer money. The state instituted its Family Pact program in 1997, offering birth control for low-income women.

California’s teen pregnancy rate dropped 52 percent over the next eight years. Every dollar invested

by Californians in birth control is estimated to have saved at least $4 in the costs of unintended pregnancies.

The respected Institutes of Medicine, which offered a scientific recommendation to the government on the issue, presented compelling evidence that the new requirements also result in healthier women and

babies. “Women with unintended pregnancies are more likely to receive delayed or no prenatal care and to smoke, consume alcohol and be depressed ... during pregnancy,� the report said. “Unintended pregnancy also increases the risk of babies being born preterm or at a low birth weight, both of which raise their chances of health and developmental problems.�

Insurers have resisted expanding services to women for years, even though generic forms of birth control cost $9 a month. It was long past time for an American president to recognize such an obvious health benefit for women and American society as a whole.

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Today’s politicians could learn from Eisenhower JIM NEWTON McClatchy-Tribune When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected president in 1952, he came to office convinced that among the obligations he assumed was that of calming the nation. His predecessors, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman, had governed through a series of crises and calamities — World War II, the Berlin Crisis, the Soviet atomic bomb, the Korean War, the 1952 steel strike — and Ike believed that Washington’s fixation with crisis was unsettling to the American people and destabilizing to the economy.

With that in mind, he set out to project an aura of calm command, and consistently sought a place between the anti-communist Republicans who anchored the right wing of his party and the New Deal Democrats who pulled that party to its left. It was, Eisenhower liked to say, his “Middle Way,� a “practical working basis between extremists� arrived at through patient and temperate negotiation.

Few lessons of Eisenhower’s era have been more lost on the heirs to his political legacy. The events of the past two weeks have included many political sins, but among the most striking is the rush of America’s leaders to court crisis rather than exhibit sober, sound leadership. For weeks, Republican House members risked economic calamity by their refusal to raise the debt ceiling — an act that dozens of Congresses have routinely approved in the decades since Eisenhower’s presidency. Some seemed to enjoy it. As Rep. Michele Bachmann said glibly: “Someone has to say no. I will.� And House Speaker John Boehner fairly shouted when he proclaimed, “I stuck my neck out a mile.�

In public, Eisenhower would not be caught shouting or boasting (in private, he had a withering temper), but his devotion to subdued leadership was founded on more than personal style. He believed that the American people were naturally industrious and that, left alone, American business was entrepreneurial and innovative. He

was convinced that a sense of constant crisis inhibited the natural instincts of this culture, and that a restrained government would give room for American individualism to flourish.

Some of those same notions, though expressed in different language, underscore the stakes today.

The few calm voices in our politics warn that business and investment are paralyzed by uncertainty. Millions of Americans are out of work in part because employers are reluctant to add jobs while the government is so tumultuous. No business can be reassured by congressional leaders who fume and bicker as the government careens toward the precipice.

In fairness, Eisenhower’s commitment to reducing tensions and seeking compromise did not always serve him or the country well. In the area of civil rights, he sought in vain for a center, imagining falsely that those who demanded recognition of their rights were just as “extreme� as those who sought to suppress those rights. Indeed, Eisenhower himself

acknowledged that there should be an exception for compromise in matters of moral urgency, though he unfortunately did not place civil rights in that category.

But even there, his legacy is instructive.

For congressional Republicans who were willing to jeopardize America’s credit, it would be a defense to say that they were taking a stand on a matter of moral principle. If so, however, what is the great principle that undergirded this fiasco? Is it immoral to raise the debt ceiling, as such stalwart conservatives as Ronald Reagan did so often without incident? Or is the moral abomination, perhaps, the willingness to raise taxes, as Obama had hoped to do as part of a larger deficit-reduction package?

The latter is closer to the Republican mark, but it, too, falls apart as a moral proposition. John Podesta, who served as chief of staff in the Clinton White House, recently pointed out to the U.S. Conference of Mayors that the entire amount of revenue that Obama was seeking could have been achieved merely by allowing the Bush tax cuts to

expire, returning the top marginal tax rate in the U.S. code from 35 percent to 39 percent, where it was when Clinton left office. As Podesta noted, the country hardly seemed afflicted by the Clinton-era rates; the economy grew, many Americans prospered, and Clinton actually produced budget surpluses.

In fact, those surpluses were the first — and last — by any president since, yep, Eisenhower.

And the Eisenhower prosperity — rapid economic growth and real, sustained increases in household income — occurred in an era when the top bracket of taxpayers paid federal income taxes of 91 percent on all income above $400,000 a year (admittedly, a lot of money in 1959).

In light of that history, can a 4-percent rise in the top marginal rate of taxes constitute such a moral imperative that elected leaders are entitled to refuse to compromise on principle?

Eisenhower believed in balanced budgets, and unlike his successors, he actually delivered them. That’s because he was a leader, not a shouter.

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take to screen once again ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian It’s a commonplace to say Hollywood is running out of ideas. “Rise of the Planet of the Apes� doesn’t do a whole lot to refute it though.

The latest sequel or reboot or whatever it is in the “Planet of the Apes� franchise is a flawed but sporadically entertaining entry in a curiously longrunning series of films (seriously, has anyone seen any of the four sequels or two TV shows from the ‘70s?).

If anything, it isn’t Tim Burton’s breathtakingly bad 2001 remake.

In this film, the apes take center stage, and though only the leader talks (and very little at that), the filmmakers were able to flesh out at least a few of them into real characters.

There’s already Oscar buzz about Andy Serkis’ “performance� as Caesar, the leader of the ape revolt. To be honest though, if Serkis deserves an Oscar, the animation team that actually put Caesar on the screen deserves about three quarters of it. No doubt Serkis has a knack for these new-fangled motioncapture roles, and the praise for his turn as Golem in “The Lord of the Rings� was understandable, but in all of this, it seems the special effects guys get short shrift.

A couple of other ape characters are interesting enough to brighten up their scenes, especially the charmingly cynical orangutan Maurice and the enigmatic and ultimately heroic gorilla Buck. Mind you, neither of these characters talk throughout the entire movie, so again, kudos to the animation team.

As for the human characters, things are a little more problematic. James Franco is basically unremarkable as the lead, but to be fair he’s not given a whole lot to work with. His character is in the

unfortunate position of playing second fiddle to a chimpanzee, and his sub-plot, concerning his Alzheimer’s-stricken father, seems kind of moot after awhile.

Nevertheless, Franco’s character has more going on than Freida Pinto’s character, Caroline. She’s completely pointless. Her character does and says absolutely nothing of any consequence throughout the movie. And, despite this, she gets second billing. Oh sorry, I just remembered she kisses Franco toward the end of the movie. Hey, he’s the male lead; someone had to do it.

The last quarter or so of the film is clumsily staged. The apes storm through a sometimes abandoned-lookingSan Francisco, then storm a definitely abandoned research lab to release

PROVIDED PHOTO another herd of intelligent apes. The final battle on the Golden Gate Bridge has a couple of good moments, namely Caesar saddling-up for a nod to the original film and Buck making one impressive jump for a 500-pound gorilla.

If the idea that a group of maybe a hundred apes will be able to conquer the world strikes one as a little ridiculous, stick around for the credits to have that explained away by a rather disappointing, eye-role worthy extra scene.

Overall, “Rise of the Planet of the Apes� is a deeply flawed but nevertheless fun film. For what it’s worth, it’s probably the best entry since the original, and though the writing and direction is clunky, it’s more interesting than most of this summer’s tent-pole films.

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Gercsak earns bronze in World Swimming Championship; eyes Olympic Games NAREG KURJIAN Daily Egyptian Before transferring to SIUC a year ago, Csaba Gercsak (pronounced: Cha-ba Ger-shak) was sporting orange and blue as a swimmer for the University of Florida in Gainesville.

Gercsak, a native of Budapest, Hungary studying management, said he made the move to SIUC to better suit his goals and abilities as a swimmer and Saluki head coach Rick Walker was one of the main reasons he made the decision.

“When I realized that University of Florida is not really my group, I made contact with Rick about transferring to SIU,” Gercsak said.

“Rick gave me the attention in and out of the pool and took his time to care about me and how I swim.”

Gercsak said he learned how to swim as a kid for reasons that, now, may not seem too ambitious.

“I started swimming when I was 6,” Gercsak said. “The main idea was just to learn how to swim, nothing special.”

Gercsak said he has five siblings, each of whom are currently swimmers as well.

He said the success and joy that come from competitive swimming are what make him stay the course.

“I started open water swimming in 2005 in Montreal,” Gercsak said.

“That was my first meet and I liked it very much, so it was kind of obvious for me to keep doing open water.”

Walker said SIU’s need for a distance swimmer combined with the opportunities for Gercsak to maintain both his academic and open water swimming pursuits made for an ideal situation.

“We were in need of a distance swimmer with the kind of times that Csaba could go, and it was a perfect match because he knew he could continue with his interest in open water swimming,” Walker said.

Gercsak competed in the 14th FINA World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China, representing his native country, Hungary. There, Gercsak took the bronze medal in the 25-kilometer distance swim with a time of 5:11:18.1 — 38 seconds behind the winner.

Walker said the level of competition at the World Championships is as good as it gets.

“In open water swimming, there is no higher competition than the World Championships, other than the Olympic Games in the 10 (kilometer).” Walker said. “You have to be first or second best in your country in order to make it.”

Fellow Saluki swimmer Mazen Aziz, of Cairo, Egypt, said open water swimming can subject the swimmer to various conditions, so time cannot accurately gauge the swim times universally; each event is unique unto itself.

Aziz, who is studying architecture, said he and Gercsak had history together prior to SIU. He said they came to the mutual agreement that if they were able to practice with one another, it would be mutually beneficial.

“I know Csaba (a) long time … because we all have met in those open water races … five years ago,” Aziz said. “We talked … last year and then we said, ‘Oh, if we practice together it’s going to be … much better for us.’”

Aziz said although they are friendly out of the water, that camaraderie doesn’t exist when competing in the water.

“In swimming there’s … no … friendship in water, but after the water we are both good together,” Aziz said.

Gercsak said he hopes his win at the World Championships is not the end of his international success.

“I feel like, and I hope too, that it wasn’t my first and last medal from a big meet,” he said. “My long-term goal is to make the Olympics in the 10k.”

Walker said although the level of competition will remain stiff during qualifiers, he believes Gercsak may be close to his goal.

“Csaba will be one of the swimmers that Hungary will send, and out of that competition you put everybody in the melting pot,” Walker said. “The top 15 get to go to London for the Olympic Games.”

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Anthony Bousquet, a senior from Antibes, France studying marketing and management, practices his tennis swing Monday.

Bousquet has been a member of the Saluki swim team since 2007 and specializes in free and fly competitions.

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One of those unique aspects was a recent investigation of the athletic program by the university about allegations of a hostile work environment surrounding the women’s golf program. The investigation concluded with no public action taken by the university, but the candidates were notified of everything that was going on, Moccia said.

“We made sure we had a very frank and open talk about everything, and she indicated that she already knew about 95 percent of what was going on,” Moccia said.

“As for people maybe who didn’t apply because of that, I can’t really speak to that. Who knows, but we certainly got the best candidate out of those who applied.”

The hiring comes on the heels of attorney Shari Rhode saying she will file complaints to two federal agencies about the probe into Saluki Athletics.

Rhode has represented former

Wednesday, August 10, 2011 women’s golf assistant coach Samantha Sambursky in the past, but Rhode did not say whom she was representing in recent complaints.

Sambursky was considered for the head coaching position but was not one of the finalists, said Tom Weber, director of media services.

Even with the hostile work environment allegations, Daugherty was still a part of the candidate screening committee, Savage said.

Mihelich met Daugherty during the 2008 LPGA T&CP National Championship, and Mihelich said they’ve had a great working relationship since.

“There are only a few coaches in the Midwest that are also a part of the LPGA,” Mihelich said. “At those events, we all just kind of get together and meet and talk.”

Mihelich has been a member of the LPGA since she graduated from the University of New Orleans in 2005, but said she did not have contact with fellow

LPGA member Daugherty during the interview process.

Mihelich has ties to SIU with several of her relatives graduating from SIU in the past, including her brother Adam. Mihelich attended golf clinics at SIU while she was growing up, and Chicago State also faced off against SIU in a tournament hosted by Northern Illinois University in March. That bond with the school helped make her decision to apply for the head coaching position an easy one, Mihelich said.

"I work at a state institution now, so I kind of always wanted to stay in the state of Illinois," said Mihelich, who grew up in New Lenox.

"Just as an Illinois resident, I love Illinois, so I wanted to stay in Illinois," she said.

Before her time at Chicago State, she served as an assistant coach at Robert Morris College in 2007 and at the University of St. Francis from 2005 to 2007. She also worked as late comedian Bernie Mac’s personal golf instructor.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — An upcoming development is for the better, even if it doesn’t look that way at first. Messes can lead to big improvements, and the payoff is larger than the investment.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 —Take it easy this morning to avoid mistakes.

By midday, you’re jamming, gaining wealth and popularity. A quiet evening refreshes and eases any ruffled feathers.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7— Confusion’s running rampant. New evidence disproves old theories. Stay calm and get to the bottom of it. All that you uncover provides new resources.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Take advantage of your increase in communication skills for the next couple of days.

You could start a novel or write some poetry.

Relax while you spin stories.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is an 8 — If you look, there are hidden resources in the budget. It’s a fine time for romance and for planning. An old trick doesn’t work so try something new.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — It’s normal to keep changing your mind now. Instead of resisting indecisiveness, you could just enjoy the ride. You might get rewarded with a brilliant insight.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is an 8 — Let someone else stir up trouble today.

You’ve got too much going on at home to get stopped with silly arguments. Resist the temptation. Keep your wallet zipped.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 5 — Things may seem to be going in several directions at once. Get a high enough vantage that you can see what’s going on. Stick to what you already promised.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is an 8 —-Stand up for your dream, even if a critic disagrees. Someone else is standing with you. Don’t begin until you’re ready. A surprise changes things positively.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — Don’t let the monkeys in your head drive you crazy. Thank them for entertaining you with their silly thoughts. Post your main goal as a visual reminder, and keep to it.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — An amazing breakthrough in love erupts ... take it slow, and give thanks. Money’s coming in, and creative pursuits thrive. Tell fears you’ll get back to them later.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is an 8 — There may be unexpected detours today.

Remember that it’s all part of the creative process. Let others help you overcome your limitations. They’ve been there.

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Mihelich named new golf coach JOE RAGUSA Daily Egyptian When Diane Daugherty retired in April, Saluki Athletics knew it was

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going to have a hard time replacing the women’s golf coach of the last 25 years, said Chet Savage, senior associate athletic director.

Savage said what he

didn’t know was that the best candidate was right in his own basement.

New women’s golf coach Alexis Mihelich is the female model for the Golden Tee Live golf arcade game. While Savage owns a different version of the game that Mihelich is not featured in, people inside Saluki Athletics took note of her interesting pedigree, Athletic Director Mario Moccia said. “It was something I saw on her resume and didn’t really think much of during the interview,�

Savage said. “But after I talked to her and she said something about the people at Golden Tee putting out a

press release about her, I sat back and thought, ‘You know, this is pretty cool.’� “From a recruiting standpoint, if you can be the model swing for millions and millions of people who are playing that game, that at least offers you some credibility,�

Moccia said.

What appealed to Saluki Athletics more than her swing was her success at Chicago State University, where she'd been the women's head golf coach since 2007, Moccia said. “She was able to beat many of her in-state rivals that had more resources than (Chicago State),�

Moccia said. “You talk about doing more with less,

working hard — she was the epitome of that.�

SIU gives the NCAAmaximum six scholarships to their women’s golf program while Chicago State usually only gave out four, Mihelich said. With a more supportive program, Moccia said Mihelich is confident enough to thrive at SIU. “It’s nice to know that the university and the athletic department support this,�

Mihelich said. “I’m finally at somewhere where you’re fully funded, so you have more resources and more opportunities to be more successful.�

Mihelich replaces a legendary figure in Daugherty, who was named

the coach to the Missouri Valley Conference AllCentennial team in 2007 after winning the MVC tournament and Coach of the Year for the third time.

She also won two Gateway conference titles and Coach of the Year awards in the late 80s. “Whenever you replace somebody who’s been there for a long time, whether it was Dale Lennon and Jerry Kill, or Matt Painter replacing Bruce Weber, there’s always unique aspects to whether you succeed a long-term coach, a successful coach, or even a coach who was let go,�

Moccia said.

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