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Changes in traffic flow limit parking options TARA KULASH Daily Egyptian Traffic flow changes to streets throughout Carbondale are now complete.

Streets such as East College have transitioned from one-way into two-way traffic streets, while others have become one-ways.

According to the City of Carbondale’s website, East College Street has changed from a one-way traffic street to a two-way and on-street parking is no longer allowed. South Logan Street is now a one-way southbound with parking on the west side only. South Graham Street has also become a one-way northbound with parking on the east side only.

The action was passed by the Carbondale City Council January 18. “It’s as a result of the new public safety station there (on East College Street),� said Kevin Baity, development services director. “We made the determination that in order to reach certain portions of town ... College Street needed to have eastbound traffic.�

Cody Tyler, a senior from Mount Auburn studying cinema, said the traffic changes have done nothing but irritate him. “I can’t park on College Street anymore,� Tyler said. “It’s just annoying that I have to park on Logan or Graham Street now and then walk over to my friend’s house.�

Baity said the reason Logan and Grand were converted to oneways was to alleviate the removal of parking on College Street. He also said the city installed curb cuts and driveways to properties on College Street so on-site parking could be developed.

Council member Jane Adams said Chief of Police Jody O’Guinn requested the ordinance, while some landlords along the street had complaints.

Tyler said he doesn’t think the changes were necessary. “The police have already spread out enough in Carbondale.

They don’t need an extra intersection,� he said. “It’s just more of an inconvenience to everyone else.�

Baity said he’s not sure how much the installment will cost, but money for the project came from the Local Improvement Fund within the public works. “We’re still installing a couple of those concrete entrances, so I haven’t been given a final bill,� he said.

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A car drives down South Logan Street Sunday. The City of Carbondale had changed Logan into a one-way with traffic flowing southbound and parking on the west side only.

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Amir Pemberton, 9, of Carbondale, slides toward his brother while his cousin, Mariyah Thomas, watches in front of their grandmother’s house near Route 13

Sunday. With a high of 95 degrees, Pemberton and the rest of his family beat the heat in classic Fourth of July fashion by using their Slip ‘n Slide.

Administration: protesters misinformed WHITNEY WAY Daily Egyptian Dressed up as mock tourists and tour guides, university community members held an on-campus protest to call attention to disproportionate university spending. “SIUC is putting buildings ahead of people and putting our money into the wrong sorts of buildings,� said Natasha Zaretsky, of the SIUC Labor Coalition.

Participants included tenure and non-tenure faculty, civil servants and graduate assistants who gathered to criticize university spending habits Friday. The demonstration, titled ‘Show Me the Money,’ consisted of a tour, in which the mock tourists and tour guides traveled to various campus locations.

At each stop was a brief presentation of the building’s financial history and current fiscal priority was provided.

Chancellor Rita Cheng said those who protested were misinformed in their belief that faculty salary, academic funding and building construction have any influence on each other. “We have a goal of increasing enrollment. To reach this goal we must have modern and energy-efficient facilities that look cared for and inviting,� Cheng said. “There is certainly much more work to be done.�

The protest began at 12 p.m. outside of Morris Library and stops included Woody Hall, Faner Hall, Anthony Hall and the space where McAndrew Stadium once stood. “(This is what) campus workers see as a consistent

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David Johnson, right, an associate professor of foreign languages and literature, talks to a group of SIUC faculty as part of the ‘Show Me the Money’ on-campus alternative protest, Friday.

Those who participated were encouraged to come dressed as tour guides and tourists for the protest, which began at Morris Library and ended at the former location of McAndrew Stadium.

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IUC is putting buildings ahead of people and putting our money into the wrong sorts of buildings.

deprioritizing of quality education,� Zaretsky said.

Zaretsky said more money goes toward building projects and the athletic department than toward academic programs and faculty salaries.

Although there was an incident in the political science department that caused classes to be cancelled abruptly, Cheng said an error in communication between the dean’s office and the department was to blame. “I know of no classes that have been cut because of budget cuts,� Cheng said. “The capital budget is different from the operating budget, so these funds cannot be redirected to salaries.�

The state mandates the distribution of funds, and

— Natasha Zaretsky SIUC Labor Coalition

the university does not control the distribution, said Rod Sievers, assistant to the chancellor. “There are two separate funds for salary and buildings,� Sievers said. “Funds are specifically allocated for specific purposes.�

He said the disproportionate revenue received by the athletic department is due to ticket sales and private donations.

He said salary from faculty members and building funds never impact each other, and the state budget crisis is the reason the university has experienced cutbacks. “It’s been really tight,�

Sievers said. “We have to balance the budget somehow.�

Faculty took four furlough

days last semester, and Cheng announced there will not be any unpaid administrative closure days or layoffs for fiscal year 2012. “Given our current fiscal environment, SIU faculty and staff have really gone the extra mile to address the needed conditions to improve our campus during a stressful budget year,�

Cheng said.

Sievers said the university will have more options for faculty pay if the state budget improves. “Pay raises would be an option,� he said. “Faculty are valued assets of the university, and within means the university will accommodate them as best as possible.�

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Library welcomes new associate dean WHITNEY WAY Daily Egyptian Howard Carter said he looks forward to becoming the associate dean for library affairs.

Carter, former Instructional Support Services manager and associate professor, assumed the position July 1 and gained responsibilities as interim associate dean in March 2009, David Carlson said.

“Howard knows the ins and outs of this position,” Carlson, dean of Morris Library, said. “I know he will help us move forward.”

Carter said this role will allow him to expand his career capabilities. His former position as ISS manager had little or no interaction with students and

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books, he said.

As associate dean, Carter said he will exercise administrative oversight on staff who select and buy books, categorize library resources and maintain archives, library systems, servers and electronic resources.

“I’ve been doing this for a while now,” Carter said. “I look forward to providing my insight to help in any way possible.”

Carter said the ISS program, which helps instructors

— David Carlson dean of Morris Library

incorporate new technologies into their curriculum, will now be managed under the provosts’ office rather than the library. He said services used by faculty such as Blackboard, distance learning, multimedia support and web course development are supervised by the ISS program and will now be administrated by Susan Logue, associate provost of academic affairs.

Provost John Nicklow said he decided to create the Center for

Teaching, a new program designed to assist professors with more than technical support. He said the ISS program will now fall under the Center for Teaching, which will give professors more resources to help build their curriculum.

“There’s a broader need to focus on pedagogical research to develop assessment strategies,” Nicklow said.

Carlson said the partnership between ISS and library affairs is a successful and insightful experience.

“I can say that the affiliation was one of the things that attracted me to this position some 10 years ago,” Carlson said. “ISS has helped meet the challenges of providing excellent library services in the digital age.”

Although Carlson has been acting unofficially as the associate dean, he said he had to wait for permission from administration to officially fill the position. The open position was not publicly posted, and other candidates included staff and faculty who were already within library affairs, he said.

“Budget constraints were the primary reason getting the position filled permanently lasted this long,” Carlson said.

Carlson said Carter went through the full interview and selection process and was found to be the most experienced and knowledgeable candidate.

Whitney Way can be reached at wway@dailyegyptian.com or 618.536.3311 ext. 259.

Casey Anthony weeps as prosecutor calls her a liar KYLE HIGHTOWER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony briefly wept Sunday as prosecutors told jurors during closing arguments that she murdered her 2-year-old daughter Caylee to reclaim the carefree life she had before the girl was born.

Prosecutors portrayed Anthony as a young mother who killed her daughter because she got in the way of her love life.

“Something needed to be sacrificed, that something was either the life she wanted or the life thrust upon her. She chose to sacrifice her child,” prosecutor Jeff Ashton said during his 90-minute argument.

Defense attorney Jose Baez said the prosecutors’ case was so weak they tried to portray

Anthony as “a lying, no-good slut” and that their forensic evidence was based on a “fantasy.”

He said Caylee’s death was “an accident that snowballed out of control.”

Prosecutors contend Caylee was suffocated with duct tape by her mother, who then crafted elaborate lies to mislead investigators and her parents.

Defense attorneys countered that the toddler accidentally drowned in the family swimming pool, and that Casey in fact was hiding emotional distress caused by alleged sexual abuse from her father. Her father has denied that claim.

Judge Belvin Perry ruled Sunday morning that there was no evidence of such abuse and that the defense could not allude to it in closing arguments. Jury deliberations are now expected

to begin Monday after the prosecution gives its rebuttal arguments.

Baez began his closing argument by telling jurors they have more questions than answers, including the biggest: How did Caylee die? Neither prosecutors nor the defense have offered firm proof of how Caylee died.

“It can never be proven,” he said.

Baez spent most of his fourhour argument attacking the prosecution’s forensic evidence.

He said the prosecution’s air analysis of the trunk of Anthony’s car, which allegedly showed air molecules consistent with decomposition, could not be duplicated. He said no one could prove a stain found in the trunk was caused by Caylee’s body decomposing there. And

witnesses showed maggots found in the trunk came from a bag of trash that was found there, he said.

“They throw enough against the wall and see what sticks.

That is what they’re doing ... right down to the cause of death,” Baez said. He later conceded his client had told elaborate lies and invented imaginary friends and even a fake father for Caylee, but he said that doesn’t mean she killed her daughter.

He also attacked Anthony’s father, George Anthony, as unreliable. He said that a suicide note that George Anthony wrote in January 2009 that claimed no knowledge of what happened to Caylee was self-serving and that the attempt was a fraud. He said George Anthony claimed he was going to kill himself with a six-pack of beer and some high-

blood pressure medicine.

Earlier during prosecution’s closing argument, Casey Anthony appeared mostly stonefaced for about the first 45 minutes, but she began to cry when Ashton said the story that Caylee drowned was also false.

Ashton, the prosecutor, said Caylee’s death wasn’t an accident because three pieces of duct tape were placed on her face — one on the mouth, one on the nose and one over those to be “thorough.”

The case has played out on national TV since Caylee’s disappearance in the summer of 2008 and continued through her mother’s trial, with spectators traveling from all over the U.S. to jockey for coveted seats in the courtroom gallery. Anthony, a single mother, was 22 when her daughter died. No one has come forward as the father of Caylee.

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Head of SIU Foundation leaves university LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian In his last three hours as vice chancellor for institutional advancement and CEO of the SIU Foundation, Rickey McCurry looked back on his time at SIU. McCurry, who has been hired as director for the office of institutional advancement at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind., said he began working at SIUC in 2000 and believes the time is right, both personally and professionally, to move on.

As CEO of the SIU Foundation,

McCurry said he oversaw the not-forprofit organization that raises money to support the institution and led the SIU Alumni Association.

McCurry worked on the foundation’s first comprehensive campaign during his time at SIUC, and raised more than $106 million. He was also involved in campaigning for the single largest gift to the university in its history of $10.2 million, he said.

“I’ve had 11 wonderful years here at SIU,” he said. “We had a lot of firsts and were able to accomplish a lot of things.”

McCurry said the Illinois budget crisis has put some strain on donations

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— Rickey McCurry vice chancellor for institutional advancement CEO of the SIU Foundation

made to the Foundation and believes there’s work to be done.

“Donations all over the country, not only SIU, have been trying to recover from the economic downturn,” he said.

Chancellor Rita Cheng said McCurry’s absence would not affect the progress of fundraising.

“There are many individuals on campus engaged in fundraising activities that will continue uninterrupted,” she said.

Cheng said McCurry has expressed excitement for the new opportunity at a smaller, private university.

SIUC will soon launch a search to replace McCurry, she said.

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Blagojevich likely to face menial work in prison MICHAEL TARM Associated Press CH IC AGO — An eight-digit number affixed to his prison clothes; a job scrubbing toilets or mopping floors at 12 cents an hour.; his incessant jogging confined to a prison yard; most painful of all, restricted visits from his wife and two daughters.

After sentencing for his conviction on federal corruption charges, that is

likely to be the new life for impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is more accustomed to fancy suits, a doting staff and a comfortable home in a leafy Chicago neighborhood.

Most legal experts estimate that Blagojevich, 54, will get close to a 10-year sentence, though technically he faces up to 300 years after he was convicted Monday of 17 of 20 counts at his retrial. The convictions include attempted extortion for trying to

sell or trade the U.S. Senate seat that Barack Obama vacated to become president.

One fellow Illinois politician who served time in federal prison on corruption charges, former Chicago city clerk Jim Laski, says Blagojevich can't begin to fathom how hard prison will be.

“I missed my kids’ birthdays, graduations ... you don’t ever see children playing, there’s a sense of

total isolation, you’re subject to bodycavity searches — it's horrible!” said the 57-year-old Laski, a father of three. “And I was only in two years.”

Once he walks through the prison doors, no one will care that Blagojevich was once governor or appeared in 2010 on the reality television show “Celebrity Apprentice,” Laski and others said.

“If he thinks he'll come in and get special treatment, he's in for a rude

surprise,” said Phil Turner, a former federal prosecutor in Chicago. “If you come in with that attitude, prison guards and other inmates will go out of their way to break you.”

But a chilly reception may not deter Blagojevich’s non-stop campaigning.

“I still see him going around acting jovial, shaking hands,” Turner said. “I bet he knows everybody's name in a month.”

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JEFF the Brotherhood and others get the fourth off to rocking start ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian There were some late night musical fireworks at Hangar 9 Sunday as JEFF the Brotherhood and four other bands took to the stage to usher in July fourth.

Catholics and the Pill started the night with a jangly, head-bobworthy set on Hangarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s outdoor patio.

Remember when â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;girl groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; meant something like Supremes? Well, Sonic Youth, Vampire Weekend and keytars happened. The all-female quartet blew through their simple and not strictly tonal indie songs. They were the perfect kind of opening act: likable, fun and off the stage in the blink of an eye.

Heat Tape followed with another breathless set of fun garage rock.

While they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the most animated act ever, or of the night, they were interesting enough that it was easy to resist the temptation to watch the poker tournament on TV over the patio. One could say that all their songs sounded pretty much the same, but if thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a complaint you would lodge then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re probably not your kind of band anyway.

New Orleans duo The Generationals (fleshed out to a quintet for tour) was the first band to take the indoor stage.

They took advantage of the much louder

sound system and got some of the nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first real movement from the crowd.

Of course, with bittersweet indie gems like â&#x20AC;&#x153;Angry Charlie,â&#x20AC;? any crowd would be hard pressed to stand still. They proved themselves as more than able practitioners of what might be called flannel-shirt-and-skinny-jeans rock.

Part of the fun in watching many bands who run the college town bar circuit is wondering if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to say one day that you saw them before they were big. The Generationals already have a number of great tunes under their belt, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only one â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take Me Outâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Float Onâ&#x20AC;? away from being a sensation.

Cy Barkley followed with another lightning fast set, this time of stripped-down old school punk.

Was it just coincidence that the one altercation of the night coincided with Barkleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s distorted threechord outbursts? Probably not.

The crowd was ready to mosh by the time JEFF the Brotherhood took the stage slightly after 1 a.m. The Brotherhood obliged, and proved the spirit of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;77 was alive and well with their loud and aggressive riff-driven songs.

The long-haired duo tore through an earsplitting and crowd-pleasing set

Nashville band â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jeff the Brotherhoodâ&#x20AC;? plays at Hanger 9 Sunday. The two-piece band of brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall have toured extensively, including a recent show at Austinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that left more than a few ears ringing.

Guitarist Jake Orrallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crunchy riffing and his brother Jaminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s incessant beats intertwined to create the kind of tight, but uninhibited, rock that only such a small group can pull off. Jake walked onto the bar top for a song and, after

BROOK GRACE | DAILY EGYPTIAN SXSW music festival. The show at Hangar was the second time the band played in Carbondale. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Carbondale isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Nashville, but it sure is close,â&#x20AC;?

Jake Orrall said.

getting shooed away by a bartender, took to the crowd where fans had the chance to air-guitar shoulder to shoulder with the real deal.

Individual songs didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter so much as they were all cut from the same grungy and unwashed cloth. The

audience ate it up, and a few lucky souls got to crowd surf while others cried out for their favorite tunes. If anything, JEFF the Brotherhood proved that so long as thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s youth, red blood, energy and, of course, alcohol, there will be good old guitar rock.

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Embracing marriage, the long and short of it LYNNE K. VARNER McClatchy-Tribune â&#x20AC;&#x153;People get from books the idea that if you have married the right person you may expect to go on â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;being in loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; forever. As a result, when they find they are not, they think this proves they have made a mistake and are entitled to a change â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not realizing that, when they have changed, the glamour will presently go out of the new love just as it went out of the old one. In this department of life, as in every other, thrills come at the beginning and do not last ... but if you go through with it, the dying away of the first thrill will be compensated for by a quieter and more lasting kind of interest.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; C.S. Lewis My husband and I gathered with friends recently to fete a couple celebrating their 20th wedding anniver-

sary. We toasted marriageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s enduring qualities and staying power. The day after, my husband and I lingered over Sunday lunch with a couple in the neighborhood. Moqueca de Camarao, an amazing Brazilian prawn and coconut stew, was as delicious as the discovery that we both liked this couple equally. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re married you know how rare that is!

Later, I saw on Facebook that friends living in Chicago were celebrating 15 years of wedded bliss. Then there was the send-off for another friend, made all the more poignant because her husband and young children will remain behind. A bicoastal relationship with all of the romantic challenges layered by the practicalities of getting kids to soccer practice. Military families know the drill all too well.

In all of these instances, longevity and commitment are worthy of a toast.

New York became the sixth state to legalize gay marriage, and other states should follow. These moves embrace marriage and run counter to the many statistics telling us that we married couples are part of a waning institution.

Marriage rates have been declining for some time. Part of the problem is generational. Rising divorce rates, which have only plateaued in recent years, meant many of us grew up in households marked by divorce. We were expected to establish educations and careers before marriage and families, so most of us did.

Millenials, that group of 18- to 29-year-olds, value parenthood far more than marriage, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. More than half believe being a good parent is one of the most important things in life, compared with slightly less than a

third who say the same about successful marriages.

There are notable exceptions.

When my friends who were celebrating their 20th anniversary saluted their parentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; combined marital total of more than 80 years, the room erupted in applause. We are awed by such connubial stamina because many of us aspire to it.

Still, trends point to more people than not taking to heart H.L. Menckenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acerbic quip about marrying best by marrying late. Delays in marriage have been accompanied by a corresponding increase in single women having children. Just over half of all births among the under-30 set in 2008 were to unwed mothers. That jibes with young adultsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; embrace of single parenthood and dismissal as too traditional the premise that a child needs both parents at home.

Some traditions are worth breaking, but not this one. Raising kids is hard, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s even harder alone. I suspect the younger generationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s optimism about eschewing marriage and raising children alone stem from views on something about which they know very little. More insightful views on marriage might come by checking back in a decade when Millenials are better acquainted with the twin responsibilities of career and family.

After 13 years of marriage, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come to believe it is a tradition one truly doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t internalize until its his or her turn. Before then, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re merely seeking to be the generation doing it differently and better than our parents did. Such naive optimism has permeated generations since the first one.

In the end, we all turn to the enduring power of committed relationships.

Longevity has its rewards.

Congress recently voted to continue their disastrous billions of dollars a year subsidies for ethanol.

A first step to help solve Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oil and debt problems would be to reverse that vote.

A second step would be to cancel the release of oil from our strategic reserve supplies.

It is past time for Washington

to replace partisan politics and self interest with responsible government. Letters, e-mail and phone calls do make a difference. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve sent mine and gotten attention in Congress, but not yet needed votes. Together we can do it.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s precious oil being wasted; ethanol is a waste Dear Editor:

For 11 years in the name of national security America has squandered in overseas adventures untold millions of dollars and thousands of lives.

What have we gained?

Fortunately, we did maintain our national petroleum reserve, which is essential for national emergencies. Yet now 30 million

barrels of our precious oil reserve have been released so voters wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t face high gas prices on summer vacation. Is equally high-quality oil available, and can we afford to replace it at inflated prices when weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trillions of dollars in debt?

We could lose both security and vacations.

Congress wastes billions of dollars and millions of gallons

of oil a year for corn to make ethanol that wastes billions of gallons of essential water with no overall gain in energy. People go hungry with skyrocketing corn prices. Relentless corn production forfeits rotation to other crops and shreds urgently needed soil conservation practices. Seasonally barren fields erode and pollute our streams.

Clark Ashby Professor emeritus

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Family comes together, paddles through summer humidity LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian

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n a hot day, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be out there for less than a half hour. And on a nice day, we have families out there all day. People who fish are out there all day. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Raul Contreras Campus Lake employee

As Steve Newman stepped out of a paddle boat Monday onto the Campus Lake docks, he said the humidity was getting the best of him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of work,â&#x20AC;? Steve Newman, of Elmhurst, said as he patted his son Bradley on the back for his hard work on the paddle boat. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My knees donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bend like they used to.â&#x20AC;?

Steve Newman said he and his family are visiting his youngest daughter Shannon Newman, of Carterville, and decided to spend their last day at Campus Lake.

He said he and his family have used paddle boats before but never together.

Shannon Newman said because of the humidity, the family paddled out halfway and worked their way back to the docks not long after.

Paddleboating is free and open throughout the day, said

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Steve Newman, far left, Bradley Newman, left, Shannon Newman, right, and Ashley Newman, far right, of Elmhurst, paddle back Raul Contreras, Campus Lake employee. But on days as humid as Monday he said, people arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t usually out there for too long. â&#x20AC;&#x153;On a hot day, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be out there for less than a half hour,â&#x20AC;? he

said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And on a nice day, we have families out there all day. People who fish are out there all day.â&#x20AC;?

People are required to wear life jackets, but Contreras said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never seen anyone fall out of

into the dock Monday at Campus Lake. Campus Lake paddle boats and canoe rentals are open to students and the public. a paddle boat before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have had canoes flip over,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But paddle boats are more safe.â&#x20AC;?

Steve Newmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Ashley Newman, of Elmhurst,

said the lakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s atmosphere differs greatly from where she is from. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The lake is gorgeous,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just wanted to spend our last day enjoying something fun to do.â&#x20AC;?

Lineups out for Baseballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Summer Classic

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CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian With the exception of the few final bench players to be named, the lineup for the 2011 baseball Summer Classic has been listed.

The July 12 Major League Baseball All-Star game in Phoenix will be played without Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols and Twins catcher Joe Mauer, who were the top

voting leaders from a year before. With the two of them out, it is interesting to see how different a lineup can be from one year to the next.

Of the 17 starters who have been announced thus far, only four were in the starting lineup for the 2010 episode.

Leading the way with almost 7.5 million votes is Toronto Blue Jayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s slugger Jose Bautista. His vote total set a new record for an individual player as he passed the previous record-holder Ken Griffey Jr., who had a little more than six million votes in his 1994 campaign.

While Bautista set a new record for an individual player, the MLB also saw a record-setting 32.5 million total votes.

Bautista, who many thought had a fluke year in 2010 with his 54 homeruns, leads the MLB

with 26 homeruns after he hit the ball out of the park in three consecutive games as the team headed into the series against the Red Sox this week.

To complete the American League lineup, it goes like this: Tigers catcher Alex Avila, Red Sox first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, Yankee second baseman Robinson Cano, Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez, Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter, Blue Jay outfielder Jose Bautista, Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, Yankee outfielder Curtis Granderson and Red Sox slugger David Ortiz as the designated hitter.

Heading into the final night of voting, Hamilton and Red Sox outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury had the closest ballot gap. However, Hamilton was able to hold on to a 32,000-vote lead at the voting deadline.

While the American League had the closest race for a starting position, the National League had perhaps the strangest.

Edging into the final three days of voting, Rockies shortstop had a 233,000-vote lead over the Metsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Jose Reyes, but Reyes finished with more than an 800,000-vote lead to close out the balloting.

Entering the holiday weekend, Reyes led the Majors with a .345 batting average, 124 hits and 15 triples. He was ranked second with 30 stolen bases. Despite being amongst league leaders, it is uncertain if he will play due to a hamstring injury.

To add to the possibility of a lineup without Reyes, Pujols is also unlikely to play. Even though he is ahead of schedule for his return to baseball, he is still out with a fractured forearm.

With Pujols out, the NL lineup, lead by Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder, goes as follows: Braves catcher Brian McCann, Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks, Phillies third baseman Placido Polanco, Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun, Cardinals outfielder Lance Berkman and Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp.

While the game seems to be the Brewers against the Yankees, and injuries in both leagues have kept former All-Stars out, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing to see just how much the lineups can change in a single season.

The NL put a cap on the 14game losing streak when they beat the AL in 2010. However, they might be out-matched and out-muscled this time as they head into Phoenix.