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Friends, families remember fallen students Memorial services held for three students who died in January
RYAN VOYLES Daily Egyptian Jose Ochoa said he would always remember his brother Juan’s love for everybody. “He’d go out of his way to help everybody, even if he didn’t know them,� Ochoa said. “That was just the person he was, he’d put everybody else’s problems in front of his own. That’s the way he lived his life, and that’s how he’d want us to remember him. “‘Everybody matters in this world,’ that’s what he’d tell us.� Friends, family and SIUC faculty members came together Sunday afternoon at the Student Center Auditorium to remember three students who passed away in January — Erin Logan, Matthew Haines and Juan Ochoa. Ochoa died Jan. 19 in what police have ruled an accidental death. Haines died in a hunting accident Jan. 15, while Logan died of an illness Jan. 12. Bob Gray, pastor at Our Savior Lutheran Church and chaplain of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, said the memorial, titled “A Time to Remember,� was geared toward helping friends with loss and grief while also helping them learn to celebrate life. “It’s important, especially for
GENNA ORD | DAILY EGYPTIAN
Angie Owcarz, a junior from Woodstock studying glass art, embraces a friend Sunday at a memorial service in the Student Center Auditorium. The service celebrated the lives of SIUC students Juan Ochoa, Matthew Haines and Erin Logan, who died in January. Owcarz, Ochoa’s girlfriend, spoke at the event. people who can’t travel to a funeral or visitation, that they have some opportunity to deal with the loss and meet family if possible,� Gray said.
“They can find a way to cope with the loss and hopefully move on from there.� Gray read eulogies for the three
students, and friends and family were welcome to share stories. Only family members of Juan Ochoa spoke at the memorial, while Gray read a poem
written by the Haines family. Please see MEMORIAL | 3
School of Art and Design constructing ways to prepare for unknown budget
Artists: Wood from fallen trees serves as cheap option for art
ERIN HOLCOMB Daily Egyptian
ERIN HOLCOMB Daily Egyptian
The School of Art and Design has been getting creative in anticipation for next year’s budget — and administrators said the outlook is uncertain, with non-tenured faculty being the most vulnerable, said the director of the school. The future buying power of the art school is unclear, as the university has not yet given the school its budget for next year, said Peter Chametzky, director of the school. Chametzky said compared to past years, these cuts will be more. Non-tenured faculty jobs will be the most vulnerable if the art school has to make signifi cant cutbacks, he said. “Since we don’t know what our budget is for next year, we don’t know how many of them we’ll be able to rehire,� Chametzky said. “And if we do rehire them, we
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he last thing you want to do is have all your tenured and non-tenured faculty out looking for jobs because they don’t know if there is going to be a place for them next year. — Peter Chametzky director of the School of Art and Design
don’t know if it will be a reduced role.� Seeing colleagues worried for their jobs has been a concern in the art school, especially because most of them are non-tenured, said Alex Lopez, assistant professor of 3-D foundations and sculpture and also a tenured-track faculty member. Lopez said the art school administrators and faculty have held many meetings to discuss how they can cut back in areas such as travel and office supplies in an effort to prevent cutting faculty. “Several of our colleagues are non-tenured track and they’re vital to our program,� he said. “The
last thing you want to do is have all your tenured and non-tenured faculty out looking for jobs because they don’t know if there is going to be a place for them next year.� Chametzky said if it comes to cutting faculty, the school would only cut courses as a last resort, even if that means professors will have more classes to teach. “I don’t think it’s desirable to be cramming in as many students as we can into a particular class,� Chametzky said. “We’re trying to avoid that as much as we can.� Please see ART BUDGET | 3
The days of eating snack food have been over for Claudia Torres-Ambriz since she entered the graduate program at the School of Art and Design in 2007. Torres-Ambriz, a graduate student in sculpture and art history from Oxnard, Calif., said it has been hard for her to buy materials to make her artwork since the economy took a turn for the worse. She said she has had to cut back to continue purchasing materials for her sculptures, one resort being that she limits what type of food she eats. “You pretty much have to eat plain food,� Torres-Ambriz said. “The days of chocolate are over.� She said expenses for materials are not covered for graduate students, but undergraduates are not affected as much because the school provides them most of their
supplies through their tuition. Many undergraduate students have felt the economic squeeze, she said, but the struggle helps her and other students figure out how to create art in different ways using unique materials. “A lot of our work has gotten smaller,� Torres-Ambriz said. “There are a lot of things that you cannot do; then again, the whole point is to figure out what you can do with what you do have.� A lot of the students choose to use wood for their sculptures instead of materials such as bronze or iron, which are more expensive, she said. Torres-Ambriz said she hasn’t made a bronze sculpture in a long time because of the high price of the material. She said she took out a loan to make her latest bronze sculpture, which cost $3,000. Please see STUDENTS | 3