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SIU wins 400th game

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PROVIDED PHOTO | SIU M EDIA S ERVICES Senior running back Deji Karim runs back a kickoff during SIU’s 30-10 victory over Western Illinois Saturday at Hanson Field in Macomb.

Karim finished with 282 all-purpose yards in the Salukis 400th all-time victory.

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For the eighth straight year, the Salukis defeated the Leathernecks — though this win counted a little more in the record books.

No. 8 SIU (3-1, 2-0) defeated Western Illinois 30-10 Saturday at Hanson Field in Macomb, giving the Salukis their 400th victory in program history.

“It was a good win for us tonight,” head coach Dale Lennon said. “In the first half, the offense came out and did what they had to do and in the second half the defense closed out the game for us.”

Senior running back Deji Karim played a key role in the Salukis’ historic victory.

The redshirt senior, who set a school record for longest run from scrimmage in the game with his 92-

yard touchdown scamper, had 18 carries for 157 yards and two touchdowns.

The 92-yard sprint happened on the Salukis’ first offensive play of the game.

Karim also had a career-long 42yard reception and a 69-yard kickoff return in the game.

Karim said his blockers deserve most of the credit for his record-setting performance.

“My offensive line blocked great for me and my special teams blockers

were great as well,” Karim said. “I had a good game, but without those guys putting the work in week in and week out, I wouldn’t be able to do it. It was a total team effort.”

The Salukis gained 368 total yards compared to the Leathernecks’ (1-3, 0-1) 243 as SIU’s defense held the nation’s No. 9 passing team to 140 yards in the air.

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Salukis split weekend matches at Davies SIU defeats Indiana State, loses to Illinois State Derek Robbins DAILY EGYPTIAN DROBBINS@SIU.EDU

SIU continued two streaks this weekend.

One it wanted to extend, and one it wanted to snap.

SIU (13-2, 3-2) lost to Illinois State (7-10, 2-4) (24-26, 26-24, 25-23, 25-20) Friday at Davies Gym, dropping its 36th straight match against the Redbirds. The Salukis bounced back on Saturday, defeating Indiana State (29-27, 25-27, 25-8,25-21). It was the Salukis’ ninth straight win against the Sycamores.

Head coach Brenda Winkeler said statistically, SIU should have won the match Friday.

“We out played them in every category statistically, it should have been a win,” Winkeler said.

“We just made a lot of key errors and it gave them momentum.”

The Salukis out hit the Redbirds .204 to .193 and had more digs and blocks.

The Redbirds won the third set even though they only hit .083. Illinois State out hit SIU in the final set .268 to .128 “For the older girls, facing Illinois State may be a problem,” said freshman setter Rachael Brown.

“For the younger players, it’s not a big deal. It’s just Illinois State. I think we just need to stick with the mentality that we’re a good team.

We’re the Salukis and if we play at Davies we are going to win.”

SIU wasn’t down for long as it bounced back against Indiana State.

The Sycamores (5-13, 1-5) kept the first two games tight, but SIU dominated in the final two games.

SIU out hit Indiana State .408 to .092 during the last two games and out scored the Sycamores 50-29.

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SEAN MCGAHAN | D AILY E GYPTIAN Junior right side hitter Alicia Johnson gets up from the Davies Gym floor after failing to convert a dig attempt Friday against Illinois State. Head coach Brenda Winkeler said errors at inopportune times cost the Salukis a match they should have won.

Yeager served 17 straight points for SIU in the third game.

“I was so excited,” Yeager said.

“It felt like every point was going

our way; the crowd really got behind us. It was awesome.”

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Western Illinois backup quarterback Wil Lunt had a rude welcoming to the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

The redshirt freshman never had a chance to get settled Saturday as the SIU defense pressured him all night and helped the Salukis to a 30-10 victory at Macomb.

Lunt finished the night completing seven of 14 passes with 50 yards. He also threw two interceptions and was sacked four times in just more than 38 minutes.

“When Wil came in, they wanted him ... to get his feet underneath him and to get comfortable working the offense,”SIU head coach Dale Lennon said. “I feel he did make progress as the game went on, where he became a little more comfortable with some good throws, and they were able to do a little more with him.”

Lunt replaced Matt Barr in the first half after the Leathernecks’ star quarterback left with a thumb injury. Barr helped lead the Leathernecks to the 10th-ranked passing attack in Football Championship Subdivision, averaging 282.7 yards a game. The Salukis held Barr to just 90 yards passing before the redshirt junior left the game with a thumb injury.

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t definitely helped out the confidence of our defense knowing their second guy was in.

— Mike McElroy safety, SIU Salukis

Among Lunt’s tormentors from SIU was safety Mike McElroy, who continued his assault on MVFC opponents. A week after recording his career-high 10 tackles against North Dakota State, the junior picked off two passes Saturday.

“That definitely helped our confidence as a defense, knowing that we had to change coverages trying to mess with the guy,” McElroy said.

“He settled down and made some plays, but it definitely helped out the confidence of our defense knowing their second guy was in.”

Lunt’s first play from scrimmage foreshadowed the rest of his night as he was sacked on his first drop back of the game. Lunt rarely had time to step into his passes, often having to dodge defenders while throwing.

Despite his struggles, Western Illinois running back Dre Gibbs said the team stands behind Lunt’s play and have high hopes for him.

“We have total confidence in what Wil can do. Obviously Matt Barr has more experience and brings a different type of confidence, but we have faith in Wil,” Gibbs said. “I told him in the huddle ‘This is your offense, we believe in you,’ and we just needed to really show him that we were confident in him.”

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!Jackson, Farrakhan at beaten Chicago teen’s funeral Caryn Rousseau

President Obama is sending U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, CHICAGO — The funeral who once led Chicago Public of a Chicago teen who was beaten to Schools, to Chicago on Wednesday death on his way home from school to meet with school officials, drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse students and residents and talk about Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister school violence.

“The eyes of the world are Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both watching,” Pastor calling for an end to E.F. Ledbetter Jr. youth violence. told mourners at Farrakhan said he came to the is righteousness the Greater Mount Baptist funeral because he was to serve as a Hebron Church on the city’s was “deeply pained” by the death of redemptive force to South Side. “This affected people all 16-year-old honor command us to get has over the globe.” roll student Derrion Mayor Richard Albert. The boy was up and get busy and Daley, just off a walking to a bus stop save our children. plane Saturday from after school when — Minister Louis Farrakhan an International a group of teens national representative of the attacked him during Nation of Islam Olympic Committee meeting in a street fight late last Copenhagen where Chicago lost the month.

“Naturally, we wonder why such a 2016 Summer Games, said he would beautiful life? Such a future we thought work with police, the community was waiting for this young man,” and school officials to break the “code Farrakhan said. “This was a special of silence” that happens after street young man of righteous bearing who violence.

“The code of silence is unacceptable God took from us so young.”

Cell phone video footage shows in this day and age where we have Albert being kicked and hit with young children being killed,” Daley splintered railroad ties. Four teens are said at a news conference at O’Hare charged in his death.

International Airport.

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman also attended the funeral along with other city and public officials. Huberman called the Christian Fenger Academy High School sophomore a “bright light.”

Jackson demanded children and teens to be given safe passage to and from school.

“Derrion didn’t have to die,” Jackson said. “He was murdered. His pain, his suffering, his death have shook the world.”

As mourners filed into the church, video screens scrolled through pictures of Derrion as a baby and with his family, as well as photos of his academic awards. Some mourners wore T-shirts with Derrion’s picture that read “We will always remember you.”

The program included a poem Derrion’s mother, Janette Albert, wrote to her son titled “May I Go Now?” “I know you’re sad and afraid because I see your tears,” she wrote. “I’ll not be far. I promise that.”

Farrakhan also called for communities to support their youth.

“Let’s go get our young people,” Farrakhan said. “His righteousness was to serve as a redemptive force to command us to get up and get busy and save our children.”

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KEVIN TRUJILLO | D AILY E GYPTIAN Charles Alexander, a graduate student in speech communication from Chicago and member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, plays catch outside Brush Towers Sunday before a football tournament that was a part of Alpha Week. “I just needed to warm up,” Alexander said. To kick off Alpha Week, Alpha Phi Alpha and Beta Phi Pi partnered Sunday

to have a barbecue and football tournament.

The event was a precursor to Homecoming Week.

Homecoming tickets were given as prizes to the winners of the tournament. In conjunction with the event, the 38th annual Miss Eboness competition will be held at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday in Shryock Auditorium.

Chancellor names members of Sustainability Council Madeleine Leroux DAILY EGYPTIAN MLEROUX@SIU.EDU

A sustainability council is now in place and students will soon be able to suggest environmentally friendly uses for the Green Fee. According to a university press release, Chancellor Sam Goldman appointed the council members earlier this month and asked them to create their operating papers by Dec. 15.

“We already have many sustainability initiatives underway on our campus, and this council will

enable us to take even more proactive steps not only to preserve, but also enhance the environment,” Goldman said in the release.

Paul Restivo, council chairman, said Goldman wants the group to give him directions on how to make the campus more environmentally sustainable. The council is made up of three students, three faculty and four staff members who will serve two years and report to Kevin Bame, vice chancellor for administration and finance.

Restivo, director of the Center for Environmental Health and

Safety, said one of the council’s first charges is to appoint a committee of mostly students by Oct. 15 to review proposals on use of the $10-persemester Green Fee, which was supported by students in a campuswide referendum in the spring semester.

The Green Fee committee would be made up of the three student members of the council, one faculty and one staff member.

“We here at SIU are blessed with obviously very creative and energetic and positive thinking students who voted the green fee in,” Restivo said. “I

think the students have sort of taken the lead and our council will hopefully build upon that momentum that the students have started.”

Justin Harrell, council member and electrical engineer in Plant and Service Operation, said the council has been discussed for about two years and was part of the original proposal for the Green Fee. “This is something that’s been in the works for a long time,” Harrell said. “I think that we’re finally seeing that come to fruition.”

Harrell said the operating papers, when finished, would contain rules

and procedures for proposals and applications on what to do with the Green Fee money.

“Things are coming together rather quickly, so I think that we should have — within a fairly short time — a process in place that people can go ahead and make applications,” Harrell said. “Start thinking about what type of projects you’d like to see to enhance sustainability on campus and look for that request for applications.”

Madeleine Leroux can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 254.

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Adviser downplays threat of renewed al-Qaida haven Lolita C. Baldor

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WA S H I NGTO N — A top U.S. commander’s public plea for more troops in Afghanistan prompted a mild rebuke Sunday from the White House national security adviser, as the administration heads into a second week of intensive negotiations over its evolving Afghan strategy.

Retired Gen. James Jones said that decisions on how best to stabilize Afghanistan and beat back the insurgency must extend beyond troop levels to development and governance. And the request

by Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, for up to 40,000 more troops is just one of three key elements advisers must consider as they meet this week to plot the way ahead.

He added that it is “better for military advice to come up through the chain of command,” rather than off a public stage, referring to McChrystal’s speech in London last week making a case for more

troops. But Jones also beat back suggestions that the open campaign could jeopardize the general’s job.

McChrystal “is in it for the long haul,” Jones said. “I don’t think this is an issue.”

Jones comments came amid growing government fissures over whether to send thousands of additional forces to the fight, and just hours after militant forces overwhelmed U.S. troops at two outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight Americans.

Obama’s senior advisers are set to meet twice this week to debate the Afghan strategy, juggling political pressure from the left to scale back combat troops with arguments from military leaders, including Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that additional forces are needed to secure the country and enable government and economic development advancements.

Jones said that Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling to the Taliban, and he downplayed fears that the insurgency could set up a renewed sanctuary for al-Qai-

A U.S. Army platoon patrols in the village of Jelawur in Afghanistan’s Khandahar Province on Sept.

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HAL BERNTON M C C LATCHY TRIBUNE da. McChrystal has said insurgents are gaining ground and the U.S. is in danger of failing unless more forces are sent to the fight.

“I don’t foresee the return of the Taliban. Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling,” Jones said. “The al-Qaida presence is very diminished. The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country, no bases, no abil-

ity to launch attacks on either us or our allies.”

He said Obama has received McChrystal’s request for additional troops, and the force numbers will be part of a larger discussion that will include efforts to beef up the size and training of the Afghan army and police, along with economic development and governance improvements in Afghanistan.

“It would be, I think, unfortunate if we let the discussion just be about troop strength. There is a minimum level that you have to have, but there’s, unfortunately, no ceiling to it,” Jones said.

Obama is considering a range of ideas for changing course in Afghanistan, including scaling back, staying put and sending more troops to fight the insurgency.

Indonesian villagers use bare hands to dig corpses Eric Talmadge Irwan Firdaus

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J U M A N A K , I n d o ne si a — With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands Sunday to dig out rotting corpses four days after landslides triggered by a huge earthquake obliterated four hamlets in western Indonesia.

Officials said at least 644 people were buried and presumed dead in the hillside villages in Padang Pariaman district on the western coast of Sumatra island. If confirmed it would raise the death toll in Wednesday’s 7.6-magnitude earthquake to more than 1,300, with about 3,000 missing.

The extent of the disaster in remote villages is only now becoming clear. So far, aid and rescue efforts have been

concentrated in the region’s capital, to have been gouged bare by a Padang, a city of 900,000 people where gigantic backhoe.

The villages “were sucked 30 meseveral tall buildings collapsed.

But the quake was equally devas- ters (100 feet) deep into the earth,” said tating in the hills of Pariaman, where Rustam Pakaya, the head of Indonesia’s Health Ministry entire hillsides crisis center. “Even were shaken loose, the mosque’s minaret, sending a cascade lost seven relatives. taller than 20 meof mud, rocks and Now all I can do is ters (65 feet), disaptrees through at peared.” least four villages. wait for the search Jumanak vilVice President teams. But they don’t lage,In some 200 to Jusuf Kalla said come.

300 wedding guests there was little — Dola Jamback at a restaurant were hope of finding earthquake survivor buried alive, includanyone alive.

“We can be sure that they are dead. ing the bride, her 15-year-old brother, So now we are waiting for burials,” he Iseh, said.

He said his sister Ichi, 19, had come told reporters.

Where the villages once stood, back to the village for her wedding. there is only mud and broken palm “When the landslide came, the trees. The mountainsides appeared party had just finished. I heard a big

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boom of the avalanche. I ran outside and saw the trees fall down,” said Iseh, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

“I tried to get in front of the house with my brothers. We were so afraid.

Landslides started coming from all directions. I just ran and then I waited,” he said.

Iseh said he knows of only 10 people from the village who survived.

He doesn’t know the fate of his parents or brothers.

The adjacent villages of Pulau Aiya, Lubuk Lawe and Limo Koto Timur were also swept away.

Pakaya earlier had said the wedding party was in Pulau Aiya, but Iseh clarified Sunday that it was in Jumanak.

Survivors in the area said no government aid or search teams had arrived, even four days after

the quake. Only about 20 local policemen had come with a power shovel and body bags.

“My relatives were all killed, washed away by the landslide,” said Dola Jambak, a 48-year-old trader, picking through the rubble of his house. “I lost seven relatives. Now all I can do is wait for the search teams. But they don’t come.”

The landslides cut off all roads, and the villages were accessible only by foot. An AP team reached Jumanak after walking about four miles for 1.5 hours.

Villagers gathered as men used their bare hands to slowly and cautiously pull corpses from a tangle of roots and grit. The bodies were bloated and mutilated, some unrecognizable.

One man’s body was found because his hand was sticking out of the mud.

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My mother called me early Friday morning with the news that Chicago had lost its bid for the Olympics.

After all the effort that went into trying to host the 2016 Summer Games, Chicago was unexpectedly and unceremoniously booted in the first round. Ouch.

The press has been doing an autopsy all weekend on the pitch.

Was it a political fight between the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee?

Was it the lack of confidence in Chicago’s ability to adequately host and pay for the games? Was it the brutal street killing of an innocent 16-year-old that made international headlines when a video of the murder was put on YouTube?

There have been many reasons as to why Chicago didn’t get the games. They run the range from plausible, “the Olympics have never been held in the Southern Hemisphere and it was about time” to the ridiculous, “The world has rejected Obama” (thank you Matt Drudge).

The reason Chicago lost is probably a combination of many

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different things: Rio made a better holes without massive inefficiency pitch, the USOC greedily attempt- or corruption, how then, in just ed to create a TV network and more than six years, are we going to thus gain all broadcast revenues, be able to expand the CTA, create the IOC bidding process itself is facilities and raise money necessary transparently corrupt, etc. to host the Olympics?

The brutal street violence The debate often mirrored the highlighted in the YouTube video one on this campus over the new couldn’t have helped, but still, Rio football stadium, “with the serious has more than 4,000 murders a year infrastructure and fiscal problems and anyone who has seen “City of we currently face, how can we justify God” knows Chicago’s west side putting this massive sports project at doesn’t hold a canthe top of our priordle to the ghettos of ity list?” f Chicago can’t Brazil.

The answer regulate parking The real truth always given is is, after reading the meters or fix potholes that investing in post-mortems and without massive the games (football talking to friends and stadium, etc.) will inefficiency or family back home, generate economic Chicagoans just corruption, how then, development in the weren’t too excited in just more than six future. The money about the games in into sporting years, are we going to going the first place. events will “trickle It’s not that be able to expand the down” into the comChicagoans don’t CTA, create facilities munities that surwant the world to round it. and raise money see why we live in Anyone who has driven down 94 the best big city in necessary to host the through the Loop the U.S. Chicagoans Olympics? can see the remnants have a sense of collective pride that has lasted through of one of the last events to “generate a massive fire, two Daley’s and a economic development” in the form hundred years without the Cubs of two miles of highway dividers winning the World Series. We still put up for the 1996 Democratic National Convention. The dividers love our town.

But the people of Chicago were on the way to the fancy hotels are wary of the games. If Chicago can’t much nicer than the rest.

And it is through that prism regulate parking meters or fix pot-

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that people are distrusting of the Chicago Olympic bid.

No Olympic games have made money since the Los Angeles games, and both of the next two games, Vancouver and London, are already massively over budget.

To boot, Mayor Daley, aka “King Dick,” has a 32 percent approval rating. Only at the last second was he able to get the City Council to approve a blank check to fund the Olympics (and the Olympics require a blank check).

Many see this as a cheap stunt meant to secure Daley’s legacy and distract from Chicago’s massive problems.

Still, all the problems aside, I’m not happy Chicago lost the Olympics. Sure there were a host of problems with the bid, and not getting the games is probably better financially.

But I still love my city and I don’t cheer that it, or any other American city, lost its chance to show the world what makes it so special. We may have lost the Olympics, but we’re still better than New York City or Los Angeles.

So in the aftermath there’s nothing left to do besides pick up, dust off and congratulate Rio. Let the 2016 games be for the People of the Sun. You earned it.

O’Connor is a senior studying political science and philosophy.

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Pulse

‘Zombieland’ is a bloody good time Luke McCormick DAILY EGYPTIAN LMCCORM2@SIU.EDU

“Zombieland” Directed by: Ruben Fleischer Rated: R Starring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin Release Date: 10/2 Rating: B+ It is unnerving to take such delight in zombies feasting on human flesh and bone marrow, but “Zombieland” makes the whole apocalypse scene seem like a day at the beach.

Within minutes of the film’s start, blood is spurting and dripping across the camera and the only response is nervous laughter. The carnage lasts throughout, and so do the laughs.

Columbus (Eisenberg) narrates the film as he tries to make his way back home with hopes that his parents have not yet been zombified. He

has survived because of a list of rules he has made while avoiding and killing zombies. He follows these rules religiously, until he crosses paths with another survivor, Tallahassee (Harrelson).

Harrelson’s character’s sole delight in the world is zombie killing. He makes his way through the wasteland America has become, using a variety of items to skull crush the flesh eaters. Unlike Columbus, he is not careful and does whatever is necessary to take care of anything that crosses his path.

The unlikely duo smashes through zombies with shotgun blasts, banjo head smashes, garden shear throat slashes and a number of other creative kills. The two enter a grocery store to try and fulfill Tallahassee’s never-ending quest for Twinkies when they come upon a pair of other survivors.

Wichita (Stone) and Little Rock (Breslin) are on their way to California in hopes of reaching an

PROVIDED P HOTO amusement park, which could provide safety for survivors.

The film doubles as a road-trip and zombie film, succeeding within each genre.

Harrelson is the film’s star, dropping one-liners through a thick southern drawl. He is the perfect

accompaniment to his younger trip mates, as he is less mature than even 12-year-old Little Rock.

The film does not bring anything new to the screen, but with such a strong cast and script, the film is a winner. One of the greatest cameos in history helps its case

as well (no spoilers here).

Through all the blood blood and loads of laughs, “Zombieland” is one of the year’s funniest and most enjoyable films.

Luke McCormick can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 251.

OpenSIUC Web site makes faculty, student work accessible Stile T. Smith DAILY EGYPTIAN STS34@SIU.EDU

A single database is available to preserve work by faculty, researchers and students.

According to its Web site, OpenSIUC is an “institutional repository offering permanent, reliable, and free access to research and scholarly material produced at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale.”

OpenSIUC coordinator Jonathan Nabe said the goal of the Web site is to make both scholarly research and creative output more

available to the outside world.

“Some faculty have their work on their individual Web sites, but then maybe they leave or the department changes the Web site and all that stuff disappears,” Nabe said. “We want to bring it together all in one place and preserve it.”

Nabe said OpenSIUC has a commitment to protect all the work done by faculty at the university.

He said as well as working with faculty and researchers to preserve their research and output, the program also works with graduate students and students in the honors program.

“Right now, the way it works — a program has been available to honors grad student writes a thesis or disser- students who have completed a thesis tation, submits it to ProQuest, then since last spring.

“It’s something we you have to have a subdefinitely promote to scription to ProQuest our seniors who are database to have access e want to graduating with a theto those,” Nabe said. “We bring it sis,” Merrill-Fink said. want them to be freely together all in Merrill-Fink said available to the world the site is relatively through OpenSIUC.” one place and new to the honors Nabe said Openpreserve it. program, and she is SIUC now has honors — Jonathan Nabe OpenSIUC coordinator not sure if any honors theses that are from as far students have used it. back as 20 years ago.

Nabe said an open forum on the Lori Merrill-Fink, director of the University Honors Program, said the Web site would be held Nov. 19 in the

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Morris Library Auditorium.

He said the program allows students and their work to have higher visibility.

“The stuff in here, typically in a Google search, is retrieved and ranked higher than it is if it’s on an individual Web site,” Nabe said. “They’re more likely to be cited in other publications.”

Nabe said every college in the university has representation on OpenSIUC, though not every department has decided to participate.

Stile Smith can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 259.

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“What kind of a place is this when the dean and the provost feel that they can ... not follow the order of a chancellor and feel that there is no consequences,” Zeman said. “And apparently there weren’t.”

Zeman, who is also chairman of the policy committee who wrote the amendment, said it was nothing controversial and would have been passed with no problems had there been the right amount of voting faculty present.

“It was a trivial thing,”Zeman said.

“It was about the hiring of an interim associate dean ... (but) the amendment process was very important.”

According to the grievance, the Faculty Association repeatedly attempted to have Goldman’s instructions enforced with no success. At the end of February 2009, the Faculty Association filed for arbitration, which took place June 22.

Randy Hughes, Faculty Asso-

ciation president, said the arbitrator sided with the Faculty Association, calling the delay in implementation “frivolous.” All costs of the arbitration were then assessed to the university, which Hughes said is unusual. Zeman said he believed the arbitration costs amounted to roughly $4,000. “(The arbitrator) seems to be saying that there wasn’t a middle ground, that there was just a very clear case of the university and officials in the university just failing to do what they were obligated to do,” Hughes said.

“It was an unusual situation.”

Means declined to comment and Goldman said he was not allowed to speak about ongoing grievances, though, according to the grievance papers, the arbitration was settled July 21.

Zeman said the college faculty was in the process of redoing the vote.

Stile Smith contributed to this report.

Madeleine Leroux can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 254.

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Wasson said the club is planning to hold next semester’s event in the Student Center so more students can attend. If the event is hosted there, members should not run into any contract issues as they did this year, Wasson said. Since the event was held on campus housing property, food had to be purchased from the dining halls, he said. If it takes place in the Student Center next semester, he said members could purchase food from a place of their choosing.

Next year, Wilson said he wants to raise more money to improve the event. He said he plans on putting fliers up around campus and partnering with local businesses.

“I want to keep making it bigger and better,” Suite said. “It is a fantastic gathering where people can come up with transparent ideas.”

Carrie Mulderink can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 255.

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Across 1 Precious stones 5 Burn a bit 9 Roe source 13 Most eligible for the draft 14 Like a snowy landscape 15 “Royal” nuisance 16 Put in pigeonholes 17 Duncan __: cake mix brand 18 Reformer for whom a Bible book is named 19 What little girls are made of, so it’s said 22 “That makes sense” 23 The Blue Jays, on scoreboards 24 Place for a napkin 27 Prof’s degree 28 Spat 31 C.S. Lewis’s “The Chronicles of __” 33 Out of harm’s way 35 Border 38 Prior to, poetically

39 Courtroom figs.

40 Light lunch 45 “Queen of Soul” Franklin 46 Supermarket checkout unit 47 Rainbow shape 50 Hesitant sounds 51 Mexican Mrs. 53 “Beats me” 55 Pleasantly concise 59 Fuzzy fruit 61 “Shucks!”

62 Castaway’s spot 63 Post-workout woe 64 Spud 65 Use a swizzle stick 66 Modernists 67 Previously, old-style 68 Coop residents Down 1 Grapevine news 2 Sufficient 3 Combined two companies into one 4 Occupied, as a desk

Friday’s answers

5 Goatee’s location 6 __ legs: rear extremities 7 ‘50s nuclear experiment 8 Answer 9 Designer’s detail, briefly 10 Coffee flavoring 11 What we breathe 12 Genetic initials 14 “Just suppose ...”

20 Beatles meter maid 21 Some savings plans, for short 25 “__ That a Shame”: Domino hit 26 Writing tablets 29 Supply meals for 30 Iran’s official language 32 Thoroughfare 33 Labor Day mo.

34 Tidy 35 Jacob’s twin 36 College housing 37 Phone caller’s “Bet you don’t recognize my voice!”

41 Facetious “Of course”

42 Tell a story 43 Mortgage bank, e.g.

44 Andy’s old radio partner 47 “__ Fideles”: Christmas carol 48 Land, as a fish 49 Supplies food for, as an affair

Horoscopes

By Linda C. Black

Friday’s answers

Today’s Birthday — Spend at least a few minutes creating a new way to get your ideas across to others. You have the talent.

Just take the time and you’ll see a way to transform your life. E-mails or long-distance calls bring opportunities.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — You change your mind a lot today. That’s OK. In the end, youknow exactly what to do.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — You get a chance to test a pet theory.

Do the empirical analysis yourself. Leave nothing to chance.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is an 8 — You don’t have to say anything. Dress the part and demonstrate your love in other ways.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — You realize that facts aren’t clear. Don’t expect to change that until much later. Stick to practical details.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Don’t believe everything you hear today.

Test what you’re told against practical observation.

52 Engaged in battle 54 Start of a request to a genie 56 Goes in haste 57 FBI employees 58 Depilatory product 59 Wichita’s state: Abbr.

60 Hockey surface

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Do the glamour thing today: It’ll work.

Start a new relationship or find a new way to relate to your current partner.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) —Today is an 8 — Some very strange information comes into your possession. This could be a really good thing. Use it well.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Who needs words when passions are flowing so well? Work smart, play later.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Monitor medications carefully.

Don’t double up. Good nutrition can ease symptoms.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Put on the Ritz and the glitz! Dress one notch higher than usual to impress.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Fools rush in. Are you a fool today? Let’s hope not. Baby steps work better.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Whatever isn’t clear in the morning takes shape during the day so that you can make a decision by nightfall.

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Swimmers sweep first meets Sophomore Matt Parsons, from Brisbane, Australia, dives off a block Wednesday in preparation for his team’s first meets Friday and Saturday. The SIU swim team took first place in the SIU Miler Friday in Carbondale and first in the 5K SIU Open Water Festival at Little Grassy Lake Saturday. Parsons, along with swimmers Matt Kruse and Barrett Mark took the top three places in the men’s race at the Open Water Festival.

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The SIU swimming and diving team had two dominant performances to open its season.

The Saluki men’s and women’s swim teams finished in first place in the SIU Miler Friday at the Dr. Edward J. Shea Natatorium against Illinois State University.The men took first in the 5K Open Water Festival at Grassy Lake in Marion. The women’s team tied for first with University of Missouri.

Head coach Rick Walker said the team swam well, especially with two meets back-to-back.

“We have a pretty gritty group of swimmers and we’re not going to back down to anybody,” Walker said. “We are going to keep doing what we’re doing.”

Freshman Kirsten Groome placed first out of 18 participants at the SIU Miler with a time of 16 minutes, 24.12 seconds while sophomore Jennifer Kwok came in second with a time of 17:38.86.

On the men’s side, sophomore Matt Parsons placed first with a time of 16:23.28 and sophomore César Pérez followed close behind in second with a time of 16:41.46.

“We’ve been training really hard this season, a lot harder than last season and we have a great freshmen class this year and they have been pushing us to train hard to keep up,” Pérez said.

The Salukis carried their success from the SIU Miler over to the Open Water Festival Saturday in the five-kilometer race where each school fielded a team of three men and three women.

SIU competed against Illinois State University, University of Evansville and University of Missouri.

Parsons, sophomore Matt Kruse and freshman Barrett Mark represented SIU. The trio combined for a time of 177 minutes, 84 seconds to take first place. Parsons and Kruse finished with a time of 59:15 and 59:17, respectively.

Mark followed with a time of 59:52.

Groome, Kwok and senior Keli Kramer tied for first place with a combined time of 189 minutes, 82 seconds. Groome finished with a time of 59:32. Kwok and Kramer finished in

the top-15 with a time of 64:48 and 66:02, respectively.

Groome said it was nice to see her teammates out in the open waters having fun.

“I love open water swimming,” Groome said. “It was a great experience to be out in open waters again and to see my teammates enjoying it.

The Salukis head to Evansville, Ind., Wednesday for their first dual meet competition of the 2009-10 season.

Ryan Simonin can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 261.

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Ramirez wins batting title; Mauer all but a lock Ronald Blum

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Not to sound too homerish with my pick, but I really like the Cardinals’ chances going through the NL. The Cards have dominated the Dodgers so far this season, and I would like their pitchers to shut down the Phillies. I’ll call it now though, look for the Rockies to win the NL a la 2007. Everybody is overlooking them again, and they’re on a roll since Jim Tracy took over the team. Look for the Rockies to defeat the Cardinals in the NLCS to advance to the World Series. Does this mean I have to give up my Cards fan card?

Wait, I’m being forced to answer this question again? I about suffered an aneurism last time I predicted the representative for the NL in the World Series. My answer is still going to be the St. Louis Cardinals. Yes, it still hurts to type that, but it doesn’t change their amazing pitching. There is no team in the NL in a seven-game series that can match what they have to offer. It’s painful to talk about this again, but sometimes the truth hurts. I hope I’m wrong.

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Western Illinois quarterback Matt Barr came into the game averaging 274.7 yards per game, but only had 90 yards before being forced to leave in the first half with a thumb injury. The Leathernecks’ backup quarterback Wil Lunt was harassed by the Saluki defense as soon as he stepped into the game. The redshirt freshman finished 7-14 passing with only 50 yards and two interceptions while being sacked four times.

Western Illinois head coach Mark Hendrickson said despite his quarterback’s numbers, he showed a lot of maturity under center.

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The win was a team effort, with four players scoring double digits in kills. Junior right side Alicia Johnson led the way with 14 kills, junior outside hitter Jennifer Berwanger and freshman outside hitter Laura Thole each had 12 and senior middle blocker Marina Medic added 11.

Johnson and Berwanger both

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Also not to be biased, but the Cardinals are looking good, though they have been quite shaky wrapping up the season. If their pitching stays strong the Cards will be golden against the Dodgers and the rest of the NL. I personally like the Phillies over the Rockies. I will leave you with this: Opinions do not matter in the post-season. Anything can happen; that’s why I love this game.

tonight, I thought he did a very good job,” Hendrickson said. “They (SIU) do pressure the passer really well, and they did again tonight. Wil had a couple passes that were dropped that he put right there. He hung in there for a freshman and for his first reallife action.”

The Leathernecks seemed determined to make it a game in the first half. Western Illinois got on the board with 4:30 left in the first quarter with a Brian Egan 30-yard field goal after SIU quarterback Chris Dieker fumbled.

After a three-yard touchdown run

by Karim put the Salukis up 14-3, the Leathernecks charged downfield again, capping off a 73-yard drive with a two-yard run by Dre Gibbs.

The Salukis never let the Leathernecks get any closer, capping off the first half with 13 unanswered points.

The second half was a defensive battle on both ends, with the only points of the half coming on a Kyle Daugherty 43-yard field goal to put the Salukis up 30-10. SIU held Western Illinois to only 51 yards of offense in the second half.

Lennon said despite the lack of flashy plays in the second half, he was pleased with the team’s effort.

“It wasn’t the prettiest win for us, but what I told the team in the locker room is that we’ll take a win on the road any day,” Lennon said.

had double-doubles. Johnson had 22 digs while Berwanger recorded 11.

“I feel that we did really well,” Medic said. “We were disappointed by how we did (Friday) night and we weren’t going to let that happen again tonight. We were going to go in and play as hard as we can and not make any excuses for ourselves.”

Winkeler said the team needed to not only win the match, but also

win it in a dominant fashion. She said the third and fourth sets were exactly what SIU was looking for.

Medic said finishing the home stand with a win was important.

“Winning (Saturday night) was huge, we definitely needed it,” Medic said. “(Friday) night was frustrating and it felt good to come out and win like we did.”

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YO RK — Minnesota’s Joe Mauer all but locked up his third American League batting title in four seasons, and Hanley Ramirez became the first Florida Marlins player to win a National League batting crown.

In a year in which home runs increased from last year’s average of 2.01 per game to 2.07, there were no 20-game winners on the mound. It was only the second time that’s happened in a nonshortened season since 1900. The other time was 2006.

Mauer, the only catcher to win an AL batting title, has a .364 average. While Minnesota meets

Detroit on Tuesday in an AL Central tiebreaker that counts in the regular-season statistics, Mauer would have to go 0 for 18 or worse to drop behind Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki, who is second at .352.

“I’ll worry about winning the game before I worry about all of that,” Mauer said. “The game is the only thing on my mind right now.”

Ramirez finished with a .342 average and became the first NL shortstop to win a batting title since Dick Groat for Pittsburgh in 1960.

“It’s a lot of work, a lot of dedication. And the coaching, they’ve been on me from Day 1,” Ramirez said. “I know I have to keep working hard and try to get better. My family will be happy.”

Ryan Voyles can be reached at 536-3311 ext 256.

Derek Robins can be reached at 536-3311 ext 269.

ELIZABETH FLORES | M C C LATCHY TRIBUNE Minnesota Twins’ Joe Mauer hits a two-run double during the fourth inning against the Cleveland Indians at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 16. The Twins won 7-3.

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COLUMN, PAGE 5: Gus Bode says there is always 2020.

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Grievance filed in College of Science

A WEEKEND IN MURPHYSBORO

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JULIA RENDLEMAN | D AILY E GYPTIAN Carl Pritchett, left, and Ben Canning, right, of Murphysboro, discuss the items up for bid at the Hagler estate auction in Murphysboro Saturday. The estate belonged to Mary Ann and the late Gene Hagler. The house sold for $82,500, according to David Canning Auctioneers.

This photo was taken as part of the Weekend in Murphysboro project that is part of a new program created by professors in the SIUC School of Journalism called “South of 64.” The program will focus on documenting stories south of Interstate 64 in a workshop environment

and allow students access to top professionals in the field of photojournalism.

Roughly 30 journalism students spent the weekend documenting the lives of Murphysboro residents, while industry professionals worked with students to improve their stories and photos.

To see more images and stories from the weekend, check out Thursday’s Currents edition and siude.com.

Technology group teaches computer security Video game tournaments attract more than 100 students Carrie Mulderink DAILY EGYPTIAN CRASH1@SIU.EDU

Students arrived at Grinnell Hall carrying computers and controllers as they prepared for a video game marathon and a presentation on computer safety.

Saluki Lan and the Carbondale chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted its first public event in Grinnell Hall Saturday and Sunday, said Ben Wasson, president of the Carbondale chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Wasson said Saluki Lan and the Association for Computing Machinery are student organizations with the goal of advancing awareness about information technology within the campus.

The event featured 32 hours of consecutive video game playing, and six tournaments among participants using a video game of their choice, said Wasson, a junior from Rockford studying computer science.

More than 100 students played in

the tournaments, said co-founder of Saluki Lan Jared Suite, a junior from DeKalb studying criminology.

Wasson said while the event has been held the past five years, this was the first time it was open to the public, which led to more than triple the amount of average participation.

This year, Suite said, Saluki Lan members made several advertising efforts by seeking out support from local businesses.

“There are not many student events for purely having fun and learning,” Wasson said. “I also ran a similar gathering when I attended Kishwaukee Community College.

It was successful, so I wanted to bring it to SIUC.” The event also featured a speech by Curtis Wilson, network security officer for the university.

Wilson said the goal of his presentation was to further knowledge about the importance of computer security. He said he touched on various topics, including a brief history of malicious software, threats and detection.

KEVIN TRUJILLO | D AILY E GYPTIAN Ethan Humiston, 8, of Springfield, participates in the Saluki Lan party PLUS with his father, Robert Humiston, in the basement of Grinnell Hall Sunday.

Wilson said this was his first year speaking at a Saluki Lan gathering and he sees a great deal of importance in the group’s work.

“It is crucial to educate students about computers,” Wilson said.

“They are a great tool, but users can be tricked into giving up information or downloading viruses. With the knowledge these people now

have, they can avoid much of the stress that can go along with maintaining a computer.”

Wasson says the Saluki Lan group plans on running this gathering for years to come, but is looking to hold it in a larger venue.

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An improperly held vote in the College of Science, which led to a grievance filedby the Faculty Association, has some members questioning the accountability of administrators and the authority of Chancellor Sam Goldman.

Marvin Zeman, former Faculty Association president and co-chair of the grievance committee, said an amendment to the college operating paper, brought by the College of Science Policy Committee, was presented to the college faculty at the end of the spring 2008 semester.

The existing operating paper requires a 60 percent vote of approval from the faculty in order to approve amendments, Zeman said, but only 58 of the eligible 122 voting-faculty cast ballots, 50 of which voted yes.

According to the operating paper grievance in the College of Science, the policy committee decided to delay the vote until fall 2008, when the appropriate number of faculty members would be present. On July 16, 2008, however, College of Science Dean Jay Means wrote to Interim Provost Don Rice that the faculty ratified the amendment and, on July 24, 2008, Rice approved the change. The Faculty Association filed a grievance on Oct. 20, 2008 after receiving notification of the approved amendment.

“There was a disagreement over whether the vote that was taken fulfills the operating paper’s requirements on who can vote and how many needed to vote in order for something to pass,” Rice said. “It was just a misunderstanding.”

Zeman said Chancellor Sam Goldman agreed with the Faculty Association and on Nov. 3, 2008, Goldman ordered a revote. Seven months later, Zeman said, the Faculty Association filed for arbitration after Goldman’s instructions were not followed.

“What kind of a place is this when the dean and the provost feel that they can ... not follow the order of a chancellor and feel that there is no consequences,” Zeman said. “And apparently there weren’t.”

See SCIENCE | 7 To see the fuloperating paper grievance in the College of Science, go to the Faculty Association Web site, at www. siucfa.org, and click on Grievance/Support.