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JAMES DURBIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

The Saluki football team gets pumped before the season opening game against Quincy Thursday at Saluki Stadium. The Salukis beat the Hawks 70-7 in front of the opening day crowd. The new stadium contains 15,000 seats and 15,276 people were in attendance. For the full story, see page 16.

Collision on Poplar, Cherry halts traffic CHRISTINA SPAKOUSKY Daily Egyptian Two vehicles collided today at South Poplar and West Cherry Street into what looked like a “Tbone,� an onlooker said.

A white Ford Explorer crashed into a blue Jeep Grand Cherokee in the middle of the intersection. The Explorer flipped several times and landed upside down in the east lane while the Cherokee was pushed up into the yard of 500 W. Cherry Street, said Evan Truesdale, the first witness to arrive on the scene.

Lt. Keith Stiff said the driver of the Explorer sustained injuries and was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

Onlooker Sean Harper said he got a call from a buddy and came running outside at the same time Truesdale stopped to help. “There was an ROTC guy that was driving by, he jumped out of his car, said ‘I’m a medic’ and start-

ed wrapping the guy in shirts,� onlooker Sean Harper said.

Truesdale said he saw the crash out of his peripheral vision and immediately ran to check the drivers. “When I got to the (Explorer), I assessed the first person I saw. I talked to him, calmed him down, made sure he had eye movement, and was conscious and coherent,�

Truesdale said.

Truesdale, a senior from Chicago studying political science, said the driver’s hand was pinned between the roof of the vehicle and the pavement, so when police and medics arrived Truesdale and several other witnesses helped lift the vehicle off the driver’s hand. “It looked like he had some fractures in his forearm. The injured person was in amazingly good health considering the force of the impact,� Truesdale said.

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A Carbondale police officer kneels next to an overturned vehicle on South Poplar Street after the victim was extracted by rescue personnel Thursday. Two vehicles were involved in the wreck with no fatalities reported.

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JACOB MAYER Daily Egyptian To help manage budget cuts, The SIU athletic department will receive a guaranteed payment of $80,000 when the men’s basketball team plays the University of Illinois Nov. 13 in Champaign, Athletic Director Mario Moccia said.

“We are being paid to play there,” said Mark Scally, associate athletic director of finances, in an email.

“In the past we’ve avoided this type of game in an effort to increase our chances of winning or at least get a return game. This is a pure money deal.”

With the university likely to face an $11.5 million shortfall for fiscal year 2011, Chancellor Rita Cheng said in an email to university personnel Aug. 2 that she had asked each department on campus to submit plans for an average 4 percent reduction in its budget for the fiscal year.

Scally said the department enacted more than $400,000 cuts for 2011.

He said about $69,000 was part of the proposed 4 percent cuts, but another $325,000 in cuts became necessary after the student fee increase proposal, which was approved by the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Council, was withdrawn from the Board of Trustees agenda this spring before a vote occured.

Moccia said the department

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would not receive the fee increase this year because, with the economic situation, the university did not want to add more student fees.

To make the cuts, the department saved $45,000 by eliminating printed media guides for this year and replacing them with online versions, a cut made possible by a change in NCAA legislation, Scally said.

The basketball game against the University of Illinois will also help make up budget losses because of the cuts, he said.

The teams’ required travel has been a challenge as the department manages its budget, he said.

“We have tried to schedule more regionally for non-conference opponents, but we are required to compete at other sites,” Scally said.

“Omaha didn’t get any closer because of budget cuts.”

With football, for example, Moccia said the department scheduled games against regional teams such as Southeast Missouri State instead of non-conference games that would require plane trips.

Also, he said the team would play teams from larger conferences in coming years for larger paydays.

“Now we’re playing Big Ten schools or Big 12 schools or SEC,” he said. “So, in the next few years we have Illinois, Ole Miss, Missouri, Purdue — those kind of schools.”

The department did not lay off anyone, but one civil service worker in a clerical position left the university, Scally said. At this point, the department will leave the position unfilled and use the money for the budget cuts, he said.

All areas of the athletic department felt the sting of the budget cuts, but it has tried to minimize the effect of the cuts to student-athletes and any specific team, Scally said.

e are being paid to play there. In the past we’ve avoided this type of game in an effort to increase our chances of winning or at least get a return game. This is a pure money deal.

— Mark Scally associate athletic director of finances

PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Running back Shariff Harris shakes hands with head coach Dale Lennon after scoring one of his two touchdowns in the Thursday game against Quincy. To help manage budget cuts, the athletic “We try to treat each sport as equally as possible, so there really isn’t a big loser,” he said.

Swimming and diving head coach Rick Walker said the athletic department administrators have worked hard to make sure the cuts do not affect the athletes.

“They’ve accomplished that,” he said. “Now, there are probably cutbacks still to come, so eventually the athletes will start to notice some changes.”

However, Walker said he is proud the department did not take the easy way out and instead looked at ways to deal with the cuts in a way that was as fair as possible to the teams and athletes.

He said these types of cuts have been debilitating to athletic departments at other universities.

“That’s not to say we’re through it,” Walker said “We’re not. We’ve still got some tough times ahead of us, but our athletes are prepared for it. They know the sacrifices have not been on their backs.”

During Christmas break, Walker

department has scheduled games against regional teams such as Southeast Missouri University instead of non-conference games that would require plane trips.

said the swimming and diving team usually travels to train without distractions. However, because of the cost, it will stay to train in Carbondale for the second year in a row.

He said the team also does several fundraisers throughout the year to help make ends meet.

Overall, Scally said the department has been able to handle the cuts to this point, and he hopes the new football stadium and renovated SIU Arena will bring in more people.

“We have been fortunate so far,” he said. “I’m not sure how much further we can stretch a dollar. I hope the new facilities lead to larger crowds and ticket sales, which will make this much easier.”

Moccia said the department’s contract with sporting equipment provider Under Armour helps cover many of the equipment costs, which has allowed the department to focus on cutbacks in areas such as office supplies.

“That was the one focus we tried to do, is try to have the student-athletes at least have the same experience that

they’ve been having,” Moccia said.

Other cutbacks include having coaches drive back after a recruiting trip instead of staying overnight if it is reasonably close, and every purchase must be cleared by Scally or himself, Moccia said.

If the budget situation gets worse, Scally said the effect on the department will depend on how large of a cut is necessary.

“The next step depends on how bad the next cut is,” he said. “For example, a $10,000 cut would be hard; a $100,000 may be catastrophic.”

To get through the budget problems, Walker said he believes the administrators will lead the department through the difficult times.

“I trust that they are going to figure out how to get us through this, and they’ve got no bigger supporters than their coaches,” he said. “We’re all in this together.”

Jacob Mayer can be reached at jmayer@dailyegpytian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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Reason for optimism in Mideast peace talks Michael Oren McClatchy Tribune Israeli and Palestinian leaders are in Washington in an attempt to make peace — again.

This summit marks the latest chapter in a story that began on the White House lawn 17 years ago, when Israelis and Palestinians committed themselves to ending the conflict once and for all.

Since then, every round has failed and bloodshed has continued. Against the backdrop of Tuesday’s Palestinian terrorist attack that left four Israeli civilians dead, including a pregnant Israeli woman, there is, for the first time in history, a reason for optimism.

Most Arab leaders view a Middle Eastern state other than Israel — Iran — as their major enemy. The Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is strong, stable and deeply committed to resolving the conflict based on two states for two peoples, Israeli and Palestinian.

In the West Bank, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is working to restore law, order and economic prosperity while similarly pledging to pursue the two-state solution. And President Barack Obama has placed achieving peace at the top of his foreign policy agenda. Never before, perhaps, have conditions been so conducive for a breakthrough.

Still, daunting obstacles remain.

Nearly half of the territory slated to become part of the future Palestinian state is controlled by Hamas, an Iranianbacked terrorist group dedicated to Israel’s destruction.

The Palestinian Authority, meanwhile, is insisting that Israel indefinitely freeze all construction in the West Bank Jewish communities. While little can be done at this stage to neutralize the Hamas threat — the hope is that the people of Gaza will someday rid themselves of Hamas and opt for peace — the construction issue need not be a deal breaker. Adding a bedroom for a grow-

ing family should not disrupt the peace process.

The West Bank — Judea and Samaria in the Bible— was twice used as a staging ground for wars of annihilation against Israel, which captured the area in 1967. Sacred to the Jewish people for 3,000 years and vital to the defense of Israel’s borders — a mere eight miles wide prior to 1967 — the area became home to hundreds of thousands of Israelis.

With the start of the peace process in 1993, successive Israeli governments recognized the need to make painful sacrifices in these crucial territories while upholding the right of Israeli citizens to continue to build there. Palestinian and Israeli leaders agreed that the final status of these settlements would be determined, along with Jerusalem, refugees and borders, in the peace talks.

Since assuming office a year and a half ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made gestures to the Palestinians to encourage them to resume negotiations, removing hundreds of

checkpoints and facilitating the Palestinian economic boom and refraining from building any new settlements, from acquiring new territory for existing ones, and from incentivizing Israelis to move to them. Then in a measure described as “unprecedented� by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Netanyahu froze construction within the settlements for 10 months.

The Palestinians are now threatening to quit the negotiations unless Netanyahu extends the construction freeze. Israel, of course, is seeking specific goals in the talks, including the demilitarization of the Palestinian state and its recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Israel also wants the Palestinians to cease teaching their children that Israel has no right to exist and naming their public squares after terrorists.

But we are not insisting that the Palestinians meet these objectives before the talks even begin. We appreciate, therefore, Clinton’s call for “good faith�

negotiations “without preconditions.�

Settlements have never been an obstacle to peace. Though Israelis account for 17 percent of the West Bank population, they inhabit a mere 1.7 percent of the land. The existence of the settlements did not prevent Egypt and Jordan from making peace with Israel or the Palestinians from negotiating with us for nearly two decades. All parties to negotiations understand that the large settlement clusters will, in any final status treaty, remain part of Israel.

As Obama launches the direct Israeli-Palestinian talks, there is reason for optimism — in spite of the obstacles.

If the core issues are determined at the table rather than before the negotiations start, Netanyahu and Abbas can move swiftly and confidently toward concluding a historic treaty. Though long overdue, but not too late, the peace we have yearned for may yet be achieved.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Basketball, football spending on different fields Dear Editor:

I agree with the Daily Egyptian’s position on not having lights at Abe Martin, but as I read the editorial, I got the notion that the paper opposes the construction of the new stadium and the arena renovation. As a son of a former SIU football coach, and a friend of a baseball player, I was shocked by the last sentence. Your paper should do more investigation of a topic before you publish a story. Back when my dad was coaching here, the

conditions at McAndrew Stadium were horrible then, too. The funny thing about this is that the basketball team always needed new game jerseys or warm-ups. The basketball team also traveled via charter plane while football took a bus. My point is that basketball should have saved the money that was spent for renovations. So please don’t include football in the blame game with basketball.

Dalton Bentivoglio junior studying architecture

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Glenn Beck is liberation theology-obsessed Tim Rutten McClatchy Tribune At least Glenn Beck isn’t among the nearly one in five Americans who believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Nor, as far as he’s yet admitted, is he among the majority of Republicans who actually told Newsweek’s pollsters that they believe the president hopes to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on America.

No, Beck — who appears to be campaigning for prelate of an amorphous new civil religion — believes Obama schemes to impose collectivism because he is an adherent of liberation theology.

On Sunday, the Fox News personality, fresh from the successful promotional rally for his chat shows and business enterprises staged on the National Mall the day before, told his colleague Chris Wallace that he regrets calling the president a “racist,� because he now realizes that Obama “understands the world through liberation theol-

ogy, which is oppressor-and-victim.

People aren’t recognizing his version of Christianity. ‌ It’s all about victims and victimhood; oppressors and the oppressed; reparations, not repentance; collectivism, not individual salvation. ‌ It’s a perversion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it.�

It’s an odd enough allegation on its own — mainly because there’s no evidence that the president is an advocate of liberation theology — but there’s little doubt about what Beck believes it implies. In a broadcast last month, he linked the movement to the Black Panthers — again without evidence — and charged that they “and anyone who subscribes to liberation theology are perverting the message of Christianity, and it goes straight to evil.� Liberation theology, he said, “leads to genocide.�

Beck may no longer believe the chief executive is a racist, but he is strangely bent on linking race and liberation theology: first the Panthers, then the president, and, in

another broadcast last month, the weird allegation that the distinguished African Methodist Episcopal theologian James Cone is “one of the founding fathers of liberation theology.�

Like the philosopher-theologian Cornel West, Cone is one of the black scholars who have applied principles borrowed from liberation theology to their reflections on the condition of black America. He certainly is not among its founders.

Beck has made a lucrative specialty of peddling fantasies about the Founding Fathers and the history of the Revolutionary and constitutional eras. However, there’s something particularly distasteful, even sinister, about misrepresenting the content of religious beliefs — or to attributing a variety of belief to someone who does not hold it.

Liberation theology is a movement that took shape in the late 1950s and ‘60s among Latin American Catholic thinkers, foremost among them the Peruvian Domini-

can priest Gustavo Gutierrez, who coined the term. The other “founders� were the Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo; the Spanish Jesuit Jon Sobrino, who has spent most of his career in El Salvador; and the Brazilian Franciscan Leonardo Boff.

These are hardly shadowy figures; Gutierrez, for example, is the O’Hara Professor of Theology at Notre Dame.

Their common position was that social injustice is a form of violence arising from sin. They urged the poor, and those acting in solidarity with them, to reflect on Scripture from the perspective of the poor. To that end, some argued that certain facets of Marxist analysis, particularly those having to do with social class, could be helpful. None of this is particularly mysterious, nor does it have anything to do with Obama.

In fact, it’s hard to imagine anyone touched by liberation theology proposing anything like his Wall Street bailout.

Beck also has alleged that Pope

Benedict XVI condemned liberation theology as “demonic.� That’s another fantasy. As the cardinal in charge of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he acted in 1984 and 1986 to condemn “certain forms� of liberation theology for elevating practice above orthodoxy and for promoting a notion of struggle against hierarchy that could be extended to the Roman Catholic Church itself. As pontiff, his writings on social justice don’t differ substantially from those of most liberation theologians.

His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, counseled Latin American bishops that any moral concept of private property “must lead to a more just and equitable distribution of goods.�

Perhaps Beck should go back to peddling misinformation about the Founding Fathers, who have been dead too long to complain.

Timothy Rutten is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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Politicians lost loving feeling for Muslims Dick Polman McClatchy Tribune As we navigate away from our xenophobic August, with so many opportunists in high dudgeon about Muslims in our midst, perhaps it’d be wise to quote a notably tolerant Republican, somebody whose words might possibly shame the fearmongers who pervade his own party.

For instance: “America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an incredibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads.

And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect. ‌ They love America just as much as I do.�

On Sept. 17, 2001, so said President George W. Bush.

Hey, I’m starting to miss the guy. Notwithstanding all the disastrous aspects of his presidency, his generous, inclusive attitude toward immigrants of color — particularly Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11 — was always in the finest American tradition. We could use a sustained dose of his tone today.

Unfortunately, the conservative movement that he twice led to victory now seems to have shelved

that pluralistic tradition, preferring instead to sow fear to reap short-term political gain. And not a single prominent Republican politician has had the courage — heck, it’s not even courage, it’s a duty — to step forward and denounce the roiling irrationality that infects our political discourse.

So we’re stuck with the faux issue of a “ground zero mosque� that’s actually not just a mosque — it’s a proposed community center with an interfaith board of directors — and not at ground zero; with Newt Gingrich equating all Muslims to Nazis; with myriad attacks on mosques in Florida (pipe bombs, bullets); with Sarah Palin Twittering her simplicities; with an evangelical pastor who plans to mark the 9/11 anniversary by burning copies of the Quran (when asked what he knew about the Quran, he replied, “I have no experience with it whatsoever�); with a tea party blogger who writes that all Muslims are “animals� who worship a “monkey god,� and whatever else the haters are doing in our name.

Since no elected Republican dares to utter a peep, let us try to quell the hatred, however briefly, by skimming the cream of the Bush oeuvre. What you’re about to read was mainstream Republican thinking just a few scant years ago.

From the president’s second in-

augural address, on Jan. 20, 2005: “In America’s ideal of freedom, the public interest depends on private character, on integrity and tolerance toward others. ‌ That edifice of character is built in families, supported by communities with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Quran. ‌â€?

From remarks on June 27, 2007, at the rededication of the Islamic Center in Washington: “We come to express our appreciation for a faith that has enriched civilization for centuries.

We come in celebration of America’s diversity of faith and our unity as free people. And we hold in our hearts the ancient wisdom of the great Muslim poet Rumi: ‘The lamps are different, but the light is the same.’�

From remarks on Sept. 17, 2001: “Both Americans and Muslim friends and citizens, tax-paying citizens ‌ were just appalled and could not believe what we saw on our TV screens. These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that. The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Quran itself: ‘In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those

who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.’ The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace.�

Compared with what we’re hearing on the Republican right these days, Bush sounds like a “Kumbayaâ€? folkie in the tradition of Peter, Paul and Mary. But even at the time, he was no starry-eyed naĂŻf. Aside from the fact that his calls for tolerance were in the best American tradition, there was also a dash of calculation. He and his advisers knew al-Qaeda wanted to frame the war on terror as a clash of civilizations.

Therefore, it ill-served America to behave as though it were at war with Islam. It was smarter to embrace the followers of Islam, as a way of isolating the violent extremists who had perverted its tenets. Basically, this was a nationalsecurity priority. It still is.

Bush’s former chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, understands that. He’s one of the only Bush alumni who has spoken out.

In a recent newspaper column, he reiterated the Bush credo: “A president not only serves Muslim citizens, not only commands Muslims in the American military, but also leads a coalition that includes Iraqi and Afghan Muslims who risk death every day fighting Islamic radicalism at our side.�

In other words, Americans who attack their fellow Muslim citizens — and politicians who inflame such attacks or remain mute — are weakening America.

As Gerson put it, treating Muslims as bogeymen, and assailing their Lower Manhattan project, will “undermine the war on terrorism.

A war on Islam would make a war on terrorism impossible.�

Of course, it’s easy to understand why the post-Bush GOP has done nothing to quell the Muslimbashing.

Its priorities are decidedly short-term. Forget the war on terror; this party is primarily focused on the war for control of Congress. Its conservative base is angry, fearful and ginned up for November. Muslim American voters are far less numerous, and the liberals and moderates who lament the current hysteria aren’t likely to vote Republican anyway — or even to vote at all this year.

So it’s probably futile to wave the flag and quote George W. Bush again, but let’s give it one last try.

Six days after 9/11, he warned his fellow citizens that Muslims “must be not intimidated in America.

That’s not the America I know.

That’s not the America I value.�

Is that really so hard to agree with?

Dick Polman is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Gas prices may rise 35 cents per gallon during weekend RYAN SIMONIN Daily Egyptian Travelers may see anywhere up to 35 cents tacked on at the pump this weekend.

According to a release from GasBuddy.com, prices may reach $2.85 to $2.89 in parts of Illinois and $2.75 to $2.79 in Kentucky. At some stations, the increase could be as much as 35 cents per gallon compared to prices Thursday morning.

Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy. com, said the influx of gas prices could be attributed to the increase in wholesale gas prices for the last week and a half. He also said less people are being laid off so gas prices have increased to meet the demands of people going to work.

“Second of all, it’s a Labor Day travel holiday weekend and a lot of stations are eager to raise their price just a penny or two to take advantage of holiday travelers,” DeHaan said.

DeHaan said Illinois may not see as much of an increase because there are not as many Speedway SuperAmerica stations in the state.

“They have the power to set prices and whatever the price

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hey have the power to set prices and whatever the price is that they set all of the other stations follow and raise their prices.

— Patrick DeHaan senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com

is that they set all of the other stations follow and raise their prices,” he said.

DeHaan said prices in Illinois would slowly increase Friday and Saturday, immediately falling thereafter. He said prices should lower again in September and the rest of the fall season and will somewhat depend on the hurricane season.

Mike Right, vice president of public affairs for the St. Louis branch of the American Automobile Association, said 31.4 million Americans nationwide are expected to hit the roadways this holiday weekend, which is up 10 percent from last year.

Right said any slight increase in gasoline is more likely because of the increase of crude oil and wholesale gasoline prices. He said the Labor Day holiday really has little to no effect on the retail price of gasoline.

Some SIU students are displeased about the rise in gas

prices as they travel back home.

Mindy Hoene, a senior from Effingham studying engineering, said she is not happy about the price of gas and is planning to take alternative means of travel to reduce costs.

“I am actually going to start carpooling with people because I am not going to continue to put $40 dollars in my tank to go home two hours away,” Hoene said.

Carbondale resident Kevin Rathert said he depends on traveling, working as a sales representative for Western & Southern Financial. He said gas prices directly affect how much he makes. “(The gas prices are) costing me out the wazoo and doing it around the holiday is not right,” Rathert said. “It hurts just as much here if not more because there is not as many people working.”

Ryan Simonin can be reached at rsimonin@dailyegyptian.com

Committee investigates online course expansion LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian A new program could help students off-campus get the same education opportunities as those in the classrooms.

A Distance Learning Steering Committee was appointed last spring to study methods to improve the way the university’s online programs are available to students, said James Cradit, dean of College of Business and member of the Distance Learning Steering Committee. Chancellor Rita Cheng, in a letter to the university, said she appointed a Distance Education Council to oversee the next stages after reviewing the committee’s recommendations.

Cradit said this would increase the university’s enrollment numbers.

“Because we have declining enrollment and tuition revenue, we’re putting ourselves deeper in the hole,” Cradit said. “Whereas, this is the very thing that will get us out of the hole.

The residential campus is not going to go away, but it may have very real limits on the size of the population here. We’re in an isolated area.”

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hat we’re trying to do is incorporate the distant learning initiative with the colleges, so it has more to do with that than anything with the structure of courses.

— Susan Logue associate provost for academic administration and council chairwoman

to spring 2010. Enrollment numbers for this fall are expected early next week, said university spokesman Rod Sievers. Ten day enrollment numbers for each semester are typically released on the second Friday of the semester, but Sievers said Labor Day would complicate the release.

Interim Provost Don Rice said SIUC needs to see changes to how it executes it’s distance learning program.

“We’re behind the curve,” he said. “We don’t offer the number of programs online that other universities do.”

The university needs programs like this to get out of its budget crisis, Cradit said.

“This university needs to break out of this ‘place-bound’ mode and deliver things online to students who would not normally come here,” he said. “We’re in a crisis, and our tuition has risen to the levels to which we’re also making it difficult for students to

go to school. It’s a matter of trying to increase our visibility and improve our programs that will attract students.”

Susan Logue, associate provost for academic administration and council chairwoman, said the council will work with various academic departments, colleges, support units and constituency groups to ensure the policies and infrastructure of distance learning at the university.

“What we’re trying to do is incorporate the distant learning initiative with the colleges, so it has more to do with that than anything with the structure of courses,” she said.

Cradit said one of the main concerns with courses is how faculty would be paid. He said it could create a work “overload,” which would place faculty member above their regular teaching and research load — creating a need for compensation money. The goal is to find a way to balance the faculty’s pay and the cost

of offering the course.

“We need to do this at a sustainable level — meaning we want programs that will create net revenue,” Cradit said. “If we get enough profit, some of that goes back to the university to help further it, but then it stays with the college. There are a lot of competitive programs between here and Chicago — where a lot of our students come from.”

The committee will address how the university can create a startup and reserve fund for distance learning programs, but Cradit said online courses could still be cheaper than classroom-style courses.

“Hands down, the most expensive way to teach students, in terms of cost, is to place a small number of them in one room, and a faculty member with a piece of chalk,” he said.

Rice said doing this study would allow faculty to have the tools and the training needed to create cutting edge courses. He said they wish to

expand and improve the program, but also give colleges control of what was offered.

“We want to create online courses and programs that will attract students,” he said. “We hope this is an enhancement to our program, and a considerable expansion. We want the online courses to be owned by the colleges but there has to be some central oversight.”

Rice said the committee would look into the recommendations and there should be more answers in the fall. The concerns are how the program develops distance learning courses, the program’s funding and the bandwidth available.

Logue said it was important to expand on what structure has already been created in the department, and use that to help all students.

“The Division of Continuing Education has done an excellent job creating structures that we have in place right now, and I think we can build on those right now,” she said.

“That’s the most critical thing I think, that we provide support for students who are at a disadvantage.”

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256. Ryan Voyles

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Katherine Frith said she went to a dinner to talk about one thing — fasting.

Frith, a professor in the SIUC School of Journalism, said fasting is important to many major religions, and they are all interconnected through their spiritual goals.

“All of our spiritual interests are about non-material things, regardless of the words we use,” she said. “I think it’s the words that have separated people over time.”

Frith spoke about Buddhist fasting practices to about 50 people at the third annual Intercultural Dialogue Student Association Iftar dinner Thursday at the DunnRichmond Economic Development Center. The dinner also included speeches about the fasting practices of Muslims, Christians and Jews.

The aim of the third annual Dialogue Iftar, or breaking of the fast, dinner was to promote dialogue and mutual understanding among people of diverse backgrounds at SIUC and in Carbondale, said Sabri Yilmaz, president of the association.

Imam Abdul Haqq, of the Carbondale Muslim Center, said fasting is important to Muslims during the month of Ramadan, which lasts from Aug. 11 to Sept. 10. He said fasting is something that is prescribed for people so they can

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Imam Abdul Haqq, of Carbondale, the Imam of the Carbondale Muslim Center, socializes with members of his and other congregations Thursday at the Intercultural Dialogue Student learn self-restraint.

For Muslims, Haqq said fasting prevents them from having ideas or thoughts of selfishness.

“It is also for us to learn how to control human beings’ emotions, the attributes that make us unique in this creation,” he said.

Haqq said fasting helps people

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Association’s annual dinner. The dinner had four people from four different religious backgrounds give speeches about what it means to fast in their specific denomination.

stayed disciplined, as well as understand the sense of hunger and thirst that people without those resources face. Muslim’s fast during Ramadan helps them stay away from bad behavior and to help others, he said.

“We are capable and will be restraining our desires so that the best of our character, the best of our

human excellence will be utilized for the advancement of not only ourselves, but our fellow human beings,” Haqq said.

Don Sparling, deacon at St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Murphysboro, said there are actually several similarities between Catholics and Muslims in how they

honor the Virgin Mary.

The dinner was another way to bring together different religions and share ideas, he said.

Jacob Podber, an associate professor in radio-television, spoke about fasting in Judaism, and said he was frustrated when he was young that he was unable to fast until his bar mitzvah when he turned 13-years-old.

“After that, of course I started to regret the having to fast, whereas when I was younger I wanted to fast because I thought that was the ideal,” Podber said.

Overall, Yilmaz said people of different faiths should come together and understand different religions and cultures.

“Our goal was to give the people who attend this dinner the idea of sharing your dinner, sharing your culture and sharing your tradition,” he said.

Jacob Mayer can be reached at jmayer@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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here was an ROTC guy that was driving by, he jumped out of his car, said ‘I’m a medic’ and started wrapping the guy in shirts.

— Sean Harper onlooker

Emergency Medical Services arrived quickly and took the man to Carbondale Memorial Hospital. Harper said he didn’t think either vehicle made an attempt to stop.

The driver of the blue Jeep Cherokee had only minor injuries and refused medical service.

Carbondale police declined to release the drivers’ names or comment on the collision.

Christina Spakousky can be reached at cgray@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 258.

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A man involved in a two car accident is pulled from his overturned vehicle on South Poplar Street Thursday. According to Carbondale police, the man sustained injuries but was in good condition and

was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. Witnesses say the man’s hand had been pinned between the roof of his vehicle and the pavement.

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&KLFDJR JDQJV WR WRS FRS <RX UH QRW SOD\LQJ IDLU MICHAEL TARM The Associated Press C H IC AG O — Calling the Chicago police chief 's ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city's most notorious street gangs held an unlikely news conference on Thursday to send their own message to police: You're not playing fair.

Representatives of the Traveling Vice Lords, Four Corner Hustlers and other gangs gathered before TV cameras on a park building portico and bemoaned a recent message police Superintendent Jody Weis gave to reputed gang leaders at what has been billed as a "gang summit" — that if gangs don't stop the killings, police will go after their leaders.

"Is it possible for one person to micromanage a group?" Vice Lords gang member Jim Allen asked reporters, wearing a black baseball cap with the words, "Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest." ''We will not be responsible for anyone's ac-

tions but our own."

Former gang member Reginald Berry Sr. said police would be better off if gang members were given job offers instead of threats of jail time.

"The problem with them is they're giving us an ultimatum — 'quit!' instead of alternatives," he said. Members of gangs ought to be told, "Get off the corner selling these bags, and come to this construction site and pick up this brick."

Weis is facing mounting criticism from leaders across the city and state — including Gov. Pat Quinn — for holding the unpublicized Aug. 17 meeting, even though several police departments across the country have relied on similar approaches for decades to help reduce crime.

Some reputed gang members said they were surprised to see Weis at the meeting after being told by their parole officers to show up. Many were visibly angry, with some even leaving the meeting.

Convening gang members under false pretenses undermined any possible effectiveness of the

meeting, Allen, 32, told reporters.

"Their words and actions are null and void — because it was all a trick," he said.

Weis has said prosecutors at the Aug. 17 meeting, which was first reported by the Chicago SunTimes, threatened attendees that they could be charged under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act if killings were traced back to gangs with members attending the meeting. The federal law, commonly known as RICO, provides stiffer penalties for acts performed as part of a criminal organization such as the Mafia.

The police chief has defended the initiative with the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who likened Weis' approach to his office holding parolee forums to warn people leaving prison that they'll be watched.

Weis also doesn't buy the notion gang leaders are powerless to stem violence by their auxiliaries.

"You have the ability to influ-

ence people within your sphere," Weis told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "You guys are in the position to stop the killing."

Though Chicago's homicide rate has mirrored national trends and dropped significantly since the 1990s to 460 last year, the number of brazen shootings have escalated this year. Four police officers have been killed in the line of duty this year, and on Wednesday, two cops were shot and injured while serving a warrant on suspected gang members.

Daley seemed to shrug off the gang members' media offensive, telling reporters earlier Thursday that, "Everybody complains about the police. But again, it's America. You can complain about anything."

Later, some of the current and ex-gang members turned community activists complained about Daley.

Activist Mark Carter asked how gang leaders could be asked to take responsibility for their subordinates when city government leaders don't take

responsibility for alleged misdeeds by their employees.

"Is the mayor going to be held accountable for the corruption that takes place under his watch?" he said. "And the biggest gang in the city of Chicago is the Chicago Police Department."

But experts say the tactic of meeting with gang leaders — whether formally with top administrators or at the neighborhood level — is just part of good police work.

At least 50 jurisdictions nationwide use the approach, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Boston.

"It sounds like pixie dust, but it works," Jim Fealy, a chief of police in High Point, North Carolina, said Thursday. "It's worked miraculously in other parts of the country, and it can work in Chicago."

Since starting to put gangs on notice 13 years ago, he said, violent crime is down in the city of 100,000 people by more than 40 percent.

"High Point was once known as little Chicago because of the violence," he said. "We're not known as that anymore."

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East Coast braces for a pounding from Earl; Nantucket and Cape Cod could get the brunt B UXTON — The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds Thursday on North Carolina’s dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and potentially most destructive stop on the storm’s projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.

The hurricane’s leading edge brought on-and-off light rain in the afternoon to the long ribbon of barrier islands, which were expected to get the brunt of the storm around midnight.

Earl’s arrival could mark the start of at least 24 hours of stormy, windy weather along the East Coast. During its march up the Atlantic, it could snarl travelers’Labor Day weekend plans and strike a second forceful blow to the vacation homes and cottages on Long Island, Nantucket Island and Cape Cod. It was unclear exactly how close Earl’s center and its strongest winds would get to land. But Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said people shouldn’t wait for the next forecast to act.

“This is a day of action. Conditions are going to deteriorate rapidly,” he said.

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In early sign of promise, Israel, Palestinians agree to work on outline of final peace deal WASHINGTON — In an early sign of promise, Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged Thursday in a cordial first round of talks to keep meeting at regular intervals, aiming to nail down a framework for overcoming deep disputes and achieving lasting peace within a year.

As their facilitator-in-chief, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to rise above the suspicion and skepticism that has blocked peace efforts for decades. “By being here today, you each have taken an important step toward freeing your peoples from the shackles of a history we cannot change,” she said.

The eventual aim is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state beside a secure Israel.

Thursday’s results, in the first face-to-face peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in nearly two years, were modest — and acknowledged as such by all sides. There was no detailed negotiation on any substantive issue, according to George Mitchell, the administration’s special envoy for Mideast peace, who held months of preparatory talks and was a participant in most of the day’s discussions.

Netanyahu and Abbas will meet again on Sept. 14 and 15 in the Middle East, probably at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, with Clinton and Mitchell attending. The two also agreed to meet roughly every two weeks after that — sometimes with U.S. officials present, other times not.

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Retailers report solid sales gains for August, but worries about holiday season abound N EW YORK — This year’s back-to-school season isn’t as big a bust for retailers as they feared — or as last year’s — but it’s not great either.

Americans are spending only when the item and price are just right, according to August reports from major chains released Thursday that showed shoppers bought a little more than a year ago.

Analysts expect stores will need to keep discounting to get shoppers to spend this fall and for the holiday season while they grapple with job worries and tight credit.

“It’s a glimmer of hope that the numbers are coming in ahead of low expectations,” said Ken Perkins, president of research firm RetailMetrics.

“But the back-to-school shopping season isn’t anything to get excited about. It means that Santa may not be dumping a huge lump of coal, but it sets up a very promotional holiday season.”

Retailers that cautiously primed for a comeback five months ago as sales improved have been scaling back their hopes and making some tweaks to their merchandise again, analysts said. And stores will face more difficult comparisons starting this month because consumer spending had started rising by last September.

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Oil platform explodes off Louisiana coast

ALAN SAYRE The Associated Press

N EW ORLEANS — An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

The Coast Guard initially reported that an oil sheen a mile long and 100 feet wide had begun to spread from the site of the blast, about 200 miles west of the source of BP's massive spill. But hours later, Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau said crews were unable to find any spill.

The company that owns the platform, Houston-based Mariner Energy, did not know what caused the explosion.

Mariner officials said there were seven active production wells on the platform, and they were shut down shortly before the fire broke out.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the company told him the fire began in 100 barrels of light oil condensate, but officials did not know yet what sparked the flames.

The Coast Guard said Mariner Energy reported the oil sheen. In a public statement, the company said an initial flyover did not show any oil.

Photos from the scene showed at least five ships floating near the platform. Three of them were shooting great plumes of water onto the machinery. Light smoke could be seen drifting across the deep blue waters of the gulf.

By late afternoon, the fire on the platform was out.

The platform is in about 340 feet of water and about 100 miles south of Louisiana's Vermilion Bay. Its location is considered shallow water, much less than the approximately 5,000 feet where BP's well spewed oil and gas for three

months after the April rig explosion that killed 11 workers.

Responding to any oil spill in shallow water would be much easier than in deep water, where crews depend on remote-operated vehicles to access equipment on the sea floor.

A Homeland Security update obtained by The Associated Press said the platform was producing 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration has "response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water."

All 13 of the platform's crew members were rescued from the water. They were found huddled together in insulated survival outfits called "Gumby suits" for their resemblance to the car-

toon character.

"These guys had the presence of mind, used their training to get into those Gumby suits before they entered the water," Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said.

The captain of the boat that rescued the platform crew said his vessel was 25 miles away when it received a distress call Thursday morning from the platform.

The Crystal Clear, a 110-foot boat, was in the Gulf doing routine maintenance work on oil rigs and platforms. When Capt. Dan Shaw arrived at the scene of the blast, the workers were holding hands in the water, where they had been for two hours. They were thirsty and tired.

"We gave them soda and water, anything they wanted to drink," Shaw said. "They were just glad to be on board with us."

Shaw said the blast was so sudden that the crew did not have time to get into lifeboats.

They did not mention what might have caused the blast.

"They just said there was an explosion, there was a fire," Shaw said. "It happened very quick."

Crew members were being flown to a hospital in Houma. The Coast Guard said one person was injured, but the company said there were no injuries. All of them were released by early Thursday evening.

Jindal met with some of the survivors. He would not identify them except to say most were from Louisiana.

Environmental groups and some lawmakers said the incident showed the dangers of offshore drilling, and urged the Obama administration to extend a temporary ban on deepwater drilling to shallow water, where this platform was located.

"How many accidents are needed and how much environmental and economic damage

must we suffer before we act to contain and control the source of the danger: offshore drilling?" said Rep. Frank Pallone, a New Jersey Democrat.

Mike Gravitz, oceans advocate for Environment America, said President Barack Obama "should need no further wake-up call to permanently ban new drilling."

There are about 3,400 platforms operating in the Gulf, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Together they pump about a third of the America's domestic oil, forming the backbone of the country's petroleum industry.

Platforms are vastly different from oil rigs like BP's Deepwater Horizon. They are usually brought in after wells are already drilled and sealed.

"A production platform is much more stable," said Andy Radford, an API expert on offshore oil drilling. "On a drilling rig, you're actually drilling the well. You're cutting. You're pumping mud down the hole. You have a lot more activity on a drilling rig."

In contrast, platforms are usually placed atop stable wells where the oil is flowing at a predictable pressure, he said. A majority of platforms in the Gulf do not require crews on board.

Many platforms, especially those in shallower water, stand on legs that are drilled into the sea floor. Like a giant octopus, they spread numerous pipelines and can tap into many wells at once.

Platforms do not have blowout preventers, but they are usually equipped with a series of redundant valves that can shut off oil and gas at different points along the pipeline.

Numerous platforms were damaged during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The storms broke pipelines, and oil spilled into the Gulf. But the platforms successfully kept major spills from happening, Radford said.

“Those safety valves did their job,” he said.

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19 End of an academic address 20 Periods 21 Amount-and-interval numbers 23 Not connected 26 Reel art 27 Knack 28 Whalebone 30 New York home of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

31 Three-time French Open champion 32 Its symbol is Sn 35 Musical knack 36 Web danger, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme 38 Murcia Mrs. 39 Nutritional stat 40 Like some panels 41 Genesis locale 42 Key of Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 44 Where the Maine sank 46 Expects 48 Consequences of an all-nighter 49 Obsess 50 Titania’s consort 52 General on a menu 53 Answer from LL Cool J? 58 Where Nina Totenberg

reports 59 Inuit for“women’s boat” 60 Gives some TLC to, with“in” 61 Doofus 62 They’re heavier than foils 63 Source of brown fur

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48 Smells 50 Boy with a fishing pole in a‘60s sitcom title screen 51 Highlands hillside 54 Rock concert fixture 55 U.S. Army E-6, e.g.

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Virgo (Aug. 23--Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Your personal goal is to get all your ducks in a nice tidy row. Associates

By Nancy Black and Stephanie Clement are more focused on their problems.

Agreement may have to wait until Today's birthday. You may feel that you tomorrow. have to work a lot harder this year to get what you want. However, the hard work (Sept. 23--Oct. 22) — Today is a pays huge dividends as you maximize Libra 9 — Gathering up the loose ends today lucky circumstances to produce more may out to be quite a project. You than you planned. Focused will and wish turn you had help, but get more done power are the key to success now. through independent effort.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a Scorpio (Oct. 23--Nov. 21) — Today 5 — Your partner accepts an assignment is an 8 — Everything works out today that places demands on your time and if you keep the ball rolling to prevent energy. Let go of expectations and follow stagnation.

This means giving one person a leader. an occasional nudge.

Taurus (April 20--May 20) — Today is (Nov. 22--Dec. 21) — Today a 6 — You can't bend the content to Sagittarius is a 6 — Today you've perceived the need fit the box. You have to trim the edges to get down to business and stick to it. somehow or find a larger container. Wrap Once you get the ball rolling, keep it in carefully for shipping. motion for best results.

Gemini (May 21--June 21) — Today Capricorn (Dec. 22--Jan. 19) — Today is is a 7 — Give each action you take a a 6 — Devise a schedule or other means firm purpose or goal. The more you stick to everyone in sync. Your partner may to practical matters, the more that gets beget the only person who naturally goes done. with the flow. Others need guidance.

Cancer (June 22--July 22) — Today is a Aquarius (Jan. 20--Feb. 18) — Today is 5 — What seem like major obstacles in 5 — Take all your ambitious ideas and the morning may resolve into workable a them to work now. Make sure you issues and then solutions. Don't press too put include the essence of your core values in hard and accept what others offer. everything you do.

Leo (July 23--Aug. 22) — Today is a Pisces (Feb. 19--March 20) — Today is 7 — Today's effort goes into planning for 6 — For a steady flow, consistent effort both long range and immediate needs. a required. Ask others to walk the walk Inspire others to consider tomorrow is and not just pontificate, all while doing while handling today's details. your share.

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Former Saluki quarterback Bobby Brenneisen provided the only highlight for Quincy when he connected with freshman receiver Justin Dickens early in the second quarter for a 30-yard touchdown.

Brenneisen, who saw minor action last season with the Salukis before transferring to Quincy during the off-season, finished with just 89 yards passing before he and the rest of the Quincy starters exited the game in the second half.

Up next The Salukis travel to Champaign Saturday to take on the Illinois Fighting Illini. Kickoff at Memorial Stadium is at 6:30 p.m.

Bus travel for SIU students is available.

Nick Johnson can be reached at njohnson@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.

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(TOP) Brooke Barwick practices a cheer with her fellow Saluki cheerleaders before the Thursday season opener against Quincy. The women led the crowd in supporting the Salukis’ crushing victory. (MIDDLE LEFT) A C130 flies over the first game at Saluki Stadium Thursday. This was one of many attractions to kick off the first game at home. (MIDDLE RIGHT) The Salukis run out onto the field before the inaugural game for the new stadium.

The next home game is September 18 against Southeast Missouri. (BOTTOM LEFT) Senior

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running back Lucien Walker reaches for the endzone in the second half of Thursday’s game against Quincy. Walker scored 3 touchdowns for the Salukis, helping bring the final numbers to 70-7. (BOTTOM RIGHT) Phi Epsilon Kappa pledges Dan Ershen, Tyler Frayn, Joe Jordahl, and Chris Laukant (from right) wave to a passing car that honked as the group painted themselves maroon in front of their frat house on Poplar. Chris Laukant said the idea to get painted up for Thursday’s game was a communal one.

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Saluki Insider In the most anticipated game of opening weekend in college football, No. 3 Boise State takes on No. 10 Virginia Tech in Hokey country. Because of the Broncos’ weak schedule, many view this as a must-win game for them to be considered for the BCS title game should they run the table. Will the Hokies dash Boise State’s title hopes in week one?

Absolutely not. Boise State wields one of the most experienced, potent offenses in the country and they will rip through the relatively new Virginia Tech defense. Boise State wins this one 45-21.

NICK JOHNSON

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Since joining the ranks of football bowl division teams a little more than 10 years ago, Boise State has proven year in and year out they are the real deal. They’ll win against Virginia Tech, but it won’t be easy. Broncos 24, Hokies 17.

BRANDON COLEMAN

bcoleman@dailyegyptian.com This reminds me of last year’s Rose Bowl between Ohio State and Oregon.

There were plenty of arguments for Oregon winning because of their offense.

Ohio State dominated them because they were bigger and stronger. It has to do with their recruiting class, just like with this game. Boise State is too small and is not ready to bang with BCS schools like Virginia Tech, who will win 27-14.

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FOOTBALL

Preseason in college football?

Why not?

RALPH D. RUSSO The Associated Press

NEW YOR K — Oregon State coach Mike Riley and the 24thranked Beavers open the season Saturday night in Arlington, Texas, against No. 6 TCU. It just might be Oregon State’s toughest game of the season and it will be the first time the Beavers have blocked or tackled an opponent since they played BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl in December.

Wouldn’t it be nice for the Beavers if they could play a preseason game in August to get ready for the ones that count?

“I think that’d be awesome,” Riley said recently.

While the NFL is considering cutting its preseason from four to two games (and lengthening its regular season), Riley and some other college coaches long for just one warm-up game or even a scrimmage against another team before the season starts.

“I was thinking about that the other day,” Riley said. “It would be chance to see some new stuff and have your players have to adjust.”

“What happens in the first game of the regular season, you take everything you’ve been working on and everything you do … and then you’ve got to make some adjustments.

“I think a preseason scrimmage would give you the chance to get through some of the those hurdles and get your team to understand that that’s the way it is every week. You’ve got to take what you do and adapt it.”

Of course, Oregon State is the exception among top teams in major college football, many of which will open the season this weekend toying with weak opponents and playing their starters for a half.

But maybe teams would be more inclined to play a tough opener if they had a dress rehearsal?

NCAA rules allow Division I college football teams to play 12 contests, that includes scrimmages against other teams. Since no school is about to give up a regular-season game to play a game that doesn’t count, the first step would be a rule change.

NCAA spokesman Erik Christianson said in an e-mail that “there have not been any proposals from member schools or conferences to change the rule on scrimmages or exhibition football games.”

But maybe one might be coming.

Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez is a proponent of playing a preseason tuneup and apparently he’s turned his new boss, athletic director David Brandon, on to the idea.

“Our coaches and I believe this is something worth considering,” Brandon said. “We need to look at all of the issues carefully, and get input from other coaches and programs.

However, it could be beneficial to provide a scrimmage opportunity

versus another team during the preseason practice period to better prepare the team for competition. This would be for the same reasons that basketball, hockey, and other sports do the same thing.”

At the lower levels of college football, it’s not uncommon for teams to work in preseason intersquad scrimmages.

“We’re probably one of the only levels of football that doesn’t have preseason games,” said Rodriguez, whose first college head coaching job was at Division II Glenville State.

Indiana coach Bill Lynch also coached in Division II. “We’d find another school that was close, so it was relatively inexpensive and I thought it was really good. We used to really kind of make a day of it and it was really a practice against each other broken down into individual drills as well as 11 on 11.

“Whether that would work at this level, I’m not sure. I’m sure there would be finances that would get involved and probably try to make it a money maker. But in terms of getting your team ready, it would be great.”

Rodriguez suggested limiting access so a preseason game doesn’t turn into “a big event.”

But there’s the problem.

As Ohio State coach Jim Tressel put it, “If we were to play a preseason game, there would be 100,000-some people here.”

When intrasquad spring games draw tens of thousands of fans at schools such as Nebraska, Alabama and Ohio State, it seems inevitable that even a bulked-up practice would become a major deal at the football factories.

While Rodriguez said he thinks most coaches would welcome an exhibition game of sorts, certainly not everyone would.

Count Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh, who played in the NFL, and Arizona State’s Dennis Erickson, who has coached in the NFL, among those who would stay with the status quo.

“The uniqueness of college football is a good thing, understanding that your going to see more fumbled snaps, more blocked punts, more miscommunication in the secondary, more missed tackles in that first game.”

Erickson brought up the other big concern.

“To have it would be just an extra opportunity for guys to get hurt,” he said.

Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne isn’t much for the idea of playing a preseason game, though he suggested the possibility of bringing in another team during the spring.

“I would sure hate to see them do anything to lengthen the season right now,” he said.

At least one player, Notre Dame receiver Michael Floyd agrees with that.

“No reason for an extra game,” he said. “I’m just ready for Purdue.”

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“I think if a few more companies opened up their own tailgating to add some more opportunities, more people might show up,” Zuercher said.

Zuercher and Wiercinski, members of the SIU Alumni Association, pay $15 to be a member which includes a tailgating fee for the associations tent.

O’Neil said the law school has set up a tailgating tent every year they have been allowed. She said the law school uses tailgating as an opportunity for law students and alumni to come together in an informal environment and enjoy common interests: food, beer and football.

Zoning would be the only considerable change; there are three levels to tailgating zones: student, restricted and general, assistant athletic director Tom Weber said. The student section is the same as before, lot 52, behind the arena.

Donors who give money to scholarship funds are given a parking pass and allowed to park in the lot 89 and 18, in between the Arena and the stadium.

The lot next to McAndrew Stadium was restricted but is now general. Other lots, including the lot across from Abe Martin Field are open for everyone, Weber said.

Brandon LaChance can be reached at blachance@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 282.

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Travis Healey, left, junior from Brighton sutdying biological science, Stefan Bernal, middle, senior from Lasalle studying biological science, and Tony Dziuba, right, a senior from Claredon Hills studying business

management, play tailgate games Thursday on the lawn next to Saluki Stadium. The Salukis played the Quincy Hawks in the first game of the season as well as the first game in the new Saluki Stadium.

Athletics programs dictate their own income

BRANDON COLEMAN

The seasonopening game against the Quincy Hawks brought 15,276 people into the new Saluki Stadium on Thursday. To help the football team’s budget, one of the fundraisers it hosts is a fish-fry with silent auction.

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BRANDON COLEMAN Daily Egyptian The more money an athletic program wants, the more it has to do to earn it.

“All our teams are required to raise money to help plug their budget. If they can’t raise the money to help fund their budget then they are restricted to their regular operating budget,” said Mark Scally, associate athletic director for finances.

Scally said money for each athletic program depends on the team's

schedule and the number of athletes in it. The money from the athletics department covers each teams' expenses for the season with the help of fundraisers each team holds, he said.

Matt Sparks, cross country head coach, said the cross country teams are included in the track and field teams' budget. Combined, the track and cross country teams host five to six meets where they raise a large amount to pay for expenses, he said.

“We host events and charge teams to come to our cross country meets and track meets,” Sparks said.

Audra Northwehr, women’s tennis head coach, said her team hosts three fundraisers each year in order to pay for its expenses and to play a competitive schedule.

Thanks to private donors, the women’s golf team received new lockers and an indoor hitting facility in 2004, said Diane Daugherty, women’s golf head coach.

Tom Weber, SIUC director of media services, said men’s basketball hosts a golf outing with a silent auction, while both the football and baseball teams host a fish-fry

with silent auction.

Scally said though money allotted to each program differs slightly, he tries to promote them equally to the public.

“We try to market all of our sports," he said. "We put out announcements and press releases for all of our sports in almost every event that we hold."

Northwehr said more promotion goes into revenue-based sports, which benefits the whole department in the end.

Weber said the athletic depart-

ment prints action shot posters for sale, but depending on the vendor and the season some sports receive more promotion than others.

Scally said there isn’t a department that oversees all renovation policies. Instead, the athletics department prioritizes each project based on its needs and what it hopes to accomplish, he said.

“Ultimately our goal is to treat all of our student athletes the same so that basketball doesn’t get something ... and an Olympic sport like tennis doesn’t get that,” he said.

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Running back Lucien Walker scores one of his three touchdowns against Quincy Thursday at Saluki Stadium.

The Salukis beat the hawks 70-7 in their first game of the season. For more football coverage, see dailyegyptian. com.

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Dawgs dominate in front of sold-out crowd NICK JOHNSON Daily Egyptian Had the 15,276 who attended Thursdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural game at Saluki Stadium been playing defense for Quincy, it still probably wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have mattered.

The Salukis dominated the line of scrimmage in their season opener and blew away the Hawks 70-7 in front of a beyond-capacity crowd.

The game was the second most attended season opener in school his-

tory and the ninth most attended overall.

By the end of the third quarter, when most of the Saluki starters had been pulled, head coach Dale Lennonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad had already racked up 413 yards of total offense, with 232 of those yards coming on the ground.

Senior running back Lucien Walker scored the first touchdown at Saluki Stadium when he dashed off left tackle for a 16-yard score with 8:59 remaining in the

first quarter.

Walkerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 116 yards and 3 touchdowns on 12 carries were career highs for the 6-foot, 215-pound back. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the o-line just did a wonderful job,â&#x20AC;? Walker said.

Walker said he spoke with former Saluki running back Deji Karim, now a member of the Jacksonville Jaguars, prior to his first start. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He told me to play my own game,â&#x20AC;? Walker said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He texted me

earlier and said to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;do work.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Junior running back Shariff Harris added 44 yards and scored two of the Salukisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; six rushing touchdowns.

Lennon was most happy with the offensive line, who beat back an experienced Quincy line, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(The Hawks) had three seniors, and I really feel our guys did a good job of controlling the tempo,â&#x20AC;? Lennon said.

Senior quarterback Chris Dieker added two touchdowns through the

air, and senior receiver Jeff Evans caught one of them. Evans led the Saluki receiving corps with 78 yards on 7 catches.

Senior receiver Joe Allaria suffered what Lennon called a leg bruise on an 11-yard catch and run in the first quarter. Allaria was upended and hit as he came down.

Lennon said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s waiting to here more from the training staff.

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Tailgating remains same despite new stadium BRANDON LACHANCE Daily Egyptian With all the changes surrounding SIU athletics, there is one thing that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed at all â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the tailgating.

Seven years ago, SIU opened up lots of land for people to tailgate during football games. The football players now play in a different stadium, but the fans will still enjoy their pregame spectacle in the same places they always have, said Elizabeth Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil, director of the School of Lawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alumni Affairs and Annual Giving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to do anything different; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in our same location with same tent and

tables,â&#x20AC;? Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neil said.

Dan Zangerl, a senior from Oakwood studying radio/television, Andrew Wiercinski, a senior from Peoria studying criminal justice, and Bee Mo, 22, from Marion, said they tailgated since they were old enough to consume alcohol.

They said tailgating is the same as it always is, but should be new and exciting like the new stadium. â&#x20AC;&#x153;New stadium, new season, there should be more,â&#x20AC;? Wiercinski said.

More companies and a bigger portion of the community should be involved in tailgating to make it bigger and better, they said.

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Johnnie Robinson, a freshman from Chicago studying business management, sports an Iron Man mask while tailgating.

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