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Neil Saffelder, the chief plant operating engineer from Carbondale, stands on the roof of the power plant overlooking the coal shoot and inventory Monday in Carbondale. “We only actually make about 15 percent of the power here, and I wish we could make more, could save the university a lot of money,� said Saffelder.

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Federal coal ash regulations could be financial burden CHRISTINA SPAKOUSKY Daily Egyptian Federal regulations on the disposal of coal ash could burden the university if the Environmental Protection Agency designates coal ash a hazardous waste.

The agency will hold a hearing in Chicago today to discuss a proposal to regulate the disposal and management of coal ash from coalfired power plants. The hearings will be held in other states and end in Tennessee — the state that suf-

fered the worst coal ash disaster in U.S. history just two years ago.

If new federal standards pass, the university’s power plant would see regulations increase on the hauling and dumping of ash, which would cause coal prices to rise, said Phil Gatton, director of the Physical Plant. “The question is going to be what limits they are going to put out there while regulating our ash,� Gatton said.

The university’s power plant pays a Du Quoin mine thousands per year to haul away around 13,000 tons of coal ash but donates

some to mix with concrete for roads or with salt for an ice melt solution.

The plant produces only 15 percent of the university’s power per year, which pales in comparison to city power plants, Gatton said. “The size of our facility means we’d probably be under the radar, but if they make coal ash hazardous waste, then there will be big expenses for us,� said Neil Saffelder, chief plant operating engineer.

In southern Illinois, four plants have been identified as having contaminated water by the Envi-

ronmental Integrity Project, and Southern Illinois Power Cooperative, which operates 10 miles south of Marion, is one of them.

Lisa Widawsky, an attorney from the project, said coal ash is laden with toxic heavy metals, such as arsenic, cadmium, selenium and thallium. These heavy metals can accumulate in animal and human bodies and eventually poison them. “Because these elements are always in coal, when coal is burned, the metals stay in the ash and become very much more concentrat-

ed,� Widawsky said.

The EIP acquired test results directly from the power cooperative’s monitoring data by using the Freedom of Information Act and included it in an investigative report released Aug. 26, EIP Attorney Kimberly Wilson said. “We’re sighting their quarterly ground water and data,� Wilson said. “They must certainly be aware of this issue.�

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Board of Trustees to review unpaid leave resolution today RYAN VOYLES Daily Egyptian Chancellors may soon have the ability to declare unpaid administrative leave, or furlough days, after the SIU Board of Trustees vote on a new resolution today in Edwardsville.

The resolution would provide authority for SIU President Glenn Poshard to grant authority to the SIU chancellors to implement a temporary closure of a campus.

Though the measure is likely to pass, Poshard said he saw it as a precautionary move in case any of

the SIU schools face crisis mode in the next year. “Right now we have set aside 4 percent of our budget for the shortfall,� he said. “Administrative closure days would only be utilized to make up whatever shortfall we have. This is something we’ve looked at and may use — just in case.�

No more than six unpaid administrative leave or furlough days could be implemented every fiscal year, according to the resolution.

However, it states these days may not be scheduled during periods when classes are in session.

The rationale for adoption of the proposed resolution is that the measure would allow for the temporary closure of a campus to help manage the budget shortfall.

After the resolution passes, Poshard said it would be up to each chancellor to have conversations with the heads of the unions to work out if and when any unpaid leave days could be used. “We are required as a university to barter over wages, hours and terms and conditions of employment; that’s specifically where we are,� he said.

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by the Faculty Senate, Graduate Council and Faculty Association, states unions have “legal jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to wages, hours and working conditions for all the faculty within the bargaining unit, and these matters will be negotiated by the Faculty Association.�

— Glenn Poshard SIU President SIUC Chancellor Rita Cheng said she has spoken to some civil service workers, but she was waiting for approval from the board before talking with the Faculty Association.

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Randy Hughes, president of the SIUC Faculty Association, said in e-mail sent Wednesday to all the group’s members that even if the resolution was approved, it would not give administrators the authority to implement the measures for faculty represented by the association.

“Any changes to our terms and conditions of employment must first be bargained in good faith with the Faculty Association, which is the legal representative for our bargaining unit,” he said. “Our bargaining team’s negotiations will be based on a complete review of the actual financial status of the university and a consideration of appropriate options for these circumstances.”

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The report identified contaminated ground water and private wells with maximum concentrations reaching 10 to 18 times the federal maximum contaminant level. The two wells with the highest average concentrations are adjacent to Saline Creek and discharging into the water, the report said.

“Anyone on public water has no concern, and (owners of) private wells would have been identified,” said Maggie Carson, communication manager at the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

Leonard Hopkins, rule and compliance manager at the Southern Illinois Power Cooperative, said

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paid leaves for all faculty and staff, according to the board’s personnel policies. The policy also requires all efforts to reduce expenditures be invoked in response to budget shortfalls.

The resolution, if passed today, would revise this policy, according to the board’s meeting agenda.

The SIUC campus is looking at a shortfall of $11.5 million for the current fiscal year, according to an e-mail Cheng sent Aug. 2 to university personnel. She said 4 percent cuts from all university units and money from fall tuition would determine whether furlough and unpaid leave days would be required.

SIUC announced Sept. 7 that its fall enrollment had dropped 1.5 percent from last fall. Between the drop in tuition received and the 4 percent cuts, Cheng said the university is facing a shortfall of roughly $2.5 million. She said she expects four unpaid adminis-

trative leave days to cover the shortfall.

“We will begin conversations with all bargaining units about the impact of this and we will then plan on what we will do and have some discussion on campus,” Cheng said.

She said the days would likely take place around holidays and Thanksgiving or spring break. Everything is still coming together, and the approval of the resolution by the board would allow for the next steps in filling the university’s shortfall, Cheng said.

“I don’t want to declare any unpaid administrative leave days that we don’t have to,” she said. “This is a difficult time for higher education in the state of Illinois and all around...

There’s just not a lot of money lying around.”

he was aware the power cooperative did not comply with drinking water standards, but the contaminated wells were contained within the plant’s site.

“These were not drinking water wells, and they are contained within our site,” Hopkins said.

Hopkins said he thought the release of the EIP’s report was timed so the EPA’s hearings would wrongly correspond with the report.

“They’re combining two different things here,” he said.

The power cooperative’s standard coal ash runoff goes into the south fork of Little Saline Creek and is sampled monthly to check for toxins. The allegations of contamination stemmed from a letter from the EPA that said results were above

standards, Hopkins said.

“We have these minerals present in our ground water throughout the state,” he said.

The power cooperative burns 10 times as much coal as SIUC’s power plant, and uses the same coal technology, Saffelder said. However, larger scale plants have coal scrubbers that make the ash wet and then it is dumped into ponds or discharged into creeks.

“This is the cleanest coal technology we could get,” Saffelder said.

“I don’t think it should be hazardous waste; I’m sure there’s much worse stuff going into landfills.”

Ryan Voyles can be reached at rvoyles@dailyegpytian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254.

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

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Corrections In the Wednesday edition of The Daily Egyptian, the story “University’s credit line set at 1.3 percent” should have said SIU would have to pay $13,000 for every million dollars borrowed. The Daily Egyptian regrets this error.

In the Sept. 8 edition of The Daily Egyptian, the story “City Council to vote on major rezoning project today” should have said Lawrence Dennis. The Daily Egyptian regrets this error.

In the Tuesday edition of The Daily Egyptian, the story “Gov. Huckabee endorses Brady” should have said Mike Huckabee from Hope, Ark. The Daily Egyptian regrets this error.

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Students, faculty urge others to get involved LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian Sam Nylen said the only way for American democracy to work is for students to register to vote, and then go out and do it.

Students are affected by the state government’s choice to provide student loans and grants, and whether the university can borrow state money and state appropriations, said Nylen, president for SIUC College Democrats. He said education should be the driving motivation for students to go beyond registration and become more informed about candidates.

Since Aug. 30, the College Democrats and College Republicans groups have been staffing voter registration booths from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at Grinell Hall and Trueblood Hall, Nylen said.

“We’re trying to make students more aware of this election, not only how to register, but tell them who is running, candidates’ positions, and when Election Day is,” Nylen said.

He said between 350 and 400 students have registered since the booths were set up. The booths will be set up until Oct. 5, the deadline for voter registration.

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Republicans, is trying to remedy potential low voter turnout, Nylen said. He said there were low numbers because younger voters tend to believe it’s not important to participate unless it’s a presidential election.

“That couldn’t be more wildly wrong,” Nylen said. “Your next senator (and) your next governor are as important as your next president. These are people who deal with everything every day in your state.”

David Yepsen, director for the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, said students believe they don’t know enough about candidates to cast an intelligent vote or are intimidated by the voting process.

“Registering requires little effort,” he said. “Students can find out about candidates by going to new organizations or going online to search for stories about candidates.”

Student numbers are traditionally low, as are the total voter turnout numbers in midterm elections, Nylen said.

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Nylen said he thinks if every student who registered in the 2006 midterm election voted, legislators would look at the university and the community more closely.

Legislators decide which services should be cut by analyzing locations where voter turnout is greatest, he said.

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“The number one issue politicians face is re-election,” Nylen said. “If all of a sudden students started voting, they would be forced to vote for student issues.”

He said students who don’t vote in the general election shouldn’t complain about high tuition or taxes, or a lack of jobs or available classes.

“If more students participated, there would be more pressure on legislators to get things done,” Nylen said.

He said he wants students to have the same motivation as in the rally in Springfield to reinstate the Monetary Award Program grant last October. More than 400 SIUC students and thousands more statewide went to Springfield to restore the grant, he said.

“If students don’t vote, legislators won’t have any problem cutting their MAP grants and not

helping out universities,” Nylen said.

Congressman John Shimkus, a Republican from Collinsville, said to students Sept. 8 at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute that being informed is crucial to voting.

“You have to eventually make a decision. If you don’t really have a dog in the fight, you have to figure out the pros and the cons,” he said.

Young voters do not notice how government affects them, which is a mistake on their part, Yepsen said.

“Which generation is going to have to pay off this national debt?” he said. “Which generation is trying to get an education and find a job in the worst economy since the 1930s?”

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 255.

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Denise Escoto, left, a senior from Chicago studying special education and elementary education, and Nanci Patino, an undecided freshman from Chicago, take pictures with cell phones of the Sigma Lambda Gamma colony posing in front of their booth Wednesday during the Vive la Vida Latina! Rally in the lower level of Grinnell Hall.

Sigma Lambda Gamma is one of the many multicultural Greek organizations on campus that was represented in the first event of the Latino Heritage Month. The Bicentennial celebration of the Mexican Independence will be held in the Big Muddy room tomorrow in the Student Center according to Luis Camargo, president of the Hispanic Student Council.

Multicultural students share culture on Mexican Independence Day LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian While her mother is in Mexico celebrating Mexican Independence Day, Yvonne Cordero said she does the same in Carbondale.

Cordero, a graduate student in social work from Chicago, said countries all over the world are celebrating the day differently.

To celebrate Mexican Independence Day, the bicentennial celebration will be broadcasted in the Big Muddy Room today in the Student Center, said Rosalba Correa, Hispanic Student Council faculty adviser. She said broadcasting Mexican Independence Day would show people in the U.S. how others celebrate Independence Day. “It is our culture, and these activities manifest pride in it,” Correa said.

“Many Mexican students were born in the United States, but it’s nice for them to go back to their roots. Most of their parents were born there.”

Cordero said since the U.S. is so diverse, it’s easy for her to celebrate her heritage throughout the year.

Jeanette Garcia, a freshman from Anna studying psychology, said she stays connected with her Hispanic culture despite living in southern Illinois her whole life.

“This small community is diverse, but you don’t see this culture as much as you do in other places, so it’s im-

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t is our culture, and these activities manifest pride in it.

Many Mexican students were born in the United States, but it’s nice for them to go back to their roots. Most of their parents were born there.

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portant to promote my culture,” she said.

Mexican Independence Day is just part of the Latino Heritage Month celebrations, which started Wednesday with Vive la Vida Latina!, where multicultural student organizations presented their group’s message to students at Grinnell Hall.

Carbondale City Council member Corene McDaniel and Undergraduate Student Government President Marcus King were among those in attendance to welcome multicultural students to the city of Carbondale and SIUC campus.

Garcia said because Hispanics make up such a small population in the community, being involved in events on campus helps her stay in touch with her culture. Hispanic individuals born in America need to stay connected to their culture, she said.

“Children tend to start losing the language (when they are born in America),” Garcia said. “I speak both Spanish and English. It’s who you are.”

Since coming to SIU, Garcia said it has been easier for her to connect

with other students of her culture.

“Being a part of Hispanic Student Council, I can get to be involved with all these events on campus and promote who we are,” she said.

Carl Ervin, coordinator for Multicultural Programs and Student Development, said there are a few new events happening this month on campus, including martial art shows and a presentation on Oct. 6 by Iris Y. Martinez, the first Latina elected to the Illinois State Senate.

Correa said she believes such events held by minority groups can benefit the entire student body.

“It promotes respect and understanding of other cultures,” she said.

“It gives a wider scope of what the culture truly is.”

McDaniel said it’s important for students to celebrate their heritage beyond one month.

“Please, don’t make it one month,” she said. “Make it a daily thing.”

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 255.

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Colleges: where the money goes Andrew Hacker Claudia Dreifus McClatchy Tribune

At Pomona College, a top-flight liberal arts school, this year’s sticker price for tuition and fees is a hefty $38,394, not including room and board. Even after adjusting for inflation, that comes to 2.9 times what Pomona was charging a generation ago, in 1980.

This kind of massive tuition increase is the norm. In New England, Williams College charges $41,434, or an inflationadjusted 3.2 times what it did 30 years ago. Southern Cal’s tab of $41,022 is a 3.6 multiple of its 1980 bill.

Tuition at public universities, in a time of ailing state budgets, has risen at an even faster rate. The University of Illinois’ $13,658 is six times its 1980 rate after adjusting for inflation. San Jose State’s $6,250 is a whopping 11 times more.

If you look at how that added revenue is being spent, it’s hard to argue students are getting a lot of extra value for all that extra money. Why? Colleges aren’t spending their extra revenues, which we calculate to be about $40 billion a year nationally over 1980 revenues, in ways that most benefit students.

Colleges spend more on athletic

teams, which have become a more pronounced — and costly — presence on campuses everywhere. Even volleyball teams travel extensively these days, with paid coaches and customized uniforms.

Currently, 629 schools have football teams — 132 more than in 1980. All but 14 of them lose money, including some with national names. It’s true alumni donations sometimes increase during winning seasons, but most of those gifts go specifically to athletics or other designated uses, not toward general educational programs.

Meanwhile, the cost of sports continues to rise. The average football squad has gone from 82 to 102 players, due to sub-specialties required by esoteric coaching strategies.

The number of women’s sports teams has also risen sharply. Since 1980, for example, the number of women’s soccer programs has soared from 80 to 956. Teams cost money — often lots of it. Varsity golf at Duke, open to both genders, costs an estimated $20,405 per player per year. Because there are no revenues for most sports, the deficits often have to be covered by tuition bills.

Another source of increased expense is administration. Since 1980, the number of administrators per student at colleges has about doubled; on most campuses their numbers now match

the number of faculty. Here are some of their titles: senior specialist of assessment; director for learning communities; assistant dean of students for substance education; director of knowledge access services.

Needless to say, these officials claim they offer needed services. Who can be opposed to ensuring access and assessment? But let’s not forget tuition pays for all these deans and directors. Having more of them means higher bills for students.

Added tuition revenue has also gone to raise faculty salaries. Yale’s full-time faculty members now average $129,400, up 64 percent in inflation-adjusted dollars from what they made in 1980. Pay in other sectors of the U.S. economy rose only about 5 percent in this period.

Stanford’s tenured and tenure-track professors are doing even better, averaging $153,900, an 83 percent increase over 1980.

We’re told such stipends are needed to get top talent, but we’re not so sure.

Faculty stars may raise prestige, but they are often away from the classroom, having negotiated frequent paid leaves and smaller teaching loads — underwritten, of course, by tuition. At Williams College this year, for example, three of seven religion professors are taking off all or part of the academic year.

Complete data on college presidents’ pay is easily accessible only back to 1991.

Yet even in that relatively short span, college leaders have seen their salaries double in inflation-adjusted dollars.

Carleton’s president today gets 2.4 times more than the president did 19 years ago; at NYU, pay has risen by 2.7 times.

Measured another way, it takes the tuitions of 31 Vanderbilt students to cover their president’s $1.2 million annual stipend. We have yet to see evidence that lofting more money to the top enhances the quality of instruction.

In theory, all this extra tuition money should permit the hiring of more junior faculty, which might mean smaller introductory courses. But on many campuses, huge classes remain the norm.

One reason is most teaching budgets are consumed by senior professors. Amherst’s full professors absorb 77 percent of the cash available for full-time faculty.

At Berkeley, they sop up 73 percent. At Northern Arizona, it’s 75 percent. The little that’s left is parceled out among junior professors and underpaid adjuncts, who despite rising tuitions are doing an increasing portion of the teaching.

The cost of room and board has gone up sharply too, with charges often double or more in inflation-adjusted dollars. At Bowdoin and UCLA, they have gone up three times. Most college

tours will show student living standards have risen too. Rooms once had only iron cots, military mattresses and battered desks. Now suites are wired for electronic gear, with fully equipped kitchens down the hall. Penn State enables students to legally download music — at last count about 2 million songs a week.

As to dining, food costs may be lower than ever, but not on college campuses, where the quality of campus dining has become a marketing tool. If your memories of dorm food include mystery meat and overcooked vegetables, you’d be in for a shock on today’s campuses. Here were some recent choices in the Middlebury College dining rooms: sun-dried tomato pizzas, African couscous, tandoori chicken, orange-ginger tofu steak, red beans and basmati rice. Whether these more elaborate menus make students more studious is not known.

The travesty of high tuition is that most of the extra charges aren’t going for education. Administrators, athletics and amenities get funded, while history departments are denied new assistant professors. A whole generation of young Americans is being shortchanged, largely by adults who have carved out good careers in places we call colleges.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Fast-food litter a problem Dear Editor: On Saturday, I participated in a local garbage cleanup as part of a National Volunteer Day project. It’s nothing new, but the amount and variety of garbage people found was nevertheless astounding.

The majority of this trash came from fast-food establishments — I’m including take-out here — and consisted of Styrofoam and cardboard containers, plastic cups, lids, straws, etc.

You name it; we found it.

So, if you plan to eat fast food, which generates a lot of waste regardless, I encourage you to take the garbage home, or at the very least throw it away in one of the many strategically placed receptacles on campus.

Journalism director set example all overpaid administrators should follow

But please, don’t be so lazy and mindless as to pitch it out of the window of a moving vehicle and declare it a job well done. I think I can say without exaggeration that these kinds of actions indicate a pitiful lack of respect for one’s environment, and by default, one’s self and community members. Basically it’s just poor form to foul the nest.

My hope is that maybe we can channel some of the apparent school spirit that’s found here on campus — take a look around on game day — extending it so far to keep the campus and its surroundings somewhat free of the garbage that is so haphazardly strewn about.

Chris Peters junior studying forestry

Dear Editor: I wish to commend William Freivogel, SIUC’s director of the School of Journalism, for his very generous and sincere effort to save jobs in his department.

Such qualities are rare in people earning relatively high salaries compared to faculty on compressed salaries, civil service staff and others existing on basic wages. It is a shame that our even higher-paid administrators and athletic directors will not follow the same path.  Instead, they intend to cut salaries that will drastically affect those employees who are less well-paid than those on 12-month, six-figure salaries. This seems to be the strategy for our recently acquired, highly paid addition to SIUC’s already heavy administrative bureaucracy.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Our higher administration seems more interested in developing sports stadiums and administrative buildings while the academic infrastructure of the university rapidly deteriorates and essential services such as the Student Health Assessment Center

are eliminated. Those people are more concerned with maintaining their obscenely paid salaries than helping deserving students who need this important service.

Student numbers at SIUC are falling as a result of failed administration policies, both historically and recently, especially since 2005 following the appointment of our illustrious president. Students who leave the university are voting with their feet. That is why other institutions such as SIU’s Edwardsville camps and Southeast Missouri State University are booming and SIUC’s enrollment continues to decline.

I can cite a case of a very good student, whose name I will keep private, whose mother had a heart attack last semester.

She was also diagnosed with a medical condition.

When she requested a withdrawal and supplied the necessary personal and medical information six weeks before the end of the semester, the relevant university body waited until just before finals week to refuse her request. Fortunately, I worked with her throughout the summer so her final grade

would represent the high quality of the one paper she had submitted during class before she had to leave to care for her mother.

This student left and doesn’t plan to return.

Is it any wonder we are losing good quality students when this type of arrogant administrative practice, which would be subject to legal action elsewhere as an amazed contact in the University of Georgia informed me, continues and those higher up choose to inflict economic hardship on the university community rather than reducing their highly inflated salaries during this time of economic hardship?

The problem with this university clearly lies with higher administration, not faculty, civil service and other staff, as well as students who see their education being devalued by those who appear unprepared to follow the example of Freivogel. Cuts should be inflicted on those with high salaries, not on those already struggling to survive economically in this climate.

Tony Williams professor of English

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Veterans program: Fired man wants U of I job back DAVID MERCER The Associated Press C HA M PA IG N — Robert Van Der Hooning has spent almost four years trying to regain the University of Illinois job he lost in a dispute over a veterans scholarship program, but now a decision in a state court means he has to start over from the beginning.

The state Court of Claims decided on Aug. 30 that an amendment of the State Officials and Employees Ethics Act means it’s no longer the right place for Robert Van Der Hooning to pursue his case against the university.

Van Der Hooning was fired in June 2006, not long after being promoted to an assistant dean’s position and praised for his work in setting up a scholarship program for military veterans pursuing MBAs. The program won praise from, among others, then-Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn, Donald Rumsfeld — at the time the Secretary of Defense — and then-Rep. Rahm Emanuel.

He said he was let go after refusing to whittle down the number of qualified applicants.

Van Der Hooning, 53, said he has worked only sporadically since he was fired, believes he’s missed out on positions he’s applied for because he was fired, and recently lost his house in Winteka to foreclosure.

“It’s hard to get a job in this economy with a situation like that — it’s hard to explain to people exactly what happened,” Van Der Hooning said. He declined to discuss further details of his finances except to say, “things get tight, things get difficult. I’m a single dad, I’ve got three daughters, I’ve got two in college.”

He and his attorneys, who are working at what he would only describe as a steep discount, plan to refile the case in Cook County Circuit Court. A son of one of the attorneys, Michael Shakman of Chicago, applied for one of the scholarships.

University spokeswoman Robin Kaler declined to discuss the case, citing the pending litigation, but said at least 119 veterans eventually received MBA scholarships. The school’s attorney did not return a call from The Associated Press.

The program no longer exists.

Van Der Hooning and the university announced the scholarships in March 2005 at an event attended by, among others, his boss, then-College of Business Dean Avijit Ghosh.

Ghosh is now the university’s vice president for Technology and Economic Development.

As announced, the program would provide 110 full scholarships for veterans to the university’s executive MBA program, relying on a chronically underfunded state program that guarantees veterans tuition at state schools to cover most of the roughly $8 million in costs.

According to Van Der Hooning, Ghosh and two associate deans in the College of Business, Larry DeBrock and Sandy Frank, soon worried that the state tuition program might fall short. They also, Van Der Hooning’s court filings say, complained that enrolling too many students with military backgrounds might hurt the quality of the executive MBA class, with Ghosh and DeBrock calling them “jar heads.”

Neither Ghosh nor DeBrock responded to e-mails from the AP for

comment. Frank no longer works for the university, and her phone number couldn’t be found. In the past, all three have declined to comment on the case.

According to Van Der Hooning, Ghosh, DeBrock and Frank crafted new, tighter application deadlines to cut down the number of veterans.

And, he says, they wrote letters to 35 of them rescinding conditional admissions to the program, and a later e-mail explaining that those veterans should continue to apply. According to Van Der Hooning, the e-mail was never sent to applicants but was sent to Quinn after an inquiry by his office over complaints from veterans.

Both the letter and e-mail contained Van Der Hooning’s signature.

He says he signed neither, and protested sending the letter because he believed changing the veterans’ status was unethical.

According to a deposition of DeBrock by Van Der Hooning’s attorneys, DeBrock said he drafted the letter and e-mail, placed the electronic signature on the e-mail. He said he did so because “this was to come from the (veterans scholarship) program.”

After pressure from Emanuel and Quinn, Van Der Hooning says, the university honored those conditional admissions. The university has said it eventually enrolled 49 veterans, a number that dropped to 43 after some decided not to attend.

But after refusing to help whittle down the number of veterans, Van Der Hooning says, he was fired, not long after the promotion and a pay raise that pushed his salary from $156,000 to $172,000 a year.

The school has long maintained it never intended to award the scholarships in one school year, and after Van Der Hooning’s case was filed with the Court of Claims in December 2006, said it would continue the program until it reached 110 scholarships.

But notes obtained by Van Der Hooning’s lawyers from an interview the state Office of Executive Inspector General conducted with UrbanaChampaign campus Chancellor Richard Herman indicate that Herman believed the scholarships were to be awarded “all at once.” Herman, whose staff took those notes, resigned as chancellor last year.

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AP-GfK Poll: Political environment improves for Republicans over course of primary season

Arlington National Cemetery discovers 3 service members have been buried in wrong graves

Mideast peace talks round ends with no deal; Palestinians launch mortars, Israelis drop bombs

WASHINGTON — Tilted toward the GOP from the start of the year, the political environment has grown even more favorable for Republicans and rockier for President Barack Obama and his Democrats over the long primary season that just ended with a bang.

With November’s matchups set and the general election campaign beginning in earnest Wednesday, an Associated Press-GfK poll found that more Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction than did before the nomination contests got under way in February. Also, more now disapprove of the job Obama is doing. And more now want to see Republicans in control of Congress rather than the Democrats who now run the House and Senate.

The country’s pessimism benefits the out-ofpower GOP, which clearly has enthusiasm on its side. Far more people voted this year in Republicans primaries than in Democratic contests, and the antiestablishment tea party coalition has energized the GOP even as it has sprung a series of primary surprises.

WA S H I N G TO N — Three people were buried in the wrong graves at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army said Wednesday as it followed up an investigation into bookkeeping problems and burial mix-ups at one of the nation’s most hallowed sites.

After a report issued in June found that the problems could potentially affect thousands of graves, defense officials received about 1,100 calls from worried families.

One of those callers, the widow of an Army staff sergeant, led to the exhumation of three graves late last month. The three remains in those graves, all former members of the armed forces, were found to be in the wrong place, said Gary Tallman, an Army spokesman.

“The families are satisfied that the problem was fixed,” Tallman said Wednesday.

A fourth grave was opened Wednesday in a different section of Arlington. At the request of his father, the grave and casket of Marine Pfc. Heath Warner of Canton, Ohio, were opened.

More House Democrats balking over Obama plan that would let taxes on wealthy go back up

JERUSALEM — A mortar attack by Palestinian militants and airstrikes by Israel formed the grim backdrop as Mideast leaders ended their latest round of peace talks Wednesday, still divided on major issues. There was no word on when they would meet again.

The inconclusive U.S.-brokered talks between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas left in doubt the prospects for their new effort to end generations of hostilities in the region and create a sovereign Palestine alongside a secure Israel.

George Mitchell, the U.S. envoy for Mideast peace efforts, emerged from an evening session to say the talks had been encouraging but had fallen short of agreement.

“A serious and substantive discussion is well under way,” Mitchell told a news conference.

Abbas and Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for about two hours at the Israeli leader’s official residence here and agreed to continue the search for a peace deal, he said.

WASHINGTON — More Democrats joined Republicans on Wednesday in calling for the preservation of tax breaks for Americans of every income level, bolting this election season from President Barack Obama’s plan to preserve cuts for those who earn less than $200,000 and let taxes for the wealthy rise.

“We should not be raising taxes in the middle of a recession,”Rep. Jim Marshall, D-Ga., who’s facing tough odds in his bid for a fourth term, wrote in a terse letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“It is essential that we keep things as they are in the short term,” said Rep. Travis W. Childers, D-Miss., another conservative incumbent in a tight race, whose district, like Marshall’s, voted for Republican John McCain in the 2008 presidential race.

For this pair, one press release announcing their opposition to Obama’s plan was not enough. They and other jittery moderate Democrats have signed a letter being circulated by Utah Rep. Jim Matheson urging Pelosi, D-Calif., and other House leaders to abandon the Obama plan and extend to everyone the Bush-era tax cuts due to expire at the end of the year.

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Thursday, September 16, 2010 RUGBY MEN CRAVE CONFERENCE TITLE Steve Adent, a senior studying criminal justice from Frankfort, runs through drills at rugby practice Wednesday at the playing fields. The club has a coach, Joe Lasky, for the first time in its history as it looks to improve on some of the most successful previous seasons in the club’s existence.

The club won the 11th annual Ruggapalooza Tournament, and looks to win conference before playoffs begin in the spring. “We’ve got a shot to do something this year here that we’ve never been able to do before,” Lasky said.

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Scheduling for the program sometimes provides a challenge because athletes typically have morning classes to allow for afternoon practices, Nothwehr said.

To avoid scheduling conflicts the program is offered in the months of October, November, February, March and April, Watkins said. Those months were chosen to avoid conflicts with exams and more stressful times of the studentathletes’ lives, he said.

Participating schools have embraced the grassroots program, Watkins said. “(The athletes) really enjoy being out in the community and being able to be a role model to those kids ... and telling them, basically, if they work hard they can maybe be a student-athlete someday,” Nothwehr said.

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The only player to not be affected by the curse is Arizona Cardinal wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, who shared the Madden 2010 cover with Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu. During the 2010 season he played in all 16 games, recorded 97 receptions for more than 1,000 yards (career standards for Fitzgerald) and had the most touchdown receptions in his six-year career with 13. Polamalu, however, sprained his knee the first game of the season, came back, and then injured a ligament in the same knee. He was limited to five games and 18 tackles in

the 2009-2010 season, compared to his usual total of at least 50.

In week one of this season, Brees didn’t get hurt but didn’t perform to his normally high standards. The Saints only scored 14 points while he threw for only 237 yards and one touchdown.

In the 2009 season, Brees threw for less than 237 yards only four times and had 34 touchdowns. The Saints scored less than 14 points one time during last year’s Super Bowl run. The Saints got the win Sunday, but it was against a Minnesota Viking team who lost its receiving core. Week two is against the Houston Texans, who are notorious for their offensive attack behind quarterback Matt Schaub.

Only one game has been played and Brees didn’t look bad, but with all the history of injury problems and career downfalls of past Madden poster boys, there has to be caution.

Every time Brees is sacked I’m going to look at my copy of Madden. This is also the reason he is not on any of my four fantasy football teams.

When the Saints won the Super Bowl and Brees became MVP, the Colts had their heads down wondering why they didn’t win a second championship. They may have been asking the same question — why? — when the Texans defeated them 34-24 in week one.

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record the year after losing the Super Bowl since 1994 is the Arizona Cardinals. Arizona made it to the playoffs last season after losing to the Steelers at the Super Bowl two seasons ago.

Last season the Colts started with a 14-0 record and only lost the last two games because they sat their starters.

Indianapolis, known for its weak defense, lost star safety Bob Sanders to an injury yet again. Sure, this seems to happen every year, but the Colts need him on the field as the leader and headhunter he is.

The Colts have won 12 or more games in the last seven seasons, so fans shouldn’t be worried about them.

Cheyenne Adams can be reached at cadams@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 282.

But the week one performance against the Texans has to show a threat of the hangover curse coming true. The No. 1 wide receiver on the team, Pierre Garcon, dropped catchable passes and running back Joseph Addai has proven time and time again he is not a starter in the backfield. The Colts have relied on Manning to win games for a long time, but the curse of being a losing Super Bowl team could stop the tradition of the Colts being a playoff team if there isn’t a change in the game plan.

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

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 —Gather everyone’s suggestions in a hat. As you pull out each one, apply the spirit or mood (if not the content). This ensures progress.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6— You learn today about the dynamics involving feelings and concrete action. Sensitivity prevents breakage. As much as you’d like something done, take time for care.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 5 — Prepare to top off your week with an important meeting. Powerful people consider your work and suggest additional creative changes.

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Things that are more interesting to watch than PGA golf: bread toasting, concrete setting, the bottom of my car rusting, a cat falling asleep, and — how could I forget — the playoffs of ESPN68’s paint drying competition (BEHR is the champion, three years running).

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There are plenty of professional sports and almost each one has a league or tournaments aired on national TV. Some have proven to be more popular than others such as the NFL, which makes more money from advertising and merchandise than any other league or sport. As a sports fan, which sport or league is too boring for viewing?

This isn’t because it’s a female sport, but I’d have to say the WNBA. I’ll watch softball and volleyball and the Williams sisters play tennis, but it’s torture to watch women’s basketball.

Sophomore golfer Jeff Miller practices with the men’s golf team Feb. 26 at Hickory Ridge Golf Course in Carbondale. Four of the seven men on the team are new members and competed in their first tournament Monday and Tuesday at the Wasioto Winds Fall Kick-Off where the team finished third out of 10 teams.

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On the very last hole of the invite, Goelzhauser drove a shot from 220 yards out onto the green and 6 inches from the hole. He then tapped it in for an eagle.

During the last 18-holes he shot one under par.

Other than his confidence, Miller said the strongest aspect of his game is 150-yard and in shots.

“If I have a 9-iron and pitching wedge I’m definitely going to hit the green; if not, within 10 feet,” Miller said.

Four new players teed off for the team at the invite, including sophomore Brandon Cauldwell, who placed 10th out of 60. “(Cauldwell) played a little better than I thought he would because I

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thought he’d be nervous the first time out,” Newton said.

Cauldwell is a transfer from Division II Harding University in Searcy, Ark., Newton said. He wanted to move home to Illinois and play for a Division I program, Newton said.

Newton said he believes Cauldwell may shoot one under par every tournament.

Newton said the main team he wanted to defeat at the invite was John A. Logan College because of the friendly rivalry with the junior college.

JALC always has a good team and has talented players this season, but Newton doesn’t like losing to community colleges, he said.

SIU finished third out of 10 teams at the invite, one place ahead of JALC. Goelzhauser, who transferred from

JALC, said the Salukis were behind his former school at one point. He said he wanted to show up his old teammates.

Newton said he plans to keep the same lineup for the University of TexasArlington Waterchase Invitational Sept.

20 in Arlington, Texas. He plans to arrange hitting order by lowest score and average from practice, Newton said. “(The Salukis) don’t let one shot or two (bad) shots bother them and I think that carried over to where they made a few birdies later on (in) rounds,” Newton said.

Newton said the team in general has to improve its putting and chipping in order to be more competitive in MVC play.

Brandon Coleman can be reached at bcoleman@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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Will bad omens continue in NFL?

Coming into the season, Drew Brees and the Indianapolis Colts face two of the worst omens withh NFL players and Brandon andon teams have had BRANDON LACHANCE LaChance to deal with: the Madden curse and the Super Bowl hangover. After week one, signs of these omens already exist.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, who was the MVP of Super Bowl XLIV, chose his own potential downfall in the Madden Curse, while the Colts are trying to become just the second team since 1994 to lose a Super Bowl and have a winning record the next season.

Electronics Arts has put a different NFL player on the cover of each yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s edition of its Madden NFL football video game since 2000. The game is released each August, before the ensuing football season. But for every edition of the game, the featured player either has the worst statistical season of his career or suffers a severe injury.

Brees put his playing career on the line by being on the cover of Madden 2011.

Former NFL quarterback Daunte Culpepper and former running backs Marshall Faulk, Shaun Alexander and Eddie George all had career years before appearing on the Madden cover but were all but out of the league afterward because of injuries.

The year after Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis was on the cover was the first year he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t record an interception and he left the season early with a wrist injury.

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MCELROY DOUBTFUL FOR SATURDAY; OFFENSIVE LINE BANGED UP Senior SIU safety Mike McElroy watches Illini quarterback Eddie McGee at the start of a play Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Champaign. McElroy left the game in the third quarter with an ankle sprain; the Salukis dropped the game 35-3. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doubtful McElroy will play for Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home game against Southeast

Missouri State, head coach Dale Lennon said.

Junior offensive lineman David Pickard, who is dealing with a left foot injury, practiced Wednesday, Lennon said.

Sophomore offensive tackle Richard Wilson missed the Illinois game and has been ruled out indefinitely with a knee injury, he said. Wilson will miss Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game against SEMO.

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Athletes reach out to children CHEYENNE ADAMS Daily Egyptian

Women's tennis Head Coach Audra Nothwehr said the fan base for her team consists of more than just tennis enthusiasts and fans of SIU athletics.

The majority of her team's fan base is built on personal connections made through community service experiences like the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just Readâ&#x20AC;? program, a program that creates an educational bond be-

tween college student-athletes and elementary school students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Athletes are natural role models,â&#x20AC;?

Nothwehr said.

Sophomore tennis player Jennifer Dien said she and her teammates, along with other athletes, sign up for the event and visit local elementary schools. She said the athletes split into groups and read books to a wide variety of classes and grades.

The program was founded in November 1997 and was designed for two purposes: to provide an

educational experience for students (elementary and college), and blending State Farm Insurance Company, which co-sponsored the program, with Missouri Valley Conference, said Jack Watkins, MVC associate commissioner for marketing and television.

Watkins also said the program provided a forum for developing public speaking skills for the athletes in a nonthreatening environment. They learn vital leadership skills and have a chance to tell their life stories, Watkins said.

Nothwehr said the program also provides an opportunity for athletes to recognize their position as role models for the community. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good for athletes to know that they are a role model,â&#x20AC;? Nothwehr said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s when they forget that they do dumb stuff.â&#x20AC;?

Dien said helping out in the program made her feel closer to home, since she comes from a large family.

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MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S GOLF

Coach Newton: team uses swagger to succeed BRANDON COLEMAN Daily Egyptian Sophomore Saluki Jeff Miller said a golfer has to be cocky when he or she steps onto the course, and that attitude helped Miller shoot under par for the first time in his collegiate career earlier this week.

It was also that confidence that helped Miller almost get his first hole-in-one in the third round of 18 holes during Tuesday and Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wasioto Winds Fall Kick-Off in Pineville, Ky., he said.

Head Coach Leroy Newton said the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest asset is its confidence. The Salukisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; confidence

was the main reason why they shot under par at the invite. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We all have pretty big egos,â&#x20AC;?

Miller said.

Miller said he took aspects from every professional golfer he watched.

He emulates his game, from his swing to his putt, after Zach Johnson and Tiger Woods, he said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I try to take away from Tiger Woods his mental game and his power,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the most mentally strong player in the game.â&#x20AC;?

Miller said senior PGA golfer and fellow Centralia native Tom Wargo also helped him develop his game in Centralia during the summer.

Junior Joe Goelzhauser, who finished the invite tied for 12th out of 60 golfers, said seeing Murray Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s players all score within the top six gave him confidence he could do the same.

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