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Union, association continue negotiations SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian The Faculty Association and the administration progressed into their third day of bargaining Tuesday.

Negotiations ended late Tuesday and in an email from Chancellor Rita Cheng, she said they will resume today.

Both sides sent messages Monday night expressing where they stood on issues that

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Faculty Senate talks post-strike campus relations LAUREN DUNCAN Daily Egyptian Some faculty are concerned with how faculty relationships and morale between colleagues on campus may be impacted by the strike.

Faculty Senate members discussed how the strike will impact faculty at Tuesday's meeting, which met a quorum because of the absence of striking faculty, despite some member's concerns of absences. The members discussed the effects of the labor dispute, including how it will influence relationships between faculty who are participating in the strike and those who are not.

"I think part of the commitment for back-to-work needs to be the spirit of no retaliation, putting this behind

us, and that everybody's going to move forward in a collegial manner, and that includes those that are on the picket line or the bargaining table," Chancellor Rita Cheng said to the senate. "And I believe most people will see it that way, and will move forward without a lot of animosity."

Cheng said there were 131 faculty absent from classes and 15 library faculty striking as of Tuesday, causing 146 total faculty members or 22 percent of the Faculty Association members on strike.

Cheng said striking faculty represents roughly 6 percent of the total instructional force on campus, excluding the School of Law and the School of Medicine.

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separated them in negotiations. The two teams began discussions at 3 p.m. Sunday and continued for 27 hours before deciding to take a break.

In an email to students, faculty and staff, Cheng said the administration’s team provided the association with a detailed proposal Monday evening that she said should bring an agreement soon.

A message posted on the FA's website said considerable progress had been made

during the past few days, but stated that major differences remained between the proposals. “The administration left us no alternative to a strike in order to achieve the progress we have made so far,� the press release stated. “With continued resolve and support, we shall secure enough progress to reach a tentative agreement and end this strike.�

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Anne Winston-Allen, left, professor of German and chair of the department of foreign languages and literatures, speaks with Morteza Daneshdoost, Faculty Association chair and professor of electrical and computer engineering, in front of protestors Monday outside the Student Center.

Winston-Allen came out of Faner Hall and said a Spanish class had to move to a different classroom because of the noise. She said the disruption was unfair to students who were in class. For a soundslide presentation of the strike, please see www.dailyegyptian.com.

Cristaudo's brings back treats, memories Cristaudo family re-opens bakery ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian Cristaudo’s Bakery is back in the family, a fact made clear by the framed letter on the front counter. “You can kind of tell I’ve been around the business for a long time,� owner Rachel Cristaudo said about the letter.

She said she recently found the letter, which she wrote to her mother as a kid, shoved inside a cookbook. In it, she wrote that she hoped her mother was able to turn a profit in the baking business.

"What little kid draws pictures of a buffet line, worries about ‌ how much money you’re making on food and whether or not you’re going to get a break ever, ever again?� she said.

Cristaudo is now drawing on her long history with the business as owner of Cristaudo's Bakery & Catering, which has been under different ownership since 2004. The doors at its new South Illinois Ave. location across from the Civic Center opened Oct. 28. Currently, baked goods are on the shelves, and carryout breakfast and lunch are on the way, with dining to follow.

Cristaudo's parents, Lorenzo and Lucia Cristaudo, established Cristaudo’s at the Murdale Shopping Center in 1977. She said she pretty much grew up

in the bakery since she was about six.

Years after Cristaudo’s became a Carbondale fixture, Rachel Cristaudo said she, her partner, Nick Stewart, and her mother planned on buying the bakery from her father to let him retire in 2000.

Then tragedy derailed those plans.

Lucia Cristaudo died in a car accident after taken hostage in a botched robbery at Midwest Cash, where she was manager.

Her death put the plans on hold, Rachel Cristaudo said, and Lorenzo Cristaudo ended up selling the store to someone else in 2004.

From there, Rachel Cristaudo and Stewart tried to buy it back, but plans fell through twice. When they were finally able to acquire it, the owners of Murdale Shopping Center had rented out the space to another bakery.

With the old location gone, she said they turned to the owners of the Kaleidoscope on South Illinois Ave. to rent some space.

They ended up with the whole building. “Now we have a giant, beautiful building to fill, and it gives you all kinds of ideas of what you could do,� she said.

After acquiring the building, they spent more than a year getting ready for business, Rachel Cristaudo said. That was twice as long as she expected it to take, she said.

While the biggest delay was moneywrangling, the old building needed a lot of renovations, Rachel Cristaudo said. She said updates included

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Leah Maciell, of Lincoln, prepares the ‘pink’ cookie Tuesday at Cristaudo’s off South Illinois Avenue. Maciell is one of four new owners of Cristaudo’s, which has had three different owners during the last five years. new plumbing, electrical work, and painting and said they plan redoing the bathrooms. “It’s all about the bathrooms,�

Stewart said.

He said they should take a couple of weeks to finish, and then the main dining room can be completed.

After the long process of renovation, Rachel Cristaudo said the opening is exciting. “It’s like a homecoming for me,� she said.

And Cristaudo’s isn't just a bakery now. In the front of the building is the 6Pence Gift Shop. It offers a number of trinkets and works by local artists, she said, including work by her father and

vintage items from her mother’s old store, Finders Keepers.

Rachel Cristaudo said they also plan on opening a gallery space in the upstairs apartments.

But of course, the main attraction is still the bakery, and Rachel Cristaudo said the primary goal is to get people’s old favorites back on the shelves.

One favorite is the peak cookie, a pile of chocolate-covered cream on top of a piece of chocolate cake.

Co-owner Leah Maciell said she sold a peak cookie to a couple Saturday, and it was well-received. “They were sitting outside eating it ‌ the guy was actually like, screaming, 'Oh my God, this is the best thing I’ve

ever had,'� she said.

Stewart said the recipe is much more about how you make it, not the ingredients.

Rachel Cristaudo said that’s one reason having the bakery back in family ownership makes a difference. While she said the other owners did a good job with it, everyone does things differently. “If you have five different people all making something with the same recipe, you’re going to have five different things,� she said.

However, the importance of having the bakery back in the family may be even simpler. “I think it matters because that’s (Rachel's) dad on the shirt,� Maciell said.

The recognizable logo, featuring a mustachioed Lorenzo Cristaudo, now adorns the side of the building.

Rachel Cristaudo said their first customer was another local man with an iconic mustache: Mayor Joel Fritzler.

Fritzler said he looked out his Civic Center office window and noticed the open sign on Cristaudo’s. He said he was going to be in the office for a long time that night, so he needed something to eat. “They’ve got some evil stuff in there,� he said. “Cristaudo’s is going to be a great addition to downtown.�

Cristaudo said despite all the hard work, it’s being able to give people some pleasure that makes it worth it.

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Campus Habitat hands over management to third party Company: choice made months ago ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian Campus Habitat’s properties in Carbondale and elsewhere will now be owned by new management.

“We’re not in the management business anymore,” said Rob Martin, executive vice president of operations for Campus Habitat.

Management of all of Campus Habitat’s properties was handed over to United Campus Housing Management Group as of Nov.

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The chancellor's email said the issues were the Reduction in Force article, overload pay, salary increases, sexual harassment and conflict of interest procedures, furlough days, fair share and a back-to-work agreement.

The FA’s website said the issues were furloughs, back-to-work agreements and fair share.

During the course of bargaining, an issue was how a financial emergency for the campus would be declared.

The message from the FA indicated the teams have agreed on what the union refers to as securing transparency and accountability in the Reduction in Force language.

They have done this by putting a definition of financial exigency in the contract and clarifying the tenured and tenure-track faculty can strike in the event they challenge the SIU Board

1, Martin said. This includes the buildings at 600 and 820 W. Freeman St., 716 S. University Ave., and 511 S. Graham Ave. in Carbondale, he said.

Campus Habitat is based in New York City and owns buildings in eight states.

The properties are currently in transition and the switch will have no real effect on tenants, Martin said.

From now on, tenants will deal with United Campus Housing, he said, and the employees at the buildings will likely remain the same.

United Campus Housing is a third-party property management group based in Austin, according to its website. It focuses on student housing and provides services such as leasing, staffing and operations and construction management, according of Trustees' declaration of a financial emergency.

The association had hoped for a binding outside panel or arbitration, the message said.

In her email, Cheng said the teams have agreed to insert criteria required for the board of trustees to declare financial exigency in the contract.

The teams agreed to bargain layoffs and include the Faculty Association in discussions about the possible need to call financial exigency.

“All of these concessions provide additional transparency on the front end of this decisional process,” she said in the email.

The FA message said the administration's proposal does not have a clear process for determining when furloughs would be necessary.

The message said the FA’s bargaining team thinks this could undermine the collective bargaining rights by not guaranteeing that salaries are

to its website.

Martin said Campus Habitat chose United Campus Housing because it was a third-party manager and had experience with properties similar to those owned by Campus Habitat.

Martin said Campus Habitat had planned on moving out of management for about eight months and originally planned to do so at the beginning of 2012, but decided to do it sooner rather than later.

He said the company’s conflicts with the city and building code issues did not play a role in the decision. The company’s buildings in Carbondale have been cited for numerous violations, including health, life and safety issues that caused the city to almost close buildings on two occasions. It also owns two determined by mutual agreement.

“Because the BOT proposal lacks transparency and accountability, it provides no safeguard against the risk that savings from furloughs would be used not to safeguard our academic mission, but instead to fund other administrative priorities,” the message on the website stated.

The university has agreed to not implement unpaid days for fiscal year 2012 and Cheng said in her email the university has agreed to bargain furloughs with the association.

Cheng said the same salary increases offered to the other three Illinois Education Association unions were offered to the FA. “In addition, this proposal preserves promotional increases, and efforts to grow enrollment increases from the previous contract,” she said in the email.

The FA has also been offered a wage re-opener for any year of the

uninhabited buildings at 511 S. Graham St. and 508 S. Wall St., which are undergoing total renovation.

The city had not yet made contact with United Campus Housing as of Friday, said Kevin Baity, director of economic development.

Baity said the management change won’t affect the city’s dealings with the properties, and inspections will continue at the buildings.

“Nothing has changed,” he said.

City Council member Jane Adams said she hopes the management change means improvements at the distressed buildings.

“We would hope they would handle it more competently than Campus Habitat has handled it,” she said.

Adams said for the new managers agreement, which says if the operating budget increases by 2 percent, tenured and tenure-track faculty can negotiate pay raises, according to Cheng’s email.

In Cheng's email, the chancellor said the university will not reimburse lost wages or benefits of faculty members who choose to strike.

“Neither the university nor the association shall retaliate against any employee or student who participates or refrains from participating in the strike,” she said.

The union’s message said this was an insult to the faculty who exercise their legal right to strike.

“Particularly insulting are the Board’s broad implications that faculty have been engaging in threats and misconduct during the course of the strike,” the message said. “The FA believes that an important goal for a back-to-work agreement is to build a better relationship between the faculty and the administration.”

to improve the buildings, Campus Habitat will have to give them responsibility and access to the financial resources to make major renovations.

She said she continues to work on an ordinance that would set new requirements for property managers in the city. It would require landlords not only to have a local agent, but a local manager who’s been through training with the city to learn building codes, procedures and contacts, Adams said.

“So you don’t have the case of someone coming in as designated property manager who doesn’t know anything,” she said.

Eli Mileur can be reached at emileur@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 266.

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Rachel Cristaudo said despite all the hard work, it’s being able to give people some pleasure that makes it worth it.

“It seriously gives us a lot of pride to know we’re making things that make people happy, and it totally sounds completely cliché … but it’s like, really though, it’s true,” she said.

The other perk to the job, like that letter on the counter, has to do with sentiment, she said.

“It’s funny to be making things that I remember as a kid, I remember as a teenager," she said. "I remember different people who ... worked there … I remember learning different parts and who taught me them, so as you just make a cream puff, you think about all these people and all of these different time periods, and it’s like that with every single thing we make. It’s not just making a cookie.”

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She said striking faculty represents roughly 6 percent of the total instructional force on campus, excluding the School of Law and the School of Medicine.

"As of this point, 1.8 percent of our total class offerings have been affected," she said.

While post-strike adjustments between faculty may not be addressed until bargaining ends, Faculty Senate member Jose Ruiz asked the chancellor to address his concern of present faculty relationships.

"I've actually heard rumors ‌ that some junior faculty are being intimidated by senior faculty," he said.

After the chancellor confirmed the administration had heard such a rumor, Ruiz said he believed it created an underlying problem.

"There is the obvious power differentiation that we all are aware of in the academy, the senior faculty and the non-tenured junior faculty, and I think we have to be aware of that and make sure that our young scholars don't feel any intimidation," Cheng said.

Faculty Senate Vice President Gary Apgar said he thinks some faculty who have crossed the picket line have been uncomfortable verifying they are at work during the strike.

"I think there are faculty who have come in, crossed the line, because of their student focus, and they feel — I'll use their terminology, that there have been some 'Gestapo tactics' to ensure that they're in the classroom and that they have to sign the verification form assuring they've done all their committed responsibilities in the prior week," he said. "So I think we have a morale problem that's growing with those people that are really doing their job."

Provost John Nicklow said the administration is trying to put a system in place to ensure courses are instructed.

"It's certainly not the intent, however, we have a situation on campus and something I do not want to do is not pay somebody who is teaching in a classroom," he said. "We're trying to be very systematic. It concerns me that it's being viewed as Gestapo-like, but it's very systemic, and the deans and chairs have been asked to step up and help assess who is in, who is out."

Cheng said each college will have to address the issue of impacted relationships at faculty meetings and that department chairs will have to keep tensions in mind.

"Clearly, we'll need to address any activity, but a lot of this is not going to be overt. It's going to be attitude and feelings that will be harbored perhaps by individuals," she said.

In addition to how feelings will be addressed post-strike, the senate members discussed how courses are being covered. Faculty Senate President William Recktenwald asked how many classes have been cancelled due to the strike. Nicklow said instructors have not been found for 66 classes.

"That would be the number we've not been able to find sufficient replacements, and due to that have been cancelled, or what's happening (Tuesday), is some facilitation of peer-to-peer learning," Nicklow said.

Ken Anderson, a Faculty Senate member, said he had heard reports of faculty showing up for role call and then dismissing class and leaving. The chancellor said some of those incidents occurred when classes met for the first time without an instructor last week.

"There is some very disturbing types of incidents that occurred," Cheng said.

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Tensions grow as supplemental instruction continues

JACQUELINE MUHAMMAD Daily Egyptian After having an attendance monitor fill in for their striking instructor, students in History 101A, History of World Civilization to 1500, were taught by former employee Betsy George as the strike continues its second week.

Nearly 70 percent of students attended the 12:35 p.m. introductory history class Tuesday in Lawson Hall.

Despite George having the syllabus on hand, students said they were frustrated with the complete difference in lecture content. Dissatisfied with the lecture's progress, seven students left during a 10-minute span.

Nicholas Lach, a junior from Murphysboro studying automotive technology, and Michael Thomas, a junior from Chicago studying automotive technology, both left the classroom early.

“It’s a joke," Lach said. "There is nothing that holds any relevance to the class lesson or the outline.”

Thomas agreed.

“Our teacher was teaching us something completely different than what this lady is teaching us now, it’s like two different subjects,” he said.

Both students said despite their frustration, they will attend their sections.

Desiree Piatt, a senior from San Antonio, studying political science, said the strike has had a detrimental effect on her opinion of the university.

She said her physics professor is striking, an absence that she believes derailed the class’s focus.

After logging into Blackboard today, Piatt said she noticed that everything related to the course has been taken down, including

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Alexandra Kane, a junior from Libertyville studying anthropology, unites the crowd of picketers Tuesday outside Anthony Hall. The assignments, grades and messages.

She said only a course syllabus remained.

Piatt said her substitute instructor is a researcher in the department. Instead of adhering to material from the book or lectures from the syllabus, she said he opted for experiments of his choosing that were unrelated to the original course material.

Piatt said the course, which has 40 to 50 registered students, had only seven students in Tuesday’s lecture.

She said the instructor told the class he would no longer be taking attendance and the course would be offered on a pass/fail basis.

Piatt said she’s very concerned by the change in class structure and its possible impact on her grade point average. She said it’s unfair that for

protestors will meet at 2 p.m. today for the third day in a row to chant and march through campus. the amount of work she put into the course, her final grade would only equate her work as a credit or noncredit summary.

Piatt said she’s already applied to another university and has received her letter of admission.

After transferring to SIU last fall, Piatt said she saw the university as a school where she could focus on her academics. With that now in

jeopardy, she said she’s willing to deal with the troubles of transferring to another school for her last semester of undergraduate study.

Piatt said she paid to be taught by specific professors who hold merit and prestige, and if she was unable receive instruction from those qualified individuals, she would attend a university that met her requests.

Students stretch dollar’s value with coupons KARL BULLOCK Daily Egyptian As a single mother who makes $36,000 a year, Rachel Taylor said she only spends $220 a month because of extreme couponing.

Taylor, a graduate student in workforce education and development from West Frankfort, said in tough economic times, college students find it hard to make ends meet. She said extreme couponing creates a system of accountability and sustainability for students.

“What someone typically doesn’t realize is when they begin couponing, they alter their mindset about money and financial matters,” she said. “You can begin offsetting your daily budget by utilizing these extra coupons, purchasing the item when it’s on sale and purchasing quantities of the item you typically use.”

In May, 585,000 people were unemployed in Illinois, giving the state an unemployment rate of 8.9 percent compared to the national unemployment rate of 9.1 percent,

according to the State of Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka's official website.

Taylor said people also engage in extreme couponing as a hobby.

She said she originally began extreme couponing as part of her undergraduate curriculum to create a lesson plan for a class.

“I began teaching other single parents, college students and anybody who might have a deprivation or even be at the lowest totem pole of economic stature,” she said.

Taylor said couponing allows students to reduce living expenses and maximize their investment.

Darris Miles, a senior from Chicago in architectural studies, said he got started in couponing after watching the show “Extreme Couponing” on the TLC network.

“It was pretty influential and very amazing to see how people would get loads of food and supplies for close to nothing,” he said.

Miles said he began to use coupons as a hobby, but after a certain amount of time the habit almost turned into greed.

“It was like the taste of a drug because the first time you get something free you never have that feeling where you could walk into a store and walk out without paying anything,” he said. “It was so easy that it was almost greed, like what else can we get.”

Taylor said although some may see extreme couponing as a means of making unnecessary purchases, she said it's a great expenditure for students who have to budget their money wisely.

Taylor said she was able to go from having large proportions of debt as a student and being a single parent to having the ability to provide all the essential needs and wants for family members.

“It’s crazy that people lay awake at night out of fear from creditors thinking, ‘How can I wake up and repeat the same cycle, because I’m not getting anything,’” she said.

Andriana Sturgis, a senior from Joliet studying information systems technologies, said she became interested in couponing after she witnessed a customer at Wal-Mart

spend $150 on groceries that were valued at $400.

She said she looks at couponing as a necessity because, as a college student, she is on a tight budget.

Sturgis aid any amount of extra money she saves helps with her phone, cable and electricity bill.

Sturgis said the use of coupons has helped her save an average of $150 a month.

“I am a full-time student and part-time worker, and the amount that I spend monthly outweighs the amount that I make,” she said.

“Even though it is only $150, it does help out. That’s less overnight hours I have to pick up at work, and less I have to ask my parents for extra money.”

Miles said the savings built up from couponing can be used toward bills and other expenses students need. He said if a person could invest the time in couponing, the work would pay off and a student would not need to buy household items for up to three to six months.

“It’s quite time-consuming, but it has a huge benefit to the college student who’s pinching,

stretching and saving their dollar,” he said. “It’s almost like a business investment, where you spend a little time and money and it can save you three to six months down the line easily.”

Sturgis said college is the best time for students to learn the importance of a dollar. Once a student moves from the dorms to off-campus housing, the responsibilities pile on, she said.

“Stretching your dollar is very important,” she said. “Many of us are living above our means. We should pay more attention to the way the economy is because the price of necessities continues to fluctuate, but ... our minimum wage does not.”

With couponing, Taylor said students can see the value of their dollar increase.

“What begins to manifest is that you don’t see boundaries anymore,” she said. “You see it as potential instead.”

Karl Bullock can be reached at kbullock@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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U. of Ill. investigation faults law school dean STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press CHA M PA IG N — An assistant dean at the University of Illinois College of Law inflated grades and entrance exam scores for several years for incoming students in data that was posted online, according to a report released Monday by the university.

University officials say Paul Pless was placed on administrative leave and has since resigned.

They say an outside law firm and a forensic data analysis company was hired in September after

complaints and the discovery that data posted for the class of 2014 was inaccurate.

“The investigation has concluded that a single individual, no longer employed by the college, was responsible for these inaccuracies,” law school Dean Bruce Smith said in a statement. “The college takes seriously the issue of data integrity and intends to implement the report’s recommendations promptly and comprehensively. As the report properly recognizes, the College of Law remains one of the nation’s premier law schools. We are confident that we will justify that assessment

with data that are accurate, transparent and unimpeachable.”

Pless does not have a listed phone number and could not be reached for comment.

The investigative team, which included the law firm Jones day and data analysis firm Duff & Phelps, found inaccuracies in six of the 10 years reviewed. In addition to being posted online, the inaccurate data was forwarded to the American Bar Association and ranking organizations, such as the influential U.S. News & World Report.

The investigation found the law

school reported inaccurate LSAT and GPA statistics for the class of 2008 and the classes of 2010 through 2014. The law school also reported inaccurate acceptance rate data with respect to the classes of 2008, 2012, 2013 and 2014.

Pless, who was assistant dean for seven years, was responsible for reporting the data. Acceptance data showed steady, and occasionally dramatic, improvement in the main factors used to gauge the academic credentials of a law school class.

According to the 114-page report, the investigation found data discrepancies were not random or

the result of inadvertent errors.

Margaret Daley of Duff & Phelps said the numbers “were altered specifically, and often just slightly,” to meet recruitment goals and ranking targets, indicating an attempt to show the College of Law brought in an even more highly credentialed class.

The report made eight recommendations, including the correction of erroneous data, and controls that include data monitoring, auditing and separation of duties as well as steps to ensure a culture of integrity and ethical conduct.

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Cain troubles loom over Wednesday’s GOP debate PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press WASH INGTON — The economy is supposed to be the focus when Republican presidential contenders share a debate stage for the first time since allegations of sexual impropriety rocked Republican Herman Cain’s presidential bid.

But as the candidates gather Wednesday in ailing Michigan, Cain’s troubles are certain to loom large over the Oakland University debate hall — whether or not the rivals address the accusations directly during the twohour face off.

With voting in the GOP nomination race set to begin in fewer than 60 days, Republican officials and presidential contenders alike are growing increasingly frustrated that the political conversation has been hijacked by the furor surrounding Cain.

“Only Herman Cain can address the issues before him. In the meantime

it’s sucking all the oxygen out of the room, depriving the people of this country from a conversation about the issues that really do matter,” Republican contender and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman told The Associated Press Tuesday.

“That’s the price we pay when these things happen,” he said.

Like the rest of Cain’s opponents, Huntsman did not call for him to leave the presidential contest or rush to his defense, illustrating the sensitivity — and the unpredictability — of the escalating situation. In a multi-candidate field, there’s no guarantee that one candidate’s demise will be any single candidate’s gain.

Even so, some of Cain rivals — namely fellow conservatives who are struggling to gain ground against better-known, better-funded rivals — sense an opportunity to steal support away from the former businessman should he implode after recently emerging as the strongest challenger

to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in some polls. At the same time, Romney’s steady-as-it-goes campaign — focused primarily on the general election and President Barack Obama — could benefit from an extended distraction as the political attacks are focused elsewhere.

Romney is considered the man to beat in the evolving Republican contest to face Obama next fall.

The other candidates have had mixed success jockeying to emerge as the Romney alternative for several months. It looked as if Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann was rising earlier in the summer, but she faded after the brief rise of Texas Gov. Rick Perry. After Perry stumbled through recent debates, Cain took his place near the top of many early state polls and national surveys.

With Cain’s political future now uncertain, some see potential in former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who has a history of personal problems as well.

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Puzzle was a Rolling Stone by Todd Santos

ACROSS 1 Primus “Frizzle ___” 4 Tori ___ 8 Pete Townshend “Let My Love ___ the Door” 12 Three-piece band 13 He was a “Rolling Stone” 14 Weak NIN song, with “The”?

16 “Running Up that ___” Kate Bush 17 GNR “Pretty ___ Up” 18 Van Morrison “Full ___ Gale” 19 Infant songs, perhaps?

21 The “Nancy” Relient K loves 23 What a hanger-on does to a rocker 24 Ray Charles “What’d I ___” 25 Backstage, for example 27 Violent Femmes “___ It Up” 29 Engineer Parsons 30 What Sugar Ray just wanted to do 31 Stormtroopers of Death, briefly 34 What girls in music videos are 37 Stevie Wonder’s “Sir” 38 ___ DiFranco 39 Difficult kind of performance 40 “Moon Safari” French duo 41 “Dark Side of the Moon” classic 42 Motorhead “___ Of Spades” 43 Elvis’ title?

45 Type of piano or scholar 47 Ray Charles “Hide ___ Hair” 48 Part of the “Line” the Traveling Wilburys were going to 49 Uriah ___ 50 Pink Floyd’s original frontman 51 Kiss “___ Your Love” 52 Bed for a struggling musician?

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: MUSIC AWARD DENOTE BETTOR Answer: His prize-winning sourdough was the — TOAST OF THE TOWN

Aries – Today is an 8 – It’s easy to just bluster through financially.

You’ve got confidence, ambition and power. Keep it inside a plan, and don’t spend wildly. Make an emotional appeal.

Cancer – Today is an 8 – Begin a new project. Stumble upon your creative self and make things happen. Accept a generous offer for your work. You can see farther. Focus on abundance.

Libra – Today is a 9 – What you’ve learned is being tested now. Don’t worry about the final score, just enjoy the process.

Finances flow for the next few days.

Capricorn – Today is a 7 – You’re lucky in love for the next few days, although there may be some competition. Finish a contract or document, and get into a new project.

Your connections open doors.

Taurus – Today is a 9 – Learn how to be prepared from another’s emergency. Friends are ready to lend a hand, and a strong back or two, if you need them. Better safe than sorry.

Leo – Today is a 7 – Follow your intuition when it comes to career now. Dare for bold and audacious dreams, and go for them. Pay back a debt. The money’s available.

Plan your actions.

Scorpio – Today is an 8 – Your relationships are becoming stronger. Take care of others like you would like them to take care of you. Join forces with a master of surprises.

Aquarius – Today is an 8 – You have a lot that is hidden from view. Find change by cleaning at home. When everything’s in order, new possibilities arise.

Clean finances, too (and earn gold stars.)

Gemini – Today is a 6 – Slow down and contemplate.

Procrastination is knocking on your door. Indulge it productively by cleaning house, but only if you can keep your deadlines.

Virgo – Today is a 9 – This could be a lucky break for you. Remember that love’s the bottom line. Material abundance is nice and could just flow easily.

Say “thank you.�

Sagittarius – Today is a 9 – Make sure that you get plenty of rest as the action gets more hectic. Don’t take it (or yourself) too seriously, or you may burn out. Pace yourself. You can do it.

Pisces – Today is an 8 – Dive into a research project. Shut yourself away in a quiet place, and the solutions reveal themselves. You retain the information with ease.

Sports

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Despite another runner-up finish, four Salukis placed in the top 10 for the men with sophomore Zach Dahleen, who finished first for SIU and third overall with an 8K time of 25:18.8.

Dahleen said those on the team

are upset because they didn’t win conference but look to improve next week.

“We are a young team with a lot of potential for next year,” Dahleen said. “We are confident in our training, so we will race well this weekend.”

Other Salukis who contributed to the second-place finish were

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senior Neal Anderson in fifth place with a time of 25:20.7; sophomore Brian Dixon in ninth with a time of 25:30.6; and freshman Cole Allison with a 10th place finish coming in a mere second behind Dixon.

The women finished seventh overall in the 5K championship event with senior Jamie Pfister being the top dog for the Saluki

women, as she finished 15th overall with a time of 18:29.2.

Sparks said the women’s team has suffered some illnesses and injuries this season, which caused two top Salukis to be out for the season.

“We have been trying to put things back together losing our two top performers, but we begin to

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rebuild again from there,” Sparks said.

Freshman Lacey Gibson finished 16th with a time of 18:32.7, along with Eileen Schweiss who placed 35th with a time of 19:06.9 and Tori Parry who finished 44th.

Sadie Darnell, Sarah McIntosh, and Mobola Rotibi all had close finishes, placing 57, 59 and 60th.

Pruitt shines in first full season with Salukis Redshirt sophomore leads team in receptions

JOE RAGUSA Daily Egyptian Redshirt freshman MyCole Pruitt has emerged as the go-to guy for the Salukis in his first full season, grabbing a team-high 36 receptions.

Murray State, Northern Iowa and Missouri State all sought Pruitt’s services coming out of Kirkwood High School in Kirkwood, Mo. If it wasn’t for travel issues, Pruitt might have lined up against the Salukis in Northern Iowa’s purple and gold.

“I was getting ready to take a visit (to Northern Iowa), but then a couple things got messed up and I couldn‘t visit,” Pruitt said. “Then they told me they gave out all their scholarships, so I was like, ‘Forget you, then.’”

Pruitt said he could never find someone willing to travel the 340 miles between his high school and Cedar Falls, Iowa, so his college decision eventually came down to SIU and Missouri State. He said he took a few engineering classes in high school, which attracted him to the SIU engineering program.

“I started liking it, and I just wanted to continue with it and also try to make a lot of money,” Pruitt said with a laugh. “(The money) was a big part of it, but I also like to be hands-on, creating stuff.”

Pruitt’s creativity on the field has made him a favorite target for redshirt sophomore quarterback Kory Faulkner, who said Pruitt’s ability to make catches is only part of what he brings to the field.

“He’s working hard to get open, and he’s definitely made

some play for us the past couple weeks, ” Faulkner said. “He’s got a big body. He’s a great athlete and catches everything you throw in his direction.”

Pruitt stands at 6-feet-3-inches and 241 pounds, but he gained 20 of those pounds during his redshirt season.

“They had us in the weight room a lot, but that Trueblood food didn’t hurt either,” Pruitt said.

If the food at Trueblood has slowed Pruitt down, offensive coordinator Kalen DeBoer hasn’t noticed. In Monday’s press conference, DeBoer said Pruitt’s role with the team has expanded and he’s now involved in every single offensive snap for the Salukis.

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SARAH GARDNER | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Freshman tight end MyCole Pruitt runs a blocking drill Tuesday during SIU football practice. Pruitt, an engineering major from St. Louis, has been the team’s top receiver for the past five games. The Saluki football team will face the Eastern Illinois University Panthers at 2 p.m. Saturday at Saluki Stadium.

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The process has started for another year in St. Louis

CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian The St. Louis Cardinals have a vast majority of their lineup returning for next season, however, the combination of changes the team will, and might, make could have a lot to do with the amount of success in 2012.

While most agree that the contract with Albert Pujols will

have the single biggest impact in 2012, it’s perhaps the mix of players and coaching staff that could control the fate of another potential World Series contender.

The incoming manager stands as another determining factor. With the abrupt retirement of long-time manager Tony La Russa, the new hiree will have an ideal lineup to walk in to, but a lot of pressure will come with the managerial duties.

The previous three Cardinals managers are La Russa, Joe Torre and Whitey Herzog — three managers likely to end up in Cooperstown.

A week and a half into the interviewing process, the Cardinals have talked to, or will talk to, at least six individuals by Friday for the vacant position. However, only one of the potential suitors has any previous MLB coaching experience.

Former Red Sox manager Terry Francona is the most recent name added to the list, as he met or will meet with the Cardinals’ organization. The team has not yet commented on where they are in the process.

With more than 12 years of experience, Francona is likely to be resting on the top of the team’s list of realistic inquirers.

Other applicants include Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo and former Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, both of whom are rumored to be interviewed today.

Former Cardinals catcher Mike Matheny, Memphis Redbirds manager Chris Maloney and 2011 White Sox triple-A affiliate manager Joe McEwing have also reportedly interviewed for the job.

Whoever does receive the new

position should have plenty of talent and depth to field a team.

The starting rotation should be pretty well set with the re-signing of the team’s ace Chris Carpenter, Adam Wainwright coming back from Tommy John surgery and the return of Kyle Lohse and Jaime Garcia.

The bullpen shouldn’t be too different either with Jason Motte, Lance Lynn, Eduardo Sanchez and Fernando Salas.

The team should also be set with some depth on the bench, with the exception of the release of shortstop Rafael Furcal, and the possibility of parting ways with Pujols.

This is a team that finished on top of the National League in RBIs, runs, hits and batting average.

The Cardinals finished with a .273 team batting average, ahead of the second-place New York Mets

with their .264 average.

Even if you eliminate the 579 at-bats and 173 hits Pujols had, St. Louis still would have finished on top with an average of .270.

Though most Cardinals fans would elect to keep Pujols in St. Louis, assuming the price is right, it appears the team could still have plenty of success without him.

The door is open and all are well aware that he could be wearing a different jersey come April, and even possibly committing a Cardinal sin of becoming a Chicago Cub. Even if that happens, at least he’ll still be in St. Louis come the home opener, which could make for one eerie Friday the 13th.

Cory Downer can be reached at cdowner@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.

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Salukis tune up for Regional Tournament BRANDON WILLINGHAM Daily Egyptian The regular season came to an end for the SIU crosscountry team with the conference championship, as the women claimed seventh place and the men their third consecutive second-place finish.

The men’s team came up short in the Missouri Valley Conference Championship in Terre Haute, Ind., Oct. 30 to Indiana State.

Despite another second-place finish for the Salukis, the team is set for the 33rd NCAA Midwest Regional Cross-country Championship in DeKalb Saturday, which includes schools from 10 conferences.

Coach Matt Sparks said the championship went well but the team has expressed some frustrations of coming close to first-place finishes each year. “It’s a little bit bittersweet to be that close,� Sparks said with a chuckle. “It’s always great to finish in the upper half, but at this point, we’re kind of tired of getting the

smaller trophies. Every year there’s always a discussion that we are going for the big trophy, and we’ve come up short.�

Sophomore T.J. Heffernan said the runners were discouraged after they lost the meet to the Sycamores at the MVC Championship. “Going into the conference meet, we thought we had a good chance of taking first place, but the race went out in favor of Indiana State,� Heffernan said. “We let them dictate how they wanted to race it.�

He said the Salukis are overwhelmed with mediocre finishes, but they hope to redeem themselves at the NCAA Midwest Regional. “We are sick of getting second place to Indiana State year after year,� Heffernan said. “This performance made us realize that we need to work harder and race harder in order to prove to ourselves and the people in our conference that we are the better team. This starts at regionals on Saturday and for future years to come.�

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STEVE MATZKER | DAILY EGYPTIAN

The SIU women’s cross-country team stretches Tuesday at the cross-country trail outside Abe Martin Field. Both the men and

women’s teams travel to DeKalb Saturday to compete in the NCAA Midwest Regional Cross-Country Championship.