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during one year is positive, but it would not affect the total enrollment until there have been at least two or three years of increased freshmen and transfer student enrollment.

First-time on-campus undergraduate student enrollment for fall 2011 increased by 5.2 percent from fall 2010, which includes freshmen and students who are considered sophomores because they come in with advanced placement, he said.

Cheng said 102 new freshmen are on campus this semester, and 14 are first-time college students who are enrolled as sophomores because they took advanced classes in high school.

Nicklow said the university has consulted with major recruitment consultants, and they indicated it is impossible to turn around the overall enrollment decline in one year.

Kay Creese, of Murphysboro, spays a young female cat at St. Francis Care in Murphysboro. St. Francis Care is a no-kill shelter, as well as a lowcost spay and neuter clinic that houses 80 to 100 cats and dogs. Since opening in 2009, the clinic has spayed or neutered over 2,000 cats and dogs, and it continues to educate the public about the importance of fixing their pets. “It’s something that really needs to happen,�

Creese said. “There are not enough people to take in these pets.

Each animal will have five or six babies, then those babies will have babies and it just compounds.� Creese said she performs eight to 10 surgeries a day in the clinic, which caters to people who qualify for state assistance programs such as LINK and SSI. “It was a dream of Kay’s to open a shelter and low-cost spay and neuter clinic, and she did,� said Nancy Clementz-Behimer, a shelter volunteer.

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Chancellor Rita Cheng said it will take multiple years for Southern Illinois University Carbondale to compensate for what is now a seven-year enrollment decline.

The overall enrollment for fall 2011 after the 10-day count is 19,817 students — a 220-student decrease from fall 2010.

Enrollment figures were released Tuesday in a university press.

Cheng said the decreased overall enrollment is from several years of enrollment decline. “For example, the graduating seniors in May were in a bigger class than the incoming seniors, so we didn’t lose students — these are students that never were here because the class size from 2008, 2009 and 2010 were smaller than the previous years,� she said. “They have to work through the system before we can see an overall growth.�

Provost John Nicklow said a large incoming-student increase

Carbondale music scene revived RSOs raise awareness TARA KULASH Daily Egyptian In hopes of Carbondale music scene revival, Carbondale Rocks will put on a festival throughout the downtown area Thursday through Sunday.

Carbondale Rocks Revival Music Festival will take place on nine stages with over 60 bands. The hosting venues are Pinch Penny Pub, Sidetracks, PK’s, Hangar 9, Tres Hombres, The Cellar, The Elks Lodge, Varsity Center for the Arts and the Budweiser tent at the Town Square Pavilion. The lineup includes local, regional and even national touring bands such as headliner Jason and the Scorchers.

Matt Longueville, part owner of Tres Hombres, helped birth the idea and said he hopes the event will bring more attention to the invigorating live shows Carbondale has the capability to showcase. “You always hear people

say there’s nothing to do in Carbondale,� Longueville said. “But if you’re a music fan, there is a lot to do and a lot to see. We just want people to notice that.�

Curtis Conley, another event founder, books shows at PK’s. He said he grew up with Longueville and the two swapped ideas for a way to bring the music scene back. “Over the years we had heard the Carbondale music scene was falling flat,� Conley said. “It wasn’t what it used to be, and we just agreed that we wanted to showcase it all at once.�

Conley said the festival isn’t meant to simply bring attention to the bands. He said he also wants everyone to see how many diverse venues there are. The Varsity Center for the Arts, for example, just recently began to book band concerts.

Nic Shurman, Hangar 9's booking agent, helped with the project as well. He said there used to be the fall festival Pig Out in

downtown Carbondale where residents enjoyed live music.

He said it didn’t make enough money, though, so the event died out. Shurman said he hopes the Revival Festival will fill the void and bring bigger acts to the area in the future. “We want to draw from the region and bring people into Carbondale for music,� he said. “And get students involved and let them know there’s other things to do than just house parties.�

Longueville agreed the festival could influence students to have fun responsibly, he said. “I know there were problems on Halloween where everybody was just out on the strip and there wasn’t anything organized going on,� he said. “This is a way to throw a big party all over town, but not for the purpose of getting messed up. It’s to see live music — to see art.�

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for dirty energy SEAN MEREDITH Daily Egyptian

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is the last university in Illinois with an active coal plant that does not plan to shut down.

William Sutphin, secretary for the SIUC Environmental Coalition and former president of Eco Dawgs, said the coalition and the Registered Student Organization launched a campaign earlier this year to pressure the university to create a plan to shut down the coal plant in the near future. “We want to get the university to agree that the coal plant will be shut down and to replace it with other forms of renewable energy,� said Sutphin, a graduate student in geography from Bartlett. The plant is located on State Highway 51

and produces 14 percent of the university’s annual electricity supply, according to the plant and service operations website.

Ruby Roknic, President of Eco Dawgs, said the RSO’s primary focus is to educate students on the effects of dirty energy, such as coal, versus clean energy options, such as solar or wind power.

Roknic, a sophomore from La Grange Park studying civil engineering, said this is important so the university can shift to a clean energy path.

Coal plants negatively affect the environment by causing effects such as increased mercury levels in lakes that prevent people from fishing or even swimming in them, said Cheyenne Adams, a member of Eco Dawgs.

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“The good news is that we had enrollment growth at the new student freshmen level …

We are going to have more students that will go on to be sophomores, juniors and seniors,” Cheng said. “If they work their way through the academic level, they will be a larger class working their way through.”

Cheng said the decreased overall enrollment reflects graduate programs that will have 10.5 percent less students than in fall 2010. John Koropchak, dean of the graduate school, said the decrease in graduate school enrollment is because of a significant decline in non-declared students.

“Non-declared students are students that apply late, or just want to take a class or simply don’t immediately qualify for admission directly into the program,” he said.

Nicklow said he believes the aggressive and intentional effort to bring prospective students to campus by reorganizing the enrollment management department, which he was director of before being named provost in May, is a factor in the increased enrollment.

He said individuals in every unit of enrollment management as well as faculty and staff across the campus came together

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Longueville said he hopes the festival will sway prospective SIUC students to attend the university. He said music majors, in particular, may take an interest in multiple genre flavors the region produces.

The event organizers put effort into making prices inexpensive for college students, residents and visitors to attend. Conley said some shows are

for a broader management effort. He said the number of prospective students they contacted tripled and more than two million contacts were made with individuals.

The team of people that directly oversees enrollment management includes Nicklow; Katharine Suski, associate director of undergraduate admissions; Terri Harfst, director of the financial aid office; and Tamora Workman, director of transfer student services.

Cheng said recruiters for geographic regions such as southern Illinois, Missouri, St. Louis and Chicago have changed SIUC recruitment. She said recruiters now report the number of schools they have visited weekly. They also follow up with their individual schools throughout the year, she said.

“The schools will get to know the recruiters by name, and they will be used to seeing the recruiter and the recruiter will be able to follow up with the students,” Cheng said. “So they won’t just get a phone call from the university, they will get a phone call from someone they know.”

While the full effects of the marketing campaign will not be seen until next fall, Cheng said the company Lipman Hearne did preliminary work with the university in 2010.

Lipman Hearne has helped with language

free while Hangar 9 and Tres Hombres will charge a cover after a certain time each night. He said the headline band will only cost $5.

Sponsors, such as Thomas Publishing, and advertisements in the event program will fund the revival, Longueville said. He said profits from beer sales in the Budweiser tent will go toward the revival’s fund for next year’s show. If there’s a surplus in profit, Longueville said the organization

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in admissions letters, timing of visits to high schools and recruiting geographic areas, she said. She said more than one million and a half e-mails were sent out to high school students.

The retention rate for freshmen-tosophomore students in 2011 stands at 69 percent, the same as fall 2010.

Nicklow said the implementation of the University College model could help increase

will donate some of the money to Carbondale Main Street. He said the point of the event isn’t to make money for Carbondale Rocks, but for businesses in town to keep busy.

Curtis said he knows people have booked hotels in the area for the festival and will eat at the restaurants in town. He said former students will probably come back and bring good business to places such as Mary Lou’s, Quatro’s and Pagliai’s.

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that number next year.

“Our first year students should now start seeing the benefits of those services,” he said.

“The goal is to gradually step up retention rates and overall success rates of our students.”

Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 255.

Machesney Park studying advertising, said she thinks it will be a fun event for students to venture downtown.

“The music I’m excited about is Jason and the Scorchers,” she said. “I have heard that a lot of people are excited about it and planning on coming.”

Shurman said he hopes it will become an annual event, but they have to smooth out the first year's kinks. He said he doesn’t foresee any problems occurring at the festival, but he’s curious to see how the weather

will turn out.

Curtis said it’s hard to get people to attend events they’re not used to.

“We’re all sitting back nervous at this point,” Curtis said. “We’ve done about everything we can do. It could go great, but we’ve all been in the music business for years now and it’s impossible to tell.”

Tara Kulash can be reached at tkulash@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 273.

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Adams, a sophomore from Bloomington studying zoology, said the group will focus this semester on other impacts the coal plant has on the university besides providing power, such as the adverse health effects on students from having a coal plant on campus.

“Our electricity for the campus is purchased from Ameren, but that uses mostly coal and nuclear powered energy,” Adams said.

“I think our best bet as to what sustainable energy to use on campus would be to buy a clean energy, such as solar power.”

Bryan Johnsrud, a worker for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources in the Abandoned Mined Lands Division, said he spoke on the environmental impact of mining and burning coal at a recent event held by the organization.

“There are a number of

educational items put out and information that is generally skewed towards a kind of pro-coal or pro-energy approach,” he said.

Johnsrud said the topic he spoke about was based on his belief that there is no such thing as clean coal. He said he wants people to understand how fossil fuels, including coal, can cost the people who use them.

Eco Dawgs’ primary goal for the year is to attend an environmental convention called Power Shift, which focuses on organizational training, at the end of October, he said.

The group also plans to participate in a nationwide action against dirty energy and wants to organize students on campus for the October event.

“We need to start having a sustainable lifestyle now if we want to have a future,” Adams said.

Sean Meredith can be reached at smeredith@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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Lee’s remnants bring fresh flood worries to East MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press

W IN D HA M, N .Y. — Drenched and dispirited, East Coast residents recovering from Hurricane Irene were stuck under the chugging remnants of Tropical Storm Lee Wednesday, some of them grudgingly preparing to move to higher ground yet again as rivers rose.

From Maryland to New England, heavy rains swelled waterways, flooded highways and stretched emergency responders already dealing with cleanup from last week’s punishing blow from Irene. Sodden ground gave rain nowhere to go but directly into streams, creeks and rivers that rushed a turbid red-brown past rural communities.

“Now it’s getting on my last nerves,” said Carol Slater, 53, of Huntersfield, N.Y., on the northern edge of New York’s Catskill Mountains and just outside of hard-hit Prattsville.

The National Weather Service predicted heavy rain would continue across the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states through Thursday with anywhere from 4 to 7 more

inches falling and up to 10 in isolated pockets. Flood watches and warnings were up throughout the region.

New York positioned rescue workers, swift-water boats and helicopters with hoists to respond quickly in the event of flash flooding.

Teams stood by in Vermont, which bore the brunt of Irene’s remnants last week, and hundreds of Pennsylvania residents were told to flee a rising creek.

By noon Wednesday, Prattsville was cut off, its main roads covered with water as public works crews tried to dredge the creeks to alleviate the flooding. Trash bins stood in the mud-caked streets to collect debris left

by Irene and the wreckage of houses destroyed by the earlier storm still dotted the area.

Heavy rain fell and residents were ready to evacuate as the Schoharie Creek escaped its banks and smaller streams showed significant flooding.

“Businesses and residential areas were devastated before,” Wayne Speenburgh, chairman of the Greene County Legislature, said of Prattsville.

“Downtown, there’s nobody living because there’s no homes to live in.”

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Samantha Kingsley, 6, traces her finger over names etched in sandstone rock Monday on the Giant City Nature Trail at Giant City State Park. Some of the names carved in the rock date back to the 1860s.

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GENNA ORD Daily Egyptian The land is a glimpse into history — dating back 150 years, then 1,400 and then tens of thousands. Hallways of sandstone show the names of Civil War soldiers. A stone fence, its purpose unknown, is a remnant of Native American society, and the landscape itself is what Illinois used to look like — cliffs, creeks and hundreds of species of plants.

And to think, this is just a ten-minute drive from campus.

Giant City State Park was created in 1927 when the State of Illinois acquired 1,100 acres of land throughout Jackson and Union counties. Today, the park includes more than 4,000 acres of ground, including the 110-acre Fern Rocks Nature Preserve.

Rob Stroh, an Americorps worker who has worked at Giant City for slightly over a year, said the park’s highlights are the Giant City Nature Trail, which includes the sandstone ‘streets’ the park is named for, and Giant City Lodge.

The Lodge, hand-built from local hardwoods and sandstone, was erected in the late 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corp. “They also have a really good fried chicken dinner,� he said.

The Giant City Nature Trail, one of eight in the park, is a favorite among visitors for several reasons. It is here that names are engraved in the towering sandstone with impeccable penmanship. Stroh said two of the

Sandstone City more notable names hikers can see are those of brothers Alfred S. Thompson and Theodore W. Thompson, who left their names and the date February 22, 1862. Theodore Thompson was serving as a military captain under Col. John A. Logan at the time and later settled in Carbondale. It was he who, following his death in 1903, left the tract of land that is now Thompson

Woods to SIU, Stroh said.

Giant City Nature Trail is also home to one of the park’s greatest challenges for brave hikers — Fat Man’s Squeeze. “It was intense,� said Chris Broms, a sophomore from Arlington Heights studying chemistry. “I came with a group from church, and only two of us made it through.�

Fat Man’s Squeeze is, aptly named, a

very narrow corridor through one of the bluffs; it angles slightly upward before taking a turn and leading out. Only a few feet in, light vanishes and only the surrounding walls act as a guide. Once through, the end can be the hardest part, as it is the narrowest section.

Even for those who are not as adventurous, the park has a lot to offer.

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Adam Erler, a sophomore from Arlington Heights studying math education, waits with Charlie, a dog, for his friends to scramble down from a boulder Monday at Giant City State Park.

Rocher, visited the park on Labor Day with his wife and two children. He and his son examined the names carved into the bluff a little more intently than most. “We did this trail because of the Civil War names,� Kingsley said. “I’m a Civil War buff.�

History is a big part of the park’s attraction. Stroh said the namesake of Stonefort Nature Trail, a third of a mile hike, is remnants of a rock wall built by Native Americans sometime between 600 and 800 A.D. Thousands of years before this, the park itself was shaped when the Illinoisan glacier stopped just short of it and flattened almost all of the northern region.

Even if visitors are less interested in the past and just want to enjoy the outdoors, there are plenty of opportunities for enjoyment. The eight trails range from the wheelchairaccessible Post Oak Nature Trail, a third of a mile long, to the Red Cedar Trail, a rugged 12 miles that wind around the park and has a backpacking campsite.

There are also picnic areas throughout the park, and visitors can bring their own horses to ride or take a trail ride offered through Giant City Stables. The light-dappled woods and calling birds make for a serene picnic location or a great way to wind down from a long week. Sometimes it is hard to remember that a break from civilization is only minutes away.

Genna Ord can be reached at genna.ord@dailyegyptian.com or 536-311 ext. 255.

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Private universities lead in top music and audio degree programs JAMES JONES Daily Egyptian Private universities have always been recognized for popular names, expensive tuition, their rigorous curriculum and high employment rates post-graduation. Three of these institutions can now add a new title to their resumes: Top university for music degrees.

Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ., makes it a priority to follow trends and evolutions in the music industry.

It is from its research that the school of music has created a specialized degree program for undergraduate and graduate students.

“Our undergraduates can have a concentration in a given area of music, however they cannot declare a specific major until after their

sophomore year,” said Greg Smith, academic programs manager at Princeton. “It is after they complete their undergraduate studies that they are allotted our specialty degrees.”

Princeton’s list of specialty degrees covers areas such as a Bachelor of Arts in music with a concentration in contemporary, urban and popular music. This program is designed for students who are singers or songwriters interested in performing and creating original music. Other degrees offered include a Bachelors of Arts in instrumental performance in jazz, audio engineering, music composition in television and film and a degree program with an emphasis on writing lyrical music.

Another institute that has taken music trends and translated them into student ready programs is The Peabody

Institute of Johns Hopkins University.

“What makes our program so unique is that fact that we allow our students to double major with a performance degree and a recording arts degree, something that few schools offer,” said Ed Tetreault, manager of the recording arts department at Johns Hopkins.

Unlike Princeton University, students of the Peabody Institute can be undergraduates and receive a bachelor’s in recording arts, or continue their studies in graduate school. Tetreault said another factor which adds to their uniqueness is their critical acclaim; their program has been referred to as the counterpart to the European Tonmeister training program, an extensive program for European musicians.

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STEVE MATZKER | DAILY EGYPTIAN Kaitlin Fahy, a senior from Waterloo studying clarinet performance, plays the bass clarinet Wednesday during an SIUC Wind Ensemble practice at Altgeld Hall.

One song practiced was “Blue Shades,” composed by Frank Ticheli. The ensemble will perform a joint concert with the Studio Jazz Orchestra Sept. 29 at Shryock Auditorium.

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Flow like a river, gently but with power. Take the course of least resistance. Spend time splashing around with people you love.

Cancer -- Today is an 8 -- Search for buried treasure, whether hiding in the budget as an unnecessary expense that can be cut, or a resource that you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know you had. Seek and find.

Libra -- Today is a 7 -- Abrupt changes occur at work, and you may have to call for reinforcements. Schedule time for romance. In the end, love prevails.

A quiet night at home is a treat.

Capricorn -- Today is an 8 -Money is coming in (if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re willing to accept it), but also going, like the tide. Share the profits and invest wisely. Keep it moving.

Taurus -- Today is a 7 -- An opportunity to earn greater status opens up. Stay attentive, and show your portfolio. Be prepared to provide references. Listen to a dream.

Leo -- Today is a 9 -- Delegate to increase your effectiveness. Let a partner drive, so you can sit back and relax with friends. Working with a great team shares the load. Listen to suggestions, and foster innovation.

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Gemini -- Today is an 8 -Adventure awaits, so get your chores done and go play! It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to be expensive.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make a big deal about it ... just go. Surprise people, even yourself.

Virgo -- Today is a 7 -- This train is about to take off, so hold on tightly. Work increases. Sudden stops could happen, so brace yourself and hold on for the ride.

It could be fun.

Sagittarius -- Today is a 7 -- You have the power to solve any misunderstandings today.

Celebrate failures, as they show specifically whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s missing for success to occur. Persistence pays.

Pisces -- Today is a 5 -- Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re under a bit more pressure now.

Look twice to see if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real or invented. Saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;noâ&#x20AC;? respectfully might have more integrity than a â&#x20AC;&#x153;yesâ&#x20AC;? you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t keep.

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Online courses give students easy access KARL BULLOCK Daily Egyptian Online courses may change the definition of what it means to be a traditional student for some colleges and universities.

According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the University of Maryland requires undergraduates to take 12 credit hours in alternative learning modes which include online, face-to-face and blended courses. The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system pushes to have 25 percent of credits earned online by 2015. According to the article, the universities use web courses as a means to allow better access to students, save money, quicken the time spent earning a degree and manage classroom needs.

Susan Logue, associate provost for academic administration at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, said she thinks both the classroom and online method can be equally effective if the tools used for students are appropriate.

“Here at the university, online courses are already blended in because they involve courses in blackboard,” she said. “On-campus students have taken distance education classes online, so it’s already happening here, too.”

The SIUC office of distance education and off-campus programs website lists 48 online courses available to students.

The Illinois Virtual Campus, a service for distance education students around the world, reported in 2010 that Illinois colleges and universities offered 10,734 online course sections for the fall semester and enrolled 254,200 students, which is a 14 percent increase from the 9,386 online course sections in fall 2009.

Greg Budzban, interim chair of the mathematics department, said most on-campus learning will eventually use a hybrid model. He said technology grants the ability to assign homework online and provide easier access for students to class work.

The mathematics department began using an online tool for math classes last spring semester.

A computer lab on Morris Library’s first level was dedicated for use by students in math classes.

“Having an online software system gives the student suggestions, hints and immediate feedback on whether they got the answer right,” he said.

Daniel Mussa, a professor of mathmatics, said students who are passive learners in the classroom do not learn as much as they could. He said students do not benefit from watching their professors while being talked to.

“The dynamic of the classroom is evolving and students need to be more engaged as opposed to being lectured at,” he said.

Mussa said online courses are a way for universities to help students get into the active learning experience, which involves feedback on problem solving in their homework. He said it also provides access to students who live off campus.

Budzban said immediacy is an important part of online courses because when students have questions or want to know how they perform in specific subjects, that information is provided to them when they need it.

“You give a homework assignment and they turn it in the next day,” he said. “How quickly can you give that assignment back, corrected, to them with the feedback they need to correct their mistakes? That’s hard to do.”

Although online courses can be effective, Budzban said he thinks it is not a method which should be used in the long run. He said with technology, professors cannot have every solution programmed into a computer.

“The computer can’t ask a student ‘how are you thinking about this?’ or ‘when you see this problem what are you thinking about?” he said. “It’s only possible with human interaction.”

Mussa said online course enrollment is a model which forprofit schools have gone to because it’s the cheapest way for them to run courses.

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“If it’s going to be costeffective, it will be from the standpoint (that) students will be successful and won’t be taking classes over,” he said.

Budzban said he hopes universities that move toward an online learning module are not just thinking about how to cut costs.

He said it’s easy to be trapped in an online environment and never have to interact with other human beings.

“The college experience goes beyond taking courses,” Budzban said. “To be on campus and interact with people who have different ideas and diverse opinions has a huge amount of value in a persons life.”

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

Obama’s best jobs plan might be status quo PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON — First, do no harm. Economists say the most important part of the jobs plan President Barack Obama will unveil Thursday night is the renewal of two measures already in place — a cut in Social Security taxes and emergency aid for the unemployed.

His new proposals, like spending more for transportation projects and cutting taxes for companies that hire the unemployed, probably wouldn’t add many jobs, they say.

Not soon, anyway.

“These are not bold, new, big programs,” says Nariman

Behravesh, chief economist with IHS Global Insight. “You put everything together, it’s going to be pretty small.”

The job market needs big help.

In August, the economy generated zero job growth. And the unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, a level more typical for a recession than for a recovery in its third year.

For Obama, who also faces sinking approval ratings as he goes before a joint session of Congress and on national TV, the options are limited. Congress must approve any new measures, and congressional Republicans oppose new spending.

“Anything that would be of a big enough size to really help the labor market is going to have trouble

getting through Congress,” says Michael Hanson, senior economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

“And anything that can get through Congress will be too small to be much help.”

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde and other economists have urged Congress to do more to help job growth and the economy over the next year or two — and worry about cutting spending later.

Economist Barry Bosworth of the Brookings Institution, for example, says the government needs to spend $700 billion to $800 billion a year to generate healthy job growth.

Obama’s plan was still being

shaped Wednesday. Here are the ideas the White House is considering: — Extending, for one year, a cut in the payroll tax that supports Social Security. The cut, part of a deal struck last December by Obama and Republicans, reduces the tax to 4.2 percent from 6.2 percent on the first $106,800 a person makes. That amounts to $1,000 a year for someone earning $50,000.

Keeping the tax cut would cost the government $110 billion to $115 billion. The research firm Macroeconomic Advisers estimates it would support 400,000 jobs in 2012. The theory: More money in people’s pockets increases demand for goods and services across the economy, and businesses have to

have enough workers to keep up.

The problem is that keeping the tax cut doesn’t create jobs where they didn’t exist before.

“It’s in the ‘Do no harm’ camp,” says economist Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute. “We have that support now, so it’s not going to gain us anything. It’s just a matter of: If we let it go, we lose.”

Critics of this approach also point out that the extra money in people’s paychecks this year has mostly been eaten up by higher gasoline prices.

“Continuing the payroll tax cut is tempting,” says John Makin, economist at the American Enterprise Institute. “But I have to ask, if I look at the results, is it worth an increase in the deficit and debt?”

Adult smoking rate edges down slightly: CDC data LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press CHICAGO — Fewer U.S. adults are smoking and those who do light up are smoking fewer cigarettes each day, but the trend is weaker than the government had hoped.

According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Tuesday, 19.3 percent of adults said they smoked last year, down from about 21 percent in 2005. The rate for

smoking 30 or more cigarettes daily dropped to about 8 percent from almost 13 percent during the same time period.

The report only compared last year with 2005 and says the decline means 3 million fewer adults were smoking. The CDC earlier reported that the 2009 rate was 20.6 percent and rates fluctuated during the fiveyear period.

The five-year decline was much slower than a drop seen over the previous 40 years, said Dr.

Thomas Frieden, director of the Atlanta-based agency. He said any decline is a good step, but also said tobacco use remains a significant health burden.

“About half of all smokers will be killed by tobacco if they don’t quit,” Frieden said during a news briefing.

“You don’t have to be a heavy smoker or a long-time smoker to get a smoking-related disease or have a heart attack or asthma attack,” Frieden said. “The sooner you quit smoking, the sooner your

body can begin to heal.”

The 2010 numbers are based partly on face-to-face interviews with almost 27,000 Americans aged 18 and older.

Increases in federal and state taxes on cigarettes and new clean air laws are among reasons for the drop, said Dr. Tim McAfee, director of the CDC’s office on smoking and health.

Those positive trends have been offset by efforts from the tobacco industry, including

offering discounts to consumers, McAfee said.

If the slowed rate of decline continues, adult smoking rates will reach 17 percent by 2020, far higher than the government’s goal of no more than 12 percent, the CDC report said.

Government efforts to further reduce smoking rates include proposed graphic cigarette packaging labels, which are being challenged in court by the tobacco industry.

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Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis prepares for tough schedule KEVIN TAYLOR Daily Egyptian The SIU menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis team won the Missouri Valley Conference tournament in 2009, a feat which the 2011-2012 team looks to duplicate.

After an 11-8 campaign in 2010-2011 that ended in the MVC tournament semi-finals loss to Drake University, coach Dann Nelson said the team could benefit from the returning players as well as the newcomers. He said he expects their contributions to add immediate relief to the season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our team is much deeper from top to bottom,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Nelson said the team will need to play well, especially as it pertains to the scheduleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heightened competition difficulty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a much tougher schedule this year, much tougher tournaments,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even though some of the new guys may be thrown into the fire, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we want to do to prepare for the conference tournament.â&#x20AC;?

Nelson said he thinks one missing aspect from the 2010-2011 team was depth, but that will not be the case this year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our depth is something that can really help us succeed,â&#x20AC;? Nelson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We got some guys who can really play and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re expecting good things.â&#x20AC;?

Nelson expects help from several players, most notably sophomore Jorge Cavero, who won the MVC freshman player of the year award.

Cavero, in his sophomore season, posted a 15-4 record in his first year, including a stellar stretch in which he won seven straight matches. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Individually, I would like to get a ranking from the NCAA,â&#x20AC;? Cavero said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we can get a ranking as a team too. I feel we are a better team than last year.â&#x20AC;?

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Orhan Spahic, a junior from Sarajevo, Bosnia, studying business management, serves a ball to a teammate Wednesday during menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tennis practice. Of the rosterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nelson said he is impressed with the hard work his team has shown early on. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The work ethic and mentality of the guys has been impressive,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let things get in your head on the court; I think in that aspect we are ahead of the curve.â&#x20AC;?

Junior Orhan Spahic said one goal of his is simply to win more matches. However, the statistics often do not always reflect improvement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel that I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need statistics to tell me I have improved,â&#x20AC;? Spahic said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can feel it when I have improved.â&#x20AC;?

nine players, three are new to the team. A tougher practice schedule is being implemented to prepare the team for talented competition, coach Dann Nelson said.

Along with Cavero and Spahic, Nelson expects contributions from senior Stanislas Rodier as well as juniors Brandon Florez and Badr Cherradi.

Cherradi, a transfer from Shorter College in Georgia, was previously ranked in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and played in two NAIA national championships.

The Salukis begin fall tournament play Friday, Sept.

23, in the Middle Tennessee State University Dale Short Shootout.

Kevin Taylor can be reached at ktaylor@dailyegyptian.com or at 536-3311 ext. 269.

Mystery of the mind raises concerns for head injuries CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian Professional sports are becoming a bit of a head case.

As players have become bigger, faster and stronger over the years, concussions have undoubtedly been noticed as a growing problem.

Primarily focused in the National Hockey League and the National Football League, two of the hardest hitting professional sports in America, athletes are sitting out more frequently due to the injury and taking longer periods of time to recover.

Perhaps the most noteworthy athlete of the bunch is Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby.

In the annual Winter Classic on New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, Crosby suffered a concussion because of a hit from

Washington Capitals winger David Steckel. He has yet to get back into the full swing of practices and competitive hockey.

Several neurologists, such as Dr. Charles Tator, have taken notice to the frequency and severity of concussions in the sport.

Tator, a neurosurgeon in Toronto, has done extensive research on concussions in hockey.

He said he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect Crosby to ever make a full recovery, nor does he expect him to play at the same level he was at before his injury. This is mainly focused on the amount of time it has taken him to recover from the hit. Throughout the past decade, the average recovery time for a concussion in the NHL has been six days.

Tator made note that there is more to the sport than just how

hard a player can shoot or how fast they can skate, as each athlete brings a different mental aspect to the game.

One thing that set Crosby apart from other players in the league was his ability to read his opponents and anticipate the play before it developed.

Another hockey player who has been down a considerable amount of time with a concussion is David Perron, St. Louis Blues forward. After an unorthodox hit

by San Jose Sharks forward Joe Thornton on Nov. 4, 2010, Perron has been unable to lace up his skates and join the organization for any team workouts. As of now, the organization is expecting it to be at least a full year before he steps back on the ice wearing the blue note sweater.

While hockey has received the majority of the attention in the past year, directly related to the amount of time players have been forced to stay off the ice, football has claimed the long-term attention to the playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; injuries.

Concussions have been a longtime re-occurrence throughout the NFL, and in recent years experts have been able to relate life-long ailments that correlate with the injury.

Scientists have found concussions and other brain related injuries to lead to Alzheimerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease, dementia and even Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s disease.

One of the main points in the NFL lockout was to determine the appropriate way to cut guaranteed money to rookies, and direct some of that money toward former players with lingering effects.

Surely in pure coincidence, former players recently filed a lawsuit against the NFL about the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach with concussionrelated injuries. The suit is surrounded around the known dangers of the injuries and the leagueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attempt to hide the news from its players until June 2010.

One problem that does continue to be an issue for the NFL, its players and the NFL Playerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Association is players dismissing the side-effects of a concussion or hiding the injury from its medical staff all together.

Many players have admitted to ignoring the injury over the years.

Perhaps this is just part of the rough-and-tumble aspect of the game.

While some players say that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just part of the game, it might just be the part that ends the game.