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City Council: Strike effects not yet clear ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian City Council members say time will tell if the SIUC Faculty Association’s strike will have a significant effect on the city. “Hopefully it won’t, but we’re going to have to be realistic,� said Mayor Joel Fritzler.

He said any effect it might have on enrollment, and it turn the city’s revenues, won’t be clear until the spring and next fall.

Fritzler presented a resolution at the Nov. 1 Carbondale City Council meeting urging SIUC’s unions and administration to come to an agreement in their contract negotiations and avert a strike.

In the eventual strike's aftermath, the council members generally agree that its relatively short duration probably limited its economic effect on the city. “Since it was fairly quickly resolved, I don’t think it will have a major impact,� said Councilman Lee Fronabarger.

At the Nov. 1 council meeting, Councilwoman Corene McDaniel said strikes are irrecoverable. She said Monday that while its length may limit the negative effects of the strike, there are nevertheless going to be economic losses. “Still, the loss in a week will make a difference,� she said.

McDaniel said students whose professors were on the picket lines also lost a week’s worth of their education.

On the other hand, Councilman Chris Wissmann said the strike offered the opportunity for some face-toface experience with important issues such as workers’ rights, unionization and labor negotiations. “There’s some real practical learning going on,� he said.

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faculty could actually be an asset for the university, said council member Jane Adams. “I was impressed by the consistent statement from students that they wanted their professors in the classroom,� she said.

Adams said while she was initially dismayed by the strike and feared it would damage the university and city, the students' enthusiasm could show prospective students that there’s a positive relationship between students and faculty. “That’s really wonderful publicity for the university, so I’m hopeful some good will come of this strike,� she said.

However, Wissmann said the heated rhetoric that accompanied the strike could disincline General Assembly members from increasing allocations to the university.

The city’s sales tax receipts will also take a hit from the strike, he said.

Councilman Lance Jack said it was unusually slow last week at his business, Fat Patties, and it seemed likely that the strike was the cause.

However, he said strikes happen across the country every year and don't have lingering negative effects.

Fritzler said the city is going to have to take the strike into consideration when it begins its budget process at today's council meeting.

He said if the city loses money as a result of the strike through a drop in enrollment, it would affect what services the city can fund.

Despite the recent growth of sexually transmitted diseases in the area, students say they continue to engage in sexual activity.

Christy Hamilton, coordinator of sexual health, relationship violence and sexual assault programs at the Student Health Center, said reported cases of Chlamydia in Jackson County in 2010 were higher than average in Illinois.

In an effort to address the high rate, Hamilton said the Student Health Center has made it easier for students to access STD testing.

Tram Mai, a freshman from Mundelein studying fashion design and merchandising, said she is concerned about the threat of STDs and regrets some of the people she has been intimate with during her first semester. “There are so many risks on a college campus; I feel like everyone should be aware of the consequences of having sex,� she said.

Despite the repercussions of an active sex life, many SIU students said they continue to have sex, several of which said their encounters are typically casual.

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Karli Richter, a graduate student in recreation from Carbondale, watches her dogs Molly and Banana Sunday afternoon at Stehr Field, which serves as one of the area's few dog parks. The blustery and

warm weather took a hiatus Monday evening when the Weather Channel reported a tornado watch for the Carbondale area as a cold front swept the region.

Students admit to casual sex despite STD risk, consequences ASHLEY ZBOREK Daily Egyptian

27.5% Never have 27.6% Haven’t in last 30 days 44.9% Have in last 30 days

Never have 30.3% Haven’t in last 30 days 20.0% Have in last 30 days 49.7%

76.0% Never have 19.0% Haven’t in last 30 days 5.0% Have in last 30 days

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Adams said one couldn’t really blame a possible enrollment slump

next fall on the strike because enrollment has been declining for some time. If it happened to go up, one couldn’t say the strike helped, either, she said.

Most council members agreed that despite the university’s importance to Carbondale’s health, there’s little the city can do to help in situations such as these aside

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However, the city's powerlessness in the situation isn't any different from most strikes, said

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Councilman Don Monty.

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

Dental hygiene students, professors adjust after strike BRENDAN SMITH Daily Egyptian Since the Faculty Association ended the weeklong strike Wednesday evening, professors across campus have returned to their classrooms with mixed emotions.

During the course of the strike, a number of professors and students questioned interim instructors’ purpose and credibility and voiced their concerns on how it would impact professors’ curriculum. In reentering their classrooms, professors said the transition has been fairly simple, but some students disagree.

“I know who my students are; a substitute wouldn’t know that,” Faith Miller said.

Miller, an associate professor of dental hygiene, said her relationship with her students laid a solid foundation in her absence. She said her classes aren’t any further behind than before the strike.

“I’ve gotten half my students in each lab through where they need to be,” Miller said. “I have a couple groups who are done and they don’t even need to have to come to lab next week because they’re caught up.”

Lindsay Strieker, a sophomore from Jackson, Mo., studying dental hygiene, said the strike had a bigger impact for her. Strieker said last week four of her classes were without instructors and the remaining class was a review of material she learned earlier in the semester.

Strieker said because of the strike, she’s now behind in her classes and the curriculum for many of her courses has been altered.

“We’re very behind and everything has been delayed,” Strieker said. “Tests we’re suppose to have this week have been pushed back to next week because we didn’t have any teachers there to cover it ... everything we were suppose to cover this week will be pushed back to after Thanksgiving break.”

Strieker said this week her professors have reviewed much of the material they covered before the strike. Because she is a sophomore, Striker said many of her classes are lecture based and are harder to recover from than labs.

Miller said her Monday lab during the strike

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wasn’t covered, which she said she expected.

“You can’t be at two places at once,” Miller said. “There are literally three different classes going on at the same time in terms of sophomore, juniors and seniors. While one class is being covered simultaneously, there’s something that’s not going to get covered because there (was not) enough personnel to cover them.”

Ronda DeMattei, an associate professor in dental hygiene, said although she feels comfortable with the state of her classes she will be offering voluntary extra lab hours this week as well as the week following Thanksgiving break.

Strieker said her professors have expressed similar proposals, with most offering extended office hours.

DeMattei said she doesn’t feel her classes will be heavily affected from the strike due to how she planned her syllabus.

“I always plan some (leeway) at the end of the semester, and I will have some time to have everything covered,” DeMattei said.

Strieker said she is worried on the lasting impact the strike will have on her classes and what it means for the rest of her semester.

“It’s going to be very stressful because we’re all trying to pick up on things we’ve all missed," Striker said. "All our tests are going to be spread out. It will be harder to recover from."

Brendan Smith can be reached at bsmith@dailyegyptian or 536-3311 ext. 258.

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Faith Miller, left, associate professor of dental hygiene, helps Lauren Barnes, center, a junior from St. Louis studying dental hygiene, prepare local anesthesia for Katelin Cavenaugh, a senior from Walnut Ridge, Ark., Monday in the Applied Sciences and Arts building.

According to Amber Schaefer, a junior from St. Louis studying dental hygiene,

classes such as Periodontics and Local Anesthesia Practicum lab —which are taught by Miller and other Faculty Association members — were canceled because of the strike. Schaefer said students in the dental hygiene program had only three classes. “I’m just glad to be back in the classroom,” Miller said, “I didn’t want them to get further behind.”

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“It is easier to pick up girls in college," said Carson Pearce, a freshman from Plainfield studying aviation technologies. “I think everyone is more open to sex and experimenting just because that is a presumption that goes along with attending college."

Pearce said he thinks casual sex is more socially acceptable in college.

However, he said he regrets several sexual encounters he's had in college.

“I feel bad because most of the girls I have hooked up with, I wouldn’t have if I was sober,” Pearce said. “Saying that, I would consider myself to be pretty sexually irresponsible. I always make sure to have protected sex, but I barely know most of the girls I have been with.”

Pearce said he attributes many of his hook-ups to “beer goggles,” which he described as “a phenomena in which the consumption of alcohol makes a girl about 10 times better looking.”

Like Pearce, other students said an active sex life has become normal for college students. Students reported peer pressure, alcohol consumption and the freedom of living independently as contributing factors.

“There are so many things that factor into it, such as being away from home, consuming alcohol, meeting so many new people and just having the freedom to have sex whenever, wherever you want for the first time,” said Christine Donovan, a sophomore from Buffalo Grove

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 studying hospitality and tourism administration. “Before I came to school, I would have never thought I would have sex as much as I do or with as many people.”

Hamilton agreed there are many factors that contribute to students' decision to be sexually active.

“While I think college provides students with the opportunity to meet new people, have more private time and just have freedoms that they never had before, I still believe that age and maturity are large factors in a person's sexual activity,” she said.

Hamilton said she encourages students to exercise those freedoms and opportunities while making decisions that are truly right for them and not for other people.

“It is supposed to be a positive experience; I encourage students to be responsible, educated and happy,” she said.

According to the American College Health Association’s National College Health Assessment, 56.8 percent of college students use contraceptives when having vaginal intercourse, and 16 percent of sexually active college students reported using (or their partner used) emergency contraception or the “morning after pill” within the last 12 months.

Mai said she thinks peer pressure is a large contributing factor to students that have sex.

“I know a lot of people who have sex just because they are in college and think that their peers expect them to,” she said.

Hamilton said peer pressure can make it easy for students to do something they may later regret. But,

she said students are probably ready if they can be completely comfortable with their partner.

“If you cannot look them in the eye or have to do it with the lights off, then you are probably just doing it because you were pressured to,” Hamilton said.

Donovan said peer pressure hasn't affected her, and she feels comfortable having sex with multiple partners as long as she knows the person and is sure they are being safe.

“It is nothing to be ashamed of; I like having sex and most of the people I do it with, I know pretty well,” Donovan said. “ Of course I have my regrets, but I consider those experiences just something to learn from.”

Donovan said the beginning of college is an open invitation to have sex, and she encourages others to do it so as long as they are safe and smart.

“I feel like everyone needs to try it.

I am not saying to go crazy, but there are a lot of benefits to having sex,” Donovan said.

Mai said having casual sex has helped her realize she wants something long-term with a person that she really cares about.

"It's made me want to have sex with someone because of their personality, not just because they look good," she said.

For students who seek more information on STD testing and sex in general, the Student Health Center offers STD testing along with birth control options and sexual counseling.

Ashley Zborek can be reached at azborek@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 268.

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Internships enhance student education JACQUELINE MUHAMMAD Daily Egyptian With winter break around the corner, students are thinking about ways to maximize their newfound free time.

For many students, internships are the best way to gain knowledge in their field, while giving them a competitive edge in the job sector.

Beverly Robbins, career services specialist at Career Services, said internships are great opportunities for students to gain work experience because most entry-level positions require a background.

Caroline Ebelhar, a senior from Marion studying management, said when she transferred to the university as a junior, she was not

very interested in internships.

“I didn’t think it was that important. I was still under the mindset that a degree would be enough,” she said.

After doing an externship — a week-long learning experience similar to an internship — with the Alumni Association, Ebelhar said she quickly changed her mind because alumni explained that she needed real-world experience.

“I don’t always remember everything I learned in the classroom because it’s all so different, but once you’re in the work environment, you can make the connection,” she said.

Robbins said Career Services, SIUC’s career planning and employment services agency, uses Saluki Recruiting, their

online database, to helps students interact with recruiters and find internships.

“Applying for an internship is like applying for a full-time job and career,” she said.

Robbins said students should remember that recruiters are looking for someone who will fit into a professional work environment. She said students should keep in mind that factors such as dressing professionally and punctuality are important.

Ryan Madigan, a sophomore from Gurnee studying radiotelevision, said he is currently working out the details of an internship opportunity in Houston.

Madigan said by networking with the alumni in his fraternity he was offered an internship in his

field.

He said he wants to continue to look for internships throughout his undergraduate career, and pay could become a factor as he considers future positions.

Ebelhar said having a paid internship can be beneficial and sometimes a necessity, as some internships require long work hours, which may make it difficult for students to have a job.

She said even though earning money is nice, sometimes the experience gained can be considered a form of pay in itself.

“An internship is an opportunity to build yourself as a brand, and although it may not be paid, it can be a trade-off … there are the pros and cons but it’s about the experience,” Ebelhar said.

Similar to Madigan, many students find internships through networking and they can even develop future opportunities.

Ebelhar said networking is about finding a job, having connections and gaining experience, and if it was not for networking, she would not have gained either her externship or internship.

For students who think it's too late to look for internships, Robbins said it’s never too late to start.

"Even as an intern you gain work experience; it's about making yourself more employable," she said.

Jacqueline Muhammad can be reached at jmuhammad@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

Cain accuser's former boyfriend says they all met HOLBROOK MOHR PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press SH R EV E P ORT, La. — Sharon Bialek's former boyfriend said Monday the then-couple spent an evening with Herman Cain in the 1990s. That countered the GOP presidential candidate's earlier statements that he never met the woman who has accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior more than a decade ago.

"Sharon indeed did meet and spend time with Mr. Cain," Victor Jay Zuckerman said.

In turn, Cain repeated his assertion that he had never met his accuser.

"I'm standing by what I have said," Cain said in Green Bay, Wis. Hours after Zuckerman stepped forward to give his account, Cain's wife — Gloria — was defending her husband in a television interview as turmoil over allegations of sexual impropriety while he led the National Restaurant Association stretched into a third week.

Cain, trying to get back to a business-as-usual campaign schedule, gave an interview to the editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel but stumbled through a question on Libya.

The video ricocheted around the Internet.

After saying he did not agree with President Barack Obama's handing of the revolt against longtime Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Cain said he would have taken similar steps to Obama. But he hesitated before answering.

"I got to go back, see, got all this stuff twirling around in my head," Cain said, shifting in his chair and crossing his legs during a 10-second silence.

Asked later about the moment, Cain dismissed it and told reporters: "I paused so I could gather my thoughts." An aide later said Cain hadn't had enough sleep.

It was another distraction for the candidate just as he was looking to get beyond questions about his behavior while he led the restaurant association more than a decade ago. The allegations

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have dogged his campaign for the GOP nomination and sent his poll numbers slipping seven weeks before the leadoff caucuses in Iowa.

Cain has denied wrongdoing and vowed to stay in the presidential race.

Even so, he has been unable to put the controversy behind him.

Zuckerman, a Louisiana pediatrician, corroborated some of Bialek's story — with attorney Gloria Allred at his side — just as the firestorm around Cain seemed to be subsiding since the first disclosures on Oct. 30 rocked Cain's campaign. There hadn't been any new information disclosed in the past week about Cain or the accusations, and plans for a joint news conference by his accusers seemed increasingly unlikely.

A week ago, Cain said he didn't

remember Bialek and had never seen her until she went public with allegations that Cain groped her when she sought his help getting a job after the trade group he led had fired her.

“I saw Ms. Allred and her client yesterday in that news conference for the very first time," Cain said after that event. "As I sat in my hotel room with a couple of my staff members, as they got to the microphone, my first response in my mind and reaction was, I don't even know who this woman is. Secondly, I didn't recognize the name at all."

Later, Cain added: "I don't even know who this woman is. I tried to remember if I recognized her and I didn't."

But, on Monday, Zuckerman echoed Bialek's account of the

two of them meeting Cain — and spending the evening with him — in Chicago in 1997 at the National Restaurant Association convention. He said that Cain then invited them to an after-dinner party in a hotel suite.

"At that party, Mr. Cain engaged both of us in conversation," Zuckerman said.

Later that year, Zuckerman said, Bialek told him that Cain inappropriately touched her when, at Zuckerman's suggestion, she met him in Washington to seek employment help.

"When she returned, she was upset," Zuckerman said. "She said that something had happened and that Mr. Cain had touched her in an inappropriate manner. She said she handled it and didn't want to talk about it any further."

On Monday, Cain's team pointed to his earlier statement that he does not remember Bialek.

Cain attorney Lin Wood, in an interview with The Associated Press, said Cain met with a large number of people while leading the National Restaurant Association.

And if someone remembers meeting Cain, Wood said, it is possible that Cain would not remember them.

"He doesn't recall Ms. Bialek," Wood said. "But what he does know is that he has never done such a thing as she alleges to any person."

At least three other women have claimed that Cain engaged in inappropriate sexual conduct toward them in the late 1990s when he ran the restaurant industry's Washington-based trade association.

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Saturday at Fan Fest in the Black Diamond Harley Davidson Center.

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by All American Pro Wrestling that featured five different fights, including two title defenses. “I hope they keep this around,� said Richard Hill, a spectator at the event. “I think it’s good for the area and good for the kids.� All American Pro Wrestling has a show every Saturday on WSIL TV and will tape its next show Dec. 18 at the Black Diamond Harley Davidson Center.

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Cross-country men finish season in 10th place, women in 23rd AKEEM GLASPIE Daily Egyptian Despite unfamiliar track conditions and less-thansatisfactory season finishes, the primarily young Saluki cross-country team is remaining positive toward future tournaments and seasons.

The NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament was held Saturday in DeKalb at the newly reconfigured Northern Illinois University North 40, a track that offers a hilly terrain and increased distance. The track was 10k for the men, which is two more kilometers than the runners typically run, and 6k for the women, which is one more kilometer than their usual.

Despite the longer distance, the Saluki men were able to finish in 10th place of 25 teams. The women placed 23rd of 28.

Head coach Matt Sparks said his teams’ finishes provided optimism for future meets. “Top 10 finishes are the goal year in and year out,�

Sparks said. “With such a young team it bodes well.�

With a predominantly freshmen and sophomore team, Sparks said the continued improvement shows SIU could become a nationally ranked team in the future.

One underclassman who excelled during the regional tournament was sophomore Brian Dixon, who placed 37 of 171 runners with a time of 32:15.82. Even with the top 40 finish, Dixon said he could have performed better. “I’m never really satisfied by my times,� Dixon said. “I drifted off of the front pack, so I didn’t have anyone to chase.�

With two more years of cross-country competition at SIU, Dixon said his goal is to finish next year’s tournament in the top 25.

Senior Neal Anderson finished four places behind Dixon at 32:25.24.

Sophomore Zach Dahleen and freshman Cole Allison finished 70 and 77 at 33:12.39 and 33:23.01, respectively.

Although the women didn’t place in the

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e have to gear back up emotionally and physically. After three months of races, it’s up to the coach to have the players ready. — Matt Sparks cross-country coach

tournament’s top 10, Sparks said he was pleased with their performance.

Jamie Pfister led the Saluki women with her 22:34.28 time. Freshman Lacey Gibson placed 81 out of 189 at 22:49.78. Pfister said the 6k might have been a little inconvenient for the freshmen, but they were able to race competitively. “We had a few hard workouts between our last meet,� Pfister said. “We felt a little tired and wore out, but overall we were well prepared.�

Sparks said the Saluki runners were at an advantage while training in southern Illinois because the hills in the area offer a unique challenge that is different from the flatter northern region where the weekend's race was held. Despite the advantage, Sparks said fatigue was a factor during regionals because the runners expended so much energy for the Oct. 30 conference meet. “We have to gear back up emotionally and physically,�

Sparks said. “After three months of races, it's up to the coach to have the players ready.�

With such a young team, Sparks said his runners are still learning about the necessary commitment that comes with running Division I cross-country. “I think Cole Allison and Zach Dahleen really started to figure out what it takes,�

Sparks said. “It’s not a threemonth sport, we continue to train week in and week out, to be consistent in what we’re doing.�

Akeem Glaspie can be reached at aglaspie@dailyegyptian.com or 536-331 ext. 269.

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Penn State moves on, leaves a legend behind

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ith the information he received from a graduate assistant, Paterno should have gone to the authorities rather than limit the information to university officials. Doing so allowed the officials to keep the information internal and gently sweep it under the rug.

CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian The grotesque accounts of the child-sex abuse scandal involving Penn State’s former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky has left the university with an immeasurable mess to clean up.

What makes the situation even worse is that the spherical fingerpointing has placed blame on some and fear into others. It’s scary to think this is only the beginning of what will continue to unfold for months, or perhaps years, to come.

Former head coach Joe Paterno’s involvement is almost as hazy as the cloud of confusion that has blanketed the situation for more than a decade.

While he says he was in no way part of Sandusky’s child abuse, he most definitely acted with questionable morale and ethical values.

With the information he received from a graduate assistant, Paterno should have gone to the authorities rather than limit the information to university officials. Doing so allowed the officials to keep the information internal and gently sweep it under the rug.

Paterno wasn’t just the all-time

wins leader in Division I football; he was the symbol of a small Pennsylvania town and a voice of reason after 46 years of reign. He had a duty to protect.

While Sandusky and other university officials are set to face criminal charges and prison time, Paterno will also bear charges — however, only self-inflicted.

People have suggested Paterno was thrown under the bus. If that is the case, he threw himself there.

He admitted he wished he had done more, but only after he reflected on what he knew, and it was too late.

The passiveness is not the kind of public image Penn State desires to have, nor does the comment give the university a leg to stand on since it didn’t act accordingly with the information readily at hand.

It left the Penn State trustees no choice but to fire Paterno and university President Graham Spanier.

As a person, people must know the difference from being naĂŻve and being negligent. Paterno acted on negligence; people would have listened to him.

Instead, he and other university officials allowed Sandusky to conduct business as usual with his youth organization The Second Mile. This allowed adolescent boys to continually be under Sandusky’s supervision. That heedlessness is simply unacceptable.

As for Penn State's future, particularly of the football program, it

is likely to be an ungracious one.

The team’s interim head coach is Tom Bradley, who has been an assistant coach since 1980 and learned much from Paterno. He, too, is being grilled on his knowledge of the abuse, and rightfully so.

Though it is likely he will continue to stand in hot water, it was important the university hired somebody within the program.

The internal problems don’t stop there.

Recruitment will also be a fatiguing area for the program. The situation’s irony is that Mike McQueary, the one who witnessed one of Sandusky’s sex-abuse attacks in the locker room shower, is the wide receiver coach and recruiting coordinator.

The person who witnessed the horrifying acts that have taken place on campus will somehow try to convince others that Penn State is the place to not only play football, but receive an honorable college degree.

While the future of the program is precarious, it isn’t the football team that people should worry about. It’s the victims and families who were affected, it’s the players and students who carry the unwarranted shame, and it’s the justice that will allow State College Pa. to move on, despite how long it may take.

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