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Vol.101 Issue 40 @daIlyegyptIan

March to the Polls Pg. 10

INSIDE:

The Thrift Shop pg. 5 | Parks scholarship pg. 6 | Soccer kicks tennis pg. 19

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Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Aimee Kolbeck, of Marion, poses for a portrait Saturday during the Southern Illinois March to the Polls in the Carbondale Civic Center.

Wednesday, January 24, 2017

Flyover Center gives creative space to Carbondale JEREMY BROWN | JeremyBrown_DE

Going against money-driven business models, The Flyover Social Center in Carbondale creates a space for freethinking for learning’s sake at a low cost.

The space can be used for anyone to host events, meetings, weekly activities or live performances at a comfortable cost.

Thomas Finkenkeller, 27, from St. Louis, and Nick Smaligo, 34, from Carbondale, are two of the many keyholders that help run the Flyover.

Finkenkeller and Smaligo use the term keyholders instead of managers, because no specific person owns the Flyover.

“It’s more of a stewardship than ownership,” Finkenkeller said. “We’re all taking care of the space together, and we have been for the past three years.”

The Flyover charges $10 per hour, or if those using the center cannot pay upfront, money donations can be accepted during an event instead.

The rate is a suggestion more than a rule, Smaligo said. This method covers their costs.

“Usually groups will pass the hat around,” he said.

The Flyover has no strong revenue pull and the keyholders don’t get a paycheck.

The purpose of the Flyover, Finkenkeller said, is to provide an inexpensive place for citizens of Carbondale to come together and create unique events and activities.

An example of this is the Flyover’s monthly reading series, the first of

Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE The Flyover Social Center is pictured Sunday in Carbondale. The center is marketed as an “open and community-driven space for radical thinking, counterculture movements, and creative collaboration.”

which was Tuesday, with the topic “Is Democracy Really What We Want?”

The reading series is what Smaligo hopes will turn the Flyover into a lively space for intellectual thinking and bring individuals interested in discussing social issues.

“It’s part of an attempt to create a space where people can reflect about the problems of our time,” Smaligo said. “A space outside the constraints of careers, grades and all the rest of it.”

Smaligo said one problem with education today is that in many cases learning is just used for career-building.

“I think that can prevent real, free thinking from occurring,” Smaligo

“It’s part of an attempt to create a space where people can reflect about the problems of our time. A space outside the constraints of careers, grades and all the rest of it.”

-Nick Smaligo Keyholder

said. “So we’re trying to do things that stimulate debate.”

Flyover’s community outreach also extends to its tool library, where people can check out tools for projects that they need to build.

Tools include circular saws, power drills, hammers, wrenches, nails, screws, screwdrivers and other hardware.

Anyone who wants to check out a tool just has to show proof that they live in the Carbondale area.

“A lot of people have that one friend that has all of these tools that their friends use,” Finkenkeller said. “We are trying to be the garage that everyone can use.”

In the past year, the Flyover has made 850 tool loans to more than 150 people.

Finkenkeller said the trust they build with people is why the tool library’s free rentals work.

When people don’t feel trusted, Smaligo said, it breeds resentment.

“There’s always a risk involved with anything,” Smaligo said. “And it’s worth the risk to trust people.”

Staff writer Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @JeremyBrown_DE.

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Photographer exhibits Peace Corps experiences at The Varsity KITT FRESA | @kittfresa

Photographs showing the lifechanging experience of Peace Corps volunteer and local photojournalist Richard Sitler are on display at The Varsity Center through Feb. 2.

After volunteering with the organization for 12 years, Sitler decided to travel alongside Peace Corps volunteers and document their experiences.

Sitler's fascination with the Peace Corps began when he was a child in Knightstown, Ind. After earning a degree in History from Blackburn college in 1990, he was accepted into the volunteer program.

In 1991, he was sent to the Dominican Republic for training but became sick and was sent home on medical discharge.

Sitler returned to the U.S. and worked for several years as a photojournalist, never forgetting about his experiences in the Peace Corps.

At 30-years-old, Sitler felt it was now or never to rejoin the Peace Corps. In 1998, he reapplied and was sent to Jamaica in 2000 as an at-risk youth advisor. He worked in Lluidas Vale, a part of rural Jamaica where no other volunteer had worked before.

“What most people know about Jamaica in the United States is really far away from what my experience of

Jamaica was,” he said.

Sitler was placed in The Parish of Saint Catherine, a sugar cane plantation that dates back to 1620 and hasn't changed since the times of slavery.

One day while Sitler was looking out over the cane fields with his supervisor, the supervisor said to Sitler, “Richard, nothing much has changed here since slavery.”

Everyone in the community was connected to the sugar cane plantation by having relatives who worked there or residents working there.

Since leaving the Peace Corps, Sitler said he is always in the constant mindset of being a volunteer.

“Even when you’re at home, you’re still a Peace Corps volunteer," he said. "In my yard I’d go wash my clothes, hang my clothes, it was like living in a fishbowl. You never turn that off,” he said.

Two members of the university’s community, Elizabeth Toomey and Rashod Coleman, said their experiences as Peace Corps volunteers were life changing events, like Sitler’s.

Toomey, who is now working in the Rural Health and Social Service Development Center at SIU, volunteered in Madagascar from 2011 to 2013, later returning to do Peace Corps response, a short-term program dealing with high-impact situations, in 2014 to 2015.

“You kind of remove your American view from the situation and accept your situation for what it is.”

- Rashod Coleman Peace Corps volunteer

Toomey was an environment volunteer while in a very rural and mountainous part of Madagascar. She worked with rice farmers in the area where she taught them techniques such as how to increase their yields and use less water.

Toomey also collected funding to invest in infrastructure where she and other volunteers built a bridge and connected the divide between two parts of the rural area where she lived.

She also taught and developed a guide for learning English. Geared toward park guides in particular who dealt a lot with tourists.

“People are so friendly and welcoming where I lived and it was so isolated but I felt really safe and welcome," Toomey said. "I had a really hard time coming back to the United States," he said.

Toomey developed deep relationships in the community she volunteered in, which was home to approximately 300 people.

While volunteering there, she experienced the same living conditions as the people she was helping.

“I had to go 18 miles round trip to get food," Toomey said. "I didn’t have running water. We had a spigot that was right next to my house so in the wet season it would run but when it dried out you had to walk a kilometer for water," she said.

Coleman, a premedical student working as a graduate assistant at SIU, was a Peace Corps education volunteer in Tanzania from 2014 to 2016.

He was a Biology and Chemistry teacher in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, a mountainous region with an approximate population of 2,000 people.

Coleman’s first year was mainly spent getting acclimated to the

Dylan Nelson | @Dylan_Nelson99 Photojournalist Richard Stitler photographs demonstrators Saturday during the Woman's March in Carbondale.

country and the new lifestyle.

After a long period of work in Tanzania, Coleman was given the opportunity to launch a conference with other volunteers in the country to create a discussion about issues affecting Tanzania.

Coleman and the other volunteers selected the best and brightest students and they came together to talk about sensitive topics like HIV/AIDS, nutrition, and the possibility of going to college. These students were then sent back to teach their peers what they had learned.

He also launched a project that encouraged young girls to go into STEM fields. Coleman and other volunteers were later featured in Michelle Obama’s Let Girls Learn initiative.

“I think for me since, I was able to develop relationships and just get out there and be in the community more, you kind of remove your American view from the situation and accept` your situation for what it is.” he said.

Staff writer Kitt Fresa can be reached at kfresa@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @kittfresa

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

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Carbondale Thrift Shop offers students an alternative to Goodwill JEREMY BROWN | @JeremyBrown_DE

The Thrift Shop in Carbondale is a community-based store with the sole purpose of giving back to the local community through charitable efforts.

One example is its voucher program.

Thrift Shop manager Jennifer Johnson said the profits from donated goods sold at the store pay for its voucher program.

“Our sole purpose is to take in donated goods, process them and sell them at a very low cost,” Johnson said. “That way we can keep our doors open to help those in need.”

Through the voucher program, the Thrift Shop gives away clothing and other household items to Carbondale’s homeless population, Johnson said.

“We don’t donate to shelters,” she said.

“The shelters refer homeless people to us.”

The shop also helps workers get community service hours by working part time at the shop after receiving a court referral, she said.

The shop works with several other organizations, such as the Carbondale Towers and Project Choice, to help those who need community service hours.

Sydney Baumeister, a sophomore at SIU studying Mortuary Science and a cashier at The Thrift Shop, said they help many people who just come in the door.

“Many times if someone walks in and needs a coat, we’ll just give them a coat,” Baumeister said.

If people need essentials, Baumeister said, the Thrift Shop has given pants, shirt, underwear, socks and shoes to those in need.

“If it’s cold, we also give them gloves, a scarf and a hat,” Baumeister said.

Cory Frisby, assistant manager of the Thrift Shop said it has very little presence in Carbondale.

Many people who donate to their competitor, Goodwill, don’t know The Thrift Shop exists.

“I tell people I went to high school with where I work, and they go ‘We have a thrift shop?’ They’ve been here their

Shawnee EP FC

Reagan Gavin | @RGavin_DE Jennifer Johnson, of Murphysboro, poses for a portrait Monday at The Thrift Shop in Carbondale. The Thrift Shop, where Johnson serves as store manager, provides items for the public's purchase but also assists the community in providing clothing and household goods to those in need. "I can not see myself doing anything else," Johnson said. "My favorite part is helping people – I know our mission [is] to provide clothing and goods to the community in need."

[whole] lives,” Frisby said.

He said many people who donate household goods just want to get stuff out of their homes and don’t care where they donate to.

Those who donate to their local thrift shops or charities keep money circulating locally, rather than going out of state.

Both Frisby and Johnson said they think it’s important to support the Carbondale community.

“We are not a franchise,” Johnson said.

“We are one store in Carbondale. That’s all we’ve ever been, that’s all we’ll ever be.

We don’t want anything more.”

Although competing against franchises, Johnson said The Thrift Shop is cheaper than its competitors.

Averaging the prices of store items including, coats, suits, shirts and jeans, Carbondale’s Goodwill Retail Store prices are 36 percent more expensive than The Thrift Shop’s.

Baumeister said if more college students

like herself knew about The Thrift Shop, they would all shop there first.

“College students are on a budget,” Baumeister said. “The prices here are pretty freaking great, and on Fridays we do student discount days.”

Mainly older people come in, she said, but every Friday a new customer who is a student will walk in and say “I never knew this place existed, I’m definitely coming back.”

The Thrift Shop doesn’t exclusively sell clothing — its entire basement floor is dedicated to all other donations.

Frisby said every category of goods exists in the basement, ranging from books, electronics and three aisles of assorted knick-knacks.

“We get a little bit of everything, it seems like,” Frisby said. “It’s nice to be able to offer the basic necessities.”

Staff writer Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com.

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Saluki superfan Tilden Parks to donate $1.3 million for student scholarships KITT FRESA | @kittfresa

Longtime university supporter, alumnus and SIU athletic “superfan”, Tilden “Tim” Parks donated 1.3 million dollars to the university in December.

“I like to help students achieve their dreams — that’s part of my passion,” Parks said. “I’ve had people help me over the years. Now I’m in a position where I can give back.”

“I’ve had people help me over the years. Now I’m in a position where I can give back.”

- Tilden "Tim" Parks

The donation will be split into three parts. $515,000 for athletics, $515,000 for journalism and $270,000 for Morris Library.

All of the funds will be designated to undergraduate student scholarships.

Parks, who is 65 this year, has had a special affinity for the university’s athletics since his father, also Tilden Parks, took him to the arena as a child.

“Oh man, I fell in love with the arena and the Salukis and that was the beginning of it,” Parks said.

Parks’ dad passed away in July 2017. As a result, Parks’ inherited money from his father which became the source of funds for the donation.

The donation is also classified as a beneficiary designation, so SIU won’t receive Parks’ donation until he dies.Parks entered SIU as a political science major but later switched to journalism and graduated in 1976.

Parks said he enjoys helping the university where he has many fond memories.

Daily Egyptian file photo Longtime Saluki basketball and football fan Tilden Parks, of Marion, reacts during a suspenseful play Jan. 28, 2017, during the Salukis' 85-84 win against Missouri State at the SIU Arena.

During Park’s time at the university he was a student worker for Morris Library.

He set up the library’s scholarship for future student workers there because of his own positive experience.

“That is so wonderful to us,” said John Pollitz, Dean of Library Affairs. “A lot of times students are struggling financially.”

“One of the things I can’t stress enough is how important student workers are to the operation of the library,” Pollitz said.

“They help us keep this place an excellent academic library.”

This is not the first scholarship opportunity Parks funded. The Tilden and Rosalie Parks

Memorial Scholarship was set up by Parks in 2017 in honor of his two parents.

This scholarship is for students pursuing a degree in Animal Science.

To advance the university’s goal of providing the best education possible to students of all kinds, The Tilden Parks Family Scholarship was made with the Forever SIU fundraising campaign to achieve this goal.

More information about the campaign is available at foreversiu.org.

Staff writer Kitt Fresa can be reached at kfresa@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @kittfresa.

“One of the things I can’t stress enough is how important student workers are to the operation of the library.”

- John Pollitz Dean of Library Affairs

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Girls Rock Carbondale to hold first CD release party JEREMY BROWN | JeremyBrown_DE

Girls Rock Carbondale, a youthcentered music organization, is having its first CD Release Party at Plaza Records on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m.

The CD Release Party is celebrating the past three years of music created by the youths (girls, trans and gender non-conforming youths ages 12 to 18) of Girls Rock’s summer camp.

Bianca Hazen, a Girls Rock volunteer who’s been with the organization for one year, said they’ve always recorded the campers at Plaza Records, but this is the first time they’re selling their songs.

“We’re always looking for donations, because we’re on a sliding scale with our campers,” Hazen said.

“So for the campers who can’t afford to pay for [the program], this is how we pay for them.”

Hazen said the release party is open to anyone who wants to come. Attendees can buy CDs and merchandise at the event, as well as listen to music written by the campers.

“It’s always cool to see the kids again,” Hazen said. “They’re always really

Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE From left: Plaza Records store associate Nathan Gill, of Carterville, store manager Marcus Lappin, of Sesser, store manager store owner Kim Curlee, of Cobden, pose for a portrait Sunday, Jan. 21, 2018, inside Plaza Records in Carbondale.

Curlee has been the owner of Plaza Records for the last thirty years and has been involved with Girls Rock since it began. “[The girls] learn instruments they’ve never really learned before; they write and play and we record them,” Curlee said.

“It’s a way to usher people into an artistic experience and there’s really something from nothing when they come out of [the program],”

excited to get their music out there, to be there and learn how to do everything.”

Jessica Lynn, one of the volunteers of Girls Rock Carbondale, arranged

for two local musicians, Jesa Dior and Kendall Bell, to perform at the release party.

“They’re artists who work with

Girls Rock Carbondale and who I work with personally on other projects,” Lynn said. “Both of them are very unique.”

Lynn said Girls Rock Carbondale is always excited to showcase the work and voices of local non-binary and female artists.

“The benefit in showcasing solo musicians is that young folks get a chance to see individuals perform,” Lynn said. “Then they think ‘I could do that.’”

Lynn said all the CDs are collections of originals created by campers from the past three years of summer camp.

While this is the first year that Girls Rock Carbondale has held a CD release party, Lynn said Girls Rock intends to host annual release parties at the beginning of every fall school semester.

“We also intend to hone our recording processes for the future,” Lynn said. “As we educate ourselves in recording arts, we continue to integrate the work and help of local musicians and recording artists.”

The release party will be held at Plaza Records, home to Two Headed

Twin Records, an analog studio that Girls Rock records in.

Lynn said Plaza Records and Girls Rock support each other’s missions.

“Profit is not a priority,” Lynn said. “Girls Rock makes efforts to support those, especially artists, who support us with money. But in some partnerships, money is not central.”

Obviously working together makes sense, Lynn said, and she hopes to keep introducing new generations to analog music and “the straight-up coolness of Plaza Records.”

The CDs will feature songs from 20 Girls Rock Carbondale bands from 2015, 2016 and 2017 summer camps. Former campers who attend get one free CD from each year they participated.

“The campers never cease to completely surprise and amaze me,” Lynn said. “Their incredibly poignant lyrics show their insightful perspective on their own lives and the world in which they’re living.”

Staff writer Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @JeremyBrown_DE.

The Varsity Center exceeds expectations for crowdfunding campaign KITT FRESA | @kittfresa

The Varsity Center’s fundraising campaign to bring regular screenings of movies back to the center exceeded its goal of $5,000 and members expectations.

“It was not just meeting the goal that was encouraging, it was meeting the goal, exceeding the goal and doing so with such expediency,” said Nathan Colombo, a board member and volunteer at The Varsity.

The campaign started on Nov. 2, 2017.

Within the first week, The Varsity raised more than $3000, and by mid-December raised an additional $2000, Colombo said.

“Fundraising is not always easy, but we struck a cord and we had the right thing at the right time,” he said.

The funds have been spent on a projector, screens and licensing to acquire the rights to

show movies, Colombo said.

The Varsity has three theaters in total but for the moment only two are capable of showing movies.

The Varsity plans to rehabilitate the Varsity’s largest theater, The Big Room, which seats more than 500 people, said Gregory Kupiec, the building maintenance supervisor who has worked at The Varsity since 2007.

The Big Room is a much larger undertaking than the recent crowdfunding campaign as approximately $250,000 will be needed to fully restore The Big Room.

Having regularly scheduled movies at The Varsity provides a place where people can enjoy movies that they previously saw in the theatres, Colombo said.

“It's bringing a lot more people in," Kupiec said.

"More and more people come in and talk about their memories from the last time they were here.”

The Varsity Center is beginning to show

“Fundraising is not always easy, but we struck a cord and we had the right thing at the right time.”

- Nathan Colombo board member

movies more regularly.

It has previously shown movies like "It’s a Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Vacation" in December 2017. "Groundhog Day" is the next movie to be screened on Groundhog Day, Friday Feb. 2 at 7:30 p.m.

“We want this to be an accessible priced movie — going experience where people can still enjoy a good movie, but they can do so for a $5 ticket, a $1 soda, a $1.50 candy bar,” Colombo said.

The Varsity Center is a multi-use space hosting anything from music performances, live plays, speaking engagements and movies.

Colombo said he hopes the wide variety of events can act as a bridge between campus and community, Colombo said.

“It’s not about just showing movies. It’s about the fact that people have lived their lives in this place, and they are very excited to have an opportunity to continue their lives in this place,” Colombo said.

“The profound thing is that The Varsity is still very important to people who come through the door,” said Cara Recine, the Executive Director of The Varsity. “This is a place that they have those memories of movies. So we’re all really pleased with that.”

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Dining hall duels: Lentz or Trueblood?

JOSIE ARNETT | @JosieArnett

With the beginning of a new semester, it’s important to know the best dining hall on campus to go for your meals. Unless you’re aspiring to become a regular at Harbaugh’s, like me.

However, money doesn’t grow on trees and eating out can be expensive. Those of us living on campus must resort to eating the majority of our meals in one of two dining halls: Lentz or Trueblood.

So which is the best?

To properly compare, I had to head over to Trueblood thinking it wouldn’t even be a competition, Lentz was already the winner in my mind.

As someone who has proudly lived on West Campus for two years, I choose Lentz for all my meals. Lentz never fails me with quesadilla night and is closer to my residence hall at Thompson point.

Walking into Lentz I am always greeted by the incredibly friendly staff, who know my name even before they swipe my student i.d.

Walking into Lentz I am always greeted by the incredibly friendly staff, who know my name even before they swipe my student i.d.

Shoutout to you, Michelle Odem and Eli Reed.

Lentz is smaller than Trueblood and has four different spaces where students can sit.

There is one space to the left as you walk into Lentz that is usually quiet for studious eaters, whereas the other

Lentz

versus

• Personalized pizzas — and garlic bread • Premade pasta • Chicken salad • Lentz’s cookies • Scenic view

Trueblood • More options for those with dietary restrictions • Larger salad bar • Wild cherry Pepsi • Four different fruit infused waters • Saluki paw print waffle maker • More cereal options Abby La Tour | @LaTourAbbey

areas are louder and usually filled with more students.

My personal favorite is cuban sandwich day, where the staff create a freshly-made specialty cuban on the finest bread, just for me.

No matter the day, I can always count on Lentz staples including, pasta, sandwiches, waffles and cereal.

I can also create my own pizza, unique to Lentz.

As personalized pizza is only available at Lentz, it earns a point on my scale to determine the better dining hall.

Lentz = 1, Trueblood = 0 If that doesn’t make your tastebuds water, there is a salad bar that stretches across the main room filled with options, like pre-made pasta, chicken salads and some desserts.

If the desserts in the salad bar don’t catch your eye, then just wait until you get your hands on some Lentz cookies.

In response to a DE question on

Facebook in regards to the better dining hall, Lentz was said to have more of a restaurant-feel to it, have friendly staff and “fewer laxatives in the food than Trueblood.”

Lentz = 4, Trueblood = 0 As I walked into Trueblood there was a display for the desserts next to the ice cream machine, then I turned right and entered a big room with food lining every wall.

There was display cooking, a main line, and an action station along with an entire section devoted to vegan and vegetarian options.

Sorry Lentz, but you only have two trays for vegan and vegetarian options, and one is always sweet potatoes.

This impressed me that Trueblood had so many options readily available for those with dietary restrictions and an entire action station for even more specialized food.

Lentz = 4, Trueblood = 2 Even though Trueblood has more

It was hard to face the truth that my once favorite dining hall had some serious competition. food, there are more students on East campus, so it makes sense.

As a lover of cheesy garlic bread, it was hard not to notice there was no “make your own pizza” station at Trueblood.

Lentz = 5, Trueblood = 2 As I kept walking around and looking at my options, I felt my loyalty to Lentz fading with every step.

Trueblood has a salad bar with over 60 choices, which is considerably

more than Lentz as well as more cereal options, and oh, the drinks!

There was wild cherry pepsi and four different fruit-enhanced waters.

For me, Trueblood’s Salukibranded waffle makers really tipped the iceberg.

Lentz = 5, Trueblood = 6 It was hard to face the truth that my once favorite dining hall had some serious competition.

I still love Lentz for its convenience and scenic view, but when it comes to food, my heart splits.

Whether you’re a Trueblood-er or a Lentz-lover, today the trophy for best dining hall goes to Trueblood.

While I prefer the options Trueblood has, I’m still a Lentz-Lover at heart because of the homey-feel, friendly staff and familiar faces.

Staff writer Josie Arnett can be reached at jarnett@dailyegyptian.com on twitter @JosieArnett.

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Micah Chanyakorn, 2, of Carbondale, waves around a flag while riding on his mother, Jennifer's, shoulders Saturday during the 2018 March to the Polls in the Carbondale Civic Center.

Brian Munoz @BrianMMunoz

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Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Guinevere Warren, 4, of Carbondale, peeps through signs Saturday during the Southern Illinois March to the Polls in Carbondale.“I just wanted to come out and get the feeling of people still being together and fighting against the presidency of Donald Trump," Warren's mother, Jaclyn Berg said.

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Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Hundreds take the streets Saturday during the 2018 March to the Polls outside the Carbondale Civic Center.

Carbondale march celebrates women’s rights, equality and unity AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely

“The people united, will never be defeated,” rang through the streets of downtown Carbondale Saturday as hundreds took part in the Southern Illinois March to the Polls hosted by the Women United Network.

Those gathered came to stand up for women’s rights, the Black Lives Matter Movement, reproductive rights and demonstrate against the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

This year’s march marks the one year anniversary of the Women’s March, which was spurred by President Trump’s inauguration.

Liz Hunter, one of the organizers of march, said this year’s goal is to encourage people to vote.

The Women United Network was created after Hunter attended the Women’s March in Washington D.C. last year.

After the march participants were told to send postcards to legislators, Hunter said.

Instead of sending out postcards by herself, Hunter organized a postcard-making party at

Pagliai’s in the winter of 2017.

Approximately 200 people came to the party and wrote about 1,500 postcards, Hunter said.

“At that point, everyone was asking ‘what next?’”

Hunter said. “Everyone wanted to get involved and that’s when I knew somebody needed to step up.”

The turnout for the march showed people in southern Illinois are concerned about the issues going on in the government, Hunter said.

One marcher, Phil Mendenhall, said until President Trump’s election he had never been political.

"We're here to resist," Mendenhall said.

Like Mendenhall, the 2016 presidential election inspired Rena Bever to run for state central committeewoman for the southern Illinois congressional district 15.

“After the election, I felt the need to talk to like-minded women,” Bever said.

Bever had coffee with six other women, which then grew to ten.

That was the beginning of the organization, League of Like-Minded Resistors, which is

based in Jackson County. The league now has 75 members, both men and women.

The league provides members a space to have positive interactions with each other and has joined with the local democratic party.

For many marchers, this year was their second time embracing their freedom of expression and speaking out against the current presidential administration.

Jaclyn Berg, a graduate student studying philosophy, participated in this year’s and last year’s march with her two daughters.

She said the reason why they walked in the march was to remind people it has been a year since the inauguration.

“We can’t give up and think it’s normal after a year,” Berg said.

Berg carried signs reminding people to stand up for injustice, even if it doesn’t directly affect them, and remember their voice does matter.

“If everybody believes they make a difference to a couple people, that’s still a difference,” Berg said.

Sana Haque, a volunteer for the march said

seeing a united front of about half a million people marching in Washington D.C.last year was powerful.

Following last year’s experience Haque said one of her goals for the southern Illinois march was to have many different organizations and groups have booths at the march’s table fair she helped organized.

Regardless of ideologies, Haque said people can stand in a united front by sharing the same values such as dignity, justice, human rights and women’s rights.

First-time marcher Harry Klein said he was impressed by the march and was surprised at the volume of the crowd.

“It’s warmer in the crowd,” Klein said.

Klein was devastated when President Trump was elected and said he is still unable to accept it. The march, Klein said, symbolizes hope for the next year.

Campus Editor Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @AmeilaBlakely.

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Column: No School of Homeland Security Tucked away in Chancellor Montemagno’s plan to restructure our university are some details that are so troubling, so utterly dangerous, that they warrant a column of their own.

Specifically, I am talking about the chancellor’s expressed desire to create a School of Homeland Security with a police academy — two things that hold absolutely no place on a college campus, a place whose self-stated task is to make the world better.

As such, universities must serve as tools for resisting the status quo, not weapons to reinforce it.

They are the places where some of the brightest academic minds mingle with one another to work through the pressing issues of today, so we can have a tomorrow that is worth living.

But the creation of a School of Homeland Security attacks these ideals.

It formalizes SIU’s complacency with and approval of some of the most oppressive and fundamentally anti-freedom producing institutions in the history of mankind.

For example, ICE (should it be spelled out Immigration and Customs Enforcement?), the agency tasked with deporting undocumented immigrants by ripping them away from families and economic opportunities is housed in the Department of Homeland Security.

What would the creation of such a school say to DACA students and those who live with the everyday fear that the government will snatch-up and deport one of their loved ones?

Historically speaking, universities have served as extremely effective

and strategic hot-beds for dissent against an overreaching federal government.

Resistance against colossal injustices like the Vietnam War and segregation were successfully waged on college campuses across the United States, including right here at SIU. But we are entering a new era of political repression, a new era of government crackdowns on everything it views as threatening to its status and the supreme ruler of the free world.

The state is not some sort of neutral dispenser of justice, we must shed any illusion that it is.

As a result, it intentionally attacks social movements that challenge its core values.

Even just last year on inauguration day, while I was leading a student walkout against the Trump administration and everything it stands for, the police were waging war against anti-Trump/anti-capitalist protestors in the nation’s capital.

Demonstrators were fired upon with concussion grenades and pepper spray while being beaten and indiscriminately mass-arrested.

Six of those arrested were from Carbondale, although, as of last week, the charges have been dropped on most of them.

Why were they arrested?

Because they had the audacity to oppose the federal government and its unbridled support for all of the “isms” that are destroying our futures—sexism, racism, imperialism, nationalism and capitalism.

While this most recent wave of

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political repression in America is nothing new, it has shown once and for all what the government actually cares about. That is, maintaining control and dominance over the population and upholding the social order.

Things like the NSA, CIA, The Department of Homeland Security and the police exist exclusively to serve this end.

That is why the police choose to let white-supremacists terrorize places like Charlottesville, where we lost a brave comrade in the battle against anti-black racism.

That is why the cops come crashing down against the boldest of Black Lives Matter protests and arrest people in the streets, from St. Louis to Washington DC. That is why there are 59 people still facing an upwards of 60 years in prison for demonstrating against the Trump administration last year on Jan. 20.

If SIU is to have any role in this

conversation, it should be to challenge contemporary policing as a whole and the way it functions as an antiblack, anti-poor and anti-immigrant apparatus of social control.

The American “justice” system operates within the mode of retributive justice (seeking justice through punishment).

Additionally, nearly every step in the American “justice” system has been statistically proven to be racist, if not in its motives than in its outcomes.

As a result, this system creates a racialized under-caste of Americans who have been branded as criminal by the police and judiciary.

Hundreds of thousands of people of color are locked in cages for decades due to non-violent drug offenses.

Black men are gunned down in the streets with absolutely zero accountability for the cops who participate in what some scholars refer to as “modern-day lynchings.”

It is the role of the university, the institutional brain of our country’s future leaders, to challenge and overcome these injustices.

It is our job to lay-out the foundation for what we need as a nation to radically divert from this clear path towards fascism, a process the police make possible, wittingly or not.

Instead of a cop academy, we should open a Department of Restorative and Transformative Justice, whose aim is to develop a community’s capacity to correct wrongdoings not through punishment, but by repairing

...universities must serve as tools for resisting the status quo, not weapons to reinforce it. and mending the situation and transforming the material conditions into that which nourishes and cares for our most vulnerable.

We would know more about the specifics of the process of implementing a police academy but the chancellor’s office has withheld that information. In October, as a member of the SIU Board of Trustees, I asked the chancellor’s office if I could attend an administrative meeting about the formation of the police academy but was wrongfully denied access. Instead, I was promised a briefing on the meeting. On three separate occasions I have asked the chancellor’s office to provide said briefing and have never received it.

Student Trustee Sam Beard can be reached at samuelrobert@siu.edu or by phone at (618) 453-8418.

His office is located in the Registered Student Organization Suite on the third floor of the Student Center and his office hours will be posted next week.

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A look at the future of Saluki women's basketball DILLON GILLILAND | @DillonGilliland

Only one senior remains on the SIU women's basketball team.

Ten of the 14 women on the roster are either freshman or sophomores. Prior to the start of the season, a question for fans is, who of the young players will step up and take control?

Coming into the season, head coach Cindy Stein said she had a team with plenty of talent; however, she had a "guarded optimistic view" of the season due to having many young players.

Stein also said with a young team there comes a possibility of an "up and down roller coaster" and the young team needs to take care of the ball.

Since then,the team struggled to take care of the ball but proved they have the talent to contend for the top spot in the Missouri Valley Conference. The Salukis currently sit on a 6-2 MVC record that puts them in third behind Missouri State and Drake.

Along with the solid season start, the Salukis discovered hidden gems on the team as freshman forward Abby Brockmeyer and freshman guard Makenzie Silvey stepped up and earned starting spots in the lineup.

Silvey proved that she could handle Division I basketball early in the season as she showed off her 3-point shot with confidence.

The Saluki guard reigns from Glen Carbon and attended Edwardsville high school, where she earned several all-state honors. She also led her team to the 4A state championship game.

Coming out of high school, Silvey had several D-I scholarship offers, including SIU, SIU-Edwardsville and Southeast Missouri State. "[SIU] was the first school that started recruiting

Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Freshman guard Makenzie Silvey looks to pass the ball Sunday during the Salukis' 74-63 victory over the Valparaiso University Crusaders at SIU Arena.

me," Silvey said. "That really meant a lot to me."

The guard also said that SIU allowed her to have a little more freedom while not being too far away from home.

"SIU was the perfect distance from home," Silvey said. "It's close enough for me to still visit home on the weekends, but still far enough to let me be on my own."

While many expect the most significant change between high school and D-I basketball is an increased pace of play, Silvey said that aspect is not much different.

She said the biggest change for her was the conditioning and lifting that is required.

"The strength, physicality and speed of these girls are just so different from high school," Silvey said.

Silvey hit the ground running in D-I ball, averaging 10.8 points game, scoring 205 points at the time of writing while shooting .351 from beyond the arc.

Stein stated time and time again her respect for Silvey's 3-point shot, as well as her confidence.

“Makenzie is fearless,” Stein said following the victory against Northern Iowa on Jan. 5.

“She could miss ten shots in a row and she will still believe that she’s going to make the next one, and she usually does.”

Makenzie recently had her season-best game in SIU's victory over Valparaiso on Jan. 21.

Silvey posted a team-high, career-best 19 points along with a career-best six rebounds. She shot 5-10 from beyond the arc in the contest.

Silvey's performance against Valpo earned her the honor of MVC Newcomer of the Week.

For now, Silvey said she just wants to continue to improve her defense and overall quickness. The guard also stated that she wants to have a career in which she can work with the statistical side of sports.

While Silvey continues to dominate the Saluki backcourt, Brockmeyer is providing a consistent force as the leader of the frontcourt.

Brockmeyer is from Raymond and attended Lincolnwood High School where she averaged a double-double all four years. She also received several all-state honors.

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 "I grew up in a small town," Brockmeyer said. "Moving to a big college town was quite an adjustment, to say the least."

In Abby's little free time, she likes to nap and hang out with her friends along with playing other sports such as golf and tennis.

While in high school, Brockmeyer also played softball and golf, but basketball was her calling because she enjoyed the fast pace of the sport.

Brockmeyer received several scholarship offers out of high school including SIU, SIUE, SEMO, Illinois State, Bradley and several other Division I colleges.

"SIU really takes care of its athletes," Brockmeyer said. "The professors really work with us and I love the coaches."

Abby also said that SIU is "relatively" close to her hometown so it allows her family to come and visit at her games.

Coming into her first year as a Saluki, the forward said that the transition was not entirely difficult but Division I did provide some new challenges.

"I had to get adjusted to the quickness of the game and how much better the opponents are," Brockmeyer said.

The forward averaged 10.7 points a game on 204 points. She also averages 7.2 rebounds per game.

In her freshman year, Brockmeyer has already posted four double-double games along with her season-best game at Evansville where she put up 27 points, 14 rebounds and three steals — all career-highs.

Brockmeyer has been writing her name in the history books since the moment she stepped on SIU Arena's floor.

Earlier in the season, Brockmeyer was named the Newcomer and Player of the Week by the MVC, becoming the fifth player in MVC history and first in SIU history to sweep both honors in the same week.

In Southern's first two conference games of the season, the forward combined for 43 points — the most of any MVC player through two conference games this season and the most by a freshman to start Valley play in program history.

Brockmeyer's 27 points against Evansville also tied the record for most points in a single game by a freshman in program history.

"When you start to earn accolades, teams start to take you more serious," Brockmeyer said. "It does add more pressure."

For now, Abby wants to continue to work on her 3-point game to add to her arsenal of weapons on the court.

The forward said that she does not plan to

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Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz SIU freshman forward Abby Brockmeyer fights to defend the ball during the Salukis' 90-68 win against the Lindenwood Lynx Friday, Nov. 3, 2017, in Salukia Arena.

play ball post-collegiately for now. Instead, she wants to focus on school and find an area to major in so she can get a "good job."

"So far this season has been great," Brockmeyer said. "I've had a lot of fun and I can't wait for the next few years."

Overall, Southern has proven that despite its youth and inexperience, it can still hang with the best of them. The young Salukis show great promise for the future seasons ahead.

"The best part about being a young team is we get to spend the next three years together,"

Brockmeyer said.

Sports reporter Dillon Gilliland can be reached at dgilliland@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @DillonGilliland.

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Column: Dawg talk with Dodd Money didn't kick tennis, soccer did NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd

Something isn't adding up in the university's statements about the tennis and women's soccer program.

Almost exactly one year ago, SIU made the decision to cut the tennis programs for men and women in order to save money. Now the university plans to add a Division 1 women's soccer program for the 2019 season.

A more expensive soccer program, that is.

On March 29, 2017, former tennis coach Judy Auld and former athlete Molly Beckmann filed a complaint to the Office of Civil Rights that alleged Title IX violations after the men’s and women’s tennis teams were eliminated.

After the Daily Egyptian broke the news on Jan. 16 that SIU was found non-compliant with Title IX guidelines and that a soccer program was coming, the athletic department released a public statement.

In that statement, Tom Weber — the athletic spokesman for SIU — stated, “the initial annual operating budget for the program will be less than $400,000. One-time facility enhancements are expected to cost $100,000 for the purchase of goals, safety netting and additional locker room equipment."

Those figures look to be a step in the right direction for SIU Athletics. However, the numbers do not add up.

Weber stated that the two tennis programs Athletics also claimed that it saved $700,000 operated on a $600,000 budget in their final due to cuts of the tennis teams and scholarship year of existence. reductions for swimming and diving.

Here is where it gets fishy.

In a memo obtained by the Daily Egyptian, SIU President Randy Dunn said that keeping women's tennis — and only eliminating men's tennis — would only cost the university $350,000 per year.

Dunn also stated in the memo the expected cost of the women’s soccer program would range from $650,000 to $700,000 annually.

If I do the math correctly, that is a significantly larger total than the $400,000 Weber reported.

In last Tuesday’s press release, athletic director Tommy Bell stated the “interest in soccer is at an all-time high.”

Globally, soccer is exploding. In the

Once again, if I do the math correctly, the timeline states: Bell wants soccer, Bell cuts tennis and Bell gets soccer.

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immediate region, I have my doubts.

Here is where it gets even fishier.

Dunn said Tommy Bell wanted to start a women’s soccer team since he became SIU’s director of athletics in 2015.

Two years later, Bell took the first step in securing his wish by cutting tennis.

“In the end, I am hopeful this did not become a backdoor way to implement a new and more expensive sport without making the case in regular fashion to drop one and start another,” Dunn said in the memo.

The fact that Dunn even mentioned a “backdoor way,” leads me to believe that this is exactly what is happening.

Once again, if I do the math correctly, the timeline states: Bell wants soccer, Bell cuts tennis and Bell gets soccer.

I am sure there is excitement for the

new soccer team and the addition is a great opportunity for a new sport to be introduced to southern Illinois.

While SIU needed to do something to reestablish compliance with Title IX, I’m not sure cutting a program to add another was the obvious or ethical choice.

But that is what’s happening.

Whether the soccer team generates revenue remains to be seen. Maybe, in the end, this turns out to be a good move for SIU. In the meantime, maybe Dunn, Weber and Bell can have a meeting and decide on a "definitive" dollar amount on what the new program will cost.

Sports editor Nathan Dodd can be reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.

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