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Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Abimbola Iyun, a doctorate candidate in the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts from Nigeria, marches across campus while holding the Nigerian flag Monday during the International Parade of Flags outside of Pulliam Hall.

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University enrollment falls 8.81 percent AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely

Enrollment at the university in the official 2018 spring semester declined 8.81 percent, according to a university press release.

"Spring enrollment usually corresponds directly with fall enrollment, since new students do not typically enroll in spring," Chancellor Carlo Montemagno said in the press release. "Spring enrollment is also typically lower than the fall due in large part to the number of students who graduate in December."

This spring the university officially enrolled 13,346 students, a reduction of 1,290 students compared to last year's enrollment of 14,636 students. According to previous Daily Egyptian articles, during the university's peak year in 1991 enrollment totaled more than 24,000 students.

In the past 20 years, the landscape of higher education has drastically changed Montemagno said. Now students look at unique and diverse opportunities that certain universities can offer them when they choose where to go for college.

"Our enrollment, I believe, began to fall because we lost our distinguishing features that herald getting an SIUC education," Montemagno said.

The distinction of an SIU degree included campus life and national recognition of the university's programs, Montemagno said.

For a period of time other universities were catching up to SIU as the university continued to adapt and evolve as time progressed. Due to financial struggles, competing universities have caught up SIU's

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"What we're doing now with the reorganization, we are freeing up how our resources work with one and another so that we can provide new unique programming opportunities and experiences for our students that distinguish what happens when you get an SIUC education," Montemagno said.

The reorganization is just the academic portion of Montemagno's drive to increase enrollment; the other portion involves the student experience at the university.

"That's the essential component that helps define what an SIUC degree should be," Montemagno said.

One of the reasons students come to the university is for the learning that happens outside the classroom, Montemagno said. He said he wants to expand experiential learning opportunities and merge them within the new curriculum that comes with the reorganization.

These efforts include creating a concert series, opening the

Student Center for longer hours and creating an esports program.

"The idea is to create a vibrant and exciting life for students," Montemagno said. "That's the other element that will drive and attract students."

Montemagno said right now the university right lacks a sense of place. Adding these extra activities will give students reasons to attend the university.

"I come to campus at seven o'clock and it's dead," Montemagno said. "This should be a 24/7 area of high activity. That's what I want to restore."

In comparison to the fall's enrollment decline of 8.96 precent, enrollment has slightly improved.

“Enrollment is our primary focus as we revitalize SIU,” Montemagno said in the university press release.

“We are working through proposed changes that will create excitement and opportunities for students as well as faculty.”

Staff writer Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian.

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Two new schools approved in academic reorganization AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely

In the latest discussion of Chancellor Carlo Montemagno’s academic reorganization, there are two additional school proposals, according to the Faculty Association’s website.

The two proposed schools are a School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences and a School of Technology.

In the latest draft of the reorganization, there were 18 schools including the Schools of Law and Medicine.

With the addition of the proposed schools of Computing, Psychological and Behavioral Sciences and Technology, the proposed number of schools equals 21.

“One observation would be there are more schools now, and the final number is not clear,” Faculty Association President David Johnson said.

Schools and departments have similar responsibilities and administrative power defined by the faculty union contract called the Collective Bargaining Agreement, Montemagno said.

“We’re eliminating the name departments but we’re keeping the functions of departments,” Montemagno said. “I can’t have a department reporting to a school because they’re both at the same administrative level.”

The term “department” has to be eliminated so the chancellor can shift departmental responsibilities to the proposed schools.

Montemagno said after policy documents are realigned and faculty contracts are negotiated the department label will be restored again.

In midst of the restructuring, Psychology Department chair

Michael Hone and psychology faculty decided to focus on aspects of the reorganization they could control.

“The cliche someone gives you lemons just make lemonade; we did that and we decided to pour in a lot of sugar,” Hone said.

Through being vocal to the university’s administration, the Department of Psychology proposed to form a School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences.

Hone said this idea came up when faculty began thinking how the department could be improved and better serve graduate and undergraduate students.

“We’ve put all of our energies into trying to figure out how to build a better house, so to speak,” Hone said. “Those other issues are out of our control.”

Matters of interest in the faculty’s control include contract negotiations, as the faculty union’s contract with the university ends June 30, 2018.

The psychology department in the College of Liberal Arts will also be moved to the College of Health and Human Sciences.

Psychology’s curriculum is moving toward health and premedicine, which is why the school of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences is proposed to be placed in the College of Health and Human Sciences, Hone said.

“Psychology, Behavioral Analysis and Therapy will form the core of this new school,” Hone said.

In the proposed school’s new position in the College of Health and Human Sciences Hone said he hopes the school will be able to show prospective students the broad study of Psychology.

“Psychology is a very broad discipline,” Hone said. “Everything from people who study behaviors

of cells, animals, humans, cultural issues, diversity issues to how do you remember where you parked.”

Hone hopes out of the restructuring process, a Bachelor’s of Science in Neuroscience will be created.

The creation of the School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences will not stop the collaboration the psychology department has had with other parts of the university, Hone said.

Montemagno said the reorganization should allow faculty members to have the freedom to work and research outside their domain without being penalized.

“The courses will be still taught by the same faculty,” Montemagno said. “As this matures we’ll start making new offerings that we haven’t been able to do in the past.”

Montemagno said he does not have any plans eliminating departments.

Any decisions regarding program creation or growth will belong to the faculty.

“The faculty will own the academic programs, and they’re going to have to decide how their programs change and morph as the terrain of need and opportunity changes,” Montemagno said.

These additional approved changes show the chancellor has been listening to faculty input, Faculty Association President David Johnson said.

However, not all faculty proposals have been approved.

Africana Studies requested to be placed in the School of Humanities and administration has not yet provided an answer to the proposal.

“It’s a mixed bag,” Johnson said.

“There’s a lot in the air right now.”

Johnson said the reorganization shows how difficult it is to reorganize the academic structure of an entire research university.

“It’s difficult and perhaps,

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impractical to expect to do it, and do it intelligently in the time frame the chancellor was hoping for,�

Johnson said.

The best way to gauge the reorganization is to look at the proposed schools and constituency votes, Johnson said.

Graduate and Professional Student Council President Johnathan Flowers said the polls that have been taken are “straw polls," which are unofficial votes that gauge the overall opinion of the faculty involved.

According to the Faculty Association’s website, three proposed schools have voted to extend the program change process by 30 days.

That includes the schools of Humanities, Media, Communications, Performing Arts and Social Sciences.

Units that voted to slow down reorganization are: Africana Studies, Agribusiness Economics, Anthropology, Cinema and

Photography, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Communication Studies, Education Administration and Higher Education, English, History, Journalism, Language, Cultures, and International trade, Linguistics, Music, Radio, Television, and Digital Media, Sociology and Theatre.

The Civil Service Council, an organization representing the university’s civil service employees, voted 10-3 in support of the reorganization.

The College of Liberal Arts Council voted 15-0 with one abstention to oppose the universal elimination of departments on campus.

The Graduate Council voted 14-5 with three abstentions to oppose universal elimination of departments on campus, and The Faculty Senate voted 19-11 with three abstentions to oppose universal elimination of departments on campus.

Johnson said those who voted to speed up the process is computer

science. Computer science is proposed to have to its own School of Computing.

The Graduate Professional Student Council and Undergraduate Student Government voted to oppose the universal elimination of departments on campus. “It devalues our degree if we are perceived as coming from a school that cannot support a department of english, a department of chemistry, a department of philosophy,�

Flowers said. “As proposed, the elimination of departments strips away departmental autonomy and authority from the faculty.�

The department of technology denied comment on the proposed school.

To find more information about the university’s restructuring visit GPSC’s website.

Campus editor Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian.com

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Black History month events focus on ‘African Americans in times of war’ JEREMY BROWN | @JeremyBrown_DE as relevant now as it was in the

Several SIU organizations have scheduled 22 events for Black History month, centered around African Americans in times of war.

The Black Affairs Council is hosting two lunches with African American graduate students on Wednesday and Feb. 20. President of the Black Affairs Council Bethany Peppers said the lunches are a way to commemorate those who don’t get enough recognition.

“We’re highlighting those African Americans who were with us, that fought for us to be able to do the things we do today,” Peppers said. “So I can be in school, so I can be in college, so I can be free as an American. It's just important to highlight that.”

Peppers said the theme is still

past. “Consistently throughout history we've had actual wars,” Peppers said. “But you also have times and periods that are like right now. A time where struggle is occurring.”

Peppers, a junior double majoring in Political Science and Africana Studies, said the themes in these events have many parallels to the current state of the university’s restructuring plan.

“We are fighting to protect what we call SIU,” Peppers said. “For at least four years, it’s our home. We are fighting to feel at home.”

Comptroller for the Black Affairs Council Jada Kelly, majoring in Political Science and Africana Studies, said the black student, staff and faculty meet and greet on Feb. 15 is an event that affects her.

“What I have seen since I

walked in as a freshman in 2015 is that people who represent the programs, the dean's, advisors of RSOs and undergraduate programs alike are disappearing,” Kelly said.

Kelly said when people get to see these faculty and staff in person, they can see them as real people.

“They care about their jobs, they’re due respect and they have a place here,” Kelly said.

Kelly and Peppers said the events are not just for African Americans, and that it’s encouraged people of all different viewpoints to come to any Black History month event.

“It’s important that with any issue we don’t sit there and talk only to ourselves,” Kelly said. “If we are a feminist group, you don’t want to only have those people who feel like they’re feminists in that room. You want that other side so they can understand

where you’re coming from.”

Kelly said people need to get past the point of conversation and get to action. Part of that action is being able to interact with the people who are doing the oppressing.

“If you keep having this conversation back and forth with yourself you're not going to get anywhere,” Kelly said. “We don't want anyone to feel like they're not welcome just because they don't necessarily fit into these organizations or what their people are doing.”

Peppers said by teaching people from different backgrounds the history during these events, they can have meaningful conversations on how to do better in recognizing important figures in the future.

“One sect of people can’t do that by themselves,” Peppers said.

“Everyone being involved is what’s

needed. So we can move on in a positive light, and make the changes that people fought for us to be able to do.”

Peppers said the fun events of the month like the “Afro-Slayage,” a fashion show on Feb. 25, are important to the overall theme of wartime this month, and she hopes people don’t forget that Black History month isn't just one month.

“This is something that we should always be learning,” Peppers said. “War is something we study all the time. We need to make sure that people who are marginalized are within history. Don’t forget them after February ends.”

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

SIU history professor publishes book on nuclear meltdown KITT FRESA | @kittfresa

Associate History professor Natasha Zaretsky just published her new book, "Radiation Nation" which covers the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history; the meltdown at Three Mile Island.

Radiation Nation is about the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, but Zaretsky studies the accident in a way that most other scholars haven’t by looking at what the accident meant in the lives of the people who lived around the reactor.

On the day of the accident the containment building overheated which subsequently caused radiation to be emitted into the environment around the plant. For several days, the plant was unstable.

“The people who lived near the plant had to try and figure out on the basis of not a lot of information whether or not they should evacuate.” Zaretsky said.

Many civilians did end up leaving the area due to an advisory issued by the governor of Pennsylvania at the time. Richard Thorburn suggested all pregnant women and children under the age of 5 who lived in a five mile radius of the reactor evacuate.

One of the topics that Zaretsky covers in her book takes place after the meltdown. The state did a number of studies that found the radiation released at the time of the accident had never been above a certain threshold.

This threshold indicated that no epidemiological or biological consequences could have occurred, essentially stating that no one had suffered any radiological injuries.

What Zaretsky found was actually that a lot of the people who lived near the plant did not believe the official story about the accident. They were convinced that they had sustained radiological injuries.

Associate Anthropology professor Roberto Barrios commented on how disasters like the

one at Three Mile Island don’t just disappear for those who are affected.

Barrios said when a technological disaster is declared to have ended, it doesn’t mean the disaster is over for those who were affected.

“The disaster can be a process that expands for them into the future," Barrios said. "It becomes a part of their everyday life.”

Another topic Zaretsky discusses is how even though the accident happened in a predominantly white conservative christian area, after the accident women rose up and became very active in the community.

Zaretsky’s reasoning for this was that radiation can cause fetal injury.

“A lot of women, especially pregnant women and women with young children ,became really involved after the accident in trying to figure out what had happened because they were worried about their children's health and their reproductive health,” Zaretsky said.

This coincides with a message Zaretsky really tries to convey in the book. That a conservative region relied on tactics and images that came out of the protest culture of the left of the 1960s. And by the late 1970s these tactics were making their way into more conservative rural communities.

The cover of the book is a picture of a mother and child in front and between two nuclear cooling towers. Zarestky said she found the image very evocative.

“It got me thinking about where gender fits in to ideas about energy and ecology. It got me asking if issues about gender played an outsized role in this accident and in fact over the course of my research I discovered that it really did. That women were kind of in the center of the story,” Zaretsky said.

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

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Pagans honor Gaelic goddess Brigid at Imbolc ritual, welcome returning of the light

Laubach said.

The goddess Brigid was acknowledged through chanting as a way of lifting Dania Laubach sweeps the energy within the circle and directing it floor of Gaia house early Saturday toward something, Laubach said. evening, brushing away bad energies Participants then lit their red candles in preparation for the Southern from the Brigid candle on the altar as a Illinois Pagan Alliance's first ritual way to pay attention to the inner self. of the new year.

“A big part of Imbolc is paying Imbolc is the first of eight SIPA rituals attention," Laubach said. "Drawing a year and celebrates the Celtic goddess ourselves back in and doing our Brigid who represents healing, art, proper duty as humans to bring creativity and bringing back life into the ourselves back in.” world after winter months.

Lighting the candles represents not “The broom is helpful during only Brigid, but the rising sun returning Imbolc because it is a good time to to the earth and appreciating the think about clearing out your spaces winter winding down. and preparing for the new year to come Laubach, a health teacher at John. in," Laubach said.

A Logan and part time wellness After the space was cleared of negative manager at the Coop, said Imbolc energy, ritual leader Laubach set up an is a way of welcoming the Pagan altar in the center of the ritual circle. community together after winter The altar contained a vase of break and building connections. dried flowers Laubach collected “You get to know some great people throughout the year to honor who just accept you for who you are," Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms the earth, a stone from Ireland to Laubach said. "That can be a big issue Emmalie Hall-Skank, a junior from Streamwood studying interior design, lights a candle at the ancestral altar Oct. 29, 2016, represent Brigid's Celtic origin, a for people in the pagan community is during the Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance's Samhain celebration at Crab Orchard Lake. cardinal feather to honor the return feeling ostracized." of the birds and the red Brigid candle.

Some within the years the group has welcomed a Nelson said over the years she has seen has been a part of SIPA since her The red candle has a special Pagan community enjoy solitary practice, wide range of people who practice many public groups try to form but have freshman year and said it has given her significance for SIPA as it had been lit which Laubach said it a great way to get to Paganism, as well as becoming a imploded and destroyed themselves an opportunity to meet and connect by an elder in the international pagan know your own spirituality but practicing more normalized part of society with drama. with likeminded people. community directly off the sacred Brigid within the community helps force you and encouraging those who wish "Right here is proof that I am “The community aspect is a really big candle in Ireland. out of your comfort zone. to join. doing something right," Nelson said. thing," Hall-Skank said. "It has been a Participants in the ritual then lined "Something good has happened with lot of fun seeing how other people do up outside before entering Gaia house this group to still be doing this and to ritual and learning different ways that through smoke from a sage stick, which have this many people." people celebrate the things that I do.” helps clear negative energy and mentally The group emphasizes a safe and open Hall-Skank said she attends as prepare people for ritual, Laubach said. space for Pagans as well as members of many SIPA rituals as she can use "The smoke itself has an effect," the community who wish to participate the experiences to help take her Laubach said. "But the smell of sage just and explore their spirituality. spirituality into her own hands. helps people concentrate."

“When you have a community “A lot of being a pagan is selfAfter entering Gaia house, that you can connect to and have driven practice," Hall-Skank said.

- Dania Laubach participants called quarters to repel any them support you and you support "There's a lot of personal study ritual leader negative entities and energy. them, I'll take all the misinformation that occurs so its all about taking “That's just a way of allowing the out there just for the fact that this exists, your power into your own hands word around us to participate with SIPA founded by Tara “One of the big things is that it still exists and it has been really helpful and finding spiritual meaning as this and also set some boundaries Nelson in 1998 — it shows you are not alone," Nelson said. for a lot of people," Nelson said. it is for you, instead of taking it and energetic beams as guardians to is celebrating its twentieth "Paganism is not the big scary thing that Emmalie Hall-Skank, a senior as someone telling you what it is help protect the space and people," anniversary this year. Over the is used to be.” studying Interior Design from Chicago supposed to be."

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“A big part of Imbolc is paying attention," Laubach said. "Drawing ourselves back in and doing our proper duty as humans to bring ourselves back in.”

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One of two student run consulting firms in the country is at SIU KITT FRESA | @KittFresa

Established first in 1981 as a builtin internship for applied psychology students, Applied Research Consultants has had steady flow client work and business ever since its inception.

Applied Research Consultants is one of the two student run consulting firms in the country [and is unique to SIU.] Here, students have been learning while they work in a place where they get first hand experience in the field they want to go into.

ARC typically provides services such as consulting for survey design and survey implementation and running focus groups, data analysis, report writing, and interviewing.

ARC was started in 1981 by Jack McKillip as somewhat of a built-in internship for the program.

He wanted there to be something for students to participate in where they didn’t have to go off campus.

All Applied Psychology graduate students are now required to spend six semesters including a shadowing semester in the program.

Director of the ARC Kristen Pankey said during their first semester students start off shadowing. But ARC grows their students overtime and by their last semester, students are expected to have led a project, contribute knowledge to the group and learn skills from other students in ARC. Part of the goal is the older ARC associates who have gained that knowledge teach the younger inexperienced ARC associates.

After ARC, these associates typically go on to work in consulting or academia.

Pankey said students in ARC lead

projects and apply experience that they are learning in the classroom to real world projects.

“As the director, my goal is to guide the students as they’re working on projects to bring them my knowledge and expertise from the field.” Pankey said.

Pankey was at one time a part of ARC as a student. She went on to graduate with her masters from SIU in Applied Psychology.

She later returned to SIU to direct ARC after being asked to direct by the Psychology department two years ago.

Pankey said she’s brought plenty of her knowledge and expertise from her experience from her time at ARC and in the workforce but she claims the students are the ones who teach each other.

One of those students is Emily Muhoff, an ARC associate from Cleveland that claims ARC has absolutely prepared her for a career in consulting.

“All of the jobs that I’m applying for are asking for years of work experience, ARC is four years of job experience in addition to your degree,” Muhoff said. “That’s definitely an advantage, that’s actually why I chose SIU.” Muhoff said seeing a project from start to finish makes a difference because ARC allows you to get the full spectrum of working on a project

Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE Michael Justin Miller, 26, of Louisville, Kentucky, and Allysha Kochrnour, 25, of Millersburg, Pennsylvania, review surveys Feb. 2, 2018, at DxR Development Group Inc. in the SIU Research Park. Both Miller and Kochenour are graduate students in Applied Psychology involved in the Applied Research Consultants firm at SIU.

year round.

This is opposed to being only able to complete part of it within a semester as a part of a class.

ARC associate Allysha Kochenour

“All of the jobs that I’m applying for are asking for years of work experience, ARC is four years of job experience in addition to your degree.”

- Emily Muhoff student

from Millersburg, Pennsylvania, shared a similar sentiment.

She said in the consulting field, businesses really want a lot of experience before you’re applying for jobs, so minimum three years experience. In ARC you get that experience while you’re getting your degree.

“You don’t then have to go out and start at the bottom of the totem pole when your trying to find a place to work,” Kochenour said. “You can start up higher you can negotiate a higher salary because of the experience you get in ARC.” ARC associate Vilosh Veeramani from Jersey City said, “Within Applied

Psychology we try and think of our career paths in two ways, one in consulting, the other is more academic.

ARC has prepared me to be able to work with both.”

Veeramani also said he feels highly supported at ARC. He said if there is ever a project he can’t easily manage, he has the option of seeing his director and asking for advice.

Director of ARC Kristin Pankey discussed what her career was like after ARC and said, “I think ARC definitely gave me an edge when I left and started looking for opportunities. I’ve had some really cool opportunities and I definitely think ARC contributed to it."

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Nangsin Wirngo, a special education graduate student from Cameroon, carries the Cameroon flag Monday during the International Parade of Flags outside Woody Hall.

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Saluki spirit embraced at International Festival kickoff FARRAH BLAYDES | Daily Egyptian

A vast array of flags and colors representing 42 countries could be seen throughout campus Monday during the annual International Parade of Flags.

The International Student Council is an RSO that represents the university’s international students. Parade of Flags is an annual event created by the International Student Council.

The International Festival is a celebration of the diversity of various cultures represented at the university.

This year‘s theme is “One world. One passport."

Scarleth Subillaga, a graduate student studying foreign languages & literature represented her country Honduras at the parade. She said the cultural diversity

and the university’s support given to international students is what attracted her to SIU. “I’m very excited,” Subillaga said. “This is a great opportunity to share our culture with people from different nations.”

Eager to represent their countries, international students expressed their love for the university.

Graduate student Abdulsamad Humaidan studying education represented Yemen and said, “I’m so proud to be a Saluki.”

Humaidan was granted the Fulbright scholarship in 2012 to pursue his master’s degree at the university and said SIU has felt like home to him.

Andrew Carver, executive director of international affairs expressed his concern for the United State’s future relationship

with the international community during the proclamation segment of the event.

Carver reassured international students the university will always welcome students from different countries.

“We extend this welcome as our the United States has been shaken by political turmoil manifested in travel bands, enhanced vetting, and the growing uncertainty of the accessibility in higher education in America,” Carver said.

Carver said the university’s center for international students' core mission will continue to be focused on recruiting, enrolling, and supporting students from all over the world.

“I want to thank the entire international student population here SIUC, not just for the international festival but for every week and every semester you contribute to

SIU,” Carver said.

Chancellor Carlo Montemagno also showed his support for the university's international community in the proclamation ceremony.

“As chancellor of Southern Illinois University Carbondale I encourage the campus community, and the community at large to participate in the festival, to enhance the appreciation of the cultures, and contributions of our international students and the many countries represented on our campus,” Montemagno said.

Montemagno told the international community when they go abroad they will notice other countries’ problems, which need solutions different from those in the United States.

“Hopefully when you travel abroad,

you’ll discover opportunities where you’ll use the knowledge that you created and learned here to craft, innovate and provide solutions to make the world a better place,” Montemagno said.

He said one of the virtues of going to a great university like SIU is being a global citizen and working with people of different cultures and backgrounds to make the world a better place.

Mayor John Henry ended the ceremony by showing support for the international students in their future endeavors.

“The selfish part of me wants you to get your degrees here and stay in Carbondale,” Henry said. “I know some of you will leave but hopefully some of you will stay and continue to add to the richness of our community.”

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1. Nazli Ansari, a computer science graduate student from Iran marches Monday during the International Parade of Flags outside of Pulliam Hall. "I think it is important to march today because it shows my culture and the unity of the other countries," Ansari said. "It's a good sign that we are all marching together."

BRIAN MUNOZ @BRIANMMUNOZ 2. Chancellor Carlo Montemagno, center, carries the American flag from Anthony Hall to the student center on Monday during the the International Parade of Flags.

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3. President of the International Student Council Ramesh Neupane, of Kathmandu, speaks about the International Festival, Monday after the the Parade of Flags from Woody Hall to the Student Center at SIU. MARY NEWMAN @MARYNEWMANDE

4. Andrea Espinal Castaneda, a Spanish graduate student from Honduras, poses for a portrait while wearing a traditional dress Monday during the International Parade of Flags in the student center.

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Column: How to boost enrollment SAM BEARD | Student Trustee

Why is enrollment dropping? Why do students choose to go to one university over another? What will boost enrollment?

These are some of the guiding questions that a lot of us have been grappling with over the past several weeks, months, years, decades.

However, the answers we have been afforded by the administration are inadequate a best.

Chancellor Montemagno has said on multiple occasions that enrollment is dropping because of the quality of education offered at the institution, even going so far as to compare the value of an SIU degree to a rusted-out junker.

Other administrators have maintained it is because of the alleged unsightliness of the towers.

Still, others contend it is because we have lost our reputation as a party school.

I will give them that, Carbondale is certainly not as lit as it used to be.

But all of these reasons are wholly inadequate at providing a systematic understanding of the issue at hand, and one in particular is just straight-up insulting.

Enrollment is dropping due to of the lack of honest leadership on the Carbondale campus and because the Board of Trustees keeps raising the cost of attendance.

We have become almost numb to this stark pattern of short-term chancellors wrecking-house and jumping-ship.

If one is to count President Randy Dunn when he so dutifully fulfilled the role of chancellor (while still serving as head-of-system) a couple of years ago, over the past 15 years we have had nine

different chancellors.

Nine.

This has provided no cohesive vision and an extreme lack of administrative accountability at the SIU system’s flagship campus.

Well, now that we have a chancellor with a vision it is one that unfortunately bares no grasp on our institutional context.

Last Thursday at a meeting with the faculty from his proposed School of Humanities, the chancellor insisted that the skeptical professors just need to “trust” him with this whole thing.

I gotta say, that was a pretty hard pill to swallow the day after a bombshell investigation by the Daily Egyptian into Montemagno's nepotism.

As much as I wish I could, the trust just ain’t there.

But perhaps a more significant factor in our falling enrollment figures than inept leadership is the skyrocketing cost of attendance.

A nationwide study by Ruffalo Noel Levitz, a higher education enrollment management consulting firm (yes, those exist), found the number one factor for incoming freshmen in deciding where to go is cost of attendance.

Shocking, I know.

But over the past fifteen years the Board of Trustees has more than doubled the cost of attendance at SIU! The pattern has gone something like this: the board hikes the cost, fewer students enroll as a result, to offset the lower tuition revenue the board hikes the cost again and even fewer students enroll as a result the following year.

Repeat this process for a decade or two and you are left with a severely damaged

university.

So, what do we do about this? We must drastically lower the cost of attendance.

When Bethany College of West Virginia cut its tuition in ‘02-‘03 by 42% from $20,650 to $12,000, their freshman class increased 60%.

A similar move by the board, coupled with an all-out marketing blitz along the lines of “Education is a human right, that’s why SIU offers the best schooling at the lowest possible cost” would make national news.

The influx of students would offset the drop in per-student revenue, benefitting both the university and the students (not to mention the local economy).

Satisfied students will tell all their homies back home that SIU is the place to be and then the youngsters flock.

The Towers will be maxed-out because we slashed the extraordinarily high rates down to a more reasonable level and

BOOM: SIU is a party school again.

This isn’t rocket science, people.

To conclude, it’s not just an enrollment problem, it is retention too.

Our four year graduation-rate is 25%.

For black students that rate is even lower.

How is this even possible?

It’s because students are reeled-in, encouraged to sign to dotted-line and then left to their own devices. Plus, the institution is not providing the type of support that underprivileged students deserve.

My problem with the reorganization of our university is not that it too drastic.

My problem is that it doesn’t go far enough.

It fails to provide solutions to any of the real issues plaguing our campus.

We need warm and caring leadership, not authoritarian impositions.

We need insightful interpretation of our rich institutional history, not made-

up claims about the lack of synergy on campus.

We need groundbreaking student support structures, not just take their money and run.

We need to make education affordable again and not raise tuition every chance that we get.

To the pro-reorganization camp that stands against business-as-usual: What is it that you understand as business-asusual and how does this restructuring in any way, shape or form address our current sickness?

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 are Mondays and Thursdays: 12:30 pm – 2 pm or by appointment.

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New team, new depth: What's next for Saluki softball?

DILLON GILILAND @DillonGililand

As we approach the end of winter it’s time to take a look at the sport whose season is just around the corner; softball.

In the 2017 season, the Salukis posted their best finish since 2011, in which the team put up an overall record of 3324 while going 17-8 in conference play.

Southern carried its success throughout the Missouri Valley Conference Championship as they went into the tournament as the third seed.

In the tournament, the Salukis knocked down the number seven seed, the second seed and the number one seed — the Northern Iowa Panthers.

The team then went on to compete in the NCAA tournament, however, the ladies fell just short as they suffered losses from No. 13 Ole Miss and North Carolina.

With the success the Salukis had in the 2017 season, one would think that the 2018 team might have a target on their back.

Coach Kerri Blaylock does not seem to think so.

“We talked about that, last year was last year,” Blaylock said. “You

Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE Senior utility Savannah Fisher catches the ball at second base Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, during the Salukis 5-0 win against Lake Land College at Charlotte West Stadium.

can’t defend anything because it’s a new team.

The team who won last year is gone.”

A couple of the players felt different about being a target, however, they did not seem to be bothered by the idea.

“I’d say we are a target,” senior infielder

Sydney Jones said. “But we really aren’t trying to defend anything.

We just want to go on another run.”

With three seniors from the 2017 roster now gone, SIU brought in five highly touted freshman.

“We have a good group of freshman,” Jones said.

“They will be able to fill some key roles that we lost from last year.”

With the new batch of freshmen coming in and showing promise, the team will have more depth and more options, which the team said would be the key difference between the 2017 and 2018 roster.

Wednesday, February 7, 2018 “We have more depth and options in the lineup,” senior pitcher Savanna Dover said. “If someone gets hurt or if someone isn’t performing as well, which will happen, then we’ll have more options for someone to step in.”

Jones agreed that the team will have more options in the 2018 season.

“We have more depth and not just one person in each position,” Jones said.

“It will really help down the stretch."

The Salukis will open up their season in San Antonio, Texas on Feb. 9 where they will compete in the UTSA Softball Classic hosted by the University of Texas at San Antonio.

“We’re super excited to get to Texas and start playing,” Blaylock said.

On Feb. 16, after playing five games in their first tournament, Southern will head to Columbia, South Carolina to compete in the Gamecock Invitational hosted by the University of South Carolina.

The Salukis will get to take on some powerhouse teams at the Invitational such as Michigan State and South Carolina.

“We look at each opponent as their own,” Blaylock said.

“But I’d be lying if I said we weren’t looking forward to playing a Power Five team like Michigan State or South Carolina. The team will enjoy that.”

SIU will then travel to Fort Myers, Florida on Feb. 23 to compete in the FGCU tournament hosted

by Florida Gulf Coast University.

After a long road trip, the Salukis will return home to host the Coach B Classic on

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Dylan Nelson | @DylanNelson99 Sophomore infield Kyleigh Decker steals 3rd base Sept. 10, 2017, during the Saluki’s second game of the season against John A. Logan Vols at Brechtelsbauer Field. The Salukis topped the Vols, 9-0.

March 2.

Southern will head back to Florida on March 9 to compete in the Under Armour Showcase, followed by a road trip at the University of Tennessee at Martin on March 14.

With a few exceptions, the team will begin conference play when they host a threegame series against the Loyola Ramblers.

Dover said that in conference play she looks forward to

playing Illinois State.

“We have this rivalry with each other,” Dover said. “In the past, we have always gone back and forth with each other.”

Coming into the season, SIU was picked to finish second in the MVC preseason poll, second to Illinois State. Southern, however, tied in first place votes with UNI. Blaylock stated that she believed second was a

reasonable pick for the team and that she picked her team as second. However, some players feel like that they are underestimated.

“We’re always underestimated,” Dover said.

“I’m confident in our team and our ability and we are a force to be reckoned with.”

Jones said that she looks at the second pick as motivation to prove people wrong.

Along with being picked second, four Salukis —

Jones, junior pitcher Brianna Jones, sophomore outfielder Susie Baranski and sophomore infielder Maddy Vermejan — were selected to the MVC Preseason AllConference Team.

“Those kids are deserving and now they have to perform,” Blaylock said. “But some of those kids are so goofy that they don’t know what pressure is.”

As the season creeps up on the horizon, the team stated

that they all have only one goal in mind, to bring SIU a championship.

More than anything, the team is just ready to get out on the field and play.

“We’re super excited,” Blaylock said. “We have a great group of kids and they know what it’s going to take.”

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

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Anna Spoerre | @AnnaSpoerre SIU senior forward John Gardner jump in the air after the Salukis score a basketball during SIU's 82-77 win against Indiana State on Jan. 24 at SIU Arena.

From football to basketball: Meet SIU's newest walk-on RYAN DEMER | @RyanDemer_DE

The Saluki men's basketball team has been battered with injuries all season, with season-ending injuries occurring to several key players.

Senior forwards Thik Bol and Jonathan Wiley are both out for the season due to knee injuries, with Bol not even able to play a minute this season. Junior guard Eric McGill is also out for the season due to an injury in his left hand.

Because of the injuries, Saluki senior wide receiver John Gardner walked onto the SIU basketball team to provide more depth for head coach Barry Hinson.

Gardner's first game as a member of the SIU bench against Northern

Iowa marked the beginning of the Salukis' current five-game win streak.

“As I transfer from football to basketball there were some things I had to work on,” Gardner said.

“My footsteps when I go in the post needed to change.”

Gardner noted that he plays like a big man and uses his body and muscle to grab rebounds. He said that he joined the team to provide energy for the team and get the guys going.

Though Gardner hasn’t seen any action quite yet, Hinson said he would love nothing more than to be able to give him some time on the court, but noted that it is difficult to do so in a balanced Missouri Valley

Conference.

“I love everything about him,” Hinson said. “He’s that static electricity that we need. He’s been nothing but positive and taken the leadership role he had in football and brought it here.”

Gardner is no stranger to the game of basketball. During his time in high school at Simeon Academy in Chicago, he was a member of the prolific Wolverine team led by former NBA lottery pick and Chicago basketball legend Jabari Parker.

During his freshman and sophomore years, Gardner played on the junior varsity teams. His third season was his first for Simeon’s varsity squad and the only team

Gardner was on throughout Parker’s four-peat of state championships.

Gardner held out from his senior season of basketball and decided to focus on football.

Following the third championship, members of the Simeon basketball team infamously left their shoes on the court. Head coach Robert Smith suspended all underclassmen who partook in the action, including Gardner.

“It was our third time coming and winning the state championship,” Gardner said laughingly. “We were saying this is our court and our home, but they took it as bad sportsmanship and suspended us.”

As a young high school athlete,

that situation does not reflect Gardner's behavior. He shows no arrogance and is only willing to do what he can to help.

Now at SIU, Gardner looks to bring some of that basketball greatness from Chicago down to Carbondale. While joining the team in the middle of the season, Gardner has provided nothing but positive energy and has helped instill a winning mindset as Southern is now in the midst of a five-game win streak.

Sports writer Ryan Demer can be reached at rdemer@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @RyanDemer_DE

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Column: Dawg talk with Dodd

NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd

On Monday, the Missouri Valley Conference named junior center Kavion Pippen the MVC Newcomer of the Week. This marked the third time this season that Pippen received the honor.

In the Salukis' current five-game win streak, Pippen has been the cornerstone of the SIU formula for victory.

Unless you consider Bola Olanyinan a true center, which I do not, Pippen may be the most consistent center that the Salukis have featured since Gene Teague transferred to Seton Hall after his sophomore season in 2011.

In the 2010-11 season, Teague posted a line of 8.6 points and 5.3 rebound per game — both totals that Pippen is on pace to surpass this season.

Despite a hot start to the season, Pippen hit a bit of a lull as Missouri Valley Conference play rolled around.

In the first seven games of the MVC schedule — Pippen's first run in Division I conference play —he posted a line of 10.9 points per game and 6.9 rebounds per game.

Leading up to the MVC schedule, he averaged 12.2 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.

Although he never necessarily played badly, in the game at Valparaiso Pippen only recorded one rebound. Also, in three of the first seven MVC matchups, Pippen failed to reach double digits in scoring.

Like I said, as a whole, Pippen did not play poorly. However, he was not always a dependable force in the SIU gameplan.

Now in the midst of a five-game win streak, Pippen has racked up 14.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.

During that run, there has only been one contest in which the

Reagan Gavin | @RGavin_DE Junior center Kavion Pippen goes for a basket past Valparaiso guard Max Joseph Saturday during the Salukis' 65-59 win against the Valparaiso Crusaders at SIU Arena.

transfer from Three Rivers College failed to reach double digits in scoring.

Against Northern Iowa on Jan. 21, Pippen posted his first doubledouble since Nov. 29. His 11 points and 11 rebounds led the Salukis to their first of five consecutive wins.

MVC opponents clearly made the adjustment on how to guard Pippen once conference play got going. Now it seems as if Pippen has readjusted to the conference and reestablished his dominance.

In the most recent win against Valparaiso, he accumulated 21

points and six rebounds — the third game in a row that Pippen racked up double-digit point totals.

While forced to play a majority of the minutes at center due to senior Thik Bol's injury, Pippen has stepped up and provided more than what head coach Barry Hinson could have ever expected.

Bol was meant to be Southern's starting center with Pippen gathering minutes off the bench so that he could step into the starting lineup next season.

Even with only one year of eligibility remaining, Pippen looks

likes Southern's center of the future.

If Bol returns to SIU next season following his medical redshirt, Hinson will have to find a way to provide significant minutes to Pippen and feature him on offense in the Saluki lineup.

Still, SIU is in second place in the MVC and the goal of this year's squad is to win the conference and the MVC tournament in St. Louis come March.

Although the Salukis have recently received strong performances from junior guard

Armon Fletcher, sophomore guard Aaron Cook and junior guard Marcus Bartley, the deciding factor in games has been whether Pippen is having a good night.

For the Salukis to climb the ranks of the MVC they must continue to rely on Pippen as they have done recently.

As the old saying goes, "feed the big man."

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

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