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Student relives Polar Bear shooting BILL LUKITSCH | @Bill_LukitschDE

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Kim Treger sews a red, felt heart onto a sock monkey while chatting with customers Saturday at Walk the Line on the Strip.

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The Carbondale Strip typically conjures images of lively bar scenes, not necessarily a vibrantlycolored clutter of shoes, accessories, bags, sunglasses, clothing and handmade sock monkeys.

Such is the interior design

of Walk the Line, a shoes and accessories store on the strip started by Kim Treger in 1994.

“Let me know if you need some help,” Treger calls to customers from behind the store’s front desk. “I’m sewing on the heart of a monkey, so to speak.”

Treger reopened the store in November after

taking four years off to care for her ailing mother and in-laws.

“There was just so much death around,” Treger said.

“I just needed a break, so it was like my great hiatus.”

She said it was difficult to adjust after being away for so long and she was worried she wouldn’t remember how to use the credit card machine. Upon

the store’s reopening, however, all the memories flooded back, along with many of her regular customers.

After graduating from SIU with a bachelor’s degree in art from SIU, Treger opened Walk the Line. She previously worked at Susan’s on the Square, a boutique that is now closed.

Treger identified an issue in

the market for comfortable shoes, or as she describes them, “shoes that you could run away from somebody in.” The store’s theme has since evolved to include anything that catches her eye.

“It took probably 10 years to build it all up, little by little,” Treger said. “I love finding the stuff for the store and the people I meet.”

The SIUC student who was shot and mugged during Polar Bear weekend said he is recovering well and feels lucky to have escaped death.

Spencer DePue, a senior from Bolingbrook studying management, spent Jan. 30 with friends at Pinch Penny Pub before leaving about 4 p.m. to take a nap. It was almost sunset when DePue, 22, left his apartment for coffee at Common Grounds and dinner at Trueblood Hall.

As he was walking on South Cedarview Street, he decided to take a shortcut through Tatum Heights Park.

“Right at that moment I noticed there was a guy kind of on my flank,” DePue said. “The next thing I know he’s pointing a gun at me.”

The man wanted his wallet and cell phone.

In retrospect DePue said he would have fared better had he simply surrendered his belongings. He said when he went for the gun, he was fairly confident he “could take” his assailant, who was a relatively shorter man with a smaller frame.

DePue removed the wallet from his pocket and held it two feet away from the gun. He dropped it on the ground, attempting to distract the gunman’s gaze. He hesitated for just a moment before taking a long step toward the gunman — a halfmeasure that nearly cost him his life.

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State budget impasse puts colleges’ accreditation at risk JODI S. COHEN | Chicago Tribune

The accreditation agency that oversees Illinois’ public colleges and universities has asked that they submit emergency plans detailing how they will accommodate students if the state budget crisis forces them to close.

In a letter sent Thursday to the state’s 57 public schools, the Higher Learning Commission said that any institution that believes it may close in the next several months must explain how it will ensure that students can continue their education elsewhere, receive transcripts and advising and get timely information

about closure decisions.

All schools were asked to provide,

by Feb. 18, basic financial and enrollment information, including the current cash situation, cuts in faculty and staff, and expectations for fall enrollment “in light of concerns prospective students may have about the stability of higher education in the state.” The agency will use that information to help gauge whether the schools can remain accredited.

Accreditation is key to a school’s survival because, without it, students cannot get federal financial aid and are at risk of their credits being rejected by other institutions.

Colleges and universities have been running without operating dollars from the state since July 1, when Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed an out-of-balance spending plan sent to him by ruling Democrats in the legislature. While much of state government has received some cash to keep going through various court orders or legislative and executive maneuvers, higher education has been largely left without any funding.

In a separate letter sent Thursday to the governor and legislative letters, the Higher Learning Commission urged them to consider how the budget impasse is affecting students

and the future of Illinois’ public higher education system.

“For students to continue at another institution, it could mean having to transfer to private universities or leave the state,” wrote agency President Barbara GellmanDanley. “It is also probable some students may drop out of college.”

The budget stalemate is causing varying degrees of concern at the state’s schools, depending on how much of their budgets come from state funds and their ability to draw from reserves or an endowment.

Chicago State University, a mostly minority-serving institution on the city’s South Side, declared financial

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The Higher Learning Commission, which oversees schools in 19 states, said the lack of basic funding could put Illinois schools’ accreditation at risk. Accreditation depends on an institution being able to demonstrate it has the necessary resources to provide quality education.

If accreditation is withdrawn, it takes several years to try to get it back.

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“Basically, I jumped the gun, no pun intended,” DePue said.

The shooter pedaled backward slightly, swung his right arm to the left and fired. DePue saw sparks fly from the barrel, heard the report and slumped to the ground.

“There was like, literally, a slowdown of time,” DePue said.

“It was weird.”

On the ground, eyes wide open, DePue wasn’t exactly sure what had happened. There wasn’t any pain. He said he felt like the wind had been knocked out of him and he couldn’t move his right arm.

Doctors would later tell DePue the bullet fractured his collarbone, ricocheted outward and chipped one neck vertebra near his spine. His arm, which is still temporarily paralyzed, was rendered immobile due to hydrostatic shock. The bullet is still lodged in his neck.

Dazed, DePue heard two other men running to the scene.

They started kicking DePue in the head, demanding he hand over his money.

“The guy who shot me didn’t even realize that I had dropped my wallet,” DePue said. “He was a little shocked and he probably didn’t even intend to shoot me in the first place.”

One of the accomplices located the wallet on the ground and the three ran west toward a bike trail that borders the park. Enraged and fueled by adrenaline, DePue chased after them, screaming and yelling obscenities as they fled with his new cell phone and his wallet containing $13.

“It was a moment of triumph because I wasn’t dead,” DePue said.

But he was losing blood and needed swift medical attention.

All he had left was a pair of headphones, some ChapStick and his keys.

“I knew I had to immediately go to Pinch Penny because that’s where everyone was: bouncers,

Spencer Depue | Depue’s Facebook profie picture

police and people,” DePue said.

Perhaps the most frustrating part of the ordeal was the inaction of bystanders he encountered along the way, he said. While DePue was walking near a group of younger college-aged people he screamed for them to phone the police.

“They laughed as if I was kidding or if I was drunk or something,” DePue said.

When he finally arrived at the north end of the beer garden, the bouncers at Pinch Penny didn’t believe him either, DePue said.

Then he thought of a different way to get the point across.

“I unzipped my vest and I was wearing two T-shirts underneath that were completely soaked in blood,” DePue said.

A bouncer who was working the bar gave temporary medical assistance to DePue and called the police. Police were on the scene first and DePue was able to maintain consciousness to tell them what happened. An ambulance arrived about 6 p.m. and DePue was taken to Carbondale Memorial Hospital.

In a hospital bed with an IV drip of pain medication, DePue said his anger and frustration subsided; replaced by relief and giddiness.

“And then I was in the hospital joking about how I got shot on Polar Bear,” he said.

Bill Lukitsch can be contacted at blukitsch@dailyegyptian.com or 618-539-5336.

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Anna Spoerre | @AnnaSpoerre Rebecca Zink, a master’s student in metalsmithing from Indianapolis, saws through a piece of metal for a bracelet in her small shop filled with tools and scraps of metal in the basement of Pulliam Hall. Zink said she became interested in jewelry-making at a young age and, despite taking a break from art for a couple of years, she decided to return to school two years ago. “The art thing kind of crept back into my life,” Zink said.

“I started realizing that it was an important part of my life.” One of her pieces, “Ball and Chain,” is featured at the University Museum’s exhibit called “Artists on Love.” Zink said she doesn’t believe most students are aware of the art community at SIU and the exhibition is a good step in bringing attention to the creative minds on campus. Alison Erazmus, curator of exhibits at the University Museum since October 2014, said she is passionate about supporting artists and increasing the visibility of their work. “I love artists and I love being one,” Erazmus said. “It’s a great field, but it’s underappreciated and underrepresented.” The reception for the exhibition was on Friday afternoon, and the exhibit will be open to the public until March 6.

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The Strip’s colorful corner

Morgan Timms | @M ORGAN _T IMMS Kim Treger gazes out from behind her desk Saturday while speaking about how she came to start Walk the Line on the Strip.

Honorary degree recipient reflects on time at SIU CORY RAY | @CoryRay_DE

When Donald Beggs came to SIU as a student, he never imagined he would lead the university as interim chancellor from the same building his mother lived in when she was a student.

And at the May commencement, Beggs, who served as interim chancellor for two years in the late 1990s, will receive an honorary degree, Doctor of Education Leadership.

When he first received the call that his name was being submitted for the nomination, Beggs said he had to make sure he wasn’t being prank called.

“It’s an enormous compliment,” he said. “But it is not something I did not anticipate or see coming.”

A current SIU leader knows Beggs’ value to the university, after he served as interim chancellor in 1996.

“One of the most unfortunate things that took place in SIU’s recent history is the fact that Don did not remain as chancellor after he served that role so well on campus,” said SIU President Randy Dunn, who was hired at SIU as faculty while Beggs was dean of the College of Education.

Dunn said Beggs accepted the interim position under the condition he would not be a candidate for the permanent role.

Dunn said as the completion of Beggs’ two-year term came to a close, many people on campus urged the then-SIU president to allow Beggs to continue serving as chancellor. The president did not renegotiate terms.

The current SIU president said Beggs could have changed the direction of the university and built continuity on campus.

At the time of his departure, the university had many interim and vacant positions, Dunn said.

“It would have been a gamechanger at a critical time in our history to have had Don Beggs in that role for maybe a 15- or 20year run,” he said. “It could have done some amazing things here.

I think the biggest success he had was just bringing a stability and direction to the campus.”

Beggs, who has four generations of Saluki students in his family, has memories of campus that stretch well before the 1990s.

When he began his education in 1959, classes were still being taught inside World War II military barracks. Beggs completed his bachelor’s in education in 1963 and his master’s the next year.

Beggs spoke about some of his fondest SIU memories.

“I’ll always remember when [presidential] candidate John Kennedy was on campus,” he said. “He drove through the campus, as students we got to see him and Jackie. That was a special time. “ Beggs went to the University of Iowa to complete his doctorate, but always found his way back to Carbondale. In 1970, he became associate dean of SIUC’s graduate school.

“When I came back and joined the faculty, those were wonderful years,” Beggs said.

“That was not a part of my plan. The opportunity presented itself, and next thing I knew, it’d been 32 years.”

During his time at SIU, Beggs saw the university add professional schools in medicine and law, as well as the Paul

Simon Public Policy Institute.

One the biggest changes Beggs said he saw was the influx of technology and the university’s rise as a research institution.

He would later serve as both assistant and associate dean of the College of Education before becoming its dean for 15 years.

After his term as interim chancellor, Beggs became president of Wichita State University in 1999 until his retirement in 2012.

Beggs’ family history at SIUC — known as Southern Illinois Normal College at the time — traces to the 1890s when his grandmother and her three sisters attended the university for one year to be qualified to teach.

His mother originally attended the university from 1924 to 1926 to attain a teaching degree, but returned in 1960 to earn her bachelor’s degree. His mother lived in Anthony Hall, a girl’s dormitory at the time, which now houses the chancellor’s and provost’s office. Beggs said his mother and the woman who would later become his wife, Shirley Beggs, even tackled a chemistry class together.

Since then, both of his children have attended SIU, each of them pursuing a career in education.

“It’s quite an honor,” he said of the honorary degree. “It made me think of my family history — of the people I taught with and got to know on a personal basis. Just a lot of memories flowed forward that haven’t been on the front burner for quite some time.”

Cory Ray can be reached at cray@ dailyegyptian.com or at 618-5363326.

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016

One more call to action on state budget HERALD & REVIEW | in Decatur

It has been 222 days that the state of Illinois has been without a budget. That’s long enough.

The impact of having no budget is evident in a number of ways.

State Comptroller Leslie Munger estimated last week that without any resolution, the state will end the fiscal year with a $6.2 billion deficit. Munger also pointed out that paying for that deficit entirely with taxes would require an income tax rate of about 8 percent, nearly double the current rate of 3.75.

The temporary income tax rate of 5 percent has significantly affected the state’s economy.

Think of the harm an 8 percent tax rate would cause. State spending is continuing at roughly the level of last fiscal year through a series of court decrees and legislative actions.

At the same time, the state has $5 billion less in revenue because of the rollback of the income tax rate.

To make matters worse, the people being hurt most by the lack of a budget are those who depend on state services the most. Poor people and universities are being devastated by the lack of a budget.

Eastern Illinois University announced last week that it was laying off more than 200 employees because of the lack of a state budget.

But the lack of a budget is affecting every person and every business in a negative way.

Companies are delaying any ideas of expansion because of the uncertainty. Jobs are declining and people are leaving the state in record numbers. A solution is reachable.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has agreed there will be a need to raise some taxes. What he wants in return is consideration of term limits, the process the state uses to draw political maps, changes to the collective bargaining process, worker’s compensation reforms and other matters that will help attract new business.

Everyone realizes that solving the crisis will take a combination of tax increases, spending reductions and growth. The political stalemate that’s being harbored by House Speaker Michael Madigan ignores that simple fact.

It’s time, actually past time, for this to stop. Today, we’re calling on our local legislators to put pressure

Nancy Stone | Chicago Tribune Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan and Senate President John Cullerton listen as Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks about making changes in the state Jan. 12, 2015 at the Prairie Capital Convention Center in Springfield, Ill.

on their political leaders to work toward a solution. That means we want Sens. Dale Righter, Chapin Rose and Andy Manar and Reps.

Bill Mitchell, Sue Scherer, David Reis and Reginald Phillips to get involved and demand that a budget be approved soon. We want action.

Their message to their leaders

should be clear: Get this solved.

This is also a call to action for voters. It’s time to write or call the governor, the speaker, the senate president, your representative and your senator and tell them the state needs a budget. Call or write today and every day. Demand that they work quickly toward a resolution.

Let them know that your vote depends on their commitment to action.

For too long, too many of us have watched this fiasco, shrugged and said, “That’s Illinois.” We cannot keep that attitude. The state needs a budget and it needs one now.

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SIU swimming and diving win on senior day SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

Eight Saluki swimmers and divers competed in their last collegiate regular season meet Saturday in a resounding victory against Evansville.

Both the men and women defeated their Purple Aces counterparts by a score of 179-62 for the men and 191-46 for the women.

“It’s a sentimental moment,” coach Rick Walker said. “A lot of blood, sweat and tears go into just a few competitions. So, this one means probably the most to many just because it signifies a moving on, our graduation.”

In the final women’s event of the day, an all-senior team of Helena Amorim, Kiley Handley, Katy Ovington and Morgan Timms won the 100m freestyle relay with a time of 48.34.

“It was great to get all the girls together for just that one final race,” Handley said. “We’ve all been together for so long and we got to come out on top.”

Handley said the four of them normally do not race together and Walker informed the four the night before that they would compete together.

Fellow senior Sherry Zhang also won her two diving events: the one-meter and three-meter dives.

“Like a parent, it’s one of those milestones,” Walker said of his seniors. “They came in young adults and they leave mature adults ready to take on the world.

Now we’re anxious to see what they’re going to do after they leave.”

Andres Saavedra Sanchez said the meet was a bittersweet moment because his SIU swim career is almost over, but he is excited to look forward toward his

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Senior diver Kaixuan ‘Sherry’ Zhang flies through the air during a diving event at the SIU versus Evansville meet Saturday at Shea Natatorium. Zhang took first place in both the women’s 1-meter and 3-meter dive with scores of 370.20 and 395.55, respectively.

career. An architecture studies major, Saavedra Sanchez said he can finally participate in trips and studies that his program offers.

Overall, two Saluki seniors, Zhang and Saavedra Sanchez won their respective individual events.

A Saluki won all but three events.

The team competed in front of what multiple swimmers called the largest audience of the season.

“It was really cool to actually compete in front of a big crowd,” senior swimmer Brandon Vuong said. “This was the first time my parents got to see me swim at SIU, so it was great to finish my career in front of them.”

The men’s team is now 28-0 all-time in dual meets with Evansville while the women’s team is now 17-1.

Even with the Salukis’ strong record against the Aces, the team knew the significance of taking the meet seriously.

“They’ve always put up a good fight,” Walker said. “There have been times they’ve come very close to beating us ... and every team needs that. They resemble what we need to be when we take on [better] competition. It can be [men’s No. 6] Auburn or [men’s No. 1] Texas. If we do the same, then we stand a fighting chance.”

The two teams fought for victory, but the nature in the natatorium was light as competitors often congratulated

each other after their respective events, regardless of team.

Before the Salukis’ senior day festivities, Walker called out the names of the Aces’ seniors to receive recognition alongside SIU’s.

“I respect the heck out of Evansville,” Walker said. “I’ve got a personal relationship with [Evansville coach] Rickey Perkins. It’s just good, healthy competition.”

The meet also served as the last before both teams go to their conference meets. The women’s events were half of their normal distances in an effort to conserve energy before conference.

The women will get to compete in their own pool one last time at the

Missouri Valley Championships on Feb. 17-20 while the men will travel to Ypsilanti, Mich., to participate in the Mid-American Conference Championships March 2-5.

“This is all leading to one thing, and it’s that championship,” Walker said. “What gets [the team] excited is that this is the final step before we actually get there. It’s like that final step before you hop across the finish line. This is the hop, and the next step is crossing it.”

Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

SIU track and field shines at Don DeNoon Invitational TED WARD @TEDWARD_DE

Carrington Spires | @CS PIRES 77 Senior sprinter Kemar Jones competes in the 60-meter hurdles at the Don DeNoon Invitational on Saturday at the Recreation Center. Jones placed second with a recorded time of eight seconds.

With eight firstplace finishes on Day Two, SIU track and field men and woman took first place at the Don DeNoon Invitational on Saturday.

On Friday, the Salukis won four events including both women and men’s pole vault, and women and men’s shot put.

On the men’s side in the field events Saturday, SIU took the top-two spots in the shot put. Senior Josh Freeman won the event with a 19.37-meter throw followed by junior Adam Clay with a 15.09-meter throw.

Junior Kyle Landon finished first in the

high jump with a 2.25-meter jump beating Central Arkansas sophomore Eric Moore by .6 meters.

The men’s pole vaulters also had another big day as they took the top four spots again with senior Jon Walsh and junior Nathan Schuck tying for first with a 5.19-meter vault.

In the triple jump on the women’s side, sophomores Kezia Martin and Dahmone Buford finished first and second with Martin finishing with a 12.40-meter jump.

On the track, the Salukis 4x400 women’s relay team of juniors Ashanna Hodge and Chrissa Harris and sophomores Victoria Archie and Alicia

Reed finished first with a time of 3:53.75 in the finals.

Individually, senior Kemar Jones won the men’s 200-meter dash, freshman Warren Hazel finished first in the men’s 400-meter and senior Tyrone Echols won the men’s 60-meter dash. On the women’s side, sophomore Mystique Thompson won the women’s 60-meter dash and junior Chrissa Harris won the women’s 400 meter.

The Salukis will be back in action at the Samford Invitational in Birmingham, Ala., on Feb. 12.

Ted Ward can be reached at tward@dailyegyptian.com or 618-534-3303

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2016

SIU’s newly hired conerbacks coach Melvin Rice headed to NIU

Home cooking fuels Saluki women at Bradley

SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

Caring is about more than raising donations.

“We have die-hard Saluki fans, and they can see the people that they sit at the stadium and watch,” Williams said. “And, I think from the other side, I love when younger people get involved and experienced the joy of doing for others.”

The SIU women’s basketball team was on the road, but a home-cooked meal Saturday night courtesy of Lori Giebelhausen, mother of sophomore forward Kylie Giebelhausen, helped fuel a win.

Giebelhausen, a native of East Peoria, led the Salukis with 15 points in a 65-51 victory at Bradley. It took her just 21 minutes and 11 shots to lead her team in points. Giebelhausen led all players, shooting 3-6 from 3-point range. Her performance came in handy as the team was once again without AllConference senior center Dyana Pierre.

SIU (14-9, 7-4 Missouri Valley Conference) had three players score in double figures and five score at least nine points in completing the season sweep of the Braves (6-16, 2-9 MVC).

It’s the second straight season sweep of the Braves. Bradley hasn’t beaten SIU since March 2014.

Saluki coach Cindy Stein’s team led for 36:10 in the 40-minute game.

Sophomore forward Celina VanHyfte recorded career-highs with 13 points and nine rebounds.

SIU took an early 18-13 lead after the first quarter. The Dawgs put some distance between themselves and the Braves with a 13-0 run to extend their lead to 31-15 in the second quarter, highlighted by five points in two possessions by junior guard Rishonda Napier.

Bradley answered with a 7-0 run to cut into the lead, but SIU ended the first half up 35-26, thanks in part to 11 Braves turnovers. The Dawgs turned those turnovers into 10 points.

Giebelhausen, senior guard Cartaesha Macklin, junior forward Kim Nebo and Bradley senior guard Kat Yelle led all scorers with eight first-half points apiece.

Nebo also had a game-high eight rebounds in the first half and tied a career-high with 15 in the game.

Nebo also got the free-throw line a game-high seven times, but only converted three of those shots.

The Braves turned the ball over six times in the second half, compared to the Salukis’ seven, but could not draw any closer than nine points down the stretch.

The Braves scored just 10 points in final period.

Yelle led all scorers with a career-high 16 points and added nine rebounds. She was the only Bradley player with more than 10 points.

The Salukis have a full week off before traveling to Evansville for a 2 p.m. Sunday game at the Ford Center.

Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307

Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307

Cornerbacks coach Melvin Rice has accepted the same position at Northern Illinois, SIU football coach Nick Hill said Sunday.

Hill announced the addition of Rice, who was hired to the Golden Gophers

staff in 2011, to SIU football in early January.

“For him, it’s like me coming to SIU, he played [at NIU], he was a [graduate assistant there], I didn’t even try to argue with him,” Hill said.

Rice, who coached and played for Saluki Hall of Fame coach Jerry Kill at Northern Illinois, served “as Minnesota’s defensive quality control assistant where he [was] in charge of opponent scouting, self-scouting and the day-today operations on the defensive side of the ball,” according to his online biography.

At NIU, Rice coached the defensive backs as a graduate assistant in 2010 — the year the Huskies went 11-3. Rice,

who played for the Green Bay Blizzard in the Indoor Football League in 2010, coached at Chicago’s Morgan Park High School in 2009. “[NIU coach Rod] Carey called me a while back telling me the position may open up and asked me if I was interested and I said I was,” Rice said.

“Then it opened up, he offered me the position and I accepted. It was the type of opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”

Rice will be replacing Kelvin Sigler, who took a similar opportunity to coach at South Alabama, which is closer to his native Mobile, Ala. Hill said with the move north, Rice would receive a pay raise and be closer to his family. He and his wife had a son

in October and the move will allow him to be near them more often.

Rice said his family was still in Minnesota and will have an easier time moving to Dekalb.

Hill will not name an interim coach and safeties coach Marty Rodgers will oversee the cornerbacks for the time being. Hill said he has a shortlist of coaches he’d like to talk to, but did not disclose any names.

“It just goes to show the type of staff I put together,” Hill said. “These are indemand guys and I’m happy he’s able to move on up through the ranks.”

Sean Carley can be reached at Scar@dailyegyptian.com

Melvin Rice | Rice’s Twitter profile

Saluki football giving back on football’s biggest weekend THOMAS DONELY | @TDonleyDE

While the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos prepared to play on the biggest stage in football, the SIU football team served others.

The Salukis spent the day before the Super Bowl collecting donations for the Carbondale Good Samaritan House and the Murphysboro Food Pantry as part of the Souper Bowl of Caring, a nationally-sponsored effort to raise money for the hungry and those in need.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 30.4 percent of Jackson County residents live in poverty, more than double the state average of 14.4 percent.

Pairs of Salukis stood with soup pots at the entrances of participating stores from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, wearing their game jerseys and bright yellow aprons, and accepting monetary donations.

Players collected donations in two-hour shifts, and volunteers collected and counted the money every two hours.

Players could be found at the WalMarts and Krogers in both Carbondale and Murphysboro, as well as Schnucks, Neighborhood Co-op Grocery Store and MurDale True Value.

Kristina Stepps, associate athletic director for student services and academics, said the football team usually raises $6,000 for Good Samaritan House and the Murphysboro Food Pantry.

“It’s valuable because they realize that they’re out there collecting money for people who don’t know when their next meal is going to come,” she said. “We get a lot of good comments from people in the community saying ‘I saw your players out at Walmart. They made my daughter’s day.’”

Good Samaritan House has participated in the Souper Bowl

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Justin Johnson, a senior cornerback from Jackson, Tenn., shares a moment with Theresa Kern, who has lived in Carbondale for 41 years, as he collects donations for the Carbondale Good Samaritan House and the Murphysboro Food Pantry on Saturday outside Schuck’s. SIU’s football team annually participates in the “Souper Bowl of Caring,” an effort to raise money for the hungry and those in need. In addition to the cause, Johnson said his favorite part of the experience was getting to introduce himself to the people of Carbondale. “We never really have time to get out in the community between school and practice,” Johnson said. “So it’s been a fun experience and good to let people actually see our faces without our helmets on … everybody can see who we are and what we’re really about.”

of Caring since 1996. SIU football has helped since 2004.

“We have a great relationship with the SIU folks,” said Mike Heath, director of the Good Samaritan House. “The football players have always been fantastic — the greatest bunch of guys.”

The money Good Samaritan House collects funds its food pantry, which is located in the basement of University Baptist Church. Heath said the money raised by SIU football is usually

matched by donations from Souper Bowl offerings at various churches in the month following the Super Bowl.

Heath said the Good Samaritan food pantry, which is open on Mondays and Fridays, serves 7,000 to 8,000 families every year.

Murphysboro Food Pantry board member Jane Williams said the food pantry, which is open five days a week at 906 North 14th St., serves more than 37,000 people per year. She said the Souper Bowl of

THOMAS DONLEY | @TDonelyDE