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Colors of unity

International students face uncertainty under Trump's immigration ban

VOL. 101 ISSUE 4

MARNIE LEONARD | @marsuzleo

It has been nearly five years since Abdulsamad Humaidan, a curriculum and instruction doctoral candidate from Taiz, Yemen, has seen his father, siblings, nieces and nephews back in his home country.

“I miss [my country] so much.” he said. “I am here alone.”

Though he planned to visit his family over the summer, Humaidan said an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 27 has made that prospect unlikely.

The order put an indefinite ban on Syrian refugees coming into the country, blocked all refugee entry for 120 days and barred anyone from the Muslim-majority countries of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen from coming to the U.S. for three months.

Now, if Humaidan leaves the country, he might not be allowed back in.

On Saturday, the Department of Homeland Security said it had stopped its enforcement of the ban following a Seattle judge’s ruling that issued a temporary nationwide stay against the executive order. Trump’s administration said that the order is legal and appealed the judge’s decision. A three-judge panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard all arguments Tuesday afternoon.

In a statement, interim Chancellor Brad Colwell said the administration will do everything within its legal power to support its international students.

In response to this, members of the Graduate and Professional Student Council said the university should “go beyond simple assurances of support” by showing “concrete visible actions.”

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Azadeh Amiri, a graduate student in mechanical engineering from Tehran, Iran, marches with her country's flag Monday during the International Parade of Flags from Woody Hall to the Student Center. "It doesn't matter where you're from," Amiri said. "You just see friendship and unity between our international students. I think it's a beautiful thing."

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Campus Lake shown from above on Sept. 17, 2016, in Carbondale.

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The Shawnee Group of the Sierra Club is inviting community members to help restore Campus Lake.

The cleanup will be focused on raking up a layer of dead algae and debris covering the exposed lake bed on the south side of Campus Lake in order to improve the quality of water as the lake refills.

The organization has volunteer shifts from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and

from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday.

Groups will meet under a Sierra Club canopy on the walkway near the old campus beach. Volunteers interested in participating are encouraged to bring old shoes or boots, work gloves and drinking water.

The effort comes after a long string of actions taken by the university to counter the effects of toxic algae blooms, also known as cyanobacteria, on the lake, which has been closed to the public since June.

In September, the university hired a contractor to partially drain the lake six to eight feet, revealing about 20 acres of shoreline. This also removed as much as 46 million pounds of material from the body of water.

Kevin Bame, SIU’s vice chancellor for administration and finance, said in a September interview that it will take about 12 to 15 months for the water to return to its normal levels after being drained.

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Over the past 40 years, no U.S. citizen has been killed by anyone from the seven countries included in the ban, according to a report released after the order by the Cato Institute, a public policy think-tank. Seventeen people from these countries were convicted for participating in non-fatal terror attacks in the United States during the same 40year period, the report found.

“The opinion of this so-called judge, which essentially takes law-enforcement away from our country, is ridiculous and will be overturned!” the president tweeted Saturday.

Humaidan said due to the confusion surrounding the ban, his family calls him every day asking the same questions. “‘Are they going to ask you to leave the country or can you stay? Are they deporting you or not?’” Humaidan said.

“It has been, and still is, a big question for me. At this moment I am lost.”

Humaidan said his goal for years has been to earn his doctoral degree in the United States so he could go back to Yemen and help train teachers. In 2012 he was awarded a Fulbright grant — an educational scholarship that funds researchers and students learning abroad.

When this happened, Humaidan said he felt like his “dreams were coming true.”

“Getting my doctorate here would be a wonderful thing in my life,” Humaidan said. “But not being able to stay and finish would be the biggest loss for me.”

The executive order follows through on a campaign promise Trump made to tighten border security and begin extreme vetting of immigrants. It is intended to keep “radical Islamic terrorists” out of the country, the president said the day the ban was put in place.

Following the order’s enactment, travelers from the seven banned countries were detained at major national and international airports, spurring worldwide protests. Among the detainees were green-card holding legal residents of the United States and those here studying on student visas. The State Department estimated more than 60,000 visas had been revoked since the ban was signed.

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Omer Elsanusi, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering from Khartoum, Sudan, arranges flags from more than 30 different countries Monday after the annual International Parade of Flags in the Student Center ballroom. Elsanusi and his wife, Asia Abobaker, marched with their country's flag during the parade.

Uncertain of whether the ban will be overturned or upheld, student-visa holders at SIU remain concerned about their future in the United States.

“It feels unfair,” said Asia Abobaker, a Sudanese graduate student of mechanical engineering. “It makes me sad, mainly. I cannot understand why my people are included in this ban.”

Abobaker, a practicing Muslim, said the ban made her feel unwelcome and targeted for her religion. As she prepares to graduate in May, her parents, brothers and sister-in-law were supposed to visit Carbondale to see the ceremony. Under the ban, they wouldn’t be allowed into the country.

“This is part of my devastation,” Abobaker said. “It’s my graduation. I planned for that and I really wanted them to be here.”

Of the 1,263 international students at the Carbondale campus, 88 are from the seven countries listed in Trump’s executive order. SIU, through a statement provided by spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith, is not aware of any of these students currently traveling outside of U.S. or studying abroad in any of these countries.

Faraz Farbakhsh, a master’s student studying mining engineering from Tehran, Iran, has been in the United States four years. He is petitioning to graduate, and is looking elsewhere to earn his doctorate because of the immigration ban.

"It’s not just me — everyone I know is considering going to other countries, even those who are legal residents in the U.S.,” he said. “They’re thinking of going to Canada, Australia, anywhere else.”

Top immigration officials in Trump’s administration have indicated that the temporary immigration ban could be extended indefinitely for some countries on the list. For Farbakhsh, a member of the Iranian Student Association, a doctorate degree would take at least five years to complete, meaning such a ban would keep him from visiting his sister and parents in Iran.

“I’m sure my mother can’t stand not seeing me for another two or three or five years,” said Farbakhsh, who hasn’t been home since he moved to the U.S. “Right now, things are difficult.”

Graduate student Azadeh Amiri, an Iranian studying mechanical engineering, plans to finish her master’s degree in May. Amiri has been in the U.S. for two years, but said she is now looking at graduate programs in Europe.

She said she felt welcome during her first year in the United States.

“I think that is changing now,” Amiri said.

Amiri is the president of the Iranian Student Association on campus. She said if Trump’s main concern is protecting the country from terrorism, he isn’t going about it the right way.

“My people are not dangerous for the United States,” she said.

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Fisheries research center ‘at the breaking point,’ could still receive more budget cuts.

MARNIE LEONARD AND OLIVIA SPIRES @marsuzleo and @_spireso

As an undergraduate student, Anthony Porreca said the state-of-theart aquaculture facility at SIU “drew his eye in from the beginning.”

“No one has facilities like ours,” Porreca said. “It’s really an essential part to the university.”

Porreca, a third-year doctoral student in zoology from Homer Glen, said he came to SIU from Eastern Illinois University specifically for the research opportunities the fishery center provided. His current research project is studying the endangered ancient pallid sturgeon.

The research that students like Porecca do is generally funded by

external research grants. The ability to secure those grants could be at risk if further budget cuts outlined by the university’s non-academic prioritization committee take place.

The Center for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences is one of five research institutions slated for cutbacks under a set of proposals outlined by the committee, which was appointed by interim Chancellor Brad Colwell. The committee identified 15 institutions or centers it suggested could become self-sustaining as the university seeks to make budget adjustments that align with a lower level of state support.

The Daily Egyptian is publishing a series of stories to examine the impact those proposed cuts would have on the university community if

a budget is not passed by July 1. This is the third in the series.

Acting director Ed Heist said if university administration were to further cut the center’s budget, they would be “shooting themselves in the foot.”

The center received $581,609 in state funding for the 2017 fiscal year, according to the committee’s report. About half of that budget is earmarked for faculty salaries, Heist said, and could only be eliminated should the university begin laying off tenured professors.

Those actions could only be implemented if the university declared a state of financial exigency, and there have been no indications of such a move.

But Heist said he also took issue with its apparent classification as “non-academic.”

“We’ve cut as much as we possibly can out of our state account and it’s going to start affecting our ability to get grants and to support students,” he said. “It’s going to be affecting the academic program of the university if they cut us any more.”

“Some administrators are all about the tuition dollars,” Heist added. “But I want to be able to sleep at night knowing if we take a student’s tuition dollars, we’re giving them something in return.”

Judy Marshall, co-chair of the committee that created the report, said in earlier interviews the recommended cuts were still being considered. The

Chancellor’s Planning and Budget Advisory Council reviewed and prioritized the suggestions before delivering the report to Colwell on Feb. 1, said Rae Goldsmith, the university spokeswoman and the committee’s other co-chair. The committee meets with Colwell on Thursday, she said.

Public universities across Illinois are considering ways to continue operations in light of the state’s historic budget impasse and the assumption some funding could be cut permanently.

Two stopgap measures passed through the Legislature in 2016 totaled $83 million in financial support for the SIU system. Those funds, for the most part, were used to pay the bills from the 2016 fiscal

Wednesday, February 8, 2017 year. The university started the 2017 fiscal year “basically back at zero” and is dipping into the reserves once again, SIU President Randy Dunn said following the release of the report.

The center is home to individual research projects of about 20 graduate students, and zoology faculty members carry out their own projects while overseeing student work. Both graduate and undergraduate students are involved in every project, Heist said.

The other half of the state funding goes to two clerical staff members that are shared with the cooperative wildlife research laboratory. Their duties include hiring, employment paperwork and accounting associated with performing grant-funded research, Heist said.

One additional staff member maintains the McLafferty Annex facility, the old aquaculture facility adjacent to it and Touch of Nature’s 90-pond facility. He said the jobs of these non-faculty staff members would be at risk if the university followed through with the proposed cuts.

The biggest effect, Heist said, would be curtailing the center’s ability to administer its research grants because they need staff to do grant accounting, hiring and hiring to remain in compliance with granting agencies and state law.

Heist said if the budget cuts outlined in the report diminished any of the facilities used to conduct research, the center would be less able to secure grant funding because agencies require proper facilities to carry out the projects.

“We’re at the breaking point,” Heist said.

If research had to be scaled back due to budget cuts, Heist said, it would affect not only the university but the larger community as a whole.

“What we do is not just about the classroom,” Heist said. “It’s the impact you have on the community.”

Andy Coursey, the center’s facilities manager, said the 17,000 square feet of indoor aquatic research space at the center is unheard of in the state.

“The University of Illinois is the flagship university in the state, and they have four ponds,” Coursey said.

“They can’t even touch us.”

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Anthony Porreca, a doctoral student in zoology from Homer Glen, holds a young pallid sturgeon Jan. 26, 2016 at the McLafferty Annex. The facility has enabled Porreca to research the habitat preferences and reproductive success of pallid sturgeons, an endangered species found in the Mississippi and Missouri rivers that is competing for resources with the overpopulated shovelnose sturgeon. Porreca said the research requires salt and fresh water capabilities and control of minute temperature variances, which were not possible in the previous building.

Coursey manages the ponds at Touch of Nature’s research space, a fifteen minutes drive from the university’s main campus. He allots space to research projects and assists the students, who do a majority of the labor, fish harvesting and feeding and equipment maintenance.

Students also raise bass in the ponds, which are sold to farmers and restaurants as far away as New York and Canada. The money goes back into funding the student research projects, Heist said.

The center employs an aquaculture outreach specialist who works with the aquaculture industry throughout Illinois and surrounding states by helping fish farmers with screening and testing for fish health and sale brokerage, he said.

As state support has “dwindled and dwindled” over the years, Heist said the clerical staff have become increasingly overwhelmed with paperwork and accounting. The remaining office workers are already worried they won’t be able to handle the student employee paperwork workload in April, Heist said.

“Illinois is undergoing a brain drain,” Heist said. “You can’t blame people for looking at other places — it’s depressing, all these cuts.”

In 2016, two faculty members took out-of-state jobs. A new aquaculturist was hired to start in the fall of 2017, Heist said, but the other position is likely to remain unfilled indefinitely.

The vast majority of the center’s money is gained through external grants. Last year, four faculty

members brought in $1.8 million, Heist said, and anywhere from 15 to 47.5 percent of grant funding goes back to the university in the form of overhead.

“That helps keep the lights on at the university,” Heist said. “We help pay the power bill.”

If the center’s ability to write grants diminishes, Heist said the returns are likely to decline as well.

The Carnegie Foundation ranks SIU among the top 5 percent of all U.S. higher education institutions for research, according to the university’s research webpage. Given that SIU uses research opportunities as a recruitment tool, Heist said any cuts to the university’s research capabilities will also impact enrollment.

“If you just want to take

classroom classes, you can go to a community college,” Heist said.

“You come to a research university to get involved in research.”

Heist said SIU is the only major research university in the region, and if research declines, students may be lost to places like Southeast Missouri State University and Murray State University.

“You will hear, I think foolishly, people saying ‘Research is a luxury we can’t afford,’” Heist said. “I think that research is a necessity that we can’t afford to lose.”

Staff writer Marnie Leonard can be reached at mleonard@dailyegyptian.com.

Staff writer Olivia Spiers can be reached at 618-536-3325 or ospiers@dailyegyptian.com.

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Masked DJ a mainstay in Carbondale clubs TYRA WOOTEN | @twootenDE

An up-and-coming disk jockey is taking over Carbondale’s clubs with his unique mixing and a mysterious identity.

The DJ is known for his unique mixing style and the white mask he wears while on stage. Frozen in a perpetual grin, the mask is symbolic of the attitude the popular club scene figure emulates when he talks about his music.

“The way you mix is how you make people feel in the moment, and I love that feeling,” he said.

The mask’s purpose is twofold: it gives the brand a chance to shine while also concealing the artist’s identity from the team he plays for.

DJFac3 spoke to the Daily Egyptian on the condition of anonymity because he said there is sensitivity surrounding his night job.

“Staying out past a certain time in an environment I shouldn’t be in can potentially compromise my commitment to my sport in the coach’s eyes,” he said.

DJFac3 recently signed with the record label Live Young Productions, Promotions & Entertainment, a company based in Chicago that was formed in Carbondale by SIU students.

Dorian Huff, who goes by the stage name DJ D9-3, is one of the company’s leaders and serves as a mentor to DJ Fac3. Huff, 23, said having a fellow disc jockey look to him for guidance is a great feeling.

“Just seeing DJ Fac3’s success so early right now, it’s definitely good,” Huff said.

While playing a sport and majoring in biomedical sciences, DJ Face3 said he uses his music as an

escape. He added that the music is part of a local movement to restore black culture after recent years of escalated violence and discord with law enforcement.

“If I can make my way into the bars and invite that crowd in where things are regulated and secure, everyone can have fun,” DJ Face3 said.

DJ Fac3’s first performance was at a Sigma Lambda Beta house party, where people later encouraged him to more seriously pursue the pasttime.

“I was super nervous and I wasn’t even using my own equipment,” he said.

One year later, the disc jockey still plays fraternity house parties and local bars, including a regular Thursday gig at Hangar 9.

“It’s hard to balance your school work and priorities but I had to do

Branda Mitchell | @branda_mitchell DJ Fac3 performs Jan. 12 at Hangar 9 in Carbondale. DJ Fac3, a student studying biomedical science, keeps his identity hidden because he wants his audience to only focus on the music.

that anyway being an athlete,” DJ Fac3 said. “Now, I just had to add another element to my life.”

Staff writer Tyra Wooten can be reached at twooten@dailyegyptian.com.

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Iron sculptors to craft metal Valentine’s Day TYRA WOOTEN | @twootenDE

The university’s School of Art and Design is offering a unique option for Valentine’s Day gifts: metal plate sculpting.

On Saturday, the sculpture department is offering the public a chance to get in on pouredsculpture art creation at the Spring Iron Pour from noon to 6 p.m. The event takes place at the SIU Foundry on West Pleasant Hill Road across from Evergreen Terrace Apartments.

The SIU school of art and design department is selling scratch blocks for $7 and $15. The small, woodframed blocks, patterned as hearts, squares and ovals, are used to create a personalized metal plate.

The university’s School of Art and Design is offering a unique option for Valentine’s Day gifts:

metal plate sculpting.

On Saturday, the sculpture department is offering the public a chance to get in on pouredsculpture art creation at the Spring Iron Pour from noon to 6 p.m. The event takes place at the SIU Foundry on West Pleasant Hill Road across from Evergreen Terrace Apartments.

The SIU school of art and design department is selling scratch blocks for $7 and $15. The small, woodframed blocks, patterned as hearts, squares and ovals, are used to create a personalized metal plate.

Jamie Lovell, a research assistant for the department, said members of the community are encouraged to come out to see what the art and design department has to offer.

“We have the capability to pour metal at any time, but the iron pour is a big event because there is

a lot more work that goes into it,” Lovell said.

Lovell said this semester there is a demand for about 1600 pounds of iron, which means the iron event will be pouring all day.

“We have to get the metal to a much higher temperature than our furnaces can handle, so we fire up a couple outside that we fill with iron, coke, and marble charges,” Lovell said.

Sculpture students and faculty will heat and pour the iron into prepared molds, by bringing it to the melting point of the iron is 2,700 degrees Fahrenheit.

“We are one of the few facilities in the area that has the means to pour iron, which is a unique experience for students,” Lovell said.

Staff writer Tyra Wooten can be reached at twooten@dailyegyptian.com.

New play coming to Varsity Theater ALEX HOWELL | @ahowellde

The Stage Company, a community theater group, is scheduled to unveil its latest spring stage play on Friday night.

The play follows him through the course of his day as he reflects on his life and career, ultimately leading to a disciplinary hearing to decide if he should be removed from the class.

“The ten-person cast for this production draws from across the Carbondale community.”

- Elise Pineau director of Miller and the Jabberwock

Miller and the Jabberwock, a stage play written by a former SIU professor, will premiere at the Varsity Theater in Carbondale. The story follows the life of a college professor who has been charged with anti-semitism in his classroom by the descendant of a Holocaust survivor.

“The ten-person cast for this production draws from across the Carbondale community,” said Elise Pineau, the director of the play and a retired SIU communication studies professor.

Six of those in the cast are longtime members of the theater

group and three are SIU students.

Pineau said the actors as well as the design and technical staff share a commitment to the performing arts and community-based theatre.

David Rush, the play’s writer, said the characters in the play include the professor, the student, and some of the professor’s friends and colleagues.

Rush was previously the head of playwriting at SIU. Miller and the Jabberwock was originally produced in Chicago, where it was nominated for a Jeff Award for Best New Play. Rush has previously had his work produced by theaters around the country.

The play will be performed Saturday and Sunday and Feb. 17 through 19. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students.

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Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Marchers walk in the International Parade of Flags on Monday from Woody Hall to the Student Center. The parade was the kickoff event of International Festival 2017 at SIU.

Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Maya O’Neal, a graduate student in public health from Round Lake, arranges flags Monday on the stage in the Student Center ballroom. O’Neal also serves as a graduate assistant in the Center for International Education.

Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Mursal Ghiassi, a graduate student in teaching English to speakers of other languages from Kabul, Afghanistan, cracks a smile while wearing a handmade, traditional Afghani dress prior to the start of the International Parade of Flags on Monday from Woody Hall to the Student Center. The Fulbright Scholar said SIU is like a second home.

“At first I was honestly kind of terrified [about President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration],” Ghiassi said. “It wasn’t a good feeling.” But she said she is more at ease after all the support she has received. Ghiassi was supposed to travel to Afghanistan during summer break, but said she now has to stay in the United States. However, the graduate student said she is looking at the situation from a positive perspective, because she now will be able to take more courses during the break.

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Interim Chancellor Brad Colwell leads students on Monday during the International Parade of Flags from Woody Hall to the Student Center.

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International Festival begins with Parade of Flags DIAMOND JONES | @_dimewrites

Colorful fabric rippled through the air as a group of students walked through campus Monday morning carrying flags of their home countries.

More than 50 students, some of them international and others from the U.S., carried more than 30 flags representing the different countries students have come from to study at the university. The event, organized by the International Student Council, was planned in coordination with the university's annual International Festival, a celebration of cultures and students from other nations.

“The purpose of the International Festival is to bring those of different nationalities together in a positive way,” said Ramneesh Prabhakar, president of the Jewel of India Educational Society within the university’s Center for International Education.

Prabhakar, also the commentator for the event, said this year’s theme centered around unity and diversity, which was influenced heavily by recent events that have occurred within the country.

President Donald Trump in January imposed a travel ban from seven Muslim-majority countries.

The State Department said more than 60,000 people from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Sudan were affected by the restrictions.

The ban was suspended following a ruling by a federal judge. The Department of Homeland Security said Saturday it would no longer enforce the executive order. The matter is scheduled to be discussed Tuesday in federal appeals court.

Interim Chancellor Brad Colwell spoke of the the lower court’s rejection of Trump’s attempt to restore the travel ban, receiving a round of cheerful applause from international students and Carbondale community attendees.

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Marisa Winegar, of Carbondale, carries the Ethiopian flag Monday during the International Parade of Flags from Woody Hall to the Student Center. Winegar said she was marching for her friends who are refugees from East Africa. "It was wonderful to see people come together and celebrate the things that so many human beings share," Winegar said.

“The purpose of the International Festival is to bring those of different nationalities together in a positive way.”

- Ramneesh Prabhakar president of the Jewel of India Educational Society

“We support all of our students here at SIUC,” Colwell said. “We want the international students to be able to learn, and with them being here, we’re actually learning a lot from them.”

About 2,000 students enrolled at

the university are from outside the United States. These students are working toward degrees, attending graduate school and involved in student leadership positions.

Other students came to rally

in support of those from other countries during Monday’s event, carrying signs that read, “Protest + Resist,” “We Love our Muslim Students,” and “ SIU alumni supports all students.”

“I think it’s really important to support our international students in general but also focus in particular on the executive order Trump issued,” said Crystle Lacroix, a graduate student in communications studies.

Lacroix said there are almost 100 students at SIU who come from the countries named in the executive order targets, and they are afraid. In order to make their

time better at universities, she said, some of the courses should directly relate to the experiences they face as internationals. She also said the university should hire more people of different nationalities.

Interim Director of the Center for International Education Andrew Carver asked the people in attendance to "stand in solidarity with international students."

“Now is the time that our students need our support the most,” he said.

Campus reporter Diamond Jones can be reached at 618-536-3325 or djones@dailyegyptian.com.

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Betsy DeVos confirmed as Secretary of Education in historic Senate vote TODD SPANGLER | Detroit Free Press

With a tie vote broken by the vice president, the U.S. Senate confirmed Michigan's Betsy DeVos as the nation's 11th education secretary on Tuesday, ending a pitched battle by Democrats, public school teachers and their allies to derail the nomination of a woman denounced by her opponents as unfit and unqualified to serve.

In the weeks since a rocky confirmation hearing for the job to run the U.S. Department of Education, DeVos, 59, who has long been a polarizing figure in Michigan's political and education circles for her support of school vouchers and charter schools, became a cause celebre for those organizing against her. Congressional offices were inundated with angry calls urging her to be rejected and her performance as a nominee was ridiculed on NBC's "Saturday Night Live."

But with only two Republican members of the Senate — Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — refusing to support DeVos' nomination by President Donald Trump, it left Democrats with a 50-50 tie to block her. Vice President Mike Pence, in his role as Senate president, cast the tie-breaking vote in her favor as expected at 12:29 p.m.

"We are so so close and this is so important," said U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., who led opposition to DeVos, just before today's vote, as she continued to urge one more Republican vote to join Democrats in rejecting her.

It marked the first time in U.S. history that a vice president was called upon to break a tie vote over a presidential Cabinet nomination, which are usually routine votes regardless of which party is in power: No nominee has been rejected since John Tower's nomination as defense secretary in 1989. In order to confirm DeVos, Republicans also held off

confirming U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., as attorney general, needing his vote.

Immediately following the vote, both sides reacted swiftly.

Donna Brazile, interim chair of the Democratic National Committee, targeted potentially vulnerable senators who backed DeVos including Jeff Flake of Arizona and Dean Heller of Nevada for defeat in 2018, saying "their constituents ... will cast their votes next year to kick them out of office for selling out their state's public school children." Randi Weingarten, president of the 1.6-million-member American Federation for Teachers, added that because of the outcry over DeVos' nomination, "The 'public' in public education has never been more visible or more vocal."

able to do that on a much large scale."

As secretary, DeVos takes over an agency with some 4,500 employees and a budget of about $70 billion that administers and establishes policies for federal assistance to the states for secondary schools and higher education, as well as helping to enforce federal laws involving schools.

U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., himself a former education secretary and chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee that moved her nomination to the floor, praised DeVos' background, even as Democrats denounced it, saying her support of charter schools and vouchers has helped "to give low income children the same choices wealthier families have."

“... one thing I think we all agree on is our Cabinet secretaries must be qualified and up to the challenge of running an agency. Betsy DeVos has demonstrated that she is not qualified to run the Education Department.”

- Al Fraken United States senator

Meanwhile, the conservative Club for Growth said DeVos' win beat back a "full-court press" by teachers unions aided in part by its own "sixfigure investment in TV and digital ads, and robocalls, to caution potential Republican defectors." And Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a likely Republican candidate for governor next year, praised the vote, saying. "For 28 years, Betsy DeVos has made it her mission to ensure children receive a quality education, and now she will be

"Some people don't like that," said Alexander, adding that Republicans generally support it.

"Betsy DeVos has committed no more Washington mandates. ...

She's led the most effective school reform movement in the last 30 years."

Some Republicans have called for the department's dissolution, arguing it is a federal intrusion into what should be a purely state and local institution. However,

DeVos has vowed not only to enforce public laws but to support traditional public schools, saying she advocates for any kind of school that gives parents and students the choices they want.

DeVos said at her hearing she supports "any great school" — including public schools and those beyond what "the (public school) system thinks is best for kids, to what moms and dads want, expect and deserve."

Democrats, noting that she and her wealthy family — she is the wife of Amway heir Dick DeVos, a former Republican candidate for Michigan governor — have spent millions on behalf of conservative candidates and causes, rejected her claims, noting she had no experience as an educator, administrator or even as a parent or student in public schools.

Collins and Murkowski, too, said they worried that her commitment to public schools was not great enough to earn their support, since there are few choices to public schools in their rural states.

Democrats went further, arguing that she doesn't understand the policies she'll be tasked with enforcing, noting that in her hearing with the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, she fumbled a question about a landmark 1975 law protecting education for students with disabilities, seeming to not know about the law. She also made a joke at the hearing, saying she would not necessarily support banning guns from all schools because of the potential threat from grizzly bears in some wilderness areas.

"It's not Democrats who are bitter about the election," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck

Schumer, D-N.Y. "It's the American people who are bitter about the nomination of Betsy DeVos." He added that she "could not answer the most fundamental questions about public education."

U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn. called hers "the most embarrassing confirmation hearing I have ever seen."

"We often have philosophical differences but one thing I think we all agree on is our Cabinet secretaries must be qualified and up to the challenge of running an agency," said Franken. "Betsy DeVos has demonstrated that she is not qualified to run the Education Department."

But even as Democrats — unable to stop today's vote and lacking the votes to block her confirmation — went to the Senate floor to talk about DeVos throughout the night, Republicans continued to defend her, saying that her support of charter schools and school choice, if anything, suggests a secretary who is prepared to shake up traditional education.

"I have every confidence that Mrs. DeVos will lead the Department of Education in such a way as to put our students first," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Monday. Last week, after Collins and Murkowski announced their rejection of DeVos, other potential Republican targets quickly coalesced around her. U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., tweeted, "Lest there be any doubt about how I'm voting on @BetsyDeVos she had me at 'school choice' years ago."

With the vote apparently decided, Republicans largely allowed Democrats control of the floor in the hours leading up to DeVos' confirmation.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Go explore without spending a fortune.

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SIU superfan has not missed a home football, basketball game since 1978 JONATHAN THOMPSON @TheReal_Jt3

Tilden Parks hasn’t missed a home Saluki football or basketball game since Jimmy Carter was president.

He was back in the stands Wednesday, cheering on the SIU men's basketball team for the 533rd consecutive time.

The 64-year-old attended his first SIU game as an eighth grader. Since 1978, Parks has not missed a home men’s basketball or football game. That makes 213 football games.

“There are fans, I think there’s super fans and then there’s Tilden,” SIU men's basketball coach Barry Hinson said of Parks. “He’s on a whole different level.”

Parks, who has lived in the Marion area his whole life, was a member of his high school basketball team and as a long-time sports fan, happy to live near one of the only arena's in the region.

He spent two years at John A. Logan College before finishing at SIU with a degree in journalism.

Over the years, weather and unforeseen events have not stopped Parks from attending SIU sporting events.

"I've been over here in bad weather you know, snow and ice,” he said. “A few times I didn't think I’d make it, but I always did."

Parks has witnessed some of the biggest sporting events in SIU history, including the men's basketball NIT Championship in 1967 and the 1983 football National Championship.

"Before that championship, Southern was really considered a small college,” he said. “They really propelled in major college status when they won the NIT. Back then winning the NIT was almost the same as winning the NCAA tournament. That was amazing.”

Parks remembered students pulling the goal post out of the football field and marching down Illinois Avenue with it after every home game victory during the 1983 season.

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Longtime Saluki basketball and football fan Tilden Parks, of Marion, reacts in exasperation to a point lost to Missouri State on Jan. 28, during the Salukis' 85-84 win against the Bears at SIU Arena. The game marked Parks' 533rd consecutive SIU men's home basketball game.

“The students back then would really get into it,” he said. “They'd get 15,000 to 16,000 a game.”

In fall 2015, the Daily Egyptian reported that the lowest season attendance average at Saluki Stadium hit 8,554 in 2013.

Parks said one of the worst Saluki - Barry Hinson men's basketball seasons he has witnessed Men's basketball coach was in the late 1970s.

“They got so bad people would come in [the stadium], they'd bring paper bags, especially students. They'd put them over know they were at the game." every year leading up to 2017, his 38th their heads and watch games," he said.

But even the turbulent seasons didn’t consecutive year in the stands.

"I guess they didn't want anyone else to stop Parks from stepping into SIU Arena One of his favorite players this year?

“There are fans, I think there's super fans and then there's Tilden. He's on a whole different level.”

Senior forward Sean O'Brien.

“He’s a horse,” Parks said of the fouryear starter. “You can tell he wants to go out a winner.”

Parks said he doesn't plan on ending his attendance streak any time soon.

When the Dawgs face Evansville on Saturday at SIU arena, Parks will drive up to the arena in his Thunderbird with a license plates reading “SIU 53,” ready to cheer on his Salukis.

Staff writer Jonathan Thompson can be reached at jthompson@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @TheReal_Jt3.

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Weekend sports roundup SEAN CARLEY | @SeanMCarley

Men's basketball wins in Chicago Thanks to a pair of wins last week, SIU men's basketball is now in third place in the Missouri Valley Conference.

On Saturday, SIU traveled to the other end of the state to take on Loyola in Chicago. The two were deadlocked in a tie for third at 6-5 in the MVC, but the Salukis walked away victorious, 67-61.

Southern was able to win thanks in part to a huge game from senior forward Sean O'Brien, who had 19 points and 10 rebounds.

The Salukis held a two-point lead with six minutes left before O'Brien took matters into his own hands. He scored, assisted and scored again on three consecutive possessions before junior forward Thik Bol threw down a dunk to punctuate the victory.

SIU plays Northern Iowa on Wednesday to try to avenge its loss to the Panthers three weeks ago at SIU Arena.

Women's basketball splits pair of games against top-two MVC teams While the men's team was in Chicago, the women's team hosted the Iowa schools — Drake and Northern Iowa — which are Nos. 1 and 2 in the MVC. Drake came on Friday and for three quarters SIU looked prime to give the Bulldogs their first Valley loss this season.

After the third quarter the score was tied at 50, but Drake dominated the final period to win 71-60.

“We just kind of fell apart,” said senior guard Rishonda Napier, who had a team-high 18 points. “We had lapses in communication and we did a lot of things that were uncharacteristic. It’s just really hard to lose when you know you could’ve played better.”

However, the Salukis salvaged a weekend split after upsetting Northern Iowa. The loss was UNI's second in conference play so far this season.

SIU came back after being down by 15 at halftime and only led for 4:23, but

still earned the victory.

“We came out [of halftime] with more intensity and more urgency,” Napier said.

“We just had to make a decision that we were going to grind down and get it.”

Both SIU Track and Field teams win team titles at home meet SIU hosted the Don DeNoon Invitational on Friday and Saturday and both the men's and women's teams won the event.

The men's team scored 127 points throughout the meet, 37 more than second-place Memphis. Meanwhile, the women's team dominated even more with a 53.4 point margin over second place Murray State.

Eleven Salukis in total won their respective events.

Isaac Ingram won the weight throw with a toss of 69'-6.75", the 10th-longest throw in the NCAA this season. Freya Block won the same event for the Saluki women for the third time this year with a

64'-0.50" throw.

Pole vaulter Cara Engle also won for the third time this season, clearing 13'-4.50." Madison Meyer won the pentathlon on Friday.

On Saturday, the track athletes took over. Tyjuana Eason won the 200m dash, while Mystique Thompson won the 60-meter.

The Saluki women dominated the sprints as Tyjuana Eason won the 200m dash and Mystique Thompson won the 60-meter.

SIU also won the men's 200m with Ryan Mayberry clocking in at 21.97 seconds.

Kyle Landon also continued his dominant senior season with a 7'1.75" clearance to win the high jump.

Men's and women's swim and dive close regular season with victory over Evansville.

SIU finished the regular season with its traditional senior day meet against Evansville on Saturday.

All eight seniors that competed finished in first place at least once.

However, both teams picked up the victory as well, with the men's team winning 170-66 and the women's team winning 164-79.

SIU opened up with two victories in the women's 100-yard medley relay and men's 400-yard medley relay.

That was all the Salukis needed to kick-start their domination.

A Saluki team or individual finished in first in all but five of the 26 different events.

Senior Bobby Wood picked up two victories as part of the 400-yard medley team and also won the 50 yard freestyle.

Fellow seniors Filippo Dell'Olio and Andre Brilhante won each of their three respective events as well.

On the women's side Bryn Handley, Sarah James and Samantha Parsons each won two events to propel their team to the victory.

Column: It’s time for Belichick, Brady to retire so other teams have a chance THE BALTIMORE SUN

Maybe New England coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady will retire soon.

That appears to be the only hope for the 31 other teams in the NFL. If Belichick, 64, and Brady, 39, walk away soon, the other teams have a chance. If not, the Patriots' reign could last a few more years.

It was evident again Sunday night when New England overcame a 25-point second-half deficit by scoring 19 in the fourth quarter. The Patriots went on to defeat Atlanta, 34-28, in overtime.

In case you're keeping track, that's five Super Bowl rings for Brady and Belichick in New England.

There are several teams in the league

that don't even have one. New England has the best coach and best quarterback in a league that emphasizes having a passhappy offense.

It could change if Brady and Belichick evoke their own mercy rule, and depart.

Or maybe Father Time starts taking a toll and forces them to leave. Or maybe they become bored and get tired of winning.

The rest of the league just can't keep up with the Patriots. Belichick is brighter than the other head coaches, or he simply waits for them to outthink themselves. Case in point was Atlanta. With five minutes left in the game and still up 28-20, all the Falcons had to do was run the ball three more times from the New England 22yard line and then send out Pro Bowl kicker Matt Bryant to seal the victory.

Instead, Atlanta lost 1 yard on

a running play. On the next play, quarterback Matt Ryan was thrown for a 12-yard loss after dropping back to pass. Any hope for a field goal faded when Atlanta was called for holding. The Falcons had to punt.

After that series you had to wonder if Atlanta offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan was related to Ravens offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg, who made similar play-calling blunders when the Ravens almost lost to Philadelphia late in the regular season.

All that was needed was for Atlanta coach Dan Quinn to come out after the game and say that was the "worst call ever."

Belichick intimidates other coaches.

He has done that with Seattle's Pete Carroll, Indianapolis' Chuck Pagano and the Ravens' John Harbaugh. Each week

he finds a way to take out the other team's top offensive player or comes up with something new like the quick-paced, no-huddle offense that caught Pittsburgh off guard in the AFC championship two weeks ago.

On Sunday, the Patriots had two excellent two-point conversion plays, and even that final play at the end of regulation where they ran a sweep was neat. The Patriots are so disciplined that they very seldom beat themselves like Atlanta did by trying to return kickoffs five yards deep in the end zone late in the game.

The Patriots' opponents fear Belichick because of the enormous respect they have for him. It was fun watching him Sunday night. As the Patriots were getting smacked around in the first half he was on the sidelines either fussing with his

players or cursing officials. He was walking around with photos of formations, talking with and teaching his players, not leaving it up to the position coaches.

By the third quarter, he had improved the scheme as far as protecting Brady and the Patriots started winning individual matchups. Meanwhile, Atlanta made no adjustments defensively and allowed those Smurf-like Patriots receivers to escape clean off the line of scrimmage.

In the end, the Falcons got tired on defense. Brady roasted them for 466 yards and two touchdowns as he completed 43 of 62 passes to win his fourth Super Bowl MVP. He is hated in Baltimore — and that is understandable — but he is an amazing player.

To read more, please see www.dailyegyptian.com.

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Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Bobby Wood, a senior from St. Louis studying aviation management, looks to distract the opposing team Wednesday during the Salukis' 85-65 win against Bradley at SIU Arena.