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Giving back to kids with behavioral disabilities

Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Caleb Stanley, left, a doctoral student in behavior analysis and therapy from Walnut, Miss., offers Faith Teckenbrock, 4, an “Arthur” doll Monday in a therapy room of the Language and Cognition Development Clinic in Rehn Hall. During therapy sessions, clients complete tasks such as pointing to symmetrical shapes on a page. Once a group of tasks is completed, the clinician facilitates play with the client.

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Faith Teckenbrock, a 4-year-old from Herrin, sat behind a oneway mirror Monday and revealed a toothy grin as she pointed to matching images in a book held in front of her. Teckenbrock, who has Down syndrome, is a participant in the recently-opened Language and Cognition Development

Clinic at SIU’s Rehabilitation Institute in Rehn Hall.

Mark Dixon, a behavioral psychology professor at SIU, started the clinic in October.

The program, which is free and open to the community, helps children with learning disabilities such as Down syndrome, autism and ADHD by providing 90-minute one-on-one therapy

and intervention sessions led by graduate students.

The clinic has since expanded to include 15 families with children ages 3 to 12 and continues to take more clients.

“Most of them are there for help with increasing their language and cognitive abilities,” Dixon said.

He said the program, at no cost to the university, uses clinical and

therapeutic approaches modeled after those in his books.

“These are services that typically cost about $150 an hour if they were to get private therapy,” Dixon said. “It seemed like a logical thing to do on campus given that we had the resources available here.”

Faith’s mother Krista, whose older daughter Mary is

intellectually impaired, said she hopes the clinic can close the communication gap between her daughters and their peers.

The program starts each client with an assessment that allows students to determine what skills the children do and do not have, said Caleb Stanley, who works with Faith.

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Dune-buggy building RSO Budget cuts affect vulnerable seniors prepares for competition EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

SIU engineering students are putting down the calculators and picking up a tool box to put together a dune buggy that will be raced in a interstate competition.

The SIU Baja team, a Registered Student Organization, is rebuilding its vehicle from last year’s competition to return to the 100-team dune-buggy style race. With the competition three months away, the team is fundraising to send its 22 members to Cookeville, Tenn., where the Society

of Automotive Engineers meet is held at Tennessee Technological University.

Baja president Dalton Williams, a sophomore from Riverton studying mechanical engineering, said the race is not to test the driver’s abilities, but the vehicle’s durability.

The four-day event encompasses five races — including a four-hour endurance race — on courses made up of tight turns, steep hills, rocks and other obstacles trying to highlight any deficiencies in the design of the vehicle, he said.

Williams said transporting and

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housing 22 students costs about $5,000, and building a new race car costs nearly $15,000, but the luxury of this year’s Baja team is that they still have a functioning vehicle.

Because money is not being spent on a new frame, Williams wants to buy equipment for the team’s pit crew, which will allow SIU to compete with teams that have a larger budget.

He also hopes to improve the group’s race track garage at competitions with tools and other equipment to give his team an edge.

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JESSE BOGAN AND KEVIN MCDERMOTT ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

One night 10 years ago, coming home from a midweek church service, Barb Santos was in a horrible car crash that broke a bunch of her bones. When she finally came out of a coma, she had to learn how to speak again.

“I’ve come a million miles from the accident,” Santos, 67, a former nurse and minister, said from a wheelchair.

Now the historic budget impasse in Illinois has put another three miles between the disabled woman and what she says is her life: the swimming pool at Lewis and Clark Community

College. She said swimming there for an hour twice a week makes her feel independent.

“It’s my only exercise, really,” she said. “The pain medication has to go up when I don’t swim.”

On the way there Tuesday, Santos was informed that the bus service she uses at Senior Services Plus was shutting down for the first time in 43 years. The program is one of several offered by the Alton-based nonprofit, which says it serves about 3,000 people a day in southern Illinois with anything from home-delivered meals to wellness programs.

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Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Sidewalks and snow — transportation barriers wheelchairs users deal with in the winter — don’t mix. Carrie Mulderink, a graduate student in communication studies from Chicago, crosses the West Grand Avenue railroad tracks in a motorized wheelchair on her way to class Monday morning. It takes her about 30 minutes to get from her apartment on West Grand Avenue to Morris Library. “I feel that it’s largely unsafe for people with disabilities to cross a railroad that is often uncleared of snow and ice,” Mulderink said. Mulderink said she often gets stuck on the tracks, even if there is no snow. When this happens, she said she usually has to wait for someone to come find and help her. In the past, she said people have approached her thinking her wheelchair on the tracks was a suicide attempt, so now when she can’t get her chair over the tracks, she has to yell for help. Each time she leaves her apartment, Mulderink said she has to consider the safety and potential consequences of traveling to and on campus. Last year, she said she missed about a week of classes because of winter weather conditions. However, she said her teachers are typically accommodating of her situation. “I’m always trying to give more attention to accessibility issues,” Mulderink said. “It’s something that should be talked about more. But it isn’t.”

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So far, the team has raised $8,000, Williams said, but sponsors such as General Cable in Du Quoin have paid for entrance and registration fees.

Todd Moore, the team's treasurer, said alumnus of the program and local businesses also help pay for expenses throughout the year.

Fox Racing has provided discounted materials to the team.

But sometimes it just takes a little extra time and elbow grease to get sponsors.

Joel Wise, a sophomore from Robinson studying mechanical engineering, fixed his boss' truck for money toward the RSO. Wise and his fundraising team created a list of "whales," or bigger businesses, that might be interested in providing monetary assistance for the group.

"We spent a whole day making a list," he said.

"There was anything from Maxim magazine to the Ford [Motor] Company."

SIU Foundation, a corporation that provides monetary aid to university research groups, set up crowdfunding for the RSO — the first time it has done so, Williams said.

At its most recent event — Midnight Mayhem held at University of Louisville — the team's two cars finished in the top half of the field.

"The best part is going to competitions," said Jack Girote, a senior from Frankfort studying mechanical engineering. "There were over 90 cars at this unofficial competition. It was like

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“It’s very individualized for the clients,” said Stanley, a doctoral student in behavior analysis and therapy from Walnut, Miss. “Every day is a new experience. It’s really cool to see them progress as time goes on.”

Stanley's clinic supervisor, Karl Gunnarsson, a doctoral student in behavior analysis and therapy from Iceland, watched through the glass as Stanley offered Faith a colorful

Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Jacob Strutner, a sophomore from Farmer City studying mechanical engineering, and the vice president of the SAE Saluki Baja club, cuts off the old suspension mounts from the front of last year’s racer to make room for the new mounting points Monday in a workshop in the Engineering D building.

The group is building its racer to compete in the SAE Baja, or Society of Automotive Engineers Baja, series that will be held in Cookeville, Tenn., from April 14 to 17. During the competition last year, the team came in 53rd. “Hopefully we do better than last year,” Strutner said. “It wasn’t what we were hoping for in a competition.”

being in a pit crew on a Nascar team."

Members learn how to use a mill, a lathe, a tig welder, grinders and drill presses, but Williams said he does not expect every member to know how to do each task.

"As an engineering student I do math all day," Girote said. "To come here and not have

to worry about math for four hours is great. It's a lot more enjoyable to do this here and get the experience. To see it all come together at the end is well worth the time."

necklace made of Easter eggs.

Leslie Koth, whose 4-year-old daughter Mia was one of the first kids to join the clinic, said she had difficulties finding treatment for Mia, who is autistic, because affordable options in the region are scarce.

“It was a very difficult time for our family,” Koth said. “[The clinic] came into our lives when we were emotionally drained parents who didn’t know what to do or where to go.”

She said the students have shown her a lot about how to teach her daughter at home. Now, after four

months at the clinic, Mia is talking more and has made noticeable progress, she said — all at no cost to the family.

Dana Paliliunas, a doctoral student in behavior analysis and therapy from Chicago who helped Dixon create the program, said providing it for free seemed like the right thing to do.

“It’s important because the kids are in need of it,” Paliliunas said.

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Giving blood and giving back

Yenitza Melgoza | @YenitzaM_DE Lisa Thomas, of Carbondale, donates blood Monday in the rotunda of Morris Library. “I’ve been donating since like 1985,” Thomas said. “I’ve got Type O blood which is common to help donate for others.” Toward the beginning of Thomas’ Army career, donating blood became more accessible and from then forward she began donating almost every 60 days. “I used to volunteer for blood donations, and that often motivated me,” Thomas said. “It’s just a small way to help out and it’s just one of those things where I think, why not? One day I may need it.”

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Illinois has racked up a $1.8 million tab with Senior Services Plus since the state stopped paying many of its bills July 1.

This month, the agency had to cut back on its Meals on Wheels program from five meals a week to four. All the food is now delivered frozen, instead of hot, and a waiting list of seniors who qualify for the service has ballooned to 140 people.

"These are people who have worked their entire lives to build our communities and they are getting squeezed horribly," said Jonathan Becker, head of Senior Services Plus.

Clients could pay market rate for the food and transportation, but the programs are designed for people who need the service regardless of ability to pay.

Santos said she used to donate $35 a month for the bus service. To keep going, as her doctor recommends, she'd need to pay the market rate of $96 a month.

"I can't afford it, I really can't," she said. "I am just barely making it. I am not making it up."

She said she lives off Social Security and isn't "blessed" with a pension. She has caregivers who come every day who are still paid by the state.

"Without a caregiver, I would have to go to a nursing home," she said.

In Illinois, the annual fiscal year's state budget is traditionally hashed out between the governor and legislative leaders, with the agreement of both sides needed to put a spending plan in place. Without a budget, the state can still collect money, but it can't legally spend it.

The budget process broke down last year in a partisan confrontation between newly inaugurated Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Democratcontrolled Legislature. Rauner took office in January 2015, just after the expiration of a temporary tax surcharge in Illinois dropped the state's income tax rate from 5 percent to 3.7 percent.

That created a major new funding shortfall for state services.

Democrats who control the Legislature wanted Rauner to agree to re-institute the tax to fill that hole.

Rauner said he would consider it, if the Legislature would approve a collection of pro-business proposals that include loosening existing workercompensation protections, freezing property taxes statewide and instituting plaintiff-friendly civil court system reforms. Legislative Democrats balked, saying those are nonbudgetary items that should be debated separately from the budget process.

In the end, the Legislature sent Rauner a budget that contained an acknowledged $4 billion shortfall, and invited him to balance it by either supporting a tax hike or cutting the programs of his choice. Rauner refused, saying the Legislature had an obligation to send him a balanced budget.

With neither side budging, the state entered fiscal 2016 on July 1 with no operating budget. It still doesn't have one seven months later.

Lawmakers and Rauner have been able to keep the lights on for selected state offices, and to continue things like elementary education funding, police protection, driver services — and, yes, legislative salaries — despite the lack of a budget, using special legislation and court orders.

But other services are seeing reductions or complete cutoffs of money. The victims include universities, many private businesses that do contract work for the state, and human-services programs like those at Social Services Plus and Lutheran Social Services of Illinois.

"It has been an agonizing process, particularly its impact on our clients and their families who depend on us for their care, as well as our employees whose jobs were eliminated," Mark Stutrud, president of the Lutheran organization, which announced last month that it was cutting 30 programs and at least 750 positions.

In the absence of a working budget, the question of who gets

funding and who doesn't has, in itself, sparked controversy. Some say a Darwinian "survival-of-the-fittest" dynamic is at play.

State Sen. Bill Haine, D-Alton, noted that, in December, the Legislature and Rauner approved special funding to keep motor fuel revenue flowing to local governments, even as human services programs lost funding.

"Why was that [motor fuel bill] passed? Because the mayors in the northern part of the state demanded it," Haine said. "What is it about that that's different than people with Alzheimer's? People in the Alzheimer's center don't have the clout that a local mayor does.

"This situation is disgraceful," Haine added. "These are essential services. These people are desperate."

In a statement to the Post-Dispatch, Rauner spokesperson Catherine Kelly wrote: "No one is more frustrated by the lack of a balanced budget than Gov. Rauner. He has shown on a number of occasions he's ready to compromise to pass structural reforms and a balanced budget."

For Margie Condomitti, 79, of Caseyville, all this amounts to is more beans. Legally blind, she's one of the 140 seniors on the Meals on Wheels waiting list at cash-strapped Senior Services Plus.

"It's like everything else," she said.

"If you have to do without something, you substitute something else. If you have beans, then you make a big pot of beans, then you eat that today, tomorrow and the next day. You better proportion it out. That's the way you have to get along."

Asked about the political impasse, she leveled terse comments at Rauner, for whom she now regrets voting.

"Let me tell you this, he has cut so much for us senior citizens," she said. "These politicians are just like [President Barack] Obama, they promise the world and they get in there and give you nothing."

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‘Deadpool’ is a hilarious surprise JACOB PIERCE | @JACOBPIERCE1_DE

Comic book nerds can rejoice — a good Deadpool movie has arrived.

“Deadpool,” directed by Tim Miller and starring Ryan Reynolds and Morena Baccarin, is surprisingly mature and successfully adapts a beloved character.

Wade Wilson, played by Reynolds, is a former special operative making a living as a small-time mercenary.

While at the bar of a friend, played by T.J Miller, he meets Vanessa, played by Baccarin. Wilson and Vanessa fall in love, but their relationship is thrown through a loop by the emergence of cancer in Wilson’s body.

Doctors tell him it is incurable, so the mercenary leaves Vanessa and tries an experimental treatment. This procedure works, giving Wilson accelerated healing powers, but also leaves him scared from head to toe.

Now going by the name Deadpool, Wilson is after the people who did this to him and kidnapped Vanessa.

Regardless of how you end up feeling about this movie, it is impressive that it was made at all. It took years of being stuck in development hell, and a lot of campaigning from star Reynolds, among others, to get this show on the road. Even though it’s not the greatest comic book movie

ever made, “Deadpool” is a high contender for best comic-to-screen adaptation.

Few films beat this movie when it comes taking a character from the page and portraying him in his world with care and deliberation.

Aspects like Deadpool breaking the fourth-wall comes off as genuine, while other films do poorly.

A lot of this success comes from a combination of directing, writing and acting. Without perfectly portraying this high-octane world, without screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick writing dialogue fit for Deadpool and without Reynolds giving a 110 percent, this movie fails like a”Green Lantern” or “Fantastic Four.”

Reynolds gives the performance he was born to give.

Saying this is the actor’s career highlight may seem like hyperbole to some, and giving the star all the credit is done too often in Hollywood, but it makes sense here. Through and through, this movie is Reynolds.

Reynolds’ brand of improvised wit, pop culture references and sarcasm was an amazing fit for Deadpool even when he was cast in the awful “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”

Now, with more screen time, his full acting chops come out. He plays a character who is masked throughout a lot of the movie, yet through voice inflections and using unmasked scenes wisely, the actor makes the

Ryan Reynolds is Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, Deadpool.

live-action Deadpool feel developed and dynamic.

“Deadpool,” feels intimate, but undermines this idea constantly with shoddy X-Men references and self-referential humor, making it feel way too large and like every other overarching superhero movie reaching for the bigger picture.

While the character’s signature humor comes out perfectly, at times it slows the movie down and hurts the compact and persona storytelling this movie has.

The addition of Colossus, played by Stefan Kapicic, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Brianna Hildebrand, while cool and interesting, ends up falling a bit flat. The biggest reason it does not hit maximum potential is the movie is more apt to make a joke than let an idea make sense.

When trying to explain the fact that these are the only two X-Men in the film, the movie makes the joke of these two being the only ones the production could afford.

While funny, this kind of self-

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referential humor can backfire and remind you of the movie’s problems.

This, and an ending with the same old giant building and ship crashing down to earth finale, leaves a bit of sour taste in your mouth.

But overall, “Deadpool” is like a good plate of nachos — nothing pretty, but a good tasting meal.

Jacob Pierce can be reached at jpierce@ dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325

Inventive artist favors fashion Andrea LeBeau, right, who came to Carbondale seven years ago from Budapest, Hungary, showcases her fashion collection Saturday at Dayshift, a unique gift shop near the Strip that features local artists. Shelly Hill, a resident of Carbondale and yoga instructor at 101 Yoga, helps with the showcase.

LeBeau combines wool with silk to sculpt her “wearable art collection,” which includes scarfs, ponchos, dresses and accessories. “Fashion and art have always been a part of my life,” LeBeau said. “I got my inspiration for this collection when I was walking through a market in Budapest.” LeBeau said she couldn’t sleep that night because she knew what she needed to do about her new design ideas. “Art is an experience,” LeBeau said. “We want art. It gives us beauty, passion — it feeds our soul.”

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Covers is ready to return to form TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

SIU redshirt freshman pitcher Austin Covers is finally healthy after suffering a season-ending injury that a teammate had as well.

Covers injured his elbow after pitching only one inning against Texas Christian University on Feb. 15, 2015, and had surgery to repair it. Redshirt senior pitcher Bryce Sablotny suffered a similar injury in 2013.

Sablotny, who was granted another year of eligibility following a second injury, said Covers’ surgery was a modified version of the procedure he had. But instead of removing the elbow ligament, as doctors did to Sablotny, Covers’ ligament was fixed and restrengthened through rehab.

“It’s a long, excruciating process, and I just told him to take it easy and follow protocol by going to see the trainer every single day,” he said.

“There’s not a lot of advice to give.

You just have to go in and put in the work needed to recover.”

Coach Ken Henderson said Covers is set to pitch in the upcoming season, but will need some time to get back to form.

Covers was an all-area selection for Prairie Ridge High School in 2014.

“He hasn’t pitched in over 12

A IDEN O SBORNE | @AidenOsborne_DE Sophomore pitcher Austin Covers smiles while having his shoulder stretched by Herman Suncin, a graduate student in kinesiology from Morton Grove and the graduate assistant athletic trainer for the baseball team, Friday at the Saluki training facility at Garden Grove Event Center. Covers suffered an injury during his freshman season which required a surgery on his elbow. After a pitcher throws, Suncin completes manual resistance exercises to help strengthen the pitcher’s shoulder and keep it healthy throughout the season. The exercises specifically target the muscles of the rotator cuff and those used to decelerate the arm.

months and hasn’t thrown to a live hitter during that time either, so it will be a gradual process of getting him some work over time to make sure he’s good to go for

games,” Henderson said.

Henderson said he is unsure when Covers will take the mound, or if he’ll be a starter or reliever, but the Crystal Lake native will be ready

for the season opener if needed.

For Covers, it’s all about ending rehab and getting back to the mound.

“The main focus of rehab was to

gain strength back in my elbow and my arm,” he said. “We did a lot of strength exercises and stretches to regain mobility four and five times a week, usually once a day that focused on regaining strength in all the muscles in my arm. [It] took awhile and was stressful at times because of the slow progression.”

Covers’ surgery was performed

by Dr. James Andrews, who has operated on athletes such as Michael Jordan and Andy Pettite.

Pitching coach P.J. Finigan said the goal now is to get Covers up to speed with out overexerting him.

“Compared to last season, he’s a little behind because his arm strength isn’t where it needs to be,” he said. “We’ll have to communicate on a day-to-day basis about how he feels. The good thing about him is he’s a smart kid and a tough competitor and he’ll get back to being on top of his game.”

The Salukis hope Covers can help improve their 6.14 earned run average from last season, which was ranked last in the Missouri Valley Conference.

SIU opens the season 6 p.m.

Friday in Lake Charles, La., against McNeese State.

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

Attendance has been a roller coaster all season BENJAMIN TUCKER | @BenTucker_DE

SIU men’s basketball has been inconsistent as of late, following a four-game winning streak with a four-game losing streak during the last month. The attendance in the team’s home games has been just as unpredictable.

On average, 63 percent of SIU Arena, which holds 8,339 people, is full. This is a 4 percent raise from last season.

Junior guard Leo Vincent said he has noticed how full the arena can be.

“The home crowd definitely plays their part,” Vincent said at a news conference earlier this month. “When you got support like that behind you, that’s always a confidence booster. That can always play a part against your opponent as well.

When they’re on a run and we come down and hit a three, we get our crowd in it, get momentum going our way, that all plays into the final score.”

SIU had a problem filling the stands during the football season as well. The previous record low for Saluki Stadium’s average attendance was 8,554 in 2013, but that was broken this past fall with an average attendance of 7,750.

Tommy Bell, director of athletics, said there’s one factor to putting people in the stands, regardless of sport.

“It’s all about winning,” Bell said. “Winning helps everything. It generates excitement,

buzz and enthusiasm.”

That means Saluki basketball, which is 20-7 on the year, should be playing in front of fuller crowds.

But other teams in the Missouri Valley Conference are having the same problem.

Illinois State, which is second in conference and Evansville, which is third, are also having trouble filling the stands.

The team has noticed this.

“I think our crowd is unbelievable,” head coach Barry Hinson said earlier this month. “I’ve been here four years now, without question this year is the best our crowds have been. Our student body is starting to get into it.”

The student section attendance in SIU Arena has varied, increasing more over the past few weeks. Three-hundred and one students (4,441 total) attended the Illinois State game on Jan. 12, while 839 students (5,036 total) attended the Indiana State game on Jan. 20.

The 659 students who attended the soldout home game against Wichita State on Jan. 9 seems small compared to the Indiana State game, as less than 10 percent of the crowd was students.

However, the home game against Evansville brought out more students — 1,014 of the 6,345 attendees got in with a student ID. Hinson showed his appreciation of the

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section after that game. Normally, one pizza is bought and slices are given to a few fans. But Tom Weber, associate athletic director, said there were 65 pizzas bought for the student section after the final buzzer.

“Somebody said the other night we’re getting back to the old days of the Dawg Pound, we’re not quite there yet,” Hinson

said. “They can say what they want, I remember the old days, I was next to the Dawg Pound in the old days. We’re getting there and the students don’t know how much we appreciate them.”

Benjamin Tucker can be reached at btucker@ dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

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Dreams seem possible.

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The spotlight intensifies. Remember what you’ve learned. Put your experience to good use. Extend your reach.

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goals. Explore and discover uncharted terrain. Check fuel supplies. An elder has good advice.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -Today is a 6 -- Go over numbers, with Venus is in Aquarius. The next month is good for saving money.

Increase your assets with organization and attention. Your standards are challenged and stand up to the test.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Partnerships flow with greater ease for the next month, with Venus in Aquarius. Compromise comes easier. Share beauty and love. Support each other. Help establish a solid structure. Check for water problems.

Prioritize practical logistics.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 7 -- There’s more work coming over the next month, with Venus in Aquarius, and it’s the fun kind you like. Creativity and beauty flourish with love. Team projects go well. Balance labor with

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Jones named MVC Pitcher of the Week SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

Freshman softball pitcher Brianna Jones was honored Monday for her outstanding weekend performance at the Lion Classic.

Jones was named Missouri Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week for the opening week of the season.

She pitched two complete game shutouts during the weekend and did not give up an earned run in 14 innings, while striking out 16

batters. Opponents hit .192 against her throughout the invitational.

Coach Kerri Blaylock said Saturday that Jones is having a hallof-fame caliber start to her career.

She is the first freshman to win the opening Pitcher of the Week award since Chelsea Ross won it in 2014 for Northern Iowa and the first Saluki to win it since Danielle Glosson in 2011.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Opinion: Former SIU coach Bruce Weber is a work in progress at Kansas State

Sean Carley can be reached at scar@ dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3304.

Beane earns two weekly honors EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

Senior guard Anthony Beane was named Player of the Week in the Missouri Valley Conference and the Lou Henson Player of the Week after consecutive 31-point games against Drake and Indiana State.

In the two victories, Beane combined for 62 points in 70 minutes and went 8-15 from behind the 3-point line.

The two wins snapped a fourgame losing streak for the Saluki men’s basketball team.

This was the second time this season Beane was named MVC player of the week, and the sixth time in his career — the most of any player in SIU history.

This season Beane has 551 points, a career high. Entering the season Beane was No. 22 on SIU’s all-time scoring list, he is now No. 5 at 1,851 points.

During the became the second Saluki with 1,000 points in conference play.

Beane is on the Lou Henson award watchlist, which is awarded to the nation’s best mid-major basketball player.

He has four games left in 2016 regular season, beginning when the Salukis take on Bradley at 7 p.m. Wednesday at SIU arena.

Evan Jones can be reached at ejones@dailyegyptian.com or at (618)-536-3304.

J ACOB W IEGAND | @J ACOB W IEGAND _DE Saluki senior guard Anthony Beane dribbles the ball past Rambler senior guard Earl Peterson during SIU’s 73-59 loss to Loyola on Saturday at SIU Arena. Beane finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds in the game for his first career double-double.

B O R ADER | W ICHITA E AGLE Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber calls out instructions to his players early in the game against Baylor at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, Kan., on Feb. 10.

VAHE GREGORIAN | THE KANSAS CITY STAR

Even in the relatively immediate aftermath of Kansas State toppling then-No. 1 Oklahoma on Saturday, coach Bruce Weber apparently simply couldn’t please, or even appease, some people.

That’s why if you tried to get on the Internet on Wednesday at Bramlage Coliseum, one of the network options was, in fact, a profanity attached to his name.

Another was called “Fire Bruce.”

Remember, these calls came shortly after he took a downtrodden Southern Illinois program to a Sweet 16, and he also took four of his next six Illinois teams into the NCAAs after the 2005 Final Four.

This is the work of a few, or perhaps but one, detractor. And both the volume and scope of those complaining about Weber to the K-State administration has ebbed notably this season.

At least before a sense of momentum was punctured with an 82-72 loss to No. 21 Baylor.

From the top of the world, Weber said, to “lower than a snake belly.”

Offering a sort of testimony of his own after the game, Weber said, “You’re never as good as you think you are and never as bad.”

When you look at what he’s done at K-State, do you see a record of 76-48 and 32-23 in Big 12 play ... or do you see a coach whose teams are 11-18 in conference the last two seasons since the program became more made over in his image with the passage of time?

When you look at what he’s done at K-State, do you see a team that is tied for the third-

most new players (10, including seven true freshmen) in Division I and thus give him the benefit of the doubt through growing pains ... or do you see a coach who just doesn’t seem to be able to get his team to play together consistently enough?

When you look at what he’s done at K-State, do you see a team playing in the best conference in the country whose 10 losses are characterized by nine to teams who were ranked when they played and whose game-planning and credibility with his players enabled them to beat OU ... or do you see a team that just isn’t good enough and not getting better?

All of that sort of blurred together Wednesday at Bramlage.

K-State lumbered to a 13-point first-half deficit, scrapped back to as close as three points behind before halftime but ultimately unraveled because it couldn’t make a three-pointer (2 of 14), had a spree of unforced offensive mistakes and was often a step behind the quicker Bears.

This isn’t where K-State ultimately fancies its program, of course, but the litmus test is more clear for athletic director John Currie than the Rorschach test might be for fans.

When he looks at all this, he sees it through the measured and reasoned lens of the long haul.

He sees it with the understanding that there is flux in any transition, that it takes years to establish a foundation and a system and to indoctrinate players into a program, and that Weber is, indeed, building a program, not just a team.

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