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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2015 VOLUME 99 ISSUE 18

Illinois FY 2016 budget by the numbers Matt Dietrich Reboot Illinois

As Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois General Assembly begin crafting the budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, they face trouble on three major fronts.

First, when state personal and corporate income tax rates fell by 25 percent on Jan. 1, state revenue took a big hit. From FY 2014 -- the final full year of higher tax rates under a 2011 tax increase -- through FY 2016 (the first full year under lower taxes), state income tax revenue will decline by 35 percent. The final projections from Gov. Pat Quinn’s Office of Management and Budget in December estimated $32.1 billion in revenue and $37.8 in spending.

Second, there’s pressure to avoid cutting education.

In fact, the Illinois State Board of Education, now led by Rauner appointee and former state Sen. James Meeks, has asked for a $730 million increase in FY 2016.

Rauner has pledged to increase education spending while also opposing a return to the higher tax rates that expired this year.

Third, pension costs could sink whatever budget is created by the Legislature’s May 31 deadline. The state will owe $6.8 billion to its five pension systems in FY 2016. If the Illinois Supreme Court invalidates the pension reform plan signed into law in December 2013, taxpayers will be on the hook for another $5.4 billion through FY 2019.

And this doesn’t include the $1.5 billion shortfall in the current budget year, which runs through June 30. That was caused by lawmakers and Gov. Pat Quinn last year adopting a 2015 budget that assumed the tax rates of the 2011 temporary tax increase would be made permanent.

p EtEr r ogalla • D aily E gyptian Marvin Cheers, a Carbondale resident, walks home along South Oakland Avenue Sunday afternoon after buying dinner and collecting aluminum cans.

When asked how he felt about Carbondale as a community, Cheers said he wishes there were more events like barbecues or public gatherings where everybody could come together, get to know each other and share their differences. “That’ll bring people together more,” he said.

Western retreats offered during spring break Jonathan Swartz

@JP_Swartz | Daily Egyptian

Panama City Beach, Fla., is not the only vacation destination for students attempting to enjoy spring break.

Touch of Nature and Outdoor Pursuits are offering spring break getaways with destinations in four western states.

Touch of Nature stopped organizing spring break trips about 15 years ago, said Clayton Sheehan, a graduate student in recreation from Metropolis.

This year, Touch of Nature is organizing a two-pronged excursion to Utah and Colorado, with an all-

inclusive cost of $600.

Sheehan said two groups—one coed, one women—will drive together to Moab, Utah. After rock climbing and rappelling in the area, the women’s group will head to Colorado.

He said the coed group staying in Utah will hike, rock climb, rappel and camp in Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park.

All climbing and activities on the seven-day camping trip are beginnerfriendly, Sheehan said, but all skill levels are welcome.

Sheehan said he has been to the area five or six times, and describes the red

Illinois FY 2015 Budget Highlights Spending

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D aily E gyptian F ilE p hoto David Hug, a senior from Waterloo studying recreation, flakes his rope while other climbers prepare for their routes.

rock, the arches and the high canyon walls as amazing.

“There is literally nowhere else in the world like it,” he said.

Meanwhile, the women’s group will have activities in Cortez and Durango, Colo., said Annie Linhart, a senior from Peoria studying outdoor recreation leadership and management.

She said the all-women’s group will provide a comfortable atmosphere for everyone and encourage people to step outside their shells.

Pressures some women may normally feel in coed groups will not be present, and ladies will have the chance to enjoy each other’s company, Linhart said.

Touch of Nature is not the only organization providing spring break escape opportunities to students.

Outdoor Pursuits, an organization sponsored by the Recreation Center, is offering students the opportunity to visit parks and wilderness locations in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico, said Torri Withrow, a senior from Wayne City, studying outdoor recreation.

Withrow will help lead the group in visits to Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma, Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas and Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.

Withrow said participants will rock climb and boulder, climbing on large rock formations or boulders for sport, in the wildlife refuge.

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The Palo Duro leg will include a number of activities from backpacking to geocaching, which is hunting for hidden objects using GPS coordinates.

Students will go on a guided cave tour in Carlsbad Caverns.

Withrow said tours range from self-guided to spelunking, or cave exploration. The group will decide what level of difficulty

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will best suite their abilities.

After caving in New Mexico, the group will continue its road trip back to the refuge in Indiahoma, Okla., before returning to southern Illinois. The entire excursion will last seven or eight days, Withrow said.

Withrow said students will camp at each location, and cooking and eating together to build group cohesion.

“One of my passions is helping people find a sense of

community,” she said.

The entire trip is meant to be a recreational getaway, but she is certain fun, educational opportunities will arise.

The trip is $450 all-inclusive.

Withrow said the only reason students may need to spend additional money is for snacks and souvenirs.

The registration deadline for the Touch of Nature trips is Sunday. Outdoor Pursuits’ deadline is March 2.

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Dan Essenpreis, an instructor of the Mixed Martial Arts class at the Recreation Center, spars with one of his students during class Feb. 11. Essenpreis is a senior majoring in University Studies with a minor is Zoology. “My partner [Alex Loubere] and I began instructing this class last Spring, and the turnout for it has been pretty good so far,” he said.

Carnegie Mellon University sends erroneous letters of acceptance Dan Majors

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PI T TS BU RG H — Applicants to Carnegie Mellon University’s Master of Science in Computer Science program are pursuing higher education. This week, about 800 of them learned a tough lesson: You can’t believe everything you read.

It’s something they learned the hard way after they received emailed letters of acceptance that were mistakenly sent by CMU’s computer science department.

The applicants received the congratulatory emails Monday morning touting the university and the city of Pittsburgh.

“You are one of the select few, less than 9 percent of the more than 1,200 applicants, that we are inviting,” it read. “We’re convinced this is the right place for you. Welcome to Carnegie Mellon!”

The “correction of prior email/revocation of offer of admission” notices went out about seven hours later.

“This was an error on our part,” wrote Frank Pfenning, president’s professor of computer science and department head, who also wrote the acceptance letter. “While we certainly appreciate your interest in our program, we regret that we are unable to offer you admission this year.”

The revocation email also included a request that recipients acknowledge receipt.

“This error was the result of serious mistakes in our process for generating acceptance letters,” CMU said in a news release. “Once the error was discovered, the university moved quickly to notify affected applicants.

“We understand the disappointment created by this mistake, and deeply apologize to the applicants for this miscommunication. We are currently reviewing our notification process to help ensure this does not happen in the future.”

The university declined to comment further.

Ben Leibowitz of Stamford, Conn., was among the accepted-then-rejected CMU

applicants. After receiving the first email, he called relatives and went out to dinner with his parents to celebrate.

Then he got the second email.

“It was brutal. I didn’t get much sleep last night,” Leibowitz told The Associated Press.

“Now I have to clean up the mess. I’m calling all my relatives, I’m going, ‘I’m sorry it’s not happening.’ “ In U.S. News & World Report’s most recent ranking, Carnegie Mellon’s computer science graduate school was tied atop the list with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford and the University of California at Berkeley.

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‘Kingsman’ is high octane drug with no crash Jacob Pierce

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“X-Men: First Class” was a surprise hit. The film was given a death sentence early on by many critics for being pushed back from its release date. This was until audiences were captivated by director Matthew Vaughn’s style.

So it was a surprise when Vaughn dropped out of the much-anticipated sequel for the film. He opted out of the next X-Men movie to direct “Kingsman: The Secret Service” (Rated R; 131 min) instead.

“Kingsman: The Secret Service” is an action comedy starring Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Samuel L. Jackson and Taron Egerton.

The Kingsman are an elite secret service set on protecting England and the entire world. They have been around since World War I and value confidentiality above all else.

Only the classiest of individuals are chosen to join. That is, until Garry “Eggsy” Unwin comes along, played by Egerton.

Unwin is a young street thug with no future in sight. His father, a former Kingsman, died when Unwin was a child and since then his life has been at a standstill.

Agent Harry Hart, played by Firth, offers him a chance to join the group. He is thrown into the world of espionage, gadgets and megalomaniac villains.

It was hard to get a vibe from “Kingsman: The Secret Service.”

Vaughn is one of the few directors working who rarely misses.

Everything from “Kickass” to “Layer Cake” has been a critical success.

On the other hand, the trailer for the film looked outright ridiculous.

While absurdity can work well, it can also blow up in your face.

The ludicrousness of the film not only works, but it serves as a tribute to a long-gone genre.

Before the age of serious spy movies like “Skyfall” and the Bourne series, spy films tended to not take themselves very seriously.

Vaughn captures the key quality of the classic genre and manages to add his own style to it. A lot of directors fall into a trap and make a tribute film void of their own vision. Vaughn does

not make this mistake; he brings the hyperrealism and brutality he became famous for.

The film is loaded with fantastic supporting actors in Caine, Firth and Strong, who all bring an English quality to the movie that makes it classy. Even Jackson gave a performance new and unique in comparison to his usual roles.

The acting is so strong in the film even the newcomers pull off great performances.

One of the weakest aspects of the movie is its main character, Unwin. What could be an interesting role is hurt by uneven persona development. This is unfortunate, because he starts from an amazing place. He is an underprivileged young adult trying to gain access to a group full of elitists, forced to become

a man at an early age and looking for a way to show his greatness.

He is a Joseph Campbell like hero waiting to happen.

This opportunity is wasted every second the character faces a problem.

Every time he is given a chance to learn or a chance to show off interesting dynamics, he becomes the “coolest” character in the room.

Nothing he does is ever wrong and no one can be as amazing as him.

The movie is already getting polarized criticisms. Some are calling it a fun homage to the old Bond, while others claim it is a film for “bros.” To me, it was a nice surprise. In a weekend with possibly the worst movie of the year, “Kingsman” served as an amazing relief.

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Saluki horn instructor returns to the “Sphinx” Famous Black Musicians Top 10

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The percentage of African Americans participating in America’s top orchestras was 1.14 percent in 1998, according to the League of American Orchestras.

That number doubled by 2008, and the Sphinx Organization, a nonprofit group founded in 1998, is determined to keep it growing.

The organization uses competition among young musicians as a way to promote the participation of African Americans and Hispanic Americans in professional music.

Jennifer Presar, an instructor of horn and music theory, was invited to participate in the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra’s Finals Concert for the second time on Feb. 1. The performance was composed of all African American and Hispanic musicians.

A West Virginia native, Presar began taking piano lessons and performing in her church choir at a young age. She started playing the saxophone in the fifth grade.

Presar said her band instructor encouraged her to switch to the French horn by the summer after the sixth grade year, as the band’s horn section was practically nonexistent.

“[The French horn] liked me and I liked it,” Presar said. “It was a much better match than with the saxophone.”

Throughout high school, Presar had to juggle her enthusiasm with music and athletics, playing basketball and volleyball.

“When I went to college, it was a decision between being an athletic trainer or a music person,” she said.

Presar received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in music theory and composition, and received her master’s from West Virginia University as a horn performance major.

She is working on her dissertation at SIU while teaching classes and private lessons.

While researching professional African-American horn players, Presar kept coming across the name “Sphinx,” prompting her interest in the orchestra, she said.

“It is all about the diversity in the arts,” she said. “They talk about how to keep current art open and diverse, whether its composers, artists or organizations in the community that includes this diverse population.”

Presar was invited to perform last year after reaching out and submitting a resume.

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reinvigorating your own creativity,” she said. “Sphinx is also great for networking.”

Because the competitors are at such a high talent level, the Sphinx organization ends up managing some of the winners and scheduling different shows for them, she said.

The grand champion prize of $50,000 provides even more motivation for the musicians.

Presar said the competition portion, open to high school and collegiate string players, begins every fall.

She said once the semi-finalists are chosen, they compete in front of a live audience from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1.

The orchestra Presar belongs to performs for the finalists along with a guest artist of a diverse cultural background, she said.

“This year [the guest performer] was a Spanish woman who plays bagpipe from her original culture in Spain, trickled down from the Celtics,” she said.

Presar said she feels honored to be a part of an organization with such an impact on the African American and Latin American music communities.

“The impetus for all of this is they want to promote great black and Latino musicians and improve their careers and make a place for them,” she said.

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Sports

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

SIU falls again

Softball improves hitting with coach, new online system Brent Meske

@brentmeskeDE | Daily Egyptian

The Saluki softball offense has been among the best in the Missouri Valley Conference the past four years because of their hitting coach.

Associate head coach Jen Sewell has begun her fifth year with the position, and her seventh year at SIU. As hitting coach, Sewell led the Salukis to the top five in the MVC in batting average, walks, slugging percentage, RBIs and on-base percentage in the last four years.

This year, the Salukis are using ProStar Coach, an online coaching system, for the first time.

Sewell said she learned about it from Holly Hesse, the coach at conference rival Missouri State. Sewell met Hesse at the NCAA Women’s Coaching Academy in 2013 and adopted the idea of using the system at SIU afterward.

The online program tests players’ skills in the mental side of the game that can not be done at practice, Sewell said. Coaches can pick from a list of pre-programmed lessons for the

athletes to learn from.

She said the team has worked on areas such as personal strengths, communication skills and hitting.

“Kids have to read and write about it, and then reflect on it,” she said.

“Then they come up with a 48-hour plan to develop short term habits for long term change.”

Sewell said the program sends coaches and teammates results, and players can choose to send their results to parents, friends and mentors as an outside support system.

Sewell’s philosophy is to accumulate more balls than strikes in the count by taking close pitches.

“I want to lead [the conference] in hitting percentage and walks, and I want to hit home runs by accident because we’re swinging hard for the gaps,” she said. “You’ll see us get a big swing off early in the count if we work into a hitters count.”

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Jen Sewell’s first four years "We want to lead the conference in things like on base percentage, walks and hardest to strike out, and we want to slug well."

AVG: .290 - 2 BB: 228 - 1 K: 224 - 1 SLUG%: .406 - 3 RBI: 267 - 2 OB%: .402 - 1 2nd year

1st year

3rd AVG: .265 - 5 year BB: 214 - 1 K: 279 - 8 SLUG%: .402 - 4 RBI: 252 - 1 OB%: .379 - 2

AVG: .284 - 2 BB: 182 - 1 K: 238 - 1 SLUG%: .433 - 2 RBI: 238 - 2 OB%: .374 - 2

4th year AVG: .277 - 4 BB: 227 - 1 K: 226 - 4 SLUG%: .412 - 3 RBI: 223 - 4 OB%: .395 - 1

The teamʼs ranking in the Missouri Valley Conference are shown in black.

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Three Dawgs back in the hunt after surgery Thomas Donley

@TdonleyDE | Daily Egyptian

Three Saluki pitchers share the mark of a pitcher once pushed past his limits, reduced to inactivity and brought back to full health—a C-shaped scar on their right elbows.

Senior Bryce Sablotny, sophomore Anthony Shimkus and sophomore Jacob Williams are all returning from Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery this spring.

Each of them suffered a tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of their pitching elbows.

Before 1974, this injury would have meant the end of a pitcher’s career.

That year, Dr. Frank Jobe and major league pitcher Tommy John made one of the most important advances in sports medicine.

John blew out his elbow in the middle of the 1974 season. His baseball career appeared to be over, but he and Jobe decided to try an experimental surgery to replace John’s damaged ligament.

John spent all of 1975 recovering and returned to Major League Baseball in 1976. He went on to pitch 13 more seasons.

Jobe gave John a one in 100 chance of pitching after the surgery. Today, the success rate for Tommy John surgery is roughly 90 percent.

UCL tears are usually a result of overuse. The human arm is not designed for an overhand pitching motion, and throwing too hard too often will damage the ligament, which is used mostly in that situation.

Softball pitchers can start back-toback games because of their pitching motion, but baseball pitchers require more rest.

The replacement ligament can come from the pitcher’s wrist or hamstring. Sablotny’s and Williams’ replacement tendons came from their wrists, and Shimkus’ came from his hamstring.

Recovery takes about a year, during which a pitcher must rebuild his arm strength essentially from scratch. Someone recovering from Tommy John surgery must wait two months before resuming any physical activity.

Once a pitcher begins throwing again, he must build up gradually with short, soft throws before getting back on a mound.

SIU coach Ken Henderson said he handles pitchers with caution after having arm surgery to avoid needing repeat surgeries.

“We’re a program that believes first and foremost is their health,” Henderson said. “We’re not going to rush them.”

Sablotny said the mental aspect of recovering from Tommy John surgery is every bit as grueling as the physical rehab.

“Whenever you get something like that, your mentality changes,” Sablotny said. “You’re a little timid.

Up until this year, I didn’t get that mentality back.”

In addition to elbow surgery, Sablotny has dealt with a broken ankle, an injury he suffered in September. He said he is ready to go for his senior season.

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“This is my last year in baseball, so this year is going to be an emotional ride. But I’m excited for it,” Sablotny said. “I think I’m more prepared than I ever was.”

Rather than seeing his setback negatively, Sablotny maintains a sense of humor about his scar.

“I thought about getting a tattoo of a smiley face on mine,” Sablotny said. “But my dad would kill me.”

Shimkus said the hardest part of his recovery was sitting out while the Salukis competed.

“Sitting and watching the team play and not being a part of it, that’s been pretty rough on me,” Shimkus said. “The rehab process wasn’t as hard as just watching.”

Sablotny and Shimkus went down about the same time in spring 2013.

Sablotny’s final appearance that year was March 12 at Middle Tennessee State. Shimkus lasted until April 19 at Creighton.

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