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Armed robbery occurs off campus Luke Nozicka

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Daily Egyptian MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 2015 VOLUME 99 ISSUE 20

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An armed robbery took place at 607 East Park Street, according to an SIU Alert on Sunday.

The male suspect, last seen at 4:20 p.m. Sunday, was armed with a knife. At the time of the alert, police were still searching for the suspect.

A dispatcher at the Carbondale Police Department said she did not have any updates about the incident.

The emergency alerts are sent by the university through software company Rave Mobile System. To sign up for alerts, visit siu.edu/emergency.

This story will be updated online as more information becomes available.

Lesson in strength

Daily Egyptian receives 22 awards at annual competition Sarah Gardner

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The staff of the Daily Egyptian received 22 awards Saturday at the Illinois College Press Association conference and awards banquet in Chicago. Awards were earned for photography, reporting, multimedia, design and advertising.

For the 24 categories in which the Daily Egyptian submitted entries, its staff received awards in 13 of them. In some categories, two—the maximum number of entries—placed.

The Daily Egyptian staff dominated the photo competition, receiving nine awards for 10 photos entered. Photographers also earned first and second place in the multimedia reporting category.

Friday and Saturday consisted of sessions about journalism led by industry professionals as well as students and faculty advisers. Managing editor Luke Nozicka spoke on a panel about media coverage of the events in Ferguson, Mo., and editor-in-chief Sarah Gardner participated in a discussion about the financial struggles facing college news organizations and techniques to reach audiences in the digital age.

The Daily Illini received 19 awards and the Vidette at Illinois State University and the Northern Star at NIU each brought home 10.

This year the association reported 300 more entries than last year, bringing the total in both non-daily and daily categories to 1,260 applicants. There were 270 awards given at the competition.

ICPA

Illinois College Press Association

DE won 22 awards in 13 categories 1260 submissions, 300 more than last year 270 winners

1st Place Awards

Spot News Photography - Nathan Hoefert General News Photography - Jennifer Gonzalez Feature Photography - Lewis Marien Photo Essay - Nathan Hoefert Feature Page Design - Branda Mitchell, Luke Nozicka Sports Column - Tony McDaniel Feature Story - Karsten Burgstahler Editorial - Staff Advertising Campaign - Willie Porter Multimedia - Connor Falson, Jennifer Gonzalez, Nathan Hoefert

2nd Place Awards

Coal safety researchers awarded Jessica Brown

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An SIU coal safety research team has been nationally recognized for their development of a spraying system that reduces the amount of breathable dust in coal mines.

The Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration has given its Health and Safety Research and Educational Excellence Award to Harrold Gurley, Yoginder Chugh and John Pulliam, researchers in SIU’s Department of Mining and Mineral Resources.

A year and a half ago, Chugh, Pulliam and Gurley were nominated for the award

by Joe Hirschi, project manager of the

Chicago Tribune

3rd Place Awards

General News Photography - Nathan Hoefert Feature Page Design - Staff In-Depth Reporting - Staff

Honarable Mention

Opinion Page - Staff

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Illinois Clean Coal Institute.

They received letters informing them at the end of December.

The group’s product underwent a lengthy evaluation process before being determined as the winner. The nominations are assessed from July 1 to Oct. 1, and then must be approved by the executive committee of the society.

“The evaluation process is fairly stringent,” Chugh said.

He said the nomination form submitted is a substantial document at about 15 to 18 pages. The form reviews the product’s technology, whether the product is being commercialized or not and gathers comments from members of the coal industry.

Several coal companies including Peabody Energy, Alliance Coal and Knight Hawk, are familiar with the group’s spraying system. All companies provided the team with letters of support.

National distribution of the product is a goal for the team, which works with companies from Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky, Gurley said. The award will help them achieve this.

“Our name and recognition is a marketing tool,” Gurley said. “It couldn’t hurt, that’s for sure.”

A private award ceremony will be held for the research team at 5:30 p.m.

Thursday in the Alumni Lounge of the Engineering Building.

Eight Illinois employers cutting 724 jobs Becky Yerak

Spot News Photography - Nathan Hoefert Sports Photo - Chris Zoeller Feature Photo - Evan Fait Photo Essay - Sarah Gardner Column (excludes sports) - Tyler Davis Full Page Ad - Natalie Bartels In-House Ad - Staff Multimedia - Sarah Gardner

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A idAn O sbOrne • d Aily e gyptiAn Cleveland Matthews poses for a portrait Sunday in his Carbondale residence. Matthews graduated from Attucks in 1954 and went on to the Navy. “When I first went in to the Navy I looked around and it was all white, except for a black guy from St. Louis,” Matthews said. “We hugged each other because we didn’t know how to act around white folks.” After his time in the Navy, Matthews came to SIU and received an associate’s degree in technology. He worked for the city of Carbondale and is now a trustee for the Carbondale Township. “I’ve had a good life,” Miller said. “But it has been a strong learning session. “This isn’t an easy ride, but it makes you stronger.” Please see page 5 for the story.

McDonald’s, which last month jarred investors by reporting drops in annual profits, revenues and restaurant customers, said it’s laying off 57 more workers in Oak Brook, only a month after plans to cut 63 jobs in its headquarters city were announced.

The disclosure by the fast-food chain came in a newly released batch of mass layoff notices filed with the state.

McDonald’s and seven other Illinois employers across a variety of industries

told the state in January that they plan to cut 724 jobs in mass layoffs beginning in late February due to everything from lost contracts to corporate restructurings.

The closing of a Nutrition Headquarters call center in Carbondale, will result in 66 employees losing their jobs. Andrea Staub, a spokeswoman, said the Carbondale center was a backup to a New York call center. During bad weather nationally, she said, both centers had problems. So the Carbondale operations were moved to Florida, she said.

The biggest will occur at AT&T Credit

& Collection Center in Chicago. Layoffs of the 131 unionized workers will begin March 12. The center is closing, according to state records.

Under the Illinois Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, employers must provide 60 days’ notice of pending plant closures or mass layoffs. The law applies to businesses with 75 or more fulltime employees. A “mass layoff” in Illinois is job cuts at a single site, typically during one month, of at least a third of employees and at least 25 employees, or at least 250 employees regardless of the percentage.

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Students speak out against budget cuts

P eter r ogalla • d aily e gyPtian Andrew Clausen, 24, stands outside of Morris Library Sunday while commenting on the proposed funding cuts SIU may face next July if Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget plan gets approved by Illinois’ legislators. Clausen said the proposed $44 million funding cut for SIU’s Carbondale campus makes him worry opportunities presented to him might not be available for future students. Clausen graduated from SIU with a degree in Electronics Systems Technologies, and is employed by the university doing research on special projects. Employees of the university like Clausen get real world experience from doing projects and research alongside professors on a level not possible in the classroom. “The job I have right now is the type of thing that students need,” Clausen said. “In the future will opportunities like this still be around?”

P eter r ogalla • d aily e gyPtian Diamond Trusty, a freshman majoring in journalism and radio television, speaks her mind on the proposed higher education funding cuts on Sunday outside Morris Library. On Wednesday, Gov. Bruce Rauner proposed to cut funding for Illinois public universities by about 30 percent. Trusty said if approved, this will make it a lot harder for students to get the experiences they need and would limit resources available to universities like SIU. “It [would be] very unfortunate,” Trusty said. “Especially for students coming from low income areas that work so hard to get away from there and can’t even get the full experience and education they are paying for.”

Pulse

‘Hot Tub 2’ rehashes old formula Jacob Pierce

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“Hot Tub Time Machine.” The title alone states it is not a highbrow intellectual comedy, nor an explorative, slightly satirical science fiction film.

The movie is stupid. Not in an insulting, demand-a-refund way, but in a lovable idiot sort of way. It bats above its expected average and is highly underrated.

“Hot Tub Time Machine 2” (Rated R; 93 min), directed by Steve Pink, hits the same high points and makes the same mistakes as its predecessor.

It has been a few years since the original movie and nothing has changed for the characters. Lou Dorchen, played by Rob Corddry, is still rich and famous, and still a selfish parasite. Nick Webber, played by Craig Robinson, has a successful music career, but nothing is his original work. And Jacob, played by Clark Duke, is living with Dorchen, looking for his inspiration.

Dorchen is shot by a mysterious assailant at a party and left to die.

Weber and Jacob realize the only way to save him is to use the time machine and stop the shooting before it happened. The machine takes them into the future instead,

and the gang is in a race against time before Dorchen disappears forever.

A sequel to “Hot Tub Time Machine” is not a big surprise. The original not only made well past its budget, but most critics seemed to enjoy it. It did not present the need for a sequel, but anything successful seems to have a followup film nowadays. With films like “A Haunted House 2,” this comedy was far from the least deserving film to receive an addition.

The “Hot Tub Time Machine” series follows a similar trail the “Horrible Bosses” franchise traveled. Neither has an amazing plot, turning their storylines into one-note jokes. Both films are continually saved by the chemistry and talent of the actors involved.

Most of the cast returned for this sequel—making all the difference. The characters would be the same, stale versions of themselves, as seen in the terrible “American Pie” sequels, if it were not for these actors’ talents.

The movie’s one gaping wound that nearly kills it is John Cusack’s absence. He is not the level of actor he once was, but he brought a familiarity to the first film. He was the perfect straight man to Robinson’s and Corddry’s insanity.

He is missed in this film, but the returning actors still hold their own.

Robinson, Duke and Corddry’s

flair add legitimacy to the lines they are given and the friendship of the crew. The movie has an entire scene dedicated to semiimprovised jokes about how the characters look in the future.

In incompetent hands, the scene would come off as a watered down version of a Seth Rogen joke. The cast manages to make the gag their own.

Without Cusack reeling in the cast, jokes fly left and right and slow down the plot to a dangerous rate. The movie tries to ramify his vacancy in two ways. One is hiring Adam Scott to play a future version of his son, named Adam Jr., and put him into the archetype. The other is to shove Duke into the straight man role.

The filmmakers never let either of these options play out.

Both characters try to move the plot along like a straight man archetype is suppose to, but Jacob and Adam Jr. end up joining the madness. It is amazing the plot moved at all.

If you enjoy the original “Hot Tub Time Machine,” then you are almost guaranteed to enjoy something about this movie. It is not as good as the first, often feeling like a “best of ” video on Youtube. It would be better served watching at home, with a couple of friends, pizza and beers.

she had won, an academy official tracked down Colbert at the station and whisked the actress, dressed in a travel suit, to the Oscar ceremony.

She received her award, quickly posed for pictures with child star Shirley Temple, and then got back on the train.

Luise Rainer managed to wear a gown but forgot to put on makeup before she arrived with her playwright husband, Clifford Odets, at the Oscar ceremony on March 10, 1938. Rainer had been relaxing at home when she got the call she had won her second Academy Award in a row for lead actress for "The Good Earth" and needed to get down to the Biltmore Hotel posthaste to accept the award.

Oscar during the war After handing out Oscars during a banquet for the first 15 years, the Academy Awards moved to the venerable Grauman's Chinese Theatre for the March 2, 1944, ceremony.

Such enlisted stars as William Holden attended in dress uniform, and the extra seating enabled the academy to invite men and women serving in World War II to the ceremony in which "Casablanca" received best picture honors.

The show must go on After holding the Academy Awards in 1947 and 1948 at the 6,000-plus seat Shrine Auditorium, the 21st ceremony on March 21, 1949, moved to the intimate Academy Award Theatre in Hollywood. The reason?

The major Hollywood studios, including MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros. and 20th Century Fox, decided to pull the plug on their financial

support. According to "85 Years of the Oscar" by Robert Osborne, they had withdrawn funds "in order to remove rumors that they had been trying to exert their influence over voters."

Hey, lady!

With the Oscars generally clocking in at 3{ hours, it's hard to believe one televised Oscars show actually came up 20 minutes short. But a shorter Oscars was not necessarily a better Oscars.

Bob Hope, David Niven, Tony Randall, Mort Sahl, Laurence Olivier and Jerry Lewis were the hosts for the 31st Academy Awards on April 6, 1959, at Hollywood's Pantages Theatre. The show's final emcee, Lewis, ended up having to stretch out the evening. Lewis kvetched and brought out all the winners and presenters on stage, which included his old partner, Dean Martin, who kept a healthy distance from Lewis.

"And they said Dean and I wouldn't be on a stage together again," Lewis cracked.

Lewis took over for conductor Lionel Newman and led the orchestra in the song winner, "Gigi." The stars on stage began dancing: Rosalind Russell cut a rug with Maurice Chevalier, Randall was paired with Eva Marie Saint and Martin danced with Sophia Loren as the audience began filing out.

Time's Richard Corliss said of the show: "Until Nixon's 18{, Lewis' 20 were the minutes that lived in pop-culture infamy. Catastrophe would be the one way to describe it." Lewis, who had emceed twice before, never hosted again.

Memorable moments from past Oscars Susan King

Los Angeles Times

With the 87th Academy Awards almost upon us, we look at some of the memorable moments that took place during the 86 previous shows _ both onstage and off. Today's Oscars are a well-oiled machine _ give or take a John Travolta-Adele Dazeem moment or two _ but that was not always the case.

The envelope, please There were no sealed envelopes during the Oscars' first decade. In fact, the winners of the first ceremony were announced three months in advance.

And the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences would give local papers the names of the winners the day of the ceremony with the caveat that they didn't print them until after the awards were over.

But the Los Angeles Times jumped the gun publishing the winners of the 12th Academy Awards on Feb. 29, 1940, in the 8:45 p.m. edition. So most of the attendees knew entering the Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove that "Gone With the Wind" was the evening's big winner. After that snafu, the academy began the sealed-envelope tradition.

And the winners are ... where?

Claudette Colbert was nominated for lead actress for the comedy "It Happened One Night" but didn't think she had a chance to win, so booked a cross-country railroad trip to New York City. Colbert was at the station on Feb. 27, 1935, while the Academy Awards were being held nearby at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. After hostpresenter Irving S. Cobb announced

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S teve M atzker • d aily e gyptian Emmanuel Miller poses for a portrait Saturday in his home in Carbondale. Miller graduated from Attucks High School in 1957 and went on to study at SIU. After two years, he joined the Air Force where he worked for the next 23 years. On the importance of the teachers at Attucks Miller said, “Teachers were everything to us back then. They taught us, but were also our mentors.” The students at Attucks did not receive the same facilities, but they made do with what they were given. “Our teachers taught us to cope with being segregated, and for us to recognize inequality,” Miller said.

Sense of unity arises from segregation Steve Matzker

@SteveMatzker | Daily Egyptian

The struggle for civil rights is well known. From National Guardsman in Little Rock, Ark., and lynchings in Mississippi, to freedom marches on the streets of Washington D.C., public acts dramatically defying racism and segregation caught the attention of the nation.

Here in Carbondale, there was still struggle, albeit a quiet one.

The struggle was the northeast side of Carbondale, bounded

by North Illinois Avenue to the west, Walnut Street to the south and Wall Street to the east.

Prior to the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by President Johnson, which called for school integration, segregation was alive and well in Carbondale, on the northeast side in particular.

This included the all black Attucks High School and Attucks Elementary School.

According to a study financed by the United States Department of Urban Development in 1969, only 12 percent of Carbondale’s population lived on the northeast side, yet contained 96 percent of the black population.

“We had a very clearly defined area where we lived,” said Thomas Bell, a 1957 graduate of Attucks High School. “That’s segregation itself.”

Cleveland Matthews, a 1954 graduate of Attucks High School,

a idan o Sborne • d aily e gyptian Thomas Bell poses for a portrait with his wife Susie Belmore-Bell on Sunday in their home in Carbondale. Bell graduated from Attucks High School in 1957. “We had some of the best teachers you’ve ever heard of,” Bell said. “They really pushed everybody.” Parents and teachers were active in the parent teacher association,” he said. “They wanted to make sure the students were receiving a high quality education. “The [Attucks] school experience was a fantastic experience,” Miller said. Miller work for the Illinois Department of Corrections, until retiring in 1999. He then worked as a crossing guard and playground supervisor for Carbondale Elementary School District #95.

remembers when black people were not allowed to cross the tracks into the west side of Carbondale, even to find work.

Matthews recalled trying to mow grass on the wrong side of tracks, but was told to leave before the sun went down.

“I thought it was okay for white folks not to want us around,” he said.

Matthews said segregation did not affect him because that was all he knew. He said the only reason he started to pay attention to it was when people were starting to get lynched.

“I said, ‘Whoa, why do white folks hate us so much,’” Matthews said.

While the Attucks community

experienced segregation first hand, it was accepted as the way of life.

“We didn’t know we were segregated,” said 75-year-old Emanuel Miller, a 1954 graduate of Attucks High School. “Out teachers taught us to cope with what we had. ... If you never have it, you don’t know it’s missing.”

Miller said desegregation was good and bad.

Good because it provided an opportunity to further the idea of equality in the United States.

It also gave students exposure to different cultures. In other words, it gave people an education.

Bad because it took away the closeness of the black community.

Several graduates of Attucks High School reminisced proudly about that unity. Teachers lived in the community, knew every parent and treated the students like family.

“Everyone was interested in providing a total education for everybody,” Bell said. “They gave us all the attention in the world that we needed. ... When schools were integrated, we lost that.”

Good or bad, what graduates remember most about segregation at Attucks High School was the camaraderie among students, the sense of community among parents and teachers and the dedication and discipline the teachers provided for the students.

“There was a lot of interest in making sure we were getting a good quality education,” Bell said.

The quiet struggle of segregation within the halls of Attucks High School also had a quiet adversary.

“Education was the way out,” Miller said.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

<< Answers for Thursday Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www. sudoku.org.uk

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Today’s Birthday (02/23/15). Take charge of your career this year. Grow your professional influence and pay rate. Take advantage of profitable opportunities.

Nurture friendships and networks.

You can realize a personal dream after 3/20. Take extra care with numbers and administrative tasks after 4/4. Creative (and romantic) collaboration flourishes after 10/13. Do it all for love and passion.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Work hard and make lots of money for the next two days. It’s not a good time to travel. Stick to your budget.

Keep your head down and get a lot done.

Quiet productivity takes extra ground.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Turn down social invitations until after your work’s complete. You’re getting more sensitive, as you enter a two-day confident phase. Keep it simple. Chop wood and carry water.

Call in reinforcements if necessary. Rest and recuperate.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -Today is a 7 -- Something’s coming due. Complete preparations with focus and careful thought. Stand your ground.

Avoid unusual expense. Consider your

ACROSS 1 Thom __: shoe brand 5 Greek Zs 10 This, in Spain 14 Poi source 15 Motionless 16 Like spider webs 17 __ the Impaler: model for “Dracula” 18 One of a 1492 trio 19 Ritual flammable stack 20 They’re juiced in Jacksonville 23 Anteater’s sound in the comic “B.C.” 24 Mobster’s gal 25 Hawaiian wreath 26 Flood-control project 29 Garbage barge puller 31 Odorless gas 33 They’re baked in Boise 37 Disaster relief org.

38 Put the kibosh on 39 Exec’s “By yesterday!”

42 They’re boiled in Bangor 47 Sets aside for future use 49 __ and improved 50 Barnyard home 51 Suffix with transit 52 “Green __ and Ham” 55 Knock sharply 57 They’re shelled in Savannah 62 One-liner, e.g.

63 Make __: get rich 64 Dining table expansion piece 66 Degree recipient 67 Guts 68 Year-end clearance event 69 Office note 70 Deuce toppers 71 One-named Art Deco artist DOWN 1 Network that once employed VJs 2 Muscle prone to cramps

path, and review the directions to make sure you’re on target. File records safely.

Enjoy peace and quiet.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Friends help out now. Say “please” and “thank you”. Otherwise, it’s a good time to keep your mouth shut.

Make sure your messages get through.

Choose your words carefully, or wait to deliver them.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Focus on career today and tomorrow.

An unexpected expense could require extra work to pay back. Avoid gossip and chatter, and keep your energy focused on providing valuable service. Study for the test. Aim for high grades.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 9 -- Should you go or should you stay? That’s the question today and tomorrow. Establish clear communications. Rebellions could flare up. Messages can get lost in translation.

Let your adventurous spirit win over procrastination and boring routine.

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3 Devastated Asian sea 4 Caffeinated pill 5 “Be quiet!”

6 Oklahoma city 7 Early brunch hr.

8 “Star Wars” droid, familiarly 9 Hollywood hopeful 10 “College Football Playoff” network 11 Crow’s-nest telescopes 12 Deep serving bowl 13 Infant’s bodysuit 21 __-Rooter 22 Voice above tenor 26 “What’s the __?”: “So what?”

27 Fruity cooler 28 “Li’l Abner” matriarch 30 Departed 32 Furnace output 34 Lukas of “Witness” 35 “Shop __ you drop” 36 Neural impulse conductor 40 Museum collection

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41 Would-be social worker’s maj.

43 “__ your pardon” 44 NFLer who plays at the Meadowlands— in NJ, ironically 45 Scolds but good 46 Ugly duckling, as it turned out 47 Lumber mill blockage

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- For the next two days, track calls, orders, and income carefully.

Don’t make expensive promises. Cut entertainment spending. Prepare to negotiate carefully. Avoid distractions, and let work take precedence.

Wheeling and dealing may be required. Stakes are high.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Work could interrupt some fun. Share the load today and tomorrow, but hold onto the responsibility. Listen to another’s complaints, and direct them towards solutions. Discipline is required.

Support your partner and they support you. Postpone travel.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is a 7 -- Don’t get distracted with arguments or controversy, or you may end up working late. It’s not a good time to gamble. Postpone an outing or conversation. Delve into the details. Focus on your work today and tomorrow.

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48 Bump from which cactus spines grow 53 Xbox enthusiast 54 Cathedral topper 56 Throb 58 San __, Italy 59 Jealous feeling 60 Rip 61 Word after sea or before Lake 65 Doctor’s charge

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 7 -- Generate creative and unusual ideas, although words could fail you. Sketch what you mean.

Confusion or blocked transmission garbles the message. Finish work early today and tomorrow, and then go play. Keep it simple and inexpensive.

Enjoy the sunset.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is an 8 -- Stick close to home for the next two days. Find out what you’re doing the hard way. An irritant at home demands attention. Make repairs and upgrade your systems. Talk is cheap. Put your back into your project.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -Today is an 8 -- You’re especially clever and creative today and tomorrow.

Nonetheless, misunderstanding and communications breakdowns could slow things. Hold off on signing contracts or agreements. Avoid jealousies or hurt feelings. Do your homework.

Research and study.

Sports

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Africa ‘central’ to Saluki men’s basketball Thomas Donley

@tdonleyDE | Daily Egyptian

If southern Illinois is known as Little Egypt, SIU’s men’s basketball team should be known as “tall Africa,” as all three centers were born there.

The three took similar paths to Carbondale, learning the game as teenagers and leaving their families to live with strangers across the Atlantic Ocean.

Junior Ibby Djimde, sophomore Bola Olaniyan and junior Deng Leek are good friends off the court. They joked around during a photo shoot, teasing one another about being too ugly and ruining the picture. Djimde said their friendship comes from their understanding of each other.

“When I speak, Bola and Deng know what I am saying,” Djimde said.

“And we know how each other feel because we are in the same situation.”

The three Saluki centers often hang out together after practice, talking about soccer and what they miss about the food and weather of their home continent. All of them said they miss Africa’s traditional food and their families the most.

Leek said Black History month is a new idea for someone who grew up

in Africa.

“I didn’t know about races until I came to the states,” Leek said.

“Because over there, you’re always with different people, so you don’t worry about races and stuff.”

Ibby Djimde Djimde was born in Mali, where he lived until he was 17. He and his family lived in the capital city of Bamako and did not have electricity until a few years before he came to the United States.

He grew up playing soccer, but when he was a freshman in high school, a teacher—noting how tall he was—convinced him to try basketball.

Djimde, who came to America by himself in 2009 to live with a host family, attended Huntington Prep School in Huntington, W.Va. He said the biggest difference between basketball in Africa and the United States was the rule variations at different levels in America.

Forty-nine languages are spoken in Mali, none of which are English, requiring him to work on breaking down language barriers.

“The first thing was the language,” Djimde said. “When I come here, I didn’t speak any English, so learning

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English was the hard part.”

Djimde speaks French, the official language of Mali, Bambara and two other Malian languages in addition to English.

The most notable social difference between the United States and Mali was the level of personal interaction, Djimde said.

“In my country, everybody knows everybody,” Djimde said. “But here, no. You don’t socialize as much.”

He started his collegiate career at the University of Illinois where he was recruited by former Saluki coach Bruce Weber. Djimde transferred to SIU after Weber was fired.

Bola Olaniyan Olaniyan grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. Unlike Djimde, Olaniyan had electricity in his home, but said he notices how much more prevalent electricity is in America.

Like Djimde, he started out playing soccer, but took up basketball at 16 because of his height.

He came to the United States to play at Mount Zion Christian Academy in Durham, N.C. his junior year. He spent his senior year playing at Richmond High School in

Richmond, Ind. Olaniyan also faced a language barrier upon his arrival in the states.

“Back home, we speak a little bit of English, but it’s not like American English,” Olaniyan said.

“When I came to America, I couldn’t understand what they were saying, and they didn’t understand me.”

Although he only played basketball for one year in Nigeria, Olaniyan said the American game is much faster.

Deng Leek Leek was born in Sudan, the third youngest of 21 children. Leek said the experience of having so many siblings shaped who he is today.

“Back home, respect is the main thing, Leek said. “I had to make sure I listened to my older sisters. ... It’s helped me a lot through my life.”

Like Djimde and Olaniyan, soccer was his first sport, but his father encouraged him to learn basketball.

“My dad was always telling me, ‘You’re supposed to play basketball,’ because he saw a future ahead of me,” Leek said. “But I didn’t see that.”

Leek started to buy in when he was 6 feet 3 inches tall in seventh grade. His brother, Deng, who

played basketball for Norfolk State, helped him get scholarships to come to America.

“After that, I fell in love with it,” Leek said.

His older brother, Leek, played for Campbell University from 2012 to 2014.

SIU’s Leek played high school basketball at Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point, N.C. He played at Jacksonville College in Jacksonville, Texas before transferring to SIU before this year.

Deng speaks three languages: Arabic, English, which are the official languages of Sudan, and Dinka, which is spoken in southern Sudan.

Leek said he misses the longer summers of Sudan. The sub-freezing weather of the Midwestern United States has been a change for him.

“The summers are about seven months long,” Leek said. “It’s nice. Actually, a month ago, my sister sent me a picture of snow back home, which never happened before. It usually only snows on the mountains, but it never reached the ground. I never thought it would snow there”

Wet Dawgs set records, but title hopes fall short Matt Wells

@Mattwells_DE | Daily Egyptian

A jA g ArmAn • d Aily e gyptiAn Junior Kaixuan ‘Sherry’ Zhang prepares for the 3-meter dive at the 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday. Zhang finished the conference championships with wins in both the 1-meter and 3-meter dive.

SIU women’s swimming and diving had its best finish in conference since 2008 after competing Wednesday through Saturday.

The Salukis won six events in the four-day Missouri Valley Conference swimming and diving championships at Dr. Edward J. Shea Natatorium to finish second. Missouri State won its eighth straight MVC title.

Wednesday, the Dawgs won the 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 7:18.77, two seconds faster than Missouri State’s best relay team.

Behind freshman Kelsie Walker, sophomore Lauren Stockton, junior Helena Amorim and freshman Bryn Handley, the Salukis set the pool, school and conference record. Walker individually broke the pool, school and conference record with her leg of the race.

“You wrap [the first day] up with an 800-yard freestyle relay with six records broken,” coach Rick Walker said.

“That’s huge.”

SIU trailed only Missouri State after Wednesday.

Junior diver Kaixuan “Sherry” Zhang won eight straight MVC Diver of the Week awards before the meet. She won the one-meter dive final Thursday with a score of 379.35, which broke the all-time MVC Championship record.

Senior Esther “Ting Ting” Chen finished second in the one-meter dive with a score of 362.35. “[The divers] performed so very well tonight and from the first day,” diving coach Joy Zhao said. “I’m very proud of them and we work hard. Our dream came true.”

Zhao said Zhang has a beautiful take-off, form and entrance with no splash.

Chen said diving is all mental. Her trick at practice is to think like she is in competition and while at the competition she thinks of it as practice. This way she stays more relaxed at the meets.

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