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Evening citations increase fivefold in January Tyler Davis

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The SIU Parking Division has increased its number of citations given after 4 p.m. and students are not happy about it.

Eli Epplin, assistant coordinator of the Parking Division, said the department added a second-shift parking agent to enforce regulations after 4 p.m.

Parking citations given between the 4 p.m. and midnight swelled by more than 500 percent—from 86 in January 2014 to 460 in January 2015, according to an Excel file provided by the division.

While the late afternoon and evening parking citations have gone up, overall citations were down in January compared to last year. There were 1,501 tickets given in January 2015 compared to 2,267 in January 2014.

The second-shift officer was already on staff, working during the day. The division took one of the three daytime agents and switched one to the late afternoon and evening shift, Epplin said.

Epplin said part of this decision was to increase revenue for division but there were safety concerns as well. He said without any grant money or university funding, the department has to create revenue some way.

The division made $1.9 million in revenue in fiscal year 2013-14, with $758,000 coming from citations, according to an email from Epplin. The most frequently issued ticket was for vehicles without a legal decal—a $35 violation.

“With the nighttime agents, it’s going to cause people who didn’t have decals to purchase a decal of some sort so that would generate some revenue,” he said. “Technically [revenue] is part of it but the primary concern is with the safety on campus.”

Some of the safety concerns include illegal parallel parking on streets where cross-traffic visibility is limited. He said people parking in areas designated for emergency or university vehicles is also a reason for the increased attention to afterhours parking.

But for nearly empty lots, like the one north of the Communications Building, many students are wondering why the ticket implementation has been revved up.

Alexus Travis, a senior from Oakland, Calif., studying healthcare management, said she was given a ticket for parking in a another area where she had been parking for months without a citation.

“I got a ticket for not having the proper decal while parking in the Student Center lot when I was at work,” Travis said.

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N athaN h oefert • D aily e gyptiaN In this Nov. 24 photo, St. Louis County Police officers yell for protestors to step back after riots broke out on West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Mo. The same night, police officers called the assembly unlawful which resulted in the firing of tear gas on protesters.

Ferguson police acted in patterns of racial bias, Department of Justice to report Chuck Raasch

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The Ferguson Police Department engaged in patterns of arrests and racial bias that violate the Constitution and federal law, the Department of Justice will say in its report begun after the Michael Brown shooting.

Law enforcement officials familiar with the DOJ’s findings said Tuesday the report will show that Ferguson police disproportionately stopped AfricanAmericans for no reasonable suspicion, made arrests with no probable cause and used force disproportionately against blacks. It also found cases of racial bias in police practices and in emails by Ferguson police. And it says that the combination of racial bias and a dependency upon fines

for revenue has led to wide gulf of distrust between police and black citizens.

Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce findings on the pattern and practices investigation as early as Wednesday. It is separate from an investigation over whether the civil rights of Brown, 18, were violated, when he was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. The Department of Justice would not comment on when the civil rights investigation findings will be announced.

Several local and state officials, briefed by the Justice Department on Tuesday, said they expected both announcements Wednesday.

Anthony Gray, attorney for Brown’s

family, said it’s unfortunate that it took a federal investigation to draw conclusions widely known in the St. Louis area.

“It’s upsetting, but I’m not surprised,” he said. “This wasn’t just about one teen being shot down in the street in broad daylight,” Gray continued. “But rather this came out of a mindset and a culture within the police department that allowed this to occur as it did.”

The report will say that between 2012 and 2014, while African-Americans made up 67 percent of the population in Ferguson, 85 percent of those subject to a vehicle stop were African-American, 90 percent who received citations were black and 93 percent of those arrested were black.

in slavery and in colonization,” said Jones, whose research interests include philosophy of race.

She said the media perpetuates certain stereotypes, playing a clear role in the way black women and men are viewed in society.

Christiana Johnson, a junior from Ottawa studying marketing, said a lot of potential relationships are ruined by the way black women are approached.

“If I go out to parties, it’s not uncommon for somebody to say, ‘Hey, I’ve never been with a black girl before, and I have this fantasy about being with a black girl and your skin’s just so beautiful’ blah blah blah,” Johnson said. “It’s like, OK you f---ing creep.”

Diamond Trusty, a freshman from Chicago studying journalism and television, said black women are pressured

to have the body image—big breasts and wide hips—advertised in the media.

Johnson said she has noticed similar stereotypes in the media.

“I don’t have to be able to twerk and I don’t have to do everything that black girls are supposed to be able to do,” Johnson said.

She said they make many black women feel self-conscious about their bodies.

Trusty agrees. “[Some black women] are stressing themselves out or working themselves really hard to look a certain way the media says they should,” Trusty said.

Lawrence said the images portrayed show what those who wield power think about black women’s bodies. He said the media plays a role in our socialization and how we view the world in general.

Black women refute physical stereotypes Sam Beard

@SamBeard_DE | Daily Egyptian

Black History Month came to a close Sunday, and with March begins Women’s History Month. Thursday’s event could serve as a transition between the two.

The symposium, “ Black Female Bodies: On the Auction Block Again... and Still,” will focus on black feminine identity including the sexualization of female bodies in the past and today, said Novotny Lawrence, chairman of the Department of Radio, Television and Digital Media.

Keynote speaker Janine Jones, of University of North Carolina at Greensboro, said black girls, women and trans-women will be at the focus of her presentation.

“The treatment and devaluing of black girls and women has its historical roots

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Abbott, State Farm named among 10 best for female executives Ellen Jean Hirst Chicago Tribune

Healthcare company Abbott and insurance giant State Farm represent Illinois on a list of the 10 best companies for female executives.

The National Association for Female Executives named 50 companies to the list of best places to work for women executives and highlighted the top 10. All of the top companies offer executive coaching and programs to identify highpotential female employees.

“The advancement of women ties closely to our identity at Abbott,” said Executive Vice President of Human Resources Stephen Fussell.

“To be relevant in today’s global

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“Whatever it is that we are talking about, we have to acknowledge that the media plays a role in how we think,” Lawrence said. “Sometimes telling us how to

marketplace, we need a broad array of perspectives from all people. ... As the global gatekeepers to healthcare, the advancement of women is critical to help families and societies live more financially secure and healthy lives.”

The companies provided data on their workforce as well as information about programs that advance women’s issues.

Five of the top 50 companies had a female CEO. About half of North Chicagobased Abbott’s workforce is women, including 42 percent of senior managers and 26 percent of executives.

The company’s Women Leaders in Action program, with more than 2,100 members worldwide, aims to

prepare women for leadership roles.

At Bloomington-based State Farm, 59 percent of employees are women, including 39 percent of senior managers and 36 percent of executives.

“Women provide an integral part of our diverse workforce,” said State Farm spokeswoman Missy Dundov.

“It is clearly evident that women at State Farm are making powerful contributions at all levels of our organization.”

Other Illinois companies that landed in the top 50 include Northbrook-based Allstate Insurance, Northfield-based Kraft Foods Group and Chicago-based companies Grant Thornton and Northern Trust.

think about it or even if we should think about it.”

The symposium was put together

by Joseph Smith, a doctoral candidate in philosophy.

It will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Guyon Auditorium in Morris Library.

“There is victimhood with both black males and black females,” Jones said. “Both have been victims of white violence—from white systems.”

Jones will speak at the symposium for about an hour and Lawrence will respond.

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St. Clair County will change protocol for rape cases Belleville News-Democrat

In response to a report on the number of rape claims that result in prosecutions, St. Clair County prosecutors will change the way they handle sex crimes, according to State’s Attorney Brendan Kelly.

A four-day News-Democrat investigative series -- Violation of Trust -- reported that between 20052013, some 1,525 people told police they were sexually violated in St. Clair County, but prosecutors did not file charges. Those alleged victims represent 82 percent of the total rape reports made to police during that period.

“Prosecutors are the top law enforcement official in every county. So we have to lead. We have to set the tone. And in St. Clair County, we doubled the number of cases that are violent crime cases, we tripled the number of domestic violence cases, we quadrupled the number of public integrity cases and we should meet this challenge with the same vigor and creativity,” Kelly said.

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While she admits she did not have a decal, Travis said he had been working and parking there for nearly a semester without any warning of the increased enforcement.

When asked Feb. 3 about initial reports of more parking citations during evening hours, SIU Police Chief Ben Newman did not comment and referred the Daily Egyptian to a university webpage. The webpage stated afterhour parking tickets were given by police officers—not the division—and failed to mention there is another parking agent.

Epplin said the responsibility has shifted to allow police officers to focus on maintaining campus safety.

Calls, voicemails and emails to Newman asking for comment about other potential changes were unanswered.

Although citation administration has

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It also will say that AfricanAmerican drivers were twice as likely as white drivers to be searched during vehicle stops but were 26 percent less likely to be in possession of illegal material.

In documented cases of use of force

by Ferguson police, the report will say, 88 percent were against AfricanAmericans.

Among the findings likely to provoke reaction, sources say, are two

Kelly said he met Thursday with a county police chiefs organization and discussed the newspaper’s findings.

On Friday, Kelly said he’s proposing the following changes in how rape cases are handled in St. Clair County: Requesting the county’s approximately 29 police departments to provide a monthly report detailing all crimes, including felony sex crimes, for the purpose of allowing prosecutors to set priorities.

The goal is to improve the system to provide a “real-time” crime report from each department, Kelly said, in order to allow him to shift resources to departments depending on crime reports.

Obtaining a grant to pay for two prosecutors trained in sex-crime investigation, and prosecutors to be on-call to immediately respond exclusively to rapes and felony abuse reports to police.

Establishing a protocol, or set of recommended

changed, Adam Fager, a customer service representative and student worker supervisor, said the rules and regulations for parking have been in place since at least 1987.

But that does not satisfy most students, who said they were made aware of the increased enforcement by tickets on their windshields.

Sawsan Kahil, a sophomore from Carbondale studying accounting, said it is unfair to issue the tickets without informing students there was a change.

“I had no idea they were giving out tickets after 4:30 p.m., but I think that’s pretty bogus,” he said. “Most of the staff and visitors don’t come by after 4:30 p.m., so that should be available for students.”

Matt Neumann, a sophomore from St. Louis studying engineering, agreed, saying parking should be open after 4:30 p.m. He said tickets need to be given to illegal parkers but not if no one is harmed by the infraction.

Epplin said the change is not specifically

emails written by Ferguson police and municipal court officials.

One, written in November of 2008, said that Barack Obama could not be president for four years because “what black man holds a steady job for four years.”

Another, written in May 2011, read: “An African-American woman in New Orleans was admitted into the hospital for a pregnancy termination.

Two weeks later she received a check for $5,000. She phoned the hospital to ask who it was from. The hospital said, ‘Crimestoppers.’

procedures, for felony sex crimes, similar to protocols already in place for other violent crimes.

Setting up a “vertical prosecution” policy where the same prosecutor stays with the case from when it is reported to police, deciding if charges should be issued and if any plea deal should be offered or if the case should go to trial.

Under Kelly, who took office in 2010, more reports of sex crimes are resulting in prosecutions.

In 2012 and 2013, about 30 percent of reports have resulted in charges being filed.

“I think it is a positive trend,” he said about the 2012-13 numbers. “I think we have a trend that is headed the right way, but we’re still well short of where we need to be.”

The BND series reported that overall for the nine-year period, 6,744 felony sex crimes were reported in a 32-county region of Southern Illinois, and 4,721, or 70 percent, were not prosecuted.

Counties with non-prosecution rates similar to St.

meant for victimless parking violations, and those with decals have plenty of options to park on campus after 4:30 p.m.

He said other methods of enforcing rules were considered but the only way to get students to adhere to the regulations is with a parking employee.

“People don’t listen to signs as much as if we have an agent out there,” he said.

Epplin said the division plans to use the funds to repave and repaint on-campus lots but there is no definitive start date to the improvements. New lighting is also in the works but he said there is no projected cost for the renovations, as the division has yet to contract the repairs.

For those who want to avoid a fine and do not have a decal, a yellow one can be purchased for $27 and covers the rest of spring semester and summer. There are also one-day visitor passes available for $3 at the Parking Division office.

The report will say that the DOJ investigation found that there was a pattern and practice of racial bias in Ferguson’s municipal courts, with African-Americans less likely than others to have their cases dismissed by a municipal judge, far more likely to have a warrant entered in their cases and more likely to be arrested during traffic stops because of outstanding warrants.

The investigation also found that from April to September last year, 95 percent of people held at the Ferguson jail longer than two days

Clair’s included Jackson County, home of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and Jefferson County. State’s attorneys in those counties could not be reached.

Gail Thomas, a former prosecutor and a professor at the Southern Illinois University Carbondale School of Law and head of the school’s Domestic Violence Clinic, said about the newspaper’s investigation, “if those statistics are accurate, I think there are enough people in the community who care enough, including the state’s attorney, police and the women’s center, that there will be a real effort to improve the prosecutions of sex crimes.”

Polly Poskin, the executive director of the Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said of the series’ findings: “I think the message I want state’s attorneys to have is that you are the leadership, you are the standard-bearers, you identify what’s the level of accountability for this crime. That’s where it has to come from.”

PARKING TICKETS TOTAL TICKETS JAN 2014 JAN 2015 2267 1501 More than a 33% decrease in overall tickets TICKETS BETWEEN 4P.M. AND 11:59 P.M.

JAN 2014 86

JAN 2015 460

More than a 500% increase in evening tickets

were African-American.

Blacks in Ferguson are also more likely than others to be charged with offenses like “manner of walking in roadway” or “failure to comply,” according to the report.

The report will also say that Ferguson has a pattern of putting revenue over public safety, in violation of the 14th Amendment’s due process and equal process protections, by collecting thousands of dollars in fines on those living below or near poverty.

In general, the DOJ report will say there is a wide gulf of mistrust between

the Ferguson Police Department and major portions of the population, particularly black citizens.

Consequently, law enforcement is often seen as illegitimate or even absent, the department’s report will say.

DOJ investigators spent about 100 person-days looking into the department, perused 35,000 pages of records, and had interviews with city leaders as well as hundreds of inperson or telephone interviews with citizens.

Koran Addo of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.

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All-star rock group sets the stage at Hangar Chase Myers

@chasemyers_DE | Daily Egyptian

Similar to the stacked 1992 United States Olympic men’s basketball team, Carbondale rock band Battle Jacket Baby is a dream team of some of the city’s musical veterans.

Comprised of Eddie Chapa on vocals and guitar, Chris McKinley on vocals, Mike Ricci on bass and vocals, Dane Spalt on drums and Shadi Frick on tenor sax, Battle Jacket Baby members are from a wide range of musical backgrounds and careers.

Ricci owns Mike’s Music store in Carbondale and Frick teaches band at Carbondale Middle School.

Chapa plays in the classic Carbondale band Jungle Dogs

and in Diamond Dog with bandmate Spalt, while McKinley is recognized by Chapa as the “Queen of Harmony” and has played in multiple bands.

Despite their musical influence dating to the 1980s, the band is fairly new to the scene, forming a little more than a year ago.

“We’re all kind of veteran musicians from the Carbondale area and we’re also friends that go way back,” said Chapa, who formed the group as a side project from Jungle Dogs with Spalt two years before playing Battle Jacket Baby’s first live show.

The rest of the members had to be persuaded to join the band because of their busy schedules, he said.

“I jokingly tell people that I

had to twist everybody’s arm in this band to convince them to join,” he said.

The band’s initial vision was to create a specific country-rock sound, but it organically evolves over time, he said.

“Some guys like to go into a room and write completely to themselves. … But other times, it’s great to just get in a room and just throw ideas around,” he said.

“It goes in different directions and sometimes you get some really cool results.”

Chapa said the band’s two main influences are rockabilly and alternative country, but is not exclusive to those genres.

“Those are the two little flavors that get infused in an edgy rock

format,” he said. “There’s a little bit of blues in there as well.”

Cover songs, as well as originals, can be expected at a Battle Jacket Baby show, including old blues tunes such as “Spoonful” by Willie Dixon.

“Inevitably, a song kind of becomes your own anyway,” he said. “Sometimes it’s similar to the original, sometimes it’s radically different and that just evolves from rehearsing and playing it.”

Chapa said the friends he has in Carbondale’s music scene helped with the creation of the band.

“Just from the pool of friends and musicians and mutual friends, you can get the word out,” he said. “It’s great to be a part of a tight-knit musical community like Carbondale because you have

resources to go out to.”

While musical compatibility can be hard to acquire for a newly formed band, Battle Jacket Baby’s initial creative environment was much more natural.

“I ended up with five of us who are not strangers to each other and have a certain dynamic and relationship already, so you already hit the ground running,” he said.

Battle Jacket Baby will perform Saturday at Hangar 9. The show will open with Cashmere Cobra, which includes Dan Shingle, guitarist for Jungle Dogs. This will be Cashmere Cobra’s first live performance.

With two Jungle Dogs in the building and more nearby, the chance of a miniature reunion is a possibility.

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Spoken word shines spotlight on human connections

C arrington S pireS • D aily e gyptian Amanda Neuhouser, a sophomore from Bloomington–Normal studying cinema, performed her spoken word piece “ISIS Crisis” Tuesday at the InterVarsity Open Art Show. The piece tells the story of a Syrian mother and daughter who face separation because of the threat of ISIS. “I wanted to focus on a child who was affected by this ongoing issue,” she said. “What I want people to take away from this is the feeling to be able to connect with someone who is from a completely different culture,” Neuhouser said.

‘Focus’ cannot hold attention Jacob Pierce

@JacobPierce1_DE | Daily Egyptian

There seem to be two ways a heist movie is made. One way is to make the criminals the protagonists and the other is to split the limelight between the heisters and the people chasing them.

Many problems with the genre tend to come from the first option. The movie tends to play out like a magic show, and one of the first rules of magic is to never underestimate your audience’s intelligence. These films are notorious for swindling moviegoers.

“Focus” (Rated R; 105 min.) directed by Glen Ficarra and John Requa, not only cheats its viewers, but insults their intelligence as well.

Nicky Spurgeon, played by Will Smith, is a con man who knows every trick in the book and can smell a heist a mile away. He meets Jess Barrett, played by Margot Robbie, a naïve thief and takes her under his wing. They soon fall for each other and Spurgeon breaks it off, fearing he is losing his edge.

Three years later, Spurgeon is working on a billion-dollar con only to discover Barrett is dating his target and the game starts to change.

He loses his focus and winning Barrett back becomes the real heist.

Instead of being its own movie, “Focus” decides to copy every other stereotypical heist film.

The characters are nothing more than mouthpieces for cool concepts and funny dialogue.

“Focus” goes fast, which can entertain audiences, but it does not give anyone time to comprehend the ideas being thrown at them. Nor does it give the film time to develop characters. By the end, there is not a good sense of who Barrett and Spurgeon even are.

Smith is not the box office

hero he once was. After a few failed roles, he decided to shove his kids down America’s throat and now his star power is at an all-time low. His films have become ones to avoid at any cost.

The one good aspect in this entire mountain of garbage is Margot Robbie. She brings character development to an awful script by portraying a woman looking for something out of life, her only outlet being thievery. She is 10 times better than Smith, which shows once again she is a rising talent waiting for people to acknowledge her.

The movie insults viewers’

intelligence by cheating its way to the end, which is actually kind of common in bad heist films. Ask anyone who saw “Now You See Me” about the ending, and they will most likely explain how it was a giant middle finger to the audience.

A couple weeks ago I said “50 Shades of Grey” would prove to be the worst of the year. I stand by the statement, but “Focus” really gives it a run for its money. The movie is boring and unintelligent. If you are forced to see this by a significant other or friend, take as many bathroom breaks as you can. You will have a better time that way.

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<< Answers for Tuesday 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

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Today’s Birthday (03/04/15). Your excellent service goes well rewarded this year. Catch a financial windfall. Your professional status (and income) rises

with disciplined efforts. Begin a new personal phase after the Spring Equinox solar eclipse (3/20). Prepare for summer action (after 6/14). Collaborate for mutual profit, especially energized after autumn eclipses (10/13 and 10/27).

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) -Today is an 8 -- Honest efforts pay off in cash. Draw upon hidden resources.

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figure what you want, friends happily assist. Delegate and trade.

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Underdawgs begin ‘win or go home’ stretch Aaron Graff

@Aarongraff_DE | Daily Egyptian

It is do or die time for the SIU men’s basketball team.

The Salukis (11-20, 4-14) enter the Missouri Valley Conference tournament as the ninth seed and play the Missouri State Bears (11-19, 5-13) in the opening round Thursday.

“They swept us, so it’s a unique challenge for us,” said coach Barry Hinson, who—according to a Freedom of Information Act request—will earn a $20,000 bonus if the Salukis win the conference tournament.

Hinson said the guards have to play extremely well for the Salukis to advance.

Missouri State coach Paul Lusk said there is always concern about SIU junior guard Anthony Beane, who was second in the MVC, averaging 16.5 points per game. He was named to the All-MVC Second-Team.

“It seems like he’s found his rhythm,” Lusk said. “When he gets it going there are not a whole lot of answers for him.”

The Bears defeated the Salukis 5350 on Dec. 31 and 52-46 on Jan. 31. Beane scored 16 points and 11 respectively. He was held to 7-of-23 shooting between the two games.

All season, Hinson said he was searching for a human maturation microwave for the team. He said

S arah G ardner • d aily e Gyptian Coach Barry Hinson faces an empty bench before the Salukis’ first game at the Missouri Valley Conference tournament on March 7, 2014. The Salukis play Missouri State at 6:05 p.m. Thursday at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis.

freshmen guard Deion Lavender and forward Jordan Caroline, who was named to the All-MVC AllFreshman Team, have grown up a lot this season.

Hinson said the biggest question is the mental maturity and the fatigue of younger players.

The winner of Thursday’s game will play the tournament’s top seed, the

No. 8 Wichita State Shockers (27-3, 17-1) on Friday.

This is the second time in Arch Madness history that two teams are ranked in the Top 25. The No. 11

Northern Iowa Panthers (27-3, 16-1) are the second seed.

“Here in the Missouri Valley Conference, we’re happy for the success of those two teams and it’s on us other coaches and other programs to try and keep up with them,” Indiana State coach Greg Lansing said.

WSU claimed the regular season conference title with a 74-60 victory against UNI on Saturday in Wichita.

The top two seeds split the regular season series.

“It wasn’t a feeling of, ‘OK, we split with Wichita and we had a good regular season,’” UNI coach Ben Jacobson said. “There was a real genuine sense of disappointment.”

The tournament champions will get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

“You have to battle and the winner advances and the loser doesn’t,” Drake coach Ray Giacoletti said. “Your season is done.”

Hinson said it would be great for the MVC if neither WSU nor UNI won the conference tournament because the conference would have three teams in the NCAA tournament, because those two teams will earn at-large bids regardless.

For live updates of Arch Madness, follow @Aarongraff_DE and @TDavis_DE on Twitter.

Thrower returns; wins MVC Championship Brent Meske

@brentmeskeDE | Daily Egyptian

One year was enough time for a national qualifier to go from the sidelines to the top of the podium.

Junior thrower DeAnna Price won the Missouri Valley Conference indoor women’s weight throw championship Saturday after sitting out last year’s championship with a knee injury.

Throws coach John Smith said he was not surprised to see Price win her first MVC championship after returning from injury.

“All I had to do was get her going again,” he said. “With her power, everything would just fall back into place.”

Price hurt her knee in shot put practice last year and went nine months without throwing regularly. Smith called the injury the angry trifecta because Price stretched out the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments, as well as the medial collateral ligament in her left knee.

After the injury Price took a few weeks off and returned to try weight throw again at last year’s MVC indoor championships.

Track and field coach Connie Price-Smith said she made the decision to pull Price during the competition to prevent further injury.

“We let her [compete]... in hindsight we shouldn’t have,” she said. “She was doing everything she could but her knee wasn’t going to hold up.”

Smith said the injury was because of lateral strength. He said Price could handle just 65 pounds on the left leg but could support 205 pounds on the right. Smith would not let her throw again until she could support 200 pounds on each leg.

The injury kept Price out of the ring during the 2014 outdoor season—resulting in a redshirt year. But the extra workouts has Price clearing 405 pounds in front squat during workouts,

making her the strongest female thrower Smith has ever coached.

Price is no longer required to wear a knee brace during competitions because her muscles have been strengthened, reinforcing the previously stretched out ligaments. Price threw shot put without the brace for the first time last week but will continue to wear the brace during weight and hammer throws because of the spinning motion.

Price-Smith said throwing without the brace showed confidence, something that can continue to make Price a better thrower.

“When DeAnna has confidence, she can take on the world,” she said. “It’s coming back slowly.”

In her final indoor season of eligibility, Price has won four of six weight throw events. She also broke her personal record four meets in a row. Her best is 21.64 meters set at the Fred Wilt Invitational on Feb. 13. Her personal record also moved her to No. 4 all-time on SIU’s indoor best list and No. 7 in the nation.

Price said the reward was well worth pushing through the pain.

“It was a long, grueling process,” she said. “I couldn’t have done it without my teammates.

They kept pushing me when I didn’t believe I could do it anymore.”

Price-Smith said this year and last were completely different stories, and it was amazing to see Price come back this year and win the championship.

“She was crying [Saturday] out of joy,” PriceSmith said. “Last year she was crying out of injury, sadness and pain.”

Price was joined on the podium by senior teammate Sophia Lozano, who finished second at the MVC indoor championships and also qualified for nationals. Price and Lozano have placed first and second respectively at three meets and have combined for five weight throw

p eter r oGalla • d aily e Gyptian Junior thrower DeAnna Price competes in the shot put during the SIU Invitational in February.

wins this year.

Lozano—currently ranked No. 9 in the nation—won the MVC indoor championship and qualified for nationals last season a throw after Price was pulled from competition. The two planned to qualify for nationals together but Price’s injury prevented it.

“At the point she got hurt, we both knew [qualifying] wasn’t possible,” Lozano said. “It was... really emotional.”

The teammates attended high schools in the same conference in Missouri and would often face each other in competitions.

Lozano said Price was much better than she was during high school, and the two built a bond because of Price’s attitude. “[Price] was at a level beyond my wildest dreams,” she said. “She was the one winning all the meets when

I was just excited to make finals.”

Price said she mentioned SIU to Lozano, who was originally planning on going to the University of Missouri, and is proud to see her accomplish so much at the university.

At SIU, both have become MVC champions, qualified for indoor nationals and are in the school’s indoor top-10 all-time for weight throw.

They are two of six female Salukis to surpass 70feet in weight throw.

Price said she is happy to finally go to nationals with Lozano.

“We can finally do what we said we were going to do,” she said. “We want to impact SIU throwing history.”

Price and six other Salukis compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships beginning March 13 in Fayetteville, Ark.