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Autumn Sukyo | @AutumnSukyo_DE George Manning, a Ph.D. candidate from Fort Wayne, Ind., studying restoration ecology, sets flame to a field on Sunday at a school-owned prairie plot on campus. “Before SIU, I worked restoring prairie wetlands in Fort Wayne for eight years,” Manning said. “It’s important because we’ve lost so much of it [tall grass prairies]. More people need to become educated on our land, we need to come up with interesting ways to protect it.”

In time of budget Obama backs challenger crisis, governor’s Stratton over Rep. Dunkin in approval ratings Democratic state rep primary drop, but not much RICK PEARSON | Chicago Tribune

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Just 9 percent of Illinois voters believe the state is going in the right direction, according to a Paul Simon Public Policy Institute poll released Thursday. Of those polled this year, 84 percent believe the state is on the wrong track — up 21 percentage points from last year. The poll used the opinion of 1,000 voters via telephone after interviewers requested to speak with the youngest registered voter in the household. Pollster also asked about approval of Gov. Bruce Rauner. Half of those polled disapproved

of the Republican governor’s job performance, 41 percent approved and the 9 percent were undecided. Approval and disapproval ratings increased since last year’s poll because more people voiced an opinion one way or another, but overall disapproval ratings increased 19 percentage points since last year. John Jackson, a visiting professor at the Paul Simon Institute, said he assumed the disapproval rating would be higher, but instead the results — with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points — indicated a deeply divided state. Please see RATING | 2

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In a rare political move, President Barack Obama has inserted himself in a Democratic state legislative primary race in his home state, backing challenger Juliana Stratton over Rep. Ken Dunkin of Chicago. In a TV and radio ad, Obama says he learned from his days in Chicago that “follow-through is everything.” “The people of Chicago deserve leaders who follow through. Juliana Stratton has spent her career serving our community, improving the juvenile justice system and protecting public safety,” Obama says in the TV ad. “Juliana will fight to get guns off our streets and fight for tougher

penalties for violent offenders. I’m Barack Obama. I’m asking you to vote for Democrat Juliana Stratton for state representative.” Stratton is the union-backed opponent challenging Dunkin, who has been getting campaign help from allies of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. Dunkin has broken ranks with Democrats on several Illinois House votes, denying House Speaker Michael Madigan a 71-vote veto-proof majority. It is uncommon for a sitting president to get involved in a primary race of his own party, let alone for a lowly post of state lawmaker. But his involvement shows the intensity of the battle between Rauner and his union-

weakening agenda and Democrats and their union allies who hold supermajorities in the Illinois House and Senate. During a February visit to Springfield, where he served as a state senator, Obama singled out Dunkin, a 13-year lawmaker, in a statehouse speech. Obama said reaching political compromise across the aisle “doesn’t make me a sellout to my own party.” Dunkin jumped out of his chair and shouted “Yes!” before Obama cut him off. “We’ll talk later Dunkin. Sit down,” Obama said as Democrats — and even some Republicans — erupted into wild cheers. Dunkin later tried to portray Obama’s remark as the president agreeing with him.

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Veteran Dean McGregor, of Carbondale, poses for a portrait by a peeling mural Sunday adjacent Longbranch Café and Bakery. McGregor served for four years in Vietnam and was discharged after injuring his knee. “A fuse broke in my car so I’m looking for a ride home,” McGregor said. “I could either fix it or pay the electric bill. So I’m walking.” McGregor has lived in Carbondale most of his life.

A homeless Chicago college student TONY BRISCOE | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

On a frigid winter morning, Latia Crockett-Holder, 23, emerges from her tent beneath a crumbling overpass in her stocking feet. In the dim viaduct, where the streetlights are out and water drips from melting icicles like stalactites in a cavern, Crockett-Holder pulls two sheets of baby wipes from a box to wash her face. She squirts toothpaste from a small tube directly into her mouth, brushes and spits into the street. Then CrockettHolder laces up her boots, slings a book bag over her shoulder and heads off to the No. 148 bus a block away. She has a 10:45 a.m. economics class at MacCormac College in the Loop. Crockett-Holder is studying criminal justice and dreams of a career in law enforcement. It’s an unlikely goal for a woman living in the tent city that has sprouted beneath an overpass in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. For the last five months, she’s lived in an overstuffed tent that she shares with her husband and his stepfather. Inside the tent, she wears a headlamp to study. She’s been saving money from government assistance in an effort to get into an apartment. “I could get (more) done in the house and not being in the tent doing homework,” she said. “That’s like the hardest thing ever. You’re bunched up in one tent and you can’t stay focused. You hear people outside your tent arguing and you can’t study.” Young people like Crockett-Holder will be the subject of an upcoming study

by the University of Chicago’s Chapin Hall research center. Starting in May, the center plans to conduct a first-of-itskind count of homeless and runaway young people in more than two dozen communities across the country. Researchers will attempt to survey homeless people from ages 14 to 24 in urban, suburban and rural communities. The resulting report is expected to produce state and national estimates on the number of homeless young people and, hopefully, serve as a boilerplate for future research and policy, according to Bryan Samuels, executive director of Chapin Hall. “Part of the beauty of doing it for the first time is that we’ll do it, publish it and make it all available to everybody, so everything behind the estimate can serve as a methodology that others can improve upon over time,” Samuels said. The Chapin Hall initiative deviates from biennial homeless counts mandated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Those counts are carried out in the last week of January, typically the coldest time of year, with the thought that it’s the best time to get an accurate count of homeless people in shelters. Last year, researchers counted 6,786 people in shelters and on the streets, nearly 2,000 of them 24 and younger, according to a report from Chicago’s Department of Family & Support Services. The HUD-required counts have “historically focused on adults,” who are more likely to take advantage of

shelters and other services during the winter, Samuels said. Chapin Hall’s Voices of Youth Count will also have a much more sweeping definition of homelessness that will encompass definitions used by HUD, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the U.S. Department of Education. In recent years, social service agencies in major cities have added youth-specific counts. After performing its first supplemental youth-specific count last year, DFSS declined to do one this January in the hope that Chicago would be included in the Chapin Hall count. Crockett-Holder said she has been homeless for much of her life. After a dispute with her family in west suburban Melrose Park, she bounced between homeless shelters, where often a nightly lottery would determine whether she would have a bed. She eventually settled for sleeping under the viaducts of Uptown, often with nothing more than a pillow and blanket. That’s where DFSS workers found her during the city’s general homeless count in late January. They pleaded with Crockett-Holder to come to a local shelter, but she refused. She told them she was applying for a two-bedroom apartment she thought she could afford and hoped to be moving in on Feb. 5. To read more, please visit www.dailyegyptian.com

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Illinois Republicans worried about Trump effect in their ballots RICK PEARSON CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Illinois Republican leaders already opposing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign are expressing cautious concerns over how his nomination could affect GOP chances in the fall, ranging from Sen. Mark Kirk’s re-election bid to Gov. Bruce Rauner’s attempt to pick up Democratic legislative seats. “I think Trump at the top of the ticket hurts the brand,” said former state GOP chairman Pat Brady, who is backing Ohio Gov. John Kasich. “Is it good? No. It’s not good for anybody.” Illinois is traditionally a Democratic state in presidential election years and shows little signs of changing, even without home-state President Barack Obama’s name on top of the ballot. That puts pressure on Republican hopes to grow their November numbers even before considering the impact of Trump, who will try to add to his leading delegate count in the March 15 Illinois primary election. Already two Republican congressmen — Bob Dold of Kenilworth and Adam Kinzinger of Channahon — have denounced Trump, with Dold vowing he won’t support the Republican presidential front-runner “now and I will not support him should he move on” to win the nomination. Dold represents a North Shore swing district that in the past has gone Republican in off-presidential years and Democratic in White House election years. The 10th District race is considered by both parties to be among the nation’s most expensive congressional contests. In a recent CNN interview, Dold said a Trump nomination won’t necessarily jeopardize his re-election bid. “I’ve been focusing on the constituents and I trust I will be judged on my record,” he said. Of larger concern is Kirk. He’s seeking a second term in the Senate against nominal primary opposition and already is considered to be among the most politically vulnerable Republicans in the country even before the prospect of a Trump nomination. “Sen. Kirk is not endorsing in the Republican primary. He is focused on his work in Illinois and his campaign for re-election,” Kirk’s campaign said in a statement. “The GOP nomination is a long and

fluid process right now and we are not going to try to decrypt a very hazy and cloudy crystal ball.” Kirk denounced Trump last July, about a month after Trump announced his presidential candidacy and suggested Mexico was sending criminals and rapists across the U.S. border. “In a typical Chicago way, to my Mexican-American friends, I would say, ‘Donald Trump, callate’ — shut up,” Kirk said at the time. But two of the three Democrats vying for the primary nomination for Kirk’s Senate seat — U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth of Hoffman Estates and former Chicago Urban League CEO Andrea Zopp — already are criticizing Kirk for not saying whether he would back Trump as the GOP nominee. Duckworth’s campaign said, “Illinois voters should take Kirk’s silence as a tacit endorsement of Donald Trump and his offensive platform.” Zopp’s campaign called Trump a “dangerous leader,” and said, “Kirk needs to let the people know what side of history he will be on.” But Brady, the former Republican chairman, said Kirk’s lengthy record as a 10-year congressman before winning election to the Senate in 2010, as well as a history of being a top GOP vote-getter, makes him “a guy who almost goes against the trend” of being affected by Trump. Instead, Brady argued, “I would be concerned about overall Democratic turnout against Kirk more than I would be about who is at the top of our ticket.” Greg Baise, the president and CEO of the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association and a longtime influential Republican, said he believed it was too early to speculate about the impact of a Trump nomination on down-ballot races like Kirk and other Republicans. “We have entered into what I think is a territory that we have not seen, where there’s been these big realignments that go on. Now does Donald Trump have the ability to lead it?” asked Baise, who like much of the state’s GOP establishment had backed former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who dropped out last month. “The people who have been around this whole thing have been sent a big message by the regular voters, that 35 to 40 percent of the Republican Party is really irritated,” he said. Still, Baise cautioned, “by September,

when people really make up their mind on voting for president, it’s a whole different thing.” Baise and Chicago businessman Ron Gidwitz, another longtime GOP donor, also questioned what voter turnout would be like in the fall if Trump is the nominee. They noted increased Republican turnout in several early primary and caucus states. “I don’t know what happens in the general election. Do all the disaffected voters who really don’t much care, are they really motivated to show up and thumb their nose at the establishment? It’s possible,” said Gidwitz, who initially backed Bush and is now supporting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. Turnout also is an important factor in state legislative races, where Gov. Rauner and his allies plan to use their wealth to try to erode the supermajorities that Democrats hold in the Illinois House and Senate. Rauner hasn’t said much about the primary, saying he’s staying out of it and calling it “a very wild process” when Trump’s name came up. All 118 House seats and 40 of 59 Senate seats are up for election. But Brady said he believes legislative contests, particularly Downstate, are more immune to any top-ofticket influences due to their local nature. “I’m not saying it’s great that Trump is at the top of the ticket. But you go to some of these state representative races, you can walk around the district and win it. I’m not as gloom and doom on it,” he said. But with Springfield showing much of the same political dysfunction that has normally been associated with Washington, voters unhappy with the status quo may take it out on local incumbents. “People are really angry and my sense is they’re angry at Republicans, independents and Democrats because they feel that they’re put upon by the ruling class,” Gidwitz said. Chicago-area Republicans will get an up-close look at Trump on Friday, when he hosts a rally at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The timing of Trump’s event conflicts with an alreadyscheduled Illinois Republican Party fundraising dinner at the Palmer House Hilton honoring Rauner. That one features a Trump rival for the GOP presidential nomination, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

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Here’s how Chicago helped shape a future first lady DAWN RHODES | Chicago Tribune

Nancy Reagan is best remembered for her time in Washington, D.C., and California, but a big part of her youth was spent in Chicago. And foreshadowing a role later in her life, it was in her senior year of high school here when she played the lead in a school production of a play titled “First Lady.” Reagan, the widow of former President Ronald Reagan, died Sunday in California at age 94. She spent her early years on the East Coast but moved to Chicago after her mother married a Chicago neurosurgeon, Dr. Loyal Davis, who gave her his last name and adopted her when she was 14. Nancy Davis attended the Chicago Latin School for Girls at 59 E. Scott St. in the Gold Coast neighborhood, starting during her middle school years and graduating in 1939, according to school officials. She led student government, was part of the field hockey team and glee club and was president of the school’s Athletic Association Council, the school said. “Latin School was honored to have Mrs. Reagan as part of its alumni community,” school officials said in a statement Sunday. “Over the years, the former first lady was consistently supportive of the school and in every interaction with Latin, she was always a wonderful example of grace and poise.” According to the statement, the school’s alumni office was most recently in touch with Reagan’s office in 2013, when she sent a note congratulating the school on its 125th anniversary. “Nancy Reagan was a greatly respected alumna, always admired for her graciousness,” said Randall Dunn, head of school, which went

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Jackson, who helped design the poll, said he thought almost nine months into a budget impasse would have a greater toll on approval “given how much dislocation and chaos we’ve had in the state government and how long we’ve gone without a state budget.” So far, he said, Illinois government isn’t doing what the constitution requires them to do, which is first and foremost to pass a state budget. “The governor doesn’t make decisions based on polls and is focused on transforming state government, achieving structural reforms for taxpayers that will create jobs and grow the economy, and ensuring Illinois has the best schools in America,” Rauner spokesperson Catherine Kelly said via email when asked for a comment on the poll results. The direct effects of the governor and Democratic legislators’ failure

coed in the 1950s and now is located at 59 W. North Blvd. “We are proud to have had Mrs. Reagan as a student and alumna and extend our condolences to her family and loved ones.” While she was first lady in 1982, Reagan visited the school in response to letters from Latin School’s third-grade students, an event officials said was “one of our fondest memories” of her. “The students were hopeful for a note from Mrs. Reagan, but never expected that the first lady would come to the school,” according to the school’s statement. “Mrs. Reagan spent the morning with the third-graders, answered questions, attended a student production and even went through the lunch line in the lower school cafeteria.” That visit was part of an emotional return to Chicago for the first lady, according to a story in the Tribune. Hours after spending time at her alma mater, she accepted a commemorative medallion on behalf of her father from Northwestern University, where he had been the chair of the medical school’s surgery department for more than three decades. Reagan talked about visiting the halls of the hospital where her father had spent most of his career. “I used to come up to the 14th floor and watch my father work,” Reagan said. “I used to go on house calls with him. I watched him operate — that was when I convinced him I wasn’t going to do something terrible, like faint.” After graduating, Reagan worked for a short time as a sales clerk for the iconic Chicago department store Marshall Field’s, then returned to the East Coast to attend Smith College. She graduated

Wally Skalji | Los Angeles Times Nancy Reagan speaks to a crowd at the Regan Library in Simi Valley, California, Sunday, February 6, 2011, honoring her late husband, former President Ronald Reagan who would have been 100 years old today.

in 1943 and moved back to New York to pursue acting. In a 1980 Tribune profile weeks before she assumed the title of first lady, she said she never had aspirations to be a “career girl.” “I majored in drama at Smith and I became an actress because I didn’t want to go back to Chicago and lead the life of a post-debutante,” Reagan said. “I wanted to do something until I found the man I wanted to marry.” She and her future husband met in 1950 when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild. They married in 1952. President Reagan died in 2004 after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

A quote from a classmate in Latin School’s 1939 yearbook recalled Reagan’s confident personality, even in awkward situations. “Nancy’s social perfection is a constant source of amazement,” the quote read. “She is invariably, becomingly and suitably dressed. She can talk, and even better, listen intelligently, to anyone from her little kindergarten partner of the Halloween party, to the grandmother of one of her friends. Even in the seventh grade, when we first began to mingle with the male of the species, Nancy was completely poised. While the rest of us huddled self-consciously on one side of the room, casting surreptitious glances at the men, aged 13, opposite

us, Nancy actually crossed the yawning emptiness separating the two groups and serenely began a conversation — with a boy.” Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife expressed sympathies. “As our nation’s first lady, Nancy Reagan will be remembered for her unwavering support of our country and as a pillar of strength to one of our nation’s greatest presidents,” Rauner said in a statement. “As an advocate for anti-drug programs, she helped educate a generation, and she was a champion for Alzheimer’s research to find more treatments and a cure for the disease. Throughout her entire life, Nancy Reagan worked diligently to improve the lives of so many Americans.”

to make decisions are being felt across the state. In southern Illinois, John A. Logan College in Carterville announced the lay-off of 55 employees, SIU’s Small Business Center will close and students with MAP grants are at risk of not receiving funding if a budget is not passed soon. However, of those polled, 62 percent said they do not feel directly affected by the budget stalemate. “Actually everybody has been affected — either directly or indirectly,” Jackson said. The 32 percent who said they were affected named job insecurity, social services and higher education as the most atrisk areas. “Students are critically affected,” Jackson said. “Most students don’t stop long enough to pay attention to these things.” Anna Spoerre can be reached at aspoerre@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

Marat Tsablinov | Daily Egyptian Source: Paul Simon Public Policy Institute

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Column: No Illinois mental health aid has patients and providers reeling MADELEINE DOUBEK | REBOOT ILLINOIS

Tina Wardzala lies awake nights wondering and fearing what will happen to her and her sons if she loses the therapy and psychiatric medication she needs. "I have to be well to take care of my children," she told me recently. I first wrote about Wardzala, 50, late last September. She has been a client at the Family Service and Mental Health Center of Cicero for 10 years. Men her mother invited into their home abused her as a child. As an adult many years ago, she was raped in the hallway of an apartment building when she was trying to deliver food to an elderly woman. It took seven years for her to muster the courage to tell her therapist about that. Wardzala has been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, agoraphobia and bipolar disorder.

She also suffers because of the state's fiscal crisis and the budget impasse between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan and Illinois Senate President John Cullerton. The Cicero mental health center that provides coordinated counseling and psychiatric services was expecting to receive $190,000 in state grants this year. It's received none. Since Tina and I first met last fall, the center has cut back the hours of its two part-time psychiatrists who work with adults and children by 30 percent, said Executive Director John Morgan. A bilingual child psychiatrist will leave the center soon and Morgan can't fill that position. A mental health counselor who handled crisis intervention at the center also had her hours cut last fall and left the agency a few months later. Another therapist voluntarily cut

her hours from full- to part-time and other positions have been eliminated as well. As a result of the cuts, Tina and one of her sons are among about 150 patients from the agency who now must go to a psychiatric hospital several miles away for their care. Wardzala, who can't bring herself to ride buses because they're too crowded and make her feel too confined, got a friend to give her a ride to the psychiatric hospital. She sat in the car in the parking lot, looking around for a while. Then she turned to her friend and said, "I'm not ready." Eventually, Wardzala returned to the hospital. She pushed past her fear and mustered the courage to walk into the psychiatric hospital. She said she shared the basics of her history and managed to get through the intake process with

strangers and loud noises and being directed to see new people in several different rooms. Wardzala and her son have a three-month wait before they can return to actually see a psychiatrist. In the meantime, her primary care physician will have to write prescriptions for her medications. "The stress of all this, it's not too much to bear because I have children who depend on me so I'm strong," she said. "I guess I'm chicken, but I get sick of having to tell people." All of this change and upheaval and starting over and going into a psychiatric hospital is too much for some people suffering from mental illness. Wardzala said she knows some in her bipolar support group who just won't go inside a psychiatric hospital. They fear they won't be let out. Some of them likely will go off their medications, suffer a breakdown and end up in an

emergency room. It takes between three to six months once they are back on the medication before people with mood disorders recover, Tina's therapist said. "It's a lot to carry," Wardzala said. "I do want to keep recovered, but they make it really hard." Wardzala believes her therapist and psychiatrist at the center saved her life. Now, the fear that keeps her awake at night grows. "What's going to happen in a year with this place? Is it going to be an empty building?" she asked. "Politics is serious and they're supposed to govern," she said of Illinois' elected officials. "They're picking on the children, the sick and the elderly. How dare they do that," she said. "Why don't you care about us? We work. We matter. We contribute."

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in a professional adventure, with this New Moon (total solar eclipse) in Pisces. Team up with a genius. Set goals together. Cancer (June 21-July 22) -Today is a 6 -- Begin a new phase in your education, travels and exploration, with this New Moon solar eclipse in Pisces. First-person experience is most memorable ... go to the source. Pursue new directions. Take a stand. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- A turning point arises regarding family finances, with this Pisces New Moon solar eclipse. Change directions. Support each other’s goals. Expect an emotional shift. Share concerns with someone you trust. Together you’re more powerful. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 5 -- Begin a new phase in a partnership, with this New Moon solar eclipse in Pisces. Realign your collaboration to new priorities.

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One door closes as another opens. Talk about what you want to create. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Tonight’s transformational New Moon solar eclipse launches a new phase in service, work and health. With power comes responsibility. Listen to your heart. Nurture your body, mind and spirit. Care for yourself and others. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -Today is a 5 -- Play with the ones you love. Begin a fa mily, f un a nd pa ssion pha se. Complete one ga me a nd begin a new, with this Pisces New Moon sola r eclipse. A roma ntic relationship tra nsforms. It’s a ll for love. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is a 5 -- One domestic phase closes as another begins for the next six months under this Pisces New Moon eclipse. Complete the past and invent new possibilities for your family. Adapt your home to suit.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 6 -- Complete old projects and launch new creative works with this New Moon eclipse. Begin a new communications phase, including research, broadcasting, writing, recording and publishing. Get contracts in writing. Work with someone you respect. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 7 -- Take care of business. A profitable six-month phase expands your income possibility in a new direction, with the New Moon solar eclipse in Pisces. Seize a lucrative opportunity. Create a new level of prosperity. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Begin a new personal phase with tonight’s Pisces New Moon solar eclipse. Take advantage of energy and confidence to step into leadership. Use your power for good. Make a change you’ve been wanting.

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ACROSS 1 Succotash bean 5 Make a decision 8 Within reach 14 Tree of Life garden 15 Like much sushi 16 Set of lines on personal stationery 17 *Motorist’s headache 19 DNA sample source 20 Vietnamese New Year 21 Dutch South African 22 Censor’s coverup 23 *Enjoy, with “in” 26 Counting everything 29 Part of DJIA: Abbr. 30 *Recap on a sports crawl line 34 Phi __ Kappa 38 Took wing 39 Toward the back of the boat 40 Physics class subject 41 Evergreen shrubs 42 *Kids’ introduction to a full school day 44 Religious sch. 45 Wrinkle-resistant synthetic 46 *Red-carpet movie event 53 TV studio sign 54 Either of two Henry VIII wives 55 Lacking light 58 Victimized lieutenant in “Othello” 60 “Chestnuts roasting” spot ... and a hint to a divided word found in the answers to starred clues 62 Election surprises 63 1921 robot play 64 Pennsylvania port 65 Mall directory listings 66 “What was __ do?” 67 Lemon peel

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DOWN 1 It’s not right 2 Just hanging around 3 Vegan no-no 4 Wee hill builder 5 Hunter constellation 6 Peeled with a knife 7 Punk 8 Massage responses 9 Lipton packet 10 Concert auditoriums 11 Bordeaux bye 12 Not even once 13 Hang loosely, as on a clothesline 18 Govt. security 23 Character weaknesses 24 “__ Theme”: “Doctor Zhivago” song 25 Three-time Wimbledon champ Chris 26 Up in the air 27 Aswan High Dam river 28 Once again 31 Less dangerous 32 Burglary, for one

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33 “The StarSpangled Banner” contraction 34 Ballerina’s rail 35 List-ending abbr. 36 __ list: chores 37 “I’m with you!” 43 “The Elements of Bridge” author Charles 44 7UP rival 46 Sharpen the image in the viewfinder

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47 Ill-suited 48 Rodeo rope 49 Penny pincher 50 New Zealand native 51 Data to be entered 52 January, to José 55 Desperate 56 Commonly purple bloom 57 Swimming event 59 ’40s spy org. 61 Shriner’s hat

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TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2016

Former Saluki volleyball player signs pro contract EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

It’s a nine-hour plane ride from Chicago to Madrid and one former Saluki volleyball player will be on her way there soon to fulfill her dream. Middle hitter Taylor Pippen signed a contract with Figaro Peluqueros, a professional team on the Island of Tenerife, nearly 100 miles off the west coast of Morroco. In her time at SIU, Pippen became the most efficient attacker in program history and helped SIU reach its first NCAA Tournament berth. Her career attack percentage of .345 is the best of all time. The 5-foot-11 Mundelein native also holds the school record for block assists with 426. Before the 2015-16 season started, Pippen said it was her dream to play professional volleyball in Spain. On Saturday, Pippen will get the chance to play

in her first pro game. The Hairdressers, the team name for Figaro Peluqueros, are currently in a playoff run, Pippen said. She will be replacing a middle hitter who was recently injured. “I’m really excited to get over there and show them what I can do,” she said. After her plane touches down in Tenerife, Pippen said she might practice with the team a few hours later. But with her sparse knowledge of the Spanish language, Pippen said she is nervous for the culture shock. “The president said all of the practices will be spoken in Spanish,” Pippen said. “Being in a different country all on my own really makes me nervous.” Evan Jones can be reached at EJones@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3304

Aidan Osborne | Daily Egyptian Senior middle hitter Taylor Pippen jumps to hit the ball Sept. 5 in the Salukis’ 3-1 loss to Western Kentucky during the 2015 Saluki Invitational at SIU Arena.

Harre pacing SIU softball early in year Starting backcourt rock BRENT MESKE | @BRENTMESKEDE

The Salukis' leading hitter this season doesn't have an ace up her sleeve, rather a hotel key in her back pocket. Junior first baseman Shaye Harre started the superstition last season and has continued this season as she leads the team with a .386 batting average. Harre is leading a team that has four players batting above .346, the most of any team in the Missouri Valley Conference. "This year the whole team is hitting ... it's contagious," she said. "It's a trickle effect that goes down the line. Once you get on a roll, it just kind of keeps going." The Nashville,Tenn.-native has been a model of consistency starting at first base and batting cleanup in all 16 games — her batting average has fallen below .316 just twice this season. Her one strikeout is the least of anyone on the team with more than 10 at-bats. Through 16 games, Harre leads the Dawgs with 32 total bases, 15 RBIs and four home runs, one shy of her career high. She is also tied for the team lead with 13 runs and is second in hits, doubles, slugging percentage, walks and on-base percentage. Through 16 games in 2015, she was batting .260 with nine RBIs, eight runs, eight walks, two doubles and one home run. The first baseman said she wanted to get off to a better start than last season by making sure she perfected her swing in the offseason instead of adjusting as the first games went along. Harre said she likes to know how a pitcher throws to lefties by talking to those who bat ahead of her. She said she often learns from freshman left fielder Erika Brandenburg's at-bat and takes that into account. But when Harre is in in the batters' box, she lets her lucky card and steady technique do the work. "I don't think about anything, because at that point, nothing is going to help you," she said. "You have your mechanics, but they have to be there

solid for women’s hoops THOMAS DONLEY | @TDONLEYDE

Brent Meske | @brentmeskeDE Junior first baseman Shaye Harre high fives coach Kerri Blaylock while rounding third after her two-run home run in the top of the second during a 11-1 win against Butler on Sunday at Charlotte West Stadium. Harre finished the game 2-3 with three RBIs and one run scored.

for you, you can't think about them." The superstition also started because Harre didn't think about it. She forgot the room key was in her back pocket and didn't leave it on the bus like every game before. Harre does however think about her approach at the plate, which she said is to fight off outside pitches and foul off inside pitches because she knows, as a middle-of-the-order hitter, she isn't going to get the pitcher's best. Associate head coach Jen Sewell, who works primarily with hitting, said Harre's ability to hit bad pitches has helped the team. "I've asked her to take the bat off her shoulder on pitches that aren't perfect for her, and she's done that," she said. "It may take away from her walks a little bit, but I don't need her on base as much as I need her hitting her way on."

Yet, the left-hander is second on the team with nine walks. Harre, one of the team captains this season, led the team with 24 in 48 games last season. Sewell, who described Harre as a "cool cat" who doesn't feel pressure when batting, said the first baseman can wait on close pitches early in an at-bat to set up the pitcher for a better pitch later. While this might negatively prolong the at bat, something Sewell said she wants to alleviate, she knows Harre will battle through it. "Never do I look in her eyes and think, 'Oh, she's beat,'" she said. "When you have presence like that at the plate, hitters are thinking, 'If I can stay calm like her, I can put the bat on the ball.'" Brent Meske can be reached at bmeske@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3333

Nothing stays the same forever, but the starting backcourt for SIU women's basketball has been pretty close. Senior guard Cartaesha Macklin, junior guard Rishonda Napier and sophomore guard/forward Kylie Giebelhausen have combined to make 174 starts in 60 games the last two seasons. Giebelhausen has started 58 straight games after coming off the bench in the first two games of her freshman season. Napier, who missed three games with a shoulder injury last year, has started every game she has played in the past two seasons. Macklin came off the bench Nov. 29 at Memphis, but has started every other game in that same span. Coach Cindy Stein says her starting lineup is not set in stone, and that players must earn their starting spot for every game. “My shooting ability and ball handling keeps me on the floor most of the time," Napier said. "I just try to go out there and play my game and not do anything uncharacteristic." Napier is eighth in the Missouri Valley Conference with 15.1 points per game. Macklin is 12th with 13.3 points. Giebelhausen averages 9.2 points per game, 25th-most in the Valley. All three are in the top 10 in the MVC in 3-point percentage. Giebelhausen, a 6-foot, 1-inch perimeter player, blocks 1.4 shots per game, first among Valley guards. Stein said her backcourt trio's chemistry has allowed them to play well together consistently. She said Giebelhausen fit in right away with her teammates who had been together for three years. "One of the things we noticed real early with Kylie — not that she wasn’t good enough to start — was the fact that she put herself in a position where the chemistry on

the floor was so much better," Stein said. "And obviously her skill set has continued to improve, and they’ve been a really good group of guards that we can rely on.” Giebelhausen said the early vote of confidence from Stein sparked her career progress. "If she would’ve sat me and only put me in at the end of games, I would not have been ready to play like I have been," Giebelhausen said. "And giving me the opportunity to prove myself and play up to a higher competition gave me more confidence in myself. I think I’ve grown and I’ve played better.” Another factor in Giebelhausen's 56-start streak has been her conditioning habits. The East Peoria native runs on her days off. “In the preseason, we run the twomile, and I’m the only one who’s excited for it," she said. "I really don’t mind running at all. I enjoy it. And that’s why I love the transition game. I like getting up and down the court, because I’m more of an endurance sprinter. I may not be the quickest one down the court, but I can be the first one back multiple times." Giebelhausen averages 30.1 minutes per game for her career. Macklin has averaged 31.1 minutes per game, and Napier has played 33.9 per game in each of the past two seasons. "I get a few aches and bruises, but we all do," Napier said. "Because our games are so fast, running the floor hard for 35 minutes can take a toll on you, but that’s why we have ice baths and stretching and foam rolling to recover." The Salukis open the MVC tournament as the fourth seed at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Moline against No. 5 Loyola. Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307