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Reorganization dinner pg. 3 | March for Our Lives pg. 10 | Saluki Quidditch pg. 18
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Brian Munoz | @BrianMunoz Kris Juul, a 94-year-old Norwegian veteran, Nazi-Germany refugee and former SIU professor smiles for a portrait while speaking about his time in Norway on Saturday at his home in Carbondale. Juul was one of several Norwegians that were able to escape the Nazi rule. Juul later had boarded a ship with about 400 to 500 Norwegian students and went to the United States. “When I woke up, the ship was in the harbor in New York," Juul said. "There [was] the Statue of Liberty [at] about 5 o’clock in the morning."
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Chancellor held reorganization dinner for supporting faculty JEREMY BROWN | Daily Egyptian
Chancellor Carlo Montemagno held a dinner for faculty members in support of his reorganization plan in late January, according to documents obtained by the Daily Egyptian. The dinner was paid for using the chancellor’s discretionary account with the SIU Foundation. Out of the 22 faculty invited, 15 were associated with science, technology, engineering and math programs. Montemagno is a member of the department of electrical and civil engineering. HD Motyl, interim chair of cinema and photography and radio, television and digital media, said the chancellor told them they were invited because they seemed in favor of the reorganization. “He said something like ‘If it's going to work, we need people out there talking about it, talking it up,’� Motyl said. The dinner was held Jan. 25 at the SIU Stadium Club and was catered by Mary’s Restaurant, based in Herrin. Various campus leaders were also guests at the dinner, including the associate provosts, the chair of the Faculty Senate and the chair of the Graduate Council, university spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said in an emailed statement. “The chancellor was focused more on individuals than fields to be represented, although he also wanted a cross-section of faculty from various disciplines,� Goldsmith said. Fifteen of the attendees are in administrative positions, such as directors/acting directors of programs, interim/associate deans and department chairs. The emailed invite from the chancellor’s office said invited guests had been "identified as one of the leaders of the campus academic and research enterprise.�
“He knows there are many others he could have invited but wanted to keep the group of a manageable size for conversation,â€? Goldsmith said. “The chancellor encouraged attendees to‌ continue discussing ideas pertaining to proposed reorganization.â€? The invitation said the dinner was a chance for “conversation with campus leadership regarding the reorganization and to share thoughts as to how we can more rapidly elevate the university.â€? Goldsmith said the dinner was an engaged and positive meeting and some attendees asked if they could meet again. “[Those attendees indicated] that the conversation should not end at the dinner,â€? Goldsmith said. “Some also asked about the possibility of expanding the group at a future meeting.â€? This dinner was one of more than 70 meetings the chancellor has had with constituents, including numerous meetings with faculty groups, seeking their input, Goldsmith said. Out of the 22 faculty members invited, 20 attended and two canceled: Jennifer Presar, assistant director of the School of Music and Craig Anz, associate professor of Architectural Studies. Presar said she didn’t attend due to a prior engagement, but she was not surprised when she received the email from the Office of the Chancellor. “I had talked with [David] DiLalla, Associate Provost for Academic Administration, during some of the open forums that the chancellor had,â€? Presar said. “I said I know I fit a lot of interesting checkboxes on representation throughout the campus.â€? Presar said she thinks she was invited to make the meeting more representative of the faculty, as she is a female non-tenured track
faculty member in an administrative appointment, an African American and someone who is optimistic about the reorganization. “I did not know everyone who was on the list – guess would definitely be to try and get a cross-section of the entire university,� Presar said. While Motyl favors the reorganization, he believes there are some issues with the details. Specifically, Motyl said if each school will be in charge of its own recruitment, he wants to know where the funding will come from. “If we were going into the School of Communications and Performing Arts, that school’s director would basically be in charge of getting the word out,� Motyl said. “I asked, ‘Is there money for this? Will there be resources for this?’ and there wasn't really an answer.� Alice Noble-Allgire, acting director of the School of Accountancy, was among the faculty who attended the dinner. Montemagno said the state of the university is dire, Noble-Allgire said. “The towers are going to be mothballs,� Noble-Allgire said. “He [gave] us a very vivid picture of what our current situation is.� Noble-Allgire said there are positive things happening at the university because of the reorganization discussions. “I've been on this campus for 23 years now,� Noble-Allgire said. “This is the first time I've seen this level of conversation in and among departments.� The list of faculty who attended Montemagno’s reorganization dinner can be found online at www,dailyegyptian.com. The list was obtained by the Daily Egyptian through the Freedom of Information Act. Engineering Staff writer Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com.
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Wellness and Health Promotion Services to provide free and quick STI/STD testing CLAIR COWLEY | Daily Egyptian
The university’s Wellness and Health Promotion Services invites students on April 2 to participate in the resource center’s event for national STD and STI awareness month. Javiana Conley, a senior studying sports administration and committee chair of Delta Sigma Theta, said the sorority helped plan the event. The celebration will be at the First Floor Rotunda Lounge in Morris Library. There will be information about STD’s and STI’s, free food, games and quick STI/STD testing from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Joel Hamilton, a graduate assistant in the sexual health office at the Student Health Center said the goal of this event is to raise awareness about transmission, detection and treatment options surrounding sexually transmitted diseases and sexually transmitted infections. Health representatives from on and off campus health centers will be at the event. “There has not been any significant increase or decrease in STI’s over the last five years [at the university],” Hamilton said. “Students have accessed the routine STI testing well over the five years, which has increased the numbers for testing.” Although more people are getting tested for STD’s, the percentage of positive test results match the national average of positive STI test results, Hamilton said. Mikala Barrett, a junior studying political science and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority member reserved the location to raise awareness of STDs, she said.
Barrett said she believes every college campus has problems with STIs and STDs because students are in a new environment at a new stage of their life. “They don’t have their parents trying to control them or friends telling them, ‘Hey you can’t do this,’ ‘you can’t do that,” Barrett said. “They have nothing but freedom and opportunity.” At the event, the Community Action Place will be providing optional HIV and Hepatitis C testing with help from the university’s Student Health Center. Testing will be done behind a curtain for privacy as physicians take a blood sample, Hamilton said. “In the case of a positive testing, representatives from the Student Health Centers, Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), will be available if support is needed,” Hamilton said. Hamilton said if an individual is in a monogamous relationship and they are using safe sex practices, he recommends they get tested for STD’s and STI’s every six months. If an individual has multiple sexual partners, they recommend they get tested for STD’s and STI’s every three months or before their next sexual partner, Hamilton said. “Research shows that 50 percent of individuals that have an STD or STI will show no symptoms, so getting testing is something to consider,” Hamilton said. There are routine testing options for HIV, syphilis, chlamydia and gonorrhea. These services have been available to students for more than 30 years, Hamilton said.
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“Research shows that 50 percent of individuals that have an STD or STI will show no symptoms, so getting testing is something to consider.” - Joel Hamilton graduate assistant
There is currently a $10 fee for getting tested at the Student Center and you can make an appointment online, over the phone or in-person, Hamilton said. For the event, Conley created an STD dice game for students to demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks. “To put it together I had to think outside of the box. I didn’t want this event to be just a sit down where students hear what I have to say and don’t take anything away. It’s like learning by having fun,”
Conley said. Conley said learning targets in the game are to examine the consequences of being sexually active, identify STDs and tell how they are passed from person-toperson with the use of a die. “We explain that for this simulation, every time they rolled the die they were having unprotected vaginal sex,” Conley said. “Every time someone has unprotected sex, their chance of contracting an STD increases.” In addition to the free food and games, there will be a grand prize
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Students carry cross on campus, 'the crosswalk is a way for us to become public with our faith' FARRAH BLAYDES | Daily Egyptian
Impact Student Ministries, a registered student organization, will hold its third annual crosswalk every day this week from 9 a.m. to noon on the lawn of Morris Library in recognition of Good Friday. Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday representing the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and is recognized by the Christian Church. The walk begins at the Baptist Collegiate Ministries at 9 a.m. with the group carrying a wooden cross across campus stopping on the lawn of Morris Library as they pass out gospel tracts and preach messages from the Bible. A Gospel tract is a pamphlet that contains a Christian message about salvation. “I love the crosswalk at SIU because I love the cross and what it stands for," said Sean Morecraft, the marketing and scheduling officer of Impact. “The crosswalk is a way for us to become public with our faith and get students to think about the real meaning of Easter,” the president of Impact student ministries, Brandon Mcneely, said when asked why the Crosswalk was important. Impact Ministries is a Christian faith-based RSO that started March of 2017. The purpose of the RSO is to spread the beliefs and principles of Christianity. The RSO is open to all students, McNeely said. “If any student is interested in our ministry they are certainly welcome to join,” he said. The RSO also holds a weekly Bible study Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. the Baptist collegiate ministries building and small discussion groups on east and west campus on
Cameron Hupp | @CHupp04 Patrick Hogge, left, a senior studying aviation technology from Taylorville, carries the cross along with members of the Baptist Collegiate Ministry to the Morris Library on Tuesday during their annual crosswalk event leading up to Easter Sunday. "Through Jesus we have been given a great gift, something that we could never attain on our own," Hogge said. "It's not something that runs out, it's not something we have a limited quantity of so we just want to share it with as many people as we can."
Tuesday nights. “As Christians here on campus, the crosswalk is a sign of who we are and what we believe in,” Impact small group leader Dalton Sharrow said. Sharrow said he hopes the message of the walk reaches those who haven’t heard the gospel before and impacts their lives in a good way. Since becoming an official RSO in March 2017, Impact has been active in the campus community, sharing the gospel with students at every event they hold. For this year’s crosswalk, Impact members invited various Christian faith-based RSO’s to join them on Morris Library’s lawn. “This isn’t an Impact outreach event, but a Christian outreach event,” McNeely said. "We’ll be partnering with other campus ministries. In the Bible, Jesus said
‘unbelievers will know I was sent to die for their sins through the unity among Christians’.” In addition to holding events on campus, Impact partners with Lakeland Baptist Church where some of the Impact members are leaders. Morecraft said the heart of the Impact ministries is to show the love of Christ to those who aren’t familiar with the Christian gospel. On April 1, Impact student ministries will partner with Chi Alpha, a Christian-based sorority at SIU and Lakeland Baptist Church for Easter service in the SIU ballroom D. The service will begin at 10:30 a.m., free of charge and open to all students and community members. Staff writer Farrah Blaydes can be reached at fblaydes@dailyegyptian. com.
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SIU Alumna to bicycle across the nation CLAIR COWLEY | Daily Egyptian
Ashley Lunneman, a social worker from Teutopolis, is raising $5,000 to fund her biking trip across the country to raise awareness of the national affordable housing crisis. “I understand a lot about the issue and it’s a nonconventional way to bring light to the affordable housing crisis in the U.S.,” Lunneman said. Lunneman said she has seen firsthand how people who don’t have the means to afford their rent and utilities can continue the cycle of poverty. By Lunneman joining the non-profit organization Bike and Build, she and the Southern U.S route team will join five other biking teams throughout the country to build homes for low-income Americans. This summer, 36 young adults will be participating in the trip. The journey begins on May 10, where Lunneman will start in Jacksonville, Florida.
Over the next 11 weeks her team will pedal an average 71 miles per day to Santa Cruz, California, arriving July 28. The riders will participate in 16 volunteer build days with different affordable housing organizations including Habitat for Humanity to help build homes for families in need Lunneman said. Lunneman and her three other team members pre-planned for the biking trip by calling nonprofit organizations and churches in the communities they will be traveling through to see if they would host the volunteers during the night. “Typically we stay in churches, at Habitat for Humanity or camp out, anywhere they’ll have us.," Lunneman said. "We have a Therm-a-rest that we can blow up and sleep on.” Lunneman said they contact local Habitat chapters to see if they can volunteer with them as apart of the build days or if there is any work the volunteers could do.
“Habitat is a very large organization here in the United States and abroad,” Lunneman said. “People who make low wages will apply to the program and Habitat will build homes for these participants. These participants will never be asked to give over 30 percent of their income to pay for the homes.” Lunneman said Habitat for Humanity is interesting because it offers people who might not have the opportunity otherwise to be homeowners. Very few of Habitat for Humanity's workers are paid as staff, so volunteers are usually retired construction workers. Once volunteers arrive at the community they’re staying in, they host a presentation to raise awareness of who they are and what the affordable housing cause is. A bike clinic will also be held where local children learn how to ride bicycles safely. Each team, including Lunneman’s, raises $180,000 cumulatively toward
a grant program between northern, southern, central and pacific route areas. “If there’s an organization that helps raise awareness for affordable housing and helps those who have issues affording a home, they can apply and get up to $10,000 for their mission,” Lunneman said. “It doesn’t have to be Habitat for Humanity. There’s a lot of other organizations that help efforts toward affordable housing, but Habitat is the biggest.” Director of Outreach and Bike and Build Alumni Relations Lily Goldberg runs the scholarship program. Goldberg said Bike and Build works on new construction, refurbishment, rebuilding and renovation projects. Some organizations they work with also do affordable rentals, homeless and transitional housing projects. “We have three cross-country and two regional cycling trips every summer for young adults between the ages of 18 and 29,” Goldberg said.
Participating riders can raise money in different ways, for example, letter writing to friends and family, posting on social media, doing fundraisers at local bars and restaurants. “Some get creative and sell t-shirts or other items,” Goldberg said. She said Bike and Build plays an important role in the affordable housing crisis through three primary ways. The first is financial. “Through our grant program, we grant hundreds of thousands of dollars to affordable housing organizations across the country each year,” Goldberg said. The second is through building homes. “Our teams stop every three to six days in different towns and cities and build homes,” she said. The last is through education and advocacy. “A majority of our riders join Bike and Build with minimal knowledge of the crisis. They gain a greater perspective on housing issues both at a local and national scale,” Goldberg said.
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From escaping NaziGermany to teaching at SIU: The story of Kris Juul KITT FRESA & AMELIA BLAKELY | @KITTFRESA & @AMEILABLAKELY
Kris Juul, a 94-year-old Norwegian veteran, Nazi-Germany refugee and former SIU professor, will be the first ever Allied soldier to be honored by the Honor Flight Network. The Honor Flight Network is a non-profit organization created to honor America’s veterans for sacrifices made in their service. “It’s an honor to have him on our flight,” said Nancy Brown, retired Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors for the Southern Illinois Veterans Honor Flight. Brown said Juul has an amazing story about escaping the Nazis and has very much earned the right to go on one of the honor flights. “We actually hadn’t expected it, but he definitely is a WWII veteran and fought alongside the U.S.,” Brown said. Born in Norway in 1924, Juul was 16 years old when the Nazis invaded in 1940 — he was someone they wanted on their side. From 1939 to 1942, Juul attended high school or “gymnasium” in Norway and his success there was published in the local press. “Every year he was in the gymnasium had the highest score in the country and they published it everywhere,” Kris Juul's wife,Joan Juul, said. When the Nazis were in Norway from 1940 to 1945, they were looking for bright young soldiers to recruit into their army and Juul was on top of their recruiting list. “I had damn good education in Norway," Juul said. "I’m very
grateful for that." Juul was commended on having his own independent thoughts and his ability to not be influenced by Nazi propaganda, according to Norwegian recommendation letters provided. Hitler and the Nazis used propaganda to spread ideals of National Socialism which included racism, anti-semitism and antiBolshevism, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The Nazi’s message was communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials and the press. On April 9, 1940, the Nazis invaded Norway and civil rule was established by the Reich Commissariat of Norway, a civilian occupation regime which collaborated with a pro-German puppet government. The puppet government was installed in Norway so the Nazis could govern the country with their own interest. As a result, the Norwegian King and prewar government fled to London where they continued their governmental duties. Juul was ordered join the S.S. in 1944 at the age of 21. The S.S., or Schutzstaffel ran concentration and extermination camps across Europe and was part of the elite agency of security and surveillance for Nazi Germany. Instead of joining the S.S., Juul chose to work with The Underground in 1942, which was a secret escape network working against the Nazis and their agenda. “He remembers that he agreed to operate a radio in his bedroom – the only radio in Årøsund – and report on news he learned from the BBC,”
Kris Juul's daughter, Kitty Juul, said. “According to one of the letters of recommendation from one of his teachers, he risked his life to save his village from the Nazis.” The Underground helped young men who were drafted to flee Norway. According to a letter of recommendation from a teacher, Juul felt he could better serve his country from England. “They wanted to save him and keep him from the Nazis. The Nazis wanted the brightest people from Norway,” Joan Juul said. “So they saved him through the underground." "Kris has said time and time again all these people risked their lives above and beyond to save him,” she said. Juul narrowly escaped capture by the Nazis in 1941 when they raided his university, the University of Oslo. “When the Nazis came, the university took a strong stand against the Nazis and the president was arrested,” Joan Juul said. “They took away all the professors and students that they could find.” Juul didn't attend university the day the Nazis came to his school because he didn't have classes. He went into hiding after his university was raided by the Nazis. “The students and professors who were not caught, [the Nazis] kept looking for them anyway,” Juul said. “I was one of those they were looking for, that’s how I was in hiding – I didn’t know, nobody said anything." "The less you know, the less you can reveal,” he added. The Underground protected Juul in Oslo where he was kept in hiding for weeks. In the meantime, his parents remained at home and had
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 no idea where he was. For their safety, he did not tell them he was leaving. When the war ended, the BBC announced which Norwegian boys were still alive and that’s when his parents found out he was coming home, Kitty Juul said. After the university was raided, a professor secretly continued to educate and test students in hiding and put test results in a bank until after the war. Kitty Juul said the students and professors who were captured across universities in Norway were taken to concentration camps. “The Nazis had sent all the professors and teachers to concentration camps,” Kitty Juul said. “All the intellectuals were taken away.” After hiding for weeks at the university president’s apartment in Oslo, the Underground came to take Juul to Sweden. “The Underground came to get me out of the country," Kris Juul said. "They took me to a harbor to a fishing boat and then at night they took me across the North Sea to Sweden." Juul and a friend left from the coast of Norway. The boat ride was about 10 hours, and they traveled through the Oslofjord, a narrow inlet in the south-east of Norway and continued through the North Sea. When Juul and his friend were smuggled out of Norway in the fishing boat, they hid by lying on their stomachs on the deck underneath fishing nets to conceal themselves from any Nazis. German boats went back and forth all the time looking for refugees, Juul said. “We were lying there, but that was nothing," Juul said. "When we were far enough out to sea [and] there were no more German ships, we got out from under the nets and then we got to Sweden.” It was four o’clock in the morning when Juul arrived in Sweden after being smuggled on the boat from Norway.
At the time, Sweden was a neutral country and friendly to Norway. “They put me on an island which was as big as this room with no vegetation and I fell asleep" Juul said. "When I woke up somebody in a uniform stood looking down at me." “It was a Swedish policeman and he said ‘welcome to freedom.’ That’s after five years of being under Nazi occupation, so the idea of being in freedom was fantastic,” he said. Juul stayed in Sweden for several weeks along with 50,000 Norwegian refugees until an English plane came to Stockholm. In 1944, Juul boarded the plane and flew to London to join the Royal Norwegian Air Force and escape after being drafted by the Nazis. In England, he met the crown prince of Norway who was the acting head of Norwegian services. There, Juul signed up to be in the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Originally he wanted to be a pilot, but the training center was discontinued because it was close to the end of the war, so instead Juul began handling maps in the Norwegian Air Force. Juul worked in an English military center near the channel between England and France and said at one point he oversaw a German prisoner of war camp. In addition to being in the Air Force at the time, Juul was also going back to University of Oslo part time. When Juul arrived in London, the city had been bombarded for years due to “The Blitz,” a German bombing offensive against Britain throuhgout 1940 to 1941. "The city was in ruins but the people were still strong," Juul said. As a result of the destruction, families were living in London’s Tube network underground and from there people would go to work, he said. When Juul was in London, U.S. planes would fly over the city on the way to German-occupied territories to bomb. “I still have the incredible feeling
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Provided image Kris Juul feeds pigeons in London, in the 1940s.
of joy," Juul said. "All these planes were going to bomb my enemy and we are going to win.” Despite the strikes, Juul said he was still traumatized because only one third of the planes would come back. “Many of these young soldiers, they were flying their first flight and their last," he said. "This is traumatic but it’s true and they died for us and these were young boys from all over the country." When the war ended, the U.S. government arranged for 500 students from the University of Oslo to come to the U.S. to study at different universities and colleges. Juul said American universities offered scholarships because they
knew the University of Oslo had been closed down for five years. Juul wanted to study English and was accepted for a scholarship to Western Michigan University where he went on to get a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He was still in the gymnasium when the teachers were sent to concentration camps and he took over teaching some of the lower grades – that’s when Juul decided he wanted to be an English teacher. His goal was to study for one year in the U.S. and return to Norway to teach English. When Juul was awarded the scholarship, he had two weeks before the boats left. Juul rushed down to Oslo to get
the records necessary for him to go to Western Michigan. He said that process of getting the papers he needed for his visa and passport usually took weeks. “I went to the police headquarters and, lo and behold, the man behind the counter I knew very well because he was [my] next door neighbor,” Juul said. “So [the process] took about 15 minutes instead of five months and that’s one of the remarkable things.” Juul boarded a ship with about 400 to 500 Norwegian students and went to the United States. “When I woke up, the ship was in the harbor in New York and there is the Statue of Liberty about 5 o’clock in the morning,” Juul said. In some of Juul’s first days in New York, he was put in charge of a section of a summer camp in Bear Mountain where he had 10 students. "They were 12-year-olds and black... I had never seen a black child before," Juul said. "I was supposed to be scared shitless but I was not – I thought they were darling." Juul said he was subsequently invited to many lectures from many countries to talk about his experience and kindness with children. After studying at Western Michigan University, he worked on his graduate work at Wayne State University in Detroit where he got a master's degree in psychology, and then a Ph.D. in educational psychology. He made his way to Carbondale after he was invited to work at SIU by a friend who was head of the special education department. Juul accepted, and taught special education at SIU from 1970 to 1993. He has been living in Carbondale ever since. “We are very happy here,” Juul said. Features Editor Kitt Fresa can be reached at kfresa@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @kittfresa. Campus editor Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @AmeilaBlakely.
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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Maria Maring, left, and Alexis Jones, both of Carbondale, march down Main Street on Saturday during the "March for Our Lives" demonstration in downtown Carbondale. Organizers called on lawmakers to create stricter gun laws and to "stop the fear in schools."
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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Gene Basanta comforts his wife Laura Basanta, both of Murphysboro, as the names of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre victims are read aloud Saturday during the "March for Our Lives" demonstration in downtown Carbondale. Organizers called on lawmakers to create stricter gun laws and to stop the fear in schools.
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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz From left: Elizabeth Tang and Sharon Sims, both of Carbondale, lead demonstrators Saturday during the "March for Our Lives" demonstration in downtown Carbondale. Organizers called on lawmakers to create stricter gun laws and to "stop the fear in schools." "People need to step up and let others know that their voices do exist," Tang said. "People bringing up the second amendment is a bit ridiculous."
Janet Bixler, of El Dorado, Illinois, listens to event speakers on Saturday during the "March for Our Lives" demonstration in downtown Carbondale. Organizers called on lawmakers to create stricter gun laws and to "stop the fear in schools." "It's important that the children are able to be safe in schools," Biller said. "We don't need armed groups of people walking our streets we have a right to be safe." Brian Munoz @BrianMMunoz
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Former USG president impeached after winning appeal hearing for voting inaccuracies AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely
At a special Undergraduate Student Government meeting Monday night the USG Senate voted to impeach former USG President Joshua Bowens for the second time. The vote was 14-5 with two abstentions. This special meeting follows Bowens winning his appeal on March 21 to challenge USG's motion on Feb.13 to impeach him because of voting inaccuracies. As previously reported by the Daily Egyptian, on Feb. 13 USG Senate voted 14-4 to impeach Bowens. However, out of the 14, only nine were yes's and the remaining five were abstentions. In an email written by political science professor Tobin Grant and sent to USG Senators Grant said, according to Robert's Rules, absentations are not to be counted. "They may be recorded for a record," Grant said. "But they are neither affirmative nor negative." According to Robert's Rules of Order, there needs to be a two-thirds vote of all members to pass the motion. When Bowens was originally impeached on Feb. 13 only 18 senators were present. Bowens' impeachment rests on allegations investigated by USG's Internal Affairs Committee which found that he failed to attend his office hours.
Chairman of the Internal Affairs Committee Tousiannt Mitchell said the investigation on Bowens began last semester. In addition to the original allegations in Senate Bill 1851, the bill of impeachment, Mitchell motioned to add an amendment in the bill which says Bowens illustrated his vindictive nature by calling out senators who voted yes for the original bill of impeachment when he appealed to the judicial board. "Attempted to publicly defame those Senators and other USG members of by wrongfully accusing them of tyranny and conspiracy," the amendment said. "Shown himself as being unprepared and incapable of performing the duties of Undergraduate Student Government President in a respectful, ethical, and responsible manner per Undergraduate Student Government Code of Conduct and Southern Illinois University Carbondale Student Conduct Code." Mitchell provided examples to support his amendment. The first example, which Mitchell said showed Bowens' resentful nature, was on Feb. 13 when Bowens' attended a USG meeting with handouts that listed Senators name who voted for the impeachment of Bowens. "He stated the people who voted against him, claiming there was a conspiracy to get him impeached," Mitchell said. Bowens said, in response to Mitchell's claims, that nowhere in his appeal to the judicial board did he shame the senators
who voted yes to his impeachment. "It seems to me that these things are all opinions but not violations of the constitution," Bowens said. Mitchell read Bowens' appeal and said, "It does state on the handout itself, 'Likewise senators did not have time to prepare, it's readily apparent that this was an orchestrated and premeditated attempt to overthrow the will of the SIU student body." Before the debate began, which discussed the impeachment bill, Bowens was allowed five minutes to defend himself. "A great leader once said, 'before we take our first steps into humanity, you must first look back to not repeat the same steps,'" Bowens said. "I stand before you all today as someone who has been as humble as possible these past few weeks." Bowens said he apologizes to anyone he has offended these past few weeks and although he could've handled his impeachment differently, he felt as if he was being treated unfairly. "As we move forward, I would like to bury all the unpleasant things that have previously occurred in the past," Bowens said. "Lets take this time to correct our mistakes and move forward." Campus editor Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @AmeilaBlakely.
Faculty Senate President Kathy Chwalisz steps down AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely
At Tuesday's regularly scheduled Faculty Senate meeting, it was announced that Faculty Senate President Kathleen Chwalisz was stepping down. The announcement was made by Faculty Senate Vice President Ahmad Fakhoury who read a statement from Chwalisz. "I'm stepping down from my role as Faculty Senate president in order for the Senate to move forward without this unnecessary distraction," the statement said. Fakhoury said he was disheartened when he received Chwalisz's statement. In Chawlisz's statement, she said over the past year she has worked hard to represent all faculty, to communicate with the administration and to practice shared governance. "The key to a true shared governance system is that we work together. As a constituency group, our role is advisory," she said in her
statement. "For this shared governance relationship to function, there must be trust. We seem to be in a crisis of trust." Chawlisz's statement said Faculty Senate is at a point of decision; to be advisory or adversarial. Chawlisz said her efforts to be friendly and cooperative toward all stakeholders in the reorganization has made her a target of opposition and a potential wedge to delay the university's progress, the statement said. "Therefore, I am taking myself out of the equation for the sake of progress," her statement read. In the previous Faculty Senate meeting on Feb. 13, a resolution for civil conduct in shared governance was proposed but never passed. The statement read, "constituency groups and their members should approach shared governance, members of governing bodies, and their efforts to address problems and concerns on campus in a civil and professional
manner, through conversations characterized by honesty and a sincere desire to achieve agreements that best serve all of the parties involved and the institution." Chawlisz said instead of discussing the resolution that was being proposed, a series of personal attacks were made on her and her leadership. While discussing the proposed resolution at the Senate meeting on Feb. 13, Faculty Senate discussion turned when Sequn Ojewuji, a professor in the Theatre Department, asked what motivated the resolutions creation. "It would help to contextualize how to respond to it," Ojewuji said. From reading the resolution it seemed that it was a response to a conflict rather than creating a dialogue, Ojewuji said. "It looks like a cover, or another further attempt to divide the faculty," Ojewuji said. Earlier in the month at the special Board of
Trustee's meeting on Feb. 7, Chawlisz said to the Board, "I'm here to remind you that SIUC is alive and well, despite the 'dog and pony show' against change that you will likely see." She said in the remarks the reorganization proposal has caused conflict that has taken on a mob mentality. "Please don't allow a small angry mob to scuttle this change process," Chawlisz said in her remarks to the Board of Trustees. "By 'calling a truce' so to speak, I hope we can again work effectively together moving forward," Chwalisz said in a memo she sent to the Faculty Senate after the meeting on Feb. 13. Chawlisz said in her statement she thinks everyone in the Senate agrees shared governance is important, although all may not agree on what it looks like. Campus editor Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian.com.
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Column: Against the chancellor's proposed police academy SAM BEARD | Student Trustee
Last week a group of students (myself included) produced and released a short video articulating a variety of reasons why the campus community should come together in bold opposition to the chancellor’s proposed police academy. I could sit here for hours, rattling off reasons why we should not allow our newest campus CEO to open up a cop academy at SIU, but here are just a few. The point of the university is to change the world, the role of the police is to keep it the same. As such, they are antithetical institutions, their missions stand in contradiction to one another. Whether it is developing cutting-edge technologies to advance climate interests, developing revolutionary theories in physics or mathematics or uncovering breakthroughs in sociological concepts, the university must function for the betterment of society. As hub of intellectual activity and a research university, our purpose is to facilitate the creation and transfer of the various types of knowledge required to respond intelligently to the many crises facing contemporary society. And one of the crises we face today is a crisis of policing. But this humanitarian disaster is absolutely nothing new. Since their inception, US policing forces have targeted every meaningful social movement aimed at challenging the status quo. From the labor movement of the 1800s to the anti-war movement of 1960s, the government has always used the cops as its primary force of repression. As said so eloquently by the first student speaker in the video, the “police still do what they’ve always done: they use violence to maintain class inequality and racial hierarchy… backed by the largest prison system this world has ever seen.” The police always have and always will be a fundamentally racist intuition. We like to hold this notion that cops have just always been a thing and
that society needs police, which is why they exist. But cops were created at a specific moment in American history and for a specific purpose—to protect the interests of the wealthy, white elites. Historically speaking, when the police first emerged in the southern United States their function was to control the behavior of minorities and catch runaway slaves. Dr. Victor Kappeler of Eastern Kentucky University writes “[t]he similarities between the slave patrols and modern American policing are too salient to dismiss or ignore. Hence, the slave patrol should be considered a forerunner of modern American law enforcement.” Trace the lineage of early policing from slave patrols up through the post-Civil War era of lynching, the Civil Rights movement, the War on Drugs and into today, and what has changed? The whip has been replaced by the Taser, the noose by the Glock 22 and Jim Crow laws have been displaced by the ways in which the War on Drugs has created a racialized under-caste in America. The modes of anti-black violence have changed quite significantly along the way, but the form, white supremacy, still reigns supreme. In fact, the racist functionality of policing is so heavily ingrained in the practice that it really does not matter whether an individual cop wants to be racist or not, they are participating in the very institution that makes possible America’s white supremacist racial order. “Given this context, the police academy is nothing less than an attempt to rebrand SIU as a white university,” the second speaker in the video maintains. The cops only “protect and serve” the interests of the ruling class. The foremost mode of exploitation in this country is that of the legal sort: the various oppressions people face under capitalism. Non-livable wages, wickedly high rents, meaningless and miserable deadend jobs, polluting industries, unionbusting, insane profit margins for the
ultra-wealthy—the list goes on and on. By selectively enforcing property laws, the police are the ones who stand between every hungry person and the fully-stocked grocery store shelves, between every homeless person and the buildings standing empty. The police protect the gross wealth of Wall Street fat cats and lavishly compensated executives and are the ones who took the side of Energy Transfer Partners in the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, beating and macing the water protectors. The police are the ones who just evicted a single mother—who now has nowhere to live—and who will lose her children as a result. The common justification for this is that “they are just doing their jobs.” But that’s just it, isn’t it? Their job is to maintain legalized inequality under capitalism, and injustice and endless violence are just part of the job. According to our school’s mission statement, SIU aims to “create and exchange knowledge to shape future leaders, improve our communities and transform lives.” But whose communities ought we improve, all communities or just wealthy communities? Whose lives ought we transform? Because the cops have become quite efficient at fundamentally preventing the transformation of black lives. We already know the counter narrative: SIU’s proposed police academy will aim to create 21st century cops of integrity, nuanced in the various cultures of America’s minorities. But this is non-sense, and we all know it. Policing in the United States has been given hundreds of years to prove that it is more than just an institution of violence, rotten to its very core. But it cannot. To read more, please visit dailyegyptain.com.
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Dawg talk with Dodd: Loyola putting MVC on the map NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd
In every NCAA Tournament there is one team that pulls off an improbable run with a streak of upset wins. This March, the Loyola Ramblers have played the role of Cinderella in their shocking run to the Final Four. Members of the Missouri Valley Conference since 2013, the Ramblers claimed their first conference title this season with a 25-5 regular-season record. With the No. 1 seed in the MVC Tournament, Loyola clinched an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament, the only Valley team to do so. In what may be the wildest March Madness to date, the No. 11 Ramblers tied the lowest-seed to reach the Final Four. No. 11 seeds Louisiana State in 1986, George Mason in 2006 and Virginia Commonwealth in 2011 all lost in the semifinal round. Loyola now marks the second time in five years that an MVC team has reached the Final Four, as Wichita State reached that mark in 2013. Despite impressive runs by Valley schools in recent years, the flawed bracketology system continues to snub mid-major contenders from tourney bids. During the MVC Tournament, ESPN bracketologist Joe Lunardi shared on Twitter that he did not believe Loyola would secure an atlarge bid if they went on to lose Arch Madness. Even with an RPI of 22 in the eighth-best conference in terms of RPI, there is a fair chance that Loyola's run would have never happened had Illinois State pulled off an upset in the championship game in St. Louis. Now the Ramblers have joined the likes of powerhouse programs such as No. 3 Michigan, No. 1
Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Junior guard Sean Lloyd Jr. goes for a basket Loyola center Cameron Krutwig and guard Ben Richardson Feb. 2018, during the Loyola Rambler's 75-68 victory against the Southern Illinois University Salukis at SIU Arena.
Villanova and No. 1 Kansas as the last four contenders in the tournament. While most MVC fans, myself included, are ecstatic about the MVC being represented in the Final Four, there are some diehards of Valley schools who fear Loyola will turn into the league's next dynasty. Since 2013, the conference has seen Creighton and Wichita State pack their bags and head for new leagues following dominance in the MVC and deep runs in the NCAA Tournament. Now, some fans fear Loyola will be the next to rule the conference until a richer opportunity presents itself. I say we ride this thing out and root for the magic to continue for the Ramblers. They have come this far, why stop now? After all, this miraculous run has netted the MVC north of $8 million dollars that will be paid out of the next six years. That means from the current earnings, SIU is slated to receive approximately $100,000 in each of those years.
Sure, this Cinderella run will help with Loyola's recruitment. It may even lead to the building of a powerhouse in the MVC, but it puts national attention on the Valley and other mid-majors around Division I basketball. The seed has now been planted that mid-major schools deserve a spot in the bracket, opposed to an eighth-place team from a power conference. This year, the underdog has run through Miami, Tennesse, Nevada and Kansas State. The only thing standing in the path of Loyola's first trip to the championship game since 1963 is the Michigan Wolverines. With a win, the Ramblers would become the lowest seed to ever reach the final game of March Madness. As crazy as the tournament has been so far, and with the power of Sister Jean on their side, maybe the Ramblers can pull it off. Sports editor Nathan Dodd can be reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.
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Meet athletic outfielder Alex Lyon, 'You can put me behind the plate or on the mound, I'll compete anywhere' DILLON GILLILAND | @DillonGilliland
From infield to outfield, contact to power, meet the Salukis' newest jack-of-all-trades transfer, Alex Lyon. Born in New York and raised in White House, Tennessee, Lyon was an athletic kid all his life as he picked up the ball and bat around the age of four. The Tennessee native attended White House High School where he played a variety of sports including basketball, football and baseball. In high school, Lyon earned several awards including a three-time All-District honor in baseball and an All-State nod in football, despite only playing his senior year. Lyon said it was his love for the game that made him dedicate his future to the sport of baseball. "I've played baseball my entire life," Lyon said. "I just wanted to focus on it." Lyon said his favorite memory from high school was dominating Sycamore High School, his school's rival, in back-to-back baseball games when deciding which team would have the home field advantage in the district tournament. "I can still remember my first at-bat during that game," Lyon said. "It was a home run over our scoreboard. That was the best time of my life right there." The Saluki credits his dad for influencing him to play baseball. "My dad just pounded baseball into my head every day," Lyon said. "But he was my biggest fan and my best friend." Lyon's dad coached him until the age of 12 when he passed away from colon cancer. "I just try to stay positive," Lyon said. "The main thing is I know he's always up there watching me." Coming out of high school, Lyon had several Division II and III colleges offer scholarships but he turned down the offers because of how far they were from his hometown. Rather than go to a four-year college, Lyon chose to take the junior college route to Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, Tennessee. In his first year as a Pioneer, Lyon redshirted for a year of development. In his second year at the campus, Vol State hired Ryan Hunt as the new head coach of the baseball program, who instantly hit it off with Lyon. "I loved him as a coach," Lyon said. "He made
Brian Munzo | @BrianMMunoz Southern Illinois junior infielder Alex Lyon (2) prepares for a pitch Friday, during the University of California-Irvine Anteaters' 6-2 victory against the Southern Illinois Salukis at Itchy Jones Stadium.
me the player I am today." In Lyon's two years as a Pioneer, he posted a career batting average of .356 and a slugging percentage of .560. He also had 106 hits, ten home runs, 59 RBI and 20 stolen bases. Lyon said he was glad he chose a junior college and felt it prepared him more for the Division I level of college baseball. "It helped me big time," Lyon said. "It would
have been a harder transition for me if I would have just came in as a freshman." After two seasons at Vol State, Lyon received offers from a few Division I schools including Belmont and Louisiana Monroe but chose SIU because he enjoyed Carbondale. "I just fell in love with SIU," Lyon said. "I loved the small-town feel to it." Since transferring to Southern, the junior's
teammates hit it off with him immediately. "He's a great guy," senior shortstop Connor Kopach said. "Me and him became best friends right away. We even play Fortnite every night now." In his first year as a Saluki, Lyon has posted solid numbers, as he is averaging .376 at the plate with a slugging percentage of .553 at the time of writing. The JUCO transfer has already netted 32 hits along with seven doubles, two home runs, 23 RBI and 12 stolen bases — second in the conference. "I feel like I've been seeing the ball really well," Lyon said. "When I first started the game seemed so fast to me, but once I slowed it down it became really easy for me." Earlier in the season Lyon earned Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week honors but feels that he has been jinxed since that moment as he not played at the same level since. "I haven't performed as good as I wanted since that week," Lyon said. "I'm just trying to get back in my groove." Lyon said his only goal is to be a reliable teammate and win the MVC title. Coming into his first season at SIU, Lyon had never played in the outfield and spent most of his time at shortstop and second base, but said it did not bother him to try a new position. "I'm just glad I'm in the lineup every day," Lyon said. "I'll play anywhere. You can put me behind the plate or on the mound, I'll compete anywhere." Head coach Ken Henderson said Lyon is beyond athletic and he is a natural when it comes to baseball. "His makeup is just off the charts," Henderson said. "He is a tough son of a bitch and he shows up to kick your butt every day." The left fielder is currently listed as a University Studies major, but said he does not know what he will do with his major yet. He did say, however, that a career in coaching would be of interest. Above all, Lyon said he is thankful he was given an opportunity to play. "I just want to thank my coaches for giving me an opportunity to play," Lyon said. "They've pushed me to be the player I am now." Sports reporter Dillon Gilliland can be reached at dgilliland@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ DillonGilliland.
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Saluki Quidditch more about athletics than Potter universe RYAN DEMER | @RyanDemer_DE
Although Quidditch is typically associated with Harry Potter, some students at SIU consider it a sport of its own. Founded in the spring semester of 2012, Saluki Quidditch is an official RSO and club sport on campus. “We had one kid on the team that just hated Harry Potter and would get mad when anyone would talk about it,” president of Saluki Quidditch Taylor Butler said. “There are some people that are really into it and others with a more athletic background who enjoyed the athletic aspect of the sport.” Butler said Quidditch requires tremendous athleticism because of the contact involved and variety in the type of athletes who play to fill the vastly different positions. There are four main positions in the game respective to those in the Harry Potter books and movies. “There are three chasers, one keeper, two beaters, and a seeker,” Butler said. “The beaters throw dodgeballs, which are called bludgers, at people to knock them off their brooms and force them to drop their ball. In the book, the bludgers flew on their own.” The chasers’ job is to score the volleyball, which is called a quaffle, through one of three stationary hoops. Doing so awards the team 10 points per goal. The keepers are essentially the goalies in the sport, as they try to block the other team from scoring. While most of the players are required to run for much of the match, they must do so while holding a broom for the entire contest. “We do weaves during practice for the chasers, like the basketball drill where you practice running and
passing at the same time,” Butler said. “We also do a triangle drill to practice passing fast and scoring.” The seeker's job only comes in the last stage of the game when the snitch gets released onto the field. The “snitch” is typically dressed in gold and has a sock with a tennis ball hanging from his pants which is to be grabbed by the seeker. Catching the snitch is worth 30 points and forces the end of the game. Butler said when the snitch is released during a close game, it is called being in snitch range. “There are two styles of snitch play," Butler said. “One is a more long-distance runner to tire out the seekers and the other is a physical type who tackles and throws the other seekers. The physical snitch is the more popular one now.” The Southern Illinois Quidditch team is registered under USQ, the national governing body for collegiate and community Quidditch teams. Every semester, the Salukis compete in regional and national tournaments against other teams and schools. This semester, they will be traveling to Missouri. “I think everyone that plays it takes it seriously as a sport,” Butler said. “If you go to one of the regional or national tournaments, the people are serious athletes who put a lot of time in the sport and care about it being its own sport, not just one based off Harry Potter.” Butler noted that most students on SIU's team are engineering majors, while others are varied. The Quidditch team currently holds 18 players. “I started playing my freshman year and I've made most of my friends here and it's never boring, I'll tell you that,” sophomore team
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Dylan Nelson | @Dylan_Nelson99 Sophomore Chemistry major Marcus Bean, 20, passes the ball to his teammate Monday, Jan. 29, 2018 during quidditch practice at the student recreation center in Carbondale.
member William Lisota said. “I was just looking for a sport to play and didn't want to join any other major sports and Quidditch sounded interesting.” The team's goal for the semester was to recruit five players and they have already reached the goal but continue recruiting anyone interested in the sport. “If you can make it to one or two practices a week and can come to tournaments, that’s great,” Butler said. “We have some students that don’t want to go to tournaments and that’s fine because it’s nice to have people at practice.” The Quidditch team practices on Mondays and Thursdays from 5 to
7 p.m. in the west gymnasium of the Rec Center. People are always welcome to come if they want to, Butler said. “Whenever I tell people about Quidditch, I tell them it is the most memorable part of my college career,” Jeremy Devries, a computer science major and team member said. “I get to be active while having fun with it instead of coming to the gym and running miles and miles and it also gives me a good sense of teamwork.” Sports writer Ryan Demer can be reached at rdemer@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @RyanDemer_DE
“I started playing my freshman year and I've made most of my friends here and it's never boring, I'll tell you that. I was just looking for a sport and didn't want to join any other major sports and Quidditch sounded interesting.'” - William Lisota Sophomore
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