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tyler daviS | @TDavis_DE Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget cuts could diminish programs that give students professional experience and Carbondale residents affordable mental healthcare.

Officials at SIU’s Clinical Center were asked to prepare a budget for the organization if it were to lose 50 percent of its state funding. The exercise was prompted by the university after Rauner proposed a 31.5 percent cut of state appropriations to public universities.

The center is a training facility for students in clinical psychology, communication disorders and speech, education psychology and social work, and also serves community members.

A 50 percent cut of the center’s state money would mean $206,705 would be lost out of its roughly $406,000 budget. Holly Cormier, director of the center, said state money and the fees it collects for the services it provides make up all funding.

“State money just pays the salaries of the staff,” she said. “The money we make [from fees] pays for the electricity. We have to pay for our students’ computer, phones.”

The fees also cover other operational costs, such as training kits for students.

The center has eight professional paid staff members, and about 65 graduate and master’s students across four programs annually train at the facility. About 200 clinical appointments are made per week.

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Panel: Grassroots activism to end sexual assaults Sam Beard | @SamBeard_DE Top SIU administrators participated in an open forum Tuesday to urge students to be more active in preventing sexual assault on campus.

The town hall style meeting was hosted by the It’s On Us student task force. The task force is SIU’s chapter of an initiative started last year

by President Barack Obama, which aims to end sexual assault on college campuses.

The 11-person panel spoke of a muchneeded paradigm shift that changes the way society thinks about and combats sexual assault.

SIU President Randy Dunn said students can put an end to sexual assaults.

“This is not something you can start by administrative dictate,” Dunn said.

“This is the type of movement that has to emerge from the grassroots.”

Andres Lopez, a sophomore from Round Lake studying automotive technology, acknowledged Dunn’s request and said he will bring the message home to his fraternity.

“Student have a big influence on other students,” said Lopez, a member of Phi Iota Alpha. “I will try to influence my [fraternity] brothers to pass it on.”

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H oliday W agner | @HolidayWagnerDE Mickey Everett, a graduate student from Los Angeles studying mass communication & media art, reads a book Wednesday by Campus Lake. Everett said he wanted to get out and enjoy the warmer weather.

Students gift flowers to save bees Sam Beard | @SamBeard_DE April showers bring May flowers and habitat destruction is killing our bees.

Some students are trying to increase awareness of dwindling wildflower populations in an effort to help restore bee communities, as the two are intrinsically tied to one another.

Students Embracing Nature, Sustainability and Environmentalism, or S.E.N.S.E., is a Registered Student Organization that is giving away hundreds of free native flowering plants Tuesday and Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Faner Hall breezeway and outside Lawson Hall.

Members from S.E.N.S.E. will be gifting flowering plants — such as Purple Cones, Black Eyed Susan’s, and several species of milkweed — to anyone who wants one.

“All three of those are good for attracting bees and butterflies,” said Sedonia Sipes, associate professor of plant biodiversity and conservation biology. “But the bees are doing most of the pollinating.”

Sipes said most native plants and food crops are insect-pollinated.

“Without pollinators we won’t have a lot of flowering plant species that are important in wild ecosystems, as well as cultivated plants that are important to us,” she said. “The most important pollinator are bees — by far.”

Pollen and nectar are food for bees, providing protein and energy. Without wildflowers or cultivated varieties in their place, the bees will die because of the destruction of their floral resources and nesting regions.

Sipes said many people blame companies such as Monsanto, who produce herbicide and genetically modified crops, for collapsing bee communities, but they are not the only factor.

“All bees tend to be very sensitive to pesticides,” Sipes said. “[However] the most important problem facing our native bees is

e llen B ootH | Daily Egyptian Tricia Walker, a junior studying plant biology poses for a portrait with a butterfly weed plant, Monday in the Horticulture Research Center Greenhouse. Walker is the president of Students Embracing Nature Sustainability and Environmentalism, or S.E.N.S.E. The organization gave out free plants in the Faner Hall breezeway from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday and will do the same Wednesday in front of Lawson Hall from 11 a.m to 2 p.m.

probably habitat destruction.”

Sipes said that row cropping — growing cops like corn in rows to allow for mechanical cultivation — can render land void of the wildflowers pollinators need for survival.

“There are ways you can do agriculture and leave little fragments of native vegetation,” Sipes said. “But a lot of times, it is not done that way.”

Tricia Walker, a junior from Palatine studying plant biology, said native species are both beneficial to pollinators and ecosystems as a whole.

“Illinois used to be covered in prairie, now there is less than one percent of the prairie that used to exist,” said Walker, who is president of S.E.N.S.E. “This used to be a really big pollinator hot-spot.”

She said because of the large amount of corn grown in Illinois, bees do not have as many

plants to pollinate as they once did.

Walker said bees are responsible for 70 percent of fruit production, and if we lost them the plants would need to be pollinated by hand, steeply driving up the labor cost of producing fruits.

“It’s estimated that bees do millions of dollars [annually] of free labor for people involved in fruit production,” she said.

Besides costing people millions, if bees go extinct it could change human life.

If the bees die off, the earth will struggle to maintain its current population and supermarkets will only have half as much produce as they do now, according to BBC. Sipes said students can plant native flowers and refrain from mowing the wildflowers in their lawn to encourage a prosperous bee community.

@dailyegyptian Interim Provost Susan Ford’s open forum interview for the chancellor vacancy will occur at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday.

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Art auction displays local, foreign works HeatHer CaCHola | @HeatherCachola

Children supporting children is the underlying theme of the 15th Annual For Kids’ Sake art auction, which raises money for underprivileged children in Bangladesh.

This year’s closing ceremony is from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, and 2015 marks the first year the festivities will expand out of the Longbranch Café & Bakery, where the event has been held in previous years, said Franchesca Alejo. Alejo, a freshman from Joliet studying aviation business and international studies, is also an intern with For Kids’ Sake.

The For Kids’ Sake organization, based in Carbondale, serves as the western fundraising branch, and also has locations in Europe and Asia. It is partnered with Bangladeshi projects — that build and fund schools, orphanages and cottage industries — to help make them self-sustainable.

All the proceeds from this event benefit more than 4,000 students and orphans in Bangladesh — their shelter, education, daily meals, health care and sustainable business are the main focuses, said Shema Ruperto, the director of For Kids’ Sake.

“The country Bangladesh suffers

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Staff cuts, fewer graduate assistantships and reduced hours are all possibilities if the center loses state funding, Cormier said. If hours are cut, students may have to stay at the university longer to get the needed hours to be competitive in the post-graduation job market.

Cormier, who has led the training facility for nearly three years, said cutting its services could result in three graduate programs — clinical psychology, communication disorders and speech and educational psychology — to lose their national accreditation.

Losing these programs could hurt enrollment because students interested in psychology know of the Clinical Center before they come to SIU. Jennifer Cannon, who received a bachelor’s degree in psychology and her master’s in clinical family health from SIU, said she heard from another student

from severe overpopulation, for example America has 320 million people in the expanse of 50 states,” Ruperto said.

“Bangladesh, being smaller than the

state of Illinois, has a population of over 166 million people.”

This charitable organization extends into Germany, Switzerland and Japan.

There is artwork showcased from these areas, in addition to artwork from Bangladeshi and Carbondale students.

The event has raised an average of

$12,000 to $15,000 per year through raffle tickets and auctioning the artwork, and Alejo expects the same amount this year.

More than 100 business from the Carbondale area donated gifts and services to the show, Ruperto said.

Alejo said she loves the community aspect of the art drive.

“You come here to go to school and it has the whole college aspect, but during this event, you really see that there is a community that really supports this event,” Alejo said.

The Alpha Tau Omega fraternity has been working with this organization for the past four years. Fraternity members will provide the organization, clean-up and help facilitate the event, AJ Soriano said. Soriano, a senior studying business management from Downers Grove, was the philanthropy chairperson for the fraternity last semester.

Soriano said the artwork show does not just help children in the south Asian country.

“It has helped me personally because the people you work with at For Kids Sake, they offer their lives to helping not only the orphans in Bangladesh but also the community,” he said.

how great the training facility was.

“I applied to different place but when I went to SIU I loved the fact that there was an on-site training facility available,” she said. “And they did live supervision, which I found out a lot of [schools] don’t have centers like SIU.” The center is open 51 hours a week, allowing students ample training time with staff and patients after classes, and giving clients enough time to get treatment.

Cormier said cutting hours could save money but would hurt all parties involved.

She said raising fees for services is not a viable option because it is meant to serve Jackson County — one of the most impoverished areas in the state, according the 2010 census.

“To serve the training mission, we have to serve the community,” Cormier said. “Our demographic tends to be people who don’t have very much money… Many folks don’t have

access to many resources we have.”

Services, including counseling, speech pathology and treatment for depression, cost between $5 and $30. At off-campus mental health centers, a session could cost students and community members $130.

Cormier said patients wanting disability support or counseling and psychological services would have to pay four to five times more for a referral.

“Ethically, if we’d raise fees, we’d hurt the clients who need us the most,” Cormier said.

Megan Kloep, a graduate student in adult clinical psychology from Marion, wrote in an email students and community members tell her almost daily how lucky the feel to have affordable emotional and mental healthcare all in one place.

Kloep, who received her master’s degree from SIU in 2012, said she has worked in community, and the area does not provide a sufficient amount of training for

students in psychology and related fields.

“It would not be possible for graduate students in my program to get the training and clinical hours they need without the clinic — there aren’t enough options in our community to provide all of us with clients or supervisors,” Kloep said.

Even with the state funding concerns, the director did not blame the university for asking to envision such cuts.

Cormier said the university is simply doing the exercise to get a better understanding of all of the departments’ duties and operations.

“It’s got to be demoralizing for the administrators [to have to do these exercises],” she said. “I don’t think them asking us to do it is a hostile thing.

They’re asking us all to come together and support a good unified response.”

Although she supports the university, Cormier said she will advocate for her nationally recognized center.

Her department, like others asked to

make the hypothetical cuts, may not be seen as a “core academic service” by the university but it does serve an academic and civil service.

“I hope they see us as essential because we are,” she said.

Cannon was a graduate assistant at the center and said it was essential to her getting a job at TimberlineKnolles, a facility in Chicago that specializes in treating women with issues ranging from drug addiction to post-traumatic stress disorder.

A month after being hired, she was promoted. Cannon said her new position required two years of experience but she got it fresh out of graduate school and her supervisors cited her quality training at SIU. “I got to see community members, students, people that struggled with severe issues,” Cannon said. “They said my resume was impeccable and I built most of it at the Clinical Center.”

H eatHer C aCHola | @HeatherCachola Shema Ruperto, director of For Kids’ Sake, examines a wall of artwork on display at Longbranch Cafe & Bakery. The art is being auctioned off from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday during the closing ceremony.

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‘Mortal Kombat’ konquers its age

ausTin Miller | @AMiller_DE

a bbie i yun | Daily Egyptian Ron Dunkel teaches participants how to make sushi with crab fillings and roll it with Makisu, or a sushi mat during a sushi workshop on April 10 in the Student Center’s Old Main Room, which served as the sushi kitchen, or “tsuke-ba.” Dunkel said sushi is now a fast food but it was originally made to preserve fish by rolling it in rice. The sushi workshop is part of April’s Asian American Heritage Month sponsored by the Center for Inclusive Excellence and United Asian American Council.

Sushi class expands on traditional culinary art Chase Myers | @chasemyers_DE Whether it is made with salmon, shrimp, squid or just plain veggies, sushi is not only a tasty Japanese tradition, but also a self-sufficient food item.

With April marking Asian heritage month, the student center has held events throughout the month to celebrate the many traditions in past and present Asian culture.

One of the more popular events of the month was the weekly sushi-making class, in which anyone could learn the basics of preparing the seafood dish.

“People get tired of eating the same old steak and potatoes,” Ron Dunkel, coordinator of the Craft Shop in the student center said. “It’s easier to explore international food than to fly to a different country.”

This is Dunkel’s 10th year as head chef and instructor for the class. The

first class began when a graduate student with a knack for cooking enrolled in a pottery class at the Craft Shop and began cooking sushi during the class, Dunkel said.

Unfortunately, due to safety regulations, the class had to use imitation crabmeat instead of authentic raw seafood, leaving the class to utilize various vegetables such as avocado, carrots, cucumber and radish, he said.

“We had endless combinations of sushi,” he said. “Everybody made it how they wanted to make it.”

He said the class focused not only on preparing sushi, but also the food’s history in Asian culture.

The early forms of sushi began as a raw seafood preservation method, where the fish would be wrapped in rice that would ferment over time as a starch and produce vinegar, keeping the seafood fresh.

The rolls we recognize today became popular in Japan after World War II when street vendors would serve quick meals to factory workers who were on a time crunch, he said. “[Sushi] is evolving very fast in a lot of ways,” he said. “People are putting things in sushi that were never in sushi before…you can be creative with sushi and make it any way you want.”

A.J. Soriano, president of the United Asian American Council, oversaw the sushi making class as well as many other events for the month, working close with Dunkel as an advisor, Soriano said.

“I don’t think [the class is] going to get any smaller with people loving sushi,” he said. “We’ve changed it up every year.”

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‘Unfriended’ ends up being clickbait JaCob pierCe | @JacobPierce1_DE It all started with cell phones. The moment they were invented, various movie plots had to be updated.

From there technology boomed and everyday society was give new forms of innovation, breakthroughs that also changed how movies were told.

We are now in the day and age of Facebook, Skype and Spotify. Several films have incorporated these into their stories, many failing miserably. Very few have captured what it is like to live in this digital age.

“Unfriended” (Rated R; 80 min) directed by Levan Gabriadze, has several great ideas, but ends up being as much of a waste of time as an hour on Facebook.

It has been one year since Laura Barns, played by Heather Sossaman, committed suicide. She did it

after an embarrassing video of her being drunk at a party spurred massive ridicule. Six of her classmates, played by Shelly Henning, Renee Olstead, Courtney Halverson, Jacob Wysocki, Will Peltz and Moses Jacob Storm, have decided to spend an evening talking on Skype.

What was supposed to be a good time turns into a nightmare. The ghost of Barns appears in the chat and declares if any of them log off, they die. The night becomes one of revelations as Barns tells each member about their deep dark secret.

This movie has a lot of issues, and this is so disappointing.The movie wastes ingenuity by being just like every other horror movie out there.

Inconsistencies, poorly developed characters and technology flubs force this film into inevitable failure.

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Time to get the kiddies out of the room, it is time for kombat.

Yes, that typo is intentional because “Mortal Kombat” has been misspelling words with a hard C pronunciation for more than 20 years. “Mortal Kombat X” marks the tenth installment of the popular fighting franchise. The games have had one of the best theme songs in gaming and satiated a bloodlust among gamers for two decades.

This game nails quite a few things because of its age and experience, but lets others suffer.

The fighting in “MKX” is the best of any fighting game. Punching and kicking animations have improved, so characters do not look like they are flailing around. The controls feel fluid, but the use of a standard controller does not do them justice. Analog sticks do not grant the same motion because they cover a 360 degree space.

I recommend using the D pad because the stick will often go higher in the space when trying to go left or right, making the character hop around like a Mexican jumping bean.

Learning combinations will do more damage than just using basic onebutton attacks. Memorizing combos is a bit of a chore, but most combos use similar buttons, so players can try to repeat. Because of the improved animations, more moves actually land.

This is a good thing when someone is playing by themselves, but will reward button mashing when playing against a friend or online.

Fatalities, the gory, bone-breaking finishing moves have always been a highlight for players and gripe of their mothers. Just saying the word requires an Oscar performance, like Jonah Hill in “This is the End.” One of my favorite fatalities comes from one of my favorite characters, SubZero, who freezes part of his enemy’s stomach and breaks the ice with a punch.

Then he reaches in, grabs the exposed spine, lifts them over his head and rips the person in two. Yeah, it is gory, but it is so over the top that you cannot take it seriously. Calm down, mom!

Even though the fatalities are gross, a micro-transaction system is even grosser.

Players can buy “easy fatalities” for a few bucks, as well as paying to skip fights in the story mode. Instead of learning the long combination to properly finish your opponent, players can get simple, two button commands.

This is not a game breaking issue, but is just a gross technique becoming

standard in gaming. It makes my skin crawl that developers would make content and restrict it, so $60 is not enough for the full game.

Those single player modes are the biggest letdown for this game. There is a traditional story mode, but it is bland and boring. I enjoyed that the story strayed from the usual tournament that pitted the champions of different realms against each other. However, the story just devolved into people being angry at other people.

It became some kind of high school drama where people beat each other into a bloody pulp. The cycle continues of “you killed my friend, so I’m going to rip your spine out.” Pretty standard stuff for high school.

This is disheartening because 2013’s superhero fighting game “Injustice” had a riveting story where Superman went berserk after the death of Lois Lane.

Banding together heroes and villains to take down the big, blue Boy Scout was great and it shows a cool story can be molded to fit a game about people just hitting each other.

Tower modes, where players go through a lineup of characters with stipulations such as being timed or arenas loaded with missiles, create the best single-player experience. They provide a great way for newcomers to learn the game, and also enough of a challenge for lifelong players.

My favorite part of “MKX” are all of the new characters. Favorites like Scorpion, Johnny Cage and Raiden all return to fight. But newcomers like Cassie Cage, Johnny’s daughter and Kotal Kahn give a breath of fresh air to a franchise older than myself.

One new character, Takeda, became my favorite for this game. He is some kind of technology-based ninja, who uses small missiles and sword-whip hybrid weapon. It can crack around like Indiana Jones’, but can grab opponents, similar to Scorpions chain, minus his trademark yell of “Get over here!”

“Mortal Kombat X” may not be the best game of the year. It definitely is not my favorite because I have never really gravitated toward the series. I have no problem admitting I am not good at them. But the “Mortal Kombat” franchise holds a special place in my heart. I spent many quarters as a kid on the classic games in my local arcade, when I was too young to be playing them.

Then there are the films, which the first one being the only good movie based on a video game. It warms my heart that this franchise is still around and thriving. I just hope my heart is not ripped from my body and stepped on.

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a idan O sbOrne | @aidanosborne “It’s funny, you’re from the daily egyPTian and I’m really Egyptian!” said Ahmed Saudi. “Faces under Faner is a new Instagram series by Daily Egyptian photographers. Follow them on Instagram @dailyegyptian.

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3 BDRMS, CLOSE to campus, all appl incl, avail in the fall, Alleman Properties 618-549-6355.

3 Bdrm: 401A W. Elm, 2 bath 401B W. Elm

NICE 5 OR 6 bdrm, c/a, w/d, close to SIU 2 kitchen, 2 bath, 700 W Freeman. 529-1820 529-3581

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G & R!S BEAUTIFUL NEW, 2 bdrm townhouses, no pets, call 549-4713 or visit 851 E. Grand Ave. or www.grrentals.com.

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2 BDRM, CLOSE to campus, w/d, d/w, refrigerator, glass-top stove, c/a and heat, walk-in closets, nice TV, $700-$800/mo 618-549-6355.

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LUXURY 2 BDRM, Giant City Rd, quiet, private, c/a, w/d, d/w, carport, deck, avail Aug, $785, 618-201-2726 or www.jandmrentals.com C!DALE, 2 BDRM, Cedar Lake area, very clean, quiet, w/d, d/w, patio, lament. $585-635/mo, 201-2726, www.jandmrentals.com C!DALE 2 BDRM, EXTRA NICE, w/d hook up, private fenced, storage w/ closet, grad.student or prof. preferred. Avail June 5, $600/mo.

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3 OR 4 BDRM HOUSES New 60 inch. high-def tv!s, near SIU, cathedral ceilings, hrdwd/flrs, w/d, d/w, 1.5 baths, no pets. 319-3080.

NICE HOUSE, QUIET AREA, Approx. 5 minutes from campus.6 bdrm, 2 bath all appl incuding w/d avail Aug., 2015 $330-$245/student, for 4-6 students. 806-1799.

SUPER NICE FOUR bedroom house for rent. $375 per person. Call 618-525-2440 3 BDRM 2 BATH availiable June 1ST 1315 W Sycamore Carbondale,Illinois, no pets. $825/mo 618-534-0554

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5 & 6 Bedroom Houses for Rent.

Great locations on Mill Street!! Available August 2015. These locations always go fast. Call or Text Chris for more info or to schedule a showing.

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VERY NICE SELECTION of clean 2 and 3 bdrm single and double wide homes. 1 mile from campus.

Available June or August. No pets. (618) 549-0491 or (618) 925-0491.

WALKERS BLUFF IS now hiring , event intern, event & office assitant, servers, food runners, and cooks. E-mail resume to info@walkersbluff.com HARBAUGH!S CAFE HIRING part time cook and servers. Must be available 9am - 3pm, 2 times a week. And semester breaks. Exp preferred, no slackers! 901 S Illinois Ave. LANDSCAPE POSITION - Full time, drivers license required, salary based on experience. send resume to plants@gotsky.com.

SALES CLERK, PT, must be 21yrs, apply in person, SI Liquor Mart, 113 N. 12th St., M!boro. Please no calls.

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSITANT* progressive church, computer literate, 10 hours per week. Resume, cover letter, 3 references to COGS, 515 Orchard Drive, Carbondale, IL 62901, or pastor@goodshepherd-ucc.org

PIZZA DELIVERY DRIVER, neat appearance, PT, some lunch hours needed, apply in person, Quatros Pizza, 218 W Freeman.

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

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

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

Today’s Birthday (04/21/15).

Creative work pays well this year. Your communications skills are on fire. Record and publish. Disciplined collaborations

go far. Proceed carefully through 6/14 (when Saturn is direct). Spark a revolution together after that. Transform your home after 10/13. Collaborative breakdowns reveal new directions. You can work it out. Grow your partnerships with love and compromise.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 6 -- You’re especially clever this month, with the Sun in Gemini. You can see the big picture. Give up something valuable for something better. Write, record and perform. Express the story. Group efforts bear fruit. Follow your grandmother’s advice and win.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- For the next month, with the Sun in Gemini, it’s easier to make money.

Invest in your own future. Cash flow improves. Don’t over-extend. Prepare for an upcoming meeting. Opposites attract.

Love’s the game and the prize.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -Today is a 9 -- You can accomplish the impossible. The Sun in your sign

ACROSS 1 Stick (out) 4 Chocolate syrup choice 9 Call to mind 14 Self-image 15 Chipmunk’s morsel 16 “America by Heart” author Sarah 17 Good name for a tree-lined street 18 Controversial coal-extraction process 20 Long gun 22 Really mad 23 __-Loompa: fictional chocolate factory worker 26 Bagpiper, often 27 Buy lots of presents for 33 “2001” computer 34 Cinematic shootout time 35 Monica of tennis 36 Allowed to ripen, as cheddar 38 Kind of card or drive 41 Senate slot 42 Rose (up) on hind legs, to a cowhand 44 Beat to a froth 46 Doctor’s org.

47 Wry wit 51 “¿Qué __?”

52 Jazz singer Krall 53 Curse-inflicting stare 56 Some Balkanites 59 Opera house section 62 Kit __: candy bar 63 Everglades wader 64 Pro basketball player, briefly 65 H-like letter 66 “Think again!”

67 Decent chaps 68 “Give __ thoughts no tongue”: “Hamlet” DOWN 1 Bit of heckling 2 Aptly named fruit 3 Horseplay

energizes you. You’re more confident for the next month. Put on your power suit and make things happen. Get into your groove. Close a deal or sign papers.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Finish old business over the next month, with the Sun in Gemini.

Allow more time for introspection and spirituality. Take long walks. Study what you find fascinating. Your passion charms someone. Consider your next phase. Follow love.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Participate with groups. You’re the life of the party this month, with the Sun in Gemini. Take action for your community. Share the load. Benefits come through social networking. Let a spiritual lesson sink in. It’s all for love.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -Today is a 7 -- Advance your career over the next month, with the Gemini Sun. Dress for your part. Do your homework. An imaginative assignment pays well. Music is a wise investment

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6 Fraternity counterpart: Abbr.

7 Nursery bed 8 Like some military housing 9 Literary postscripts 10 Makeup tables 11 “Chocolat” actress Lena 12 Royal flush card 13 Second lang., for some 19 Wisc. neighbor 21 Stuck-in-the-mud gear 24 University VIP 25 AFB truant 27 Broken pottery piece 28 Helga’s Viking husband, in comics 29 Extremely impressed 30 Bargain hunter’s mecca 31 Spanish “I love you” 32 Astronomical red giant

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37 More than dislikes 39 Not barefoot 40 Old audio system 43 Includes in the poker game 45 Sci-fi weapons 48 Tiny fraction of a min.

49 Adage 50 One in Paris 53 Therefore 54 Opposite of hor.

now. Set the mood for productivity.

Take on new responsibility.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Seek new territory. For the next four weeks with the Sun in Gemini, travel beckons. Expand your influence. Follow a magnetic draw.

Learn and study. Plan your itinerary.

The impossible seems accessible.

Consider all possibilities.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Profitable opportunities arise over the next month. Keep your books current, to take advantage. Issue invoices and apply payments. Avoid lies like the plague. Provide well for family.

Get help building your dream. Take time for peace, beauty and music.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Over the next four weeks, with the Sun in Gemini, develop strong partnerships. You’re very persuasive now. Work together for what you love. Magnify your impact exponentially. Romance is a distinct

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possibility. Your greatest strength is love.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Leave nothing to chance. For the next month, get into your work. Provide excellence. Practice compassion. Give yourself a break.

Balance a busy schedule with time for playing outside. Move your body and let your mind go free.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 9 -- Romance is in the air this month with the Sun in Gemini.

One thing leads to another. Have fun with friends and discover someone with shared enthusiasms. Practice your arts. Play your game. Discuss esoteric subjects. Everything seems possible.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -Today is a 7 -- Domestic pleasures call to you. Get into a home renovation project this month, with the Gemini Sun. Focus on family matters. Your dream home approaches reality. Get something you know will gain value.

Discover treasure. Create harmony.

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Finalist for AD position makes pitch to SIU aaron graff | @Aarongraff_DE The second of four open forums for athletic director finalists took place Monday.

Rick Hartzell served as director of athletics for the University of Northern Iowa from 1999 to 2008.

“We took over a program at Northern Iowa in 2000 that was clearly the black sheep of the Missouri Valley [Conference],” He said. “Nobody liked to go up there, the facilities were awful.

The teams were no good. We turned it into — I think — just the opposite of that.”

While at UNI, administration asked him to cut sports teams.

The university dropped men’s tennis and men’s swimming and diving.

Later, new administrators asked him to drop baseball and wrestling.

“If you drop wrestling in Iowa, wrestling fans would have stood at the president’s porch until he reinstated them,” Hartzell said. “We would’ve gone under the NCAA limit. So we couldn’t do that.”

Hartzell had personal attachment to baseball and did not find it logical to cut.

“I was asked to drop baseball. I played baseball at Northern Iowa.

It wasn’t costing money. I stood on principle and said I wouldn’t do it — not in an argumentative way, not in an insubordinate way.

It just wasn’t the right thing for

H oliday W agner | @HolidayWagnerDE Rick Hartzel, the former athletic director at the University of Northern Iowa, answers questions about what would make him an asset to SIU’s athletic department on Monday in the Student Center Auditorium. Hartzel is one of four finalists in SIU’s search for a new athletic director.

me to do, and I walked away.”

Since 2011, Hartzell has run a motivational speaking business. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education and English and a master’s degree in educational administration — both from the University of Northern Iowa.

Hartzell said the athletic facilities, history and area is better at Southern Illinois than at Northern Iowa. He wants to create a family environment between everyone in athletics to

make it better.

“Southern Illinois has lost its swagger,” Hartzell said. “Its lost its confidence maybe. Has maybe lost its elementary belief in itself.”

He said football and men’s basketball better win at SIU. “Football starts the season and is a lost leader for you financially,” he said. “You’ve got to be able to win, or it isn’t worth spending the money for. Men’s basketball is kind of the marketing and campus excitement.”

He said that does not mean

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Q:

It’s the point of the season when MLB teams call up players they probably wanted at the beginning of the year, but kept them in the Minors to avoid arbitration for an extra year. Most notably this year was Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant and Chicago White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon. Is the system fair and do you like it?

Aaron Graff - Sports Editor It’s smart for the organization, but it’s unfair and I don’t like it. Both Bryant and Rodon had numbers in Spring Training that should’ve had them on the Major League squad. Both are players anyone would want on their team. People earn jobs. People work their way up in life.

Athletes do the same. When you take that away, it temporarily ruins the sport and it ruins the American standard of hard work.

Thomas Donley - Sports Reporter This system is absolutely fair. I don’t feel bad at all for Kris Bryant having to make four or five times the salary of a doctor and play an extra week in the minors so the Cubs can keep him for an extra year before he inevitably makes bank. This way, smaller-market teams can keep their better players for a bit longer. Teams who don’t always draw well can gain a boost by having a exciting young players on their rosters for a while, even if they do eventually leave.

Brent Meske - Sports Reporter The system is unfair and flawed. In theory the system is fair, but so was communism.

It is unfair how easy it is for a team to manipulate the system. Coaches know before the season who they want on the squad, but to avoid the issue they can bury the player in the minors for a few weeks and then “decide” they are ready for the show.

Matt Wells - Sports Reporter The system is not fair when two players such as Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant and White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon excel, only to be sent back to the minor leagues. I do not like the system. I think if teams can do this, then it is unfair to find fault with a player for leaving as soon as he clears arbitration.

Tyler Davis - Campus Editor The system is as fair as it could be. It was collectively bargained to ensure that it was. Teams can’t control a player forever so from a organization’s standpoint, it has to get the most out of these guys while they are on the team. If a player really felt like he was mistreated, he can choose to sign elsewhere after his contract is up.

other sports are not important, but because of the popularity and money attached to those sports, they have to succeed.

Hartzell said SIU football was down in the early 2000s before getting really good. He said if football tumbled for another year or two, it would be challenging bringing it back up to par because other programs are only getting better.

“If we recruit right and coach right and guide and mentor and develop and kick kids in the

rear every now and then and put our arms around them 95 percent of the time, what will follow at the end of the day is enough wins to keep everybody happy,” Hartzell said.

He said the important things outside of winning is the academics and growth of the student athletes. He said a coach has to be a teacher and communicative with the administrators.

“I was with Greg McDermott and Ben Jacobsen and I never once heard them curse at a kid, ever,” Hartzell said. “That’s the way I would like the coaches to be. That doesn’t mean you don’t try to motivate, that doesn’t mean you don’t have to get after somebody every once in a while, but it means you treat people with respect and like human beings and a way you would want your own kids to be treated.”

Hartzell said he went through seven rounds of budget cuts at UNI. He would put a plan together in Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed cuts happened, which could cut $44 million from Carbondale’s campus. Hartzell said he would like to outperform the university resources.

He said he has 10 to 15 great years to work and this would be his last job. He said he has not thought about a contract, but wants to work here.

The next forum is Rick Darnell’s at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Student Center Auditorium.

Scott Darling gets call again for Blackhawks in Game 4 Chris hine | Chicago Tribune Scott Darling’s performance in Game 3 against the Predators was good enough to earn another start.

Darling will be in net for Game 4 on Tuesday night against the Predators after he saved 35 shots in a 4-2 Blackhawks victory in Game 3 on Sunday.

“Another solid game, really patient in the net,” coach Joel Quenneville said Monday. “He handled the puck well and guys played in front of him as well.”

Sunday’s victory was perhaps the most complete effort the Hawks had so far in the series, with Darling holding his own despite relinquishing two Hawks leads in the first and second period.

Darling said he and Corey Crawford have had a good relationship and Crawford has helped Darling

over the last few days.

“He’s been awesome to me, been like a mentor to me and teaching me a ton. He’s had a ton of experience at this level and I’ve had very limited so I can’t thank him enough for the life lessons and goalie lessons he shared with me.”

Crawford said being benched has been “frustrating” but he is trying to stay positive and prepared should he get the nod again.

“I’m trying to work hard, the only thing I can do now is be ready in case I have to go back in,” Crawford said. “Other than that, encourage the guys, stay positive and make sure body language is good and everything is positive around here. There’s a nice feel around the room and nothing negative.

“But I felt good today, seeing the puck a lot better and like I said it’s just a matter of waiting.”

Former Bear Doug Buffone found dead at home Peter niCkeas | Chicago Tribune Former Chicago Bears linebacker Doug Buffone, who played under team founder George Halas, was found dead in his Chicago home Monday, police said. He was 70.

Paramedics were called to his home in Chicago around 1:30 p.m. Monday, according to police and fire officials. He was dead on the scene, they said.

Buffone played 14 seasons for the Bears — tied for second-most in franchise history — making 1,257 tackles and going over the 100-tackle mark in seven seasons.

Selected in the fourth round, 60th overall, of the 1966 NFL draft, Buffone retired after the 1979 season with 24 career interceptions to lead all Bears linebackers. The first two pickoffs of his

career came off future Hall of Famers Bart Starr and Johnny Unitas.

According to Bears media guides, he also had 10 fumble recoveries, nine forced fumbles and 37 sacks.

At the time of his retirement, Buffone was the Bears’ all-time leader in games played with 186.

“Today is a sad day for Bears nation,” tweeted former Bear linebacker Brian Urlacher. “We lost one of our greats. Doug Buffone will be missed.”

Lance Briggs, another former Bears linebacker, tweeted: “One time for Doug Buffone! It was an honor to share the #55 with the first legend to wear it.”

In recent years, Buffone hosted a Bears postgame radio show on WSCR-AM 670 with Ed O’Bradovich.

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Sophomore ready to fill center field void BrenT Meske | @brentmeskeDE A center fielder is the outfield’s leader, and at the end of this season, the spot will be open.

Sophomore left fielder Merri Anne Patterson said she is ready to take over for senior center fielder Kalyn Harker.

“That’s the plan for right now,” Patterson said. “I am going to have to be able to communicate with my other fielders and be on top of my game every game.”

To be successful, Patterson said communication with teammates is key to the position. She said she looks forward to a larger responsibility in center field and Harker has been helping her prepare for the transition.

Patterson — who has a career fielding percentage of .935 — started one game in center field this year on March 9.

Coach Kerri Blaylock said Patterson is next in line for the center field spot.

“She’s got speed, the arm and the presence,” she said. “She’ll be a good leader out there.”

Patterson has started 38 of SIU’s 40 games this year, 34 in left field, one in center and three in right field.

Blaylock said Patterson is one of the best outfielders in the Missouri Valley Conference, but her contribution comes from the offensive side of the ball as well.

Patterson is currently No. 2 with a .303 batting average.

Harker said she is impressed with

n aThan h oeferT | @NathanHoefertDE Sophomore left fielder Merri Anne Patterson warms up while on deck during the 6-7 loss against St. Louis University April 6 at Charlotte West Stadium. Patterson has started 38 of the 40 SIU games this season and ranks No. 2 in hitting with a .303 batting average.

both sides of Patterson’s play.

“She goes up to the plate hacking and steps up in big moments,” she said. “She does the same in the outfield. She’s always there to make a big throw or big catch.”

Patterson started the season near the bottom of the lineup and has

batted in holes six through nine in 17 games. The other 21 have been spent in spots three through five with 10 each in third and fifth.

On the season, Patterson is tied for the team lead with 6 home runs and is No. 2 with 58 total bases.

Two of Patterson’s home runs came

on March 22 against Wichita State, a team high, along with her eight total bases in the game. Another two came as game-winning home runs, one a walk-off and one a go-ahead.

Patterson said her hitting has been her biggest improvement since last season.

Blaylock said the credit should be given to associate head coach Jen Sewell for making Patterson a more consistent hitter.

“It’s more of being steady,” she said. “Last year she was up-anddown, she’s way more consistent this year.”

Saluki coaches lightening load for new catchers ThoMas donley | @tdonleyDE Catcher is the most demanding position in all of baseball.

The backstop calls pitches and has to make sure those pitches stay in front of him. He has to play his position in a stance that causes wear and tear on his body and must be able to take a foul ball or two off his body. And he must do all this while performing well offensively.

The SIU baseball team has two catchers on the roster, both of whom are new to Division I baseball. The Saluki coaching staff has decided to take some of those responsibilities off their shoulders.

Pitching coach P.J. Finigan has been calling pitches from the dugout this season in an

attempt to allow junior college transfer junior Taylor Martin and freshman Nick Hutchins to make an easier transition to Division I baseball.

SIU allowed its catchers to call their own pitches last season and this past fall, but Finigan said his familiarity with the pitching staff was the deciding factor in placing that responsibility in the dugout.

“I think it’s going pretty well,” Finigan said. “I know the pitchers a little bit better than the catchers do, so it’s been alright. There were some growing pains, but we’re figuring out each guy’s strengths and how to exploit them.”

Before each pitch, the Saluki catcher peers into the dugout for a sign from Finigan that

corresponds to a pitch listed on the black wrist band on his left arm. He then relays the signal for that pitch to the hurler.

Finigan pitched for SIU from 2002 to 2005 and reached the AA level in the Detroit Tigers’ organization before suffering a career-ending injury.

Senior pitcher Bryce Sablotny said he trusts Finigan’s experience.

“I like it,” Sablotny said. “Me and Fin, we’re usually on the same page. There’s rarely a call where I’m like, ‘I don’t know.’ If he wants it, there’s a reason for it, and it’s all about execution.”

Last season, SIU pitchers compiled a 3.50 ERA. This year, the Salukis are last in the Missouri Valley Conference with an ERA of 6.42. Only five pitchers who made

five appearances in 2014 have pitched as often or more in 2015.

Finigan said pitchers are allowed to shake off his calls if they so choose.

“Whenever I talk about calling pitches it’s just a suggestion,” he said. “Whatever they’re comfortable with is what they need to throw, and they know that.”

Martin, a transfer from Walters State Community College, said allowing Finigan to call pitches does not bother him.

“I used to call pitches in high school,” Martin said. “But in junior college, we had the pitching coach call it, so getting back to the wrist band was pretty easy.”

A few times this season,

Finigan has given his catcher free reign to call pitches. No decision has been made at this point, but Finigan said he would prefer to have the catchers call their own pitches next year.

“I would like for the catchers to call it because the game goes a lot quicker,” Finigan said. “Part of what we would like to do is play at a quicker pace.”

Martin is confident in his ability to call his own game when or if that day comes.

“Just learning from Coach Fin and my pitching coach in junior college, I definitely feel like I have the ability to call a game,” Martin said. “I’ve called a couple games this year, and they went well, so I feel good that I could call it.”