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Runners through color together Saturday during the Color Fun Run for the Autism Society of Southern Illinois at Southern Illinois University.

Project proposed to have alumni volunteers as adjunct lecturers and mentors DAILY EGYPTIAN NEWS DESK

In a university statement released Tuesday by SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno, he announced a proposed pilot project that would have qualified alumni serve as temporary volunteers to deliver individual lectures, seminar discussions, mentor students and add different perspectives on thesis committees.

"This is a proposed pilot project developed in collaboration with the SIU Alumni Association to connect qualified alumni with our students as mentors to enhance – not replace – the work of our faculty," Montemagno said through a statement.

Having alumni volunteers provide their expertise will benefit current faculty, students and alumni, according to the statement.

"This exploratory project simply fosters the ability of academic programs to identify and connect with potential adjunct faculty already invested in the university," according to the statement.

The goal of the project is to create a selection of potential adjuncts with advanced degrees to volunteer for up to three years, according to the statement.

According to the statement, the proposed project will engage alumni who want to give back to their university. The adjunct

volunteers can serve as mentors, role models and future professional contacts for the graduate school, the statement said.

Many departments welcome occasional adjunct faculty bringing expertise that adds to the student experience and the overall skill of the faculty, the statement said.

"This approach is in compliance with university policy," Montemagno said through the statement. "The use of adjuncts is not unusual on our campus and in higher education generally."

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SIU names associate chancellor for enrollment management, a position vacant since 2014 ANNA SPOERRE | @annaspoerre

SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno announced a new associate chancellor for enrollment management on Monday afternoon.

Jennifer DeHaemers, who most recently spent six years as associate vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will take the helm of SIU’s enrollment efforts with a "multi-year recruitment plan" on May 14, according to a press release.

She will oversee the admissions, financial aid, bursar's and registrar's offices.

“Jennifer is a data-driven, student-centered enrollment management leader who understands the challenges we face at SIU,” Montemagno said in a statement.

“She brings a collaborative approach and experience developing and implementing a strategic enrollment plan. I’m confident that she will help us move in the right direction.”

SIU reached its peak enrollment in 1991 with 24,869 students.

The numbers have been decreasing ever since, bringing enrollment to an all-time low in fall 2017 with 14,554 students.

DeHaemers is the first person to fill the position since 2014 and the first fulltime hire into the position since 2011.

Earlier this month Montemagno published a report highlighting his first eight months at SIU. In the report he said the vacant enrollment management position was being converted into an associate chancellor position that reports directly to the chancellor.

The new job description was created and advertised by the chancellor’s office. But, the

chancellor said the first pool of candidates was not strong, adding the search was unsuccessful “given the competitiveness of the market for enrollment management positions and perceptions of the university,” according to the chancellor’s report.

A second pool of candidates was then selected in the hopes of finding more qualified individuals, the report read. In all, 34 applications were submitted.

Five finalists were selected from the second pool of applicants; DeHaemers was the only candidate to interview on campus, SIU spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said.

Three other finalists were invited to Carbondale for interviews, but one took a different position and the two others declined the invitation, Goldsmith said.

Last week DeHaemers visited campus to meet with a number of groups including Montemagno, Goldsmith, members of the search committee, interim provost and vice chancellor for student affairs Meera Komarraju, interim Director of Financial Aid and interim Director of Admissions Terri Harfst and Bursar Director Jill Kirkpatrick.

A group of about nine students with representation from Hispanic Student Council, Saluki Ambassadors and Undergraduate Student Government were among those introduced to DeHaemers.

“She was very open and receptive to ideas,” said USG President Emily Buice. She said DeHaemers mentioned a desire to focus on celebrating diversity.

Buice was among those present for a lunch meeting during which DeHaemers asked about the current campus climate and what the university could do better for students.

“I think she is coming in with an understanding to listen and see where she can meet students versus just coming in and saying ‘here’s all the solutions’ when that might not be what we need,” Buice said.

DeHaemers, who has a master's degree in higher education administration from UMKC, was employed at UMKC until November 2017. Her LinkedIn does not show an employment since.

In addition to the associate vice chancellor position, DeHaemers served at UMKC as vice chancellor of enrollment management from 2007 to 2011, director of international student affairs from 2005 to 2007 and director of admissions from 2002 to 2009, according to her LinkedIn profile.

“Jennifer DeHaemers made valuable and appreciated contributions to the well-being and success of our students as associate vice chancellor for student affairs and enrollment management at UMKC," said Mel Tyler, vice chancellor for student affairs at UMKC. "She left UMKC during a wide-ranging administrative reorganization."

Under her leadership, according to the a press release, UMKC enrollment grew from 15,492 in fall 2011 to 16,383 in fall 2017.

“SIU Carbondale provides a great opportunity to have an impact at an institution that recruits and serves a diverse student body,” DeHaemers said in a statement. “I was attracted to its mission, the chancellor’s vision for the future, and the openness and commitment of everyone I met. I know there’s much work to do, and I’m eager to get started.”

Staff writer Anna Spoerre can be reached at aspoerre@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @annaspoerre.

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Graduate assistants and civil service employees file formal complaint for not receiving pay raises AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeliaBlakely

Graduate Assistants United and Association of Civil-service Employees union members said in a press conference Thursday SIU is not fulfilling the contractual agreement to give their lowest paid employees a two percent pay raise.

The GAU and ACsE filed the complaint on April 16, against the university to the Illinois Education Association.

Sam Smucker, Mass Communications Steward for GAU said in the two unions' contracts there is a 'me too' clause says when non-union represented employees on campus receive a pay raise, so should union-represented employees.

"We now know the university has given raises to people at the medical school, that counts in terms of nonunion employees," Smucker said. "They need to follow through on the promise they made to us."

The Board of Trustees approved the pay raise for the School of Medicine on Feb. 8 at the Board of Trustees meeting in Edwardsville, according to the meeting's minutes.

Ami Ruffing, a chemist for the center of environmental health and safety and president of ACsE said their employees are the lowest paid full-time employees on campus – some being on food stamps.

"It's bad. We just got a minimum wage of $10.50 a hour," Ruffing said.

"Even in southern Illinois you know that's not really a living wage because you could work at Wal-Mart on more money than that."

Civil-service employees' minimum wage was set approximately three months ago Ruffing said.

Anna Wilcoxen, a graduate student in

Communication Studies said in the press conference financial realities of graduate assistants at the university, citing author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich.

"Ehernreich asserted when the people at the top offer work that will pay less than you can live on, that is a form of violence," Wilcoxen said. "It is a violence that manifests with finding out you have serious illness and not being able to seek treatment for it. It manifests in working so many hours and sleeping so few that you destroy your body and mind. It manifests in the bruises in your arms from donating plasma every few weeks."

Wilcoxen said she brings home $985 in her monthly salary being a graduate assistant.

A two percent raise for graduate assistants would equal to an additional $250 increase in their yearly wages, approximately a $25 increase in their monthly wages.

Wilcoxen said $250 is equal to half a month's rent for a cheap apartment in Carbondale.

"Yes, I have had jobs where it has been lower and I did not have access to loans," Wilcoxen said. "But forcing gratitude because it could be worse only allows the system to perpetuate."

If graduate assistants are valued by making the university work, then a two percent pay raise should be an easy

choice to make, Wilcoxen said.

The unions' contracts were negotiated during Governor Rauner's budget impasse in 2014, according to the GAU and ACsE press release.

"We started negotiating in 2014. At that time we didn't have a state budget," Ruffing said. "We finally just said, well we'll sign a contract for four years with no raises."

In those contracts, which are about to expire, the administration suggested the unions put the 'me too' clause in the contract, Ruffing said.

According to the 'me too' clause if the state passed a full year's budget, and the university received state funding and gave non-represented employees a pay raise, then union-represented employees would receive the same.

"We've gone almost five years without a raise," Ruffing said. "Two percent is not a lot, but it's better than nothing."

Smucker said the unions have filed grievances and may have to go to arbitration to settle the disagreement between the university and the unions.

"We think we can skip that process by the university simply following through on their commitment," Smucker said.

"If we go to arbitration we are going to waste thousands of dollars."

Campus editor Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian.com or

“We've gone almost five years without a raise. Two percent is not a lot, but it's better than nothing.”

- Ami Ruffing President, ACsE

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USG passes resolution to make campus use 100 percent renewable energy JEREMY BROWN | @JeremyBrown_DE

The Undergraduate Student Government passed a resolution to the chancellor’s office requesting to make the campus use 100 percent renewable energy at its final senate meeting.

The resolution also requests shutting down the coal plant.

USG Senator for the college of business Zhi Hao “Eric” Tsang and Dylan Gibson, a SIU alumnus with a degree in biological sciences proposed the resolution to the senate.

“It’s a call to action,” Gibson said. “We need to develop a plan to move towards renewable energy and retire the coal plant.”

Gibson said as a short term goal, the resolution requests the chancellor release a statement saying he’s committed to making the campus use 100 percent renewable energy.

“We still have a long way to go to work out the specifics,” Gibson said. “One option is installing renewable energy insulation, like solar panels.”

Gibson said the university could follow SIUE’s path and purchase all of its energy using renewable energy credits.

“It's like saying what we are purchasing has come from renewable energy sources,” Gibson said. “It's sort of subsidizes renewable energy that's being produced elsewhere.”

Tsang said the resolution is not demanding for an immediate shutdown of the coal plant, but demanding for a long-term plan from the university.

“No, we are not demanding for an immediate blackout,” Tsang said.

“It might take years, fine. It is time for us to start doing it right now.”

“No, we are not demanding for an imediate blackout. It might take years, fine. It is time for us to start doing it right now.”

- Zhi Hao Tsang, USG Senator, College of Business

Gibson said Divest SIU, a student-led campaign group which Gibson is a member of plans to release an additional letter to the university administration. The letter will call on SIU to move away from fossil fuels in general.

“Which includes the research we do into fossil fuels,” Gibson said.

Director of Advanced Coal and Energy Research Tomasz Wiltowski said with current renewable energy technology, 100 percent renewable energy is not possible for the university.

“I like this concept, I'm for it,” Wiltowski said. “But we can't do it with today's technology.”

Wiltowski said the alternative energy sources aren’t efficient enough to power the university, since southern Illinois doesn’t have sufficient wind for turbines and solar panel batteries operate at 30 percent efficiency.

“But, if you can combine fossil fuels with renewable, and as the technology moves forward with renewable, and it is moving,” Wiltowski said, “then you can lower the contribution of fossil fuels.”

Wiltowski said since students are

against the use of coal, it needs to be rebranded and its focus should be on what products coal is used to create.

“Did you know that Tylenol is made from coal?” Wiltowski said.

“Ask people around, who knows about this? No one. So coal has to be rebranded.”

Wiltowski said no one would want to have an energy crisis on any side of the energy discussion.

“And I’m not pro-coal, I’m not anti-coal,” Wiltowski said. “But I’m trying to be real.”

Gibson said the chancellor should be looking into sustainability as part of his plans to revitalize SIU. “He hasn’t really proposed anything to address his sustainability or environmental issues, that’s one thing we’re trying to point out,” Gibson said.

“When we do initiatives like [this] it also facilitates a positive image for the university. That could increase enrollment.”

Staff writer Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com

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American playwright August Wilson's 'Gem of the Ocean' coming to Mcleod theater KITT FRESA | @KittFresa

“Gem of the Ocean,” a play from famed American playwright and poet, August Wilson will be presented by the university’s Department of Theatre on August 26 through the 29.

Jarvell Williams, a senior studying Psychology and Communication Studies who plays Eli in the production described the play as a soul cleansing, transcendent experience.

"This production is so much more, it is very precious to the black experience in understanding the history of the complexity of black identity,” Williams said.

“Gem of the Ocean” is the first in a series of ten plays by August Wilson said the play’s director, Segun Ojewuyi who according to one of the actors, was friends with the playwright.

Ojewuyi said directing the play has been exhilarating and exhausting.

“Its a creative Tour de force,” Ojewuyi said. “It’s a very challenging, rich play that goes to many places, it doesn’t just live in the world of realism, it goes to a super realism and it goes across worlds, America, Africa and the middle passage for African Americans. So it’s a very enriching experience.”

August Wilson’s series of ten plays, “The Pittsburgh Cycle” includes plays that each represent a different decade in the 20th century.

Beginning with “Gem of the Ocean” the series goes on to include plays such as “Fences,”

“This production is so much more, it is very precious to the black experience in understanding the history of the complexity of black identity.”

- Jarvell Williams senior

“The Piano Lesson” and “Seven Guitars.”

“August Wilson to me is a visionary, he was a visionary of his time,” Jeffery McGoy, who plays Caesar said. “He really took his community and all the different lessons of it and kind of just engulfed it in his writings but also he was able to pull in deeper things.”

Set in 1904, “Gem of the Ocean” takes place shortly after the emancipation proclamation inside the home of Aunt Ester, a 285 year-old former slave and spiritual healer played by Kombe Kapatamoyo.

“In my opinion Aunt Ester represents so many different things,” McGoy said. “Aunt Ester is like my paternal and maternal grandmother. The way I look at it with them is they’re still alive through the lessons that they taught, through the knowledge that they passed….She represents the many years of people who lost their lives, the slaves, Africa,

so many different things she embodies all of those different spirits.”

Deirdre Rose, the Costume Designer for the production said there are miles and miles of depths of Wilson’s writing to explore.

Rose started researching costume design back in September or October.

“Its August Wilson and you can’t take anything Wilson does for granted or lightly,” Rose said.

“The richness of August Wilson’s words and his use of language is for me, like poetry to sit there and listen to. I think that people should hear the way Wilson’s expressing the way people feel in that era that speaks to us today that’s so relevant.”

In an interview with The Paris Review, August Wilson said he thought his plays offer white Americans a different way to look at black Americans.

"For instance, in Fences they see a garbageman, a person they don't really look at, although they see

Wednesday, april 25, 2018 a garbageman everyday,” Wilson said in the article. “By looking at Troy's life, white people find out that the content of this black garbageman's life is affected by the same things – love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty.”

Recognizing those aspects of life are as much part of the garbageman’s life as they are in others can affect how society think about and deal with black people in their lives Wilson said in the article.

Asia Ward, a junior studying musical theater who plays Black Mary said she thought Wilson is a genius.

“There’s not a word or period or a comma that doesn’t have a thought or doesn’t have a subtext or doesn’t have a meaning behind it,” Ward said. “We weren’t alive in this time, all we do is read about it but this on stage, you can see it happening and you’re more affected by it.”

Ward said she thought the play could educate people on the culture in the era for African americans, slavery and African american values.

Williams said in 1904 where the story takes place, many of the slaves who should have been liberated by the emancipation

proclamation weren’t allowed to leave.

“Their old masters kept them hostage and had them work,” Williams said. “They didn’t even tell them about the emancipation proclamation so this is really exemplifying all of this and more.”

Ojewuyi said he sees the production as a “Feast, as a gift for the audience and by extension for the community.”

“Its an African American story but also a story for everyone. For a kind of rebirth, a reawakening through redemption,” Ojewuyi said. “This is essential to our mission as a department of theater, we provide this other level of teaching, learning and sharing beyond the classroom with the university community and the larger community.”

Show times are 7:30 p.m. April 26 through 28 and 2 p.m. April 29 at The McLeod Theatre.

There will be a pre-show lecture at 1:30 p.m. on April 28 in the Christian H. Moe Laboratory Theater. Tickets for the show can be bought at online or at the McLeod Theatre box office.

Features editor Kitt Fresa can be reached at kfresa@dailyegyptian.com and on Twitter at @KittFresa.

“There’s not a word or period or a comma that doesn’t have a thought or doesn’t have a subtext or doesn’t have a meaning behind it.”

- Asia Ward junior

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Campus Lake to host the Great Cardboard Boat Regatta CLAIR COWLEY | Daily Egyptian

The Great Cardboard Boat Regatta returns to Campus Lake this spring with SIU holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the grand opening of Becker Pavillion on April 28.

The races will start at one p.m.

The boat regatta is a race where adults and children make life-sized boats out of cardboard and sail them on campus lake.

Previously the Carbondale Evergreen Reservoir held the race while campus lake was under reconstruction by the university, Mary Kinsel, an organizer of the race said.

The closure of campus lake and having the event off campus have had an impact on awareness from students that are currently here Kinsel said. Many students had never heard about the boat regatta, and the idea of building boats out of cardboard was a hard for students to wrap their heads around she said.

Kinsel said outreach to students about the boat regatta has been a challenge.

In January they started contacting local schools, churches and afterschool programs as well to solidify

advertising material, Kinsel said.

Kinsel said she coordinated with the Alumni Association and Jim Salmo, vice chancellor for development and alumni relations to have servicecommunity related organizations participate in the regatta.

“When I spoke to him a year ago he mentioned that it would be a good idea if we could do something with the Becker Pavilion opening,” Kinsel said. “We touched base again in late fall, early January when it was going to be clear that Ralph Becker and his wife were able to come and do a ribbon cutting.”

Becker gave a $1 million dollar gift to renovate and expand the boathouse and pavilion on campus lake in 2016.

According to a university press release, the boathouse and boat dock buildings were built in 1958 and many of the existing materials, including structure and plumbing systems, are 54 to 55 years old.

In the race there are four classes split up by different competition categories, according to the press release.

Class one is for ages 14 and above with the method of using a paddle or an oar. Class two is for anyone who uses some type of mechanically assisted form to move Kinsel said.

Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Aidan Ali, of Carbondale, looks over the boat, The Robbie Shae, next to 18-yearold Rachel Robinson, of Carbondale, and 17-year-old Katie Bushur, of Carbondale, prior to the start races May 2017, during the 44th Annual Great Cardboard Boat Regatta at Evergreen Park in Carbondale.

Jacob Wiegand | @jaweigandphoto Luke Eaton, a senior from Carterville studying business management, swims back to shore while holding the flag of the recently capsized USS Jim Lahey in May 2017, during the 44th Annual Great Cardboard Boat Regatta at Evergreen Park in Carbondale.

“If the boat uses some sort of sail or they have a rudder, that would also be class two,” Kinsel said.

Class three is for instant boats.

“We have kits for the instant boat for the price of registration,” Kinsel said.

They have 20 kits available that have one seven-foot by eight-foot sheet of cardboard and a roll of plastic sheeting.

“They have from registration until race time to finish their instant boat,” Rachel Bolerjack, an assistant to Dr. Kinsel said.

Class four is for youth boats with sailors 13-years-old and below Kinsel said.

While on the water, Kinsel said everyone in the boat has to wear a life vest and appropriate shoes for being in the lake.

Student recreation center will have lifeguards and a safety boat out on the water because some boats go down and have to brought back to shore.

“We don’t let anybody get out

there without proper safety,” Kinsel said.

Music and refreshments for the public will be at the regatta, along with tours into the interior of the classroom area, renovated restrooms and a boat check out spot Kinsel said.

“We’re also having inflatables for a little bit of a kids section and at the same time the science center is coming over to do a demonstration and have a little experiment,” Bolerjack said.

At the race, there will also be tie-

dyeing booths and caricatures that visitors can purchase.

“We expect to have not only current students but also for the ribbon cutting there’s going to be a lot of alumni parents,” Kinsel said.

“They’ll also have some SIU bling out there to make it more festive.”

The cost to register online for the 2018 regatta is $15 dollars in advance or $20 the day of the event.

Staff writer Clair Cowley can be reached at ccowley@dailyegyptian.com.

“We expect to have not only current students but also for the ribbon cutting there's going to be a lot of alumni parents.”

- Mary Kinsel, race organizer

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Corrin Hunt | @CorrinIHunt Olivia Lou Leber, 3, of Sesser, dances on stage, Saturday during the Color Fun Run for the Autism Society of Southern Illinois at Southern Illinois University.

Color Fun Run for Southern Illinois Autism Society

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Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE Attendees toss colored powder into the air, Saturday after the Autism Society of Southern Illinois' 5K color run around SIU's Lew Hartzog Track Complex.

Left: Dalton Gibson, 5, of Jonesboro, runs after bubbles, Saturday during the Autism Society of Southern Illinois' 5K color run children's event at SIU's Lew Hartzog Track Complex.

Mary Newman @MaryNewmanDE Right: Kennedy Tilley, 3, of DuQuion, sits in her color covered stroller Saturday during the Color Fun Run for the Autism Society of Southern Illinois at Southern Illinois University.

Corrin Hunt @CorrinIHunt

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Aggressively liberal professors are pushing conservative students toward Trump BRADLEY SCHOBER The Baltimore Sun

For the past four years at Loyola University Maryland I have come to find lifelong friendships; amazing professors, who were instrumental in my being able to go to law school next year; and, by the grace of God, I was even able to find a date. I was also able to discover the reason why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.

While some professors have clear political views, many are able to hide their personal opinions and _ even if they disagree _ allow students to speak their minds, then support and defend various viewpoints to promote critical thinking. A small minority, however, are your stereotypical "so far left they make Karl Marx look like Ted Cruz," my-wayor-the-highway kind of professor.

The purpose of college is to create a free market of ideas where we teach students the established theories of a

major field of study and encourage them to think for themselves. However, schools have been getting so "openminded" that their actions mirror that of someone who is extremely closedminded. Conservative, and even moderate, positions can be attacked regardless of the class' subject.

I do not want this to be seen as a conservative student lambasting his professors, nor do I want this to be taken as a denouncement of the American education system. However, as a graduating senior, president of Loyola University Maryland's College Republican chapter and vice chair of the Maryland Federation of College Republicans, I feel it would be inappropriate if I did not make my voice heard.

I have witnessed professors go out of their way to attack Donald Trump or even conservatives as a whole. I am sure these professors will justify their actions as "educating students on the

issues," however these attacks, which are often very illogical or hypocritical, take students, even those who dislike President Trump, and push them to the political right. I have witnessed the college Republicans go from a club of diverse thought to one where even the most ardent of Trump haters among the members are now supporters because of the anger they feel toward certain professors constantly going after the president.

Sadly, the strong bias against conservative beliefs on campus is not just in the classroom. Loyola clearly supports illegal immigrants more than its own students. The school has consistently taken political stands and encouraged students to get involved with the political stances the administration holds, but will not permit students to bring opposition views to campus. The school is more than willing to invite speakers who have been given leadership awards by the former General Secretary

of the Soviet Union and to give the 2018 commencement speaker spot to a man who said he would have killed Donald Trump had he been in the room when he was born, yet have not to my knowledge brought in a conservative speaker in my four years here. They provide one side of the political spectrum to their students, and Loyola finds itself in a financial crunch with alumni not giving back. Maybe if they did not anger us as students, we would be more willing to give back. There is a financial benefit for you to stop harassing us.

Beyond simply words in class and optional speaking events, even the Community Standards are enforced in a biased way. Many of you already know that after Donald Trump's election, there was a huge backlash on campus to a proposed senior celebration theme of "Party in the USA," which school administrators strangely called "very alienating, harmful and divisive" and against our school's core values.

But most have not heard about is this year's issues: For the same annual party, students hung USA flags outside of their rooms, and an administrator ordered me to tell students to take them down, then an R.A. informed me they perpetrators would be fined and written up if the flags were not removed. To my knowledge, the school has not even threatened this to people who throw beer bottles in our courtyards creating hazardous walking conditions, and administrators have said nothing about the foreign flags that are hung in the same dorm violating the same rule as the American flags. They ignore student safety, yet scream at the sight of American pride?

The school's actions contradict their purpose. The result of this is radical conservatives entering the student body. Liberal professors and administrators, you are part of why Donald Trump is president of the United States. If you want that to change, it's on you to change.

dictator Kim Jong Un. Yes, the same dictator Trump taunted on Twitter as "Little Rocket Man." Trump hopes to strike a deal with the North Korean leader to relinquish his nuclear weapons arsenal.

What could go wrong? Just about everything, critics say. Skeptics carp that Kim wins a huge propaganda bonanza just by sitting down with the West's leader without first promising concessions in return.

But Trump is taking a smart calculated risk.

The main reason is that Trump doesn't have any better options to resolve this conundrum without military action. Several decades of patient American diplomacy, from the Clinton administration in the 1990s through those of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack

Obama, failed to achieve the key goal: to prevent North Korea from threatening the U.S. and the world with nuclear weapons. Kim now has up to 60, and he is intent on building more. He also has ballistic missiles that could hit U.S. cities, including Chicago, with a nuclear payload.

The Trump-Kim summit is tentatively planned for late May or June in a location to be determined.

Meanwhile, Trump is cleverly lowering expectations _ here and in Pyongyang _ about what, if anything, the meeting may yield. "If I think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go," he said. "If the meeting, when I'm there is not fruitful, I will respectfully leave the meeting."

Translation for Kim: Don't bring empty promises. The U.S. has been

there and done that with your predecessors.

Should the two hit it off, Trump has plenty to offer Kim in return for surrendering nukes. One bargaining chip is a final peace treaty with South Korea, which is also reportedly on the agenda of upcoming talks between Seoul and Pyongyang.

Americans may be surprised to learn that the Korean War technically isn't over. Combat ended with an armistice signed in 1953. But negotiations over a peace treaty stalled.

A treaty now could eventually bring normal relations and allow Pyongyang to escape Western sanctions. But will Kim pay the price?

Or does he merely seek to upstage the master showman and keep building nukes? The hermetically sealed Hermit Kingdom is mysterious:

Outsiders don't know its arcane internal politics.

Could Trump dazzle the world with a foreign relations master stroke? Sure. Nixon went to China and returned triumphant. Not because he delivered a big deal, but because he started a diplomatic process that eventually opened China to the world.

True, Trump is no savvy foreign relations pro like Nixon. He's a dealmaker, blusterer and serial mindchanger. His diplomatic maneuvering is as subtle as a body slam.

This matchup could yield nothing more than bombast and political theater. But we hope to write a post-summit headline like the one that appeared on this page after Nixon finished his 1972 visit: "Yes, It Was Worth It."

Trump is taking a smart calculated risk with North Korea talks THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD | The Chicago Tribune

In July 1971, President Richard Nixon jolted the international status quo _ and set diplomatic nerves worldwide fluttering _ by announcing he would visit China.

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Opinion: Let’s not kill the messenger WILLIAM A. BABCOCK | SIU Professor

There are many questions a college student newspaper in Carbondale could ask: • To what extent does Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s refusal to shutter its moneydraining, lack-luster football program add to the university’s fiscal problems?

• How much of the university’s current fiscal woes can be traced to the negative publicity generated by the revelation that former President Glenn Poshard plagiarized portions of his dissertation?

• Why are Carbondale public schools, in the shadow of a Level I research university, generally considered to at best be mediocre?

• Why doesn’t – or can’t – this

university better market itself?

Was SIUC’s Board of Trustees so desperate in the wake of the Poshard scandal to hire a new president that it needed to rush to hire someone who had essentially been fired by Murray State University?

• Is it true Randy Dunn was hired at Murray State with the understanding he would raise enrollment there, and that such increases did not occur under his watch – and, if so, that SIUC’s Board of Trustees nevertheless turned a blind eye and hired him knowing of his enrollment track record (and knowing of SIUC’s enrollment issues)?

It would be a tall order for any student newspaper to seek and report the truth behind so many questions. Such a monumental task would necessitate •

a huge, group of students working countless hours and semesters sourcing information, ferretting out false rumors and dealing with data searches.

Instead, a small, dedicated Daily Egyptian staff, managed by Editor in Chief Athena Chrysanthou and spearheaded by reporter Anna Spoerre, in recent months has asked – and sought to answer – one major question: Who is Carlo Montemagno, the university’s new chancellor?

Campus newspapers have the news industry’s most diverse audience: students, faculty, staff, administrators, townspeople, parents and alumni. Answers to the “Who is Montemagno?” question thus may be satisfying to some and annoying to others. Judging from dozens of readers’ comments, the DE’s coverage has generated both praise and criticism from this multifaceted audience.

But let’s not kill the messenger.

SIUC’s financial and enrollment woes have been reported – not caused – by DE journalists. SIU’s student journalists – the press – have the First Amendment right to report the news. And they have the ethical responsibility to report it truthfully. These young journalists are exercising their legal right to inform their diverse audience. And by being accurate they are reporting real (not fake) news.

And another question: When is the last time you heard of a student journalist traveling to another country (in this case, Canada) to ask questions and conduct interviews? This is what DE journalist Spoerre did so her newspaper might determine whether or not a new chancellor’s actions at SIUC constituted a pattern of inappropriate behavior.

Her timely, in-depth reporting on Montemagno’s present and past activities has led to newspaper and journal articles in the U.S. and

Canada. I’m hard-pressed to think of the reporting of such an important story by any other college newspaper that has been so thorough, in-depth and generated as much national and international attention and ink.

If SIUC is to move forward it should – and, indeed must– do so in a transparent fashion. By shining a spotlight on a major administrative university hire, the DE has published accurate, timely and fair articles, and thus met its ethical responsibility to its diverse audience.

For this the campus newspaper and its staff deserve our support – and applause.

Dr. Babcock teaches media ethics at SIUC. He is former senior international news editor of the Christian Science Monitor, where he also was the paper’s writing coach. He has consulted with and advised student newspapers at four universities. He is an alumnus of SIUC.

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The SIU baseball program featured four professional players on its 2017 roster, all of whom signed contracts with their respective clubs following the 2017 MLB Draft.

Among those drafted from SIU were pitcher Chad Whitmer, infielder/outfielder Greg Lambert, catcher Nick Hutchins and pitcher Joey Marciano.

This season, the Salukis have an abundance of talent that could hear their name called by the conclusion of the MLB Draft on June 6.

In my opinion, the most likely Saluki to advance to the next level is senior shortstop Connor Kopach.

Arguably the top shortstop in the Missouri Valley Conference, Kopach was recently named one of 53 players in the nation as a finalist for the Brooks Wallace Award, an honor that recognizes the best shortstop in the country.

Standing at 6-foot tall and only 175 pounds, Kopach has been a giant in the Saluki lineup this season.

Through 40 games he has turned in a .354 batting average, 39 runs, 31 RBI, four home runs, and four triples. Kopach has also doubled 12 times and boasts a .429 on-base percentage to go along with 21 steals, which ranks second in the nation.

Although shaky with the glove this season, Kopach has been a weapon on defense in his career and was a member of the MVC All-Defensive Team a season ago.

With blazing speed, consistent hitting, sneaky power and solid glove, Kopach could hear his name called in the middle rounds on the second day of the draft.

Along with Kopach as a mid-

“With blazing speed, consistent hitting, sneaky power and solid glove, Kopach could hear his name called in the middle rounds on the second day.” round selection, senior starting pitcher Michael Baird has a strong shot to join a Major League organization.

Baird blew the doors off the MVC with his sophomore campaign when he went 9-4 with three complete games and a 1.76 ERA, earning a nod for First Team All-MVC. In his junior season, Baird got roughed up and saw his ERA spike to 4.56 with a 4-4 record.

So far this season, the senior has improved in his final audition for MLB clubs.

His record currently sits at 3-3 with one complete game and a 3.39 ERA. Baird has also gained command of his pitches as he has only allowed 13 free passes in 10 games in 2018.

Nearly drafted out of high school, I believe that Baird's bounce-back year will finally land him in the pro ranks.

A strong 2018 senior campaign should land another Saluki, Logan Blackfan, his spot in a professional franchise.

In a somewhat of a slightly inconsistent career at Southern, Blackfan has still always shown reason to believe he belongs at the next level.

The senior first baseman made a name for himself in his sophomore season with a .296 average, six homers and 50 RBI, earning First Team All-MVC honors.

However, 2017 was not near

as kind to Blackfan as his average dropped to .215. He did still blast four homers but only drove in 29.

Hitting behind Kopach in the cleanup spot of Southern's lineup has once again solidified Blackfan as a run producer and a feared hitter.

So far in 2018 Blackfan has cranked a career-high nine long balls and has collected 48 RBI. He also leads the Salukis with his absurd .364 batting average.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the slugger's game is his defense.

An MVC All-Defensive Team recipient in 2016, Blackfan has only committed 18 errors in 204 career games at Southern.

A power bat that can flash the leather will definitely spark the interest of professional scouts and Blackfan should be the third Saluki to hear his name called on draft day.

The fourth and final Saluki to be drafted could be senior closer Ryan Netemeyer, although that possibility is much murkier now than it was a season ago.

Last year I would have told you that Netemeyer was a lock to be drafted after dominant sophomore and junior campaigns as Southern's closer.

In 2016, his sophomore season, Netemeyer overwhelmed opponents and held them to a .208 batting average en route to 12 saves and a 1.95 ERA.

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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Senior pitcher Ryan Netemeyer throws from the mound during SIU’s 13-8 win against Tennessee Tech in April 2017, at Itchy Jones Stadium.

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Southern Illinois senior infielder Connor Kopach watches a ground ball March 10, during the Salukis' 7-2 victory against the Northern Illinois University Huskies at Itchy Jones Stadium.

He followed the next year with a 3.48 ERA and 15 saves as opponents only hit at a .192 clip, making Netemeyer a finalist for National Pitcher of the Year and NCBWA Stopper of the Year.

However, his senior season has not gone as planned as he is the owner of a ghastly 6.60 ERA through 17 appearances.

Netemeyer did nail down the program record for career saves and currently has six on the season.

I think that his devastating senior season will drop Netemeyer to the late rounds of the draft. However, his electric arm and high upside should at least give him a chance to develop in the minor leagues.

The 40-round 2018 MLB Draft will be held on June 4-6 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Sports editor Nathan Dodd can be reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.

“I think his devastating senior year will drop Netemeyer to the late rounds of the draft.

However, his electric arm and high upside should at least give him a chance to develop in the minor leagues.”

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Southern Illinois senior infielder Logan Blackfan runs to third base March 10, during the Salukis' 7-2 victory against the Northern Illinois University Huskies at Itchy Jones Stadium.

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Opinion: Saluki baseball on a pitching roller coaster DILLON GILLILAND | @DillonGilliland

With the exciting and speedy offense the SIU baseball program brings to the table, one thing that has remained unpredictable is the pitching in the rotation and bullpen.

At the beginning of the season, Southern experimented with its weekend rotation in hopes of finding the most consistent tandem for three-game series.

The Salukis' ace senior pitcher Michael Baird who made the initial Friday start of the season, has opened every weekend series.

Baird got off to a rocky start as he pitched 4.2 innings against Jacksonville State, giving up four earned runs. The performance started his season off with a 7.71 ERA. The Coloradan chipped away at his ERA with some key performances and hurled eight scoreless innings against Northern Illinois, dropping his ERA to 2.42.

So far Baird's ERA has climbed back up to 3.39, however, his rocky outings that rose his average came against some of the top teams in the country such as Illinois.

Southern's Saturday starter came to be senior pitcher Jamison Steege who instantly hit the ground running in his 2018 campaign.

After two outings Steege had an impressive 1.29 ERA, a statistic that can be credited to his eight shutout innings against North Florida.

Since then Steege has struggled as his ERA has climbed to 5.40 due to sub-par outings such as the five earned runs in 3.2 innings against Louisiana Monore and, most recently, the eight earned runs in 3.2 innings against Tennessee Tech.

Despite his struggles, the senior pitcher has shown he can still put up solid numbers as he tossed seven

scoreless innings against UC Irvine, a team that currently sits at 24-14.

Sunday's pitcher has been the biggest roller coaster for SIU as it began the year with junior pitcher Mason Hiser at the helm.

However, Hiser struggled from the start of the season and head coach Ken Henderson said that the junior’s throwing arm had been bothering him.

After the Salukis' victory against Murray State Henderson said Hiser would miss the rest of the season due to Tommy John surgery.

"He is a pitcher that was good for us all preseason," Henderson said after Southern's loss to Louisiana Monroe. "I have all the confidence in the world that he will bounce back."

All was not lost for SIU as it discovered its potential future ace in the form of sophomore pitcher Brad Harrison.

Harrison kicked off the season as Southern's midweek pitcher.

However, he began to turn some heads after pitching a complete game shutout against Belmont, followed up with eight scoreless innings against SEMO. Across the two games Harrison pieced together 24 strikeouts.

After getting the MVC Pitcher of the Week nod, he slowly transitioned his way into the weekend start in place of Hiser.

Harrison got his first taste of weekend pitching against Illinois

where he went 7.2 innings, giving up five earned runs.

"I have to treat every game the same," Harrison said after his weekend debut. "My stuff is good enough to go up against the big teams."

The sophomore has remained fairly consistent since then, excluding his outing against Tennessee Tech where he gave up eight earned runs through 4.2 innings pitched.

With Harrison leaving the midweek games for the weekend, the next wonder was who would take over the midweek spot.

Sophomore pitcher Dylan Givens answered that question.

Givens opened up the season as a reliever where he averaged a 4.66 ERA through 9.2 innings. Since taking over the role of a starting pitcher, he has dropped his ERA to 3.10.

The reliever turned starter has been a prime example of a work in progress as he made his first start against SIUE, going three innings with one earned run.

Givens gradually began to go deeper into his starts the more he pitched and finally had his breakthrough game in his fourth start against Belmont.

Against the Bruin he threw seven scoreless innings, giving up only three hits while striking out two. "[Pitching coach P.J. Finigan] prepares us well for our games,"

“[Pitching coach P.J. Finigan] prepares us well for our games.

He gets us in a consistent role and things are starting to fall into place.�

- Dylan Givens, Sophomore

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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Southern Illinois senior pitcher Michael Baird (31) launches the ball Friday, March 23, 2018, during the University of California-Irvine Anteaters' 6-2 victory against the Southern Illinois Salukis at Itchy Jones Stadium.

Givens said after his start against Belmont. "He gets us in a consistent role and things are starting to fall in place."

With that being said, Southern will lose two of its weekend starters to graduation following the season, leaving Harrison as the only guaranteed weekend

starter in 2019.

If Givens continues to improve in his sophomore campaign, the idea of him taking a weekend spot could become a reality.

In the bullpen, SIU's go-to closer, senior Ryan Netemeyer, has struggled in his senior year. Thus far he maintains a 6.60 ERA.

With Netemeyer in the midst a shaky season, the Salukis needed someone to step up and take charge in the bullpen.

Freshman reliever Trey McDaniel did just that.

McDaniel currently averages a 4.81 ERA through 24.1 innings pitched, however, his ERA is not a

direct reflection of his work as he has managed to maneuver Southern out of multiple tight situations.

"He's tough," Henderson said.

"He has got us through us some tough innings and he isn't afraid to pitch in a tough situation."

All in all the Saluki pitching has proven that when they are right,

hitting against them is no simple task. However, when they are not clicking, the offense has to be there ready to score runs.

Sports reporter Dillon Gilliland can be reached at dgilliland@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @DillonGilliland.

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