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Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Demonstrators raise their hands while chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot” as they march across campus Monday during a protest organized in part by the May 2 Strike Committee. During the protest, demonstrators yelled, “We have a duty to fight for our freedom, we have a duty to win.” The protest, which consisted of more than 100 participants, was in response to such issues as the Illinois budget impasse, student loan debt and racism at SIU.

Hundreds turn out for May 2 protest DAILY EGYPTIAN CAMPUS DESK

At least 200 students and community members congregated on campus Monday in protest of a host of issues, including racism, sexism, student debt, the state’s historic budget impasse and administrators’ salaries. “Chop from the top,” protesters chanted inside the Student Center and Anthony Hall, where many of the university’s administrative offices are housed. Demonstrators, some of whom wore masks and bandannas to conceal their identities, continued to shout “No justice, no peace,” “Hands up, don’t shoot!” and “Fuck Donald Trump” as they marched from building to building. Dozens of students and community members marched through campus on a course that led into Thompson Point, Morris Library, Trueblood Hall and other campus buildings in an attempt to corral passersby to join their cause. The demonstration eventually

settled in the area between the Student Services and Faner Hall where participants and organizers voiced their concerns, most of which involved racial diversity and the salaries of SIU administrators. “You can no longer put a BandAid on a bullet wound,” Donald Chamberlain III said to listeners through a megaphone from atop a fountain across the Student Center, wearing a T-shirt that read “#NoRacism.” Chamberlain, a master’s student in social work from Carbondale, criticized the administration’s handling of incidents involving SIU student Leilani Bartlett and a racist YouTube video that called for the lynching of black students. He said campus-wide emails to students from the chancellor are not enough. The discussion of racism on the SIUC campus entered the national conversation after Bartlett, a freshman from Chicago studying business, released a Facebook live video detailing an

alleged encounter with members of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity using racist speech in Brown Hall, where she lives. The university responded to the video and subsequent demonstrations by informing students of the ongoing investigation of the incidents and organizing on-campus “listening sessions” to promote inclusivity and diversity. Last week, an anonymously posted video titled “SIUC White is Right” told white SIUC students to “bring your bats and leave your wallets” to class Monday and a computer-generated voice attributed the message to campus ATO members. Nolan McConnell, the president of SIU’s ATO chapter, denied any affiliation with the video and said racism is not tolerated or promoted by any members of his organization. Johnathan Flowers, a doctoral candidate in philosophy from Oak Park, said the university administration allows discrimination of marginalized student

groups and has failed to adequately educate students on diversity. “That is the reason we are accepted, but not welcomed,” Flowers said. When asked to comment on the demonstration, interim Chancellor Brad Colwell declined and said the day was about listening to what students had to say. “The students are doing what we want them to do, which is express themselves,” SIU spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said. “We are having very serious discussions about steps we can take as a campus to address the very real concerns that students are raising.” Police officers from the Illinois State Police and Carbondale Police Department were present on campus to aid SIU police, which also had an increased presence Monday. Goldsmith said the university requested a heightened police presence as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of students. “We anticipated calm, but needed to be prepared,” she said.

The protests were conducted peacefully and no one was arrested or issued a citation, SIU Police Chief Ben Newman said. Faculty members of the university’s College of Liberal Arts were sent an email last week outlining a plan to address the May 2 strike date, which was obtained by the Daily Egyptian. Classes were expected to remain in session and instructors were told they would need to need to submit an absence request form to cancel them. Shanese Broadnax, a freshman from Bolingbrook studying sociology, said she skipped three of her classes to join the protests. “I just felt like as an AfricanAmerican woman, as a student, I want to make sure I stay involved with what is going on at my school,” she said. Luke Nozicka, Anna Spoerre, Bill Lukitsch and Rebekah Sanders contributed to this report. The Daily Egyptian’s campus desk can be reached at 618-536-3325 or lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com.

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Connie Rhein, of Carbondale, stands during the AIDS Candlelight Vigil on Sunday at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Carbondale. Rev. Alan Rhein, Connie’s husband, said he and his wife have known several people who have died from AIDS. “People put a statement on it and they say, ‘Well, they were gay,’” Alan said. “That doesn’t have anything to do with it. People are sick, so how can we stop this AIDS epidemic? To me, that’s the issue.”

Students come together for peace rally DIAMOND JONES | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Students a part of several organizations and socially active groups on campus came together Monday for a two-and-half-hour peace rally outside of Faner Hall. Dozens of diverse students gathered around with posters, banners and signs — some reading "Black Lives Matter" and "When They Say Peace, They Mean Obedience" — to rally against the social issues on campus, such as the budget crisis, homophobia, academic diversity and racism. "We had safety concerns, but that’s why we conducted the peace rally," said Donald Chamberlain, a master’s student in social work from Carbondale. "We knew people were scared and wanted people to know that no violence would overpower this." Chamberlain, one of the five organizers of the rally, said there was a high demand for the university's president, chancellor and administration to hold a press conference to find solutions to these social problems. He said the university has yet to define diversity and hopes they construct a diversitybased course. "Universities and society desperately need young people because our voices challenge them to step up when we step up," Chamberlain said. Some students who wanted to participate were a bit hesitant because of violent threats made prior to the rally, he said. But that didn’t stop most of them from giving support

and using their voices to be heard. Kia Smith, a junior from Chicago studying advertising and Africana studies, received a call from her father early Monday morning in regards to her safety. Smith said she didn’t know what to expect from the rally, but felt that the event was a great symbol of solidarity, showing her the support of students who didn’t look like her. "The work is not over, and we still have more to do along with the administration," Smith said. "We have to let it be known we’ll continue to use our voices on homophobia, sexual assault and racism." Smith said she would like to see more resources for minorities and greater support toward sexual harassment victims on campus. "I would like to see these victims be taken seriously and their stories to be believed," Smith said. "The people in charge need to take advantage of their job titles and see that we’re spending money to go to a school with no resources to keep us here." Johnathan Flowers, a doctoral candidate in philosophy from Oak Park, said in his 11 years of being at SIU, this was the first time he had ever seen people from different groups and races come together to advocate for the same purpose. Flowers, who also helped organize the event, said he hopes white students realized that just because they don’t face issues of minorities, they still can see that students of color are suffering and they have the power to make a change. "No matter what, love always wins against hate," Chamberlain

Autumn Suyko | @AutumnSuyko_DE Felicia Jacobs, a freshman from Chicago who is undecided on a major, holds up a sign displaying the words “Love is greater than hate!” during a peace rally Monday outside of Faner Hall. The rally followed protests during which demonstrators responded to the Illinois budget impasse, student loan debt and racism at SIU.

said. "Hopefully this has woken up administration and students because the peaceful movement has begun and will continue."

Diamond Jones can be reached at djones@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

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Student calls on Obama to help end racism at SIU ANNA SPOERRE | @AnnaSpoerre

Provided photo Evan Brown, a graduate student in professional media and media management from Chicago, traveled to Washington, D.C. to protest recent campus racism in front of the White House on Sunday. “This shouldn’t be going on on campus,” he said. “I feel like the campus should take things more seriously in trying to prevent these things from happening.”

While May 2 protesters were preparing signs on Sunday, SIU student Evan Brown was standing in front of the White House protesting recent racism on campus. “I knew everybody was going to be in Carbondale so I figured I would just go to the White House,” Brown said of the May 2 protests where hundreds gathered on campus Monday. “I figured if anybody could at least help it would be the president.” Even though Brown — a graduate student in professional media and media management from Chicago — said he was not able to see President Barack Obama or even go into the White House, he still stood outside the historic building to make a statement. Brown, who may be better known as the voice in the SIU YouTube channel video “Saluki

prescription drugs — something the department did Saturday as a part of the National Take-Back initiative. Students and the local community were invited to turn in the drugs anonymously. Carbondale police Sgt. Doug Wilson, a 17-year police veteran, estimates five to seven large boxes of drugs are given to the DEA at each initiative in the city. “We do it because we don’t want

people to take expired medication, because it could become a poison to them,” Wilson said. “Also there’s a lot of prescription drug abuse and so if someone wants to get rid of their old prescription narcotics so a friend or neighbor or relative doesn’t try to take it from them and use it inappropriately, they can bring it here to get rid of it.” The local law enforcement agency not only collected the medication,

— Justin Bieber remix,” said he decided to drive 800 miles to Washington, D.C., after a racist YoutTube video “SIUC White is Right” was posted April 21. “It’s 2016 and we shouldn’t feel unwelcome anywhere we go in the United States,” he said, referring to lynching threats made in the video that was later taken down for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech. When Brown — joined by SIU alumni — arrived at the White

House, they held up signs that included the phrases, “Mr. President, we need your help,” “Stop the racism” and “It’s 2016 #SIUC.” Brown said he plans to continue speaking out against racism and injustice on campus when he returns Tuesday morning. “It just needs to come to an end, especially at SIU,” he said. Anna Spoerre can be reached at aspoerre@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

“I knew everybody was going to be in Carbondale so I figured I would just go to the White House. I figured if anybody could help it would be the president.” - Evan Brown graduate student in professional media and media management

Carbondale police collect expired, unwanted drugs REBEKAH SANDERS | @RSanders_DE

During 10 weekends in the past five years, the Drug Enforcement Agency collected more than 5.5 million pounds of prescription drugs across the nation — some of which came from Carbondale. Carbondale police contributes to these figures by collecting expired and unwanted over-the-counter and

but informed the general public about potential abuse for medication, according to the DEA’s Office of Diversion Control’s website. The DEA sponsors this event twice a year, usually in late April and early October. In fall’s initiative, more than 3,800 federal, state and local agencies took in more than 702,365 pounds of unused, expired or unwanted drugs at more than

5,000 collection sites across the United States, according to a DEA news release. The medication was burned by the DEA at an unnamed facility. If community members missed this initiative, a person can contact their local hospital or clinic to inquire about safe ways to dispose their medication. Rebekah Sanders can be reached at rsanders@dailyegyptian.com

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CESL to lose faculty this fall after dip in program enrollment

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ANNA SPOERRE | @ANNASPOERRE

SIU’s Center for English as a Second Language program will see a reduction in faculty this fall, the center's interim director said Monday. Letters — containing either a renewal or non-renewal of each faculty member’s term appointment — were sent Friday by Michael Molino, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts, to all 21 members of the center’s faculty, interim Director Elisa Hunt said. Molino declined to comment for this story. She said the faculty whose contracts are not renewed will have their position terminated at the end of this semester. Hunt would not comment on how many faculty will not return because some have decided to wait until the end of the semester to open the letter. Faculty members are waiting to ensure their fate does not affect their teaching ability for the remainder of the semester, she said. Five teaching assistant and three graduate assistant positions will remain unfilled and eight more will not have their contracts renewed, Hunt said in an email — meaning 16 nonfaculty positions will be vacant. Hunt said the cuts are not the result of the state budget impasse, but rather a dramatic drop in the program’s enrollment. The center, not funded by the university or state funds, is supported by the tuition of the students in the program. In spring 2014 when the center was at its peak enrollment, there were 335 students. Now it has 144 students, Hunt said. She said the cause of this decrease — which she said is reflected in most English as a second language programs nationally — is from countries such as Saudi Arabia and Brazil funding fewer students to study English in the United States. "If we have more students, we have more money," she said. "If we have fewer students, we really have to look at ways to cut back [financially]." Right now, she said, some class sections only have three or four students. As a result, students will not experience the effects of these faculty cuts, Hunt said. The program will offer the same courses for students, but will be able to accommodate more students per session with fewer faculty. Hunt said the 21 faculty at the center are all non-tenure track — meaning they lack the job security of tenured professors. "Nobody is being cut because of anything they did," Hunt said. "It’s the nature of the program." Anna Spoerre can be reached at aspoerre@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Mansor Sufran, captain of SIU’s Steel Bridge Team, fans the cooking area while roasting a lamb Sunday outside the Engineering Building in Carbondale. Sufran, a senior from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia studying civil engineering, promised his team if they qualified for nationals he would spit roast a lamb for them, a common practice in Saudi Arabia. “They looked at the pictures and videos I’ve made before roasting lamb with my friends,” he said. “And they said we’d like to try that. I was taught how to cook, skin and prepare sheep when I was 10 or 12 years old at home.” Jonathan Stitgen, a senior team member from Bensenville studying civil engineering, said: “I might try the brains if there is any left over, because how often do you get to do that?” If the team places top three at nationals, Sufran said he will cook a camel for the team if he can find one.

One arrested, charged with aggravated robbery after Thursday night incident LUKE NOZICKA | @LUKENOZICKA

Carbondale police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Thursday after a man was robbed by an acquaintance. A man was walking in the 300 block of West Pecan Street with acquaintances Thursday evening, when one of the them —

a juvenile — "demanded personal property from him while brandishing a handgun," police said in a news release Monday. Police responded to the incident about 7:11 p.m. Thursday in the 500 block of North Oakland Avenue. The juvenile was arrested at his residence and charged with aggravated robbery, police

say. He was incarcerated at the Jackson County Jail in Murphysboro after his arrest. Police did not release his identity. No one was injured during this incident. Luke Nozicka can be reached at lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325

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Social media’s reaction to Monday’s protest

Protesters take to Grand Avenue

EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

Students and community members protested all types of issues on Monday, something that divided SIU students on social media. Here's what some critics of the protest said on Facebook and Twitter. "This #SIUC protest is so disorganized. #OneThingAtATime" @_iruiz said on Twitter. The demonstrators received hate online for what some people called disorganization. "No direction and no clear message..." Raymond Gilmer said on Facebook. "So my school is rioting, and apparently it's supposed to be about the budget, but now it's about black people and Donald trump." @theKmorg wrote on Twitter. "Although I love my undergrad University, I will actively work against the school and the administration If SIU panders to this childish nonsense," Brent McDaniel said on Facebook. "The racists are the 'protesters'." Others were pleased with the movement's message and execution. "I found the protest moving and powerful," @Hayleymd95 said on Twitter. "It was an amazing group of people speaking from the heart. #SIU #May2nd." "If we were still under the Rita Cheng Regime, this would have ended in total disaster," @ SIUProblems said on Twitter of former Chancellor Rita Cheng. "Yea, unorganized, def! But at least it's something." Some didn't take a stance, but were able to find some humor in the situation. "Carbondale goin up on Monday," @Cracker_Jack26 said on Twitter. Of course, some people had to allude to SIU's reputation for fun Friday through Sunday. "Lol I think if we all can handle the weekends here in Carbondale, we can handle a little riot on a Monday," @TeamHeitzig wrote on Twitter. "Shout out to the dude who responded 'I'm just tryna party' when asked why he's participating in the protest," @SoIllGent said on Twitter. "You're my fucking hero." One commenter even invoked a Spongebob reference. "Next time there is a major protest downtown, I'm going to show up protesting 'The Crusty Crab is unfair' with the nose picking sign" @_KYLE____ said on Twitter. Evan Jones can be reached at ejones@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3304.

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE A protester walks down East Grand Avenue displaying a “Black Lives Matter” sign during a protest organized in part by the May 2 Strike Committee. Partway through the protest, demonstrators began walking down East Grand Avenue and then to South Illinois Avenue before moving back to campus.

Missouri lawmakers want to loosen gun laws, while Illinois legislators seek to tighten them KURT ERICKSON ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Although Missouri is already ranked as a top-10 lenient state for gun owners, lawmakers are moving closer to further loosening the state's firearms laws. As the legislative session enters its final two weeks, the House and Senate are considering making it legal for people to carry concealed weapons without a permit anywhere they now can carry guns openly. And, the Republican-led majorities also are considering an expansion of Missouri's self-defense laws by allowing a person to use deadly force in public places if they believe a reasonable threat exists. The two proposals are the frontrunners among a handful of gun bills to make it across the finish line before the Legislature adjourns on May 13. Other firearms legislation appears mostly stalled, including initiatives to allow firearms on college campuses and public transportation. It is not clear where Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon stands on the proposals. Earlier in the session, Nixon said he was opposed to a bill that would allow guns on college campuses, saying, "Gunfights on the quadrangle will not solve problems." His office said Friday that the governor was not going to comment on the two bills. In July, Guns and Ammo magazine ranked Missouri as No. 9 among

the 50 states and the District of Columbia in terms of laws friendly to firearms owners. Tops in the nation was Arizona, which has permitless and permitted carry and "strong selfdefense laws," the magazine noted. In contrast, President Barack Obama singled out Missouri this year when he cited a 2014 study that found Missouri's gun homicide rate increased by 14 percent after lawmakers in 2007 removed a requirement that all handgun buyers obtain a license verifying they had passed a background check. In a sometimes testy debate on the Senate floor last week, Sen. Jason Holsman, D-Kansas City, questioned whether the state should enact a "stand your ground" law. The proposal would expand Missouri's "castle doctrine," which allows a person to use deadly force to defend themselves at home or on their property. House guests, such as a baby sitter, also would be covered if an intruder entered a home. Holsman said there are other options besides using a gun when feeling threatened. "There's negotiations. There's diplomacy," he told the sponsor of the change, Sen. Kurt Schaefer, R-Columbia. "Diplomacy with somebody that's pointing a gun at you or your kids in a dark alley as you walk to your car? You want to rely on diplomacy?" asked Schaefer, who is a candidate for

attorney general. Becky Morgan, leader of the Missouri chapter of Moms Demand Action, said the proposal, which was adopted as part of an amendment to a larger crime package, would turn conflicts into deadly encounters. "Do not be misled: Stand Your Ground laws do not deter crime, they make everyday situations more dangerous by allowing people to shoot first and ask questions later," Morgan said in a statement. Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Springfield, meanwhile, contends his plan to make Missouri a so-called "open carry" state will help people who don't have enough money or time to go through the standard permitting process. "Simply to say that you cannot defend yourself unless you pay expensive fees and take a course is not in my opinion appropriate," Burlison said. He said the move, if adopted, will not make Missouri less safe. "I think we do it in a responsible way. We aren't letting citizens carry in a place where they can't carry today," Burlison said. The first-time application fee for a concealed carry permit is $100. Training classes, which are required, typically cost between $60 and $130. Illinois is considering different path. The Missouri bills run counter to measures being considered in the Illinois Legislature, where lawmakers may strengthen the state's ability to keep guns out of the hands of people

who are mentally ill or pose a danger. Some of the Democrat-sponsored plans would remove a person's right to hold a Firearm Owners Identification card, which is necessary to buy a gun in Illinois, if the individual has an order of protection against him or her or if a family member successfully petitions a court. Another plan would require better reporting of cases in which a judge has deemed someone mentally disabled. Each measure tightens a loophole in existing law, which some lawmakers said could prevent more gun deaths and keep potentially dangerous people from possessing firearms. But some gun rights advocates say a couple of the plans are too severe and that stricter gun laws disregard the rights of responsible gun owners. In Missouri, the president of the state's Fraternal Order of Police said the organization is strongly opposed to both measures pending in Jefferson City. In particular, St. Louis Police Department Sgt. Kevin Ahlbrand said the permitless carry proposal was "irresponsible." "People need to have training. Allowing anybody to carry is ludicrous," Ahlbrand said. He added that the police group also is hopeful the "stand your ground" legislation is quashed. "I think it would hurt us, especially in urban areas," Ahlbrand said.

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms A protester, who refused to give his name, waves a black flag Monday during the May 2 Strike Committee’s protest outside Faner Hall in Carbondale. More than 100 people marched around campus yelling, “No justice, no peace. No racist police.”

Protest in pictures

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Keith Powers, right pole, Amber Billings, middle pole and other protesters march under Faner Hall on Monday during a protest organized in part by the May 2 Strike Committee. The group’s sign displayed the words, “it’s not a ‘budget impasse,’ it’s CLASS WAR.”

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Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Amber Billings, who refused to give any other information on herself or her involvement in the protest, holds a sign that reads “it’s not a ‘budget impasse,’ it’s CLASS WAR.” on Monday inside the Student Services Building during a protest organized in part by the May 2 Strike Committee. The protest consisted of more than 100 participants. During the march across campus, demonstrators chanted sayings such as “This is what democracy looks like.”

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Protesters march between Morris Library and Faner Hall on Monday during a protest organized in part by the May 2 Strike Committee. The protesters chanted sayings such as “This is what democracy looks like” and “Strike, strike, strike”

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Protesters march through the Student Center on Monday during the May 2 Strike Committee’s scheduled strike. The march, which drew more than 100 people, protested racism, sexism, student loan debt and Illinois’ budget impasse.

Autumn Suyko | @AutumnSuyko_DE Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump debate with Mikala Barrett, a freshman from Chicago studying criminology and criminal justice, on Monday outside Faner Hall following the May 2 protest. One of the issues addressed in the protest was racism at SIU, much of which has concerned the controversial presidential candidate.

Opinion

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Noah Leverett, a senior from Carbondale studying therapeutic recreation, yells to demonstrators in protest of student loan debt Monday during a protest that drew over 200 students, alumni and community-members in front of Faner Hall. Leverett said student loan debt prevented him from being able to afford a house, car or children in the future. Other issues addressed during the protest were sexism and racism at SIU and the state’s budget impasse.

Monday’s protests explained SLOAN MARION | @SketchingBear

The biggest question I saw Monday on social media and on campus tied to the idea of what was the purpose of the May 2 protests were. With all the different ideas being thrown at you — racism, sexism and student loan debt, just to name a few — it does seem random. “Is it just me or is the SIU protest like all over the place?” tweeted user @ Rickkslick. Others complained of the lack of order. Without much thought, the protest appeared to be chaotic and

sporadic as far as the topics that were concerned. However, in my eyes, this was to be expected. During the protest I stood in the middle of the crowd noticing the reaction from each other crowd member. Surrounded by people I never saw on campus, I couldn’t help but notice the purpose of the protest: unity. The protest provided an unofficial forum for students to express their issues and concerns about the university to a crowd of people who wanted to listen. Each person that spoke had a very

personal approach, allowing each speech to be vastly different. The idea of the protest appeared with the ever-growing wait for the state budget to be passed. Student and faculty are fearing job loss and program cutting. However, as time passed, a YouTube video titled “SIUC White is Right” surfaced containing racial slurs and threats to black students on campus. This riled up a lot of minority students, adding to the racial tension on campus. This lead to the May 2 strike becoming less about the state budget

and debt and more about racial issues on campus. During the demonstration both issues were addressed, opening the gate to discussion about many more problems. “This protest shit at SIU is so stupid. They don’t even know what they are protesting, one video a guy talked about cars and then animals.” posted by Twitter user @SethSmith3. So many ideas were thrown from the discussion of white privilege and institutional racism, to the lack of representation of Native Americans on campus and lack of response from the school on women’s abuse issues.

I don’t think people expect the issues explained to be fixed in a week or so, but they are just happy to be heard and taken seriously. Many students claim to not have a voice on the issues that affect them, and this protest provided them with said voice. Just because something isn’t prepared on a platter for you eat, doesn’t mean it isn’t food. The protest had a definite purpose. Students and faculty united to express their personal opinions in the first steps to making campus more inclusive and welcoming to all students.

Paying back MAP grants is a road we should avoid ANDREW GILLESPIE Graduate Student

While those at the top of SIU seem to be very comfortable, too many students at this university find themselves in frightening and confusing circumstances, for one reason or another. This uneasiness is exacerbated for the thousands of students who have “received” Monetary Award Program grants over the last two semesters. MAP grants are awarded to some the most economically vulnerable undergraduate students in Illinois. SIUC awarded MAP grants to 4,766 students over the last two semesters in amounts up to $4,968 per student. These students live in an era of skyrocketing higher education costs and the normalization of a massive student debt regime in which young people mortgage their future with the easy credit made available to

them via campus financial aid offices to cover these costs. The ongoing budget crisis in Illinois has witnessed a new innovation in the “courses on credit complex;” the idea that students may actually be held liable for MAP grant money that they accepted as part of their financial aid if the state does not come up with the funds. Susan Ford, provost of SIUC, gave credence to this logic when she explained a few months ago: “I think every student who receives MAP grants understands that, when the university honors that, it’s acting as a bank, dependent on whether the state funds them or not.” In other words, what is reported to MAP recipients as grant money really may, in the end, function as a loan in which the university floats them credit to pay itself.

This slippery rationale approached its doublespeak nadir at Illinois Tech on March 23 when its vice president of student enrollment officially offered MAP grant recipients at that institution “MAP Grant Replacement Loans.” These loans would allow students to stay in school while paying any remaining portion of their MAP grant left uncovered by the state back to the school over the next year in monthly installments with an interest rate of 6.8%. Their other options were to pay their newly inflated bursar bill in full or to leave the balance on their bursar bill and be subject to a hold on their account (and presumably also service charges and whatever other measures the institution has for dealing with outstanding balances.) There has been no official resolution for MAP grant recipients at SIU. In fact, Randy Dunn has encouraged the university Board of Trustees to

wait until the summer to make an announcement on what the fate of MAP grant recipients may be. While our administrators continue to receive lavish salaries and benefits, the lives of thousands of vulnerable students at SIU has been left to hang in the balance of whatever the outcome of the state’s budget impasse may be. This is unfair. Our administration needs to ease the minds and reaffirm the dignity of our MAP grant recipients by promising not to go after them for any missing money from the state. My request is simple: immediately abolish the possibility of students being charged for state grants that they accepted as part of their financial aid package from a state institution. This would involve a prompt guarantee to current MAP grant recipients that they will not be on the hook for any grant money

that they accepted at SIU. Our administrators should follow other entities that receive state funding in suing the state for missing funds or resign from their positions and collect their severance packages and pensions before they make themselves complicit in a grantsare-really-loans bait and switch scheme perpetrated on our most vulnerable students. Again, such a possibility should be abolished at this university, even if the MAP grant money for the current academic year comes through in full. Things are bad enough for economically disadvantaged students; let’s not allow “grants that you have to pay back” to gain institutional legitimacy under our watch. Andrew Gillespie is a graduate student in philosophy from Alton

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Sean Carley | @SCarleyDE Junior center fielder Merri Anne Patterson catches a fly ball in April 13’s 2-0 win against Murray State at Charlotte West Stadium. Patterson went 1-2 with a run scored in the game

Patterson’s ‘hose’ on fire

SEAN CARLEY | @SCARLEYDE

SIU softball's strongest defensive weapon is roaming out in center field. During her three years in Carbondale, junior center fielder Merri Anne Patterson has developed a reputation as one of the Missouri Valley Conference's best defensive players. Hailing from Lynnville, Tenn., Patterson has six outfield assists on the season, most on the team. She has made her home in the outfield her entire SIU career, but wasn't always the case. Despite being all-district at shortstop in high school, coach Kerri Blaylock recruited Patterson as an outfielder, knowing her arm belonged beyond the infield dirt. The transition to the outfield was one of the most difficult things Patterson has faced in her softball career, but she would never want to move back, she said. "I had a lot of work to do in the outfield," Patterson said. "I knew I would be making the switch, so I had some time to prepare, but just going from infield to outfield

is so hard because of the footwork. It's so hard mentally to keep going and keep pushing yourself." Her strong arm became notorious to other Valley teams during her freshman year.

"They were hitting balls at me all day," Patterson said after that game. "I was hoping they would test me on a play at the plate. They finally did in the seventh, and I hosed her."

someone out in the outfield, to perfectly put the ball at the plate. It can get a lot of things rolling." Patterson said she has no idea where her arm strength came from, suggesting it may have been hereditary.

“People really see your ability when you can throw someone out in the outfield, to perfectly put the ball at the plate. It can get a lot of things rolling.” - Merri Anne Patterson junior center

left field, 47 in center and 17 in right. She played right most of her freshman year, then moved to left last year and center this year. "Center is a bit better because you can see the ball off the bat easier," she said. "In left, it's tricky because the ball moves differently than it does to center field like a straight hit." Patterson said there's another "hose" waiting in the wings like she did her freshman year. "Eyrika [Brandenburg] has a great arm," she said. "She has a cannon too, she'll probably be the center fielder her junior year. She reminds me so much of myself because she was a catcher in high school and a shortstop as well, so she has a cannon and it's not tamed — and that's how mine was — but we got it under control now." After this season, Patterson will have one more campaign to hose runners in center field, before Brandenburg can take over in 2018.

In the second game of an April 12, 2014 doubleheader at Bradley, Patterson took it upon herself to close out the game. Entering the bottom of the seventh, SIU led the Braves 7-6 and the tying run was at third with one out. Braves catcher Kendall Duffy hit a fly ball to Patterson, in her fifth start of the season, and the Braves tried to test her arm. The freshman, playing right field, gunned Shannon King at home plate to end the game and secure a Saluki victory.

Since then, "hosing" has become a euphemism for gunning baserunners for the Salukis. After that game SIU went on a tear with Patterson in the lineup, winning nine of its next 10 games. Overall, Patterson has 12 career outfield assists, nine of which are from her outfield position to home. Patterson said hosing"a runner is by far the most satisfying feeling. "It's better than a home run," she said. "People really see your ability when you can throw

"They tell me I have a lot of flexibility in my arm so I can get a lot of whip on my throws," she said. "My mom was a very good softball player and she had a very good arm as well. It's all very raw." She regularly attends physical therapy because of an injury last season, which is the only extra work put in outside of regular practice and general weightlifting. In her three years at SIU, Patterson has tried each outfield spot. She's played 48 games in

Newcomer of the Week for their performances against Northern Iowa over the weekend. This is the second time that Harre has won Player of the Week this season. She went 4-for-7 with three doubles in the series while collecting two RBIs and walking

twice against the Panthers. Harre is now batting a team-high .350 and also leads the team in home runs (11) and doubles (12). Jones' Newcomer of the Week award is her fourth Newcomer award and her seventh overall when coupled with her Pitcher of the Week awards.

She held a strong UNI offense to a .170 average and zero home runs in 14 innings. She allowed just nine hits while striking out 14 and walking none. In addition, Jones picked up her MVC-leading 10th shutout on the season in the rubber match of the series.

Jones now sits at 21-10 with a MVC-low 1.80 ERA. SIU now has 11 weekly softball awards this season, the most out of all conference schools.

winning percentages above .500 in 2015, meeting requirements to be bowl eligible. That isn't to say all those teams would have won as many games against FBS opponents, but schedules heavy with C-USA and

Sun Belt opponents would more than likely lead to two or three bowl bids, with payouts between $400,000 and $1 million. North Dakota State, especially, would be an attractive option for bowl games, as its fans travel well (Any excuse to

get out of North Dakota, I guess). One question left unanswered is whether Valley teams would voluntarily leave the FCS system that gives them a chance to compete for national championships and sell out for a payday. Given the financial

situations of most mid-major athletic departments, that possibility might just be too sweet to pass on.

Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

Jones and Harre win MVC weekly awards SEAN CARLEY | @SCARLEYDE

Junior first baseman Shaye Harre and freshman pitcher Brianna Jones are taking home more weekly hardware. Harre was awarded Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week and Jones was named MVC

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A move to FBS would benefit the conference and its schools financially as well. Five Valley teams won at least six games and had

Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307

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Why FBS should annex the Valley

TUESDAY, MAY 3, 2016

THOMAS DONLEY | @TDONLEYDE

The NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision faced a problem this winter: Not enough of its teams won the minimum amount of games to qualify for its 40 postseason games. A solution could be found in the former stomping ground of the No. 2 pick in this year's NFL draft. Five-time defending champion North Dakota State — the alma mater of new Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Carson Wentz — and the Missouri Valley Football Conference have been dominating the Football Championship Subdivision since the turn of the decade. It's time to move on up. Five MVFC teams made the FCS playoffs in each of the last two years, the most of any conference. Six Valley teams have made the championship game in the last five seasons. Could the FBS annex the MVFC to improve its level of competition? As far as I know, there is no plan in place, but here is why it could work. FBS teams need at least six wins to be considered for bowl games, no more than one of which can be against FCS teams. Despite boasting competition better than many FBS opponents, MVFC teams have had limited opportunities to prove themselves against better competition because FBS teams have no incentive to schedule them. The way the system works now, a win for an FBS team against Charlotte or Eastern Michigan, two teams that combined to win three games in 2015, could mean more than a victory against North Dakota State or Illinois State. The Bison are 5-0 against FBS teams since the start of the 2010 season. Jeff Sagarin's College Football Rating had North Dakota State ranked as the 36thbest team in all of Division I. The second and third-best teams in FCS according to Sagarin's formula also hail from the MVFC. Illinois State (77th overall) and Northern Iowa (78th) were rated better than 16 teams that played in FBS bowl games. The MVFC as a whole is rated better than Conference USA, the Sun Belt Conference and the Mid-American Conference East Division by some of Sagarin's metrics. NDSU would have been the sixth-best team in the Big Ten, a conference that had seven bowl-eligible teams. ISU and UNI were better than Rutgers, Maryland and Purdue. Please see ANNEX | 9

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Dash Buntjer, strength coach for the baseball and cross country teams, watches the technique of Braden Mosley, a sophomore baseball player, on Monday during weight training in the Troutt-Wittmann Academic and Training Center. “People always say I’m a strength coach because I want to make the athletes stronger,” said Buntjer, a graduate student in kinesiology from Santa Rosa, Calif. “No — I’m a strength coach because I want to help them … knowing that I helped someone achieve something they wanted, just to impact their life positively — to me, that’s what it’s about.” He said the hardest part of graduating in May will be leaving his two teams. “It’s going to be a little sad, bittersweet, because of the relationships I’ve built with these athletes,” Buntjer said. “Hopefully I get the opportunity to go somewhere else and impact other people.”

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A different attitude and a fresh face in the weight room helped SIU baseball become swole this past offseason. Dash Buntjer, a graduate assistant, has brought a new energy to workouts and given the players a new direction to focus on. "We didn't really have a structured workout plan last season, we just showed up and lifted and that was it," said sophomore first baseman Logan Blackfan. "When he arrived it was much more organized in the fall. He pushed us to work hard and we got stronger and faster as a result." Buntjer, the former strength coach at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, arrived at SIU after serving as an assistant strength coach with UCLA's football team. Buntjer said he learned a few techniques from his previous stops and mentors including Derek Hansen, Sal Alosi and former head

strength coach Clete McLeod. "I brought a lot of the speed development and weight lifting I learned from both of them in my time spent in both places," he said. "I'll have the players do anything from box jumps to explosive medicine ball drills as well as lift weights. Overall, the goal is to create a positive atmosphere and talk to the athletes and make them realize it's about the team and not the individual. My coaching philosophy is simply help people improve." And they have improved. The team's 25 wins are 13 more than the 12-45 record it finished with last season. As a team, the Salukis are batting .263 through 44 games after hitting .249 last year. Junior shortstop Will Farmer said because of the rigorous fall workouts, the team experienced more gains from workouts than from the previous year. "[Buntjer] is such a fiery guy and he's always pushing us to work harder," he said. "I remember one

time I did three sets of squats and he asked me to do one more," he said. "It was really exciting in the fall to see some of the smaller guys putting up a lot of weight and crushing the ball out of the park, which they don't normally do, so we're really thankful for all the things he's done." When Buntjer first arrived he said he hadn't earned a Saluki baseball hat until the first game of the season. "I wanted to show by example that nothing is given and I, even as a coach, had to earn the gear," he said. "In season is when we wear our game day attire, so that's when I chose to wear it." He said although he comes from a football and rugby background, it wasn't difficult getting used to baseball culture. "All the athletes have to get up at 6 a.m. and being up early they're a little grumpy," he said. "But once they get going, they get hype and really get into the workout."

Buntjer said he gave players a plan he created with the staff based on where all the players were physically when he arrived. He said players executed it and he is happy to see them continually breaking weightlifting records. The team has broken most of the records in squats as well as the 60yard dash. "I don't train athletes to break records, I train them to be more athletic and if breaking records happen a long the way and they see their name on the record board, it gives them more incentive to work harder," he said. "This is a great group of kids and they're the ones who put in all the work. I'm just the guy who gives them that direction." The Salukis will try to muscle up on Illinois at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Champaign. Senior pitcher Bryce Sablotny (3-4, 5.52 ERA) will take the mound for the Dawgs. Ted Ward can be reached at tward@dailyegyptian.com or 618-534-3303