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University recognized for veteran services Marissa Novel Daily Egyptian

When leaving combat zones for classrooms, veterans must transition from military to student life, and Veterans Services is helping.

The university was awarded the Governor’s Award for Excellence in Veteran Education, making it the first university to receive the honor twice. The university was the first to receive the award after its creation in 2010.

Simon Wlodarski, chief of staff of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs, presented the framed certificate to interim Provost Susan Ford in front of the Travelling Vietnam Wall Exhibit Thursday.

“SIU has really developed some best practices that other universities could mirror,” Wlodarski said.

He said schools are nominated each semester by their veteran communities and evaluated by the success and benefits of their programs. The department awards one university statewide each semester.

“For this particular semester, SIU’s most successful merits are how they ... help [students] decide what they want to do and then successfully graduate through that degree program,” Wlodarski said.

President Randy Dunn, who attended the ceremony, said SIU Veterans Services gathers resources from across campus to give veterans a “one-stop-shop” for all their needs.

“They’ve been in the military, many of them have been serving in war zones, and they have very little patience and very little desire to sit and visit 10 offices to get a question answered,” Dunn said. “They’re looking for an institution that’s responsive, that can give them clear direction, and to get questions answered so they can get about the business of getting their degree.”

Coordinator Paul Copeland said the services have accomplished many initiatives in the past year, such as an alumni constituency group and a reception for veterans during Homecoming weekend.

“We have just started taking current students and assigning them as peer advisers, so we’ll have some current students who are interested in helping the next generation of students become successful,” he said.

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N athaN h oefert D aily e gyptiaN Members of the Culture House of Ballet warm up Saturday before preforming “The Dance of the Old Man” at the fifth-annual P’urépecha Festival in Cobden. “Ninety percent of the people here in Cobden are from Cherán, which is in the state of Michoacán in Mexico,” Warren Anderson, a festival commitee member said.

Saluki SEAL receives SIU honor Jordan Duncan Daily Egyptian

Although he left campus a decade ago, Navy SEAL William Bushelle left a lasting impression on his classmates and professors.

Special Warfare Operator First Class Bushelle, who graduated from the university in 2004 and died Feb. 16 in a car crash in Las Vegas, was honored this weekend at the Leadership Development Program’s tailgate and will continue to be remembered with a scholarship. The core concepts of leadership developed by Bushelle are taught to members of the Leadership Development Program.

Bushelle’s mentor, professor Bruce DeRuntz, and two Navy SEALs who served with Bushelle, hosted a workshop and tailgated before the SIU football game on Saturday.

“This is not meant to be a memorial,” said DeRuntz, adviser of the Leadership Development Program, who has integrated Bushelle’s principles of leadership into the program. “This is a celebration of Will’s legacy. The impact he had on SIU.” Bill Bushelle, William’s father, said his son learned to help those in need and developed leadership skills as a Boy Scout.

“He earned the rank of Eagle and the

honor medal for saving a young girl’s life,” Bill said. “There was an accident in the chemistry laboratory in the high school and she wound up being doused in alcohol and somehow it came across a Bunsen burner. Will took off his shirt and put out the flames.”

Paul Bell, a friend of Bushelle, said the SIU Foundation is raising money for a $1,000-per-year scholarship in his honor.

It would be awarded to an engineering student who is connected to the military or participates in the Leadership Development Program. He said the foundation hopes to raise $30,000 in the next five years.

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Renowned physicist remembered in rotunda Jordan Duncan Daily Egyptian

Bary Malik

Academics and social activists shared tearful eulogies Saturday around a framed picture of a mentor, professor and community leader in Morris Library.

The memorial commemorated Fazley Bary Malik, a professor of theoretical physics, who died July 4 after becoming ill at an airport in Istanbul, according a press release from David Vitoff, an Illinois Education Association organizer.

The university’s memorial from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. included a luncheon where several speakers shared memories of Malik. Speakers included civil rights attorney Richard Whitney, SIU professor and author Albert P. Melone and Esen Ercan Alp, who was recruited to the university from Turkey by Malik.

“Bary Malik was an eminent scholar of unusual intellectual ability,” Melone said.

Alp said Malik helped international students adapt to life in America.

“He was quite sensitive to recognizing their weaknesses and their strengths, and help them make the transition,” he said.

Alp said Malik helped him receive a visa and relocate to the U.S. in 1980, a process that requires a professor to identify a student with potential and help provide necessary resources.

Malik was also influential in faculty and administration relations.

James F. Clark, former IEA UniServ director, said Malik was never afraid to fight for collective bargaining.

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“His courage to put his name on the line was a … contributing factor to our organizing success in 1996,” Clark said.

Richard Whitney, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer, said one of Malik’s major contributions within local social activism was mediating arguments.

“He was a model of collegiality, civility, deliberateness, respectfulness and calm,” said Whitney, who worked with Malik on students’ rights issues when Malik was chair of the southern Illinois union chapter.

Malik was born Aug. 16, 1934, in West Benegal, India. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Calcutta University in 1953 and his doctorate in theoretical physics in Germany under the supervision

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Bill said instead of going to college, his son wanted to climb the highest mountain on each continent. When William asked his father to help fund this, Bill said, “What’s your other option?”

William then joined the Navy.

Paula Bushelle, William’s mother, said she preferred her son

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of Werner Heisenberg, a pioneer of quantum mechanics.

Malik served as post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, assistant professor at Yale University and a professor at Indiana University before coming to SIU in 1980, where he served as chair of the Department of Physics. He stepped down in 1985 to focus on research.

He received the American Physical Society’s John Wheatley Award in 2007 for “extensive contributions to developing physics and inspiring physicists in emerging nations through insightful personal collaborations,”

according to a press release.

Whitney said Malik was humble about his accomplishments in the scientific field.

“He never brought it up, and I was too absorbed in the subjects of the moment to ask what he taught and what he researched,” Whitney said.

“Today, the expression that someone is a ‘gentleman and a scholar’ is viewed as a mildly humorous or ironic compliment. For Bary, it would be a spot-on description.”

joining the Navy instead of going to college.

“As a mother, I felt more comfortable with my son going to the Navy right out of high school than I would have felt comfortable with him going to college,” Paula said. “He was leaving home, but he still had a support system.”

Bill, who attended SIU, said his son gained an electrical engineering

degree with the Navy and served two terms in the Middle East during his career.

DeRuntz said William developed deep friendships at the university.

He said William always viewed Carbondale as home, and would visit him on occasion.

“When Will walked into a room, if you didn’t know him, you wanted to know him,” Bell said.

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Copeland said there are 643 student veterans on campus this year.

Dan Perritt, a senior from Des Plaines studying history and political science, said he contacted Veteran Services and it helped him understand the transition process before he came to the university in 2011.

“Transition happened very steadily,” he said. “The first semester is typically the most wavy when you’re going from an active duty mindset from the military because you’re goal oriented. You’re mission oriented more than anything else.”

Perritt said switching to civilian life was difficult, and he had to change his mindset from expecting objectives to be given to him, to pursuing his own objectives and education.

“It’s a slow progression from what you were, into shaping what you want to be,” he said.

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-Dan Perritt Veteran

Shortly after he came to the university, Perrit said he started working for Veteran Services as a VA work-study to help veteran students undergo similar mindset changes.

“Giving them that mission is imperative … because when we leave it’s kind of like this whole wide world is out there, but you don’t know what to do with it,” he said.

Marissa Novel can be reached at mnovel@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @marissanovelDE or at 536-3311 ext. 268.

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Islamic State executes British aid worker Jonathan S. Landay

McClatchy Washington Bureau

The Islamic State posted a video Saturday of the execution of a British aid worker for what the killer said was retaliation for Britain’s decision to join the international coalition that the United States is leading to fight the radical Islamist group.

David Cawthorne Haines was the third Westerner murdered by the Islamic State, and his executioner appeared to be the same as the suspected British militant who killed American freelance journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

The circumstances of Haines’ murder also were the same: He was seen kneeling in a sunbaked, desert-like setting, dressed in loose, orange-colored garments akin to surgical

scrubs and flanked by his knife-wielding killer clad in black, most of his face sheathed in a scarf and turban.

The British Foreign Office said in a statement that it was working to confirm the veracity of the video. But posts by British Prime Minister David Cameron on Twitter left no doubt that that the British government believed the man was Haines, a father of two.

“My heart goes out to his family who have shown extraordinary courage and fortitude,” Cameron wrote.

U.S. President Barack Obama condemned what he called “the barbaric murder” of Haines.

“Our hearts go out to the family of Mr. Haines and to the people of the United Kingdom,” Obama said in a statement. “The

United States stands shoulder to shoulder tonight with our close friend and ally in grief and resolve. We will work with the United Kingdom and a broad coalition of nations from the region and around the world to bring the perpetrators of this outrageous act to justice, and to degrade and destroy this threat to the people of our countries, the region and the world.”

The video, like the Sept. 2 Sotloff video, was first detected by the SITE Intelligence Group, a private U.S. company that tracks extremist Internet chatrooms and websites.

It was posted only hours after Haines family issued a statement through the British government pleading for the Islamic State to make contact.

The 2:21-minute video was dubbed “A

Message to the Allies of America.” It opened with a recording of Cameron issuing a statement on his government’s role in the U.S.-led effort to bolster Iraqi forces and the Kurdish militia against the offensive launched by the Islamic State in northern Iraq in mid June.

The video then showed the executioner standing beside Haines, 44, a former British soldier-turned-humanitarian worker who disappeared in Syria in March 2013, three days after crossing the border on a humanitarian mission for a French aid group, ACTED. He was taken with an Italian co-worker, Frederico Motka, who was among 15 European hostages released earlier this year reportedly after their governments paid ransoms.

Congress pledges to tackle labor tax-law dodge Franco Ordonez Mandy Locke

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Key lawmakers in Washington have pledged to look further into a McClatchy report on companies with federal contracts that defied labor laws in order to avoid their tax obligations.

Democrats and Republicans expressed outrage about the investigative findings, including that as much as billions in taxpayer dollars were being squandered by companies on stimulus projects and other federal contracts by wrongly identifying their workers as independent contractors instead of as employees in order to undercut competitors and lower costs.

Congressional aides expect McClatchy’s multipart series, called “Contract to Cheat,” to be the focus of hearings on Capitol Hill after the midterm elections. State leaders have vowed to investigate legislative and regulatory options to combat the practice on government contracts.

And business and labor groups say they’ll use the findings to call on their state and federal leaders to help root out bad actors who cheat honest

employers out of jobs.

“This series should be a wake-up call for Washington,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who has introduced legislation on misclassification that has been stuck in the Senate.

In the five-part series, McClatchy reported that the federal government looked the other way in the midst of rife cheating on federal contracts following the 2009 stimulus in the rush to resuscitate a economy on the brink of collapse.

Scofflaws across the country, from North Carolina to California, were able to save 20 percent or more by not paying state and federal taxes. They cheated out competitors and exploited desperate workers, denying them unemployment benefits and often overtime and workers compensation.

“Misclassification of workers has plagued the building trades for years,” said Brown, who plans to reintroduce his legislation later this year. “The practice harms workers, puts legitimate businesses on an unequal playing field, and robs city, state and federal governments.”

Reporters from eight McClatchy newspapers and its Washington bureau, along with

ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative news organization in New York, spent a year visiting federal construction sites, talking to hundreds of workers and company bosses.

The practice was so pervasive on federal contracts that billions in potential tax revenues were kept by construction firms and their workers. In Florida alone, the McClatchy analysis showed that nearly $400 million in tax revenue was lost. In North Carolina, nearly $500 million.

And in Texas, roughly $1.2 billion.

“Clearly, there has been inadequate oversight of President (Barack) Obama’s stimulus funding, with lucrative contracts given to tax cheats and the politically favored,” said Rep. Robert Pittenger, R-N.C., who sits on the House Financial Services Committee.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., who leads Senate subcommittees on employment and workplace safety as well as taxation and Internal Revenue Service oversight, said he hopes the McClatchy series will help bring more attention of the problem to the public and to Washington.

“More tools are needed to round up the bad actors who are gouging workers and taxpayers,”

said Casey. He has introduced legislation that increases penalties against those who misclassify their workers.

McClatchy found that regulators at the top levels of the administration, including the Department of Labor and Department of Housing and Urban Development, failed to alert one another of red flags or to share key information that could stop the tax cheating.

In North Carolina, after reporters began inquiring about misclassification on stimulusfunded projects overseen by the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, officials urged federal officials to give them guidance. At a HUD training session in July, a finance agency official asked HUD regulators how to handle payroll reports showing companies likely misclassified their workers.

HUD would not discuss it, finance agency officials said. Bob Kucab, executive director of the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency, said his agency will not wait for HUD’s instructions but instead will come up with guidelines and requirements for the developers they engage for tax credit-funded affordable housing projects.

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Google to test cars without a driver Brandon Bailey

San Jose Mercury News

M O U N TA I N V I EW, Calif. — Google plans to begin testing its new prototype of a self-driving car - which, unlike earlier models, doesn’t require a back-up driver - at NASA’s Ames Research Center, just a few miles from the tech company’s headquarters, space agency officials said this week.

Because the testing area is a federal property, Google cars can drive the network of streets that criss-cross the sprawling, 2,000-acre research facility without worrying about California regulations that say a human operator must be able to take control of self-driving vehicles during testing on public roads.

Testing of cars without drivers could begin at early next year, according to a statement from Ames associate director Deborah Feng.

NASA is working with Google on the project and hopes to gain useful information for its own efforts to develop unmanned drones and air traffic management systems.

The Google cars are one of several projects run by the company’s secretive X division, overseen by co-founder Sergey Brin. He and Google CEO Larry Page have said computer-

driven cars may some day eliminate countless traffic injuries and deaths caused by human error, while also saving time, money and land devoted to parking, since they could drop off passengers and return later to pick them up.

Google, which is also testing cars at more remote sites, including a former air base in Merced County, declined to comment in detail this week but said in a brief statement: “As we develop new technologies, we often partner with organizations like NASA Ames who have related interest and expertise.”

The tech giant already has ties with NASA. Along with collaborating on other research projects, Google has leased a large section of field to build a big, new office campus. It’s also negotiating a separate lease to manage the historic hangars and runways. And some of Google’s top executives have a lease to park their personal jets there.

In recent years, Google’s self-driving car project has used retrofitted Lexus and Toyota cars that pilot themselves, using sophisticated sensors, software and onboard computers. Those vehicles, which are a common sight on streets around Mountain View, have steering wheels and other

standard controls so technicians in the car can take over driving as needed.

But Google announced this spring that it’s developing a new prototype for a self-driving car. The small, bubble-shaped prototype has two seats and an electric motor that can go up to 25 mph, but no manual controls except for “start” and “stop” buttons. It may be impractical to expect passengers in a selfdriving car to remain attentive and ready to intervene in an emergency, Google said in May, so it wants to design a car where that’s unnecessary.

California, however, has adopted safety regulations that require even self-driving cars to have manual controls when tested on public roads. Google has said it will install a temporary steering wheel and gas and brake pedals in the new cars to comply with those rules. But the regulations don’t apply to roads on federal properties, said Bernard Soriano, deputy director of California’s Department of Motor Vehicles. Public access to most of the area is restricted.

Google has already deployed self-driving Lexus vehicles there, in the first stages of its testing agreement with NASA. Those vehicles have been mapping the site

and gathering other data that the cars’ computers use to steer themselves.

In the next phase, scheduled to begin in the next three to six months, Google will test its new prototype, with a driver on board who can take control if necessary, Feng said in a statement. A month or two after that, she added, Google could begin testing the prototypes “in a more autonomous mode without a safety driver on-board.”

Some NASA employees, while applauding the project’s goals, raised concerns last month about potential hazards to people who walk or drive on the grounds. But since then, said Leland Stone, president of the Ames Federal Employees Union, managers have given assurances that Google and NASA will make sure the tests are conducted safely.

“One of the goals of this partnership is to make the breakthrough from the current level of partial automation with backup human drivers to true automation,” said Stone. “This ambitious goal raised novel safety challenges that needed to be addressed. The union is confident that the safeguards now being put in place will resolve our initial concerns.”

‘I’m back,’ Hillary Clinton tells Iowa

David Lightman

McClatchy Washington Bureau

I N D I A N O L A , Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton all but kicked off her 2016 White House campaign bid Sunday before a festive crowd of 6,000 in this pivotal state, presenting herself as a child and champion of the still-struggling middle class.

Dogged by an image as an out-of-touch, wealthy insider, her appearance at a field 20 miles outside Des Moines was an effort to reposition her for the coming campaign.

It’s too soon to say if voters will buy a more empathetic Clinton, making her first visit to Iowa in nearly seven years. While Democratic activists cheered, the response was not overwhelming, and many signaled they were not ready to commit to the former secretary of state or anyone else this soon.

The Iowa presidential caucuses, the nation’s

first, are at least 16 months away. Activists still have vivid memories of how Clinton faltered last time -- she finished third in the 2008 caucuses behind Barack Obama and John Edwards -- and wanted to wait to see if she could be more downto-earth and feisty this time.

“Well hello, Iowa, I’m back,” Clinton smiled and declared as she looked out over the people camped out on the lawn at the annual, and final, Steak Fry hosted by retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.

She wouldn’t commit to another White House run, but wouldn’t rule it out either.

“It is true I am thinking about it,” Clinton said.

“But that’s not why I’m here today.” A few in the crowd said, “Aww.” “I’m here for the steaks,’’ Clinton said. “For four years as secretary of state I was more likely to be eating yak meat in Mongolia, having a great time doing it, but thinking a lot about being back home.’’

Make no mistake, if Clinton runs a strong campaign, people overwhelmingly said they’d rally behind her.

“I like her experience, and she knows what she’s doing,” said Dawn Dick, a Des Moines manager for a metal distributor. “But I’m still up in the air about what to do.”

Ann Swenson, a Waukee music teacher, liked Clinton, too. She also liked Vice President Joe Biden. “I just want a Democrat in office.”

Clinton’s visit was tightly scripted, and often physically distant, from the crowd at the afternoonlong schmoozefest that since the 1970s has been one of the state’s premier showcases for Democratic White House hopefuls.

She and former President Bill Clinton arrived in a motorcade that headed for a gas grill on a patch of land 300 feet from the crowd. They cooked steaks and bantered with Harkin and a few guests for seven minutes as 200 media representatives

watched. Clinton said matter-of-factly that she was “just here to support candidates.” The crowd was unable to get a glimpse of the couple.

The Clintons then rode the motorcade to the nearby podium. Harkin greeted them warmly, joking they were the “comeback couple,” a reference to Bill Clinton’s 1992 nomination fight and, by implication, his wife’s next campaign.

“There are many more chapters to be written in the amazing life of Hillary Clinton,” Harkin said.

She started writing the latest chapter on Sunday. Clinton recalled her middle-class upbringing in a Chicago suburb, and compared sustaining a middle-class life to “pushing a boulder uphill every day.”

“No matter who you are or where you come from if you work hard and you play by the rules you deserve the same opportunity as anyone else to build a good life for yourself and your family,” Clinton said.

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Don’t write off party boy Manziel Thomas Donley Daily Egyptain

You’re probably familiar with him.

He’s the quarterback with a party side and a propensity for extending plays with his legs.

He was named backup after being the third quarterback taken in the NFL Draft. You won’t find him in the team picture though; he was late because he was hung over.

Sound like someone you’ve heard of?

Brett Favre caused plenty of headaches for the 1991 Atlanta Falcons in his rookie year.

His partying likely contributed to throwing more balls into the upper deck of the Georgia Dome than he did to teammates.

It was certainly the reason Atlanta banished him to Green Bay, Wis., the NFL’s version of Siberia after his rookie year.

Now, 23 years later, the Cleveland Browns have a similar personality holding a clipboard.

Johnny Manziel spent his first summer as a professional football player partying all over the country, while preparing to play the most demanding position in all of sports. Troubling as that may be, he has started his career off at roughly the same trajectory as one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.

Manziel will most likely not be traded after only four pass attempts like Favre was. But it could only take one injury for him to lock down his team’s starting job for good, just as Favre did in 1992 when he took over for Don Majkowski. Brian Hoyer is more of a stopgap at quarterback for the Browns than

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You won’t find him in the team picture though; he was late because he was hung over.

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a franchise quarterback. Once Manziel cracks the starting lineup, it will be difficult for Hoyer to win it back.

The key to Favre’s success was his settling down. That meant an exile to the NFL’s smallest city, a place where it is much harder to get in trouble than in places like Atlanta or New York.

Cleveland seems like a place where it would be easier to keep one’s nose clean. As the joke goes, one could “spend a week there one day.” In other words, it’s boring. But as long as Manziel has money for airfare, he can wind up in Las Vegas and pass out on an inflatable swan.

Maturing past the party boy stage of life will be a process for Manziel. It certainly was for Favre. Even after his trade to Green Bay, Favre was in rehab before the 1996 season because of an addiction to prescription medication.

That season, he ended up leading the Packers to their first Super Bowl victory in 29 years and won his second MVP award that season.

Favre and Manziel share similar

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characteristics on the field. Manziel is known for playing the position with reckless abandon, making him as exciting to watch as the guy who threw more passes, touchdowns, interceptions and probably blocks than any quarterback in NFL history Both are extremely tough. Manziel takes huge hits from, and sometimes runs over, larger opposing linebackers. Favre played through separated shoulders, concussions and the loss of his father.

Manziel has his whole career ahead of him. He’s only thrown one professional pass.

Despite all the distractions he brings, to this point he has started his career in similar fashion to a guy who is certainly on his way to Canton, Ohio. If Brett Favre is any indication, Johnny Football may end his career down the road from Cleveland in Canton.

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P’urépechan Festiva Chase Myers Daily Egyptian

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Cobden’s fifth-annual P’urépechan Festival took advantage of great weather last weekend, drawing a diverse crowd including people of P’urépechan and other cultures.

The festival began in 2010 when Warren Anderson, a professor in anthropology at Southeast Missouri State University came to former Cobden mayor Molly Beckley with the idea for a celebration of the culture of the migrant workers of Cherán in Michoacán, Mexico, Beckley said.

“I was overjoyed and overwhelmed at how hard [migrant workers] work and how determined they are to keep their culture alive,” she said.

Cobden may seem like an unexpected place for such a festival, but the culture dates back to the 1960s. The small town in southern Illinois is an agriculturally rich, and the P’urépecha people remain one of the largest groups to work on the fertile land.

People come from all over Illinois to experience the traditional P’urépechan music and dance, all while enjoying fresh tacos, jalapenos, tamales and Mexican soda.

Beckley said many of the dancers have been returning for many years.

“In Cherán there are like 13 schools in that small village and they love music. They teach it. They save money and

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“This is a breakthrough,” Tomas said. “They are setting a precedent with this trip they made, however difficult, however many steps they have to go through. To them and to us, it is a success.”

The festival has remained family-oriented and alcohol free since 2010, Tomas said.

“We wanted to make it family-oriented, and any time you bring the alcohol factor in to play, that tends to sometimes bring out negative outcomes,” he said.

Beckley, Tomas, Anderson and other committee members will continue to organize the event and celebrate the P’urépechan culture for years to come.

Chase Myers can be reached at cmyers@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @chasemyers_DE or at 536-3311 ext. 260

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

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

ACROSS 1 Story 5 Gauge on a dash 9 Lowest opera voice 14 Landed on the runway 15 Sunburn soother 16 Starting squad 17 Window material 19 Beauty at the ball 20 French friend 21 Rapture 23 Marshland 24 Legendary skater Henie 26 “If it only could be” 28 “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” author 34 Indian or Chinese, e.g.

35 Nametag greeting 36 Harbinger 39 Hindu guru 42 Imitated 43 Images on a desktop 45 Bride’s beloved 47 One coming in from the bullpen 51 Thigh bone 52 Feel around in the dark 55 N.C. State’s conference 57 Early metalworking period 61 Hush-hush fed. org.

62 Centrally managed store group 64 Explosive situation 66 Metamorphosis stage 67 Scat legend Fitzgerald 68 “__ upon a time ...”

69 Speak 70 Optimistic 71 Brew found in increasing quantities in the ends of 17-, 28-, 47- and 64Across DOWN 1 Spanish appetizers 2 Texas mission

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

Today’s Birthday (09/15/14).

Creativity, innovation and selfdiscovery highlight this year. Get your message out to expanding networks.

After 12/23 (and for the next few years), changes at home come easier.

Adapt with transitions. Unstable finances require flexibility and preparation. A romance levels up after the 3/20 eclipse. Share fantasies and dreams. Grow the love.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 6 — Hold onto your money. Do the work yourself, and save. Communications are back on track now. Record your ideas. Discuss collaborations and let others lead.

Postpone romance and follow your creative muse.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Today is an 8 — Say yes to a fun, profitable idea. Caring actions garner support. Absent members phone in. Listen to all considerations.

You have what you need. Visit an art museum. Love is the answer.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Today is an 8 — You’re on a creative roll. Issue press releases, post

to your blog, and connect with your social peeps. Share the interesting news you find. Increase the efficiency of your distribution. Speak from your heart.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Today is a 7 — Keep costs down. Make lists. Let family help you streamline routines and share chores. Don’t provide frills or extra treats. Take the philosophical path less traveled. Ask for feedback. Trim the fluff. Consider the larger perspective.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is a 7 — Resist the temptation to buy something expensive. Hold out for the best deal.

Ask friends for recommendations and reviews. You may find a suitable alternative for much less. Celebrate with people you adore.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is a 6 — Networking benefits your career status today.

Spend time getting social. Creative communications come easily... dive

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3 Every cloud’s silver feature?

4 Somme summer 5 Soft mineral 6 “Ah, me!”

7 What you pay 8 Half a guy-gal argument 9 Infantile 10 Had dinner 11 “For Dummies” bookstore section 12 Reduced-price event 13 Harbinger 18 Drive and reverse 22 Stockholm’s land: Abbr.

25 Lady in the 1965 sitcom pilot episode “The Lady in the Bottle” 27 Pot for clams 29 “__ better to have loved ...”: Tennyson 30 How half-shell clams are eaten 31 Eel, at sushi bars 32 Land in la mer 33 Silent agreement 36 Knight’s title 37 Cubes in a bucket 38 Wheels on the links

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40 Mohawk-sporting actor 41 Biennial games gp.

44 Advanced college course 46 “Golly” 48 Cat’s coat 49 Like capitalized nouns 50 Legendary football coach Knute

into a writing or recording project with passion. Take time to work out disagreements and to align on the vision.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Today is a 7 — Limit entertainment spending, unless work-related. Talk about your ideals.

Expand your horizons and get out there. Study, research and visit an object of fascination, virtually or in person. Schedule romance for later.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Today is a 7 — Chart the road map to a future you envision, and plot the financial requirements. Friends and your mate are full of ideas. Share boundless optimism. Someone shows his or her true colors. Together, you can realize a dream.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Today is a 7 — Communicate to resolve disagreements in a partnership.

Share findings. Wait to see what develops. Keep track of earnings. You’re learning how to do without something

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53 Cake serving 54 Like the idiomatic beaver 55 Civil rights org.

56 Online dialogue 58 __ contendere: court plea 59 Leatherworking tools 60 Down Under greeting 63 “__ got it!”

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you once thought essential. Friends help build your confidence. Be adaptable.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Today is an 8 — Provide excellent service, to others and yourself. Writing and research produce results. Think before you speak. Correspond and discuss project details. You don’t need to be there physically. Conserve resources.

Recharge with natural beauty.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Today is a 7 — The gears begin to turn on an interesting new project. Join a good team. Take care. Dress for success.

Invest in your business. Postpone a romantic outing for after the game. Keep a secret.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 7 — Discuss home improvements with your partner and family. Let friends help. A barrier to your objectives could arise... patiently work around it. Confer with a sensible person. Delegate to a perfectionist. Act for love.

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Dawgs bounce back after cat chase Aaron Graff Daily Egyptian

SIU volleyball doesn’t have to worry about playing more than two matches in a 24-hour period again until Thanksgiving for the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament.

The Salukis (4-6) hosted the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Mastodons (5-5), the Kansas State University Wildcats (9-1) and the Marshall University Thundering Herd (45) this weekend in the Saluki Invitational at SIU Arena.

SIU went 2-1 in the tournament, beating IPFW and Marshall, but losing to KSU. The Arena brought in more than 1,200 fans for the Salukis’ matches, including 564 for the KSU match.

“It’s kind of the first time I’ve had a crowd like this for a college game because we’ve always been away,” freshman hitter Abby Barrow said.

Barrow said the team had trouble stopping the Wildcats’ scoring runs, but she thinks the Salukis could have beaten them another day.

Coach Justin Ingram said he was happy to end tournament play on a high note after winning

3-1 against Marshall on Saturday.

“Tournaments are the third match in 24 hours,” Ingram said. “That’s hard. It takes a lot of work in order to manufacture the positivity and manufacture the work ethic and manufacture the things that it takes over the course of [a match].”

Senior libero/defensive specialist Alex Rivera said she was grateful for the opportunity to have a tough non-conference schedule this season.

“It’s very good that we’re facing good opponents this early in the season,” Rivera said. “In the end our focus is our conference. We’re going to try to get back in it and win this thing.”

Redshirt freshman outside hitter Andrea Estrada led the Salukis in kills with 36, while sophomore setter/hitter Meg Viggars had 28 kills and 66 assists.

“I don’t know if we call [Viggars] our Swiss Army Knife,” Ingram said. “But she has about every tool.”

Viggars credited her successful weekend to additional practice time and communication with the hitters.

“The whole team is helping me work together and helping give me confidence,” she said. “I think I’m

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Sophomore Meg Viggars, left, and junior Taylor Pippen work together to complete a double block Saturday against Marshall

just getting a lot of sets in, practice in and staying extra if I need to.”

Estrada and junior hitter Taylor Pippen were named to the

All Tournament Team.

The Salukis play against the University of Tennessee at Martin at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Martin, Tenn.

Aaron Graff can be contacted at Agraff@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @Aarongraff_DE or (815)-483-3781

Saluki Invitational Results Friday: Marshall vs. Kansas State 1-3 SIU vs. IPFW 3-1 Marshall vs. IPFW 3-2 SIU vs. Kansas State 0-3 Saturday: IPFW vs. Kansas State 1-3 SIU vs. Marshall 3-1

Tournament Champion, Kansas State Saluki Invitational All-Tournament Team Katie Brand, Kansas State (MVP) Kersten Kober, Kansas State Andrea Estrada, SIU Taylor Pippen, SIU Elyse Panick, Marshall Anna Wrede, IPFW

Best Libero

Kersten Kober, Kansas State

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Rosignol perseveres through injury Aaron Graff Daily Egyptian

It usually means the end of a season for an athlete after a torn ACL, but it doesn’t have to be the end of their career.

Freshman volleyball player Alex Rosignol tore her ACL playing basketball in the summer before her senior year of high school. The injury sidelined her for the whole volleyball season and most of her basketball season.

“I thought SIU was going to quit recruiting me,” Rosignol said. “That’s what I was mainly worried about. I was just so upset and I didn’t think I was going to be able to play sports in college.”

Rosignol said the SIU coaching staff encouraged and helped her through her injury. She said there is still soreness in her knee, but the injury is fully recovered.

“I think there’s improvements every day with her,” coach Justin Ingram said. “She’s incredibly fast laterally. “ Along with volleyball, Rosignol played basketball and ran track for Mount Carmel High School. She said the first thing the coaching staff noticed about her was athleticism.

She said her favorite athletic achievements in high school include

breaking the Mount Carmel rebounds record in basketball.

Rosignol holds school records in three track events and finished third in state in the 100-meter dash her freshman year.

As a volleyball player, Rosignol was a three-time team most valuable player, three-time best offensive and best defensive player of the year at Mount Carmel and a 2012 All-State honorable mention. She was on the fence of which sport to play in college, but SIU volleyball was the first team to contact her.

“I was fighting between basketball and volleyball until about my sophomore year,” Rosignol said. “SIU started talking to me and I realized volleyball was what I wanted to do.”

Despite her injury and choice to play volleyball, Rosignol said she will not give up basketball completely. Rosignol said it’s tough to say if she’ll be able to play again, but plans on watching Saluki basketball and her high school team as much as possible.

Ingram said the only skepticism he had with recruiting her was her ACL recovery. He was confident Rosignol would play volleyball.

“She didn’t play high school ball that year, nor did she play club volleyball,” Ingram said. “Really, when she came here in the summer, the last volleyball she

played was her junior year in high school.”

Rosignol said she was recruited for all three sports, but always planned on coming to SIU for volleyball so she didn’t go far into the process with other sports or other schools.

She has played in one set this season for the Salukis.

“The other middles are more efficient right now within the block system and within the attack,” Ingram said. “She’s right there. She’s not too far behind.”

Sophomore setter/hitter Meg Viggars said Rosignol has a lot of potential and should stay after practice for extra reps and communicate more with her teammates to earn more playing time.

Rosignol said she is practicing and gaining more experience because she is not used to the higher level of play. She is used to pushing herself though. Rosignol said she had to work extra hard through the recovery because she wanted to be a Saluki.

“She just gets on with it and plays through [the soreness].” Viggars said.

Aaron Graff can be contacted at Agraff@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @Aarongraff_DE or 536-3311 ext. 256

I an M ullen D aIly e gyptIan Freshman Alex Rosignol warms up Saturday during the Saluki Invitational at SIU Arena. Rosignol was a three-sport athlete at Mount Carmel High School, but because of an anterior cruciate ligament tear, she was unable to play in her senior year season of volleyball.

Playoffs could be in Salukis’ future Press Coverage with

Tony McDaniel After Its 53-20 win over SEMO, the Saluki football team is off to its best start since 2007.

The Salukis’ passing game clicked Saturday night as Junior quarterback Mark Iannotti threw 6 touchdowns to tie the SIU single-game school record.

The Salukis controled the game from all aspects, scoring 29 points off 5 SEMO turnovers, dominating possessions, and totaling 465 total yards of offense.

All three games this year have been won by more than two scores.

Statistically, the Salukis are fourth in the Football Championship Subdivision with 44.3 points per game. SIU is 14th in scoring defense, holding teams to 14.7 points per game.

SIU’s senior running back Malcom Agnew is on his way to a career year. Agnew has rushed for 450 yards, 6 touchdowns and 2 receiving touchdowns. Agnew is averaging 8.0 yards per carry and 150 total yards per game and is on his way to postseason award consideration.

This is the best start to any football season most students have seen. As a result, Saluki Stadium was packed with 10,385 in attendance, 1,800 more than last season’s average attendance.

The Salukis have a chance to go undefeated this year, but so does every team that starts the season 3-0.

There are things SIU football

can still do better. When it comes to passing yards allowed, SIU is tied for 53rd in the FCS with the Fighting Camels of Campbell University. SIU is also 83rd in interceptions thrown.

Excitement surrounding the Saluki football program is great for SIU and Carbondale, but it is important not to get too high yet on SIU. Ahead lies a daunting task for SIU, Purdue University.

Purdue is the only Football Bowl Subdivision team on SIU’s schedule. It also is the first game

in a string of grueling matchups.

After the Purdue game the Salukis will open the Missouri Valley Football Conference season with home games against Western Illinois University and South Dakota University. Both teams were picked to finish near the bottom of the MVFC in the preseason poll.

After the home stand, SIU will have road games against FCS opponents No. 1 North Dakota State University and No. 16 Youngstown State University. SIU will also have games against Illinois

State University and Indiana State University, of which are all having good starts to the season.

The season for SIU will only get tougher from here on out.

SIU has a good football team, one that has outscored opponents 133-44 this season. Now we get to learn just how good the team is.

If the Salukis can go to West Lafayette, Ind., and pull off an upset over a Big Ten Conference school, the Salukis can ride that momentum into MVFC play.

Purdue is a beatable opponent for the Salukis. A 4-0 start is

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achievable. SEMO only lost by eight points to the University of Kansas last weekend, a team similar to Purdue. And it is evident after Saturday night’s game that SIU is a far better team than SEMO. If the Salukis lose to Purdue, it’s not the end of the world, but it could be where the season begins to take a turn for the worst.

The Salukis will not go undefeated this season; they’re bound to take a few losses from Purdue, NDSU, Youngstown, or maybe even Northern Iowa University. The schedule is just too tough.

Playoffs are becoming more and more realistic as the season continues. It should take 9 wins to earn a playoff birth and SIU is already a third of the way there.

The season will hinge on SIU’s ability to navigate the MVFC schedule.

SIU has the potential to beat Purdue and possibly snap North Dakota State’s 27-game win streak, the longest in FCS history.

SIU should also be a contender to win the MVFC by season’s end.

If SIU can accomplish those feats this will go down as one of the best teams in school history.

However, if the Salukis fall short of the playoffs, this season can go down as a disappointment for fans and coaches alike.

Tony McDaniel can be reached at tmcdaniel@dailyegyptian.com, @tonymcdanielDE or at 536-3311 ext. 256