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Professors seek to change final exam schedule CORY RAY | @coryray_de

Three professors are developing a new exam scheduling system because they say students' workloads are too heavy during finals week.

Fall 2016 university data shows 11 percent of students, 1,688 exam takers, had at least three exams on the same day during finals week. The number of students in spring 2016 taking three or more exams in a single day was about the same.

Using an algorithm they created, these professors have Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE managed to lower that number by hundreds, working to Halle Hurley , 6, of Johnston City, and Jason Sittig, of Grand Rivers, Kentucky, dance together during a local band’s performance Saturday halve the original number. outside The Salvation Army during Hubfest 2017 in Marion. "I've only been in Halle's life for five months but we have a close bond," Sittig said.

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"We do all kinds of things [like this] together."

Non-traditional students face 'culture shock' at SIU FRANCOIS GATIMU | @frankDE28

After seven months of defense contracting for the U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan, Benjamin Dado decided to return to school a few years ago. It wasn’t long before he found himself grappling with the challenges of being

a non-traditional student.

The 28-year-old, a senior from Chicago studying political science, decided to drop out in 2014 after one semester to re-enlist in the military.

“It was mainly the culture shock with the age gap that led me to leave … to go back to war,” Dado said.

Dado is a part of the 25 percent of the undergraduate population made up of non-traditional students.

Comprised of students who are typically older than 25 and financially independent, nontraditional students can face unique challenges, including being single

parents, going through divorces, age disparities between their classmates and more.

Dado said he opted to once again face those challenges in 2015 because he found many jobs he wanted to apply for within the military required a bachelor’s degree.

“With how the military is right now, if you don’t have any sort of degree you’re pretty much in a deadend job,” Dado said.

He said this time around, he came prepared to be one of the oldest students in many of his classes.

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Auston Mahan | @AustonMahanDE Donna Eggers, of Toledo, assists her Golden Retriever, Bailey, up a ramp while practicing for a distance competition Saturday at Southern Illinois Hunting and Fishing Days in Carterville.

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Fire station to be turned into community art space GABBY PETTYJOHN | @gpettyjohn98

Fire station #2 on South Oakland Avenue will soon be transformed into a community art space after a proposal to do so was approved by the Carbondale City Council on Sept. 19.

Though many residents of the Arbor District where the firehouse is located expressed opposition to the plan, the city approved the proposal from Alison Smith, a visiting professor in cinema and photography, and her husband John Deas.

Their proposal, which totaled $50,000, is to turn the decommissioned fire station into a place where local artists and members of the community can come together to collaborate and appreciate art.

Smith said they hope the new space becomes something special in Carbondale.

“I want to improve and transform the property, making it a uniquely designed landmark for the community of Carbondale to enjoy,” Smith said.

Although their main goal is to create a public art studio, Smith said they are soliciting the public for ideas too.

“We have already begun reaching out to our local artists and neighboring Arbor District residents for input in what they would like to see develop in their community,” Smith said.

The main goal of the project is to encourage local artists to remain in Carbondale, Smith said, but they also want to draw artists into the region.

Mary Newman | @MaryNewmanDE SIU cinema and photography lecturer Alison Smith, right, and her husband John Deas, left, pose for a portrait in front of the former Carbondale fire station Sunday at the corner of South Oakland Avenue and West Walnut Street.

“The building will be used as a creative space for local artists, as well as a bar featuring locally made beer,” Deas said.

“We want to create a workspace that encourages artists to stay in Carbondale by strengthening a sense of community, offering inspiration through the work of others and providing studio space resources to help artists continue to make work locally,” Smith said. “Our vision encompasses a plan to bring in artists from outside Carbondale and the region for workshops and residencies.”

Residencies, Smith said, are “durationbased stays dedicated to developing or finishing projects.”

It doesn’t have to just be artists, Smith said. The two also want other members of the community to visit the space,

and they hope to give the city a new appreciation for the arts.

Though they have a general plan, Smith said it is still being molded.

“Our plan has a specific beginning with a very open-ended evolution that will develop based on the response of the community,” Smith said. “Our hope is to expand access to the arts and art-making practices to include those who may not have access to facilities and equipment.”

Staff writer Gabby Pettyjohn can be reached at gpettyjohn@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @gpettyjohn98.

“I want to improve and transform the property, making it a uniquely designed landmark for the community of Carbondale to enjoy.”

- Alison Smith visiting professor in cinema and photography

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“I knew the age gap would pose a different experience for me,” Dado said. “It was kind of awkward dealing with young students — what they have read in books or seen online, I was there for some of these events.”

Some non-traditional students enroll at the university in the hopes of making their lives easier down the road.

One of these is 25-year-old Patrick Johnson, a freshman from Carbondale studying industrial management and applied engineering.

For the past decade, Johnson has worked as an electrician for his father’s business. He originally came to the university in 2015 but left after one semester when he ran out of money to pay his tuition.

Now, two years later, he’s back, going to classes part time while still working with his father.

“I don’t know how it feels not to work, to just focus on school,” Johnson said. “I just want a regular job, go and put in my hours and go home.”

Johnson said he usually works 12 hour days on top of classwork.

“My work is never done,” Johnson said. “There is always something that needs to be done … with that kind of schedule, you’re always exhausted.”

Most non-traditional students return to school because they have been displaced in their careers, said Kathy Shaffer, coordinator of non-traditional student services.

“They are looking to gain the skills needed to better their careers in the changing professional landscape,” Shaffer said.

The non-traditional student service office tries to cater to the challenges students face, but Shaffer said but it can be harder to reach them because most have off-campus responsibilities such as work and family commitments, meaning they spend far less time on campus than other students.

“It makes it difficult to implement on-campus programming for them,” Shaffer said.

Taylor Damann, a senior from Mascoutah studying

political science, is one student who spends her fair share of time off campus.

“As soon as I got to SIU in January, I immediately had two jobs on top of the six classes I was taking,” said Damann, who is 21 years old and considered non-traditional because she is financially independent.

After more than two years in the Air Force Academy, she worked in the food industry for a short time before enrolling at SIU for the spring 2017 semester.

Damann said she could have used more support from the university during her transition period. She said the university could implement a mentoring program that assigns each non-traditional student a fellow student mentor from the same department.

“My work is never done. There is always something that needs to be done … with that kind of schedule, you’re always exhausted.”

- Patrick Johnson freshman

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“Non-traditional student services is primarily a connection base for students to different offices on campus who can better address their needs. The places that we connect them to are the experts on campus in that particular area, whether it's financial aid or its veterans issues.”

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- Kathy Shaffer coordinator of non-traditional student services

“I came in the middle of the year, and I felt as though I was on my own to figure it out,” Damaan said. “The school didn’t connect me to somebody who could help … You really have to want it as a nontraditional student — if I hadn’t really wanted it, I don’t know if I would have duked it out.”

Damann said she felt like she had to really try hard to have the full college experience at SIU. “Non-traditional students have to work more for their relationships, as opposed to traditional students who meet during their freshman years,” Damann said.

Her transition into “SIU’s party culture” was shocking, she said.

Having joined the military at 17 years old, Damann said her experience as an 18-year-old was characterized more by doing push ups in hallways than by partying in college bars.

“I never had the time to think about how super cool it will be to go drink alcohol while doing a handstand upside down,” Damann said.

Damann said the discipline she learned in the military helped her stick through the difficulties of coming to campus as a non-traditional student.

The non-traditional student office has been working

“Non-traditional students have to work more for their relationships, as opposed to traditional students who meet during their freshman years.”

- Taylor Damann senior

to implement new ways to cater to non-traditional students, Shaffer said.

“The biggest challenge for me now is to come up with creative ways to coordinate programming to cater to their needs,” said Shaffer, who started in her role less than a year ago.

Shaffer said she wants to start holding office hours somewhere on campus where students concentrate, rather than her actual office.

“I want to go to where the students are,” Shaffer said.“I will pick a spot at the food court in the Student Center just in case students have questions for me and my office.”

“By going where the students are, I am better able to serve not only the non-traditional students but the entire student body as well,” Shaffer said.

She said she hopes this change will increase awareness on campus of her office and the services it can provide, which, Shaffer said, have been misunderstood in the past.

“Non-traditional student services is primarily a connection base for students to different offices on campus who can better address their needs,” Shaffer said. “The places that we connect them to are the experts on campus in that particular area, whether it's financial aid or its veterans issues.”

Shaffer said her office is now beginning to implement more programming for non-traditional students, including a new transfer transition program that connects new transfer students to student mentors in campus.

Damann said a mentor could go a long way for non-traditional students who come to campus not knowing anyone or where to go.

“Being non-traditional students at SIU means feeling like freshmen without acting freshmen,” she said.

Staff writer Francois Gatimu can be reached at fgatimu@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @frankDE28.

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Two members of campus deal with aftermath of Hurricane Maria, central Mexico earthquake FRANCOIS GATIMU | @frankDE28

As Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico last week and left the entire island without electricity, Rene Poitevin tried to reach his mother for days without success.

The storm’s strong winds coupled with massive floods tore through power lines, destroying numerous buildings and disrupting communication on and off the island.

“It was intense,” said Poitevin, coordinator of the Hispanic/Latino Resource Center. “It took me several days to get in contact with my mom.”

When Poitevin was finally able to get ahold of his family Sunday, he felt relief, but said they felt a mixture of other emotions.

“They are frustrated and scared,” Poitevin said. “They have gone through a very intense traumatic experience.”

Poitevin’s family lives in Aguadilla on the northwest side of the island. They, like the rest of the people on the island, found themselves right in the path of a storm that cost at least 16 people their lives, according to local officials.

His family all made it through physically unscathed, but he said they are dealing with massive personal property loss.

“Most of my family lost property that was damaged by the hurricane,” Poitevin said.“It’s really frustrating and sad. Roofs and windows came flying off, completely destroying many of my family’s property.”

Maria also destroyed most of the island’s farms over the weekend, officials say.

“There is no food now,” Poitevin said.

“People have to depend on whatever they stored up for now.”

More than 70,000 residents from cities

along the Guajataca River on the island were displaced for fear of the "extremely dangerous" situation, Poitevin said.

Poitevin said the human and financial costs of the catastrophe are just beginning to be known.

“Puerto Rico is already in financial crisis,” he said. “This just further worsens the economic crises that was there. Right now people are just now starting to take inventory of how much the damage is going to cost them.”

Since much of Puerto Rico’s infrastructure was destroyed by the storm, Poitevin said many chose to temporarily move to the U.S. mainland.

But he said such a move is not simple.

“Many chose to stay because they have lives built there, their kids go to school there, they have jobs there,” Poitevin said.

Across the island, residents fear power could be out for weeks or even months, which means communication will remain hampered for those trying to reach loved ones, he said.

“The government has prioritized electricity for the hospitals, airports and anything to do with infrastructure,” said Poitevin.

Many towns were left without drinking water, fuel or phone service. Poitevin said insurance is “less institutionalized” in Puerto Rico, meaning that most of the damage would likely be paid for by those who own the property.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is the agency that provides funds for disaster relief in Puerto Rico, is the main hope for many who don’t have insurance, he said.

Thousands of miles away, Mexico City and

“People in affected areas in Mexico are scared to go to bed. Those going to bed are sleeping with their clothes on, wearing their shoes, to be prepared for another aftershock.”

- Jorge Sida, a senior studying cinema from Chiapas, Mexico

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its surrounding towns faced devastation last week as a 7.1 magnitude earthquake on Sept.

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Jorge Sida, a senior studying cinema from Chiapas, Mexico, said he frantically tried to contact his family following the 1 a.m. quake.

“It was bad, I couldn’t get ahold of them on the telephone since the lines were down,” Sida said. “I was very scared and overwhelmed with what was happening and not being able to find out what was going on.”

After four hours of unsuccessfully trying to reach his family via phone call, he said he eventually made contact on social media and found out they were unharmed.

Unlike Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens and able to move to the U.S. mainland, Mexicans affected by the quake didn’t have the option. This created an amplified fear for Sida, he said.

“It’s difficult not having my family here, and it’s not like they can just come,” Sida said. “But the whole country didn’t get affected so people started moving out further south and north.”

Since the earthquake occurred at the beginning of the semester, Sida said he wasn’t

able to return home to be with his family, but he has maintained contact through social media since most of the phones lines were damaged.

“People in affected areas in Mexico are scared to go to bed,” Sida said. “Those going to bed are sleeping with their clothes on, wearing their shoes, to be prepared for another aftershock.”

Since Mexico’s earthquake happened at the same time as Hurricane Maria, Sida said the quake wasn’t given enough attention.

“I feel like it has been overlooked by many maybe because it’s not in their country, or maybe because there is so much going on,” Sida said. “It’s our neighbouring country, so you would expect that people would be more concerned.”

Homeowners in Mexico are not required to insure their property, Sida said, which only made the earthquake more destructive.

“Out in the country insurance is not really a thing,” Sida said. “A lot of people did lose property that they are not going to recover.”

Staff writer Francois Gatimu can be reached at fgatimu@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @frankDE28.

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Brian MuĂąoz | @BrianMMunoz Political science professor Virginia Tilley, of Gainesville, Florida, poses for a portrait Friday at her home in Carbondale. Tilley specializes in comparative and international politics of ethnic and racial conflict. Tilley was recently the subject of controversy for a report she co-wrote with Richard Faulk accusing Israel of apartheid relased and subsequently retracted in March 2017 by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

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Bringing an international worldview to SIU: meet Virginia Tilley, political science professor JOE MCLAUGHLIN | @jmcl_de

Political science professor Virginia Tilley has spent much of her 30 years in academia studying discrimination.

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in political science from Antioch College in 1985, Tilley took time off before getting her advanced degrees to travel the world and get an up-close look at the conflicts she had learned about in the classroom.

Her first stop was a study abroad stint in Jerusalem, and it was there she said she realized a lot of what she read about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was true. “I didn’t know Jerusalem from Timbuktu,� Tilley said. "But I walked off the plane and within five minutes, you see that there is something wrong.

All of the Arab passengers are being shuttled over to one side, and all the rest of us are being shuttled over to the other side. As somebody who grew up in the south, that rang a bell for me.�

Tilley said this sparked in her a moral imperative to do something about the human suffering that she saw.

After going between Israel and Palestine a number of times and learning from professors and her own observations, Tilley said it was obvious to her this was oppression.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the late 19th and early 20th century. It is rooted in Arab and Jewish nationalist movements, with both sides seeking territorial sovereignty in the Middle East.

Though Israel was officially

recognized as a state by the United Nations in 1947, territorial wars have been fought over the years.

Since 1994, Israel has received both condemnation and praise from various nations for establishing settlements on Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank. This has been a focus of Tilley’s work throughout her career.

After her time in Israel, Tilley earned her first master’s degree Arab studies from Georgetown University in 1988.

She later received her second master’s and her doctorate in political science from the University of WisconsinMadison in 1994 and 1997, respectively.

Though her academic pursuits eventually took her to many other places in the world, Tilley said she

Wednesday, september 27, 2017 never took her eye off of that region of the world. While she was doing work in Central America in 2003, she said she began to realize that a two-state solution to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict was unlikely.

This led her to write an essay that was published in the London Review of Books in November of 2003 about that belief. When the essay came out, Tilley said she received a phone call from University of Michigan Press asking her if she wanted to write a book about the conflict.

“I remember spreading all of the books off of my desk and just saying ‘Yes, I do!’” Tilley said.

Her book, “The One-State Solution,” was published in 2005.

Over time, Tilley and other academics started to look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a different way, asking a different question: was Israel guilty of apartheid?

Academics are very careful about using that label, Tilley said.

“If people are calling this apartheid, I don’t want to call it apartheid unless I know something more about apartheid than I do,” Tilley said.

For Tilley, there was one place in particular she had to go to learn about apartheid: South Africa.

Though she arrived in the spring of 2005 after the fall of South African apartheid — which is an institutionalized system of segregation — she said she wanted to compare what happened there with what was happening between Israel and Palestine.

What started as a leave of absence from a tenured position at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, which she received in 2003, led to Tilley taking a research assistantship in South Africa for six years.

After her contract expired in South Africa, Tilley said she felt the siren call to return back to academia. Rather than going back to the United States, Tilley took a position at the University of the South Pacific at Suva in Fiji.

“I always imagined living in the South Pacific, maybe retiring in the South Pacific,” Tilley said. “So I thought this is perfect — this is fate.”

However, fate — and the acrid salty air of the South Pacific — brought Tilley to SIU three years ago. Though her international experience could have taken her many places in

“I thought, ‘Yeah, I came to the right university.’ These are serious academics. They are ready to protect freedom of research and academic freedom.”

- Virginia Tilley political science professor

the world, Tilley said SIU’s academic culture drew her in.

“I knew Carbondale,” Tilley said. “Carbondale had a really

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Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Political science professor Virginia Tilley, of Gainesville, Florida, poses for a portrait Friday at her home in Carbondale. Tilley specializes in comparative and international politics of ethnic and racial conflict.

good reputation as an intellectual center, a research center. Lots of really interesting things going on in Carbondale.”

Though no longer abroad studying the conflict, Tilley continued to participate in the Israeli-Palestinian conversation.

In March, Tilley co-authored a report with Princeton professor emeritus Richard Falk that was commissioned by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.

The report’s purpose was to answer the question of whether or not Israel was guilty of apartheid, Tilley said.

“We didn’t exactly accuse Israel of being an apartheid state,” Tilley said. “What we did was look at the international law that defines what apartheid is, and then we looked at what Israel was doing, and we said, ‘Yeah, that’s the same.’”

Tilley said the report received wonderful reviews from academics, scholars and jurists from all over the world when it was released.

Still, not everyone was thrilled with the conclusion. Tilley said the Israeli delegation to the UN was less than pleased and flew in to speak with UN Secretary General António Guterres to demand it be withdrawn.

It also drew condemnation from the UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, who dismissed the report as “anti-Israeli propaganda.”

The report was quickly withdrawn, with Guterres citing reasons Tilley said weren’t entirely sound.

“He made it clear he was pulling it not because of its content, but because it had violated a procedure where it hadn’t been reviewed properly,” Tilley said. “That wasn’t true either. It had been reviewed properly, he just said that it hadn’t in order to cover for the fact that they were taking this off.”

Tilley soon received salls from the New York Times, the Washington Post, the London Guardian and press outlets from Russia, India and Brazil, she said. The chair of the UN commission, Rema Khalaf, resigned in protest over the reports withdrawal, which prompted another round of global media coverage.

“It hit the fan,” Tilley said.

Tilley said some of the harshest criticism came from Israel’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Emmanuel Nahshon .

Nahshon compared the report to the Nazi propaganda publication “Der Stürmer.” Tilley said that comparison and the charges of anti-semitism were completely unfounded.

“We had no negative reviews of the report, nothing. They couldn’t find anything to criticize in the report at all,” Tilley said. “I challenge any of them to find anything I have every written or any group or any friend I have ever had the is antisemitic. I don’t tolerate that. I consider that to be exactly in the same package of evils as apartheid — it’s racism.”

Even after receiving such harsh criticisms for her work, Tilley said she isn’t giving up studying the conflict.

“If you want to get me really stubborn, you try to bully me,” Tilley said. “That’s when I dig in my heels. I know what’s at stake. We are talking about millions of people’s lives being ruined by this regime.”

Out of all the negative attention Tilley received for the report, she said there was a positive: all the support she received from her SIU colleagues.

Tilley said she wrote an email to university administration explaining the feedback from the report, both the good and the bad. One senior university official asked Tilley if a letter of support should be composed, an act Tilley said meant a lot to her.

“I thought, ‘Yeah, I came to the right university,’” Tilley said.

“These are serious academics. They are ready to protect freedom of research and academic freedom.”

As a professor, Tilley said she expects that same serious dedication to academics from her students. She said her classes do not come with light workloads.

“Unfortunately, there is a culture on too many university campuses, and Carbondale is not immune from this, where students will read the first page or two and kind of fake it,” Tilley said. “They are not going to get it doing that. They are not going to be able to get the good jobs with the skills they’ll develop doing that sort of thing.”

Tilley said the K-12 system has insulted the intelligence of young people by teaching them only how to pass a test.

She said this generation is full of caring and thoughtful people who, when given a chance to have thought-provoking discussions, are on the edge of their seats.

“It’s really moving,” Tilley said.

Staff writer Joe McLaughlin can be reached at jmclaughlin@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @jmcl_de.

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Green Fee project aims to keep Campus Lake clean through recreational activities AMEILA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely

Students will soon have a chance to improve the water in Campus Lake by kayaking, paddle boarding and participating in other recreational activities through the Sustainable Eco-Recreation project.

The project, funded by the student Green Fee, includes any water activity that aerates, cools down or creates turbulence in the lake, project leader Marjorie Brooks said.

Last year, the university drained the water from the lake to get rid of the toxic algae that had bloomed on its surface. Brooks, also a professor of zoology, said these recreational activities will help stop the algae from returning.

An informational meeting for the project will take place from 4 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday in Morris

Library, rooms 752 and 754.

“We’re encouraging student teams to come together to develop innovative new ways of recreating on the lake,” Brooks said.

Brooks said the activities are a “win-win” because they contribute both to the health of Campus Lake and the health of those participating in them.

The project, which received $29,777 from the Green Fee, was one of 16 awarded money from the fund last spring. Students pay into the Green Fee along with their other tuition and fees.

Rachel Steiger, a graduate student studying zoology from Crown Point, Indiana, is in charge of advertising and outreach for project. She said she has been going around campus to speak to students about the upcoming project.

“Everyone is so excited,” said

File photo | Daily Egyptian Campus lake shown from above on Sept. 17, 2016 in Carbondale.

Steiger. “Once they realize they can have a hands-on part in it, they get real excited.”

Brooks says the algae blooms when high nutrient runoff combines with

conditions of high temperatures and low oxygen.

Before the university drained the lake, Brooks said there were 50 years worth of parially decomposed algae

in the water. Over 24,000 tons of the compost were removed, she said.

Now that the algae is gone, Brooks said they want to keep it that way.

“We’re ahead of the game, but we want to stay ahead of the game,” Brooks said.

Brooks said a senior engineering design class is working on solarpowered surface fountains that will create a maze for people to kayak or paddle around. The fountains give off heat that leads to nutrient loss, she said.

Zoology students are also planting wetland vegetation to improve the lake, she said.

“It doesn’t have to be humans against nature,” said Brooks. “It can be humans with nature.”

Staff writer Ameila Blakely can be reached on Twitter @AmeilaBlakely or at ablakely@dailyegyptian.com.

Students experiment to make MRI's easier, more accurate CORY RAY | @coryray_de

One research lab on campus is using chemistry and physics to put a new spin on how to image the lungs.

Justin Porter, a junior from Rockford studying biological sciences, has been working with chemistry professor Boyd Goodson for two years to study ways to make MRI’s — magnetic resonance imaging — both easier and more accurate for people with lung issues.

When MRI’s are taken, patients are given a liquid injection via IV that helps to image targeted organs such as the lungs, but scientists in Goodson’s lab are asking what would happen if instead of being liquid, MRI's could be taken using gas.

“I wanted to be able to get into a research lab and start doing something

that I think actually matters,” Porter said. “You get to do something that has the potential to help a lot of people.”

Compared to other parts of the body, Goodson said lung imaging is rather crude, which can be a setback when treating patients.

“Right now, the standard of care for pulmonary diagnostics is blowing into a tube, measuring that response in a bulk way,” Goodson said. “But that doesn’t give you information about the regional lung function. It doesn’t even tell you left from right.”

To go from liquid to gas, Porter and others in the lab work with the element xenon, specifically a type called xenon-129.

“Part of the technical development of the field has been taking it from an oddity in the lab to actually scaling it up and improving the efficiency in

making a device a device you can put in a hospital,” Goodson said.

Xenon is an element Goodson has been working with for 20 years, starting as a graduate student conducting research at the University of California-Berkeley in the mid-’90s.

Goodson said the atoms naturally spin in two different directions, but to make xenon useful in MRI imaging atoms need to move in the same direction.

The process Porter and Goodson perform to change the way the atoms spin is called hyperpolarization.

Goodson said it’s akin to the north and south poles of a magnet; in essence, they want to get as many xenon-129 atoms as possible to one “pole.”

Senior Megan Murphy, a Springfield native studying chemistry, said the team of nine students uses

lasers to send out light that is absorbed by other elements. Those molecules can then transfer their energy to xenon to change its spin.

“These are very complex experiments,” Porter said. “That’s a pretty big step for an undergraduate.

Working in research like this, not much is harder.”

That process is so complex because there are many variables the team has to account for, Porter said.

Besides being deemed safe for human use, xenon-129 must also be proven to help advance lung treatment in patients and be able to be stored for later use.

“We’re trying to make the xenon have a higher polarization to give us more magnetization, more signal,” Goodson said. “We want to make more of it and we want to make it faster — more and better and faster.”

Eventually, the xenon-gas imaging agent will need Food and Drug Administration approval. Xenon-129 is safe and is even found naturally in the air, Goodson said.

Some patients in research hospitals have already begun to use the breathable xenon, Goodson said. However, it has yet to be clinically approved and is not in non-researching hospitals.

It’s research like this that Murphy said is crucial in furthering her career.

“A lot of graduate school applicants have never been in a lab before they go to grad school,” she said. “The fact that I’m going to have four years of experience by the time I graduate is really awesome.”

Staff writer Cory Ray can be reached at cray@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @coryray_de.

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Column: SIU must be a guardian of freedom itself, not just free speech Throughout the United States, far-right white nationalists are actively recruiting for genocide behind a mask of “free speech,” turning a fundamental tenant of freedom into a weapon to reduce it.

So called “free speech rallies” deteriorate into straight-up Nazi demonstrations, with speakers endorsing a “white ethno-state” and other repugnant racist wet dreams that will not be realized so long as we are alive and kicking.

This sort of speech has no place on college campuses.

Universities have, for the past 50 years or so, been vanguards of free speech. However, in contemporary America, what is at stake is not merely free speech but freedom itself.

In his latest column, which is about universities’ roles in protecting freedom of speech, SIU President Randy Dunn said, “Just because we disagree vehemently – or might even take offense – doesn’t mean someone should be disallowed from speaking.”

Having the ability to express oneself however one pleases is paramount in a society that values freedom, and I appreciate Dunn’s willingness to take a bold stance defending students’ ability to speak freely at SIU. But if this conversation on free speech does

not firstly take into account our current societal context and is detached from the material conditions in which we live, then it is simply privileged theoretical jargon.

As it stands, far-right groups are hiding behind a guise of free speech to publicly push their violent agendas and the leftists are shutting them down by any means necessary.

The reason for such is not merely because they “take offense” to it. Rather, the speech of the farright is a tool to encage others — a weapon to reduce the tangible freedoms of people of color, immigrants, women and LGBTQ folks.

The advance of freedom should be the main goal of the university, and I think that is partly what Dunn is getting at.

But when people are locked in a cage, their freedom comes not from speech, but from breaking out of the very structure that is caging them.

Sure, speech could be part of the process. But when we look around the United States, the place that we have come to call home, it becomes strikingly obvious that dialogue alone is not enough to dismantle the powerful, institutional bars that separate us from actual freedom.

Clearly, the SIU system already has standards as to what constitutes acceptable speech on its campuses.

Just last week a filthy, racist note was left on the door of an on-campus apartment in which black students live. The Edwardsville administration is now offering a free semester to anyone with information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator.

We have no reason to believe that the administration would allow overt whitesupremacy at SIU. When people come on to our campus and espouse ideas that literally call for the dismantling of other people’s freedom, that is fundamentally anti-free speech and must not be tolerated.

The Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964, which Dunn mentions in his column, was not just about free speech.

Those protesting — and disrupting the order of campus — called for higher education to return to its roots, according to a speech by protest leader Mario Savio. That is, they demanded the role of the university be shifted back into a community of scholars attempting to answer the question of how society ought to be.

They were disgusted that the university aligned itself with the interests of industry and the state. They were disgusted that students were the “raw material” out of which the university machine operated and out of which nothing useful would be made.

Since then, the academy has only become further entrenched in oppressive economic and governmental forces and the age-old battle for freedom has shifted onto an increasingly dangerous playing field.

Dunn evokes the Founding Fathers and their obsession with free speech. But lest we not forget, their version of free speech applied only to white people.

People of color, many of whom were slaves, were not awarded such a right.

Centuries later, in typical American fashion, the right to free speech is still awarded along racial lines.

The cops are choking out and pepper spraying Black Lives Matter protestors every chance they get for speaking out against the racial order, while, on the other hand, literal white supremacists are allowed to march on college campuses wielding torches and chanting the violent, fascist mantra “blood and soil.”

Racism has no place on a college campus, neither does any other ideology of wickedness.

No matter how loud they squawk “FREE SPEECH,” if what they say is oppressive, if it is fundamentally anti-freedom, they will be met with resistance.

Student Trustee Sam Beard can be reached at samuelrobert@siu.edu

EDITORIAL: Madigan helped further the cause of government transparency DAILY GAZETTE, STERLING, ILL.

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has made government openness and transparency one of her key projects.

We fervently hope this important cause does not suffer from lack of attention by her successor, whomever that person might be, when Madigan leaves office in January 2019 at the end of her fourth term.

Madigan, 51, a Chicago Democrat and daughter of powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan, has

announced she won't run for re-election in 2018.

Already, potential successors have thrown their hats in the ring.

Among the candidates we are aware of are Republican Erika Harold of Urbana, and on the Democratic side, state Sen. Kwame Raoul of Chicago and state Rep. Scott Drury of Highwood.

Other hopefuls are likely waiting in the wings.

What did Madigan do to promote open meetings and open records?

Quite a lot.

It was Madigan and her office who first created

the Public Access Counselor's position, which later became codified into law during reforms that followed Gov. Rod Blagojevich's impeachment and conviction.

The strengthened Public Access Counselor post, which has been around for more than 7 years, has helped thousands of people to obtain information from their government, according to Madigan's annual Sunshine Week report issued in March.

Last year, for example, the Public Access Counselor received more than 4,700 requests for assistance.

Here's a breakdown of Freedom of Information Act requests: 4,354 total requests, with 3,640 from members of the public, 681 from news media or other organizations, and 33 from public bodies.

Here's a breakdown of requests regarding the Open Meetings Act: 366 total requests, with 297 from members of the public, 66 from news media or other organizations, and three from public bodies.

The Public Access Counselor not only makes determinations on what the law requires a public body to do, but it can issue binding opinions that a

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Montemagno calls for reorganizing academic programs AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely

Chancellor Carlo Montemagno laid out his plans to combat SIU’s “decline” during his State of the University address Tuesday in Shryock Auditorium.

Montemagno said the greatest indicator of that decline is the decreased enrollment, which went down nearly nine percent from last fall.

This year’s decline in enrollment translated into a $9.4 million loss in tuition revenue, Montemagno said.

Such a decline also indicates a stagnation in the local economy, Montemagno said, which he plans to stimulate by revitalizing the university.

His vision calls for reorganizing existing academic programs and consolidating them with similar programs into new colleges. He said the goal is to reduce the overall number of academic colleges at the university.

This effort would reduce

administrative costs by $2.3 million, Montemagno said.

The university must take a critical look at academic programs, Montemagno said, and ensure the university is adapting for new generations of students. If programs are not deemed strong, they could face cuts, he said.

“To secure the resources to invest in current and new programs, we need to identify programs that are weak and terminate those that are no longer necessary,” Montemagno said.

Programs will be assessed based on “how they fit within the administrative organization of the entire university,” Montemagno said.

“I want to be clear that academic reorganization is not about eliminating programs, faculty or staff,” he said.

“But it’s about creating new scholarly communities that will lead to innovation in teaching and knowledge creation.”

In the immediate future,

Montemagno said the administration plans to restructure the university college department. He said some subdepartments will stay in academic affairs and others will move to student affairs.

Also effective immediately, he said academic advisement will be centralized because the existing structure has gaps due to positions becoming vacant or enrollment numbers declining.

The department will now report to Interim Dean Laurie Bell in the Office of the Associate Provost for Academic Programs, but Montemagno said advisors will stay within colleges to maintain connections with faculty and students.

A draft for program reorganization will be released in October, Montemagno said. He invited deans, department chairs and directors are invited to provide feedback on their respective programs.

In November, a second draft will be released to the entire campus

community for additional input.

Montemagno said in the spring semester, the plan will be finalized and it will go into effect July 1, 2018.

After the reorganization takes place, the faculty in the newly created schools must come up with their administrative structures and submit operational papers for approval, he said.

The chancellor said he wants every school to develop a top ten national program.

Montemagno said the reorganization effort allows the university to reinvest in its strongest academic programs, and it will free faculty from “service obligations that can be cumbersome in small academic departments.”

A plan for the new fiscal year will be released in the spring semester too, Montemagno said. This will include proposed salary increases for faculty members.

Money for these increases will

come from increased enrollment and operating more efficiently, he said.

Montemagno also announced the search for an associate chancellor for enrollment management, who will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating recruitment activities across campus. He said the university’s goal is to connect with more than one million prospective students this year.

The chancellor said his proposed changes will be implemented quickly because time is of the essence.

“If we don’t redefine and execute quickly, we may be faced with an institution that must abandon our core mission and values,” Montemagno said.

“Instead, we must reaffirm and embrace the future our mission calls for.”

Staff writer Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @AmeilaBlakely.

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Sightseers slither into southern Illinois for Snake Road ISABELLE ROGERS @isabellearogers_River

Southern Illinois’ Snake Road, which serves as a migration path for snakes and amphibians going from their summer to winter homes, draws people from all over the country who want to see rare and endangered species.

Some, like zoology graduate student Connor French, come to SIU just to be near the 2.5 mile stretch of road that runs along the Mississippi near Jonesboro.

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"It doesn't help us if you work all semester and then you crash on your final exam because you're in the third exam, six contiguous hours of exams on the same day, and you're exhausted and burned out and you don't do as well as you should do," geology professor Ken Anderson said. "That hurts everybody. Faculty don't want that anymore than students want that."

The proposal is the brainchild of two geology professors, Anderson and Steve Esling, as well as engineering professor James Mathias.

"We saw that something was broken and it needed to be fixed," Esling said.

Esling said the new scheduling system was created using a randomizer, which computes millions of scenarios to find the one closest to their optimal number of roughly 800 students taking three or more exams within the same day.

"We've been running, I think, four million simulations and picking the lowest number there," Esling said.

A fixed exam schedule — in which exams are scheduled based

“Snake Road is kind of representative of breaking my stereotyped ideas of Illinois,” said French, who is originally from Dallas. “I figured Illinois would be super flat and boring, but when I heard that there is this cool place where tons of [herptiles] are and swamps and cliffs, I was like ‘Holy shit! This is pretty sweet.’”

Snake Road, also known as Road 345, runs parallel to La Rue PineHills in the Shawnee National

Forest, according to the forest’s website. It is closed to vehicles — but still open to visitors on foot — from Sept. 1 to Oct. 30 in the stretch between milepost 3.0 and 5.8 for the herptile migration.

Scott Ballard, a herpetologist for the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, said Snake Road was first closed to vehicular traffic in 1972.

Ballard said the dates the Forest Service closed the road used to be random and only about three weeks

long. He finished his master’s thesis at SIU in 1987, which recommended the Forest Service close the road for two months each spring and fall instead of the three random weeks.

The Forest Service accepted his proposal, and Snake Road is now the only place in the country where a road is closed off to protect migrating herptiles, Ballard said.

Though the actual number of reptiles and amphibians saved by closing Snake Road is unknown,

forest officials say it is clear that there are fewer amphibian and reptile deaths there than in other migratory paths that vehicles can pass through.

The road is home to over 56 species of reptiles and amphibians during the migration period. Ballard said the road’s closure allows some endangered or threatened reptiles and amphibians migrate safely to their seasonal habitats.

largely on each class time slot — went into effect four years ago, and Anderson said faculty and students have been arguing the schedule since then.

"All we had to go on then was anecdotal evidence," Anderson said.

Now, he said there is quantifiable evidence suggesting the scheduling system needs to be revised.

Anderson officially presented the measure Tuesday night to both the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Council. He said he also proposed the idea to the Faculty Senate.

The student government bodies will vote on their support or lack thereof in the coming weeks. If supported, the recommendation will move to the Faculty Senate.

If the Faculty Senate also recommends the measure, it will move to the provost's office, where a new system could then be enacted or rejected.

"We have these raw numbers, and they're right in front of us," said Nate Jordan, USG press secretary and Final Exam Committee member.

"It's really hard to state opposition toward it."

The algorithm the professors created only takes into account daytime classes, not night classes, Anderson said.

Besides changing how final exams are scheduled, the professors are also proposing two other revisions: that the common math and English exams no longer be held back-toback and that students with three or more back-to-back exams receive rescheduling accommodations.

Official accommodations allow changes in a students' exam schedules if they have four or more exams in the same day. Anderson he expects adding accommodations for students with three back-to-back exams to be the most controversial part of the proposal.

He said it may be a particular challenge to pass this part of the measure because professors would have to give more students tests in time frames outside of the scheduled one.

"That creates a lot of headaches for faculty," he said. "It's a security issue: what if the student goes and tells his or her friends what's on the exam?"

Anderson, however, said many faculty members already have measures in place to prevent such issues.

Currently, the math and English common exams are held one right after the other on a Monday, but as many first-year students take the classes at the same time, Anderson said it could be the source of frustration for students.

He said the Monday scheduling makes sense: the two departments must grade large amounts of student work in a short amount of time. In light of that, he's proposing the Monday slot should alternate between the two departments between the fall and spring semesters. The other exam would move to Tuesday.

"If we could separate them by just one day, it cuts the number of conflicts down a lot," he said.

While Anderson said that would mean a grading day lost for one department, officials in the registrar's office have given faculty additional days to submit grades following a change in paper to electronic submissions.

Anderson said he has spoken with the math department, which is supportive of the proposal. He said he has been in preliminary talks with the English department, but he has yet to have a formal meeting with English

professors to propose the idea.

But he does note that using a randomized scheduling system has its drawbacks: the schedule could either be based on data from the previous year or on the current make up of classes.

Under the first example, Anderson said this would mean 10 percent more students than their ideal number of 800 would have three exams on the same day.

Under the second, he said students would not know their final exams until a month into the semester, and that could present problems for those with travel already planned.

"They might want to book flights or something way in advance to get the best prices," he said.

He said the question presented to students and faculty is to determine which is the best system. He said there is no system in which zero students would have to take more than two exams in a day.

"We need to decide where the balance lies," he said. "That's why it needs to be a collective decision."

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Auston Mahan | @AustonMahanDE A cottonmouth slithers down the path Sunday at Snake Road, the 2.5 mile stretch of road that runs along the Mississippi River near Jonesboro.

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Ballard said the road houses three endangered species of snake and one endangered species of frog.

The most common snakes are cottonmouths — also known as water moccasins — water snakes and rat snakes, French said.

According to National Geographic, there are three types of venomous snakes on the road: cottonmouths, copperheads and timber rattlesnakes.

“If you were allowed to drive across [the road] during migration, there would just be mass mortality, and there are some not-socommon species that [pass] by there,” French said. “It’s important to maintain diversity.”

French, who is president of SIU’s Herpetology Club, said the group takes trips out to Snake Road to see the bi-annual migration.

“I love the diversity and accessibility,” French said. “In such a small area, there are quite a few species of [herptiles] and you’re seeing things that normally wouldn’t be in that place.”

Ballard said the road doesn’t just draw wellmeaning tourists. Though most visitors are respectful and abide by regulations, he said there is a small percent of people that visit the road for personal gain or are not mindful of the habitat they’re visiting.

With the increased traffic during migration,

Dylan Nelson | @Dylan_Nelson99 A cottonmouth’s shedded skin lies in the dirt Sunday at Snake Road.

Dylan Nelson | @Dylan_Nelson99 A juvenile cottonmouth snake slithers through the forest floor Sunday at Snake Road.

French added it is important to put back everything that is displaced — such as flipped rocks and logs — so the environment looks untouched.

Displaced rocks and logs can lead to salamanders perishing because their habitat dries out, he said.

“It’s a high traffic area,” French said. “You don’t want to destroy the habitat surrounding it. You have got to be a good steward.”

According to Forest Service regulations,

visitors cannot collect anything from the road and must be respectful toward the species that live there.

Visitors found with tools to collect shedded reptile skin will be detained, Ballard said.

Aggravating, herding or gathering any species also violates Forest Service regulations.

French and Ballard said it is important to protect the road because it’s one of the most interesting places in southern Illinois.

“[Snake Road] is my favorite place to be,” Ballard said. “My worst day there … is still better than the best day at the office. It is just a chance to get out, walk and be with nature.

You lose all your worries when you’re walking the road.”

Staff writer Isabelle Rogers can be reached at irogers@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @isabellearogers.

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A look around the MVFC as SIU begins conference play NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd

SIU’s loss last week at Memphis spelled the end to the 2017 nonconference football schedule.

After finishing their nonconference matchups with a record of 2-1, the Salukis now turn their attention to the upcoming

battles they face against their foes in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

Entering week four, there are six teams in the highly-talented MVFC that remain unbeaten — North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State and Western Illinois.

Southern will not face North

Dakota State in 2017 league play.

NDSU has either shared or taken the MVFC championship title outright in each of the last six years. They have also won the FCS championship in five of the last six seasons.

SIU will now begin a stretch of eight-straight weeks of matchups

within the MVFC, beginning with a home game against the University of Northern Iowa.

No. 20 Northern Iowa - Sept. 30 @ Saluki Stadium Kickoff: 6 p.m.

The Panthers — ranked No. 20 in the most recent FCS Coaches Poll — will travel to Carbondale coming off of their bye week.

UNI begins conference play with a record of 1-2 on the season. In the preseason MVFC rankings, Northern Iowa was voted to finish fourth in the conference. UNI currently sits in eighth place in the MVFC standings.

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SIU takes first loss of season at Memphis, sets sights on Northern Iowa NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd

SIU football suffered their first loss of the season on Saturday night in a hard-fought battle with the University of Memphis Tigers. The Salukis won the first half in Memphis but the Tigers surged back to claim the 44-31 victory.

SIU — a participant in the FCS division — plays one game each season against an FBS team, a subdivision higher by NCAA standards. The Tigers served as the Salukis’ FBS matchup for the 2017 season.

“There are some positives, but ultimately you set out to win each game,” SIU head coach Nick Hill told reporters at his weekly press conference on Monday. “We didn't do that. So there are things that show us why we got beat. I'm looking forward to getting back out there tomorrow to work on improving and I think that we have the right mindset.”

On Saturday, the Saluki offense served as one of the positives that Hill described.

Junior starting quarterback Sam Straub completed 30 of 48 passes for 290 yards against Memphis. Straub

also connected with three different Saluki receivers for four touchdowns through the air.

“He went toe-to-toe with a really good quarterback and put our team in a position to win the football game,” Hill said. “He consistently shows that he has the right mentality and the right demeanor to be a great quarterback.”

Straub also spread the ball around to his receivers, with five different Salukis catching three or more passes. Among those receivers was junior Darrell James, who caught three passes in the game - two of them for touchdowns.

Junior receiver Raphael Leonard continued to impress in the Southern offensive attack with highlight-reel plays combined with hard-nosed receptions to extend drives.

“He's been a huge asset,” Hill said.

“As far as if he's a possession receiver, I think he can do both. He showed on Saturday that he can get big and catch it and extend plays. But he's also shown in the first two games—really what you saw on his junior college film — he can go get the ball when you throw it up to him.”

With non-conference play behind

them, Hill and the Salukis turn their attention to a strenuous schedule of play against MVFC opponents.

“The conference is such a challenge,” Hill said. “To start at home, I think that's big. To win the league, you need to win all your home games. I'm excited about the start against a rival in Northern Iowa.”

On their home turf in 2016, Northern Iowa (1-2) defeated SIU in convincing fashion. This season, Hill and his team are focused on getting off to a favorable start in league play.

“Each and every year, year-in and year-out, they are a solid football team that's well-coached and sound in everything they do,” Hill said. “We've played against each other every year.

We have to be physical. We have to win the line of scrimmage. We can't turn the ball over. All the boring things that I'm going to say each and every week have to happen.”

Kickoff of SIU’s meeting with Northern Iowa is scheduled for 6 p.m. on Saturday at Saluki Stadium. The game will also serve as the university’s annual “Family Weekend” game.

“There are no reasons why Saluki

Dylan Nelson | @Dylan_Nelson99 Junior wide receiver Raphael Leonard reaches with the ball as he's tackled by Tiger defense Saturday at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Salukis fell to the University of Memphis Tigers, 44 - 31.

Stadium shouldn't be sold out on great atmosphere. We're right there.

Saturday,” Hill said. “We need it to Now we have to go do it.” be full and for everyone to do their part because I know that our guys are Sports reporter Nathan Dodd can be committed to doing the right things reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com or and doing their part. I'd love to see a on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.

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UNI features seven players that received preseason honors.

Named to the league’s preseason AllConference team, senior linebacker Jared Farley is leading the team with 37 tackles. He also has an interception and three tacklesfor-loss in the 2017 season.

Along with Farley, defensive back Malcolm Washington was selected as part of the MVFC preseason All-Conference team.

Running back Trevor Allen, offensive lineman Cal Twait, defensive back Elijah Campbell, punter Sam Kuhter and wide receiver Jalen Rima were honorable mentions of the All-Conference team.

No. 4 South Dakota State - Oct. 7 @ Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium Kickoff: 6 p.m.

The Salukis will travel to take on the currently-undefeated Jackrabbits, who sit as the second-highest rated MVFC team in the FCS at No. 4 — two spots behind neighboring No. 2 North Dakota State in the Top-25 FCS rankings.

South Dakota State was only one point shy of being voted as the preseason favorites to claim the conference title again this season, with 2016 MVFC co-champions North Dakota State taking top billing.

The 3-0 Jackrabbits are currently outscoring their opponents 133-50 while averaging over 44 points per game.

SDSU featured 10 players with preseason honors, nine of which were named to the MVFC preseason All-Conference team.

Among those honorees is preseason AllConference quarterback Taryn Christion, who has completed 69.1 percent of his passes and thrown for seven touchdowns. He also leads the team with 172 rushing yards on 17 carries and three rushing touchdowns.

No. 8 Illinois State - Oct. 14 @ Saluki Stadium Kickoff: 2 p.m.

SIU takes on No. 8 ISU in its third home matchup of the season. ISU was picked to claim the fifth spot in the preseason MVFC standings.

The Redbirds currently hold first place in the MVFC standings with a 1-0 conference record, coming from their defeat of Missouri State in the Valley's first conference matchup last weekend.

Illinois State has four senior-class players with preseason honors for 2017 — receiver Spencer Schnell, defensive lineman Dalton

Keene and defensive backs Devontae Harris and Alec Kocour.

Honorable mention Sean Slattery was named week three’s MVFC Special Teams Player of the Week, as the senior placekicker moved up to third in the MVFC in individual points scored on the season.

Indiana State - Oct. 21 @ Memorial Stadium Kickoff: 2 p.m.

The Sycamores will host the Salukis in Terre Haute, Indiana for their Homecoming game in week seven. They are picked to finish last in the MVFC in preseason voting Indiana State began its 2017 campaign with a 0-3 start, and has been outscored by opponents 106-68.

The winless start may not surprise many, with losses to Eastern Illinois and No. 21 FBS-power Tennessee. What was surprising is that it took FCS-No. 19 Liberty — who is currently in transition as an independent member to the FBS — blocking a field goal to defeat Indiana State.

Two Sycamore players received preseason honors — sophomore placekicker Jerry Nunez and senior running back LeMonte Booker.

Booker has gotten off to a strong start with an average of 108 rushing yards per game.

The preseason honorable mention has found the end zone twice while averaging 4.5 yards per carry.

No. 10 South Dakota - Oct. 28 @ DakotaDome Kickoff: 3 p.m.

One of the MVFC’s most surprising teams in non-conference play will host the Salukis in Vermillion, South Dakota.

Through three games, the Coyotes have found themselves ranked 10th in the most recent FCS Coaches Poll with a 3-0 overall record.

Selected to finish seventh in the conference standings, South Dakota is currently outscoring opponents 157-41.

The Coyotes began their 2017 season with three players chosen as honorable mentions to the MVFC All-Conference team. Among those is senior quarterback Chris Streveler, who has thrown for 840 yards and seven TD passes so far this season. Streveler also leads the team in rushing with 229 yards and six rushing touchdowns.

Missouri State - Nov. 4 @ Saluki Stadium Kickoff: 1 p.m.

The Missouri State University Bears will enter battle at SIU in search of a win against the Salukis for the second season in a row.

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At the moment, the Bears sit in tenth place in the MVFC with a record of 1-3 (0-1 MVFC), one spot below where they were voted to finish this season.

Through four games, MSU has put up a total of 80 points and was shut out in week two’s loss to North Dakota.

Preseason MVFC All-Conference selection Malik Earl has put his mark on the Bears’ offense already in 2017. The senior wide receiver has tallied two touchdowns while averaging 79 receiving yards per game.

No. 5 Youngstown State - Nov. 11 @ Saluki Stadium Kickoff: 1 p.m.

The 2016 FCS Championship runner-up, No. 5 Youngstown State, will make the trip to Saluki Stadium in November.

Ranked third in the MVFC entering the season, the 2-1 Penguins will begin conference play with a tough road matchup against No. 4 South Dakota State this weekend.

Youngstown's only loss on the year came in its first game of the season against Power 5 stalwart the University of Pittsburgh. Pitt needed an overtime touchdown to claim victory over the Penguins, showing how strong Youngstown State entered the 2017 season.

On the season, the Penguins are dominating their opponents with a scoring advantage of 110-37. Youngstown’s competition is only averaging 12.3 points per game in 2017.

No. 16 Western Illinois - Nov. 18 @ Hanson Field Kickoff: 1 p.m.

SIU’s 2017 matchup against No. 16 Western Illinois will be played in Macomb as the final game of the regular season.

The two teams faced off in last season’s finale, where the Salukis defeated the thenNo. 24 Leathernecks in Carbondale.

WIU was picked as the sixth-place finisher in the preseason MVFC rankings and have started the 2017 campaign with a 3-0 start.

The offensively minded Leathernecks have had no trouble putting points on the board in their first three games, totaling 131 points.

A key part of WIU’s offensive success can be attributed to preseason All-MVFC honorable mention Sean McGuire. The junior quarterback has completed over 72 percent of his passes for 621 yards and five touchdowns.

Postseason Since 2011, at least one team playing in the FCS Championship game has hailed from the MVFC. The conference is hopeful that they can send another representative in 2017.

In a highly talented conference, the Salukis will have their hands full in pursuit of their first playoff appearance since 2009. Led by second-year head coach Nick Hill, SIU has optimism that 2017 can be the year that the Salukis re-establish dominance with the Valley and hopefully all of the FCS. Sports reporter Nathan Dodd can be reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.

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Player profile: Cross country runner Megan Krolak leads the pack DILLON GILLILAND | @DillonGilliland

A self-proclaimed tomboy, you can find third-year sophomore cross country runner Megan Krolak in the forest and out by the lake more often than the concrete-laced streets of the city. She is even easier to find on race day — she will be at the front of the pack.

Born in Spring Valley and raised in Peru, Illinois, she credits her love of nature to being the middle child between two brothers.

"I like to do outdoor things," Krolak said.

"Fishing, hiking, hunting and hanging out with my two brothers."

Krolak competed primarily in track & field throughout middle school and into LaSalle-Peru Township High School.

As a part of the high school track & field squad, she found success in several events including the high jump. Krolak volunteered for the high jump program because the team lacked people willing to compete — and placed first at two separate meets.

"I had no form, no flexibility," she said. "I just jumped as high as I could and I guess I got lucky so it was kind of funny."

Krolak discovered cross country in her sophomore year at LaSalle-Peru. She was unfamiliar with the sport other than recognizing it gave her a chance to compete outdoors in nature.

"I started as a sophomore and I had no idea what it was," the Saluki runner said. "I didn’t take it too seriously until probably my junior year."

With her parents having never competed in cross country, and her two brothers only participating in baseball and football, the Peru native had no prior inspiration to spark an interest in the sport.

Krolak dabbled in basketball for a year in high school, but soon realized the more traditional team sports were not her calling.

And while she enjoyed track & field, the young runner found more excitement in cross country because it was scored by the

Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Junior cross country runner Megan Krolak runs Sept. 19 before practice at the Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex.

team as a whole rather than the individual.

Her junior year saw Krolak competing in her second IHSA Class 2A State XC Championship in two years. Halfway through the three-mile event, an asthma attack almost forced her to withdraw from the competition — but she persevered and finished with a time of 19:20.0. She was officially diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma a few weeks after the meet.

"I take medication to manage it," Krolak

said. "Environment and weather changes on race day are a big factor, but I have learned when I need to take my medication prior to a race so I don't suffer from it while I compete."

With her asthma under control in her senior year, Krolak's first place finish in the Class 2A Morris Regional and sixth place run at the East Peoria Sectional helped the Lady Cavaliers earn their first state berth since 1979.

She finished off her senior season with a third-consecutive visit to the IHSA Class 2A State XC Championship, placing 20th overall with a personal-best time of 17:55.0 in the 3-mile course — her first time breaking the 18-minute barrier.

Krolak made two official visits to state universities following her senior season, one to Illinois State University and the other to SIU. She received scholarship offers from both institutions, and chose Illinois State

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Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Junior cross country runner Megan Krolak runs Sept. 19 before practice at the Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex.

“I spent a whole year waiting

to get out there and run. After my first meet, I got to see that whole year of training pay off. It was cool.”

- Megan Krolak, sophomore cross counry runner

due to the university offering a degree in exercise science while being "only an hour away" from her home.

During her freshman year at Illinois State, Krolak found immediate success in the cross country program — placing top-25 in two out of her first five meets. She finished her first collegiate season placing 51st out of 79 runners at the 2015 MVC championship meet as the only freshman on ISU's conference team.

"It was just awesome to be a part of that team," Krolak said. "It was cool to be able to get that experience under my belt and learn from it."

Although Krolak expected a "transition year" in her first season at ISU, she felt that she exceeded her own expectations while setting several personal records in indoor running.

The Saluki runner says she learned early on running in college is more challenging as a whole compared to high school, noting there are more intense workouts and that she found herself

surrounded by more girls that are dedicated to the sport. She credits the competitive atmosphere for helping her to succeed from day one.

The former Redbird transferred to SIU after her freshman year to join the Physical Therapy Assistant Program offered through the School of Allied Health while still pursuing her major in Exercise Science.

As the transfer from ISU to SIU was an inconference transfer, Krolak was forced under NCAA transfer rules to sit out the 2016 competitive season. She entered the first meet of the 2017 season — her first as a Saluki — with a bang, placing first overall at the Golden Eagle Invitational in Cookeville, Tennessee.

"I spent a whole year waiting to get out there and run," Krolak said. "After my first meet, I got to see that whole year of training pay off. It was cool."

Krolak says her goals for the rest of the season are to continue hitting fast marks and "just keep placing high" at the meets to help the team. She believes if she and the rest of the team stay healthy and on-track with goals this year, Southern is primed to surprise a lot of people.

"I think teams don't see us ranked very high," the Saluki runner said. "I think we can prove everyone wrong and place top five in conference."

Aside from athletic competitions while at SIU, Krolak is considering a minor in coaching to broaden her career opportunities to work hand-in-hand with athletes. She credits her high school cross country coach, John Beatty, with passing his passion for the sport down to her and would like the opportunity to do the same for prospective runners in the future.

She also plans on running being a part of her life for the foreseeable future, be it competitively or for pure enjoyment and self-challenge.

"As far as running post-collegiately goes, I'll definitely run a few marathons before I'm too far out of shape," Krolak said.

For now, Krolak is focused on leading the veteran women's cross country squad to their first MVC Championship since 2013, and then on to the first NCAA Championship in program history.

It's her competitiveness and commitment that separates her from the competition," said cross country coach Kevin Cataldo. "She wants to win."

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

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