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Smoke test finds cracks in Campus Lake pipes ANNA SPOERRE | @ASPOERRE_DE

Provided by SIUC Red indicates areas that need further investigation

Exploratory students can find success too

After multiple tests, results indicate a need for further testing to determine the source of toxins contaminating Campus Lake.

So far, the university has performed several tests — with no definitive answer — to confirm the presence of sewage in the water.

Phil Gatton, director of Plant and Service Operations, said the investigation occurred in three parts: visual inspection, dye testing and smoke testing.

To perform smoke tests, pipe lines near the lake were pressurized and injected with smoke. Escaping smoke would indicate cracks, breaks or joints not sealed tightly.

Gatton said smoke did leak from

some pipes, but did not indicate a main problem area. He said further investigation on those pipes is underway.

Brad Dillard, associate director of Plant and Service Operations, said his department is working to determine a source.

“We’ve got a number of people convinced that we’ve got some type of sanitary infiltration into the lake,” Dillard said. “We’re as interested as they are in trying to find that.”

The visual inspection consisted of looking at areas that took longer to freeze during the winter, which would indicate the presence of raw sewage. The test did not produce a visible source.

After the visual test, colored dye was put into the sanitary and

sewage lines as well as the toilets and basement drain lines in Thompson Point buildings. Dye in the lake would indicate a leak, but no dye was found.

Gatton said concerns being investigated include cross contamination — when a storm pipe is mistakenly connected to a sewage line — and pipe deterioration. “[The pipes] should last 30 years,” Gatton said. “Now we’re at 60 years, so it’s probably getting to the point where [the pipes are] reaching an age where [they’re] going to have some maintenance issues.”

Dillard said the smoke testing cost nearly $20,000, which was split between SIU Housing and Physical Plant.

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Helena Berry would not be the person she is today without her academic advisor.

SIUC changed admission policies this year for new students by changing the deadline for applications to May 1. SIU System President Randy Dunn said during a press conference last month that the decline in freshmen enrollment was in part because of that decision, which resulted in a loss of 140 enrollees.

Dunn also said the university wanted to reduce the amount of enrollees who were not academically prepared for college.

Walter Davis, an academic advisor and instructor in the university’s department of exploratory student advisement, coordinated a student panel discussion held Tuesday, which aimed to educate exploratory students about what SIUC has to offer. Berry was one of 30 former provisional students invited to share their success stories.

Berry graduated from the university in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in foreign language and international trade. Now she’s a branch manager of CFA Staffing, where she manages thousands of people by providing organizations in the St. Louis area with employees. “[The event] basically helps a lot of the new freshman who are just now coming in that really don’t know SIU a lot,” Davis said.

That was Berry six years ago, when she came to Carbondale after graduating from Belleville East High School.

In 2014, 2,281 undergraduate students — or 17 percent — had undeclared majors. When Berry took Davis’ UCOL 101 course during her first semester, she was not sure what to expect.

“I automatically gained a mentor just from the class,” Berry said.

Davis became a somewhat of a role model for Berry. He became someone she felt comfortable to confide in — from disagreements with her roommate to which classes to enroll in.

The coursework Berry learned provided her with skills she relies on in current career. Some of her peers, she said, came from underfunded secondary schools where they had never been required to write a paper.

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TJ Price | @TPrice_DE Isaac Taylor, left, a junior, and Johnny Toohill, a senior, both studying outdoor recreation, cook cinnamon rolls during the Recreation Center Outdoor Pursuit’s Cooking Clinic on Wednesday. The free event, now in its second year, teaches students to prepare food outdoors with dutch ovens.

Touch of Nature staffers provide free paddling in the name of community MARISSA NOVEL | @MARISSANOVELDE

Not all students and community members are aware of the 3,100 acres of university property less than 10 miles from campus.

Touch of Nature Environmental Center serves as an outdoor laboratory for students, a venue for weddings and special occasions, and a retreat space for people of all ages.

Wrapping around the edges of Little

Grassy Lake on its furthest west side, it is also a place of interest for those who would like to fit a free and informative afternoon into their weekend schedules.

Touch of Nature will host Breaking the Surface, their third biannual paddle event, from 1 to 6:30 p.m Saturday.

The entirely volunteer-led event will feature live music, food for cash purchase, informative nature hikes, as well as instruction and access to about 70 boats including canoes, kayaks and

stand-up paddle boards.

Among the vessels will also be the Illinois Department of Natural Resources’ 28-person Voyageur canoe, which was temporarily donated for the event.

Breaking the Surface is the brainchild of Steve Gariepy, a program coordinator at Touch of Nature. He said about 60 and 120 people gathered at the first two events, respectively, most of whom were international students and families.

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Levels of nitrogen and phosphate have increased in the lake because of the presence of sewage, according to Professor Emeritus Daniel Nickrent.

James Garvey, vice chancellor of research, said there have been elevated levels of nutrients in Campus Lake for the past 15 years. Because of this increase, the lake has experienced high levels of cyanobacteria, also known as blue-green algae. Health risks affiliated with the bacterium have caused Campus Lake to remain closed.

“The question is, ‘Where are the nutrients coming from?’ There seem to be some differences in opinion on how that’s happening,” said Matt Whiles, a professor in the zoology department.

Additional methods are the next step to inspect the pipes.

The university will partner with RJN Group Inc., a professional engineering and specialty field services firm, to run cameras through the pipes. RJN also conducted the smoke tests.

Dillard said they hope to have the camera surveying completed within the next month and are curious about the results.

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Davis, a local native who graduated from Carbondale High School, earned his associate’s from John A. Logan and his undergraduate and graduate degrees from SIUC. Davis his job at the university resonates with him because he understands many students’ situations firsthand.

“When I went back to school at John A. Logan, I really considered myself an at-risk student, because I … didn’t really have the confidence to think that I could really get through college,” he said. “Sometimes I see myself in them.”

Provided by SIUC Smoke Testing Report Smoke escaping through an area examined during the smoke test. Smoke was found at four storm sewer manholes and six mainlines.

“It’s such a slow process trying to find [a problem area] and pinpointing it is very difficult. But between the smoke, dye and camera, we’re hoping to track something down and find something here,” Dillard said.

Additional signage, which now includes the scientific name for the bacterium as well as website link, has

been posted around Campus Lake.

“I am very concerned because I feel like Campus Lake can really be a centerpiece of our campus and a recruiting tool and right now, unfortunately, it’s not there,” Whiles said. “I think this needs to be highest priority of SIU Carbondale to fix the problem.”

For six years, Davis has worked with at-risk and first-generation students, providing guidance and mentorship.

Resources, he said, are critical to the success and development of provisional students. Davis said one reason he coordinated the panel for three years is because many resources are being stripped from the program.

Berry has been at CFA Staffing a year and is killing two birds with one stone by pursuing a second degree from Lindenwood University and obtaining a certification in human resources, which requires two years of on-the-job experience.

After that, she is considering an

education in law.

“I feel like without that program, honestly, the school would be in a totally different direction than I feel that it needs to go,” she said. “I probably wouldn’t feel like I have a place on campus to go [or] to call home at that point.”

Berry attributes much of her success to the program and the guidance she received from Davis — she said she is a far cry from the anti-social teenager she was when she started college.

“It’s not like I wasn’t prepared for college,” Berry said, “I think that class gave me a lot more comfort to feel confident in being in college.”

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University of Washington | Tribune News Service University of Washington graduate student Jose Ceballos wears an electroencephalography (EEG) cap that records brain activity and sends a response to a second participant over the Internet.

Meeting of the minds, literally: Brain experiment could boost medicine KATHERINE LONG | THE SEATTLE TIMES

Brain scientists at the University of Washington have used an oldfashioned parlor game in a novel way to prove that two people’s brains can be linked across the Internet — an experiment that sounds like it was ripped from the pages of a science-fiction novel.

The experiment is believed to be the first one to demonstrate that two brains can be directly linked to allow one participant to correctly guess what the other is thinking.

Researchers say melding two minds has the potential for a vast range of applications. For example, it might allow for the transfer of information from a healthy one to a damaged one. Or it might allow an alert person to transmit that brain state to somebody who is sleepy, or struggling to pay attention.

“What we wanted to establish is that it is possible to use this rudimentary brain-to-brain collaboration ... to solve a common problem,” said Andrea Stocco, an assistant professor of psychology and researcher at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences at the UW. The research was published recently in the journal PLOS ONE. The brain-science investigations are funded by a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation.

Researchers used “ 20 Questions,” a popular guessing game in which one person thinks of an object and the other tries to guess what it is with a series of 20 or fewer questions that can only be answered by “yes” or “no.”

In the experiment, two participants played the game in rooms a mile apart on campus.

One participant wore an electrode-studded cap connected to an electroencephalography machine to pick up signals from the brain.

The other wore a cap with a magnetic coil positioned over the part of the brain that controls the visual cortex.

The player wearing the electrode cap picked an object, and the player wearing the electric coil asked a series of questions to try to guess the object.

The electrode-capped player signaled to the questioner whether the answer was “yes” or “no” simply by looking at a flashing light that indicated the answer. A “yes” sent a signal to the questioner; a “no” sent no signal at all. The signal was transmitted via the Internet.

If the answer was yes, the brain activity in the first player’s brain delivered a signal to the electric coil worn by the second player, which translated into a visual interruption or flash of light known as a “phosphene.”

Stocco said it took trial-anderror to position the magnetic coil so that it reliably transmitted a signal to the player asking the questions. And not everyone saw the same visual interruption.

“I consistently saw lines,” Stocco said. “Some saw lightning bolts, blobs or shapes.”

Stocco said the success of the experiment took researchers by surprise.

“We knew in theory it could work,” he said. “We wanted to know how well it could work.”

Subjects arrived at the correct answer in the “20 Questions” game 72 percent of the time; to do that, they answered more than 90 percent of the questions correctly.

In other words, they saw the visual interruption, and interpreted it as a “yes.”

Five sets of participants played 20 rounds of the game — a mixture of 10 real games and 10 control games, in which no visual signal was sent at all. Participants guessed the correct answer only 18 percent of the time in the control games.

It’s not the first time Stocco and his fellow researchers have

delivered a brain-to-brain signal over the Internet. Two years ago, Stocco and computer-science professor Rajesh Rao conducted an experiment in which Rao transmitted signals from his brain to Stocco, causing his finger to twitch.

At the time, the two said they believed it was the first time two human brains had been directly connected in this manner.

However, some neuroscientists dismissed the experiment as a publicity stunt.

Stocco said researchers hope they’ll eventually be able to transmit more complex signals, such as shapes rather than simple flashes of light.

In the 20 Questions experiment, “the brain is trying to make sense of a signal that normally doesn’t exist,” he said. “The brain is saying, ‘I don’t know what this thing is, but I think it’s a line.’

If we can control that with more precision, we could make a shape, or an object.”

If scientists could figure out how to transmit shapes between two brains, it might eventually allow people to collaborate on problem-solving in a completely novel way, he said.

Stocco said there are other applications for the science, too.

For example, researchers know how to measure patterns of brain activity to tell whether somebody is paying attention. One day, scientists may be able to capture those brain patterns and transmit them to a person whose mind wanders, such as a student trying to overcome Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.

Or perhaps one day, you could record the electrical impulses that pulse through your brain when you are at the peak of performance, and use that to wake up your brain at a later state, when your attention is flagging.

“It could be a new frontier of self-help,” Stocco said.

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Lead headline Marissa Novel | @MarissaNovelDE Steve Gariepy, the event organizer for the first two Breaking the Surface paddle events, descends the steps of a small shed near the beach at Touch of Nature Environmental Center in Makanda on Tuesday.

He said he enjoys taking the 34-foot Voyageur canoe on the lake because it has room for many different types of people. He said everyone in the boat has to work together to paddle it. “Something I’m always working toward is getting humans to work together and looking beyond their differences to try to make this world a better place,” he said. “There’s a little bit of kumbaya in everything I do.”

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He said it seemed many attendees had never paddled before.

But, after getting into the 34-foot canoe, they began taking out the smaller paddle boats.

“I think it helped get them comfortable, but they were having a blast,” he said. “They were taking selfies and Facebooking and everything while they were still in the boat.”

Vicki Lang, a therapeutic recreation specialist for Touch of Nature, said being in the outdoors provides a calming and adventurous experience, which is always unique to the individual.

She said kayaks are especially useful for connecting to nature.

“You’re sitting so low in the water, so you almost feel like you belong and you are part of this experience,” Lang said.

Stephanie Jaros, this year’s event organizer, was a volunteer

at the previous events.

“As a kid I had no idea [Touch of Nature] even existed,” she said.

A Makanda native and graduate of Carbondale Community High School, Jaros said she hopes to bridge the gap between Touch of Nature’s programs and the community.

“It’s crazy that there people who have lived here for years who don’t know that you can come here and paddle every thursday,” she said.

Has primetime TV finally accepted black actresses?

TIRDAD DERAKHSHANI | PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

Has prime time TV finally accepted black actresses?

The recent Emmy Awards suggests it has: This year, black women were nominated for 10 Emmys, nine of which were dramatic.

Three performers won, including “How to Get Away with Murder” star Viola Davis, who became the first black woman to win the lead actress in a drama prize.

Davis’ win capped a good night: Uzo Aduba won best supporting actress for her role as the hilarious, sensitive, tongue-tied Suzanne “Crazy Eyes” Warren on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” and Regina King picked up an award for her role as the devout Aliyah Shadeed on ABC’s “American Crime.”

A growing number of dramas now offer strong roles for women of color, including Fox’s “Empire,” “Sleepy Hollow” and “Minority Report”; ABC’s “Scandal” and “Mistresses”; Starz’s “Power”; DirectTV’s “Rogue”; CBS’s “Extant”; FX’s “American Horror Story”; and BET’s “Being Mary Jane” and “Book of Negroes.”

It’s hardly an avalanche, but it’s certainly a nice start.

As Davis, 50, noted in her Emmy speech,

actresses of color haven’t exactly been drowning in good roles.

“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity,” she said. “You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.”

It’s taken the work of visionaries Lee Daniels (“Empire”), John Ridley (“American Crime”), Shonda Rhimes (“Scandal,” “How to Get Away with Murder”) and “Power” creator Courtney Kemp Agboh to create those roles.

In a sense, the rise of these shows was inevitable: The networks have long relied on African-American audiences. “Empire,” starring Terrence Howard as hip-hop mogul Lucious Lyon and Emmy-nominated Taraji P. Henson as his ex-wife, Cookie, is a veritable pop culture phenom. The series, which recently returned for its second season, owed much of its early success to African-Americans viewers.

Yet TV producers have only recently begun to offer sophisticated fare with meaty roles for black actresses.

The best shows feature complex, multidimensional characters, women who juggle competing responsibilities such as work and their love lives.

As leaders and professionals, they also

struggle with weighty moral decisions and more often than not are willing to break the rules to succeed.

They are antiheroes, a type once associated with male leads.

“Scandal” features Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, a top fixer for the rich and famous. It’s her job to make senators, corporate heads, and lobbyists look good — often by covering up their misdeeds.

Yet Olivia also is passionate about helping ordinary folks fight injustice. She travels a morally murky road.

Moral ambivalence also seems to be the defining trait for the leading women in “Power,” “American Horror Story” and “How to Get Away with Murder.”

Henson, who plays the divine Cookie on “Empire,” consistently acts in the name of uniting her family. Yet sometimes that means alienating some and hurting others; she’s gone as far as making an attempt on her exhusband’s life. The second season premiere had her anger her middle son, Jamal (Jussie Smollett), with threats of a hostile takeover of the family biz.

Annalise Keating, Davis’ excruciatingly complicated character in “How to Get Away with Murder,” also is powerful, magnetic, and determined. A successful Philadelphia

criminal defense lawyer and law professor, Keating helps her students get away with murder.

Their victim? Keating’s white husband, Sam (Tom Verica).

“Scandal” and “How to Get Away with Murder” present biracial couples as a perfectly ordinary fact. Yet “How to Get Away with Murder” also looks at how racial stereotyping can be used as a weapon: When Sam and Annalise have the mother of all fights, she compares his performance in bed to that of her black lover (April Parker Jones). For his part, Sam calls her a typical black harlot.

It’s strong stuff for network television.

Issues of race, gender, beauty, and sexuality are explored in these shows with frankness.

Olivia, Annalise, and their compatriots present a public face modified — straight, lightened hair, makeup.

Yet we also see them in private when they take off these symbolic gestures of cultural acquiescence as Annalise does in a memorable episode of “How to Get Away with Murder” that had her strip off her carefully constructed public mask.

One of the salutary effects of these dramas is their power to give viewers concrete representations of black women as accomplished professionals.

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Students to play Southern Wonderland music festival SAM BEARD | @SAMBEARD_DE

Students will have a chance to party, socialize and listen to music at the first-ever Southern Wonderland music festival Saturday.

The event will feature more than 20 artists across two stages, fire spinning, food vendors and a shuttle bus to transport patrons to and from festival grounds during the 12-hour party.

At 2042 Dillinger Road, the festival grounds lie just north of the Carbondale city limits.

A 55-person shuttle bus will run every 30 minutes from 514 S. Illinois Ave. — the parking lot behind Old-Town Liquors — to the fairgrounds.

Event organizer Nico Gonzalez, a junior from Chicago studying mechanical engineering, said he hopes the festival will provide a unique

opportunity for students to escape the stresses of school and work by getting lost in the wonderland.

So Ill Events, the production agency facilitating the festival is about a year old, and this is the agency’s second festival; Electric Spring, the agency’s first event, was last semester.

Gonzalez said he is hosting the festival because he feels passionately about providing independent artists with opportunities to showcase their skills.

“A lot of the artists are actually local talent, including SIU students,” he said. “So it gives them an opportunity to play in front of larger crowds than they’re used to, which I think is good for musicians to have.”

The majority of the artists will play some

type of electronic dance music, but other genres, like rock, jam, rap and digital-hardcore will be heard during the show.

Disc Jockey Dan Young, a senior from Rockford studying aviation technologies, will play trap and house music. This is Young’s third festival this year, but said he is most excited for this one because of the lineup’s heavy emphasis on electronic music.

“Hopefully it’s going to have a really good turn out,” Young said. “I know a lot of people have a love for E.D.M. music in Carbondale, but it’s not really played [at] many places.”

Limited amounts of free on-site parking will be available at the festival. A security team and a team of volunteers will also oversee the event.

Tickets can be purchased online at eventful.com.

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The Jacob Show ‘The Intern’ won’t get promoted JACOB PIERCE |@JACOBPIERCE1_DE

TJ Price | @TJPrice_DE Erika Krahl, left, a graduate student in zoology, and Liz Pearson, an undecided sophomore, rock climb in the Recreational Center during the Yoga Rocks event. During Yoga Rocks, a free event held every other Wednesday from 5-7 p.m., participants rock climb and practice yoga for an hour each.

For every great movie Robert De Niro does, he does 50 terrible ones to go right with it.

“The Intern,” directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway, is one of the many recent De Niro movies to skip.

The script talks about one idea, then shoves it down the audience’s throat. It doesn’t matter that it needs to tell an engaging and well-thought out story, it will continue to shove the message down your throat.

“The Intern” is obsessed with putting down the “Facedown Generation.” They hit at this idea so much it derails the film severely.

If it is not jokes about Facebook and people looking at their phones too much, it is Hathaway’s character questioning the manhood of today’s men because they don’t look like Harrison Ford or Jack Nicholson.

The movie attacks this generation any chance it gets, and really puts a damper on any good thing the film does.

A precocious kid who says adult things and an older man not understanding new fads help bring “The Intern” down even more. A few jokes hit, but this comedy is mostly unfunny.

The one spot this film succeeds with is its character work. When the movie is talking about people cheating on each other and the death of a significant other, it hits an emotional vibe.

The scene between Hathaway’s Jules and De Niro’s Ben sitting in the hotel room, talking about issues, is the best part of the movie. It will hit the most stone cold of people and they will connect with the movie for brief second. But that’s it.

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<< Answers for Wednesday’s 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

Today’s Birthday (10/01/15).

Blessings sprout in peaceful introspection this year.

Disciplined communications reap long-term benefits. Spring eclipses bring new beginnings in work and health, with breakthroughs in personal growth. Autumn

eclipses inspire a retrospective and planning phase, before a professional turning point arises.

It’s all for home and family.

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) -Today is an 8 -- Get into a learning phase today and tomorrow. Study, research and write. Don’t show a loved one unfinished work.

Shyness, lack of confidence, money problems or trouble in a partnership keep your mood quiet.

Avoid controversy and fuss.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Don’t waste your money.

Figure finances over the next few days. Pay bills before treats. Use your feminine side to diplomatically sidestep a controversy. Don’t be intimidated. Ask for what you were promised. Someone important is paying attention.

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Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is an 8 -- A hunch could get profitable.

You’re strong and growing stronger over the next few days. Get innovative, but don’t gamble with the rent. Discover a magnetic attraction. Avoid a conflict of interests. Heed the voice of experience.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Slow things down. Deadlines loom, so leave nonessential tasks for later. Private meditation and review serve you today and tomorrow.

Postpone socializing. Study a mystery and discover a secret. Finish your work in private. Keep your wits.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Friends come through for you over the next few days. Hold meetings. Make a decision together. Avoid stepping on toes. Don’t talk about a party to someone who’s not invited. Watch for unexpected changes. Listen. Revise plans.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Crazy dreams seem possible, but breakdown potential is high.

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7 Horrify 8 Break down, in a way 9 Exact 10 Roof extension 11 Site of the 2000 USS Cole attack 12 Email 13 Fla. summer setting 18 Young hombre 24 Understand 25 War hero Murphy 27 Fool 29 Common link 30 Protected from violent weather

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Don’t try new tricks. Advance your career today and tomorrow. Slow and steady wins the race. Handle responsibilities. Postpone partying.

Avoid a grump. Look before leaping.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Travel appeals, but it’s not without peril. Avoid extravagance. News affects your decisions for the next two days. Study the road ahead. Do the filing. Weigh options. Don’t get mad when others remind you to stay on task.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Family comes first. Today and tomorrow are good for financial planning. Show your love for an elder.

Avoid doing stuff you know will irritate your partner. Organize paperwork and keep accounts current. Stay objective in a tense situation. Share appreciation.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is an 8 -- Somebody would like to share your load. Give kind words, not expensive treats. Complications could arise. Compromise is required for the next

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two days. Guard against overspending or overindulging. Decide together. Dance with the circumstances.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 6 -- Slow down to get things done quicker. Save time by avoiding doovers. There’s plenty of work today and tomorrow. Obstacles merit careful steps.

Avoid reacting automatically, and wait on big decisions. Focus on the job at hand.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 5 -- Go play today and tomorrow. In a stalemate, don’t ask for favors. Patience serves you. Don’t fall for a trick. A temporary clash between love and money could irritate. The person yelling loudest isn’t always right. Get creative.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 6 -- Wait to advance. Arguments are to be expected. Get feedback from close family and friends first. Get support with differences of opinion. Don’t overlook domestic chores. Make your home more comfortable today and tomorrow. Get some time to yourself.

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SIU, Western football share common bonds THOMAS DONLEY | @TDONLEYDE

More than just a conference rivalry connects SIU and Western Illinois football.

Members of each athletic staff have connections to the other school.

SIU Athletic Director Tommy Bell has worked for both universities, in the same position. He served as the director of athletics at Western for two years before returning to SIU in 2015. He previously served as director of institutional advancement at SIU from 2001 to 2007.

Bell said he hears friendly trash-talk from his former coworkers in Macomb.

“I have no friendly wagers,” Bell said. “But that doesn’t mean I don’t get texts from other former faculty members about this game.”

Connections run even deeper on the coaching staffs.

WIU associate head coach and running backs coach Steve Crutchley is in his third year in Macomb after coaching Saluki running backs from 2008 to 2012. One of the running backs he coached at SIU, Larry Warner, is now running backs coach at SIU. Warner gained 1,265 yards and scored 10 touchdowns on the ground as a senior in 2008, earning a First-Team AllAmerica honor, with Crutchley as his coach.

Crutchley said he is excited to reunite with his former coworkers when the Salukis and Leathernecks face off.

“It’s always fun to see those guys,” said Crutchley, who coached with current SIU coach Dale Lennon, outside linebackers coach Travis Stepps and defensive line coach Austin Flyger at SIU. “But most of the guys there don’t know who I am.”

Leatherneck quarterbacks coach Ted Schlafke was an assistant offensive line coach at SIU in 2009 and 2010. The 2009 Saluki O-line blocked for Crutchley’s running backs, who gained the third-most rushing yards in the nation.

Lennon said the familiarity between the coaching staffs adds intensity to the game.

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Bill O’Boyle, assistant head coach and co-offensive coordinator, directs players at the SIU vs. Liberty game Saturday. O’Boyle, coached and played at Western Illinois University in the ‘80s.

“We share a lot in common,” Lennon said. “I guarantee this will be one of those games that will go down to the wire, and you have to play your best game because that’s what its going to take to win it.”

Two other Saluki coaches, assistant head coach/co-offensive coordinator Bill O’Boyle and inside linebackers coach Todd Auer, played and coached at Western in the ‘80s.

Auer, who coached as a graduate assistant at WIU in 1989 before spending 25 years coaching at Chadron State and Colorado Mesa, said WIU has changed since he’s been gone.

“I’m sure I’ll run into some people I know,” he said. “There’s a lot of people I played with that are in Chicago and around the state that I haven’t talked to in 20, 25 years being back [in Illinois].”

Saluki volleyball midseason review EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

SIU volleyball coach Justin Ingram had three points of emphasis for the 2015 season: record-setting hitters, finding a starting libero and continuing success with his two veteran setters.

Ingram believes this team is much improved from last year.

The team hopes to make history by becoming the first SIU volleyball team to qualify for the National tournament. Halfway through the regular season, the Salukis are tied for the fifthbest Missouri Valley Conference record (10-5, 1-1). Their last 16 matches are conference matches.

Hitting Depth Sophomore outside hitter Andrea Estrada leads the team in hitting with a 3.33 kills per set average — No. 4 in the Missouri Valley Conference. She has tallied 203 kills, which is sixth in the MVC. Senior middle hitter Taylor Pippen missed the last six matches with a sore right shoulder. Before the injury, Pippen led the team in hitting efficiency with a .377 percent through nine matches.

Pippen is No. 1 all-time at SIU for single season and alltime hitting efficiency with .410 and .334 respectively.

Ingram said he does not want to rush Pippen back.

“We want Taylor for the duration of the season, not

MVC Standings (Overall, Conference) Preseason 1. Northern Iowa 2. Missouri State 3. Wichita State 4. Drake 5. Loyola 6. SIU

(9-7, 3-0) (11-4, 2-0) (11-5, 2-0) (11-9, 2-1) (12-3, 1-1) (10-5, 1-1)

Team Statistics 2.35 blocks/set (No. 1 MVC)

3 2 1 8 7 4

Alex Rosignol’s Statistics

1.42 blocks/set (No. 1.49 blocks/set (allowed) 1 MVC) (No. 1 MVC) 78 blocks 1.26 service aces/set (allowed) (Tied for No. 1 MVC) (No. 3 MVC) 15.77 digs/set (No. 4 MVC) just for a match,” Ingram said.

“All signs are pointing to her returning soon.”

Pippen dressed and warmed up for the match against Drake on Saturday, but did not play.

Sophomore outside hitter Abby Barrow has averaged 12.67 kills per match and has hit for a .301 efficiency during Pippen’s

injury. Barrow has 170 kills and is hitting for .239 attack efficiency this season.

“Last year I saw some time, but I’m really happy with my role on the team this year,” Barrow said.

Sophomore middle hitter Alex Rosignol is blocking more balls than any other player in the

MVC. Her 78 blocks leads the conference and her 1.42 blocks per set has her tied for 19th in the nation.

The new defense Libero Alex Rivera graduated after last season and left the starting libero spot open.

Junior transfer Mariana Pilon has played all 61 sets as libero

this season and tallied a teamleading 236 digs.

The team also lost three defensive specialists, who quit.

Sophomore Ashley Edelen is the only returning defensive specialist with playing time. She has played in 39 sets this season, usually as a serving specialist.

Freshman Tara Routliffe in 60 sets and recorded 128 digs.

Setter Success Ingram has called his two setters the quarterbacks of his offense. Junior setters Meg Viggars and Hannah Kaminsky are in the second year of the twosetter system for the Salukis, meaning they are splitting time at the position.

Viggars has contributed to her team in every aspect of the game. She is averaging 2.05 kills, 5.33 assists, 2.56 digs and 1.03 blocks per set this season.

She also has seven service aces.

Kaminksy is No. 9 all-time in career assists with 2239. Her 370 assists this season is No. 8 in the conference all while splitting assists with Viggars.

SIU lost its first MVC match of the season to conferenceleading Northern Iowa in four sets Friday. They bounced back for a sweep of Drake the following day.

Saluki volleyball will begin the second half of its season at 7 p.m. Friday at Davies Gym. The team plays three matches in four days at Davies, all of which will be aired on ESPN3.