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Breast cancer solidarity takes shape outside Morris Library

Students petition interim Chancellor to change policy

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Jordan Duncan | @jordanduncanDE Beth Alongi, chair of the Start Seeing Pink committee, shades her eyes so she can talk to a photographer standing on the roof of Morris Library. SIU Student Health Services and the committee organized the event, where a photo is taken of people in the shape of a ribbon, to raise awareness for breast cancer. “It gives students a chance to participate in something,” said Alongi. “If they couldn’t make one of the other events, this give the opportunity to come and show their support.”

Some SIUC students will have to dig deep to pay their debt if they want to enroll in classes in spring. The Bursar’s office announced last semester it would revert to a former policy on registration holds for past-due balances, and students with a Bursar balance of more than $200 will not be able to enroll. The new policy was enacted Oct. 1, and some are finally starting to feel the effects as registration draws near. “There are a lot of students who have negative feelings towards this new $200 policy,” said Michael Smith, a junior from Chicago studying political science. Smith started a Change.org petition last week asking Interim Chancellor William Bradley Colwell to raise the threshold back to $1,000 for registration holds. Nearly 400 people have already signed, including SIUC Student Trustee Allen Shelton. “As the student trustee, my job is to cater to the student needs … if [the policy] could be a hindrace to their registration, it’s something that need to be addressed,” Shelton said. Please see PETITION | 2

Saturday’s glass pumpkin sale helps art students SAM BEARD| @SamBeard_DE

From candles to lattes, pies to holiday sweaters, pumpkin is in season. The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, an annual student art sale hosted by the Registered Student Organization Southern Glass Works, is at 7 a.m. Saturday at City Pavilion in city’s Town Square, and will offer community members a chance to purchase some of the most indemand pumpkins on the block. The pumpkins are handcrafted by student-artists from the School of Art & Design’s glass specialization. Profits from at the sale are important to furthering their education, Southern Glass Works President Bryan Beck said. Students will sell independentlycrafted pumpkins and group pumpkins, which were designed and created through collaborative efforts. The process of blowing glass almost always requires some level of cooperation, as some of the steps involved are much better done with a teammate, Beck said. Suyeon Kim, a graduate student from Seoul, South Korea studying fine arts, is no stranger to glass work. She spends her time in both the hot shop, where the glass is hot

and malleable, and the cold shop, where it is cold and brittle. Kim is one of the more versatile artists in the studio, according to her peers. Kim said she blows glass because it is fun to work with molten glass and is fascinated by its fluid behavior. “Glass is interesting because it is almost half liquid when at an extremely hot temperature,” she said. “Glass blowing is pretty much the only technique that you can physically work with glass.” Group pumpkin profits are pooled and used for bringing residentartists and speakers to campus, while the artist’s keep 70 percent of independent pumpkin sales. “The funding from the sale gives us the opportunity to fix and by new equipment for the studio, basically giving the students educational opportunities that we would otherwise not have,” said Beck, a graduate student from Boca Raton, Fla., studying fine arts. At last year’s sale, the hundreds of unique glass pumpkins sold out in less than an hour. Sale organizers encourage those who want pumpkins to get there when the sale begins, because they tend sell quickly. “We’ve got people from out

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Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE u-yeon Kim, left, a third year graduate student from Seoul, South Korea studying glass, and Clint Wilkie, right, a senior from Marion studying glass, work on a glass-blown pumpkins on Saturday for the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, an annual art sale which beneﬁts the glass program. Kim decided to come to SIU to pursue her master’s degree in glass after completing her undergrad in Korea. Kim one day hopes to be a full-time glass artist.

of state coming for the pumpkin sale. Some have been collecting since we started this,” Beck said. “Besides funding, we also sell them because people enjoy collecting the pumpkins.”

Pumpkins start at $25 and are priced according to size, color technique and intricacy. The artists convene before the sale to discuss prices to ensure fairness. “This fundraising event is

very important to us,” Kim said. “Because we do this fundraising, we can invite two or three visiting artists every semester — an advantage to every student in the glass program — so I think it is very helpful.”

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Multiple signees have commented on the site, some claiming to be students who will not be able to attend next semester if the limit is not increased. The change in policy will impact minority students the most, Smith said, as they already show disproportionately low retention rates in higher education. University spokesperson Rae Goldsmith said the threshold was initially increased to $1,000 a few years ago in effort to help student retention, but the university has noticed the opposite effect. “We had more students digging into

holes that they couldn’t get out of to stay in school,” Goldsmith said. Since the increase in Bursar limit, the university had seen more students writing off bad debt, something Goldsmith said is bad for both the university and students. The $200 limit is tied to federal financial aid guidelines on past-due charges and reflects the policies of many other Illinois colleges and universities, she said. “We knew that it would be tough and we did what we could to give students as much advance notice as possible, but our real goal is to help students be financially sound,” she said. Goldsmith said the university encourages students who are

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experiencing financial difficulties to visit the financial aid office to explore options. In regard to the petition, Goldsmith said students are encouraged to express their opinions and the matter will be addressed when the university receives the petition. While Smith accepts the university’s position on reducing student debt, he said the new limit is unreasonable given the financial straits some students are in. “It was hard enough going to school when you were working off paying that Bursar bill to under $1,000, but now students are going to have holds put on their account and they won’t be able to register for their next semester,” Smith said. Dan Lausas, ext. 237 Arunima Bhattacharga, ext.224 Jody Nelson, ext. 244 Eric Fidler, ext. 247

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‘Yoshi’s Woolly World’ warms your heart EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

Rarely is a game so sweet it makes your gums sore. As the title suggests, “Yoshi’s Woolly World” takes place in an environment completely constructed with yarn. While not an entirely new aesthetic, as the same developer also did “Kirby’s Epic Yarn,” “Yoshi’s Woolly World” is the best to do it so far, and might be the cutest game ever made. Just starting the game should elicit the same audible “aww’s” as an adorable cat video. The game feels like your Grandma knit it from hand, spending every evening threading a needle to make that itchy sweater you never wanted. But this game is much better than a sweater. Instead of only wearing that sweater when Grandma is around, “Yoshi’s Woolly World” can be replayed again and again.

Every level is filled with numerous collectibles: flowers, stamps, gems and wool. Gems are used to buy special abilities, such as always getting massive yarn balls as weapons. Those different perks are fun, but make the already easy game a little more effortless. I am almost never a fan of collectibles in games, because I prefer to complete a game in one run. But the world is enjoyable to be in and I cannot help but retry levels to get all the prizes. Yoshi’s traditional attack of firing eggs at pesky Shy Guys has been replaced by yarn balls, which knockout most enemies, and put others in yarn-vice grip for Yoshi to ground and pound. Enemies even carry around little hooks to unravel the hero. Yoshi can swallow certain enemies and turn them into yarn, giving him a nearly endless cache of crochet cannonballs. This game is so charming, pooping and death is cute and endearing. While the game succeeds in its style, it lacks in gameplay. Longtime fans of Yoshi may recognize that most levels

are reminiscent to previous entries like “Yoshi’s Island” and “Yoshi’s Story.” I love those games, so having similar stages does not bother me as much as it may others. But I do recognize this game doesn’t revolutionize platforming games like it could have. Boss battles happen around the middle or end of stages, and are pretty easy and monotonous. There are fantasy side missions — such as Yoshi turning into an umbrella and floating around a maze to collect gems — that are really fun but also really short. Those levels are treated more like a detour than a desired destination. Also, there is not much of a story within the game. An evil wizard appears and begins harvesting characters for wool. Nintendo platformers are not usually known for impeccable writing, but rather focus on gameplay. The lack of a story does not hurt the game, it would just make it better. Being the first console game in the series since 1998, “Yoshi’s Woolly World” successfully brings gamers’ favorite dinosaur to a new generation of players.

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Bridging the gap between the LGBTQ community and athletics ANNA SPOERRE | @ASpoerre_DE

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Former Saluki to represent Team USA overseas THOMAS DONLEY | @tdonleyDE

Former SIU starting pitcher Cody Forsythe was among 27 players named Wednesday to USA Baseball’s 2015 U.S. Premier12 Baseball Team roster. The team will compete in the World Baseball Softball Confederation Premier12 Tournament in Taipei, Taiwan and Tokyo, Japan from Nov. 9 to 21. Forsythe pitched for SIU from 2010-13.

He is one of five members of the Philadelphia Phillies organization on the Premier12 roster. The Philadelphia Phillies drafted the now-reliever in the 25th round of the 2013 MLB draft. He posted a 3-2 record with a 3.65 ERA in 34 appearances for the Clearwater Threshers, Philadelphia’s Advanced-A minor league affiliate. Forsythe is the Saluki record holder for career starts with 49 and innings pitched with 346.2.

Considered the nation’s “original gay day,” Out at Wrigley has been an annual event since 2001. A section of the stands is filled with LQBTQ men and women, many of whom come out at the event held at the home of the Chicago Cubs. The university’s Center for Inclusive Excellence and LGBTQ Resource Center are hosting their own variation of Out at Wrigley, called Out@Davies, at 7 p.m. Friday during the SIU women’s volleyball match versus Drake in Davies Gym. The event attempts to bridge the gap between the LGBTQ community and athletics, said Torrie Hammond, a junior from Columbus, Ohio, studying geology. Hammond is the vice president of the Saluki Rainbow Network, a registered student organization that provides services, support and educational outreach to the LGBTQ community on campus. Tom Weber, associate athletic director for communications and head sports information director, said the Center for Inclusive Excellence asked athletics if they would sponsor a volleyball match. To his knowledge, he said, this is the first event of its kind at SIU. Extra security was offered for the game, however, the event organizers declined the offer in hopes to not deter fans from attending the match. “We just want it to be a regular game that happens to have a bunch of queers at it,” said Hammond, who believes in general, there is a huge gap between the LGBTQ community and athletics. Ariel Carstens, a senior from Marion studying pyschology and information systems technologies, helped found the quidditch team on campus her first year at the university. As a member of the transgender community, she wanted the quidditch team to be inclusive for everyone, regardless of sexuality or gender. “Quidditch is the only full contact coed

sport and it is also completely gender, sexuality, identity friendly,” Carstens said. Carstens said she believes university sports clubs are much more accommodating to the LGBTQ community than the Department of Athletics as a whole. “As far as our student-athletes are concerned, we’re about athletics and competition and sports,” Weber said. However, Hammond said there is always room to improve when it comes to support of the LGBTQ community, and has heard of athletes experiencing bullying and harassment. Weber said he thinks Saluki Athletics is accommodating to everyone. “All individuals are welcome in Saluki Athletics. That’s who we are,” Weber said. “One of the strengths of athletics is you bring a bunch of people from different backgrounds together for a common purpose and that’s sports. That’s competition.” The 2012 Campus Pride LGBQT National College Athlete Report revealed 39 percent of LGBTQ college athletes have felt harassed because of their sexual identity, according to a 2014 article by the Huffington Post. “Athletics is a diverse community of individuals, and we are very inclusive when we work and compete together and those kind of things never come up in athletics,” Weber said. Carstens said because of their identity, many players have approached her about being reluctant to join a sports team. “Really, it comes down to the traditional sports culture being a stereotyped, straight atmosphere,” Carstens said. “The whole athletic-jock stereotype is a very straight one.” Hammond said athletics has been supportive of the event. “Whether or not you’re part of the LGBTQ community, you should still go out, because just having people there shows a huge amount of support,” Carstens said. “We really get things done when people in leadership positions start realizing it’s not just the people at the Saluki Rainbow Network that care.”

NCAA changes women’s basketball rules THOMAS DONLEY | @tdonleyDE

The basket is still 10 feet off the ground, the free throw line is still 15 feet from the basket and the baselines are still 94 feet apart. But several other rules are changing for NCAA women’s basketball. The NCAA Playing Rules Oversight Committee overhauled the guidelines for women’s basketball which will go into effect this season. The most notable difference is the shift in format from two 20-minute halves to four 10-minute quarters. “We’re going to see how the four-quarter thing goes,” said junior point guard Rishonda Napier. “It takes me back to my high school days. I don’t mind it.” Team fouls will now reset at the end of each quarter. Teams will reach the bonus and shoot two free throws on the fifth foul of every quarter. The new rules

eliminate the one-and-one single bonus free throw. The Salukis shot 461 free throws last year, and sent opponents to the line for 459 foul shots. SIU coach Cindy Stein said the new format will allow teams with more viable bench players to take more chances than others. “If only eight players are doing the things you want, it’s hard to play that aggressive,” Stein said. “If we can get to that ninth, 10th, 11th or 12th player, we’ll be a lot more aggressive.” Stein said she does not know at this point in the preseason if the Salukis have the depth to increase their aggressiveness. Last year, Stein relied heavily on starters. The starting five — guards Cartaesha Macklin and Napier, center Dyana Pierre and forwards Azia Washington and Kylie Giebelhausen — all played

more than 800 minutes. Guard Mercedes Griffin, a senior last season, logged 625 minutes of playing time. The next-highest total belonged to current senior guard Blair Stephenson, with 270. A post defender is also now allowed to place a hand or forearm on the back of the player with the ball. Pierre said she is excited about this rule change. If a timeout is called after a made basket with 59.9 or fewer seconds remaining on the clock in the fourth quarter or overtime, the ball will automatically be advanced to the frontcourt. “I like that,” Stein said. “It’s more like the pros. We have not practiced it yet. We want to learn the play first.” However, not everyone on the team is as excited about the new rules. “I’m obviously not a fan because it’s my last season, and now they

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want to change things,” said senior forward Azia Washington. “But it’s not all about me. It’s still

basketball. We still play for 40 minutes. We’re just taking it and rolling with it.”