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Another idea focused on environmental change as well, but with the focus centering in on alternative energy.

David Schau, a senior studying architecture from Lindenhurst, is the creator of the “Solar For All” idea. He said Solar for All is a company that tries to give homeowners easy, affordable solar energy to power their homes.

Schau said Solar for All proposes to construct the solar panels on homes with no cost to the homeowner and then sell the energy the solar panels produce.

After the money spent on construction of the solar panels was made back on top of a set return that would be determined at the initial contract signing, Schau said the solar panels would then become the homeowner’s property.

“The solar energy will be used for the them to power their homes cost free for the rest of the life span of their panels,” Schau said.

As an architecture major, Schau said he tried to incorporate his major to achieve sustainable energy through building design and in general, a requirement for alternative energy needed to be put into place.

Sexual offenses on campuses across the United States are something that is not generally spoken about.

However statistics show that unreported cases may be on the rise.

According to a study by SIU Counseling and Psychological Services, 21 to 26 percent of students who seek counseling at CAPS said they have had an unwanted sexual experience at some point in their life.

For the past 30 years at SIU, one in four individuals has experienced some form of sexual violence, said Rosemary Simmons, director of the Counseling Center.

Simmons said the state of Illinois requires every university to have a Sexual Response Community and every university has to report the number of sexual assaults on campuses.

Lt. John Allen, Supervisor of Administrative Service Division at the Department of Public Safety, said in 2012 there were a total of eight sexual forced offenses reported at an on-campus area, which included student housing.

In 2012, The American College Health Association noted that of the 28,000 students that were surveyed at 51 different universities, approximately 12 percent reported having a sexual encounter that was without their consent.

During the past year SIU has taken the initiative to provide faculty and students with the proper resources to help those who have personally, or know someone, who has experienced sexual violence and to expose them to prevention methods.

“There are a lot of common factors with a lot of the sexual assaults that happen on college campuses,” Simmons said. “ Alcohol is almost always involved with sexual assaults and we want to teach students how to be responsible while drinking.”

Saluki First Year’s University College 101 course has made alcohol education and sexual assault prevention a course requirement for all freshmen. Since national studies show there is a strong correlation between alcohol and many reported cases of sexual assault, the course made it a priority to spend time increasing each student’s knowledge of alcohol and how to improve decision making.

Jason Gillman, assistant director of the Wellness Center, said UCOLL 101 is a way to intervene with sexual assault. He also said one key way to help prevent sexual assault is to end rape myths.

“Rape myths are actually a socialized and cultural thing that happens within the United States in regards to sexual assault,” Gillman said. “We are trying to choose a good way to message to men what consent is and isn’t.”

SafeHaven is a portion of the UCOLL101 course that focuses on teaching students about sexual assault prevention. Gillman said teaching people what consent actually means is important because some people are okay with no means no and some people are not.

“We put on a lot of sexual assault awareness and prevention with housing and we spend a considerable amount talking to men and women on how not to be victim of sex crimes.” Allen said.

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Larry Gibbs, of Cape Girardeau, Mo. works on a vehicle Tuesday at Holt’s Tire & Auto Center in Carbondale. Gibbs said he has been working at the shop for a little over a year. “It’s just another day in paradise,” Gibbs said. Shop owner Mark Holt said he has been in business for more than 28 years.

Competition sparks ideas for social, environmental change ELIZABETH ZINCHUK Daily Egyptian Five finalists are competing to make their own impact with innovative ideas for social and environmental changes.

The second-annual Saluki Idea Competition is a contest in which students teams compete for prizes by submitting “commercially viable, technology-based ideas related to the competition theme.“ The theme this year is “Innovating for Impact” and entries must have a positive social and/or environmental impact. The top five out of 11 student teams were chosen Monday to compete for cash prizes and grants based on their three-minute elevator pitch given at the Technology and Innovation Expo Friday.

Amy McMorrow Hunter, technology transfer specialist, said her department picked this year’s theme to motivate students to center their ideas on something they care about.

“We wanted to have a theme that means something to students,” McMorrow Hunter said. “Students care about the environment, they care about social problems, so we wanted to bring that into this competition.”

First prize receives $1,100 cash and grant money; second place receives $600 and the other three finalists get $50 for honorable mentions.

Last year’s winning team was comprised of senior industrial design majors Claude Leco, Gene Park, and Eric Sia. Their idea “Ecolight” won them funds for memberships for themselves and other SIU design students in the Industrial Designers Society of America Association. Ecolight is

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Claude Leco, and team partner Gene Park, both seniors studying industrial design, are participating again this year and created the idea “Renew” that focuses on increasing recycling in Carbondale.

Leco said giant quick response, or QR codes would be strategically placed around the community and for one day only, all SIU employees and Carbondale business employees will wear a shirt with the QR code printed on them. The code, he said will direct users to a website that has a goal to change views regarding recycling and sustainment to our planet.

“This product fits both social impact and an environmental impact because people will interact with the product and incorporates recycling,” Leco said. “We are even thinking about ideas of incorporating an application that may be used to track the recycling, allowing for friendly competitions to see who is recycling more office to office or city to city.”

Leco said he and his teammate hope to gain experience in their field through their idea.

“We hope to get more experience with designing a product from the ground up that can be produced and sold locally,” Leco said.

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BRUNSWICK, Ga. — Neighbors awoke to find an entire Georgia family slaughtered overnight at home in bed. A relative who came crying for help at daybreak was soon charged with murder and would face the death penalty.

Despite some eerie similarities, the defendant in this case wasn’t Guy Heinze Jr., who is on trial in Brunswick for the slayings of his father and seven extended family members clubbed to death in their mobile home on Aug. 29, 2009. This particular crime took place more than a century ago, in August 1887. And prosecutors trying Heinze for murder made sure last week the jury got a brief lesson about this dark page in Georgia history.

Why flash back during a trial to a 126-year-old murder case? A key question facing jurors is whether Heinze, the lone suspect, could reasonably have beaten eight people to death by himself.

He sounded distraught as he sobbed to a 911 operator: “My whole family is dead.”

During his opening statement to jurors Tuesday, Heinze’s lead defense attorney, Newell Hamilton Jr., questioned whether 180-pound Heinze was physically capable of inflicting such carnage. He also said an expert will

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testify that history casts a huge shadow of doubt. “It’s never been done before,” Hamilton said. “There’s no record of a crime like this being committed.”

Prosecutors managed to slip in a rebuttal Wednesday during the testimony of Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner Edmund Donoghue, who performed autopsies on the mobile home victims.

Prosecutor John B. Johnson asked him: “Are you aware personally of a situation where a person killed eight or nine people?”

The medical examiner said he knew of two crimes. One was the infamous case of Richard Speck, who stabbed and strangled eight student nurses after holding them captive for hours at a Chicago townhouse in July 1966. The second was a lesser-known case from middle Georgia: the 19th century ax murders attributed to Thomas G. Woolfolk (pronounced WUHL-fork).

Woolfolk was the 27-year-old son of a businessman and landowner. He lived with his father, stepmother and several half-siblings in Bibb County at a rural farmhouse outside Macon. On the morning of Aug. 6, 1887, Woolfolk came running to neighbors for help. He said an attacker had broken into the house in the middle of the night and killed the rest of his family. Woolfolk said he escaped by jumping from a window.

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Nine people in all were found dead, each of them killed with an ax.

The victims were Woolfolk’s father and stepmother, Richard and Mattie Woolfolk, as well as their six children, ages 20, 17, 10, 7, 5 and 18 months.

Also killed was the 84-year-old aunt of Woolfolk’s stepmother.

Investigators discovered specks of blood on Woolfolk’s ears and a bloody handprint on his leg. His blood-stained clothes were found at the bottom of a well. It didn’t help that he wasn’t well liked. Georgia Bird, an ex-wife who left Woolfolk after just three weeks of marriage, told reporters covering the killings: “He is the meanest man I ever saw, and there is nothing too mean for him to do.”

And there was an obvious motive for Woolfolk to want his entire family killed.

“Tom Woolfolk would have inherited his father’s estate and property, so he stood to gain financially,” said Donald E. Wilkes Jr., a law professor emeritus at the University of Georgia who has researched and written about the case. “I personally don’t have any doubt that he was guilty.”

One macabre detail, Wilkes said, was investigators’ conclusion that Woolfork bludgeoned his victims with the blunt end of the ax head instead of chopping them with the blade.

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As of now the university has held several sexual violence prevention trainings and events over the course of the semester for both faculty and students. The Student Health Center and Department of Public Safety will be co-sponsoring a Crisis Intervention for Sexual Violence that will be held Nov. 20.

“Any faculty or the university and on some level students, have the responsibility to know what resources are available to refer students of sexual assault,” Gillman said. “ Students often confide in faculty and it’s their responsibility to get that person help or more information from places like the Women’s Center or the Wellness Center.”

Charinder Thompson can be reached at cthompson@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 268.

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“If this entire planet can be powered off of sustainable power, every living organism will benefit,” Schau said. “In all reality, this idea can be put into a business if there is a strong interest, but the bigger goal is to just try and educate people that we have to start seeking alternatives to how we consume electricity and power.”

As far as the theme goes, Schau said his idea is trying to innovate to avoid impacts such as global warming and climate change.

Abdiel Quetz, a graduate student in physics from Champton Campeche, Mexico, along with teammate Felipe Paulino Silva are not looking to avoid impact like Schau.

Quetz said farmers around the world need affordable ways to pump underground water to irrigate their crops. He said his idea, “Solar Radiation Water Pump for Developing Countries or Off-grid Communities” responds to the challenge farmers face by using a low-cost and low-maintenance steam pump powered by solar heat.

Besides farmers, Quetz said communities that do not have access to electricity or gas in developing countries could use his idea for water sanitation.

Quetz said his idea fits the theme of “Innovating for Impact,” because it gives people from low economic circumstances equal access to clean water without altering or polluting the

environment.

“The proposed system will deliver clean water to many homes for domestic use as well as for sustainable agriculture,” Quetz said. “Having accessible water will improve sanitation among family members and, as a result, prevent sickness.”

The other two finalists put a more direct focus on social change.

Briana Royster, a senior studying industrial design from Flossmoor, is on the team “D.Scribe.“ She said D.Scribe is a communication system that allows hearing-impaired

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outside the workplace as well, to make the design more universal,” Royster said. “Everyone can benefit from having an important conversation transcribed and saved on their smart device, to read at anytime.”

Besides people with impaired hearing, Royster said people with autism and brain damage could also benefit.

“This fits the current theme of “Innovating for Impact” because communication accommodations are useful to everyone, not just the hearing impaired, this concept has the potential for

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his fits the current theme of “Innovating for Impact” because communication accommodations are useful to everyone, not just the hearing impaired, this concept has the potential for huge social impact. This impact could be measured by increased communication, productivity, and accessibility in the workplace.

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individuals to have access to accurate transcriptions of conversations in the workplace by using portable microphone devices and a transcription application.

Royster said D.Scribe’s usefulness extends outside the workplace and beyond the hearing impaired.

“We came up with this idea by brainstorming about a product that could help hearing-impaired people in the workplace and also help other people inside and

huge social impact,” Royster said.

“This impact could be measured by increased communication, productivity, and accessibility in the workplace.”

Royster’s fellow teammate in the D.Scribe project is Christopher Faller, a senior studying industrial design. Both she and Faller hope they can add D.Scribe to their portfolios so that they can start their careers as industrial designers as soon as possible.

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to improve communication, another finalist looks to empower the consumer.

Azadeh Omrani-Kermani, a graduate student in business administration from Kerman, Iran, said the goal of her project, “PowerPrice” is to create a better world for consumers who spend a large amount of time searching for the lowest prices. With Power Price, customers ask for items with the price they are willing to pay, and businesses that match those requirements would seek out those customers to offer their products to.

“Here the customers are the selector of business, product, and price,” Omrani-Kermani said.

Omrani-Kermani said the target audience for PowerPrice is students.

“They do not need to search every website for their required product and choose among various prices,” OmraniKermani said. “They could just mention their product and their affordable price and the retailers or producers could suggest their product that suits the price.”

Omrani-Kermani said she wanted to give the power to customers in her idea.

“This idea will empower consumers to get their products with required features with a better price for the things they need and empower Businesses to find customers’ requirement and concerns,” Omrani-Kermani said.

Elizabeth Zinchuk can be reached at ezinchuk@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311.

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Yard sale strategy

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Gavin Nichols, 10, of Carbondale, helps move yard sale items inside Tuesday evening on West Pecan Street. Ian Nichols, Gavin’s father, said after having a slow sale day on Sunday, his family decided to try the yard sale on weeknights this week in an effort to sell some of their unique items such as an antique piano and hula hoops. “The University Avenue intersection is much busier around the time people are getting off work,” Nichols said. “We found that we see a lot more people on weeknights.”

Study: Nitrate pollution continues for decades after fertilizer use BETTINA BOXALL Los Angeles Times Nitrates from agricultural fertilizer could continue to leach into groundwater for at least 80 years after initial use, according to researchers who conducted a longterm study of nitrogen uptake.

Using isotope tracers, scientists followed the fate of nitrogen-based synthetic fertilizers applied to fields planted in France with wheat and sugar beets.

They found that three decades after the 1982 application, 61

percent to 65 percent of the nitrates had been taken up by plants. Much of the rest continued to reside in soil matter (12 percent to 15 percent) or was migrating into groundwater (8 percent to 12 percent).

In a paper published Monday in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers estimated that nitrates would continue to seep into groundwater for at least another five decades.

That is “much longer than previously thought,” wrote the authors, led by Mathieu Sebilo of the Pierre and Marie Curie

University in Paris.

Cleanup programs need to take that long-term release into account, the paper concluded.

Nitrate pollution is widespread in California’s agricultural regions, particularly in the San Joaquin Valley, where contamination of municipal water supplies and domestic wells from agricultural runoff poses a threat to public health.

The nitrate’s lingering nature means that even if steps are taken to cut the contamination, the effects of earlier use endure.

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FRED HIATT WASHINGTON POST Here is a Barack Obama puzzle: Why did the president turn 180 degrees on a key foreign policy question in a little more than two years?

The issue is whether promoting democracy and human rights should be an American priority. In his annual address to the U.N. General Assembly last month, Obama offered a clear answer: No. Speaking specifically about the Middle East and North Africa, the president identified four core interests: defending allies from aggression, ensuring access to oil, attacking terrorist networks that threaten Americans and stopping weapons of mass destruction.

America cares about democracy, human rights and free trade, he said, but “we can rarely achieve these objectives through unilateral American action.”

Though it was unusual for a U.S. president to reject a values-based policy so explicitly, the underlying view was not unfamiliar; former president George H.W. Bush would have found it congenial.

What was striking about it, as my colleague Jackson Diehl pointed out, was how directly it repudiated a doctrine Obama had outlined in a speech at the State Department just 28 months earlier.

In that address, Obama recited a similar list of core interests, but he said those alone could no longer animate U.S. policy. Instead, he said, the United States would champion universal rights and political reform, and not as “a secondary interest.”

On the contrary: Support for democracy would be a “top priority,” Obama proclaimed, “that must be translated into concrete actions, and supported by all of the diplomatic, economic and strategic tools at our disposal.”

The president acknowledged that such a values-based policy would be difficult and would encounter setbacks.

“But after decades of accepting the world as it is in the region,” he said, “we have a chance to pursue the world as it should be.”

Two years later, Obama the idealist is gone.

What happened?

Officials at the National Security Council, after promising an explanation, ended up furnishing no comment. But here’s one possible answer.

When Obama vowed a redirection of U.S. policy in May 2011, the Arab Spring was young and hopeful. Tunisia and Egypt seemed on track toward democracy. In Libya, U.S. military force had helped depose a dictator; in Syria, peaceful demonstrations against another dictator were just beginning.

“In Damascus,” Obama said, “we heard the

young man who said, ‘After the first yelling, the first shout, you feel dignity.’”

But Bashar al-Assad responded brutally, and his opponents took up arms. Obama predicted and wished for Assad’s imminent defeat, but he resisted calls from inside and outside his administration to help bring that defeat about, not with U.S. troops but by training and supporting the rebels.

By the time of Obama’s U.N. address, generals in Egypt had toppled the elected government, and Libya was plagued by uncontrolled militias.

Worst, Syria was a humanitarian and foreignpolicy disaster, with well over 100,000 people killed and millions more forced from their homes. In northern Syria, al-Qaeda affiliates were establishing the kind of safe havens that the United States went to war in Afghanistan to eradicate.

This can’t be an easy thing for a president to live with, as President Clinton made clear after Rwanda. So Obama fashioned a new doctrine.

Not only was intervention in Syria not feasible, an arguable but defensible position, but the United States would never act to “prevent mass atrocities and protect human rights” unless “the international community” agreed to act in concert.

Not only could the United States not impose democracy in Syria, but it would not make it a priority in Egypt, where “core interests like the

Camp David Accords and counterterrorism” would take precedence, or apparently anywhere else.

In 2011, Obama portrayed himself as cleareyed about the pitfalls of democracy promotion but committed for the long haul nonetheless.

“It will not be easy,” he acknowledged. “There’s no straight line to progress, and hardship always accompanies a season of hope. But the United States of America was founded on the belief that people should govern themselves. And now we cannot hesitate to stand squarely on the side of those who are reaching for their rights . . . .”

The season of hope passed, and with it Obama’s commitment. Now, he makes clear, it is up to the United Nations to step up. And if it does not?

“If that’s the world that people want to live in, they should say so and reckon with the cold logic of mass graves,” Obama said.

On the surface, at least, he seems prepared to live with that cold logic. But Americans do not like to think of themselves as a nation that will wait for the “international community” before stepping in to help those in need or avert a mass atrocity, and I doubt Obama really likes that idea either.

Syria is a hard case that has pushed him toward bad law. Maybe this won’t be his final answer.

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Amazon.com raises minimum order price for free shipping JAY GREENE The Seattle Times Amazon.com Inc. raised the minimum order price to get free shipping by $10, to $35, a move that should reduce its massive shipping costs and could drive more customers to its Amazon Prime service.

In a blog post, the company noted the increase was the first change in the free-shipping offer in more than a decade. An Amazon spokeswoman declined to say what percentage of its orders ship for free using its Super Saver Shipping offer.

The announcement comes two days before Amazon releases its quarterly results, when analysts often press for information about company efforts to boost profits. It also comes just as the holiday shopping season begins, when Amazon racks up its biggest sales, but also its biggest shipping expenses.

In 2012, Amazon reported $2.9 billion in net shipping costs. That’s the difference between its shipping revenues, the amount shoppers pay to have items shipped, and its shipping costs, the amount Amazon pays to ship those items.

Amazon is also nudging customers

toward its Amazon Prime service with the move. The $79-a-year service offers free two-day shipping on more than 15 million items, as well as access to its Amazon Prime Instant Video services, a video streaming offering that competes with Netflix.

In its blog post, Amazon notes that “millions of Amazon customers have already made the choice of faster shipping by becoming Amazon Prime members.”

Having paid that subscription fee, Prime customers often try to justify the expense, ordering from Amazon more often that non-Prime shoppers.

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Let’s be Frank

LEWIS MARIEN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Aleisha Guerrettaz, a senior from Salem studying speech communication, prepares a hot dog Tuesday outside of Faner Hall. Students who signed a petition to help raise awareness of cyber bullying received a free hot dog courtesy of the Public Relations Student Society of America student chapter at SIUC. Students also had the option to donate money towards the Lewis family in Carterville, who lost their 15-year-old son Jordan to suicide from bullying.

MATT HAMILTON Los Angeles Times An Illinois dad got the call on Thursday that no parent ever wants to receive.

Brad Lewis’ ex-wife was on the phone: Their 15-year-old son had shot himself in the chest.

In the note Jordan Lewis left behind, he laid blame on bullying.

Although stricken with grief, Lewis, 47, found resolve. He took to Facebook that night and posted a series of videos explaining his son’s death and the events leading up to it: the alleged bullying, the concern of his son’s best friend, the wellness visit by police the night before the suicide, and the 911 call his son made shortly before pulling the trigger.

His mission isn’t vengeance, he said, but justice — for his son and for victims of bullying from across the country.

“This bullying has to stop. People have to stop treating other people the way they do,” Lewis said into a webcam from his Collinsville, Ill., home. “Because some people just don’t have the strength to overcome the humiliation, the continuation of being picked on constantly every day to the point that they have no out.”

Jordan’s death comes as the nation is following several high-profile cases in which children committed suicide after persistent bullying by peers. In September, 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick jumped from a silo at an abandoned cement plant in Lakeland, Fla., after police say she endured repeated taunts by peers in school and on social media.

Jordan, a sophomore at Carterville High School, cheered for the Chicago Bears and played video games. He had always played football — and he played for the Carterville Lions during his freshman year. But he quit after the first day of practice this year, his father said.

Lewis, who lives about a two-hour drive northwest of Cambria, Ill., where his son and ex-wife lived, talked to Jordan about why he left the team.

“You wouldn’t understand, Dad,” Jordan said. “I’m being picked on at school.”

At the time, Lewis told his son how he himself had once been the target of bullies for having glasses and red hair.

He then told his son to report bullies to the principal or his teachers.

In 2008, Yale University researchers compiled studies into the effects of bullying and found that children

who were subjected to bullying were between two and nine times more likely to commit suicide.

Jordan, according to his father, was pushed into lockers and hit at least once in the head by a football teammate.

Lewis said that on Wednesday — the day before his son’s death — his son watched an anti-bullying video at school.

“At the end of the video, the kid that was being bullied went home and killed himself,” Lewis said, adding that police are investigating how Jordan, who lived with his mother, got ahold of a gun.

Jordan had, however, texted a friend that he was considering hurting himself. The friend, alarmed, told her grandmother — who tried contacting Jordan’s parents but eventually called police, who made a wellness visit Wednesday night, Lewis said.

The next morning, after his mother left for work, Jordan called 911 and pointed the gun at his heart.

Lewis worries that his son felt hopeless and lost, and that the video at school may have swayed him to send a message. Thursday was Spirit Day — a national effort to raise awareness about bullying — and October is National Bullying Prevention Month.

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Aries — Today is a 7 — For the next month, save more than you spend. Focus on resources and planning. Some things are still out of reach. Don’t tell everyone what you’ve got.

Cancer — Today is a 7 — Save enough to get the highest quality.

Organize creative efforts. You’re exceptionally lucky. A female shows you what really matters and is very pleased that you get it.

Libra — Today is a 7 — Things don’t go exactly as planned.

Keep some of your treasure hidden. Research new structures and practices for more efficiency around daily routines.

Capricorn — Today is an 8 — Listen carefully to another opinion.

Get festive this month, as social life and status rise together. Think of somebody who needs you. It’s better to save than to spend, now.

Taurus — Today is an 8 —You can plan for the future while managing current changes.

Learn to delegate. Expect the temporary opposition of a partner. Don’t make assumptions.

Leo — Today is a 6 — Tempers are short, especially at work.

Go for quiet productivity. Your family needs you around. Use this time to invest in home, family, land and real estate.

Scorpio — Today is a 7 — Navigate a conflict of interests.

You’re in charge this month. Ask for help. Postpone gathering with friends (unless it’s to accomplish something in teamwork).

Aquarius — Today is a 6 — Have fun advancing your career agenda. Don’t overlook someone who cares. Career matters may take up your time and effort, but you can squeeze in some love.

Gemini — Today is an 8 — There’s plenty of work this month with increased income, so stash it in a safe place. Postpone a family gathering temporarily. Opposites attract. An old flame reappears.

Virgo — Today is a 6 — Express your true feelings gently at work.

Focus on gathering information and disseminating it wisely this month. Education becomes a priority. Organization saves time.

Sagittarius — Today is a 7 — Avoid a delicate subject. Follow through on old promises and do the financial planning for the next month. Opposites entice. Take care not to provoke jealousies.

Pisces — Today is a 7 — You meet people with strong will power. List all the prospects you can imagine, especially what you’d like to learn. What collaborations can you invent? Travel gets easier this month.

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Kolar craves conference championship AARON GRAFF Daily Egyptian Moving up from the bottom is something junior Calvin Kolar is on a mission to do.

Kolar is eyeing a Mid-American Conference championship this season after improving from fourth place as a freshman to third place as a sophomore.

Kolar and his teammates know if he keeps working hard, he will have a good shot at achieving his goal, but Kolar said he needs to keep up his mental strength.

“Swimming is such a tight race,” Kolar said. “The smallest thing can put you from third to eighth.”

Saluki swimming head coach Rick Walker said he recalls when Kolar would be in a crib on deck while his parents were swimming as part of the Saluki Masters team in the ‘90s. Kolar’s parents have swum for the Masters team for as long as Walker has been coaching at SIU, and they are still swimming for them today.

“Literally, I’ve watched him grow

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up, and I’ve watched him swim,” Walker said. “I knew there was a lot of talent in him. I also knew he needed some direction. We provided him with that opportunity, but I told him it was not going to come free.”

Walker said Kolar primarily needs to keep his hunger and drive to capture a conference title as an individual.

“If there is anything I know about Calvin,” Walker said. “If he wants something bad enough, he will go out and get it. This is a big want, and if he wants to be a champion, he is going to have to need to be that champion every day until he can actually achieve that.”

Walker said he values Kolar as an athlete. Not only does he have potential to win his events at conference, but also is a role model to the younger swimmers. The swim team has become accustomed to passing down the torch respectively.

When swimmers graduate, there are always underclassmen to step up and take the lead.

During Kolar’s freshman season, he looked up to Steve Wood, who was a senior at the time. This year, Wood’s

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f there is anything I know about Calvin. If he wants something bad enough, he will go out and get it. This is a big want, and if he wants to be a champion, he is going to have to need to be that champion every day until he can actually achieve that.

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younger brother, Bobby Wood, is a freshman looking up to Kolar.

“We swim the same strokes and the same events,” Bobby Wood said. “He’s always in here working hard, he comes to every practice and is never slacking off. He’s just a good role model to have in the pool.”

Kolar said his favorite thing about swimming is competing and racing.

Both of the Wood brothers have made that something to look forward to at practices. Walker said Steven Wood originally out swam Kolar all the time, but eventually the two started finishing closer together. He hopes that Bobby Wood can start finishing close to Kolar by the end of this season. “(Racing) is just what the sport is about,” Kolar said. “If I didn’t love to beat the guy next to me, I would

not be doing it.”

Kolar said he is a team player, and admires his teammates for all of the hard work they put in. He said he would rather win a conference championship as a team than as an individual because he spends so much time with his teammates.

“You practice with your teammates every single day for almost four hours,” Kolar said. “If you have a conference championship with all of them, it would mean a whole lot.”

Kolar knows that as a junior, he is running out of time to achieve his goal. He said it would be a top accomplishment, and swimming has helped him manage his time. He said between his classes and practice, he does not get a lot of free time because he is always working hard.

After college Kolar wants to take a break after swimming for nearly 15 years. Since he loves swimming so much, he said he might join the masters swim team just like his parents did.

“If the NCAA allowed betting, which they don’t,” Walker said. “I would bet on Calvin. When he is determined he wants something, he goes out and gets it.”

The Salukis next meet is Oct. 24 and Oct. 25 in Carbondale against the University of Kentucky and the University of Missouri.

The men’s team competes in the MAC Championship tournament Mar. 6-8 in Buffalo N.Y. Aaron Graff can be reached at agraff@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext.256.

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think the bye week came at a good time for us.

Unfortunately, the thing with the bye week is that you probably do linger a little bit too long with the emotions of the game.

Lennon said although West has taken snaps in practice as the backup quarterback, West would be better prepared now that he will receive the majority of snaps in practice because he’s the starter.

“It is a lot different when you have the opportunity to prepare as the No. 1 quarterback going into the game,” Lennon said. “You’ll be taking most of the reps, and that changes everything.”

West will not just be called upon to lead the Salukis for the rest of this season; Lennon said this could also be his audition to take the starting quarterback job coming into next season.

“Right now, he is in position to make this the start of his era,” Lennon said. “He has to come out and prove that he is the next guy and he’s going to have an opportunity to do that.”

The start of the Ryan West era may be next season, but the Kory Faulkner era is now. West’s job will be to hold the fort down long enough to give Faulkner a chance to come back with the Salukis still in playoff contention.

If West can lead the Salukis to wins against the bottom half of the MVFC and Faulkner’s finger heals in time, then Faulkner’s last memory as a Saluki can be leading his team into the playoffs, rather than walking off of the field with his finger in a splint for Homecoming.

— Dale Lennon head coach CHRIS ZOELLER DAILY EGYPTIAN

Redshirt freshman quarterback Ryan West makes a short pass to junior running back Tay Willis Saturday during the Salukis’ 31-10 loss to North Dakota State University at Saluki Stadium. West entered the game in the third quarter after starting quarterback Kory Faulkner sustained an injury to his throwing hand. After an examination revealed on Monday that Faulkner fractured his right index finger and would be out indefinitely, Saluki Athletics announced that West would be making his first start Nov. 2 at Western Illinois University. In three appearances this season, West has thrown 108 yards and has completed two touchdown passes.

Terrance Peacock can be reached at tpeacock@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.

Salukis wrap up fall season with win

blue raider invitational Old Fort Golf Club Par 72 Murfreesboro, TN.

SIU: 1st of 15

Place

Player

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3

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3rd

Xianmei Jin

70

73

73

216

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Cassie Rushing

77

72

72

221

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Ashleigh Rushing

75

74

81

230

T-38

Brooke Cusumano

76

77

79

232

T-41

Kris Grimes

78

76

80

234

SOURCE: SALUKI ATHLETICS RELEASE

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Bye week comes just in time for Salukis THE EXTRA POINT WITH TERRANCE PEACOCK TERRANCE PEACOCK Daily Egyptian Some may think the Salukis’ playoff chances were fractured along with senior quarterback Kory Faulkner’s index finger, but the Salukis are right where they want to be.

The team may have lost Saturday’s game and starting quarterback, but there’s no time for the Salukis to hang their heads.

SIU is in the running for a playoff bid and although the Salukis would have loved to be undefeated in the conference to this point, the team still owns

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wins against top-10 ranked opponents and should be favored in its upcoming games the rest of this season.

The Salukis are 2-2 in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and all four games were against ranked opponents. In contrast, SIU’s last four conference games come against teams with losing records.

If SIU can come away with wins in its next four games, the Salukis will have a resume impressive enough to earn an at-large bid into the football championship subdivision playoffs, an honor they have not received since 2009.

With the tough part of their schedule over, it is time for SIU to use the bye week to regroup and

— Dale Lennon head coach prepare for the season’s final stretch.

Having the extra time off could have a down side though. Coach Dale Lennon said in his weekly Lennon Live talk show that the bye week could also give the team more time to think about Saturday’s disappointing defeat.

“I think the bye week came at a good time for us,” Lennon said.

“Unfortunately, the thing with the bye week is that you probably do linger a little bit too long with the emotions of the game.”

What the bye week will do is give backup quarterback, redshirt freshman Ryan West, an extra week to prepare to lead the Salukis for the rest of this season.

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