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GPSC to help grad students with bursar bills BILL LUKITSCH | @BILL_LUKITSCHDE

The Graduate Professional Student Council has extra money in its budget and will use it to pay bursar bills of graduate students who cannot afford to register for classes because of the new debt limit. The Bursar’s office announced last semester it would revert to a former policy on registration holds for past-due balances, decreasing the threshold from $1,000 to $200.

A motion passed by GPSC on Tuesday night gave the green-light for need-based assistance spending in response to concerns about the policy change. And they actually have the money to do it, too. The organization allocated $5,000 of its $70,000 operating budget for a charitable donation fund earlier this year. An additional $1,000 was moved from an event fund, bringing the total fund to $6,000.

At least half of the charitable donation fund — or $3,000 — will be given to eligible graduate students whose accounts have been put on hold because of an overdue bursar bill, GPSC president Brandon Woudenberg said. Applicants will be reviewed and final approval will come from the organization’s feeallocation board. “The ideal candidates are going to be students who need under $200 to bring the hold off of their account to

allow registration for the following semester,” Woudenberg said. Last month Interim Chancellor William Bradley Colwell announced graduate student assistantships will be renewed for the spring semester, much to the relief of recipients. But students have voiced concerns about a possible drop in retention if the policy is not changed back to what it was before. A student-led Change.org petition has received almost 500 supporters since it was

launched last month. At least 1,000 graduate and professional students have registration holds on their accounts, including students scheduled to graduate at the end of fall, Woudenberg said. Although the state’s fiscal crisis has taken a toll on the university, Woudenberg hopes this fund will help as many students as possible. “If any student leaves right now, I think it hurts the university as a whole,” he said.

Bicyclist hit at intersection of Wall and Grand CORY RAY | @coryray_DE

An SIU student was struck by a car Monday night at the intersection of Wall St. and Grand Ave. The bicyclist was traveling eastbound through the crosswalk on East Grand Avenue at about 8 p.m. Monday when the accident occurred. The vehicle was turning north onto South Wall street when it struck the bicyclist, who failed to stop for a crosswalk signal. The bicyclist was issued a citation for failure to yield, police said. Carbondale Police Lt. Matt Dunning confirmed the student is a male at the scene, but police have not released his identity. The cyclist was responsive and talking to police when they arrived at about 8:11 p.m., Dunning said. The student was transferred to Carbondale Memorial Hospital for non lifethreatening injuries, according to police. Bill Lukitsch contributed to this story.

Jordan Duncan | @jordanduncanDE A bicycle struck at Wall and Grand hangs from the back of a Carbondale Police Department vehicle at the scene Monday.

ASA reduces grad assistantship funding, leaves staff positions vacant CORY RAY | @coryray_DE

The College of Applied Arts and Sciences is trimming its budget with cuts that have reduced available tenured professors and graduate assistantships. The college experienced a budget cut of more than $265,000 — nearly 2.4 percent of its overall budget. Coming from a combination of of sources, the cuts are made up of unfilled staff positions, a reduction of graduate assistantship funds and a reduction of travel. Unlike most colleges at SIU, Dean Andy Wang said the college only receives 1 percent of graduate assistantship funds issued by the university, while the rest is generated. In fiscal year 2014, Wang said the college spent more than $250,000 on graduate assistantships. Wang said this

year’s number is not final, but estimates $200,000 will be spent on assistantships. Plans are to reduce administrative assistantships rather than academic assistantships, Wang said. If an assistantship entails research or teaching, the college will work to retain those positions. According to Wang, his college is the only one on campus spending its own funds to support graduate assistants. “At this time, without a budget, we are basically in a surviving mode,” Wang said. “We are trying to ... spend less so we can have enough cash flow to keep the university open and running.” The college was given 11 staff positions for this year, but Wang said, was only able to fill six. The other five included three tenured-track faculty and two non-tenured track.

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Are millennials losing faith? ANNA SPOERRE | @ASpoerre_DE

Fewer college students can be found filling church seats on Sundays. Millennials are the least religious generation of the past six decades, according to research led by psychology professor Jean M. Twenge at San Diego State University. The study surveyed 11.2 million adolescents for 50 years. Millennials — those born between the early 1980s and early 2000s — are less likely than other generations to identify with a religious organization and participate in spiritual rituals, such as prayer and meditation, according to the study. Twenge’s research also found twice as many college students and high school seniors attended religious services in the 1970s compared to now. In the 1980s, three times as many college students affiliated with a religion than now. Twenge attributes it to rising individualism in today’s culture, according to the study. Darren Sherkat, a sociology professor at SIUC, said he does not agree with Twenge. Sherkat believes

the growing non-religious trend is driven by the country’s changing demographics. Sherkat discusses a decrease in religious participation, orthodoxy and religious identification in his book, “Changing Faith: The Dynamics and Consequences of Americans’ Shifting Religious Identities.” “It’s about young people growing up, old people dying off and new people coming to America and how many babies each group has,” Sherkat said. He said he thinks the change is influenced by the less religious baby boomer generation raising Millennials, who are now rejecting religion at higher rates than any previous generation. However, he said most parents teach children their own beliefs and values. “All religious groups have an interest in their own cultural reproduction and many parents value that,” Sherkat said. Connor Guidry, a sophomore from Aurora studying linguistics, said for the most part, the older people he knows are much more religious than people his age, which is a trend he thinks will continue. Please see RELIGION | 2

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Non-tenured track faculty are being used to handle courses attached to vacant tenured track positions, but Wang said this is not a long-term solution. “I would say this is really a shortsided solution,” he said. “You save money in the short-term, but in the long-term, you may hurt your reputation. You may hurt your quality.” Joshua Gavel, a sophomore from Champaign studying fashion design and fashion merchandising, said the availability of tenured-track faculty more actively contributes to student education through research. “With tenured-track professors, there is a research element,” Gavel said. “The other day in fashion forecasting class one of things we talked about with our professor was working a new system for presenting trends and presenting it to a journal and a panel in a couple weeks. You lose that aspect to learn about those little things ... when you have the

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Sherkat said the ‘70s civil rights movement also affected the change in religious following. “Americans were, in a sense, too religious because we were very fragmented by its [mysticism] and it caused many people to cling to a kind of ethnic church,” Sherkat said. Sherkat said people are leaving

“You save money in the short-term, but in the long-term, you may hurt your reputation. You may hurt your quality” - Andy Wang Dean of the College of Applied Arts and Sciences

nontentured professors in a tenured position.” Wang believes there are two parts to managing budget cuts: reduce spending costs and increase revenue. “We need to think about how we can grow so we can generate a cash flow,” Wang said. Wang’s goal is in part showing itself in the college; unlike the university’s overall decrease in enrollment, ASA reports a 3 percent enrollment increase this year. Wang attributed the increase to the college’s high retention rate and the university’s status as a research institution. Alex Golman, a junior from Oak

Park studying architecture, said he chose the university because its small class sizes allow him to develop one-on-one experiences with professors. “From the School of Architecture standpoint, I know that most of the professors here are ... more experienced architects and professors,” Golman said. “At least from my experience with professors I’ve had, all of them have at some point worked in the field for a significant portion of their lives.” In spite of the cuts, Wang believes it is his mission to help the college through the crisis with as little effect to academics as possible.

religion because it is politicized and because they reject the authority of conservative Christianity. Guidry, who does not identify as religious, believes the Internet has played a role in the less-religious trend. “With more exposure to more ideas, it’s hard to stick with something that may have contradictions when you can see all the facts and not just your side,” he said.

Brenda Krutsinger, a senior from Mount Vernon studying special and elementary education, claims a religious affiliation and plans to raise her future children religiously. But she agrees her generation is less religious than previous ones. “I care because ... I think [religion] gives some direction, at least with morals, and I think our culture needs that,” Krutsinger said.

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Homeless plan for cold months ahead

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Joe Sanders sits along a bike path on the morning of Oct. 25 in Carbondale. Sanders became homeless about 15 years ago after he lost his trailer. Sanders said he typically goes to a shelter south of Carbondale when it gets colder, but plans to stay in town this year because of the predicted weather pattern. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It could get down to zero,â&#x20AC;? Sanders said. Sanders said he has things lined up to get a sleeping bag to stay warm.

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If bacon is bad, I don’t want to live LIESL SCHILLINGER Los Angeles Times

Last week, I salivated as I beheld a photograph illustrating a newspaper article about the newest villain in the rogues’ gallery of foods suspected of colluding in human destruction. The photo showed a frieze of sizzling strips of bacon, caramelized crispy brown at their edges, striped russet and tawny gold down their curling lengths. I wished the picture had been scratch-and-sniff. Seeing it, I longed to fry up a mess of bacon on the spot (I sprinkle it with sugar as it sputters, which adds sweetness and crunch) and pile it atop an egg salad sandwich (made with Hellman’s mayonnaise, naturally). This photogenic foodstuff had just been revealed by the World Health Organization to have a probable link to colorectal cancer, along with other processed meats (sausage, salami, cold cuts, pate and the like) and any red meats (beef, lamb, pork) cooked in a way that makes them especially appetizing, such as grilling, barbecuing or pan-frying. (There

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is not enough data to determine if blander preparation — say, boiling or sous-vide — makes them safer.) The International Agency for Research on Cancer, in analyzing the risks of these comestibles, placed processed meats in the fearsome “Group 1” of noxious substances guaranteed to negatively affect human heath, such as asbestos, alcohol and cigarettes. Non-processed red meats narrowly dodged this onus; the scientists conceded that “eating red meat has not yet been established as a cause of cancer.” But the implication was clear: Don’t blame us if ill health smites you. Exasperated by this pronouncement, I had two thoughts. The first: What will this do to Oktoberfest? The second: If bratwurst, cold cuts and red meat are as dangerous as cigarettes, there can be only one rational response — start smoking. My 96-year-old grandmother has smoked (and eaten red meat) for as long as I can remember, and she is as hale as an ox. Men and women have eaten meat pretty much since they discovered fire. In “The

Odyssey,” Greek soldiers made sacrificial offerings of succulent beef to tempt their deity Poseidon: “thighbones in fat lay burning for the god.” If “The Odyssey” were written today, they’d probably burn him quinoa instead. In “The Chronicles of Narnia,” a schoolgirl named Jill rhapsodizes at the “delicious smell of sausages,” which were “not wretched sausages half full of bread and soya bean either, but real meaty, spicy ones, fat and piping hot and burst and just the tiniest bit burnt.” Too bad C.S. Lewis didn’t know about the benefits of kale. This is not to knock the merits of cautious moderation. Horace, that sage advocate of measured enjoyment, warned two millenniums ago against weighing down the stomach through overeating, and his advice still makes sense. And just as sensible diabetics avoid s’mores, anyone who has received a colon cancer diagnosis will understandably be grateful for this advisory. But good health is a lottery. Vegetarians are not immune to disease; people who don’t smoke,

like people who do, succumb to cancer and heart attacks; strokes befall both the lazy and the fit; and if you get sick, it doesn’t necessarily follow that one less hamburger or one more hit of beet-and-wheat grass juice would have spared you. Many winners of hot dog-eating contests live into their dotages. To be alive is to be at risk. Americans who conscientiously seek to obey the continually shifting dietary dictates of the fear brigade need to ask themselves: Where does prudence end and joy-sapping paranoia begin? In the 1970s, Americans were told to eat margarine instead of butter. Eventually, it turned out that these solidified vegetable fats were worse for the heart than butter — something my mother, steeped in Illinois farm wisdom, intuited from the first. People were also told to shun eggs because of demon cholesterol. Then, in February, the national Dietary Guidelines Advisory Community quietly reversed 40 years of yolk phobia, admitting that cholesterol wasn’t a “nutrient of concern” after all. Beef was already on the wall

of shame back then too. In high school in the 1980s, I performed a “Saturday Night Live” skit for a variety show, in which Roseanne Roseannadanna (Gilda Radner) addressed the red meat panic by reciting the poem her grandmother, Nanna Roseannadanna, used to tell her. Wearing a huge frizzed fright wig and persimmon lipstick, I drawled in Roseannadanna’s nasal accent: “I hope this don’t scare you, so please don’t cry, but all food you eat will make you die. If the meat is red, it’ll make you fat, it’s bad for your heart and you don’t want that. If the meat is white, your veins will thicken, considering the chemicals they inject in a chicken.” Last week, it occurred to me that little has changed in the world of dietary science in the intervening decades — except, perhaps, for our willingness to laugh at the capriciousness of the rulings. Which is a pity, because, as Roseanne Roseannadanna said: “We’re all gonna die, from all things or one thing; as my daddy used to say, ‘It’s always something.’” And now, please excuse me: It’s time to turn the bacon.

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Halo stays the best competitive first-person shooter GRANT MEYER | @GRANTMEYERDE

The Master Chief would be proud of this worthy addition to the prestigious sci-fi franchise. “Halo 5: Guardians” is the latest entry in the highly-acclaimed Halo series and 343 Industries’ third game since taking over the reins from Bungie in 2010. Halo is the Xbox’s flagship franchise. 343 Industries had a mountain to climb when it came to this game. Their last two entries were great, but changed the formula too much or had technical issues that hurt the brand. Fortunately, 343 Industries succeeded in creating another great Halo game. The story features Spartan super-soldiers Jameson Locke and the iconic Master Chief. The Master Chief commands his childhood friends, named Blue Team, and Locke is in charge of Team Osiris, an un-tested group of highly-skilled soldiers. In the process of defending humanity

from threats, the Master Chief goes rogue in pursuit of a VIP and Locke is sent to track him down. The campaign is playable in four player co-op with every player taking the role of a different Spartan depending on which team is available. If playing solo, the extra Spartans are controlled by the computer. The premise has promise, but the storyline is the weakest of the series. Despite their interesting backstories, none of the new characters are fleshed out and the ending clearly was designed to set up Halo 6. It certainly gets people pumped for the next game, but there is no closure and almost nothing gets resolved. The ending is particularly poor because it feels cheap attempting to be emotional and hurts the story of “Halo 4” by diminishing its narrative impact. However, gameplay makes up for the weak story and, as expected, is unparalleled in the first-person shooter genre. The variability is second to none as players combine the different guns, environments, movement and vehicles.

Halo 2, sold 8.49 million copies

To freshen the experience, two new ways to move around the environment were added. The first is clambering, which allows players to climb up ledges. The other addition is the thruster pack and it allows a player to dash quickly across a short distance. Neither of these new abilities seems like much, but they make a big difference when traversing and fighting in the game’s environments, creating the smoothest Halo game to date. New abilities were added to the toolset. There is the Spartan Charge, a stronger melee attack granted to the player after sprinting for a specified duration, and the Ground Pound, which allows the player to jump in the air then hurl themselves at the ground for a devastating smash. Multiplayer was the biggest hurdle 343 Industries had to tackle. Fortunately, the multiplayer is spectacular and the best in the genre since 2010’s “Halo: Reach.” Multiplayer shines in the arena category. Classic Halo modes such as Slayer, Swat and Free-For-All are

Halo Wars, sold 2.34

2004 Halo: Combat Evolved, sold 6.43

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Halo: The Master Chief Collection, sold 2.58 million copies

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deficit, but the game is enjoyable and a good starting point for more laid-back players. The multiplayer’s few issues are because of odd tweaks to traditional gameplay mechanics and map variety. The classic motion tracker’s range being is so limited, it hardly feels useful at all. Another problem is the lower quantity of power weapons on every map, which creates less gameplay variety. There is a distinct lack of game modes compared to previous “Halo” entries. Since “Halo 3” in 2007, there has always been another mode in addition to campaign and multiplayer such as Forge, Firefight or Spartan Ops, but “Halo 5: Guardians” only has two. 343 Industries said they will add Forge Mode in the future, which will allow the creation of extra maps, as well as the classic multiplayer mode Big Team Battle. Overall, “Halo 5: Guardians” is a fantastic game and worthy of the name, but still does not reach — no pun intended — the bar set by Bungie.

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Halo: Reach, sold 9.52

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located here as well as the new modes Breakout and Team Arena. Team Arena rotates between three classic modes: Slayer, Capture the Flag and Strongholds. Meanwhile, Breakout is a round-based mode where players only get one life per round. REQ points, a virtual currency, are awarded for playing the game. The points can purchase REQ packs, which contain anything from weapons to new, customizable armor. Unfortunately, the rewards given are completely random. Even if a player has a desired armor piece or weapon in mind, they will have to get lucky enough to get it from a REQ pack, which creates unrewarding gameplay. Warzone is the new, featured multiplayer mode. This pits two teams against each other in a massive battle to see who can reach 1,000 points the quickest. To spice it up, computercontrolled enemies will appear during the match at random intervals, creating a chaotic and fun three-way battle. The mode has some balance issues, and it can be hard to come back from a

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Halo 3: ODST, sold 6.22

Halo 4, sold 8.94

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Halo 5: Guardians, released

As more devices go online, hackers hunt for vulnerabilities IAN DUNCAN | Baltimore Sun

The hack was simple. Terry Dunlap tapped out a few commands on his laptop and within seconds a message popped on the screen: “Done!” With a few more keystrokes, he could see what the security camera could see and swivel it at will. The demonstration by Columbia-based Tactical Network Solutions illustrates an increasingly widespread problem: A growing number of devices, from security cameras to cars to weapons systems, are designed to connect to computer networks — the so-called Internet of Things. But as researchers find ways to compromise the machines, regulators, lawmakers and military leaders are scrambling to safeguard them from hacking. Dunlap’s company specializes in providing “offensive cyber capabilities.” Billions of devices can connect to the Internet, affording cyberattackers a wide range of opportunity, said Chris Inglis, a former deputy director of the National Security Agency. Now a teacher at the Naval Academy, Inglis said the military is preparing the next generation of leaders to be ready. All midshipmen are required to take cybersecurity classes, and some have explored how to defend against hacking of machines.

“We believe that everyone, no matter what they do, is going to have a dependence on network systems,” he said. The headline-grabbing hacks of 2014 and 2015 — the raids on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the federal government’s personnel office and several big retailers — involved attackers cracking into databases. While such assaults are serious problems for the targets, the fallout for individual victims is mostly handled by their employers, financial firms or creditmonitoring agencies. But attacks on connected devices could bring the issue of cybersecurity into America’s homes and cars. In a dramatic display this year, two hackers were able to commandeer a Jeep, wirelessly taking control of the steering, transmission and brakes. That hack into Chrysler’s Uconnect dashboard system prompted the company to recall 1.4 million vehicles, the first recall to deal with a computer security problem. Other researchers have shown that some popular baby monitors contain security flaws that could allow hackers access to the video stream. “A compromise of a connected device is much more visceral to the average consumer because it’s in some sense tangible,” said Ted Harrington, a partner at the Baltimore

consulting firm Independent Security Evaluators. “If someone is compromising the video stream of their baby monitor, that feels much more catastrophic.” In some cases, the weaknesses have prompted lawmakers to propose legislation. A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held a hearing in October on a proposed car safety bill that would impose hefty penalties against anyone who hacks into a vehicle’s systems. Regulators also have issued security guidance to companies that make Internetconnected devices. “Companies should test products before they launch them, as opposed to launching the products first and seeing about problems later,” Federal Trade Commission official Maneesha Mithal told lawmakers at the hearing. “It’s something we call ‘security by design.’” While cyberattacks on intelligence and defense agencies might not be revealed to the public, Pentagon officials acknowledge they are exploring the implications of hacking into machines and controlling them. The military is in the midst of evaluating its weapons systems — some of them developed before anyone contemplated the risks of connecting to the Internet — while also exploring new kinds of attacks it can launch. Earlier this year, tests conducted by the Defense Department identified cybersecurity vulnerabilities in Apache helicopters, drones,

Army radios and Navy ships. Officials have declined to describe how they would undertake cyberattacks on machines. “It is a big problem,” Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work told a congressional panel in September. “Many of the weapons systems that we have now were not built to withstand a concerted cyber threat.” In the Tactical Network Solutions demo, Dunlap and his team analyzed the code that controls the camera and wrote their own code to launch an attack to retrieve the password. Dunlap, managing partner at the company, estimated it took his team about five hours. He said a search on a website that seeks out devices connected to the Internet revealed thousands of cameras around the globe that likely had similar vulnerabilities. The security camera that Dunlap attacked was an older model made by TRENDnet. The company said the camera has been discontinued and that it has updated code for existing cameras to improve security. “Our security team tests all our products for possible vulnerabilities before they reach the market,” Sonny Su, the company’s technical director, said in a statement. “We use TRENDnet products in our own homes, so we especially understand the importance of providing secure products to our customers.”

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<< Answers for Tuesday’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 (11/04/15). Win together this year. Your friends are the aces up your sleeve. Consistency profits. Passionate possibilities spark (after 3/9). Thoughtful planning pays (after 3/23). A group project shifts (after 9/1). One game folds and another begins (after 9/16). Play. 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 a 9 -- Today and tomorrow get especially busy. Work requires your personal touch. Discover and resolve a structural problem. Pull what you need out of storage. The action is behind the scenes. Learn the value of what you have. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -Today is a 9 -- Let friends arouse your curiosity. The next two days are reserved for fun. Encourage creativity. Play around. Romance blossoms if lovingly tended. Practice your arts and magic. Follow the beat of the music and dance. Gemini (May 21-June 20) -Today is a 7 -- Your home and family require more attention. Fix up your place today and tomorrow. Get creative with color, form and line. You can get what you need without straining the budget. Prepare for an upcoming social event.

ACROSS 1 See-through kitchen supply 6 Mythical king of the Huns 10 Kitchen spray 13 Flared dress 14 Ancient Greek theater 15 Land in l’océan 16 *Sneaky blow 18 Some kitchen appliances 19 Did a slow burn 20 Passengers in flight, often 22 Cyberspace marketplace 23 Snobbish 24 Chopper 27 Mount Hood’s state 29 Prominent periods 30 Keep the censor busy 31 The NBA’s Kevin Love, e.g. 34 Alternative to dis? 35 Easy mark ... and a hint to the starts of the answers to starred clues 37 Dressing ingredient 38 High rails 39 Bassoon cousins 40 Vending machine buy 41 “Absolutely!” 43 Kicked off the flight 45 Well-protected 47 Sweater outlet? 48 Island nation near Sicily 49 Get in the game 54 Form 1040 calc. 55 *Peanuts 57 Nickelodeon pooch 58 Spine-tingling 59 Hawaii or Alaska, on many a map 60 Number before quattro 61 Editor’s “Let it stand” 62 Hoopster Archibald and rapper Dogg

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Things are getting clear over the next few days. You see a solution. Read, write and study. Issue press releases. Communicate with your networks. Re-supply locally. Meditate on what you want before speaking. Make long-range plans. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Take care of financial matters over the next few days. Tally up your balance sheet. Keep payments current, and issue reminders on accounts receivable. Patience pays off. Keep your agreements. Be determined, and not dissuaded. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your confidence and personal power expands today and tomorrow. With strength, you also gain options. Let your team know how they can help. Pay attention to a brilliant, yet bizarre, suggestion. Wait for a roadblock to clear.

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DOWN 1 Back talk 2 Homecoming guest 3 Affluent, in Andalusia 4 Low socks 5 (If) required 6 Together, musically 7 Watch over 8 Director Jean-__ Godard 9 “Can’t wait to eat!” 10 *Place for brooding 11 Watchful 12 Embarrassing, as a situation 14 Nashville attraction 17 Bring up 21 Great Lakes’ __ Canals 23 10-time All-Pro linebacker Junior 24 Hand over 25 Taken by mouth 26 *“Walkin’ After Midnight” singer 27 Young hooter 28 Rules, briefly

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30 __ gin fizz 32 Trusted underling 33 Prince who inspired Dracula 35 Loser only to a straight flush 36 Calais cleric 40 “The Bartered Bride” composer 42 Away 43 Former U.K. carrier

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- The next two days are nice for laying low. Upgrade your equipment and organize your space. Prepare for a new project by closing up old ones. Stick close to home. Listen to someone who thinks differently than you. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Enjoy a two-day party phase. Social activities and team projects go well today and tomorrow. A risk could pay off big. Ask for help to gather resources and talents. Stifle rebellious tendencies. Build a strong foundation together. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- A professional challenge requires your attention over the next few days. Opportunities could arise if you play your cards right. Fix something before it breaks. Postpone travel. Take on more responsibility. Teach what you’re learning.

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44 Mischievous boy 45 Snazzy-looking 46 Ready and willing 47 Love-crazy Le Pew 49 “Absolutely!” 50 Give out 51 Scientific acad. 52 Architectural S-curve 53 Fishing gear 56 Riled (up)

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Educational adventures draw you out today and tomorrow. Discover new methods, tricks and ideas. Listen to a mentor or teacher. Go and see for yourself. Make long-term plans and dream big. Imagine ways to apply what you’re learning. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 9 -- Plan strategically over the next few days, especially regarding money. There’s no rush. Join forces with another for funding. Others seek your advice. Come up with a plan together. Gain more than expected. Enjoy a tranquil evening. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Someone nice thinks you’re cute. Get your homework done before going out to play. Discover romance where least expected today and tomorrow. Charm with your talents and passions. Your reputation precedes you. Dress to impress.

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Football Dawgs sniffing records SEAN CARLEY | @SCARLEYDE

SIU football is 3-5 this season, but individual players are attempting to make the record books. Senior quarterback Mark Iannotti could break single-season and career records while sophomore safety Kenny James and junior linebacker Chase Allen are chasing the single season tackle total. Iannotti is closing in on current cooffensive coordinator Nick Hill’s 2007 marks of 3,532 yards and 28 passing touchdowns, both are single-season records for SIU. The senior is currently at 2,887 yards of total offense and 17 passing touchdowns. He would need to average 215 yards and throw for 11 total touchdowns in the final three games of the year. Iannotti is averaging 360.9 yards and just more than two passing touchdowns per game this year. He is also going after the career touchdown passes and career total offense marks set by former quarterback Joel Sambursky. Iannotti currently has 5,212

total offensive yards in his career and 39 career touchdown passes, while Sambursky has 8,994 and 65, respectively. Iannotti said the new offensive system’s similarity to what he ran in high school has helped him improve this season. On the defensive side, James has 93 tackles, while Allen has 89. They are 77 and 81 tackles behind the record of 170 set by former linebacker Granville Butler in 1982. They are more likely to crack the top10 as former safety Alexis Moreland is 10th with 134, set in 2002. James and Allen would need to average 13.67 and 15 tackles respectively in the remaining games. They average 11.6 and 11.1 a game respectively. James said it would be an honor to finish high in the record books. “That’s a lot of tackles for a safety,” he said. “A lot of defenses aren’t built up to get a lot of tackles for your free safety.” If he cracks the top-10, James would be only the second defensive back in the group, joining Oyd Craddock.

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Allen said his main concern is his progression as inside linebacker. “I’ve just known the play calls more and made better reads so it helps

overall,” he said. Allen transitioned to the position from outside linebacker at the start of last season.

An unusual friendship keeps SIU volleyball players busy EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

Two SIU volleyball players have an additional roommate, but his name is not on their lease. Charlie doesn’t help with the bills either, as he is black and white Rex Rabbit. Junior setter Hannah Kaminsky heard about a woman selling rabbits for $10 in Carbondale last fall and the story of Charlie began. “We really wanted a pet, but we knew we couldn’t take care of a dog,” Kaminsky said. The SIU volleyball team is busy during the season. The team lifts weights at 6:45 a.m on Mondays and Wednesdays and leave Carbondale behind for days at a time when playing away matches, which makes being a responsible pet owner difficult without help. Kaminsky and her roommate, former SIU libero and defensive specialist junior Leah Edgerton, went to meet the rabbit and soon Charlie had a new home. It was a happy year for the three — but long weekends of traveling by the volleyball team forced Kaminsky to give Charlie away. Charlie’s current home is with two Saluki sophomores: defensive specialist Gabriella Shepherd, middle hitter Alex Rosignol, and junior McKenzie Dorris. The three are able to leave Charlie in the care of their non-athlete roommate when they travel — a luxury Kaminsky and Edgerton did not have. “I want people to know I was a loving mother to Charlie,” Kaminsky said. Shepherd has waited a while to be an owner of a pet rabbit. When she was toddler she begged her parents for a bunny of her own. Finally giving in to their daughter’s wish, Shepherd’s parents gave her an automated toy rabbit for her fifth birthday. But the robotic rabbit is long forgotten and Charlie has won her heart. Charlie’s warm and fuzzy exterior is step-up to his robot counterpart. The rabbit helped Shepherd with her sickness last week by keeping her company. Rosignol said Shepherd, who has brought Charlie to a SIU baseball game and coach Justin

The team may not make the playoffs, but the record books will likely remember some of the 2015 Salukis.

Friendly rivalry extends on and off football field TED WARD | @TEDWARD_DE

Ingram’s office, is the motherly figure. “She takes care of him and babies him,” Rosignol said. Rosignol is not as close with Charlie because of his chewing habit, which has taken a toll on her door and internet cables. She has also found rabbit droppings underneath her bed. Even though Charlie seems to pick favorites, Rosignol doesn’t hold a grudge.

Charlie requires special rabbit food because of a weight issue. The roommates, including Rosignol, split his food costs. In addition to his specific dietary needs, Charlie is a fan of carrot-flavored yogurt balls. But for the next two weeks Charlie will have company, as the volleyball team will stay in Carbondale for a four-match home stretch.

Football rivalries are intense in high school but the focus shifts drastically in college. Junior linebacker Chase Allen, freshman defensive end Nate Sylvester of the Belleville East High School Lancers — and sophomore linebacker Markese Jackson from their high school’s arch rival East St. Louis Senior High School Flyers — are teammates at SIU. Jackson said it used to be a rivalry, but it is behind them now. “We’re all teammates and we’re here to get the win every week,” Jackson said. “That’s the only thing that matters to us.” Allen said the rivalry was intense because he never beat the Flyers until his senior year. That 17-14 game was in overtime at East St. Louis. The Flyers have an overall record of 777-227 and were a top-25 team in the Illinois High School Athletic Association poll from 1979 to 1995. Coach Darren Sunkett has led the team to the state playoffs every year since he started in 2001. The Flyers have won seven Illinois state championships, the last in 2008. They have also won a national championship in 1985. “We’ve always had a target on our backs with teams attempting to knock us off,” Jackson said. “We’ve had some great teams, so everyone wants to be like us.” Allen said he helped defensive line coach Austin Flyger recruit Sylvester from Belleville East. “I called him and talked about the university and when he came down for a visit I was able to hang out with him and his family,” Allen said. “I told him it’s a very humbling and growing experience and they treated us as men.” Allen said there is still friendly rivalry between some of the high school opponents. “We have a few teammates that are all from the same conference so there’s a lot of trash talk between us,” Allen said.