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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2014 VOLUME 98 ISSUE 128
Committee evaluates realistic options Marissa Novel
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Fresh ideas for downtown Carbondale are budding, but the Downtown Advisory Committee believes it will take financial, public and community responsibility to see these plans through. The Downtown Advisory Committee had its seventh of eight meetings to discuss economic, civic and neighborhood viability at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Carbondale Community High School. Charles Leonard, a political scientist and
visiting professor for the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, began the meeting with results from an Internet opt-in survey completed by 4,300 alumni about the downtown area. “Ninety percent of alumns recommend SIU as a place to go to school,” he said. “Fifty percent would recommend SIU as a place to visit. About 25 percent would recommend Carbondale as a place to live. So your work is cut out for you.” Leonard said alumni were also interested in more restaurants, local businesses, walk and bike paths. He said alumni said the city
is a poor option for entrepreneurs and postcollege job opportunities. Jack Langowski, the chairman of the committee, said the requests of the alumni are reflected by the ideas from the committee and community members. “The survey verifies many observations we’ve been making across the last seven months,” he said. “Many of the things he pointed out are really verifications of what we have said or heard from the public.” Please see COMMITTEE · 2
Shelters adjust care for cold weather Marissa Novel
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As temperatures decrease, different animal shelters in the southern Illinois area have their own way of handling new animals. Of the more than 7 million companion pets that enter shelters each year, 20 percent are adopted and 20 percent are euthanized, according to the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. St. Francis Care in Murphysboro is a no-kill shelter. A no-kill shelter is a facility that houses as many animals as possible without euthanizing them. Kay Creese, the executive director of St. Francis Care, said the shelter is at capacity with 110 animals, most of which are dogs. She said she does have to turn away animals, but refers people to other no-kill shelters in the area,which includes Pets Are Worth Saving in Anna and Wright-Way Rescue in Murphysboro. “If I don’t have kennel space, I don’t have kennel space,” she said. “But we try to have some kennels open this time of year when it starts getting cold, because we get a lot of desperation cases.” Creese, a licensed veterinarian, said desperation cases are animals who are underweight, sick or without shelter. She said these cases are results of pet owners not adjusting animal care to fit the season, which includes providing fresh, unfrozen water, food and sufficient insulation for outdoor homes. Creese said the shelter stockpiles food year round, and provides free food and low-cost veterinary aid, including spays and neuters, to low-income households. She said the shelter has provided medical help since she began working there in 2009, and she has performed about 5,000 surgeries in that time. “The need for shelters and the number of strays, homeless and abandoned animals is an out-of-control problem,” she said. “If people would spay and neuter their animals, we could cut down on this problem.” She said people choose to not spay or neuter their pets for many reasons. “Part of it is costs, probably part of it is lack of knowledge, knowing that you can do it or knowing that there are facilities available for doing it,” she said. “Sometimes, too, there’s a misunderstanding as to
M arissa N ovel D aily e gyptiaN Norman Smith, of Murphysboro, attaches a tarp to an outdoor kennel to shield the wind Wednesday at St. Francis Care in Murphysboro. Smith has worked for two years and has helped prepare for the cold seasons. The shelter currently houses 110 animals, mostly cats and dogs. The tarp helps block the wind to prevent the dogs from getting ill.
why its important.” Creese said it costs roughly $25 a day to house and feed each animal, and the shelter’s costs rise during the winter to heat the five buildings that house the animals. She said the shelter primarily runs on donations. Lora Jackson, the manager at Southern Illinois Humane Society in Murphysboro, said her shelter also runs on donations, but is an open-access facility,
meaning they take all animals given to them. “We’re a housing facility for animal control, so we accept everything that’s brought to us, whether it’s a stray or it’s a pet someone’s had for years,” she said. “If it’s a stray we hold them for seven to 10 days, depending on the circumstance, and we try to find an owner.” Jackson said there are 14 dogs and 20 cats in the
Facts students should know about ISIS Josh Murray
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Following the killing of two American journalists, a discussion to inform students and community members on the militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria was held at Lesar Auditorium in the Law School on Wednesday night. In August, ISIS posted a YouTube video showing the decapitation of U.S. journalist James Foley. Since Foley’s execution, ISIS has executed three other Westerners, including U.S. journalist Stephen Sotloff. ISIS was formed more than 10 years ago and gained international attention
earlier this year after seizing the Iraqi city of Mosul in June. ISIS continued to gain international attention as they seized several other major cities in Iraq and Syria. The panel included: Hazar Abil Samin, a political science Ph.D candidate; Janice Jacobs, a former U.S. ambassador and assistant secretary of state for consular affairs; Cindy Buys, professor of law; Virginia Tilley, professor and chairwomen of the Department of Political Science; and Hale Yilmaz, associate professor of history. Here are eight facts students need to know about the terrorist group. ISIS or ISIL? – From world leaders to
shelter’s adoption program. She said there is about the same amount of space for stray animals not in the adoption program. “The shelters that don’t euthanize can be selective with what they take,” she said. “We are here for everything and anything that needs a place to go, and that includes animals that aren’t very friendly or are injured.” Please see SHELTER · 2
members of the media, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have been used interchangeably when referring to the group. The Levant, also known as the Eastern Mediterranean, includes Syria along with Cyprus, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and parts of southern Turkey. ISIS and al-Qaida – Although initially allies, ISIS and al-Qaida had a bitter falling out earlier this year. Because of differing ideologies and a lack of loyalty, al-Qaida D aviD Z ucchiNo l os a Ngeles t iMes publically parted ways with ISIS in February. Soldiers with the Iraqi army’s 6th Division patrol a busy roadway in Abu For the rest of this story, Ghraib, a majority Sunni town 18 miles west of Baghdad. Abu Ghraib is the please see www.dailyegyptian.com gateway from the west to Baghdad and its international airport.