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Photo credit for the front cover: Corrin Hunt | @CorrinlHunt Calvin Scott, of Carbondale, plays taps, Sunday, during the Carbondale Veterans Day Ceremony, at the Veterans Memorial Plaza, in Carbondale.

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Neely Hall will be open for housing contracts in fall 2019 STAFF REPORT | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Students can contract to live in Neely Hall or Thompson Point starting in the fall 2019 semester, according to an email sent from SIU Housing to returning students.

"Contract for fall 2019/spring 2020 and choose an available space in Neely Hall or Thompson Point. Some spaces are based on eligibility determined by majors or other LLC requirements," the email said.

The email said all housing areas have single rooms available but there's a limited amount.

The email did not have any mention of University Hall. It is unclear at this time if this means University Hall will close down.

As of fall 2018 the East Campus Housing towers, including Neely Hall, have been closed down.

At the time Chancellor Carlo Montemagno said in a press release that by bringing students together in Thompson Point, the university

can continue to build a tightly knit, engaged community.

“It will also increase traffic to our Student Center, which should be a centerpiece of campus life," Montemagno said.

In the press release, Montemagno said the decline in enrollment made the move possible, but the change was pushed to build engagement and enhance the university’s retention rate.

The Daily Egyptian can be reached at editor@dailyegyptian.com.

Carbondale building built in 1881 destroyed in fire BRANDI COURTOIS | Daily Egyptian

A rental property owned by Wright Properties at 409 W. Main Street in Carbondale caught on fire Tuesday morning.

The building was built in 1881 for Samuel W. Dunaway.

Jimmy Stanton, the owner of the property, called the building a total loss.

“Someone left a pan on the stove,” Stanton said. “It’s terrible.”

He said the fire department told him the fire started on the first floor in Unit 8 and appeared to come from the kitchen.

Mike Hertz, Carbondale's fire chief, said the fire started around 7:30 a.m.

Hertz said the fire started on the first floor and ran through the walls and up into the attic.

“Everybody was out of the place before it got bad,” Stanton said.

The building was located to the right of the Carbondale Public Library and across the street from the Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

Isabel Miller | @IsabelMillerDE Firefighters put out fire on the corner of Poplar and route 13, Tuesday.

Barricades were used to shut down part of West Main Street and parts of West Monroe Street.

The building had extensive damage to the exterior and the roof appeared to have collapsed because of the fire.

Trucks from the Carbondale, Carterville, and Marion fire departments responded to the fire.

Jackson County Ambulance also provided assistance.

Jason Sheraden, a firefighter and

paramedic for the Carterville Fire Department, said the department provided assistance but could not reveal any details because it was not in his jurisdiction.

Ameren was also present at the scene.

The Carbondale Fire Department is still conducting an investigation.

Managing editor Brandi Courtois can be reached at bcourtois@dailyegyptian.com.

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Board of Trustees picks search firm for permanent president; interim chancellor expected to be chosen by December meeting CLAIRE COWLEY & KALLIE COX

The Board of Trustees met Nov. 9 and picked the Witt/Kieffer executive search firm to help find a new permanent president for the SIU system.

This firm is unrelated to the one currently evaluating the Board and the system as a whole, Board Chairperson Amy Sholar said.

Interim President J. Kevin Dorsey said he has no intention of becoming permanent president.

The university needs a interim chancellor as soon as possible because of time concerns, followed by a permanent president, followed by the permanent search for a chancellor, Dorsey said.

“I think a potential chancellor who is wise would want to know who they’re working for and with,” Dorsey said. “That to me would dictate the order of events.”

Dorsey said what he’d be looking for in the next interim chancellor is someone who can be physically present on campus 24/7. The person should be experienced at or near the chancellor level.

Dorsey also said the candidate should be acceptable to faculty and students, be willing to serve, but is not a candidate for the permanent position.

“In my conversations with campus leadership [the candidate] should be someone that can unite, not only on this campus, but also in the entire system,” Dorsey said.

Dorsey also said the best case scenario would be to have a sitting president by the start of the next academic year, no later than August of 2019.

“I think that that’s doable if everything works out right [...] it's a

“If students are too stressed out, over worked, under-served, disrespected [or] unappreciated [...] whatever it may be, then the needs of students go unmet. We all fail [...] the university leadership and its faculty.”

- Clay Awsumb GPSC president

bit ambitious but I have every reason to think we can make it happen,” Dorsey said.

The Board of Trustees affirmed president Dorsey as acting chancellor until a interim chancellor is hired.

Clay Awsumb, graduate and professional student council president, said he encourages the trustees to ensure the next interim chancellor is equally committed to students experiences, needs, achievement, recognition, inclusion and partnership.

“Each of these elements centering our efforts on students as the measure and means to successfully improving SIU,” Awsumb said.

Awsumb also said academic success, graduation, retention rates, and enrollment is commonly a measure of success in student achievement.

“If students are too stressed out, over worked, under-served, disrespected [or] unappreciated [...] whatever it may be, then the needs of students go unmet,” Awsumb said. “We all fail [...] the university leadership and its faculty.”

David Johnson, president of SIU faculty association, said before former chancellor Carlo Montemagno's death, the restructuring plan was controversial and left us more or less stuck.

“Faculty do not know when or whether we will find ourselves Isabel Miller | @IsabelMillerDE voluntarily or involuntarily in a new Interim SIU President J. Kevin Dorsey during a Board of Trustees special meeting, school,” Johnson said. “Nor do we Friday. know what our college structure will look like.”

Kathleen Chawlisz, a professor in SIUC reorganization,” Chawlisz said.

Johnson also said SIU does not counseling psychology, and Anthony Chawlisz said this endorsement is have interim leaders, we have a Travelstead, a civil service council needed for the campus to seek how to interim structure. member, said decisions about the move forward.

“We’re paying people tens of reorganization could not be put “Many faculty, staff and students thousands of dollars to head units that off any longer, even if it meant have been waiting for months, could be eliminated at any time [...] including feedback from students anxious to get started working on we’re a interim university facing an and faculty. building relationships and actualizing enrollment crisis,” Johnson said.

Chawlisz said although the faculty the possibilities of the new schools,” Johnson said the faculty senate thanks president Dorsey's Chawlisz said. association is ready to end this continued verbal support for the After over four hours of closed confusion and conflict. reorganization, it now needs support session, the board decided on using the “But do not try to force new schools from the Board of Trustees.

Witt/Kieffer executive search firm to that students and faculty reject,” “As a member of the reorganization choose the next chancellor.

Johnson said. “Instead, support faculty committee, about a third of When asked how important student alternatives, redesign our college conclusions have been approved [...] a input would be in the search for a new structure to house the new schools in third were rejected, but sent back for chancellor, Dorsey said it would play those departments.” revisions,” Chawlisz said. “The faculty a role in the search for a permanent Johnson also said if this sounds administration are working on that chancellor but not an interim. like old advice, it is. And SIU can progress as we speak.”

“I think we need input,” Dorsey immediately put an end to uncertainty Chawlisz also said there are a number said. “But I don’t think we can run an and contention. of proposals that are faculty driven and interim search like a permanent search.

“Simply, by wrapping up are being developed as well noting the We can’t parade an individual around restructuring in positive, collaborative progress is ongoing. for opinions.” manner,” Johnson said. “We can turn “The faculty senate executive The Board of Trustees will have a together to face this enrollment crisis council recently boarded a resolution new interim chancellor at the earliest by head on.” requesting a formal endorsement of the their next scheduled meeting Dec. 13.

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New Student Programs director Cordy Love resigns, two senior staff accept pay raise in other departments CLAIRE COWLEY

| Daily Egyptian

New Student Programs Director Cordy Love has retired from the position after four years.

Love hit a glass ceiling at NSP, he said.

“I wasn’t going to move up, especially to assistant dean or dean of students,” Love said. “There wasn’t any professional growth for me.”

Love said it’s important for him to know that he’s treated fairly in his role and it just got to a point where it didn’t feel like that way anymore.

“Administration had a different vision for NSP [and] I made the very hard decision to step away from that,” Love said.

Love said he didn’t exactly know what administration's vision was, but they did want more engagement.

“I was not given direction on where to go,” Love said.

Love said he resigned after his vacation days marking a final day on Oct. 26.

Love earned his bachelor’s and master’s at SIU, served as a graduate student in NSP and four years as coordinator of NSP. “[As director] it was my dream job,” Love said. "I learned how to be a professional working in that department."

Love also said leaving this position also means leaving many amazing connections he had made with offices across campus and for that he is deeply saddened.

“Thank you for the time and effort you have put in to helping make my time as director successful and impactful for new students,” Love said in his email to campus colleagues. “I say this with a heavy heart.”

Lori Stettler, vice chancellor of

student affairs, said Love brought institutional history and knowledge about NSP. “[Love] focused in conjunction with management to ensure work with admissions and brought through orientation process for students to become fully enrolled,” Stettler said.

Stettler also said NSP conduct is like most colleges who follow the best practices that are shared through research done by the National Orientation directors association.

“There will be no change to the functioning role of NSP or the scope of the office,” Stettler said. “The human resources department conducts the hiring process.”

Stettler said administration is looking for someone who understands the entire recruitment and retention process and has the ability to develop relationships across campus.

Dean of Students Jennifer Jones Hall and NSP Coordinator Shannon Schroeder are now managing NSP. Director of recruitment, retention and outreach, Pamela Smoot, said she was extremely disappointed to hear about Love’s resignation.

“He definitely had the personality and demeanor for the position,” Smoot said. “I thought he did an outstanding job with programming, supervising his staff and training his orientation leaders.”

NSP is vital to the university’s recruitment and retention, Smoot said.

“It’s a strong program that provides a one-stop shop where incoming freshmen and transfer students can register for class take care of financial matters and take campus tours,” Smoot said.

Nakkiah Stampfli, a senior studying philosophy and communication studies, is a team lead that develops the interview and training materials for the

2019 orientation leader staff.

Stampfli said NSP former assistant director Gena Albert and former office manager Tammy Wieseman didn’t necessarily get promotions in the sense that they didn’t move up in the SIU structure.

“They were offered different positions in a different campus department and those job offers came with pay raises,” Stampfli said.

Stampfli also said she doesn’t blame them at all for taking it.

“I can’t say for certain what the future of NSP is going to look like,” Stampfil said. “But, they haven't shared with us what that vision looks like.”

Love said he had been NSP director for four years and professionally it's not uncommon for someone in his realm, after that fifth year mark to look for other opportunities.

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LGBTQ university professionals weigh in on possible definition of sex AUSTIN PHELPS | @austinphelps96

The Department of Health and Human Services is trying to establish a definition of sex, which would define it as unchangeable and assigned at birth as either male or female based on genitalia.

Chloe Goldbach, a transgender woman and instructor for women, gender and sexuality studies at the university, said the definition is problematic on many levels.

“This would mean that a transgender individual would not be able to change their sex on their birth certificate, regardless of documentation provided or medical procedures undergone,” Goldbach said. “Focusing on only male or female seeks to further [damage] the transgender community by erasing non-binary individuals.”

Goldbach said transgender individuals who have not changed legal identification would encounter barriers.

“Even though we typically understand that the M, F, or X for non-binary, is a gender marker, the term sex is often used on these documents,” Goldbach said. “Therefore this policy could prevent individuals from changing their documentation to be in line with their gender identity if their gender does not align with their sex assigned at birth.”

This could also cause problems for individuals who have already changed their documentation, Goldbach said.

The HHS memo states any dispute regarding sex would be determined by genetic testing.

“This would mean that a transgender individual would not be able to change their sex on their birth certificate, regardless of documentation provided or medical procedures undergone.”

- Chloe Goldbach women, gender and sexuality studies professor

In theory, if someone’s identification were questioned, genetic testing could be done and this could be used as grounds to reverse documentation to have gender and sex markers that are not in line with their gender identity, Goldbach said.

“This is clearly problematic because it is a tool that denies the existence of transgender individuals because gender identity is not to be valued on documentation with this policy,” Goldbach said.

Lori Stettler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said she is not aware that any official definition of sex has been established by the university.

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“This is clearly problematic because it is a tool that denies the existence of transgender individuals because gender identity is not to be valued on documentation with this policy.”

- Chloe Goldbach women, gender and sexuality sudies professor

“As an institution with a long standing history of access, we value diversity and inclusion and will continue to serve students whose gender-identity may not be the sex they were assigned at birth,” Stettler said.

According to the New York Times, any question of sex under the definition would be determined by genetic testing.

Virginia Tilley, a professor of political science at the university, said this is a discriminatory policy.

“This is a policy designed to discredit and delegitimize people’s actual experience, to take away protections people have. To take away categories that fit their needs,” Tilley said.

Tilley said the proposed definition of sex reminds her of racial categories.

“They want to define race out of existence in order not to provide Affirmative Action,” Tilley said.

Vernon Cooper, the LGBTQ+ resource center coordinator at the university, said the proposed definition reminds him of the

anti-transgender bathroom bills.

“Completely unexecutable and designed only to create hysteria and an increasingly unsafe environment for trans people in public spaces,” Cooper said.

Tilley said in the short-term this can make people afraid.

“It’s yet another blow just when [the transgender community] thought they were making progress and having some kind of safe space in society,” Tilley said. “Which is a great shame because what we need is for this to normalize and for trans people to be able to share their experiences more fully and more openly.”

Goldbach said this will just lead to further misunderstanding, stigma and discrimination.

“If someone identifies as a woman but you force them to have M listed on their documents, this will clearly create problems every time that they need to show their ID to someone,” Goldbach said.

Goldbach said gender identity is one’s internal concept of how they identify in terms of their gender. Whether that be male, female, or somewhere beyond the male-female binary.

“Gender is about who you identify as, while your sex is about anatomical characteristics.

Identity and anatomy are clearly not the same thing,” Goldbach said. “For cisgender people, gender and sex do align. For transgender people, gender and sex do not align.”

Forcing people to be identified by their sex rather than their gender ignores a crucial part of a transgender person’s identity, Goldbach said. Which then propagates further misunderstanding, stigma, microaggressions and discrimination.

Cooper said he is furious for the current coming-of-age generation that was promised by his generation, that things would change.

“I should add that SIU has no intention of walking back protections or resources for trans and gender nonconforming students until someone finds a way to force us,” Cooper said.

Goldbach said her and other transgender people will continue to fight back against bigotry and transphobia.

“Many in the community, myself included, are proud of who we are and are living our most authentic lives,” Goldbach said.

“We are not going to disappear or go back into closet because of things like this.”

Staff reporter Austin Phelps can be reached at aphelps@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @austinphelps96.

“Many in the community, myself included, are proud of who we are and are living our most authentic lives. We are not going to disappear or go back into closet because of things like this.”

- Chloe Goldbach women, gender and sexuality sudies professor

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With over 40 interim positions in administration, SIUC still can't hire from outside the university to fill them CLAIRE COWLEY | Daily Egyptian

Southern Illinois University Carbondale currently has 41 employees in interim positions throughout administration, faculty and staff. There is currently no chancellor, permanent, acting or interim, after the death of Carlo Montemagno last month.

College of Mass Communication & Media Arts' acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Interim Director of Graduate Studies Aaron Veenstra said one of the reasons SIU has so many interim positions for administrators is that the university lacks hiring power.

If everyone who is interim wanted to hire somebody to be the head of a school, the university would be required to do a national search, Veenstra said.

“But we can’t hire anybody,” he said.

Employees in interim positions of department faculty and administrative staff hold positions that are not permanent, SIU spokesperson Rae Goldsmith said.

“Typically, interim positions are no longer than one year, although we do have a couple now that are multiple years,” Goldsmith said.

Most interim employees contracts are due to end by December 2018 or June 2019, Goldsmith said.

Interim positions in top leadership “We had so many years of interim leadership [...] we had a interim chancellor in the role from 2014 until we hired Dr. Montemagno in 2017,” Goldsmith said. “So we had interim leadership for several years from the very top.”

Goldsmith also said when you’re trying to fill vacancies, particularly those that report directly to the chancellor, it’s hard to do a search when people don’t know who their boss is going to be.

Reagan Gavin | @RGavin_DE

“That’s why we've had an interim provost for a couple of years,” Goldsmith said. “So they didn’t appoint a provost under the assumption that we’d get a permanent chancellor.”

It wasn’t until Montemagno came that the university could start addressing some of these interim positions, Goldsmith said.

Montemagno was about to address one or two interims, including the

position of associate chancellor for diversity, Goldsmith said. There was a search for a permanent associate chancellor for diversity, but it was unsuccessful.

Todd Bryson was appointed to serve in the position as an interim in January 2018.

Deborah Tudor, interim dean for college of mass communication and media arts, said the sad part about

being an interim dean is the lack of daily involvement faculty gets when they teach full-time.

“The basic reason is that I’m really invested in our college and SIU,” Tudor said. “It’s just been a joy to be here, despite the hardships that the university has experienced.”

State funding plays a part in the number of interims at the university because it takes money to conduct

national searches, Tudor said. The advertising and traveling costs to bring candidates to campus are expensive.

University restructuring Since there’s not enough funds, there’s a reduced chance of many of these interim positions changing, Veenstra said, even though interim position contracts were altered by administration to six months.

Wednesday, november 14, 2018 There isn't a sense that interims aren't going to be retained, he said.

“But that’s technically up in the air," Veenstra said.

Veenstra also said with circumstances where people want to retire and not be jerked around by a six month contract, the administration will run out of people to ask to fill interim positions.

“It could be that people don’t want to do an administrative job," Veenstra said. "It could be what you get paid for doing administrative work is not worth it, who knows."

Veenstra said eventually this becomes a problem, but at the higher levels of the university you can find more people willing to do it.

“But, if you have a little department it's going to continue to be tough to do that,” Veenstra said.

“We’re all here to teach, do research and creative work that fits our field [...] doing an administrative job gets in the way of that.”

“We have a lot of interim deans because we’re working through a potential academic reorganization,” Goldsmith said. “So if we were to restructure the colleges, we would do permanent searches for

“It’s really just a consequence of the change that we’re undergoing and some past circumstances that were out of our control.”

- Deborah Tudor Interim dean for college of mass communication and media arts

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“It could be that people don’t want to do an administrative job. It could be what you get paid for doing administrative work is not worth it, who knows.”

- Aaron Veenstra

permanent deans.”

Goldsmith also said the administration has not been filling interim positions while the reorganization goes through.

Tudor said she’s not sure of how her job will be impacted by reorganization, but when MCMA restructures, there will be a short term interim dean while the administration does a search for a permanent dean.

“It doesn’t make a lot of sense to run a national search for a chair or for a department who has already submitted a proposal to merge with departments in another college,” Tudor said. “There will be interims during this time of change.”

Tudor also said it's a healthy change and growth that is occurring, although it seems negative.

“It’s really just a consequence of the change that we’re undergoing and some past circumstances that were out of our control,” Tudor said.

Timing and funding “Another reason is simply timing,” Goldsmith said. “You have to have someone in the position while you’re doing the search.”

Veenstra said university employees are interim due to state budget issues, but they’re all not interim in the sense that the floor is going to fall out from underneath.

If the administration came in tomorrow and said "We’re tired of this interim thing, we’re going to open up the budget and fill all these positions," in theory they could, Veenstra said. But in practice the money just doesn't exist.

“Until our budget situation changes, we won’t have the money to save us [..] to build these administrative positions,” Veenstra said.

When some faculty left, the university decided to fill positions with internal searches, Tudor said. She knows a number of faculty in other colleges who left not only because of retirement, suddenly quitting or employment opportunities elsewhere, but also lack of state budget.

“Things were tight,” Tudor said.

“SIU is fortunate in having a strong group of faculty and staff who can apply for interim positions and interested in doing service for the university.”

The domino effect “The other [reason] is what I’m calling the ‘domino effect’,” Goldsmith said. “The provost and dean of the college of liberal arts are good examples of this.”

Andrew Balkansky is currently interim dean for the college of liberal arts, since Meera Komarraju became interim provost last year.

“If [Komarraju] does become permanent provost, then we have to keep that position for her to go back to,” Goldsmith said.

Goldsmith said this creates a domino effect and when administration moves someone up into interim, then you need to back fill that position which is usually with another interim.

Staff reporter Claire Cowley can be reached at ccowley@dailyegyptian.com.

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RAs seek ability to get a second job, gain student trustee and GPSC support KALLIE COX | @KallieC45439038

Several resident assistants are attempting to change the rule that prohibits them from getting a second job. They are paid $120 a month and their room and board are covered.

RAs are told not to interact with the media, and that they will suffer consequences up to losing their job if they speak with media for an article.

RA “B” who cannot be named for this reason, said there are people that support what these RAs are doing, but are terrified that the RA stipend will be taken away just to have the choice of a second job.

“Which isn’t fair,” the RA said.

“Dr. Shaffer says at other schools they don’t allow you to have a second job. SIUE allows you to have a second job.”

RA B said the RAs that are requesting the ability to hold a second job are doing so because they have other bills and loans to pay that their stipend will not cover.

“I can’t even afford a parking sticker,” the RA said. “We even asked for a discount on parking because I can’t pay for a parking pass with $120 a month.”

The Daily Egyptian contacted Director of Housing Jon Shaffer via email, and there was no response. When the Daily Egyptian contacted Shaffer through phone, he declined to comment.

RA B said academic peer advisors are only paid $80 a month.

“The APAs are struggling the most,” RA B said. “We get $120 a month APAs only get $80. So a lot of times they are struggling to pay for life.”

RA B said other RAs and APAs are also struggling to pay for hygiene items, medication, trips to the doctor and therapy.

File photo | Daily Egyptian Windows from Schneider Hall on Tuesday, May 8, 2018, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. The three high-rise dormitories will be closed in the fall due to low enrollment.

"I can't even afford a parking sticker. We even asked for a discount on parking because I can't pay for a parking pass with $120 a month."

- Anonymous RA

RA B said women are struggling with the stipend because they have to pay for items such as pads and tampons, and minorities are struggling because of their financial backgrounds.

“This rule doesn’t allow for the equitable status of everybody in the position,” RA B said. “It is not sensitive to minority employees.”

When RA B talked to Shaffer about this issue, she said she showed

him the numbers for the budget of a typical male and female. Shaffer said “We are not here to fund your lifestyle,” according to RA B. “It is not a lifestyle, I am trying to survive,” RA B said.

RA B finds fulfillment in their job, but the rule against having a second job and the low stipend kills it, they said. They are friends with many RAs and APAs who were unable to return to their jobs

because of this policy.

These RAs have tried to keep this issue between Housing and themselves because they don’t want to create another public issue for the university.

“I want them to work with us,” RA B said.

Student Trustee Brione Lockett said he has heard from current and former RAs who say they are hurting for money. In his opinion, he said it

cannot hurt SIU to offer a second job opportunity for RAs. “I am all for the opportunity and the option to receive a second job and have a policy for that, but then again I see the other side of we are students first, but I have been a student and to live off of a hundred dollars a month? That's highway robbery,” Lockett said. “I get that.

I am not happy about that but we need to be students first, let's also make alternatives.”

Graduate and Professional Student Council President Clay Awsumb said it has been expressed to him and other campus leaders that there might be some financial hardship for the current resident assistants and the academic advisor assistants.

“We are looking into those concerns with the explicit interest to find the ways that we can mitigate any of the economic hardships that RAs and APAs in housing may be experiencing,” Awsumb said. “It is an ongoing process that continues to develop.”

Undergraduate Student Government President Toussaint Mitchell, said campus leaders are still taking time to discuss this policy shift and USG cannot offer comment at this time.

RA B said they understand the state of the university, and that’s why they aren’t asking for more money.

“What we get is already more than a lot of schools, we are just asking for the ability to have a second job,” RA B said. “We don’t want people to have to worry about their stipend being decreased because of just having that option. It is not fair to do this to our employees. It doesn’t show that you care.”

Staff reporter Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @KallieC45439038.

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D.J. Davis: More than an all-around football player ADAM WARFEL | @WARFEL_ADAM

Junior running back D.J. Davis has shown to be an all around player for the Salukis, as he leads the MVFC in all purpose yards.

Davis is from Pompano Beach, Florida, from a family of six with three brothers and one sister.

“I have four siblings,” Davis said.

“Three brothers and one sister, I’m the middle child.”

Davis is the only member of his family that is currently involved in collegiate sports, however there is a rich sporting heritage within his own family including an NFL player in Eddie Jackson.

“I have a cousin, he was at Alabama,” Davis said. “Now he’s playing for the Chicago Bears.”

Even from a young age Davis was willing to take the hard hits in football, and the first time he used equipment he was scared.

“I was five years old, my first year playing football,” Davis said. “I was terrified when we first started using equipment, and started hitting in pads.”

From the age of six he knew that football was his sport as he adjusted to wearing the pads and excelling in the sport.

“I was six or seven years old,” Davis said. “And dominantly one of the best players in the league.”

Davis enjoys the camaraderie found in football and how a group of men can come together and be like family.

“It’s a group of guys coming together, becoming one, a family,” Davis said. “It’s like a big family away from home, I have a hundred brothers.”

In high school the Florida native proved to be a versatile player lining up in several positions in all aspects

of the game.

“I played running back, slot receiver, corner, safety, kick return, punt return,” Davis said. “A little bit of quarterback as well.”

Davis’ speed in high school transitioned to the track field his freshman and sophomore year of high school.

“I just ran track my freshman and sophomore year,” Davis said. “The one hundred [meter] and the four by one.”

Even though his high school team made it to state in back-to-back years, he remembers the second round of the playoffs fondly.

“My playoff game, second round there were 17 seconds left on a fourth and long,” Davis said. “We did a hail mary to me that won the game.”

At the end of his high school year only two Missouri Valley football conference teams were willing to give him a scholarship.

“I had Southern, Western [Western Illinois], that was basically it,” Davis said.

Running backs coach Nate Griffin loved the athleticism and Davis’ approach to the game even in high school.

“He had all the attributes you wanted,” Griffin said. “Not just athletically but his mental side is a huge part of why he’s successful.”

Senior running back Jonathan Mixon also appreciates the mental approach that Davis brings on and off the field.

“His mental capacity, he is a really smart player,” Mixon said. “Off the field when we’re in the room going over plays, he’s the main one asking questions.”

Davis chose SIU over Western Illinois because of how the coaches made him feel, throughout the whole recruiting process.

Wednesday, november 14, 2018 “The love I got from the coaches, like Coach Griff and Coach Hill,” Davis said. “I trusted them throughout the whole process, they’re a man of their words.”

In his freshman campaign in 2016 Davis managed to lead the team in all purpose yards, even though he did not start in any of the 11 games.

“Taking advantage of every opportunity, seizing the moment,” Davis said. “However I could help the team out, that was the mindset I had.”

The success he had on the field his freshman year earned him Honorable Mention MVFC as a return specialist, and a place on the all MVFC Newcomer team.

“It was kind of surreal, I wasn’t surprised,” Davis said. “I knew all the hard work I put into this game was going to pay off in this game.”

In his sophomore campaign Davis was once again named Honorable Mention MVFC as a return specialist as he also led the conference running backs in receptions with 35.

“I went at it ten times harder, I didn't change up much,” Davis said.

“I just focused on a couple things that I needed to improve in my game.”

As far as how he looked to make an impact this year, Davis looked to show the league that he was much more than a return specialist.

“I kind of had a chip on my shoulder, because I was being labeled as a return specialist,” Davis said. “So once I got the opportunity to start at running back, I wanted to show the league I can be a true running back.”

During his time here at Southern, Davis looked back to his freshman year when he returned a kickoff for a touchdown as one of his best memories.

“My freshman year, opening kickoff, Murray State,” Davis said.

“When I took it to the house.”

Davis has fit in well with the running backs even since his freshman year and has gotten faster, and stronger.

“When he came in he fit right in,” Mixon said. ”He has definitely grown a lot in the weight room, and is more explosive.”

Davis has grown mentally to the game as well, and taken steps to be that leader on the field and to be vocal.

“Mentally, he is always up in my room watching film, taking notes,” Griffin said. “He knows what is going on, this year he’s starting to take steps to becoming a leader, he’s not a young kid anymore.”

Even from the beginning of the year the running backs coach challenged Davis to step into that leadership role and to be vocal.

“I think the biggest thing was being a leader, being vocal,” Griffin said. “Taking people under his wing and being the voice of the coaches and what we’re trying to do.”

Off the field Davis is known as a man full of character who truly cares about his teammates, and genuinely loves the game.

“His heart, his personality, he is a funny kid,” Griffin said. “He’s very passionate about the game, he loves all of his teammates and he’s a funny guy.”

After the South Dakota State game on Saturday, Davis eclipsed 1,097 rushing yards for the season, making him the first running back at Southern to do so since 2011.

Even after the accomplishment in the post game press conference Davis gave credit to the offensive line.

“All glory goes to God,” Davis said in the postgame press conference.

“I got to thank my coaches and my O-line, I got this for them, we are celebrating this together.”

Mixon has seen the progression of Davis since his freshman year and knows that he will make a mark here at SIU. “He already came in as a good player,” Mixon said. “Now you're starting to see him work his way up to one of those great players, he’ll definitely go down as a legend here.”

You can see Davis and Mixon in the final game of the year, Nov. 17 as the Salukis close out the season at North Dakota State with kickoff set for 2:30 p.m.

Sports reporter Adam Warfel can be reached at awarfel@dailyegyptian.com or on

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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Then sophomore running back DJ Davis blazes past Missouri State players during the Salukis' 20-27 loss against the Missouri State Bears, Nov. 4, 2017, at Saluki Arena.

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