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No charges in Molly Young case Branda Mitchell

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No charges will be filed in the 2012 case of the death of Molly Young, according to a report by the state’s attorney appellate prosecutor.

The report says there is insufficient evidence to declare the case a homicide, but that it will remain an open investigation.

“This allows anyone to still come forward with information that would advance the

theory of a homicide rather than a suicide,” the report states. “The reality of a criminal prosecution is that once an indictment is issued, the prosecutor must be armed with the same evidence he or she would need to meet the burden of proof of beyond a reasonable doubt. Such a threshold cannot be met under the facts of this case at this time.”

Young was found dead March 24, 2012 with a gunshot wound to the head in her exboyfriend’s apartment in Carbondale. Richie

Minton, her former boyfriend, worked as a Carbondale police dispatcher at the time of her death.

Young’s father Larry Young told the Daily Egyptian on Wednesday he started an investigative committee to evaluate the case and provided the state’s attorney with several documents, including blood evidence, names, phone numbers and addresses of everyone who lived in Minton’s apartment complex.

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Greek life packages Christmas spirit for children Austin Miller

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Many students return home to their families and gather around a Christmas tree to open presents. However, not every child in the world can have the same jolly experience.

SIU fraternities and sororities came together Wednesday to help brighten Christmas for 136 less fortunate children around the world.

AJ Soriano, philanthropy chair for Alpha Tau Omega, organized a present packing party to put together boxes for Operation Christmas Child.

Soriano, a senior from Downer’s Grove studying business management, said he found Operation Christmas Child, a Christian aid organization that sends shoe boxes filled with toothbrushes, non-liquid hygiene products and toys to children in Africa and Europe, who may not be able to afford them.

Since 1993, more than 113 million boxes have been delivered to more than 150 countries, according to its website.

“For a number of years, our fraternity has searched for a way to create some communal philanthropy and create some bonds with the community for a common good,” Soriano said. “We wanted a way to reach out to students and nonGreeks, and Greeks alike.”

As Christmas tunes such as “Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” and “Jingle Bell Rock” filled room 150 of the Student Services Building, members from Alpha Gamma Delta, Sigma Lambda Beta, Pi Sigma Epsilon, Sigma Pi and ATO gathered to pack boxes.

Angel Escobar, a senior from Chicago studying mechanical engineering, said he enjoyed being able to help out children that are less fortunate than he is.

A idAn O sbOrne d Aily e gyptiAn Sam Renner, left, a junior from Belleville studying mortuary science, packs a shoebox with gifts as part of the Operation Christmas Child stuffing party Wednesday in the Student Services building. The boxes will be sent to children throughout the world, and can be tracked with a label.

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‘Diversity’ a buzzword on Rauner’s transition team Joshua Murray

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From Democrats to pastors, Republican Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner has lined up a diverse group of people to help his transition into office.

One day after winning the Illinois governor’s race, Rauner began announcing picks for his transition team.

Rauner’s running mate Lt. Gov.-elect Evelyn Sanguinetti leads the team. Dozens of other advisors have been appointed, including former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, U.S. Representative Aaron Schock and former SIU President Glenn Poshard.

Daley served as White House Chief of Staff to President Barack Obama from January 2011 to January 2012, and is confident in Rauner and the team he picked.

“Bruce’s love for Illinois and his competitive drive can make it great once again, the second to none,” Daley said.

Aaron Schock is the U.S. representative for Illinois’ 118th Congressional District and has held this office since 2009. He said a transition team is an interim cabinet that helps the governor-elect make effective administrative and policy changes.

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Tablet use varies, success unclear

Marissa Novel

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Underclassmen tote tablets throughout campus. However, the success of the tablets is in its infancy.

The Mobile Dawg Program, a $1.5 million project distributing more than 5,600 tablets to freshmen this year, could be improving retention and recruitment, though not all students use it in the same way.

“Although it has not been a perfect project, it has been very successful,” said David Crain, assistant Provost and Chief Information Officer for Information and Technology.

Crain said the program has helped freshmanto-sophomore retention, which increased by 8 percent for fall 2014.

Provost Susan Ford said tablets may have helped, but not tablets alone.

“I can’t absolutely say that that improvement in retention is due to any one particular thing,” she said.

Ford said some students leave the university because of financial, educational, advisement and mental health issues.

“For the ones that we can address, we’re trying

lots of different ways to reach out and know what those problems are and try to help students overcome them,” she said. “Tablets help.”

Both Crain and Ford agreed tablets help recruitment efforts.

Ford said the program, as well as several oncampus computer labs, attracts students of low socioeconomic status to the university who would not otherwise have access to technology.

“If we were Princeton, every student might walk in with a computer purchased by mommy or daddy that’s top-of-the-line with all the latest gizmos on it,” she said. “That’s not SIU.” New freshman enrollment increased by 13 percent for fall 2013, and nearly 5 percent for fall 2014, according to a report by Linda Hubbs, the IT educational coordinator.

Students’ thoughts about tablets and their uses vary.

Crain said in a survey his department coordinated, 31 percent of respondents said the tablet program was a factor in their decision to attend SIU. More than 5 percent of students said it was a major factor.

Seventy-one percent use them for homework

and to access electronic textbooks and labs, and 61 percent use them to watch videos and listen to music.

Forty-seven percent use them for social media and 25 percent to use them play games.

Crain said the tablets’ primary use is for electronic textbooks and homework, but it is important for students to use them for fun to help integrate the tablets into their everyday lives.

“We want them to use it as if it were their own device, to make their tablet their go-to computing resource,” he said.

Crain said freshmen would save $300 on books if they downloaded ones for core classes, such as English 101 and 102, Math 101, 107, and 108, Communication Studies 101 and University College 101.

Not all students use their tablets.

“I haven’t used it once since the first two weeks of school,” said Eli Scherer, a sophomore from Anna studying German and international studies.

Scherer said the first two tablets he received had battery and synchronization issues. He said it took two weeks for him to receive a third, working one.

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Corrections The article “Tax increase discussed at council meeting” in Wednesday’s Daily Egyptian should have read “If the city raised the full 18.6 percent, homeowners with property valued at $85,000 would see an increase of $13.19 per year; those with homes worth $100,000 an increase of $16.14 per year; and those with homes worth $150,000 an increase of $25.98 per year.”

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“We sent them all the information they needed,” he said. “They haven’t acted on any of that. We never understood why they’re saying that [there is a lack of evidence].”

The family and community—noting

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“It’s good for us to give them some things they don’t have, as well as the spirit of Christmas,” said Escobar, a member of SLB. Soriano said family members of the greek organizations donated more than $700 to purchase the gifts for the packages. Slinkies, crayons, coloring books and toy cars were among the selection of toys for packing.

He said toys are sent in the original packaging because many children who receive a box have never experienced the thrill of opening up a new gift.

The SIU Dental Hygiene program

the treatment of the case appears similar to that of former SIU student Pravin Varughese—have criticized the actions of police and other officials ixnvolved.

Varughese was found dead Feb. 18 after he had been missing for five days.

“There continues to remain a stench like a very heavy fog surrounding

not only Molly’s but Pravin’s [case], and who knows how many others in Carbondale,” Larry Young said. “It is unconscionable that prosecutors would let the media have their report without contacting our family about our concerns and explaining the findings to us first.”

donated 120 toothbrushes to be gifted.

Participants included a small note, with the box telling the child who receives it, how much they enjoyed making the gift, and some personal information, as well a photo of themselves.

Soriano said he hopes the picture and note created a more personal connection between giver and receiver, more than just sending a box and doing something nice, but a trace of humanity.

An additional benefit of the event was the collaboration of multiple Greek organizations.

Mark Homann, a sophomore from St. Charles studying business marketing and management and a member

of ATO, said he enjoyed seeing the cooperation between the different clubs.

“It’s cool to see that we all care about the bigger picture,” Homann said.

Labels are placed on each box, so participants can track where their gift ends up.

The 136 packages were taken to First Baptist Church in Marion, and will be shipped from there.

Soriano said one of his goals for the event was to make it sustainable and become an annual tradition.

“If helping out a child who’s underprivileged with a gift we take for granted every year doesn’t get you up in the morning, I don’t know what will,” he said.

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Students cope with anxiety on campus Jordan Duncan

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Students with anxiety disorders may have trouble in college, but there are options to help make life less overwhelming.

Christy Hamilton, a counselor with Counseling and Psychological Services, said the Student Health Center received 654 students for individual therapy and 115 students for group therapy during fiscal year 2014.

Counseling and Psychological Services is a portion of the Student Health Center that provides counseling and crisis counseling services to students.

The American College Health Association reported in its 2014 National

College Health Assessment anxiety affected the academic standing of 21 percent of students surveyed.

The Mayo Clinic website states anxiety disorders come in several forms and are characterized by the sudden and persistent onset of fear. They also share common symptoms such as increased heart rate, feelings of powerlessness, sweating, trembling and difficulty concentrating.

Gabrielle Morris, a junior from St. Louis studying rehabilitation services, said she has had generalized anxiety for about two years and experiences shaking and an increased heart rate. She said her longterm experience with anxiety helps her.

“I know it’s going to be there, but I know how to handle it better than when

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“It is an advisory board, not a governing board,” Schock said. “The transition team only exists while the state government is in transition.”

Schock said he is satisfied with Rauner’s picks and will make himself available to the governor-elect in any way he needs.

“He’s assembled a balanced, bipartisan transition team of effective leaders who are working together to make policy and staffing recommendations that will get the Illinois economy back on track,” Schock said. “The goal is to help Governor Rauner prepare to lead the entire Illinois administration, which includes every state department and commission.”

Glenn Poshard, a former U.S. and state represenative, said Rauner called him the day after the election and asked if he would be interested in joining the team.

“He felt that my background, having served at the state and federal levels of government, my background in education, economic development, some of these other areas, would serve him well on the transition team,” Poshard said. “I told him I would be happy to do whatever I could to get him started and wished him much success.”

Although it will be up to Rauner what issues the team will focus on, Poshard said he hopes to advise

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Scherer said he was unable to attend training workshops about the tablets during the first weeks of school because he was without one for so long.

“I was really confused by it,” he said.

Karrie Sacketos, a freshman from Skokie studying radio television, said she uses her tablet daily.

She said her laptop and cell phone broke at the beginning of the semester, and she used her tablet to communicate through Facebook Messenger and

I first started having anxiety,” Morris said.

Morris said she will not talk in some situations, but can still perform everyday tasks.

Jani Jones, a therapist with Goya Health in Energy, said it would be difficult to know if a person is having a panic attack without knowing him or her intimately.

“For the most part, unless it’s a severe anxiety attack, no one’s really going to know you’re having one,” Jones said. “If they break out in a sweat and turn really pale, you may be going ‘Oh, this person’s about to faint on me.’”

Hamilton said students with social anxiety might avoid social situations, which sometimes affects their performance in classes.

Rauner on education-related issues. Poshard, a former educator who has been with SIU for more than 40 years, said education and funding for education is one of the biggest issues that concerns him.

“My major issues are trying to make sure that we stabilize the state funding for education,” he said.

Poshard said students coming from wealthy areas often have an advantage for getting a good education, but he will make it his responsibility to balance these opportunities for all students. He said he also wants to advise Rauner on economic and job-related issues, and said he will focus on making sure Illinois gets the infrastructure funds it needs to create to jobs.

Poshard said he plans on cooperating with Rauner to make sure the transition team is successful.

“Well, I think every transition team can be effective,” Poshard said. “I’ve worked with transition teams before and what you look for are people who have good ideas, who have experience and knowledge in certain areas that you can take their ideas, their energy and I think the transition team is an important part of having a new administration off and running.”

Rauner said a diverse team is important for getting Illinois back on the right track.

“Well, it’s all about tapping into the great resources of the people of Illinois,” Rauner said “We want the smartest, most accomplished leaders in the state to help be a part of our government administration.

other social media.

Sacketos said she likes how the tablets are compatible with many smart phone applications.

“I was able to have that same concept and not feel so disconnected being far away from home,” she said.

Sacketos said she uses her tablet to type papers and search the Internet.

She said she downloaded electronic textbooks for her English 101 course, and would download texts for other courses if they were available.

“It’s really convenient because the ones they do offer online, we don’t

“They go to great lengths to try to avoid that interaction,” Hamilton said.

She said attending smaller classes is a challenge for students with anxiety because they engage in deeper critical discussions.

“They’re going to be expecting that they’re going to have to participate and that might really exacerbate the anxiety,” Hamilton said.

Jones said she has seen clients’ grades suffer because anxiety causes them to withdraw from classes. She said students dealing with anxiety may not understand something in class, but are reluctant to ask for help because they do not want attention drawn to them.

Hamilton said she has met with clients

We also want to tap into the networks of people who know other people who are leaders.”

Through expertise, knowledge and networking, Rauner said his team will help him find solutions for the state’s issues.

“We want experts in finance, and in pensions, and in healthcare and in operations and technology,” Rauner said. “We want the most talented people in Illinois to come forward and volunteer and join the administration so we can become the best run state in America.”

Republican Terri Bryant was elected state representative for Illinois’ 115th District on Nov. 4.

She said the voters sent the Republican Party a clear message with Rauner’s win. She said his background will also help his transition to governor.

“He is a very successful business man,” Bryant said. “He has the right idea when it comes to cutting taxes. Therefore you’re basically bringing business into the state.”

Bryant also said the diversity of Rauner’s transition team reflects his openness to compromise.

“I think he’s made a very broad and definitely deep transition team, and it looks like he’s reached across the aisle so I would hope that going that extra mile to include individuals in both parties would indicate he’s willing to reach out and be open-minded,” Bryant said.

have to carry them around anymore,” he said.

Sacketos said she dislikes the low storage space on tablets. She said her tablet is nearly full after writing English and other course papers for less than a full semester.

“That’s crazy because they’re supposed to last us through the four years of college,” she said. “For them to already not have disc space is ridiculous.”

Crain said university email accounts offer students online cloud storage through Office 365, which is why the

who are avoiding classes because they fear having to speak when there.

Morris said she has trouble talking in front of a class.

“It took me a while to get comfortable to really speak in class, so I generally only speak in my major classes because I know the students, and I am in multiple classes with them,” she said.

Morris said it takes time to be able to raise her hand, but she adapts by emailing the instructors questions later as opposed to asking in person.

Jones said the stigma surrounding mental illness does not have merit and is inaccurate.

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Rauner is not the first elected official to create a transition team before taking office.

David Yepsen, the director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, said new administrations do this often.

“I think it’s pretty common, in fact, when you get a new administration, new president, new governor, to have a group of people who come in and help you find permanent staff to help you identify the issues in the department,” Yepsen said. “There are literally hundreds of positions that a governor has to fill and so you’ve got to start at the top with good people to get that done.”

John Jackson, a political scientist, said forming a transition team has been the standard procedure for new administrations for years.

“It’s always done,” Jackson said. “It’s established protocol going back for many years and it’s also kind of a state-level model of what the presidential candidates do if they’re elected president.”

Yepsen said it’s important for newly-elected officials to form diverse transition teams.

Jackson, a visiting SIU professor, also said the team’s diversity will be good for Rauner’s administration.

“We are a very large and diverse state and these people present some of that diversity, not all of it, but it’s a desirable quality to have a group like this represent a number of different interests,” Jackson said.

Tablet Survey Results More than 70% use for homework and electronic textbooks More than 60% use to listen to music and watch videos More than 45% use for social media More than 31% said the tablet program was a factor in deciding to attend SIU

More than 25% use to play games

tablets have such low storage space.

He said the university will continue

to purchase tablets with the minimum hard drive space to save money.

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Hot Sauce Committee talks nostalgia, Carbondale and future music fun

‘Clybourne Park’ juxtaposes past and present generations

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Chase Myers

Chase Myers

One band that has become increasingly familiar to the Carbondale music scene over the years has been the ’90s music and dance cover band the Hot Sauce Committee.

With a band name inspired by a hit Beastie Boys track, it can be inferred that the Hot Sauce Committee knows how to bring the ’90s back to any venue they play.

The Chicago-based band combines ’90s hip-hop beats that gain emphasis with their two DJ’s but they combine it with the energy of a live band, which brings a whole new element to their on-stage presence.

The Daily Egyptian had the opportunity to talk with guitarist Brian Bender to discuss a variety of topics about the band.

How did you guys get together and start the band?

It was sort of a discovery or adventure.

Basically, Serv and myself would essentially just go and hang out at parties and were in bands before and played a lot at this place called the Upper Room in Chicago. Then we met people through music and through

parties. We met our DJ…at a party. Our bass player was playing in another band and we met him through that. We just fell in love with the nostalgia of the ’90s and playing ’90s music and we had that common thread. We’re all just a bunch of fun-loving idiots, I mean dancing on stage and playing the music. It actually turned out to be a cool thing where people actually enjoy what we do, so we get to play three to five times a week all over the Midwest.

Do you add your own sound to these ’90s tunes?

I’d say we add what we call “a little bit of sauce” to the songs. We do some ’90s hiphop, rap and R&B, but then we’ll do some ’90s boy bands, pop and some alternative tunes… so its fun playing shows because you always get that fun-loving person that will say “play Free Bird” or they want to hear metal. There’s always that one guy at the show, so what I try to do is, I might play “Enter Sandman” while we’re playing “Hypnotize” by Notorious B.I.G. or we’ll do “Wild Thing” and then we’ll add “Paradise City” by Guns N’ Roses,

something that we don’t typically do, but I’ll add those recognizable guitar riffs or vocal lines just to give them a little of what they want, while also staying true to the music that we’re doing.

How would you describe your experiences in Carbondale?

Every time we come back it gets more and more amazing. We were very lucky, where we’ve been able to play some big events in Carbondale so it’s been a great experience meeting new people. Polar Bear and Unofficial are opportunities to kind of go above and beyond fun, so you get to dress up and everyone’s enjoying adult beverages if they are of age, so we went kind of over the top with it. Our first Unofficial, we dressed as storm troopers and did a little skit before our set and Polar Bear was the first show we had projectors and televisions hooked up to our songs … It was very snow-oriented with video representation behind us when we were playing so that was really cool. When it’s warm outside, we’ll play Pinch Penny Pub … so every time we come we meet people, we’re always hanging

out after the show, Steak n’ Shake is usually where we kind of congregate after a show in Carbondale. Then, we take the six or seven hour journey to where we’re playing [next], either Illinois or Wisconsin.

What’s the future looking like for you guys?

We’re playing a ton of shows. We’re doing some special event things. At the end of the month, during Thanksgiving weekend, there’s a place in Chicago called Bourbon Street, where we’re actually becoming a boy band for one night only. We’re doing all the music from New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, N’SYNC. Sometimes we’ll do a Beastie Boys tribute where we’ll do a set of all Beastie Boys stuff. We’ll do events like that to kind of make it fun for people that have seen us a bunch, so it’s like a new experience. We’re doing new songs. We’re adding a ton of new video. We have dance rehearsals like where people have ballet studios. We’ll go in front of the mirror and play our music and look at our dance choreography. I mean, there’s a ton of like fun stuff that we’re doing. The future is fun.

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Even though dialect differs from decade to decade, similar social issues are presented in the McLeod’s final performance of the fall season.

The McLeod Theater will perform its rendition of “Clybourne Park,” which provides a unique juxtaposition of generations from the year 1959 to 2009.

The play, set in a Chicago neighborhood, was originally written

by Bruce Norris and is directed at SIU by Segan Ojewuyi.

The central theme of the production revolves around a couple, Bev and Russ, who are eager to sell their house because of the memories surfacing of their son’s tragic death.

Members of the community encourage the couple to stay because the family purchasing their home is African-American.

One thing that stands out in this production is the time period change from the first and second acts. The first takes place in 1959 during the height of segregation, whereas the second takes place in 2009.

All the performers in the first act will be in the second as well, but as different characters.

“It was a lot more difficult to do act one than act two because act two is in 2009,” said Dan Heise, who plays Russ. “It was a lot easier to connect with that language because it was so kind of rapid fire.”

Heise, a senior from Columbia studying theater, said this will be his first major role in a McLeod Theater production.

He said it was much easier to transition from act one to act two, rather than two to one because it goes from an outdated style of speaking to a more relaxed one.

Heise said the social issues at hand are much more obvious in the first act, given the time period.

“In the ’50s it is a lot more direct,” he said. “One of the things our director touched on was that there’s this whole thing of this political correctness that comes into being by 2009.”

The subject of racism is “tap danced around” in the second act because people do not want to come out and say the issue of race is at hand, he said.

Other than race, the production has other themes such as grief and losing one close to you.

One person who was very

attentive during the production was Vincent Rhomberg, McLeod Theater marketing coordinator.

Rhomberg said after watching the play he went home and had to process all of the elements that were brought up.

“The play is very layered,” he said. “There’s not a single thing that drives it through in terms of ‘Oh, this is about racism, or this is about dealing with the loss of a family,’ and burying those memories and wanting to move on … and at what point do we share that as a common human condition? … I think those resonated very highly with me.”

Heise said he wants the production to make people think rather than be a call for people to take action and enact change.

“If anything, I’m hoping it will make people think a lot more about the way the world is and how all those different relations work in today’s society,” Heise said.

The McLeod Theater will show “Clybourne Park” Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets are $16 for adults and $6 for students.

Pixar redraws ‘Good Dinosaur’ Rebecca Keegan Los angeles Times

Pixar’s orphan movie “The Good Dinosaur” has a new parent — and a new story.

First-time feature director Peter Sohn, an artist at the studio in Emeryville, Calif., since 2000, unofficially took over the film a few months after Pixar executives removed its first director, Bob Peterson, amid creative concerns in the summer of 2013.

Over the last year, Sohn has been quietly streamlining the story, a buddy comedy about a teenage dinosaur and a human boy, in preparation for a November 2015 release.

“The heart of the story remains the same,” Sohn said, in an interview last week. “It’s always been about this young dinosaur growing up. But the world itself has changed a lot. Nature has become a character.”

Director changes are relatively common in animation in general, where multi-year production schedules can test a person’s creative and managerial stamina, and at Pixar in particular, where “The Good Dinosaur” was the fourth of the studio’s last eight films to see a swap.

But the midstream move caused a cascade of headaches for Pixar and for its parent company, Walt Disney Co., which pushed “The Good Dinosaur’s” release date back 18 months from May of 2014.

The timing change left Pixar without a 2014 film, bumped Andrew Stanton’s anticipated “Finding Nemo” sequel, “Finding Dory,” to 2016 and caused the company to lay off 50 employees.

“For Pixar it was a dramatic event,” said Jim Morris, the studio’s general manager and executive vice president

of production. “It was tough on the company. Most studios would have said, ‘The movie’s fine. It’s not bad.’

And it wasn’t bad; it just wasn’t great.

We wanted to have a great movie.”

At the time, Pixar’s leadership, including studio president Ed Catmull, felt Peterson was creatively stuck on the film and was proving too slow to make important story decisions. Sohn had been serving as Peterson’s co-director, a position akin to that of a deputy at Pixar.

As in Peterson’s version, the film still posits that an asteroid never hit the Earth and the dinosaurs never went extinct; a teenage Apatosaurus named Arlo takes a wild, young human boy named Spot as a pet.

Sohn has jettisoned some of Peterson’s signature ideas, such as modeling the dinosaurs on Amish farmers, and added new elements, including treating nature as the film’s antagonist.

“When Bob was taken off, I was supporting the film as best I could,” Sohn said. “It felt like, this child, this film still needs to be raised. It was just about how to take care of the thing at that time. ... Trying to keep the original vision of this film intact and trying to plus it as well.”

In taking over the film, Sohn, 37, becomes part of a new generation of directors succeeding Stanton, Pete Docter and “Toy Story 3” director Lee Unkrich, all of whom are in their late 40s.

Born in the Bronx to Korean immigrants, Sohn got a summer job working on Brad Bird’s 1999 animated cult classic “Iron Giant” while studying animation at the California Institute of the Arts.

At Pixar, Sohn distinguished himself in the art, story and animation

departments, directed the 2009 short film “Partly Cloudy” and became known around the studio for his wide-eyed, ebullient demeanor. Sohn has even inspired a Pixar character — Russell, the enthusiastic boy wilderness explorer in the movie “Up.” “He has this warm, open, innocent view of the world which he channels well into humor,” Morris said of Sohn.

Sohn got the “Good Dinosaur” job after he presented a possible new version of the film in storyboards last summer, according to producer Denise Ream.

Because of Sohn’s relative inexperience, Ream enlisted some of Pixar’s veteran department heads to help him finish “The Good Dinosaur,” including production designer Harley Jessup and director of photography-lighting Sharon Calahan, both of whom lent “Ratatouille” much of its visual richness (incidentally, that successful 2007 film was another of Pixar’s controversial director changes, from the idea’s originator, Jan Pinkava, to Bird).

Peterson remains at Pixar and, according to Morris, has been working on Docter’s next film, “Inside Out,” and on “Finding Dory” as a writer. He declined to comment for this story.

“Being a director in animation is a lot harder,” Morris said. “By the time you get to the set in live action, you’ve got your actors, your location.

You’ve got a crew assembled. In animation, you’ve got to build everything. You don’t get anything for free — the beautiful sunset or the improvisational moment of the actors. You don’t really know until somebody’s in the director’s chair whether it’s going to work out.”

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‘Clybourne Park’ juxtaposes past and present generations Chase Myers

@chasemyers_DE | Daily Egyptian

Even though dialect differs from decade to decade, similar social issues are presented in the McLeod’s final performance of the fall season.

The McLeod Theater will perform its rendition of “Clybourne Park,” which provides a unique juxtaposition of generations from the year 1959 to 2009.

The play, set in a Chicago neighborhood, was originally written

by Bruce Norris and is directed at SIU by Segan Ojewuyi.

The central theme of the production revolves around a couple, Bev and Russ, who are eager to sell their house because of the memories surfacing of their son’s tragic death.

Members of the community encourage the couple to stay because the family purchasing their home is African-American.

One thing that stands out in this production is the time period change from the first and second acts. The first takes place in 1959 during the height of segregation, whereas the second takes place in 2009.

All the performers in the first act will be in the second as well, but as different characters.

“It was a lot more difficult to do act one than act two because act two is in 2009,” said Dan Heise, who plays Russ. “It was a lot easier to connect with that language because it was so kind of rapid fire.”

Heise, a senior from Columbia studying theater, said this will be his first major role in a McLeod Theater production.

He said it was much easier to transition from act one to act two, rather than two to one because it goes from an outdated style of speaking to a more relaxed one.

Heise said the social issues at hand are much more obvious in the first act, given the time period.

“In the ’50s it is a lot more direct,” he said. “One of the things our director touched on was that there’s this whole thing of this political correctness that comes into being by 2009.”

The subject of racism is “tap danced around” in the second act because people do not want to come out and say the issue of race is at hand, he said.

Other than race, the production has other themes such as grief and losing one close to you.

One person who was very

attentive during the production was Vincent Rhomberg, McLeod Theater marketing coordinator.

Rhomberg said after watching the play he went home and had to process all of the elements that were brought up.

“The play is very layered,” he said. “There’s not a single thing that drives it through in terms of ‘Oh, this is about racism, or this is about dealing with the loss of a family,’ and burying those memories and wanting to move on … and at what point do we share that as a common human condition? … I think those resonated very highly with me.”

Heise said he wants the production to make people think rather than be a call for people to take action and enact change.

“If anything, I’m hoping it will make people think a lot more about the way the world is and how all those different relations work in today’s society,” Heise said.

The McLeod Theater will show “Clybourne Park” Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. Sunday.

Tickets are $16 for adults and $6 for students.

Pixar redraws ‘Good Dinosaur’

Rebecca Keegan Los angeles Times

Pixar’s orphan movie “The Good Dinosaur” has a new parent — and a new story.

First-time feature director Peter Sohn, an artist at the studio in Emeryville, Calif., since 2000, unofficially took over the film a few months after Pixar executives removed its first director, Bob Peterson, amid creative concerns in the summer of 2013.

Over the last year, Sohn has been quietly streamlining the story, a buddy comedy about a teenage dinosaur and a human boy, in preparation for a November 2015 release.

“The heart of the story remains the same,” Sohn said, in an interview last week. “It’s always been about this young dinosaur growing up. But the world itself has changed a lot. Nature has become a character.”

Director changes are relatively common in animation in general, where multi-year production schedules can test a person’s creative and managerial stamina, and at Pixar in particular, where “The Good Dinosaur” was the fourth of the studio’s last eight films to see a swap.

But the midstream move caused a cascade of headaches for Pixar and for its parent company, Walt Disney Co., which pushed “The Good Dinosaur’s” release date back 18 months from May of 2014.

The timing change left Pixar without a 2014 film, bumped Andrew Stanton’s anticipated “Finding Nemo” sequel, “Finding Dory,” to 2016 and caused the company to lay off 50 employees.

“For Pixar it was a dramatic event,” said Jim Morris, the studio’s general manager and executive vice president

of production. “It was tough on the company. Most studios would have said, ‘The movie’s fine. It’s not bad.’

And it wasn’t bad; it just wasn’t great.

We wanted to have a great movie.”

At the time, Pixar’s leadership, including studio president Ed Catmull, felt Peterson was creatively stuck on the film and was proving too slow to make important story decisions. Sohn had been serving as Peterson’s co-director, a position akin to that of a deputy at Pixar.

As in Peterson’s version, the film still posits that an asteroid never hit the Earth and the dinosaurs never went extinct; a teenage Apatosaurus named Arlo takes a wild, young human boy named Spot as a pet.

Sohn has jettisoned some of Peterson’s signature ideas, such as modeling the dinosaurs on Amish farmers, and added new elements, including treating nature as the film’s antagonist.

“When Bob was taken off, I was supporting the film as best I could,” Sohn said. “It felt like, this child, this film still needs to be raised. It was just about how to take care of the thing at that time. ... Trying to keep the original vision of this film intact and trying to plus it as well.”

In taking over the film, Sohn, 37, becomes part of a new generation of directors succeeding Stanton, Pete Docter and “Toy Story 3” director Lee Unkrich, all of whom are in their late 40s.

Born in the Bronx to Korean immigrants, Sohn got a summer job working on Brad Bird’s 1999 animated cult classic “Iron Giant” while studying animation at the California Institute of the Arts.

At Pixar, Sohn distinguished himself in the art, story and animation

departments, directed the 2009 short film “Partly Cloudy” and became known around the studio for his wide-eyed, ebullient demeanor. Sohn has even inspired a Pixar character — Russell, the enthusiastic boy wilderness explorer in the movie “Up.” “He has this warm, open, innocent view of the world which he channels well into humor,” Morris said of Sohn.

Sohn got the “Good Dinosaur” job after he presented a possible new version of the film in storyboards last summer, according to producer Denise Ream.

Because of Sohn’s relative inexperience, Ream enlisted some of Pixar’s veteran department heads to help him finish “The Good Dinosaur,” including production designer Harley Jessup and director of photography-lighting Sharon Calahan, both of whom lent “Ratatouille” much of its visual richness (incidentally, that successful 2007 film was another of Pixar’s controversial director changes, from the idea’s originator, Jan Pinkava, to Bird).

Peterson remains at Pixar and, according to Morris, has been working on Docter’s next film, “Inside Out,” and on “Finding Dory” as a writer. He declined to comment for this story.

“Being a director in animation is a lot harder,” Morris said. “By the time you get to the set in live action, you’ve got your actors, your location.

You’ve got a crew assembled. In animation, you’ve got to build everything. You don’t get anything for free — the beautiful sunset or the improvisational moment of the actors. You don’t really know until somebody’s in the director’s chair whether it’s going to work out.”

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Sports

Salukis to play spoiler in finale

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Thomas Donley

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Although the SIU football team was eliminated from playoff contention with its loss to Northern Iowa on Saturday, it still has plenty to play for.

The Salukis needed to beat seven Division I schools to become playoff eligible in the Football Championship Subdivision. The loss to Northern Iowa dropped the Salukis’ record to 6-5, and 5-5 against Division I opponents.

Head coach Dale Lennon said SIU would look to put its fingerprints on the Missouri Valley Football Conference standings by playing spoiler against Illinois State on Saturday.

“Well, this is a big game,” Lennon said.

“Number one, a conference champion could be decided in this game, so if you don’t think that doesn’t put some signifiance into it, you don’t think we’re much of a competitor.”

ISU is tied with North Dakota State for first place in the conference at 6-1. A loss by the Redbirds would end their chances of winning the outright MVFC title.

Junior quarterback Mark Iannotti has personal reasons for wanting to beat Illinois State.

Not only is he familiar with many people at Illinois State from his high school days, but he also wants revenge for a 2012 game when Illinois State defeated Iannotti’s former team Eastern Michigan.

“It’s one of my rivals,” Iannotti said. “Back at Eastern Michigan, they came into our house and threw us around a little bit. I definitely have some bad blood with Illinois State and I want to get them back.”

Senior tight end MyCole Pruitt said the Salukis would remain focused on winning Saturday’s game despite being out of playoff contention.

“We’re pretty much just trying to finish strong and finish out this year on a good note,” Pruitt said. “We’ve had a lot of things happen to us over the course of this season. We’re just trying to finish out on a high note.”

SIU’s season-opening win over Taylor University, a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, set the Salukis back by taking a spot on the schedule that could have been filled by a Division I school.

The last time SIU made the playoffs was in 2009. Each year since, the Salukis have been eliminated from playoff eligibility before the final week of the season.

After the Salukis’ loss to Indiana State on Oct. 25, SIU needed to win each of its three remaining games in order to make the playoffs.

The Salukis won their next game at Missouri State but fell to Northern Iowa a week later.

Senior linebacker Tyler Williamson said the pressure of needing to win out was nothing new to SIU. “Obviously we’ve been in the same kind of position the last two years I’ve been here,” Williamson said. “I don’t think it was anything we couldn’t handle. We just didn’t do what we needed to do.”

Lennon said pride was a motivating factor for SIU heading into its last game of the season.

“There’s a big difference between a 7-5 record and a 6-6 record,” Lennon said. “And there’s a lot of momentum that could be built off that.

We can still finish in the upper echelon of the Missouri Valley Football Conference, which is the best football conference in the country.”

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Defense absorbs dismissed players’ slack Brent Meske

@BrentMeske_DE | Daily Egyptian

The SIU football team’s defense has adapted during the last two games after senior linebacker Victor Burnett and senior cornerback Keith Suggs were dismissed from the team.

The two players were released from the team Nov. 10 for a violation of team rules.

Burnett was arrested Nov. 1 by Carbondale Police for possession of cannabis, intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court records. He was suspended from the team Nov. 4.

Suggs was suspended from the team Nov. 6.

According to a sworn statement of probable cause by Carbondale police officer Jeramie Stewart, Suggs said he assisted Burnett in selling cannabis.

Burnett had 40 tackles—sixth on the team—at the time of his suspension.

Inside linebacker coach Todd Auer said he has not changed the game plan since Burnett was dismissed.

“I always tell guys they need to be paying attention so when something like this happens they are ready to step up,” he said.

One of the players who has seen more playing time in Burnett’s absence is sophomore Darius Merriweather. He has 18 tackles this season, with five in the last two games.

Merriweather had his best game of the year Nov. 8 against Missouri State when he recorded 4 tackles.

“It was really good to get the monkey off my back,” he said. “I stepped up and made plays when it really mattered. It was a confidence booster.”

Auer said he was happy with Merriweather’s performance and knew because of his work ethic, Merriweather would step up and play well given the chance.

Merriweather said he learned a lot from Burnett in the time they played together.

“He was actually one of the first guys I met when I came here,” he said. “I learned how to persevere through things from Victor. I’m kind of doing this for him because he couldn’t do this last year because of his injuries.”

Sophomore Chase Allen leads the team with 88 tackles; 22 are from the last two games.

“Chase just gets better every week,” Auer said. “He moved from outside [linebacker] to inside [linebacker] this year, and he could learn a new position every week.”

Senior Jordan Poole has increased reps in the absence of Burnett. He is fourth on the team in tackles with 67. He’s had 16 in the last two weeks.

Auer said Poole has performed well all year, but played exceptionally well against Northern Iowa when he recorded 11 tackles.

The coach said he does not think losing Burnett has affected the team.

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Weekend wins could spur season Posted up with

Tyler Davis The first week of Saluki basketball is best described as a microcosm of what the rest of the season could look like. A close loss on the road, against a good team, was followed by a decisive win on the road, against a bad one.

This team’s consistency will be the defining characteristic of the season. Not talent or scoring.

Not coaching or bench players.

The first two games of the year were not a surprise. Saint Louis University provided an early test, and possibly the hardest nonconference game of the season. The young Salukis responded well, by limiting mistakes

and playing tough defense.

But one veteran scorer, Austin McBroom, was able to propel the Billikens past the Saluki pups.

SIU won big Tuesday night against Tennessee State University, although the Tigers are not a great or deep team. After all, the team was picked to finish last in the Ohio Valley Conference and dressed just eight players against SIU. The most noteworthy aspect of the game, besides SIU junior Anthony Beane’s career-high 32 points, was that yet another opponent, senior guard Jay Harris, had a great shooting night against SIU. Harris shot 9-15 from the field and scored 23 points.

Opponents have had a player score 20 or more points in three out of four games versus the Salukis.

Coach Barry Hinson said if the Salukis play good team defense, he is not concerned about one opposing player doing well.

“If one guy gets 50 on us and we win, and we hold a team under 39 percent or lower field goal percentage, I’m going to come out of that game saying ‘ok, we did a good job,’” he said.

Hinson said he has confidence in his team’s scoring, so if the Salukis can hold opponents to a low field goal percentage, his team will have a shot at winning most games.

But the offense and defense will be tested during the next month, as junior Ibby Djimde will miss four to six weeks with a knee injury.

While the injury does not require surgery, Hinson said the 6-foot-8 center will not be at full health for the rest of the season.

That injury comes just weeks after Hinson revealed freshman forward Jordan Caroline will be dealing with a lingering injury for the rest of the year.

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