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Enrollment numbers concerning to provost

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ANNA SPOERRE | @ASpoerre_DE

Admission and enrollment numbers for the spring 2015 semester are down compared to last spring, interim Provost Susan Ford said during the Faculty Senate meeting Tuesday. Ford said as of this week, more than 1,000 fewer students are registered for classes for next semester than were registered for spring 2015 at this time last year. Applications are down by 750 and about 300 fewer students have been admitted for next spring, Ford said. She said freshman and graduate students had the largest decrease. Ford blames part of the reduction on registration holds because students cannot register for classes until all holds have been cleared. She said about 400 students are experiencing holds on their records because their immunization records are not up to date. However, Ford said this number is also lower than in the past. Students who have not yet completed online consent and respect training are also unable to register for classes. Ford said about 500 students have this hold and should access the training on Salukinet. Consent and respect training is required by the university for all new students and transfers. Ford said the newly changed bursar hold amount is also a significant factor. A few years ago, the minimum debt students could have and still register was increased from $200 to $1,000. However, beginning this semester, the amount was reduced back to $200. “Within a year, the numbers of students not registered because of the Bursar hold was right back to where it was before the threshold was raised,” Ford said. When the $1,000 limit was in place, Ford said the university was the only state institution to allow students more than $200 in debt to register. Ford said the debt limit was announced eight months ago to give students time and resources to pay off their debt and meet the new limit. “There are still students who struggle to achieve a low enough debt level,” she said, encouraging students to meet with financial aid or their advisers. Ford said as of now, about 400 students are unable to register because they owe between $200 and $1,000. Fall 2015 enrollment was also down, with about 350 students less this semester compared to last year. “I’m particularly concerned about enrollment for spring,” Ford said. Anna Spoerre can be reached at aspoerre@ dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Claire Davis, a harpist from Clarksville, Tenn., accepts flowers at the SIU Choral Union/Concert Choir’s Carols and Lullabies of the Season concert Tuesday at Shryock Auditorium. Davis has been playing the harp for 13 years. “I love music and I love the beauty of the harp,” said Davis. “And the way I can kind of express myself through this particular instrument.”

Good Samaritan Ministries fight to serve community despite budget impasse CORY RAY | @coryray_DE

Many organizations are struggling with the state’s budget impasse and one non-profit in Carbondale that provides services to the needy is no exception. Good Samaritan Ministries, which is usually allocated $100,000 in state grants, has yet to receive any money because of the budget deadlock. The ministry functions on a $500,000 annual budget that comes from donations, which make up about half of its total budget, and government grants. “We’re struggling,” said Mike Heath, the ministry’s executive director. “It’s a very difficult situation.” About six weeks ago, Heath said the ministry-operated soup

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kitchen in Carbondale was in danger of being shut down. With the help of the Carbondale Interfaith Council, the ministry was able to keep functioning regularly. Heath said the soup kitchen is a little more problematic during the impasse because it doesn’t receive any grants and only receives money from donations that are not specified for any of the ministry’s other programs. “We’re trying to get donations, and people locally have been really good,” Heath said. “We’ve made it, and we’re hoping we will continue to, but the longer we go, there’s a great big hole that we don’t have from the state.” Melissa Lewis, of the ministry’s board of directors, raised $1,000 from fundraising. Lewis and a

group of five other people ran 25 miles along the Tunnel Hill State Trail on Nov. 21 with supporters pledging to donate a certain amount for each mile ran. They planned to run 50 miles, but had to stop because of freezing temperatures and rain. Lewis said they wanted to make people who were donating feel like a part of something and not like they were just writing a check. She also said the run was less about money and mostly about raising attention for the ministry. “It really just created a lot more awareness, and for me, that’s what it was,” Lewis said. “It’s wonderful that we raised a thousand dollars, but I was really trying to create awareness for Good Samaritan [Ministries] more than anything,

so people would really see there’s a need there.” Good Samaritan Ministries must still uphold state regulations and guidelines even without funding, so the ministry is performing the state-funded work without the state funds. Heath said even if a budget is passed by the first of the year and funds are appropriated, the ministry will have to wait an additional month before it receives a check. “You’ve got another big, long period of time with no money,” Heath said. “We don’t know what’s going to happen, so it’s hard to say what we’re going to do.” Cory Ray can be reached at cray@ dailyegyptian.com or at 536-3326

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Program teaches students to manage test anxiety during finals AUTUMN DOUGLAS | @adouglas_DE

‘Tis the season of finals and test anxiety. Test anxiety is a type of performance anxiety that may be caused by the lack of preparation for a test, fear of failing or a poor test-taking history, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. It affects people physically, emotionally and cognitively, the association said. Headaches, excessive sweating, shortness of breath, rapid heartbeat, feelings of fear or helplessness and difficulty concentrating are just some of the common symptoms. “I have never done well on a final,” said Hannah Colbrook, a freshman studying pre-mechanical engineering. No matter how well she does on homework and other assignments, she said she forgets information once a test is in front of her. The Counseling and Psychological Services program at the university gives students a place to go when they need a counselor for this problem or any other they may face, whether it be depression, general anxiety or a crisis. The Counselor in Residence program

is an extension of Counseling and Psychological Services that gives students access to counselors in university housing without having to go to the Student Health Center. There are two licensed clinical professional counselors in residence, Stephanie Duckworth and Magnolia Hood, that will travel to students. With finals approaching, students may feel stressed and overwhelmed. The program will host a seminar at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Lentz Hall to provide students with tips for coping with the stress of finals. “Our bodies are created to handle stress in a way that helps us survive,” Duckworth said, “When you’re in survival mode, you’re not using the part of your brain you really need to take a test.” Duckworth will talk about causes of test anxiety and how to overcome it with relaxation techniques and study skills. Some students said being prepared and memorizing material doesn’t help them during the test, whereas some said being well-prepared decreases their test anxiety. “I used to get nervous, because I was ill-prepared. Now I study, so I don’t get

as nervous,” said Abdallah Abu-Sara, a sophomore studying biological sciences. He said he listens to classical music while he studies to help himself focus. Listening to music is one of many ways to deal with test anxiety. Meditation, eating healthy and getting enough sleep are other simple ways to manage it, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Justin Loescher, a junior studying psychology, said he listens to heavy metal music or plays basketball to relieve some of the stress of finals. Abu-Sara and Loescher both said they have learned to cope with test anxiety well enough that it doesn’t negatively affect them as much as it used to. In addition to Counseling and Psychological Services, Student Health Services also offers the Healthy Saluki Dawg Lounge to students in need of relaxation. The lounge has a massage chair, soft music and guided imagery and meditations for students to enjoy without an appointment. Autumn Douglas can be reached at adouglas@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3325.

Yik Yak on campus: Safe space to vent or forum for hate? EVAN BUSH | The Seattle Times

At the center of a hate speech incident at Western Washington University over Thanksgiving week was an anonymousposting app many students use and many parents may not know about: Yik Yak. It was the latest in a string of events across the country that have students, activists and administrators across the country wrestling with how the anonymous-posting service, extremely popular with millennials, fits in on campus. Some students see Yik Yak as a harmless distraction filled with campus in-jokes. Others say negativity and hate anonymously posted to the site overwhelm any feeling of community the app might promote. Last year, Washington State University sororities and fraternities became so incensed by hateful posts that they led a campuswide effort to convince students to delete the app. But some researchers say discourse on Yik Yak reflects less about the medium

and more about the campuses themselves, for better and worse. Yik Yak users post short, anonymous musings to a digital bulletin board organized geographically. For example, on the University of Washington campus, posts are generally directed to and read by UW students. Users can favor posts by voting them up, and show displeasure by voting them down. If five people down vote a post, it will disappear. Posts also expire with time. Common sentiments seen recently on the UW’s Yik Yak: Romantic frustration (sometimes graphic), midterm stress and quips about roommate troubles and pizza. Normal college stuff. Most of the time the comments are benign, but some veer into troubling territory. That’s nothing new, said researchers. Nora Draper, an assistant professor of communication at New Hampshire University, compared Yik Yak to graffiti on bathroom walls, which was studied by researchers in the 1990s. “What researchers found is what people have

seen on Yik Yak: Everything from homophobic, misogynist, racist speech to supportive speech for minority identity groups,” she said. “What Yik Yak has done is create a platform that makes that accessible and also creates a wider audience.” UW students’ opinions on the service varied widely. Andrea Jorge, a freshman computer science student, said she checked the app most days as a means of stress relief. “A lot of stuff people post is so relatable. Sometimes you say, ‘Yes, it’s true! That’s how I feel.’” She said it’s comforting to see other people experiencing the same difficulties she faces at school. “In a weird sense, it’s almost a safe space if it’s anonymous. People will talk about their problems or frustrations,” she said. Still, some sexist posts have left her shaking her head. Alexis Jensen, a senior sociology and communication student, said she does not use the app and lost interest in Yik Yak after her sophomore year.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015

Chicago’s flawed system for investigating police shootings Todd Lighty, Stacy St. Clair and Steve Mills CHICAGO TRIBUNE

It is a system seemingly designed to fail. Chicago police officers enforce a code of silence to protect one another when they shoot a citizen, giving some a sense they can do so with impunity. Their union protects them from rigorous scrutiny, enforcing a contract that can be an impediment to tough and timely investigations. The Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), the civilian agency meant to pierce that protection and investigate shootings of citizens by officers, is slow, overworked and, according to its many critics, biased in favor of the police. Prosecutors, meantime, almost never bring charges against officers in police shooting cases, seeming to show a lack of enthusiasm for arresting the people they depend on to make cases — even when video, an officer’s history or other circumstances raise concerns. And the city of Chicago, which oversees that system, has a keen interest in minimizing potential scandal; indeed, it has paid victims and their families millions of dollars to prevent information from becoming public when it fears the shooting details will roil neighborhoods and cause controversy for the mayor. In many quarters, it’s common knowledge that Chicago’s system of investigating shootings by officers is flawed. But the Chicago Tribune’s examination of the system shows that it is flawed at so many levels — critics say, by design — as to be broken. IPRA’s own statistics bear that out. Of 409 shootings since the agency’s formation in September 2007 — an average of roughly one a week — only two have led to allegations against an officer being found credible, according to IPRA. Both involved off-duty officers. Attorney Joseph Roddy, who was a police union lawyer for a quartercentury, said the IPRA figures suggest a deep problem. “It’s hard to believe,” Roddy said in an interview. “Michael Jordan couldn’t make 407 out of 409 shots — even from the free-throw line.” Lorenzo Davis was more blunt. Davis, a retired Chicago police commander who joined IPRA and became a supervisor, sued the agency in September after he said its chief ordered him to change his conclusions in six cases in which he found officers wrongly shot citizens. “The public cannot trust anyone who is currently in the system,” said Davis, who himself was cleared in two shootings while an officer years ago. To be sure, much of the Police Department is honest and hardworking, and an officer’s job can be exceedingly dangerous in the city. Fraternal Order of Police President Dean Angelo Sr. viewed the IPRA figures as evidence that police shoot only when they are forced to defend themselves or the public.

IPRA data of Chicago police officer-involved shootings The city of Chicago in 2007 created the Independent Police Review Authority, a civilian agency responsible for investigating police shootings and other serious allegations of misconduct. Since then, the agency has tracked a total of 409 people who were shot, an average of nearly one police shooting per week. Of those 409 shootings, only two were found to be unjustified.

Officer-involved shootings in Chicago From Oct. 1, 2007, through Sept. 30, 2015

409 total shootings

282 non-fatal

127 fatal

Shootings by year 61

57 50

2007 (4Q)

2008

2009

Total: 11 Fatal: 4

2010

8 2011

2012

5 2013

2014

Deadliest year: 2008 57 total shootings, 24 of them fatal

2015 (1Q-3Q)

Race of those who were shot Black: 301

White/Hispanic: 58

White: 36

Asian: 1

Unknown: 14 Source: Tribune analysis of Independent Police Review Authority data Graphic: Jennifer Smith Richards, Chad Yoder, Chicago Tribune/TNS

“Those types of numbers and statistics tell me that the city of Chicago has a very good police force,” Angelo said. “We’re scrutinized at a level never seen before. These [officers] are examined to the nth degree. The findings show they’re doing nothing wrong and they’re justified in their actions.” But the 16 shots that struck Laquan McDonald in October 2014, and the dash-cam recording that captured the fatal shooting, has sparked protests across the city, led to a murder charge against Officer Jason Van Dyke, the firing of Superintendent Garry McCarthy and a Justice Department investigation of the Police Department — a reflection of the astounding failures it suggests. What’s more, the shooting of 17-year-old McDonald is only the latest case to underscore the city’s historic inability to deal adequately with police shootings and other forms of police misconduct. The department and this issue were challenges for the agency that preceded IPRA, the Office of Professional Standards, and for Richard Daley, the mayor who preceded Rahm Emanuel. The root of the trouble, many observers of the system say, is a code of silence among many of the rank-and-file that contributes to a sense that the police can shoot with impunity. A federal jury even found that the code existed. In late 2012, in a lawsuit that stemmed from a drunken off-duty officer’s beating of a female bartender, the jury determined that the code protects officers who engage in misconduct. Other issues contribute to the

problem, including that patterns of complaints against officers are not considered during investigations. “Almost every scandal, you’ll find a pattern of complaints,” said Craig Futterman, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School who has been studying misconduct data for Chicago police for years. “The obvious thing would be to use that information. But we don’t.” City officials often blame the city’s contract with police for that, as well as for being a broader obstacle to reform. And the contract does afford police protections ordinary citizens do not enjoy — what some call “super due process.” An officer involved in a shooting has, for instance, 24 hours before being questioned by IPRA, a crucial delay in a criminal investigation and an opportunity for officers to square their story with colleagues. What’s more, the contract forbids officials from publicly identifying officers involved in a shooting unless they are convicted, though any officer who is charged would be named in court records. But the city negotiates with the FOP, the union representing officers, and agrees to the terms. That, according to critics, suggests that city officials are more than willing to bargain away some of the rigor of an investigation as well as its transparency. “The city comes out and blames the union contract for their hands being tied,” said Paul Geiger, who was an in-house lawyer for the union for more than a decade and part of the negotiating team for the most recent contract with the city. “Their hands are tied because they want them to be tied.”

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Opinion

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015

Will your driverless car kill you so others may live? Evan JonEs | @EvanJones_DE

It’s 2025. You and your daughter are riding in a driverless car along Pacific Coast Highway. The autonomous vehicle rounds a corner and detects a crosswalk full of children. It brakes, but your lane is unexpectedly full of sand from a recent rock slide. It can’t get traction. Your car does some calculations: If it continues braking, there’s a 90 percent chance that it will kill at least three children. Should it save them by steering you and your daughter off the cliff? This isn’t an idle thought experiment. Driverless cars will be programmed to avoid collisions with pedestrians and other vehicles. They will also be programmed to protect the safety of their passengers. What happens in an emergency when these two aims come into conflict? The California Department of Motor Vehicles is now trying to draw up safety regulations for autonomous vehicles. These regulations might or might not specify when it is acceptable for collision-avoidance programs to expose passengers to risk to avoid harming others — for example, by crossing the double-yellow line or attempting an uncertain maneuver on ice. Google, which operates most of the driverless cars being street-tested in California, prefers that the DMV not insist on specific functional safety standards. Instead, Google proposes that manufacturers “self-certify” the safety of their vehicles, with substantial freedom to develop collision-avoidance algorithms as they see fit. That’s far too much responsibility for private companies. Because determining how a car will steer in a risky situation is a moral decision, programming the collision-avoiding software of an autonomous vehicle is an act of applied ethics. We should bring the programming choices into the open, for passengers and the public to see and assess. Regulatory agencies will need to set some boundaries. For example, some rules should presumably be excluded as too selfish. Consider the over-simple rule of protecting the car’s occupants at all costs. This would imply that if the car calculates that the only way to avoid killing a pedestrian would involve sideswiping a parked truck, with a 5 percent chance of injury to the car’s passengers, then the car should instead kill the pedestrian. Other possible rules might be too sacrificial of the passengers. The equally over-simple rule of maximizing lives saved without any special regard for the car’s occupants would unfairly disregard personal accountability. What if other drivers — human drivers — have knowingly put themselves in danger? Should your autonomous vehicle risk your safety, perhaps even your life, because a reckless motorcyclist chose to speed around a sharp curve? A Mountain View lab must not be allowed to resolve these difficult questions on our behalf. That said, a good regulatory framework ought to allow some manufacturer variation and consumer choice, within ethical limits. Manufacturers or fleet operators could offer passengers a range of options. “When your

child is in the car, our onboard systems will detect it and prioritize the protection of rear-seat passengers!” Cars might have aggressive modes (maximum allowable speed and aggressiveness), safety modes, ethical utilitarian modes (perhaps visibly advertised so that others can admire your benevolence) and so forth. Some consumer freedom seems ethically desirable. To require that all vehicles at all times employ the same set of collision-avoidance procedures would needlessly deprive people of the opportunity to choose algorithms that reflect their values. Some people might wish to prioritize the safety of their children over themselves. Others might want to prioritize all passengers equally. Some people might wish to choose algorithms more selfsacrificial on behalf of strangers than the government could legitimately require of its citizens. There will also always be trade-offs between speed and safety, and different passengers might legitimately weigh them differently, as we now do in our manual driving choices. Furthermore, although we might expect computers to

have faster reaction times than people, our best computer programs still lag far behind normal human vision at detecting objects in novel, cluttered environments. Suppose your car happens upon a woman pushing a rack of coats in a windy swirl of leaves. Vehicle owners may insist on some sort of preemptive override, some way of telling their car not to employ its usual algorithm, lest it sacrifice them for a mirage. There is something romantic about the hand upon the wheel — about the responsibility it implies. But future generations might be amazed that we allowed musicblasting 16-year-olds to pilot vehicles unsupervised at 65 mph, with a flick of the steering wheel the difference between life and death. A well-designed machine will probably do better in the long run. That machine will never drive drunk, never look away from the road to change the radio station or yell at the kids in the back seat. It will, however, have power over life and death. We need to decide — publicly — how it will exert that power.

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‘Trumbo’ only needs a slight rewrite Jacob Pierce | @JacobPierce1_De

The film industry has a lot of black marks on its record, with the Hollywood blacklist being one of the most signficant. “Trumbo,” directed by Jay Roach and starring Bryan Cranston and Diane Lane, is an interesting and inspirational tale that stumbles in the pitfalls of stereotypical inspirational films. Dalton Trumbo was once one of the top screenwriters in the industry. Trumbo, who is on the verge of signing a recordbreaking contract to a big studio, and a few of his writer friends are called to a congressional hearing for being communists. The screenwriter struggles to find work after being jailed and blacklisted. Trumbo soon realizes the best way to start working again, and to destroy the blacklist, is by using a fake name. Trumbo’s biggest problem falls in the hands of the director, and for any film a good director is key to its success.

Directing is a powerful job, as it is the creative force behind a movie. A director is in charge of setting up shots, developing and executing a style and tone, and leading the actors. While Roach did not write the script for the film, he was responsible for the story that ended up on screen. The ideas of this film are portrayed as a bit trite and clichéd. The most obvious issue is in how people talk. Trumbo, for example, talks almost only in cheesy inspirational quotes as if he were just reading motivational posters. While humorous at first, and Cranston does a lot to make it feel real, it becomes a bit annoying and overdone as the film progresses. The cast is the best part of this film. To say this cast has a phenomenal group of actors is an understatement. Cranston, Lane, John Goodman and Helen Mirren are only a few names of the actors, and each help make their characters multi-dimensional. Cranston yet again leads them pack in helping his sometimes one-note character evolve. He plays the screenwriter Trumbo, and plays the cartoon-

style character with enough gravitas and levity that he seems real and relatable. “Trumbo” also presents its message well. While the film is generic at times, it handles censorship and the horror of the blacklist pretty well. Seeing the trials and tribulations a man like Trumbo had to go through shows the havoc the list caused for others. The film also shows both sides of the argument. A lesser film would have presented Mirren’s character, a big implementer of the list, as the devil incarnate. But she is given her due process, and her reasons come off as flawed yet interesting.

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‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ is destined to be big, but can rival films follow it into hyperspace? Josh rottenberg | Los angeLes times

It’s the cinematic equivalent of El Nino. Everyone knows it will be huge — the only question is how huge. After months of buildup, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” will finally hit theaters on Dec. 18, marking the climax of one of the most carefully orchestrated and closely watched rollouts of any film in history. The movie is expected to shatter boxoffice records, given the torrid pace of advance ticket sales, which crashed the servers of Fandango and other purveyors in October. Guessing its ultimate openingweekend tally has become a kind of Hollywood parlor game, with predictions for domestic returns ranging from $185 million to $250 million or more. That “The Force Awakens” will reap massive returns for its studio, the Walt Disney Co., is undeniable. What is less clear is what sort of ripple effects the film will have on the wider Hollywood ecosystem around it. Some believe the new “Star Wars” film will bring renewed force to a film industry that is waging a long-term campaign to hold on to an ever more fragmented and digitally distracted audience. Others are concerned that “The Force Awakens” could hoover up so much of the holiday box office that it will leave other films opening in its vicinity — including the Tina Fey-Amy Poehler comedy “Sisters,” the hot-button NFL drama “Concussion” and Quentin Tarantino’s western “The Hateful Eight” — fighting for attention. “What everyone is hoping is that ‘Star Wars’ will be the rising tide that raises all ships,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the box office tracking firm Rentrak. “You don’t want it to be a giant sucking sound, where every other movie gets lost in this sea of ‘Star Wars.’” The film business got off to a fast start this year with smashes such as “Furious 7,” “Avengers: Age of Ultron” and “Jurassic World” helping to tamp down talk that moviegoing, like traditional television watching or reading newspapers, was in the midst of a slow, irreversible decline. But in recent months domestic returns have been more uneven — October and November ticket sales were both down from a year ago — and it remains to be seen whether Hollywood will hit the

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record-setting $11 billion mark some have predicted for the year. The conventional wisdom has long been that a major hit movie for one studio is good for the entire industry. People who have a satisfying experience with “Star Wars” will want to go back to the theater again, the theory goes. Count Greg Foster, chief executive of Imax Entertainment and senior executive vice president of the Imax Corp., in this camp. “I think it’s going to start to re-energize the momentum of moviegoing,” Foster said. “The last three or four months we hit a little bit of a rut. I think you’re going to find that ‘Star Wars’ has a halo effect ... . We have 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. shows opening weekend that are sold out — I think that’s what makes this movie different from any other movie.” Evidence of that halo effect, Foster noted, can already been seen in the intense behind-the-scenes jockeying among studios to have their trailers play in front of “The Force Awakens.” “The sense is that any trailer that’s

played with ‘Star Wars’ is not only going to have a wide audience but there’s going to be a very appealing experience with it,” Foster said. “You get a bump when you’re associated with a winner.” Even as they assess the effect “The Force Awakens” could have on their slates over the coming weeks, rival studio executives are studying Disney’s marketing playbook for the film to figure out what strategies can be cribbed for future tentpole movies. Since its inception in 1977, the “Star Wars” franchise has always been a kind of pop culture unicorn governed by its own rules. Many have tried, with varying degrees of success, to copy the template set by series creator George Lucas, with its blend of spectacle, fast-paced action, intergalactic world-building and mythic archetypes. But even those who work within the “Star Wars” universe can’t fully comprehend the power the franchise continues to hold over audiences after nearly 40 years. “It’s kind of mysterious,” said Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Return of the Jedi”

and was brought back to script “The Force Awakens” with director J.J. Abrams. “There had been plenty of science fiction and spaceship movies before,” he said. “It uses very familiar story forms and elements that have been talked about endlessly. It has been ripped off 1,000 times since. I think it was George taking everything he loved in the movies — Akira Kurosawa right next to Flash Gordon and Howard Hawks — and when those things were mixed together in the way they were, it blew people’s minds.” From the outset, Disney crafted its marketing campaign for “The Force Awakens” to tap into that core appeal of the franchise, stoking nostalgia for the original trilogy and conveying an air of momentousness around the new film. The studio leveraged fan conventions such as Star Wars Celebration and ComicCon and the power of social media — which surrounds us and penetrates us like the Force — to turn legions of “Star Wars” aficionados into ambassadors for the franchise.

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FOR RELEASE DECEMBER 9, 2015

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

<< Answers for Tuesday’s Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk

Today’s Birthday (12/09/15). Slow and steady wins the race this year. Commit and make it happen. Springtime domesticity prepares your place for a new year-long social phase after 9/9 (when Jupiter enters Libra). Career breakthroughs next autumn serve as prelude for domestic changes. Fill your home with love.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Professional opportunities flow through your networks over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn. Talk with interesting and influential people. Take advantage of their views. The next two days favor travel and learning. Advance your career. Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Begin a three-week expansion phase, with Mercury in Capricorn. Travel, research and education flourish. Broaden your horizons. Accept an unusual assignment. Write down your experiences. Go over the budget today and tomorrow. You can find funding. Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Get down to business. Enter a three-week financial management phase, with Mercury in Capricorn. Budget for growth, and schedule what needs to happen. Ask for support

ACROSS 1 Under the weather 7 Like cotton candy 11 Fund-raising org. 14 Provoke 15 Subtle glow 16 Trip segment 17 Utopian 18 WWI aircraft 20 They may coordinate with floor mats 22 Quarterback’s target 23 Payroll deduction 24 Volcanic debris 25 Big maker of chips 27 Till compartment 29 Bedstead part 33 MSN, for one 36 Meander 37 Under the weather 38 Went different ways ... or what each of six sets of circled letters literally represents 42 Homer’s path 43 Middle name on many patents 44 BYU or NYU 45 In the opposite order 48 Modern address starter 52 Tickle 53 __ in November 56 Mama bear, in Madrid 57 1980s Peppard co-star 58 Some deal closers 62 Hit-by-pitch consequence 64 West Point students 65 Corner key 66 Italian noble family 67 Danish port named for a Norse god 68 Pen 69 Hammer-wielding god 70 Got nervous, with “up”

when you get stuck. Work a trade. Collaborate for excellent service. Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s getting busy today and tomorrow. Work together for mutual benefit. A three-week partnership phase begins, with Mercury in Capricorn. Provide what another lacks, and receive the support you need. Collaborate on forward-thinking solutions. Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Get family involved. Plan some fun for today and tomorrow, to launch an intense three-week work phase, with Mercury in Capricorn. You’re generating a buzz. Take frequent breaks to maintain momentum. Rest and play keep you motivated. Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Get into domestic projects over the next few days. Creativity and romance flower, with Mercury in Capricorn for the next three weeks. Play a game you love with people you admire. Practice your arts and skills.

By Kurt Krauss

DOWN 1 Deliberately misinforms 2 Like llamas 3 Mountaineering aid 4 Effort 5 City in New York’s Mohawk Valley 6 Cowboy legend __ Bill 7 Fill and then some 8 Run smoothly 9 “The Haj” novelist 10 Siesta 11 Often-fried tropical fruit 12 With affection 13 “Act your __!” 19 Fallon’s predecessor 21 TV channels 2-13 25 Computer debut of 1981 26 Cholesterol initials 28 Title for Noël Coward 30 Seal-hunting swimmers 31 Valentine card hugs 32 Flat hats 34 Barrel support

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Tuesday’s Answers Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

35 Soccer legend who turned 75 in 2015 38 Most like a schoolmarm 39 Precision 40 Device for bingewatching 41 “How relaxing!” 42 Gardner of the silver screen 46 Cornerstone abbr. 47 Furthermore

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Get creative with home decoration over the next three weeks. Share memories and traditions, and invent new family games. Words come easily today and tomorrow. Share your feelings with someone close. Listen and learn from another view. Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- The next two days could be profitable. Discover treasure hidden in plain sight. Your storytelling abilities thrive over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn. Study, practice and learn voraciously. Communications channels are wide open. Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Focus on personal ambitions today and tomorrow. You’re especially strong and creative. Use your wits to increase your profits over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn. Communications generate an increase in income. Make powerful requests.

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49 Arcade coins 50 African threat 51 Got a C in, say 54 Knotted neckwear 55 Relief from the sun 58 Diner breakfast order 59 Chorus line? 60 Card or D’back 61 Yemeni seaport 62 __ Moines 63 Wager

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 6 -- Rest and recuperate over the next few days. For the next three weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn, you’re even smarter than usual. Get into an intellectual or academic project. Express your views publicly. Confirm intuition with facts. Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is a 6 -- Share family rituals. Develop your team strategy today and tomorrow. Collaboration expands your game. Finish old projects over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn. Take time for introspection and meditation. Express your appreciations. Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Everything you need is in your network. Work together to go further, faster. It’s easy to communicate with groups over the next three weeks, with Mercury in Capricorn. Assume more responsibility today and tomorrow. Prepare for inspection.

Sports

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2015

Salukis can’t hold lead against Fighting Illini THOMAS DONLEY | @tdonleyDE

The SIU women’s basketball team gained four separate leads, but could not hold any of them in Tuesday’s loss at Illinois. The Salukis (4-4) led for 75 seconds in the game before losing 78-64. The Fighting Illini (6-1) had six players score more than 10 points each in the game, led by freshman guard Cierra Rice with 17 points, 12 of which were in the second half. “This is a tough loss,” junior point guard Rishonda Napier said. “We wanted a different outcome, but we’ve got to take it and learn from it.” The Salukis took their first lead with 2:20 remaining in the first quarter on senior forward Azia Washington’s first three-pointer of the season. The lead was short-lived, as sophomore center Chatrice White put the Illini back on top with a layup 20 seconds later. Illinois extended its lead to 33-21 five minutes before SIU ended the half on a 14-2 run, helped by two three-point plays by senior center Dyana Pierre. Washington sank two free throws with three seconds left in the half to tie the game at 35. “We played the first half very confident,” coach Cindy Stein said.

Jacob Wiegand | JacobWiegand_DE Siena Junior forward Meghan Donohue, SIU junior forward Kim Nebo, Siena sophomore forward Emmanuella Edoka and SIU redshirt senior guard Cartaesha Macklin scramble to take possession the ball during SIU’s 74-54 win over Siena on Friday at SIU Arena.

“We were taking care of the ball. We had good shot selection. I felt like we started a little sluggish, but we were hanging in there.” White and Pierre led all scorers with eight points at halftime.

SIU regained the lead of 42-41 with 8:10 to play in the third quarter on a three-pointer by senior shooting guard Cartaesha Macklin. The lead was even shorter than the first — 17 seconds — as Illinois

sophomore guard Kennedy Cattenhead put her team back on top with a three pointer. The longest lead the Salukis held lasted 24 seconds. A three-pointer by Napier gave SIU a 49-47 lead with 5:16

left in the third, but the Illini tied it up with a layup by White at 4:52. Illinois led the rest of the way, extending its lead to as many as 14 points. “We played hard,” Pierre said. “We knocked down shots when we needed to. We just got undisciplined there in the second half.” Nine of SIU’s 14 fouls were in the second half of the game. The Salukis made seven of nine free throws in the first half, but missed their only attempt from the charity stripe after halftime. Illinois outrebounded SIU 22-10 in the second half. “You could say [we ran out of gas],” Stein said. “They kept getting offensive boards and putting it back. Those offensive boards broke our back.” Pierre recorded a double-double with 14 points and 12 rebounds. She had a game-high four blocks. White picked up her own double-double with 16 points and a game-high 14 boards, with eight in the second half. SIU hosts Morehead State (4-5) at 3 p.m Saturday at SIU Arena. Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 536-3307.

Scouting the Cougars Beelen, Clay make strides as two-sport athletes and Mean Green TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

This week, the Salukis take on their sister school and a familiar foe from last week. Here’s how they teams will matchup: SIU-Edwardsville — 7 p.m. Wednesday at SIU Arena The Salukis (8-1) have never lost to the university’s sister school, having won all seven matchups in the teams’ history. The Cougars (1-7) have had a rough start to their season, losing seven straight games after opening the season with a win against Arkansas State on Nov. 13. SIUE has struggled at putting the ball in the basket this year, ranking 333rd of 351 in the nation in threepoint field goal percentage: 27.2 percent. They’re 321st in two-point field goal percentage at 41.2 percent. What offense the Cougars do produce comes mainly from junior guard Burak Eslik and senior forward/ center Grant Fiorentinos. The two average 13 and 12.4 points per game, respectively. The 6-foot, 10-inch Fiorentinos may create matchup problems for SIU, as the Salukis don’t have much size to defend him. North Texas — 7 p.m. Saturday at SIU Arena This game will be SIU’s second with the Mean Green (2-6) in eight days. The Salukis won the matchup Saturday in Denton, Texas 95-63. Senior guard Anthony Beane was 11 for 14 from the floor, finishing with 27 points. Junior guard Mike Rodriguez

Jacob Wiegand | JacobWiegand_DE Senior guard Anthony Beane attempts a basket at SIU’s 74-50 victory over Southeast Missouri State University on Wednesday at SIU Arena. Beane scored 16 points and seven rebounds in Wednesday’s game.

and junior forward Sean O’Brien also had double figures for the Salukis with 12 and 10 points, respectively. The Salukis shot 67.9 percent from the floor in the game, compared to North Texas’ 46.2 percent. SIU’s guards dominated the game, scoring 65 of SIU’s 95 in the contest. Three-point shooting was the difference between teams during Saturday’s contest as SIU converted 10 of 15 shots while North Texas converted two of 18. Scoring distribution was a strength for North Texas in the previous game. Eleven Mean Green players had playing time and 10 scored. Sean Carley can be reached at scar@ dailyegyptian.com or at 536-3333.

Multi-sport athletes are a rare breed. Only two of the 395 athletes at SIU are on multiple active rosters. Senior TJ Beelen is a nose tackle and junior Adam Clay is an offensive tackle in football. Both are also throwers in track and field, and have participated in both sports every year they’ve been at the university. Throws coach JC Lambert said being a two-sport athlete can be beneficial, but thinks focusing on one sport allows an athlete to progress faster. “It definitely helps [them] become stronger since [they’re] constantly working out and staying in shape,” he said. “I would like to have them both all to myself with track, but both have a good scholarship with football.” Former football coach Dale Lennon said it is beneficial to be in multiple sports because it allows them to progress. “I love that they’re able to compete and help both programs wherever they’re needed,” he said. “Obviously it’s tough to balance both athletics and academics, but they do a nice job of stepping up and doing well.” Beelen said a former coach of his suggested he become a two-sport athlete in college. “My track coach in high school thought it would be a good idea if I continued to do both in college,” he said. “I like doing track, but my first love is football.” Beelen was an All-State thrower and ESPN’s 52nd best football player in Michigan during his senior year in 2011. He was Scout.com’s 143rd best defensive lineman in the nation. He said he is two weeks ahead of schedule in rehab after a season-ending knee injury in the Oct. 3 football game against Western Illinois required surgery. Beelen also said he is still about three weeks from being fully healthy and wasn’t available for the first

track meet of the season on Dec. 5. He said he wants to return for the Jan. 15 Kentucky Invitational. Beelen recorded 10 tackles in four games before the injury and has a medical redshirt remaining, which Lennon said he will likely use. Clay, who gained interest in throwing again after becoming friends with Beelen, said he enjoys being on the track team even though he was originally recruited for football. In high school, Clay was a state finalist in shot put and holds Livonia Franklin High’s shot put record of 16.9 meters. He was also an AllState selection in football his senior season. Clay’s only football game this season was against Missouri State. Beelen has a personal record of 55.43 meters for discus and 15.50 meters in shot put. He finished second in discus and ninth overall for shot put in the 2015 Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Championships to qualify for the regional tournament, where he finished 43rd overall in discus. Clay has a personal record of 14.84 meters in shot put at the MVC championships but did not qualify for the regional tournament. Lambert said athletes aren’t able to train with throwers during football season. However, he said football training helps them both become lighter on their feet, which helps their discus throw. Clay, who was a scholar-athlete in high school, said being a multi-sport athlete is challenging, but worth it. “The academics is the main reason why we’re here. We’re working to get a degree,” he said. “I have to make time for my school work in the limited time I have, and I keep in contact with my coaches and academic advisers and do whatever I can to get the work done.” Ted Ward can be reached at tward@ dailyegyptian.com or by phone at 536-3304.