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SIUE hopes to announce next chancellor

by December, forms search committee ALEX AULTMAN editor in chief

Following Chancellor Randy Pembrook’s retirement announcement, a search committee is being put together to find SIUE’s next chancellor.

SIU System President Dan Mahony is currently accepting nominations for representatives of different stakeholder groups on campus to serve on the committee.

This includes graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, alumni and local community members.

Mahony said he hopes to create a diverse group to represent the needs of the university.

“We want to make sure that we have a nice balance of race, gender, everything else and there’s diversity on the committee,” Mahony said. “And then we may even add some people beyond what’s on that list, depending on who we get as nominees.”

Mahony announced Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jessica Harris will chair the committee. He has also selected System Vice President for Academic Innovation, Planning and Partnerships Gireesh Gupchup to serve as a non-voting member on the committee.

The three of them will be deciding the committee members based on nominations.

Gupchup was the chair of the previous search committee that hired Pembrook.

He said this experience will be helpful to him and his office.

Chancellor Randy Pembrook addresses students’ concerns about racist incidents on campus in a 2017 Q&A. | Alestle File Photo

“I’ve been associated with SIUE campus for 17 years now. I used to be the dean of pharmacy, and I chaired the previous chancellor search. So, I have good knowledge of not only the campus, but working with the search firm and the process,” Gupchup said. “Having been through the process once before, and successfully having hired Dr. Pembrook, I think that’s what my experience and my office’s experience will bring to the search.”

Mahony said he’s searching for a candidate whose values align with the direction the university wants to go.

“You want someone whose values and sense of direction is consistent with the rest of the system leadership and the campus

Faculty Senate considers adding more representatives BRANDON WELLS reporter

Full-time non-tenure track faculty and research professors are being considered for positions on the Faculty Senate.

In the past years, the Faculty Senate has looked at ways to add representation for different faculty. Most recently, they added clinical professors to replace some members and fill seats, but now they’re considering adding more seats.

Laurie Rice, a professor of political science and current president of the Faculty Senate, said the goal of this proposal was to make more faculty voices heard.

“We hope to give research professors and full-time non-tenure track instructors a seat at the table in places where they haven’t had one in the past,” Rice said.

Rice said many non-tenure track instructors are members of a union, but the union doesn’t give them a voice in matters the Faculty Senate votes on. The small number of research professors also limits their voice.

“Because neither group is represented fully in a constituency group on campus at the moment, that means if they do have concerns unique to them, there’s not a set way to advance those concerns,” Rice said.

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for a number of years, and research was done to figure out the details of how it could work.

“The [Rules and Procedures Council] researched what other universities do — what are the best practices recommended by different professional organizations — and began to talk in the Faculty Senate Executive Committee,” Rice said.

Ezra Temko, an assistant professor in the sociology department and current chair of the Rules and Procedures Council, said the Faculty Senate had been looking for ways to reorganize after the Faculty Union was formed.

“Each year, the Faculty Senate has an all-faculty meeting, and the one the year before this one focused on reorganization and talking about the senate structure and what ideas people had,” Temko said. “It was spurred on by the Faculty Union being established, but more broadly about what we should be doing to make the senate the most effective.”

Temko said he found it concerning when had first heard that full-time non-tenure track instructors couldn’t vote on subjects such as curricular issues.

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leadership,” Mahony said. “So they fit in kind of well with where we’re going, [we] definitely want someone who’s highly collaborative, and works well, both with the people at the system level, but also with the different stakeholder groups across campus. I also always like to hire people who know things I don’t know.”

SIUE will be using higher education search firm WittKieffer to publicize the position opening and narrow down candidates. They assisted with the search for Chancellor Pembrook and Carbondale’s chancellor search last year.

Pembrook announced his retirement would take place sometime near June 2022.

News in brief Chancellor Pembrook to retire after over 30 years of service in higher education After five years at SIUE, Chancellor Randy Pembrook has announced his plan to retire in June 2022.

Pembrook’s announcement came on Tuesday, May 11. The early announcement will allow time to choose a successor and a smooth transition.

Pembrook said in an email that he is thankful the campus is moving forward with life as vaccinations increase, and he has been impressed by how well the SIUE community handled this past year.

Pembrook thanked SIU System President Dan Mahony for his help with the past year and for being supportive of his decision to retire.

Mahony said he appreciates the work Pembrook has done so far for the SIUE community and for helping with his transition to the position of SIU System President.

Mahony announced in an email that the search for a new chancellor will begin in the coming weeks and town halls will be held to determine the qualities the SIUE community values for the next chancellor.

Mahony said he hopes the next chancellor will be recommended to the Board of Trustees at their meeting in December.

Labor shortage affects restaurant operations as mitigations ease DANA MCLENNAN copy editor

Restaurants throughout the Metro East and the nation are experiencing a labor shortage, causing some locally-owned restaurants to rethink their business hours while larger-owned franchises and corporate stores are floating, or sending outside help to struggling stores.

During the pandemic, some restaurants laid off employees while others lost employees over pandemic-related health concerns, daycares being closed and children attending school from home or lack of hours.

Mike Donsky, director of operations for Bob Evans, has been helping out the Collinsville location, which has been operating under reduced hours, to assist in training and hiring of new management and support staff. Donsky said they did have to furlough some employees during the pandemic due to a lack of hours, but lost others because of unemployment payouts.

“I don’t want to say that it’s completely unemployment’s fault, but unemployment checks that were being given by the government were absolutely impacting how many people returned back to work,” Donsky said. “In some cases, people were making more staying home than they were working their normal schedules.”

Donsky said while he believes unem-

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ployment is a huge factor in the lack of applicants, it isn’t the only reason.

“I also think that there are some people that wanted to wait it out for safety purposes, meaning, they wanted to see kind of what was going to happen, were people going to get sick from people coming in the restaurants or from other employees, etc.

And I think some of it was due to health restrictions,” Donsky said. “And some of it absolutely was due to the unemployment.”

Jerry’s Cafeteria has been locally owned and operated since 1945 in Granite City, Illinois. Owner Jon Roderick, who took over the family business in 2017, said the government needs to pull back on the stimulus and unemployment payouts and instead incentivize returning to work.

“Unless you can outbid the federal government, for employees, they’re paying people $16-$17 an hour to stay at home. I can’t pay a dishwasher $12 an hour and expect him to work an eight-hour shift when he can sit home and make more money.

I think that’s a big part of the problem,” Roderick said.

Jack Tolliver, general manager of Pantera’s Pizza in Edwardsville, said they paid their employees for loss of hours during the pandemic but have lost some employees to the factories outside of town. With business picking back up as restrictions lift, they will see RESTAURANTS on page 3

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BYCOVID-19 THE NUMBERS at SIUE

40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 May

New confirmed positive cases (tests conducted by SIUE and self-reporting):

MAY 21 - 27: 0 students, 0 faculty/staff

MAY 14 - 20: 0 students, 0 faculty/staff 14-day new positive tests: 0 students, 0 faculty/staff All prior weeks positive tests (Aug. 1 - May 13): 348 students, 92 faculty/staff

TOTAL POSITIVE CASES: 386 students, 101 faculty/staff

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28 27 26 25 24 23 22 Source: Madison County Health Department COVID-19 Dashboard, as of May 30

Percentage of isolation/quarantine space available on campus (as of May 30): 100 percent Source: Health, Reporting, and Testing page on SIUE’s COVID-19 website, as of May 30

Officer responded to an RA advising there were smoke detectors covered in an apartment. Officer advised the smoke detectors were covered. Officer spoke with the resident and the resident uncovered the smoke detector. Incident is being forwarded to Housing.

Tests conducted by SIUE

COVID-19’S impact on Madison County

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MAY 14 - 20: 79

All of Illinois’ regions remain under Tier 4 mitigations, which went into effect May 14TH.

Officer assisted Edwardsville PD with crowd control regarding a fight.

MAY 21 - 27: 109

14-day new tests conducted: 188

All prior weeks tests conducted (Aug. 21 - May 13): 12,885 Total tests conducted: 14,346

Positive cases identified by SIUE testing: MAY 21 - 27: 0 MAY 14 - 20: 0

14-day new positive cases: 0

All prior weeks positive cases (Aug. 21 - May 13): 395 Total: 395

These mitigations include the following:

• All dining facilities are to have parties of 10 or less for seated areas, 30% capacity indoors and 50% capacity outdoors.

• Meetings, conferences, and conventions are to have fewer than 1000 people or 60% capacity.

• Health and Fitness Centers are to be at 60% capacity with group fitness classes of 50 or less indoors and 100 or less outdoors.

• Recreation facilities are to have less than 100 people or 50% capacity indoors and maximum number of 100 people per group outdoors (multiple groups are permissible).

• Offices, personal care, retail and service counter, amusement park, film production, museums, spectator events, theaters and performing arts and zoo facilities are to be at 60% capacity.

• Social events have a maximum of 250 people indoors and 500 people outdoors.

Source: dph.illinois.gov.

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Local community efforts provide access to large item removal, reduce littering DANA MCLENNAN copy editor

The City of Alton is partnering with Republic Services for a large or bulk item drop off event, working out details for future plans with Republic to make bulk item pick up year-round and expanding other initiatives aimed at cleaning up the city.

Newly elected Alton Mayor David Goins is looking forward to the city’s partnership with Republic Services and the large or bulk item drop event slated for June 12.

“What Republic has agreed to do is that if anytime there’s a bulk item that needs to be picked up by residents, all they have to do is call Republic. It won’t be just two, three or four days a year. It’ll just be ongoing,” Goins said. “And that’s something that will probably try to curtail a lot of the dumping that goes on. So that’s something that we have that we’re proud to be able to announce starting in September.”

Goins also said the Alton Main Street, which implements the Alton Spring CityWide Litter Clean-Up, expanded its oneday spring clean-up to 30 days. The city is also partnering with Lowe’s to continue its beautification efforts around town with donations such as mulch and flowers.

“City Council Liaison Bianca Jackson is going to be reaching out to the aldermen in each ward to identify specific areas in their ward that may need some sprucing up or something along that line,” Goins said.

“Lowe’s, what they do is they offer their employees like eight hours of community service work. They can go out and volunteer for eight hours and get paid.”

Bring Your Own Glen-Ed, a local grassroots community of individuals who educate about and reduce the use of single-use plastics, also volunteers their time for the Illinois Department of Transportation’s Adopt-A-Highway program. Volunteer groups agree to adopt a specific section of highway for two years and agree to four clean-ups a year.

“We have a stretch, actually very close to SIUE. It’s just right on the border from 157 at Chain of Rocks to West Main Street in Glen Carbon,” Mary Grose, an executive team member of Bring Your Own GlenEd, said. “We have four cleanups a year, and we always need volunteers.”

Peg Flach, another executive team member of Bring Your Own Glen-Ed, said

05.17.21 Officer took a report from an employee that advised there were two unauthorized charges on her SIUE P-card.

05.20.21 Officer responded to the Bluff Hall Basement for a door alarm. Alarm was activated by contractor.

Officer responded to a report of a male subject fondling his genitalia near the bike trail at Bluff Hall. The male subject was not located.

05.21.21 Person was arrested on an Edwardsville PD Warrant. Subject was transported by Edwardsville PD. Verbal warnings issued for Disobey Stop Sign, Unlicensed Driver and Expired Registration.

Person turned himself in on an SIUE PD warrant for Aggravated DUI and Unlawful Possession of Controlled Substance. Subject was released on his own recognizance.

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Newly elected Alton Mayor David Goins is working toward initiatives that will clean up the city and make it safer. | Dana McLennan / The Alestle

many of their volunteers are younger people.

“We’ve had Girl Scout troop troops, and Boy Scout troops and just kids volunteer if an adult comes along with them. We are a small little group, so we really need other people to help us with this project,” Flach said.

Grose said they want to see younger people get involved so they will be able to pick up projects like this and others to help the environment.

“We definitely need young people doing these things,” Grose said. “One reason why we are involved is that we think about the younger people, and we want to leave the world in a safe place for them. So, that really motivates us.”

Bring Your Own Glen-Ed helped push a proposal through Edwardsville to approve a fee in large retailers for plastic and paper bags. The proposal, which passed, was to have been put in effect in April of 2020, but Illinois COVID-19 restrictions didn’t allow reusable bags in stores, Grose said.

“We feel that the fee is important because there are people who take it upon themselves to use reusable bags and understand the importance of that,” Grose said. “But there are people also who don’t [know], and the fee will raise that awareness to the problem of single-use waste. It’s

mostly not recyclable, it mostly goes to the landfill, and gets into our waterways, and is toxic to our environment.”

The group is asking supporters to take action by writing Gov. J.B. Pritzker and asking him to reverse his April 2020 executive order banning the use of reusable bags at retail outlets due to the pandemic.

Citizens can read the bag ordinance on the Bring Your Own Glen-Ed website, or learn how they can take action on the group’s Facebook page.

Anyone wishing to volunteer for the highway clean-up efforts from 9-11 a.m. on June 5 can do so by visiting Bring Your Own Glen-Ed on Facebook and following their link to SignUpGenius.

Alton residents with valid ID can drop off large and bulky items like mattresses and items too large fit in trash bins from 8 a.m.-noon on Saturday, June 12 at 1 Henry Drive. No commercial waste or bagged garbage will be accepted. Residents can also drop off electronic items for E-waste recycling. Contact the Alton Public Works Department for any questions at 463-3579.

Madison County will hold their E-Waste Collections from 8:30 a.m-2:30 p.m. on June 12 at CJD E-Cycling at 5257 N. State Route 157 in Edwardsville. Appointments are required. Residents can sign up or view a list of accepted items on the Madison County website.

than me, they teach more courses than me, they’re full faculty members of our department. I thought it made sense for them to be fully included in the decision-making process that we do at the department level,” Temko said.

Temko said he reached out to the Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association before making any decisions and was met with full support of this plan.

Temko also said SIUC has already implemented this kind of representation in their senate by amending their operating papers.

“We are trying to make sure who’s being represented by the Faculty Senate is what we mean by ‘faculty’ and not reflecting an outdated definition from the board,” Temko said.

Temko said the said the Faculty Senate plans to expand their number of seats from 39 to 49 to accommodate for the new representation if the proposed amendment goes through.

Eric Wrobbel, a professor and chair of the Applied Communication Studies Department, is the current president-elect of the Faculty Senate. Wrobbel said this proposal affects many full-time non-tenure track instructors in each department.

“There’s a fair number of them — more than you’d think. Some colleges and schools don’t have very many, but the College of Arts and Sciences has quite a few,” Wrobbel said.

Wrobbel said the emphasis of this proposed amendment lies solely on inclusion for his fellow colleagues.

“Why would you want to have a colleague down that hall that is in some way second class? If you’re a faculty member here, you’re a faculty member here — we want to be inclusive to all of the faculty,” Wrobbel said.

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Mask policy changes with updated CDC guidelines BRANDON WELLS reporter

Following an update to CDC guidelines in May, SIUE released an updated mask policy regarding when students should wear masks depending on their vaccination status.

SIU System President Dan Mahony said these changes were made to follow the updated guidelines as much as possible, but that it isn’t the guaranteed plan for the Fall 2021 semester.

“The change will adjust, like it did this time, to whatever changes come. It’s looking more like the fall will be far more open than we’ve been in a while,” Mahony said.

Mahony said the updated policy is the same across all other SIU campuses and is similar to other state institutions as well.

“We view the policy not just within the system, but across the state. Higher education institutions are pretty much in the same place — we’re all following the same CDC guidance,” Mahony said.

Miriam Roccia, the associate vice chancellor for student affairs, said the guidelines

bring about some change in places where social distancing is possible inside as well as outside.

“We still encourage folks to wear a mask if they feel comfortable doing so, but if an individual is fully vaccinated in private or semiprivate spaces, masks are optional for those who are fully vaccinated,” Roccia said.

Roccia said she knows many other places have more drastically changed their mask policies, but SIUE will continue their policies until they have more clear information from state officials. “[The governor of Illinois] has indicated that there may be some positive trends in the COVID-19 pandemic in the state, and so we may see some revisions to what we call the Restore Illinois plan here in this month or pretty soon — we don’t know what those will be and so we’re waiting on any guidance that comes out of that,” Roccia said.

First year Pharmacy student Jason Cole of Mulkeytown, Illinois, said he was somewhat shocked when he saw the email from SIUE after hearing about the CDC guidelines.

“A lot of places are now saying that if

you’re fully vaccinated, you don’t have to wear masks inside or on the premises,” Cole said. “Unless you’re outside, you have to wear a mask for fully vaccinated individuals, other than a conference or a private room.”

Cole said while this doesn’t affect him very much personally, he understands why this would bother some people.

“It wasn’t what I was expecting — some people are tired of wearing masks in public, so they’re like, ‘Alright I’ll just get the vaccine, then I won’t have to wear a mask.’ And for the school to [be stricter than the CDC guidelines] I thought it was a little odd,” Cole said.

Cole said that regardless of the CDC guidelines, he still wears a mask almost everywhere he goes.

“Most people do it. It makes other people feel better,” Cole said. “It’s not going to really change much of what I was going to do personally.”

Cole said the new guidelines make him more hopeful of getting back to in-person classes, regardless of masks.

For more information about CDC safety guidelines, visit their website.

on Administrative Rules in February amid strong opposition from religious organizations and Republican lawmakers.

Opponents of the standards pointed to language calling on teachers and school leaders to approach their work “affirming the validity of students’ backgrounds and identities,” as well as “assess how their biases and perceptions affect their teaching practice and how they access tools to mitigate their own behavior (racism, sexism, homophobia, unearned privilege, Eurocentrism, etc.).”

Schools of education won’t begin implementing those new standards until 2025.

But the issue came up Tuesday during discussion of a bill dealing with mentoring programs for new teachers and principals.

Senate Bill 814 would make a number of changes and updates, including a requirement that the content of those programs align with the Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning Standards. If enacted into law, that bill would take effect immediately.

Rivera said he had no problems with the underlying mentoring programs or any other part of the bill. He said his only opposition was to the provisions requiring those programs be aligned with the new teaching and leadership standards.

He also said it wasn’t his group’s intent to proceed with the lawsuit until those standards go into effect in 2025.

“But this bill says that, ahead of that, new teachers and those mentors would have to align themselves with this rule, and there’s a concern that they can’t do that,” he said.

His position, however, brought a sharp rebuke from Rep. Sue Scherer (D-Decatur) who chairs the House committee that deals with K-12 education curriculum and policy.

“I just think it’ll be a crying shame if people are now asked, Ralph, to not vote for every single good education bill from this point forward in history, and pull that one line out every single time,” she said. “At a certain point, we have to accept that that is in the statute. JCAR has passed it.”

“Well, but it’s our responsibility to say that 814 is a fine bill,” Rivera replied. “But there’s one part that we’re looking to have 30 public school teachers and more do a lawsuit on because they’ve read the rule, or the standard, and they say, ‘I can’t do all of that.’ So we can’t just ignore that.”

The bill passed out of the committee by a vote of 5-1 and now heads to the House floor.

somewhere else due to their personal history, but said applicants are few and far between and he has been working alongside his employees to keep up with customer demand.

“For me, it’s six days a week. I just hope every time that the new shift starts that everybody shows up,” Roderick said.

“That’s the fight I’ve been fighting. I have four or five no-shows. The people just work for two, three weeks and gone, — never hear from them again. Two walked out in the middle of a shift. One of them said, ‘I’m quitting’ and walked out, literally. The next one just disappeared in the middle of a shift. And two of them quit showing up.”

Roderick said his main concerns are the well-being of his current staff and that the lack of applicants could force him to alter his days of operation.

“The people that are showing up, they’re getting weary — I mean, they really are — and I try to make sure that they know that I understand that, ‘Hey, I’m standing right here with you, and it’s exhausting,’” Roderick said. “So that’s a huge concern of mine, is really, if I lose one more employee right now, I’m gonna have to consider altering my hours to make it work

with the employees that I have.”

Brittany Clark, who recently began working at Jerry’s, said she left her former restaurant job of three years because of the unreasonable conditions placed upon staff with hours ranging from 40-70 per week because of short staffing.

“My point of view is we just never had a break. It was nonstop. With a short staff, we got slammed. We couldn’t take five minutes just to breathe,” Clark said. “There were times I did bar in the morning and then straight to to-go orders at [4 p.m.].

So you had nobody to work, and then I was open-to-close at the bar from 10 in the morning until nine at night and got no break at all.”

While she works some open-to-close shifts at Jerry’s as a cafeteria line worker, Clark said the difference doesn’t come down to pay, but how the staff is treated.

“It’s one big family. We help each other out as much as we can. [Jon] is there 24/7. I give him credit for it ... It’s hard for us right now. We’re tired, but we’re still working through all of it,” Clark said. “He actually listens to what we say and helps us out.”

As a hiring manager, Donsky agrees there needs to be a balance between staff

Abortion foes to challenge ‘culturally responsive’ teaching standards PETER HANCOCK Capitol News Illinois

SPRINGFIELD – The leader of one of the state’s largest anti-abortion groups told a legislative committee Tuesday that the group intends to file a legal challenge against the state’s new “culturally responsive teaching and leading standards.”

Ralph Rivera, a lobbyist for Illinois Right to Life Action and the Pro-Family Alliance, told a House committee that 30 public school teachers have signed on to a future lawsuit that will challenge the constitutionality of those standards.

“They feel that that would be compelled speech,” Rivera said. “This would threaten their right to free exercise of religion or conscience.”

The standards, which the Illinois State Board of Education endorsed last year, call on schools of education to train prospective new teachers in how to make their instruction more inclusive and relevant to students from different cultural backgrounds, sexual orientations and gender identities.

The Illinois State Board of Education proposed those standards last year, which were approved by the Joint Committee RESTAURANTS I COVER

need to fill the positions, but have only received a few applications over the last three weeks.

“We’ve been short staffed, working harder, more hours than we are used to,” Tolliver said. “We haven’t had to adjust hours yet, but might have to.”

Roderick said he has had to dial back on which jobs he accepts in the catering portion of his business. He no longer has college applicants due to so many students being in remote classes and out of the area.

“My caterers are typically college students that will have a weekday job. But on the weekends, they can make another 50 or 100 bucks working for me. But they are not the ones out there looking right now,” Roderick said.

Tolliver said most of Pantera’s employees are part-time and students.

“With schools being remote, students were able to work more hours since they didn’t have to be in class at a certain time,” Tolliver said.

Roderick said he considers his restaurant a springboard of opportunity for those who might not have a chance to work

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News in brief SIUE releases new guidelines for masks, social distancing Following the CDC’s updated guidelines, SIUE has loosened the requirements of wearing masks and maintaining social distance for fully vaccinated individuals, but requirements will stay the same for those who aren’t vaccinated.

According to an email sent to the SIUE community, all students, faculty and staff are required to continue wearing masks in all public indoor spaces.

Masks are considered optional for outdoor spaces unless social distancing cannot be maintained.

In places considered private or semi-private, such as offices, private meetings, conference rooms, etc., masks are optional — but this applies only to individuals who have been fully vaccinated. All individuals who haven’t been vaccinated must continue to wear a mask and maintain proper social distance in indoor settings. Individuals are required to continue wearing masks on the Cougar Shuttle and other public transportation as well as inside instructional and clinical spaces.

For those who are fully vaccinated, the social distancing guidelines have changed to allow individuals to view distancing as optional. However, places where pre-positioned seating is located should not be removed or moved to another location. Individuals who aren’t vaccinated must continue to space themselves appropriately.

All individuals should continue to bring a mask when visiting campus and wear them when deemed necessary by the new guidelines. Supervisors may ask employees to show proof of vaccination, but it is optional for employees to disclose their vaccination status. If they choose not to, they must follow the same guidelines as unvaccinated individuals.

The email said community members should continue to wear masks if they feel comfortable doing so. It also said an individual’s vaccination status should not be assumed based on their behavior. and the business culture.

“I think as far as the morale, it’s what kind of environment you create for your team. But obviously, there’s only so much that you can ask of your people. And so, you know, just trying to find a balance between overworking and underworking,” Donsky said. “Everyone’s … got their own thing, you know, ‘I have to be out by this time’ or [have] kids that go to school and we have kids that go to night school, they have to be gone by certain times. You try to accommodate the best you can and try to make it work for everybody.”

Clark said she has friends who haven’t been able to work as easily due to childcare issues, and some have moved into different industries, but she believes the lack of employees is in part due to laziness.

“It’s laziness. Nobody wants to come in and fill out an application or do the work. Nobody wants to step up and help and work,” Clark said. “Nobody wants to come back to work while they are getting double unemployment and a stimulus check.”

Bob Evans, Jerry’s Cafeteria and Pantera’s Pizza are taking applications in store and online.

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Local farmers markets resume amidst easing restrictions GABRIEL BRADY lifestyles editor NICOLE BOYD copy editor During COVID-19, the Land of Goshen Community Market in Edwardsville delayed opening by a month. Alternatively, the Alton Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market stayed open, only offering drive-thru services. But just last month, both markets returned to normal, in-person operations.

Dennis Jones of Blue Pond Farm has a stand at the Land of Goshen Community Market, and he said the pandemic hurt some farmers last year due to lower turnout at farmers markets, but this year seems to be off to a better start.

“Last year was pretty tough, especially markets like this, where people were afraid to get out of their houses … But so far this year, it’s gotten a lot better,” Dennis said.

Chris Jones, Dennis’s son, said the lack of crowds at farmers markets last year hurt Blue Pond Farm in particular because they were just starting out.

“Turnout was probably 30 percent of normal … we’re just starting our business out and bringing things to market, so it significantly impacted building our brand,” Chris said.

However, this was not the case for everyone. Tammy Carroll of Sunny Daze Farm said she had her best year ever last year, despite the pandemic. Carroll has a stand at the Alton Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market, and although it had less customers last year, Carroll said more customers came to her farm to buy produce than ever before.

“Personally, I think it was because there [were] just only so

many things you could actually do during the pandemic. So, this was one of the few things that they could do,” Carroll said. “I think people just wanted to get out and spend some money and they were trying to get back to doing more natural things.”

SIUE Alum Clifford Clark said although he only sells produce from his home garden and community gardens, he still had the best year ever during the pandemic.

“I had my best sales ever, probably because I have the community garden at The Milton Schoolhouse [in Alton], so I had more time to focus on that and grow more plants and produce,” Clark said.

Dennis said many customers this year have attributed their attendance to getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

“We had several people stop by here commenting, ‘Hey, I’m vaccinated, I’m OK, I haven’t been out of the house.’ One guy said, ‘I haven’t been out of the house for a year,’” Dennis said.

Vaccinations are required if customers or vendors are going without masks at both of the farmers markets. This was especially important for vendors like Tammy White, and her wife, Kim Dublo from Earthly Goods, because both White and Dublo contracted COVID-19 earlier in the pandemic, but they’ve both been vaccinated since then. White and Dublo sell plants and pickled peppers at the Alton Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market.

“I got COVID[-19], we both got COVID[-19] this last spring, which really put a damper on a lot of our gardening and our early planting stuff,” White said.

“But we’ve both been fully vaccinated, and so it feels like freedom now.”

After surviving the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Land of Goshen Market in Edwardsville, pictured above, and the Alton Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market both plan to continue on this year. | Nicole Boyd / The Alestle

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Land of Goshen Community Market, pictured above, was shut down for the season. Alternatively, the Alton Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market remained open, but only offered drive-thru services. | Nicole Boyd / The Alestle

Chris said he’s heard from other customers that Goshen removing their mask mandate has encouraged them to shop.

“It’s nice to see that there’s no masks, there’s more people out. We’ve heard from a few people that being outside and seeing that there’s a mask mandate, they just keep walking. We’ve had a few customers come today that were like, ‘Yeah, we saw that there’s no masks,’” Chris said.

Keith Biver of Biver Farms said since sales were down last year, he found other ways to sell his products.

“I did [wholesale] plant stuff with Market Basket, and I think a lot of people are planting gardens, especially last year when they were stuck at home. So they’re wanting to make sure they’ve got something to eat and it gives them something to do, too,” Biver said.

Biver said he came to the Goshen Farmers Market about a month later than usual last year, and when he did, business was different.

“Everything was cordoned off, masks, and so I had to pretty much get everything; people would point to something and I’d put it in a bag. It was definitely more of a pain,” Biver said.

Biver said despite the difficulties of last year, sales seem to be picking up this year. “[It’s] more like the old farmers market, because people are actually coming out,” Biver said.

Bruce Haas, owner of Daydream Farm, also didn’t get to sell for a month last year. This year, however, he said he is expecting the crowds to return.

“They’ve already started to [come back]. Each week’s a little better. This is the first week without having to wear masks, so you’re starting to see more people

coming around,” Haas said.

Both markets take place from 8 a.m.-noon Saturdays until October. The Land of Goshen Community Market is on Main Street in Edwardsville, and the Alton Farmers’ and Artisans’ Market is located near the Liberty Bank Amphitheater in Alton.

Sarah Magary of DeMange Farm sells plants at the Land of Goshen Community Market. DeMange Farm , located in East St. Louis, has been family owned and operated for five generations | Nicole Boyd / The Alestle

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Bringing it all the way back home: SIUE Alumni return to help with student success GABRIEL BRADY lifestyles editor

The Office of Academic Advising recently announced a new position known as Student Success Coaches. These coaches will help students connect with resources on campus to help them with life at SIUE. Coincidentally, all three of the new coaches will be SIUE Alumni.

According to Assistant Director of Online Student Services Stephanie Simpson, a position like this has been something SIUE has wanted for a long time. However, the fact that two of the employees are alumni, with one soon to graduate, is a happy coincidence.

“It just ended up with only candidates who’re from the institution,” Simpson said. “I don’t think we actively sought out candidates who had some sort of connection with the university, but they all do.”

Since the coaches will all be former SIUE students, they all have connections to places and people at SIUE. For example, Assistant Director of Academic Advising Kelly Atkins, who supervises the new coaches, said she remembered Nathan Brown, an alumnus and a new Student Success Coach.

“At some point in the hiring process, he said his degree was in psychology, and I said, ‘Were you one of my students? I used to be an adviser in the psychology department,’ and he said, ‘No, I don’t think so,’” Atkins

said. “But then, as he’s sitting in my office, he looks up at some of the pictures, and he was like, ‘Oh, my God, you were my adviser!’”

Brown transferred away from SIUE in 2017, and he said he always looked back on his previous experiences at SIUE fondly.

“The best way to describe my time here is as a path of self discovery. I left SIUE and did my masters in college counseling at St. Cloud State in Minnesota. I transferred there for more of a counseling aspect to my major instead of just psychology,” Brown said. “I made that jump, and in those years from 2017 to now, I was getting more experience counseling, doing things like academic advising, working with students and just generally getting a lot of student affairs experience.”

Brown said his counseling experience will help him in this new position quite a bit. The main idea behind this position, according to Brown, is to work as a liaison between students and other departments or parts of the university to help them academically.

“The big things are connecting students to resources, like the Career Development Center or research projects, and engaging with them. If they need help discussing grades with professors, or department chairs, we would be there to help,” Brown said. “And we’ll be advocating for them as well. If they need help working with stress or time management, we are there for that too.”

Atkins said help from these coaches will be available for anyone interested, but it would also be something given out as seen necessary. According to Atkins, some of the coaches already encountered the latter.

“We had a faculty member reach out to us last week concerned about three students in her class. And all of the students had been doing well, but just sort of fell off in the last few weeks of the spring semester,” Atkins said. “The faculty said they were trying to reach out to the students, to assist them or offer them additional time to complete the grades. Nathan and I set up appointments with the students and just talked through some of those things.”

The role may seem similar to that of an academic adviser, but Simpson said there is a clear difference between the two positions. “[Provost Denise Cobb] has referenced the need for students to receive an additional level of support that’s not necessarily the role of, or within the roles of, academic advisers. While they are positioned to provide academic support to students, focusing on their course load,” Simpson said. “There’s this realization that students need some different level of support, or different types of support, especially during a pandemic.”

All three of the new Student Success Coaches start their work this month.

For more information, visit the Office of Academic Advising’s website.

SIUE Alumnus takes to the sky in 2021 Air Race Classic EMILY STERZINGER opinion editor Pilot and SIUE Alumn Anni Huang is taking flight in the 2021 Air Race Classic Air Derby, a flying competition celebrating women in aviation.

The Air Race Classic Inc. is a nonprofit that hosts a yearly race event to celebrate women in aviation. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the usual race was canceled, and replaced with an Air Derby event where contestants create their own route based on the competition guidelines and compete against their own esti-

mates of the time to complete the route.

“The Air Race is deeply rooted in the history of women’s air races in general. It is conducted annually and during non[COVID-19] times the racers raced through a series of routes across the country. Because of [COVID-19], this is being run more like a virtual 5K,” co-pilot Heidi Kim said.

Huang’s team, the Flying Penguins, consists of her as the pilot, as well as Kim and navigator Mariah Sellers.

“The idea of [the name] Flying Penguins is really just

Huang created a GoFundMe page for the team in April, and the money donated has been used for things like fuel and aircraft rental. | photo courtesy of Anni Huang combining my love and passion for flying, as well as my love and passion for Antarctica together.

I still work in Antarctica; actually, I’m going back to Antarctica

Betty White is the name of the plane that The Flying Penguins will be using in the 2021 Air Race Air Classic Derby, which is a 1969 Cessna 172. | photo courtesy of Anni Huang

this year for two months to work as an expedition guide,” Huang said.

Part of the Air Race’s mission is to demonstrate women’s roles in aviation, and Sellers’ ambition for flight started from a similar point of representation.

“Two months before finding out I was pregnant, my husband had an aspiration to become a pilot. When he knocked on the flight school’s door, the person who answered was a female flight instructor. And that just blew my mind. I had never met a female pilot, let alone a female instructor,” Sellers said.

The yearly event has had pilots ranging from ages 17 to 90. Many pilots, including Kim, started out flying in their youth.

“It’s not uncommon that many of us were flying before we were driving. My parents had to drive me to ground school when I was 15 because I didn’t yet have my full license. It’s often something that starts from a very young age,” Kim said. “I flew with my grandpa, and then I went to space camp, and I was just totally hooked on it.”

Huang said she felt her time at SIUE readied her for positions of leadership, fitting her role as the team’s pilot.

“I was the president for the International Student Council, Society of Chinese Students, as

well as the International Business Association. I was very heavily involved, and I did a study abroad with the business school, and that all really prepared me to take on a role to lead the team,” Huang said.

Seven percent of all certified pilots are female, and even less are women of color. The Flying Penguins aim to further aid diversity in the field of aviation.

“Before I walked into that flight school, I never imagined a female was going to open the door. How can we change that perception and make that possible for other people? As a minority, as a Latina, really there are not a lot of Latina female pilots either. You usually see more caucasian, just a majority,” Sellers said. “So it’s also a layer of, ‘Man, I can bring my culture into this, I can inspire other people, it’s not just a certain type of people doing this.’ It really just comes down to this: whatever you are or want to be, you can do it.”

Huang said that flying, as an experience, is something freeing for her.

“The sky is not your limit anymore. You can chase your dreams. When you fly, you leave everything else on the ground,” Huang said. “It’s a free-spirited, dream chasing, liberating feeling.”

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On-campus students are left in the dust by the summer dining hours THE ALESTLE STAFF editorial board

Dining hours for the summer semester are severely limited, harming students who stay on campus and bringing SIUE dangerously close to becoming a food desert.

According to the Food Empowerment Project, “Food deserts can be described as geographic areas where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food options (especially fresh fruits and vegetables) is restricted or nonexistent due to the absence of grocery stores within convenient traveling distance.”

By this standard, SIUE is not quite a food desert, but frequently lacks support for students without cars; walking from residence areas to any grocery store is nearly impossible, and the MCT bus routes are limited.

But even if we make the definition more generous, removing the limit of healthy food options and just considering if meals are

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available to students, the students who live on campus during the summer semester are still left out.

Outside of Union Station and Starbucks, every on-campus option during both summer terms closes by 2:30 p.m., some even earlier.

As the only place on campus to acquire food or ingredients that can be prepared at home, Union Station doesn’t close until 5:30 p.m. But the foods there, especially the limited grocery items, face markups harsher than actual grocery stores. Starbucks similarly stays open until 4:30 p.m., but provides little to no nutritional food options, and, more importantly, both close in the afternoon.

All of this combined limits on-campus students significantly, and those who can’t drive and don’t have options to easily leave campus barely have access to food at all. Students who live on campus during the summer semester are likely taking classes during that time, and considering the longer meeting times of summer

classes, many students in synchronous courses may not be able to get food on campus, much less at an affordable price.

This problem is increased tenfold for students who work and live on campus during the summer. To work on campus during the summer, you must take at least one course, so the issues from the possibility of synchronous courses stack with employment. In this situation, students are faced with little to no options when it comes to grabbing food after work and hardly anything to keep at home from what they can buy on their days off. Dining Services workers are often students themselves, and though they’re usually able to grab some food from work, that only provides them a meal per shift at best. For students who work outside of Dining Services, especially those who work outside of the MUC, there’s hardly any options to eat from after work, and even fewer options for consistent ingredients to keep in their housing.

Programs like Cougar Cupboard aim to alleviate some of these problems, but despite their positive intentions the same problems remain regarding timing — the service is only available for one day a week during the summer. As it’s only open for five hours on every Wednesday, students with work or classes on Wednesday have even less opportunity to obtain necessary food/ supplies for the week.

In this case, the solution isn’t to just extend hours for all options available. There likely aren’t enough employees to cover that many shifts, and it’d be cruel to overwork employees during what is already a difficult time. Instead, the best solution would be to keep less locations open on campus, but lengthen their hours similarly to the standards set by the Fall and Spring semesters. Three or four locations to eat on campus that all stay open into the evening is more reasonable for both the employees and the students who need food.

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SIUE’s administrative errors can jeopardize students’ futures KAIT BAKER SIUE alumnus

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I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spring 2021, yet you won’t find my name in The Alestle’s Graduation Issue or the graduation program. It’s as if I didn’t graduate at all. In fact, I almost didn’t because of a careless administrative error.

In March, I had two classes waived, the petitions having been sent to the [Registrar’s Office] — all should have been good, right? It, in fact, wasn’t. When I went to send my transcript to my future graduate school, I checked my unofficial one first. It’s lucky I did because it

came to find out those waivers were never put into DegreeWorks.

Luckily, it has been all sorted out now, but it got me thinking — what if I hadn’t discovered the error? What about other people? The thing is that I know it cannot just be people like me who have been put in potentially compromising positions due to administrative errors like these. It simply isn’t an option for things like this to be happening when it’s peoples’ degrees on the line.

Students take out loans and work so hard for four years for graduation. Such oversight and negligence isn’t an option when it comes

their whole futures at risk. It can be traumatic to have such hard work be put into jeopardy over something that has nothing to do with the student at all.

To students, please make sure that all your paperwork is lined up and properly in the system. No, this shouldn’t have to be our job to make sure that others are doing their job right. However, if someone is not, it can have serious consequences, whether it is our fault or not. Don’t be afraid to speak up if something seems wrong.

It’s the right thing to do.

Administrative errors like these simply are not an option

can do to students’ futures. I know it cannot just be me, and it is so easy to trust that such fragile matters such as college degrees will be held with the utmost care. However, it appears that more care needs to be taken so that so much hard work isn’t just swept under the rug.

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Berube thinks Blues’ challenges are mental as well as physical TOM TIMMERMAN St. Louis Post-Dispatch (TNS)

In reflecting on the just-completed season, Blues coach Craig Berube on Wednesday boiled his team’s troubles down to the essentials: “We didn’t score enough, we didn’t defend enough. ... We were just in between.”

The problems were easy to identify, but the solutions may not be so simple. Injuries took a toll on this team, but even if everyone was healthy, there’s no assurance the team would have done the things needed to avoid a second straight early exit from the playoffs. Still, Berube sees this as a team that can contend for a Stanley Cup, if it can only find its identity, something that escaped it all season.

Doing that will be essential to the team’s success. For instance, can the Blues stick with its coach’s rugged, forechecking preference while integrating faster players into the lineup?

“You could still do both and you have to do both,” Berube said. “I do believe that you have to score off the rush or get scoring chances off the rush. I think it’s important. I know that we got some speed with some young guys on our team that are good off the rush. I preach both. It’s about decision making for me.

And as players mature and develop and spend more time in the NHL, they’re going to get better at that. So I saw improvement.

Jordan Kyrou’s a perfect example.

Comes in and I thought his game improved over time this year and he had a real good year in my opinion, and he’s a good rush player.”

Look at a heat map of shots in the Blues-Avalanche series and you’ll find that at both even strength and the power play, the Blues didn’t get a lot of chances from the area in front of the net (except, at five on five, an area right around the right goalpost) while Colorado did. On offense and defense, the Blues need to do more in front of the net. But for Berube, that’s a matter of mindset more than body type.

“You can get better at everything,” he said. “I know we lost players. But it’s not just on the defense, defending is everybody, goalie out. It’s everybody and you’ve got to take pride in that. It’s an important part of the game. And yes, you can improve at being harder at your net and doing different things. Listen, the D corps, there’s guys that are big guys, it’s easy for them to push guys out of the way or be physical around the net and there are smaller D who’ve got to do it a different way.

“Getting to the net (on offense) has got to be on everybody, it’s not just the ‘Oh, we’re gonna go get a couple net-front guys.’

It’s an attitude that we’ve got to go to the net more. We didn’t get enough rebound chances because of that and that was a problem that we talked about all the time.

So for me it’s just more of an attitude. If you want to score in this league on a consistent basis as a player, and be a good scoring team, you got to go to the net and get those rebound goals, because that’s where a lot of the goals are scored, we all know that.”

NHL commisoner Gary Bettman presents the St. Louis Blues’ Alex Pietrangelo (27) with the Stanley Cup after defeating the Boston Bruins, 4-1, to win Game 7 of the NHL Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden in Boston on June 12, 2019. | Bruce Bennet / Getty Images

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Berube said that Justin Faulk and Robert Bortuzzo, both of whom were hurt in Game 2 after hits to the head, would be fine.

As for another defenseman, Vince Dunn, who missed the final 16 games of the season with what is thought to be a concussion, Berube said, “He just never felt comfortable to play. So we never want to put a player in a bad situation. And so he just wasn’t ready.

I mean, he told us he wasn’t ready so that’s why he didn’t play.”

Berube said that neither the Blues nor Vladimir Tarasenko

were happy with his play in his return from shoulder surgery but he foresees a better future. “He needs to get his legs going again,” Berube said, “and use his body and just play a harder game down low in the offensive zone and get to the harder areas to score goals. ... This is a big summer for him for sure, from a training standpoint, and making sure he comes in real healthy next year at training camp, then use training camp to get everything going again. ...

I think you’re gonna see a different Vladi for sure.” Tarasenko has arrived in Latvia for the world

championships and now has a six-day quarantine before he can start playing for Russia.

While Berube liked in general what he saw from forward Klim Kostin in his two games after coming back from the KHL, it wasn’t enough to get him in the lineup in the playoffs. “I thought he looked a little tired, I think with the travel and everything and the season he had,” he said.

“He looked like he got a little winded at times. But he did fine. ... Where we were at, I went with all the guys that I thought could get the job done.”

Summer yoga sessions to continue providing fitness opportunities KRISTINA JOHNSON sports editor

Yoga at SIUE is back for the summer with classes for beginners and intermediates. Other classes include breath work, restorative yoga and rise and shine yoga.

The pandemic wiped out a lot of summer activities and events in 2020, but yoga continued through Zoom. Leslie Brock, online and educational outreach assistant director for non-credit programs, said yoga was one of the activities they were able to keep people interested in during COVID-19. “[When] the pandemic hit last year, we canceled everything in the spring and then yoga was the one course we ran over the summer,” Brock said. “It’s always been one that people ask for and so we have been running them via Zoom this whole time during the

pandemic.”

Brock said there will be classes in yoga for beginners and intermediates, yoga and breathwork, restorative yoga and rise and shine yoga. She said each class has different 10-week class schedules and they roughly run from June 2 - August 7.

Yoga instructor Louise Hamlin-Laird has been teaching yoga for almost six years. She said yoga can become dangerous for those who are new to the activity and don’t know how to move their bodies correctly. She suggests those who are new to yoga should start with the yoga for beginners and intermediate courses.

“I’ve actually watched people’s shoulder blades start to wing away from [the] thoracic part of their spine and compromise that part of the spine,” Hamlin-Laird said. “I really don’t do a lot of advanced poses in any of my classes

because there aren’t that many advanced people.”

She said during the pandemic, she had to change the way she taught since she heavily relied on the use of in-person classes to get a feel for her students.

“With COVID-19 and being on Zoom, you can’t see people’s alignments, so there are some poses that I won’t even do. I can’t see anybody to see if [they] are in proper alignment, to bring their body down correctly,” HaminLaird said.

Hamlin-Laird said SIUE’s yoga classes are in cooperation with Studio Gaia, a local yoga studio which has moved on campus.

Some of their courses are taught in-person because Studio Gaia has lessened their COVID-19 restrictions, but she is still waiting for SIUE to follow their steps.

“They moved from their downtown location and they

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are now on-campus at the [Fuller] Dome,” Hamlin-Laird said.

“People don’t realize there are yoga classes going on. There are not a lot of them right now, but there are three teachers [who] are consistently teaching yoga classes at the dome.”

Those wanting to participate

can expect to pay $10 per drop-in session or buy one of the 10-week sessions for a price of $90.

For more information about SIUE Educational Outreach yoga classes, visit their website for the Office of Educational Outreach or email Leslie Brock at lbrock@ siue.edu.

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