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Big Read Edwardsville analyzes Greek mythos

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Homecoming returns after year of pandemic cancellations EVENT SCHEDULE

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Homecoming 2021 is back in full swing with a week of events like the golf cart parade, bonfire, Homecoming Run and Alumni Hall of Fame induction.

A Homecoming tradition, the golf cart parade rolled out on Monday in the Quad.

Personnel Administration graduate student Madeline Schurman of Rochester, Illinois, said there were 25 student organizations who took part in the parade, which was a large project that she started working on when she joined CAB. “It was definitely a crazy process, but this event specifically, the golf cart parade, I knew that we had to have it because it’s a tradition. I know that it’s a favorite of the [student organizations] and the departments,” Schurman said.

Being a member of CAB, Schurman said she is involved in almost every other Homecoming event taking place throughout the week.

Nick Niemerg, the assistant director of constituent relations for the SIUE Foundation, said he would be attending many of the events and would be participating in the virtual 5k Homecoming run that’s being done until the end of the week.

Niemerg said the Homecoming Run taking place at 9 a.m. on Saturday outside Birger Hall is a way to help get involved and give back to the SIUE community.

Crafts, cookies and cougars 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. in the Goshen Lounge Petting Zoom 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. on the Dunham Lawn Cosmic Bowling 7-9 p.m. at Cougar Lanes Fall Fest 7-10 p.m. on the lawn below the MUC

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Therapy Dogs 10 a.m. - noon on the Stratton Quad Unchained Concert 4-7 p.m. on the Stratton Quad

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Homecoming Run 9 a.m. - noon at Birger Hall Cougar Fan Zone 4-7 p.m. at Korte Stadium

includes Fraternity and Sorority Life 60th anniversary

Homecoming Soccer Game 7-10 p.m. at Korte Stadium

“We solicit sponsorships from local businesses to help defray the costs for the run so that more of the proceeds can go right into our scholarship fund. So we really want this week to be a community effort,” Niemerg said.

Niemerg said the primary concern when hosting events like the run for Homecoming week has been how they can make it safe for the community during a pandemic.

“I think we’ve done a great job of creating a safe environment for all of these events. The two big ones on Saturday are outdoors, so it’ll be a great way to still have an in-person event and still be able to have that social distance,” Niemerg said.

Niemerg said the event he’s looking forward to the most is the Alumni Hall of Fame induction ceremony at 6 p.m. on Thursday due to the nine inductees representing each academic unit on campus and what they’ve accomplished in their life.

“We have a world championship boxer as one of the inductees, we have a wellknown sports broadcaster, we have a nursing alum who’s actually in Africa right now helping with COVID-19 research. This is the first year that a School of Pharmacy alum will be inducted into the Hall of Fame,” Niemberg said.

MacKenzie Randolph of Shipman, Illinois helps plan events like the Homecoming bonfire through her job as external affairs officer

for student government. Randolph, a junior computer science major, said she sees the bonfire as a way to help students relax and get to know each other.

“I know since last year with COVID-19, we couldn’t have a bonfire and I’m sure a lot of people were disappointed with that, especially the freshman since that was their first year,” Randolph said.

For herself, Randolph said she is excited for the petting zoo that has been rescheduled for 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 23 on the Dunham lawn after rain forecasts cancelled the first planned date of Tuesday.

Randolph said she hopes this week will be a success, especially after the cancellation of all events last year.

“I’m just hoping that everybody has a really good time this year to enjoy themselves and take a break from school because that’s really the most important [thing] — to think about yourself and have fun and meet new people,” Randolph said.

For more information about the upcoming events, visit the SIUE Homecoming website.

| golf cart photos courtesy of Madeline Schurman

Late Night Carnival Craze brings some excitement to a Thursday night FRANCESCA BOSTON reporter

Campus Activity Board is putting on their first Late Night event of the semester, Late Night Carnival Craze. The event will include free food and inflatables.

The event will take place from 6- 9:30 p.m on Thursday, Sept.

30 in the Goshen Lounge of the Morris University Center.

Senior accounting major Lindsey Miller from Gillespie, Illinois, is the Late Night at the MUC chair and is in charge of the event. She said she is excited for the event coming up as they have lots of fun activities planned such as a

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snack bar and inflatables.

“We’re going to have an inflatable obstacle course out on the patio for students to come to. Inside we’re going to have a candy bar, which will have a bunch of chocolaty things, but also a bunch of sour things like Sour Patch Kids and whatnot.

And then we’re having popcorn to go along with the candy bar,” Miller said.

Miller also said that there will be crafts for students who may not want to jump on inflatables.

“There is going to be a craft, so we’ll have little rubber duckies. [Students] can decorate the rubber duckies and stuff. But that’s about it, unless you want to go through the inflatables for like, three hours, then go for it,” Miller said.

Graduate Student Kiah Meyer, from Elgin, Il-

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linois, a graduate assistant for Campus Activities Board, is also on the Late Night committee.

She said the event is meant to encourage students to get onto campus and have some fun.

“It’s kind of just designed to get students on campus as a way for them to come out, just to kind of start the year off right.

I’m excited,” Meyer said.

According to Miller, Late Night events differ each month and will typically be at the end of the month. The committee decided to choose a new theme for this month’s event that they haven’t done. Since the events are on weeknights as opposed to weekends, the attendance tends to be lower, Miller said.

“In the past they had roughly around 75. So that’s what we’ve kind of started to base it off of and

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we ordered everything for about 75. But this being the first one of the year, we’re kind of going to test it and see. We can kind of base those numbers off of that,” Miller said.

Senior international studies major, Ashley Brown from Effingham, Illinois, is a student worker at the Kimmel. She said she’s excited for all the upcoming events on campus, especially the Late Night events.

“I’m excited for upcoming events like the Late Night events, and homecoming is next week so there’s gonna be a petting zoo [and] unchained cosmic bowling, so make sure to check that out,” Brown said.

Meyer said that the events that take place in October and November are also annual

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events. They have an October event that will typically take place near Cougar Lanes and is typically Halloween-themed.

She also said that they have their annual Smore’s Giving, which is their November event.

“We’ll have hot chocolate, hot tea and a s’mores bar for students and we’re thinking of a DIY craft. There is something in the works for that,” Meyer said.

Miller also said that the Late Night Committee is looking for more members to join. Students who are interested may stop by the Kimmel Student Involvement Center.

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SIUE history professor published book that could change minds on ‘American myth’ of small towns FRANCESCA BOSTON reporter

History professor Jason Stacy has recently published his fourth book, “Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town.”

Stacy argues that the publication of Masters’s book “Spoon River Anthology” shifted the ‘myth of the American small town’ from New England villages to rural midwestern small towns throughout his book.

“It was one of the factors that helped shift what I call the ‘myth of the American small town,’” Stacy said. “I then traced the legacy of this new myth as promoted by ‘Spoon River Anthology’ through the 20th century, and what I argue is that the myth changed geographic location from New England to the Midwest but also the contours of the myth changed, from not only this nostalgia for a little New England Village, but to also include ambivalence about the American city.”

Jon Lauck, the editor-in-chief for the Middle West Review, a publication out of the University of Nebraska that focused on the history of the Midwest, said that Stacy’s work disproves the thesis that all Midwestern writers revolt against their region. According to Lauck, many midwestern writers feel they should turn on their region and leave, but Lauck believes that Stacy’s book is able to counteract that theory and encourage midwestern writers to stay and use their creativity in the Midwest. “[The book] really is a masterpiece of

literary history and theory, and should be read by every writer in the Midwest,” Lauck said.

Stacy also said that Masters’ work created a long-lasting legacy about the “myth of the American small town.”

He said he traced that legacy through pop culture throughout the ages.

“I looked at films after the second World War, like ‘It’s a Wonderful Life, or the ‘Best Years of Our Lives,’ and even later in the 20th century in the 1950s, like ‘Rebel Without a Cause’, or books like ‘Catcher in the Rye’ even though it takes place in the city, it has that same kind of sense that ‘the surface belies an underlying phoniness,’ as Holden Caulfield called it,” Stacy said.

Stacy said he was even able to trace the legacy of Masters’ work into the 21st century with popular cultural media such as “Fargo” and “Stranger Things.”

Herbert K. Russell, the author of “Edgar Lee Masters: a Biography,” was someone that Stacy consulted with on his book.

Russell said that Stacy’s newest book will change the way people talk about Masters.

“I think [his] conclusions are solid.

He’ll certainly open up new fields of scholarship about Masters,” Russell said. “It is just an excellent book for showing how Masters relates to present times.”

Stacy said it is important to study this myth of American small towns because it exposes blind spots within

American culture.

“This myth of the small town in the 20th century left a lot of people out. In fact, I described in one of my footnotes that this myth was effectively a sundown town, that the presence of African Americans, for example, is not incorporated into this mythology,” Stacy said. “And so this myth also exposes some of the blind spots, some of the structural racism that has been part of this country’s history for a long time.”

“Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American

Small Town” is Stacy’s fourth book. He has previously published a book on Walt Whitman and co-authored two textbooks.

He is currently working on publishing a couple of smaller pieces soon, but he said that he is planning to take the next semester to reinvest in being a professor.

“I’ve got a chapter and an article coming out, both on Whitman and on Masters but this semester, I’m really reinvesting in my teaching. I’ve retooled a couple of my classes. I’m editing a book with a group of students and so that’s taking up a lot of my memory space,” Stacy said.

Murphy fires back at those blasting her over Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan STEVEN LEMONGELLO Orlando Sentinel / TNS

ORLANDO, Fla. — The bill that President Biden sees as the cornerstone of his agenda is facing pushback from an unexpected corner: a group of centrist Democrats that includes U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Winter Park.

Biden’s $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill is getting strong support from progressive groups such as Our Revolution, which protested outside Murphy’s office in Orlando last week. Its leaders accuse Murphy of undermining the president.

“There’s a handful of people standing in the way, and she’s positioning herself as the leader of the opposition within the Democratic Party,” said Joseph Geevarghese, executive director of Our Revolution, which formed out of the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.

Murphy, however, defended her position as being both fiscally responsible and politically realistic.

“The reconciliation bill contains provisions that touch every element of my constituents’ lives, from the moment they’re born until the moment they die, and then what happens for their future generations,” Murphy said Friday in an interview with the Orlando Sentinel. “And so I think it’s reasonable to take time to fully understand the proposals and to understand how we are going to pay for [them].”

A reconciliation bill is a bud-

get-focused package that can win Senate approval with all 50 Democratic votes and no GOP votes, thanks to Vice President Kamala Harris’ tie-breaking vote in that chamber. Otherwise, bills are subject to a GOP filibuster if they don’t get 60 votes.

The reconciliation bill as written includes measures on education, health care, energy, climate change, paid leave and child care and immigration. It would cost $3.5 trillion over 10 years.

Any reconciliation bill would need the support of every Democrat in the Senate, including U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Manchin has said he would not vote for a bill that large, citing opposition to the increased taxes on the wealthy and corporate tax rate hikes that would be needed to pay for it.

Any House bill that can’t pass the Senate and become law isn’t viable, Murphy said.

“Only bills that get signed into law can actually make a difference in people’s lives,” she said.

She was adamant, however, that this was not just about Manchin. She said there are other representatives and senators who have issues with the bill.

“The House and the Senate need to be closely negotiating to figure out what both chambers are able to pass so that it lands on the President’s desk,” she said.

A separate $1 trillion infrastructure bill has already passed the Senate 69-30 with 19 GOP votes.

But with Democrats holding the House by just eight seats,

U.S. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Winter Park. | Stephen M. Dowell / Orlando Sentinel / TNS

Biden, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer crafted a strategy to move both the bipartisan bill and the more sweeping reconciliation bill through the House at the same time to avoid having members vote for one and not the other.

Murphy was one of 10 centrist Democrats who held up allowing the reconciliation bill to go forward in return for a pledge to hold a vote on the bipartisan bill by the end of the month.

This week, she was also the only Democrat on the powerful Ways and Means Committee to vote against moving parts of the reconciliation bill forward.

The Ways and Means Committee, which oversees taxes and revenue, unveiled its parts of the

bill on a rolling basis instead of all at once, requiring members to vote on provisions of the bill without specifying how they would be paid for. Murphy said afterward she wanted more transparency in the process.

Three other centrist Democrats in another committee voted against the Medicare drug pricing provisions of the bill, which would allow that agency to negotiate the cost of drugs.

Yet, the plan was still able to move forward.

Murphy is one of the co-sponsors of an alternative Medicare drug pricing bill, which would limit the number of drug prices that could be negotiated.

“Murphy is the sponsor of weaker drug pricing legislation,” Geevarghese said. “... If we don’t

have the U.S. government negotiating for purchase prescription drugs, it ultimately means that drug pricing will go up for all Americans and for seniors in particular, I don’t think that’s explainable to her constituents.”

Murphy said Our Revolution and other progressive groups were “not being honest” about her position, which she said was being realistic about what has a chance of passing both chambers.

“I have put forward an alternative proposal that would balance patients’ access to innovative medicines with lowering the cost of prescription drugs,” she said.

The response to Murphy from conservative groups has been mixed.

Club For Growth is running an ad in the Orlando market urging Murphy to hold tight and ultimately oppose the bill. The National Republican Congressional Committee, however, is attacking Murphy by claiming “history will repeat itself” and Murphy will eventually vote yes on the bill.

Murphy said she was optimistic that the reconciliation bill would pass in some form. She said she believes the bipartisan infrastructure bill will be passed by the House later this month, even without a vote first on the reconciliation package.

“The speaker has committed to putting the infrastructure bill up for a vote on Sept. 27,” Murphy said. “My hope is that bill passes in a bipartisan way out of the House.”

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BY THE NUMBERS

COVID-19 at SIUE

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

Sept. 10 - Sept. 16: 19 students, 3 faculty/staff Sept. 3 - Sept. 9: 20 students, 4 faculty/staff

14-day new positive tests: 39 students, 7 faculty/staff All prior weeks positive tests (August 6 - Sept. 2): 79 students, 8 faculty/staff Total positive cases: 118 students, 15 faculty/staff

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Madison County confirmed cases by day

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Source: Madison County Health Department COVID-19 Dashboard under the Cases by Day tab as of Sept.22

Percentage of isolation/quarantine space available on campus (as of September 22): 97 percent Source: Health, Reporting, and Testing page on SIUE’s COVID-19 website, as of September 22

Tests conducted by SIUE Sept. 10 - Sept. 16: 1,931

COVID-19’S impact on Madison County

14-day new tests conducted: 3,652

All of Illinois’ regions remain under Phase 5, which went into

Sept. 3 - Sept. 9: 1,721

All prior weeks tests conducted (August 6 - Sept. 2): 4,990

effect June 11. All sectors of the economy reopen with new health and hygiene practices permanently in place:

Total tests conducted: 8,642

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Positive cases identified by SIUE testing: Sept. 10 - Sept. 16: 14 Sept. 3 - Sept. 9: 18

14-day new positive cases: 32

All prior weeks positive cases (August 6 - Sept. 2): 68 Total: 86

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Large gatherings of all sizes can resume.

All sectors of the economy reopen with businesses, schools and recreation resuming normal operations with new safety guidance and procedures.

Conventions, festivals and large events can take place.

On June 30, Illinois returned to mandated masks indoors regardless of vaccination status.

Source: dph.illinois.gov

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Meet the 2021-2022 Student Government NICOLE BOYD social media manager FRANCESCA BOSTON reporterer

Student Government hosted a meet and greet Sept. 13-15 on the Quad. Here’s what representatives said they’re planning to do this year.

Hailee O’Dell: President of Student Government O’Dell, a junior psychology major from Glen Carbon, Illinois, said her main job as president is to build great leaders within Student Government. “[COV ID-19] kind of brought down the norm of / photo courtesy what Student Govof Student ernment was, so [we Government have been trying] to build that back up for a post-[COVID-19] year. Students are really excited to be back on campus, so we’ve got quite the year ahead of us with all of that, getting students involved again while maintaining a safe environment for the students on campus,” O’Dell said.

O’Dell also said she has personal initiatives in addition to her initiatives as president.

“Some of my personal initiatives are working with one of our senators on a syllabus base, so you can see the syllabus of your classes before you register for them, as well as working with student employment on summer employment for students who aren’t enrolled in classes. Dining Services and the Fitness Center see a big hit from that whenever students have to leave, so working with them on that to see if we can do anything about it,” O’Dell said. “There’s more, but that’s what I’m working on right now. But mostly just building really great leaders within

Student Government and maintaining good morale.”

Holley Hentz: Senator of CAS for Peoples and Cultures Hentz, a junior criminal justice major with an emphasis in pre-law from Alton, Illinois, said what she hopes to accomplish in Student Government is to make SIUE a safe campus for a diverse population / photo courtesy of students. of Student “My first iniGovernment tiative that I’m trying to make happen is self defense classes, hopefully more often than just the semesterly ones held by the police here on campus,” Hentz said. “And I’d just like to make it a lot more inclusive for [the] LGBTQ community and for people of color and for disadvantaged people, so hopefully we’ll get some scholarships going and just some really fun events to promote diversity and inclusivity.”

Mackenzie Richards: Senator at Large Richards, a sophomore psychology major from Granite City, Illinois, said she wants to focus on sustainability, as well as diversity and inclusivity on campus.

“Also making / photo courtesy sure that everything of Student is still accessible and Government fun and safe for everyone with events and everything going

on,” Richards said. “With [COVID-19], I want everyone to feel very included on campus and make them feel very safe.”

Alexia Burnett: Senator for the School of Nursing Burnett, a junior nursing major from Shelbyville, Illinois, said her goal is to get nursing students more involved on campus and reduce their stress. So far, she has started an influx prep night to prepare for / photo courtesy the NCLEX exam. of Student She said she is also Government looking into doing a mentorship program similar to Cougar Connectors, a peer-to-peer mentoring program where freshman are paired with upperclassmen.

“We talked about maybe doing a movie night, and then we also have talked about doing … like Cougar Connectors. We’ve talked about doing something similar within the nursing program, so freshmen nursing students will be paired up with underclassmen nursing students. I feel like it’s important because if your Cougar Connector isn’t a nursing student, they’re not going to be able to help you,” Burnett said.

“So we’re talking about doing something like that, and we’ve also talked about doing sensitivity training for the faculty and staff over there because recently it’s been brought to our attention that it needs to be done.”

Burnett said she is waiting on an email server list to start implementing her plans, which she hopes to accomplish through sending surveys and weekly emails to other nursing students.

“I know that they’re busy, with me being a nursing student,” Burnett said. “But I hope to get them weekly emails to remind them, ‘Hey, this week there’s these events going on.’ But it really is reliant on me getting [that] email server list.”

09.15.21 Officer took a report regarding a student receiving a fraud email.

09.16.21 Officer responded to a domestic disturbance between a female subject and male subject. Officer advised the argument was verbal only.

09.17.21 Officer assisted Edwardsville PD with detaining a subject on a call.

Officer assisted Edwardsville PD with a subject sleeping in his vehicle.

Officer assisted Edwardsville PD with crowd control on a call.

Officer took a report regarding a subject dropping his wallet and later finding it with cash missing.

Officer assisted Edwardsville PD with crowd control on a loud noise complaint.

Officer responded to a report of two male subjects using two female subjects to enter apartment. Housing was advised.

09.19.21 Officer assisted Edwardsville PD with crowd control on a subject in the wrong apartment.

Officer responded to a report of a subject advising there were a group of male subjects that were trying to get her to buy items that she was not comfortable talking about.

Investigation continues.

Officer responded to a report of a subject wanting to inform the police department that she wanted to try and obtain a no contact order with subject on campus. Officer advised the subject how to complete the process.

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Big Read Edwardsville bewitches readers with free copies of “Circe” and events through October EMILY STERZINGER opinion editor

The National Endowment for the Arts, in partnership with Arts Midwest, funded Big Read Edwardsville, a program providing free copies of the novel “Circe” by Madeline Miller. Events related to the novel and its themes of Greek mythology and witchcraft are being held throughout September and October for the program.

Lora Del Rio, who is the humanities librarian and research & teaching coordinator at Lovejoy Library, said that the mission of the project lines up perfectly with the mission of Edwardsville Public Library, which is opening minds, connecting people, engaging communities and creating experiences.

Jacob Del Rio, the head librarian of adult services at the Edwardsville Public Library, wrote the grant proposal that allowed the program to occur. He said the goal of Big Read Edwardsville is to reach out to existing patrons, SIUE’s students, faculty, staff and Edwardsville at large.

“If you look at the slate of programs, we’re adding programming that’s not exactly directly associated with the text,

kind of tangentially related to where dn’t fit in,” Lora said. we can draw people in that have diffeBetween Lovejoy Library and Edwardrent interests and maybe we can kind of sville Library, 600 books have been purchabring people with sed to give out, with [other] interests many already being and other disciplines picked up by patrons back to literature,” of Lovejoy Library Jacob said. and Edwardsville The event is Public Library. centered around the “I was totalnovel “Circe,” whily delighted to see ch is set in the Grefaculty, students, ek Heroic age and staff — I’m just detold from the perlighted to see the spective of the tituenthusiasm for it. lar witch Circe. Free We didn’t have a copies of the novel lot of buildup for it, were handed out so the response has at Lovejoy Library just been awesome,” and Edwardsville JACOB DEL RIO Lora said.

Edwardsville Public Library head Public Library.

Many events librarian of adult services Lora praised the related to the pronovel for its underdog protagonist, and gram will occur in the next month, inher relatability beyond the scope of gen- cluding a virtual interview with Milder and time period. ler conducted by Professor of English “She’s in this place where she’s like, Language and Literature Nancy Ruff, ‘I don’t feel like I fit in, I don’t belong,’ as well as two keynotes conducted at and I think that people can connect with Wildey Theater, one by Ruff and one that. You don’t have to be a woman to by Professor of English Language and connect with that too; every human has Literature Jessica Despain. had a point in their lives where they diStacey Haas, the senior library spe-

“We’re adding programming that’s not exactly directly associated with the text, kind of tangentially related to where we can draw people in that have different interests

cialist at Lovejoy Library, painted a series of paintings loosely inspired by the books available to view at Lovejoy Library.

She enjoyed the book’s representation of powerful women, which was a main theme she represented in her art.

“I didn’t really paint things that only pertained to the book, I went back to that theme of girl power, so there’s a lot of different female figures with — [Circe] does witchcraft so it’s kind of along that line too,” Haas said.

As the program is intended to reach a wider audience, other media is included within the events that aligns with the theming of Greek mythology and Witchcraft. Media under the theme of Greek mythology includes the first two books in the “Percy Jackson & The Olympians” series, which is provided as a pre-teen/teen alternative to Circe for discussion, and viewings of Disney’s “Hercules” that occurred earlier this month. At 8 p.m. on Oct. 15, there is a showing of the Japanese animated movie “Kiki’s Delivery Service,” included to match the theme of witchcraft from the novel.

Additional information and the full event schedule is available on the Edwardsville Public Library’s website.

Mississippi Earthtones Festival showcases all things ‘green’ FRANCESCA BOSTON reporter Education centers and local artists took center stage at Alton’s Mississippi Earthtones Festival, an annual event put on by Alton Main Street and the Sierra Club. This year’s event was the 15th anniversary of the festival.

There were local bands, eateries, thrift stories, eco-friendly businesses and local conservation agencies. Each year, the event has a theme and the organizer chose this year’s theme to be “Metamorphosis.”

The festival had music playing throughout the day, filling the whole space with alternative R&B by Sounds of Syla or a tribute to The Grateful Dead

by Jake’s Leg. The festival’s main goal is to promote green living and showcase local ‘green businesses’ that benefit the Mississippi River, while also promoting local artists, according to Sara McGibany, the executive director at Alton Main Street. “[We are] basically celebrating the river through art, music and conservation,” McGibany said.

Pat Powers, a volunteer with the Piasa Palisades branch of the Sierra Club said the club promotes the transformation of the planet and that their main goal at the festival is to educate and hand out butterfly weed seeds.

“What we’re doing here is handing out butterfly seed packs for helping the repopulation and to be sure that they have enough of the things that attract them,” Powers said. “[Our] main goal here is to hand out [the packets]

and educate people.”

Other educational centers at the festival included the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, which made reusable totes out of old T-shirts to cut down on plastic bag usage.

Another part of the festival is to educate children about the importance of taking care of the earth. Green Thumb Nursery, which is operated by Tom Shirrell, teaches about the importance of planting native Illinois prairie plants, grasses and wildflowers.

“A lot of these plants are good for pollinators: bees, butterflies, caterpillars. I try and promote people to plant native plants to help native species,” Shirrell said.

The event also featured local artists. Many of them displayed their talents through chalk mandalas drawn on the streets of the festival. Artist Tristan Haslam said she was inspired by the theme of the year, and based her drawing on it.

“When I first started going into recovery, one of my favorite quotes was ‘As soon as the caterpillar thought the world was going to end, it turned into a butterfly.’

So I thought that was a really good theme.

So I want to kind of make that into a mandala,” Haslam said.

Renegade Herbals, a business that sells organic soaps, beard oils and salves, was one of the many booths at the festival.

Sarah Bettes, one of the co-owners, said they love coming to the festival because of the overall vibe and message.

“It’s just a great vibe. Like the music goes all day long and everybody’s in a good mood and it feels good to be here. It doesn’t hurt that it’s our best festival of the year,” Bettes said.

Tristin Haslam, an artist, draws a chalk mandala at the festival. | Francesca Boston / The Alestle Clever Endeavors, a husband-wife hobby business owned by Steven and Sherrie Kirbach, has been a part of the festival for five years. Sherrie Kirbach said the festival is a good time for everybody.

“It’s pretty kick back and mellow. And the people are, just everybody’s in a good mood,” Kirbach said.

Part of the festival was also to tell people about local volunteer events coming up that the public can be a part of. The Mississippi Earthtones Festival hosts a river clean-up the Saturday after the Festival. This year the event will be from 8 a.m - 3 p.m on Saturday, Sept. 25 in Alton, Illinois.

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STEM Center’s Urban Ecology Program lets kids ‘be as curious as they want’

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In the new Urban Ecology program, the SIUE STEM Center partnered with Boys and Girls Clubs in Bethalto and Lovejoy, Illinois, the Fairmont City Library

and the Fairmont City Christian Activity Center to get kids interested in learning outside of school with hands-on activities.

Emily Wonnacott-Stanley, program coordinator for the SIUE Stem Center, said the STEM Center partnered with the Mannie Jackson

Wonnacott-Stanley coordinates the STEM Program at SIUE, and is seen here helping local schoolchildren.

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Center to receive a grant from the National Recreation Foundation to develop the program. Wonnacott-Stanley said this summer, they focused on everything they could do outside that was STEM-related, which included putting on a star show with a portable planetarium, followed by using kits to make basic telescopes. “[We] talked to them about how mirrors and lenses work to bring the stars closer to our eyes so we can examine them. We also did geocaching, so we used GPS units and talked about the importance of mapping and the technology involved with that, and how it can be a fun outdoor recreation thing you can do with your family,” Wonnacott-Stanley said. “We did rock collecting, which there was just no way to sell that as a fun, exciting thing, but once we got into it the kids were really excited about the different kinds of rocks that are in Illinois and why we don’t have things like big dinosaur fossils.”

Wonnacott-Stanley said the Urban Ecology Program is the offshoot program from their start with a grant in Madison County housing to do urban gardening. In that program, the STEM Center set up raised beds, did composting, and did lessons about food waste, composting and the importance of enriching soil.

“With COVID, we weren’t

able to go on site anymore, so we tried to make things that the kids could do on their own. So we packaged it up and made it more of an urban ecology, so taking hikes, we have a whole series of nature hikes that we recorded that they could watch. We gave them bird guides to help them with identifying birds in their neighborhood,” Wonnacott-Stanley said. “It was still basically the same idea, getting the kids outside, connecting them to their environment, but during COVID it was hard. We had to do a lot of pivoting.”

Pat Tenllado Marsh, director of the Fairmont Christian Activity Center, said the benefit of the program is keeping children interested in science and learning.

“Not only science, but any kind of recycling activities and those things that I think they want to be part of but they really don’t know how to put it into their own lives.

I think that’s where the benefit is,” Tenllado Marsh said. “We are right there, in the place that they live, not in a school building and they can be as curious as they want and inquisitions are answered and there’s hands-on activities.”

Tenllado Marsh said there were two sessions, the first being for kindergarteners and first graders.

“We did a lot of recycling and craft making, like bird feeders and things and showed them how to

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reuse items like their water bottles and so forth, and then we did some planting and a little bit of gardening, talking about how to get things to grow,” Tenllado Marsh said.

Kylee Short, site coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis, worked with the teens, who did activities including geocaching, a chemistry lesson and an escape the box challenge in which they had to use clues to figure out the code and unlock the box, similar to an escape room.

“They got competitive with the geocaching, and definitely with the … escape the box,” Short said. “It seemed like they wanted to get creative too in their own way, like take their own curiosity, especially when they were doing the chemistry stuff, you know, ‘Can we try this?’ or ‘Can we try that? What will happen if this happens?’ And they let them just run with it.”

Wonnacott-Stanley said the STEM Center will continue working with the Christian Activity Center into the fall, and she is hoping to incorporate sound science.

“We are moving into Madison School’s 21st Century Program,” Wonnacott-Stanley said. “We start that next month and we will be going two days a week for pretty much the entire fall semester and part of the spring semester.”

REVIEW: ‘Blood Brothers’ shows a lesser-known piece of history GABRIEL BRADY lifestyles editor

After a year fraught with political protests and demands for action and change, and some still demanding change, a documentary like “Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali” discusses loyalty and how to best achieve desired change.

At times, the documentary felt like a sports movie, looking at Ali’s meteoric rise to fame and winning of the heavyweight world championship. But the film also delved very deeply into the political climate and aspects of the lives of both Ali and X. And when it came time to discuss X’s assassination, it turned into almost a thriller, and made Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam appear almost like a cult.

These comparisons to a cult are never overtly stated, but the feeling is certainly there, especially when looking at the rules of the Nation of Islam, as well as the vehement worship of Elijah Muhammad, the rhetoric, the assassination of X and more.

All of these tonal shifts sound difficult to balance, but the documentary does a good job of this. In the same way that human lives change over time and no one person’s life can be explained easily, the relationship between Ali and X is difficult to explain. It was a relationship I didn’t know anything about before watching, despite being very interested in X’s teachings, especially at the end of his life.

A strong image of Ali and X’s relationship is painted through real footage of the two as well as heart-wrenching interviews with their family members, such as their daughters and Ali’s brother. There is also a prominent image painted of the ideological shift between these two men that brought them toward each other, and — unfortunately — away from each other.

Around the end of the documentary, a strong case is made that X and Ali are not dead; their messages and words are

still quoted and even watched daily thanks to the internet.

Although Martin Luther King, Jr. is by far the most-quoted and most well-known civil rights leader, he does not get the focus of the film. He is only mentioned once. Instead, it looks at them and lesser-known civil rights leaders from even earlier times, such as Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad. For those unaware, Garvey started the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, which Muhammad was a member of. After this, Muhammad started the Nation of Islam, which X and Ali were members of.

Another present-day event with a strong connection to the documentary is Simone Biles’ withdrawal from the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Ali was honored to represent America, and he competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, and won a gold medal for America in boxing.

Ali was also impressed by the lack of segregation in Rome, and greatly enjoyed his time there. But, when he returned home to Louisville, Kentucky, he was met with just as much segregation and hatred as before, and was even refused service while wearing his gold medal. Just like Biles rejected the Olympics for her own wellbeing, Ali famously threw his medal into the nearby Ohio River Initially, the connection between Ali and X may seem unclear to some. Ali was a boxer, X was a civil rights leader.

However, when their lives are analyzed more closely, it is more obvious why they became so connected.

Both were men who men changed their lives through religion, specifically Islam. And, as a result of this awakening, both of them changed their names, and were very dismissive when people referred to them by their birth names.

However, they both grew apart from each other as well, and that is highlighted

as the tragedy at the heart of the film. It nearly brought a tear to my eye when I heard from Ali’s daughter and brother that he had regrets about reinforcing this rift between himself and X, especially after X shortly died later.

I would strongly suggest this documentary to anyone interested in either X or Ali separately as historical figures, or to

anyone who likes learning about the civil rights movement. Usually, elementary schools only teach about Martin Luther King, Jr. To not mention X or Ali, or many more, is truly a disservice to them and to history.

“Blood Brothers: Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali” is available for streaming on Netflix.

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Facilities Management employees aren’t your parents THE ALESTLE STAFF editorial board

Everyone knows that person. When you’re out eating at a fast food place, they leave their trash at the table. The rest of your group may have taken their trash away, but that one person usually insists they don’t have to do the work.

The most often cited reason for not cleaning up is something along the lines of, “It’s the custodians’ job to clean up.” Some people truly believe that they don’t need to throw away their own trash because someone else is supposed to do it for them.

The most glaring issue with this concept is that it’s just so incredibly condescending. If you’re not considerate enough to clean up after yourself, and instead you want to force someone else to do so, you are very clearly looking

down on that person just because of their job.

It’s also almost always just flat-out wrong to say “This is their job, they need work to do.” At nearly every business or building where there are people employed to clean, those same cleaning employees have plenty of other responsibilities and jobs to attend to.

The Alestle Staff has recently noticed an influx in issues like this at SIUE. Our office is located right next to Center Court in the MUC. Almost every time we look out into Center Court, we see plenty of empty tables with piles of trash left on them.

SIUE’s Facilities Management do clean the buildings on campus, but they are also in charge of maintenance, transportation services on campus and plenty of other jobs. You can clearly see how wrong it is to

assume that SIUE’s cleaning services are just waiting around for work to do.

The final nail in the proverbial coffin of this argument is that we are still in the midst of a pandemic. With COVID-19, Facilities Management has been burdened with even more work on campus. They’ve been tasked with disinfecting campus classrooms, offices and more fairly often, and making sure everyone is safe.

Additionally, if you leave your own food waste out, you are greatly increasing the chances of a member of Facilities Management being infected. If you or someone you are eating with tests positive for COVID-19, and you’ve left your half-eaten food for Facilities Management to clean up, then the member of Facilities Management who cleans up after you is far more likely

to contract COVID-19. That situation could have been avoided, however, if you had cleaned up your own area.

Another possible explanation for this recent uptick in trash left behind is that SIUE’s campus has more people on it at once than it has in almost 18 months. Some members of the SIUE community may not have had experience living on their own, or taking care of their own space on campus in this way.

But, we have been back on campus for over a month now. It is time to take responsibility and take care of ourselves. It isn’t the most far-fetched request, either, and it will help in the long run.

After all, chances are that most people won’t have a cleaning staff with them, day-in and day-out, for their entire lives. So, remember what your parents taught you; clean up after yourself.

Economic Policy Institute. Over twice as much is lost in wage theft than robberies, totalling $933 million in 2012. The same study said five out of six restaurants had committed some form of wage theft — be it off the clock work, lack of overtime pay or stolen tips.

By forcing the majority of workers’ income to rely on tips, they are held hostage to the whims of customers. According to the Economic Policy Institute, two-thirds of tipped workers are women. With the ability to pay the bills in the hands of the customers, tipped workers are forced to put up with misogyny, racism and other forms of bigotry. Workers are also expected to form emotional connections with customers for better tips, which puts undue emotional labor on them — particularly women.

Tipped workers are expected to listen to the stories of chatty customers and show sympathy towards them, forming an artifi-

cial bond with them similar to a parasocial relationship. There is also rampant sexual harassment of female workers that often goes unchecked by management. That required unpaid emotional labor also shows how undervalued ‘feminine’ characteristics are in the workforce and connects to the concept of pink-collar jobs and the gendered division of labor.

Tipping in the United States also has origins in racism and labor exploitation. According to the Center for American Progress, tipping started in the U.S. after emancipation when white employers wanted to avoid paying freed African Americans. This also left their livelihood in the hands of racist customers. This history adds more reason to leave the practice of mandatory tipping behind.

Many European countries like Switzerland don’t require tips and pay their workers the full value of their wages. I don’t see why the U.S. should be any different.

Some argue that switching to a blanket minimum wage will result in less income for servers, but tipping doesn’t have to be done away with completely. Many U.S. customers operate under the assumption that tips should correlate with quality of service, however not automatically giving a 15 to 20 percent tip can harm the worker’s income. By giving tipped workers the regular minimum wage, but still allowing them to collect tips, they will be able to exercise more agency when being mistreated by customers.

Labor exploitation has a long history in America and customers shouldn’t be expected to subsidize the wages of workers. Of course, people should still tip their servers and delivery drivers. If you can’t afford to tip, you shouldn’t be going out to eat at a restaurant anyway. We need consumers to rally behind service workers to leave this practice behind and get people wages they deserve.

A lower wage for tipped workers perpetuates inequalities ALEX AULTMAN editor-in-chief

Raising the minimum wage has been a frequent topic of discussion the last few years, but few mention how much the minimum wage of tipped workers lags behind. The federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but the minimum wage for servers and hospitality workers is only $2.13. In Illinois, our minimum wage is $11 (until it is raised in 2022) and the tipped wage is $6.60.

The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to make up the difference when workers don’t make minimum wage with their tips added to the server wage.

However, the onus often falls on workers to get their employers to make up the difference according to the Center for American Progress. It’s very difficult to stand up to your employer, especially on the topic of pay. Wage theft is the largest form of theft according to the

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Women’s Volleyball breaks even in the Cougar Invitational DAMIAN MORRIS managing editor

The Cougars were off to a rough start last weekend in the Cougar Invitational with a straight-set loss to Valparaiso, but finished strong in a straightset sweep against Western Illinois resulting in a 1-1 for the Cougars and 0-2 victory for Valparaiso.

SIUE vs. Valparaiso In their first game, the Cougars struggled to get the ball rolling in their first set, allowing the Beacons to gain an early lead that put them far out of reach resulting in a 13-25 loss for the first set. However, they saw solid improvement in the second set with back and forth push between the two teams.

Freshman outside hitter Sydney Hummert from Quincy, Illinois, excelled in this set with six kills and five digs. However, despite getting into their groove, the Cougars lost the second set in a 21-25 score after the Beacons came back with multiple straight streaks. The third and final set saw a strong start from the Cougars with a lot of back and forth, but the Beacons maintained a control to the end, only allowing the Cougars to score six points during their final 15 point push resulting in a 17-25 loss in the final set that led to the Beacon’s second win in the tournament.

Head Coach Kendall Paulus said she was really happy with Hummert’s performance and believes in her abilities as a player.

“I’m glad [Hummert] was able to get into a good groove attacking tonight,” Paulus said.

“Plus we had this preseason, we know she can hit high and hard, so I’m really glad she had a good game tonight.”

Hummert ended the match with 11 kills and 11 digs, which also gave her the Cougar’s only double-double of the game and senior middle blocker Annie Ellis led the team with a .312 hitting percentage.

SIUE vs. Western Illinois The Cougars exhibited dramatic improvements in their

second game, gaining a strong lead in the first set against the Leathernecks ending the set with a 25-16 victory, giving them their first win of the tournament. They had an even more dominant second set, never letting up the lead while forcing a series of errors from the Leathernecks. The Cougars continued to force errors into the third set and held their lead through the early part of the set.

However, the Leathernecks came back midway through the set with a seven point streak, evening the score to 13-13 and kept neck and neck through most of the second half. Despite these efforts though, the Cougars maintained control of the game and ended the last set with a 25-21 win to finish out the game.

Paulus said although she was nervous about the Leathernecks tipping the score during the third set, she was impressed by the Cougars’ ability to overcome the pushback.

“I think [Western’s] a really smart team, I think they move the ball around well because they’re balanced as well. So, I was really happy that we were pretty scrappy with when we did have the chance, because that’s something we haven’t been great at, so we were better at that today,” Paulus said.

Freshman setter Alyse Drifka from Richfield, Wisconsin, thrived in this game with a formidable career performance of a .875 clip and a match-best 35 assists. She also made seven kills, which, according to Paulus, the team loves to see from her.

“We love when [Drifka] is aggressive and gives attempts on the board, let alone that many kills, so I’m really glad that she took the chances that she did,” Paulus said.

Also flourishing in this game was freshman outside hitter Julia Treichel from Brookfield, Wisconsin, recording a season high of 16 kills.

Drifka said she attributes the improvement in between the two games to how well the Cougars worked together as a team.

“Passers were digging in system, which allowed me to run at

SIUE has selected a coach from the University of Central Missouri to become basketball program director.

Adam Short previously served as the assistant basketball coach at Central Missouri and an assistant with State Fair Community College.

Short said he heard about the job opening from Men’s Basketball Head Coach Brian Barone.

Barone said he got to know Short in the coaching circles while he was coaching at the community college and had recruited some of his players, and came to respect a lot about him.

“I’ve had a relationship with Coach Barone for the last seven years. He’s somebody that [I’ve] considered a mentor, somebody that I would ask advice for,” Short said. “When the job opened up,

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Freshman setter Grace Beekman from Emden, Illinois, sets the ball for the Cougars in a face off against the Beacons in their first game where she bode seven digs and nine assists for her team. tempting to maintain Cougar control of the ball. | Damian Morris / The Alestle

least three hitters at one time, so I was able to set anyone,” Drifka said. “[Treichel] did a really good job executing the ball and so did all the other hitters, so my confidence came from everyone else on the team.”

Preparing for Conference Treichel said that although they had a really tough preseason and it’s easy to get discouraged, she sees it as a learning experience that will drive the team forward.

“We have a very fresh, young team, and so I think the preseason was a learning curve [and] not a lot of us have experienced that in that high of competition, so, knowing we have that under our belts, I’m excited to just kind of get out of the rookie phase and step into our role as a really dominate team and we do have a lot of energy and we do have a lot of fresh perspectives, so I’m excited to use that for this season,” Treichel said.

She also said this victory sparked some confidence in the team as well.

“When you’re hyped with the rest of your team, the rest of the game just flows from it, so it was a good morale booster just to know we do have that in us, as a team, as a whole, because that feeds into all of our individual play,” Treichel said.

However, Paulus said the team can’t get complacent thinking that one game of improvement with sustain, but is hoping to help everyone cement some of the habits she saw during the game during practice this week.

“I think we need something to help ignite some fire, because I think we’re in this growth mindset ... and I think that’s a good place to be, but we’ve got to find the balance of how to pull out everything you have at every point, so I think conference will naturally do that for us,” Paulus said.

“They’re ready.”

Men’s basketball selects Short as new director of operations NICOLE BOYD social media manager

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he called me about the position to “He’s a hard worker. He’s see if I was interested, and I was.” willing to learn, he’s willing to Short said he was inter- put himself out there on a dayested in the job because he to-day and get better so I think believes in the program Barone has he’s a great addition to our staff,” built at SIUE. Barone said.

“Since he’s takShort said his en over, he’s done a duties will include great job building scheduling, budthe culture and then geting and making bringing really good sure the players are basketball players ready to practice. He here to SIUE,” Short said his experience at said. “I think it’s a SIUE has been great great university too, so far. big campus, great lo“I made the right cation, so everything decision. It’s a good about it was reason family atmosphere,” for interest.”

Short said. “[I’m] Barone said looking forward to Short was chosen Photo courtesy of the season, it’s going because he had a University Marketing to be here before we passion to improve, and Communications know it.” and he thought Trevor Mathews, Short would bring enthusiasm, a student assistant at Universibasketball knowledge and a hard ty of Central Missouri, said he working mentality. worked with Short on day-to-day

operations for the basketball team such as practice, team travel and team meals on the road.

“Coach Short is phenomenal to work with. Not only is he a great coach but he is a great person. He has helped me out so much, he’s answered every question I had,” Mathews said.

“Coach Short just brings that energy to the program that is just contagious and he’s one of the people that his hard work reflects onto the players and the people that he’s around.”

Mathews said he’s excited for Short because he’s been wanting to get to the Division I level for a while.

“He’s very deserving of it.

Him being at that Division I level is going to be great for him with his work ethic and I have no doubts that he’s going to be a Division I assistant in no time,” Mathews said. “SIUE has a great worker, he’s a great coach.”

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