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Isabel Miller | @IsabelMMiller Joann Toler, Christine Brewer and June Morgan sing together at Shawnee High School on April 11 at Grand Tower, Il. Toler and Morgan stand in a trio called the Shawnee Trio with Brewer’s mother. The three singers went to high school together.

Christine Brewer, grammy award-winning soprano, to perform with area music groups Grace Schneider | Staff Reporter

WOLF LAKE, Ill. – Christine Brewer steps out in front of hundreds of audience members, this time it isn’t for the BBC Proms or Wigmore Hall in London, but instead for a captivated audience of students and staff at Shawnee High School.

The high school sits in the unincorporated community of Wolf Lake nestled between the southern Illinois towns of Aldridge and Ware, only miles from the Mississippi River.

Brewer was named one of the Top 20 Sopranos of the 20th century by BBC Music Magazine in April 2007 and the New York Times dubbed her as “one of the best in the business.”

She was honored in the 48th Annual Grammy Awards for “Best Choral Performance” and “Best Classical Album” for her work on William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Brewer will be a featured

Isabel Miller | @IsabelMMiller Christine Brewer sings in front of students and staff of Shawnee High School on April 11 at Grand Tower, Il.

soloist in a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s iconic “Messa da Requiem” – a collaborative concert among the Southern Illinois University, Southeast Missouri University and the John A. Logan College music programs.

The piece is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral Mass for four soloists, double choir and orchestra.

The “Messa da Requiem”

was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired.

Edward Benyas, orchestra director at SIU, and Sara Edgerton, orchestra director at SEMO, said they combine their students every couple of years to put on concerts of this nature.

“I believe this is one of the greatest pieces of Western

music ever written,” Benyas said. “There is nothing quite like conducting incredible music like this and I am extremely excited to see it all come together. I would honestly consider it ‘the concert of the decade.’”

Benyas said he has worked with Brewer before and said having a soloist of her caliber can “really raise the level” of the rest of the orchestra and choirs.

He said he hopes to show the talent of southern Illinois by bringing in local soloists, while also presenting an internationally acclaimed artist.

Brewer said she always holds southern Illinois in her heart.

On April 11, the Grand Tower native returned to her alma mater, Shawnee High School, where she performed, spoke about pursuing dreams and answered student questions.

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The SIU Fashion Design and Merchandising Program will be hosting its annual Student Showcase and Runway Fashion Show on April 25 in the Student Center ballrooms.

There will be an opening exhibit of student coursework and projects in the J.W. Corker Lounge at 6 p.m. before the fashion show begins, according to a university press release.

The show is free to the public and starts at 7 p.m.

The press release said over 150 people are involved with the show, including cosmetology students from John A. Logan community college. The main feature of the show are the four senior designers’ final garment collections.

The senior students have been working on their projects since the beginning of the year or before. “[I’ve worked] since the beginning of the semester, I want to say previous semester as well,” Terrian Brownlow, a senior studying fashion design and merchandising, said. “I have a wedding gown that will be in the show, so I would say I’ve been preparing for this for a while now.”

Four categories are represented in the show.

Six first-year students will be participating in the first category, “Dressed For Effect,” which is a spring-themed dress line.

Four senior designers will be participating in the second and third categories. “Mardi Gras,” featuring a group of experimental pieces centering around a color theme, will be first and “Bridal Reimagined” will follow.

Five students will be participating in the fourth category, “Time After Time,” where their garments are inspired by decades from the 1940s to the 1980s.

Students are pulling inspiration for their lines from many different places.

“I pretty much do all my designs about my family — my mom, family members or even myself,” Jingyu Niu, a senior studying fashion design, said.

Brooklyn Lehn, a senior studying fashion design from Princeton, said she already has plans for what she’ll be doing after she graduates.

“I’m going to be getting married to a Marine so I’m going to be stationed,” Lehn said. “My plan is to make military wives’ ball gowns for the military ball.”

Lehn said she wants to get into custom-made pieces since it feels special to say you didn’t buy the dress, but got it custom made.

Each of the seniors have created a collection of four to six garments which can be seen during the show on Thursday.

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Carson VanBuskirk | @carsonvanbDE Parker Wilkinson, of Mount Carmel, pushes a tree to its hole on April 16 for SIU’s Arbor Day outside SIU’s Communications Building.

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“Our family was always musical,” Brewer said. “I don’t ever remember a time where I didn’t sing. My family tells me that the first time I sang in public, I was 3 and broke out into ‘She’ll be Comin’ Round the Mountain.’”

Shelly Clover-Hill, Shawnee School District 84 superintendent, said she was impressed with the assembly and the students.

“She’s a wonderful storyteller, besides an opera singer. I knew that she would be able to hold the kids’ attention,” Clover-Hill said.

“It’s hard to keep those little kids’ attention for well over an hour and she did it.”

Brewer’s mother, Deloris Burchyett, was an avid church singer and was a member of a women’s group, "The Shawnee Trio." Brewer said she grew up hearing her mother’s music and once she was old enough she joined her mother in the church choir.

As a student at Shawnee High School, Brewer sang in the chorus and, under the direction of choir director Meta Cozby, joined the Madrigal singers and auditioned for several musicals.

“I tried out for the musical my freshman year,” Brewer said. “And guess what? I didn’t make it. Mrs. Cozby told me that she thought I would have fun in the orchestra, [she played the violin] and I did.”

After another year of auditions, Brewer finally received a role in the musical.

During her time at Shawnee, she sang the leads in the shows South Pacific and the Sound of Music; a musical which has followed her throughout her

career.

After high school, Brewer attended McKendree College, where she met her husband Ross and pursued a music education degree.

She continued to sing at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis and after watching the leads for some time, she realized singing was what she wanted to do.

“My husband Ross is a teacher,” Brewer said. “He was made for that job; he was called to be a teacher and he could see that I wasn’t. He was the one that told me that I was using my teaching degree as a crutch and that I was called to perform.”

She said everyone is called to do something different and you need to be honest with yourself.

“You need a team of people you trust who are honest and encouraging,” she said.

“People who will tell you the truth.”

Brewer said her mother preached honesty and storytelling.

“My mother always asked me after a performance ‘what are you saying?' If you don’t know what the words truly mean – you can’t tell the story,” Brewer said.

She said it can be difficult to stay passionate in each performance but remembering to make the music touch someone’s life helps her to stay engaged.

“Someone in the audience will be hearing this piece for the first time and somebody will be hearing this performance for the last time,” Brewer said.

Brewer said she tries to make every recording sound like a live performance because recordings aren’t honest.

“I am much more excited by a performance that is played with passion and honesty that drops a note here or there, than a performance that is theoretically perfect, but lacks passion and emotion,” Brewer said.

One of Brewer’s final lessons to the students was to continue being adamant and to know you are capable of anything – even if you are from a small town.

She told a story about how she ended up taking a master class from a world-renowned singer, Birgit Nilsson, who invited Brewer to Europe with her for several weeks for singing lessons.

“I wouldn’t be where I am today if I hadn’t called every day to see if there was an opening in that class,” Brewer said.

Brewer said her mother used to credit her vocal talent to a higher being.

“My mother always told me that your instrument, your voice, is God-given,” Brewer said. “She said ‘You had nothing to do with that. It’s a gift.’”

Brewer continues to work with sixth-grade students in Marissa, Illinois, the school where she formerly taught music, in an outreach program run in conjunction with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.

The combined group will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Shryock Auditorium on the SIU campus in Carbondale.

Tickets are $20 for adults and $8 for students under 18 or with a college ID. Current university students get into the concert for free with a valid student ID. Staff reporter Grace Schneider can be reached at gschneider@dailyegyptian.com.

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‘Porkchop the Pig’ captures the hearts of Herrin residents Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz

HERRIN, Ill. – Michelle Mezo said she wasn’t surprised when she found one of her son’s high school friends had brought a stray pig back to her house back in November.

“I called around to find someone [to] take this pig and no one would,” Mezo said.

Mezo said she called officials from the city and they suggested finding the pig a home but would take the pig from her, if needed.

“The city was going to try to come and get him and take him to a neighbor’s farm but a city worker accidentally dropped the pig and it’s been loose ever since,” Mezo said.

Police, city officials and area residents have attempted to catch the elusive swine without much success.

“One day I came home from work and there were six officers outside my yard trying to catch her,” Mezo said.

John "Michael" Connell, a maintenance worker for the Herrin Parks Department, said he first noticed the pig on the loose several months ago and believed the swine was swindled into custody.

“A couple days later, by the dog park, there’s this big pig across the street chasing a dog around,” Connell said. “That pig will stop and let you catch up to

her and then take off – it isn’t afraid of anything.”

Connell said the pig has not caused his department any problems so far.

“It’s a pretty cool pig, I think,” Connell said. “She doesn’t bother anything and doesn't cause any problems so we left her alone.”

Mezo said her dog Harley, a ten-year-old Black Labrador Retriever, has built a special bond with the pig, most recently dubbed “Porkchop.”

“They sleep next to each other [...] she’s really just grown on him. They’re best friends,” Mezo said.

She said she wasn’t surprised surprised by the friendship because Harley loves everyone but there is one thing in particular the pair have in common – they’re escape artists.

“The pig and the lab are always there together,” Connell said. “The lab started going back home and the dog sits down to wait for her and then pig catches up to the dog.”

Mezo said it has gotten to the point where Harley has climbed fences and gotten out of cages.

The workers from animal control and the dog are no strangers.

Becky Potter, a Herrin resident of four years, said she started seeing friends post pictures of the pig over social media when she launched “The Herrin Pig,” a Facebook group dedicated to

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz

“Porkchop” looks to the camera while wandering the streets on April 18 in residential Herrin, Illinois. The pig has been loose for nearly half a year in Herrin.

keeping a tab on Porkchop.

“I thought it would be funny to make the Facebook page and when I added my friends, they added their friends and it blew up to where it is now,” Potter said.

Potter said a few members of the group are working on getting “I break for Porkchop” car decals made with the proceeds benefiting Herrin Animal Control.

Mezo said if Porkchop is caught or disappears – she will be missed.

“She’s been so entertaining for all of us,” Mezo said. “If anyone does catch her, I would like them to at least contact us to make sure she gets to the right place.

She does have a home, it’s about getting her there.”

Potter said the group has brought people together from

different backgrounds and beliefs.

“Everyone from different walks of life are cheering this pig on – this is something happy,” Potter said. “Pig spotting is now a sport in Herrin.”

Brian Munoz, Editor in Chief, can be reached at bmunoz@dailyegyptian.com and on Twitter at @BrianMMunoz.

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Daily Egyptian file photo Aidan Ali, of Carbondale, falls into the water after the capsizing of his boat, The Robbie Shae, on May 6, 2017, during the 44th Annual Great Cardboard Boat Regatta at Evergreen Park in Carbondale. The boat capsized seconds after the start of the race.

Annual Great Cardboard Boat Regatta returns Elizabeth Biernacki @Elizabeth Biernacki_619

Boat Regatta participants will make a boat entirely out of cardboard and race them in Campus Lake Saturday, April 27 at the 46th annual Great Cardboard Boat Regatta.

According to Mary Kinsel, chemistry and biochemistry professor and main event organizer, the event was started because of a freshman art and design course final in 1974.

“We directly count back the first regatta was 1974 and from then on we’ve had one annually,” Kinsel said.

Kinsel said anyone willing can participate in one of the four different classes.

“Class I is paddle propelled, class II uses some kind of mechanical

propulsion, class III is the instant boat kit, class IV is youth 13 years and younger and they race against each other,” Kinsel said.

According to the SIU 150th Anniversary website, a boat kit will be available on a first come, first serve basis and registrants will have two hours to assemble it.

“We have a kit that’s available the day of the regatta for anyone wanting to just throw something together, get in the water and race,” Kinsel said.Additionally, there will be fun awards for boats that don’t win the race but are unique in other ways, Kinsel said.“We have the most dramatic sinking, best team spirit, we have a people’s choice award, best use of cardboard both in adults and the youth section,” Kinsel said. “There’s some different ways people can try to outdo themselves.”

In fact, Dalton Fox, a sophomore studying electrical engineering and Lincoln Weber, a sophomore studying mechanical engineering, have been working on their entry since before spring break.

“I think Lincoln has put in about 250 [hours] and I’ve put in about 300 [hours],” Fox said.

Their design consists of a raft, a hamster wheel and lots of duct tape and wood glue.

“This thing isn’t gonna be fast, that’s for sure, but it’s gonna look good,” Weber said.

According to Kinsel, 15 boats have already been pre-registered for the event, and registration will be open on race day from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

The regatta is held at Becker Pavilion and races start at 1 p.m.

There is a $20 boat registration fee.

out the SIU rec center is opened to community members.

“Gold’s is a larger gym and obviously a mixed community,” Malmquist said. “I really like the classes here; I like the camaraderie of the class interaction.”

Brandi Gullett said she has been coming to the gym for the past 10 years; before that she was a member for five years prior to having children.

“After having kids, I was trying to get some ‘me’ time and get back in shape, find myself again,” Gullett said.

As far as new blood, Gullett said someone new would take over with new ideas. She wouldn’t want it to change much.

“Ideally, I would hope this gym stays the same or gets better,” Gullett said.

Turner said her ideal goal would be to keep it going the same because the gym has a lot of loyal, longtime members who love it the way it is.

“They don’t want me to leave, but I have to have a life outside of the

gym,” she said.

Malmquist said she hopes someone is willing to buy Great Shapes by the time Turner is ready to retire.

“It’s nice to have this resource here, and I just hope someone will decide to buy it,” she said. “It has really added to my experience in Carbondale so far.”

Turner said she is eager to retire after 35 years, and as of now, her plans are to retire by the end of this year.

“The business is for sale,” she said. “It would be great for a woman that is very passionate about women’s health and fitness. It is just really good business and easy to run. It would just be awesome if we could find somebody that could step in. I’m looking for young blood that can still cater to the longtime members that we have.”

Great Shapes for sale, owner to retire

Emilly Cooper | @ECooper212

Great Shapes has been meeting the workout needs of women in Carbondale for 35 years. The locally-owned gym is now up for sale as Cathy Turner, the gym's owner, prepares to retire.

“When you own a business, you’re usually tied down to that business,” Turner said. “It’s time to spend more time on myself.”

Turner has owned and operated the gym as a women’s only gym since 1984.

“Women empower each other; there is no intimidation about men being in the gym,” Turner said. “It makes it more comfortable for for women to workout and relax.”

Beth Malmquist, a member of the gym, said she began coming to Great Shapes six years ago.

“I really liked the location,” Malmquist said. “It was easy for me to get here.”

She said she has looked at Gold’s Gym and recently found

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ECooper212.

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Arts & Entertainment

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Inaugural Carbondale Food and Fashion week to feature student work, community events Emily Cooper & Tamar Mosby

Carbondale’s inaugural Food and Fashion Week kicked off on Tuesday with events through Saturday.

“Each night there is a different event that promotes the food, fashion and art in Carbondale,” Maggie Burke, a senior studying communications and a student broadcasting the gala event, said.

The SIU Fashion Design and Merchandising program is also holding its annual student showcase this week. The Food and Fashion Week is not affiliated with the showcase, but several students and staff have worked together to create this week long series of different events.

“We’ve had a team of people working for a very long time,” Burke said. “Professors from the School of Journalism and the Hospitality and Tourism Departments are involved.”

The fashion week events are set to provide a week of fun for community members and also help one of the semester’s first year Salukis.

“The Carbondale Food and Fashion week is going to raise funds for a new student scholarship for incoming SIU students,” Nicole Davis, an associate professor of hospitality and tourism, said.

“The premise behind the whole week is to be able to raise money to provide an incoming student with some scholarship money.”

Not only will the weeklong event raise funds for a new student scholarship, which promotes involvement from the entire Carbondale community.

“The goal is really to get people back involved in the community of Carbondale,” Burke said.

Davis said the idea originated last April from a student who was in an copywriting class with Bridget Lescelius, an advertising professor in the School of Journalism. “[The student] had been to the Nashville fashion week and coming back from that event, she was enthusiastic,” Davis said.

“At one point, one of us [Davis or Lescelius] said we could do something similar in Carbondale.

It morphed; we decided to branch out and do some food and art type events in tandem with it.”

She said this event became a collaboration.

“It was perfect for [Davis’] students to coordinate and develop events and our students to be involved with branding and promoting it,” Lescelius said.

The Carbondale Food and Fashion week is not a full week on purpose, Davis said.

“We wanted to to introduce people to an event like this one,” she said.

Students in the hospitality and tourism, fashion and advertising programs came together to create the concept and market the event. Public relations students also helped, according to Davis.

“I wouldn’t say this is quite campus-wide, but pretty close,” she said. “It’s very student-driven.”

Davis said she is focused on working with the eventplanning students who are planning and doing all of the leg-work for this event.

“This is something that never was before,” Lescelius said. “We had to create a brand; the students were involved with building social media presence for the event. They created print ads and a 30-second commercial which will air on WSIL. They are also involved with promoting the gala and working at it.”

Lescelius said the students are getting end-to-end experience and actually getting their work in market.

“We are transforming our ad club and [the fashion week] was one of our clients this year,” Chris Cole, a senior studying advertising, said.

“We are now getting many clients in and it’s another one of those clients where we are getting real experience with real clients.”

Cole said everything they are doing is being used for real purposes.

“We are going to see the results of that work,” he said. “The biggest difference between this and schoolwork is you get to see all the work pay off at the end.”

at 6:30 p.m. This event will feature an opening statement from leaders in the Carbondale community.

April 24: The City of Carbondale, Carbondale Main Street and the Carbondale Chamber of Commerce have partnered to put on The Food and Art Crawl. Carbondale’s various restaurants and local art will be featured. Local artists will be displayed in the local downtown restaurants. The community will tour local restaurants and experience a diverse selection of food and art. Each restaurant participating in the event will have “special” menu items available for purchase.

April 25: SIU Career Development Center will present “Dress for Success on a Dime.” The workshop will run from 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. and 12:30 - 1:20 p.m. in Faner Hall, Room 1006. High school students will have the opportunity to learn how to dress professionally on a tight budget.

April 26: The “Passion for Fashion” Gala will be held at Garden Grove Event Center, 1215 E Walnut St, Carbondale. The theme of the gala is to celebrate 150 years of Carbondale fashion.

The reception starts at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by a dinner, catered by Garden Grove and a silent auction.

Entertainment for this year’s event will be Kevin Lucas, renowned percussionist and SIU alumni. Tickets for the event are $45 per person or $315 for a table of 8. Student tickets are $35 per person.

“There are so many events going on and I feel that there’s something for everyone to enjoy,” Burke said. “We’re hoping that this could possibly be an event that could continue in the years to come and just be a great thing for Carbondale to have.”

Food and Fashion Week Events:

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ECooper212.

April 23: An opening ceremony will be followed by the showing of Kinky Boots at Shryock Auditorium

Staff reporter Tamar Mosby can be reached at tmosby@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @mosbytamar.

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Review: ‘Bare’ brings seduction, secrets and the search for identity to stage Brain Munoz | @BrainMMunoz

CARBONDALE – ‘bare: a pop opera,’ closed out its Southern Illinois University debut Saturday night bringing Jon Hartmere’s story of love, seduction and identity to life at the Christian H. Moe Theater.

Featuring the music of Damon Intrabartolo, the student-run FIERCE Musical Theater group did not fail to deliver on this coming-of-age tale filled with an intricate plot of twists and turns against the backdrop of a private Catholic boarding school.

The story follows a secret taboo relationship between main characters Jason (Jake Ellsworth) with Peter (Michael Radford).

Jason is a popular athlete who is adored by all of the girls and Peter is a student whose parents struggle to come to terms about his sexuality. Peter drives the storyline as he attempts to accept his own sexuality and have Jason be more public about their relationship.

When the two are cast in the school’s production of “Romeo and Juliet” – Jason is a cast as Romeo and Peter is cast as Mercutio. Ivy (Madison Pruitt), another student at the school, is head-over-heels for Jason and is cast as Juliet as an awkward love-

triangle develops throughout.

A another strand to the intricate love web is added when Matt (Josh Miller), resident stuffed-shirt, is found to be in love with Ivy. The students are advised by Sister Chantelle (Kennedy Hayes) and the priest (Christian Powell) as they navigate the complexities of life in the teen-angst filled rock opera.

The university’s intimate black box space was transformed to a multi-dimensional alley set with multiple platforms, boxes and a simple table to change scenes. The simple, but effective, set paired with an incredible lighting design truly enhanced the production quality of the entire performance.

Six cathedral-style windows sat suspended above the audience as rays of light broke through a dense fog which filled the theater. A multi-colored pane of stained glass, along with crucifix, was projected on the upstage wall, enveloped by dozens of candles creating a reverent ambiance as the audience files into the venue.

Asia Ward, artistic director, did an excellent job of setting the stage production within the walls of a church. The setting easily takes us from the boarding school’s auditorium, to dorms to the church sanctuary throughout time.

The set, along with with thematic lighting to portray emotion and separating characters in various scenes made the most out of the space given. The intimate nature of theater had audience members in the midst of the production and gave them a fully captivating experience.

Ellsworth goes above and beyond in his portrayal of Jason – adding his own take on a popular athlete caught in between two worlds and looking for his true self.

His interactions with Radford’s character present an attentioncapturing juxtaposition in the presentation of the roles.

Radford was a natural selection for the role of Peter - his contrast in personality to Ellsworth made for Felix and Oscar-esque interactions and created a memorable chemistry between the two.

A spotlight in the performance was Peter’s back and forth with his mother, Claire (Grace Nowak), in the piece “See Me.” Nowak was a spectacular fit for the role of Claire – she presented the character beautifully and her heartbreaking and powerful rendition of “Warning” left the audience with tears in their eyes.

Acceptance seemed to be a common thematic element throughout the show. Nadia

Photograph courtesy of SIU Theater Matt, played by Josh Miller, and Peter, played by Michael Radford, stare each other down during a scene in “bare: a pop opera” in the Charles H. Moe Theater.

(Mainyia Xiong), Jason’s sister, sings an emotional aria about her search for acceptance from her family and peers in regards to her weight. While she struggles with her physical appearance, her brother Jason struggles with the search for acceptance of something which can be more easily hidden.

A final hat tip to Hayes for her portrayal of Sister Chantelle, who had the audience folding over in their seats at her comedic performance of the character. She added just the right amount of sass and flair while keeping true to her scripted role and having the audience asking for more.

The FIERCE Musical Theater group captures audiences through the memorable plot of “bare: a pop opera” and reminds us of the difficulties youth face in searching — and being accepted — for their identities, no matter the circumstance. “bare: a pop opera” was produced with the support of the Teddrick Fellowship Research Grant and the SIU Department of Theater.

Brian Munoz, Editor in Chief, can be reached at bmunoz@dailyegyptian.com and on Twitter at @BrianMMunoz.

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May the spire of Notre Dame soon rise again Chicago Tribune Editorial Board

French President Emmanuel Macron said “a part of us” burned as Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire Monday.

Around the world, helpless viewers understood.

The Gothic beauty and solemnity of Notre Dame de Paris, accented by gorgeous stained-glass rose windows, has made spirits soar for centuries. Then in a matter of minutes the cathedral seemed imperiled. Something crumbled in those who watched as its blazing spire teetered and fell.

The cause of the fire appeared connected to an ongoing renovation. Flames devoured much of the roof. And what of the other injuries sustained

by Notre Dame? Extensive.

Millions worldwide now will root, pray and donate for the cathedral’s reconstruction.

All buildings communicate something, in their intended function as well as their appearance. Many places of worship, from the simple to the grand, are special in those regards. Notre Dame is universally revered — by some as a house of God, by others as a triumph of design and construction.

Its architecture is both sturdy and delicate, a symbol of what endures beyond any lifetime, a testament to humanity’s highest achievements and aspirations.

Rich with images and adorned with gargoyles, its religious story can be grasped outside the bounds of language.

The Catholic cathedral, begun in 1163 and completed in 1345, contains some of the first flying buttresses. The fallen spire dated to the 19th century.

The cathedral bells heralded hundreds of years of some of the most studied events in Western civilization.

Notre Dame is where Joan of Arc’s mother appealed her daughter’s conviction for heresy, where Mary, Queen of Scots wed and where Napoleon I and Josephine were crowned.

Lovers of literature experience it through Victor Hugo’s “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” — as do young followers of the Disney tale of Quasimodo and Esmeralda.

The cathedral was plundered during the French Revolution and has been threatened by terrorists.

The fire broke out on Monday of Holy Week, which draws students and parents on spring and Easter breaks, as travelers hear the call of April in Paris. Some 12 million visitors enter the cathedral each year.

As news broke of the fire, many people reflected on past visits and posted photos to social media — a collective reliving of college semesters in Europe, honeymoons, midlife explorations and retirement trips.

All were grateful they’d made it to Notre Dame. Those who haven’t now must wonder whether they’ll get the chance.

Notre Dame is both an irreplaceable icon and a vibrant piece of Paris. It is one of the world’s most famous attractions, a building that has the power to move visitors with its religious and historical meaning.

It is a sacrosanct place of art, architecture and culture.

And now it has been ravaged by fire.

As a result, many of us are gutted, too. If Notre Dame can be rebuilt, let it happen.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Opinion: Plagued with issues, Thompson Point buses are worse than walking Grace Schneider & Emily Cooper

The buses are a means of transportation for students on campus but Thompson Point Direct is a struggle bus that practically tells you to walk instead.

Providing students with serious wait times, technical difficulties, safety hazards and unpredictable schedules, Thompson Point Direct fails to deliver time after time.

Tablets and the Rider App: TPD drivers should have tablets on every ride. These tablets should sync with passengers’ phones for the Rider app – this way, passengers can see where they are, and how long to their destination.

However, these tablets either frequently die or the drivers don’t bring the tablets onto the buses. Therefore the riders are left clueless about where the bus actually is or how long it will take it to get around.

Standalone, the Rider app is inconsistent at best and worthless at worst. Too many times the Rider app either doesn’t show the bus at all, the map stalls or it says the bus is in Marion, miles away from the actual route.

I rode the bus my first semester of college. Wanting to try Trueblood for dinner, and too lazy to walk, my friends and I used the Rider app to track the bus. We waited for an extra 20 minutes, the bus never came and we ended up walking. It still remains just as unreliable.

Accountability: The drivers need to be held accountable for keeping their schedules.

Students are frequently late to class because they depend on a bus that isn’t running on time.

The buses are supposed to take 15 minutes to get from one end of campus to the other.

Drivers should take bathroom, meal, or smoke breaks during allotted break times, especially

The Campus Loop bus departs from its bus stop on April 10 in front of SIU’s Student Center.

during the day when the majority of students have classes.

If the break times aren’t enough for the drivers, it’s still on Rides Mass Transit District to create a system that doesn’t make the drivers derail their schedules.

It is not fair or right of drivers to stop for a smoke break in the middle of a route when a bus full of students have labs, lectures, work, or practice to get to on time.

These drivers’ jobs are to drive the buses on schedule, but the bus service isn’t through the college, therefore giving me the impression that they don’t care about time or keeping a schedule.

Drivers also can take 15-25 minutes at the Student Center when

switching shifts or buses. While I understand the need to switch buses, the students should be given a schedule of when these shifts take place so that they can plan around them and get to class on time.

Posting hours: There is no schedule posted regarding TPD’s hours. There is also no reliable way to communicate with the riders/students when the buses are not running on schedule or not running at all.

Over the winter, buses would stop running early if the storms were too bad, but the only way to communicate this was to tell students as they got on and off the bus.

This was both dangerous and

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extremely frustrating as students could have been left stranded in the middle of a storm with no way to get back to their dorms.

Furthermore, if a college is going to put roughly 400 students a mile away from the only working dining hall, they should be providing adequate transportation to those students so that they can still have access to meals.

Some students don’t get out of extracurriculars, work or class until 8 p.m. or later, not being able to get to dinner until 9 p.m. So if a bus stops running at 7 p.m. with this little of notice, it potentially robs students of their only way to get dinner or home.

The unspoken rule of drivers

skipping bus stops isn’t consistent across the different drivers.

Sometimes they skip a stop since no one is there, or no one tells them they want off. Other times they stop at every stop no matter what.

If there was a consistent rule this wouldn’t be an issue. But as it stands, we would rather walk in the rain than take Thompson Point Direct.

Staff reporter Grace Schneider can be reached at gschneider@dailyegyptian.com.

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ecooper212.

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Sports

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Southern Illinois Salukis guard Makenzie Silvey attempts to take control of a loose ball on Friday, Feb. 8, during the Southern Illinois Salukis’ matchup against the Missouri State Lady Bears at SIU Arena.

In the War Room with Warfel: Women athletes deserve more recognition Adam Warfel | @warfel_adam

In retrospect, former sports reporters believed both volleyball and women’s basketball served the best chance at bringing home gold in the Missouri Valley Championship.

While the volleyball team brought home three wins and the women’s basketball team finished fifth in the conference, a different women’s sport was in fact the first to bring home a championship this year.

Last week, the SIU women’s golf team brought home a Missouri Valley Conference championship after getting voted to finish third in the pre-championship poll.

While golf may not be the most exciting sport to watch for some, my congratulations go out to the women on their accomplishment.

The women’s golf team’s win has strengthened my opinion that it is the right time to be a fan of SIU women’s athletics — this is during a year where the football team finished with two wins, the men’s basketball team stumbled into third place in the Valley and baseball was in the midst of a seven game losing streak.

Looking at the rest of the year and into next fall, we are among exciting times and it is time to recognize the efforts of our women athletes.

While the season was not ideal for volleyball, I believe Ed Allen will be able to turn the volleyball program back into the NCAA contender it has been historically.

It can be argued the women’s basketball season was a disaster, but looking into the stats — this team is returning all of its starters. For a team who went 9-5 at home despite their fifth place finish in the conference, there is hope for the future.

Competitors on the Track and Field team have been on fire and have impressed the nation — from junior Megan Krolak to senior Tyjuana Eason, the women athletes are setting records

what seems like almost every weekend.

Then there is the softball team, which to me has by far been the most impressive of any of the women’s teams, having won 10 straight games at one point this season.

Coming off a sweep last weekend against Indiana State and taking two out of three from Loyola this weekend, the softball team looks like a force to be reckoned within the conference.

While all of the teams will be finished competing by the end of May, the excitement for women’s athletics rolls into Fall 2019 as the women’s soccer team makes its Southern Illinois debut.

Looking at the body of work the women athletes have done to represent Southern Illinois University, I want to personally thank you.

In a year where everyone thought football would be contenders, men’s basketball would win the Valley and make a run in the NCAA tournament — it has been the women athletes who have gone out and competed and represented the university in terms of wins.

I’m still hopeful for the men’s side of athletics at Southern coming into next year, and I fully believe in Jerry Kill as athletic director.

I hope Nick Hill will turn this football team around with his revamped staff and that Bryan Mullins will bring back the “Floorburn U” mentality to Saluki men’s basketball.

For fans who have not turned their eyes towards the women athletes, I hope the Women’s Golf MVC Championship win has opened your eyes. I hope you sit back and instead of complaining Saluki Athletics has had a terrible year, look towards the women and admire their efforts and their abilities in bringing recognition back to SIU. Adam Warfel, Sports Editor, can be reached at awarfel@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @warfel_adam.

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Photograph courtesy of the Missouri Valley Conference The SIU Carbondale Men’s Golf team poses for a portrait on Tuesday after winning the MVC Men’s Golf Championship.

Twice is nice: SIU men’s golf wins 2019 MVC Championship Adam Warfel | @warfel_adam

Southern Illinois men’s golf team traveled to Missouri on Monday and Tuesday in hopes of bringing a Missouri Valley Conference Championship trophy.

Freshman Matthis Besard, senior Peyton Wilhoit, senior Luke Gannon, senior Hunter York and junior Frankie Thomas traveled with the team.

Seniors Gannon and Wilhoit came into the tournament looking to end their SIU career way in the same way they started it, having both won the tournament their freshman year in 2016.

“We were hoping for at least three [championships],”Gannon said. “We took second last year, that would be nice, it would be a nice way to close it all out.”

The Salukis were looking to complete a clean sweep in the MVC Championship for golf as the women had won last week in their tournament.

Gannon was hoping to add another trophy to the case for golf at SIU and in turn outpace the seniors on the women’s golf team with titles in his freshman and senior year.

“We both want each other to

do well,” Gannon said. “It’d be nice if we could say us seniors have two versus their one.”

On day one of the tournament on Monday Illinois State pushed out to a six stroke lead early over SIU, but the Salukis cut that lead to one stroke being led by Besard.

Besard finished day one in second overall and one stroke behind the leader in Illinois State’s senior David Raue, after he carded 75 in the first round then rebounded with a score of 67 in the second round.

“Like most freshmen, Matt pressed a little bit early and tried to make things happen, but late in that first round he started to relax, and all of the sudden, there’s when the birdies come,” head coach Justin Fetcho said. “He hits it so straight and the course sets up well for him, because there’s a premium on accuracy.”

Wilhoit and Gannon kept the team even in the first round with both combining to go three under par, finishing day one in fourth and eighth respectively.

York finished at plus eight and Thomas finished at plus 10 for day one rounding out the scoring for the Salukis on day one.

“We’ve trained all year for a

moment like this and we’ll do our best to rise to the occasion,” Fetcho said. “We have to stay patient. We can’t go out there and try to force things and make a move. We have to take the Tiger Woods approach — stay in position and stay patient, wait for an opportunity and cash in.”

Starting day two just one stroke behind Illinois State, Southern took the lead early in the day and finished with a 10 stroke lead over the Redbirds, as SIU finished at minus seven in the final round.

Wilhoit was the top finisher for SIU coming in at third with a total three round score of 213,Besard dropped down into a tie for fifth after shooting a 74 in the final round, Gannon finished in sixth with a score of 70 in the final round.

York finished in a tie for 10th with a three round score of 220, and Thomas rounded out the rest of the team tied for 17th with a three round score of 227.

Southern Illinois will await to hear their NCAA bid seeding on Wednesday, May 1 at 9:00 p.m.

Adam Warfel, Sports Editor, can be reached at awarfel@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @warfel_adam.

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He’s retired from competitive dance and kung fu, but Washington DB Kyler Gordon is still Mr. Spotlight Mike Vorel | Seattle Times

SEATTLE — Kyler Gordon was an athlete before he was anything else.

Before he was a football player, a Husky, a four-star corner and a national recruit; before he was a Seattle Storm dancer and a kung fu fighter; before he was Mr. Spotlight, Kyler Gordon was already stealing it.

“Before he was a year old, his grandma and grandpa were like, ‘Uh, there’s something special about this little boy. He’s going to be something,’ ” Kyler’s mother, Evamarie Gordon, told The Seattle Times last week.

“It’s really weird. I know it sounds kind of stupid, but I had a vision as well. I just knew in my heart that there was something about him.”

Something, but what? Kyler was walking at nine months old.

He was attempting somersaults and cartwheels before his first birthday. When he was 4, he tried kung fu, just for kicks. He dipped his fleet feet into dance — ballet, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, you name it — a year later. He used to stretch while watching cartoons to improve his flexibility.

Occasionally, Evamarie — a gymnastics coach — would take

her son/pre-teen slinky with her to the gym, which is where he learned a backflip. For four years, Kyler devoted 20 hours a week to dance classes (and that’s not counting competitions).

At age 8, he moonwalked his way to being named “Mr. Spotlight” — with a pink bow tie and curly brown hair to boot — at the Spotlight Dance Cup national finals in California.

“Google him on the internet and you’ll see him,” Evamarie Gordon said. “It was like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ One of the guys from Broadway was one of the (competition’s) judges and he said, ‘This kid is going to go somewhere in the industry.’ ” Kyler Gordon found football instead.

Or, maybe it’s more accurate to say that football found him.

“When he got to the field, I’ll never forget it,” Evamarie Gordon said of her 9-year-old son. “They’re like, ‘Where’s this kid been?’ I’m like, ‘He’s a dancer. He’s been in dance.’ ” Despite adding yet another outlet for his athleticism, Kyler didn’t stop dancing. He joined the Seattle Storm’s hip hop dance troupe at age 9, performing at home games and events (while still making it to football practice). The activity itself almost seemed insignificant;

Kyler’s athleticism was a universal currency, accepted everywhere. If he participated, he dominated — whether it be dance or defense.

“Everybody wanted him to play everything,” Evamarie Gordon said. “He did football.

He did basketball. It didn’t matter what he did. He’d kill it.”

So it was that a budding defensive back, former kung fu fighter and decorated dancer arrived at Archbishop Murphy High School in Everett in the fall of 2014.

The question was never whether Kyler Gordon would be successful.

The question was where, and the options were endless.

“When we saw Kyler as a freshman we could tell that he was special,” said Archbishop Murphy head football coach and former Washington linebacker Jerry Jensen. “He had a high ceiling in basically whatever he decided he wanted to do, whether that be track or football or basketball. He would have success at it.

“He really kind of took to football and worked on the craft and that allowed him to get his strength up.

But the thing that really impressed me most about Kyler is probably his flexibility. That allows him to move as fluidly as he does and as effortlessly as it looks.”

It was effortless, and it was everywhere. In his senior season in 2017, Kyler was named to the Associated Press 2A all-state team both as a defensive back and an all-purpose player. The 2017 Star Times selection rushed for 517 yards and 12.9 yards per carry, caught 32 passes for 841 yards, threw an 88-yard touchdown pass and piled up 44 tackles and five interceptions. He averaged 19 yards per touch and was named offensive MVP of the Cascade Conference.

He jumped as if each strip of turf was its own tiny trampoline.

And he put things on tape that Jensen had never seen.

“You would just see Kyler’s break on the ball or a one-handed catch or he would go up between two defenders and come down with the ball,” Jensen said. “He’s just a kid that has innate ability to rise above others and make plays.”

Was it innate, though? Were those physical gifts — the balance, the body control, the reflexes and instincts — just something he was born with?

His mother was a gymnast and his aunt was a dancer, after all.

Or maybe that unique athletic background — the ballet, the kung fu, the Storm games and dance competitions and Mr. Spotlight

crowns — all molded Kyler into a pass-catching, pick-snatching football machine. Perhaps each activity ultimately contributed to the final product, a four-star prospect ranked by 247Sports as the No. 102 overall player in the 2018 class.

Was it nature, nurture or a little bit of both?

“I think if you look at his background with dance, obviously that would help with his feet. Then kung fu (would help) with his stretching,” Jensen said. “You can see how those things just apply themselves to his athleticism.

“It just doesn’t look like he’s straining and overworking to do these things that you look at and they’re just jaw-dropping. So I do think those things played a key role in where he ended up as an athlete.”

Specifically, he ended up at Washington, where Kyler played in four games as a freshman and then essentially wrecked the competition at the Husky Combine last month. The redshirt freshman cornerback finished first on the team in the vertical jump (42.5 inches), second in the 3-cone drill (6.52 seconds) and pro agility drill (3.87 seconds) and third in the broad jump (10 feet, five inches).

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