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Gabriel Livermore, 5, of Marion, plays with clay Friday outside the Student Center. SIU students were making pots to promote the raku pottery class offered at the craft shop. Ron Dunkel, the craft shop coordinator, said they will be holding a pottery workshop during Saluki Family Weekend Sept. 27-29.

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A new program within the Black Resource Center will hold a sexual health workshop Thursday for female students. Sisters Interacting Successfully, is a new program within the Black Resource Center of the Center for Inclusive Excellence. The program started Aug. 26 as a support system for African-American women on campus, according to Lanel Love, program assistant for the Black Resource Center. “S.I.S. provides a supportive environment that fosters personal discovery through opportunities for personal growth, academic success and professional development,” Love said. “It will promote unity, improve communication networks and showcase professional opportunities among AfricanAmerican female students.” Love said the program was created because the Black Resource Center thought there was a need for a constructive group for African-

American women. Love said S.I.S. has multiple ways of accomplishing these goals, including working in conjunction with other programs on campus – including a University College class for new students who are African-American women, cultural events, guest speakers and workshops. One of the workshops available through S.I.S. is Thursday’s women’s sexual health workshop. While the workshop is a discussion-based group session focusing on African-American women, all are welcome to attend. “The goal of the sexual health workshop is twofold,” said Sarah Steinkamp, wellness coordinator and director of the workshop. “One is to empower young women to gain knowledge and build skills and find support systems. And the second is, through the collaboration with S.I.S., to create a connection where young women feel like they have support on campus by getting out and meeting them.” Please see WORKSHOP | 3

MATT DARAY

After 30 years of working to keep students safe, Department of Public Safety director Todd Sigler is retiring Oct. 15. Sigler’s retirement was announced Sept. 9 as part of SIU’s state of the university address. He has worked for the department for more than three decades, starting out as a student patrolman in 1983 and moving his way up. As director, Sigler has dealt with multiple safety concerns at the university including a bomb threat to the residential towers. He said he is retiring because the time is right and he has other goals to accomplish. “I feel this is a good time for myself, the department and the university,” he said. “I have interest in pursuing other professional goals. The department is stable and the university is moving in a positive direction so I think the time is appropriate for all.”

In his time as director, he said the university has taken steps to increase preparations and plans for disasters and emergency responses Sigler said. The department has laid a solid foundation with partners such as university housing to increase safety for students and will continue to build off that success. Campus safety has changed over time because of the increase of various types of threats and the need to prepare for them, Sigler said. “In many respects, campus safety is a reflection of society generally,” he said. “More is expected from campus safety from all-hazard preparedness, technology such as surveillance cameras, controlled access, emergency alerts, and being prepared for many different types of emergencies.” Chancellor Rita Cheng said Sigler will be missed at the university, but she thinks an adequate replacement has been found. Please see RETIREMENT | 3

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Methane emissions drop at natural gas drilling sites, study says NEELA BANERJEE Tribune Washington WASHINGTON _ Emissions of methane from natural gas well sites across the United States have fallen in a key part of the drilling process, despite the boom in natural gas development, according to a study published Monday. The rise in natural gas production through hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has stoked concerns about leakage and venting into the atmosphere of methane, a chief component. Far more carbon dioxide is emitted than methane, but methane is 72 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. Researchers from the University of Texas found, however, that new equipment reduced emissions last year at 190 natural gas sites by 99 percent in one key step in the welldrilling process. The new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that the air pollution is being dramatically reduced as energy companies

deploy technology to comply with impending federal environmental regulations. The energy industry often has decried federal efforts to oversee natural gas development, arguing that state-level regulation is adequate. “The study says that the EPA’s efforts aren’t overregulation, and that in fact, they’re effective,” said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, a sponsor of the study, along with nine oil and gas companies. Reaction from industry officials was unsurprising. “We welcome the finding that overall methane emissions from the production of natural gas are lower than the most recent EPA estimates,” said Erica Bowman, vice president of research for America’s Natural Gas Alliance, a trade group. “Greater use of natural gas can substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” The reductions were noted during the well-completion phase of drilling, which involves preparing for production by cleaning out the sand and liquids injected into the well during the drilling phase.

Although well-completion work emitted less methane than EPA estimates, the study found that other phases of production showed higher levels of methane leakage from valves and other equipment at well sites. The EPA does not regulate emissions from the equipment, the authors said. Some environmental groups dismissed the study because energy companies co-sponsored it. “This industry-sponsored ‘study’ is more spin than science,” said Wenonah Hauter, executive director of the environmental group Food & Water Watch. “The Environmental Defense Fund is running interference for the industry, and the result will be more drilling and fracking around the world.” The authors pointed out that their study is the first of 16 the Environmental Defense Fund is conducting with a range of partners in academia and industry, and they noted the study’s limitations, including that the wells sampled were only a small portion of the approximately 447,000 gas wells in the country.

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13 dead in D.C. Navy Yard shooting rampage KEVIN G. HALL MARISA TAYLOR McClatchy Washington WASHINGTON — A mass shooting Monday morning at the Washington Navy Yard left at least 13 people, including a suspected gunman, dead, three others wounded and authorities desperately searching for a middle-age man in a militarystyle uniform. District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier said police have identified the gunman as a civilian naval contractor, Aaron Alexis, 34, of Fort Worth, Texas, who was identified by fingerprints. He was a full-time Navy reservist until 2011, last serving with a logistics support squadron in Fort Worth. He reportedly used a friend’s identification to get into a building at the Washington Navy Yard and engaged in multiple shootouts with police before being fatally shot. Police remained engaged in a manhunt for another man believed connected to Alexis. Three victims, including a police officer, were brought to MedStar Washington Hospital Center. In a news conference, Dr. Janis Orlowski, the center’s chief medical officer, said the chances of their survival were good. She confirmed that all three victims were alert and speaking. The police officer was shot in both of his legs. The other two victims are both female civilians. One suffered

injuries to her shoulder, the other to both her head and hand. All three are confirmed to have been wounded inside the Navy Yard. The neighborhood near the naval facility remained sealed off, with residents locked out and nearby schools locked down six hours after the first reports of the violence came in at 8:20 a.m. The U.S. Senate was placed on a preventive lockdown early Monday afternoon, with votes postponed. The lockdown was later partly lifted. The Washington Nationals, whose stadium is just blocks from the crime scene, postponed their game Monday night against the Atlanta Braves. “We have no indication of any motive at this time,” Lanier said at her second news conference of the day, adding that “there are very few questions we can answer at this point.” The FBI was taking the reins of the investigation, the police chief said. Lanier credited D.C. police and the U.S. Park Police for preventing even more bloodshed in the morning rampage. “I think the actions by the police officers, without question, helped to reduce the numbers of lives lost,” Lanier said, calling the actions of first responders “nothing short of heroic.” Because the attack happened at a military facility in the capital, there were immediate fears that terrorism might be involved. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray told reporters there was no evidence one way or another

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Steinkamp said the group’s focus is on relationship negotiation, or discussion of the limitations within a romantic and sexual relationship. The workshop also covers other health issues related to women’s sexuality including basic information on condom use, consent and birth control, as well as a questionand-answer session open to the students. Steinkamp said open discussion is a critical aspect of the workshop because it provides an open atmosphere for women to discuss topics receiving few opportunities for open discussion. “We are often not given the opportunity to ask questions and to get information in a health-positive way,” Steinkamp said. “I think people feel a lot of shame around sexual health and creating an opportunity to feel like sexuality and sexual health is something

on terrorism, and he confirmed there was uncertainty about reports of additional gunmen. “We don’t know for certain if there were other shooters,” the mayor said. At an earlier news conference, Lanier said two men, one white and one black, between 40 and 50, were sought for questioning. The white male was said to have been dressed in a tan military-style uniform with a beret-like hat, the black male wearing an olive-colored military-style uniform. Later in the afternoon, police confirmed that the man in the tan outfit had contacted authorities and was cleared. The area around the Navy Yard, not far from Capitol Hill, had been sealed off by layers of law enforcement personnel from local and federal agencies. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer issued a statement midafternoon announcing that no one would be allowed in or out of Senate offices. The shooting began inside the Naval Sea Systems Command Headquarters building, a workplace for 3,000 people, according to a press release from Naval District Washington. Contractor Sean Carroll described to McClatchy a chaotic scene on the second floor once the shooting started near a cafeteria atrium in the building. “People didn’t realize what you were supposed to do,” he said. “Just heard the sounds. It was really loud.

they can talk about openly, I feel, is incredibly important.” Dean of Students Katie Sermershein said the S.I.S. program is important to the success of future students who choose to engage in sexual activity. “Any student could benefit from having the knowledge of taking care of oneself via any kind of sexual activity they may be participating in their lives at this time,” said Sermershein. “With any health program it’s important to be aware. I see this as another awareness program for those who choose to be sexually active.” The workshop starts Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Grinnell Hall Lower Level. For more information about Sisters Interacting Successfully, contact Lanel Love with the Black Resource Center at 618-453-4846. Seth Richardson can be reached at srichardson@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259

You could hear the gunshots. That’s a surreal thing. You’re not really thinking. But it wasn’t like, ‘Hey, what’s going on?’ You know with the world we live in. You know, ‘Oh my God. This is Fort Hood.’” Fort Hood in Texas was the scene in 2009 of a shooting that left 12 dead. Carroll said the shooting did not sound like an automatic weapon used by military personnel. “I heard the shots,” he said. “I heard people scream. ... It sounded like ‘pop, pop, pop.’ I could not characterize how staccato it was. It was not rapid fire. It was not automatic weapons. It was seven or eight shots in a couple of groups. This was over several minutes. The first shots seemed like a minute. Then when I ran I heard another couple of, not bursts, but ‘pop, pop, pop.”” Patricia Ward, a logistics management specialist, told gathered reporters that she was near the cafeteria area when she heard some shots, followed by a break and then more shots. She and others fled the building. Someone pulled a fire alarm to alert colleagues of a problem. Witnesses described one gunman dressed in dark clothing with what appeared to be a double-barrel shotgun, perched on a mezzanine and firing at a cafeteria atrium below. They said he appeared to be targeting who he was shooting at, rather than firing randomly. The gunman was described by witnesses as carrying an AR-15 assault

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“I think we’ve had some terrific planning done by everyone and while we’ll miss Todd and we really appreciate his many years of service. I believe we have a very competent replacement coming in,” she said. Cheng said the university has known about Sigler’s plans to retire and has found a replacement who will come Oct. 6 and work with Sigler in his last week. She said Sigler will be replaced with Benjamin Newman, a member of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Police Department. D.P.S. staff members said Sigler will leave behind a legacy and a standard for future members of the department to meet. Kendall Hollister, D.P.S.’s first shift supervisor, said Sigler helped push the department to be the best it can over the years.

rifle, a double-barrel shotgun and a handgun. An elite team from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was dispatched to the scene Monday, part of the same ATF Special Response Team Canine Program that helped capture the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Employees at the Navy Yard complex, a former shipyard and ordnance plant turned naval administrative center, consist of civilians, service members and contract support personnel. They are responsible for engineering, building, purchasing and maintaining Navy ships, submarines and combat systems. The Naval Sea Systems Command is the largest of the Navy’s five systems commands. This is not the first shooting at a military installation in recent years. In 2009 at Fort Hood, an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, 39 at the time, killed 12 and wounded 31 service members. Another, less well-known incident occurred on June 10, 2013, at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, where a soldier shot and wounded a fellow service member. As word spread of a shooting at the Navy Yard, the end of the D.C. morning rush hour began to look like the crush of peak hour. At least two bridges into the nation’s capital were closed to traffic and commuters were forced to inch along side roads to get in or turn back and work from home.

“He’s one of those guys who expects a lot, but he expects a lot from himself as well,” he said. “He knows what the mission of the university is and what we need to get accomplished and how that fits with law enforcement, and he’s able to get that relayed to us so we can do an effective job for the university.” John Allan, all-hazards preparedness resource coordinator, said he has known Sigler since college and has watched him achieve a lot throughout his career. “He’s done so much, not just as a chief but as a sergeant, a lieutenant, a captain and a policeman,” he said. “His accomplishments, they’ll be longstanding, they’ll be here many years after he’s gone.” Matt Daray can be reached at Mdaray@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259

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Combined net worth of America’s richest rises BREE FOWLER Associated Press NEW YORK — Life is good for America’s super wealthy. On Monday, Forbes released its annual list of the top 400 richest Americans. While most of the top names and rankings didn’t change from a year ago, the majority of the elite club’s members saw their fortunes grow over the past year, helped by strong stock and real estate markets. “Basically, the mega rich are mega richer,” said Forbes Senior Editor Kerry Dolan. Dolan noted the list’s minimum net income increased to a prefinancial crisis level of $1.3 billion, up from $1.1 billion in 2012, with 61 American billionaires not making the cut. “In some ways, it’s harder to get on the list than it ever has been,” she said. Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates remains America’s richest man, taking the top spot on the list for the 20th straight year, with a net worth of $72 billion, up from $66 billion a year ago. Investor Warren Buffett, the head of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., posted another distant second place finish with $58.5 billion, but increased his net worth from $46 billion. Oracle Corp. co-founder Larry Ellison stayed third with $41 billion and was the only member of the top 10 whose net worth was unchanged from a year ago. Brothers Charles and David Koch, co-owners of Koch Industries Inc., stay tied for fourth with $36 billion each, up from $31 billion in 2012. Wal-Mart heirs Christy Walton,

Jim Walton, Alice Walton and S. Robson Walton took the next four spots, with holdings ranging from $33.3 billion to $35.4 billion, all increasing from year-ago levels. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the founder of the eponymous financial information company, rounds out the top 10 with $31 billion, up from $25 billion. According to Forbes, 273 members of the list are self-made billionaires, while 71 inherited their wealth and another 56 inherited at least some of it but are still growing it. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to the list’s top 20 after dropping out the year before. His net worth of $19 billion earned him the No. 20 spot. Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz also made the list, at No. 85,with a net worth of $5.2 billion. At age 29 and just a few days younger the Zuckerberg, Moskovitz ranks as the youngest member of the list. On the flip side, the oldest person on the list is 98-year-old David Rockefeller Sr. at No. 193 with a net worth of $2.8 billion. A total of 20 new people joined the rankings, including Richard Yuengling Jr. of Pennsylvania beer maker D.G. Yuengling & Son, who ranked at No. 371 with $1.4 billion. Twenty-eight people dropped off the list, including six who died. Those now falling short of the cut include energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens at $950 million, Graham Weston of Rackspace Hosting Inc. at $920 million and Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder at $1.2 billion.

A total of 48 women made the list including Hyatt Hotels heir Jennifer Pritzker at No. 327. Formerly known as James Pritzker, she’s the list’s first transgendered member. According to Forbes, the 400 people on the annual list posted a combined net worth of $2 trillion, up from $1.7 trillion a year ago. That marks their highest combined value ever. Meanwhile, the average net worth of the list’s members rose to $5 billion, also the highest ever, up from $4.2 billion in 2012. Net worth grew for 314 members and fell for 30, Forbes said. The increases aren’t surprising, given that net worth for America’s wealthiest people has risen in the years since the financial crisis, widening the gap between the exceptionally well-to-do and the rest of the country. According to a study of Internal Revenue Service figures released last week, the top 1 percent of U.S. earners collected 19.3 percent of household income in 2012, their largest share in IRS figures going back a century. U.S. income inequality has been growing for almost three decades. But until last year, the top 1 percent’s share of pre-tax income had not yet surpassed the 18.7 percent it reached in 1927, according to the analysis done by economists at the University of California, Berkeley, the Paris School of Economics and Oxford University. Some economists have speculated that the incomes of the wealthy might have surged in the past year, because they cashed in stock holdings to avoid higher capital gains taxes that kicked in in January.

Colleges cope with shrinking pool of prospective students TIM BARKER Associated Press ST. LOUIS — The University of Missouri-Columbia needs to find 638 students over the next few weeks to avoid breaking a winning streak that started in 1995. Since then, the school has managed to grow — sometimes by a little, and sometimes by a lot — every year. The numbers won’t be final for a couple of weeks. And while Mizzou did pick up nearly 500 stragglers by the time the official count was taken last year, things don’t look so promising this time around. Of course, it’s not a major blow for a school with more than 34,000 students to lose a couple hundred of them. But it illustrates the mounting pressure colleges face as they deal with a demographic shift that’s churning out smaller high school graduating classes. It’s forcing schools to get creative in attracting students, often setting their sights on states where students

are more plentiful. The problem is that many schools have the same ideas, said Ann Korschgen, Mizzou’s vice provost for enrollment management. “There is much more aggressive competition this year,” Korschgen said in an email. “Many other major universities from across the country are trying to attract nonresident students, often with substantial scholarship packages or tuition waivers.” A look around the region shows that Mizzou is among several campuses with slipping enrollment. It should be noted that some schools will gain substantially between now and the time they take their official counts, while others will lose students. In Springfield, Missouri State University’s early enrollment figures show a 7.8 percent decline, but it is expected to surge by more than 2,000 students after high schoolers enroll in dual-credit programs. Similarly, Lindenwood University’s preliminary numbers suggest an 8.4 percent dip, but the figures don’t

factor in some late-starting programs expected to create an enrollment increase topping 4 percent. More troubling is what’s happening at St. Louis Community College, where enrollment has fallen more than 18 percent since 2011 when the school boasted an enrollment of more than 29,000. This year alone, enrollment is down nearly 11 percent, falling below the 24,000 mark. While the school is scrambling to deal with the repercussions of the decline, it was not unexpected. Community colleges, in particular, tend to see an enrollment boost during tough economic times, followed by a decline when things get better. That, combined with the smaller pool of high school graduates, is hurting the school. “I don’t think where we are is any surprise to us,” said Donna Dare, vice chancellor for academic and student affairs. “Community colleges across the country are feeling the pinch. We’re all trying to level out and see where we stabilize.”

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WASHINGTON POST One of the most persistent claims in the climate debate is that global warming leads to more extreme weather. Green groups and even such respectable outlets as Scientific American declare that “extreme weather is a product of climate change.” And the meme seems irresistible as a political shortcut to action. President Obama has explicitly linked a warming climate to “more extreme droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes.” The White House warned this summer of “increasingly frequent and severe extreme weather events that come with climate change.” Yet this is not supported by science. “General statements about extremes are almost nowhere to be found in the literature, but seem to abound in the popular media,” climate scientist Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies said last month. “It’s this popular perception that global warming means all extremes have to increase all the time, even though if anyone thinks about that for 10 seconds they realize that’s nonsense.” Global warming is real. It is partly manmade. It will make some things worse and some things better. Overall, the long-run impact will

be negative. But some of the most prominent examples of extreme weather are misleading, and some weather events are becoming less extreme. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delivered a 600-page report, on extreme weather in 2011. It got little attention — because it is nuanced. Global warming, in general, will mean higher temperatures. This causes more heat waves — more extreme weather. But it also causes fewer cold waves — less extreme weather. Many more people die from excessive cold than excessive heat, so fewer people will die from cold and heat in the future. By mid-century, researchers estimated in 2006, that means about 1.4 million fewer deaths per year. In the continental United States, heat waves in the past decade exceeded the norm by 10 percent, but the number of cold waves fell 75 percent. Moreover, global warming will mostly increase temperatures during winter, at night and in cold places, making temperature differences less extreme. Global warming will also cause more heavy rain; this is clearly more extreme. But warming will also help alleviate water scarcity — less extreme. About 1.2 billion fewer people are expected to live with water scarcity by the end of the century because of increased precipitation. Drought is expected to increase in some regions

while decreasing in others. Overall, the impact will probably be slightly more extreme. Likewise, sea levels will rise, which will mean more flooding of coastal structures — more extreme weather. The total impact is likely to beless than 0.1 percent of global economic output. Hurricane wind speeds are likely to increase (more extreme), but the number of hurricanes is likely to decrease or hold steady (less extreme). The number of extra-tropical cyclones is likely to decline (less extreme). Obama’s examples of more extreme weather from droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes are weak examples for the United States. Wildfire may be the only one of these indicators that is increasing in the United States, but to a large degree this is because fire suppression efforts have resulted in more material being available to burn. The IPCC found that “droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America.” A scientific overview published in June in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societyfound that the severe drought of 2012, which at one point covered 39 percent of the United States, was still much less extreme than droughts in the 1930s (which covered 63 percent) and the 1950s (50 percent). And all those droughts pale next to the six-decade mega-drought in what is now the U.S. West in the 12th century.

Damage from flooding in the United States has declined from 0.2 percent of gross domestic product in 1940 to less than 0.05 percent today. And U.S. hurricanes have not increased in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900. It has been more than seven years since the United States was hit by a Category 3 or stronger hurricane. That is the longest such hurricane drought since 1900. A new paper in the journal Nature shows on a crucial measure that there is no increase in extremes. Looking at temperature variability as one kind of extreme weather, the authors document that extreme weather globally has been constant since 1960. Moreover, the researchers found that extreme weather as temperature variability will decline in the future with higher levels of carbon dioxide. They laconically conclude: “Our findings contradict the view that a warming world will automatically be one of more overall climatic variation.” It is understandable that a lot of well-meaning people, wanting stronger action on global warming, have tried to use the meme of extreme weather to draw attention. But alarmism and panic are rarely the best way to achieve good policies. The argument that global warming generally creates more extreme weather needs to be retired.

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Latino-American PBS series is long overdue, they say MARIA RECIO McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — When most Americans talk about the heroes of the Alamo, the historic Texas battle for independence from Mexico, they may know the names Davy Crockett, William Travis and James Bowie, but not Juan Seguin. A young captain in the upstart Texas forces, the Texas-born Seguin had been sent out of the Alamo as a courier at the time the Mexicans finally overran the compound, and he escaped the massacre. He became a celebrated military officer who helped defeat the Mexicans at the Battle of San Jacinto and went on to be a senator in the Texas Republic and mayor of San Antonio. But discrimination and suspicion by whites forced him out of office and even into exile in Mexico. It’s a little-known story about Latino history in this country that’s now being told as part of a 500year look at Latino Americans that will be broadcast on PBS stations beginning Tuesday. Timed to coincide with Hispanic Heritage Month, which began Sunday, the six-hour, three-part series, called “Latino Americans,” examines the development of a new “Latino” identity through 100 interviews, including some famous Latinos such as labor activist Dolores Huerta and singer Gloria Estefan. It will be aired on three consecutive Tuesday evenings, broadcast in both English and Spanish. “We’re trying to construct a history that has not been written,” historian David Montejano, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, says in the first episode. “We had a blank slate that

had to be recaptured, recovered.” The series portrays the struggle of Latinos, from enduring “No Mexicans or dogs allowed” signs outside restaurants and segregated schools in the Southwest to a Texas restaurant refusing service to a World War II Medal of Honor winner and the backlash of English-only rules. The nation’s fastest-growing minority, Latinos say the attention is long overdue. “One out of six Americans is Latino,” said Ray Suarez of PBS, who wrote an accompanying book for the series. “But if you turn on the TV you’d never know that.” “Everyone thinks we’re newly arrived,” said Felix Sanchez, the chairman and co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts. “People never noticed us because we were doing manual labor.” The history of Latinos, he said, “really is about the growing pains of a country.” Sanchez said the lack of awareness extended to the present day. He has led a campaign against the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, saying it’s all but ignored Hispanics in its honors program for lifetime achievement. Last week, the center named two Latinos — opera singer Martina Arroyo and musician Carlos Santana — to this year’s honors, doubling the number of Hispanic recipients in the 35 years the award has been presented. The PBS series is an ambitious undertaking, covering the history of different migrations, including Mexican-Americans to the Southwest, Cubans to Florida and Puerto Ricans to New York, as well as later waves from the Caribbean. “The incredible diversity of Latino

histories and the regional distinctions of how, when and why make it difficult to capture,” said Anne Martinez, an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. “We as a nation are not very cognizant of our history.” Martinez’s American-born father was in Chicago and was part of the Depression-era “repatriation,” when Latino families were given one-way train tickets to Mexico only to be encouraged later to return to aid the effort during World War II. “My hope would be that this series would give depth, dimension and subtlety to what has been a black and white history of the U.S.,” she said. Henry Munoz, a San Antonio businessman who’s the Democratic National Committee’s finance chairman, described the recent emergence of Latinos this way: “I’ve heard it referred to as ‘brown time.’” Munoz, who uses “Latino” instead of “Hispanic,” as does the PBS series, recalled being part of a march with farmworkers organizer Cesar Chavez from the Rio Grande Valley to Austin — Munoz was only 6 years old and rode a burro — to fight for a $1.25 minimum wage. “We really need to teach the next generation our struggles,” he said. Nicolas Kanellos, a University of Houston Hispanic studies expert who held a viewing of the series for students, didn’t like the use of celebrities such as Estefan to showcase the Latino struggle or narrator Benjamin Bratt, a Latino heartthrob. “As a scholar, I would criticize this emphasis on entertainment figures,” he said. “The struggles were at the grass roots, in science, education. There’s a lot more substance to the stories that need to be told.”

New Utah polygamous family on reality TV BRADY MCCOMBS Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY — Brady Williams has five wives, 24 children but no organized religion. The newest polygamous family from Utah on reality TV considers itself progressive and independent. Williams and his wives slowly withdrew from the fundamentalist Mormon church in their rural community outside of Salt Lake City during the mid-2000s after reevaluating their core beliefs. The family no longer teaches the tenants of fundamental Mormonism to their children at home, opting instead to take from other teachings such as Buddhism to instill good, morale values in their two dozen children, who range in age from 2-20. “Since we have left the religion, it’s now about love and it’s about commitment, and it’s about happiness as a family,” said Brady Williams, 43, a project manager in his brother’s construction business. “It’s not about the fear of hell or the promise of heaven.” It wasn’t the first time Brady Williams has crossed religious lines. As a teenager, his parents left

mainstream Mormonism and joined polygamy. He said that transition was very difficult, but not as hard as leaving the fundamentalist church his five wives all grew up in. The women still have family members in the church who pray for them to repent and return. They haven’t been ostracized by family and friends in the community, but town leaders have made it clear to Brady Williams, a former church leader, that they prefer the family leave town. Dealing with that scrutiny may help the Williams as they brace for newfound attention now that TLC has debuted the one-hour special about the family, called “My Five Wives.” The show, which aired again Monday night, could turn into a full series depending on ratings. Non-affiliated plural families are actually quite common among the estimated 38,000 fundamentalists who practice or believe in polygamy, most living in Utah and other western states, said Anne Wilde, co-founder of a polygamy advocacy group called Principle Voices. The group estimates that about 15,000 are independent like the Williams. The two largest organized polygamist churches are Warren

Jeff’s Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on the Utah-Arizona border and the Apostolic United Brethren in northern Utah, of which the Williams used to belong. The practice of polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints. The mainstream church abandoned polygamy in 1890 as Utah moved toward statehood. The family lives in two large multi-plexes built by Brady Williams that sit across a valley from a breathtaking mountain range. One is a two-story building that resembles a motel with three green doors on the bottom level, each the house of one of the wives. The other two wives live in the ground floor of an adjacent four-plex. Two of the wives work outside the home and one in the construction business. The other two are taking college courses. Two of the wives are cousins, and all have been married to Brady Williams for at least 14 years. The five wives take turns fixing dinners on weeknights for 30 hungry people. Rosemary, the third wife, likes to experiment with new recipes while the other wives stick with the old standbys like spaghetti.

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Grounds Department workers Dan Douthett, left, of Makanda and Ryan Stillman, of Cobden, fill in landscape with mulch Monday at Faner Hall. Douthett said they are working with construction crews to landscape around the new Student Services Building as well as the surrounding areas.

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G I G L I O I S L A N D, Italy — A complex system of pulleys and counterweights on Monday began pulling upright the Costa Concordia cruise ship from its side on a Tuscan reef where it capsized in 2012, an anxiously awaited operation of a kind that has never before been attempted on such a huge liner. Engineer Sergio Girotto said the operation began at about 9 a.m. (0700GMT) Monday, three hours late. The delay was due to an early morning storm that pushed back a floating command room center from its position close to the wreckage. There, engineers using remote controls were guiding a synchronized leverage

system of pulleys, counterweights and huge chains looped under the Concordia’s carcass to delicately nudge the ship free from its rocky seabed perch just outside Giglio Island’s harbor. The goal is to raise it from its side by 65 degrees to vertical, as a ship would normally be, for eventual towing. The operation, known in nautical parlance a parbuckling, is a proven method to raise capsized vessels. The USS Oklahoma was parbuckled by the U.S. military in 1943 after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But the 300-meter (1,000-foot), 115,000ton Concordia has been described as the largest cruise ship ever to capsize and subsequently require the complex rotation. The Concordia crashed into a reef

on a winter’s night Jan. 13, 2012. Thirty-two people were killed after the captain steered the luxury liner too close to the rocky coastline of Giglio, part of a chain of islands in pristine waters. The reef sliced a 70-meter long (230-foot) gash into what is now the exposed side off the hull, letting seawater rush in. The resulting tilt was so drastic that many lifeboats couldn’t be launched. Dozens of the 4,200 passengers and crew were plucked to safety by helicopters or jumped into the sea and swam to shore. Bodies of many of the dead were retrieved inside the ship, although two bodies were never found and might lie beneath the hulk. The Concordia’s captain is on trial on the mainland for alleged

manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship during the chaotic and delayed evacuation. Capt. Francesco Schettino claims the reef wasn’t on the nautical charts for the liner’s weeklong Mediterranean cruise. Asked how long it would take for people on shore to see the ship making significant movement toward the vertical, Girotto said that “after a couple of hours, you should be able to see something visible from a distance.” The first couple of hours will be critical, engineers predicted. Pieces of the granite seabed are embedded in the submerged side of the hull, which divers haven’t been able to fully inspect. The entire operation should take

between 10-12 hours. Parbuckling was supposed to begin before dawn, but daylight broke even before the barge carrying the engineers close to the ship could leave shore. After the storm blew away, seas were calm. Engineers have dismissed as a “remote” possibility the chance that the Concordia might break apart during rotation and no longer be sound enough to be towed to the mainland to be turned into scrap. Costa Crociere SpA, the Italian unit of Miami-based Carnival Corp., is picking up the tab for the parbuckling and its intricate preparation. The company puts the costs so far at 600 million euro ($800 million), though much of that will be passed onto its insurers.

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PARIS — Secretary of State John Kerry is briefing some of the United States’ closest allies and working out details on how to put an end to Syria’s chemical weapons program. A day after visiting Israeli leaders, Kerry was due to meet Monday with top officials from France, Britain, Turkey and Saudi Arabia, who had pressed for military strikes on Syria after the Aug. 21 poison gas attack that killed hundreds. U.S. and Russian officials reached an ambitious agreement over the weekend calling for an inventory of Syria’s chemical weapons program within a week, with the program eradicated by mid-2014. The U.N. resolution under discussion Monday would detail how Syria can secure and destroy its stockpile. The U.N.’s chief weapons inspector turned over his team’s report on the August attack on Sunday.

E L-A R I S H — Suspected Islamic militants on Monday set off a roadside bomb in the Sinai Peninsula as a bus full of police conscripts was driving by, wounding nine of them, security officials said. The blast on the outskirts of the coastal city of el-Arish in northern Sinai came amid a major counterinsurgency operation by Egypt’s military and police in the lawless desert region. The offensive followed a surge of attacks by insurgents triggered by the army’s July 3 overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi and subsequent violence. The worst insurgent attack in Sinai during that period took place on Aug. 19 when militants pulled 25 police conscripts off minibuses and shot them dead on the side of the road.

K ANDAHAR — Afghan officials say a top policewoman in the country’s south has died from gunshot wounds inflicted by unknown attackers, months after her predecessor was slain. Sub-Inspector Negar, 38, suffered a bullet wound to the neck. Helmand province government spokesman Omar Zawak and police spokesman Fareed Ahmad Obaidi said she died early Monday. Negar, known by just one name, worked in the Helmand police’s criminal investigation department in Lashkar Gah city. She’d spoken out about the need for female police officers in Afghanistan, which has seen a string of attacks on prominent women. Negar’s predecessor as top female officer in Helmand, Islam Bibi, was gunned down in July.

Feds to auction off LINDSEY TANNER Associated Press C H I C AG O — Almost one in 10 U.S. high school seniors have engaged in recent extreme binge drinking — downing at least 10 drinks — at a rate that barely budged over six years, according to a government-funded report. Less severe binge drinking, consuming five or more drinks in a row, has mostly declined in recent years among teens. But for high school seniors, the 2011 rate for 10 drinks in a row — 9.6 percent — was down only slightly from 2005. The most extreme level — 15 or more drinks in a row within the past two weeks — didn’t change from 2005 to 2011. Almost 6 percent of high school seniors reported recently drinking that amount. The number of seniors engaging in the most extreme drinking “is really concerning because they’re most at risk for the really severe consequences,” including reckless driving, car accidents and alcohol poisoning, said lead researcher Megan Patrick of the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research. Extreme binge drinking may be a behavior that’s “more entrenched” among some teens, and thus

harder to change, Patrick said. The new report is an analysis of survey results that the university does for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It’s based on classroom questionnaires given to more than 16,000 high school seniors; a question on extreme binge drinking was added in 2005. Whites and males were the most likely to engage in all levels of binge drinking, the report found. Students with more educated parents had higher rates of binge drinking than other kids, but lower rates of extreme binge drinking. Extreme binge drinking was most common in rural areas and the Midwest and least common in the West. The report was published online Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. Young adults generally have higher levels of extreme drinking; a 2012 survey by the same group found that more than 1 in 4 people aged 19 to 30 had recently consumed at least 10 drinks in a row and more than 1 in 10 had at least 15 drinks in a row. A journal editorial says the new report may help explain why hospitalizations for alcohol and drug overdoses among teens and young adults have increased in recent years despite ongoing declines in less severe binge drinking.

Associated Press CHICAGO — Mink capes, Bruce Lee autographs and assorted Michael Jackson memorabilia belonging to Jesse Jackson Jr. will be sold to the highest bidder to help ensure the former congressman pays his debt to society in full. The U.S. Marshals Service said it will start selling 13 items in an online auction Tuesday — with proceeds going to help repay $750,000 in campaign funds that the Chicago Democrat illegally spent. In addition to requiring that Jackson, 48, pay back the misspent funds, a U.S. judge in Washington, D.C., last month sentenced the son of civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson to 2 ½ years behind bars. The objects up for auction at www. txauction.com illustrate the disgraced legislator’s passion for both pop iconography and for what some might consider gaudy and pricey fashion. Among the clothing items are a woman’s mink jacket with silver-fox

sleeves and a red cashmere cape with black mink trim, according to a Marshals Service press release. In the same case, Jackson’s wife, Sandra, was sentenced to a year in prison for filing false joint federal income tax returns. At least some of the clothes being auctioned would have been worn by her. One of the largest pieces of memorabilia up for auction is a guitar signed by both Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen. Next to Jackson’s signature are the hand-written words, “Let Love Fall Like Rain.” Prosecutors say Jackson spent tens of thousands of dollars other apparent frivolities, including two mounted elk heads for his office. Those were not listed among the objects on sale this week. It wasn’t immediately clear how much the 13 items could raise. A message left for the company overseeing the auction, Texas-based Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, Inc., wasn’t immediately returned. The auction runs through Sept. 26.

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Capricorn — Today is a 9 — Hold on to what you have for a while. You’re sharp as a tack. Count your blessings. Imagine a new venture. Negotiate a partnership deal. Elicit a promise. Discuss, don’t argue.

Taurus — Today is a 7 — Conversing with friends clears up a misunderstanding. Do the homework. Provide motivation. Play, but remember your budget. Glamour disguises a few flaws.

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Briggs realizes Bears toeing thin line at 2-0 ANDREW SELIGMAN Associated Press L A K E F O R E S T, Ill. — Lance Briggs understands just how thin a line the Chicago Bears are toeing at the moment. They could easily be winless rather than unbeaten, and they just might be regrouping from a loss had Jay Cutler not delivered a perfect pass to Martellus Bennett in the closing seconds to beat the Minnesota Vikings 31-30 on Sunday. That came on the heels of a seasonopening win over Cincinnati in which they rallied from 11 down in the second half.

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That line between 2-0 and 0-2? “It’s minute, very, very small,” Briggs said on Monday. “In those critical situations, a guy could just as easily gotten his hand up, come through that line, gotten a sack, disrupted the throw, or the throw be a little to the left or right, and we lose that game.” He said the Bears are “starting to create an identity,” and resilient is looking like a good description. That doesn’t mean they’re a polished bunch. It would help if they got more from their pass rush, starting this week at Pittsburgh, and that largely hinges on a healthy Julius Peppers. He’s been a nonfactor so far and the Bears have just two sacks so far. Peppers

sat out some preseason practices because of a hamstring issue, and he was sent home from the Bears’ facility last week because of flu symptoms, missing practice on Thursday. He played against the Vikings, but coach Marc Trestman said he was probably feeling worse than he did in the days leading up to the game. “I don’t know that he had the energy to play as hard as he possibly could play,” Trestman said. “I thought he was involved, he ran some plays down, but overall, in his defense I think that he wasn’t getting better at the time. He was still not ascending, and he didn’t look well to me this morning when I saw him in the meeting as well.”

Along with Gibson, Esling did not discover her cross-country passion right away. She was a soccer player who eventually drifted towards cross country, and entered the SIU women’s cross country team her sophomore year of college. Esling was also not a fan of staying home for college immediately until she weighed out the benefits. “I lived at my parents’ house for my first two years of college,” Esling said. “Since I’ve been on campus, I think that it’s just awesome that I am a student here.” Esling said she and her father have grown closer since she decided to stay home for college, especially since he works on campus in the geology department. “We make sure that we go out for smoothies weekly,” she said. “If I have an assignment that I want to show off, I just go see him in his office.” Esling is currently in Washington, D.C for the rest of the semester as she completes her internship at National Geographic. Both Esling and Gibson have parents who work on campus, as well as siblings who attend SIU. Gibson grew up in a household of four along with her younger brother, Dylan Gibson. Dylan is an SIU freshman who said he anticipated on attending SIU, even when he was a student at Carbondale Community High School. “I just always knew that SIU was the school for me, it was my plan to come here,” Dylan said. “After my sister decided to stay here, I definitely wanted to stay.” Although both runners said their parents are huge support systems for them, they are well supported by their former high school coach, Gary Holda, as well. Holda, a retired cross-country coach of nearly four decades, described Gibson as a very hard worker on and off of the field who did not realize her potential as a cross-country runner until her sophomore year of high school. “Just after a few weeks of her sophomore season I knew that she was going to be extremely good,” Holda said. Esling was also an athlete that Holda enjoyed coaching. “Ellen always brought her good spirit to the team,” he said. “They are both great young women.”

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Lacey Gibson, a junior from Carbondale studying physiology, runs with cross-country teammate Mobola Rotibi , a junior from Tinley Park studying finance, Monday during practice at the Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex. Gibson has been running cross-country since her sophomore year of high school. “If I had the chance to change my decision to go off to school, I wouldn’t,” said Gibson. “Carbondale is my home.” As a life-long Carbondale resident, Holda has attended many Saluki crosscountry meets, including the Early Bird event the Salukis ran as a home opener for this season. Holda said he tries to make it to as many meets as he can. New Carbondale Community High School head cross-country coach, Gary Storm, assisted Holda the same years Esling and Gibson were teammates. Storm started off assisting the boys and girls track team at Carbondale High School, but once Holda retired Storm took over and coached the 2012 girls cross-country team, including Ellen Esling’s sister Molly Esling. Molly is a freshman on the crosscountry team who was also born and

raised in Carbondale. Coach Storm said Molly along with Ellen and Gibson are very solid runners with very good work ethic. “They all stepped up whenever we needed them the most,” Storm said. “It’s cool to come and watch them.” For these students-athletes Carbondale is not only considered a place where they can attend SIU, but it is also considered home. “If I had the chance to change my decision to go off to school, I wouldn’t,” Gibson said. “Carbondale is my home.” Symone Woolridge can be reached at swoolridge@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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Saluki tennis aces offseason

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Conditioning has been the name of the game for the SIU Men’s Tennis team the past few weeks. The Salukis are preparing for the Middle Tennessee State University Dale Short Shootout from Sept. 20 to Sept. 22 in Murfreesboro, Tenn. Only four players return from last season’s roster that fell to Wichita State in the Missouri Valley Conference Team Championships and finished with an overall record of 13-6. Entering his ninth year as Head Coach, Dann Nelson said he hopes his team can build off their positive showing last season. “We finished top three last year in the conference,” Nelson said. “The other two were ranked nationally.” Drake University was ranked as high as 16th in the country last season, and Wichita State University climbed to 63rd in the country. Junior Szymon Opieczonek said despite losing Badr Cherradi and Brandon Florez last season to graduation, the freshmen have the ability to help the team. “We’re looking good this year,” Opieczonek said. “We lost two very good players last season. I think Michal (Kianicka) and Filip (Aleksic) can step up.” Opieczonek said he and his teammates need to get better conditioned. “We suffered last season from matches that were tight, like three set matches,” he said. “We didn’t come up really strong in those matches, so hopefully this can change and we can step up in the third set and win those points which we lost.” Freshman Michal Kianicka said it is sometimes difficult with school and tennis, but this season will be worth it. He said just because each member of the team is an international player, it does not mean they are different. “We are all international, we are

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SIU men’s tennis coach Dann Nelson draws a diagram for his players Thursday during practice at University Courts. Nelson has high expectations for his team this season. “Our goal is to win the conference because it’s a reward for all the hard work and the chance to compete in a national tournament,” Nelson said. The team will play three matches in the Middle Tennessee State University Dale Short Shootout this weekend in Murfreesboro, Tenn. also tennis players, we have a lot in common and spend a lot of time together off the court,” Kianicka said. “This is a great group of people.” Kianicka and fellow freshman Filip Aleksic are the newest players on the roster and Nelson said with a smaller team, all players will have to step up. “They have to contribute; we only have six players this year,” Nelson said. Nelson said with these two recruits, they had the 14th ranked recruiting class among mid-majors

in the country. Sophomore Jonny Rigby said adding another player in the spring will help make the team better. “I think if we could get one more good player in January, then I think we could potentially have a really good season,” Rigby said. “We need one more player to give us that extra depth.” Senior Rafael Cuadrillero finished 2-1 last season at the Middle Tennessee State University Shootout. Cuadrillero beat players

from the University of Alabama Birmingham and Lipscomb University. Nelson said with this being Cuadrillero’s final season, he needs to be the best player he can be. “It’s his senior year, he’s improved every year, we expect improvement,” Nelson said. “By the time guys are seniors, we’re expecting them to have their best year yet.” The tournament at MTSU is in a mock dual format. They will have three doubles matches and six singles

matches against MTSU, University of Alabama at Birmingham and Lipscomb. Nelson said one word to describe his team now would be tired, but he said his players do everything that is asked of them. “They work really hard, they do whatever we tell them to do and they don’t complain,” Nelson said. Tyler Dixon can be reached at tdixon@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

No place like home for Saluki runners SYMONE WOOLRIDGE Daily Egyptian While most SIU athletes pack their suitcases on breaks or holidays as they head home to visit, several students do not have to travel very far. Three Saluki cross-country women have spent their entire lives in the city of Carbondale. Juniors Lacey Gibson and Ellen Esling have been Carbondale student-athletes since high school. Gibson said she was a bit skeptical

about attending college in the same area where she grew up, but now, would not have it any other way. “At first I wanted to go far away off to college, but now I just love being here,” Gibson said. “I love the fact that my parents live here, I can just go home whenever I can and whenever I need to.” Gibson said she was afraid her parents would seem too close, but once she officially became a Saluki, she began to see Carbondale as a place she had never been. “Leaving Carbondale High

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eaving Carbondale High School to go to Carbondale’s college was like living in a completely different town.

School to go to Carbondale’s college was like living in a completely different town,” Gibson said. Transitioning from high school to college can effect many friendships and connections between childhood friends and new college friends. However,

— Lacey Gibson junior Gibson said she remains in contact with all of her friends from high school, including her cross-country and track and field teammate Ellen Esling, also a distance runner on the Saluki track team. Esling has been best friends with Gibson since high school when they

began to build a road race named the Pumpkin Run, which consisted of a 2K run that raised money for a nonprofit organization called Green Earth and Active. The organization earned over $2,000. Please see XC | 11