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SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian Three of the four unions in contract negotiations have set a strike date for Nov. 3. Leadership of the Faculty Association, Non-Tenure Track Faculty Association and the Association of Civil Service Employees said the unions will strike if a settlement has not been reached by then. The Departmental Representative Council for the FA voted Thursday 29-1 to strike, and both the Executive Council of the ACSE and the House of Delegates for the NTTFA voted unanimously Friday. The Graduate Assistants United union is scheduled to vote today. Chancellor Rita Cheng said since the bargaining teams continue to meet and discuss alternative language on key outstanding issues, setting a strike date is inappropriate. “Whether this gets settled by Nov. 3 depends on both teams bargaining in good faith,� she said in an email Sunday.
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Craft beers big hit on banks of Big Muddy 2nd annual brew fest expands from last year ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian The second annual Big Muddy Monster Brew Fest drew crowds to Murphysboro’s Riverside Park Saturday with a wide variety of craft beers. “It’s a good time for beer right now,� said Matt McCarroll, owner of Windy Hill Hop Farms. The event, hosted by Friends of Murphysboro, featured 12 breweries, more than 100 different beers and was set up to accommodate 1,000 guests, said coorganizer Brandi Straub. She said the number of breweries tripled since last year’s event, which attracted about 500 people. This year’s event was assisted by 100 volunteers, Straub said. Breweries included the only two in southern Illinois, Big Muddy and Von Jakob, a number from Missouri and some from central and northern Illinois. Guests purchased a tasting cup at the entrance, and from there they had free range of the dozen breweries that offered their beer and many more samples from across the country. Please see BREW | 5
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Larry Mittendorf, left, and Brent Moore, both of Murphysboro, enjoy a beer and a smoke Saturday during the Big Muddy Monster Brew Fest at Riverside Park in Murphysboro. Moore said while he enjoys beer, he prefers scotch, and he came to the event because
of Mittendorf’s recommendation. Brandi Straub, co-organizer for the event, said they anticipated to double last year’s turnout of 500. Straub also said the breweries in attendance grew from four in 2010 to 12 this year.
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Glass blowers raise money for program ASHLEY ZBOREK Daily Egyptian More than 750 handmade glass pumpkins were sold at Southern Glass Works' annual fundraiser the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch. Southern Glass Works, a Registered Student Organization for student glassblowers, hosted the event Saturday at Carbondale's Town Square Pavilion. Dylan Bettis, a senior from Downs studying art and design, said the fundraiser helps raise money for the organization's trips. He said the group will take a trip to Chicago next week for the International Expositions of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art, an annual art exhibition. SOFA is one of the largest art shows in the Midwest, Bettis said. He said Southern Glass Works has been at the university for more than 40 years as of October 2010. “This is our fifth year doing the pumpkin patch," Bettis said. "We have spent the whole semester so far making these pumpkins." Jiyong Lee, associate professor in the School of Art and Design, has been the head of the glass blowing program since 2005 and said the event started in 2007. “I thought we needed a new idea for fundraisers besides the Christmas sale," Lee said. "It has really been successful; we sell out every year and it has become our No. 1 source of proceeds.” He said the RSO also uses the proceeds from the fundraiser to pay for materials, tools and workshops with visiting artists as well. Southern Glass Works also takes an annual trip to Corning Incorporated, the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics, Lee said.
Dee Agers, of Carbondale, compares two glass pumpkins Saturday during the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch Sale at Carbondale’s Town Square Pavilion. The sale is organized by Southern Glass Works, a Registered Student Organization that supports SIU’s glass blowing program. Alex Trommler, a graduate student in fine arts from Alexander Trommler, a graduate student in art and design from Philadelphia, said the pumpkin patch fundraiser is a great experience because it provides an opportunity to get real working experience. “We get to work with the community and gain skills, like how to talk to costumers and get to
know the ins and outs of being an artist,” he said. Laura Cadwell, a junior from Libertyville studying art and design, said she learned a lot this semester just by working on the pumpkins. “Every Sunday we would go into the studio and work in an assemblyline style. It was cool because a little bit of each of us got to go into each
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Philadelphia, said the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch Sale is one of two holiday sales the group hosts each year. He said the proceeds make up most of the program’s budget, which pays for visiting artists and supplies. Agers said she has been to the sale several times and loves supporting the arts. pumpkin,” she said. Cadwell said she got a lot of practice and was able to learn some new techniques from her fellow glassblowers by working on the pumpkins Trommler said SIU is a great school for glassblowing. “We have one of the strongest and diverse programs in the
nation," he said. "This allows us to explore other areas of glass besides blowing, such as casting and fusing and several other techniques that not many other schools in the nation do.”
Ashley Zborek can be reached at azborek@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 268.
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Paranormal Activity 3 sends familiar shivers BRENDAN SMITH Daily Egyptian
In 2009, the low-budget thriller “Paranormal Activity” became the found-footage fright feast for the digital age. The film, which was made with a mere $15,000, went on to gross more than $194 million worldwide. A sequel was inevitable. Last year’s “Paranormal Activity 2” saw a shift in character focus, moving from the original picture’s protagonist Katie (Katie Featherston) to her sister Kristi (Sprague Grayden). “Paranormal Activity 3” is a prequel, sending Kristi back to 1988 to their suburban childhood home with their mother Julie (Lauren Bittner) and her boyfriend Daniel (Brian Boland). The film plays out like a dark and twisted series of home movies. Innocent interactions such as backyard barbeques, tea parties and lazy Sunday afternoons are morphed into dark and disturbing psychological thrills. After a failed attempt at an erotic video with Julie, Daniel notices a strange figure after reviewing the footage. At the request of his friend, he sets cameras up around his home to explore the incident. From here, strange things start happening, with much being attributed to Kristi's imaginary friend Toby. Daniel takes the series from the clean, digital format, which viewers have become accustomed, to a far more eerie, grainy analog style. The footage is intentionally roughly cut together roughly, with scenes tacked on one after the other. This approach gives "PA3" the closest resemblance to the series' mentor, the 1999 cultural sensation 'The Blair
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Witch Project." But unlike its found-footage prototype, the film capitalizes on visual scare tactics instead of cerebral fear. In traditional sequel sensibility, this film attempts to top its predecessors in thrills. The third installment instills far more physical fear than the previous films, with characters being pushed, thrown and even killed by invisible ghastly figures. Toby is by far the strongest and most malicious of all the franchise’s otherworldly intrudes. Clearly, he doesn't like to be photographed. "Paranormal Activity 3" is
legitimately scary, and in a horror film there aren't too many other requirements. The feature does manage to work in a few laughs and plays with the audience's emotions with tension-building gags. But the film doesn't depart from the two previous installments: noises in the dark, possessed sleepwalking and invisible assassins all carry over into the prequel, making it feel like a lot like cinematic leftovers.
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The beers, all craft, varied widely in style from bitter IPAs to milder wheat beers and included a number of different flavors such as apple, vanilla and even crème brulee. Flavor is what turned volunteer Rick Henson, of Percy, onto craft beer. “That’s about all I drink anymore,” he said. Henson said he became interested in craft beers about eight years ago when he saw them stocked in liquor stores. He attended last year’s event as a guest, but this year he and his wife volunteered pouring beer for Founder’s brewery. Craft beer is growing in popularity, he said, and people are looking for an alternative to the well-known, massproduced beers. John Bizzel, of Murphysboro, said he supports craft beers because it helps smaller businesses and tastes better than the major beers. “I just don’t like cookie-cutter stuff in general,” he said. Bizzel said he likes Schlafly, which was represented at the festival, and admires the company’s pluck to rub
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Assistant coach Tammi Fries is left-handed and worked with the team to prepare it for the different look a lefty attacker gives. She said the team looked as if it would be able to adjust. “It’s a different block set up. Left side blockers, in general, aren’t trained to block as much,” Winkeler said. “We had some breakdowns there.”
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decide to take job actions,” she said. ACSE President Cyndi KesslerCriswell said in a press release sent Friday the civil service union is hopeful they will not have to strike and a suitable agreement can be reached through the bargaining process. NTTFA President Anita Stoner said negotiations have gone on too long, and a deadline needed to be set in order to reach an agreement. Dave Johnson, DRC Chair for the Faculty Association, said in a press release sent Thursday the union’s goal is not to strike but rather to get a
fair settlement that promotes quality education. “We’ve shown great patience in waiting this long,” the press release stated. “We have offered many different proposals in hopes of bridging the gap between the FA and the SIUC administration, and it is now time for the administration to show similar flexibility in order to allow us to reach an agreement and avert a strike.”
shoulders with St. Louis brewing giant Anheuser Busch. “Anyone gutsy enough to make a microbrewery in St. Louis deserves my money,” he said. Bizzel also approved of Von Jakob’s hefeweizen and said if you can make a good hefeweizen, you can make a good beer. The hefeweizen was one of several varieties Von Jakob had to offer at the festival. This year was Von Jakob’s first time at the festival, and they’ve only been selling beer for about a year, server Frank Wesseln said. As of now, Von Jakob is selling the beer from its Alto Pass winery but is looking to distribute it to stores soon, he said. A lot of people come into the winery not realizing they can try beer now, too, Wesseln said. The craft beer industry is taking off in Illinois right now, McCarroll said. He said the explosion in interest actually lagged behind the rest of the country by about five years. McCarroll ran a booth at the festival for his hop farm. He said he sold out of his hops at last year’s festival. McCarroll sells hops, along with home brewing supplies, at his
location south of Murphysboro, he said. He said the craft beer industry grew out of home brewing, and he enjoys watching people get their first hands-on experience at his booth with the aromatic ingredients, which look like tiny green and flowery pine cones. “Most people don’t know what hops are, and you see people grab a handful, crush them and smell them,” McCarroll said. The first wave of craft beers grew out of home brewing, and now there’s a second generation of enthusiasts who have turned to home brewing after becoming interested in craft beers, he said. Despite being one of the event’s organizers, Straub said her interest in craft beer is pretty new; she’d never drank beer before last year’s event. She said it’s the avid interest in the beer that sets the Brew Fest apart from similar events such as the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail arts festival. “The brew fest is centered on the beer itself — the love of beer,” Straub said.
Thole recorded her ninth and 10th double-doubles of the year against Creighton and Drake. She had 38 kills and 24 digs during the two games after moving from the right side to the left. “She’s a very versatile hitter, so she can hit a lot of different (angles),” Brown said. Freshman middle blocker Sarah James stepped up to fill the void left by the injured Emily Less. James had 20 kills and hit for .277 percentage
throughout the weekend. “Everyday at practice, she just works, learns and improves,” Winkeler said. “She’s fun to watch, she’s fun to coach, and it’s great to see her get the numbers.” The Salukis will take a five-game losing streak on the road to Evansville (12-14, 2-9 MVC) Friday.
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Volleyball loses two on the road
Losing streak reaches five games JOE RAGUSA Daily Egyptian
Saluki volleyball fell to seventh place in the Missouri Valley Conference Friday and Saturday as they dropped both games of a weekend set on the road against Creighton and Drake. SIU (9-11, 3-8 MVC) entered the weekend tied for sixth place with Drake (9-16, 5-6 MVC), but a late rally wasn’t enough as the Bulldogs defeated the Salukis 3-2 Saturday. With a loss against Creighton (13-10, 8-3 MVC) Friday, SIU now sits two games behind Drake for the sixth and final spot in the MVC tournament. “Either night, it wasn’t like the worse team lost. We played very good volleyball,� head coach Brenda Winkeler said. “We know we’re capable of playing it. It just came down to, in both matches, making untimely errors.� SIU went down 2-0 against Drake Saturday but battled back with a .357 percentage in a third-set victory. “Everybody knew it was a big game, so I thought we came out playing a little tight. We weren’t playing that well,� Winkeler said. “We made some minor adjustments, kind of gave them a little confidence coming out of the locker room.� SIU pushed the game to a fifth set, but Drake won the game on a 5-1 run. Junior middle blocker Alysia Mayes, who was battling through a sore back, had 15 kills while committing only one error. Her .379 hit percentage is the best in the MVC. “She played extremely hard. By the end of (Saturday’s)
match, she was holding (her back),� Winkeler said. “Two nights in a row of just physical play, I couldn’t ask anymore of her.� SIU had a 2-1 set lead against Creighton, but the wheels fell off in the fourth set. Junior outside hitter Laura Thole got a kill off a set by Rachael Brown to make the score 12-9 Creighton in the fourth set. The next Saluki kill was recorded by sophomore Elly Braaten to the score 22-12. “It was a little bit of everything, but Creighton’s (Megan Bober) is just an outstanding player, and she really took over offensively,� Winkeler said. “She did a great job of just tipping all over and making us guess on defense.� Despite hitting -.031 in the fourth set, Winkeler said it was the first set that ultimately decided the match. Creighton hit .083, but SIU couldn’t do any better with a mark of .077, and Creighton took the set 2522. “That was not a great volleyball set. We win that first set, and things may have been different,� Winkeler said. “That’s what we need to concentrate on this is week, coming out a little sharper. It seems like we come out like that, out of warm-ups, and that should be something we can control.� SIU rallied in the fifth set to make the score 13-12, but Creighton pulled away for the victory. “We were in it, and then we just made some untimely errors,� Winkeler said. “Our blocking and defense didn’t come through.� The lefties proved to be trouble for SIU as Creighton’s Bober recorded a triple-double Friday with 19 kills, 28 assists and 11 digs. Drake’s Bentley Mancini had a career-high 18 kills against the Salukis. Please see VOLLEYBALL | 5
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ULTIMATE SALUKI CHALLENGES STUDENTS FOR A SIXTH YEAR Ryan Ratajczyk, a junior from Du Bois studying
radio-television, starts a fire during the final immunity challenge of the sixth Ultimate Saluki Challenge Sunday at the Touch of Nature Center. The Ultimate Saluki Challenge, sponsored by the Recreation Center, is a threeday competition that mirrors the reality television show “Survivor.� Throughout the weekend, contestants were separated into two tribes and competed in various physical, mental and strategic games. Of the 12 contestants, three could choose a prize of an iPad, two tickets to the Missouri Valley Conference basketball championship game or a $500 book scholarship. Ratajczyk, who placed second, chose the scholarship.
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to last place in conference CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian The Salukis went to Cedar Falls, Iowa, to keep their playoff hopes alive but came back with their fourth-straight loss and a share for last place in the conference. SIU (2-5, 1-4 Missouri Valley Football Conference) lost to No. 2 University of Northern Iowa (6-1, 5-0 MVFC) 17-10 Saturday in what was a defensive battle between both teams. The teams went to the locker room tied at halftime, but the Salukis continued with their second-half struggles to convert possessions into points on the board. The Salukis gave themselves a chance to tie the game late in the fourth quarter when they recovered a fumble on the UNI 28-yard line, but the offense was unable to get any yardage and turned the ball back over to the Panthers after four consecutive downs. According to the Saluki Athletics website, coach Dale Lennon said the late turnover was the perfect opportunity in the game, but the team put itself in a tough position after junior running back Jewel Hampton was unable to get through the Panthers’ defensive line in the drive’s first two plays. “You can’t ask for a better scenario,� Lennon said. “There was plenty of time on the clock to do what we wanted to do. We went to our go-to guy and wanted to get a manageable second or third down, and we didn’t have the success we wanted.� The Salukis forced three fumbles from the Panthers’ offense throughout the game, two of which in the fourth
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quarter. Though the Salukis were able to manufacture three turnovers, they were able to turn them into only three points on the board with a field goal by redshirt freshman Jackson MacLachlan five minutes into the fourth quarter to cut the UNI lead to seven points. While the Salukis were unable to convert turnovers into touchdowns, they continued to have trouble with their third-down conversions. SIU went three for 13 on third downs, slightly better than its Oct. 15 game against Youngstown State, where the Salukis went three for 16. Sophomore quarterback Kory Faulkner made his third career start, and Lennon said he did a good job of managing the Salukis’ offense despite some of the lackluster numbers, according to the Saluki Athletics website. He said the game was a good learning experience for Faulkner. “We still need more production. (Faulkner) can still get better,� Lennon said. “He’s a work in progress, but you can see the improvement.� Faulkner said it was a confidence booster for the team, as the players know they can compete with any team, but also a significant loss because the team
— Dale Lennon head coach now sits at the bottom of the conference rankings. “Coming to work as hard as we do every week and leaving every play out on the field, and then to come up short, it’s hard to go in the locker room and look at all the upperclassmen,� Falukner said. Faulkner completed 74 percent of his passes as he went 14-19 for 91 yards with one touchdown. His single touchdown pass was to junior tight end MyCole Pruitt, who was the Salukis’ leading receiver for the second consecutive week. Pruitt had 31 yards on five catches, including the lone touchdown reception. Freshman wide receiver LaSteven McKinney said the team has been its own worst enemy during its four-game losing streak. He said the team needs to tighten up and have better execution, both offensively and defensively. “There are a lot of little things we do to ourselves that are holding us back,� McKinney said. “If we fix those things, I think we’re going to be a really good team.�
Cory Downer may be reached at cdowner@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.