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henry, colombo vie for carbondale mayoral seat

SIU Students build network, experience, in extern program

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Carson VanBuskirk | @CarsonVanBDE Mike Henry, current Carbondale mayor, addresses a question alongside mayoral candidate Nathan Colombo on March 28, 2019, at the Mayoral LGBTQ Open Forum in the Center of Empowerment and Justice. The candidates have participated in several forums ranging on topics from Southern Illinois University to the role of the Carbondale Human Right’s Commision. Due to the Daily Egyptian’s print schedule, we are unable to provide the results of the Carbondale Mayoral race in print but you can find the full results of the Carbondale race and races accross southern Illinois online at www.dailyegyptian.com.

‘BEER’ scholarship raises over $50,000

Rana Schenke | rschenke@daily-

SIU Chancellor John Dunn presented the Facebook group 'Carbondale in the ‘80s and ‘90s' with a trophy on Friday for having the most individuals donating money to their scholarship.

The ‘BEER’ or Balancing Experience, Education and Reality,’ scholarship was started by the Facebook group and raised over $32,000 on the Day of Giving alone.

“Yesterday we had another rush of giving because people wanted to hit that $50,000 level so we could have two endowed scholarships,” Dan Giedeman, SIU alum and member of the group, said at the

ceremony. “I’m happy to announce that we’ve actually reached it.”

Giedeman presented Dunn with a check for $50,000+ from the group. Dunn said he has always been impressed by the amount of pride at SIU, and it was evident in this group.

“True happiness can only be obtained through giving,” Dunn said. “You represent that in spades and I am very, very proud of you.”

Dunn presented the group with the Day of Giving trophy for most individual gifts, non-academic.

“You were the most successful in terms of what you were able to put together,” Dunn said.

“You came together in a really collaborative effort again to raise

the flag to show the Saluki pride.”

Giedeman, who accepted the trophy, said there had been concern in the group that the administration wouldn’t approve of the name, but they were very excited when they found out that not only had the name been accepted, but the chancellor himself would be presenting the trophy with the name on it.

Jim Raffensperger, the SIU alum who came up with the name, said he came up with it as a joke.

“It was tongue in cheek, but when we talk about what SIU [...] has come to be about, [...] we all came down here for an education,” Raffensperger said.

“But we also got along the way an experience. And not just that

one experience, of the education, but we made friends [...] We experienced everything that Carbondale has to offer.”

Giedeman said the scholarship is important because it lets students know that alumni care about them and are there for them.

“There’s this whole group of people out in the world that you can connect with,” Giedeman said. “There’s a lot of people out there who have enjoyed their time [at SIU, and] we have an affinity for you guys.”

News Editor Rana Schenke can be reached at rschenke@ dailyegyptian.com.

35 students and 28 sponsors celebrated participants in this year’s externship program, a collaboration between the SIU Alumni Association and the Career Development Center.

Angel Sanders, a senior studying TV and Digital Media Radio, was an extern at the Daily Herald newspaper in Arlington Heights.“I personally don’t want to work for a newspaper, but I went in looking for skills to help strengthen my writing,” Sanders said.

“Coming out of the extern program, I found a lot of connections.”

At the ceremony guest speaker Jacob Rose, a 2015 SIU graduate with a degree in architecture and history, spoke about his experience in the program and how it helped him get to where he is today.

“It gave me that first step in to networking with the local community I wanted to work with,” Rose said. “From there, I was referred to one job placement, which it was with someone they knew, and they automatically trusted who they were referred.”

Rose said when he participated in this program, he was an extern at Trivers Associates and Makey Mitchell in St. Louis.

Rose said the contacts gained through this program are really important because typically when someone moves into a new area, they won’t know anyone.

“Most likely, your chances are your initial contacts will be cold contacts, which you don’t know the person whatsoever, you’re approaching them coldly,” Rose said.

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“If you get to know the community beforehand, then you have an idea of who the right people are to talk to when you’re looking for work.”

Sanders said her experience helped her as much as she thought it would. “Going into the externship, I was worried because I didn’t want to work for a newspaper, but coming back from it I got my work published in their paper,” she said.

“I felt 10 times better because if someone asks me for a writing sample, I can easily show them my work on the Daily Herald.”

Sanders said her externship was nine-to-five, Monday through Friday of spring break.

“I invested in myself,” she said.

Jessena Fields, a senior business studying management, said she externed at Vysnova Partners in Maryland, a public management and administration company who focuses on health administration.

“Since it was a small company, everyone took on multiple roles,” she said. “I actually got to work with a lot of different departments and do different things. I was working with the accounting, management and human resources departments.”

Fields said she already recommended this program to other SIU students. “[The program] lets students get out there and [they] can be offered actual jobs,” she said.

“It lets them figure out what they want want to do and what they

don’t want to do.”

Rose said this program is all about getting to know people and networking.

“You may not necessarily get offered a job or an internship, but it is simply the fact that you’re making contact with people, and that you already have that contact established before you are even looking for a job,” he said.

This program is definitely worthwhile to anyone who even might have the slightest interest of participating in it, Rose said.

“They may not think it guarantees them a job, but it guarantees them a network start,” he said. “I always recommend this to anyone who is trying to look for something. This is the perfect place to start.”

The Big Event volunteers make big differences in carbondale community Elizabeth Biernacki | @EBiernacki_DE this, Lorentz said she believes

Nearly 450 students gave back to the community and volunteered over 1,000 hours collectively for the third annual “The Big Event: A Saluki Day of Service” on Saturday.

Danielle Lorentz, the executive director of the event and a senior studying communication studies, said she has been part of The Big Event since it came to the university.

“It’s very special to me because I really want this to be a tradition that students partake in,” Lorentz said.

The event itself is run almost entirely by students, Lorentz said.

The first year was run mainly by faculty before shifting the second year to students.

“It was a huge shift from having all these faculty, all of their contacts, all of this networking that was really fluid and then it shifted to being a student lead event,” Lorentz said.

“The second year it was me and two other people [...] planning all of it.”

Despite the responsibilities and stress of planning an event like

it’s worth it to see students and community members coming and volunteering with the same goal: helping Carbondale.

“I think it’s so big just because so many members of campus come together in one day and they’re reaching towards the same goal,” Lorentz said.

“It just becomes a big thing, it’s hard for it not to.”The event gives students and community members a chance to give back to the Carbondale community by painting rooms, picking up trash, running fundraisers and more.“Students use so many of [the community’s] resources, they go out places, they buy the food, they participate in some way as a resident of this community for at least 9 months out of the year, and so we want to encourage them to give back,” Lorentz said.

In fact, many of the volunteers students are a part of on-campus RSO’s and fraternities. “[Alpha Eta Rho] likes to volunteer on a regular basis and this seemed like a great opportunity for us to get out in the community and give back,” Olivia Vincent, a junior majoring in aviation flight and

management and member of fraternity Alpha Eta Rho, said.

Michelle Garcia, a junior studying psychology and member of the Hispanic Student Council, said events like these are important because it gives students and groups the chance to give back and be able to see things you might not see at first glance. “[The Big Event] was a student organized event so we though why not, we go to school here, we live here, so we might as well help out and do what we can,” Garcia said.Lorentz said she would love to see people come to an event like this and realize issues within the community that need help getting fixed.

“There are needs that our community has and volunteering is important to make a difference, to find your purpose, to feel like you’re actually having an impact on where you live and what you’re a part of,” Lorentz said.

“That’s the bigger message we want students to take away.”

Staff reporter Elizabeth Biernacki can be reached at ebiernacki@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @EBiernacki_DE.

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Public Policy Institute hosts summit to revitalize Illinois Elizabeth Biernacki | @EBiernacki_DE

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute hosted a summit to revitalize the state of Illinois between March 28 and 29.

The summit brought college students from around the state to help identify issues the state has, while encouraging new ideas on how to tackle them. Following the summit, a report highlighting the main discussions and conclusions will be presented to Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

“There’s a need for fresh voices, new insights, people who have a stake in this state and haven’t been heard from before,” John Shaw, director of the institute, said.

He said that was the genesis of it, and then they started thinking about it practically, as in how could it be done?

The institute’s three primary focuses for the summit were the state budget, the future of higher education in Illinois and Illinois’ political climate.

“The idea of the summit was more of a collective effort,” Joe Locher, a senior studying political science, said. “We tossed around different formats for it, and we wound up with doing a summit.”

Locher said they wanted to do something solid and meaningful in the future.

Shaw said he wanted to get a small group of 35 to 40 people from up to 10 universities to come to the summit, not a huge extravaganza.

“Let’s have some big-picture talk so people have the same kind of broad sense of where we are at, but then also spend a lot of time in small groups discussing specific aspects of the states problems,” he said.

Shaw said he has been back in Illinois for a year, and one of the things that struck him upon returning

Carson VanBuskirk | @CarsonVanBDE Glenn Poshard, former SIU President, Glenn Poshard addresses issues concerning higher education on Friday, March 29, 2019, at the Summit to Rebuild and Revive Illinois.

was how much the political culture had changed.

“I don’t quite know exactly what happened, but to me the most interesting question is what can we do about it?” Shaw said. “In an aspirational sense, but also practically, what are things we can do to encourage more students to stay in Illinois and go to college, rather than go to other states?”

He said he has been to a lot of conferences over the years, and the thing that is the most frustrating is when people are not working from a common set of facts.

“Jim Nowlan, one of the key speakers, drafted this small booklet that explains the facts about our budget, transportation, [and] higher education system, just so people have a common set of facts that will guide their deliberation,” Shaw said.

The institute wants to play a really constructive role, Shaw said.

“We want this to be the first of a number of them,” he said. “We have a whole program that we are developing called Renew Illinois, and this is one aspect of it.”

The Institute wants to have a historical component where they look back on the state’s history. Next year, they’re going to have a conference to celebrate the Illinois Constitution. There would be regular events with demographers to talk about the state’s biggest challenges.

“This is part of what is an ambitious effort for us to find constructive ways to rebuild the state and make it better,” Shaw said. “The institute really wants to be one of the leaders of that effort.”

Locher said if some of the issues are

changed by next year, the participants will reevaluate their positions on them.

“There will always be an issue, there will always be something to talk about,” he said.

Locher said for now, the institute likes it here and will market it from our perspective.

But he isn’t opposed to branching out to other campuses.

“If it takes off and every campus starts hosting their own, I don’t see that as necessarily a bad thing. The more we are talking about these issues the better,” Locher said.

“I think it’s good for the school itself,” Ava Garcia, a junior from Illinois State University, said. “I would have never come down here, if it weren’t for this.”

Megan Chlumecky, a junior from Illinois State University, said the summit participants tried to emphasize the importance of higher education. She said seeing SIU, one of the state’s really good directional schools, trying to advocate for this is really awesome.

“We developed the idea, and thought it would be a good way to implement here, especially with the platform of the Paul Simon Institute,” Locher said. “Paul Simon was a problem solver and higher education was a really big deal to him. There is a reason he put his institute here.”

Locher said he thought the summit worked really well to start out.

“I hope the elected officials that we send it to really take it to heart,” Locher said. “We’re talking about some really serious stuff from the perspective of students.”

Staff reporter Elizabeth Biernacki can be reached at ebiernacki@dailyegyptian.com and on Twitter at @EBiernacki_DE.

Catching Krajcir: A bloody footnote in Southern Illinois history Kallie Cox | @KallieECox

Grover Thompson died 23 years ago in prison. He was found to be wrongfully convicted for the 1981 assault and stabbing of Ida White.

White survived the attack, but the real attacker was uncovered to be Timothy Wayne Krajcir.

Thompson became the first person to be granted clemency by the University of Illinois Innocence Project posthumously.

Krajcir is credited with the murder of nine women in Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Kentucky and was dubbed as the “boogeyman in the blue bandana” alluding to the criminal wearing a blue bandana over his face as he would rape and rob seemingly random women.

After Krajcir assaulted and stabbed 72 year-old White in her Milwaukee, Illinois apartment, he fled the scene and police arrested Thompson, an AfricanAmerican man who was sleeping at a post office across the street.

Krajcir would travel to several towns that he had no connection to, stalk victims and then break into their homes waiting for them to arrive.

In 1977, Krajcir broke into a Carbondale home and stole a .38 caliber handgun. He would use this gun to murder Mary and Brenda Parsh.

Mary was 58-years-old

when she was murdered in her Carbondale home.

Krajcir stalked her, broke into the home on Koch Street in Cape Girardeau, sexually assaulted her 27 year old daughter Brenda, and shot both in the head. In the same year Krajcir molested an 11 year old girl and would continue to do this for two years.

In 1977, Krajcir was then released from prison after serving time for rape when he enrolled at Southern Illinois University as a condition of his parole. He later graduated in 1981 with a degree in Administration of Justice and a minor in psychology.

He would later use knowledge of how investigations and police worked to evade law enforcement.

Krajcir developed an unhealthy emotional and sexual obsession with his mother at the age of 10 and started engaging in acts of exhibition and voyeurism at the age of 13, according to research by the Department of Psychology at Radford University.

In 1963, Krajcir raped a woman in Waukegan, Illinois and stabbed her with a pair of scissors. The woman survived and Krajcir raped a second woman in Chicago.

Krajcir was convicted of rape and attempted murder and sentenced to 25-50 years in a Joliet prison.

While in prison, he earned his associate’s degree from Shawnee Community College and worked as an EMT. Krajcir varied his murders.

He strangled some victims and shot others with a handgun. He was elusive and irregular – and because DNA technology had not been fully developed – he got away with his crimes for years.

Krajcir was arrested for child molestation in 1979. He was sentenced to only two years and was released early in 1980 on recommendation from his psychiatrist.

According to a probable cause statement filed by Detective J. L. Smith in 2007, Krajcir broke into a woman’s house wearing a blue bandanna over his face and raped a 34-year-old woman with her 10-year-old daughter in 1982.

Krajcir strangled 57-year-old Margie Call to death in Cape Girardeau, according to the same statement. This time he left behind strands of his hair at the scene.

Krajcir became increasingly reckless. He shot, sexually assaulted and strangled Mildred Wallace, age 65, in her Cape Girardeau home.

This time he left behind blood, a bootlace he used as a garotte and a palm print behind and bits of his skin were found underneath the victim’s fingernails.

In the same year, Krajcir murdered 23-year-old SIU student Deborah Sheppard.

During this he made a crucial mistake that would lead to his first murder conviction and eventually unravel his other murders: he left semen on her shirt.

DNA technology had yet to be completely developed and was not commonly used in criminal investigations. This made Krajcir’s crimes harder to connect across jurisdictions and state lines.

When he was finally arrested again, Krajcir remained silent about his crimes. He was convicted in Allentown, Pennsylvania when he was found in a parking lot with a gun.

According to Radford research, after being arrested he attempted to escape from prison but broke his leg and failed.

He remained in prison for years, completely silent about his crimes. In 2007, authorities analyzed DNA he had left at a crime scene.

According to the probable cause document filed with the courts in 2007, Detective Jimmy Smith of Cape Girardeau contacted Carbondale’s Lieutenant Paul Echols.

In his book “In Cold Pursuit,” where Echols wrote about the Krajcir investigation, he said he was a rookie police officer when Sheppard was murdered, and

throughout his career he would frequently revisit her case file in the hopes of someday catching her killer.

Echols knew DNA technology was being developed, and in 2007 he called for a review of the DNA in Sheppard’s murder.

Krajcir had recently been moved to the Big Muddy Correctional Center and was placed in the Illinois DNA registry. The sample was a match.

According to the book Echols drove to the prison to interview Krajcir and he originally denied any involvement in Sheppard’s murder. The next day, however, Krajcir called and made his confession to her murder.

After investigating further they were able to link Krajcir to the murders and went to interview him. Initially he refused to confess but when offered a deal that would allow him to escape the death penalty, he confessed and pled guilty to nine murders.

Krajcir is currently serving 13 consecutive life sentences in Pontiac Correctional Center for the murders of Virginia Lee Witte, Mary Parsh, Brenda Parsh, Sheila Cole, Margie Call, Mildred Wallace, Deborah Sheppard, Joyce Tharp and Myrtle Rupp.

Staff reporter Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@ dailyegyptian.com.

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Paul simon public policy institute Poll shows voters more optimistic about direction of state Brandi Courtois | @Brandi_Courtois

The latest Simon Poll asked Illinois voters what they thought of the direction the state of Illinois is heading, minimum wage increases and possible reforms to the state of Illinois.

The poll was put on by SIU’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute and found Illinois voters polled think the direction the country and the state are going has improved since last spring, according to a press release from the institute.

The poll said 67% of Illinois voters thought things in the state of Illinois were off track and moving in the wrong direction, compared to the 84% from last year.

22% of those polled said Illinois is moving in the right direction, compared to 9% last spring.

Regional differences exist regarding the direction of the state, according to a news release release from the institute.

27% of respondents from the city of Chicago said the state is heading in the right direction. Of those polled downstate, 17% of respondents said the state was going in the right direction.

For Democratic respondents, 36% said the state was going in the right direction, compared to 14% of independents and 10% of Republicans.

Respondents were also asked about the direction the U.S. is headed. 30% felt that

the country is headed in the right direction, compared to 61% of those who felt that the country is going in the wrong direction.

Support for legislative term limits on the House of Representatives, the State Senate, or both was supported by 84% of voters, according to the release. Leadership term limits for legislators such as the Speaker of the House or President of the Senate were supported by 85% of those polled.

A proposed constitutional amendment to have legislative district maps created by an independent commission, rather than legislature, received 67% support, according to the release.

Fewer than one in four voters opposed the redistricting proposal.

Respondents were asked whether they “support or oppose incremental increases in the state’s minimum wage,” according to the release.

Two-thirds of those polled supported the minimum wage increase, about a third opposed it.

The poll was based on a statewide sample of 1,000 registered voters and was conducted March 11 through March 17. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.1%.

Staff writer Brandi Courtois can be reached at bcourtois@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @Brandi_Courtois.

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For many Latinos, memories of Vicks VapoRub are as strong as the scent of eucalyptus Esmeralda Bermudez | LA Times

They call it Bibaporru, Beep Vaporu, El Bic, El Bix, El Vickisito.

And many think of the sticky, stinky menthol goop as their own, even though it’s used around the world.

In the Latino community, Vicks VapoRub inspires a curious, nostalgic devotion — for its many nicknames and uses far more creative than relief for the common cold and muscle pain.

“If I say to someone, ‘Hey, bring me El Vah-po-ru!’ they’ll know exactly what I’m talking about,” said Luciano Roldan, 78, of Los Angeles, who has been rubbing VapoRub all over, including up his nose, since he was a kid in the El Salvador countryside.

Since the ointment was invented as a croup and pneumonia cure by a North Carolina pharmacist more than a century ago, many have relied on the little blue jar to solve all sorts of problems: athlete’s foot, stretch marks, stomach aches, earaches.

Some actors even rub it on their eyes to cause tears.

Others scoop it into their coffee or tea.

Online, there are countless tributes to its mighty powers.

Some testimonials are real, some are jokes — meant to mimic and spoof those with limitless faith.

Latinos have created vivaporu hashtags, memes, emojis, comedy skits and, for those still scratching their heads at the love affair, explanatory videos. Some have written about their nostalgia in dissertations, poems and published essays.

Others have dressed up as the Vicks container for Halloween or celebrated mom’s birthday with a cake in its image.

You can buy T-shirts, paintings, pins, candles and greeting cards — all featuring the little blue jar.

Mysterious rash? Vivaporu!

Broken arm? Vivaporu!

Broken heart? Put vivaporu on that, too.

When “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda tweeted a selfie from Puerto Rico in January, holding a tub of Vicks (“I knew I wouldn’t get through the nine show week without peak remedies”), the response was exuberant: “Abuelitas everywhere are cheering for this post “That is the brownest thing I’ve ever seen you say.

“Nothing like that Veevapuruuu.”

In 2017, a man who was accused of attempting to sell 2,000 containers of fake VapoRub across Illinois and Wisconsin did not escape attention.

Carlos Barraza, 23, was charged with violating the Trademark Counterfeiting Act after he got busted at a store called Dos Hermanos in a little town south of Chicago.

“Blasphemy!” declared Latina magazine. “We don’t know how Barraza pulled this off. … Be careful out there, folks.”

Of course, not everyone is a fan.

Some people can’t stand the smell or carry clammy memories of catching a cold.

Daniel Olivas, 59, doesn’t recall protesting as a kid.

Each time he caught a cold, his mother would slather his chest with the salve as if she were icing a birthday cake, and then put him to bed in a eucalyptus haze.

“Moms had to come up with ways to heal the family,” he said.

Growing up in Connecticut, Michael Diaz remembers his Dominican parents put VapoRub on acne, scrapes, cuts, bruises.

They kept the jar on the dresser in their bedroom.

When he was in second grade, Diaz came home on a snowy day. Just as he had reached his family’s porch, a sharp icicle broke off the gutter and landed straight on his head.His mom saw the bloody gash and started crying. His dad, Jose, raced to grab the Vivaporu.

He slathered a big chunk of goo on his son’s head and told him, “Hey, you’ll be fine.”

For three days, Diaz went to school smeared with menthol and eucalyptus.

“I had this cold, waxy Vivaporu sandwich on top of my little fro,” he said.

Years later, Diaz, who’s now a freelance producer in New York, was amused to find that so many other Latinos he knew — Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians — had VapoRub stories.

In 2012, he and a few friends decided to make a Vivaporu rap video and upload it YouTube.

In it, Diaz’s alter ego Juan Bago and his partner O make miracles happen as they hit the streets of New York City.

With the blue jar, they help a blind man see, a paralyzed

Daniel Olivas holds a jar of Vicks VapoRub near his office in downtown L.A. When Olivas caught a cold as a child, he recalls, his mother pulled the blue jar from the medicine cabinet, slathered the ointment on his chest and put him to bed in a haze of eucalyptus.

boy walk, a man heal from a gunshot wound.

You injury prone. Put on the vaporu. Man, we so immune right now. We got vivaporu!

Julia Longoria started pondering the Vicks phenomenon only after she grew up and began thinking back on her childhood. In 2017, the WNYC radio reporter and producer decided to dig into the topic a little.

She interviewed dozens of people, but in the end found the best tale right at home: with her Cuban grandmother.

Malvina Camejo, 82, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., loves Vicks VapoRub so much she affectionately calls it her Vickisito.

She’s used it for toenail fungus, to strengthen her nails, condition her hair and moisturize her skin.

Sometimes she has five or six of the jars on her vanity.

“Anytime any of the cousins got sick, they were like, ‘Don’t tell grandma!’ She’s going to put that all over you. ”Longoria always thought her abuela’s use of VapoRub was an American thing.

But in interviews she learned that her grandma loved the ointment because it took her back to Cuba, to the happy days before the revolution when her own mother used to rub the salve on her in the comfort of her little pink bedroom.

After the embargo cut off the conduit to American products, Longoria’s grandma couldn’t get her Vickisito for years.

In Greensboro, N.C., there are several homages to Lunsford Richardson,

the pharmacist whose salve caught on and spread.

Richardson invented a lot of remedies in the 1890s, but the one that clicked was Vicks Magic Croup Salve, created to help people breathe better when they had colds. (His son later came up with “VapoRub.”) Old advertising spoke of the “Romance of the Little Blue Jar” with ingredients from “strange, far-distant lands”: menthol from Japan, camphor from the jungles of Formosa, “still the haunt of untamed, savage head-hunters.”

Richardson’s traveling salesmen would post ads on barns, trees and automobiles. At rural drugstores, they’d scoop the salve onto a spoon and have pharmacists inhale the vapors.

“He wanted Vicks to spread all over the world,” Sion Boney, a former company vice president, said of his great-grandfather.

In 1918, the Spanish flu sent sales soaring, from $900,000 to $2.9 million in a single year.

Richardson was one of the thousands who died in the epidemic.

His company went on to market the ointment in England, Mexico and Central and South America, and then dozens of other countries. In the 1920s, Vicks salesmen went door to door handing out coupons in small towns in Bolivia.

In the summer when sales would fall, Vicks placed ads in newspapers promoting alternative uses: boils, bee stings, frostbite, headaches, poison oak, and even distemper in horses.

Some people still hold that Vicks VapoRub helps in those

cases.Procter & Gamble, now its parent company, did not respond to requests for comment, but the company website and Vicks hotline emphasize that users should stick to the recommended uses listed on the label.

That means don’t heat it, don’t eat it, don’t stick it up your nose, in your eyes, in your hair, in your ears or other intimate areas — and don’t use it on pets or kids younger than 2.

For coughs, simply rub it on your chest and throat. For muscle and joint pain, rub it in wherever it hurts three to four times daily.

Maybe it was all the advertising. Maybe it was product loyalty. Maybe it was simply a tradition passed from one generation to the next.

When Longoria asked scholars about the fascination with VapoRub, one suggested the subject might make a good doctoral dissertation.

Rachel Herz, a cognitive neuroscientist at Brown University, thinks its strong scent might play a role. She’s included the product in several studies about the powerful memories that smells evoke.

She said VapoRub often brought up flashbacks that were positive, “not of feeling sick, but of being cared for and being soothed.”

Daniel Olivas made sure that when he left for college back in the 1970s, he took his VapoRub with him.

But when he rubbed the cream on his chest just as his mother always had done, it didn’t feel the same.

With her, he said, it had been “almost a religious ritual.”

Without her, that magic was gone.

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You’re Dumb and Wrong: Stop making me give my credit card for free trials Jeremy Brown | @JeremyBrown_DE

Making me put in my credit card information for a free trial is like a man telling you “I’m too big for condoms” before he screws you.

I’d like to see the financials of how much money Amazon Prime, Hulu or Xbox Game Pass makes when they charge people for their first month after a free trial is over, before the customer freaks out and cancels.

It must be a nice sum if they’re willing to frustrate a lot of people every month.

Free trials should, in theory, be the best way to convince someone to try your product.

The “proof is in the pudding” marketing tactic uses the inherent strength of your service to prove its quality.

But, when trying to sign up for them, it’s an obnoxious norm now to require the user to add their credit card information. I never understood how companies thought this would come across to consumers well.

This practice is the same that malware scams use when they tell you “Doctors HATE him with this one simple trick.”

It comes across as an immediate lie – “we want to give you this for free.

Also, totally unrelated: Can I get access to your savings?”

More unfortunately is that this norm makes free trials unappealing on the whole.

I can’t trust them to be upfront about the way they work because they’re never just a “free trial.”

There should never be strings attached to the word “free,” so I don’t understand the corporate reasoning behind being misleading.

I think a better way to go about free trials is to notify the user once the time has expired, then give them the option to quickly sign up for the service or stop.

This way, there’s no unnecessary pressure on customers to be proactive in making sure they aren’t losing a few bucks.

Of course there are people who could exploit this – people who generate email accounts for infinite free trials and the credit card requirement is a deterrent from this behavior.

However, in no way does that requirement stop people from doing the same exploit. Instead, those people just use the same credit card and remember to cancel when time is up, while still infinitely using the company’s service for free.

They just need be more cautious.Even so, if the credit card requirement was removed, most people find that using an exploit like email generators is too much work.

Either that, or most are fine with paying a monthly fee for what are usually pretty good services.

Except Crunchyroll – put One Punch Man back, come on.When talking to friends on this subject, many of them don’t find this a serious issue.

I do think it’s a minor one, but it doesn’t mean we as customers should just deal with it.

That mentality leads to Netflix always playing audio on PS4 when you haven’t even chosen anything.

Seriously, who needed that? author and do not reflect the official policy or position of The Daily Egyptian, its staff or its associates.

You’re Dumb and Wrong is a weekly column about video games, movies and popular entertainment from Arts & Entertainment editor Jeremy Brown. He can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com.

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Opinion

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BIERNACKI: stigma against pit bulls unjustified Elizabeth Biernacki | @EBiernacki_DE people; therefore aggression toward

When you think of a pit bull, you’re actually thinking of three different kinds of breeds which have been mushed together into one.

“Pit bull” is not a breed. When we use the term "pit bull," it should be understood to encompass American pit bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers and mixes of those breeds,” according to the Pit Bull Rescue Center.

With that being said, all kinds of breeds labeled as pit bulls are highly stigmatized due to their reputations as fighting dogs, understandably making people wary of their large jaws and muscular frame.

Pit bulls make amazing pets for households, despite how scary they might seem. There are three criteria a dog has to meet to be suitable for a normal household: trainability, loyalty and tolerance.

Trainability: While it is true that some pit bulls were originally bred to be fighting dogs in the 1800’s, that does not mean that the whole breed is inherently “evil”; many pit bulls were also bred to do field work or be companions.

The dogs that were bred for fighting were not aggressive towards people. If they ever were, they would be killed or culled to avoid passing on that trait as it was undesirable. “[Pit bulls] used for fighting needed to be routinely handled by

people was not tolerated. Research confirms that dog-aggressive dogs are no more likely to direct aggression toward people than dogs that aren’t aggressive to other dogs,” the ASPCA said in their Position Statement on Pit Bulls.

I have never once come across an aggressive pit bull myself during the years I have been volunteering with animal shelters.

Out of all the breeds out there, only a Labrador retriever has tried to take a giant chunk out of my left cheek and most certainly, almost succeeded.

Loyalty: “I've worked with hundreds of these dogs, and almost all of them were sweet, loving, and highly intelligent. None were any more aggressive than other breeds I've encountered,” Zak George, a professional dog trainer, said in his book “Dog Training Revolution: The Complete Guide to Raising the Perfect Pet with Love.”

In his experience, George has found that pit bulls are some of the sweetest and easiest dogs to train.

It all comes down to their drive to please people. Even some of the pits bred for dog fighting crave human affection and are extremely loyal.

Tolerance: The American Temperament Test Society tests all breeds of dogs for varying levels of tolerance exhibited when put through a controlled environment.

A failing score is 70% or below and all three breeds associated with pit bulls passed with flying colors.

Jodee Harmon | @jlharmonphotography A male pitbull reacts reacts while being handled on March 29, 2019, at the Carbondale Humane Society.

The American pit bull terrier passed with an 87.4%, the American Staffordshire terrier passed with an 85.5% and the Staffordshire bull terrier passed with a 90.9%, giving the three breeds lumped into “pit bull” an average of 87.9% passing rate for temperament.

This average of all three breeds scored better than some of the most popular dog breeds such as

the Australian Shepherd (82.2%), Cardigan Welsh Corgi (80.5%), and golden retriever (85.6%) just to name a few.

The three breeds associated with pit bulls are admittedly quite intimidating to see on the streets but their large muscular bodies and jowls are only what’s seen from the outside.

This dog is extremely

affectionate, trainable and tolerant which makes them amazing pets for a household. There are few dogs that are as loyal to their person as a pit bull breed will be if they would just be given a chance by the public.

Staff reporter Elizabeth Biernacki can be reached at ebiernacki@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @EBiernacki_DE.

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Sports

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Mark Story: For Kentucky, NCAA tourney ‘brackets of death’ have worked better than ‘easy paths’ Mark Story | Lexington Herald-Leader the NCAA tourney the season before

The past two seasons, the road to the Final Four has seemed wide open for Kentucky.

In the 2018 NCAA men’s basketball tournament, the Wildcats were the No. 5 seed in a South Region that melted down in the first two rounds.

The top four seeds in the South were ousted prior to the Sweet 16.

UK went to Atlanta to compete with No. 7 Nevada, No. 9 Kansas State and No. 11 Nevada for a berth in the national semifinals.

Alas, Kentucky could not take advantage, falling 61-58 to a middling Kansas State team whose most accomplished offensive player, Dean Wade, played only eight minutes due to injury.

This year, UK’s path to the Final Four included games against nonPower Five conference foes Abilene Christian, Wofford and Houston, plus an Auburn team Kentucky had beaten twice in the regular season.

Even though Bruce Pearl’s Tigers lost their best all-around player, forward Chuma Okeke, to a torn ACL in a Sweet 16 win over North Carolina, Kentucky again failed to parlay what seemed a favorable draw into a trip to college basketball’s final weekend.

Auburn ended Kentucky’s season Sunday with a 77-71 overtime victory at the Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City.

Sports can be funny.

For all the howling that UK Coach John Calipari has done over his belief that the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee has shown a penchant to stack the deck against the Wildcats in past years, UK has fared better in March Madness under Cal when confronted with “brackets of death.”

In 2011, Kentucky went through the team that had eliminated it from

(West Virginia), the tourney’s No. 1 overall seed (Ohio State) and a program that has historically had UK’s number (North Carolina) to earn an unexpected Final Four trip.

Three years later, Kentucky knocked off an undefeated No. 1 seed (Wichita State), the defending NCAA champion (Louisville) and the Big Ten Conference champion (Michigan) en route to the Final Four.

The chance to motivate off “the powers that be” trying to stick it to Kentucky has worked better for Cal at UK than seeking to take advantage of golden opportunities.

Kentucky’s downfall Sunday came down to two factors.

One, Auburn’s senior guards, Jared Harper (26 points) and Bryce Brown (24), dominated UK’s allfreshman backcourt. Ashton Hagans committed seven turnovers. Tyler Herro shot 3-for-11, while Immanuel Quickley went 1-for-6.

Two, in a game that went to overtime, UK missed nine free throws (12-for-21).

That has been a recurrent theme of Kentucky NCAA Tournament losses.

When UK was upset, 73-66,

by West Virginia in the 2010 Elite Eight, the Cats missed 13 foul shots (16-for-29).

In Kentucky’s 56-55 loss to Connecticut in the 2011 Final Four, the Wildcats were 4-for-12 from the foul line.

UConn’s 60-54 victory over UK in the 2014 NCAA title game saw the Cats miss 11 free throws (13-for-24).

When North Carolina edged Kentucky 75-73 on Luke Maye’s buzzer-beater in the 2017 Elite Eight, the Wildcats missed seven foul shots (12-for-19).

During the Sweet 16 loss to Kansas State in 2018, UK misfired on 14 free throws (23-for-37).

Veteran guard play and good foul shooting can cover for a lot of ills in

tournament basketball.

In Calipari’s first five NCAA Tournaments as Kentucky coach (2010-12, 2014-15), UK was 22-4 with four Final Four trips and a national title.

During the past four NCAA tourneys, UK is 9-4 with no trips to the final weekend.

While those numbers would support the belief that Kentucky’s talent level in recent seasons has not been at the level it was early in the Calipari era, it also speaks to the randomness of March Madness.

Brandon Knight hit gamewinning shots in the closing seconds of two games during UK’s 2011 Final Four march.

Aaron Harrison hit gamewinners in three straight NCAA tourney games when the Cats unexpectedly reached the 2014 championship game.

Those games could have been as easily lost as they were won.

Conversely, Kentucky’s 2017 team (think De’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk) was good enough to win it all but lost in the region finals on a buzzer-beater.

This year’s Cats, while flawed, were in overtime one win from the Final Four.

Those games could have been as easily won as they were lost.

As the sample size grows, the breaks tend to even out.

Going forward, if the NBA follows through on its plans to lower the agelimit for entering the league’s draft to 18, Kentucky teams of the future might not be as perennially young.

UK fans should hope, yet again, for better foul shooting under tournament pressure in the future.

And, counter-intuitively, Wildcats backers maybe should wish for the selection committee to construct another “bracket of death” for Kentucky that Calipari can use as motivation.

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Greenstein: In defense of Bruce Pearl, no one in college basketball plays the game better Teddy Greenstein | Chicago Tribune

The first time I met Bruce Pearl, I approached with an empty notebook and an open mind. The year was 1995, and we broke bread at a breakfast nook in Evansville, Ind. In the minds of Illinois fans, he already was tainted. ESPN’s Dick Vitale called him a pariah who had committed “coaching suicide” by surreptitiously recording Simeon star and Illini recruit Deon Thomas.

But Pearl’s explanation of the events made sense to me. Maybe because I was dying for them to make sense to me. You spend time with Bruce Pearl, you fall under his spell.

The nation’s top basketball coaches are slick. They could sell a Samsung phone to Tim Cook.

At its highest level, college basketball is both a beautiful thing and a dirty business. Pearl is playing the game better than anyone.

He has been caught cheating.

He has been punished. And he keeps on winning.

Just look at Bill Self, Roy Williams, John Calipari. Why do you think the national media don’t pile on when scandal hits?

Sure, part of it is news judgment — the bigger story would be if they got five-star players without dropping some candy.

It’s also their charm. Pearl could win over a room full of Democrats at breakfast and have Republicans eating out of his hand at lunch.

He’s a chameleon. His Boston accent is revealed when he pronounces college basketball’s sweetest month: “Mahhhhhch.”

But he’s thriving in the Deep South and also crushed it in rural Indiana, Milwaukee and Knoxville, Tenn. His assistant coaching stops were at Stanford and Iowa.

He’s Jewish but currently playing to the Bible Belt. His opening statement Sunday after guiding Auburn to its first Final Four: “Just thank God for the blessings.”

A couple of days earlier he halfjoked to ESPN anchor/betting maven Scott Van Pelt about playing North Carolina: “Take the over.”

“I believe that’s a first here,” Van Pelt replied, “in these more gambling-friendly times.”

The over hit.

Auburn reached the Final Four by surviving a duel with New Mexico State and cleaning out Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky — the three winningest programs in college basketball history.

Until Pearl arrived, Auburn basketball was Charles Barkley, Chuck Person and killing time until spring football.

Pearl’s teams win with maniacal defense — the Tigers led the SEC in steals — and a devotion to raining 3s. They’re second nationally in attempts (1,083, 30.1 per game) and first in makes (408, 11.3).

But mostly they win because Pearl won’t let them lose. His 1995 Southern Indiana team trailed UC Riverside 30-8 in the Division II national championship game. The halftime score was 39-21. The Screaming Eagles won 71-63.

“Getting down by that much was tough,” Pearl told me over eggs 24 years ago. “But I had already been through much worse.”

His explanation for what went down in the Deon Thomas scandal makes sense: Pearl believed Illinois was offering cash and a Chevy Blazer and reported that to his boss, Iowa coach Tom Davis. The school gave Pearl a recording device, and the NCAA demanded he turn over the tapes during its investigation.“ Look, I was the guy who cooperated with the NCAA in the Illinois investigation,” Pearl said. “And I did some things in the course of that that I was uncomfortable with.”

(Thomas, a Big Ten Network and Illinois basketball analyst, told me last year it was Iowa that offered the inducement: “It was tempting. When it would rain or the snow would melt, we had to put pots down (in our home). But my grandmother told me she did not trust Bruce Pearl’s eyes. That was the end.”)

Pearl got clipped at Tennessee after lying to the NCAA about a barbecue. Aaron Craft, who already

had verbally committed, was in Knoxville on an unofficial visit.

He and his father asked if they could come by the house. That was a no-no per NCAA rules, but Pearl said yes.

Someone took a picture of Craft at Pearl’s house, and the photo got in the hands of NCAA investigators. Pearl told me his assistant coaches pleaded ignorance when presented with the photos, and he did not want to contradict them. Now that’s not kosher, but I understand the rationale.

Pearl got a “show-cause” penalty in 2011, essentially banning him from the sport for three years.

Auburn still hired him with five months left on the penalty, meaning he could not meet or even contact recruits during that stretch.

“We teach student-athletes that if you make a mistake, there are consequences,” then-Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs said in 2015. “It doesn’t matter if you are 15 or 55.”

Now as for the latest, uh, hullabaloo? Oh, boy. One Auburn assistant coach, Person, a member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame, pleaded guilty to taking bribes to steer players to a Pittsburghbased financial adviser. Another Auburn assistant, Ira Bowman, was suspended indefinitely over a bribery scandal at Penn, where he coached from 2012 to ‘18.

Last week a USA Today column ran under this headline: “Auburn’s Bruce Pearl symbolizes the rot in college athletics.”

That’s a valid opinion. It’s just not mine.

Pearl’s best player against North Carolina was forward Chuma Okeke, an ace defender who scored 20 points on 11 shots. He blew out his knee and got replaced in the starting lineup by Horace Spencer, who didn’t score a point against Kentucky. And Auburn still won.

Amazing.

If the Tigers win twice more and Pearl cuts down the nets in Minneapolis, it would make for a pretty good “30 for 30,” no?

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Elizabeth Flores | Minneapolis Star Tribune/TNS Pedestrians made their way by giant-sized posters of Final Four players near 7th Street and Marquette Avenue on the windows of the IDS Center, Monday, April 1, 2019 in Minneapolis, Minn.

In the War Room with Warfel: No Cinderella team this year Adam Warfel | @Warfel_Adam

For months college basketball fans have wondered who would be the Final Four standing come the end of March and we are here – Texas Tech will play Michigan State and Auburn will be play Virginia in Minneapolis Saturday with a chance to play in the championship game on Monday, April 8.

Looking back on the bracket as a whole, I have to say this year's tournament just has not had the same intrigue as it has had in past years.

The Loyola Ramblers, an 11 seed, made their run to the 2018 NCAA Final Four and UMBC upset over Virginia, the first 16 seed ever to defeat a one seed in the tournament.

Even going back two years ago, you had South Carolina, a seven seed, making the Final Four and giving Gonzaga a run for their money – only losing by two.

This year the best comparison to a "Cinderella" team, if you feel the need to name one, would be Auburn as the five seed.

To deem Auburn a Cinderella team is somewhat obnoxious, really, when you look and realize they won the SEC tournament, having to beat a good Tennessee team in the championship game.

In the second round of this year's tournament, all of the betting favorites won their game – this is not tournament madness.

While I'm sure most fans tuned in to the Duke games to watch Zion Williamson, who is the Cinderella of this tournament? Certainly not Auburn.

Can we name Oregon the Cinderella as a 12 seed making it to the Sweet 16 and losing to Virginia by four?

Oregon won the Pac-12 tournament much like Auburn won theirs, while I'm not discounting the fact winning that tournament as a six seed is impressive, what I'm saying is they don't feel like a true Cinderella.

When I think of Cinderella teams in the tournament, I think of the Davidson's led by Stephen Curry in 2008, VCU who made the Elite Eight in 2011 as an 11 seed and Florida Gulf Coast making the Sweet 16 as a 15 seed in 2013.

These teams were teams no one was talking about coming into the tournament, no offense to Oregon or Auburn who make the strongest cases to be considered Cinderella's this year.

Oregon played UC Irvine to make it on to the Sweet 16, while Florida Gulf Coast played the likes of Georgetown and San Diego State to make the Sweet 16.

While I will still be tuning in this weekend to see who ultimately raises the National championship trophy on April 8, this tournament has lacked the 'Cinderella' feeling of past tournaments.

I wish all four schools and conferences represented the best of luck in Minneapolis this weekend and to whomever raises the trophy – congratulations.

Sports editor Adam Warfel can be reached at awarfel@dailyegyptian. com and on Twitter at @Warfel_ Adam.

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Saluki track splits up for a weekend of relays Tamar Mosby | @mosbytamar

This weekend the SIU Track and Field team split its athletes up and sent them across the country to attend different relay meets.

Multi-event athletes, sprinters, hurdlers and field athletes headed down to Texas, while distance runners headed to North Carolina.

Senior Josh Maier kicked it off for Southern at the Raleigh Relays, competing in the 10k at the meet. Maier earned an 11th place finish in the event after clocking a personal best time of 28:55.43.

This time moved the senior up to the third best time on the Saluki All-Time List and makes Maier the third athlete in program history to run a sub-29 time in the 10k.

Senior distance runner Megan Krolak followed her teammate in Raleigh as she

clocked a personal best time of 10:46.38 in the 3000 meter steeplechase. While Krolak placed 23rd out of the 56 runners, she now leads the MVC in the event.

Junior steeplechaser Chris Edwards clocked a time of 9:50.23 in his event and currently holds the second fastest time in the MVC for the steeplechase.

At the Texas Relays, ten Salukis competed along with 7,000 other athletes over the course of four days.

In the women’s hammer throw, sophomore Shauniece O’Neal lit up the circle for SIU when she completed a personal best throw of 212 feet 9 inches.

The toss earned O’Neal a second place finish behind a post collegiate athlete and moved her into the tenth place spot on the Saluki All-Time List. After this weekend, the

sophomore sits in the number one seed position in the MVC and the number six seed in the NCAA West Region.

Senior Adam Kessler recorded a sixth place finish in the shot put on the men’s side with a toss of 18.80 meters.

Junior Madison Meyer was the only multi-event female athlete to compete for Southern this weekend in Texas. Meyer placed 10th in the heptathlon and recorded personal best marks in three of the seven events.

In the sprints, senior Bri’Anna Branch ran a personal best time of 11.11 seconds in the 100 meter dash.

After competing at the Texas Relays, the Dawgs headed over to Texas State to compete in the Bobcat Invitational.

In the thrower’s circle, O’Neal took center stage again as she earned second place after a post-collegiate athlete

in the hammer throw. The sophomore threw the weight 63.07 meters out.

On the men’s side, senior Nate Dyer finished second after a post-collegiate athlete throwing the hammer 62.17 meters out. His teammate and fellow senior Ricky Hurley placed fourth in the event with a toss of 60.08 meters.

In the field, Meyer took home a sixth place finish in the long jump out of 46 competitors, while senior Justine Patton placed fourth in the high jump when she cleared a bar set at 1.65 meters.

Junior Genesis Ewell and Branch led the way for the sprinters as both runners earned a top three finish in their respective events.

Ewell took home a third place finish in the 400 meter dash after clocking a time of 55.16 seconds, while Branch stole the show recording a huge

personal best time in the 200 meter dash of 23.19 seconds to earn a second place finish out of nearly 90 runners. The senior now holds the top time in the MVC and the sixth fastest time in the NCAA West Region.

Sophomore thrower A’veun Moore took home second place in the shot put at the invitational with a toss of 15.23 meters.

After this weekend’s meets, the Dawgs now hold the number one position in 14 events in the MVC. SIU Track and Field will be back in action on April 11 as they head into again to compete in the Tennessee Relays at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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

How Cassius Winston, Michigan State Spartans basketball can become elite in NCAA Final Four Chris Solari | Detroit Free Press

Trepidation remained high, the 4.7 seconds left seeming like an eternity.

A one-point lead. A Final Four berth at stake. An inbounds play in front of the Duke bench.

How would the Blue Devils pull this one off? What could go wrong for Michigan State?

Cassius Winston answered, like he has so many other times.

Winston came off a screen.

Duke’s RJ Barrett hawked him after a switch but briefly stumbled.

Xavier Tillman shoved a textbook two-hand chest pass toward midcourt.

No one will confuse Winston for a track star. But in that moment, one that will be replayed for years to come, MSU’s junior point guard burst out like a sprinter.

Zion Williamson gave chase, to no avail.

“I got the ball and got away,” Winston said. “And I was like, I’m like about to dribble it out and this is really happening. It was crazy. It was a crazy moment.”

As the realization hit the rest of Capital One Arena, with Magic Johnson and Mateen Cleaves in the stands exhaling as nervous fans, Winston whipped the ball into the air and etched his name in the stratosphere of Spartan history as his teammates and coaches mobbed him in joyous celebration.

That it ended up in Winston’s hands when MSU needed one more play comes as no surprise.

Neither did his 20 points, 10 assists, four steals and just one turnover in guiding the Spartans to a 68-67 victory over the Blue Devils.

Next stop: Minneapolis and the Final Four.

Rob Carr | Getty Images Cassius Winston (5) of the Michigan State Spartans celebrates by cutting down the net after defeating the Duke Blue Devils in the East Regional Final of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on Sunday, March 31, 2019 at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C. The Michigan State Spartans defeated the Duke Blue Devils 68-67.

“There was no doubt in my mind,” Winston said moments after being named the East region’s Most Outstanding Player. “It didn’t cross my mind about losing one time. We went out there and played, played good basketball.”

The 6-foot-1, 185-pounder from Detroit shot just 9-for-23 but made critical buckets and passes in pressure-packed points.

“He stirs the drink in a lot of different ways,” MSU coach Tom Izzo said. “But tonight, he had a couple steals — if he starts playing defense, I’m going to start to get scared. He did a great job in a lot of ways.”

Winston started the game by collecting the first of Duke’s 17 turnovers and flinging it

ahead to Kenny Goins for a dunk to open the game with an exclamation point. He set up Matt McQuaid a little later in transition for another highlight-reel slam, part of the Spartans’ tone-setting 16-9 burst to open the game.

But the Blue Devils, as they would all night, answered with their own run. The first would be a 19-5 spurt that closed with 12 straight points. Tom Izzo called timeout.

An undaunted Winston took command, driving through the lane and absorbing contact on a pair of layups. Then he kicked out a pass to Tillman at the top of the key for a wide-open 3-pointer.

A Winston jumper. Then a steal and dish to Tillman. Then another steal and driving layup with 4

seconds left before halftime.

Winston’s eight points in a 13-0 run counterpunch sent MSU into the break up, 34-30, and brimming with confidence.

“The heart of a lion is what they have. I’m telling you, the mental toughness, even when we were down 30-21, there was no panic in the huddle,” Izzo said.

“We just said, we didn’t do some things right. We quit rebounding and getting the ball inside. We turned it around.

“And Cash has a lot to do with it.”

Out of the break, the Spartans got the ball and Winston delivered another half-opening assist for a dunk, this one a pinpoint lob to Aaron Henry.

Again, Duke answered.

Things began to go back and

forth. Twice Winston drained 3-pointers after the Blue Devils went in front, the second of which came after Williamson hit one to pare Duke’s four-point lead to one.

Winston continued to respond, scoring on a driving, off-kilter floater after contact that dance around the rim and fell. He stole a long lob pass that sailed over Williamson’s reach, pushed the pace in transition and bounced a pass to Tillman for a dunk and three-point play that made it 6359 with 4:07 left.

Back came Duke with seven straight points to steal back the lead.

And when it looked like the Spartans didn’t have one more run left in them, Winston once again rose to the occasion.

Off the dribble, with three defenders closing in as he spun in the paint, Winston looped a shot that wasn’t — he somehow spotted Tillman cutting along the baseline and directed it to the right side of the rim for a layup that made it 66-65.

“I think it is an experience thing along with talent,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

“And he is as good a player as we’ve played against...He’s coached by a heck of a guy in (Izzo). And he’s able to run what Tom is thinking in real time and feel the game and that really is one of the biggest gifts a player can give a coach. And he has that as well, probably as well as anyone in the country.”

Almost as improbable as his speed burst to close out the game...

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