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Four unions to strike Nov. 3 if still without contracts SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian Graduate Assistants will strike Nov. 3 if a contract settlement is not reached by then. The Graduate Assistants United, which represents teaching graduate students as well as research and administrative assistants, is the last of the four Illinois
Education Association unions in contract negotiations to set a strike date. The unions have been bargaining since June 2010. The Departmental Representative Council for the Faculty Association voted Thursday 29-1 to strike, and both the Executive Council of the Association of Civil Service Employees and the House of Delegates for the Non-Tenure Track Faculty
Association voted unanimously Friday. The union members said the two main issues they continue to bargain are to receive better health care and either receive a stipend increase or a fee freeze. From Sept. 27 to Oct. 5, the unions voted to give their governing bodies the authorization to strike. Please see GAU | 2
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Karen Jones, left, acting associate dean for the College of Agricultural Sciences, and Mark Amos, associate professor and director of Saluki First Year, are the two candidates nominated for the dean of University College. TARA KULASH Daily Egyptian
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The newly created position on campus, associate provost and dean of University College, has two candidates in the running. The person in the position will oversee the planning, assessment, budget and general management of all programs within University College. The candidates are Mark Amos, associate professor in English and director of Saluki First Year, and Karen Jones, acting associate dean for the College of Agricultural Sciences. Jones chose not to comment on being a finalist for the position. The idea for the University College began in 1999 when SIUC conducted a self-study for its re-accreditation process, Amos said. He said the program helps new students adjust to college life, both academically and socially. Amos said campus committees attempted to start the program in 2004 and again in 2007, but it was not until 2008 the Saluki First Year — a program to help first-year students adjust to student life — was established. The university partnered with Foundations of Excellence, a private non-profit program, to start the first-year experience. Provost John Nicklow said he will choose the candidate based on feedback from the campus community and his opinion of the candidates’ abilities. Nicklow said the chosen candidate will be named in the upcoming weeks. Amos said he wants the position because he has performed the job for the past three and a half years, and he has been a part of the Saluki First Year project from the beginning. “I’ve been in with both feet pretty much since it started,� Amos said. “I still teach, but the rest of my time is spent trying to figure out how to do this better.� He said a major university issue is the decrease in retention rates, so he hopes the program will help keep students at SIUC. Amos said 47 percent of SIUC students are first-generation, and first-generation students are far less likely to succeed in college. “They don’t have the built-in system,� Amos said. “If your parents went to college, your score goes up because they can explain the system to you. But if you’re a first-generation student, you’re less likely to ask for outside help because you’re afraid your question might be ‘stupid.’� Amos said low socioeconomic status and traditionally underrepresented groups of students also have low retention rates, so the program aims to help them as well. He also said students need to be more well-rounded. If a student gets good grades but has no success with campus life, they might drop out, Amos said. However, a student who is popular on campus but does poorly in class doesn’t help the university either, he said. Please see DEANS | 2
set with the band Diet Christ Saturday in the basement of ‘Lost Cross,’ a Carbondale house that hosts regular punk rock music shows. The band played in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Vaughan signing the lease to rent the house in 1986 in hopes of creating a place to welcome punk rock bands. James Ricks, a former
‘Lost Cross’ tenant and guitar player for Diet Christ, said he bought the house’s first sound system with $400 he earned while in the National Guard. Ricks said landlord Roger Staugh won the house in a poker game and has owned the property since the early 1980s. Today marks 25 years since the first out-of-town act, Brain Dead of Louisville, Ky., played in the house.
Campus Habitat tenants can stay put for now Landlord pays late utility bills days before shutdown ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian Tenants of 820 W. Freeman St. won’t have to find new lodging after owner Global Housing paid about $7,000 in late utility bills last week. “It’s kind of surprising, but it’s a relief as well,� Mayor Joel Fritzler said. The water bill owed to the city was paid Wednesday, said Kevin Baity, director of development services. Unpaid electric bills from Ameren were also taken care of. The notice to terminate service was taken off the building, Ameren spokesman Leigh Morris said. The city and Ameren posted the building Oct. 17 for service termination because of unpaid water and electricity bills, respectively. The city posted a notice the same day for tenants to vacate the building in the event of the water or electricity being shut off. If the utility bills were not paid by
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hatever the ownership structure, Fritzler said he thinks the landlord is slowly getting the message that the city will not tolerate substandard living conditions. Monday, the city’s plan was to conduct a building inspection at noon to clear out any remaining tenants, Baity said. He said the loss of such utilities would make the building uninhabitable, and the fire safety systems would not be able to function. This latest development is another close call for tenants of the building, which had previously been posted as uninhabitable by the city in August. The landlord, Campus Habitat, was subsequently granted an extension to make repairs to bring the building to compliance with safety rules. The problems with the building, and Campus Habitat’s other properties in Carbondale, have caused more than 50 tenants to seek legal assistance with SIUC Students’ Legal Services to get out of their lease, said Legal Services Director Steven Rogers. Rogers said a tenants’ lease is void and they can seek to leave it anytime the city posts a building uninhabitable, as it has twice now with 820 W. Freeman St.
He said so far none of the cases he’s seen have gone to court and this time, at least, no one had to leave the building. “It’s been avoided once again, but for how long?� Rogers said. The landlord does not have the right to move tenants to another building in the event that their building is shut down, Rogers said. While tenants can accept that offer, they are not legally obligated to, he said. The Building Board of Appeals heard testimony in September from tenants of Campus Habitat’s buildings who said they’d been moved from their original room to dissimilar ones in other buildings. The latest developments also come in the wake of some confusion as to who is actually responsible for the building. Campus Habitat broke off all connection with the building in September and left it to owner Global Housing, said Rob Martin, Campus Habitat executive vice president of operations. Please see CAMPUS | 2
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“We had to line up student affairs and academic affairs because we wanted success in school and life,” he said. Amos said he teamed up with Julie Payne-Kirchmeier in 2009 when she was director of University Housing to make sure both academic and social
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However, Campus Habitat and Global Housing are both managed by Maximus Yaney, according to documents from the secretary of state offices of Oklahoma and Illinois. One document from the Oklahoma secretary of state even lists Global Housing with the same Madison Avenue address in New York City that is given on Campus Habitat’s website.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011 authorize a strike puts pressure on the administration to meet the demands. “They haven’t (met demands),” the letter stated. “We need to increase that pressure to reach a fair contract, but if we can’t get a deal that keeps our money
where it belongs, we will have to use our last option: a strike.”
life were represented in the program. Another implementation about to take place in University College, he said, is a new course titled Foundations of Inquiry, a mandatory class for incoming students. He said it will help students adjust to college life. Amos said his previous experience with the job could be a good or bad thing.
“I am completely associated with the program as it is now,” he said. “If you like the direction we're going, I'm your guy because I set this direction. If you don't like this direction, go with somebody else, because I think we're on the right path.”
Martin said he deals in management and therefore didn’t know anything about the ownership structure of the companies. Rogers said the two are clearly connected. “To suggest they have nothing to do with each other simply isn’t true,” he said. The Illinois secretary of state’s website also lists Global Housing as being uncertified to operate in Illinois. Whatever the ownership structure, Fritzler said he thinks the landlord is
slowly getting the message that the city will not tolerate substandard living conditions. The continuing struggle with Campus Habitat’s buildings could harm the reputation of the company, which owns properties in eight states, and its ability to continue to do business, he said. “The word gets out,” Fritzler said.
Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 255.
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· 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Nov. 19 · A letter-sharing event in which people bring 20 addresses of people they know. The addresses will be used to send out letters asking for donations to St. Judes Children Hospital. There will be free food, games, prizes and much more. · For more information call 309-824-2075.
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‘The College Show’ looks back, plans ahead BRENDAN SMITH Daily Egyptian Late night television has a long-running tradition of producing racy, offbeat and avant garde material, and Lucas Richter said at SIU, things aren’t any different. Richter, a senior from Breese studying graphic communication, is co-creator of “The College Show,” a student-made sketch comedy show that runs on SPC-TV. He said the show, which is currently developing its third season, started with humble beginnings. Richter said when he was a freshman he and his roommate at the time Kurt Thompson, would record talk-show style segments that revolved around offbeat news on their dorm room futon. Richter said after he heard SPC-TV was looking for student produced original programming he submitted the material to the station. Thus, “The College Show” was born. Richter said though he was extremely excited about having the program viewed by the campus, he didn’t make the initial impact he hoped. “Season one we didn’t really get the response we get right now I think that’s because we weren’t really making the show for us,” he said. “It took a while to get to where we are in terms of comfort, the format was way different when we started out.”
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Richter said he was more comfortable with the show’s material after the focus was changed from a mock-news style to a draw from more reallife occurrences with a narrative storyline. Many plot points in the program, such as broken iPhones, the campus wide ban on Limewire and an unhealthy obsession with “Dexter,” stem from Richter’s own personal life. Chris Oliver, a senior from Hampton, Va., studying cinema and photography, serves as the student programming director for SPC-TV. He said he agrees with Richter that their first few episodes were rough, but he’s seen the show
evolve throughout its progression. He said he now sees “The College Show” as a cornerstone in SPCTV’s programming and a catalyst for getting students interested in the station. “Other students on campus would actually ask about how they could get their content on TV and how they could get involved with the station,” Oliver said. “If it wasn’t for ‘The College Show’ there wouldn’t be as much awareness of SPC-TV in general.” Oliver said the only complaint he received about the program regarded a lack of diversity in it. He said he and Richter have discussed
the complaint, and will address the issue in the coming season. Don Castle, associate director of the Student Center, said though there has been similar style programming in the past, “The College Show” is entirely its own. He said, although it’s a very lighthearted show, an extreme amount of hard work and dedication goes into producing the weekly program. “What people don’t get is how hard it is to produce any kind of video content,” Castle said. “To actually design, shoot, edit and produce a video is hard work. (Richter and Thompson) have come through the gauntlet and
made a program.” Richter said he’s taking his time to develop the show’s next season and will focus on improving the elements for which viewers have given positive feedback. He said he and Thompson are developing plots, story lines and situations to introduce for the third season. “Every year, there’s about four or five student-created shows and most of them fade out,” Oliver said. “But the college show has stuck around, and it’s clear it’s for a reason.”
Brendan Smith can be reached at bsmith@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext 258.
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BRENDAN SMITH Daily Egyptian After months of anticipation from students and heavy promotion from Southern Lights Entertainment, The Avett Brothers will take the stage tonight. Outback Concerts, a national and regional concert promoter, joined with SLE to help book the Brothers for their Carbondale return performance. The concert, which was originally scheduled at the SIU arena, was moved to the more intimate Shryock Auditorium but kept its original 7:30 p.m. start time. The folk-rock act is made up of brothers Scott and Seth Avett, who play banjo and guitar respectively, as well as stand-up bass player Bob Crawford, cellist Joe Kwon and drummer Jacob Edwards. Though the North Carolina natives have recently received considerable coverage, the group released its debut, a self-titled EP, 11 years ago. They released their first studio album, “Country Was,” two years later. The vinyl release was burned and hand-assembled by band members, which is a testament to the act’s grassroots beginnings. Rick Rubin produced the band’s
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major label breakthrough record, “I and Love and You,” which was released in 2009 and peaked at #16 on the Billboard 200 best-selling albums. The album's release was promoted by a series of short videos, which were recorded between Sept. 8 and Oct. 8, 2009, and described the act's music and fans. The band’s live performances have become a staple of its artistry with its release of three live albums, the latest of which hit stores last year. The Brothers have made a number of late-night circuit television appearances over the past few years including "The Late Show with David Letterman," "The Late Late Show with
Craig Ferguson" and "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." The band appeared on this year's 53rd annual Grammy Awards playing their song "Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise" before joining fellow folk rockers Mumford and Sons and Bob Dylan for a performance of "Maggie's Farm." The band just finished touring in Europe and kicked off the stateside leg of its tour in September, performing sold-out shows in Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Virginia and North Carolina.
Brendan Smith can be reached at bsmith@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext 258.
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Sub-committee discusses funding requirements SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian A sub-committee for the Performance Funding Steering Committee recommended performance-based funding be supported with additional state money, rather than taken out of budgets for higher education institutions. Members of the steering committee met Monday at the Student Center to discuss unresolved state funding issues and resolutions for those issues. The meeting was the fourth for the committee, which includes college and university presidents, chancellors and also Illinois Board of Higher Education members. Gov. Pat Quinn signed legislation into law Aug. 12 to give universities money based on enrollment, retention and graduation rates. Chancellor Rita Cheng and Allan Karnes, associate dean and professor in accounting, are both on the steering committee, which determines the metrics of the law that will be effective Jan. 1, 2013. She said Illinois universities are trying to encourage students to continue their education, cut down the time it takes to get a degree and to get a certificate or an associate’s degree along the way to a bachelor’s degree. According to the subcommittee’s Response to Performance Funding Unresolved Issues document, as Illinois colleges and universities begin to determine their budgets for fiscal year 2013, and the state still owes many higher education institutions money from previous years, it is not logical to take more money away. “The spirit of the legislation for performance-based funding was to provide positive incentives to all institutions to graduate more students,” the response stated. “In keeping with this spirit, performance-based funding should be financed with additional money, and our recommendation is that we continue to go to the general assembly and ask for increased funding for this effort.” The state owes SIU more than $76 million from FY11 and FY12. Cheng said chancellors and presidents on the committee have been clear that funding for this needs to be additional. She said if funding is not additional, it could be difficult for universities to graduate more students because programs that lead to student success would have to be cut due to lack of money. “We hope that through our participation we can convey that institutions are different from each other, so we are all starting in a different place in our approach to student learning and success, but we all want the same thing, which is to have more students graduate and have college degrees,” she said. The law is part of a plan to increase the state and national college completion rate to 60 percent by 2025. According to
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adults (25 to 64 years old) hold at least a two-year degree. In August, Cheng said the goal may be difficult to reach, but said the issue is important to address. The Illinois Public Agenda for College and Career Success reported to Quinn in December that they project by 2020, 60 percent of Illinois jobs will require postsecondary education
and Illinois will need to fill about 2 million vacancies by then. Of those vacancies, 1.3 million will require postsecondary education. This means in order to meet the demands of the economy, Illinois will need to graduate 600,000 more students with degrees than is currently predicted. The response document
also proposes the purpose of performance-based funding institutions should be differentiated by the institutions mission, the institutions demographic profile or if it holds a Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education — a classification system that began in 1970 to support university and college programs of research and policy analysis. Underrepresented and underserved students would be defined as students who receive needs-based financial aid, as well as students who take remedial classes. “We feel these criteria are simple and reliable ways of ensuring that populations that have been historically underrepresented in college completion, i.e., ethnic/ racial minorities, first generation, disabled, veterans, urban/rural, and non-traditional students, will be included,” the response document stated. Karnes said this was done in order to be consistent. “If you are a university and you have a high achieving Hispanic person from a wealthy family, that student is generally not very hard to graduate. What we are trying to do is graduate more students in total,” he said. “So, if I am an administrator at a university, I can go steal that student to make my numbers look better, and we are just going to be recirculating some of the same kids by being overinclusive in our definition of under-represented.” The committee will meet again Nov. 30 at Richland Community College in Decatur.
Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 255.
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CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian The SIU baseball team finished its preparation for the 2012 season as it concluded its fall workouts with the annual Maroon versus Black Series scrimmages at Abe Martin Field. The afternoon scrimmages were held Friday and Monday and ended the allotted 45-day period the NCAA allows for full-team practices throughout the offseason. With the 45 days now expired, coaches are limited to two hours of individual interaction with each player per week to work on hitting, pitching and fielding drills. Coach Ken Henderson said the team had an extra incentive for this year’s scrimmages, in addition to the already existing competitiveness among the players. The locker room is under renovation in the clubhouse at the baseball field, and Henderson said the winning team would receive the first dib to settle into the new setup. “There are a few little things you can do and put on the line to make them play hard,� Henderson said with a laugh. He said the team progressed throughout the fall and is in a good position at this stage of the preseason process. Henderson said it was a challenge to get the team to operate as a single unit, but players have recently started to understand what the coaching staff asks of them. “We’ve had a great fall, and the
e’ve had a great fall, and the last week or so, we’ve really turned a corner. Our position players have learned to play hard. We’re making routine plays and we’re playing smart. — Ken Henderson head baseball coach
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Sophomore catcher and infield player Austin Montgomery hits a ball Monday during a scrimmage game at Abe Martin Field. During the 2011 season, Montgomery was the only player last week or so, we’ve really turned a corner,� Henderson said. “Our position players have learned to play hard. We’re making routine plays and we’re playing smart.� Senior left-fielder Jordan Sivertsen said although he is proud of the team’s improvement, he more so looks forward to the individual
to start at five different positions, including designated hitter, catcher, right field and first and third base. The Salukis won 23 of the season’s 34 games.
attention he and his teammates will get from the coaches. He said the team has also improved throughout the fall due to the increased number of players on the 2011-12 roster. “It’s good for competition,� Sivertsen said. “We’re two-deep everywhere, so it’s good for everybody
to be competitive.� Sivertsen led the team in 2011 with nine home runs, 40 runs, 48 RBIs and had a second-best team batting average of .297. Sophomore shortstop Jake Welch said he benefited from the offseason practices more than he did this time last year. He said he has worked
toward taking on a leadership role. “Having a lot of experience from last year, I feel like I know what to expect,� Welch said. “I just feel like I’m trying to play my role and do my part.� Overall, Henderson said he is anxious to keep the players involved during the remainder of the offseason but also looks forward to a new season. He said he thinks the team acquired the necessary set of tools throughout the fall workouts to be effective when the season starts in February. “The main focus was to learn to play the game hard,� Henderson said. “To make sure guys understand how we want the game played, and I think we did a good job of accomplishing that.�
Cory Downer can be reached at cdowner@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.
Saluki passionate about more than just the game BRANDON WILLINGHAM Daily Egyptian Division I student athletes live through a different college experience than the average student. College athletes find themselves tied to the game and dedicate their lives to competition, practice and hard work for four years, but there are more life experiences to be had than football for Saluki wide receiver Cam Fuller. Fuller, a senior from St. Louis studying radio-televison, said he has played football since he was 11 years old and it has helped him grow and develop into who he is today. Though Fuller said he loves the game, he said he likes to do other things besides football all day, every day. “Too much anything will kill you,� Fuller said with a laugh. Besides football, Fuller said he likes to do things that most people wouldn’t expect college athletes to do. Fuller is a model for Failure Is Not An Option when your Real Initiative Oriented, a clothing line established in July 2007. The FINAOrio Movement is meant to inspire uniqueness and applaud determination through fashion, according to the clothing line’s website.
Fuller said being involved with FINAOrio is a major relief from football and allows him to be around other college students. “I got behind the movement after learning more about the clothing line,� he said. “They welcomed me with open arms and showed me mad love. That’s my family, and I’m grateful to have met them.� FINAOrio vice president Charles Harris said Fuller is always humorous and has taught him to laugh instead of getting angry quickly. “Cam is great at taking the stress out of serious moments with a simple joke or a funny dance,� Harris said. “Cam is a great leader in everything he does; he likes to take the lead and keep a group focused but have fun at the same time.� Fuller also hosts SIU’s ‘Rude Radio Show’ at theWIDB radio station. He said this is another outlet for him to express his sense of humor. “My co-host Kanika Blair approached me with the opportunity and I jumped,� Fuller said. “We do a lot at the station. We try to entertain everyone and keep people involved in what’s hot and what’s going on.� Fuller’s humorous personality has latched onto his teammate, nose tackle
Kayon Swanson, who said Fuller is a funny guy with a huge heart. “He has a unique sense of taste that most people our age don’t, but he’s a clown with a lot of jokes,� Swanson said. “I consider Cam my brother and my best friend.� Fuller said he may give stand up comedy a try someday. Despite being a 6-foot-3-inch, 189-pound football player, Fuller isn’t fearless. He said he’s terrified of clowns. “I hate them, and they scare me,� Fuller said. “As a kid, I couldn’t stand the sight of them.� Fuller said being a collegiate athlete on the field and a regular individual off gives him a good feeling because he knows his personality and sense of humor have helped impact other people’s lives. “I have kids and parents come up to me all the time while I’m in the grocery store shopping,� Fuller said. “They’re always telling me about how they respect me and look up to me. I take pride in my image, and I want it to continue to be a good one.�
Brandon Willingham can be reached at bwillingham@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.
Senior wide receiver Cam Fuller jumps for a catch during the North Dakota State home game Oct. 8 at Saluki Stadium. Fuller leads the Salukis’ passing game with 438 yards and two touchdowns. STEVE MATZKER DAILY EGYPTIAN