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Carbondale granted high speed internet SETH RICHARDSON Daily Egyptian Carbondale will soon be one of the few communities in Illinois with high-speed Gigabit Internet service. Gov. Pat Quinn announced Aug. 23 that Carbondale was a winner of a grant through the Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge, part of the Illinois Jobs Now development program. The application for the project was submitted by a partnership between the city, Frontier Communications, Southern Illinois University and Connect SI. The upgrade will make Carbondale one of the few communities in the country with Internet 100 times faster than what is currently available. The contest awarded Frontier Communications, the company constructing the project, with $1.5 million in state aid through grant money. City Manager Kevin Baity said the town incurs next to no cost in the project. “The cost to the city is actually nothing as far as actual dollars,” he said. “We might have to process permits (for the construction), but as far as hard dollars, the city is not putting in any hard cash.” The project will run from University Mall on Illinois Rt. 13 to the east side of town. A leg will run south on U.S. Route 51 to the SIU campus and calls for at least 1,000 end users. The university now has around 3 gigabits of Internet service but the project will increase the speeds by nearly one-third. The project’s goal is to create and attract jobs to southern Illinois via technology advancement. According to David Blanchette, a spokesman for Pat Quinn, the project will create jobs. “(The jobs) will come from the actual construction of the network, but it will also attract businesses who need to be served by this ultra high-speed Internet,” he said. According to Eric Shadley, general manager of Frontier Communications for southern Illinois, the project should immediately create up to six new jobs during construction. Businesses in the city will be able to upgrade their websites with higher resolution graphics and expanded service. Kathy Lively, executive director of the Connect SI Foundation, said new industries will be attracted to the area by the gigabit service. “When you talk about high speed broadband, you’re talking about the knowledge-based economy,” she said. “People are going to be able to do their jobs more quickly and more efficiently. Research can now occur that couldn’t occur before … this is a very significant investment in our region and in our future.” There is no immediate timetable for the project. An announcement is expected later this week. Seth Richardson can be reached at srichardson@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 257.

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Kurt Sweitzer of Cobden packs green beans Aug. 17 during the Carbondale Farmers Market in the Westtown Mall parking lot. Sweitzer said they also sell at other Farmers Markets in the area. “We usually run out of tomatoes and beans at every market the fastest,” Sweitzer said. The Farmers Market is held every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. until the end of November.

Local markets grow healthy community DRAKE HALL for the Daily Egyptian Farmers markets are helping to pump up the local economy and put nutricious produce into people’s bodies. Over the past decade, farmer’s markets have seen a steady increase in popularity. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there were 1,755 farmers markets in 1994 and 7,864 last year. Between 2011 and 2012 alone the USDA reported a 9.6 percent increase in the number of farmers markets in the U.S. Ann Stahlheber, manager of the Carbondale market, has an explanation for the rise in popularity. She says the public has become more aware of what they’re putting into their bodies every time they sit down for a meal and they want to know as much as they can about where their food comes originates. “People here get to know the farmers. They get to know who grows their food. That’s important to them,” she said. One of those farmers, Vina PedigoYoung, has also noticed the increased interest in local foods. She and her parents, Judy and Doug Pedigo, sell a variety of plants, herbs, fruits and vegetables, all of which they grow on their Dongola farm and orchard. The family has been selling their goods at the Carbondale market more than 30 years, and in that time they’ve had to adjust their growing methods to keep up with demand. “We have six greenhouses for the plants and multiple hoop houses for the vegetables and flowers,” Pedigo-Young said between helping customers. She said the greenhouses and hoop

houses are constructed of plastic sheeting stretched over a series of arches, and help them increase their yield and provide vegetables at times when they would otherwise be unavailable. Knowing where your food comes from isn’t the only perk to shopping at the farmer’s market. Alan Walters, professor of vegetable science at SIU, said vegetables grown locally are likely more nutritious than those grown elsewhere and shipped here. Tomatoes, he says, are a prime example of vegetables that are healthier when purchased locally. Most of the tomatoes sold in Illinois are grown many miles away in places like Florida, Texas, California and Mexico. Because they are grown so far away, they are picked at the mature green stage and allowed to ripen off the vine. Students in Walters’s classes are researching the difference in nutrient content between tomatoes harvested green and those allowed to ripen on the vine. Their studies indicate tomatoes picked green have less Vitamin C and lycopene an antioxidant linked to reduced risk of cancer, heart disease and macular degeneration than are vine-ripened ones. Walters said the implications are pretty clear. “You ship a tomato, you pick it green in California, you ship it to Chicago, they hold it in storage then they gas it with ethylene to ripen it,” he said. “Then you get this red tomato that doesn’t have as much nutrient content as one that you’ve harvested locally the day before.” He added that fruits begin to lose nutrients the moment they leave the plant, so the longer something sits on a truck or in refrigeration,

the less nutritional value it has. Walters also warned that what’s on the outside of your produce is often just as important as what’s on the inside. Extraneous chemicals such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides are often found clinging to some of the most heavily consumed produce, including apples, celery and lettuce. The precise effects of these chemicals on the human body are not yet entirely understood, but Walters suggests people minimize their intake of pesticides. Two of the dirtiest fruits found in supermarkets are strawberries and imported grapes, so Walters suggests buying ones that are produced locally. Because strawberries are especially prone to molds, many have been found to contain up to 13 different pesticides. Local growers can often use fewer chemicals on their strawberries because they can get them to the consumer much faster, Walters said. Buying local produce isn’t just good for consumers; it can also help the environment. “It takes 1,600 miles to take a piece of produce from where it’s produced to the supermarket shelf. That’s a lot of carbon units,” Walters said, referring to the fossil fuels it takes to transport produce from farm to table. Choosing local foods, especially those produced with fewer fertilizers and pesticides, is a good way to shrink carbon footprints, Walters said. Although local produce is what brings most people to the market, Stahlheber said the Carbondale market has a unique variety of non-produce vendors, all of whom produce their goods in the region.

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UN experts leave Syria as US edges toward strike RYAN LUCAS Associated Press

The U.N. experts investigating last week’s alleged chemical weapons strike outside Damascus left Syria early Saturday and crossed into neighboring Lebanon, departing hours after President Barack Obama said he is weighing “limited and narrow” action against a Syrian regime that the administration has bluntly accused of launching the deadly attack. An Associated Press crew saw the U.N. personnel enter Lebanon from Syria through the Masnaa border crossing and then drive in a 13-car convoy to the Beirut airport. After four days of on-site inspections, the team wrapped up its investigation Friday into the suspected chemical weapons attack on rebel-held suburbs of Damascus on Aug. 21. The experts take with them blood and urine samples from victims as well as soil samples from the affected areas for examination in laboratories in Europe. The inspectors’ departure brings

the looming confrontation between the U.S. and President Bashar Assad’s regime one step closer to coming to a head. Obama has said that if he opts for a military strike, any operation would be limited in scope and only aimed at punishing Assad for his alleged use of chemical weapons. But any U.S. action carries the potential to trigger retaliation by the Syrian regime or its proxies against U.S. allies in the region, such as Jordan, Turkey and Israel. That would inject a dangerous new dynamic into a Syrian civil war that has already killed more than 100,000 people, forced nearly 2 million to flee the country and inflamed sectarian tensions across the Middle East. While Obama has long been wary of U.S. military involvement in the conflict, the administration on Friday forcefully made its case for action against Syria in the wake of last week’s events outside Damascus. It accused the Assad regime of carrying out what it says was a chemical attack on Aug. 21 that killed at least 1,429 people — far more than previous estimates — including more than

400 children. With France as his only major public ally, Obama told reporters he has a strong preference for multilateral action. “Frankly, part of the challenge we end up with here is a lot of people think something should be done but nobody wants to do it,” he said. The U.S. already has warships in place in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near Syria’s coastal waters. The vessels are armed with cruise missiles, long a first-line weapon of choice for presidents because they can find a target hundreds of miles distant without need of air cover or troops on the ground. The Syrian government said administration claims were “flagrant lies” akin to faulty Bush administration assertions before the Iraq invasion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. A Foreign Ministry statement read on state TV late Friday said that “under the pretext of protecting the Syrian people, they are making a case for an aggression that will kill hundreds of innocent Syrian civilians.”

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ELIZABETH ZINCHUK Daily Egyptian Jo Poshard has earned a reputation of being dedicated to helping abused children, but she said she gets just as much from giving back. “Service is an award in itself,” Poshard said. “It’s very meaningful to me.” The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services presented Jo Poshard and her organization, the Poshard Foundation for Abused Children, a humanitarian award Aug. 25 in recognition of her 14 years of service to families and children of southern Illinois. Despite her husband Glenn Poshard’s upcoming retirement, Jo Poshard said she is still planning on showing up in the foundation’s office every morning ready to work. The foundation started after her husband, SIU President Glenn Poshard, lost the race for governor in 1999 and the two were deciding what to do next. “We are both pretty good about not looking back, and I had experiences in my campaign that influenced me to want to help children,” Glenn Poshard said. Jo Poshard taught elementary education for 34 years at a public school where she realized many children were in situations of crisis or need. She said even when she was teaching, she was not as acutely aware of how many children are in poor circumstances. “I look back with what I know now and I think how many kids came into the classroom every morning who slept on the floor the night before, listened to the adults in the house fighting, witnessed domestic violence, witnessed

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hat I’ve come to believe is that there are a lot of children who are hurting and in difficult situations. Our mission was always be to help abused, neglected, and abandoned children in southern Illinois and that is still our mission.

drug abuse, or didn’t get a hot meal,” Poshard said. “And then I was expecting them to have all their homework done and have their books and be ready to go for a full day of work and activities.” Poshard said seeing children without coats in the winter or without appropriate shoes were easier to spot compared to other types of abuse or neglect that are often harder to recognize. The Poshard foundation provides anything from eyeglasses to medical equipment, she said. It also provides specific counseling needed for a sexually abused children or therapeutic camps that couldn’t be afforded otherwise. “What I’ve come to believe is that there are a lot of children who are hurting and in difficult situations,” Poshard said. “Our mission was always be to help abused, neglected, and abandoned children in southern Illinois and that is still our mission.” Poshard said she is passionate about helping abused children because when identified, abused children avoid falling into systematic behaviors like drug abuse, depression, violence and live happy lives. “If you can support the child, get them into counseling, and deal with the family, then these children can

— Jo Poshard Poshard Foundation for Abused Children founder begin healing and lead productive lives,” Poshard said. Poshard said specifically southern Illinois has an issue with abuse. “DCFS has had a lot of articles out in previous months that we have about ten counties in southern Illinois where the child abuse rate is double,” Poshard said. Besides her work with the foundation, Poshard also plays an active role in the Prevent Child Abuse Illinois Board, Children Advocacy Centers of Illinois, Women for Health and Wellness Board, Carbondale Community Arts Board, McLeod Theater Board, and the American Association of University Women, Carbondale branch. Poshard said she is involved in these organizations by helping with their conferences and fundraising. In the first years of the foundation, Glenn Poshard initiated projects to help create the Cairo’s Women Center and the Night’s Shield in Frankfurt. Jo Poshard said after she retired from teaching in 2005, she became the director of the foundation and her focus has been contacting agencies in southern Illinois since then. She said there are about fifty in the region she will be in contact with. “And these agencies never have

enough money and they generally do a difficult and often thankless job in a situation where they are dealing directly with children who have been mistreated,” Poshard said. Because the foundation is purely run on donations and volunteers and John A. Logan offers a free space for the foundation’s operations, it has been able to do a lot more, she said. “It really helps us a lot because all the money turned in gets to the children,” Poshard said. Poshard said the agencies contact her when they can’t afford a need for an abused or neglected child. Betti Mucha, director of the PerryJackson Child Advocacy Center in Pinckneyville, said Jo Poshard has been a huge asset at the center. Poshard has helped provide training for how methamphetamine usage, domestic abuse, and trauma affect children Mucha said. “She’s always there to help,” Mucha said. “She’s a great person.” Poshard said another thing her foundation does is offer free training, for caseworkers, community members, and anyone willing. Mucha said the Poshard foundation also provided new furniture for the police station, so there is a comfortable space for children to be interviewed.

Sheryl Woodham, the director of the Guardian Center in Carmi, said the Poshard’s foundation donated funds to the center which is used for transportation and buying supplies for children. “Jo is delightful and has been a large help for child advocacy,” Woodham said. Woodham said without the foundation’s help, they would have to seek other resources for the center. “Jo is deserving of all the honors she has received,” Woodham said. “She is committed to the cause of helping abused children.” One of the greatest needs for those who are abused, is a bed, Poshard said. “Within the agencies, I found out that they often can’t afford to give a child in need a bed,” Poshard said. “We are not talking about new beds or mattresses either, we are talking about getting the children off the floor.” Since 2010 the foundation has given out more than $50,000 in beds alone, she said. “And I believe that’s just the tip of the iceberg with the bed situation,” Poshard said. Poshard said her foundation is asking the public to pay attention to the children around them and be their advocate. “Everyone needs to be involved,” Poshard said. “The people in southern Illinois are caring people and they need to recognize that they may be the only safety line for a child.” Elizabeth Zinchuk can be reached at ezinchuk@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.

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TYLER METROFF | DAILY EGYPTIAN

A fresh batch of sugar cookies sits in a display case at Cristaudos Tuesday. The bakery, which is open from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, is expanding to allow for a dining area connected to a restaurant to support local farmers and growers. The eatery will also feature a gift shop, located next to The Dayshift Boutique, which will showcase local art and talent.

Bakery expands to feature local items STEPHANIE DANNER Daily Egyptian One area bakery has expanded to become much more than cookies and donuts within the Carbondale community. Cristaudo’s opened originally in 1977 in the Murdale Shopping Center and after a five-year closure reopened in 2011 with four previous employees as co-owners: Rachel Cristaudo, Jennifer Rollinson, Leah Maciell and Nicholas Stewart. The bakery will now be connected to a restaurant, designed to support local farmers and growers, as well as a gift shop to showcase local art and talent. The owners want to create a place people can come, shop, eat and drink while helping out the community, Rollinson said. “We are trying to keep everything we sell from the Illinois area and as much local as we can,” Rollinson

said. “We are trying to bring more locally made items into the shop.” The four co-owners reopened the bakery with a specific vision in mind. They said they wanted a place that would support the community and local businesses. The store is now located on 51 N. near Yesteryear, five miles from the previous location. The gift shop, known as 6Pence, features unique, hand-crafted, new and vintage gifts, Cristaudo said. The gift shop is located next to The Day Shift, which also sells locally made items such as gifts purses, leather and more. Rollinson said they want to work in harmony with The Day Shift and support the business by having a complimentary gift shop which attracts people’s attention to locally made items. The gift shop isn’t the only new addition to the bakery; Cristaudo’s

opened a new seating area in August designed to become a full service restaurant featuring locally grown items. Stewart hopes to have the restaurant open by the end of the year but is waiting on a few minor details to be finished. “We’re making some final touches on the wait station and the beverage station,” Stewart said. “We are making repairs to the espresso machine so we will be ready to serve espresso drinks as well.” Cristaudo’s makes bread every Friday but once the restaurant opens it will have fresh breads every business day. Some of the other services they offer include catering, cakes and cookies for various events. Stephanie Danner can be reached at sdanner@dailyegyptian.com or (618) 536-3311 ext. 259

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Editorial Policy Our Word is the consensus of the Daily Egyptian Editorial Board on local, national and global issues affecting the Southern Illinois University community. Viewpoints expressed in columns and letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect those of the Daily Egyptian.

Editorial Board Kayli Plotner Editor-in-Chief

Karsten Burgstahler Weekender/Pulse Editor

Ashley Zborek Opinion Editor

Terrance Peacock Sports Editor

Chris Zoeller Co-Photo Editor

Sarah Gardner Co-Photo Editor

Lauraann Wood Online Editor

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THEIR WORD

U.S. intervention in Syria: War for virtue CHICAGO TRIBUNE Where were the smiles, the flowers? We’d expected, in a modest way, to be greeted as liberators. This was many years ago, Chu Lai, South Vietnam, 1966, in one of the early disasters of the United States’ post-World War II attempts to fight wars for virtue. People in the villages refused to meet our eyes, and they only smiled if they were selling us something. How disappointing. The war was young then, and so were we, but not so young that we hadn’t seen newsreel footage of the cheers from the giddy urchins of Naples, the French doing their tiptoe waves. But not the Vietnamese. It seemed that in Chu Lai, at least, the beneficiaries of our liberation and largesse hated us, or were too scared to show they liked us. But why? Weren’t we fighting a war of liberation, another good war in the American tradition of good wars? Wasn’t my Marine civic action team giving candy to children, the same SweeTarts you could buy in American movie theaters? The giveaway lasted two days. “SweeTart numbah ten!” shouted the kids who swarmed our truck on the second day.

“Numbah ten” meant the worst. They flung the SweeTarts back at us. We flung them back at them, no doubt losing a heart here, a mind there. The Battle of the SweeTarts. At the end of the day you’d have to say we lost it, another case of American virtue unrewarded. The good war, the virtuous war. We believe in it. We have to believe in it or we wouldn’t be Americans. As John Updike wrote: “America is beyond power, it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.” The United States doesn’t fight for land, resources, hatred, revenge, tribute, religious conversion — the usual stuff. Along with the occasional barrel of oil, we fight for virtue. Never mind that it doesn’t work out — the Gulf of Tonkin lies, Agent Orange,waterboarding, nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, the pointless horrors of Abu Ghraib, a fighter plane wiping out an Afghan wedding party, our explanation of civilian deaths as an abstraction: “collateral damage.” Just so. We talk about our warmaking as if it were a therapeutic science — surgical

strikes,precision bombing, graduated responses, a homeopathic treatment that uses war to cure us of war. “Like cures like,” as the homeopathic slogan has it; “the war to end all wars” as Woodrow Wilson is believed to have said of World War I. We send out our patient bombers in the manner of piling on blankets to break a child’s fever. We launch our missiles and say: “We’re doing it for your own good.” After World War II, I was taught in school that humankind, especially Americans, hate war and love peace. The United Nations rose on New York’s East River, a foundry beating swords into plowshares. We renamed the Department of War as the Department of Defense. We had Atoms for Peace, CARE packages, UNICEF boxes at Halloween and the Berlin Airlift instead of a war against the Soviet Union. The problem here is that humankind doesn’t hate war, it loves war. That’s why it fights so many of them. The New England Indians were so devoted to fighting each other that they couldn’t unite to drive the European settlers into the sea in King Philip’s War. What better explains all of recorded history with its atrocity, conquest, pillage and extermination? Our love of war is the problem.

War is an addiction, maybe a disease, the chronic autoimmune disease of humanity. It erupts, it subsides, but it’s always there, waiting to cripple and kill us. The best we can do is hope to keep it in remission. And yet Americans still believe in the idea of the good and virtuous war. It scratches our Calvinist itch; it proves our election to blessedness. Thus God is on our side. Strangely enough, though, we keep losing. Since World War II, we have failed to win any land war that lasted more than a week: Korea (a stalemate),Vietnam, little ones like Lebanon and Somalia, bigger ones like Iraq and Afghanistan. Ah, but these were all intended to be good wars, saving people from themselves. The latest target of opportunity for our patient bombers is Syria. The purity of our motives is unassailable. We would fire our missiles only to punish sin, this time in the form of poison gas. No land grab, no oil, not even an attempt to install democracy. Oscar Wilde said: “As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.” He didn’t foresee a United States that would regard war as virtuous. What a dangerous idea it is.

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Organic ideas grow on campus

Above: Sydney Klein, left, a graduate student in geography from Hickory N.C., educates Dominique Crespo, center, a sophomore from Quito, Ecuador, studying agriculture and Tomas Finkenkeler, a senior from St. Louis studying physics, Friday about hornworms. Klein, the garden manager at the Local Organic Gardening Initiative of Carbondale, said the hornworm is a common pest that eats tomatoes. Right: Dania Laubach, left, a graduate student in public health from Denver, Karen Schauwecker, center, a graduate student in geography from Carbondale and Patrick Marek, a senior from Downerâ€™s Grove studying geography, work Friday at the Local Organic Gardening Initiative of Carbondale. LOGIC is a Registered Student Organization that aims to educate students on the benefits of organic food and how to grow it. Crops grown at the LOGIC farm are sold Wednesdays in front of Faner Hall from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. ZANE ECKLUND | DAILY EGYPTIAN

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Sophomore tight end Adam Fuehne reaches for a pass from SIU quarterback Kory Faulkner Saturday during the Salukis’ season opener loss to University of Illinois at Memorial Stadium. The incomplete pass was SIU’s final opportunity to pull within reach of the Fighting Illini before losing 42-34.

Despite the loss, Coach Dale Lennon said he liked the way his offense never gave up and fought until the end. “I was very pleased with the way we battled back,” Lennon said. “We showed a toughness on offense that every coach wants to see.” Faulkner said SIU was in the right position to score and potentially send the game into overtime, but the last play just didn’t work out in their favor. “Coach (Kalen) DeBoer made a good call (on the final offensive play),” Faulkner said. “We put ourselves in the situation, and it was all we could really ask for. We battled and got the opportunity, but obviously we didn’t complete it so I wish I had it back.” The Salukis’ first big play of the game came from a 39-yard pass to senior wide receiver John Lantz who dove into the end zone for what looked like the Salukis’ first touchdown of the season. The play was later reviewed and it was determined Lantz was downed at the 1-yard line. The next play, junior running back Mika’il McCall ran it in for the score, which gave the Salukis an early 7-3 lead. The Salukis carried that lead into the second quarter until Scheelhaase completed a screen pass to sophomore running back Josh Ferguson who ran 53 yards for the Illinois touchdown, giving the Illini the 10-7 advantage. On the Salukis’ next possession, McCall was given a handoff up the middle and ran for 2 yards before

fumbling and giving the ball back to Illinois on the Saluki 30-yard line. The Illini capitalized on SIU’s mistake by scoring a touchdown after two plays and 23 seconds to increase their lead to 17-7. Illinois scored again on a 7 play touchdown drive with 17 seconds left to go in the first half and took a 25-7 advantage into halftime after also converting the 2-point conversion. With an 18-point lead in the third quarter, Scheelhaase made his first mistake of the game when sophomore safety D.J. Cameron intercepted Scheelhasse’s pass and returned it to the Illinois 8-yard line. Three plays later, Faulkner threw a touchdown pass to senior fullback Rik Hicks to cut the lead to 25-14. The Illini followed with a touchdown, and SIU responded with a field goal to make the score 32-17, Illinois defensive back V’Angelo Bentley returned SIU’s kick 100 yards for the score, tying the Illinois school record for longest kick-off return for a touchdown. After Illinois returned the kick for a touchdown with just over five minutes left in the third quarter to increase their lead to 39-17, fans were seen leaving the stadium. Faulkner said despite Illinois’ big lead, the Salukis’ still believed they could get back in the game. “We never even thought about giving up the whole time we were out there,” Faulkner said. “Maybe the Illinois fans thought it was over when they returned that kick, but we knew we just had to go out there and put points on the board, and that’s what we did.” Faulkner’s words proved to be right

as the Salukis outscored the Illini by 14 points to crawl back into the game and Saluki fans chanted “SIU” throughout the stadium to motivate the team to finish the comeback. On SIU’s next possession, Faulkner connected with Lantz for a 35-yard touchdown pass to cut the deficit to 39-24. The catch was Lantz first career touchdown reception. After the Illini and the Salukis traded field goals to make the score 42-27, senior linebacker Tyler Williamson forced an Illini fumble and a Saluki recovery. The following possession, Faulkner threw a touchdown to junior tight end MyCole Pruitt, who dove in the back of the end zone for the acrobatic catch to cut the lead to 42-24. With 44 seconds to go, the Salukis had one final chance to tie the game and send it into overtime but fell just short with fourth-and-goal on the 3-yard line. “Our guys never gave up and found a way to get it down to one score at the end,” Lennon said. “We just came up three yards short.” Faulkner finished with 312 passing yards and three touchdown passes. It was Faulkner’s first career game with three touchdown passes and no interceptions. Lantz led the team with 99 receiving yards and senior linebacker Brian Presume led the defense with 10 tackles. The Salukis will face No. 23 Eastern Illinois, Saturday at 6 p.m. in their home opener. Terrance Peacock can be reached at tpeacock@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256.

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Volleyball team loses tournament, gains skills TYLER DIXON Daily Egyptian The Saluki Volleyball team finished 1-2 in their first matches of the season in the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Hyatt Place Invitational in Fort Wayne, Ind. After a five set win against Connecticut on Friday, the Salukis dropped their next two matches on Saturday against IPFW and Duquesne. The team opened their season against nationally known UCONN on a roll and took the first set 2519 but dropped the second set 2519. UCONN then took the third set 27-25 to take a 2-1 lead in the match going into the fourth set. In the fourth set, SIU cruised and won 25-18, setting up a fifth set. SIU faced match points in the fifth and final set but didn’t give up and came away with a 17-15 win in the final set. Junior Alex Rivera had two key service aces in the fifth set that helped the team battle back. Freshman Hannah Kaminsky said she knew just looking at her teammates that they weren’t giving up. “You could look around on all of our faces and you could tell we weren’t going to lose,” Kaminsky said. Head Coach Justin Ingram said his team displayed traits that can help them in future matches. “There were portions of the match that the team really displayed some true fire and some grit, things that are needed to pull out close wins,” Ingram said. It was the first college match for freshmen Kaminsky, Meg Viggars, Katie Baki and Leah Edgerton. With a team of nine freshmen and two transfer players, it’s important for

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here were portions of the match that the team really displayed some true fire and some grit, things that are needed to pull out close wins.

the seniors to lead their team. Senior Elly Braaten said she was pleased with the skills of the freshmen on the court. “I was impressed, it’s tough, it’s a whole new atmosphere,” Braaten said. “It’s faster than high school ball, I thought they composed themselves well and I’m proud of them.” Kaminsky and Viggars each had the same reaction when describing how it felt being on the court. “It was amazing, the atmosphere on the court was really good,” Viggars said. Kaminsky, who was named to the all-tournament team, said it was good to see all the work they put in is being rewarded. “It’s amazing, I’m really ecstatic about the win,” she said. “We’ve been working so hard this past month and to see all of our hard work be put to use (Friday), it’s an amazing feeling.” Senior Jessica Whitehead led the teams with 17 kills while fellow senior Elly Braaten finished with 16. Kaminsky had 43 of the teams 58 assists. The team played host IPFW in their second match of the tournament on Saturday at noon. The Salukis couldn’t string points together and fell in three sets 25-16, 25-23 in sets two and three. IPFW junior Emily Spencer had a match high 19 kills in her team’s win. Whitehead and sophomore Taylor Pippen chipped in with 12 kills apiece in the loss. Pippen, the lone sophomore on the roster, said her team performed

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well during the tournament. “We did some really good things and it’s early in the season so if we keep working on the same things then the season will be very successful,” she said. The final match of the tournament pinned SIU against Duquesne. SIU was again unable to string together points and fell in three sets 25-23, 25-22, and 25-13. Kaminsky led the Salukis in assists and digs for the second straight game. Senior Emily Less said she knows her team has room to improve. “We know we have a lot to work on,” Less said. “On the court, the level of intensity was there but things weren’t going our way.” Braaten said there are positive things that her team can take away from this weekend’s performance. “The good news is it’s still early,” she said. Ingram said he is familiar with their upcoming opponent in Middle Tennessee State and hopes there is a big crowd on hand to cheer on the team. “We need to utilize Davies Gym,” Ingram said. “We need to have that be our home court advantage and make sure that the fans show up and are rooting for the Salukis.” The Saluki Volleyball Team hosts MTSU at Davies Gym tonight at 6 p.m. Tyler Dixon can be reached at tdixon@dailyegyptian.com or 536-331 ext. 282.

Blackhawks announce extension for G Crawford JAY COHEN Associated Press C H I C AG O — Corey Crawford is having one great summer. First, he was in net when the Chicago Blackhawks stormed to their second NHL title in four seasons. Then he welcomed the Stanley Cup to his hometown of Montreal on Monday, and joined the team for the announcement of a six-year contract extension that officially stamps his arrival as one of the league’s top goaltenders. “It’s amazing,” said Crawford, who recently got engaged. “I want to be in Chicago for my whole career and so this

is amazing to be able to do this and get this deal done.” Crawford went 16-7 with an NHL-best 1.84 goals-against average while starting every playoff game for Chicago this year. The breakout performance came after he went 19-5 with three shutouts in the regular season, helping the Blackhawks to the best record in the league. The extension is reportedly worth $36 million and runs through the 201920 season. Coupled with the upcoming megadeals for captain Jonathan Toews and Conn Smythe Trophy winner Patrick Kane, general manager Stan Bowman could be looking at a sticky

salary-cap issue in the coming years, but he didn’t sound too concerned while announcing the contract for Crawford. “The reality is we need to have a topnotch goaltender in our organization and we’ve got one right in house here in Corey,” Bowman said. “We know him well. He’s grown up with our organization.” The 28-year-old Crawford was selected by Chicago in the second round of the 2003 draft. Crawford, who made his NHL debut in January 2006, is 83-43 with eight shutouts, a 2.40 goals-against average and a .913 save percentage in 152 career games with the Blackhawks.

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Senior fullback Rik Hicks dives in for a touchdown Saturday during the third quarter of the Salukis’ 42-34 loss to the Illini at Memorial Stadium in Champaign. The three-yard catch would be one of three touchdowns for quarterback Kory Faulkner. The Salukis play for the first time at home against Eastern Illinois University Saturday at 6 p.m. at Saluki Stadium.

The SIU Football Team went into Champaign’s Memorial Stadium on a scorching hot Saturday, and nearly came away with an upset victory but fell just short as they lost to the Fighting Illini 42-34. The temperature hit 95 degrees, with a heat index of 108 degrees, and players were seen removing themselves from the game with heat exhaustion. That didn’t stop Illini senior quarterback Nathan Scheelhasse from throwing for a career-high 416 yards; including a school record 340 yards in the first half. Despite Scheelhasse’s Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week performance, the Salukis showed they were down, but never out. After being down 25-7 at halftime and facing a 39-17 deficit late in the third quarter; SIU outscored the Illini 17-3 in the final 20 minutes of the game to cut Illinois’ lead to eight causing Illini fans to grit their teeth hoping to avoid a 10th consecutive loss. Trailing by eight points with three minutes left to play, senior quarterback Kory Faulkner drove the Salukis down the field for a firstand-goal at the 9-yard line. After three plays of failing to get into the end zone for a potential game-tying score, the Salukis faced a fourthand-goal on the 3-yard line with 44 seconds left in the game. With Illinois on the ropes, Faulkner’s fourth down pass attempt sailed just out of the reach of sophomore tight end Adam Fuehne, allowing the Illini to take possession and run out the clock. Please see FOOTBALL | 8

Salukis pace for season’s race SYMONE WOOLRIDGE Daily Egyptian Three SIU men’s runners finished in the top 5 as the men’s and women’s crosscountry teams opened their season Friday at the Saluki Early Bird meet. Senior T.J Heffernan finished first with a time of 12:43.93. Junior Cole Allison finished third at 13:01.25 and junior Kulayifi Haji, finished in fifth place with a time of 13:38.44. The Salukis were joined by Rend Lake College, where the runners ran a co-ed 4K-mile race around SIU’s home field. Last season, the SIU men’s runners were Missouri Valley Conference champions. This year, the men are hoping for a repeat. Cole Allison said connecting as teammates is the least of their worries. He said his team is a family, and everyone has their own way of showing their leadership qualities. “Everybody on our team has leadership qualities, which is going to help us out by the end of the season,” Allison said. “Every team has their faults, but SIU, we are always the ones who take care of them early.” Individually, Cole said he hopes to develop as a runner mentally and physically. “The biggest part of running is your attitude,” he said. “As a runner, I need to definitely work on my attitude.” Senior, Alyssa Allison, sister to 3rd

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verybody on our team has leadership qualities, which is going to help us out by the end of the season. Every team has their faults, but SIU, we are always the ones who take care of them early. — Cole Allison runner

place finisher Cole Allison was the first woman to finish the Early Bird race. Alyssa Allison finished the co-ed race in 14th place with a time of 15:16.47. Alyssa Allison said she has been trying new things for this season. “Coach (Matt) Sparks took me on a different route this year, where I’ve been doing faster interval workouts,” she said. “Last season I wasn’t running as quick in some of the workouts, so this year we decided to try something different.” Alyssa Allison is one of the older women on the team and said she considers herself as one of the leaders. “A lot of the girls come to me with questions or advice,” she said. “Coach Sparks is our head coach, but sometimes the girls want to come to another female to talk. So I like to see myself as a veteran.” Last season, Alyssa Allison’s teammate, sophomore Kelley Gallagher wasn’t able to compete due to injuries. This year, she is healthy, and said she is running strong, and looking forward to this season.

“Individually I am hoping to be better this season, and I am looking forward to meets,” she said. “I am a veteran this year, and since we have older girls I feel that we will be better as a team.” Sparks said the biggest thing they try to adjust every year is the intensity and the speed of the workouts his teams do to try and get faster as runners. Sparks said he is hoping to pick up where he left off last year. “The men were conference champions last year, and we want to follow suit again this year,” he said. “The women went third a year ago, so we would like to battle for a conference title on the women’s side as well.” The Salukis’ will travel to Charleston Friday as they compete at the EIU Walt Crawford Open for their first official meet of the season. Symone Woolridge can be reached at swoolridge@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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Saluki women’s cross country members run the course Friday at the Saluki Early Bird meet in Carbondale. Runners from Rend Lake College and SIU students interested in joining the team ran the four-kilometer race. Both teams will compete at the Walt Crawford Open Friday at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.