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Chancellor considers combining graduation ceremonies
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LAUREN LEONE Daily Egyptian Chancellor Rita Cheng said the university’s 10 separate graduation ceremonies held in the spring 2012 semester might be combined into fewer ceremonies with greater attendance numbers. Planning is still in the early stages, Cheng said. “I’m looking at saving some administration costs and will be forming a task force this summer to look at our graduation practices and traditions and see if there are ways to improve them,â€? she said. “We’re looking at how other institutions do and it may be that we just take ten down to five or six ... or instead of having three (ceremonies) a year, we have two.â€? Cheng said she and members of the task force would research different models used at other universities and find out which one works best for the institution. Fall commencements performed in December have already been combined into one ceremony. There have been two in previous years. But Cheng said she hasn’t made any decisions yet and is seeking input from the task force, which consists of faculty and staff. “I’m just going to ask the questions and then let the task force look at best practices and what we can aspire to be as a major research university,â€? she said. A total of 21,000 people attend the spring commencements, which are divided by college into ten separate ceremonies, said Matt Shackleton, assistant director for event services. Shackleton said the university must take into account the number of guests per graduate. Roughly 2,000 to 3,000 students graduate per spring semester, and they average six guests each. In May 2011, 3,230 students were presented with degrees during the spring commencement. “That’s the equation that plays into this more than anything else ‌ because you have to find a venue where you can hold that number of guests per graduation,â€? he said. But Cheng said she is considering reducing ten ceremonies to five or six rather than combining them all into one because there are some restraints with the number of people who could attend one commencement. She said it is too early to discuss the pros and cons of combining the ceremonies. “We’re not done yet,â€? she said. “It’s premature to talk about what the pros and cons are until we find out more about how we can really have something special that has an institutional impact on students as well as keeping the more intimate relationship that people have with their school and college.â€? The university spends less than $40,000 on all ten commencement ceremonies, but Shackleton said that number isn’t extremely accurate. The annual budget for ceremonies is $150,000, which is funded by the $25 graduation fee paid by students when they apply for graduation, he said. Please see COMMENCEMENT | 4
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Garrett Williams, 6, of Manlius, plays in the water at Attucks Park in Carbondale Monday. With a high of 99 degrees and a heat index of 111, conditions are dangerous. The National Weather Service in Paducah,
Ky., issued a heat warning until 9 p.m. Tuesday. The Weather Service advises any outdoor activities be performed in the morning or evening, drink plenty of water and wear light, loose fitting clothes.
Building codes stand on shaky ground ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian Given the lack of a standard building code, James Conder says an earthquake comparable to the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-12 would cause considerable damage in the region. Buildings such as Parkinson Hall would probably collapse in such an event, said Conder, assistant professor of geology. Current building codes take into consideration three variables — magnitude, distance and soil types — when there are actually dozens, said Qiang Cheng, assistant professor of computer science. He and Jale Tezcan, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, were recently awarded a National Science Foundation grant of $260,000 for research in seismic data analysis with the goal of improving building designs. Cheng said buildings in Carbondale are built according to seismic data from places such as California. He said he hopes his and Tezcan's research will allow for more region-specific building codes. Conder said geological conditions such as bedrock and soil vary greatly between California and southern Illinois, and the deep soil and stiff bedrock of this region actually make it much more conducive to seismic wave transmission and amplification. Carbondale is situated between two seismic zones, the New Madrid and the lesser known Wabash. The region was rocked by a series of large earthquakes in the New Madrid zone roughly 200 years ago. Conder said the earthquakes
SOURCE: USCOURTS.GOV created Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee and completely destroyed the towns of New Madrid and Little Prairie, Mo. Conder said the quakes were probably around magnitude 7 on the Richter scale. The Richter scale is a way to measure the magnitude of earthquakes based on the amplitude of its waves. It is a base10 logarithmic scale — which means a 2.0 rated earthquake is 10 times more powerful than a 1.0 and a 3.0 is 100 times more powerful than a 1.0. Though New Madrid is the more famous of the two seismic zones in the
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region, the Wabash zone should be given more attention, Conder said. “My inclination is that the Wabash is probably a more significant risk than New Madrid,� he said. “If people want to look at where the large earthquakes are happening, they’re happening in the Wabash.� He said steel structures tend to handle earthquakes better than ones made from brick, though he’s not sure if the chances of another large earthquake justify a large investment in steel structures in southern Illinois. Please see EARTHQUAKE | 4
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Vending machines lag behind on healthy alternatives WHITNEY WAY Daily Egyptian Brandon Deloney said he would like to see more healthy food options in vending machines on campus. “(Machines should) offer more than just soda or caffeine products,” said Deloney, a senior from St. Louis studying music business. “There should be more Gatorade products.” The university used to provide fresh fruit and other, healthier food alternatives in vending machines but removed them due to a decrease in sales said Lori Stettler, director of the Student Center. “(Healthier foods) just didn’t sell well,” Stettler said. “Mountain Dew is the No. 1 seller at SIUC. Diet Coke is the second best seller.” SIUC contracts 212 vending machines from Robertson Vending Inc., a locally-owned private business. The nine-year contract ensures the university receives an approximate percentage of the profit from machine sales based on how much money the vending machines accumulate. Vending machines on campus
produce approximately $650,000 per year, and Stettler said the money is used for building and housing maintenance and upgrades. Robertson Vending Inc. has an annual revenue of $2.5 to $5 million, and Stettler said the corporation is responsible for all staff services, maintenance, and food and drink rotation of all campus vending machines. “They’re a local business, so profits stay in the community, and that’s always a good thing,” Stettler said. The greatest concentration of vending machine revenue is housing locations, Stettler said. She said other high-traffic areas such as the Communications Building, the Student Center, Morris Library and the Wham breezeway also bring in a considerable profit. Bill Bruns, deputy director of the Information Center in the Student Center, said students should make food item requests to him. “We take student requests seriously," he said. "Students can get in touch (with my office) and request items they want to see,” Bruns said. He said he would then inform
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Vending machine snacks await purchase at the Student Center Tuesday. Howard Champion, an employee of Robertson Vendors, said during the school year he and two other employees come to campus every other day to fill the soda bottle, soda Robertson Vending Inc. of the desired items, and the company would then place an order for the items, and install them into campus vending machines.
can and snack machines. “In fall semester you’re just boom, boom, boom all day long,” Champion said. Student Center Director Lori Stettler said the university used to have healthier options, but they were replaced because they didn’t sell.
Stettler said the university would welcome reintroducing healthier foods to vending machines if students requested them.
“Students are the ones spending their money on these products,” Stettler said. “If they want to see changes, then they should let us know.”
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Shackleton said in the past couple of years, commencement ceremonies have been held at the Recreation Center or at Shryock Auditorium because of recent renovations made to the SIU Arena. Six ceremonies are held at the SIU Arena during a two-day time span, and the other four ceremonies are held at Shryock Auditorium in one day. The arena can hold roughly 8,000 individuals when it’s configured for graduation ceremonies, Shackleton said.
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“It’s always difficult to assess what to do with low-probability but high-impact events,” he said. Cheng said he was inspired to begin the research when he saw the devastation caused by the Sichuan earthquake that took place in China in 2008. Though he hadn’t done any research involving seismology in the past, Cheng
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He said he isn’t sure which venue would be considered if more people were in attendance. “My guess is that any venue that we could find would be talked about and discussed (and would be on the table),” he said. “I don’t know. I’m only speculating at this point.” Audrey Lamb, a senior from Princeton, Ky. studying cinema and photography, said she wouldn’t want to have a ceremony on such a large scale. She said she thinks graduating with students within her college, rather than the entire graduating class at the university, would be more intimate.
“I think that would be a much cooler experience,” Lamb said. “I came from a small high school, so that’s how it was (for me then.)” Cheng said expenses for setup, cleanup and bringing in guest speakers for each ceremony would
be reduced if the ceremonies were combined. Shackleton said he believes combining the ceremonies would be an effective cost-cutting measure. “When you divide the ceremonies into two venues,
you’re doing two setups,” he said. “You have to have double the equipment and double the staff.” Shackleton said he thinks looking into other ways of conducting ceremonies is a good thing.
said he felt that it was an area that would benefit from the use of state of the art computer technology. “(This research) helped me … to find my niche that I can contribute to the real world,” he said. In terms of earthquake preparedness, buildings must be looked at carefully and on a case by case basis, said Kent Hsiao, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering. He said building codes
continuously improve because more data on earthquakes is always being collected. “Each earthquake we learn something,” he said. Conder said one factor that contributes to the lack of certainty about the New Madrid and Wabash seismic zones is their uniqueness. While most earthquakes occur on tectonic plate boundaries, the New Madrid and Wabash zones are in the middle of the North
American plate. He said it is not well understood why the seismic zones are there in the first place, so it is hard to make any guesses as to what they will do in the future. Conder said there is a school of thought that says the New Madrid seismic zone is dead and all the subsequent smaller events have been aftershocks. Another school of thought says large events in the New Madrid zone recur about
every 400-500 years, he said. Conder said he is personally not overly concerned about the risk of an earthquake in the region — but it doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen. “In any person’s lifetime there’s the good chance they’d go an entire lifetime without seeing a significant earthquake,” he said. “The danger, though, is people are going to be situated here for several lifetimes.”
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More bodies pulled from India train wreckage RAJESH KUMAR SINGH Associated Press Rescue workers pulled more bodies Monday from the mangled wreckage of a passenger train that derailed in northern India, as the death toll climbed to 67. Many more bodies were believed trapped under the twisted coaches, and soldiers were using gas cutters to slice through the metal, said Col. Amarjit Dhillon, a senior army official in charge of rescue operations.
The cause of Sunday afternoon’s derailment near the town of Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh state was not immediately known, but newspaper reports said the driver of the Kalka Mail slammed on the train’s emergency brakes to save some cattle squatting on the tracks. Railway authorities were investigating the cause of the accident, said H.C. Joshi, a senior railway official. Volunteers and soldiers worked through the night to pull many of the more than 100 injured from the train’s
12 shattered coaches. Officials said the train was carrying about 1,000 passengers, but the exact number was not known. At least one coach flew above the roof of another ahead of it and was dangling precariously, while another coach was thrown away from the rest of the train. “It’s a difficult operation. Two cranes are being used to pull up the coach,� Dhillon said. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles to the northeast, police said a militant
group was suspected of triggering a bomb that led to the derailment of another train, also on Sunday. G. P. Singh, inspector-general of police, said the Adivasi Peoples’ Army was suspected of triggering the bomb. More than 50 passengers were injured when the train derailed, and the condition of four of them was critical, police said. The Kalka Mail train, the first to derail, was on its way to Kalka, in the foothills of the Himalayas, from Howrah, a station near Kolkata in
eastern India. Train services across northern India have been disrupted as railroad authorities work to clear the tracks. At least 62 trains had been diverted to other routes and many others have been canceled, said S. Mathur, a railway official. India’s railroad network is one of the largest in the world and carries about 14 million passengers each day. Accidents are common, with most blamed on poor maintenance and human error.
UN: Somalia drought is worst humanitarian crisis LUC VAN KEMENADE MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED Associated Press The head of the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday that droughtridden Somalia is the “worst humanitarian disaster� in the world after meeting with refugees who endured unspeakable hardship to reach the world’s largest refugee camp. The Kenyan camp, Dadaab, is overflowing with tens of thousands of newly arrived refugees forced into the camp by the parched landscape in the region where Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya meet. The World Food Program estimates that 10 million people already need humanitarian aid. The U.N. Children’s Fund estimates that more than 2 million children are malnourished and in need of lifesaving action. Antonio Guterres, the head of UNHCR who visited Dadaab on Sunday, appealed to the world to supply the “massive support� needed
by thousands of refugees showing up at this camp every week. More than 380,000 refugees now live there. In Dadaab, Guterres spoke with a Somalia mother who lost three of her children during a 35-day walk to reach the camp. Guterres said Dadaab holds “the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable of the vulnerable.� “I became a bit insane after I lost them,� said the mother, Muslima Aden. “I lost them in different times on my way.� Guterres is on a tour of the region to highlight the dire need. On Thursday he was in the Ethiopian camp of Dollo Ado, a camp that is also overflowing. “The mortality rates we are witnessing are three times the level of emergency ceilings,� he said. “The level of malnutrition of the children coming in is 50 percent. That is enough to explain why a very high level of mortality is inevitable,� he said. Dr. Dejene Kebede, a health officer for UNHCR, said there were 58 deaths in camps in one week alone in June.
Most of the deaths take place at the registration office and transition facilities of the refugee camps in the southeastern Dollo region of Ethiopia, the health officer said. Up to 2,000 Somali refugees are crossing the border into Ethiopia every day, UNHCR said. Thousands of families arrive in poor conditions often after walking for days in search of food. Guterres said the influx is overwhelming for UNHCR and other international and local aid organizations: “Nothing can compare to what we have seen this month.� “The camps are full and lack capacity to provide the Somali people with food and shelter. This makes effective health treatment almost impossible, said Jerome Souquet, head of Doctors Without Borders at the Dollo Ado camps. “We can treat the severely malnourished children, but they will definitely come back to us
underfed because there is not enough food and almost all of them suffer from diarrhea,� he told The Associated Press. Habiba Osman Ibrahim, a 76-year old Somali refugee from the al-Shababcontrolled Luk region of Somalia, said she walked for three days with her two underfed grandchildren. Al-Shabab is Somalia’s dangerous militant group. It had forced out all international aid groups, but earlier this month said they could return considering the desperate conditions. “We were dependent on food aid,� she said. “But because al-Shabab forced out all relief operations and there was no food we had no choice but to flee.� Aden Dayow, 32, said he was a sorghum-growing farmer in Ufurow in Somalia, but fled to Ethiopia because his harvest failed because of a lack of rains. The epicenter of the drought lies on the three-way border shared by Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia,
a nomadic region where families heavily depend on the health of their livestock. Uganda and Djibouti have also been hit. The World Food Program said it expects 10 million people in the Horn of Africa to require food assistance. WFP currently provides food aid to 6 million people in East Africa. The group said it is facing a shortfall of 40 percent on the $477 million needed to address hunger needs in the region. Somalis desperate for food are also overrunning Dadaab, the world’s largest refugee camp in neighboring Kenya, which is seeing some 10,000 new arrivals each week, six times the average at this time last year. The U.N.’s refugee agency says Dadaab’s three camps now host more than 382,000 people, while thousands more are waiting at reception centers outside the camp. Van Kemenade contributed to this report from Dollo Ado and Bisle, Ethiopia.
Libya shows tough face against rebel mountain push ADAM SCHRECK Associated Press Moammar Gadhafi’s regime sought Sunday to show it remains in control of parts of the country’s western mountains and will defend the territory against further rebel advances there. The Nafusa mountains southwest of Tripoli have become a key battleground in the rebels’ fight to oust the longtime Libyan leader, with small bands of fighters inching closer to the capital by seizing villages along major roads snaking across the rugged highland terrain. Forces loyal to Gadhafi are also battling rebels on two major front lines to the east of the capital, but neither side has been able to mount a major push. Journalists based in Gadhafi’s stronghold of Tripoli were taken by
government officials Sunday to the mountain gateway town of Gharyan and the nearby town of al-Assabaa, where they were shown armed civilians and government troops who vowed to defend their land. A portrait of Gadhafi was perched on the table in front of him, and a Kalashnikov rifle rested against the wall. “We are ready to fight to protect our land, our leader ... our children. NATO cannot scare us,� he told reporters. A crowd outside the government building where he spoke chanted proGadhafi slogans and shot bursts of automatic fire into the air. The towns lie down a mountain road not far from a village rebels said they seized last week. Gharyan is the bigger of the two and is the last mountain town along a highway that leads straight to the capital Tripoli, just
50 miles (80 kilometers) to the north. In Gharyan, a small group of women practiced firing automatic rifles and unloading grenade launchers. They were far outnumbered by visiting journalists. Tripoli-based foreign journalists are routinely accompanied by government minders whose presence makes it difficult for people to speak freely. Government-arranged trips tend to be carefully orchestrated. Still, there were signs of resistance in Gharyan. In numerous spots, graffiti appeared to be hastily painted over — apparently covering anti-government slogans. Fragments remained though. The words “Libya free� were visibly scrawled in Arabic and English in at least two locations. Portraits of Gadhafi — ubiquitous in Tripoli and other regime strongholds — were only seen on the government
building where the women trained with weapons. Several residents who agreed to talk with journalists appeared nervous because of the presence of government officials, their hands shaking as they spoke with reporters. Some acknowledged there was support for the rebels in the town, though none said they knew sympathizers personally. “You’ll find these people inside Gharyan, but they can’t do anything,� said vegetable seller Bahloun Ibrahim Ashouh, 55. “It’s hard to find them.� NATO appears to be ramping up its strikes in the western mountains. It said Sunday it hit a rocket launcher and a tank in Gharyan the previous day, along with other targets in the region. On Wednesday, rebels claimed to have taken the mountain village of Qawalish, which sits about 10 miles (16
kilometers) by winding mountain road from al-Assabaa. Gharyan is about 12 miles (20 kilometers) further away. Libya’s deputy foreign minister, Khaled Kaim, last week accused NATO of intensifying its bombing campaign, including in the western mountains, to lay the groundwork for a rebel advance toward the capital. He said the alliance targeted police checkpoints in the mountains before the rebel advance on Qawalish. NATO began airstrikes against Libya in March. The coalition and its Arab allies are operating under a U.N. mandate to protect civilians. Some countries in the coalition have interpreted that mandate broadly, with France acknowledging it has provided weapons to rebels operating in the mountains and other countries providing non-lethal aid to rebel-held areas.
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NY judge dismisses charges against Foxy Brown COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK — A judge on Tuesday dropped charges that rapper Foxy Brown violated a court order by mooning her neighbor after the woman told prosecutors she would not testify at the trial. Assistant District Attorney Robert Isdith said he had tried to meet with the neighbor, Irene Raymond, in the weeks before the trial and didn’t get anywhere. When he finally got in touch with her, she said she didn’t want to pursue the case, he said.
“While the district attorney’s office has no doubt the defendant committed this crime, we have no other choice but to dismiss this case,” Isdith said. Brown, whose real name is Inga Marchand, pleaded not guilty to criminal contempt and her trial was slated to begin Tuesday, following a dressing-down at her last court hearing by State Supreme Court Justice John Walsh when she appeared hours late. The 31-year-old hip-0hop star was punctual this time, wearing a short silver silk dress and towering spike heels, and smiled and hugged her attorneys as the courtroom erupted when Walsh
dismissed the case. “I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed,” she said outside court, as she gave a thumbsup and smiled for cameras. She described Raymond as jealous, and someone with a “borderline obsession,” she said. “Someone who wants to be you or have your life ... that I worked really hard for.” The Brooklyn-based rapper was a teenager when she broke onto the rap scene as a protege of Jay-Z, but her career has foundered in recent years. Prosecutors said Brown violated the order in July 2010 by screaming at Raymond before bending over, baring her buttocks and showing
her underwear while shouting an obscenity. Had the case gone to trial, her attorney Salvatore Strazzullo said her defense would have been not only did she not moon Raymond, but she wasn’t even wearing underwear at the time, so the neighbor was not telling the truth. Brown was issued the order of protection after pleading guilty in 2008 to menacing Raymond with her cellphone. The two had been in a fight over Brown blasting her car stereo outside their Brooklyn building in the leafy Prospect Heights neighborhood. The restraining order is in effect until 2013, her attorney said.
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Noaah Tyson, left, 8, of West Frankfort, SIU softball head coach Kerri Blaylock, middle, and Shelby Bartok, 7, of O’Fallon, practice pitching mechanics during a Saluki Softball Pitching Camp at the
Recreation Center Friday. The two-day camp was held July 6 and 7 and was open to second through fourth grade students. Approximately 50 kids attended the camp, some from as far away as Ohio.
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“When I broke my wrist, I thought I was just going to redshirt and be back here next year,” said Serritella, who had 64 RBIs in 2010, which is good for third place in the MVC. “But halfway through the year I started getting a lot of phone calls from different teams and they were telling me this was a possibility.”
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Olson, who has been in charge of the camp for two years, said the number of kids who show up to the summer swim camps has steadily increased and is now up to 38, which is 13 more than last year. He said the variety of activities keeps the kids interested, and the mix between education and fun is
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Head coach Ken Henderson said Serritella is excited about the opportunity to play in the pros. “We’ve talked about it every week for the last three months,” said Henderson, who was recently retained as the head coach of Saluki Baseball. “But it’s a mute point to talk about it until they make an offer.” Serritella’s injury meant that any team who took a chance on him in
this year’s draft would have to wait until he was fully healed to scout him, which Serritella said will happen in the next few weeks. Once the Royals have taken a look at Serritella, they will give him an offer and the negotiation process will begin. This means Serritella’s decision to either go pro or stay in school might not come until the August 15 signing deadline, Serritella said. If Serritella decides to come
back, he will be the focal point of an offense that looks to improve after being in the bottom three of nearly every major offensive category in the Missouri Valley last season, according to the MVC website. “He’s our most talented hitter. He was drafted and he didn’t even play one inning, so that tells you about his ability,” Henderson said. “If you take a player of that caliber out of your lineup, you’re obviously
going to be affected.” Nonetheless, there is an optimism that surrounds the team after it finished in fifth place and lost to eventual Missouri Valley Champion Creighton in the second round of the MVC tournament, especially if Serritella decides to stay in school for another year. “Everyone’s really excited for next year,” Serritella said. “Winning the conference is a definite possibility.”
something he tries to achieve. This format has brought repeat campers from one year to the next, he said. “I think that’s a big reason why the numbers are increasing,” Olson said. “Word of mouth is getting out and the kids are starting to bring more of their friends and family members.” Alex Remsey, 9, of Alto Pass, said he came with his cousin, and it is the first visit to the camp for both of them. The camp started
Monday, but he said he has made a lot of friends and has already learned quite a bit. “You meet a bunch of new people and you really get to have fun,” Remsey said. “It’s been good, I’ve already improved on my swimming a lot.” The kids get a chance to be involved in other activities and take a break from swimming in the middle of the day. Meredith Flamm, 11, of Cobden, said she has had
a lot of fun with the water games, but she has also enjoyed some other activities throughout the day such as making tie-dye shirts. While Flamm enjoys the mix of in-and-out-of-water activities, Olivia Herriing, 9, of Murphysboro, said her main focus is to stay in the water. “I have a pool at home and I just really like being in the water,” Herring said. “I’ve worked on my
back stoke and breast stoke and it’s made me a better swimmer.” As some kids take it more serious than others, Olson said the general point of the camp is to make them better swimmers overall. He said he is still new to running the camps, but his focus remains on educating the kids. “We don’t want to overwhelm them with the skills,” Olson said. “We really just go with the basics.”
6 special fans attend All-Star game RONALD BLUM Associated Press A few summers ago, Erick Cruz was playing summer ball with Bryce Harper. This weekend, both were at baseball's All-Star celebration, with Harper playing in the Futures Game for top prospects. Cruz was overjoyed just to be watching the festivities from a suite at Chase Field, one of six families treated to the trip by the Phoenix-based Make-A-Wish Foundation An 18-year-old from Claremont, Calif., Cruz made the varsity as a freshman at Claremont High during the 2007-08 school year. “During the summer, I started getting tired for no reason,” he recalled. “Little things made me gasp for air. When I got back home, I got a blood test.” The shocking diagnosis: leukemia. “I was playing travel ball with the cancer in me,” he said. “I didn’t even know.”
Following chemotherapy, radiation and prescription steroids, Cruz's cancer is in remission. But the treatment has taken a toll on his once-strong body. He needed knee surgery. When he started to work out again, he needed a full hip replacement. “I haven't played in the last 2½ years,” he said. “I'm starting now to work out, trying to get back in there.” While Harper was taken by the Washington Nationals with the first pick of last year's amateur draft, Cruz had to take off a year from school because of his illness. Now he will start his senior year at the end of the summer. Joined by his family, he was greeted with a reception Saturday night by Major League Baseball Executive Vice President Tim Brosnan and Diamondbacks President Derrick Hall. Joining Cruz, a Los Angeles Angels season-ticket holder, were Clayton “Bo” Anderson, a 13-yearold from St. Bernard School who lives in Dallas; Jose Avalos, 16,
who goes to Carver High and is from Houston; Steven Contreras, 17, who attends Rolling Hills Prep and lives in Wilmington, Calif.; Zachary McMasters, 13, who is entering Etiwanda High and lives in Fontana, Calif.; and Scott Selman, 14, who goes to Stevenson High and lives in Buffalo Grove. The group got to meet major league home run leader Jose Bautista, Hank Aaron, Ozzie Smith, Rickey Henderson and Commissioner Bud Selig. MLB and the Make-A-Wish Foundation have been arranging such All-Star programs since 2003. The group arranged about 22,000 wishes for young people last year, including 13,580 in the United States. “We grant more wishes during the summer than any other time of year. It’s easier for kids to travel. The timing happens to be perfect,” said Paul Allvin, vice president of brand advancement for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. “Our kids all have life-threatening medical conditions. They're not terminal, but
they have life-threatening conditions.” It’s not just the kids who make the trip. Parents and siblings are included. “Often times for these families, it’s their first chance in a long time to forget about being sick and to just go back and be kids and family together,” Allvin said. “It provides them a really important break. A lot of them really feel like it's a turning point in their fight to regain their health.” Selman walked off the plane at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and was greeted by dozens of people, holding up a large banner and joyously shouting a welcome. The right-hander pitcher and devout Chicago Cubs fan, has Long QT syndrome (LQTS), as does his sister. “It’s an electrical short of the heart. It causes sudden death,” said his mother, Aleyce. He was diagnosed in the fourth grade. His father, Phil, is also his baseball coach. Both parents are proficient in using a defibrillator, just in case. “My favorite thing in life is basically this. I just like playing.
I love meeting players and I love baseball,” Scott said. “I wasn’t allowed to play for a year or two. I can’t always — if it’s really hot out, I can't do as much as I usually want to do. I have to sit out a couple more innings than most of the other people on my team.” Contreras, a fan of the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers, plays high school baseball and football even though bone cancer caused his left leg to be amputated below the knee. Avalos is fighting muscular dystrophy, McMasters is battling brain cancer and Anderson is combating leukemia. In a ballpark filled with thousands of happy fans at Tuesday night's game, these six may be the happiest. “We can’t control what we do on the field, but we can certainly control what we do off the field,” Hall told them. "I'm so proud of those of you that are battling and even beating. I'm glad you're here healthy, happy.”
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Kids learn to dive, kick away the heat CORY DOWNER Daily Egyptian
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Sofie Youter, 8, of Carbondale, practices her bobbing Tuesday during a summer swim camp at the Recreation Center. Youter and approximately 35 other kids ages 8-12 are participating in the weeklong swim camp.
Coach Scott Olson started Tuesday’s swim with bobbing, a technique used to help slow the respiratory rate of the swimmers by going under water and blowing bubbles before they start their laps.
Youth swim camps give kids the chance to beat the summer heat with games in the pool and the ability to learn about the sport in the process. The week long camp at the Edward J. Shea Natatorium, which is directed by the SIU swimming team staff, gives kids the technical skills to learn different stokes and techniques. After working on drills in the morning and afternoon sessions, the kids get a chance to work on their form off the diving board and play a variety of games. SIU assistant swim coach and camp leader Scott Olson said the camp is designed as a template so the kids can get a grasp on the basics of swimming. He said the skills they learn at the camp will give them a better understanding of the sport and create a platform to make them better swimmers in the future. “This camp is not about working out or being a competitive swimmer, but we do use some of that,� Olson said. “Teaching them different strokes gives them more opportunities in the water.� Please see SWIM | 10
Serritella’s Saluki career remains unclear JOE RAGUSA Daily Egyptian Normally when a collegiate athlete gets drafted, a rush of excitement surrounds his or her first call to the world of professional sports. But that wasn't the case for Saluki slugger Chris Serritella. "He had a game that day so he actually didn't get the call right away," said junior outfielder Jordan Sivertsen. "Everybody followed it online so we knew before he did." After sitting out in the entire 2011 NCAA season with a broken wrist, Serritella now plays first base for the Quincy Gems in the Prospect League, a collegiate summer league that consists of teams around the midwest. “This was actually my first injury that ever put me out for any games, so it was tough,� said Serritella. “I thought maybe I should try to make a come back and we could win [the Missouri Valley Conference], but it was tough watching them struggle at times knowing I could help them.� Despite being redshirted for his third year at SIU, the Kansas City Royals saw enough potential in Serritella to take him in the 31st round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft June 8. Please see SERRITELLA| 10
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First baseman Chris Serritella, of the Anchorage Bucs, takes a pickoff throw against the Military all-star team at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage, AK., June 15, 2010. Serritella, who sat
out his junior year at SIU due to injury, was drafted in the 31st round of the Major League Baseball draft in June 2011 by the Kansas City Royals.