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Police identify suspects Warm weather in Tuesday shooting brings out climbers BILL LUKITSCH AND LUKE NOZICKA Daily Egyptian

Carbondale Police have arrested two suspects for a shooting that happened near the Saluki Apartments on Tuesday night.

Police responded to multiple reports of shots fired near East Cindy Street and South Wall Street about 8:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Lt. Matt Dunning said.

Police said Michael Wooley and John McGrath engaged in a physical altercation during which

McGrath obtained and discharged a firearm.

No one was injured in the shooting and police arrested Wooley, 32, who police say is homeless, and McGrath, 26, of the 400 block of South Wall Street, without incident.

Police did not specify who the gun belongs to, but Wooley is charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in addition to possession of cocaine. McGrath is charged with reckless discharge of a firearm and possession of cannabis.

SIU student Cody Gallardo, who lives in the building, said he was in his apartment when the shots rang out.

“I heard three loud bangs and just chilled till it settled down,” said Gallardo, a junior from Aurora studying psychology.

This is the third incident Carbondale Police have responded to involving a gunshot since Saturday.

The Daily Egyptian’s campus desk can be reached at 618-536-3325.

Illinois’ “tampon tax” causes debate ANNA SPOERRE | AnnaSpoerre

Illinois is one of 40 states in which tax laws do not define feminine products as necessities, according to The New York Times. This means tampons and feminine pads are not exempt from taxation like groceries and medications are.

“I have no idea why states would tax these as luxury items,” President Barack Obama said during a Jan. 16 interview with Ingrid Nilsen, a popular YouTube personality. “I suspect it’s because men were making the laws when those taxes were passed.”

Obama said women in those 40 states should do their best to remove what has been nicknamed the “tampon tax.”

This year, California, Virginia, Utah and Michigan introduced legislation to eliminate this tax, according to a Jan. 28 article by Time Magazine.

Meghann Pytka, assistant director of SIU’s women, gender and sexuality studies department, said she is excited about people discussing the issue.

“The people who directed these law codes, it would seem, were not people who dealt with a monthly menstrual cycle and had a deep empathetic

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understanding about how a tampon or maxi pad would not be a luxury item,” Pytka said.

However, Illinois State Rep. David Harris, R-Mount Prospect, said he has not heard any discussion of a bill to end the “tampon tax” in the state.

Harris said the question that must be considered is whether or not feminine products qualify as medicine. ”I’m not ready to say what is or what isn’t a medicine or a medical

device,” Harris said. “You could define condoms as a medical product as well, and men are the only people who use condoms. That’s the bigger issue. It’s not meant to be discriminatory to whichever [gender] is paying the tax.”

Pytka said it’s not about the tax.

Instead, she said it’s about who the state envisions as its ideal citizens, which points to a broader issue.

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State comptroller: Budget impasse to create $6.2 billion more in debt by July KEVIN HOFFMAN | Reboot Ill.

If Illinois continues spending at its current rate without a budget, the state is projected to end the fiscal year $6.2 billion more in debt.

Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger announced the revised deficit projection during a press conference Tuesday. She said court orders and consent decrees have required the state to keep spending at FY 2015 levels and to maintain existing service levels no matter the cost. As a result, the Department of Human Services and the Department of Healthcare and Family Services are expected to surpass last year’s appropriations by $1.2 billion.

On top of that, the state is bringing in roughly $5 billion less because of the sunset of the temporary income tax hike

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“That is $6.2 billion more in debt for a state that already had billions of dollars in backlogged bills waiting to be paid,” Munger said. “The situation without a budget is a little like a credit card limit. You can spend until you hit that limit — but in this case, the courts have essentially removed the limit and the state has blown through the caps to the tune of $1.2 billion. Without a budget, the spending is open-ended and our fiscal path is catastrophic.”

To put that number into context, Munger listed things that could be bought with $6.2 billion, which include both teams in this year’s Super Bowl, the Willis (aka Sears) Tower and two round-trip tickets to the moon.

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Autumn Suyko | Daily Egyptian Max Walsh, a senior from Lisle studying forestry, enjoys the warm weather Monday by rock climbing at the Holy Boulders in Shawnee National Forest. Walsh is an avid member of the climbing club and plans to teach “Yoga Rocks,” a class at the Recreation Center, which incorporates yoga and rock climbing, this April. “My plan after I graduate is to renovate a bus, put solar panels on the roof to power electricity and just travel around the US and climb,” Walsh said. “I’m going to climb until I physically can’t anymore.”

Bursar limit change shows no ‘major impact’ on retention BILL LUKITSCH | @Bill_LukitschDE

The university reverted to a policy on bursar holds last semester that some feared would prevent low-income students from registering this spring.

Students registering for spring classes can owe just $200 — that amount used to be $1,000. The bursar’s office changed the policy to keep students from falling too far in debt while attending college, university spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said at the time. She said policy change mirrors federal financial aid guidelines.

A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Daily Egyptian in January revealed the university does not keep record of bursar holds from previous years because “the list is constantly changing as students reduce or increase their outstanding balances.”

But the policy change did not have “major impact” on retention this year, Goldsmith said. Still, there isn’t a specific dataset to track the impact, if any, the policy change had.

Enrollment at the university dropped by 878 students from spring 2015 to this spring. The retention rate for graduate students fell 12 percent — a loss of 420 students — and the spring undergraduate class has 263 students fewer, including students who

graduated in December.

As of Monday, 515 students did not enroll in spring courses because of bursar holds on their accounts. Of those students, 428 owed SIU more than $1,000 and 88 owed between $200 and $1,000.

“We reached out to a lot of [the students who owed less than $1,000] and most of them weren’t planning to come back,” Goldsmith said.

During the fall, the Graduate and Professional Student Council created a fund to help graduate students pay down their bursar bills to enroll in the spring semester. The organization allocated $3,000 to 14 applicants who were planning to graduate after spring and who met the amount available for GPSC to spend.

Twelve of the 88 students who did not return this semester and owed less than $1,000 were in a graduate program.

“Our first priority was helping as many students as we could and prioritizing the students who were going to be graduating this semester,” Brandon Woudenberg, GPSC’s president, said.

Bill Lukitsch can be contacted at blukitsch@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3329.

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“We have a legal structure, a social realm that fundamentally was not built for a majority of folks that live in that society,” Pytka said, naming women, African Americans, gays and the poor among those groups.

Natasha Zaretsky, an associate history professor, said challenging the tax continues the feminist revolution of the 1970s. Despite this, she said the gender wage gap and the ratio of men to women in STEM careers are examples of areas that still need change.

She said this tax is a way to encourage discussion about women’s sexuality and health issues by

de-stigmatizing words such as “tampons” and “menstruation.”

Zaretsky said there are gender biases that still have not been appropriately scrutinized. Still, she said some positive changes are occurring, such as a greater focus on sexual violence on college campuses and the Planned Parenthood debate.

“Fundamental questions are being asked about women’s bodies and women’s reproductive rights,” Zaretsky said. “It is actually a really interesting moment in feminist politics more broadly where women’s issues are coming back to the floor.”

Anna Spoerre can be reached at aspoerre@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

EIU backers plan rally in face of 200 layoffs TOM KACICH | THE NEWS-GAZETTE, CHAMPAIGN-URBANA

LINDELL W. STURGIS MEMORIAL PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Established in 1979, the Lindell W. Sturgis Memorial Public Service Award is presented by the SIU Board of Trustees to an SIU Carbondale employee to recognize public service efforts— contributions to the community, area, state or nation—based upon activities unrelated to his/ her job responsibilities. This prestigious award includes a cash gift of $750 and a plaque.

Online nomination form available at universityevents.siu.edu/sturgis For more information, please call 618/453-7419.

Deadline for nominations: Monday, March 28 Please direct nominations to: Vanessa Sneed Office of University Events and Protocol Anthony Hall, Mail Code 4304 1265 Lincoln Drive Carbondale, IL 62901

Supporters of Eastern Illinois University — where layoff notices are going out to some 200 civil service employees — will rally later this week in support of a state appropriation to sustain the university.

What’s being billed as a “EIU Support Rally” is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday on the university’s library Quad.

EIU, and the rest of public higher education in the state, has been operating since July 1 without a state appropriation.

Democrats in the Legislature last spring sent Gov. Bruce Rauner an unbalanced state budget that he mostly vetoed, and there has been no action on funding for higher education since.

“EIU is a very important member of our community. A lot of people are directly dependent and indirectly dependent on the health of EIU to sustain the Coles County and regional counties economy,” said Jonathan Blitz, president of the University

Professionals of Illinois at Eastern.

“And so this is an effort to try to get the community and the university community together to support higher ed funding so that EIU can, frankly, survive.”

Without state money, Blitz said, “it’s only a matter of time until universities start shutting down. Chicago State is talking about shutting down March 1 and other universities can’t be far behind. The only university that can sustain this for any reasonable period of time is [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign].”

On Jan. 25, EIU President David Glassman said that state government “is literally starving its public universities.” And he announced a number of budgettrimming efforts at the university, where 7,876 students are enrolled this spring.

“Beginning immediately, we will implement the actions of halting all non-instructional capital equipment purchases; delaying all deferred maintenance and repairs that are either unrelated to safety and security or already paid for;

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delaying all non-instructional capital projects; halting all noninstructional supply purchases without vice presidential approval; freezing employee-reimbursed travel with minimal exception such as for required federal or governmental purposes; and freezing all hiring that involves FY16 funding,” Glassman said in a letter to the campus. “If an appropriation continues to be delayed further into the semester, we will need to temporarily and/or permanently lay off hundreds of non-instructional employees and mandate unpaid furlough days to others beginning in March.”

Those 30-day layoff notices started going out this week, Blitz said.

Catie Witte of Carlinville, a junior at EIU and the executive vice president of the student body, said “if we don’t get an appropriation, who knows if we’re going to be open in the fall? And being a junior, that’s really scary.”

“I love Eastern and it scares me that I might not be able to graduate as an EIU Panther,” she said.

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A family tradition

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Sarah Yang, a sushi chef from Seoul, South Korea, slices a roll she prepared for customers Wednesday at Kaya, a Korean and Japanese restaurant she has owned with her husband, Michael, for one year. For Sarah, learning to make sushi has been a tradition on the women’s side of her family for as long as she can remember. “My grandma taught my mom, then my mom taught me,” Sarah said, “then I taught my two children, and we would all sit and eat together.” She said interacting with customers and sharing her culture are what she loves most about working at Kaya.

Vapor release in Engineering Building causes evacuation KAYLI PLOTNER | DAILY EGYPTIAN

The Carbondale Fire Department responded to a report of a vapor release about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday at the Engineering building.

A male graduate student was working on research when a small vapor release resulted in a building evacuation. SIU police, Jackson County's ambulance service and Debra Sarvela, associate director of the Center for Environmental Health and Safety, were also called to the scene. The student was admitted to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale and has since been released.

Lt. Ryan House of the Department of Public Safety said there was no damage to the building and no reported injuries.

Sarvela said there were a few other people in the building at the time because many engineering students do their research late at night. The fire alarm was intentionally pulled to make sure those people evacuated.

"There were some protocols that weren't followed as far as we can tell," Sarvela said. "His professor will speak with him and

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Munger said she was hopeful a budget would be passed, pointing to recent agreements reached between Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic legislative leaders, but said they need to stop blaming each other and put the people of Illinois first.

Last week, Rauner blamed

Kayli Plotner | Daily Egyptian Debra Sarvela, associate director of the Center for Environmental Health and Safety, waits outside the Engineering building Wednesday morning as Carbondale fire crews ventilate the halls after a vapor release was reported.

“We will definitely use this as a learning expereince,” Sarvela said.

find out exactly what went wrong.

But we know a protocol was not followed and that's going to be corrected."

Assistant Fire Chief Doug Biggs said the release was a combination of six to eight chemicals mixed

together, and his crew ventilated the building to make sure they were pushed out.

Democratic leaders for budget impasse. His administration decried the opposition after a Democratbacked bill was propsed to fund MAP grants. A spokeswoman for the governor said funding such programs would not fix the budget problems plauging the state.

While Munger acknowledged lawmakers will have to look at revenue improvements, she said relying solely on new revenue

without spending cuts to get the state out of debt would result in income tax rates doubling.

“If we solve this problem on revenue alone, we will be looking at raising our tax rate in Illinois from 3.75 percent up to somewhere between 7 and 8 percent,” Munger said. “I don’t know any legislator who would vote for that and I don’t know many businesses that would stay in Illinois for that.”

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Discussing the role of mammies in America AUTUMN DOUGLAS | @ADOUGLAS_DE

From Aunt Jemima to Aibileen Clark's character on "The Help," the mammy has been a common American stereotype of black female domestic slaves since the mid-19th century and is still perpetuated in modern media.

"Mammy" is another way to reference one’s mother, and in the south, it was formerly used to refer to black nursemaids who took care of white children.

The stereotype presents black female domestic slaves as willfully and happily serving the white family, even preferring the white children over her own, said Tiffany Player, an SIU history instructor from New Orleans. For her graduate studies, she has been researching American slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction.

"The mammy is a direct assault on respectable black womanhood," Player said.

In 1923, the United Daughters of the Confederacy proposed a national mammy monument be constructed in Washington, D.C., and, although the proposal was not approved, it began a debate about whether the mammy actually existed and, if so, what her meaning in society was.

Player said having a monument would have promoted a distorted view of the mammy that erases the violence of slavery and etches into stone the glorification of AfricanAmerican servility.

“Instead of rejecting this trope altogether, a lot of black women are interested in using the mammy to secure benefits for her descendants,” she said.

This proposal came right after the rejection of the Dyer AntiLynching Bill. Despite wanting to commemorate and pay tribute to the mammy, the United Daughters of the Confederacy did not support the anti-lynching bill. Player said the organization wanted the tribute to glorify white supremacy more than honor black woman.

Player gave a presentation about her research on slavery and the Civil War on Wednesday in the Student Center Ohio Room in honor of Black History Month. She touched on the mammy monument controversy.

As a graduate student working on her dissertation at Washington University in St. Louis, Player said she examines violence inflicted by this embrace of the mammy trope in cinema, books and discussions of slavery.

Since white families relied upon their mammies to nurse the children

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Tiffany Player, a history instructor from New Orleans who is completing her Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis, speaks at a presentation about the Black Mammy Monument on Wednesday at the Student Center. Player’s presentation addressed how the mammy character has been portrayed in different eras of American history, including, but not limited to, Hattie McDaniel’s portrayal of “Mammy” in “Gone with the Wind.”

and teach them morals and basic tasks, she was trusted to essentially raise white children. It was the only acceptable interracial relationship of that time, Player said.

“I find it an interesting

oxymoron,” said Mavin Edwards, an SIU alumna from Long Beach, Calif. “During the times of slavery, when the goal was to civilize black people, a key role such as the mammy in a domestic

capacity ends up being the civilizer in most households.”

Autumn Douglas can be reached at adouglas@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

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Saluki baseball picked to finish last in MVC THOMAS DONLEY | @tdonleyDE

The baseball coaches of the Missouri Valley Conference have cast their votes, and Southern Illinois is predicted to finish last in the conference this spring.

The Salukis, coming off a 1246 season, are the only Valley team without a player named to the Preseason All-Conference Team.

Missouri State, the defending conference champion, is considered the top team in the league after earning five first-place votes. Dallas

Baptist received two first-place votes and Wichita State received one.

The Bears and Shockers had three players each named to the AllConference Team, the most of any team.

SIU opens its season Feb. 19 with the first of a three-game series at McNeese State. The Salukis open MVC play April 8 when they host Indiana State, which was picked to finish fifth in the Valley.

Thomas Donley can be reached at Tdonley@Dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

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Coach’s Take: “He’s probably one of the best looking offensive lineman we’ve brought in … since I’ve been around here,” Hill said. “We’re going to have to develop [him], but we’re excited about that.”

WIDE RECEIVER Sam Bonansinga tallied 1,034 receiving yards and 17 touchdowns as a senior and was part of a Sacred Heart-Griffin team that won back-to-back state championships during his sophomore and junior seasons.

The Springfield native had 1,950 receiving yards and 30 touchdowns in his career. Sam’s father, Joe, played for the Salukis as he earned his bachelor’s in physiology from 1989 to 1993.

Coach’s Take: “As soon as I got the job I said we need to get someone from Sacred Heart-Griffin, anytime we’ve been good here, we’ve had someone from Sacred Heart-Griffin,” Hill said. “When he was a junior he played in the state championship game and never came off the field.”

Landon Lenoir attended Crete-Monee High School and was part of a team that won 34-straight conference games and was the Illinois Class 6A state runner-up last season. He had more than 600 receiving yards and caught four touchdowns as a senior.

He, too, comes from a family of football as his brother Lance holds the Western Illinois record for career touchdowns. His cousin, Laquon Treadwell — a wide receiver at Mississippi — is a top 2016 NFL Draft prospect.

Coach’s Take: “Landon wanted to be his own guy, he didn’t want to follow in his brother’s footsteps,” Hill said. “It’s scary how similar he and his brother are.”

Mason Wilfong had 1,715 receiving yards and 17 touchdowns in his career with John Carroll

High School in Palm City, Fla., and was a two-time honorable mention Class 3A All-State selection.

Coach’s Take: “I watched him compete during Spring football [in Florida],” Hill said. “He reminds me of Billy Reed. He’s ready to play right now.”

TIGHT END Jaylin Carter. He had 406 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns as a senior on a WheatonWarrenville High School team which advanced to the Class 7A playoffs.

Coach’s Take: “Kinda has that look MyCole [Pruitt] had and he’s taller than MyCole,” Hill said.

LINEBACKER Bryce Notree was the only Texan to sign with the Salukis and was the seventh recruit overall to commit to SIU. The Arlington, Texas native recorded 96 tackles, 18 tackles for a loss, three interceptions and two forced fumbles at Lamar High School.

Coach’s Take: “Our defensive [graduate assistant] Michael Williamson went to this high school and kept bringing his name up,” Hill said. “He’s actually from Illinois … He’s coming back home.”

SAFETY Qua Brown recorded 73 tackles, six interceptions and five tackles for a loss as a senior at University High School in DeLand, Fla. He also set a school record with four interceptions in a game as a senior and was named Class 8A AllState by the Associated Press.

Coach’s Take: “Que is a kid we’re lucky to get, he had four or five bigger offers through the Spring,” Hill said. “We got him on a trip … It was the Wichita State [men’s] basketball game. I called him up at halftime and he came to my office and committed right there.”

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Salukis get swept in season series with Shockers SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

Behind their worst shooting performance of the season, the Salukis are now four games back in the Missouri Valley Conference race after losing Wednesday to the Wichita State Shockers, 76-55.

The loss gives the Shockers (17-5, 11-0 MVC) a sweep of the season series and five straight wins over SIU (18-6, 7-4 MVC).

With the win, Shocker coach Gregg Marshall helped secure the 1,500th win in program history and also became the winningest coach in program history.

SIU shot 30.6 percent in the game and 25 percent in the second half. Both of those stats rank as the Salukis’ worst performance of the season.

Outside of redshirt freshman forward Austin Weiher’s 4-4 shooting, no Saluki shot better than 50 percent in the game.

Conversely, Wichita State shot 48.1 percent. The Shockers had three players with double-digit performances and two others — senior guard Ron Baker and sophomore forward Zach Brown — had nine.

Shocker senior guard Fred VanVleet, an Oscar Robertson Award watchlist member,

recorded his first double-double of the year with 12 points and 11 assists.

Sophomore forward Shaquille Morris (13 points) and senior forward Anton Grady (10) were the other double-digit scorers.

Senior guard Anthony Beane led the Salukis with 20 points, but needed 17 shots.

He moved up to fifth place in the SIU all-time career scoring list, passing Darren Brooks.

No other Salukis had more than eight points in the contest.

SIU’s second and third-leading scorers, junior forward Sean O’Brien and junior guard Leo Vincent, scored just two points on combined 1-13 shooting.

The duo came into the contest averaging 21.7 points combined per game.

Junior center Bola Olaniyan registered a career-high 16 rebounds with 7 points.

This is SIU’s third straight loss and with Evansville’s loss to UNI on Wednesday, the Salukis are now in a four-way tie with Evansville, Indiana State and Illinois State for second place in the MVC. Sean Carley can be reached at scarley@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

L UKE N OZIKA | D AILY E GYPTIAN SIU senior guard Anthony Beane attempts a 3-pointer Jan. 9 during SIU’s 83-58 loss to Wichita State.

Saluki football announces 2016 recruiting class

A UTUMN S UYKO | D AILY E GYPTIAN Coach Nick Hill shares a warm greeting with his grandparents, Gene and Marion Showalter of Du Quoin, after his announcement of SIU’s 2016 football signees Wednesday at Saluki Stadium.

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SIU football finished the 2016 National Signing Day with 18 commitments for coach Nick Hill’s first roster as a head coach.

The Salukis welcomed 11 players from Illinois, the most of any state. The team had seven in-state recruits last year.

“It’s a day that myself, as well as the staff, will always remember as our first signing class,” Hill said. “It felt like Christmas morning.”

QUARTERBACK

Jhakari Harrison combined for more than 100 throwing and rushing touchdowns in his Coconut Creek High School career and set a county record with eight touchdown passes in the final game of his career.

Coach’s Take: “I’ve been recruiting Jhakari for a long time, and we’re lucky to get him,” Hill said. “I was down in the Spring time watching about 30 south Florida teams and he put on a show. I went to Detroit to see him workout at another camp. He and his dad came in on an unofficial visit.”

RUNNING BACK Clay Rendleman ran for 2,490 yards and 36 touchdowns in his career and was All-State and academic All-State twice at Murphysboro High School.

Coach’s Take: “He comes to every camp we have,” Hill said. “He’s the strongest kid in southern Illinois … He wanted to be a Saluki.”

KICKER/PUNTER Nico Gualdoni averaged 41.6 yards per punt and also played running back and linebacker AT Johnston City High School. In a 26-14 win against Fairfield in the playoffs, Gualdoni accounted for all his team’s points as he rushed for three touchdowns, made two field goals and a point after attempt.

Coach’s Take: “He’ll compete for our kickoff spot probably, and that’s exciting,” Hill said. “He’ll have to come and earn it but he’s got the ability to do it. He can put it in the end zone consistently.”

DEFENSIVE LINEMAN Jordan Berner was All-State his senior year at Chester High School and was named conference Player of the Year the last two seasons. He had 310 tackles and nine interceptions.

Coach’s Take: “He’s done it all for Chester … he’d line up at quarterback and middle linebacker and he’s got almost 1,000 receiving yards in his career,” Hill said.

“He’s been coming to camps here since he was a sophomore, so we’ve been recruiting him a long time. Physically, he’s probably ready to play right now.”

ZeVeyon Furcron, a Crest Hill native who attended Joliet Catholic High School, was named an All-State special mention honoree by the Chicago Tribune as a senior.

Coach’s Take: “We want to get guys who are used to winning,” Hill said. “He is super

athletic for 310 pounds. He is as strong as probably anyone on the team right now. He’ll compete to play as a freshman.”

Malik Haynes was named first-team AllConference by the Chicago Sun-Times as he led Al Raby High School to its first playoff win in school history. The Chicago native recorded 90 tackles, 20 tackles for a loss, five sacks, two blocked punts and two defensive touchdowns.

Coach’s Take: “He plays a little bit of linebacker at 300 pounds, he’s an athlete,” Hill said. “There will be a lot of teams wishing they would have gone after Malik.”

Blake Parzych was academic All-State as a senior at Minooka High School and was invited to play in the Blue-Grey AllAmerican Bowl. He recorded 45 tackles for a loss and 16.5 sacks in his last two seasons.

Coach’s Take: “He committed to us before I got the job and he stuck with us,” Hill said.

OFFENSIVE LINE Matt Chmielewski was part of a Lockport High School offensive line that blocked for a team total of more than 1,000 rushing yards, and he finished as an honorable mention AllState selection in his senior season.

Coach’s Take: “He was one of the nine kids who committed before I got the job,” Hill said. “He is rated as one of the top-10 offensive linemen in the state of Illinois.

He could probably play guard or tackle.”

Hayden LaPointe was a captain of the DeKalb High School team that advanced to the 6A quarterfinals this season, the longest playoff run for the school in 35 years. Last year the Barbs won the program’s first conference title since 1989.

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