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Jerry's Flower Shoppe Pg. 8

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Big Muddy film festival pg. 3 | Board of Trustees pg. 5 | Baseball pg. 15

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Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Deann McKinnies, of Carbondale, arranges flowers in preparation of Valentines Day Monday at Jerry’s Flowers Shoppe in Carbondale. McKinnies has been working at Jerry's since high school.

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Big Muddy Film Festival celebrates 40th anniversary KITT FRESA | @kittfresa

For the 40th year, the Big Muddy Film Festival will showcase films from all over the world for the public to enjoy for free.

From Feb. 19 until Feb. 25, the festival will show 73 films throughout the campus and Carbondale community with genre specific venues located across Carbondale.

Some of the categories being shown are "Saturday Morning Cartoons", "Female Empowerment Showcase", and "It Came From The Big Muddy", which is part of the horror genre.

Viewers can attend the different venues depending on what genre of movies they would like to see, said Big Muddy Vice President Kennedy Joseph.

“It’s kind of just determinate on what you want to see and where you want to go because we have something for everyone,” Joseph said.

Big Muddy has 18 members who are split up into three committees. The Big Muddy film crew said anyone is welcome to join the organization whether enrolled at SIU or not.

“We encourage everyone from every major to come because you play a big part in just helping out," President of Big Muddy, Kelechi Agwuncha said. "It’s a collective thing where we decide and critique. You learn so much just from how the process works and seeing it all come through with the festival is just incredible.”

For it’s 40th anniversary, Big Muddy will be celebrating all the past films and filmmakers featured in the festival.

A big part of the festival is the John Michaels award. John Michaels was a Big Muddy crew member and SIU alumnus.

After Michael’s death, the Big Muddy Festival added an award category in his name to memorialize Michael's cinema style that focuses on creating inspiring stories about struggles for social justice, locally and in the world, Agwuncha said.

A special committee decides what film receives the award along with the

"We all come together as this super passionate group of cinema students and we get to watch all these films and debate the cinematics and decide what we want to present at our festival. This is all about our choices, the power is for us" - Aster Arseneau Personal Relations Chair of Big Muddy

runners-up.

The Personal Relations Chair of Big Muddy, Aster Arseneau, said her favorite part of the process is selecting the films for the film festival.

“We all come together as this super passionate group of cinema students and we get to watch all these films and debate the cinematics and decide what we want to present at our festival," Arseneau said.

"This is all about our choices, the power is for us."

The festival has three guests called jurors who were selected to give talks and judge the winners of the experimental, documentary, animation and narrative categories.

The jurors this year are Tom Ludwig, Ben Kalina and Akosua Adoma Owusu.

Tom Ludwig is an award-winning filmmaker and arts educator from Kalamazoo, Mich. according to the film festival’s website. He has taught film interpretation at Western Michigan University and film and video production for Education for the Arts.

Ludwig is an SIU alumnus who graduated in 1981 with an masters in film production.

He’s worked on feature films, commercials, and promotional videos as a director of photography, editor, screenwriter, director and producer in cities such as Detroit, Chicago, and Hollywood, according to the film festival’s website.

Ben Kalina is probably best known right now for overseeing production on Netflix’s new comedy series, "Big Mouth".

According to the film festival’s website, Kalina is also the Chief Operating Officer and Supervising Producer of Titmouse Animation where he is in charge of overseeing production and development across its three studios.

Before Titmouse, Kaline worked in production at Warner Bros. Animation & VFX. There he helped the studio transition from traditional paper animation to a digital workflow.

Akosua Adoma Owusu has been working as a filmmaker, producer and cinematographer since 2005.

Her films have screened worldwide from outstanding film festivals to museums, galleries, universities and micro-cinemas.

A few of the exhibitions Owusu has been featured in include New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum and Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

A schedule for the entire festival can be found at bigmuddyfilm.com.

Big Muddy is currently looking for volunteers to help run the festival this week. If you would like to volunteer go to the festival’s website for more information.

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Board of Trustees raises tuition two percent, attendees express concern and frustration over reorganization ATHENA CHRYSANTHOU @CHRYSANT1ATHENA AND REAGAN GAVIN | @RGAVIN_DE

Following a heated discussion in regards to concerns over the stability and future of SIU and its restructuring, the Board of Trustees approved a two percent tuition raise, Thursday.

Tuition The tuition increase will only affect incoming students, as previous classes are locked in to rates when they first enroll. The proposed increase would have fall 2018 undergraduate students paying $9,637.50 and graduate students paying $11,268 for a year of tuition.

The board also passed to have one general uncapped on-campus student fee of $117 per credit hour.

Student trustee Sam Beard expressed concerns over uncapping student fees and increasing tuition.

“Year after year after year we raise the price of attendance to the university without actually increasing the quality of the education and student life,” Beard said. “By uncapping all of these fees, students who are taking 15 or 18 credit hours will now have to pay even more in fees to the university than if they were capped at 12.”

The Q&A session Due to a larger amount of attendees who wished to comment after the meetings, their time was limited to two minutes to speak to the board.

Faculty Senate President Kathleen Chwalisz commented on the reorganization process and her belief it will be better for programs.

“We simply have too many departments to support as independent academic units at this time. We don’t have the money, faculty lines and staff positions to support departments in the way they need to be supported to thrive,” Chwalisz said. “Schools

Reagan Gavin | @RGavin_DE SIU President Randy Dunn listens to committee reports during the SIU Board of Trustees meeting Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, in the conference center at SIUE.

save programs, schools have been designed in an elegant manner, right now there are several departments that are not able to cover their own costs in budget.”

Chwalisz said she believes the reorganization provides an unprecedented opportunity for shared governance as faculty have been given a basic framework and are in charge of envisioning what the school will look like, but noted some faculty have chosen not to

participate.

Faculty Association President Dave Johnson said the debate of SIU boils down to trust and whether the chancellor can be trusted at this time.

“Universities however can not be run on trust alone,” Johnson said.

“We now know that in the midst of our current crisis Montemagno insisted on SIUC providing jobs for his daughter and son-in-law who lacked any formal qualifications for these jobs.”

Johnson said students, faculty and staff have lost trust in Montemagno and ultimately, only they can rebuild this university.

“We have our work cut out for us, but let us do our work,” Johnson said.

Representative of the Graduate Assistants Union Lauran Schafer spoke of the chancellor creating a “culture of intimidation at SIUC.” Shafer said she is concerned about the administration's disregard for shared governance and advised

the board to “keep an eye” on the constituency bodies who voted to oppose the universal elimination of departments.

“While I understand, you may all enjoy the cordial, comfortable and respectful demeanor from the chancellor, I think it’s important that you know that it is not the man we all experience when you are not present,” Shafer said.

Graduate and Professional Student Council President Jonathan Flowers

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 spoke to the board in regards to GPSC’s 23-1 vote of no confidence in chancellor Montemagno, which passed Tuesday.

When asked his position on this, Montemagno responded, “I don’t have any real response. I’m disappointed that they would take that position, and I look forward to continuing to work with them.”

Flowers said by passing this vote of no confidence, GPSC is “making clear that it has no confidence in the ability for the chancellor to successfully execute the duties of the office of the chancellor.”

He said GPSC has attempted to make the board and the administration aware of the concerns leading to the vote through a letter of complaint and censure last semester.

“To be clear, the face of threats to our faculty, our department and our institution, the Graduate and Professional Student Council will not yield, not to this chancellor, not to this board, not now and not ever,” Flowers said.

Associate history professor Natasha Zaretsky spoke to the board and expressed her concerns.

“I am here today to ask for your stewardship,” Zaretsky told the board.

“The chancellor's restructuring plan for our campus is in deep crisis, and the community is looking to you for your leadership.”

Zaretsky told the board the faculty senate, the graduate council and USG passed resolutions by “considerable margins” opposing reorganization.

“These votes don’t lie,” Zaretsky

said.“This crisis is happening because in this haste, the chancellor did not take the time to go trust in our campus and learn about our strengths as well as our challenges and now an ethics investigation has eroded trust further.”

Speaking after the meeting, Montemagno said comments made during the Q&A session about a culture of intimidation at SIU were inconsistent.

“I treat our faculty with respect; I treat everybody with respect,” Montemagno said. “I am not rude, I’m not abrasive, and those statements, I think, are not reflective of the actual truth of the matter.”

In regards to the progress of the reorganization, Montemagno said it’s “progressing very well.”

“The number of schools that are proceeding is large, the number of institutions that have voted to extend the consultative period to 30 days is only three out of the 20 schools,” Montemagno said. “People are engaged, people are working hard on it. This has been a very collaborative and deliberative process.”

The next Board of Trustees meeting is set for Thursday, April 12, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Editor-in-chief Athena Chrysanthou can be reached at achrysanthou@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @ Chrysant1Athena.

Managing Editor Reagan Gavin can be reached at rgavin@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @RGavin_DE.

“We simply have too many departments to support as independent academic units at this time. We don’t have the money, faculty lines and staff positions to support departments in the way they need to be supported to thrive,” -Kathleen Chwalisz Faculty Senate President

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#MeToo revelations have made workplace romances complicated for employers ALLY MAROTTI | @Chicago Tribune

These days, office romances are full of paperwork. Dating colleagues has always been laced with the forbidden, be it by company policy or social taboo.

But as more women come forward with stories of sexual harassment in the workplace, often at the hands of men at higher pay grades, the conversation about the subject is shifting.

Companies have changed the way they approach the often inevitable workplace romance since the #MeToo movement caught fire last fall on social media.

Some have turned to so-called love contracts, which newly dating coworkers sign to assure their boss that everything is consensual. Employees laugh at them, but they're an employer's way of reducing risk should the relationship sour.

"It's changing everyone's perspectives," said Andrew Challenger, vice president of outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, which released a survey on workplace romance this month. "(It used to be) laissezfaire, people can date who they want to date, but I think companies are realizing to create a safe environment for the employees, there needs to be some policing."

It's a delicate balance to strike, though, and banning relationships isn't always the answer, Challenger said.

When co-workers spend more waking hours at the office than at home, romances are bound to blossom. But some are also destined to fail.

Of the 150 human resource executives Challenger, Gray & Christmas surveyed in January, more than 60 percent said they've had to deal with a failed or inappropriate

relationship at work. One-third ended in at least one person's separation from the company.

Cafe Marie-Jeanne in the Humboldt Park neighborhood is fortunate, co-owner Mike Simmons said. He and his wife, coowner Valerie Szafranski, haven't had to deal with any co-worker relationships that have gone wrong since opening the restaurant in January 2016.

The cafe has "a very hard-line 'no' policy" regarding harassment of any type — among co-workers and from guests.

Simmons wants to believe that everyone respects each other all the time, but he said he knows there are moments that aren't on his or Szafranski's radar. They have tried to keep a conversation regarding the #MeToo movement going with their employees over the past several months. It helps that workers know where they stand, and they can learn about where the employees stand, Simmons said.

"We also feel like it's a way to counter, just in our little corner of the city and of the business, this type of toxic behavior that's starting to come to light," he said.

The #MeToo revelations caused nearly 35 percent of respondents to the Challenger survey to review their sexual harassment policies.

Besides the increasing inquiries regarding love contracts -- also called consensual romance in the workplace agreements -Sharon Sellers, president of South Carolina-based consulting firm SLS Consulting, said she has considered ways to alter her training to focus more on dignity and respect in the workplace. It's important that everyone thinks that they can

speak up about an employee being mistreated, Sellers said.

Banning relationships doesn't work in building a healthy environment, said Jeana Anderson Cohen, founder and CEO of Chicago-based fitness blog aSweatLife. She dated a co-worker at a restaurant where she worked in college, and it didn't end so well. "I left," she said.

The restaurant forbade its workers to date, so of course they all dated anyway, just in secret, Anderson Cohen said.

"There was a breakdown in teamwork and communication, and that's the worst scenario," she said.

"You have to be able to trust each other in any workplace."

Last year, Anderson Cohen launched a technology company with her husband called SweatWorking.

Its app connects people to trainers and workouts. With only five fulltime employees, the company doesn't have a set policy on dating co-workers, Anderson Cohen said, but the discussion stemming from the #MeToo movement has her brainstorming. If co-workers are in a relationship, disclosing it can help the employer take care of anything improper before it happens, such as a romance where power dynamics are at play, she said.

Some companies share that concern. Seven out of 10 respondents to the Challenger survey do not allow relationships between a manager and a direct report.

"The power imbalance is a dynamic that happens in relationships regardless, and then you add pay and performance on top of it, it's just I think too much for any human being to handle," Anderson Cohen said. "Someone's going to take advantage of it."

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Local art gallery hosts monthly music and lunch series JEREMY BROWN | @JeremyBrown_DE gone to the Artspace before,” Cutting

Two local musicians are performing music in Artspace 304 on Feb. 15 at noon as part of a monthly series titled Sandwiches and Strings.

Sandwiches and Strings is a concert series hosted by Carbondale Community Arts in Artspace 304, a visual and media performance art gallery.

People are encouraged to bring lunch and eat while listening to musicians perform and examining the art gallery as well. The events are free and open to the public.

Skip Cutting, a classical guitarist, is one of the co-creators of Sandwiches and Strings. He said the concept of the performance series is to showcase Artspace 304, as well as the musicians themselves.

“It’s to bring people who may not have

said. “They come during lunch time and listen to some nice music, and view the art at the same time.”

For February’s event, two performers, one violist and one violinist, will perform more than 10 pieces, according to the event program.

Felicia Kruse Alexander, the violist, will start the event with a selection of movements from J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 3 in C Major.

Alexander plays viola in the Southern Illinois Symphony, the Southern Illinois Civic Orchestra, and The Blue Suedes String Quartet, according to the event biographies.

Augustin Zehnder, the violinist, will join in for the remainder of the performances, according to the event program.

Zehnder plays first violin with the

Southern Illinois Symphony Orchestra, and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in violin performance at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, according to the event biographies.

Lisa Janssen, Carbondale Community Arts’ Executive Director, said that every month’s performances feature string instruments, but the series isn’t bound to a particular genre.

“We’ve had a fairly diverse but all acoustic series,” Janssen said. “We’ve had a folk guitarist, and a harpist accompanied by a violinist.”

Ken Wollberg, also co-creator of Sandwiches and Strings, is also the founder of Heart Strings violin studio.

Many of his violin students perform for Sandwiches and Strings events, in duets with him.

Wollberg said he teaches approximately 40 students. He uses Sandwiches and

Strings as a way for them to grow in their talents and practice performing.

“It’s something practical,” Wollberg said. “It’s good to have a place to perform, to actually do something in the real world. I like to get [students] ready for that. It’s one of the ways to motivate them, to have a goal to work towards.”

All performers of Sandwiches and Strings play without pay, Cutting said, and instead volunteer to perform.

Cutting said the performances are good for the artists because they may not get similar performing opportunities in the future.

“This gives them a chance to play in a solo, duet, or small group setting,” Cutting said. “A lot of string players do not get that opportunity. They end up in orchestras or large group settings.”

Janssen said the series is a great way to marry visual and performing

arts together.

“It’s been a really diverse experience so far,” Janssen said. “It’s thrilling to see all the different types of musicians performing in a venue that’s a little outside the typical performance venue.

It’s a real pleasure to host the series in our space.”

Sandwiches and Strings is a monthly series, showing on every third Thursday of the month at Artspace 304 W. Walnut St. It is free and open to the public.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their own lunches, but not required.

“People who come in seem very appreciative,” Wollberg said. “It’s a good match, that we have something to offer, and they like to hear it.”

Staff writer Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @JeremyBrown_DE.

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Jerry's Flower Boutique on Monday at Jerry’s Flowers in Carbondale.

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Jerry Brooks, owner of Jerry's Flowers Shoppe, ties a bow for a floral arrangement Monday at Jerry’s Flowers in Carbondale.

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Jerry Brooks, owner of Jerry's Flowers Shoppe, works on an arrangement Monday at h the past 54 years.

Local flower shop serves communit AMELIA BLAKELY | @AmeilaBlakely

For 53-years, southern Illinois residents have been coming into Jerry’s Flower Shoppe to buy flowers and gifts for Valentine’s Day. At 20-years-old Jerry Brooks opened the flower shop in 1964 at the Campus Shopping Center at 216 W. Freeman St. It has not moved since.

Brooks said even though the flower business has changed over the years with different occasions and

holidays, Valentine’s Day is still a busy holiday season for the shop.

The flower shop has survived over the years by being one of the only store-front flower shops that focus on arranging individual flower arrangements.

“We have people from all over southern Illinois that come in,” Brooks said. “It’s something they could do where they are, and it’s a compliment when they want us to handle it for them. We’re always happy to do that.”

Deann Mickinnies, an employee

of the flower shop said Jerry’s Flower Shoppe offers both customer service and quality.

Mickinnies first began working at the flower shop when she was 15 and after high school continued to work in flower shops in St. Louis Missouri, before coming back to southern Illinois.

When when her daughter was 15, Mickinnies came back to Jerry's and started working where her career began.

Mickinnies has been in the flower shop business for 47-years and said giving

flowers on Valentine’s Day is a tradition more than anything.

“People expect to get flowers,” Mickinnies said.

When it comes to the meaning of flowers, Brooks said roses are the symbol for love and ironically sometimes when customers order a flower arrangement for Valentine’s Day, they specifically ask for no roses in it.

“Others are quite the opposite, they want it to be about love and such,” Brooks said.

For Valentine’s Day, roses are the number one flower order. Brooks said colors like pink, white, and red are very popular during the season.

Since the shop has been open Brooks said customers are much more aware of what types of flowers they want than they use to be. He said the business gets a mixture of requests, some being very specific and others very general.

Mickinnies said once the internet was created customers began ordering specific flower arrangements from

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Front: Jerry Brooks and Deann McKinnies, both of Carbondale and Robert Wallis, of Marion, smile for a portrait Monday at Jerry’s Flowers Shoppe in Carbondale.

Brooks has been operating the shop for the past 54 years.

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A floral arrangement is shown Monday at Jerry’s Flowers Shoppe in Carbondale.

Roses, lilies and wildflower arrangements are some of the most popular among customers, according to owner Jerry Brooks.

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz his shop in Carbondale. Brooks has been creating floral arrangements in Carbondale for

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ty on Valentine's Day for 53 years online catalogs that Brooks and she would have to make.

“We have become picture-pokers,” Mickinnies said. “We don't get to use our creativity as much we’d like to.”

The specific flower arrangements that customer’s order can vary with color or type of flower, but the overall arrangements have to look as similar to the arrangement of flowers the customer ordered, Mickinnies said.

Although majority of customers order through the internet or the phone, the

flower shop continues to have customers that order the old-way by coming into the store and ordering in person.

During the holiday season, Brooks said business increases by 300 percent.

Sometimes Brooks and Mickinnies have to turn customers away because there aren’t enough people to make and sell the arrangements.

“We’re all older and there aren’t as many of us as there used to be,” Brooks said. “The demand is so overwhelming on holidays that we

can’t handle the volume.”

However business is only booming during the main holidays such as Valentine’s Day, Christmas, and Easter. Military balls and dances are occasions that used to exist a few decades ago and don’t anymore Brooks said.

“The holidays have changed,” Brooks said.” Easter and Mother’s Day we’re still busy but not like it once was. On Easter, we would stay down here all night making

table centerpieces for people’s easter Sunday dinner.”

Comparing Valentine’s Day now to a couple decades ago, Mickinnies said the demand for flowers has decreased.

She said this is because people would rather quickly grab flowers at Kroger or Schnucks because it’s convenient with people’s busy schedules.

Even after the years of owning a flower shop and the countless

Valentine's Days, Brooks said he has never gotten tired of flowers.

“The flowers are fresh, fragrant and pretty when they come in,” Brooks said.

On Valentine's Day, Mickinnies said giving flowers is a tradition more than anything.

“People expect to get flowers,” Mickinnies said.

Campus editor Amelia Blakely can be reached at ablakely@dailyegyptian.

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Letter to the Editor: GPSC will not yield to Montemagno's abuse of administrative authority JOHNATHAN FLOWERS GPSC PRESIDENT

Last Tuesday, the Graduate and Professional Student Council, GPSC, voted no confidence in Chancellor Montemagno.

As President of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, I owe the campus community an explanation for this action.

Though we have significant concerns about the reorganization and the Vision 2025 plan, the vote of no confidence is strictly related to the chancellor’s continued violation of Board of Trustees and university policy where the inclusion of student input in administration is concerned.

GPSC recognizes the need for reorganization done correctly and not hastily.

We believe that reorganization should account for the institutional context and climate of the University.

We believe that reorganization should be developed through communication with all recognized governing bodies (including those that represent students) and systemic, evidence guided, internal and external research.

However, the administration has not reached out to or solicited feedback from student constituency bodies and provided insufficient evidence for their proposed reorganization, specifically where student outcomes are concerned.

Where the chancellor has provided evidence, he has done so by appealing to two pieces of internally generated research to support his reorganization: the 2012 Program Review Committee

(PRC) report, which established metrics for programmatic review and reorganization; and, the 2013 Complimentary Program and Academic Efficiencies Task Force report, which developed recommendations for reorganization through application of the PRC metrics, as well as faculty surveys, focus groups, and comparisons between similar institutions.

According to the 2013 report, which provides recommendations for reorganization, “the wisest procedure for ensuring significant change requires engagement from faculty and staff with leadership from Deans and the Provost. The scholarly literature, such as Peter Eckel’s study of consolidation and merge, indicates that the most successful efforts occur in substantive consultation with the affected programs.” By imposing a reorganization and consulting with the campus community after the fact, the chancellor circumvents “the wisest procedure” as recommended by the very report he has cited.

To be fair to the chancellor, he has subsequently held 68 meetings with affected groups, including Faculty Senate, A/P Staff Council, and the Civil Service Council to receive input on his proposed reorganization.

GPSC has yet to be invited to a single meeting. By excluding GPSC from the 68 meetings held concerning his Vision 2025 plan and academic reorganization, Chancellor Montemagno has actively obstructed graduate and professional student participation in institutional planning and administration as is our right under Board of Trustees and university

(Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz GPSC president Jonathan Flowers, of Oak Park, poses for a portrait Aug. 20, 2017, at the Daily Egyptian photography studio.

policy.

Allow me to be absolutely clear: GPSC is the second largest constituency body on this campus, representing over two thousand students across the breadth of SIU’s graduate and professional degree programs.

We are the official organization under Board of Trustees policy 3.f.3

designated to represent graduate and professional students in institutional planning and administration, most directly through our five voting representatives on the Graduate Council, as well as through participation on university-wide committees.

Institutional planning and administration includes

the chancellor’s proposed reorganization. And we have yet to be solicited for participation by the chancellor or his designees in any meeting concerning Vision 2025 or the proposed reorganization.

Further, Board of Trustees Statues 3.6 mandates that the chancellor of the University receive advice and encouragement from GPSC

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 concerning issues not appropriate for delegation to constituency bodies under shared governance policies. By not soliciting GPSC input either through myself as president of GPSC, or including GPSC in any one of the 68 meetings he held concerning his Vision 2025 plan and academic reorganization, I contend that the chancellor is in violation of Statutes 3.6.

Therefore, despite claiming that “students are at the center of everything we do,” and that SIU allows students to develop real world leadership skills by “letting our students lead the way,” the chancellor has displayed a history of obstructing student leadership, specifically graduate student leadership, on every front since his arrival on campus. In so doing, the chancellor has consistently violated university policy, Board of Trustees policy, and Board of Trustees statutes in his drive to “revitalize” SIU. I fully expect the chancellor to point to GPSC participation in Graduate Council and in Constituency Heads meetings as evidence for his “working with” GPSC. However, this is the minimum basic requirements of the Office of the Chancellor where student constituencies are concerned. Other constituency groups, most notably the A/P Staff Council, the Civil Service Council, and the Faculty Senate, have enjoyed expanded cooperation with the chancellor, as evidenced by their participation in the 68 meetings that the chancellor has held with constituency groups except for GPSC. The only meeting that the Graduate and Professional Student Council has had with Chancellor Montemagno was Aug. 17 in a 30 minute lunch meeting, which was also attended by the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) president. During this lunch meeting, the chancellor expressed a commitment to working with the student constituency bodies to address issues with diversity and

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I believe that by taking a stand against the chancellor’s continued abuse of his authority, GPSC can inspire others to do so without fear. graduate student funding.

Following this lunch meeting, I requested additional monthly meetings outside of the chancellor’s regularly scheduled Constituency Heads meetings to discuss the concerns of the graduate and professional student body. The chancellor’s Administrative Associate, Julie McDannel, informed that the chancellor would be unable to accommodate monthly meetings, but that he was willing to commit to two meetings per semester. Contrary to this agreement, I was later informed in a phone conversation with McDannel that the chancellor had rescinded his offer to meet and that I should direct all communication to the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Lori Stettler.

The President of USG and I additionally requested that the chancellor attend a joint USG/ GPSC Town Hall to communicate directly to students. While the initial proposed date was rejected by the Chancellor’s office, four additional dates were offered through McDannel. After selecting one of the dates, we were told that the chancellor would have an open forum with the entire university following his University Address in place of a meeting with the student bodies. When asked, the Chancellor’s office refused to offer an explanation for why he would not meet specifically with students. For a full account of the communications regarding these issues I have provided the text of these emails.

Because GPSC has been denied access to conversations with the chancellor and because he has only solicited feedback from faculty, administrators,

and civil service employees, GPSC has collected comprehensive responses to the proposed reorganization and the Vision 2025 from their constituents, which can be found on GPSC’s website.

I submitted these responses directly to the chancellor and the two Co-Provosts. Yet, none of the concerns from the comprehensive response were included in subsequent revisions of the Vision 2025 FAQ, the Academic Reorganization proposal, or in conversations with the university community, despite assurance from McDannel that the feedback would be taken into consideration.

Further, the chancellor’s conduct during the October 5th and November 2nd Graduate Council meetings, documented in our Letter of Complaint, represents an example of the chancellor’s abusive treatment of GPSC representatives in public meetings.

The chancellor not only interrupted GPSC representatives by shouting over them as they sought to ask questions specific to the welfare of graduate and professional students as is their responsibility, but refused to answer those questions that made clear the harmful effects of the Vision 2025 and proposed academic reorganizations on the graduate education mission of the university.

Although the chancellor has been generally hostile towards GPSC representatives, he has directed most of his abusive conduct towards underrepresented students.

The chancellor’s conduct led one GPSC representative to demand that the chancellor “treat her with the same respect (he) showed (her) male counterparts,” which is a matter of record in the Graduate Council minutes. The chancellor’s behavior is an overall pattern of intimidation and

the position that COLA Council was to be cut out of the review process.

While DiLalla subsequently conceded to COLA Council’s involvement in the program review process, he did not indicate whether the governance bodies of all other colleges at the University will be granted similar rights. When asked about this matter via e-mail, the CoProvost did not respond.

Given the chancellor’s desire for expedience and general disregard of appropriate policy, specifically policy that ensures participation in shared governance, we have reason to believe these colleges will not be informed of their rights based on the precedent established by DiLalla’s recognition of COLA Council.

While the numerous violations of policy form the material basis for GPSC’s vote of no confidence, the vote itself should also be read as a response to David Johnson’s statement, published in the Daily Egyptian, that, among the faculty “many are afraid to speak up or have resigned themselves to the belief that nothing can be done.”

I do not believe that that nothing can be done. I believe that it is GPSC’s responsibility, its obligation, to the graduate and professional student body to ensure that it does everything in its power to ensure that our voices are heard, to ensure that we are full participants in not only the organization of our institution, but the future of our education. I believe that by taking a stand against the chancellor’s continued abuse of his authority, GPSC can inspire others to do so without fear.

Therefore, in response to his violations of Board of Trustees Policies, university policies, and his deliberate disregard for the concerns of the graduate and professional students he claims to serve, the Graduate and Professional Student Council has voted no confidence in Chancellor Carlo Montemagno.

hostility, and is worth noting, since one of his first acts on campus was to cancel the search for the Coordinator of Diversity and Inclusivity Fellowships at the graduate school.

Directly following this meeting, the provost’s office proposed monthly meetings with GPSC officers to address concerns with the reorganization. The Co-Provost, David DiLalla, stated justification for these meetings was his awareness of a “communications breakdown” between the chancellor and GPSC. GPSC representatives have also borne witness to similar treatment of the Dean of the Graduate School, YuehTing Lee, who was recently stripped of his administrative authority because of his opposition to the chancellor’s plans where Graduate Education was concerned. This stripping of Dean Lee’s authority prompted GPSC’s recent Censure and Letter of Complaint and is one of the most visible examples of the chancellor’s willingness to exact retribution upon faculty and administrators who defy him.

While all of the above offers context for our stance, the intention of the administration to override the authority of college governance bodies, specifically the COLA Council, triggered our decision to motion for a vote of no confidence. In response to the Daily Egyptian’s report of the GPSC meeting where the vote was taken, Co-Provost DiLalla reached out to me to explain that my rendition of the events, as reported by the Daily Egyptian was “categorically false.” However, as the GPSC meeting minutes for our Feb. 6 meeting show, I did explain that the Co-Provost eventually granted COLA Johnathan Flowers. Ph.D Candidate, the authority to review program change Department of Philosophy, and president proposals. of the Graduate and Professional It is important to note, though, Student Council can be reached at j. that the administration initially held charlesflowers@gmail.com.

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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

'Anything is possible,' A look into Saluki baseball with fresh faces DILLON GILILAND | @DillonGilliland

With the softball season underway, it is time to take a look at the upcoming baseball season.

In the 2015 season, the Salukis posted one of their worst finishes in recent years, as they finished in the bottom half of the Missouri Valley Conference with an overall record of 12-46.

The following year, the team improved drastically and finished with almost triple the wins with a 31-25-1 overall record.

Before the 2017 season, Southern was predicted to finish second in the MVC in the preseason polls.

Things did not go according to plan as the team finished fourth in the conference with an overall record of 27-30.

“The expectations were high on us,” head coach Ken Henderson said. “We did not handle that very well.”

The team, however, made it to the MVC tournament but fell short in its journey to a championship, as SIU suffered losses to Wichita State and No. 12 Missouri State.

“People don’t expect Southern Illinois to win it all, but we have a great group of guys here and anything is possible.”

- Michael Baird senior pitcher

Now, in 2018, the preseason polls selected SIU to repeat in fourth place.

Henderson said that preseason polls are based off what players are returning and not on talent that is joining the program.

“For us to be picked to finish fourth in the conference is actually quite generous,” Henderson said. “Because there is so much that is unknown about your team.”

The "unknown" refers to the 14 new players that Southern brought to the program this season.

The Salukis' new players include several freshmen as well as many junior college transfers.

“We do not have very many players returning,” Henderson said. “We’re pretty much a new club.”

Some of the veteran players of the team looked at the fourth-place selection as a chance to prove people wrong.

“We’re always underestimated,” senior pitcher Michael Baird said.

“People don’t expect Southern Illinois to win it all, but we have a great group of guys here and anything is possible.”

With a whole set of new players coming in, fans can expect to see a much faster team than in the previous years.

“We will have a little less experience on the team,” senior infielder Connor Kopach said. “But we will have so much more speed out on the bases.”

In the 2017 season, SIU led the MVC with 100 stolen bases. Kopach led the Salukis with an MVC-best 33 steals.

The team is expecting to surpass the 100 mark in the 2018 season and once again lead the MVC in total bases.

“Our team can fly,” Baird said. “We are a really athletic team and it is so fun to watch them run and just see what the human body can do.”

Coach Henderson said with the many players that the team has

acquired, they will have more depth in the lineup as well as more options.

“Last year we were thin and couldn’t afford injuries,” Henderson said. “We are deep this year. We have outstanding players in every position and we have a better bullpen.”

Henderson said that the new players coming in will get to see many innings and the crowd should expect to see big things from freshmen infielders J.T. Weber and Grey Epps.

“They’re both going to make significant contributions to the team,” Henderson said. “They’re going to be really big players in this program for the next four years.”

Three players from SIU’s roster were selected to the preseason All-MVC team, including Baird, Kopach and senior pitcher Ryan Netemeyer.

The players stated that they do not feel pressured to perform considering that it is just a preseason selection.

“It’s just a title,” Kopach said. “It doesn’t mean anything until we get out there on the field.”

The team will open their season in Oxford, Alabama on Feb. 16 when they take on Jacksonville State in a three-game series. Baird is expected to get the opening start.

The first game is the most important one for coach Henderson, stating that he is just ready for the season to begin.

“We’re going to take it one game at a time,” Henderson said. “But the only game we have even talked about is the one on Friday."

The Salukis will stay on the road for the remainder of February until they return home on March 2 to take on Louisiana Monroe in their first home series.

The team will then continue to play non-conference games both on the road and at home, including a threegame series at Itchy Jones Stadium against the University of Illinois beginning on March 16.

Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko Daily Egyptian file photo

Southern will begin conference play on March 30 when they hit the road to take on Illinois State in a three-game series.

For some Salukis, conference play is the most important part of the season.

“Conference games are always really fun,” Baird said. “You have to love MVC play.”

The team all agreed that they all have only one goal in mind: to win the conference and go to the NCAA tournament.

“The goal is always to win it all,” Henderson said. “That will always be the goal and that is what we are here for.”

With the offseason winding down, the team has shown nothing but excitement to get out on the field and play.

“I love this team,” Henderson said.

“We just want to go out and have fun.”

Sports reporter Dillon Gilliland can be reached on Twitter at @DillonGilliland

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Column: Dawg talk with Dodd NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd

On Valentine's Day, SIU Athletics is playing the role of Cupid when the men's basketball hosts the Missouri State Bears for Tinder Night.

Love will be in the air as students try to connect with one another on the popular mobile app and look for matches throughout the seating sections of SIU Arena.

As strange and offsetting as this may sound, it may actually make a lot of sense to be done at a sporting event. After all, I have drawn the conclusion that sports are a lot like relationships.

Before I get into that, let me preface how I came to this epiphany.

While attending a sports reporting workshop in Nashville, Tennessee, I questioned myself.

Why was I there? Why do sports even matter to so many people?

The answer: sports are romantic.

For me, sports was a first true love. They broke my heart, provided obstacles and proved to be rewarding at the same time.

Sports can send an individual on a roller coaster of emotions throughout a single quarter, game or season.

The unpredictability of competition is what keeps fans tuning in day after day.

In a relationship, one never knows what the next day will bring. That's what makes it worthwhile.

Most people find themselves rooting for one particular team or athlete with no apparent reason other than they were drawn by something that they found special. That special element creates a lifetime passion and connection.

Relationships require both entities to be one another's biggest fans and constantly cheer for each other.

Like many sports teams, if a game is lost, they go back out the next day and try again, looking for ways to improve.

Sports and relationships are continuously evolving and require creative and interesting ways to better the team and increase chemistry within the unit.

Teams and partners suffer through wins, Josie Arnett | @JosieArnett losses, triumph and anguish. No matter

what, the love remains.

It is how they react to those experiences that determine the success and longevity of the bond that is created in a team.

Like sports, relationships require an extensive amount of hard work, time and commitment. You get out what you put in.

A unit must dedicate itself to reach a common goal without dishonesty or cheating. Nobody likes a cheater in sports or in a relationship.

Also, the foundation of a team comes with trust and the ability to know that your teammates have your back and would do anything for you.

So if you have played sports and intend on partaking in the festivities at Wednesday night's game, treat your Tinder match like they are your favorite sports team and you just may have the best Valentine's Day that SIU can provide.

Sports editor Nathan Dodd can be reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com.

Most people find themselves rooting for one particular team or athlete with no apparent reason other than they were drawn by something that they found special. That special element creates a lifetime passion and connection.

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