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'You just don't learn how to do therapy from a book' Proposed budget cuts would close university's Clinical Center MARNIE LEONARD | @marsuzleo

When Sunni Primeaux was growing up, she watched her older brother struggle with schizophrenia. Unable to hold a job due to his symptoms, he was homeless for several months before being accepted into a group home five years ago.

Though seeing him try to cope with the disorder in his dayto-day life was difficult, Primeaux was particularly affected by his trouble finding mental health care.

“They would turn him down because they were full or his symptoms weren’t bad enough,” said Primeaux, a doctoral student studying clinical psychology. “It made me want to be part of this, so I could help someone like him.”

Primeaux scanned a list of college majors when she was a high school senior. Only one stuck out to her: psychology. She is currently one of about 60 graduate students receiving training at SIU’s Clinical Center.

This community and student resource may now be at risk. The Clinical Center is one of 15 centers or initiatives SIU’s non-academic prioritization committee, which was Please see CLINIC | 7

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Emmalie Hall-Skank, a senior from Streamwood studying interior design, gazes up from inside a bamboo forest Sunday during an afternoon hike with members of the Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance at the Marberry Arboretum off Pleasant Hill Road in Carbondale. The group hike was organized by Tara Nelsen, founder of SIPA and a 2002 SIU graduate. “Because [paganism] is a nature-based spiritual practice, for us this is church,” said Nelsen. “Being able to watch this change of the seasons and recognize that this so much a part of human existence, like seriously, this is church. For us, being out in nature is more sacred than any building ever could be.” Although this was SIPA’s first group hike of 2017, Nelsen said she plans to facilitate more group activities in the coming months.

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SIU dance marathon fundraiser to benefit local children's hospitals TYRA WOOTEN | @twootenDE

A nationally celebrated day of charity, dance and musical entertainment is coming to the university in late March.

As a newly-formed registered student organization, SIU Miracle Network Dance Marathon will host its first annual competition at Davies Gymnasium on March 25. All funds raised through the event will be dedicated to a non-profit organization to help children’s hospitals in the Greater St. Louis area.

The event is open to students, faculty, staff and community members from 1 to 8 p.m.

Demeri Adams, director of SIU Dance Marathon, said the event occurs all over the region on various campuses.

“The dance marathon is a major source of fundraising for Children's Miracle Network nationally,” said Adams, a senior from Girard studying early childhood. “We’re joining the movement that started back in 1991.”

Adams said the group started raising awareness in September,

but it wasn't until this semester that they began fundraising. The organization has raised $4,160 of its $15,000 goal as of Monday.

There are 112 participants and 16 teams participating so far.

Registration ends March 15, and participants must raise the minimum goal of $100 prior to the event.

performances — including one from a DJ — games, food, prizes, inflatables and visits from children and families who have been through St. Louis Children's Hospital and SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital.

Adams said she hopes the event will bring a betterment of children in local hospitals.

“It's a bigger sense of community involvement and the way we're giving back to the kids is amazing.”

- Logan Wallace co-director of SIU Dance Marathon

Logan Wallace, co-director of SIU Dance Marathon, said this fundraising is all about the children.

“It's a bigger sense of community involvement and the way we’re giving back to the kids is amazing,” said Wallace, a senior from Homestead, Iowa studying speech communication.

The event will feature live

“This is our time to come together and join forces to do something positive for children and their families,” she said.

Registration information can be found on their Twitter @SIU_DM. Staff writer Tyra Wooten can be reached at twooten@dailyegyptian.com

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Preparing to rally

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Marion Sai, of Carbondale, encourages her 7-month-old son, Matine, as he walks around the table with help from Kathryn Neely, of Carbondale, on Monday during an afternoon of sign making at Gaia House in preparation for the A Day Without Women rally on March 8 in Carbondale. “Civic engagement is a really powerful tool to speak truth to power,” Sai said. “All of this is really critical to the preservation of our rights, the protection of our environment and the health of all people. … I hope that by being exposed to this, [Matine] can be a part of a really positive, proactive group of people. I think his first words will probably be ‘this is what democracy looks like.'” The Carbondale rally takes place at 11 a.m. at the Town Square Pavilion.

Stix to begin '90s night WILL MESCH | @_willmesch_de

Stix Bar & Billiards owners say they plan to replace the local hangout's famed ‘80s night with ‘90s night following spring break.

The business announced March 1 it would discontinue ‘80s night — after 20 years of offering it — for lack of interest among bargoers. A Facebook poll was used to determine the new theme, which was chosen from top picks that included country and electronic dance music.

Greg Knoob, the bar’s owner and a part-time DJ, said the weekly

theme was a well-loved tradition since it began and at one point was one of the bar’s busiest nights. Once an owner of a rival bar, Knoob said he remembered how Stix always stole the crowds on Wednesday and he could never come close to beating its ‘80s night.

“The last 10 years, it’s been an amazing night,” Knoob said, reflecting on what he called a fun era of music.

Noticing a drop off in attendance over the past two years, Knoob attributed the decline in patronage in part to songs being lost among the younger crowd.

“I knew it had to come ,but it was hard to let go of,” he said of the theme.

Knoob said he plans to move ‘80s night to Levels nightclub to become an event once per semester. Saying farewell to its once most popular night of the week, Knoob said, means taking on new changes to keep the patrons happy.

“It was great to see everyone loving ‘80s music one last time,” Knoob said.

Campus reporter Will Mesch can be reached at wmesch@dailyegyptian.com

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Touch of Nature would 'have to double' revenue to match state funding loss MARNIE LEONARD AND LUKE NOZICKA @MARSUZLEO AND @LUKENOZICKA

Among the commotion of children darting through obstacle courses, families eating pancake breakfasts and local blacksmiths putting on demonstrations at Touch of Nature Environmental Center, JD Tanner made sure the festivities ran smoothly.

“Show me a list of universities that have a Touch of Nature and maybe I’ll change my mind, but this is what makes SIU unique,” Tanner, the center’s director, said while gesturing toward those gathered on a recent Saturday for the annual Maple Syrup Festival.

“To me, one of the most important things for a university to do is community outreach.”

Touch of Nature, which sees about 12,000 visitors annually, is one of 15 centers or initiatives SIU’s non-academic prioritization committee suggested could become self supporting with the goal of eliminating state funding by 2022.

This is expected to save the university $5.5 million in five years.

The Daily Egyptian is publishing a series of stories to examine the effect those proposed cuts would have on the university community.

This is the sixth in the series.

The Maple Syrup Festival is one of many community and student programs the environmental center oversees. Others include summer camps, team-building retreats and environmental and adventure education programs. About 80 to 90 university-affiliated groups visit the center’s 3,100 acres each year.

The non-academic prioritization

committee suggested cutting $475,361 of state funding from Touch’s budget, which Tanner said is used for office and groundskeeper staff salaries.

The rest of the center’s budget is made up of the revenue generated each year from rental fees and ticket sales from programs, retreats and weddings held on site. In 2016, this amounted to $510,000.

Tanner said if state funding is cut off, he would have to double what the center made last year in programming revenue. This would be possible, he said, if the budgetary reductions occur gradually over a five-year period.

However, if the environmental center receives cuts more quickly than it can make up for with increased revenue, Tanner said staff positions could be lost, which would lead to fewer available student programs.

“Without those positions, I don’t have anybody to work with the students,” Tanner said. “One person can’t do all that by himself.”

Tanner is the first director interviewed in the Daily Egyptian’s series who said his unit could eventually operate as it does now without state funding. Directors of other centers named in the report, including the Office of Economic and Regional Development and the Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, said they would be unable to operate without it.

Four graduate assistants and about 80 student employees work during the center’s busy season. Students also conduct research, take outdoor recreation classes and work on projects at its facilities.

“The list just goes on and on of student experience opportunities that we provide to the university,” Tanner said. “You’re going to get a lot more out of coming here than just sitting in a classroom all the time.”

Steve Gariepy, who has worked as Touch’s environmental education program coordinator for more than three years, said students who have recently graduated and helped at Touch have gone on to work at the National Park Service and Montana State Parks.

Gariepy said those students have told him they are more skilled than some of their professional colleagues because of their experiences at Touch.

Molly Maxwell, a graduate student studying recreation administration, said she came to the university in 2015 because Touch offered her a graduate assistantship.

She coordinates the environmental education program, which includes overseeing programs, scheduling events and office management. She helps with everything from maple tree tapping to trail building.

“I’ve learned more from my project and my assistantship than I really have in school,” Maxwell said.

“The opportunities we have here for students are endless.”

Before coming to Illinois, Maxwell received her undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University in North Carolina. She said Touch of Nature’s programs and the southern Illinois landscape draw students to SIU. “When I thought of Illinois I thought of cornfields and flat spaces,” she said. “Realizing there

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 were all these opportunities for rock climbing and mountain biking and things was my deciding factor to come here.”

Maxwell said reducing the center's programs would be “really negative” for the SIU students and community members who rely on Touch.

“We give students experiential education,” she said. “Community members send their kids to our summer camps — they expect those things to be there.”

One such summer camp is Camp Little Giant, a therapeutic recreation camp for kids and adults with abilities and disabilities. The camp, where children can enjoy outdoor activities such as campfires, horseback riding and hikes, among others, was the first of its kind created in the country in 1952.

As a way to generate more revenue, Touch is trying to increase the number of weddings it puts on each year, said Lauren Bonner, the environmental center’s wedding and special events coordinator.

She said the center hosts about 10 weddings a year.

Bonner, who started at Touch in March 2014, said she has met some of her best friends at the center.

“It’d be a let down for students,” she said. “Touch of Nature is a really hidden gem and I hope that more people come to know about it.”

In the three years Tanner has been director, Touch of Nature has lost two full-time employees who left for jobs elsewhere. Those positions remain unfilled. The center has increasingly relied on student and community volunteers to help staff events, he said.

With no state funding, Touch of Nature would operate like a business, Tanner said. Its current operational model is part non-profit, part business.

For example, Tanner said the center is happy to break even for happenings like Breaking the Surface, a free bi-annual community paddling event. Under a fullbusiness model, turning a profit would become the focus.

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Camps Edventure summer education camp Camp Little Giant Dawg Days Respite Camp

Volunteering Trail Stewardship days community outreach

Touch of nature programs Events

Eclipse 2017 Maple syrup festival Haunted hollow Rocky ledges run

Facilities

Education Adventure education Therapeutic recreation Environmental Education Outdoor Learning laboratory

Hiking Canoeing/kayaking Rock climbing Lodging Staff retreats Weddings

Reagan Gavin | @RGavin_DE

But before Touch of Nature can operate as a business, Tanner said, the university has to infuse cash into it to repair and update facilities.

“If they help us out, it’s doable,” Tanner said. “We’re going to have to change the way we approach things, but if we have time we’ll make it work.”

As for Gariepy — who initially started helping out at Touch in 2005 and created its Breaking the Surface event — he said one of the best things they do is simply connecting people to nature. He said children who at first don’t want to go on field trips to the environmental center leave saying, “You know, I think

nature is alright and I like it now.”

Environmental education is crucial for the future, Gariepy said, because those children could grow up to become lawyers or judges who make decisions about the environment.

“People don’t think being outside is their thing until they get here,” he said. “The more we can get people in nature, the better off we are going to be as a culture.”

Gariepy, who is one of five family members who collectively hold eight degrees from SIU, said Touch is a historic piece of the university, one he believes most people are unaware of.

The environmental center was created by then-SIU President Delyte Morris and William "Bill" Freeberg — who worked as SIU’s first chairman of the Department of Recreation and Outdoor Education.

At Indiana University, Freeberg was the first student in the nation to complete a doctorate of recreation and later helped establish the National Special Olympics Program.

Touch of Nature, which the National Park Service named a National Environmental Center Landmark in 1972, got its name from the William Shakespeare quote, "One touch of nature makes the whole world kin!"

Gariepy said given recent environmental legislative action taken by President Donald Trump’s administration, “we could be breathing the last clean air and drinking the last clean water.”

“The fight for the environment is a continuous fight,” Gariepy said. “It will always be as important as ever.

We can't get back what we lose.”

Staff writer Marnie Leonard can be reached at mleonard@ dailyegyptian.com Staff writer Luke Nozicka can be reached at lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com

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Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Clinical psychology doctoral candidates Ryan Kimball, of Highland, Utah, right, and Christine Breazeale, of Vicksburg, Mississippi, middle, discuss an assigned reading on progress monitoring with Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology Sarah Kertz on Monday in SIU's Clinical Center.

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appointed by interim Chancellor Brad Colwell, suggested could become self-supporting with the goal of eliminating state funding by 2022. This is expected to save the university $5.5 million in five years.

The Daily Egyptian is publishing a series of stories to examine the effect those proposed cuts would have on the university community.

This is the seventh in the series.

Since July 2015, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democrats who control the state Legislature, including House Speaker Michael Madigan, have failed to come to an agreement on a state spending plan. In light of the state’s historic budget impasse, public universities are considering ways to continue operations with the assumption some funding could be cut permanently.

Two stopgap measures passed through the Legislature in 2016 totaled $83 million in financial support for the SIU system. Those funds, for the most part, were used to pay the bills from the 2016 fiscal year. The university started the 2017 fiscal year “basically back at zero” and is dipping into the reserves once again, SIU President Randy Dunn has said.

These cuts would not be the first

implemented in recent years. The 15 institutions or centers suffered a permanent 10 percent reduction in state funding in fiscal year 2016, according to the committee’s report. Others saw additional cuts in fiscal year 2017.

On Feb. 23, the university released another report that prioritized the initially recommended cuts by the committee. The 15 centers or initiatives that may be slated for dramatic cuts to state funding are still at risk, which could mean a loss of $365,577 for the Clinical Center, according to the first report.

Graduate students in clinical psychology, counselor education and communications disorder rehabilitation are able to provide treatment, assessments and therapy to any community member or student for things like learning disabilities and speech-language and psychological disorders. Last year, the clinic had 5,369 direct client service hours, said Holly Cormier, the center’s director.

Cormier said if that money was gone, the Clinical Center would go with it.

“If we lose state funding, that would be the end of us,” Cormier said. “There’s not much we would be able to do.”

Costs per session for clients — which are currently between $5 and $30 for individual therapy and between $2.50 and $15 for group

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Since most of the amount listed in the report goes toward faculty and staff salaries, Cormier said she would have to start terminating staff lines if state funding is cut.

Every graduate student who trains at the center is overseen by a licensed staff member, Cormier said, which means if staff members were fired, there would be no one to supervise student therapists.

“It’s interesting we’re in this report about non-instructional programs,” she said. “We’re the arms and legs of several different academic programs. If the clinic goes away, these programs are in peril.”

Graduate students in these programs also have to complete an internship in order to graduate.

Students without direct client service hours are not likely to get one, Cormier said.

If the Clinical Center closed, she said students would have to look to private practices to get that experience, where they would be unable to receive the same level of training.

“Those places’ missions are service, not training,” Cormier said. “Students don’t get that corrective feedback they need, because that’s time, that’s energy, those are billable hours.”

Cormier said the center’s closure would also affect the American Psychological Association’s accreditation of the graduate programs that use it.

She said these standards ensure uniform requirements for psychologists-in-training. Without the Clinical Center, students have no resources to get that uniform training.

Christine Breazeale, a doctoral student studying clinical psychology, said she wouldn’t have chosen SIU for graduate school if her program didn’t have APA accreditation or if the Clinical Center wasn’t there.

“It just wouldn’t make me marketable,” Breazeale said. “I wouldn’t be able to get licensed

in the long run, and in the short run, I would be one of the most incompetent therapists around.”

Brezeale said without a Clinical Center, graduate enrollment in the psychology program would probably decline, leaving fewer classes offered for the undergraduate psychology program because there would be fewer teaching assistants to teach them.

In the fall of 2016, there were 406 undergraduates enrolled in the psychology program. Since 2012, psychology and criminal justice have traded off as the top major of choice for undergraduate students, according to university data.

affordable and accessible. We’ve even had people who are homeless coming here.”

Diane Muzio, the center’s coordinator for speech-language services, said the center has long been a recruitment tool for SIU, and its closure would contribute to the university’s already declining enrollment.

“I’ve seen a number of other clinical centers around the Midwest,” Muzio said. “Ours is spacious, it’s comfortable, we have state-of-the-art resources — not every place has that, and students see that when they’re making their choice for graduate schools.”

“This is always the story: The most vulnerable populations get hit the hardest in times of financial crisis.

We're affordable and accessible.

We've even had people who are homeless coming here.”

- Holly Cormier, Clinical Center director

“Psychology is always in the top two highest-enrolled undergraduate programs in liberal arts,” Brezeale said. “Can you imagine the impact this would have on undergrads?”

Primeaux agreed, and said the community would be just as affected by the center’s closure.

“This is a rural, less wealthy area, and there aren’t a lot of providers out there,” Primeaux said. “And if there are, they’re really expensive.

The people we see here just can’t afford them.”

Cormier said those with the lowest incomes are typically the most in need of the counseling and treatment provided by the center.

“This is always the story: The most vulnerable populations get hit the hardest in times of financial crisis,” Cormier said. “We’re

Muzio said the center’s classification as “non-academic” in the report is a mistake.

“The fiscal reality is that SIU does have to do something different,” Muzio said. “But these changes need to be made with accurate information and careful consideration, because if mistakes like this are made, that’s going to be more costly.”

Primeaux said the most rewarding part of her work at the Clinical Center is seeing a patient’s quality of life improve radically after undergoing treatment.

“I don’t know what we would do without the Clinical Center,” Primeaux said. “You just don’t learn how to do therapy from a book.”

Staff writer Marnie Leonard can be reached at mleonard@dailyegyptian.com.

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SIU takes fifth at swim and dive championships

Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Members of the Saluki Swimming and Diving Team cheer on senior Bobby Wood as he competes in the 200-yard breaststroke on day four of the 2017 Mid-American Conference Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship on Saturday at Edward J. Shea Natatorium. Wood finished the contest with a final time of 1:57.13.

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Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Saluki senior Bobby Wood receives a hug from senior Riley Schroedter, a fellow member the Saluki Swimming and Diving Team, after Wood took second place in the 200-yard breaststroke on day four of the 2017 MAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship on Saturday at Edward J. Shea Natatorium. The swimmers met on the team and have been dating for three years.

DENTON GIOVENCO @DentonGiovenco

The 2017 Men’s Mid-American Conference Swimming & Diving Championships came to a close Saturday at Edward J. Shea Natatorium, with SIU taking a fifth place finish in team overall standings.

The overall team championship was decided on the last event of the MAC Championships on Saturday night.

Two-time defending champions Eastern Michigan claimed their third championship in three years with a team overall score of 717 — besting Missouri State by only one team point.

Four Saluki men claimed individual honors — three from the swim team and one from the dive team.

Senior swimmers Andre Brilhante and Filippo Dell’Olio both received AllMAC 1st Team honors.

Brilhante was also named Most Outstanding Senior at the MAC Swim & Dive Championships.

Senior swimmer Bobby Wood received All-MAC 2nd Team honors, while freshman diver Kai HoffmannDussome claimed Freshman Diver of the Year.

“I would say right now some of our sprints are going to be strong, our

distances are going to be strong,” coach Rick Walker said Wednesday.

This proved true, with seven Saluki swimmers receiving NCAA B Cut considerations for the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships in both sprint and distance events.

Dell’Olio received B Cut considerations in the 200-yard IM (1:47.05, third place), 400-yard IM (3:49.98, second place) and 200-yard Butterfly (1:45.55, first place) events.

More: Saluki men set new school record in 200-yard Medley Relay, finish Day 1 of MAC Swim & Dive Championship tied for third overall Dell’Olio’s finish of 3:49.98 in the 400-yard IM broke the pool record of 3:51.26 set in 2013. He also set a new MAC match record of 1:45.55 in the 200-yard Butterfly, besting the previous record of 1:45.78 set in 2015.

Brilhante received B Cut considerations in the 50-yard Freestyle (20.15, second place) and the 200-yard Freestyle (1:37.40, first place) events. He also swam to a second place finish in the 100-yard Freestyle event at the MAC Swim & Dive Championships with a final time of 44.56, narrowly missing B Cut considerations in the event by 0.27 seconds.

Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Eastern Michigan senior Alexander Chan participates in the three-meter dive on day four of the 2017 MAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship on Saturday at Edward J. Shea Natatorium. Chan placed first in the event.

Wood received B Cut considerations in the 100-yard Breaststroke (54.76, seventh place) and 200-yard Breaststroke (1:57.13, second place) events.

Wood’s finish of 1:57.13 in the 200yard Breaststroke broke the pool record of 1:57.54 set in 2013.

Junior swimmer Joao Facciotti received B Cut consideration in the 100yard Butterfly event while placing fifth with a finals time of 48.13.

Junior swimmer Michael Wolfe received B Cut consideration in the 1650-yard Freestyle event while placing fourth with a finals time of 15:27.62.

Next on the SIU Swimming & Diving team’s schedule is the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships March 9 – 11, followed by the NCAA Division I Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships March 22 – 25. Both events will be held at the Indiana University Natatorium in Bloomington, Indiana.

Sports writer Denton “Gio” Giovenco can be reached at dgiovenco@dailyegyptian.com.

Jacob Wiegand | @jawiegandphoto Eastern Michigan junior Logan Burton celebrates with teammates after becoming the 2017 MAC champions on day four of the championship on Saturday at Edward J. Shea Natatorium. “I was really nervous after the first day, but as a group we pulled it together for the win,” Burton said. “It’s unreal. Winning three years in a row is great, greatest feeling on Earth. I’m just happy that we could do it all together.” The team narrowly defeated Missouri State with first and second place team scores of 717 and 716, respectively.

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Illinois State’s hot first-half shooting too much for Salukis to overcome JONATHAN THOMPSON | @TheReal_Jt3

The Saluki men’s basketball season came to an end Saturday after a loss to Illinois in the semifinals of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.

The Redbirds beat the Salukis in all three of their meetings this season, with a 63-50 final score to secure Illinois State a spot in the MVC championship game.

ISU took control from the game’s opening tip, going on an 8-0 at the start of the first.

Sophomore guard Sean Lloyd gave the Salukis a spark and was able to get them within three points after his pair of triples in the opening minutes.

“I think Sean Lloyd was established. He can be the guy for our basketball team,” Coach Barry Hinson said. “[He] can be a defensive stopper, and then now he can also score.”

The Redbirds went on to show why they were the No.1 seed in the Missouri Valley Conference coming into this tournament.

ISU went on a 5-0 and 4-0 run to make their lead 20-10. Illinois State then went on a 6-0, 4-0 and 6-0 run to get their lead to up to 20 points with 2:21 remaining.

SIU couldn’t do anything defensively to stop the Redbirds 3-point barrage in the first half.

They shot 9-15 (60 percent) from behind the arc in the first half — a lot of their runs sparked by a 3-pointer.

“That goes for anything if they’re hitting shots like that,” senior guard Mike Rodriguez said.” They’re able to beat anybody in the country.”

The Salukis went into halftime trailing 43-20.

SIU’s three seniors combined for 19 points (7-25 shooting).

Sean Carley | @SeanMCarley Sophomore guard Sean Lloyd drives to the basket while being defended by Illinois State freshman guard Matt Hein on Saturday during SIU’s 63-50 loss to Illinois State in the Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball tournament semifinals at Scottrade Center in St. Louis.

“We have not yet played our best basketball,” Hinson said. “I wish I could put a thumb on it. We never got all three [seniors] going.”

Illinois State started the second half just like they did the first.

After sophomore guard Armon Fletcher made a jumpshot for the first basket, ISU went on a 9-0 run — all 3-pointers — to give them a 30 point advantage.

The Salukis showed some signs of life late, going on two 9-0 runs and finally a late game push to get themselves within 13 points.

“I kind of stopped looking at the scoreboard,” Rodriguez said.”

I kind of just went into — just reminiscing my last couple minutes of college basketball. So I just realized that we lost by 13 at the end. I think we were just playing

just because it was the last time together.”

That surge came too late in the game and Illinois State walked away with a 63-50 victory.

Illinois State will advance to the championship game at 1 p.m. on Sunday against the winner of the Missouri State and Wichita State matchup in the Scottrade Center. “[SIU] has a really good core

group of guys coming back,” senior forward Sean O’Brien said. “If they just work hard and someone takes ahold of the team and leads them, they can be really good. We can be really good.”

Staff writer Jonathan Thompson can be reached at jthompson@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @TheReal_Jt3.

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For SIU baseball, playing to own beat shows uniqueness GABRIELLA SCIBETTA | @gscibetta_DE

With 378 fans watching, SIU leadoff hitter Connor Kopach approached the plate Friday to the beat of the classic rock song "Shine"

by Collective Soul.

Like Kopach, each player in college baseball and the MLB

chooses a walk-up song for when they are up at bat or approaching the mound as a pitcher. This is a way for players to show their individuality and personality, and players say their choice of song gives them a sense of confidence, calmness and a rush of adrenaline.

Kopach, a junior second

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baseman, said he enjoys getting "Shine" stuck in his head so he doesn't think about anything when at the plate. He described his ideal walk-up song as upbeat.

Players decide on their songs at different points in the year.

Shortstop senior Will Farmer was on the lookout for a fitting walk-up song in December, whereas pitcher senior Joey Marciano chose his song a month before the season started.

While players say they have a lot of flexibility when choosing their songs, they are not allowed to pick ones that have profanity.

For the last three years, Farmer has picked classic rock songs, but this year chose an electronic tune.

Marciano has chosen songs by Drake for the past two seasons, with "6 God" as his choice last year and "4 p.m. in Calabasas" this year — a song he called a crowd pleaser.

As a team tradition, senior players choose walk-up songs for the freshman, which are usually funny songs "to go with a guy's personality," said Kopach, who led SIU to a sweep against Western Illinois for the first home series of the season Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

When Kopach was a freshman, the seniors picked "Dancing Queen" by ABBA. As for Farmer, he walked out to "In the Air Tonight"

by Phil Collins as a freshman.

This year, one freshman was given Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" and another the Pokémon theme song.

"When I pick [a song], I always close my eyes and envision myself pitching in front of a big crowd and everyone is cheering and having a good time," said Marciano, who transferred to SIU from John A. Logan his junior year. "If it flows right with that, I usually choose it."

Sports reporter Gabriella Scibetta can be reached at gscibetta@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @ gscibetta_DE.

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Members of Saluki Spirit Squad challenge definition of a sport GABRIELLA SCIBETTA | @gscibetta_DE

The university does not consider members of the SIU Spirit Squad to be athletes, which might have saved the cheerleaders, dancers and mascots from budget cuts.

Some members of the Spirit Squad see it differently.

“We put in the same time management as everyone does and the same amount of effort. They practice probably as much as every other sports team practices,” said Madeleine Cravens, a first-year member of the Saluki Shakers.

The university announced in January that the men’s and women’s tennis teams were being eliminated and the number of scholarships for swimming reduced because of budget problems.

Cravens said she and others on the Spirit Squad were surprised they were not cut, because they see themselves as athletes.

The university, however, does not.

"They are not considered intercollegiate sports teams," Associate Athletic Director Tom Weber said. "They are housed in athletics as the spirit group."

He said the 38 members of the Spirit Squad do not attend SIU on athletic scholarships. Instead, they are primarily volunteering their time.

But, Weber said, they still have the same benefits athletes have, including use of the weight room, access to the training staff, a coach and regular practices.

Spirit coordinator Kelsey Baden said members receive a tuition stipend at the end of the year that is divided depending on a number of factors, including GPA, number of games attended and history with the team.

Weber said the financial pressure on the athletics department influences everyone.

Luke Nozicka | @lukenozicka Saluki shaker Shae Robinson looks at the jumbotron during SIU's 85-84 overtime win against the Missouri State Bears on Jan. 28 at SIU Arena.

"Whether you are a team, whether you are an administrator, whether you are a person that empties the trash, we are all operating under the same budget constraints," Weber said.

Cravens said it's difficult to work with the budget set aside for her team.

Some members said it is difficult to have time for a job while on the team, but the average stipend helps pay for textbooks each semester.

Unlike other teams in the athletics department, most of what the squad does is paid for out-of-pocket.

“When we go compete at nationals, that’s out of our pocket," Cravens said. "We have to pay our way to Florida, or fundraise to do everything and I don’t think that’s very fair. We are doing this for SIU. The least they could do is pay for us to go somewhere, or go out and eat

together for once, so I would like to see them give us the same amount of time or money everyone else gets."

The Spirit Squad appears at every volleyball, basketball and football game. Most recently, it traveled to St. Louis for the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.

According to multiple people on the cheer squad, Saluki cheerleaders dedicate between 15 and 20 hours to weight lifting, practices and games every week.

“We spend a lot more hours at games ... than people realize," Cravens said. "We are there before the so-called athletes are every game and we put in as much time as they do, and do the same things they do."

Fourth-year SIU cheerleader Hannah Schmitz agreed that joining the cheerleading team is a bigger commitment than most people

realize, encouraging those who don’t consider it a sport to come observe one of their practices.

“You don’t really have an offseason, and it takes a lot of work and a lot of time with some would say a little reward,” she said.

Chloe Isbell, a Saluki Shaker in her last season, said the idea that the dance team isn't considered a sport is one that every member on her squad has heard.

"Most people think that because it’s not a two-hour game on a court with some type of ball that it’s not a sport," she said. "But come to our practice, come to our lifting, try to turn for 28 counts and not fall."

Sports reporter Gabriella Scibetta can be reached at gscibetta@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @gscibetta_DE.

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INSIDE: SIU swim, dive wins four titles pg. 9 | Spirit squad defends sport status pg. 15 Sean Carley | @SeanMCarley Coach Barry Hinson hugs senior guard Mike Rodriguez as he and fellow senior guard Leo Vincent walk off the floor for the last time in their Saluki careers Saturday during SIU’s 63-50 loss to Illinois State in the Missouri Valley Conference men’s basketball tournament semifinals at Scottrade Center in St. Louis.