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Daily Egyptian WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016

VOL. 100 ISSUE 65

SINCE 1916

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SIU starting safety arrested EVAN JONES | @EvanJones_DE

Redshirt junior safety Kenny James was suspended from the SIU football team indefinitely after he was arrested this weekend on three counts of aggravated third-degree assault in Columbia, Mo., according to the police department there.

James, who is 5-foot-10 and 204 pounds, was arrested about 1 a.m. Sunday at the Tonic Nightclub, a public information officer at the Columbia department said Tuesday. Columbia police were called to a physical disturbance involving a large group of people at the nightclub, where police say James assaulted the bar’s

Anti-Planned Parenthood tour coming to campus Wednesday

security guards as they were escorting him out of the facility. James did not participate during SIU’s first spring practice of the year Monday morning, and is not working out or practicing with team. Coach Nick Hill said Monday that James was suspended from the team and will not play in the Spring Game on April 23.

“I am facing my consequences like a man,” James said. “[Hill] has nothing but the best intentions for this program and his players. I’m focused on regaining the trust of my coaches and teammates and putting this behind me.” Last season James started 10 games in the secondary for the Salukis. He returned two interceptions for

touchdowns and recorded 107 tackles, which was second on the team. The Salukis will be returning 11 other players in the secondary from last season, five at safety. Brent Meske contributed to this report. Evan Jones can be reached at EJones@ dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3304.

Selling since ‘78

DIAMOND JONES | Daily Egyptian

The Students for Life of America, the nation’s largest anti-abortion organization, will host a presentation at the Student Center on Wednesday about alternatives to Planned Parenthood for women’s health services. The event from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. is open to the public. Kristan Hawkins, who has been president of organization since 2006, said Planned Parenthood isn’t needed. She believes taxpayer money should fund community health centers instead of subsidizing a billion-dollar organization that “uses women for profit.” “While last year’s undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives touting the horrific business practice of harvesting the body parts of aborted babies and selling them for profit made news for months and the U.S Congress did pass a bill to defund the abortion giant, they are still being funded by taxpayers with over half a billion dollars a year,” said Hawkins, who has helped expand a number of anti-abortion groups on college campuses. The videos in question taken by the Center for Medical Progress allegedly showed executives discussing the use of aborted fetuses’ tissues. However, the videos were later found to be edited, and a Texas grand jury indicted CMP’s founder and one videographer while declining to indict Planned Parenthood, according to NBC News. But Hawkins said she prefers Federally Qualified Health Centers because they provide more comprehensive health care services and give local communities an increase in jobs and economic benefits to help less fortunate communities. Julie Lynn, Planned Parenthood’s manager of external affairs for Illinois, said her organization also helps poor communities because it does not turn away patients who aren’t able to afford services. Please see PROTEST | 2

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms John Ewing, of Galesburg, strolls past salt water aquariums between chores Tuesday at Hardware and Pets, a store he runs with his mother, Wilma, in Murphysboro. The Ewings began the business in 1978 selling hardware, and in 1986 John started selling fish downstairs. Hardware and Pets has since evolved to sell predominantly pets, offering birds, lizards, mice, rats, a chameleon and hundreds of species of fish. “We always had pets when we were young,” John said. “I had a fish tank back in the 60s and we just gradually got into it. We started off with one tank and the next thing you know, there’s 90.”

Saluki debate finishes second in nation DAILY EGYPTIAN CAMPUS DESK

Southern Illinois University finished as the runner-up at this year’s National Championships of Debate. SIU finished higher than universities such as Rice, Missouri, Washington and Loyola at the National Parliamentary Debate Association championship tournament, which was hosted

from March 19 to 21 at California State University, Long Beach. Arielle Stephenson, a junior from Torrance, Calif., studying business economics, and Bobby Swetz, a freshman from Flossmoor studying economics, won 13 times at the 165team tournament before being bested in the championship debate against William Jewell

College, a school of about 1,100 students. “There are no divisions in debate,” said Todd Graham, SIU’s director of debate. “So as you can expect, there are excellent teams from smaller institutions as well as large. We lost to a better team today, and they deserved to win the national title.” Please see DEBATE | 2

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