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Chancellor: Racist video has been removed, classes still on for May 2 LUKE NOZICKA | @LukeNozicka

Interim Chancellor Brad Colwell told reporters Monday that the university worked with YouTube during the weekend to take down a racist video calling for lynchings on campus.

During about a half-hour long news conference in Anthony Hall, Colwell said the university does not know who created the video that called for black students to be beaten on May 2. A campus-wide peaceful protest against student loan debt has also been scheduled that day, according to the newly formed May 2 Strike Committee.

He said the university has been monitoring the situation on social media and plans for classes to be in session that day.

“Folks,” the chancellor said. “We need to stay calm.”

The video was removed from YouTube on Monday afternoon.

When asked if the video was posted using SIU’s Wi-Fi, Linda McCabe Smith, associate chancellor for institutional diversity, said the case is still under investigation.

Colwell said he has met with six constituencies on campus, starting the dialogue about how to improve race relations, after multiple problems.

“We know there are issues that need to be addressed,” he said.

“I will pound on the table for the safety of our students..”

Colwell held the news conference

Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Interim Chancellor Brad Colwell speaks to reporters on Monday in Anthony Hall about a racist video that was posted on YouTube calling for lynchings on campus. Colwell said administrators worked with YouTube to remove the video on Monday.

with McCabe Smith, university spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith, Kevin Bame, SIU’s vice chancellor for administration and finance, Lori Stettler, interim vice chancellor of student affairs and Undergraduate Student Government president Kevin Gettis.

The now-deleted video, posted Thursday by YouTube account “ATO AZO,” calls black people the

N-word while using footage from the Disney movie “A Bug’s Life.”

An anonymous speaker ends the video by attributing the message to the SIU’s Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and calling for black students to be beaten and lynched May 2. The May 2 Strike Committee said it is antiracism, anti-oppression and has no connection to the video.

Nolan McConnell, president of SIU’s ATO, said no one in his fraternity made the video.

Administrators also said they don’t believe SIU’s ATO was involved.

After the news conference, Willie Lyles III, Graduate and Professional Student Council’s vice president for administrative affairs, said the video is just more evidence that the university needs a new or updated

diversity plan. He said students in GPSC have been meeting with administrators since the fall to make a diversity plan that is more proactive.

“It’s like I tell my friends, if you wake up black, you’ll experience racism at least four times a day,” said Lyles III, a third-year law student.

“What some people may not realize is insensitive is — and it is real.”

The video was the most recent incident of racism relating to the university.

In a Facebook live video, SIU student Leilani Bartlett said white students — some of whom are alleged ATO members — told her in Brown Hall to “go back to Africa.”

Colwell responded to the video, saying the university was investigating the incident.

Students expressed concerns Wednesday about on-campus racism during a meeting held by the Center for Inclusive Excellence. The panel of administrators explained what resources students have to file a complaint.

During the news conference, Goldsmith said the university does not know if any of the incidents are related, but said she believes they are “playing off of each other.”

Evan Jones contributed to this report.

Luke Nozicka can be reached at 618-536-3325 or lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com.

Rauner signs $600M stopgap bill for higher education, SIUC to see nearly $58M from state DAILY EGYPTIAN CAMPUS DESK

Illinois colleges and universities will see money from the state for the first time since the budget impasse began in July.

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill Monday morning that gives him spending authority to provide $600 million for public higher education and low-income student grant aid. The SIU system will receive nearly $58 million for operational costs — 30 percent of the money the university was supposed to receive this fiscal year.

“This legislation doesn’t solve our budget crisis or help our economy grow, but it does represent a first step toward compromise between Democrats and Republicans,” Rauner wrote in a news release.

“Now is the time to build on this bipartisan momentum and focus on enacting a truly balanced budget for Fiscal Years 2016-2017 alongside meaningful reforms that create jobs and free up resources for education, social services and infrastructure.”

SIU President Randy Dunn on WSIU Public Radio said the bill is not the “be all and end all in terms of state support for higher education.”

“I wasn’t in the backroom where all this was getting determined — nor was any president — but the thinking around this seems to be that with this bridge or stopgap funding, it would allow the universities to carry themselves through to fall when all of us then start to have local revenue coming in from tuition and fees,” Dunn told WSIU’s Jennifer Fuller. “Now this is where enrollment — particularly at Carbondale — gets so important, as where we’re challenged on enrollment that hurts local revenue and basically shortens the time we can live on local revenue until an overall grand bargain to this state budget is figured out. But we take our wins where we get them.”

While the measure, approved by state lawmakers on Friday, does buy the university some time, Dunn said it does not “get rid of our cuts or reductions” that were announced March 9, which would eliminate 180 faculty and staff and

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cut programs and services by nearly $23 million if Rauner’s fiscal year 2017 budget passes.

“But [this] does push [those cuts] back on the shelf and holds those very draconian cuts in advance for some time until we see how the overall budget situation then plays out from here,” Dunn told Fuller. “The worry is that this is all we could see for FY16.”

The legislation marked the first sign of bipartisan support for a higher education funding measure since the state’s budget impasse began in July, passing the House 106-2 and in the Senate 55-0. The bill is a stopgap measure designed to fill the hole in funding for a short amount of time.

“It buys everybody some time,” SIU President Randy Dunn said Friday. “We now have to turn around, go back and continue to seek the full amount of fiscal year 2016 state support that we would typically anticipate getting for a year.”

This will also provide almost $170 million for the state’s Monetary Award Program, a low-income grant given to college students statewide. The program

“[The funding] does push [budget cuts] back on the shelf ... until we see how the overall budget situation then plays out.”

- SIU President Randy Dunn

received $373 million in fiscal year 2015, which is a difference of $203 million or 54 percent.

All local legislators in the districts that encompass SIU voted to approve the measure and begin a cash-flow for the university.

“We can only hope to stop the bleeding with this ‘band aid,’” Sen. Dave Luechtefeld, R-Okawville, said. “There are no real winners with today’s budget bill, only a sliver of relief is being provided.”

Sen. Gary Forby, D-Benton, said he voted for the measure because SIU is in a “crisis situation.”

“Jobs are at stake, our young people’s education is at stake, and I will not stand by and let this happen,” Forby said. “State schools

need state funding. Period.”

The SIU system is still about $140 million short of what Dunn expected it to receive from the state for fiscal year 2016.

“We heard from legislators on both sides of the aisle — Republicans and Democrats — that this is intended to be only a short-term fix, and that everyone is committed to coming back and getting [fiscal year 2016] funding,” Dunn said. “We’re going to hold their feet to the fire on that pledge.”

Luke Nozicka, Cory Ray and Bill Lukitsch contributed to this report.

The Daily Egyptian’s campus desk can be reached at 618-536-3325 or lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com.

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Dontae Burton | Daily Egyptian Left to right: University housing coordinator of marketing Brandon Macier, interim Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Lori Stettler, student trustee candidate Naomi Tolbert and Black Male Roundtable President Michael Smith listen to a discussion attendee Monday in the Student Services Building. The group met to discuss concerns and possible solutions regarding the controversial video posted to YouTube on Thursday, which called for the beating and lynching of black students on May 2 during a planned protest against student loan debt. “Today, I believe was the first step toward developing a foundation toward open discussions of social tensions we share on campus,” said Tolbert, a junior from Carbondale studying political science and international studies, “through the voices of a diverse group of students with higher administration.” Stettler said she was disappointed and heartbroken by the video.

Students, administration to work on response to racism ANNA SPOERRE | @AnnaSpoerre

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Students met with an administrator Monday morning to plan a reaction to a racist YouTube video posted last week that called for lynchings at SIU, concluding that an immediate response must be made by the campus community.

The video, which uses the N-word and encourages violence against black students, was made from the YouTube account “ATO AZO,” but the president of SIU’s Alpha Tau Omega said they did not create the video, something SIU administrators were also fairly sure of on Monday.

“Whoever this is needs to be confronted,” student trust candidate Naomi Tolbert said during the meeting with Lori Stettler, vice chancellor for student affairs.

Stettler said the university has been investigating the fraternity and is working to track down the video’s creator. She went on to say the person or persons involved will be held accountable, but did not say how specifically.

“It is a violation on multiple levels with our student code of conduct and we are not going to tolerate this,” she said.

Interim Chancellor Brad Colwell sent out an email Sunday addressing the video and urged students to “stand together as Salukis to fight intolerance.”

The video, which received more

than 3,000 views, was taken down Monday afternoon for violating YouTube’s policy on hate speech.

Joshua Dawson, a graduate student in workforce education and development from Chicago, said he is tired of only receiving emails from the chancellor in response to recent racist events on campus.

He said he helped plan the discussion — attended by 15 students — because, as a black student, he does not feel safe on campus.

“It’s beyond the organizations. …

The biggest thing that we have right here is racial tensions,” said Tolbert, a junior from Carbondale studying political science and international studies. “Outright racial tensions are boiling over.”

The students decided to work with the university to create a response video — hoping to include administrators, Greek leaders, housing representatives and members of minority groups on campus. Stettler brought with her a university videographer to assist in the production of the piece.

They are hoping to release the video before May 2, the date of planned protests against student loan debt.

The students also suggested implementing mandatory diversity training to take place at the beginning of the year — similar to the sexual assault training required every fall, noting that many students have not previously been exposed to as much diversity as the Carbondale campus. “[They should] be trained on what it means to be a minority, to be a marginalized group on campus,” Tolbert said.

A series of open discussion forums where students can speak openly about grievances was also discussed.

The students said they want to use the video to spread the message the message: “This is SIU and we’re here to say this isn’t OK.” “We need to show, as a community on campus, that we will not stand for any of this nonsense,” Tolbert said.

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

“It is a violation on multiple levels with our student code of conduct and we are not going to tolerate this.”

- Lori Stettler Vice chancellor for student affaris

Man detained by SIU police for having airsoft gun on campus LUKE NOZICKA | @LukeNozicka

A person who was in possession of a replica shotgun was detained Monday morning outside of the Student Center, according to an SIU police tweet.

There was no threat to public safety and the person who was detained — a

white male in his mid-30s — is not affiliated with the university, SIU Police Chief Benjamin Newman said.

Newman said the airsoft gun had an orange tip on it, which lets people know the weapon is a fake or toy.

He said the man left it outside the Student Center and later came back

out to sit by the airsoft gun.

SIU police are investigating.

The department can be reached at 618-453-3771.

Luke Nozicka can be reached at lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

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SIU student engineers win first place at regional competition DIAMOND JONES | DAILY EGYPTIAN

For the first time in its history, SIU's American Society of Civil Engineers swept regional competitions at Missouri University of Science and Technology in steel bridge and concrete canoe building.

The American Society of Civil Engineers/American International Society of Engineers steel bridge and concrete canoe competitions took place Friday and Saturday and both SIU teams took home first place.

The Carbondale chapter of ASCE is a group of students who participate in activities in the field of civil and environmental engineering to better themselves while reaching out to employers who are looking for leaders.

Last year, the teams placed third and fifth in the concrete canoe and steel bridge contests, respectively.

"We wanted to keep up the momentum to get first place, and my biggest fear was that we wouldn't," said Emily Waldon, captain of the concrete canoe team.

Waldon, a junior from Hornlake, Miss., studying civil engineering, said one of the biggest challenges the team faced was a learning curve of 20 new

members. She said the team returned eight people from last year, and the other members had to go through intense training to make sure they were ready.

"I was hoping that we would do well," said Jessica Wignes, a freshman from Ottawa studying civil engineering. "It was very hard to get the project done with the amount of time and space we had, but working as a team definitely helped."

The concrete canoe is judged on of the construction of a canoe as it relates to the placement of concrete, reinforcement and flotation materials.

Steel-bridge judging is based on categories regarding to the strength of the bridge — measured by loading the bridge with 2,500 pounds — such as lightness, economy, efficiency and the display of the product.

"We put everything we could into that bridge," said Mansor Sufran, captain of the bridge building team. "We spent so much time and it paid off. I consider myself graduated already because that was the biggest accomplishment in my life."

Sanjeev Kumar, chairman of SIUC's civil and environmental engineering program, said ASCE is one of the biggest registered student organizations within

Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Saad Binsefran, left, a sophomore from Saudi Arabia studying civil engineering, watches as Mansor Sufran, team captain of SIU’s steel bridge team, explain improvement to a bridge during Monday’s celebration of the regional wins of the steel bridge and concrete canoe teams in the courtyard of the Engineering Building. Sufran promised Sanjeev Kumar, the chairman of civil engineering, that the team would win first place in the regional competition. “I knew it was a big promise to make but I really believed in the team we have,” said Sufran, a senior from Saudi Arabia studying civil engineering.

the College of Engineering.

"I am very proud of what these students have shown and what they can

do," Kumar said. "These students work and skills reflect upon our program, and we couldn't be more thrilled."

Diamond Jones can be reached at djones@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3325

Student says he is not connected with graffiti despite being person of interest AARON GRAFF | @GRAFFINTOSH

SIU student Wade Stofko says he is one of the five people SIU police are asking the public to help identify in relation to a recent graffiti incident at Faner Hall.

But he has gone to police to proclaim his innocence.

Stofko, a senior from Joliet studying cinema and photography, was seen carrying a bucket near the rear entrance of Morris Library at 12:07 a.m. April 14, roughly 10 minutes after two pictures of three suspects by the Faner Plaza Foundation were taken.

SIU Police Chief Benjamin Newman said via Twitter he would only ask for a statement from Stofko.

The student gave a statement at the Communications Building on Sunday night after he returned from a field trip.

He said he was told there would probably be a follow-up interview with an investigator, but that it was good that Stofko told police before police had to find him.

"The bucket seems pretty suspicious," Stofko told the Daily Egyptian on Saturday. "I was there. I was just going to wash off some of the chalkings that I was doing with skate

club to promote our skate contest that was going on that weekend. We had chalked on a few of the walls, which is illegal to do, according to the [registered student organization] conduct book."

Stofko said he got an email from Heather Brake, SIU's student involvement coordinator, requesting he take the chalkings down before 7 a.m. April 14.

Stofko showed the police the email from Brake and has witnesses who knew what he was doing beforehand.

He said he did not see anyone participating in graffiti while he was there.

"It was kind of frustrating and upsetting," Stofko said on Sunday.

"I was in Chicago this weekend for a photo class field trip. We met with professionals and it was kind of in the back of my mind. I knew I was innocent obviously, but it was kind of distracting."

The campus police department launched an investigation after they were notified of the estimated $3,000 in damages, SIU spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith has said.

She said the individual or individuals involved, if discovered, may face criminal charges for the graffiti, which is considered criminal

damage to state property.

Messages included "Riot Proof...

We'll See" on the east side of Faner Hall and "You are not a loan? All Money to the administration" on the building’s northwest end.

Another read "Debt rules everything around me, monthly, monthly bills y'all, May 2nd."

Stofko said he does not plan on participating in the May 2 Anna Spoerre contributed to this story.

Aaron Graff can be reached at Agraff@dailyegpytian.com or at 618-536-3325.

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City police to accept unwanted prescription medication

TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016

“Celestial Sisters”

EVAN JONES | @EVANJONES_DE

Carbondale police plan to work with the Drug Enforcement Administration on Saturday to collect unwanted prescription medications from residents.

Although no liquids or needles will be accepted, the department will take expired, unused and unwanted prescription between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

The service is free and anonymous.

Students and community members can bring pills to the department for disposal at 501 S. Washington St. "Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse," according to a Carbondale police news release.

"Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs."

The press release says flushing unused medicine down a toilet or throwing them away "pose potential safety and health hazards."

For more information call the Carbondale police at 618-4573200, Evan Jones can be reached at ejones@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3304.

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Danni WhoaChick, an alumna from Des Plaines who lives in Carbondale, secures flowers on her headpiece Monday before modeling Virgo for Alexis Kimbrell’s “Celestial Sisters” runway show at Morris Library. Kimbrell, an alumna from Albion, said the project began from her desire to represent women of all cultures in her work. “It was an activist piece about how all nations can come together and be one,” Kimbrell said. “To find harmony in this world, all we have to do is band together. We’re all different but the same.” Kimbrell saw four months’ work come to fruition at Tuesday’s show, during which 33 women walked representing over 20 countries. WhoaChick, who represented Puerto Rican and Native American women, said she thought the late David Bowie and Prince would be proud of her style.

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Black Affairs Council: We demand more from SIU’s administration after racist video SIU’S Black affaIrS coUncIl

SIU community, The Black Affairs Council is grateful for the prompt response of the administration to the “White is Right” video posted this weekend. We further appreciate its determination to take “appropriate action” to hold those responsible accountable for this video.

However, we are not concerned with punishing a single individual: we are concerned with the dismantling of the climate of racism and intolerance that has been allowed to persist on our campus.

Punishing a single individual does not resolve a campus-wide climate of racism and intolerance endured daily by the students of color on our campus. Further, while we recognize that the video in question was targeted at our black Salukis, we cannot ignore the way in which this video serves as an example of an overall climate of hostility, racism and intolerance directed toward all marginalized students.

The Black Affairs Council does not view this video as different from chalking “build the wall,” or any other hate speech on campus.

A threat against one student of color is a threat against all students of color.

Interim Chancellor Brad Colwell in his email statement asks us to “stand together as Salukis to fight intolerance.” While we appreciate the call to action, we demand more from the administration and our campus. When faced with the threat of lynching, email assurances and “listening sessions” are not enough.

We need the administration to stand with us, to put action

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Leilani Bartlett, with megaphone, a freshman from Chicago studying business, leads a march April 12 from Brown Hall to Morris Library. Bartlett, who organized the event, posted a video to Facebook on April 4 expressing her concerns about racism she said she has experienced at SIU. Her video received over 172,000 views.

Matthew Wilson, a senior from Carbondale studying TV and digital media radio, participated in the event. “I was not surprised because this has been occurring and nothing has happened,” he said. “Why should we be out here dealing with these issues when they should have already been solved in the first place.”

behind its assurances, to prove that it has our safety in mind when we are threatened with racial violence. We demand the university embody its mission of diversity and inclusive excellence.

We further call upon the Greek organizations to demonstrate their commitment to eradicating racism within their organizations. We understand the need to distance

your organizations from racist hate speech made in your name or by your members, but we ask that you do more.

We demand that you stand with us when presented with the opportunity, that you demonstrate your commitment to the elimination of racism within your organizations through consistent public action and not public relations campaigns to improve your image.

Hate speech like the “White is Right” video does more than “promote division, racism and violence on our campus,” it reminds all students of color, all underrepresented students, that we are not welcome in our classrooms, in our dorms, in Greek organizations or anywhere else on our campus.

It reminds us that this was

never our campus — that we are unwanted visitors in a place that has not made an attempt to welcome us. This most recent act is yet more evidence that we are, and continue to be, accepted but not welcomed.

The Black Affairs Council can be reached at blackaffairscouncilsiuc@gmail.com.

May 2 Strike Committee: No, we didn’t make that crap May 2 StrIke coMMIttee May2StrIke@gMaIl.coM

Sam Beard, a former Daily Egyptian reporter, is a supporter of the May 2 Strike Committee and relayed this letter to the editor to the DE. We don’t have words strong enough to condemn the racist video that appeared on YouTube, signed by “ATO AZO.” The video was a sick parody of a project made by a supporter of the May 2 strike, using the same clips but dubbing-in racist hate speech and a call for lynchings.

Students on the SIU campus know how prevalent racism is here, but this video brought the brutal history of American racism to the surface. The past does not pass. It bubbles beneath the tightly controlled surface of the present, and erupts whenever a crack in the everyday opens.

Those of us who have been working to promote the strike, for all our flaws, are committed to abolishing white supremacy and the structures that sustain it. Whoever made that video is

our enemy, pure and simple.

The administration’s response to the video unfortunately confirms that charge we made against them in our Call to Action that they are more concerned with public relations than anti-racism.

We were shocked that rather than specifically focus on the racist video’s use of hate speech and call for lynchings, interim Chancellor Brad Colwell instead painted with a brush broad enough to implicate us as well. His announcement focused not on racism, but on anonymity and calls for disruption — as if there is an equivalence between writing anonymously to call for disruption against the many issues destroying higher education and those who would use anonymity to call for white supremacist violence.

The two uses of anonymity are distinct from one another, just as the two kinds of “disruption” are distinct.

Those without power — students, workers, poor people, whomever — don’t get anywhere without disrupting the status quo. Any attempt to create a better world will involve disruption

of the normal, day-to-day life that maintains this one.

The racist video, however, doesn’t call for a disruption of normal: white supremacy is the lived experience of people of color on this campus and throughout this country. What the racist video calls for is a show of force to maintain the status quo.

They want to beat our heads in to keep everything normal.

Justice demands disruption — it always has and it always will.

Colwell has deployed a cynical strategy. He’s attempted to blur the distinction between antiracists demanding a better world and racists attempting to maintain this one, simply because they both are anonymous. On Monday it seemed SIU President Randy Dunn connected the May 2 Strike Committee to that crap while he was on-air on WSIU. He said the university would be looking into the connection because of the racist video’s similarities to the one done in support of a May 2 strike.

It doesn’t surprise us they would sink to such a dirty tactic in attempts

to demonize a movement that calls their lavish salaries into question and demands they be no higher than that of the educators and staffers that actually make this university and our education possible.

When asked for his comment on that particular demand in a press conference Monday, Colwell laughed and tried to get one of his constituents to answer for him. He makes $295,000 a year.

Those in power maintain that power through fear. The fear that any deviation from the every day will lead to shear horror. The fear that no other world is possible, that it is either this or chaos.

The accusations put us in a predicament. Conspiracy accusations like that, by definition, can’t be refuted.

There is always another cynical twist that could be imputed on us.

So what to we do? Is the strike still on? If we say “yes, May 2 is about challenging racism, and we’re not going to let these racists intimidate us!” we risk inviting people into a situation that could be dangerous. But if we say “no, this

has gotten out of hand,” then those racists actually do win.

What would you do?

For us, we’ve decided its time to come clean. Not about our identities, which are only important to the cops. But about just what this May 2 Strike Committee monster is or was. So today we’ll be finishing up an anonymous interview, after which the Committee will no longer exist.

What happens on May 2 will be up to each of us and all of you, not a committee.

See you Monday at 10 a.m. at the fountain in front of Faner Hall.

For a world beyond racism, sexism, and classism, With love, the May 2 Strike Committee The May 2 Strike Committee can be reached at may2strike@gmail.com Sam Beard, media liaison and May 2 Strike Committee sympathizer can be reached at contactsambeard@gmail.com

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Harre thriving off Barry Bonds treatment SEAN CARLEY | @SCARLEYDE

Risk aversion is defined as the tendency to evade any option which might impose any loss.

Based on her 34 walks — No. 3 in Missouri Valley Conference — SIU junior first baseman Shaye Harre is quite the risk to opposing pitchers.

Harre is tied for the lead in the MVC with 11 home runs and opposing pitchers appear to notice; SIU (28-16, 11-8 MVC) is 9-1 in games Harre goes yard.

Coach Kerri Blaylock said she's convinced Harre is being pitched around, similar to the treatment MLB's all-time home run leader Barry Bonds used to get.

"There's no doubt, it's like a big-leaguer," Blaylock said. "It's like those clean-up hitters in the majors. They start to get pitched around and don't see quality pitches."

This past weekend, Bradley wasn't even subtle about pitching around Harre.

She was walked five times in the three contests, including an intentional one to load the bases for sophomore right fielder Jessica Heese, who responded with a three-RBI triple.

Not seeing pitchers' best pitches doesn't bother Harre. She said she has to be ready regardless of what pitchers deliver. If she doesn't get anything to hit, she'll take the walk.

"I still have to be ready to go because even the best pitchers can leave a ball over the plate," she said.

When pitchers do leave one over the plate, Harre has taken advantage; her 20 extra-base hits lead the team.

Harre's .698 slugging percentage is tied for No.3 in the MVC, making her a scoring threat each time she steps to the plate, Blaylock said.

Adjusting to not seeing prime pitches was a struggle for Harre.

In the 13 games before the Bradley series this weekend, she

Brent Meske | @brentmeskeDE Junior first baseman Shaye Harre high fives coach Kerri Blaylock while rounding third after her two-RBI homerun in the top of the second during a 11-1 win against Butler on March 6 at Charlotte West Stadium. Harre finished the game 2-3 with three RBIs and one run scored.

went 4-34 from the plate.

Even though she wasn't hitting the ball well, her discipline helped keep her on the base paths, as her on-base percentage in the same timeframe was .326, drawing 11 walks.

Overall, Harre's .490 OBP leads the team, 78 points more than sophomore infielder Sydney Jones' second-place mark.

Before the Bradley series,

Blaylock said Harre made necessary adjustments.

"I thought against Evansville, she was looking better, she was being more aggressive," she said.

The Salukis have gone as Harre has this season.

In games where she records an RBI, the Salukis are 17-4. When she doesn't they are 11-12.

That same trend goes for the

team's 20-7 record when Harre gets a hit and 8-9 record when she doesn't.

Heese has also been stellar behind Harre all season long, batting .295 with 19 extra-base hits. She doesn't blame the opponent for pitching around Harre.

"It's smart of them to do because she hits the ball so hard," she said. "I just have to be there to pick them up."

The practice of pitching around strong hitters is not just for Harre, Blaylock said.

"It's all the time, I do it too," she said. "You may just have an opponent and you just don't want that kid to beat you."

Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307.

Some things change, others stay the same for SIU football JACOB GAERTNER | @JGAERTNERDE

With Nick Hill replacing Dale Lennon as the head coach of the SIU football team, the offense may look similar, but the defense will undergo drastic changes.

Hill, who spent the past two seasons as an assistant for the Salukis, said he expects a lot of the same plays and concepts offensively because he is still calling the plays. But the defense will have a brand new style.

The biggest coaching and scheme change for the Salukis was bringing in Kraig Paulson as defensive coordinator.

Paulson, who served as defensive coordinator for Utah State, Montana and UNLV for a combined 17 seasons, brings a 4-3 defense that involves four linemen, three linebackers and four defensive backs.

"Honestly, it's the best way to get consistent quarterback pressure with the numbers," Paulson said, "If

you send four, you got a chance for a guy to win a one-on-one [on the offensive line]."

Paulson prefers the 4-3 because he believes it allows the defense to pressure the quarterback without sacrificing too much coverage.

Hill said he can recruit players for the 4-3 better, which is another advantage to making the switch.

Redshirt senior middle linebacker Chase Allen will be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the change to the 4-3 scheme.

Allen spent his first few seasons at SIU in Dale Lennon's 3-4 defense, playing outside linebacker and inside linebacker.

The change to the 4-3 allows Allen to return to the position he excelled at in high school at Belleville East when he was an 8A all-state middle linebacker.

"Everybody's more confident in this defense and we understand why

calls are being made," Allen said. "I'm liking the change."

Out of three defensive coaches, the only returning coach from last season is defensive line coach Austin Flyger.

On the the other side of the ball, things will look much more familiar for the Dawgs.

Last year Hill, who served as quarterbacks coach in 2014 and co-offensive coordinator in 2015, revamped SIU's offense. He turned it into a more up-tempo, spread attack, averaging nearly 500 yards per game — second most in Missouri Valley Football Conference history.

Quarterback Mark Iannotti led the nation in total offense per game and finished ninth in national Offensive Player of the Year voting.

"A lot of what you do on offense depends on who your quarterback is," Hill said.

Wide receivers coach Ashton Aikens is the only offensive coach returning

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from last year besides Hill.

"I wanted coach Aikens to still be here," Hill said. "He's been doing a good job of developing [the receivers] and those guys trust him on and off the field."

SIU football kicks off its 2016 season Sept. 3 at Florida Atlantic.

Jacob Gaertner can be reached at jgaertner@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3304.