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Vol. 100 Issue 91
Life at the cleaners
TYLER DAVIS | @TDavis_DE
After Thursday’s edition, the Daily Egyptian will not publish until August. That means you will not find our usual twice-a-week summer editions on newsstands. Our summer issues will not print this year due to a combination of two factors: a lack of online classes and a lack of a printer. The lack of classes is key because all DE summer staffers must be enrolled in at least three credit hours. But the options for those on-campus courses are slim. Many students have opted to head home for the summer and get their coursework done online. Only one journalism course is offered in Carbondale for the summer semester. Additionally, many of our staffers have internships at professional news organizations for the summer. Others are graduating and moving back home or to their new jobs. Please see HIATUS | 3
Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Betty Louise Kiefer, of De Soto, waits on a customer April 21 at Horstman’s Cleaners & Furriers in Carbondale. Kiefer is 87 years old and has worked at the local dry cleaners since she was 18. When she started she wanted to help her husband with building their home in De Soto. Kiefer still lives in the same house her husband built. She said she likes working so she continued doing it. “I just like it and people seem to like me,” Kiefer said. “They expect me to be out there if they come. I’m the fixture at Horstman’s Cleaners.”
Sexual assault reports rising on U.S. campuses KATY MURPHY | The Mercury News
New federal data reveal a dramatic jump in the number of on-campus sexual assaults reported by colleges nationwide over the past decade — an increase of 126 percent between 2001 and 2013 — even as overall campus crime fell. What’s more, campus sexual assault reports rose by 25 percent between 2012 and 2013 alone, the data show, climbing to about 5,000 incidents nationwide. The latest figures coincide with the beginning of an unprecedented movement to prevent campus sexual assault, with students and alumni demanding a stronger response from their colleges. The report released Wednesday by the National Center for Education Statistics didn’t explain the reasons behind the sharp uptick, but
experts believe heightened awareness may have caused the numbers to swell. While it’s disturbing to know that anyone has experienced sexual violence on campus, “it’s positive to see more survivors coming forward and feeling they can report to the institution,” said Abigail Boyer of The Clery Center for Security on Campus in Wayne, Pa., which offers colleges training on crime prevention and reporting requirements under federal law. The numbers could also reflect another shift on college campuses, she said: “institutions understanding what needs to be reported.” Colleges and universities that receive federal money are required to share crime statistics publicly as a result of a 1990 consumer protection law called the Jeanne Clery Act. Please see CAMPUS | 2
Former astronaut, previous chancellor headline SIUC commencement speakers EVAN JONES AND ANNA SPOERRE Daily Egyptian
Joan Higginbotham will speak at the 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. commencement ceremonies Friday. Higginbotham, a 1987 SIU graduate from Chicago, is the third African-American woman to take a shuttle into space. “My career plan originally did not include becoming an astronaut,” she said during a NASA interview. “What I had envisioned for myself was to get a degree — my electrical engineering degree — and go on to work for IBM.” She started working at Kennedy Space Center in Florida two weeks after earning a bachelor’s degree from
SIU, and later went on to earn two master’s degrees from Florida Institute of Technology. In December 2006 she spent almost 13 hours in space aboard Discovery and participated in 53 space shuttle launches during her nine-year tenure at Kennedy Space Center, according to her NASA profile. She received the university’s Distinguished Service Award in 1997 and was named the Homecoming parade grand marshal in 2007 — the same year she retired from NASA. Higginbotham, who now lives in Charlotte, N.C., with her husband, was unable to be reached for comment. Don Beggs will speak at
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the 1:30 p.m. commencement ceremony Friday. Beggs returns to campus as a former SIUC chancellor and dean of the College of Education. He began his education in 1959 at SIU, where he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. He went on to the University of Iowa to finish his doctoral degree. Beggs received an honorary degree from SIU earlier this school year. “It’s an enormous compliment,” he said at the time. “It’s something I did not anticipate or see coming.” After working at SIU for 32 years, Beggs took the position of president at Wichita State in 1999 until 2012. Please see SPEAKERS | 2
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