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STOREY MAYER Daily Egyptian This upcoming fall semester, the university is making changes to ensure the safety of its students and campus. The reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act requires colleges to train all new students, faculty and staff in recognizing, reporting and preventing sexual assault. SIU has fulfilled the requirement by implementing new procedures to better acquaint the students and faculty with sexual assault response. Before students even begin classes, they will have already gone through an extensive online awareness program known as Haven, an online sexual assault module. Chad Trisler, director of student rights and responsibilities, said past students have already taken the course during the third week of their freshmen year. The program is being moved up to better prepare the students before they begin classes. “It gives everyone some baseline information on how to be in a respectful relationship, keep safe on campus, and look out for other students,” Trisler said. “It will ensure that everyone has a consistent knowledge base on how to stay safe and help other people out.” Once on campus, the student will be further trained in a classroom setting. The additional requirement is called Saluki Steps. The primary goal of the onehour class is to teach students to be good bystanders and ways to intervene when someone is being taken advantage of. All employees will go through training the first week of the fall semester as well. They will be informed on how to help someone who has been a victim and how to keep the spaces they are in control of safe. “It’s all about making sure that SIU is the best possible environment for our students to focus on education,” Trisler said. “People shouldn’t have to worry about being a victim of one of these crimes.” Lieutenant Ryan House, administrative services commander of SIU Department of Public Safety, said the training and awareness would be no small task. “Often, faculty and staff are the first ones notified of a sexual assault, so this provides them with the reporting procedures and resources available,” House said. “The downside is the logistical concerns with training such a large number in such a short time frame.” The university averages 3,500 incoming freshmen each year and 7,000 total employees. Every single one of the approximately 10,500 people will have to go through the training process. Megan Jones-Williams, project coordinator of rape crisis services at the Women’s Center, said she supports the new requirements. She said she believes they will help lower the rate of sexual assault and not only will it be beneficial to the university, but to the community as a whole. “What happens at SIU affects others in the community, so we see this as a great initiative,” Williams said. “SIU is the leader in the area, so often times when they do something other educational venues follow suit.” Please see PREVENTION · 2

ABOVE: Kelly Neville, Yoga Instructor at the Recreation Center leads Yoga and Yogurt, a summer program put on by SIU Extended Campus and the Recreation Center. Megan Campbell, graduate assistant for SIU Extended Campus (far left), and Amber Manning-Ouellette (left), director of enrollment at the college of business (right), follow Neville’s lead. RIGHT: Mona Harpalani, Carbondale resident, follows Neville’s lead. This is the second time for this event that is held outside on the Pulliam Lawn. JAMIE EADER DAILY EGYPTIAN

Updates create better environment KETURAH TANNER Daily Egyptian While students are busy updating phones and laptops, staff is busy updating campus for the new school year. New streetlights, better technology and more classrooms are all in store for upcoming semesters. Once spring semester ended, campus updates began. Multiple classroom renovations and streetlight updates started May 15, Phil Gatton, director of the Physical Plant, said. New classrooms in Pulliam Hall, better air systems in

Faner Hall, faster communications and new streetlights should all be ready for fall semester. New ceiling and flooring is being installed in Faner Hall, Neckers and the Agriculture Building. Several classrooms were in need of maintenance work and many needed technology updates with laptops and issues with projectors. In the past, controlling the heating and air conditioning temperatures in Faner Hall was difficult. The Physical Plant staff has since replaced heating and air units in several classrooms and is working on the University Museum and Auditorium.

“It will be much more cost efficient and easier to maintain,” Gatton said. He said the temperatures should be more moderate making the classrooms comfortable for students. Those in Pulliam Hall will also see major changes. The pool and gym areas are being converted into studio, lab and classroom space, Gatton said. Art and Design classes, as well as social work classes, will be using the new areas. The work began August 2012 and is currently on schedule. Please see UPDATE · 2

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“Once we get done, we will have worked on over 100 classrooms,” Gatton said. Along with more comfortable classrooms, students will be able to enjoy better technology. David Crain, assistant provost and chief information officer for information technology, said campus would have fiber optics cables to improve connectivity. “Our goal is to become a leader in information technology,” Crain said. “Technology is important to students and becoming a technology leader will benefit their learning experiences.” Campus will have faster networking between buildings, outdoor wireless in main areas and “voice over IP.” Voice over Internet Protocol (IP) is a communication system allowing voice calls through Internet connections. Calls can now be forwarded to tables, laptops and cell phones, not just landline phones. Crain said the communications lines are almost 30 years old and would cost more to replace and maintain. Sending voice over the data network is accommodating the phones as well as Internet. An AT&T cell tower is also being installed at the top of Morris Library. “It’s a safety issue, and a convenience, because many phones won’t work in certain areas on campus,” Crain said. “It’s a big improvement for students.”

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She said the Women’s Center has been encouraging more extensive steps in sexual assault prevention. She said the center believes the university has been compliant with existing laws in recent years, but of the prevalence of sexual assault in the community, there could always be more done.

Grounds and maintenance staff are also working to install LED lighting on campus. Cost of LED lighting has dropped significantly and is more natural, Gatton said. “We’re trying to be more cost efficient and have better quality lighting,” Gatton said The project has been broken into phases, with the first on track to be done by the start of classes. The first phase includes the lights in front of the Student Services Building extending to Thompson Point. “We’re hoping to be done with the first by the time school starts,” Chuck Ragland, an electrician for the Physical Plant, said. Ragland is part of the group working on installing the Lincoln Drive streetlights. There will be two more phases of lighting updates continuing along Lincoln Drive. The same LED lights were installed by Faner Hall and the pedestrian walkway over Highway 51. Gatton said the lighting has been well received and thinks the new lighting will work well for the rest of campus. Thompson Woods will also get new lighting, as well as new walkways. “I’m hoping that everything will be done within a year,” Gatton said. Keturah Tanner can be reached at ktanner@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254

“Unfortunately sexual assault is common here,” Williams said. “It is difficult to say the exact statistics, but we are confident that SIU is no different than any of the other universities in the country where one in four college women is a victim.” Incoming students will receive an email Aug. 1 with more information about the training process and a link to the online awareness program.

“It’s a big university commitment to make sure we are keeping SIU safe, so it is definitely a lot of energy and effort,” Trisler said. “We really appreciate the staff and students taking time out of a busy part of the year to make this a priority.” Storey Mayer can be reached at smayer@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254

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100 candidates vie for Iraq presidency ROY GUTMAN McClatchy Foreign Staff BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament will meet Wednesday to elect a new president, a crucial step toward naming a new prime minister and government, but questions are growing about whether anyone can save the country after the collapse of its army and the loss of as much as half its territory to the radical Islamic State. In a sign of the erosion of political order, 100 people are competing in Wednesday’s vote — for a post whose occupant in past years was determined in advance by the top power brokers. “Tomorrow’s vote will be devoid of any political deals,” Salim al Jubouri, the speaker of the parliament, a Sunni Muslim, said Tuesday. “We will evaluate nominations with complete equality.” The most prominent candidate is Barham Salih, a former prime minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, a moderate politician who has lines out to nearly every other faction. Like nearly all the Sunni and Kurdish parliamentarians and most Shiite Muslims, Salih is highly critical of the current prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for mismanaging relations with Kurds and Sunnis and for the corruption in the security services, which is blamed for their rout last month at the hands of Islamic extremists throughout northern and western Iraq. By tradition, the speaker of parliament should be a Sunni, the prime minister a Shiite and the successor to the outgoing president, Jalal Talabani, should be a Kurd from his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party. But this time, Kurds have announced

a referendum on independence and are halfway out the door. The PUK has named two candidates, Salih and veteran politician Fouad Massoum, and there may be a third. Those who have tossed their hats in the ring include members of the National Alliance, a grouping of the major Shiite parties, starting with al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition. Kurdish officials say they’ll have no dealings with the new president if he or she is a Shiite. Whoever is elected — and the vote might stretch into next week — it’s anything but clear that a new president can prevent the state from breaking up. The first challenge will be to manage the political process, which translates into replacing al-Maliki with a Shiite who is acceptable to all religious and ethnic factions. It’s a difficult task, as al-Maliki emerged from the April 30 elections controlling the biggest bloc — with 93 seats in the 328-seat parliament — but far short of the majority needed. The facts on the ground also present an immense challenge. The Iraqi military has proved incapable of pushing back Islamic State forces, which have shown themselves adept at shifting their combat units and heavy weapons back and forth across the border with Syria, where they now hold more than 35 percent of the country. Where the military has attempted a response, it’s been accused of using indiscriminate force, including the use of barrel bombs — improvised explosives dropped from high altitudes. There was more of that Monday and Tuesday, as the Reuters news agency reported that government shelling and

airstrikes, which included three barrel bombs dropped on Fallujah and two on nearby Garma, had killed 19 people. Then there’s the personality issue. Salih, while widely respected, has spent little time in Baghdad in recent years and doesn’t have the extensive ties with Sunni and Shiite politicians that Talabani had. Talabani himself has been off the scene for more than 18 months, recovering from a stroke in Germany. “Everyone loved and respected Talabani, and they all have a long, long history with him,” said Dana Asaad, the editor-in-chief of Awene.com, a Kurdish website. “Barham Salih cannot have the influence on all the different players that Talabani had. I don’t think there is another Kurd who can play that role.” Asaad said the first test would be whether the Kurds could agree on a single candidate. “If they cannot get their act together, how are they going to have a united way forward in the parliament?” he told McClatchy. Under a sequence outlined in Iraq’s 2005 Constitution, drafted when the United States was an occupation force, the president must be elected by the end of July, and the biggest parliamentary bloc, in this case the National Alliance, must name its candidate for prime minister within 15 days after that — by mid-August. It’s also possible that with the Islamic extremists at the gates of Baghdad, parliament — after holding an elimination round Wednesday — will vote for a president the same day and that a new president will press for an urgent vote for a new prime minister.

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After a five-year absence, La Roux returns with ‘Trouble in Paradise’ GERRICK D. KENNEDY Los Angeles Times “I’d rather never sell any records again and do what feels right than to not be true. There’s too much of that already,” La Roux’s Elly Jackson said. Jackson is lounging poolside at her mid-city hotel the day after closing a teaser summer tour with a gig at the Greek Theatre supporting dance music greats New Order. The shows were a preview for her highly anticipated comeback album, “Trouble in Paradise.” The album, released on Tuesday, is her first in five years. La Roux’s synth-heavy eponymous 2009 debut — which spawned hits “Bulletproof ” and “In for the Kill” and won a Grammy for electronic/ dance album — turned the British singer with a fire-hued, Woody Woodpecker-esque quiff and androgynous flair into a pop star. “I felt like who I was on the first record was very much a thing of its own,” Jackson said, pushing her hair away from her sunglasses (it’s still bright red, but now styled into a more relaxed swoosh). “It felt like part of a zeitgeist. You can’t keep feeding off that. “Apart from a small number of hardcore fans, most people are like,

‘You’re that “Bulletproof ” girl or the girl with the quiff.’ And that’s not a career,” Jackson, 26, said. “It was nice, I’m not complaining. I’m very happy with the success of the first album … but I wanted more in a way, and that involved wanting less.” Then, La Roux vanished, something new acts usually don’t chance. There were collaborations with Kanye West and Jay Z as well as an exuberant appearance at Coachella last year. But her absence was rife with setbacks that stalled her sophomore effort, including a twoyear bout with performance anxiety that she said left her unable to sing her distinctive falsetto. “It was one of those things where something in your head manifested itself as a physical problem,” Jackson said, who worked with a confidence therapist. “It was just pressure and youth and inexperience. It was unbelievably frustrating.” Sessions for “Trouble in Paradise” began with a split between Jackson and producer-composer Ben Langmaid, the mostly invisible other half of La Roux. According to Jackson, the duo had issues for “a good year” before they went their separate ways in early 2012. “It hasn’t been made out this way, but it was mutual,” Jackson said,

referring to recent interviews from Langmaid. “I was just possibly the one who realized we were wasting our time ... and it’s never easy to be the one who realizes first.” Although Langmaid is credited on half of the new album, the songs were rearranged by Jackson and Ian Sherwin, who engineered most of La Roux’s debut and assumed Langmaid’s duties on the record. “I just don’t want to bring that negative energy around the record ... all it does is detract from what Ian and I have done together, and it’s not fair,” she said. “Everybody keeps on asking about Ben, it’s quite insulting to the work that’s done. I don’t know how big someone’s involvement has been if I haven’t seen him in two years.” More grating for her than discussing the split is the misconception that she was just the face of La Roux when she is La Roux. Jackson believes that having a male counterpart played a role in people making that assumption. “I played every single part on the first record, and I said that numerous times in interviews, and people still wrote he’s the keyboard player because he’s a ... bloke,” she said. “I’ve been frustrated over this for years and it’s part of what ... led to our split.

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Writers taking time with ‘Breaking Bad’ spinoff RICK BENTLEY The Fresno Bee LO S A N G E L E S — There’s no question, “Breaking Bad” is one of the biggest things to happen to TV in decades. The AMC series was so popular, you would think that the people behind the spinoff series, “Better Call Saul,” would be working to quickly get the new program on the air. But that’s not what’s happening. Series creator Vince Gilligan is a little more laid back than that. At the annual summer meeting of TV critics tour in Los Angeles last week, Gilligan took full responsibility for the series launch being delayed to an early 2015 start.

“I am slow as mud as a TV writer. I always have been. It was my big fear when I got the job on ‘The X Files.’ I had been writing movie scripts, and I didn’t know if I could write at a TV pace. I still feel I’m very slow for television. We had a pace, thanks to AMC and Sony, on ‘Breaking Bad’ that was deliciously stately for television, and it was nothing that they wanted,” Gilligan says. “I think I can speak for them, it’s nothing any studio or network would want, but we have a way of doing things that is slower than most TV shows.” It took an average of three weeks to put together an episode of “Breaking Bad.” That was the reason the final 16 episodes of “Breaking Bad” were aired

in two eight-part seasons. It was such a long process, and that’s why Gilligan’s not surprised it’s taking a long time to make “Better Call Saul.” “We want to think everything through, and we feel that that pays dividends because, with ‘Breaking Bad,’ people say, ‘That seemed to knit together pretty well.’ Thanks to AMC and Sony, we had time to think everything through. So here we are doing it again, and I think we could have made November, but the bigger point is could we have made our 13 coming in at the same time with Season 2,” Gilligan says. “And AMC was very gracious to us and did not push us to say, ‘You’ve got to figure out a new way to do this job.’

Q&A: When series are canceled mid-plot, viewers are left to wonder RICH HELDENFELS Acron Beacon Journal You have questions. I try to have answers. Q: Given the number of TV shows with continuing stories that get canceled every year with no resolution or answers (e.g. “Revolution”), wouldn’t it be nice if the producers released a summary of where the story would have gone if it had continued? This would be minimal work for them and would make viewers much less upset. A: Usually, when a serialized story ends, a producer is asked what would have come next. And sometimes they have answers. A recent question and answer in this column included what might have been for “Dirty Sexy Money.” You can find a video pitch from “Veronica Mars” for what would have been its fourth season — if it had gotten one. “Deadwood” mastermind David Milch explains some of where his show was headed in an extra in the complete series DVD and Blu-ray sets. But the painful fact is, the people

making television do not always know where they are going. For one thing, unless they are given the luxury of an announced final season, they don’t know exactly how long they will be around. So do they prepare an arc for one more season, or expect to have more than that? “How I Met Your Mother” stayed on the air for so long, it eventually morphed into “How Ted and Robin Ended Up Together” — and had to kill off the “mother” to do that. “Magnum, P.I.” seemed to end with Thomas Magnum dead at the end of the seventh season, then it was renewed for an eighth and had to bring Magnum back to life. But sometimes producers are just short-sighted. A notorious case is that of Fox’s series “Reunion,” which involved a murder mystery. Not only was it canceled during its first season, before solving the mystery, it was reportedly dropped before even the producers had decided who the killer was. Q: I swear just about every old movie I watch has either Ward Bond or Walter Brennan in it. How many movies did each of them appear in?

A: Two of the most reliable character actors in movies and TV, each had more than 200 big-screen appearances. (The exact count varies depending on the reference and whether you count very small and uncredited roles.) Brennan, for that matter, was also a movie stuntman. Brennan is also the only performer to win three best supporting actor Oscars, and he famously starred in the long-running TV series “The Real McCoys” as well as the series “The Tycoon” and “The Guns of Will Sonnett,” and was a regular in the second season of “To Rome With Love.” He was 80 when he died of emphysema in 1974. Bond, who often appeared in his friend John Wayne’s films, made TV appearances, too, and starred on TV’s “Wagon Train” from its premiere in 1957 until 1961, as the show aired episodes Bond had made before his death by heart attack in late 1960. Considering all that work, it should not surprise you that Brennan and Bond were in some of the same movies, among them “My Darling Clementine” and “Sergeant York.”

Because, A, they’re good folks who were understanding of our process and, B, I think they also know we only know the one way to do it.” If “Better Call Saul” is half as good as “Breaking Bad,” it will be worth the wait. Actors prepare for roles in a variety of ways. For Marin Ireland, the prep work she did for “The Divide,” the first scripted drama on WE tv, was an internship. “The Divide” explores morality through the modern justice system. As a worker with The Innocence Initiative, Christine Rosa (Ireland) looks into the case of a death row inmate she believes was wrongly convicted of a young family’s murder

11 years earlier. She finds new evidence in a search for the truth and confronts an equally passionate district attorney, Adam Page (Damon Gupton). Ireland did an internship with a legal group similar to where her character works. “I saw a lot of different things. The main thing is that it looked and felt different than any other legal atmosphere I’d ever seen on television or in a movie. It was a wide open plan and everybody was sort of bringing things back and forth to each other. And they’re dealing with a lot of emotions at that place. They’ve learned to use each other to cope with those things and to talk to each other,” Ireland says.

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Winona State football player dies at practice SHANNON RYAN Chicago Tribune Former University of Illinois offensive lineman Shawn Afryl died of cardiac arrest on Monday night, according to his former high school football coach. Afryl was 22. He was practicing with a few teammates and collapsed at Winona State University in Minnesota, where he had just signed two months before continuing his playing career. Paramedics were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead at a local hospital, said former Niles West coach Curtis Tate, who was visiting on Tuesday with Afryl’s family. He had no known

medical conditions, his mother said. Funeral plans were being arranged Tuesday afternoon, but the family was struggling to find funds to bring home his body to Skokie, Ill. and have him buried “properly.” His mother Sue posted a request for donations on the website gofundme.com. “He was an incredible natural athlete,” Sue Afryl said the Tribune on Tuesday. “He gave joy and smiles to everyone he met. He worked at his sports that he loved so much. He gave them everything he had to give. The loss is endless. He was a good boy.” She remembers her 6-foot-3, 310-pound son letting kids climb on his bear-like back and blowing his own time

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in the 40-yard dash to run alongside a struggling high school teammate. She hopes to set up a fund called the Shawn Patrick Afryl Shoe Fund to help in-need youth — like he was — obtain sports equipment. “This would make him smile.” She said her son, who was described as patriotic, had told his girlfriend he wanted to be cremated and have his ashes partially spread on a historic American landmark. Afryl chose the Illini over other Big Ten teams like Indiana, Purdue and Iowa. After redshirting in 2010, he played in only one game against Charleston Southern in 2012 but took special pride in dressing for the trip to Wrigley Field in

Chicago to face Northwestern. “He’s a huge Cubs fan and his parents are huge Cubs fans,” Tate said. “It was special to see him play at Wrigley. You see the kid, you can’t tell he wasn’t playing by the smile on his face.” Afryl graduated with a degree in political science from Illinois, but after a year off decided to pursue his education and playing career. He had hoped to teach history and special education and wanted to coach football. “He wanted to make his family proud,” Tate said. Illinois coach Tim Beckman and other Illini teammates expressed their condolences. “All of us in the Fighting Illini

football family are greatly saddened by Shawn’s passing,” Illinois football coach Tim Beckman said in a statement. “He was a great teammate and a dedicated student. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.” Winona State released the following statement from coach Tom Sawyer: “The time Shawn was on campus, he showed a lot of people what a great fit he was going to be not only for our football program but for our campus as well. He did an excellent job as a counselor during our team camps, and his leadership qualities and maturity were a valuable asset to our successful camps. He will be sorely missed.”

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MATT MURSCHEL Orlando Sentinel The ACC, SEC, Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-12 and the NCAA appear close to reaching agreement about rule changes after the Division I Steering Committee on Governance recommended a new structure Friday. It fits closer to the autonomy, including the right to set its own rules on key athlete support issues, the Power 5 leagues have been backing. Under the new committee plan, the group would only need a majority vote to establish new legislation such as providing a full cost of attendance for a scholarship. Previous proposals have called for two-thirds majority approval, opening the door to smaller conferences that cannot afford extra compensation to veto some of the costly changes proposed by the Power 5. The committee plan still needs approval from the NCAA Board of Trustees, who meet to vote on Aug. 7 in Indianapolis. It would then need to survive a 60day override period when smaller conferences could protest the changes. However, many of those leagues have stressed they don’t want the Power 5 to break away and dramatically alter the current NCAA structure. Perhaps this is the end of all this talk of the Power 5 breaking away to form a Division IV.

ACC TV network makes sense, but no slam dunk LUKE DECOCK The News & Observer G R E E N S B O RO , N.C. — Expansion has, for the foreseeable future, run its course. While college athletics is entering a period of widespread and uncertain change, the ACC has achieved stability. The biggest question facing the conference now is a simple one. Has the time come for an ACC Network, an actual channel dedicated to the conference? The easy answer is yes. There has never been a better time to start a sports network of any kind. Live sports moves the broadcast needle like nothing else. Demand among advertisers has never been higher. The increasingly astronomic rights fees broadcasters are paying reflect that.

Yet there are other considerations for the ACC, which is why the conference has taken a surprisingly equivocal tone about its television future – which will be decided alongside ESPN, which holds the conference’s rights through 2027, and could take another two or three years to shake out. “You really have to look at it strategically from a business standpoint to determine whether it makes the most sense long term, because it’s a long-term decision,” ACC commissioner John Swofford said in an interview Sunday. “It’s not something you get into and get out of real quickly. We want to be diligent. And by we, I’m talking about us, the league, but also ESPN. You don’t take that step unless you feel pretty confident it will be a successful

business venture for both entities.” The Big Ten was the first conference to launch its own network, and turned the per-subscriber fee it charged cable and satellite providers into a revenue stream lucrative enough to coax Maryland out of the ACC. Four years ago, the ACC decided to stick with a mix of ESPN and its traditional Raycom syndication rather than pursue its own network, but the landscape continues to change. With the addition of Louisville, the ACC has more television households and population in its geographic footprint than any other conference. Meanwhile, the market is booming, even if it turns out to be a bubble in the long term. Now appears to be the time to strike. “I made a speech in 1985 where I said I think we’ve reached the end of our ability

to pay rights fees,” Neal Pilson, a former president of CBS Sports, said. “That didn’t prove to be the case. The value of sports programming, relative to other types of programming, has escalated, has increased, because of the live nature of it and the loyalty of the American public toward players and teams.” Not everyone has cashed in. Start-up costs are huge. The University of Texas’ Longhorn Network has struggled. The Pac-12 Network is not widely available. And the ACC would have to buy back the rights to games ESPN has sublicensed to Raycom and Fox Sports. Even a successful conference-specific channel requires a tradeoff between exposure and money (subscriber fees). For the ACC, that means weighing the reach of the so-called ACC Network, the rebranded

Raycom syndication, against the financial benefits of an actual ACC Network. The relative success of ESPN’s newly launched SEC Network will have a lot to say about the direction the ACC goes. “Time will tell,” Swofford said. “There’s at least a belief right now by what you see happening that a devoted conference channel is the way people seem to be going. We’re all a little different. From our standpoint, you don’t want to go down that road simply because it’s the fad or the sexy thing to be doing. You want to go down the road because you strongly believe it’s in the best interests of your conference.” For now, the ACC will watch and wait. The decision about whether to start its own network is a big one. Nothing the ACC does will have as much to say about the long-term future of the conference.