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Daily Egyptian THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2015

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Sustainable farm sells fruits of their labor

J ordan d uncan | @jordanduncanDE Ben Alexander, a junior from Biggsville studying agriculture education, oversees the stand for the SIU Sustainable Farm Wednesday outside the Agriculture Building while Kevin MacDonald, a senior from Vienna studying workforce education, examines cantaloupes before buying them. The farm recently started a Community Supported Agriculture agreement, where customers pay in advance for regular deliveries, allowing the farm to start the season with more supplies. Alexander also works the farm and said he likes watching the process of the food being grown. “It’s good. You’re out all day, you plant something and then a couple months later you harvest what you planted from a little seed,” he said. “So you follow everything all the way through and it’s cool. You know where the produce comes from.” The farm is shared with the Local Organic Gardening Initiative of Carbondale, which has a similar stand outside Faner Hall.

City council votes to lift Halloween bar ban Jordan duncan | @jordanduncanDE Restrictions on the sale of alcohol in Carbondale on the week of Halloween have been fully rescinded for 2015. The Carbondale City Council met Tuesday to discuss the sale of liquor and called for a vote on the restrictions. Two council members voted to keep the limitation. Lee Fronabarger, a city council member, voted to keep it and said the Halloween riots that happened about 17 years ago caused problems for the university. “When you hurt the reputation of an institution, not only a city but a school university, it takes years to rebuild that,” he said.

Council members who voted to remove the restriction said there were less people coming into the city than expected during Halloween 2014, costing the city overtime pay for the two weekends in which police remained active. Fronabarger said crowds may not have appeared because partiers were reluctant to go outside in the cold. He acknowledged that this year’s Halloween falls on a Saturday, and problems may arise from 300 new residents in new developments downtown. “I just wanted to be a little cautious and get past that,” Fronabarger said. “Let’s get past the Saturday celebration and nothing happens, it’s fine. Open it up next year.” Please see HALLOWEEN | 2

SIU represented at summer White House workshop chase Myers | @chasemyers_DE SIU’s associate director of the Center for Workforce Development, Jeanne Kitchens, attended a White House Inter-Agency Policy Workshop in Washington D.C. in May held at the Eisenhower Administration Building right next to the White House. Kitchens was chosen to represent the university because of her work with the Illinois Open Education Resources and learning registry where people can openly access education materials. Under the resource organization, teachers can go to the website and download materials for free. The site also offers possible lesson plans and discussion materials for a given subject. The workshop emphasized open access

to government funded education resources and included discussions between multiple federal agencies and representatives from around the country. “Our conversation and focus was on how to create fair and consistent policies that encourage the sharing of licensed educational products developed through grant funding so that they are available to all who need them,” Kitchens said in a press release. While one purpose of the workshop was to work toward bettering the availability of the government funded materials, it was also a great way to bring together different agencies to communicate openly and work toward a positive outcome, she said. Please see KITCHENS | 2


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