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Mary Barnhart | @MaryBarnhartDE Karen Schauwecker, the sustainability coordinator for the Sustainability office, gathers recyclable cardboard, Aug. 16, 2018, during move-in day at Thompson Point.

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Reaching new heights

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Chelsey Varela, a freshman studying criminology from Centralia, climbs to the top of a rock-climbing wall on, Aug. 16, during "Light Up the Lake" at Campus Lake. "The thing I'm looking forward to the most is getting out of my comfort zone and meeting new people," Varela said.

Jesse McCartney to perform at Shryock Auditorium in October BRIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunoz

Jesse McCartney, known for his hit single "Beautiful Soul," will be performing at SIU's Shryock Auditorium on Oct. 13, the Student Programming Council announced during a new student pep rally Friday night.

McCartney later posted a video of the announcement on his Facebook page.

Last semester, the university hosted Ice Cube and Skillet.

President William Howard Taft gave a public lecture at Shryock Auditorium in 1918, Vice President Richard Nixon held an event at the venue in 1956 and Stevie Ray Vaughan and the bluesrock band Double Trouble held a concert in 1984.

McCartney will take the stage on Oct. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in

Shryock Auditorium. Tickets are $10 for SIU students and $20 for the public. VIP, Pit and Meet and Greet options are also available.

Tickets go on sale Monday morning at 9 a.m. at www. siusalukis.com.

Staff reporter Brian Munoz can be reached at bmunoz@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @BrianMMunoz.

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Parking lot south of Communications Building changed to green decal lot AUSTIN PHELPS & TYLER MALONE

The university parking division has made changes to the parking permit lots and decals.

Some lots have been changed from red to green decals, including lot 4, located outside McLeod Theater, south of the Communications Building. Green decals are for students living on campus. Red and yellow decals are also available for commuters, but you must apply to see which you’re eligible for online.

Green decals start at $140 in August, the same price as red decals.

According to the university parking division website, yellow decals start at $60 in August, but are only valid for lots 18 and 56, and in any unassigned and unrestricted parking spaces on campus.

Four university paid parking lots are now compatible with Whoosh!, a parking app for Android, Apple and Windows phones.

According to the Whoosh! website, it’s a mobile parking application that uses GPS to automatically identify where you are parked.

Green decals are for students living on campus. Red and yellow decals are also available for commuters, but you must apply to see which you're eligble for online.

The app’s website said to use Whoosh!, a user needs to park their car, open their app, choose a location to park, set the duration of time they will be parked and pay.

The app’s website said Whoosh! has features such as notifying you before your time expires through notifications, extending parking times to avoid paying tickets, paying anywhere and seeing a full history of past parking transactions.

Whoosh! has 3.1/5 stars listed on Google Play while the Apple Store shows a rating of 2/5 stars.

According to positive reviews of Whoosh! on Google Play and the Apple Store, customers hadn’t experienced any problems but they would like to be able to navigate the app easier.

Negative customer reviews said problems included inaccurate GPS location, a limit on parking times ending at midnight and overbilling.

Whoosh! can be used on campus and is available for the following metered parking lots: Lot 5, located northwest of Woody Hall Lot 13, located east of the Student Center Lot 29, located on the northeast corner of Wham Drive and Lincoln Drive.

Lot 94, located north of the Student Recreation Center For more information visit the university parking division website.

Staff reporter Austin Phelps can be reached at aphelps@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @austinphelps96.

Staff reporter Tyler Malone can be reached at tmalone@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @TylerJohnMalone.

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Students and community members gather for Neckers public astronomy viewing FARRAH BLAYDES | @Farrah_Blaydes

On Sunday night 38 students and community members attended the public astronomy observation event held on Neckers roof.

Before the event began there were minor complications getting the event started.

Members of the community gathered around the doors that were supposed to be open at 8:15 p.m.

“It seems that it's been canceled,” Lincoln Butzow, a freshman studying forestry, said. “But, there’s been no one to tell anyone that it's been canceled.”

Bob Baer, computer and electronic specialist for the physics department and head coordinator for the event, came with students from the physics department to unlock the doors.

The rooftop filled with community members pointing out constellations and looking through telescopes provided by the physics department.

Faculty and students from the physics department helped coordinate the event along with the local astronomy club, Astronomical Association of Southern Illinois.

Baer said students and community members can get more involved with the event by joining the Saluki Astronomy registered student organization on campus.

Students can also join the AASI club that meets every second Monday of the month at Pagliai’s Pizza in Carbondale, Baer said.

“We’re a group of amateurs that work with Bob and help him with the viewings,” Harry Treece, president of AASI, said. “We also hold our own viewings once a month.”

The AASI club, founded in 1997, consists of local community members who gather to teach and study astronomy. The club typically holds their astronomy viewings at Giant City

Allie Tiller | @allietiller_de Jenifer Ruiz, a senior studying radiation therapy, of Zion looking at the planets and stars through a telescope on the roof of Neckers during the physic department's public astronomy viewing, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2018.

state park visitors center once a month.

“We try to bring astronomy to the people,” Treece said.

The viewing attracted students from various departments on campus, such as radiology and forestry.

Antoine Washington, a junior studying automotive tech, attended the event for the first time Sunday night.

Washington said it was pretty to look through the telescopes and actually see the moon and stars.

“It’s a cool experience because it’s not something you get to do all the time, not everyone has a big expensive telescope,” Washington said.

Marilyn Mitchner, a Carbondale community member said the event is inclusive to both the student body and local community.

“I think this is a great community event because it includes people from the local community and students,” Mitchner said. “It’s a great way to bring both together.”

Public Astronomy observatory events are held on the third Sunday of each month.

Staff reporter Farrah Blaydes can be reached at fblaydes@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @Farrah_Blaydes.

“We try to bring astronomy to the people.”

- Harry Treece AASI president

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SIUC, Carbondale community give testimony on funding and future of university system BRIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunoz

SIUC administration, students and Carbondale community members provided testimonies to a legislative panel headed by the Illinois House Higher Education Committee chair, Emanuel “Chris” Welch, regarding the university, university system and higher education in Illinois on Monday.

The panel consisted of Welch (D-Westchester), Dave Severin (R-Benton), Terri Bryant (R-Murphysboro), Natalie Phelps Finnie (D-Elizabethtown) and Carol Ammons (D-Urbana.)

Stakeholders were brought to address the panel based on their affiliations with the campus and community.

J. Kevin Dorsey, Interim SIU President, said he “has been asked to lead the SIU System at a time when the university is suffering" and that his first goal as president is to help the system heal.

“Hopefully [we can] walk in each other's shoes and expand our efforts to collaborate and cooperate between all the campuses and sites,” Dorsey said. “Part of that healing is for each of us to recognize the value that every one of [us] brings in making central and southern Illinois a great place to live and work.”

During an August special meeting, the SIU Board of Trustees approved the requestfor-proposal process for the selection of an independent consultant that will be chosen during the September meeting, Dorsey said.

There will also to be a management audit to review the effectiveness of SIU remaining a system and another study to determine to determine if any campus functions could be moved to the system level, Dorsey said.

Dorsey said he is against legislation that would separate the system, an item that was presented last April by Rep. Jay Hoffman (D-Swansea.)

Hoffman introduced similar bills to split the SIU system in 2003 and 2013 “I certainly didn't bring that request forward — I think that was made by your fellow legislators,” Dorsey said to Ammons.

“I’m not supportive of it.” “[I] encourage our campuses to bring their unique talents and attributes together

Isabel Miller | @IsableMiller J. Kevin Dorsey, interim president of SIU, speaks to Emanuel Welch, the Illinois House Higher Education Committee chairman, during a legislative panel, Monday, Aug. 20, at the SIU Carbondale Research Park Office of Economic and Regional Development. (Isabel Miller | @IsabelMiller)

to collaborate with each other to build up programs not only to our students but also to the people of this region so that we may fulfill our mission to improve the lives of everyone that lives here,” Dorsey said.

SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno shared similar sentiments with Dorsey and said he hopes to see the universities become closer together.

“There are great things happening on both campuses across the system and our hope is

that moving forward we’re going to be able to bring ourselves closer together and not be driven apart,” Montemagno said.

As the Carbondale campus prepares to celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2019, Montemagno said he's looking at ways to prepare the university for the next 150 years.

Regarding talks on the university's enrollment decline, Montemagno said the administration is in the process of “turning that ship around.”

“We’re doing this through reorganizing our campus to make sure we fit the needs of the future,” Montemagno said.

Alumni interaction and fundraisings have been another goal for Montemagno.

“We raised $25 million last year,” Montemagno said. “[Alumni] believe in the future we’re promoting and want to participate actively.”

On state funding, Montemagno said the university started seeing a negative impact

Wednesday, august 22, 2018 around 2001 due to the lack of funding but a source of stable money from the state would make a difference.

“Stable money helps — having a multi-year budget for two or three years so you can do some real planning,” Montemagno said. “When you’re hiring a faculty member, you’re making a permanent multi-year commitment to an individual.”

Montemagno said it would be great to have multiple-year outlooks in order to plan for recruiting and faculty members.

The chancellor also said that negative press has had an impact on the university.

“We need to understand that words matter and almost all of the publicity that I’ve seen since I’ve been here on Illinois education has not been as shiny and bright as we would like,” Montemagno said. “I think that we need to spend a lot of energy talking about what we’re doing that is right.”

Montemagno said a recently passed MAP grant bill was not covered by the media outlets.

“It’s nowhere. You don’t see it in the press, you don’t see it being advertised, you don’t talk about the impact that it’s going to have on the lives of all of these individuals,” Montemagno said. “We need to do a better job promoting how Illinois is behind higher education and how Illinois understands that education is the passport for prosperity in Illinois.”

Montemagno said the upward swing at the university is part of the school’s re-emphasizing four attributes associated with getting an education at SIU — communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking.

“We are revamping the academic programming — we’re making core curriculum extend through all four years,” Montemagno said. “I want to have a place where anybody can come learn about anything they want to learn about and to do it at a world-class level.”

Montemagno said there has been work done on improving the

student experience.

“You probably heard that we closed the towers,” Montemagno said. “We closed the towers not for economic reasons — we closed the towers because we had the ability to bring all of the students in one location.”

Montemagno said they “created a community where the dormitories are 97-98 percent full versus 68 percent full.”

There have also been changes in the way meal cards work, Montemagno said.

“Now they can use part of their meal plan to go to Chick-fil-A in the Student Center and buy a meal there,” Montemagno said.

As part of the plan to improve the student experience, Montemagno said a new intramural esports arena is to be placed in the Student Center within the next two months.

“The whole idea is having a collegiate experience where [students] are having fun… and growing as individuals to be successful,” Montemagno said.

The focus moving forward is accessibility, the university and rigorous scholarship, Montemagno said.

“By doing that we will reassert ourselves as the maroon ruby in the crown of higher education in Illinois,” Montemagno said.

Marsha Ryan, SIU Board of Trustees member, said a funding study needs to factor in enrollment, the cost of education and deferred maintenance costs.

Ryan said Duane Stucky, Vice President for Financial and Administrative Affairs, sent out seven request-for-proposals for a system funding study. Six are expected to be submitted.

“It is the full board’s solemn pledge to discover the facts with the evidence and follow the evidence wherever it leads,” Ryan said. “We will do this work and fairly apply the evidence-based formula to our unique campuses.”

Ryan said the system is valuable and that the board will treat each campus

Page 7 with respect and without bias, but Sean Cooney, a graduate student in the Educational Administration and Higher Education does not believe that can happen without holding officials accountable.

Cooney called for the removal of board chair Amy Sholar, whose correspondence showed she worked with former SIU President Randy J. Dunn in an attempt to shift over $5 million from Carbondale to Edwardsville.

“I don’t know how we can justify removing a president for the things he did… and then not remove other people who also did the exact same thing,” Cooney said. “I don’t understand how we can sit here and justify moving forward if we can’t clean up the past.”

Cooney said integrity and respect for higher education as a whole are more important instead of campus affiliations.

“We should be doing the best for everyone,” Cooney said. “We need to make sure the funding is available for everyone — that means supporting all of our campuses.”

Ammons said the Higher Education Committee does not want to be involved in the micromanagement of higher education.

“I have not participated one day as a member of Higher Education in determining how allocations work between these institutions — that’s not our job,” Ammons said. “What we do is fund higher education as a state and the universities decide where that money goes.”

Ammons said she would not be in favor of a bill that would change that.

Toussaint Mitchell, Undergraduate Student Government president, spoke on a panel alongside former president Emily Buice and student trustee Brione Lockett.

For Mitchell, SIU may not have been his first choice but it was his “best choice.”

“I believe that [SIU] has helped me grow into the individual that I am now,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said there is something wrong when the budget is being

stretched so far that the two sibling schools “are at each other's throats.”

“I have slowly watched this campus deteriorate over three years and often feeling neglected by the state,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said there is a conversation being held by the undergraduate students that most people in the room aren’t hearing and probably won’t hear.

“A lot of the students don’t feel supported at the university,” Mitchell said.

Mitchell said he entered the university on academic probation but he’s been able to persevere with the assistance of student programs, specifically the Center for Academic Success, which has since been eliminated.

“The university lacks a lot but it also [builds] character,” Mitchell said. “It forces the students to work with what we have.”

Mitchell said the university has potential and that proper funding would allow the university to offer the students more than the university is providing now.

A panel made up of local business owners spoke on the economic impact that the university made.

George Sheffer, former owner of Murdale True Value Hardware, said a company going out of business in Chicago won’t be as big of an economic impact as a southern Illinois business going out of business.

Sheffer also said he was opposed to a split of the university system.

“It is so important that all three campuses work together to stay together,” Sheffer said. “We are the strongest when we are together.”

James Karayiannis, owner of Pinch Penny Pub, spoke on the roots that his family has put in southern Illinois through their business.

“We tried to grow with the university,” Karayiannis said. “Now that the university is struggling — we’re all struggling.”

Karayiannis said, going as long as Illinois did without a budget creates uncertainty for families

looking at sending their children to Illinois universities.

“Uncertainty is like cancer — it never goes away, it weighs on you every day and it drains hope,” Karayiannis said.

Karayiannis said when you have children and one is struggling “you don’t just cast [them] off to the side, you invest in that child — [they] need the help the most.”

Mike Henry, Carbondale mayor and Gary Williams, Carbondale city manager, were slated to speak but did not attend the hearing. John Pollitz, Dean of Library Affairs, did not publicly speak on the matter but filed a record of appearance only.

Leading up to the meeting, eight individuals filed witness slips with no position on the SIU System Appropriation, one filed a witness slip in favor and one filed a slip against.

Welch said he thought the hearing was engaging, productive and informative.

"I was happy to see we had a packed house of people that were willing to come out and share their concerns with us," Welch said.

"We’re here to listen and take in that information and go back and make some important decisions."

Montemagno said moving forward, compromises would have to be made but the "institution's best days are ahead of us."

"The way we move forward is by working together and understanding that we have to make compromises on things that we do to be sure that we position ourselves to meet the needs of the future," Montemagno said.

Montemagno said those needs come not only from students, but the community as a whole.

"Once we embrace that and go forward like that, we can’t help but win."

The hearings will continue today at Edwardsville.

Staff reporter Brian Munoz can be reached at bmunoz@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter at @BrianMMunoz.

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SIU Board of Trustees moves forward with allocation study, approves interim deans BRIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunoz

The SIU Board of Trustees will be moving forward with a request for proposals on a system funding allocation study using an informal process that gives the board and the university more input.

After discussion with board chair Amy Sholar, creating a request-forproposal by Aug. 1 and presenting multiple potential consultants to the board at the September meeting was considered “an important additional objective,” according to the progress report created by Duane Stucky, Senior Vice President for Financial and Administrative Affairs.

Bids must be $99,999 or less, according to the board agenda attachments.

Three consulting contractors were identified as prospective candidates for the study: MGT Consulting Group, the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems.

By Aug. 6, the board is to seek suggestions from the National Association of System Heads membership on additional potential consultants. By Aug. 10 or before, the board is to seek suggestions from chancellors and Deans and Provosts on additional potential consultants and request to serve to evaluate consultant responses. By Aug. 15, the board is to send a request for proposals to potential consultants for responses by Aug. 31.

By Sept. 3, the board is to send consultant proposals to chancellors, Deans and Provosts with the individual committee member rating to be completed by Sept. 7.

By Sept. 8, ratings will be reviewed with the President.

At the next board meeting on Sept. 12, there will be a report of ratings for each consultant by each individual committee member, coded to stay anonymous, and a combined rating of each consultant will be given.

The call for a funding study When asked about any potential investigations in the roles that various administrators, system staff and board members played after the release of nearly 1,900 pages of correspondence that show an attempt to shift over $5 million from Carbondale to Edwardsville and the creation of legislation that would dissolve the system, Interim SIU President J. Kevin Dorsey said "that was the past."

"I'm more concerned in moving the university forward," Dorsey said. "I'm not interested in rehashing what may or may not have happened."

Appointments Members of the board also unanimously voted to appoint Cindy Buys as the interim dean for the School of Law. Andrew Balkansky as the interim dean for the College of Liberal Arts, with all trustees voting in favor besides student trustee Brione Lockett.

Both candidates were selected by Meera Komarraju, Interim Provost, in consultation with the SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno.

Balkansky will be paid $171,900 annually and Buys will be paid $222,000 annually beginning on Aug. 15.

Faculty, staff and students in the both the candidate’s schools

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“I'm more concerned in moving the university forward. I'm not interested in rehashing what may or may not have happened.”

- J. Kevin Dorsey Interim SIU President

had the opportunity to provide feedback on nominees for the interim dean position, according to appointment notes.

Lockett questioned Montemagno on the role of student involvement in the appointment of Balkansky as the interim dean of COLA. Interim provost Meera Komarraju ran to the chancellor’s side repeatedly during the series of questions from the board and whispered into the chancellor’s ear.

After being asked Sholar to step to the speaking podium, Komarraju said students were given the platform to provide feedback on the matter but did not answer whether or not students gave feedback.

Sholar asked Komarraju if the same process is taken in the appointment of an interim dean as a regular dean, Komarraju replied yes.

The Daily Egyptian reached out to the undergraduate and graduate student members of the College of Liberal Arts Council and the responses received at the time of publishing indicated that they had not been involved, despite being required to be by the College of Liberal Arts Operating Papers.

A letter, signed by eight current and former faculty and staff in the Anthropology department, including the current department chair, was written in opposition of the hiring of Balkansky claiming that he has been abusive to both colleagues and students.

"Dr. Balkansky has become renowned among faculty and graduate students for his aggressive outbursts during M.A. thesis and

Ph.D. dissertation defenses as well as his vindictive persecution of students he wanted purged from the department," according to the letter obtained by the Daily Egyptian.

The letter also claims that Balkansky also carried out an effort to “undermine and destroy the reputation of an international master's student from Latin America.”

“The reasons behind Dr. Balkansky's campaign of harassment against the student now appear to have been based on interpersonal matters having nothing to do with the student's professional or intellectual performance,” according to the letter.

Komarraju said the letter had been withdrawn yet Roberto Barrios, assistant professor in Anthropology and one of the letters signees, said he had not been contacted by anyone in administration about withdrawing the letter.

Presidential Search and System Evaluation The SIU Board of Trustees is in the process of hiring St. Louis based legal firm Bryan Cave LLP and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges to evaluate the presidential search and a system evaluation.

Sholar said historically, the presidential search has taken around seven months to complete but could be longer.

"I think the key thing that the entire board felt was let's get it right rather than do it fast," Dorsey said.

AGB will be at the September board meeting to conduct an assessment of the meeting and then

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Bryan Cave LLP is handling the system evaluation and a management audit through interviews with board members, management, the system office and the chancellors among other positions, Sholar said.

Each contract is not to be less than $100,000 to follow state procurement law, Sholar said.

The board also passed the purchase of a new digital color press for $882,218.70.

The Ameren Illinois easement agenda item to construct an underground gas pipeline that would cross property on the Edwardsville campus was taken off of the agenda.

Atmosphere Sholar said the atmosphere was "night and day" compared to the last meeting.

"I also don't want to focus on the past, I want to move us forward," Sholar said. "We have some tasks at hand that are monumental. We have to pick a new president to lead our system."

Sholar said there is work to do at each campus and the system office.

"You can't sell your house until you spruce it up," Sholar said. "We need to do some house cleaning – we're looking internally to make changes... so moving forward we can serve the system at our best."

Dorsey said this was the first board meeting he has attended in more than two and a half years.

"This just felt so normal," Dorsey said. "It was just a collegial group of people that we collectively needed to work on – it was fine."

The next SIU Board of Trustees meeting is scheduled for Sept. 13 at the Edwardsville campus.

Staff reporter Brian Munoz can be reached at bmunoz@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @BrianMMunoz.

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Carson VanBuskirk | @carsonvanbDE Brian Beiser, a sophomore majoring in cinema and photography, 19, of Peoria, assists a family on move-in day, Aug. 16 outside Kellogg Hall.

West Campus move-in like 'a well-oiled machine' TYLER MALONE & JEREMY BROWN

On Thursday new incoming freshman and transfer students moved into the West campus dorms with the help of volunteers. It was 80 degrees out, with 81 percent humidity.

“This is the nicest move-in we've had in a long time,” Valerie Rasp, assistant dean of the college of science, said. “I joke with parents as they come up, I say ‘The campus that sweats together stays

together.’”

Rasp and other College of Science faculty, staff and students help move in College of Science students every year, she said. The college tends to request Saluki Science Ambassadors to help.

“I've had a few faculty show up that I didn't expect were coming, that was definitely helpful,” Rasp said. “It shows our faculty really support our students [and] want to help them.”

Rasp said move-in is one way

many faculty get to know some of the new students they’ll be teaching, as well as an ice cream social later the same day.

Rachel Richey, director for recruitment and retention for the college of business, said the college of business is also hosting their own ice cream social so business students can get to know each other.

Richey said Brown Hall is usually full every year, so the stream of incoming students hasn’t been a big change from previous years.

“[The] university has it down,” Richey said. “They got people scheduled, volunteers, lots of water, so it's a well-oiled machine.”

Rasp said University Housing has done a great job planning out this year’s move-in, even with the influx of students coming to West campus after East campus closed starting this semester.

“Some of the faculty and some of our staff again have more chances to interact with students and their parents while they're here,” Rasp

said.

By looking at all the maroon shirts worn by volunteers you can tell the university supports its students, Rasp said.

“Parents are always grateful and shocked," Rasp said. "When they get out of the car and suddenly five people jump on the car and say ‘Hey, let's grab the stuff and carry it up.’”

Two volunteers from Delta Chi fraternity, Christopher Watkins, a junior studying supply chain

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Nick Knappenburger | @TwitterHandle Parking officer Dan Bean (left) helps Clinton Checkey (right), an incoming freshman studying aviation from Merrimac, Winsconsin, get his bicycle registered, Aug. 14 outside of Feltz Hall on Moving Day.

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Michele Leigh, a professor in the Cinema and Photography Department, smiles as her sister Jennifer Lafo, of Northport, Florida, fills out a parking form on Aug. 16, during new student move in at Thompson Point. Lafo is moving her daughter, Grace, into her dormitory. "I'm so proud of her but it's just so far from home," Lafo said.

Mario Dinovo, a transfer student from Plainfield studying automotive technology, setting down a box with the rest of his things in a pile near the residents halls, Aug. 16.

Allie Tiller @allietiller_de

management and Jacob Rice, a senior studying healthcare management, said they were helping people move in to give back to the students.

“This is a great way to show how students care about SIU campus,” Watkins said.

Rice said because both he and Watkins work on campus, they know a lot about the resources available to the new students, such as Morris Library.

“It’s been great for a first day,”

Watkins said. “Usually the first day is a little hectic for the students but [Housing is] pretty organized.”

There are a lot of students to be moving in so early in the week, Rice said. He didn’t move in until Saturday back when he was a freshman.

“I think it’s going to be good having all the new students centralized instead of split up like half and half,” Rice said.

East campus was kind of disconnected from the rest of campus, Rice said.

“I hope with all the declines that SIU’s been having that this is a good way to get students back in,” Rice said, “and show that SIU can power through everything.”

Staff reporter Tyler Malone can be reached at tmalone@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @TylerJohnMalone.

Campus editor Jeremy Brown can be reached at jbrown@dailyegyptian.com.

Allie Tiller | @atiler_de Sophomore Karina Trujillo carries her belongings on move-in day Aug. 16 at Thompson Point.

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SIU administrators, faculty welcome new students during fall semester convocation BRIIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunoz

Hundreds of new students file into the SIU Arena as the sun bounces off of the building, highlighting “Go Southern Go” emblazoned on the building’s front.

With a welcome from campus administrators and faculty, new students begin the next chapter of their lives.

Eager chatter among freshman fills the arena leading up to their official introduction to the university.

Mackenzie Smith, a freshman studying elementary education from Carbondale, said she was looking forward to being at the university.

“I’m looking forward to learning what I’m going to school for and excited to be at SIU — it just seems like a really fun school,” Smith said.

Events like the pep rally have been a highlight for Smith’s time at the university so far.

“It’s been so great,” Smith said. “I’ve met so many great people and doing events like this has been amazing.”

Hannah Combs, a freshman from Champaign studying cinema and photography, said she is looking forward to learning more about her anticipated career field but there are certain things she's going to miss from home.

“I miss being away from my family and my pets,” Combs said.

As the room falls dark, the

video board goes through various prompts having the new students interact with each other by flashing their cell phone’s lights.

Laughter fills the air as students flash their cell phone’s lights on each other.

Dozens of faculty in regalia file in as well as the deans for the university’s eight colleges.

SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno walks up to the speaker’s podium, with the help of a walker, to welcome Southern’s newest class. The chancellor announced he had been diagnosed with cancer in late June.

Montemagno spoke on the importance of being involved at the university.

Wednesday, august 22, 2018 “We want you to learn by doing — by getting involved in research, creative activities and student organizations,” Montemagno said.

“We want you to be successful — that’s paramount to our mission.”

Montemagno also emphasized having fun during your college years and the importance of meeting new people.

Laughter and smiles filled the arena after Montemagno instructed the students to introduce themselves to the people around them.

Interim Provost Meera Komarraju mirrored the chancellor’s statements and gave various pieces of advice to the Class of 2022. Her number one piece of advice — ”go to class.”

Komarraju also recommended students go and introduce themselves to their professors.

“Let them know that you are interested in what they’re teaching and what you’re learning,” Komarraju said. “Our professors are very eager to serve as your mentors — get to know them.”

Toussaint Mitchell, Undergraduate Student

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"We want you to learn by doing — by getting involved in research, creative activities and student organization.

We want you to be successful — that's the paramount of our mission.”

- Carlo Montemagno Chancellor, SIUC

Government president, encouraged the new student class to be grateful despite whatever flaws they may encounter at the university or in their lives.

“Don’t let any of these flaws hinder your success,” Mitchell said.

“You need to stay focused on what you want to achieve, which is the bigger picture.”

DeAnna Price, 2016 Olympian and SIU Alumna, presented the keynote during the welcome.

Recalling her time at the university, Price paints the new students a picture of her

achievements and her experience while in school.

“When I took my first steps on campus, it felt like home,” Price said. “The vibrant life and strength of campus calling my name… I knew this was it.”

As Price recalled her memories while at Southern, students can expect to make countless memories during their time at the university.

“I’m looking forward to spending a really good four years here,” Smith said. “Just lots of fun and creating new memories.”

Nick Knappenburger | @DeKnappenburger DeClass photo for the class of 2022, Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, during the New Student Welcome event at the SIU Arena.

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Tuesday, augusT 22, 2018

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Wednesday, august 22, 2018

Mary Barnhart | @MaryBarnhartDE Former Southern Illinois University President Randy Dunn listens to the public comments, May 30, 2018, during the Board of Trustee's special meeting at the SIU School of Medicine auditorium in Springfield.

Dunn removed as SIU President after attempt in dissolving university system BRIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunoz

Randy Dunn has been removed as Southern Illinois University's president and J. Kevin Dorsey, former dean and provost of the SIU School of Medicine, has been named interim president for a one-year while the board launches a search for

a new leader.

Dunn's removal and Dorsey's appointment were passed by the SIU Board of Trustees during a vote Monday morning in Edwardsville.

Dunn and the board have agreed to a voluntary separation with the university that will pay him a sixmonth severance of $215,000,

according to the agreement. Dorsey will receive a base salary of $430,000.

Dunn will be on paid leave effective Tuesday, before officially being terminated on July 30.

The separation agreement also agrees to hire Dunn as a visiting professor at SIU Edwardsville on a $100,000 annual salary, starting

January 1. His role as a visiting professor at SIUE will continue through the Spring 2020 semester.

The salary puts Dunn in the top 8 percent in terms of highest paid faculty members on the Edwardsville campus, according to the 2017-2018 SIU System Salary database.

If placed in the School of

Education, Health and Human Behavior, Dunn will be the third highest paid staff member next to Paul Rose, SEHHB dean, who made $125,888.40 during the 2017-2018 school year and Laurel D. Puchner, Educational Leadership department chair, who made $102,457.20 during the 2017-2018 school year.

Wednesday, august 22, 2018 It has not yet been identified what Dunn will be teaching at the Edwardsville campus.

Pursuant to section 1.3D of Dunn's initial contract, "if the appointment of President terminates other than pursuant to Section 4.1 herein and an appointment as professor commences, the President shall then be paid a salary amount that is consistent with other members of the faculty with similar rank and experience as determined by the dean of the college."

The salary will be negotiated between the dean, provost and the president, according to the hiring contract.

Section 1.3D of Dunn's contract.

The agreement between Dunn and the SIU Board of Trustees comes following a failed attempt to oust the president after the release of nearly 1,900 pages of public records that show he coordinated with SIU Edwardsville officials and legislators in an attempt to dissolve the SIU system.

Subsequently, the SIU Carbondale Faculty Senate passed a resolution giving Dunn a “vote of no confidence” and called for his removal.

Randy J. Dunn is the eighth president of the SIU System, appointed in 2014.

Dunn started at the Carbondale campus as an professor in the Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education in 1995 and was named EAHE department chair in 2000, before being appointed state superintendent of education by the Illinois State Board of Education.

During his term as chair, Dunn also taught in the joint doctoral program in educational leadership at SIU Edwardsville.

Before taking the helm of the SIU system, Dunn was president at Murray State University from 2006 to 2013.

In a March 2013 meeting, the Murray State Board of Regents voted not to extend Dunn’s contract.

A report reviewed by the board members prior to the vote indicated that the university’s academic standing had fallen since Dunn took over leadership and enrollment at most of the regional campuses had fallen while enrollment at the main campus remained relatively flat.

The report also showed that in at

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Murray State’s graduation rate dropped from 59 percent in 2006 to 51 percent in 2012 and the freshman retention rate dropped from 77 percent to 71 percent over the same time period, according to the report.

The vote to not renew Dunn’s contract was deemed controversial after a social gathering the night before the vote at one of the board member’s home in Murray, Kentucky, was revealed.

There was opposition to the vote claiming that the social event held the night prior constituted an illegal meeting since a quorum of members was present, public business was discussed, no minutes were taken and there was not a public notice of the alleged meeting.

Constantine W. Curris, board chairman at the time, moved for a re-vote, noting that the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office had ruled the social gathering in March 2013 as an illegal meeting because a quorum of board members was present and university business was discussed.

After the ruling, the Murray State

Board of Regents took a secondary vote on Dunn’s contract renewal and upheld its 7-4 vote in opposition of the renewal.

Less than three weeks after the Murray State Board of Regents initially voted to not renew Dunn’s contract, he was named a finalist in the Youngstown State University presidential search.

Dunn said in an interview with The Murray State News that he was aware of the opening at YSU prior to the board’s vote, but did not apply for the position until its decision was officially made.

“When it became clear given the action of the board on March 15 that my time as president at Murray state would be ticking down in the next 16 months, that obviously called renewed interest to take a look at it,” Dunn said in an April 2013 interview with The Murray State News.

Dunn had previously applied for other positions while president at Murray State University.

Dunn applied to be president of the University of Tennessee system in October 2010, the president’s position at Missouri State University in 2012, the Florida Commissioner

of Education in 2012 and he was a finalist in the presidential search at his alma mater, Illinois State University, in 2013.

Curris claimed that Dunn’s willingness to leave Murray State led the board to seek another president.

After leaving his position at Murray State, Dunn became the president at Youngstown State University for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Seven months into his new contract, Dunn announced he would be leaving his position at Youngstown State to become the president at Southern Illinois University.

When asked about the SIU presidency, Dunn told The Vindicator in Ohio , “I didn’t apply per se” for the Southern Illinois job.

The contracted presidential search group SIU used, William Funk & Associates, had approached Dunn multiple times during his time at Youngstown despite Dunn originally turning down the offer to apply.

“This will be the last job for me.

I do not plan to leave this position until retirement,” Dunn said in a 2014 interview with the Daily Egyptian.

Brian Munoz | @brianmmunoz Trustee Amy Sholar speaks with SIU President Randy Dunn Wednesday, April 11 during the SIU Board of Trustee's working day meeting in the student center.

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Wednesday, august 22, 2018

Column: In the Dawg Pound with Dillon DILLON GILILAND | @DillonGililand

After a management change for the St. Louis Cardinals, the Redbirds have turned their season around for a possible playoff appearance.

Let's just go ahead and address the elephant in the room, the Cardinals are not the championship caliber team that they were before former manager and Cardinal Hall of Famer Tony La Russa retired.

The Lou has not seen a championship since La Russa's final year in 2011 when the Redbirds took down the Texas Rangers in seven games.

When La Russa stepped down, three big names up for the job were Joe Girardi, Joe Maddon and Mike Matheny.

Two of the options were managers who had led their respective teams to a world series win, while one was a catcher who had never managed a game.

I'm all on board with having a former catcher as a manager, but when there are two other options who are known winners on the table, I think the choice is clear. The Cardinals thought different.

Matheny stepped up as the new manager in 2012 and the Cardinals franchise has declined ever since.

Yes, St. Louis made the playoffs in 2012 and yes they made it to the World Series in 2013 when they lost to the Boston Red Sox in six games. That was not due to the management of Matheny, rather it was the last bit of La Russa that remained in the team.

The Cardinals once again made the playoffs in 2014 and turned in a 100 win season in 2015, which has not been done since 2005.

The 2015 season finished with a disappointing loss to the Chicago Cubs, who was at the time and still to this day managed by Maddon.

The following season a new team dominated the National League Central Divison, the Cubs.

Maddon went on to lead the Windy City to it's first World Series ring in 108 years and has continued to dominate the Central division.

Meanwhile the Redbirds have failed to make the playoff in two straight years. The last time this happened was 2007-08.

Matheny was en route to missing the playoffs again in 2018, marking the third straight year, which has not happened since 1997-99.

Heading into the All-Star break, St. Louis was sitting on a 47-46 record with one game left before taking time off.

Finally Matheny was fired and the Cardinals gave former bench manager Mike Shildt an opportunity to turn things around, naming him the interim manager.

In addition, hitting coach John Mabry was released

Meanwhile the Redbirds have failed to make the playoff in two straight years. The last time this happened was 2007-08. from the team.

Since Shildt's takeover, the Redbirds have improved dramatically in every aspect of the game with a 22-11 record under new management.

With the new management, St. Louis has been more aggressive on the base paths leading to more steals and more runners moving from first to third allowing more runs to be scored.

Prior to the All-star break, the Redbirds had stolen 33 bases while being caught 22 times. So far in the second half of the Cardinals have already stolen 16 bases while only being caught four times.

In additionally the Cardinals have hit the ball much better since Mabry was released.

Heading into the break, St. Louis was ninth in the National League in batting average with a .244 average. In the second half of the seasons, the Redbirds have jumped to the fifth best team in the National League with a .268 average.

The Cardinals have also been hitting the ball harder as they sat in fourth in total home runs prior to the break. Now they sit in second with a total of 40 in the second half.

It's not fair to put all of the blame on Matheny. With a team that was looking at their third straight season without a playoff appearance, players underperforming and missing chemistry from the clubhouse, it was time for a new voice to take over.

Shildt is not the only person to thank for the comeback season that the Cardinals are having.

For starters, first baseman Matt Carpenter has stepped up tremendously and made a case for the National League MVP. Before heading into the break, Carpenter led the team in home runs with 19 while only batting a .263 average. In the second half, he has hit 14 homers while batting a .284 average. His 33 long balls leads the National League.

Then there is the starting pitching, which has changed tremendously since the start of the season.

Three of the original five pitchers in the starting rotation have been on the disabled list for a majority of the season

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Christian Gooden | St. Louis Post-Dispatch St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty throws in the first inning against the Milwaukee Brewers on Aug. 17, 2018, at Busch Stadium in St. Louis Mo.

allowing some young prospects from the Memphis Redbirds to have an opportunity to show what they can do.

Austin Gomber and Jake Flaherty have been the two most notables with ERAs of 2.89 and 3.05.

You throw the Cardinals All-star pitcher Miles Mikolas and his 2.80 ERA in the mix and you have a devastating pitching rotation.

In the second half of the season, St. Louis has led the National league in ERA giving up only 3.30 earned runs per game.

The last thing to touch on is the defense in the

outfield that has helped spark the comeback, most notably Harrison Bader.

Bader has been the modern day Jim Edmonds for the Cardinals with his consistent five-star catches.

All these things have led to the Redbirds sitting in a wildcard spot and three and a half games behind the Cubs in the Central at the time of writing.

If the Cardinals continue to play at this level there is no doubt in my mind that we could see the Lou make a playoff appearance.

If the Cardinals continue to play at this level there is no doubt in my mind that we could see the Lou make a playoff appearance

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