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Vol.101 Issue 21 @daIlyegyptIan

Pagans celebrate the eclipse Page 14-15

Eclipse Mania Page 2

Voice of new student trustee Sam Beard Page 9

Meet SIU's new volleyball coach Page 26

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Black sun, black ink

Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athana Johnny Davis, of Carbondale, gives a permanent reminder to Anne Millard, of Champaign, of the 2017 solar eclipse at Artistic Mind Tattoo and Body Piercing Saturday.

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The "diamond ring effect" is pictured shortly after the Great American Eclipse's totality, Monday Aug. 21, 2017, at Saluki Stadium. Thousands of eclipse viewers fought cloud coverage to see the eclipse's totality at Saluki Stadium.

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Planetary Radio Live event explains eclipse

Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz The sun begins to be hidden by the moon during the Great American Eclipse on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at Saluki Stadium.

FRANCOIS GATIMU | @frankDE28

Planetary Radio host Matt Kaplan led an interactive panel discussion Sunday in Shryock Auditorium that covered a wide range of eclipse-related topics.

A panel of scientists, professors and directors from various bigname science organizations like NASA and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology explained the science behind the eclipse and the data they hope the scientific community will receive from it.

Some of those empaneled included Nergis Mavalvala, a professor of astrophysics at MIT, and Steve Clarke, the director of the heliophysics division at NASA. A separate panel was made up of amateur astronomers and astrophotographers such as the Solar Eclipse Across America Project Manager Mike Kentrianakis and astrophotographer Kevin Morefield, a 1985 SIU graduate.

Jeff Williams, the station manager

at WSIU Public Broadcasting — the station that runs Planetary Radio — said the event was held in the hopes of enhancing the eclipse experience by helping those in attendance understand it better.

“If you’re a science geek or just someone who is in awe when you look up in the sky and see the stars, the event to you as well,” Williams said.

Planetary Radio is a weekly space radio program and podcast geared toward science education and space outreach.

The program seeks to explain “the mystery and the wonder of science,” Williams said.

The panels broached various topics, from how and why a solar eclipse happens to more complicated subjects such as how black holes are created.

“A black hole is a dying star about 10 kilometers in diameter, which I believe is the size of Carbondale,” panelist Nergis Mavalvala said, drawing laughter from the crowd. “The eclipse gives us the opportunity to study the sun

more closely.”

The eclipse offers a rare opportunity for scientists to get a better look at the sun’s corona, its upper atmosphere.

“This will help us predict when solar flares happen, which could cause massive blackouts,” Clarke said.

The solar eclipse will reach the point of greatest duration just a few miles south of Carbondale on Monday, making the city a main attraction for celestial observers.

Many attending Sunday night’s live event were from out of town, Williams said.

“We really didn’t know what to expect for the number of people in town for the eclipse,” Williams said, adding that an event like this would normally generate about 200 people.

Sunday’s event sold 1,000 tickets within two weeks of ticket sales opening, Williams said.

Staff writer Francois Gatimu can be reached at fgatimu@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @frankDE28.

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Local artists salute the sun SAMANTHA KEEBLER @dailyegyptian

Local artists prepared for the tens of thousands of people that came for the eclipse in their own way.

One of these eclipse crafters is Matt Sronkoski, an academic adviser in the College of Liberal Arts.

Sronkoski has been painting designs on T-shirts for years, but has recently made a business out of making celestial apparel. “I was just doing it for fun, if anything,” he said.

When a stranger complimented one of Sronkoski’s creations a year ago, he said it gave him the idea to make eclipse-themed tees.

Sronkoski bought a large piece of fabric, cut it into one-foot squares and started coming up with designs. Last Christmas, he decided to share his designs with the Facebook world.

“I got slammed,” he said. “In fact, I had to take a week off to get them done — I was so busy.”

Since then, he said he has accrued a large following. Initially, his customer base consisted of mostly friends and acquaintances, but now he sends hand-painted shirts to people across the country. He said he’s sold shirts to people from coast-to-coast and as far away as England.

Sronkoski said people enjoy the shirts because they are artistic and oneof-a-kind.

“It’s very cool seeing people walking around wearing one of my shirts,” he said. “I get a total kick out of it.”

“The eclipse can be a metaphor for life."

- Mike Baltz, Singer/songwriter

Another Carbondale resident has commemorated the eclipse with another art form — music.

Singer/songwriter Mike Baltz wrote and recorded “The Eclipse,” an original piece about the reaction to eclipses throughout history.

“I love sort of thinking about the past,” Baltz said. “I always imagine how freaked out people were by eclipses historically.”

His fascination with the past can be heard in the lyrics of his song.

“I’d heard the tales when I was young of a day long ago when we lost the sun,” Baltz sings in the track.

Baltz collaborated with Shadi Frick, a fellow Carbondale resident and the man behind the melody. He said they wanted to imagine what an eclipse might sound like and find a way to put that sound into words.

“That was the creative challenge,” Baltz said.

Baltz, who has a degree in biology, said he has always taken an interest in the natural world.

“I wanted to also capture the fear and confusion that a lot of animals experienced during an eclipse,” he said, referring to the disorientation animals feel during the transition from light to dark.

However passionately Baltz feels about animals and the past, he said he is most enthusiastic about the underlying theme in his song.

“The deeper message, which I’m excited about, is how the eclipse can be a metaphor for life,” he said.

He said he wanted his song to parallel the juxtaposition of day and night with evil and good.

“You can be going through dark times and you can get really caught up in that, but if you hang in there, the light will usually return,” he said. “You have to make it through — to me, that’s the more important message.”

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Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Universities Space Research Association software developed Scott Davis, of Mountain View, California, explains the components of the Stratospheric Observatory for Infared Astronomy (SOFIA) project to John Cremma, of Chicago, on Monday at the science astronomy and technology expo, at the SIU Arena.

Expo displays innovation KITT FRESA | @kittfresa

Scientists and entrepreneurs from all over the country came to SIU’s Science and Technology Expo on Sunday and Monday to share their innovative inventions with visitors, locals and students over eclipse weekend.

The expo was held in the SIU Arena and featured 34 vendors and exhibits, as well as various presentations about new technology.

“A lot of times kids and even professional engineers [are] stuck in boxes,” said Dav Glass, one of the inventors at the expo. Glass is the creator of HackSI, an annual “hackathon” event held on campus in which participants get 24 hours to build anything they want. Glass said all the hardware, drones and any other tools necessary are provided to those in attendance, whose ages can range from seven to 70.

“At school they’re told to do exactly this, at work they have this list of stuff to do,” Glass said. “Here you just build whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want.”

At another exhibit, Kathleen Fredette, the director of STEAM Initiatives — which stands for science, technology, engineering, art and math — showcased the SOFIA. The SOFIA is a Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, which Fredette described as a “flying observatory.”

The observatory is made from a “tricked out” 747SP plane that was gutted and reengineered to have a large garage-like door on the side, Fredette said. It features a 10-foot infrared telescope, and is designed to fly into the stratosphere.

Fredette said it’s meant to study planetary atmospheres, comets and stars. When the aircraft reaches between 38,000 and 44,000 feet, the garage-like door opens up.

“What’s amazing is you can’t even feel it when you’re in the aircraft,” Fredette said. Astronomers can put in proposals at any time to use the telescope, she said.

“This is a national asset,” Fredette said. “It’s NASA — it belongs to us the people.”

Fredette said educators can also make

proposals to use the aircraft by specifying how they’re going to take it back home and use it to teach their communities about astronomy.

Versaponic, a technology that allows consumers to grow plants in compact boxes that control lighting and water, was also on display at the expo.

“Whether it’s a tomato plant, a gardenia tree or an orchid, you can grow anything you want, anytime, any place,” said Brian Phillips, who patented and trademarked the system. This device stretches plants’ growing seasons to year-round, meaning cuttings can be taken from a tomato plant that would normally be outside for three months in the summer. The cuttings would then be taken inside for the winter to continue growing in the compact boxes.

Ideally, Phillips said the plant’s growing cycle would continue through all four seasons and the plant would never stop flourishing.

“I can’t believe there are people starving in the world when the technology has been around forever to do this,” Phillips said.

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Shining light on eclipse research PAUL BECKMEYER | @dailyegyptian

The Crossroads Eclipse 2017 Research Workshop launched Saturday in the Student Center with a speech from recentlyappointed Chancellor Carlo Montemagno. He spoke about the importance of researching the eclipse and the opportunity it provides scientists to learn more about the universe.

“We live in a place that … is far bigger than the blue marble that we all reside on,” Montemagno said.

The workshop featured presentations about eclipse research, including ways to study the sun’s corona — the atmosphere around the sun that is only on display during an eclipse — and experiments that will be conducted as totality is reached.

Sarah Kovac, a 2017 alumna with a degree in physics, gave a presentation about her work with the Citizen CATE (ContinentalAmerica Telescopic Eclipse) Experiment, which consists of 68 telescopes set up at 68 sites along the eclipse’s path of totality.

The experiment relies on 20 high school and 20 college student groups to capture pictures of the eclipse. While Kovac said previous studies have shown no more than five continuous minutes of totality coverage, these pictures will be sewn together into 90 uninterrupted minutes of footage.

“It is essentially an eclipse relay race,” Kovac said.

Kovac said she and her fellow researchers also study solar wind.

“We’re trying to figure out the acceleration, because we know that the solar wind is very low on the surface,” Kovac said, adding that they also know the wind is very fast in the corona.

Scientists do not yet understand why solar wind accelerates as it gets further away from the sun, Kovac said.

“When you merge onto the highway and you’re in your car, you push the gas pedal to accelerate … we don’t know the solar equivalent,” Kovac said.

Kovac said on occasion, the fast solar wind impacts the Earth by causing electronic interruptions and power grid failures. She said in 2012, one near accident with solar wind had the potential to cause $2 trillion of damage in the United States alone.

Greg Guzik, a professor from Louisiana State University, also

“It is essentially an eclipse relay race.”

- Sarah Kovac, SIU physics alumna

presented the details of a scientific weather balloon launch that will take place in the SIU Arena on eclipse day. The balloons are eight feet tall, helium-filled and weigh approximately 500 grams.

The weather balloons will be launched by a team of students and faculty from LSU and used to study the shadow of the moon on the Earth during the eclipse, Guzik said.

Two balloons will be released 90 minutes before totality is reached and will climb to 100,000 feet to capture footage of the moon’s shadow as it moves across the Earth. One will record video, while the other will note environmental changes in the high altitudes.

Data will be streamed back to Carbondale, and the balloons will fall back to Earth. Guzik said he hopes for a soft landing to keep the recording equipment intact. Each balloon’s payload will descend via parachute.

Montemagno said he hopes these experiments have longlasting effects on those taking part in them.

“I’m anticipating that the results of this exercise will restimulate the young people … that discovery is still an option for them,” Montemagno said.

Staff writer Paul Beckmeyer can be reached at pbeckmeyer@dailyegyptian.com.

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Voice of the student trustee Hey. My name is Sam Beard and I am the student trustee for SIU Carbondale. I was elected to this position by my fellow students in May of this year.

As the student trustee, I am the formalized voice for the Carbondale campus and its students on the Board of Trustees — the administrative body in charge of the university.

The BoT is the group that can build new buildings, close or create departments and colleges, raise tuition, fees and housing costs for students and appoint chancellors, administrators and even the president of the SIU system.

Needless to say, it is imperative to have somebody on the board that will not only fight for the students, but will remain completely

accessible throughout the process.

As the student trustee, I figured it appropriate to collaborate with the student newspaper to inform my fellow peers on how specific administrative and board matters will affect them, how they can shape campus life and policy and help facilitate that much-needed dialogue between those controlling university matters and those impacted by their decisions.

Part of my platform was to regularly meet with RSOs, faculty, staff and students to learn about what they would like to see done at SIU and how we can make that happen. Please, consider this an invitation to write me, call me, talk to me, pester me and hold me accountable for things happening on campus.

This university belongs to the

students.

I am a firm believer in horizontal power structures (as opposed to top-down, pyramid-shaped ones).

And in order to move toward a state of shared governance, SIU must become as radically democratic as possible. All stakeholders, including community members, must have a say in the direction of the university. I am here to help facilitate that.

However, while I am the formalized voice of the student of this campus, my ideas on how to make a more ideal university (and world, for that matter) are no more important than yours. Speak out, break rank, form groups and make change. The best to get what you want on campus is to make it happen yourself, autonomously.

That being said, there is a rigid

hierarchy of decision making at SIU. Use me as a tool to share your ideas with those in positions of power.

The newly-appointed Chancellor Carlo Montemagno made comments endorsing shared governance of this university.

I think this provides a good opportunity to assert our individual and collective power when it comes to determining and changing campus policy.

Historically, in this country, there is an obvious pattern of excluding people from decision-making because of their skin color, gender, religion, nationality, income, sexual preferences and more. It is our duty to interrupt that pattern.

With the rising tide of far-right white supremacist movements it has become clearer than ever that

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my fellow board members and the administration at large must heed to the words of disenfranchised students more than anyone else.

When they speak, we must listen and take action on their behalf.

I would like to extend an invitation to all of my fellow community members, students and everyone else on campus to share their ideas and grievances with me. In creating the future that we deserve, we need help from everyone along the way. Please reach out to me. I will make your voice heard.

Student Trustee Sam Beard can be reached at samuelrobert@siu.edu, in his office located in the Registered Student Organization Suite on the third floor of the Student Center or by phone at (618) 453-8418.

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William Cooley | @Wcooley1980 Hell Yeah lead vocalist Chad Gray screams during a performance Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, on the third day of the Moonstock music festival at Walker’s Bluff Winery in Carterville.

Ozzy Osbourne barks at the Moonstock PAUL BECKMEYER | @dailyegyptian

Ozzy Osbourne had the massive Moonstock music festival crowd barking and howling at the moon as the celestial body drifted directly in line with the sun.

As darkness fell, Osbourne

spread his arms and reveled in the energetic atmosphere as the band broke into “Bark at the Moon” before the throngs gathered at Walker's Bluff in Carterville.

Among the crowd of thousands of mostly middle-aged rockers, one fan stood out: 11-year-old Kaya

Bigley of Murray, Kentucky. Bigley said she has been a fan of the Black Sabbath-frontman since birth.

Asked what might happen to Osbourne during the eclipse, Bigley said, “I think he’ll turn into a bat.”

Though the crowd seemed

Wednesday, august 23, 2017 lethargic at times — the temperature Monday reached a high of 90 degrees and Osbourne’s performance began at 1:21 p.m.

— Osbourne and company still put on quite a show.

“I f***ing love you all,” he yelled from the stage after several encores.

Eighties glam-rock band Aquanet kicked off the festivities at 11 a.m.

“Walker’s Bluff did such a good job with all the events … the stage setup looks phenomenal, and it’s going to be a great day,” said frontman Gunner Sweet.

Many bought one-day tickets to the festival just to see Osbourne.

One such person was Chase West of Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

He said he plays guitar in a band and Osbourne and Zakk Wylde, a guitarist who performed with Osbourne on Monday, are two of his heroes.

“I consider this a once-in-alifetime opportunity,” West said.

West said he expected Osbourne to go crazy when the eclipse reached totality.

“He’s an animal,” West said.

As the moon completely covered the sun, Osbourne laughed and threw buckets of water onto event security near the stage.

William Cooley | @Wcooley1980 While Osbourne continued A jovial Ozzy Osbourne greets fans who came to see him sing "Bark at the Moon" his performance following the during the eclipse's totality Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, during the final day of Mooneclipse, Wylde walked through the stock at Walker’s Bluff Winery in Carterville. crowd playing his guitar over his shoulder.

For many in attendance, Moonstock was a one-of-a-kind event. Terry Bissey of Flora, who arrived at the festival Monday morning, was one of these fans. He said although some of his friends passed on the opportunity to see the concert, he would’ve had a hard time doing the same.

“We zipped over here and commenced drinking some beer,” Bissey said. “It was a lifechanging.”

Staff writer Paul Beckmeyer can be reached at pbeckmeyer@dailyegyptian.com

William Cooley | @Wcooley1980 Zane Risley, of Ridgeway, pumps his fist in the air while watching Hell Yeah perform Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, during the third day of Moonstock at Walker’s Bluff Winery in Carterville.

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SIU Forestry Club puts timber sports on display during campus eclipse festivities While the campus swelled with recently settled-in students and eclipse tourists from across the globe Monday morning, the roar of a chainsaw cut through the festivities, signaling that the SIU Forestry Club was moments away from putting its timber sports skills on display.

The forestry club was one of numerous registered student organizations invited to entertain the crowd at the eclipse festivities while showcasing all that Southern has to offer for current and prospective students.

The club took prime residence on the lawn just north of the TrouttWittmann Academic & Training Center, demonstrating such Stihl Timbersports staples as underhand chop and the cross-cut saw discipline, double buck.

Senior Forestry Club secondterm President Xavier Stewart explained that any chance to perform a live demonstration is paramount in keeping the members of the club sharp for competitions, and Monday's opportunity was one that the club could not pass on.

"Last year, we didn't do a lot of demonstrations," Stewart said. "We want to hit the ground running as soon as school starts and go from there."

Each year, the forestry club fields a competitive team to take part in the Midwestern Forester's Conclave - a collegiate-level competition held each spring semester that will celebrate it's 66th year in 2018.

Outside of the more traditional events regularly seen on the professional Stihl Timbersports Lumberjack Series, the Conclave

adds events such as pulp toss, bolt toss, log roll and axe throw to the mix.

Pulp toss is an event governed by technique and accuracy, throwing four long and slender logs with the objective of landing each between two posts driven into the ground.

Bolt toss on the other hand, finds a competitor adding strength to the mix as they try to throw and land a long, large and heavy log as far as they can down-course.

Along with physical events, the Conclave plays host to knowledgebased events that test studentcompetitors' forestry acumen.

These include wood ID, dendrology and traverse events.

Within these events, knowledge gained from classroom instruction and in-field study guides the competitors as they work to identify

Wednesday, august 23, 2017 tree species, estimate tree diameters and properly record direction and distance while traveling over a set course.

Most events are split into men's and women's divisions, while some events such as log roll, single and double buck consist of a Jack & Jill team. Each event awards first through third place with trophies — frequently hand-made by members of the host college's forestry club — while awarding team points to all competitors based on finishing position.

The college with the highest overall team point total at the end of all events is crowned the Conclave champion. The Salukis have claimed that championship many times throughout the Conclave's 65 years, including a streak of 18 first-place finishes beginning with 1992 and running through 2009.

SIU struggled to take first place in the years following its 2009 championship, regularly serving as runner-up to the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Pointers as they took Conclave's top spot in years 2011 through 2016.

The Salukis ended the Pointers' dominant run in the spring of 2017 at the 65th annual Conclave, taking first place to return the championship trophy back to the Agricultural building trophy case.

UW-Stevens Point placed second — not far behind the champion SIU conclave team.

"Stevens Point is most definitely a strong rival," Stewart said. "We have the competitors and the talent, so we are definitely ready to fire back this year at conclave and go for a repeat performance."

This years conclave will be a special one according to Stewart, as UW-Stevens Point will serve as host. Stewart also notes that the 66th annual Conclave is slated for a two-day event in 2018 rather than the one-day length that has become regular in recent years.

To prepare for the end-year Conclave, the Forestry Club attends other events throughout

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Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre SIU Forestry Cub members sell laser-etched coasters for a couple dollars each on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, outside SIU Arena.

the academic year such as the Iron Horse in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

"It's not a big competition, averaging only a couple schools regularly," Stewart said. "It is more to get the club's feet wet and for new members to come along and learn."

the academic year. These programs include selling firewood that the members harvest, split and deliver themselves. The club is also selling coasters this year cut from harvested trees and emblazoned with laser-etched designs of leaves that represent native species.

"We have the competitors and the talent, so we are definitely ready to fire back this year at conclave and go for a repeat performance."

- Xavier Stewart Senior Forestry Club President

To be able to travel and take "They [coasters] seem to be a pretty part in various competitions like big hit," Stewart said. the Iron Horse and Conclave, the Outside of fundraising programs, forestry club focuses on running Stewart explains that the club relies fundraising programs throughout heavily on outside sponsors to fund

the forestry club's competitive teams.

These sponsors are prominently placed on all club t-shirts and jerseys that members wear during competitions, demonstrations and off-campus events.

To further give back to the community that sponsors the club, Stewart noted the charitable work that Forestry Club members undertake throughout the year that covers local natural areas.

"We are going to be doing trail maintenance and trail building with Green Earth, Inc.," he said. "We also continue to work with Touch of Nature, but we are always looking to branch out to other areas in the community."

The Forestry Club will also take part in the RSO 5k Race for the Cure scheduled around homecoming festivities this year, with benefits from the race going towards a scholarship that benefits students that have been affected by breast cancer.

Stewart is confident that membership numbers will remain strong for the Forestry Club, as he notes over a dozen

new students have already e-mailed the club or signed up through the RSO website with intentions of actively participating this academic year.

"I would say overall we have 30 active members this year," he said. "We took 32 to conclave last year. We hope to gain some good competitors out of the new people joining the club this semester."

The SIU Forestry Club will make another push for membership at the New Student BBQ on Wednesday located just outside the Ag. building breezeway. The BBQ is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m., and the club hopes for the opportunity to perform another live demonstration on the lawn next to the BBQ. Be sure to visit the club's table for more information on joining and activities scheduled for the upcoming year.

Sports writer Denton “Gio” Giovenco can be reached at dgiovenco@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @DentonGiovenco.

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Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Georgia De-La-Garza, of Cherokee, raises her hands into the sky Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, just after the solar eclipse at Dancing Willow Farm in Makanda. “To me it means transformation,” De-La-Garza said. “Both of my children moved out so I am transforming into a single person again.” De-La-Garza said she has been mentally preparing for the eclipse for over a year. “I think everyone had their own personal experience and I will continue to seek myself inward,” De-La-Garza added. “I hope everyone takes these moments that are given to us, hold them close and do a sort of reflection.”

'I do not have words': Southern Illinois pagans experience eclipse FRANCOIS GATIMU | @frankDE28

Away from the hordes of eclipsewatchers in Carbondale, the Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance gathered to celebrate nature at the remote Dancing Willow Farms in Makanda.

“I do not have words to know what to say about what that felt

like and what that looked like,” said the group’s founder, Tara Nelsen, following the eclipse.

Nelsen said being surrounded by like-minded people, even ones who don’t necessarily identify as pagan, was a profoundly spiritual experience.

During a ritual performed as the eclipse reached totality at 1:21 p.m., participants received a slip of paper

that served as a visual reminder of “leaving the darkness behind,” Nelsen said.

Those partaking in the ceremony wrote down aspects of their lives that they wanted to get rid of, “embracing the light of a new day,” Nelsen said.

Those pieces of paper were then placed in a black cauldron to later be discarded.

“This is a really good way to show that there is all kinds of diversity in southern Illinois,” Nelsen said of the ritual. “Thirty years ago, it would be scary to have a group of pagans publicly be doing anything — you would be afraid for your life.”

Some southern Illinoisans had their first experience with a pagan ritual during the eclipse event.

One of these was Kayla Voegtle, a transgender woman and a senior studying music from Spring Grove.

Voegtle born to a Roman Catholic family. After a decade of agnosticism, Voegtle said she wanted to try paganism.

Trish Pfeiffer, of Carbondale, smiles while holding her eclipse glasses to the sun Monday, Aug.

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Tara Nelson, founder of the Southern Illinois Pagan Alliance (SIPA), spreads sage by an altar Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, before the solar eclipse at Dancing Willow Farm in Makanda.

The cauldron on the altar was a place where members of SIPA wrote thoughts or feelings they wished to forget on a piece of paper and put them in the cauldron during totality with the hope they could leave these feelings in darkness. "As a spiritual thing, being surrounded by people who are all so in awe of what is happening in nature right in front of us even though they weren't necessarily Pagan and they weren't celebrating the cycles of nature with us, they were," Nelson said. "You could really feel how awed people were by that." Nelson will throw the contents of the cauldron in the Mississippi River to be washed away.

"Today really showed how much we are actually alike versus different," Nelson said. "Everybody that was here today came for all different reasons, some were here to hangout, some were here for spiritual things and this is a really good way to show there is all kinds of diversity in southern Illinois."

A THENA C HRYSANTHOU @C HRYSANT 1A THENA

Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Eclipse-gazers stare into the sky Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, as the sky darkens during the total solar eclipse at Dancing Willow Farm in Makanda.

21, 2017, before the solar eclipse at Dancing Willow Farm in Makanda.

“I just wanted something spiritual, but without a ton of rules,” said Voegtle “[Roman Catholicism] is very oppressive and it’s very pushy — paganism is very open and accepting.”

Monday’s ritual was meant to symbolize new beginnings, Nelsen

said.

Voegtle said the ritual marked for her a pivotal point in her continued struggle for empowerment, something she said she particularly wrestles with as a transgender woman.

Some, like Trish Pfeifer, added their own personal rituals into the pagan one.

Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Max Stewart, 6, of Crystal Lake, stares into the sun with a mask over his glasses Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, before the solar eclipse at Dancing Willow Farm in Makanda.

Pfeifer placed quartz and fluorite crystals to “charge” out in the sun, which she said are token stones of magic.

She had mason jars of water out in the sunlight as well, making “eclipse water” that she said would symbolize the years until the next eclipse for herself and her children.

“I like to mark time by what’s

going on in the sky and in my personal life,” Pfeifer said. “It’s a way of reminding me of what I want.”

Many came to the event hoping to reconnect with nature and the universe.

As the solar eclipse reached full totality, shouts resounded around the farm. Many ritual participants cried, and all kept their bespectacled eyes

unwaveringly fixed on the sun.

“I feel like there is a revival of nature religions,” Nelsen said, attributing this revival to people being able to find something “real” in paganism.

Staff writer Francois Gatimu can be reached at fgatimu@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @frankDE28.

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GPSC president to prioritize graduate student needs, student participation, social justice MARNIE LEONARD | @marsuzleo

Johnathan Flowers, this year’s Graduate and Professional Student Council president, wants to make sure graduate student needs are met by the university.

During his 12 years at SIU as both an undergraduate and graduate student, Flowers said his experience has been that many campus services are structured around the assumption that undergraduates will be the primary users.

Units like the Writing Center, Non-traditional Student Services and Counseling and Psychological Services don’t always meet the unique needs of graduate students, Flowers said.

“The administration tends to think of the undergraduates as the moneymakers — there are almost 12 times as many undergraduates on campus, so it’s natural,” Flowers said. “But if you are putting in place a university-wide support structure that is intended to address the needs of all students, that support structure should bear in mind that not every student is an undergraduate.”

Flowers listed this issue as one of his main priorities this year as he leads GPSC. He said the culture of graduate school creates an environment in which graduate students can feel insecure about approaching faculty members with problems like writing difficulties.

“If the university recognized these insecurities as valid and then provided support structures for them, you would have more graduate student retention, more graduate student success — and that’s just one small example,” Flowers said.

Flowers said one of the biggest challenges the campus will face in the upcoming year is the Financial Stability Plan, which the Board of Trustees approved at its July meeting.

This plan recommends a total of

$26 million in cuts to the university, including the closure of up to seven programs, the absorption of the College of Science into one or more colleges and the consolidation of individual departments.

Flowers said he opposes the plan.

“All budgets are moral documents insofar as they indicate the priorities of the institution,” Flowers said. “If you look through that document, it becomes clear that the university does not prioritize graduate education, it does not prioritize research and it barely prioritizes undergraduate education.”

Some of the suggestions for college mergers are particularly concerning, Flowers said.

He said merging the College of Science with the College of Liberal Arts — one option being considered by university administration — would fail to take into account the differences in academic culture between the two colleges.

Instead, Flowers said the university should consider merging colleges that have similar missions and research orientations, such as the School of Art and Design with the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts.

In doing this, Flowers said departments would be able to better support their students and maintain their academic missions.

“Let’s be honest, we have some stellar graduate students who are only limited by the inability of their departments to support them,” Flowers said. “The inability of their departments to support them is a direct result of the way in which this institution has responded to the financial crisis.”

Flowers said he is also working on increasing student participation in university governance processes and administrative decision-making.

Ideally, Flowers said the graduate student council would have

Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunos GPSC president Jonathan Flowers, of Oak Park, poses for a portrait Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, at the Daily Egyptian photography studio.

representatives from every graduate departmental organization on campus.

Those representatives would take the information provided during GPSC meetings back to their constituents, get feedback and submit that feedback to the council’s executive committee to guide its decision-making.

“If they merely show up and provide their opinion, rather than the collective opinion of their department, then that’s almost as bad as not having a representative in the first place,” Flowers said.

He said the council currently has strong representation from COLA and the School of Law, but lacks members from the College of Agricultural Sciences and the College of Education and Human Services.

Students should also be given every opportunity to participate in administrative decision-making, Flowers said.

According to Board of Trustees policy, System President Randy Dunn is encouraged to consult with all campus constituency groups “on matters which the president deems appropriate for constituency involvement.”

Flowers said in the time he has been at the university, he hasn’t seen student groups approached about system decisions, which he labeled a “consistent systematic problem.”

“You need a good relationship with your student body, because we pay for this,” Flowers said. “There’s a quote that government should be afraid of their people … administration should be afraid of their students. It is our tuition, in conjunction with the funding from the state, that maintain the operations of this institution.”

University administration should also be engaging with issues of social justice, Flowers said.

“An institution of higher education

needs to take a proactive stance toward not only educating its student body about the multiplicity of people’s identities, but also ensuring that each of these identities is valued and welcomed at the institution,” he said.

Flowers said every student — across ability and socioeconomic status, race, gender and sexuality — experiences the university differently, which makes it important to incorporate those distinctions into institutional decisions.

“If they’re going to recognize the value of students in an economic sense, they need to recognize the value of students in a human sense,” Flowers said. “We’re not just resources to be managed, we are full participants in the educational enterprise of this institution.”

Campus editor Marnie Leonard can be reached at mleonard@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @marsuzleo.

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Louisiana students visit SIU, propel weather balloons 100,000 feet

Cory Ray | @coryray_DE Louisiana State University senior physics major Brad Landry holds a weather balloon carrying experiments from three different Louisiana colleges minutes before launch, Monday, Aug 21. 2017, at SIU Stadium. Landry released the balloon at 11:51 a.m. where it then traveled 100,000 feet into the sky with devices used to measure changes in solar power levels, UV radiation and the speed of sound. “When we started college, we never expected to work on something like this," Landry said. "It's a really cool experience."

CORY RAY | @coryray_de

Students from four Louisiana schools said they never expected to conduct research for NASA while in college, let alone launch weather balloons 100,000 feet into the sky.

The Louisiana Space Grant Consortium (LaSPACE) took part in a NASA-sponsored live-stream project involving 55 teams across the nation.

On Monday, student teams from Louisiana State University, Delgado Community College, Louisiana Tech and McNeese State University launched two weather balloons carrying four different experiments into the stratosphere.

“The eclipse really offers us a chance to get something on a grand scale,” Brian Schaefer, a senior from McNeese studying mechanical engineering.

LaSPACE manager Colleen Fava said the multi-experiment project began two years ago and culminated on Monday.

The eight-foot-tall balloons were launched from Saluki Stadium in rapid

succession at 11:50 and 11:51 a.m., approximately one minute before the partial eclipse began at 11:52 a.m. in Carbondale. By the time those balloons reached their maximum height, they expanded to 40 feet in height, according to Fava.

The first balloon carried experiments conducted by LaTech, McNeese and Delgado, with those experiments recording observations on UV radiation, solar polar and speed of sound.

The second balloon released carried camera equipment NASA used to live stream the eclipse, with LSU students performing that experiment.

Brad Landry, an LSU senior studying physics, said in practice runs, full ascension took anywhere from one hour to 90 minutes depending on weather with an average ascension rate of 1,100 feet per minute.

The balloons were scheduled to return to the Earth around 2:22 p.m. and were found using automated positioning systems following the end of totality, according to William Dever,

a junior studying electrical engineering from McNeese.

Students arrived in Carbondale late Friday night, and they said none of them had a moment to relax in preparation for the eclipse, but they were excited to conduct some research that had never before been studied.

For John Aguillard, a junior double majoring in electrical engineering and physics at LaTech, the project is an opportunity to get people excited about science.

“The best are really the moments when you’re talking to a member of the public who is excited about [your research] and have that childlike obsession,” said Aguillard.

Louisiana State University The live feed, shown via NASA on campus and at the Carbondale Civic Center, came from the weather balloon launched by Louisiana State University.

NASA’s website listed multiple live streams from the other 54 teams across the nation, including the Carbondale location’s stream recorded by LSU, said Chris Shayer, a senior studying software engineering.

Delgado Community College A student team of nine from Delgado studied solar irradiance, or a measure of the light emitted by sun.

Breanna Lemieux, a second year student studying electronics and engineering technology at Delgado, said her team expected irradiance values to decrease as the moon crossed over the sun, but they were particularly interested in the consequences such loss of solar power could mean for Earth.

“We want to see how will this affect any process that uses solar power on Earth,” Lemieux said. “We want to see if the solar power will get to point where applications like solar panels will be affected.”

She said they used devices known as photo dials, which measure the amount of light emitted from the sun.

Lemieux, who already holds a bachelor degree in engineering, attended Delgado to obtain prerequisites for graduate school, and she said she never expected to work alongside NASA while in community college.

“I was just happy to take a few classes,” she said. “I never thought I’d end up here.”

McNeese State University A team of five from McNeese studied how the solar eclipse affected the speed of sound using two separate instruments: a satellite with “ultrasensative” sonar attached to a mirror as well as humidity and pressure sensor.

Brett Schaefer, project manager for the team and a senior studying electrical engineering, said the sonar device is typically used in robotics for sensing objects using sounds, similar to echolocation techniques used by dolphins and bats.

However, using the mirror, the team modified the equipment to allow sound to bounce off a mirror to measure how long that sound takes to come back to the sonar. Brett Schaefer said, from there, they calculated the speed of sound 100,000 feet in the air.

He said the humidity and pressure sensor was used to help them measure theoretical speed of sound in the air, or to calculate what they expected the speed of sound to be based on weather conditions in the stratosphere.

Those theoretical numbers were then compared to the actual data taken by the sensor.

While the team’s numbers have yet to be released, Brett Schaefer said before the launch he expected the observations to show lower speed of sound than opposed to normal conditions because sound travels more slowly in lower temperatures.

The temperature in Carbondale lowered to 86 degrees Fahrenheit following totality, down from 90 degrees Fahrenheit at the beginning

of the partial phase, according to the Weather Channel.

But he said did not know if his expectation would truly be met as the only data he found regarding similar experiments comes from almost 60 years ago.

“As far as we can tell, it has not been repeated,” said Brian Schaefer.

“Anything in science needs to be repeated to make sure nothing has drastically changed.”

Louisiana Tech University Research from the LaTech team focused primarily on observing changes in ultraviolet radiation from the sun, according to Aguillard.

“There’s no precursor experiments,” he said. “We’re doing some of the first collection of this data at all.”

Aguillard said there are three types of UV radiation emitted by the sun: A, B and C. UV type A is common, Aguillard said, but type B is partially filtered by the ozone layer and type C is completely filtered by the ozone.

For example, many sunscreens are designed to protect against UV type A and type B radiation.

Type C can only be observed higher in the atmosphere, Aguillard said.

“You have things in space that measure it and you have things on the ground that measure,” he said, “but you don’t have a lot of in-between higher than planes can fly.”

The LaTech team launched sensors on balloons that measured complete radiation levels as well as other sensors that individually measured the levels of each type of UV radiation.

“You realize that you’re one of the first people in the world to ever see this or look at this or make this correlation, and that’s exciting,” he said.

Staff writer Cory Ray can be reached at cray@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @coryray_de.

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Solar eclipse is totality wicked in So. Ill. CAMPUS DESK | @dailyegyptian

Southern Illinois had one of the best seats in the country for Monday’s total solar eclipse — Carbondale was just a few miles north of the point of greatest duration, where the eclipse was in totality for the longest period of time.

Tens of thousands of people flooded Saluki Stadium, the SIU Arena, the Carbondale Strip and surrounding towns to get a glimpse of the astronomical phenomenon.

Eclipse-gazers included scientists, students, tourists and over 300 media outlets.

For some, the eclipse was akin to a spiritual experience.

“It was so moving — even just those few seconds, it was really, very amazing,” said Louise Hamlin, a NASA engineer from Pasadena, California.

Though Hamlin watched from the stadium, where cloud coverage made it difficult to fully witness totality, she said it was unlike anything she had ever seen before.

“It inspired me, I think, to become an eclipse chaser,” Hamlin said. “I didn’t know if I would want to see another, and another, and another, but I do.”

Many middle and high schools from around Illinois took advantage of eclipse day to take a field trip to Carbondale.

One such school was the Chicago West Side Christian School, which brought a group of 15 middleschoolers and teachers to see the celestial event.

Karen Trout, a science teacher at the school, said she hopes bringing her students to Carbondale to see the eclipse will spark scientific interest in them.

“This is my grand finale — I’ve had these kids in class since the fifth grade,” Trout said. “Science is seen as geeky, but hopefully with this trip I’ve inspired a few to pursue it.”

Meanwhile, in the SIU Arena a steady stream of traffic flowed through

Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Susan Ray-Badger, of Mt. Vernon, attempts to take an image of the total solar eclipse with her phone Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at Saluki Stadium. "We're out here with an astrology class to watch the eclipse — the atmostphere is the most exciting thing of all," Ray-Badger said. "I'm also very excited to be experiencing this with one of my children."

the Crossroads Astronomy, Science and Technology Expo.

NASA, PBS Kids, LEGOs, SIU Planetarium and many other organizations and businesses specializing in solar, astronomy, science and new technology set up shop around the arena for visitors.

Attendees also had the chance to watch scientific presentations and go inside an indoor inflatable planetarium.

Around 12:20 p.m. — one hour before the eclipse would reach totality — those in the arena began to peek out windows and doors to see the moon begin to cross over the sun.

By 12:30 p.m., everyone was outside with eyes skyward.

Anayah Scott, who traveled to Carbondale from Chicago, was celebrating two occasions: eclipse day and her fifteenth birthday.

Though clouds were blocking her view of the eclipse from outside the arena for most of totality, as glimpses of the total eclipse peeked through the cover she

said she breathed a sigh of relief.

“It was a birthday miracle,” Scott said.

In Makanda, a small town of 500, eclipse-viewers were in the event’s true epicenter, with totality lasting for two minutes and 40 seconds.

The village overflowed with space spectators from all over the world.

“I’ve talked to someone from Melbourne yesterday, from Brussels today,” said Jeremy Schumacher, a senior studying forestry who volunteered at an eclipse information booth in Makanda. “I’ve even done media for Swedish national television.”

Sean Boyce, who was visiting Makanda from Vermont with his family, said they followed the eclipse from Philadelphia to Kentucky before settling in Illinois.

“We decided to eclipse chase,” Boyce said. “We wanted to be in the deepest part of the shadow.”

Though many in Carbondale and southern Illinois were able to

see a total solar eclipse Monday, for some on campus the experience was disappointing.

Moments before the moon moved to totally block the sun, a large cloud moved to obscure the view of those watching the phenomenon from Saluki Stadium.

A crowd of over 14,000 in the stadium alternated between cheers, boos and chants of “move the cloud” as it drifted over the sun, at times allowing short flashes of totality to be seen.

By the time the cloud moved completely away from the eclipse, the two minutes and 38 seconds of totality were over.

“It was just really frustrating,” said Lucy O’Brien, a junior studying French at Fordham University in New York who traveled to see the eclipse in Carbondale. “We could barely see anything.”

Stadium programming was hosted

by Planetary Radio’s Mat Kaplan.

The day featured presentations from

NASA, a weather balloon launch by a team from LSU and performances from the Marching Salukis.

The Carbondale Strip provided another locale for eclipse tourists to see the stellar spectacle, albeit one in which the total eclipse’s view was also partially blocked by clouds.

While many came to the Strip to take in the eclipse and enjoy local restaurants and events, there were others that came to bring a warning that the astronomical event may signal the end of days.

One of these was Paula Benda, who traveled to Carbondale via the Amtrak train from Chicago. She called the Great American Eclipse a “harbinger of the hand of God’s wrath on America.”

Elijah Ben Emanual, an Egyptian man from Atlanta, Georgia, held similar views.

“This event is very important … based off of history, the Bible, Christianity, Judaism, Islam — every time there is a sign like this, it means something,” said Emanual. “It’s the end of days … the next eclipse is in seven years and that’s it.”

The world didn’t end, and though there were many disappointed by the cloud cover, for others the chance to view an eclipse — even an obscured one — along with thousands of people was still worth it.

Gov. Bruce Rauner, who came to southern Illinois from Springfield on Sunday evening and watched the eclipse from the stadium, said the suspense brought on by the cloud coverage made the experience more lively.

He added that the eclipse festivities shone a positive spotlight on the region.

“Hundreds of thousands of visitors, and they could be here to enjoy the wonderful hospitality and people here in southern Illinois,” Rauner said. “It’s a wonderful way to raise the profile for such a great university and Carbondale.”

Campus editor Marnie Leonard can be reached at mleonard@dailyegyptian.

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Brian MuĂąoz | @BrianMMunoz The phases of the Great American Eclipse are shown in a photo illustration composite, Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, at Saluki Stadium in Carbondale. The celestial event brought over 14,000 to the SIU campus.

Dylan Nelson | @DylanNelson99 Spectators eagerly await the total solar eclipse Aug. 21, 2017, in Saluki Stadium. More than 14,000 people filled the stadium for the solar spectacle. It was predicted that more than 50,000 tourists would travel to Carbondale for the event, according to city officials.

Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Roop Singh, Arya Singh, 5, and Minal Giri, all of Linkenshire, observe the solar eclipse through their eclipse glasses Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, in Makanda. Makanda, considered the crossroads of the Great American Eclipse, experienced the greatest total solar eclipse duration at over two minutes and 41 seconds.

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Today's Birthday (08/17/17). Get the word out this year. Share, network and motivate action. A turning point with a partner inspires a personal renaissance this summer. Discover insights for more effective leadership that set the stage for a hot romantic collaboration next winter.

Connect.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 8 -- Your partner's opinion is important, especially today and tomorrow. Creative and interesting opportunities abound. Strengthen your collaborative infrastructure before ramping up.

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Gemini (May 21June 20) -- Today is a 9 -- Enjoy fun with family over the next few days.

Play outside. Read a good book. Relax and engage in activities you love. Savor sweet moments.

Cancer (June 21July 22) -- Today is a 8 -- Improve your home with functional changes through tomorrow.

Create harmony and beauty with color, shape and texture. A little paint works wonders.

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Catch up on reading.

Ask questions. Engage in a larger conversation.

Share encouragement and inspiration.

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Adjust the schedule.

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Gathering with loved ones is highly recommended.

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Visit or entertain visitors.

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Brian MuĂąoz | @BrianMMunoz Coach Nick Hill talks to members of the Saluki Football team Saturday after the second scrimmage of the season at Saluki Stadium.

Offense strong; defense shines in football scrimmage DILLON GILLILAND | @DillonGilliland

SIU football's first-team offense, led by junior starting quarterback Sam Straub, came out firing in Saturday's full-pad scrimmage in Saluki Stadium.

In the Saluki's second scrimmage of the season, they focused more on game-like situations with plays called from the sidelines by coaching staff and enforced penalties. In total, the SIU football team ran 18 offensive drives totaling

94 plays spilt amongst the three rostered quarterbacks.

"I wanted them to come out here and perform," head coach Nick Hill said. "I wanted to coach this off the sideline to try and create a game atmosphere."

Straub came out and set the tone for the Saluki's offense with a 13 play, 74-yard scoring drive, completing six of his eight passing attempts to go along with five handoffs to the first-team running back corps of junior Daquan Isom and sophomore D.J. Davis.

Isom's longest carry of the drive totaled 28 yards, moving the first-team offense down to the defense's two-yard line. He failed to score on the next play as the Saluki defense stopped him just short of the goal line.

Straub finished off the drive on second down with a one-yard QB sneak up the middle to put the first six points of the scrimmage on the board.

Altogether, Straub participated in five drives, completing 10 of his 18 passes with no interceptions

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and one rushing touchdown. Sophomore quarterback Tanner Hearn and freshman quarterback Brandon George manned the other 13 drives.

Hearn performed well at the head of the second-team offense through seven drives, with a 50-yard completion to sophomore tight end Jake Varble in the second drive of the scrimmage while finishing with a 6-yard touchdown pass in his final drive.

George did not fare as well against the Saluki defense, suffering three sacks and one tipped pass while failing to score in any of his six drives leading the third-team offense.

Isom saw all his reps with the first-team offense, while Davis split reps with first- and second-team and scored on a two-yard run with the first-team in the ninth drive of the scrimmage.

Davis also took reps fielding kickoffs and punts during the scrimmage.

Davis will be serving as primary kick and punt returner for the Salukis this season as well as taking reps as running back.

"However I can make a play, that's how I'm going to make it." Davis said.

Freshman running back D.J. Hampton took the bulk of his carries during the scrimmage on the third-team offense while also splitting reps with Davis on the second-team.

The Saluki defense had another strong showing in their second scrimmage of the season. The defense allowed only three scores through 18 drives while forcing two missed field goals.

SIU's defensive line kept pressure on the quarterback throughout the scrimmage, recording three sacks and continuously driving Straub, Hearn and George from the pocket.

"Our defensive line is going to be young," Hill said. "There will be some early mistakes, but there is a lot of guys [on the line] that can play."

Special teams had a few opportunities to practice formations and timing on kick-offs and punt returns, but was not a major focus in Saturday's scrimmage. Kickers struggled on scoring opportunities throughout, going 0-for-2 on field goal attempts while taking regular second kicks to convert extra points.

"I have an issue when they don't make kicks," Hill said. "It has to get better."

Outside of the troubles with the place-kickers, Hill expressed he was happy with what he saw in Saturday's scrimmage on both sides of the ball — from both the journeyman players and the new additions to the Salukis.

"It was a good, clean scrimmage," Hill said. "A lot of younger guys got reps ... the closer we get to the season we have to have days like this."

Next on the schedule for SIU football is the seventh-annual Saluki Fan Fest beginning at 6:30 p.m. Thursday night in the Saluki Stadium. The Salukis kick off the 2017 season with a home-opener against Mississippi Valley State at 6 p.m. on Sept.

9. Kickoff is scheduled for 6 p.m., with fireworks to follow completion of game.

Sports reporter Dillon Gilliland can be reached at dgilliland@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @DillonGilliland.

Dylan Nelson | @DylanNelson33 Junior wide receiver Jimmy Jones looks to catch the ball Saturday during warmups before the second scrimmage of the season at Saluki Stadium.

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Nick Hill heads into second season JACOB SELSOR | @jacobselsor_DE

SIU football looks to turn things around this season with head coach Nick Hill in his second year at the helm, following a rough 2016 season where the Salukis battled to a 4-7 overall record while managing a meager 2-6 record in the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

The theme entering the 2017 season for the entire Saluki football organization is continuity.

The coaching staff returns offensive coordinator John Van Dam and defensive coordinator Kraig Paulson for their second consecutive year in their respective positions. The team returns 15 starters — six on defense, two on special teams and seven from an offense that ranked 12th in the NCAA in 2016 in average yards per game.

"Continuity in your coaching staff is big on the development and understanding of your players," Hill said. "It's like anything else you do in life, the more you do something the better you're going to get and the more comfortable you're going to be."

During summer workouts the team elected a leadership council that includes junior starting quarterback Sam Straub and four seniors — safety Ryan Neal, fullback Hans Carmien, linebacker Kyron Watson and wide receiver Connor Iwema. Coach Hill stressed confidence in the chosen players to foster a winning culture both on the sidelines and in the classroom.

"They're doing a great job ... they lead by example," Hill said.

"Our program is not just about on the field, but off the field as well."

Coach Hill emphasized, however, that the leadership cannot fall solely on the council.

"We're all leaders of ourselves every day," he said. "Whether you are named a captain or not, you have to come out here and lead."

With everything in place on both sides of the ball and on the sidelines, Hill looks forward to beginning the 2017 season with the Salukis first home-opener since the 2014 season.

Hill looks forward to opening the season at home against a Mississippi Valley State team that is coming off of a 1-10 overall record in the 2016 season.

“They’re coming off of a tough season, but so are we. Both teams have a lot to prove.”

The Salukis get the scouting advantage of starting the season week later than MVSU, who open up the week before against conference rival North Dakota State University.

They play the week before us and we don’t play. So we’ll get a

“We're all leaders of ourselves every day.”

- Nick Hill, SIU football coach

Brian Muñoz | @BrianMMunoz Coach Nick Hill calls out plays Saturday during the second scrimmage of the season at Saluki Stadium.

good look at them just like you would another team during the season,” Hill said. “I know they’re gonna be athletic they’re gonna have really good personnel and they’re going to be well coached …

I look for it to be a great opponent.”

Hill hopes to make some noise in the Missouri Valley Football Conference. The Salukis open up conference play on Sept. 30 against the University of Northern Iowa, following three straight non-conference games against MVSU and visits to the University of Memphis and local rival Southeast Missouri State University.

“I worry about putting a good product out on the field that people can get excited about.” Hill said.

That good product began to show in the last 3 weeks of the season when, then sophomore, quarterback Sam Straub got the starting job. The Salukis won two of their last three games, capping off the season with a thrilling come-from-behind win over No. 23 Western Illinois University.

“We won our last two home games. We gotta start putting wins together in a row here at home and create that home atmosphere,”

Hill said. “So we get our first game at home and I look for it to be a great opponent.”

Starting this year SIU will begin serving alcohol within the stadium during home games. Last summer Gov. Bruce Rauner approved a measure allowing universities throughout Illinois to sell alcohol at campus events, the SIU board of trustees gave its approval in December.

This new measure could play a part in increasing attendance at SIU football games, which has been less than stellar the past few years.

Hill did not have much to say about the plan, he continued emphasize that he was focused more on his job of winning football games.

“The thing that fills up the stands the most, is cheering for a winner,” He said. “That’s our number one thing.”

Fans will hopefully be able to do just that when SIU kicks off against Mississippi Valley State on Sept. 9 at 6 p.m. at Saluki Stadium. Be sure to come decked in SIU gear for the Maroon Out game.

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SIU volleyball 2017 season preview NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd

SIU volleyball looks to build upon a strong 2016 season in which the Salukis finished 21-12 overall while claiming fourth place in the Missouri Valley with a 12-6 regular season conference record.

Despite a strong conference finish last season, the Salukis enter the 2017 season ranked fifth in the MVC preseason rankings — two spots lower than their preseason rank entering 2016.

“With where we are with a new staff, some players leaving and question marks at a couple positions I think that’s an accurate rank for the start,” head coach Kari Thompson said. “But I think that’s too low for a finish.”

The Salukis return three starters to the court this season, along with six seniors to a predominantly young squad.

Coach Thompson is leaning on her seniors, including preseason All-Conference outside hitter Andrea Estrada, to foster leadership in the rest of the team.

“Along with our seniors, whoever our setter is will serve as our on court leader,” Thompson said.

Estrada, a two time All-MVC selection, is a major component of the squad Thompson plans to build around, though the head coach believes that Estrada still has room to improve her game.

“Teams last year were able to key in on Andrea pretty exclusively,” Thompson said. “She sets high expectations for herself and I look for her to be more productive as our offense becomes more balanced.”

Coach Thompson is aware that she has a young squad to begin the season that needs to learn to come together as a team. She is very proud of what she has seen from her freshman athletes and believes that there is

Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena SIU senior middle hitter Mckenzie Dorris (14) and junior outside hitter Abby Barrow attempt a block during the Salukis’ win over the UNI Panthers on Sept.

23, 2016, in Carbondale.

great talent to build around for future years.

Some of the competition of the MVC will not only be fresh for coach Thompson, but for the entire Saluki lineup as well.

The MVC saw a major shake-up in conference play for 2017 with the departure of highly-talented Wichita State for the American Athletic Conference, while the arrival of Valparaiso gives a new look to the

Missouri Valley.

The vacancy of Wichita St., who earned a bid to the NCAA tournament in 2016, has other teams “salivating” to take charge in the MVC according to Thompson. Along with SIU, conference opponents Missouri State, Illinois State, Northern Iowa and Loyola see a conference that is up for grabs.

SIU volleyball opens the 2017 season

at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Miami-Ohio Tournament in Oxford, Ohio, with a match against Western Kentucky. The first home match will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Davies Gym against Arkansas State University.

Sports reporter Nathan Dodd can be reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.

“With where we are with a new staff, some players leaving and question marks at a couple positions I think that’s an accurate rank for the start.”

- Kari Thompson, SIU volleyball head coach

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Volleyball's new head coach NATHAN DODD | @NathanMDodd

Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Junior defense specialist Ashley Edelen serves Sept. 2, 2016, during the Saluki's 3-2 win against the Central Florida at SIU Arena.

With roughly three months before the SIU volleyball team officially started their 2017 campaign, the team was without a coach. Enter Kari Thompson.

Coach Thompson is no stranger to collegiate volleyball having previously played and coached in various programs. She is also no stranger to competition.

“I’m extremely competitive,” Thompson said. “I always tried to do things first and better.”

Thompson’s competitive nature led to her beginning her collegiate playing career at Concordia-St. Paul in Minnesota. She later finished her playing career at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay where she got her first taste of coaching.

“I was going to go architecture school,” said Thompson. “I just could not give up volleyball yet” Thompson’s love of volleyball led her to the University of Alabama where she served as the graduate assistant for Volleyball Operations.

In 2006, Thompson found herself as an assistant coach at North Dakota State University and took over as interim coach in 2010. She eventually took over the head coaching job officially in 2011.

The Amherst, Wisconsin native led the NDSU Bison to a career record of 102-98 and 66-38 in the Summit League.

Having led NDSU to two NCAA tournament appearances, Thompson now finds herself leading the Salukis in Carbondale in a highly talented conference.

“It is a great community,” Thompson said. “They love their SIU athletics and have great academics and great people.”

The current team and competition of the Missouri Valley Conference played a role in attracting coach Thompson to SIU. “I like how hungry the players are here,” the Saluki coach said. “The competitiveness of the MVC is always enticing and helps recruiting.”

With only months between her hiring and the beginning of practice, coach Thompson calls the lack of time as “irrelevant” in hindsight.

“Maybe the timing wasn’t necessarily great,” Thompson said. “But when you’re invested with people in a program and if you can see yourself competing and being successful, then the timing doesn’t have to be great.”

Thompson finds that the next day is the most exciting part of the job so far. She explained that every day could be something totally new and diverse.

Thompson steps into her second collegiate, head coaching job with expectations to compete for the MVC championship. She also wants

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Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena SIU women's Volleyball celebrate during their 3-2 win against Central Florida on Sept. 2. 2016, in the SIU Arena.

to make this season special for her senior athletes.

“I don’t want the senior class to have any regrets,” Thompson said. “I don’t want them to walk away wishing that they had done something differently.”

Coach Thompson tries to teach her players how to be successful on the court and hopes that her values will transfer to her players.

“They’re people,” she said. “I’m going to push them as a player, as a person, and as a student to be the best that they can be on and off the court.”

Thompson also tries to teach her players integrity tells them “just be a good person at the end of the day.”

The former communications major focused on how important was that her team appreciates and communicates with one another so that they can enjoy their time together.

Communication and unity will be important for the Salukis this year as Thompson is not the only new member of the coaching staff.

Joining her are assistant coaches, Justin

Wells and Lea Hartigan.

Wells joins the staff with a large resume of coaching experience, most recently at the University of Tennessee. Hartigan also brings an impressive coaching background from various collegiate levels.

Coach Thompson discussed how important it was for her to bring in coaches that were experienced in head coaching and recruiting.

“It’s kind of all our freshman year for coaches and players,” Thompson said. “It’s been a good bonding experience for us all to go through this together.

Coach Thompson encourages anyone who is interested in the team or volleyball to come watch the Salukis take the court in Davies Gym this season.

“If you come to a game, come get to know us after it’s over,” said Thompson. She explains that the smaller capacity of Davies makes the volleyball experience more intimate and exciting for the fans and players.

Sports reporter Nathan Dodd can be reached at ndodd@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @NathanMDodd.

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