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de August 24, 2016

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Contact Us Email: editor@dailyegyptian.com Editor-in-Chief: Luke Nozicka (618) 536-3397

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About Us

The Daily Egyptian is published by the students of Southern Illinois University Carbondale 43 weeks per year, with an average daily circulation of 7,800. Fall and spring semester editions run every Wednesday. Free copies are distributed in the Carbondale and Carterville communities. The Daily Egyptian can be found daily at www.dailyegyptian.com.

Mission Statement

The Daily Egyptian, the student-run news organization of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, is committed to being a trusted source of news, information, commentary and public discourse, while helping readers understand the issues affecting their lives.

Publishing Information The Daily Egyptian is published by the students of Southern Illinois University Carbondale and functions as a laboratory for the School of Journalism in exchange for the room and utilities in the Communications Building. The Daily Egyptian is a nonprofit organization that survives primarily off of its advertising revenue. Offices are in the Communications Building, Room 1259, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, Ill., 62901.

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Faculty must include rank and department. Others include hometown.

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Opinion: New platform, same reporting values LUKE NOZICKA | @LukeNozicka

The Daily Egyptian will no longer print daily.

The printed newspaper will now appear in the racks on Wednesdays, which will begin to feature more lengthy, magazine-style stories.

But at the end of the day, this change will be beneficial to you, our readers, because we are shifting our focus to DailyEgyptian.com.

For nearly a century, the student-led newspaper has provided hard-hitting reporting and insight into how the SIU and Carbondale communities function, helping readers understand the issues affecting them.

Award-winning staffs of the past have broken critical stories, and as we shift our focus to the website and mobile platforms, that reporting will not change, nor will

our traditional beats.

DailyEgyptian.com reporters will be found at each SIU Board of Trustees, Graduate and Professional Student Council and Undergraduate Student Government meetings this semester. They will still be found at nearly every sporting event, talking with players and coaches to give you exclusive access to Saluki Athletics.

They will still call university administrators during evening hours to ask important questions needed answered by SIU students and faculty. But now, we'll try to do it faster, with the incorporation of video and motion graphics.

Our editors can now focus more on what we cover and how we deliver it to your cell phone, via Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets. In the last week, DailyEgpytian.com has published dozens of stories, garnishing

thousands of page views and engaging with hundreds of SIU students.

And while we've upgraded to a new site and installed Parse.ly — a web analytics tracking system to tell us who is reading what, and when — we will also keep the print edition fresh.

Each week will feature an indepth cover story, profiling an intriguing person in the region or breaking down a complex issue SIU students care about.

While we have changed our print publication, we aim to continue providing the same level of commitment to our readers.

Stay tuned for more improvements to our website as we move our concentration to reporting daily online.

Editor-in-Chief Luke Nozicka can be reached at 618-536-3397 or lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com.

Editorial: ‘The price of pork’ in Illinois: Poisoned creeks yet limited regulation CHICAGO TRIBUNE EDITORIAL BOARD

If you’ve ever been to a pig farm, or near one, you won’t forget the aroma. No, not the smell of frying bacon — the foul, ammonia-laced stench of hog waste.

The U.S. produces $21 billion of pork a year, including $6 billion for export. Illinois is the fourth-largest producing state, behind Iowa, North Carolina and Minnesota.

That’s a lot of pigs raised for slaughter downstate. And a lot of manure.

The swine business is unavoidably filthy, but it shouldn’t be poisonous to the state’s waterways.

A Tribune series, “The Price of Pork,” details how the muck and yuck of pigs represent an underregulated pollution threat.

When farmers raising thousands of pigs mismanage their waste storage systems, harmful effluents can leach into creeks and rivers. In some cases, farmers overwhelmed with the stuff recklessly dump excess manure into streams or over-fertilize fields with it, creating a runoff risk.

The four-part Tribune report,

by David Jackson and Gary Marx, examines the industry from snout to tail. Anyone whose relationship with pork is limited to supermarket shopping and backyard grilling should read it to understand where their packages of brats and chops come from.

Industrial pig farming helps feed the country and provides jobs, but sometimes at an unanticipated cost: There are issues with the

humane treatment of animals as well as the waste products.

As the series explains, the state’s pork business is concentrated on 484 massive farms, known as hog confinements.

They raise more than 5,000 pigs at a time and account for much of the state’s estimated $1.5 billion in annual sales.

The system is about as efficient as it can get: Pigs spend their entire lives in these massive shed-like facilities. Automated machines dispense food and water.

And after the pigs have digested their food? In a typical design, the pigs stand on a slotted concrete floor that allows waste to fall below into an eight-footdeep storage pit.

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SIU opens new food pantry to students

Autumn Suyko | @autumnsuykoDE Stephanie Majcen, a junior studying social work, grabs food Monday from SIU's new food pantry in the Student Center.

“This is awesome because I would have had to spend a lot of extra money,” Majcen said. “This is food for a couple of weeks. I’m thankful.”

BEKAH SANDERS | @rsanders_DE

After SIU student Esmeralda Valerio found out she had two weeks to pay two months of rent, she thought she’d have to pick between paying for shelter or food.

“I didn’t have any money for groceries so I was just going to rely on free food on campus from different clubs,” said Valerio, a junior from Chicago studying social work who visited the new Saluki food pantry when it first opened Monday in the lower level of the Student Center.

The pantry, a project pursued by interim Chancellor Brad Colwell last spring, is not the first of its kind established to meet nutritional needs across campuses nationally.

“We have a responsibility to ensure our students’ needs — including access to nutritional foods — are met so they can focus on academic and career success,” Colwell said in a news release earlier this month.

“I encourage the SIU community to contribute to this important undertaking.”

A recent study conducted in part by SIU graduate Loran Morris surveyed food security on four campuses across Illinois, including SIU, found that 35 percent of the 1,882 students sampled had low or very low food security.

Food insecurity is here defined as the inability to obtain sufficient nutrition and an adequate amount of food.

SIU student Sara Sauerhage, who became a mother at 20, said she remembered how difficult it

can be to balance school needs with other necessities, such as daycare and life emergencies while earning a degree.

“It seems like food is the one [thing] that everyone cuts back on,” said Sauerhage, a graduate assistant in social work who works at the pantry.

“You have to pay your electric to have electricity. … You don’t have to go to the grocery store to buy food.”

Though SIU’s Wesley Foundation has an off-campus food pantry students can use, the on-campus pantry was created to better meet the needs of students by offering more options and resources, said Lori Stettler, vice chancellor of student affairs.

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Pokémon a no-GO for SIU police event DIAMOND JONES | Daily Egyptian

SIU police were forced to cancel a Pokémon GO hunting expedition Monday afternoon after no students came to participate.

Because of the lack of turnout, “Pokémon with the Police” has been rescheduled for late September. The event, which was previously postponed because of rain, was designed to be an opportunity for SIU police officers to interact with students through the popular video game.

“We knew with the previous rescheduling and social media traffic, there was a setback and we were curious about the reception of it being the first day of school,” said Lt. Ryan House, who volunteered to tour the campus with students in search of Pokémon. “Our goal was to have an informal interaction with the students to promote positive police and community relations.”

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Students making their first visit to the pantry must fill out a form either in person or online and present a valid student ID. Then they can fill a handbasket with non-perishable food items and toiletries lining the shelves.

Every month, students can take up to three days of food for each individual family member living with them — which adds up to about 20 to 23 items per person — said Kent Epplin, associate director of the Student Center.

In an effort to keep costs low, the university re-used shelving from the Student Center and asked for food donations and volunteers to run the pantry.

The lower level of the Student Center site provided unused space for the charitable undertaking while also giving students some privacy, Stettler said.

“There should not be any shame

released, several major media outlets reported incidents of theft and trespassing related to the augmented reality video game. House said the department planned to give cards to students with information on how to stay safe while playing.

“The game is interesting,” House said. “As long as you’re doing it safely, it gets people out and in their community, which enhances more activity.”

The rescheduled event will be from 3 to 5 p.m. Sept. 26 outside Shryock Auditorium, House said. Gift cards for a free shake and iced tea from Blend Tea and Crepe will be given to the first 20 participants, he said.

House said he wants students to see officers interacting with the campus community so students feel comfortable as they settle in at the university.

“As police officers, we’re people too,” House said. “We do the same things others do and we enjoy having fun just as the next person.” associated with using a food pantry,” she said. “But we know with some people it’s hard to be able to admit that you need help.”

A portion of the pantry initiative is also dedicated to providing information about healthy eating and support programs for students.

“We realize that providing food for students is not just the solution for food insecurity,” sustainability coordinator Geory Kurtzhals said of the additional resources. “It is much more complex than that.”

Stettler said the university eventually hopes to reach out to farms for local produce and for the pantry to become a resource center.

The pantry is open from 3 to 6 p.m. on Mondays and from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesdays.

Staff writer Bekah Sanders can be reached at rsanders@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @rsanders_DE.

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SIU dorms down 600 residents, 3 Schneider Hall floors to close ANNA SPOERRE | @annaspoerre

This fall, 600 fewer students will be moving into SIU’s residence halls, officials said.

The top-three floors in Schneider Hall will be empty as a result of decreased enrollment, particularly in the incoming freshman class, said Jim Hunsaker, senior associate

director of housing operations.

Vacancies will primarily be in the towers, as well as University Hall on east campus and Thompson Point on west campus, Hunsaker said.

However, Wall and Grand Apartments — traditionally designated for upperclassmen — are at capacity this semester, he said.

Jeanne Lady, senior director

“Enrollment will be down for a host of reasons, including the lack of public confidence in the state budget.”

- Rae Goldsmith SIU spokewoman

of residence life, said there were originally six residential assistants assigned to cover the three floors when hiring decisions were made in the spring, prior to the closure.

But not everyone hired to be an RA this fall filled the positions for various reasons, she said, so no one was laid off.

Lady also said some floors will have fewer residents.

A number of floors traditionally set up with two RAs will be reduced to one because the floor will only have 20 or 30 residents instead of 50 or 60, Lady said.

No new RAs are being hired this semester — as would typically happen to fill vacancies — because

some RAs were moved into openings on other floors, she said.

Hunsaker said the reduction saves the university in cleaning costs for the vacant floors and hired RAs. “It’s just something the whole university is feeling right now,” Hunsaker said of the tightened budget and the decrease in university housing residents. “We’re doing more with less.”

The reduction in residence comes during a time when public universities are feeling the effects of an ongoing state budget crisis.

At the end of June, Illinois politicians passed a stopgap budget to provide some funding to statefunded institutions. However, this is

only a temporary fix.

University enrollment fell below 16,000 students in the spring, which was down 878 students from spring 2015.

Official enrollment totals for this semester will not be released until 10 days after the first day of the semester, which is common, SIU spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said.

“Enrollment will be down for a host of reasons, including the lack of public confidence in the state budget,” Goldsmith said.

Campus editor Anna Spoerre can be reached at 618-536-3325, aspoerre@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @annaspoerre.

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SIU’s yearlong plan for a twominute, 38-second solar eclipse MARNIE LEONARD | @marsuzleo

The 2017 Eclipse Crossroads of America event looks to be astronomical for SIU. University officials held an event Sunday to kick off the one-year countdown to this celestial marvel.

The path of the solar eclipse will span the entire United States in August next year, but its pinnacle will be just a few miles south of Carbondale, according to the university’s eclipse webpage.

Though the eclipse will happen at 1:21 p.m., it will appear to be nighttime, the temperature will drop and stars will be clear in the sky for two minutes and 38 seconds as the moon obscures the sun, according to SIU’s webpage.

Between 30,000 and 50,000 people are expected to visit the Carbondale area for the event, city officials have said.

Bob Baer, a faculty member in the physics department, said he is hopeful the extra attention on SIU will result in more funding toward the university and the physics department. So far, Baer — coordinator of the Illinois Continental America Telescopic Eclipse Experiment (CATE) — said the only grant the university has received came in the form of a small, $57,000 NASA award.

“When I say small, that’s really small for a university grant,” Baer said.

“Realistically, it’s hard to say if we’ll receive more. We haven’t gotten any sponsorship yet but what we do have from NASA is this informal partnership.”

Baer said partnering with NASA for the eclipse show provides free advertising for the event, which became evident Sunday evening when the NASA Edge program was shown via video to visitors at the Student Center Auditorium.

The 30-minute clip featured a number of interviews, including one with Baer, who promoted the events and festivities Carbondale will host next year.

The camera also panned over several campus locations, giving birds-eye views of Saluki Stadium and the Student Services Building.

“With them selecting this as the location to broadcast from, that has put a lot of attention on this campus,” Baer said. “I’m hoping that that will really help show the world that SIU Carbondale — well, that it’s here, first of all — because there’s a lot going on here but a lot of people don’t know that, especially outside of Illinois.”

Expecting thousands Carbondale’s campus would look a little crowded this time next year given the influx of eclipse chasers and students moving in for the first day of classes — which coincides with the eclipse, said Sarah Kovac, president of the Saluki Astronomy Association.

“When we talked to the school about this a year ago, we said, ‘Hey, this is going to be a really big deal, maybe you should look at the academic calendar,’ but they said ‘No, we’re not going to change classes,’” said Kovac, a senior studying physics. “But I think they’re realizing the mess that it’s going to be — I guarantee you no one’s going to go to class.”

No official announcement regarding changes to next year’s academic calendar has been made, but Baer said he expects interim Chancellor Brad Colwell to do so soon.

“We want to make sure the students are here to see the eclipse and we need a lot of student volunteers and workers to pull this off,” he said. “We not only want them to be here, we need them to be here.”

Although tens of thousands of people are estimated to visit during the eclipse, Baer said it’s still hard to say just how many people Carbondale should actually prepare for.

“We’re issuing tickets for [Saluki Stadium] and [SIU Arena] for the main viewing soon, so once we do that, we’ll have a better idea,” Baer said. “But we’re going to have a lot of free areas too. I don’t want to scare anyone into thinking that they have to pay to see the eclipse because that’s not true at all.”

So far, the university has not had to bring in any outside help to manage

the influx of people or the planning of the eclipse festivities, but Thomas Woolf — associate director of University Communications and Marketing — said SIU has partnered with Adler Planetarium in Chicago.

“The Adler Planetarium has been helping develop programming and curriculum that we’re calling ‘edutainment’ — so it’s meant to educate as well as entertain people,” Woolf said.

What if it rains?

The only thing in the way of the eclipse now could be the weather, Baer said.

“Everyone is watching the weather today all over the world to see what’s happening along the path. If we have light clouds like we have today, it’s not a problem at all,” he said. “But if you have thunderstorms you aren’t going to see a thing.”

Baer said even if inclement weather blocks a first-perspective view of the eclipse, giant screens will show a live streaming webcast of the event provided

by NASA. “We’ll see it one way or another,” he said.

Getting students involved Students will be able to sign up to volunteer at the festivities next year using an online system similar to move-in volunteering through the SIU website, but this system is not yet in place.

Until then, Baer encourages students to contact Kovac with ideas related to the event and programming at sarah. kovac@siu.edu.

There are also public astronomy observations held throughout the semester for those interested in learning more about the cosmos.

Kovac is hopeful that all this skyward focus will generate interest in students for the celestially centered sciences.

“I really want this eclipse to spark an interest for a new generation of astronomers,” she said.

Additional information about the eclipse can be found at www.nationaleclipse.com.

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Daily Egyptian squared away BILL LUKITSCH | @Lukitsbill

Former publisher of the Southern Illinoisan John Pfeifer repeatedly asked SIU administrators to make changes to the Daily Egyptian’s format so he could be included in the public bidding process to print the student-run newspaper, documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show.

The Southern Illinoisan eventually did get the contract, but only after the state purchasing officer apparently made a miscalculation based on incorrect dimensions.

Steve Todt, the state procurement officer assigned to handling the printing contract for the Daily Egyptian, said Tuesday the bid was awarded to the Southern Illinoisan based on its square size of 11.375 inches.

But records kept by the Daily Egyptian show that the Southern Illinoisan’s was 10.75 inches, not the 11.375 Todt relied on.

As a result, the Daily Egyptian enters its 100th year of delivering campus news to students and the Carbondale community in a new format. The tabloid-style layout is to be printed once a week on Wednesdays, a reduction of three print newspapers per week compared to the spring semester.

The changes took effect after a July 7 purchase order that put the Daily Egyptian in a 2 ½ year printing contract with the Southern Illinoisan despite staunch opposition from a number of faculty members in the School of Journalism. A competitive bidder in Breese had the capability

to retain the original size of the newspaper, but was underbid based on the faulty metric.

In April, former Director of the School of Journalism Uche Onyebadi sent a letter to Deborah Abell, the university’s director of procurement services, asking to reject the bid. Among a number of reasons, Oneybad began with the state procurement officer’s mistakes on column inches available for content in the newspaper.

The bid was awarded, Onyebadi said, based on design specifications that compared an 8-page tall tab to a 12-page tabloid. But in order to retain at least the same amount of space, he argued, the design of a short tabloid — which is used by the Southern Illinoisan — would have to be upped to 16 pages, creating a more expensive printing run.

Onyebadi said the proposed “awkward, square format” and lower quality printing would reduce the overall aesthetics of the newspaper, the interest of print advertisers, the enjoyment of readers and the educational experience for journalism students.

“Our view is that this unilateral decision subverts the contents of the [request for purchase], and constitutes an interference with the editorial independence of the DE,” the former director said.

Abell said during an interview Monday the complaint was passed along to the state procurement office, whereupon the original determination was upheld and the contract was granted to the Southern Illinoisan.

“We don't really care who prints the Daily Egyptian.”

- Rae Goldsmith SIU spokeswoman

The move to the new press marks the third time the studentled newspaper has changed printing sites within the last 18 months. The latest transition, however, was the most drastic.

The Daily Egyptian’s traditional “tall tab” format was run on an in-house press used by the student newspaper for more than 50 years. That press was maintained by a team of student employees, and at its height ran 20,000 print circulation per issue five days a week during fall and spring semesters.

The printing press now idles beside a row of tall glass windows along the walkway on the northern end of the Communications Building. Barrels of used oil, wooden pallets and empty buckets surround the sleeping steel behemoth, a relic of the newspaper’s former glory.

For decades, the student newspaper ran independent of state funding and revenue generated by the university, but disinvestment in print media created unsustainable financial problems similar to those experienced by comparable institutions around the nation.

Data maintained by the Daily Egyptian shows advertisement revenue dropped by nearly $500,000 between 2008 and 2014. As revenue for the newspaper continued to plummet, measures were taken to rethink the Daily Egyptian’s financial model.

In 2014, a “swat team” of newspaper professionals was organized by thendirector of the School of Journalism William Freivogel to provide ideas on what steps should be taken to ensure the existence of the student media source. Through that team, a number of strategies were floated to right the sinking ship, including limiting the number of runs per week, introducing a new student media fee and outsourcing the print operation.

Pfeifer was one of those brought in as a consultant to discuss the future of the Daily Egyptian.

“One of the recommendations that came out of that group was to close the printing press and outsource the printing sooner rather than later,” Pfeifer said Wednesday, adding that

much of his two-year tenure with the Southern was spent attempting to secure the contract.

For weeks, the Daily Egyptian also ran a Twitter campaign with the hashtag #SaveTheDE to bring attention to the possible discontinuation of student-run print media on campus. University officials, including newcomer president Dunn, stood in support of the campaign, and in June 2014, the SIU Board of Trustees approved a $9-persemester student media fee to cover some of the operational costs for the cash-strapped newspaper.

After all was said and done, the final issue of the newspaper to run on the university campus was printed Jan. 29, 2015 by a small crew led by former Printshop Superintendent Blake Mulholland.

When the press shut down, the newspaper moved production to its emergency printer in Cape Girardeau, Mo., until a bidding process could begin. An announcement was made by the Daily Egyptian through social media to inform readers of the switch, but was interpreted as a permanent move by Pfeifer.

In January 2015, Pfeifer sent an email to Dunn expressing disappointment his company was unable to submit a bid. He noted that looking at outsourcing the print in the near future was his suggestion and wondered why he was “shut out” of the process.

“Seven months later, finding out that printing is moving to Cape Girardeau by reading the DE’s Facebook page seems a rather poor way to treat a business neighbor, community partner and stakeholder in the Daily Egyptian’s future,” he wrote. “Assessing all SIU students an additional $9 in fees and then sending that money to Missouri is simply not right.”

He said Wednesday the outsourcing was a “sore spot” for him and he had questioned reasoning by the student newpaper’s former business manager to retain the tall tab format to reach advertisers.

Because the Daily Egyptian

receives funding through the university it is required to abide by the state’s procurement process for its print contract. But after the first bidding process was launched, no vendors — including the Southern Illinoisan — were found to match the budget and size specifications of the original newsprint format.

Once the first bids opened, correspondence involving the Daily Egyptian between Pfeifer and university officials span months as he attempted to get a seat at the table. In November 2015, Pfeifer sent an email to several university administrators saying he was frequently told “the SIUC Administration is interested in expanding our partnership/working agreement, but the bid (specifications) continue to say otherwise.”

After the second bidding process went unresolved, Matthew Baughman, an assistant to the chancellor who helped navigate the procurement law through the final bid, sent an email to Onyebadi suggesting the newspaper include an alternate format to widen the scope of possible vendors.

That was done, Baughman said Wednesday, to reduce the likelihood of having a third bidding process go unresolved.

“You had two bid processes that couldn’t award the contract,” Baughman said. “At some point the DE has to be able to go out and award a contract to print the DE.” After this suggestion, the School of Journalism drafted a request for purchase that included the alternative format with which the newspaper is now printed.

“We don’t really care who prints the Daily Egyptian,” SIU spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said, adding that the conversations about finding an alternate format were “about how to help get resolution [and] about finding ways to help get the DE get printed.”

Campus editor Bill Lukitsch can be reached at 618-536-3326 or blukitsch@dailyegyptian.com.

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Rauner signs juvenile justice reform bills KIM GEIGER | Chicago Tribune

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday approved a package of bills aimed at preventing young people who've run afoul of the law from falling into a cycle of incarceration.

Flanked by Democratic lawmakers with whom he has been warring over the state's budget mess, Rauner said the legislation was just one step in a larger effort to change the state's criminal justice system.

"We need to think strategically, thoughtfully, compassionately, about helping people come back, have a second chance and be productive citizens," Rauner said. "Much of our crime is occurring because of mental health issues, because of addiction issues and lack of job skills. We need to think about those and integrate them in our justice system so we can prevent crime in the future, lower our prison population and have a more just and fair society."

The bill signing was a rare display of bipartisan agreement between the Republican governor and his Democratic foes in the General Assembly, but even that spirit of compromise was overshadowed by the broader political fight that continues to rage as both sides look ahead to the November election.

The event was held days after Rauner used his veto powers to

rewrite a bill that would have ended the state's practice of suing prison inmates to recover the costs of their incarceration — one that critics say makes it harder for people to get back on their feet after they've been released from jail.

Rauner's veto effectively kills the bill, as lawmakers are not expected to have enough votes to override or approve the governor's changes.

Rep. Kelly Cassidy, a Chicago Democrat and sponsor of that bill, wrote on Twitter over the weekend that Rauner had nixed the legislation because he "was afraid to be seen as soft on crime."

Cassidy took to the lectern during Monday's bill signing ceremony and issued a "dare" to both parties to make criminal justice issues off-limits in the campaign.

Rauner has long advocated for improving the criminal justice system, and he made an early pledge shortly after taking office that he would work to reduce the state's prison population by 25 percent over 10 years.

The first-term governor found willing allies in that cause, particularly among Chicago Democrats, and it has become one of the few areas where he can tout bipartisan efforts and accomplishments.

But it has also opened up an avenue for attack in districts where voters want a tough-on-crime approach.

An attack ad run by Democratic

Rep. John Bradley warns voters that Republican candidate Dave Severin's "biggest supporter wants to let 25 percent of the state's prisoners loose into our communities."

Cassidy chided her fellow Democrats for trying to use Rauner's criminal justice efforts as a "political weapon."

"Until we come to a place where a legislator or a governor doesn't have to make a decision whether the hit that's going to come from signing or voting on a bill is too great a risk to take ... we won't get to that just criminal justice system," Cassidy said. "My party is running ads. I'm sure that the Republicans will be running ads this year. And I dare everybody to stop."

The bills signed by Rauner Monday are aimed at juveniles who have runins with the law.

One sets new requirements for first-time prison sentences.

Another reduces mandatory minimum lengths of probation for juveniles, and a separate bill allows a juvenile to immediately petition a court for expungement of an offense that is dismissed without a finding of delinquency.

Rauner also signed a bill that reduces the rate that telephone providers can charge for inmate phone calls.

A fifth bill gives park districts some leeway in hiring people who've been convicted of drug crimes.

“We need to think strategically, thoughtfully, compassionately, about helping people come back, have a second chance and be productive citizens.�

- Bruce Rauner Illinois Gov.

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Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko Surrounded by incoming freshman and new students, interim Chancellor Brad Colwell, center, wears a pair of solar eclipse glasses for a group photo following the convocation ceremony at the SIU Arena on Friday in Carbondale. The glasses are a promotional item for the rare solar eclipse that will occur next year. "What are the odds that Carbondale is the crossroads of this eclipse?" Colwell said. "We are more than excited to make the most of this opportunity."

Welcoming the next generation of Salukis

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Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko Hands fly through the air during a group photo following the convocation ceremony at the SIU Arena on Friday in Carbondale.

Athena Chrysanthou | @Chrysant1Athena Robert Vinson, a freshman from Chicago studying mechanical engineering, moves his belongings into his dormitory on Thursday outside Warren Hall. He said he excited about the new start at SIU. Vinson’s favorite item he brought to school are his basketball shoes.

Morgan Timms | @Morgan_Timms Above: Jake Ellsworth, a sophomore from Evansville, Ind., studying musical theater, reaches for a flag while competing with his friend, Michael Radford, a freshman from Valparaiso, Ind., studying musical theater, on the inflatable bungee run Saturday during Dawgs Nite Out at the Student Center.

Left: Cassaundra Jaegers, a junior from Ottumwa, Iowa, studying zoology, plays Jenga against Brad Olson, a sophomore from Oquawka studying wildlife biology, Saturday during Dawgs Nite Out at the Student Center.

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Here's what we learned from Saluki football's final preseason scrimmage JACOB GAERTNER AND TED WARD @JGaertnerDE | @TedWard_DE

After weather cancelled it the first time around, the SIU football team finally held its fall scrimmage Saturday.

A small group of fans gathered to watch the 2016 version of the Salukis take the field, giving them a better idea of what to expect from this season. Here’s what we took away from it.

We now have a better idea who the starting quarterback could be The quarterback battle appears to have narrowed down to senior quarterback Josh Straughan and sophomore quarterback Sam Straub.

Both players saw first team snaps with Straughan leading the first unit out on the field to start the scrimmage.

Coach Nick Hill said not to read too much into it as both players flipped a coin to decide who would lead the team on the field first.

Straub went 5-for-9 passing for 57 yards and two touchdowns, while Straughan went 9-for12 passing for 92 yards and a touchdown.

The Salukis have playmakers on offense It didn’t matter if Straughan or Straub was on the field, the offense moved the chains.

Both quarterbacks have shown the ability to scramble if they come

under pressure.

When they had time to throw, the two found senior wide receiver Jimmy Jones who caught four passes for 37 yards and a touchdown. The quarterbacks also found sophomore tight end John Gardner, who caught a short pass in which he took 70 yards for a touchdown after a block from a teammate.

Whoever the starting quarterback is will also have the services of sixyear seniors Israel Lamprakes and Billy Reed. Neither recorded a catchduring the scrimmage.

The biggest weapon the Salukis have is sophomore running back Daquan Isom. Isom had an injury scare late in the scrimmage but

walked off under his own power and later said he was feeling good.

Isom was second on the team with 548 rushing yards last season and could be a breakout player in this offense.

The secondary appears to be a weak spot on the roster The defense seemed susceptible to the deep ball, giving up a more than 20-yard touchdown.

They also could not keep a clean sheet and had three defensive pass interferences called on them, setting up the offense for three field goals.

We know the man coverage to zone coverage ratio The defense played almost exclusively zone, which gives

everybody a set area to defend. It worked well when everybody did their job, but when one person messed up, it opened a hole.

If the secondary doesn't clean this up, it could cause issues all season.

The defense plays conservatively There were almost no blitzes during the scrimmage, which is a trademark of defensive coordinator Kraig Paulson’s defense and was exacerbated by trying to keep players healthy.

Staff writers Jacob Gaertner and Ted Ward can be reached at jgartner@dailyegyptian.com and tward@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @JGaertnerDE and @TedWard_DE.

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SIU's QB battle is still a coin flip JACOB GAERTNER | @JGAERTNERDE

The Saluki football team is in the midst of a quarterback battle with less than two weeks until its opening game of the regular season.

Sophomore Sam Straub and senior Josh Straughan lead the way for SIU quarterbacks. The two alternated first team reps Saturday night during SIU’s final preseason scrimmage.

Coach Nick Hill refrained from naming a starter after the scrimmage but said the coaching staff would watch film and decide accordingly.

“That’s up to the coaches,” Straughan said when asked about who would start. “I think, in the QB room, we’re all good quarterbacks.”

The competition is so close that Hill said he had the two decide who would start Saturday’s scrimmage via coin flip.

Straub won the flip and started the scrimmage with the first team, completing five passes on nine attempts for 57 yards and two touchdowns.

“We’re competing every day for the job,” Straub said after the scrimmage.

Straub said he has a good sense of Hill’s offense and can read how defenses play against it. Despite his confidence, Straub doesn’t quite have the starting spot locked up.

“I command well,” Straub said.

“Making good decisions and having toughness are my big attributes.”

Last season, Straub completed his one and only passing attempt, which

went for 12 yards in his limited time when games got out of hand.

After last season, Straub appeared to be the next man up for the Salukis with last year’s starter and backup — Mark Iannotti and Matt McIntosh — both graduating.

Then Straughan transferred in, adding another option for Hill in his first year at the helm.

Straughan is a transfer from Stillman College, a then-Division II school in Tuscaloosa, Ala. He played for three seasons, amassing 5,470 passing yards and 53 touchdowns in 24 games while earning First Team All-Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference recognition in 2014.

Straughan passed 12 times

during the scrimmage, completing nine passes for 92 yards and a touchdown.

The only other quarterback to see playing time in the scrimmage was sophomore Matt DeSomer, who was used more for his legs than his arm.

DeSomer attempted six passes and completed four of them for 31 yards, but rushed the ball eight times for 30 yards. He was used mostly in wildcat formations last year and tallied 23 carries for 111 yards.

All three quarterbacks utilized their legs Saturday, rushing for a combined 62 yards on 17 carries, more than the six running backs who combined for 21 yards on 13 carries.

“Running is just as good as passing for a five-yard gain,” Straub

said. “If your first or second read isn’t there, check down or take off.”

Regardless of who Hill picks, there will be big shoes to fill in replacing Iannotti.

The recent graduate led the Football Championship Subdivision in total offense, averaging 355 yards per game with 33 total touchdowns en route to being named the quarterback of the All-Missouri Valley Football Conference team.

The chosen quarterback will get his first start in a Saluki uniform at 5 p.m. Sept. 3 against Florida Atlantic in Boca Raton, Fla. Staff writer Jacob Gaertner can be reached at jgartner@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter @JGaertnerDE.

Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko LEFT: Senior quarterback Josh Straughan launches a pass during SIU's fall football scrimmage Saturday at Saluki Stadium in Carbondale.

BELOW: Sophomore quarterback Sam Straub throws a pass during SIU's fall football scrimmage Saturday at Saluki Stadium in Carbondale.

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SIU volleyball voted to finish third in Missouri Valley preseason voting ATHENA CHRYSANTHOU | Daily Egyptian Missouri Valley Conference coaches pegged Saluki volleyball to finish third in the annual preseason poll.

SIU ended up with 82 points and earned a first-place vote in the 10-person poll for the third year in a row. The poll is based upon coaches’ expectations for their teams and players during the coming season.

A star player took home an individual honor as well.

Junior outside hitter Andrea Estrada

was named to the six-player 2016 MVC Preseason All-Conference team.

Last year, she earned MVC First Team honors, tallying 431 kills and 379 digs on the season.

Wichita State was voted to finish first with 97 points, receiving seven first-place votes shortly behind No. 2 Missouri State with 85 points and one first-place vote.

SIU Coach Justin Ingram, the 2015 MVC Coach of the Year, will enter the season with the highest preseason ranking his team has

Last year [Estrada] earned MVC First Team honors, tallying 431 kills and 379 digs on the season. earned since he took over the program after the 2011 season.

Northern Iowa took the final first-place vote in the poll, finishing fourth with 72 points.

SIU will be tested throughout the conference, as four teams made the NCAA tournament last season, including the Salukis’ first-ever run, which ended with a first-round

defeat to Illinois.

The Dawgs will return all but two players — graduated All-MVC senior middle hitter Taylor Pippen and transferring freshman libero Tara Routliffe — from last season.

SIU will open its season at 4:30 p.m. Friday against Central Michigan at the IUPUI Invitational in Indianapolis.

Athena Chrysanthou can be reached at achrysanthou@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @Chrysant1Athena.

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SIU football hopes to see brighter days thanks to Sunshine State TED WARD | @TedWard_DE

A quick glance at the SIU football roster will show more than a dozen Floridians.

Thirteen players on the team came to SIU from the football hotbed that has produced a plethora of pro talent.

While nearly half of the squad is from Illinois, Coach Nick Hill said he recruits from the Sunshine State because past relationships help him find the right players there.

“I’ve coached high school football down in Florida, [SIU offensive coordinator John] Van Dam was on the University of Florida staff last season and of course we had players on the team from last year from the area,” Hill said.

“The thing about Florida is high school football is huge whereas you think of areas like Chicago, you think basketball.”

Last year, seven SIU players were from Florida. This season, that number has nearly doubled.

“It’s really cool to look across the field and see so many familiar faces from your high school days,” sophomore outside linebacker Withney Simon said. “Some of them were teammates and others I played against but we’re all here trying to build a team and win games.”

One of those familiar faces is sophomore cornerback C.J. Jennings, who transferred in from the University of Wyoming. Jennings was a senior when Simon was a junior at Jones High School in Orlando.

Simon said he talked to Jennings about potentially coming to SIU when Jennings planned on transferring out of Wyoming.

“I just told him what big things were happening at SIU and how coach Hill and the rest of the coaching staff were building relationships with the players,” Simon said. “As a player you have to have a good relationship with your coaches and you have to feel like a part of the family and he didn’t feel like he had that.”

SIU isn’t the only program recruiting from Florida. The squad competes with Florida, Miami and Florida State — national championship caliber — but Van Dam knows a thing or two about recruiting the region.

The new coordinator’s resume includes coaching jobs under top college football coaches, including Alabama head coach Nick Saban.

While the competition is steep, SIU has a slight advantage, Van Dam said.

“The hard part for the bigger schools is they have to recruit so early and the luxury we have is we can wait a little bit,” he said. “When the players mature into good players by their senior year the bigger schools can’t take them because they don’t have room, so we can give these guys the opportunity to go play and be successful.”

While Southern Illinois may be a stark contrast to Florida, Hill said the drive to play is more than enough to leave the Sunshine State.

“In Florida everyone wants to play football and they don’t care about the weather,” Hill said. “[Southern Illinois] is a climate change but these guys just love to play and be in between the lines.”

Simon said football is the same everywhere you go, but it is a bit faster in Florida.

He said bringing that speed to the Midwest and combining that with the Midwestern style of play has really started something special.

“When you take what those guys know and you take the style we’ve brought in it’s definitely created a new culture and it’s one that’s been really fun to be around,” Simon said. “It makes you feel at home and we really are one big family no matter where you’re from.”

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Once an opponent, new SIU defensive coordinator becomes ally on sideline JACOB GAERTNER | @JGaertnerDE

This season won’t be the first time Saluki head coach Nick Hill and defensive coordinator Kraig Paulson share a football field.

In December of 2006, Saluki football (9-4), led by Hill as a junior quarterback, traveled to face off with the second-ranked Montana Grizzlies (12-1) in the second round of the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

The Grizzlies touted the 10th best defense in the nation, led

by Paulson, their then-defensive coordinator who now coordinates the same defensive scheme at SIU. “It was freezing cold and it was the loudest stadium, still to this day, that I’ve ever played in,” Hill said, remembering the contest.

It was the coldest game the Salukis played all year, with a kickoff temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit.

The stadium held 18,800 fans that day, nearly 2,000 more than capacity at McAndrew Stadium — SIU football’s previous stadium — and 4,000 more than Saluki Stadium, the current field.

“It was really nice to play at home,” said Paulson, who was added to the Saluki team by Hill in January. “We knew that would be a distraction for them.”

During the 2006 season, the Salukis averaged nearly 400 yards, but Paulson’s defense held them to only 129 yards in the game.

“They were one of the top defenses in the country,” Hill said.

“They kicked our butts.”

Hill said Montana’s success against him as a player had an impact on his decision to bring Paulson to Carbondale.

“We joke about it now, but he

Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko Head football coach Nick Hill speaks with the team following SIU's fall football scrimmage Saturday at Saluki Stadium in Carbondale.

definitely got the upper hand,” Hill said of Paulson.

SIU rode the back of Walter Payton award finalist Arkee Whitlock all season. He rushed for 1,841 yards (141 per game) and 25 touchdowns, the fourth most yards and most rushing TDs in the nation entering the game.

Paulson’s defense emphasizes rushing the passer with only four down lineman, freeing up the linebackers and defensive backs to protect against passes and stuff the run.

“We knew we were going to have to stop him,” Paulson said

of Whitlock, who most recently played for the Edmonton Eskimos in the professional Canadian league. “We wanted to get them into predictable passing situations.”

The Grizzlies held Whitlock to only 84 yards on 20 carries and no touchdowns.

Future NFL player and 2007 Defensive Player of the Year Kroy Biermann helped Montana’s defense with his pass rushing from the defensive end position, totaling 11 sacks in 2006.

Paulson said his 4-3 defense is designed to create maximum

pressure on the quarterback while minimizing the amount of players it takes to create it.

Before this game, SIU only had less than 300 yards in a game twice, and hadn’t been held under 200 yet that season.

Hill boasted about the Salukis’ high-powered offense (34 points per game, fourth in the country) that season, but admitted that the Grizzlies got the best of them.

The Salukis punted on all five of its first half drives, getting only one first down in the process.

SIU finally got on the board with

a fourth quarter field goal, the only points of the game.

“They didn’t give up many points that season,” Hill said of the Grizzlies. “They just played hard, good football.”

Saluki fans will get their first chance to see Hill and Paulson on the same sideline at 6 p.m. Sept. 10 during SIU’s home opener against Southeast Missouri.

Staff writer Jacob Gaertner can be reached at 618-536-3333, jgaertner@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @JGaertnerDE.

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