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MCM prepares for changes with appointment of new president AUSTIN PHELPS | @austinphelps96

Movie Camera Movement is preparing for changes coming to this 2018-19 academic year and they’re eager and hungry to get started, according to Quinn Murphy, President of MCM. “We’re trying to bring in more of a post-production emphasis,” Murphy said. “It’s super easy to plan everything but once you’re on set it’s a completely different beast and monster itself.”

Allison Brown, post-production supervisor, said the group will be getting an editing suite this year.

“It’s going to be the meeting place for post-production,” Brown said. “Which is wonderful because before editors were on their own.”

Brown said in previous years if editors wanted to collaborate, they had to contact one another by other means.

“Thats the main goal is getting these teasers and trailers out.

Making sure that we're involved in the community, is making sure that students know we're here.”

- Allison Brown post-production supervisor, MCM

The editing suite comes with a faster computer which will allow the group to edit easier while making better films, Murphy said.

The group will now also be editing trailers and teasers for their films that will premiere at their annual Red Carpet event, Brown said.

“That’s the main goal in getting these teasers and trailers out,” Brown said. “Making sure that we’re involved in the community is making sure that students know we’re here.”

MCM is also hoping to branch out into other genres this year, Mary Scott, Vice President, said.

“Experimental rather than the regular narrative,” Scott said. “We’re always welcome to having those.”

MCM is looking to branch out further with comedy skits, suspenseful films, and even commercials, Murphy said.

The group is always looking for members to bring in new ideas.

“This is a place where you can come in and say ‘I’m passionate about this idea,’” Murphy said. “We’re like ‘Cool, let’s make it!’”

Even if you don’t have a clue about what film production or editing is, this is a place for everyone, Scott said.

“Everyone is so cool and literally no one cares if you mess up,” Scott said. “We’re all here to be creative.”

It’s a place where failure is common and welcome, Murphy said.

“We’re here to help them learn, mess up, try again and move forward in life,” Brown said. “If freshmen can find this program, it’s so good for them.”

When deciding on a film to produce, MCM’s executive board receives all the script submissions and greenlights four of them, then votes for two of them, Murphy said.

“Mary and I are in charge of

“We're here to help them learn, mess up, try again and move forward in life. If freshmen can find this program, it's so good for them. ” - Allison Brown post-production supervisor, MCM

crewing the whole thing with members signing up for what jobs they want,” Murphy said.

MCM produces two films per submission round and two rounds per semester, making four films a semester, Scott said.

Near the end of the academic year on April 28, MCM holds the annual Red Carpet event, Murphy said. It’s comparable to MCM’s version of the Oscars.

“It’s always fun to have a little ceremony where you get to go up and accept your trophy,” Murphy said. “It’s super fun and rewarding to see members getting that kind of recognition.”

MCM meets weekly on Mondays at 8:00 p.m. in Soundstage Room 1116.

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

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Montemagno: ‘18,300 by 2025,’ SIUC sees nearly 12 percent enrollment drop during Fall 2018 semester BRIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunozDE

Fall enrollment at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has decreased by nearly 12 percent from the fall 2017 semester, according to university officials.

The campus reached peak enrollment in 1991 with 24,869 students, but enrollment has been decreasing ever since.

This year, the university’s total student enrollment has hit a new low of 12,817 students, surpassing the low set by previous year’s campus fall enrollment of 14,554.

The largest decrease was in the freshman class, which has 410 fewer students than in 2017 — a 23.86 percent drop. The sophomore class saw 232 fewer students, a 12.7 percent drop, and the junior class went down by 395 students, a 15.48 percent lower from 2016.

Total undergraduate enrollment faced a 13.30 percent decline, with 1,449 fewer students than in fall 2017. Total graduate enrollment faced an 8.39 percent decline with 248 fewer students over last fall.

The university enrolled 1,133 new, first-time undergraduates and 1,261 new undergraduate transfer students, according to data released by the university.

Total on-campus enrollment for the university declined by 13.78 percent — 1,710 students.

Off-campus enrollment declined by roughly 1 percent, a 27 student loss. There are 10,698 students enrolled on campus during the fall 2018 semester, compared to 12,408 during the fall 2017 semester, according to university officials. There are 2,119 students enrolled off-campus this semester compared to 2,146 during the fall 2017 semester.

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Every class across the board saw declines in student enrollment but SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno said the decline was anticipated while the university goes through changes intended to drive enrollment to 18,300 by 2025.

“We knew that this year would be challenging, since many students are already seriously considering colleges in their junior year, and the recruitment season was well underway when we embarked on our transformation,” Montemagno said in a university press release.

“Our focus last year was on increasing the quality of new students, retention and positioning

ourselves for the future.

Despite the decline in enrollment, the freshman class saw an increase of more than .8 percent over 2017 ACT scores – the highest in 20 years.

“Our average ACT score is above both national and state averages and places SIU student scores among the top 26 percent nationally,” Montemagno said.

“That’s a jump of 10 percentage points from just a year ago.”

Comparatively, the Edwardsville campus’ enrollment has declined 3.7 percent from the fall 2017 semester, losing 515 students – with a total overall enrollment

of 13,281, according to Doug Mcllhaga, SIUE Director of Marketing and Communications.

There were 13,796 students at the Edwardsville campus during the fall 2017 semester, according to the university’s factbook.

SIUE enrolled 1,706 new, firsttime undergraduates and 1,240 transfer students, according to data released by university officials.

SIU Edwardsville was found to be the fastest growing Illinois public university from 1996-2017, according to data released by the Illinois Board of Higher Education.

The Edwardsville campus saw an increase of 23.7 percent over

the twenty-one-year data set — an increase of 2,645 students.

Carbondale saw a 32.6 percent decrease in student enrollment from 1996-2017 — a decline of 7,309 students.

The largest decline on the Carbondale campus was between fall 2016 and fall 2017 where the university lost 1,433 students, according to data provided by the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the SIU System.

The next highest student loss year was between fall 2015 and fall 2016 where the school lost 1,305 students, according to data provided by the Illinois Board of Higher Education

Wednesday, september 5, 2018 and the SIU System.

The lrgest drops in enrollment at the Carbondale campus occurred at the same time as the Illinois State Budget Crisis, where public universities failed to see funding from the state for a little over two years.

During the budget stalemate, then-President Randy J. Dunn approved an inter-campus loan up to $35 million from the Edwardsville campus to the Carbondale campus in May 2017.

The loan sparked the conversation proposing a shift of $5.125 million from the Carbondale campus to the Edwardsville campus last March — proponents of the measure citing Edwardsville would soon surpass Carbondale in enrollment.

The item failed to pass through the SIU Board of Trustees and ultimately led to Dunn’s removal.

The board is now set to pick a consultant during next week’s meeting to assess the funding model between the universities.

Decline in enrollment isn’t unique to SIU — Illinois has the largest net loss in students attending public universities, according to a report by the New York Times.

2,117 students came to Illinois for public college and 16,461 residents left Illinois to attend college in other states due to rising tuition and declining financial aid from the state, according to the Times.

Montemagno said there are multiple efforts in making Southern a more appealing option for prospective students.

“Freshman retention rates are also up to 71.08 percent, up 3.18 percent over last year and, again, the highest in recent years,” Montemagno said.

Montemagno said there are multiple efforts in making Southern a more appealing option for prospective students through initiatives taken by the university such as an academic reorganization and review of curriculum,

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“We knew this year would be challenging, since many students are already seriously considering colleges in their junior year, and the recruitment season was well underway when we embarked on our transformation.”

- Carlo Montemagno SIU Chancellor

updating recruitment materials, centralizing academic advising, adding housing scholarships and improving student life.

In addition to improvements in processes, academics and student life, Jennifer DeHaemers, associate chancellor for enrollment management, has taken the helm in tackling SIU’s enrollment decline alongside the administration.

DeHaemers’s selection was announced April 23 after what SIU Chancellor Carlo Montemagno called an exhaustive five-month-long search to fill a position vacant since 2014. She is the first full time hire into the position since 2011.

DeHaemers said in her role, she’s looking at ways to improve recruitment and retention, during an interview with WSIU’s Jennifer Fuller.

“When you're talking about making improvements in enrollment, it's going to take everyone to make that happen,” DeHaemers said during the interview. “It’s listening to people and trying to figure out where the university wants to go… and building a plan from that point on using that information — you have do a little bit of listening."

In an effort to bring students

to the campus, the university is also hosting “SIU Day” on Sept.

19 where they’ve invited high schools within an hour drive of the university to visit the campus and “really experience SIU in a way that they haven’t.”

Montemagno said there will be enrollment challenges as the larger classes from earlier years graduate and the smaller recent classes move through the system.

“If we continue on course, it will likely be three years before we begin to see a true turnaround in total enrollment,” Montemagno said. “But as I’ve noted earlier, we need to focus on the progress we are making.”

Montemagno said the university has seen an increased registration for fall open houses and increased applications for fall 2019 when compared with the previous year.

“Given the signs of progress and clear commitment, I remain confident that we are heading in the right direction,” Montemagno said.

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

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Local farmers, community members and business owners gather at the Westown market FARRAH BLAYDES | @Farrah_Blaydes

For 43 years the market has met every Saturday from April through November in the Westown Centre parking lot.

“Most of [the university students] may not stay here for their working careers but while they're here they help support the local economy,” Steven Smith, owner of Hollow Pumpkin Farm, said.

Smith’s farm has sold fruits and vegetables that change depending on the season at the farmers market for the past 41 years.

“In the summer I have squash, tomatoes, and peppers of all kind,” Smith said.

The farmers market is a weekly event that allows local farmers, musicians,

“Most of [the university students] may not stay here for their working careers but while they're here they help support the local economy.”

- Steven Smith owner of Hollow Pumpkin Farm

craftsman and residents to support each other's businesses located in or near the Carbondale area.

The vendors filled the Westown lot with tables and rows of tents full of vegetables, baked goods, artwork and fresh meat.

Rex Aldridge, owner of Hubbard

Farms sold different fruits and vegetables, such as blackberries, squash, Asian pears and plums.

“Mostly things that the other vendors don't sell,” Aldridge said.

A few feet away a local artist was setting up her work as the crowd grew.

Joice Hesketh, a local harpist played music as community members shopped.

She enjoys playing the harp since it's a healing instrument, Hesketh said.

Sarah Shoot, SIU alum and a local artist has participated in the market for six years. On Shoot’s table she held pastries she baked along with some of her artwork.

“I make mixed media artwork and I try to use a lot of reclaimed items in my work,” Sarah Shoot said.

The artwork on display was recycled tin earrings made from repurposed tin in Shoots barn, along with colorful photo cards and mixed fiber pins.

Among the vendors was Oma Gisi’s German Bakery located in Kinmundy, Illinois.

We have been coming to the market

almost as long as we've been open, Stephanie Dorr, daughter of the bakery’s owner said.

Students help tremendously, Door said. It's a lot cheaper to buy your groceries for the week here.

The Humane Society set up their tent at the end on the Westown parking lot where people could sign up to volunteer and donate to the establishment. Kasey Parker, a volunteer welcomed people to sign up.

The Humane Society meets at the market twice a month.

“We’re out here twice a month, fundraising, get out and about and showing the dogs,” Parker said.

The Westown Farmers Market is open every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. until November.

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Hannah Smith | @H_lou_s

Campus Pride LLC welcomes LGBTQ students AUSTIN PHELPS | @austinphelps96

Campus Pride Living Learning Community is designed for LGBTQ students to live in a gender-inclusive and identity-inclusive space.

“For students who identify as transgender or non-binary or just don’t care which gender they are assigned to live in a room with,” Vernon Cooper, the LGBTQ Resource Center coordinator, said. “That floor is intended to be gender-inclusive.”

The floor is not only for gender non-binary or transgender students and it welcomes all members of the LGBTQ+ community, Sterling Blonigen, a junior studying chemistry living on the floor, said.

“It's basically a small community for people in the LGBT communities where they could feel like they belong and they don't have to worry about people not being able to understand them,” Blonigen said. “We’ve all faced similar struggles so we all understand one another pretty well.”

Living on the floor makes it easier to make connections and find friends who can relate to who are you are, Blonigen said.

“You won’t face any type of discrimination or you won’t feel left out, you won’t feel alone,” Blonigen

said. “You already feel like you belong because you know that these people, they’re just like you.”

The floor doesn’t instantly make your friends for you, Liyah Glaser, a freshman studying zoology on the floor, said. It does make it easier, however.

“The connections weren’t instant because I’m a very shy person,” Glaser said. “I don’t go up like ‘hey,’ but it [made it easier] I feel like.”

Blonigen said when making the decision for housing it came down to where she would feel comfortable.

“The thing [is] I’m a black person of color who's also LGBT,” Blonigen said. “So when I was deciding where I wanted to be on campus I was afraid of either facing racism or facing homophobia.”

Choosing this floor meant she didn’t have to sacrifice any part of herself, Blonigen said.

“I would feel more open here than if I was in the black LLC because I would still have to hide who I am,” Blonigen said. “So there’s less judgement [here than] if I was in another LLC.” Glaser said the LLC is a safe space where residents can come and use their correct pronouns.

“And I know that people are going to use those pronouns because I’m in the Campus Pride LLC,” Glaser said.

“You won't face any type of discrimination or you won't feel left out, you won't feel alone. You already feel like you belong, because you know that these people, they're just like you.”

- Sterling Blonigen junior

Correct pronouns are taken very seriously in the LLC, Glaser said. “[Our RA] came down after my family left and was like ‘what are your pronouns I wasn’t sure if I should ask in front of your parents,’” Glaser said.

“She knew that sometimes people's parents still don’t know about pronouns and stuff like that.”

Ethan Stein, a freshman studying biological sciences, said he looks to the floor as a place for everyone to be a part of the community rather than it being used as a shelter.

“I see it more like it’s a way for people who are the same to be more included in society and feel like they’re more of a part of something,” Stein said. “Instead of it being somewhere where they’re kept apart from the rest of the community.”

Cooper said the floor isn’t necessarily designed as a place to hide,

more so it’s rather meant as a place to make connections.

“The floor is a place to make those connections that you might be unsure of how to make,” Cooper said. “To have it made easier to make connections with people who share an identity with you.”

Glaser said the floor makes it easier to access LGBTQ+ resources.

“Having [the Saluki Rainbow Network] here that you can go to and then having Vern here too is also amazing,” Glaser said. “Even if I wasn’t [living on the floor] seeing it there is like ‘oh this place is accepting they have a whole place where you can go.’”

The university currently has more than 30 gender-neutral bathrooms and is adding more when the renovation to Woody Hall is complete, Cooper said.

The floor is currently full for this

year and that shows how successful the LLC is, Cooper said. One student was turned away this year and put on a waiting list.

“I think that we could fill as much space as they gave us,” Cooper said. “I think that once enrollment starts to climb again my floor will grow right along with it.”

Blonigen said to live in the Campus Pride LLC you can sign up online by yourself and without your parents knowing.

“Your parents don’t have to know that you’re a part of the LLC,” Blonigen said. “You could also tell your friends ‘hey just so you know my family doesn’t know about this’ and we understand because a lot of us are facing the exact same thing.”

Questions asked on the application are for the applicant's preferred name, preferred pronouns and a short answer question on why the applicant wants to live on the floor.

“If someone can tell me their reason for wanting to live on the floor I'll approve it,” Cooper said. “I can tell when someone is telling me their story.

I’ve never actually denied one yet.”

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

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University ends First Scholars program KALLIE COX | @KallieC45439038

The First Scholars program, a program of the Suder Foundation, that is in place to assist low income, first generation students will be terminated after this academic year.

At the time of publication, the university did not have a public comment. The Daily Egyptian will update this article when the university releases an official statement.

Cristina Castillo, program coordinator of the First Scholars program at SIU, said she did not know the details of the contract, but believed the university had fulfilled its contract with the program, and the cancellation was most likely due to budget cuts.

“I am sad to know that the return of investment in my opinion,

“I am sad to know that the return of investment, in my opinion, has been overlooked. ” - Cristina Castillo First Scholars program coordinator, SIU

has been overlooked,” Castillo said. “The $2,500 that helps the students with their semester’s tuition [brings] more pride and more graduation rates than if we don’t invest in this.”

Other universities affiliated with the First Scholars program are the University of Memphis, Washington State University, the University of Kentucky, Northern Arizona University and Kansas State University. Their programs

are continuing.

“I think they are bigger universities, I think they have not had the setbacks of financial struggles as SIU and the state of Illinois,” Castillo said. “Their programs are continuing, and not just that but they are growing bigger.”

According to Castillo, students in the First Scholars program are offered one-on-one assistance, $2,500 per semester, a cohort of fellow first-generation students,

as well as workshops and resume building activities.

In order to be qualified for the program, students must participate in certain activities, workshops and service projects, maintain a 2.5 GPA, and attend meetings with the First Scholars program coordinator.

“It accepts only 20 students per [class year] so they have to comply with all of the requirements in order for the scholarship to be renewed,”

Castillo said. “The commitment part of it is very extensive.”

Alejandro Guzman, a senior majoring in TV, and Digital Media Radio, said the First Scholars program has been his survival guide.

“As a first-generation college student, I didn’t know what to expect from university.” Guzman said, ”I was shy, timid and scared.”

Guzman said this program helped him gain confidence and it made him feel like he actually belonged at a university.

“I am now entering my last year of college, and I couldn’t have accomplished my last three years without the program and Cristina’s support,” Guzman said.

Castillo said some students in the program would not have been able to go to college without the scholarship and the program.

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Wednesday, september 5, 2018 “Many of them because of their ACT scores or GPAs in high school, would have not had the opportunity to have a scholarship,” Castillo said.

Many of them would have attended a community college or not have gone to school at all, Castillo said.

“The First Scholars program has meant everything to me,” Erin Boester, a senior majoring in psychology, said. “[First Scholars

provided] me with all of the necessary tools I have needed to now be successful in all 4 years of my undergraduate experience here at SIU.” Boester said she would never be where she is as a senior, who worked at the McNair Scholars Summer Research Institute, and is now working towards applying for graduate school if it was not for this program.

“I think being the last [class

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Castillo said all the students that have graduated last semester are either working in their fields or in graduate school.

“So that says a lot of good things about the program with the track they set themselves on,” Castillo said. “It is really uplifting to see

the students.”

Guzman said first-generation students are more likely to drop out within the first year due to a lack of support without a program like First Scholars.

“I am honestly saddened and mad that this program will be terminated,” Guzman said. “I feel there are thousands of kids just like myself who are going to be firstgeneration college students and don’t know what to expect of college.”

Castillo said she doesn’t know of any program that is replacing the First Scholars program.

“To my knowledge, I don’t think there is anything,” Castillo said.

“There have been talks about a ‘First Generation approach’ but I really don’t know where that is going.”

Staff reporter Kallie Cox can be reached at kcox@dailyegyptian. com or on Twitter at @ KallieC45439038.

Carbondale community members voice concern over proposed solar farm CLAIRE COWLEY | Daily Egyptian

The question of whether Carbondale should allow Brightfields Development LLC to conduct a solar farm building project on property located at 1555 N. Marion St. is up for discussion.

This site, where the Kopper’s Wood-Treating plant was previously located, treated wood products to prevent decay of wood to be used for such things as railroad ties and utility poles, Marilyn Tipton, a resident of the district, wrote in a document for a city meeting in the Carbondale Civic Center on Monday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which began studying the site in 1981, found creosote used at the site has contaminated the soil and groundwater, according to a 2004 article from the Daily Egyptian. The EPA has classified creosote as a cancercausing agent.

Tipton wrote the plant shut down in 1991 when it became public the creosote chemical in the wood treatment caused health and environmental issues.

Tipton included community health concerns surrounding Koppers when it was active.

“The general complaint described the odor as noxious and bothersome, causing nausea and eye and throat

irritation. When the facility stopped operations, the complaints stopped,” she wrote.

There was soil that was contaminated by this plant, Dan Voss, Brightfields Development LLC vice president, said.

“The solar project, it’s being developed in a way so that it won’t have any contact with the impacted soils that I think the community is worried about,” Voss said.

Voss also said there has been a cap placed over that material and the design they’re using to place solar panels in that area of the site would see them placing the solar on the surface.

“The mechanisms used to separate folks from the impacted soils involves a membrane and a soil cap and our solar systems would simply sit on top of all that,” Voss said. “We would not be disturbing the contaminated soil at all."

Voss said they would be operating on top of the cap and depending on the type of footings, the feet that the soil is sitting on, they may need to lay gravel down or sit the footings on top of the soil that’s there now.

“On the other area of the site where testing has shown there is no contamination, we would be using a system where we would drive a fence post into the ground and attach the solar to it,” Voss said.

Voss said it would not present an

environmental or health risk.

In the summer of 1962, a fish kill occurred in the Big Muddy river due to phenol poisoning. “The cause of this incident was traced to an apparent overflow of a lagoon at the Kopper’s site,” Tipton wrote.

Carmen Suarez, a three-time alum of SIU, said this project shouldn’t be causing environmental impact where they are.

“Has this company built these plants elsewhere, in other small towns?”

Suarez said. “But, the big question is understanding why it is that part of Carbondale was selected?”

Suarez said one would wonder why manufacturing companies place plants in areas of people of color around the country.

Brightfields Development LLC is looking at this site because they develop on brownfield sites, Voss said.

Brownfield sites are used for industrial purposes like mines and factories.

“There isn’t an alternative use for the land because you don’t want to disturb it,” Voss said. “For that type of land, solar is sort of the ideal ongoing use because it just simply sits on top, it has no moving parts.”

Suarez said it sounds like this neighborhood is saying they just don’t want the solar farm there.

“It’s just they’re always picking

“Has this company built these plants elsewhere, in other small towns? But, the big question is understanding why it is that part of Carbondale was selected.”

- Carmen Suarez SIU alumn

communities of color to have things that could potentially be dangerous,” she said.

Voss said he thinks the key point is they’re a company focused on improving health and environmental outcomes.

“We look to create a positive environmental outcome and a positive health outcome. And so from our standpoint, we don’t do projects where they’re going to have a negative impact on the community,” Voss said.

He also said Brightfields Development LLC wants to ensure the site is safe, that anyone they employ is safe on the site, and nothing they do would impact or harm the existing work being done, enhancing the site, making it safer and environmentally sound.

“The agreement that we look to

have is to lease a piece of land from the current owners, which is Beazer [East Inc.] and the condition of that lease is that the land is safe,” Voss said.

Suarez said the leadership of the solar company, the leadership of Carbondale, the leadership of our black community, our political and civic leadership, and business leadership should work together.

“We’ve got a lot of brain power here,” Suarez said. “I’m sure this collective brainpower could find a great location for this solar farm and elevate and respect the concerns of our neighbors in the northeast and really, that’s what diversity, equity and inclusion is all about.”

To voice concerns or listen in on the debate a public hearing will be held Wednesday, Sept. 5, at 6 p.m. in City Hall.

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Rodney Fant (left), of Swansea, and Parricia Shaw (right), of Okawville, dance together, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018 at the Senior Prom inside the Heartland Coca Cola Expo Hall, at the DuQuoin State Fair. Fant and Shaw have been dance partners for three months and it is their first time at the event.

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Michelle Bernard of Texas waits at her food stand for customers, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, at th

Joey Sears | @TJoey_Sears10 Fred Satkily saws a piece of wood in a lumberjack show at the Du Quoin state fair. (Joey Sears | @Joey_Sears10)

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Lucas Huelsing (left), 9, Imperial Mo. sings along with Jay Popoff (right), vocalist for Lit, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, during the Gen X Tour inside the Grandstand stadium at the Du Quoin State Fair. Huelsing was brought on stage to sing after Popoff noticed a sign reading ‘Luke luvs Lit’. “[being on stage] was the best thing I’ve ever experienced,” Mary Barnhart @MaryBarnhartDE

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Carson Vanbuskirk | @Carsonvanbde Alayna Justynski, 1, of Pickneyville, pets the goats at the petting zoo at the DuQuion State Fair, on Friday, Aug. 31, 2018.

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Nick Knappenburger | @DeKnappenburger The Bus pulls into the the stop, Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, at the Bus Stop outside The Student Center

Saluki Express adds new bus route, QR codes for faster boarding BRANDI COURTOIS | @CourtoisBrandi

Over the summer Rides Mass Transit District took over the Saluki Express bus service and introduced a new bus route and QR codes for boarding.

Rides Mass Transit District is a public transit provider in 18 counties throughout Illinois, Missouri and Indiana.

“All [students] have to do is show their [registered QR code] when they get on the the bus and they’re able to access all of the Rides Mass Transit routes not only [the] Saluki Express routes that are around campus and Carbondale,” Jeffrey Drake, public relations and marketing coordinator for Rides Mass Transit District, said.

Drake said the use of the QR code is an update to technology designed to streamline the boarding process.

“We don’t want people to have to wait an extended period of time to be able to load and unload,” Drake said.

Rides Mass Transit District will be using QR codes for boarding instead of the student ID’s

“We don't want people to have to wait an extended period of time to be able to load and unload.”

- Jeffrey Drake Marketing Coordinator, Rides Mass Transit District

previously used. This free code must be registered online and will be scanned from either a printout or the student’s phone during the boarding process.

Using TransLoc, students can track the bus in real time. The app is viewable on the web and is also available in both the Google Play Store and the Apple Store.

The TransLoc app has a 3.9 star rating on the Google Play Store and a 4.6 star rating on the Apple Store.

Students can also text the word SIUC and the bus stop number to 41411 to receive a text with the estimated arrival times for their stop.

New this semester is the Thompson Point Direct route. The route runs seven days a week with

the first run beginning at Logan Street and Park Street and the last run ending at the Health Center.

Drake said the Thompson Point Direct route was brought up in conversations with university officials with the closing of the towers.

The route is designed to be convenient for students trying to get to Lentz Dining Hall, Drake said.

Thompson Point Direct route runs Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday the bus runs from 10:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 10:45 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Staff reporter Brandi Courtois can be reached at bcourtois@ dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter at @ CourtoisBrandi.w

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Library of Living Philosophers Book Series earns humanities grant EMILY COOPER | Daily Egyptian

Celebrating a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sara Beardsworth, Associate Professor in the department of philosophy at the university and series editor, is creating the 36th volume of the Library of Living Philosophers.

Founded in 1938, by Paul Schilpp, the unique book series called the was brought to SIU in the mid-1960s. Its historical mission is the collective understanding of traditions, societies and cultures around the world.

Earlier this year the LLP was awarded by the NEH for a grant worth $39,300 for its collaborative research.

The project is ongoing and the projected publication is in 2021, Beardsworth said. The volumes are very big in size. So, the extent of the collaboration, along with scheduling, cause for a long schedule to produce a volume.

When released, the volume will have physical and online versions, Beardsworth said.

The volumes The series began with a volume on John Dewey, an American philosopher whose archive is at SIU. The series includes volumes from Albert Einstein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Marjorie Grene.

“The principle figures may be chosen not for just their kind of world-class quality of their ideas in the academic arena but also for their wider intellectual cultural significance,” Beardsworth said.

The 36th volume will follow the living life of Julia Kristeva.

She is a philosopher, a novelist, a psychoanalyst, and a multi-

“...[Kristeva] has a focus on healing with a special concern for the human interactions in treatment and writes on disability as well. ” - Sara Beardsworth Associate Professor Dept. of Philosophy

disciplinary writer in the humanities.

Beardsworth said this series is an international collaboration with more than 10 different countries including the U.S., France, Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Israel, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the UK. Beardsworth said Kristeva was born in Bulgaria, where she grew up under the communist regime.

She moved to France as a young woman scholar.

“She’s acclaimed for being one of the leading thinkers of her generation who’s genuinely able to be a public intellectual,”

Beardsworth said. “She analyzes our times. [...] She has a focus on healing with a special concern for the human interactions in treatment and writes on disability as well.”

The main part of the book is stages of dialogue with other authors, who are her scholars and critics, they write essays on a time-period of her life or a theme of her life’s work, Beardsworth said. From there she writes her replies to each essay.

The book will include her intellectual autobiography which relates the theory to life, Beardsworth said. This series has a broad reach by progressing past gender boundaries.

“This forthcoming volume [...] brings the first woman thinker with a broad impact in the series,” Beardsworth said. “Actually, she's the only second woman thinker in the series. So, this is the first volume on a woman thinker and also edited by a woman.”

Beardsworth said she enjoys collaborating with a multitude of people on such an influential individual.

“It's interesting work and significant work for a university like ours that wants to maintain a reputation for research and for giving students important educational work opportunities,” Beardsworth said.

Costs Beardsworth said the grant is being used to meet certain costs in collaborating and editing processes, translating different countries’ work, compiling the materials, preparing for the materials, and the work needed to engage other people for the preparation of the materials.

The LLP used to have an editor 40 hours a week, but Beardsworth said she’s now doing that work as well because of a much smaller budget.

“We keep the budget as low as we can for the preparation of the volume and the budget from the university used to be enough,” Beardsworth said. “So, this $39,300 for direct costs from the NEH is very important for being able to bring this volume out.”

According to Beardsworth, the LLP has never been selfsupporting financially. When it came to be housed at SIU the university became its major supporter financially.

The university continues to supply students with assistantships but discontinued the budget.

Gratitude for the grant

Beardsworth said the grant shows the Department of Philosophy and SIU that they’re being recognized with this internationally recognized award.

The awards are very competitive, only seven national awards have been granted in the collaborative research category.

“It acknowledges work like that of this figure, Julia Kristeva, whose work shows the public meaning of the humanities and who demonstrates models for relating the humanities to contemporary concerns,” Beardsworth said.

Beardsworth said the award is important because it recognizes the LLP as significant today.

Staff reporter Emily Cooper can be reached at ecooper@ dailyegyptian.com.

“We keep the budget as low as we can for the preperation of the volume and the budget from the univeristy used to be enough. So, this $39,300 for direct costs from the NEH is very important for being able to bring this volume out.”

- Sara Beardsworth Associate Professor Dept. of Philosophy

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SIU Athletics rescinds activism ban, legal experts weigh in BRIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunoz

Editor's note: This article was published Aug. 30 following the publication of "SIU Athletics bans displays of activism to 'put forward a message of unity,' one cheerleader returns following 2017 protests" and was included as a follow up. To read more visit the dailyegyptian.com.

SIU Athletics has rescinded new language in the Student Athlete Code of Conduct that said any displays of activism will not be tolerated and could lead to the individual’s removal from their respective program.

“It is a privilege and not a right to be a student-athlete, cheerleader or spirit member at Southern Illinois University,” according to the rescinded addition originally provided by Liz Jarnigan, SIU Athletics senior woman administrator.

“Members of the department including student athletes, cheerleaders and spirit members must remain neutral on any issue political in nature when wearing SIU official uniforms and when competing/performing in official department of athletics events and activities,” according to the addition. “Any display (verbal or non-verbal) of activism (either for or against) a political issue will not be tolerated and may result in dismissal from the program.”

Tom Weber, associate athletic director over communications, said the purpose of the addition was to display unity and to provide a positive experience for student athletes and Saluki fans.

“However, some have

interpreted the language to suggest that our aim was to restrict the free speech rights of our students – that was never our intent," Weber said. "We fully support the free expression of ideas and opinions among our students and the entire Saluki family.”

Weber said given the community feedback it appeared that athletics "somewhat missed the mark" and do not plan to use it as currently written but would revisit the addition at a later date.

Praise and criticism for SIU Athletics has been voiced on social media after the Daily Egyptian released the story on the addition Tuesday. Questions and concerns over the language used arose from national organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union.

“Southern Illinois University’s new policy suggesting that players or cheerleaders could be removed from their respective program for peaceful ‘displays of activism’ falls short of the critical responsibility of a public university to honor and protect free speech rights for their students,” said Ed Yohnka, Director of Communications and Public Policy at the ACLU of Illinois.

William Freivogel, a media law professor at SIU, said the addition to the Code of Conduct does not make sense.

“The government can make neutral rules for students to follow and universities can set higher standards of conduct for athletes, cheerleaders and other student leaders,” Freivogel said. “But in the process, the government can’t discriminate based on the content

Wednesday, september 5, 2018 or viewpoint of speech.”

Freivogel said the university cannot punish a student leader for taking a knee during the anthem if the school is also not prepared to punish pro-flag, pro-military or Tim Tebow-style religious gestures.

Gregory Magarian, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said he shared similar sentiments.

“If we’re going to say there’s nothing political about standing for the national anthem then we are saying one of two things – we’re saying it’s meaningless, or we’re saying that we are absolutely forcing a consensus political view on everybody and it has political significance – and you will obey that political significance, or you are out.”

Magarian said he does not believe either of those situations are viable on their own terms.

Yohnka said it is more troubling the policy specifically suggests such displays will not be tolerated on a political issue.

“A central purpose for any public university is to engage students and the community in the issues of our time,” Yohnka said. “Schools should not threaten students – or hide them away – because they engage in protests that some in the community may not agree with.”

Freivogel questioned the university’s stance on the addition and asked “how can the university say activism is bad for student leaders while non-involvement is good?”

“Rules favoring apathy over activism discriminate on the content of the speech – and they don’t make sense,” Freivogel said.

“Don’t we want our student leaders to be activists in shaping society, not people who stand mutely on the sidelines?”

Magarian said the university picking and choosing what speech to ban creates an issue.

“What the university really seems to be saying is ‘We don’t want people making political noise because we’re trying to sell college

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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Sophomore psychology major Ariahn Hunt kneels during the national anthem Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017 before the Saluki's matchup against the University of Northern Iowa Panthers at Saluki Stadium. President Donald Trump publically criticized NFL athletes who kneel during the National Anthem to protest police brutality, last week.

athletics and politics are offputting,’” Magarian said. “If the school is really treating political speech worse than other kinds of

speech because political speech is more damaging to the brand – that’s not okay.”

Magarian said the claim that this

is about sports, not about politics, is incoherent.

“I think that everything that we do or don’t do has political

“However, some have interpretted the language to suggest that our aim was to restrict the free speech rights of our students— that was never our intent. We fully support the free expression of ideas and poinions among our students and the entire Saluki family.”

- Tom Weber associate athletic director of communications

significance especially and obviously in environments where political ideas have manifestly been introduced into the environment,” Magarian said. “When [the cheerleaders] took a knee... they revealed, in a very straightforward and unmistakable way, the political content of that space.”

Weber said the department will be working with student-athletes to turn the language into a positive values statement related to the focus and purpose of athletics.

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

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Column: In the Dawg Pound with Dillon Early thoughts on Saluki football DILLON GILLILAND | @DillonGilliland

Just one game into the season and the SIU football team has already given us so much to talk about.

On Thursday the Salukis took on the Murray State Racers and took them down pretty convincingly.

After giving up an early field goal in the opening quarter, Southern put together four touchdowns in the first half to the Racers' one giving them the 28-10 advantage.

The Salukis put up three more touchdowns across the final two quarters to secure the 49-10 victory and 1-0 record to start the season.

SIU went into the contest only 2-8 when playing Murray on the road.

On the plus side, this can mean that SIU never settles for less and they can clutch in the red zone.

On the downside, this can also mean that the Salukis struggle to move the ball and that they are an all-or-nothing team.

Statistics show they struggle on the road, but the Salukis did not play like they were struggling.

The second thing to take into account is SIU never attempted one field goal.

For the most part, each drive either ended in a touchdown or a punt.

Now that can be both good and bad for the team.

On the plus side, this can mean SIU

never settles for less and they can clutch in the red zone.

On the downside, this can also mean the Salukis struggle to move the ball and they are an all-or-nothing team.

It's preferable to think they are never going to settle for less considering the special teams in the 2017 season was not the greatest aspect of the team.

Junior running back D.J. Davis stood out offensively for the team.

Davis netted 132 rushing yards on 19 attempts but couldn't find his a team a touchdown.

The junior's ability to move the ball is going to be a key aspect of SIU's game this year.

If Davis can continue to put up these numbers every game, the opposition is

going to have to keep an eye on him at all times, which opens up a lot of wiggle room for senior quarterback Sam Straub.

Straub did not show off what he can truly do in the Salukis' opening game as he completed 16 passes out of 29 totaling 107 yards with one touchdown and one interception.

The fans should have expected a rocky start from the senior as he spent most of the 2017 season on the bench due to an injury.

The main point is Straub is going to have to find himself again and Davis is going to be a big help in that because if he can continue to take pressure off of the quarterback he will have more opportunities to complete some big passes.

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On the other side of things, the defense really shined in the opening game for Southern.

Just looking at the score, SIU only allowed ten points.

Obviously, they had to have been doing something right.

The defense allowed only 17 pass completions out of 30 attempts for 138 yards from Murray's firststring quarterback, which is not the greatest, but it is a start.

SIU forced several turnovers starting with two interceptions, one by junior linebacker Airan Reed that was returned for a touchdown.

Then there was the two fumbles the Salukis forced, both of which were returned for touchdowns with a total of 100 yards.

The defensive highlights can spark a fire underneath the team and lead to some big runs, which is

what happened Thursday evening.

Besides all of this, SIU is going to be truly tested on Saturday when the team takes on Ole Miss.

While Ole Miss is not the toughest team, they certainly are not a joke.

One of two things can happen on Saturday.

On one hand, SIU can just roll over and take their beating like they did against both South

Dakota and South Dakota State last season and be done with it.

On the other, they can put up a serious fight like they did against Memphis in 2017 and prove they are not a team to look past.

If they put everything they have into Saturday and at least make the score close, this could set the tone for the next week when Southern takes on the SEMO Redhawks.

All in all, SIU has shown a lot

already, but they need to keep the good work up if they want to make a name for themselves.

SIU (1-0) will be taking on Ole Miss on Saturday. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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

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