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Cameras for St. Louis officers will cost $1.2 million-plus Nicholas J.C. Pistor St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The cost to outfit the city’s police force with body cameras will come with a price tag of $1.2 million -- and that’s just the start. Richard Gray, the city’s public safety director, told an aldermanic committee on Tuesday morning that the department would need an additional $500,000 to cover labor and maintenance costs, plus an increase in the department’s annual budget of about $800,000 to $900,000 for

replacement and maintenance costs. Officials are exploring the purchase in the wake of the crisis in Ferguson, in addition to the fatal shooting of Kajieme Powell last month by city officers, where a cellphone video revealed inconsistencies with the initial police account. Police union officials appear skeptical and could mount a challenge to the deployment of the cameras. Gray said the individual units range from $295 to $695, but they also need

docking stations that charge the devices and download their data. Gray said the city would purchase about 1,000 cameras to outfit most of its force if aldermen approve funding. Jeff Roorda, business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association, wouldn’t disclose the union’s position on cameras at Tuesday’s meeting. “That’s a conversation we’ll have with the city’s bargaining team,” Roorda told the aldermen.

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Buckminster dome home preservation begins phase 2 Muriel Berry Daily Egyptian

After many years of sitting dormant under a tarp, the Buckminster Fuller Dome Home’s exterior has been restored, and owners will continue with the next phase of restoration. Preservation began in April and its second phase commenced Tuesday with a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the completion of its exterior renovations. Jon Davey, a professor in architecture and president of the Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewrett Dome Home Not-for-Profit Organization, said the dome, which mirrors the composition of a carbon molecule, is one of the only world-renowned monuments in Carbondale. Fuller, a former research professor at the university, and his wife lived in the dome for more than a decade. Mike Mitchell then purchased the property in 1971 and rented it to students. Davey donated the home to the Fuller Dome NFPO in 2002. Blair Wolfram, general contractor and dome specialist said the home will be used as an historical center that promotes Fuller’s ‘principles of success’ and host exhibitions for artists’ work. He said restoration efforts of the dome include the addition of ventilation, and restoration of heat reflectors in the walls, which will help maintain livable temperatures in the home. Wolfrum also said other improvements have been discussed, but they have to be compliant with the regulations of the Fuller Dome NFPO. Bill Perk, an investor in the dome home preservation, said he was excited to move on to the next phase of the project. “Phase 1: the fixing up of the outer shell of the dome is finally complete,” he said. “We have to raise another $125,000 to $150,000 to return the interior to how it’s supposed to be.” The organization members hope to have the home fully restored by 2015, but Perk said funds are the biggest obstacle to completing the project. “It’s not a matter of years or manpower, but money, that is a main concern for interior renovations.” Apart from creating the dome home, Fuller earned 28 honorary doctorate degrees and was the first professor to make on the cover of Time Magazine. Davey said Fuller was a brilliant man and the dome is more than a historical monument. “It is a memorial and it recognizes who Bucky was and the sort of thinking he evolved,” Davey said. Please see DOME · 2

E van F ait D aily E gyptian Christopher Butler, a percussion lecturer from Atlanta, Ga. instructs his students during a sight reading class Tuesday in Altgeld Hall. Butler is a doctoral candidate from the University of Kentucky and was recently hired as a lecturer at SIU. “There are not a lot of places you get to do this,” Butler said. “Teaching percussion to kids is what I love to do.”

Non-profit supports student debt forgiveness Marissa Novel Daily Egyptian

Graduation day marks a new beginning for some students, but it also marks the beginning of payments for others. With student debt at an all-time high, one not-for-profit organization, Rolling Jubilee, is buying debt from banks that give student loans to show debt forgiveness is possible. An assembly discussing debt will be held from noon to 3 p.m., Wednesday outside the north side of the Student Center, near Faner Hall. The assembly is in conjunction with Rolling Jubilee’s fourth “debt buy day.” Rolling Jubilee is a not-for-profit project affiliated with the Strike Debt organization that buys debt from banks for a fraction of its worth, but then asks for nothing in return from the debtors. “Banks sell debt for pennies on the dollar on a shadowy speculative market of debt buyers who then turn around and try to collect the full amount from debtors. Rolling Jubilee intervenes by

buying debt, keeping it out of the hands of collectors and then abolishing it,” its website states. The average student loan debt for graduates in Illinois is around $28,000, with the average monthly payment near $300 for more than seven years, according to Reboot Illinois, a non-partisan civic group. National student debt is at an all time high of $1.2 trillion, making it the only consumer debt category among home equity, credit card and auto loans to continue to increase since 2008, according to the Credit Union Times. Nick Smaligo, a graduate student in philosophy from Carbondale, will moderate conversations among debtors about their experiences and how debt has changed student values, while teaching people about Rolling Jubilee and Strike Debt. “In the past, a number of people that come to the university engage in questions of how the world ought to be, of the ideals of equality, of justice, that a country like

the United States pays lip service to,” he said. “Nowadays, people come here to get a job.” Ann Larson, an organizer of Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee, said she has been involved with the organization since it was created from the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2012. She said Strike Debt began with the Occupy Student Debt Campaign, which created an Internet pledge asking people to stop paying their student loans. “In the early days, we could have had a debt strike model in mind, or at least the threat of a debt strike,” she said. “And we thought that by threatening to do that we could make a lot of people pay attention to us and change the system for the better.” Kevin Sylwester, associate professor of economics, said organizations like Rolling Jubilee help people individually, but do not have a lasting effect. “The financial institutions who gave these loans are still taking a hit,” he said. Please see DEBT · 2

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n icolas G alindo d aily e Gyptian Jon Davey, president of the R. Buckminster Fuller and Ann Hewitt Fuller Dome Home Preservation Board, speaks in Carbondale. “We have a great board of people [giving their all] for this project,” he said. The next phase of renohonoring R. Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller.

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Sylwester said when student defaults are high, banks benefit from getting even a fraction of the debt repaid. “Something is better than nothing, so they’re willing to do it,” he said. Sylwester said banks that grant private loans could possibly give students less financial aid if they continually do not receive their borrowed amounts in full. Thomas Gokey, a Strike Debt organizer said in two years, Rolling Jubilee has abolished more than $17.4 billion in debt. Larson said Rolling Jubilee generated funds to buy debt through crowd

He said the design of the dome home was revolutionary. “Bucky was well ahead of his own time,” he said. “Spherical homes require less material, have more volume and are more consumer friendly. Only being 45 years old in the scope of

housing, this is brand new.” Jordan Duncan contributed to this report.

funding and an Internet telethon hosted in New York in November 2012, where musicians, comedians and artists performed. She said the telethon had a goal of $60,000 and generated $700,000. “We weren’t sure if people would be into the idea of buying people’s debt, but it turns out they were,” she said. “People really understand that so many debts are illegitimate, they’re unjust. People are going into debt for medicine, for school, for things they shouldn’t really be going into debt for because these things should be available to all of us.” Gokey said specific information on debtors is limited. “Before we buy the debt, we don’t know whose debt we’re buying,” he said. “We know what kind of debt it is, we

know the amount of debt, we know how much it’s going to cost to buy it and we might know the geographic location of the debtor.” For-profit debt buying companies go through the same process before the debt is sold. Gokey said Strike Debt estimated it would take $12.4 billion to make all two and four-year universities free. “We’ve got the money, we’ve got plenty of money,” he said. “If we just lowered the budget for bombs and F-35 fighter jets that don’t even work, we could have universal free education.”

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Wednesday, september 10, 2014

Nutrition and exercise collide in student center Brent Meske Daily Egyptian

Those who have a break on Tuesdays can go to the Student Center to burn calories and eat a nutritious lunch. Lunchtime Bowl and Burn started Sept. 9 and continues from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m in the Student Center bowling alley each Tuesday. The program offers a game of bowling and lunch for $6.50. Just the game is $2.50. A nutritionist will be present

each week to answer questions students may have, said Beth Alongi, marketing assistant director for the Student Center. “[The Student Center] wanted a program to give students, faculty and staff an outlet in the middle of the day to have a nutritious lunch if you choose and burn some calories and then bowl a game,” Alongi said. She said bowling for an hour burns 115 calories. Dawn Null, wellness coordinator

at the Student Health and Wellness Center, is the nutritionist involved with the program. She said bowling is not an intense workout, but is a workout nonetheless. Null is able to give nutrition facts, dieting tips and answer questions. She worked with dietitians at the Wellness Center to develop a healthy lunch, which includes a yogurt, granola bar, cheese stick and vegetables with dip. “Inside the lunch are items

selected by the nutritionist at the health center, so it goes along with what we’re doing with the program,” Bill Null, the bowling and billiards recreation manager said. The Student Center, Recreation Center and Student Health Center are collaborating to put this program together. “We try to cross-promote our programs, and this seemed like a good fit between the Student Center and Health Center,” Dawn Null said.

Alongi said there was just one person the first week, and four Tuesday. Although the numbers are low, Alongi said word of mouth will help it grow. “When someone comes over on their lunch hour, they have a good time and a little bit of exercise, word of mouth will help get the program going,” she said. Brent Meske can be reached at bmeske@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @brentmeskeDE.

US troops dispatched to fight Ebola will find an epidemic out of control, UN says John Zarocostas

McClatchy Foreign Staff

G E N EVA — The World Health Organization warned Tuesday the agency now expects tens of thousands of people will be infected with the Ebola virus before the current epidemic is contained, and it called for nations to commit far more resources to combating the outbreak, which is ravaging the poor African nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. The dire new prediction came as the United States pledged to send 3,000 American service members to West Africa to lead the response to the crisis. The U.S. troops will help build new treatment centers in Liberia, where sick patients have been turned away from crowded facilities, and train as many as 500 new health care workers a week to help meet a shortage of volunteers. Still, U.N. officials said they see no end to the crisis, which is growing at a rate they hadn’t foreseen just two weeks ago. Bruce Aylward, WHO’s assistant director, said the U.N. agency’s

prediction then that 20,000 people would be sickened now appears woefully optimistic. That’s a frightening prospect for a disease that currently is claiming the lives of nearly 50 percent of those who fall ill. “This health crisis we face is unparalleled in modern times. The gravity of the situation is difficult to get across with just a few numbers,” said Aylward, a Canadian physician and epidemiologist. With the number of cases, 4,985, and deaths, 2,461, doubling in the past 14 days, “you start to get a sense of the rapid escalation we’re seeing of the virus from what was a linear increase in cases to now an almost exponential increase,” he said. “The reality here is we don’t know where the numbers are going on this,” he said. “When I said we needed a capacity to manage 20,000 cases, that seemed like a lot. That does not seem like a lot today.” On Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced the new U.S. efforts during a visit to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. He said the U.S. mission

would include a U.S.-led command center in Monrovia, Liberia’s capital, and 17 new Ebola treatment centers, each able to treat as many as 100 patients. Obama called the effort the largest medical mission the United States had ever launched and said that while the chance of an Ebola outbreak in the United States is extremely low, the West Africa outbreak was a global problem that would threaten U.S. strategic interests if the economies of the countries affected by the epidemic collapse. “The scenes we are witnessing in Liberia are gut-wrenching,” Obama said. “The world has a responsibility to act, to step up and to do more. The United States of America intends to do more.” The Pentagon expects that U.S. military personnel supporting the initiative will include medical troops, engineers, logisticians and transportation specialists. A “substantial contingent” will be based at an Intermediate Staging Base in Senegal, which has not been affected by Ebola, and none of them

will be providing direct patient care, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. Last week, WHO reported that Liberia’s three treatment centers, with total capacity for 370 patients, were full, and that obviously sick people seeking help were being turned away. Aylward said the crisis is most acute in Liberia, where the lack of treatment facilities has forced infected people to remain in their homes, where they infect family members or other people they come in contact with. Aylward said a priority is to get people who’ve fallen ill out of their homes and into Ebola care units. WHO hopes isolating ill people will slow the spread of the disease. U.S. officials said the military mission would have the ability to train 500 health care workers a week — another shortage that WHO officials have said has been difficult to overcome because of the danger of the work. Of the 301 health care workers sickened with Ebola, half have died. The U.S. Public Health Service also is preparing to deploy 65

commissioned officers to Liberia to manage and staff a hospital to care for health workers who become ill. The scale of the epidemic will require still more assistance, WHO said. According to WHO, Liberia remains the center of the epidemic, with 2,407 cases and 1,296 deaths reported as of Sept. 9, the most recent figures available. As of Saturday, 1,620 cases and 562 deaths were reported in Sierra Leone and 936 cases and 595 deaths in Guinea. Two U.N. officials, Valerie Amos, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, and David Nabarro, the U.N.’s senior Ebola coordinator, said they now estimate that the battle against Ebola will cost $987 million, more than twice the $490 million estimate WHO made in late August. “The surge we need is unprecedented,” said Nabarro, a British physician. “It is massive.” Amos warned that health care systems in West Africa are “on the brink of collapse.” She welcomed the new U.S. pledge of support as well as one from China to send health workers.

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Respecting and celebrating the dead Chase Myers Daily Egyptian

Dia de los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead,” is a Mexican holiday on Nov. 2 celebrated around the world. The holiday honors the death of ancestors through food, art, and other traditions. The Day of the Dead art exhibit in the first floor rotunda of Morris Library began on Monday and runs through Nov. 15, highlighting the holiday through pieces from local artists. The idea for the exhibit came from librarian Beth Martell and Ruth Hoak, a first grade teacher at Century Elementary School in Ullin, as a way to understand the Mexican holiday and the migration of the Monarch butterfly during corn harvest season. The exhibit includes art from 30 artists as well as work from Hoak’s class. The art emphasizes milkweed, an important food for the species. Some of the artists involved are A.K. Thompson, Anne Silver, Cade Bursell, Cathy Daesch, David Bond and many others. The world’s ecosystem can be

monitored by observing changes in the species of butterfly, Martel said. “Monarch butterflies migrate each year between North America and their winter sanctuary in south central Mexico,“ she said. “Last year, fewer Monarchs returned than ever before.” The monarch is an example of a thinning species caused by external forces within the environment, which are out of their control, Martel said. “A loss of habitat, climate change and indiscriminate use of pesticides accelerate ecosystem corruption,” she said. “The monarch suffers.” The art ranges from paintings to actual models, to written poetry. On Nov. 2 a reception will take place in the rotunda from 2 to 5 p.m. and will include a live jazz performance from Ray Barone on piano and Robert Franca playing bass. The reception will also include a lecture from anthropology professor Robert Barrios. “[Barrios] has a talent for bringing problems that are vast in scope into focus,” Martell said.

Barrios works in disaster reconstruction and studies how communities recover in the aftermath. Barrios said one of his fellow anthropologists invited him to her house in Cahuacan, Mexico where she practices the Day of the Dead. “In Mexico today, it is both a recognition of death as a part of life, and a way of remembering those memories of our families and our kin groups who are gone,” he said. The Day of the Dead is also linked to the agricultural systems in Mexico. “It is practice at the time that corn fields and different agricultural fields of subsistence farmers are coming to the end of that productive cycle. It is a way of putting the Earth to sleep,” he said. Asunción Avendaño Garcia, a graduate student in the department of geography at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, will join Barrios’ discussion about the exhibit and complex political, social and environmental issues surrounding traumatic events around the world. “Beth’s exhibit combines ideas about

I an M ullen D aIly e gyptIan Beth Martell, of Makanda, hangs “Ancestor” by local artist Mary Anne Wildwood, Sun-

these intimate relationships between humanity and our environment,” he said. “That our environment doesn’t determine who we are as people, but our environment does play a role in

how we become the kind of people we are.” For more information on the exhibit, contact Martell at bmartell@lib.siu.edu or 618-453-4097.

Hollywood’s blunders: a top ten list Jacob Pierce Daily Egyptian

There are a lot of fantastic movies out there. Films that capture our imagination and make us want to either make our own movies or just watch more good movies. It seems every time one reaches into the classic cinema bucket, there is always more to grab for. But in an ironic kind of torture, there are always 10 times more terrible films than good ones. This is my list of the worst films I have ever had the displeasure to see. 10. Epic Movie/ Date Move/ Disaster Movie/ etc..: Forgot about these movies didn’t you? I wish I could. Parody movies died after Mel Brooks started to get older and his films’ quality deteriorated. These films never got what made Mel Brooks’ or even David Zucker’s brand of comedy. They never understood what a parody should be, and had plots driven in no direction by scenes taken from blockbuster movies, with the same jokes in every movie.

9. A Good Day to Die Hard (2013): The original “Die Hard” is an action movie masterpiece; a film firing on all cylinders. Every action movie should aspire to be this film. But after four sequels, the series has become bland and idealess. It seems this series is run by people who do not understand the first film. That is clear in this outing. An incompetent script mixed with an uncaring Bruce Willis equals what is hopefully the death of the series. 8. The Love Guru (2008): Two names come up when talking about falls from grace and worst movies ever. One of them is Mike Myers and his passion project called “The Love Guru”. While Myers’ brand of comedy is some of the funniest out there, this film is a comedy tragedy. Public domain style jokes and racial and offensive stereotypes ruin this movie. 7. The Last Airbender (2010): It was hard to choose just one M. Night Shyamalan film. The man once hailed as the next Alfred Hitchcock has made a name for himself lately

for making terrible films. While personally never watching the show this was based on, it was not needed to understand the movie’s awfulness. From a mispronunciation of the main character’s name to unreadable dialogue, this film cements itself as one of the worst TV to film adaptations. 6. The Boondocks Saints 2: All Saints Day (2009): While not belonging to the cult of people who love to bat for the first film, admittedly there is something to like. The second on the other hand, is just garbage. Even fans of the original have to admit this film is a disappointment. It subscribes to the types of sequels that just rehash the other film and reminisce on how great it was, instead of doing anything different. 5. Godzilla (1998): There has not really ever been a great American remake of a monster movie classic, however the remake of “Godzilla” from this year did just that. The same cannot be said about the 1998 remake. Directed by Roland Emmerich,

a glorified disaster filmmaker, it is no wonder it has uninteresting and cliché characters and a nonsensical plot. 4. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008): So much anticipation led up to this film, but so much disappointment followed it. The movie was made about 19 years too late. It is hard to pinpoint the downfall of this film. Maybe it was a script including a character swinging from a vine like Tarzan. Maybe it was the intrusion of Shia LaBeouf into Harrison Ford’s lead. Either way, this film whiffed big time. 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009): Michael Bay’s generic style is easy to spot. Some of his films overcome that and are great action movies. The second “Transformers” film on the other hand is a two hour and 30 minute list of everything wrong with a Michael Bay film. From the over use of explosions, to the beyond juvenile humor, to a script that can’t follow a simple story structure — simply put, this movie is terrible.

2. Grown Ups 2 (2013): Earlier on in this list, I mentioned the fall of two comedic talents. One was Mike Myers. The other is Adam Sandler. While there are many Adam Sandler films that could have made this list, “Grown Ups 2” is the most egregious. This film does not have a plot. It is completely comprised of stale personalities and obvious product placements. It not only shows the decline of Sandler’s career but everyone involved. 1.Batman and Robin (1997): And here it is, my worst film of all time. “Batman and Robin” nearly killed the idea of a cinematic Batman. This movie is just wrong in every way. Very few times can you say it is better to scrap an entire idea on a project and start over, but in this case, it was the only option. It puts a black mark on the career of everyone involved and on the film industry. Jacob Pierce can be reached at jpierce@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @JacobPierce1_DE

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Understanding the difference between curriculum and standards Karin Chenowith

McClatchy- Tribune News Service

Fanning the firestorm over Common Core State Standards is the fear that by adopting common standards, states are signing onto a national curriculum and thus undermining the decisions of local school boards and educators. But before going too far down that road, an important distinction needs to be made between standards — which outline what students should know and be able to do at each grade level — and curriculum — which is what happens day to day and week to week in classrooms. Standards remain constant, but curriculum can be altered year to year or classroom to classroom to ensure students are meeting the learning goals. Let me illustrate with examples from three high-performing, high-poverty schools in three different states. I asked them to share with me lessons they had developed to meet three of Common Core’s reading and language arts standards, which say that fifth-graders should know how to: –Use a dictionary and other reference materials. –Identifythemainideasandsupportingdetailsofatext. –Cite evidence to support an answer. The first lesson, from George Hall Elementary in Mobile, Ala., is on the human circulatory system, part of a larger unit on major body systems, including the respiratory, excretory and reproductive systems. During the lesson, the teacher introduced particular terms the students would encounter in their reading, such as capillaries and white blood cells and asked the students to look up and record the definition of those terms

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in their science journals. Students then read “The Circulatory System,” the fictional “A Journey through the Digestive System with Max Axiom,” and consulted other non-fiction books. At the end of the lesson, students were asked to describe the function of the circulatory system in three to five sentences, citing evidence from the texts. The second is from Finlay Elementary in Miami and is part of a three-week literature unit on “Hatchet,” a story of wilderness survival. The teacher discussed the genre of realistic fiction with the students and then introduced vocabulary words such as hatchet, vibration and rudder. Students read along as the teacher read aloud, modeling fluent and expressive reading. Every couple of chapters, they wrote an analysis of the main ideas of the chapters along with the supporting details and an analysis of how the chapters fit together. This unit was paired with an environmental unit they were doing in science that culminated with a field trip to the Biscayne Bay where students learned about the kind of conditions in which the “Hatchet” protagonist found himself. The third is from De Queen Elementary in southwestern Arkansas and is part of a large interdisciplinary English and science unit on the environment that has as its core question, “Why is it important to protect and preserve the Earth?” Before the students read “The River Ran Wild” by Lynne Cherry, a non-fiction account of the pollution and subsequent restoration of the Nashua River, teachers introduced vocabulary that students would encounter, with a focus on multisyllabic words with prefixes, suffixes, root words, and inflectional endings such as indus-

trial and migration. After reading the book, they read about the Dust Bowl, which helped bring about the Great Depression, and other environmental effects of industry and farming. Students were then asked to write essays using complex sentences about Marion Stoddart, the woman who sparked the restoration of the Northeast’s Nashua River in the 1960s. This is just a taste of these lessons, which are much more nuanced and sophisticated than there is room to describe. And I should note that these are not the only lessons designed to help students meet those standards; kids don’t learn complicated skills from one lesson. But the point is that Common Core standards merely provide goals or benchmarks for learning to be filled by science, history, and literature lessons – all determined by local educators. The idea behind the standards, which are in place in 43 states, is that no matter where students live or what their life circumstances may be, they should all have to meet the same expectations for learning –such as being able to use a dictionary and cite evidence from a text. Those common expectations can be met in a whole variety of ways, leaving all the most important decisions about curriculum, lessons and classroom activities in the hands of local schools and districts. But by having a common set of expectations to measure their decisions against, school boards and educators will have a lot more information about how well they are serving all their students. That doesn’t undermine them; it supports them.

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‘Sesame Street’ turns 45, expands Rob Owen

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PAS ADENA — Hard to believe it has been 45 years of Sunny Days and Everything’s A-OKs, but PBS stalwart “Sesame Street” indeed turned 45 this month and expanded to include a second, half-hour daily show. The 26 new one-hour episodes air weekday mornings on many PBS stations and half-hour episodes, which are culled from the one-hour shows, air in the afternoon. (Check local listings for times.) Not that it has always been smooth sailing for the iconic children’s show, which has found itself caught up in politics (remember presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s decree that he’d cut funding to PBS despite his love of Big Bird?) and scandals, most recently charges, since dismissed, of child sexual abuse by puppeteer Kevin Clash, who operated the Elmo puppet. He resigned from “Sesame Street” parent company Sesame Workshop in 2012 after the allegations were made public. “Kevin was my mentor, and Kevin is an amazing performer, an amazing man,” said “Sesame Street” puppeteer and head writer Joey Mazzarino at a January PBS press conference. “As you could pretty well imagine, it was devastating for us, and it’s still, on a daily basis, hard. But we came together, and we know it’s bigger than any one of us, and we just keep going.”

It’s the characters, not their performers, who are most memorable to the show’s target audience. Jim Henson died, Frank Oz moved on from voicing characters, such as Bert and Cookie Monster, and even Kermit the Frog no longer appears on “Sesame Street” after Disney bought the Muppets. But the core cast— Big Bird, Grover, The Count, Oscar the Grouch—remain. “The characters for sure are iconic, and I think the genius of them, when they were created, is that they are still relevant today,” said “Sesame Street” executive producer Carol-Lynn Parente. “We compete a lot against animation, but there’s something about that, knowing that Elmo and Cookie Monster and Murray can look at you and they are alive, and they are on this real neighborhood, and that it’s a real play date. We think of the show as a play date for the audience.” And not just for kids. The show’s producers make an effort to engage parents, especially through its parody segments that spoof pop culture or with celebrity cameos. This season look for first lady Michelle Obama, the boy band One Direction, actors Viola Davis, Jonah Hill, Sir Ian McKellen, Claire Danes, Tina Fey and Zachary Quinto. For the parodies, Mazzarino said producers look for something coming out or trending that seems like it will have a shelf

life and also travels well when “Sesame Street” airs internationally. Producers also try to film the spoofs late in the production schedule to maximize their freshness when they air. “Every one of those very funny parodies has some lesson we are teaching, and we take the stuff out and test it with the children,” Parente said. “And that’s the genius of the show. Sometimes you don’t even realize that there was a curriculum to the piece because you get lost in the humor.” Of course, not every new segment or character introduced works over the long haul. There’s even a wall of dead Muppets, also known as The Dead Muppet Society, where puppet flops are housed, including a bear who’s a writer named Flo Bear (get it? Flaubert!) and Stinky the Stinkweed. “What I love about the show is, on our research document, it says, the 45th experimental season, and it’s been true,” Mazzarino said. “I’ve been there 23 or 24 years, and every year, we change the show. When I started, the street story was broken up over the hour, and then we made it into an 11-minute segment. And then we go, ‘OK. We need a segment here. Let’s pull this. Let’s develop something for Cookie Monster.’ It becomes a great challenge and actually refreshing because you go, ‘Oh, we have a whole new format for Cookie. Great. We have something new.’”

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Walk-on freshman brings positive attitude to Saluki golf Thomas Donley Daily Egyptian

Freshman Jackie Biggs ended up in southern Illinois because her mother found a brochure for SIU and talked her into applying. She was born in New Jersey and raised in Colorado. “I was like, ‘Okay, whatever, I guess,’” Biggs said. “But then I visited and I really loved the campus.” In August, Biggs walked onto the Saluki women’s golf team because she thought head coach Alexis Mihelich gave her the best chance to improve her game. Mihelich said she decided to add Biggs to the team becWause of her intelligence and personality. “I knew that she was up for an

academic scholarship, so I knew her grades were really good,” Mihelich said. “And with her demeanor, I knew she’d make a great teammate.” Biggs was a first team AllCentennial League golfer her senior year at Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colo. That year, she tied for 31st in the Colorado High School Activities Association Class 5A state tournament, helping her team to a fifth-place finish. In high school, Biggs was also involved in People to People, a peer ambassador program for students from fifth grade through college. People to People takes students on trips to foreign countries to promote global awareness and prepare

students for success. Biggs traveled to Europe with the organization the summer following her freshman year. Her trip left her with memorable and valuable experiences, such as scaling the wall of a castle and living in an Irish family’s house for a week. She did not get a chance to play golf at any of Europe’s top courses because People to People’s schedule for the trip did not allow time for golf. But the trip helped prepare her for the start of college. “It’s pretty similar,” Biggs said. “You go out and you don’t really know anyone at first, but then you begin to make really close relationships.” Her trip to Europe also taught her to apply a positive attitude to the

game of golf by providing a different way of looking at things, Biggs said. “It definitely applied a different outlook,” Biggs said. “So instead of saying, ‘Dang, I got a bogey,’ it’s saying, ‘Well, it’s better than what I could’ve got.” Both Mihelich and sophomore Brooke Cusumano said Biggs’s positive attitude contributes to her being such a good teammate and golfer. “There’s not a mean bone in her body,” Cusumano said. “Even when she’s not playing very good, she always has a smile on her face.” Cusumano said Biggs because does not like to talk about herself, so it takes a while to get to know her.

However, Cusumano said Biggs is very interesting when she does open up. “She loves video games,” Cusumano said. “And she’s really freaking good at them. Her secret talent should be that she’s a gamer.” She will make her university debut Sunday at the Saluki Shootout at Hickory Ridge Golf Course. She will be part of SIU’s B team. The team will use the Saluki Shootout as part of their qualifying rounds for its next tournament. A good showing could help Biggs crack the lineup. Thomas can be reached at tdonley@dailyegyptian.com or on Twitter @tdonleyDE

Minnesota Gov. Dayton: Vikings should suspend Peterson until accusations resolved Patrick Condon

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Gov. Mark Dayton said Tuesday that the Minnesota Vikings should suspend running back Adrian Peterson until accusations of child abuse against him have been resolved in the criminal justice system. Calling the allegations and their fallout “an awful situation,” Dayton said he believes Peterson is innocent until proven guilty and that he deserves due process. But

he also called the allegations, that Peterson used a wooden switch to discipline his fouryear-old son, “a public embarrassment to the Vikings organization and the state of Minnesota.” Dayton’s remarks came in a statement from his office. The governor is in Washington, D.C., raising funds for his reelection campaign. “Whipping a child to the extent of visible wounds, as has been alleged, should not be tolerated in our state,” Dayton said.

Peterson has denied being a child abuser, saying he was using the same disciplinary methods that he experienced as a child. The Vikings had kept Peterson out of Sunday’s game, but announced Monday that he would be reinstated and playing next Sunday. Vikings spokesman Jeff Anderson did not immediately return a call seeking comment on Dayton’s statement. The DFL governor has worked closely with the team throughout his first term, both as advocate for partial public funding of

the new stadium now under construction in downtown Minneapolis, and to help promote a subsequent, successful bid for Minnesota to host the 2018 Super Bowl in that new stadium. “I will not turn my back on the Vikings and their fans, as some have suggested,” Dayton said. “The Vikings belong to Minnesota _ and in Minnesota. This has been the team’s only home; and our citizens, including myself, have been its most dedicated fans.”

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DE Sports Bark Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is facing felony charges for reckless endangerment or negligence to a child. Peterson has not been charged, but the Vikings chose to sit Peterson in the second week of the season. The Vikings have already lost a sponsorship deal with Radisson Hotels because of the incident, and Minnesota governor Mark Dayton said the Vikings should sit their star running back. Do you agree with the Vikings choice to allow Peterson to play, or should Peterson sit in order to prevent more sponsors from leaving? Also, do you think this is a place the NFL should step in and hand out a suspension?

There’s a lot of controversy surrounding the NFL right now. Ray Rice, Greg Hardy, and now Adrian Peterson are in the eye of the public for negative reasons and the league needs to step in to restore its image. Peterson should have to miss some games. If the NFL stands by silently it’s basically saying child abuse is okay, but the abuse of women deserves a significant suspension. As for the Vikings, they need to make a decision quickly. The loss of sponsorships means the loss of income. Minnesota can’t be idle while its star player deals with this issue. It’s bad for the Vikings’ locker room and checkbook. The NFL and the Vikings are trying to learn from the mistakes that were pointed out during the Ray Rice saga. Both Peterson and Rice have evidence to go with their admissions of brutal violence. The NFL jumped to punish Rice and the Ravens came to his defense before EVERYTHING came out. They are still dealing with that poor decision. I think AP should take himself out of the game, and I would not be surprised if the Vikings did, but you can bet your bottom dollar Roger Goodell will let this one simmer until all the facts are out.

Abusing a child is equally as bad as a woman, if not worse. Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice was just suspended indefinitely for striking his wife. The NFL needs a common policy and all players should be treated the same. There shouldn’t have to be video evidence. If Peterson is guilty, he should be cut.

In any professional team, sponsorships mean a lot. Especially when it comes to dealing with travel and playing games on time. Peterson should face the consequences. The NFL should hand out a suspension also for the felony because not only would that be justice for his son, it would teach him a lesson.

I don’t believe the NFL should suspend Adrian Peterson before he has been convicted, much less before he has even been charged. This all comes down to what is more important to the Vikings: Keeping sponsors or winning games. If Minnesota sits Peterson, they will retain sponsors, but will most likely lose ticket revenue without him. If Peterson plays, they will have a better chance of winning, and fans will be more likely to buy tickets. I really hope society isn’t at the point where athletes get suspended just for disciplining their children, but if it means my Packers don’t have to face AP, I’m fine with it.

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“Hans has showed his natural ability to catch the ball,” Warner said. “Most teams, they’re scheming against our tight ends, our running backs, and our receivers and they leave the fullback unaccounted for. Hans has been doing a great to job to leak out of the backfield and catch

the ball.” Despite being used solely as a blocker and a receiver Carmien has a history of running well with the ball. At Fisher High School Carmien rushed for 797 yards and 9 touchdowns in his senior season on his way to All-State honors. On defense Carmien totaled 174 tackles in his two seasons on Fisher’s varsity team.

A three-sport athlete, Carmien ran track and helped his basketball team to the Super Sectionals of the Illinois High School Association State Playoffs in his junior season. Warner said Carmien’s athleticism stems from all the sports he participated in during his high school career. “Hans is an athletic guy. He can catch the ball and run after the catch “He’s able to get in there and make

adjustments on the run,” Warner said. “It’s showing that he’s a great athlete just to be able to do that.” McCall said off the field Carmien has a great personality. “He’s a great person, kind, concerned, caring,” he said. “Me and Hans are really cool. Best friends since we got here.” Carmien has a chance to be a four-year starter at SIU. He said he

is focused on handling his career one game at a time. “I’ve just gotta keep doing what I’m doing,” he said. “Do what the coaches tell me. Just not look in the future, just focus on the opportunity right in front of me.” Tony McDaniel can be reached at tmcdaniel@dailyegyptian.com, @tonymcdanielDE

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Sophomore Meg Viggars, left, junior Taylor Pippen, center and freshman Abby Barrow jump to block a ball Saturday during the Saluki Invitational at Saluki Stadium. The Salukis play against the University of Evansville at 7p.m. Friday in Davies Gym.

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SIU volleyball has its longest winning streak of the season heading into conference play. The Salukis (5-6) defeated the University of Tennessee-Martin (5-6) in three sets Tuesday night for the last midweek match of the season. SIU held the Skyhawks to a .126 hitting percentage, which led to its second straight win.

“It’s one of those good streaks you want to be on,” coach Justin Ingram said. “We’re still in the beginning stage of our season and closing out what is the first segment of the season.” Redshirt freshman outside hitter Andrea Estrada led the team with 12 kills and a .579 hitting percentage. “Our block was so much better Tuesday than our last match against Marshall,” Estrada said. “It

was important tonight as always, but it was so important [Tuesday] because we were focused on the fast set.” Sophomore hitter McKenzie Dorris recorded six of the Salukis 10 team blocks. “I think we’re far more physical [than UT-Martin],” Ingram said. “Much better than a block solo is a block assist, because that means that two people were there and

not just one.” Dorris said she was happy the midweek matches are completed because she can balance her schedule for the rest of the season. “These midweek matches really take a toll on you because you’re traveling for so long,” Dorris said. “We get back late and we obviously have school the next day. Now that these are over we’ll definitely be able to focus more in

class and in practices.” The Salukis play Evansville University at 7 p.m., Friday at Davies Gym. They finish nonconference play against Southeast Missouri State University at 2 p.m., Sunday on the road. Aaron Graff can be reached at Agraff@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @Aarongraff_DE or 536-3311 ext. 269

Redshirt freshman fills in at fullback Tony McDaniel Daily Egyptian

Ray Agnew’s graduation left SIU with a hole on offense that has been filled by a freshman. Redshirt Hans Carmien stepped in for the Salukis at fullback. In three games he has just 2 catches, but has already managed to find the end zone once. Carmien came to SIU as a defensive end, but was moved to fullback after his redshirt season. “The opportunity for me to play fullback just kind of was there,” he said. “Coach Lennon came up to me and told me that he wanted me to play fullback.” He said the most difficult part of making the adjustment to playing offense at the Division I level was dealing with the quickness of the game. Former Saluki fullback Ray Agnew played in 36 games for the Salukis from 2010 to 2013. In his time with the Salukis, Agnew played well enough to receive interest from the Cleveland Browns of the NFL. Agnew was signed as an undrafted free agent this offseason, and made the Browns as the team’s only fullback. Carmien said he did not get to learn much from Agnew while they

were Salukis since Carmien was on defense at the time, but he knew Agnew was a great player. Carmien equaled Agnew’s career touchdown total Sept. 6 with a score against Eastern Illinois University. “I was pretty hyped,” Carmien said. “As a redshirt freshman, to get a touchdown like that is awesome. My whole family was there; it’s an hour from where I’m from. So that was exciting for me too.” Carmien is one of two fullbacks on the Salukis’ roster along with senior Mika’il McCall. McCall has made most of his appearances at running back this season. Running back coach Larry Warner said Carmien is the guy at fullback. “Hans is a hard-nosed kid that wants to be good,” Warner said. “He comes and opens up holes for the running back. He’s doing a tremendous job catching the ball out of the back field.” The freshman said he likes knowing that the position is his. Carmien said the Salukis don’t practice runs with the fullback. His main role in the running game is to be a blocker. For SIU the fullback is used primarily as a blocker and a receiver. Please see CARMIEN · 11

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Freshman fullback Hans Carmien laughs with teammates Saturday during the second half of the Southeast Missouri State University game at Saluki Stadium. Carmien is the youngest offensive starter for the Salukis this season.

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