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Administration and Finance bridges the gap from budget cuts with student fees CORY RAY | @CORYRAY_DE

Administration and Finance is stretching student fee coverage as the Physical Plant builds a new method to tackle budget cuts and continue building maintenance.

Kevin Bame, vice chancellor for Administration and Finance, said $3 million from student fees that were budgeted toward classroom and lab upgrades has been deferred. Those upgrades could include anything from painting, changing lightbulbs or replacing whiteboards.

Every project has its own priority, but as Bame noted, money ultimately decides what projects will be completed this fiscal year.

The Office of Administration and Finance received a budget cut of nearly $3 million, or 8.82 percent. Of this cut, $2 million is a shift in funds from the Physical Plant to Facilities Maintenance Fee. The shift will not result in an increase to student fees, but rather the Facilities Maintenance Fee will cover a wider range, according to University Spokesperson Rae Goldsmith.

Bame said the Facilities Maintenance Fee is used for routine maintenance cost for academic buildings.

The fee generated a revenue of about $6.9 million this fiscal year through student fees, which charges $19.50 per credit hour. This translates to $585 annually for a student taking 30 credit hours.

“There’s not a specific list,” Bame said. “A lot of maintenance on the buildings is based on what needs to be repaired because of condition ... So much of it is on demand. If something breaks, we have to go in and fix it.”

The shift is a nonrecurring cut, meaning the $2 million shift will only be applied once and will be reevaluated for future years.

“It’s probably going to show itself down the road if we don’t solve things as a deferred maintenance problem, meaning we can’t fix things or get things or get them the way we want them,” Goldsmith said. “But for now, that’s what we’re going to do.”

Bame said the fund for routine building maintenance currently retains $900,000 from its original budget.

Additionally, Administration and Finance is receiving a 10 percent cut from its base budget, which accounts for any unfilled staff positions that report to the department.

“We centralize all of our salary dollars … It’s a combination of positions that didn’t make it,” Bame said. “We gathered up all those salary dollars, as far as budget, and remitted them back to administration.

Everything’s been pulled together using that approach for so long that possible salary budgets have lost their identity. We’ve pulled centrally for probably three plus years.”

Other 10 percent cuts include $23,000 from Postage Service and $16,000 from Key Control, which employs campus locksmiths.

“We simply are not going to be able to do the upgrades at the level we have, because we won’t have the same amount of money,” Goldsmith said.

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Aidan Osborne | @A IDAN O SBORNE _DE Brian Small, a professor of zoology, points to a water tank Monday in the McLafferty Annex. The water tanks are being installed in a new wet lab, which will be used by professors and students to conduct research. With the flip of a switch, the tanks can be filled with either saltwater or freshwater.

New wet lab brings marine life to SIUC ANNA SPOERRE | @ASPOERRE_DE

Sea Monkeys, also known as brine shrimp, will soon be served as dinner to numerous fish at the new research space being constructed in McLafferty Annex.

The annex was originally built to house books from Morris Library while it was undergoing renovations and is now being transformed into a collaborative research facility.

Students do not have to go to the coast to get a marine biology degree, according to James Garvey, the vice chancellor for research and director of the center for fisheries.

A wet lab, or laboratory that handles liquids, is being developed and will provide students and faculty the opportunity to work with more fish.

The changes, totaling $3 million, were approved by the Board of Trustees in 2012, Garvey said.

Brian Small, a zoology professor involved with designing the new wet lab, said the facility will allow researchers to have more control in a more sterile environment.

“It’s also very environmentally friendly,” Small said. “Each system is recirculating, which means all the water is reused.”

Small said his goals with this project were primarily salt and freshwater capabilities, warm and cold water capabilities, and the implementation of a quarantine system for new fish coming into the lab.

The facility has many tanks, all of which are capable of holding fresh or saltwater fish.

This allows a greater variety of species, like zebrafish, to be included in research.

Marine, or saltwater, species of fish will also be introduced for the first time.

“It wasn’t until [the concept of ] this facility became a reality that I was able to even create a project like this that is of my interest,” said Alexis Bergman, a first year graduate student from Quincy studying zoology.

Bergman is partnering with Shedd Aquarium in Chicago to conduct research on eggs collected from the Shedd Aquarium’s tanks every day as a result of daily fish spawning.

In the future, Bergman wants to help Shedd Aquarium raise their own fish.

This, she said, would help take pressure off the wild species.

“It’s really an incredible way of conservation that these aquariums [like Shedd] are trying for,” Bergman said.

For now, she’s waiting on her first

batch of eggs.

Anthony Porreca, a doctoral student in zoology from Homer Glen, is conducting research on pallid sturgeon, an endangered species found in the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.

Porreca said the new lab allows for more manipulations to research than before.

The old wet lab, located across the street from the McLafferty Annex, will also continue to remain in use.

“It’s just a different type of facility,” Small said about the old facility, “It’s set up for big experiments, a lot of big fish, high production experiments.”

Further development of the lab, also known as phase one and two, is still being discussed.

An 8,000-gallon fish aquarium, which may display marine species, is an addition still in the planning phase. Small said they are hoping to raise the funds through donors. He hopes to have phase one up and running in the next month so they can begin bringing in fish.

Garvey said the facility will be a tremendous resource SIU and the community is blessed to have it. “[The wet lab] is certainly one of the best, if not the best, in the Midwest for aquatics,” Small said.

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Planned Parenthood leader says claims about fetal tissue untrue KATHLEEN MILLER | BLOOMBERG NEWS

Planned Parenthood’s leader defended the group against accusations that it sells tissue from aborted fetuses for profit, telling U.S. lawmakers that claims based on undercover videos made by anti-abortion groups are “offensive and categorically untrue.”

“Planned Parenthood policies not only comply with, but indeed go beyond the requirements of the law,” Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, told members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Tuesday in Washington. Using fetal tissue in medical research is legal, she said.

Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, said Planned Parenthood doesn’t need taxpayer dollars.

“As far as I can tell, this is an

organization that doesn’t need federal subsidies,” Chaffetz said at a hearing on the reproductive health care provider’s use of taxpayer funding. “They’re pretty good at fundraising; they don’t really need taxpayer dollars.”

Conservative House Republicans have demanded a government shutdown if lawmakers don’t defund Planned Parenthood, the women’s reproductive health care provider whose services include abortion. The Republican-controlled Senate and House plan to pass a shortterm spending bill this week that includes Planned Parenthood funds, though that sets up another showdown when the measure expires Dec. 11.

Conservatives have said they are outraged by undercover videos purporting to show Planned Parenthood officials discussing reimbursement for providing tissue from aborted fetuses to researchers.

The organization has said it doesn’t sell fetal tissue for profit, and instead receives the cost of collecting and delivering it.

Bloomberg Philanthropies provides financial support for Planned Parenthood.

Richards said the videos were “deceptively edited” and that threats against doctors who provide abortion and their families have gotten worse since the videos surfaced this summer, Richards said.

“There is one simple reason we are at this point — Republicans want to outlaw a woman’s right to choose,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, said at the start of the hearing. “We need to recognize this fight for what it is; it is about banning a woman’s right to choose, and it is being driven by politicians most of whom are men, who think they have a right to dictate to women about their most personal and private decisions.”

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Before Ahmed’s fame: fantastic inventions and a fight with authority AVI SELK | THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

If you want to know Ahmed Mohamed — not the hoax bomb suspect or the vindicated celebrity, but the motormouth kid with a schoolbag full of inventions and a head full of questions — ask a teacher.

Ask at Sam Houston Middle School, where the boy from Sudan mastered electronics and English, once built a remote control to prank the classroom projector and bragged of reciting his First Amendment rights in the principal’s office.

It’s also the school where Ahmed racked up weeks of suspensions, became convinced an administrator had it in for him and — before he left for the high school where he turned famous — prompted Irving ISD to review claims of antiMuslim bullying.

If you want to know about the boy before the fame, ask Ralph Kubiak: Ahmed’s seventh-grade history teacher and fellow outsider.

“He was a weird little kid,” said Kubiak, now 62 and retired. “I saw a lot of him in me. That thirst for knowledge ... he’s one of those kids that could either be CEO of a company or head of a gang.”

Kubiak didn’t fit the mold either.

To say he taught Ahmed Texas history in seventh grade would be to miss the point of what he calls his “ministry for 12 years at Sam Houston: to make sure these children knew the truth about their rights.”

With a thick beard sprouting from a button-down shirt, Kubiak was the teacher who played Steppenwolf songs in class and segued from the textbooks into his personal memories of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. He wanted his students — 4 out of 5 at Sam Houston are considered poor by the state — to question the world and its expectations of them.

Not to let adults control them.

Ahmed was as good a disciple as anyone.

The boy showed up at the school in sixth grade with almost no English: bespectacled, small for his age and far from the continent where he was born. But a year later, sitting below the posters of black leaders in Kubiak’s classroom, he could discuss similarities between Judaism, Christianity and his faith, Islam.

“He was secure enough in his religion to look at the other side,” Kubiak said. The teacher remembered talking about the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, agreeing with Ahmed that they twisted Muslim scripture to control ignorant people.

“I said, ‘Don’t they read their own Quran?’” Kubiak recalled. “He said, ‘A lot of folks don’t.’”

Not that the preteen was a fulltime philosopher. Another teacher

Vernon Bryant | Dallas Morning News Irving MacArthur High School student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, poses for a photo at his home in Irving, Texas, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2015. Mohamed was arrested and interrogated by Irving Police officers on Monday after bringing a homemade clock to school.

remembered Ahmed after school: He and his friends would line up on opposite ends of a field, careen into each other at full speed, then get up and do it again.

But Ahmed’s intelligence shone through in the classroom, in robotics club, and in the homemade inventions he would often cram into his backpack.

Some of his middle school teachers were surprised to hear that MacArthur High staff called police this month after Ahmed brought a homemade clock to class. He had dragged far more elaborate gizmos into Sam Houston all the time.

When a seemingly possessed projector kept shutting off midlecture, young boys’ snickers surrounded Ahmed’s desk, where he sat with a hand-built remote control in his lap.

When a tutor’s cellphone went dead, Ahmed’s jerry-rigged battery charger brought it back to life.

Some of these creations looked much like the infamous clock — a mess of wires and exposed circuits stuffed inside a hinged case, perhaps suspicious to some. But no one interviewed by The Dallas Morning News remembered Ahmed getting into trouble for bringing his creations to Sam Houston.

The boy found trouble other

ways.

It didn’t take Ahmed long to learn fluent English. Once he did, he had a habit of overusing it — trying to impress classmates with a nonstop stream of chatter, teachers said, and often annoying them instead.

“I love him dearly, but sometimes it got to be a little much,” Kubiak agreed. “He just went on and on.”

Kubiak, who once went to school in Colonial pantaloons to promote the U.S. Constitution, said he chided Ahmed after hearing that the boy tried to get out of detention by reciting the First Amendment in the principal’s office.

“That was genius, son,” Kubiak recalled saying sarcastically. “What did she do?”

“He said, ‘She gave me Saturday detention.’”

Detention wasn’t the worst of it. While his discipline record is confidential and his father didn’t want to discuss it, the file was thick by some accounts.

Ahmed said he was suspended for several weeks in sixth grade. A family friend, Anthony Bond, said the boy and a cousin were blowing soap bubbles in the bathroom, and the school overreacted.

“Kids are kids,” said Bond, who has known Ahmed since he enrolled at Sam Houston.

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Middle America left behind in economic recovery ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

American families who feel like they’re spinning their wheels financially are right.

According to recent figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, the median income in the country remained essentially unchanged for the third year in a row while poverty rates remained stubbornly high.

The lone piece of bright news in the report was a significant drop in the number of uninsured Americans. Thanks to changes brought about by the Affordable Care Act, the number of uninsured Americans dropped by 13 percent between 2013 and 2014.

But that good news can’t change the fact that Middle America is not witnessing many gains following the end of the Great Recession, even as stocks, corporate profits

and executive-level pay have gone up considerably.

The landscape for middleincome Americans is bleak. In real terms, wages have either flat-lined or declined over the past several decades. Median wages for men are lower now, adjusted for inflation, than they were in the 1970s. And inflation rates don’t even tell the whole story, failing to reflect the massive increases in areas such as college tuition.

Missouri fares notably worse than much of the rest of the country. The median household income ranks in the bottom third of states, and unemployment and poverty rates run high compared to the rest of the country.

Perhaps data like these explain why the Federal Reserve decided this month that now wouldn’t be a particularly good time to raise

interest rates.

It was a wise decision, though there’s every indication the Fed will begin incremental increases by the end of the year.

Leaving rates unchanged will help Americans burdened by stagnating wages. Low rates hold down interest rates Americans pay on student loans and other borrowing. Sure, it hurts those with savings accounts — but Americans hurt by paychecks that refuse to grow aren’t saving much anyway.

The low rates do hurt banks. And bankers made their displeasure wellknown following the Fed’s decision.

As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman noted, that’s less reason to think the Fed got it wrong than an explanation of why those who favor an increase in rates keep changing their rationale.

“Well, when you see ever-

changing rationales for neverchanging policy demands, it’s a good bet that there’s an ulterior motive,” Mr. Krugman wrote. “And the rate rage of the bankers — combined with the plunge in bank stocks that followed the Fed’s decision not to hike — offers a powerful clue to the nature of that motive. It’s the bank profits, stupid.”

Banks make money on the difference between what they pay savers in interest and what they can charge borrowers. They’re paying savers next to nothing these days, but they can’t charge much interest on loans, either. As a result, the netinterest margin has nosedived in the last five years.

But bank profits aren’t the Fed’s job. Its job is to keep inflation in check — and there’s precious little evidence that inflation poses any economic threat these days.

There appear to be at least two economies operating in America today. One is doing quite well and would benefit if the Fed increased rates. The other — the one the vast majority of Americans live with — is struggling.

For that economy, an increase in rates would mean higher borrowing costs and not much else on the positive side. In the Washington Post last month, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers made a compelling case that raising rates would threaten price stability, full employment and financial stability.

The Fed did the right thing by deciding to do nothing. The questions now are how that decision will remain intact and what can be done to make the economy work for more Americans.

No, Clinton is not collapsing JOE TRIPPI | @LOS ANGELES TIMES

Has the political pundit class lost its collective mind?

In a year in which every other supposed front-runner and establishment candidate has collapsed to single digits or has already withdrawn from the race — yes, I am talking about you, Jeb Bush, and you, Scott Walker — Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to lead the Democratic field with more than 40 percent of the vote.

Can Bernie Sanders, who is 15 points behind her in recent polling, represent

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a real threat to her nomination? No. Hell no. Not a chance. But pundits keep asking the question without pointing out the obvious answer.

And given the fact that no vice president who has sought his party’s nomination has ever been denied it, you would think Clinton’s 20-point lead over Joe Biden would be seen as a remarkable sign of strength. Instead, when pundits mention Clinton’s lead over the vice president, they always follow up with the fact that Biden has yet to enter officially — and rarely caution that he may never enter it and that

even if he does, he’ll start 20 points behind.

When has anyone been so strong that he or she led a sitting vice president by 20 points? Does the punditry really think it’s because he hasn’t announced yet?

Was the private server a mistake? Yes. Have questions about Clinton’s emails hurt her? Of course. Has her campaign been clumsy and mishandled the situation? No doubt about it. But there should also be no doubt that Clinton remains a formidable front-runner who will be tough to beat even if Biden enters the race. And she’ll be formidable in the general election too.

If the GOP wasn’t convinced that she could block their path to the White House in November 2016, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to stop her right now. If they thought her knees would buckle and she was really going to collapse — if they thought she would be a breeze to defeat — they would hold their fire until she was the Democratic nominee.

Pundits can focus on her weaknesses, her mistakes and her negatives while overlooking her strengths — for them, there are no real consequences — but her opponents do so at their own peril.

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‘Everest’ freezes before it hits its peak JACOB PIERCE | @JACOBPIERCE1_DE

If this film would have climbed a little bit farther, this would be an Oscar-quality movie.

“Everest,” directed by Baltasar Kormakur and starring Jason Clarke and Josh Brolin, is an engaging, emotionally touching, popcorn disaster movie.

The cast of this film, should have made it more. Clarke, Brolin, John Hawkes and Jake Gyllenhaal are some of the amazing cast members in this film. This is a rare instance of every actor being bigger named and extremely talented.

It wants to be a “Apollo 13” level of an ensemble movie, but never reaches it.

A major problem is with the direction of the film and

presentation of the mountain.

There are scenes where Mount Everest is terrifying and aweinspiring, but for the most part the film never captures a true terror.

“Everest” should be as spinechilling as “Gravity” was. Both are situations virtually indescribable to anyone who has not lived through it.

However, this film is more like a slideshow of Mount Everest and the destruction it can cause.

The acting succeeds in this movie. Nothing is stronger in this disaster bio-pic than this cast. They keep you engaged, even when other parts of the film fails to.

A big example of this is the ability of Sam Worthington to break out of his shell.

Worthington usually comes off as stiff. He pulls off what would normally be considered careerdefining performances.

The movie also knows how to

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‘The Martian’ is expected to win weekend’s box office SABA HAMEDY | LOS ANGELES TIMES

The Jacob Show emotionally grab you without being manipulative, something many tearjerkers struggle with.

At a certain point, death seems likely and inevitable in this film.

Sometimes it just happens and sometimes characters are allowed to be devastated. The ability to have both rises this film above many cliché ridden disaster movies.

“The Martian” is poised to dominate the first weekend of October at the box office with very little competition in the way.

The Ridley Scott-directed film, released by Twentieth Century Fox, could debut with between $45 million to $55 million, according to people familiar with pre-release audiencetracking surveys. Fox has a more modest forecast of about $40 million.

Such a strong opening would help give Fox a much-needed boost at the box office. Last year, the studio finished on top with a domestic total of $1.79 billion. Though not an industry record, it was Fox’s best-ever tally in the U.S. and Canada, not adjusting for inflation.

This year, however, Fox is currently in fourth place, according to film research firm Rentrak. Though it has released 31 titles — the most out of any other studio — those films have grossed $926 million, or 11.32 percent of the 2015 market share to date.

“You can be up one year and down

the next, all it takes is a couple of movies to change your fortune,” said Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst at Rentrak.

In Fox’s case, there were some hits, such as the Melissa McCarthy comedy “Spy,” and some massive flops, such as the reboot of “Fantastic Four.”

Universal Pictures has made roughly $2.26 billion, or 27.67 percent of the year’s market share, making it the top studio with about 16 titles. Disney and Warner Bros. are in second and third with $1.4 billion and $1.3 billion to date, respectively.

Though Fox may not jump to No. 1 in the final months of the year, “The Martian” gives the studio a strong foot forward going into the holiday season.

The film, which cost $108 million to make, follows astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon). After a mission to Mars, Watney is assumed to be dead, but he has survived and finds himself stranded alone on the hostile planet. The film also stars Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Donald Glover.

Movie review: ‘Mississippi Grind’ serves up two of a kind KATIE WALSH | TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s latest film, “Mississippi Grind,” combines the classic tales of a love story and an odyssey, but features two down-and-out, inveterate gamblers as our heroes. Gerry (Ben Mendelsohn), is pathetic and miserable, a hopeless gambling addict, drifting until he encounters the smoothtalking shyster Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), who shakes up his whole world.

These two men enable the worst in each other, but also find some fellowship and redemption in the relationship, as they make their way from Dubuque, Iowa, to New Orleans on a misguided, haphazard road trip.

Ryan Reynolds’ best roles are the ones that play on his inherently smarmy qualities, and the sketchy Curtis offers up the chance for Reynolds to excel in his performance, with a motor-mouth, dark circles under his eyes, and a rash of bizarre tattoos up one thigh. Curtis’ accent travels up and down the Eastern Seaboard, but this isn’t a failure of performance on Reynolds’ part; in fact it’s a slyly clever bit of character building.

Curtis isn’t from anywhere, and he himself is performing this persona of the well-traveled, down-on-his-luck cad.

Reynolds and Mendelsohn could not be more different actors, but in this pairing they are perfect. Their relationship is almost sweet. They look out for each other while simultaneously throwing each other under the bus. The two are extremely selfish addicts who torpedo every relationship they have — particularly with women — but somehow, they keep coming back together, usually at the

bar, to order a bourbon. It’s plainly obvious the endless tall tales Curtis spins are bull, but he finds the perfect sidekick in Gerry, who has been hardened by life, but remains gullible, almost naive. He’s a dreamer, and Curtis is too. In each other, they see themselves. For Curtis, Gerry’s shifty existence is an ominous warning sign, but for Gerry, his younger pal embodies the kind of sexy, dangerous adventure he thinks this life could be.

There are many allusions to “The Wizard of

Oz” in “Mississippi Grind” — the men talk of rainbows, Gerry’s estranged wife is named Dorothy, and they bet on Toto’s Revenge at the racetrack. It’s as if the Scarecrow and the Tin Man got lost and wandered down the Mississippi River, drinking and gambling and stumbling into and out of various troubles, not worrying about their brains or their hearts, just wishing for just a little bit of luck.

Mendelsohn is a heartbreaker in this role.

He ranges from insecure loser to wild-eyed

mania when the betting bug gets him. There are times when you want grab him and shake him, shouting “no!” as he takes bigger and bigger risks, falling harder and harder. The picture rends your soul, as we desperately want and hope for Curtis and Gerry to make the right choices as they repeatedly do not. At the end of their journey, much like Dorothy’s trip to Oz, at least one of them finds that there’s no place like home, for better or for worse.

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Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s easier to talk things over with your partner. Reassess priorities and shared finances. Listen more than speaking. See things from another’s view. Study the situation. Breaking news impacts your decision. Keep the tone respectful.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -Today is an 8 -- Communications could get intense at work. Pay attention to what gets said. Your team has great ideas. Study any criticism objectively. Set priorities.

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New information relieves frustration.

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Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is an 8 -- Family fun takes priority. Find out what everyone wants. Notice the unspoken, as well as what people say. Include your own enthusiasms in the game plan.

Talk about what you love. Practice skills by playing together.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- Do the work and make the money. Record progress to date.

Orders come from on high. Begin a new verbal campaign. Find another way to work smarter. Discuss your plans with one you love.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Get into writing, publishing and promotional projects. Words flow easily, although communications could seem intense. Revise plans. Lists are good. Listen carefully. Study with passion. Complete written documents or papers. Make a startling discovery.

Sports

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Better late than never for Saluki seniors SEAN CARLEY | @SCARLEYDE

SIU football has three seniors earning significant playing time for the first time in their collegiate careers.

Injuries, positional depth and competition left these players with a lone year of eligibility to make their mark on a program.

Israel Lamprakes, a fifth-year wide receiver, suffered an anterior cruciate ligament tear in his second year at SIU that required two surgeries. While healing his knee, overcompensation led to a hamstring injury. “[This season] means everything,” Lamprakes said.

“Realizing this is it, I’ve been here five years and this is the first year I can play ... I’ve played football all my life, it’s my number one love besides family.”

Lamprakes is the team’s fourthmost used receiver with eight

receptions for 62 yards heading into Saturday’s game against Western Illinois.

“With surgeries like that, you gotta do some stuff on your own and it took me that long to realize I have to do better,” he said. “I have to do what the trainers tell me.”

Fellow fifth-year player tight end Adam Fuehne did not suffer injuries, but was behind current Minnesota Vikings tight end MyCole Pruitt on the depth chart for three years after his redshirt season.

Fuehne said playing with Pruitt was a valuable experience.

“We were together every road trip so we talked before every game,” he said. “[Pruitt] taught me a lot about preparation, since out of high school you don’t really know about that kind of stuff.”

Fuehne said the wait was hard

to deal with because he was not playing as often as he wanted.

Last year, senior punter Derek Mathewson transferred to SIU from Trinity International University — a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics team — and lost the starting job to then-freshman Nick Neidig last season.

“My first year of college, [Trinity] didn’t have a punter,” he said. “I was kind of put into that role, so it was a good learning experience as I was able to sit back as the backup and learn a little bit more about my form and everything.”

Mathewson said he worked on his form, observed professional punters and changed his game en route to become this year’s starter.

“It was a big boost to see how all the work I’ve put in the last three to four years pay off,” he Daily Egyptian File Photo

Behind the scenes of Saluki sports: equipment manager TED WARD | @TEDWARD_DE

Armando Sanchez | Chicago Tribune The Chicago Bulls’ Derrick Rose (1) goes up for a basket over the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Timofey Mozgov (20) during the second half Game 3 in the Eastern Conference semifinals at the United Center in Chicago on Friday, May 8, 2015. The Bulls won, 99-96, for a 2-1 series lead.

There’s hope Derrick Rose can return for Bulls opener K.C. JOHNSON | CHICAGO TRIBUNE

The Bulls planned for training camp to be filled with good vibes and positive thinking after hiring new coach Fred Hoiberg and returning a 50-win team intact with room for growth.

Instead, the first practice delivered a stunning, if familiar, storyline.

Derrick Rose caught an accidental elbow to his face halfway through Hoiberg’s first session and left for tests that revealed a left orbital fracture. The team said Rose, who turns 27 Sunday, will undergo surgery at Rush University Medical Center on Wednesday. A timetable for his return will be determined after the procedure.

Absences following surgery for orbital fractures have run the gamut recently with

players missing anywhere from five to 28 games. Whatever the case, Rose’s injury piles on top of Mike Dunleavy’s back surgery last Friday. Dunleavy’s rehabilitation process could sideline the veteran forward eight to 10 weeks.

Suddenly, 40 percent of Hoiberg’s projected starting lineup will miss most, if not all, of training camp. A source said there is optimism Rose will be ready for the Oct. 27 regular-season opener against LeBron James and the Cavaliers.

And while this setback pales in comparison to the three knee surgeries Rose has endured, it’s yet another mental challenge for a former most valuable player who tried to remind all of his greatness during Monday’s media day.

“I know I’m great,” Rose said then.

Since becoming the youngest MVP in NBA history in 2011, Rose has missed in

chronological order — five games each to a sprained toe and strained back; 17 games to groin, ankle and foot issues; the entire 201213 season to a torn left ACL; 71 games to a torn right meniscus; eight games to ankle and hamstring issues and 20 games to a second right meniscus tear.

In all, Rose has played in 100 games over the last four seasons.

Suddenly, Jimmy Butler’s boast he can play point guard may not be a far-fetched idea. If Rose does miss any regular-season time, the Bulls have Aaron Brooks, Kirk Hinrich and E’Twaun Moore at the position.

Three players who addressed the media said they didn’t know whose elbow caught Rose.

“Might have been me,” Taj Gibson said.

“It’s one of those plays where everybody’s going so hard.”

In college football the spotlight shines on players and coaches, but there is a cog in the athletics wheel that keeps it running flawlessly: equipment managers.

The Saluki Athletics equipment staff, led by Adam Borts, maintains a 16-person staff, nine for football, who perform tasks such as maintaining the equipment, doing laundry, and helping out during practice and games.

Mike Whittemore, a graduate assistant hired after emailing Borts seeking an internship before graduation, is one of the longest tenured staff members.

“During practice I mainly work with the quarterbacks. I occasionally catch passes, snap the ball to them and help out wherever I can,” Whittemore said.

Whittemore also coordinates staff members during practice and ensures they are doing their jobs.

Paulina Mihelich, a senior from Elwood studying biological sciences, usually has a line of players asking for equipment and laundry. She said she feels like a motherly figure to the team.

Football coach Dale Lennon said without the equipment managers at practice, things would be chaotic.

“They’re the behind-the-scenes people that do an excellent job of maintaining our equipment and help our players out with whatever they need,” Lennon said.

Senior quarterback Mark Iannotti believes the equipment managers have an important role on the team, which doesn’t go unnoticed.

“Mike [Whittemore] does a fantastic job helping me out whether it be snapping the ball to the quarterbacks or doing the little things that need to be done,” Iannotti said.

Lennon said the equipment managers are at home on the field.

“They are in the team picture at the beginning of the year and feel just like family to all of us,” Lennon said.

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