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St. Louis to forgive warrants for nonviolent offenses Nicholas J.C. Pistor St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Offenders of the city’s municipal laws with outstanding warrants soon will get a free pass. St. Louis officials plan to announce that the city’s municipal court will automatically clear outstanding warrants for nonviolent traffic violations and allow offenders to reset the court dates without a fee so long as they act by year’s end, making it the most progressive warrant forgiveness program in the region. About 220,000 outstanding warrants

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issued before Oct. 1 in the city will automatically be forgiven, according to Jeff Rainford, the chief of staff to Mayor Francis Slay. Rainford said the novel approach comes from conversations in the wake of the unrest in Ferguson, where many advocates of the poor complain that some residents are burdened by steep court fines and saddled with warrants for minor offenses. “In light of Ferguson, we were thinking of how we can be more fair,” Rainford said. Bench warrants are typically issued when

someone misses a court appearance, meaning the offender can be arrested and forced to pay several hundred dollars for bail in addition to their underlying ticket. Now, those with an outstanding warrant issued prior to Oct. 1 stemming from nonviolent municipal offenses in St. Louis, usually for failure to appear in court, will receive a postcard in the mail informing them that the warrant will be cleared until Dec. 31. If offenders don’t come to the municipal court by the end of the year and schedule a new court date, then the warrant will be put back into place.

Giving a clean smile

Sean Phee

Daily Egyptian

History was made this year when President Obama nominated Staci M. Yandle to serve as a federal judge for Illinois’ Southern District. Yandle came to the Lesar Law Building Monday for an event coordinated by SIU’s Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. She shared her perspective on growing up in southern Illinois, and becoming an accomplished attorney. Born and raised in southern Illinois, Yandle is the first African-American judge to serve this position. She is also one of few openly gay judges on the federal court, and the first in the Seventh District. The presentation caused one man in the crowd to ask who had inspired her to accomplish what she has. “It takes a village; it takes more of a village depending on the individual. It took all the village leaders for me,” Yandle said. “My parents were both teachers in the East St. Louis School District. I couldn’t do anything and get away with it.” She credits the community atmosphere in southern Illinois as an aid to her accomplishment, she said. When asked about how young people can make a difference and promote positive change, Yandle said it takes action. “You have to care,” she said. “You have to get together with like-minded individuals and do more than talk the talk. Figure out what it is that you can actually affect and come together. Excuse my language; you just have to give a damn. That’s where it starts, with young people like you.” She also spoke about her new role as federal judge, especially in regards to a decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that will have a huge effect on the nation. The decision can retroactively reduce the sentences for more than 46,000 nonviolent drug offenders in federal prison. Next November, when the prisoners are eligible for release, there will be an unprecedented number of people leaving prison, Yandle said. The population of the United States has grown nearly 33 percent since 1980, while the federal prison population grew 800 percent mostly because of harsher sentences for drug crimes, according to Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder attributed the increase in prisoners to mandatory sentencing guidelines. The decision will also give judges more leeway in deciding future drug cases, Yandle said. Jeffrey Nowacki, assistant professor of criminology, said he supports the decision to give judges more discretion. “Judicial discretion is good for society,” Nowacki said. “I think more discretion, within reason, is a good thing to have.” Yandle said the public needs to be aware of the coming release. “Release is the beginning of the story, we need to get people the resources and services necessary to reenter society. It is already a concern,” Yandle said. Please see JUDGE · 3

I an M ullen D aIly e gyptIan Ashton Ursini, a senior from Paducah, Ky. studying dental hygiene, has her teeth cleaned by Jody Beeler, a junior from Paducah, Ky. studying dental hygiene, Wednesday at the SIU Dental Hygiene Clinic. Beeler has been interested in dental hygiene from a young age. “My mom was in the [oral surgeon] business for 39 years,” Beeler said. Friday is World Smile Day, which was created by commercial artist Harvey Ball after his publishing of the yellow Smiley face. The day is made to celebrate acts of kindness, friendliness, smiling and making others smile.

Series of events to benefit library

Gabriella Scibetta Daily Egyptian

Morris Library will be the focus of a fundraiser-filled month for new additions for the building. The Friends of Morris Library will hold many fundraisers throughout October, including a gala, a brunch, a one-man play and multiple tours. Some events revolve around the late R. Buckminster Fuller, a former SIU professor and inventor. Rob Jensen, president of the Friends of Morris Library board, said the group’s function is to provide funding for renovations that cannot be done with of the library’s regular operating budget. Jensen said the group has sponsored events such as constitution day, workshops, sponsored lectures and more during the last year. He said the group has purchased equipment needed in the library such as a new microform reader, digital camera and support equipment for the printers. Carl Rexroad, a member of the

Friends of Morris Library Gala planning committee, said library funding is critical to the university. “The library is the heart of the university and for it to succeed really helps everybody,” Rexroad said. “The library has changed so much over the last few years, it’s continually reinventing itself, and anything that we can do to help the library be successful ultimately makes the university better, too.” “We used to just buy books for the library and now a lot of it is involved in the new technology,” Rexroad said. He said the five power stations where students can charge their devices are the most recent additions. Jensen said the group is supporting the installation of flat screen monitors in two of the library’s study rooms. Jensen said the group wants to raise $10,000 at the gala held at 6 p.m. Oct. 18. There is a brunch on Oct. 19, which gives attendees an opportunity to see hundreds of objects created by Fuller, which have

never been publicly viewed. On both days there will also be tours of Fuller’s home. The home is a refurbished geodesic dome, in which Fuller lived during his time in Carbondale. Barb Martin, director of the SIU press, said the group put money toward more than the library’s basic needs. “They put that money toward the essential extras that help run the library beyond just academic mode,” she said. “Sometimes fulfilling needs [beyond the] academic mission of the library.” Jensen said, the group began fundraising for the patio located on the southeast corner of the building five years ago, which cost more than $100,000. Students, staff, faculty and community members can sign up for the gala on the Morris Library website. Gabriella Scibetta can be reached at gscibetta@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @gscibetta or at 536-3311.

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N icOlas G aliNdO d aily e GypTiaN Bianca Harris, a freshman from Chicago studying social work, has her face painted Wednesday during the second annual Mae Smith Block Party outside Mae Smith Hall.

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Sleep like a rock at Morris

e van F aiT d aily e gypTian Allison Kerness, a freshman from St. Anne studying radiological sciences, naps between classes Wednesday outside Morris Library. “I come out here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday,” Kerness said. “I do homework sometimes, sometimes I sleep.”

Ebola patient told ER nurse of West Africa travel John M. Glionna Molly Hennessy-Fiske Alexandra Zavis Los Angeles Times

D A L L A S — Five elementary, middle and high school students who had contact with a man diagnosed in Dallas with Ebola are being monitored, Texas officials said Wednesday as the search was underway for people who may have been exposed to the deadly virus. The children, who attend four different schools, were in class earlier in the week but show no symptoms of the disease and will be monitored at home, officials said. The patient, Thomas Eric Duncan of Liberia, arrived in the U.S. on Sept. 20 to visit family and developed symptoms four days later, said health officials and a Liberian community leader in Dallas. He sought care Friday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, where an emergency room nurse asked whether he had traveled to West Africa and was told that he had, Dr. Mark C. Lester, a hospital

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network executive, told reporters. “Regretfully, that information was not fully communicated throughout the full team,” Lester said. “As a result, the full import of that information wasn’t factored into the clinical decision-making.” The man was sent home with antibiotics. He was brought back to the hospital in an ambulance Sunday and placed in isolation, officials said. Tests confirmed Tuesday that he had contracted the Ebola virus. He was listed in serious but stable condition. Stanley Gaye, president of the Liberian Community Association of Dallas-Fort Worth, said Duncan is in his 50s and came to Dallas to visit his fiancee. He declined to provide the woman’s name, but said she too is in her 50s and has two children at home. He spoke to her Wednesday and said she was at home, watching the news. “She’s upbeat. She’s doing well,” he said. News of the Ebola case has spread fear in Dallas, where many said they were worried about the public health implications.

Mike Miles, superintendent of Dallas Independent School District, said additional health professionals were being deployed to the affected schools to help keep an eye on students and identify any who might be displaying flu-like symptoms. He added, however, that odds were small that children would have contracted the virus from the students under observation because those students were not showing symptoms. Officials emphasized the virus is only spread through direct contact with the bodily fluids of patients, and that patients are not contagious until they develop symptoms. At a midday news conference, Gov. Rick Perry assured Texas residents that officials were doing everything possible to ensure they were fully protected from the virus. “This is all hands on deck. We understand that,” he said. David L. Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, said Duncan had an entire ward and care team

dedicated to him. “They’re doing it in a very safe and compassionate environment,” he said. “This is not West Africa,” he emphasized. “This is a very sophisticated city, a very sophisticated hospital, and the dynamics are so significantly different ... that the chances of it being spread are very, very small. Unless somebody has symptoms, it’s not going to be transmitted to another individual.” Public health teams are tracing between 12 and 18 people who came into contact with the patient after he developed symptoms and will monitor them for 21 days, the maximum incubation period of the virus. Two paramedics and an intern who transported the patient to the hospital have been isolated at home and told to stay indoors, Dallas Fire-Rescue Department spokesman Jason Evans said. They will be monitoring themselves for symptoms, as well as receiving visits from federal, county and department officials for 21 days. The ambulance used has been

taken out of commission, local news reports said. Liberia is one of several West African countries battling an Ebola outbreak that is believed to have killed more than 3,000 people. The patient was tested for fever when he boarded a commercial airliner on Sept. 19 and did not show symptoms then or when he arrived in the U.S. the next day, federal officials have said. Officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working in the Liberian, capital, Monrovia, sent experts to the airport to “see if we missed something,” said Tom Kenyon, director of the CDC’s Center for Global Health. So far, he told reporters in Liberia, it appeared the screening procedures developed in cooperation with the United States were working. “This was not a failure of the screening processes at the airport. It’s a reality of the epidemic that we face,” he said.The more the epidemic spreads, the greater the risk the virus will be imported to the U.S.

this, she said she agreed with the decision to let nonviolent offenders be eligible for early release. “Many [drug offenders] probably should not have served a day in jail,” Yandle said.

The judge praised David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. She said it was refreshing to see a “do tank,” that actually brings ideas into reality, instead of just a “think tank.”

Yandle was asked how she got her new job as federal judge and offered advice for young people with similar aspirations. “[It was] blessed luck and timing. You don’t prepare for this job,” she said. “Live a

relatively clean life, or one that they can’t find out about thirty years later.” Sean Phee can be reached at sphee@dailyegyptian.com or at 536-3311.ext. 254.

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6. Eddie Van Halen No one in the hard rock history books did it like Eddie Van Halen. He redefined what rock and roll guitar sounded like. Lighting fast and complex, Eddie Van Halen made playing guitar look easy, riding on the back of his endless book of riffs. Listen to “Eruption” and you will know exactly what I mean.

Kyle Sutton’s Top 20 Guitarists In yesterday’s edition of the DAILY EGYPTIAN, I began a countdown of the best guitarists of all time. These musicians have influenced so many over the years; their work reveled by millions. These artists are the best of the best. Picking them is a near impossible task, let alone putting them in an ordered list. No list will be the same and no list is perfect. This list is subjective and is meant to point out some of the most influential guitarists of all time. Today, I list No. 10 through No. 1. L ewis M arien

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Stephen Allen, left, a freshman from Crete studying musical theater, Tanya De Leon, center, a senior from Downers Grove studying musical theater and Zachary Bollman, a junior from Carterville studying musical theater, act out a scene during a dress rehearsal of the musical “Curtains” Tuesday at McLeod Theater. “We have such a great and talented cast [for the play],” De Leon said. “Two of our leads are freshmen and I think we’re all connected to make this show great.” “Curtains” will open the SIU Department of Theater’s 2014-2015 season. Performances of the musical will run 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.

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10. Pete Townshend Pete Townshend was not flashy. He did not have long, drawn out face-melting solos. He is a man just as well known for smashing his guitars on stage as he is playing them. In his time with The Who, Townshend embodied what it meant to be a rock star. He excelled as a guitarist and served as the band’s primary songwriter. His charisma on stage and his ferocious power-chords make him one of the best of all time. 9. Joe Satriani Joe Satriani is a force within music. He is a master of the electric guitar. Influenced by the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton, Satriani created his own unique style that flows and innovates. He is a master of the whammy bar. Satriani played in several bands through his career—Deep Purple, Greg Kihn Band, G3 and Chickenfoot—some of his most famous work coming from his solo album “Surfing with the Alien.” 8. David Gilmour What would Pink Floyd have been without David Gilmour? That is a difficult question to answer, but they would not have had the same impact. Pink Floyd is one of the best selling bands of all time. Albums like “The Wall” and “The Dark Side of the Moon” showed Gilmour’s true talent as a guitarist. He took the guitar’s sound to places it had never been before; his signature note bends, based in blues, took the sound to another universe, in true Pink Floyd fashion. 7. B.B. King I heard B.B. King for the first time at a young age, introduced to his music through my brother. His work continues to influence many after him. He doesn’t just play the guitar. He makes it sing. The way he bends the strings and his signature vibrato have him etched into the blues legacy for all of eternity.

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5. Jimmy Page Jimmy Page can do it all. He can write. He can produce. But most importantly, he can play the heck out of the guitar. Page was largely responsible for shaping Led Zeppelin into what it became. In a 1993 interview with Guitar World, Page said, “Ultimately, I wanted Zeppelin to be a marriage of blues, hard rock and acoustic music topped off with heavy choruses – a combination that had never been done before.” 4. Stevie Ray Vaughn In the world of blues-rock, the late Stevie Ray Vaughn, is considered a god. One of the music industry’s most terrible tragedies came in 1990 when he died in a helicopter crash on his way to Chicago after he played Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wis. He was only 35 years old. Thinking of Stevie on stage with his beat up Fender Stratocaster, I can only ask “what if?” 3. Duane Allman Duane Allman was another super talented musician who left the world too soon, at the age of 24. Before his death in 1971, Duane and the rest of The Allman Brother’s Band had already made their mark in history. A phenomenal musician, and a southern rock legend, Duane was a one of a kind guitarist. “Whipping Post” live at the Fillmore East in 1970 still gives me chills. 2. Eric Clapton Clapton is one of those guitarists who everyone and their mother want to play with. Everything he has accomplished in his more than 50 years of playing is amazing. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times, with The Yardbirds (1992), Cream (1993) and as a solo artist (2000). His resume is speaks for itself. 1. Jimi Hendrix We have finally reached the No. 1 spot. When making this list, I battled myself internally over who would get what spot, who would make the list and who would be left out. However, if there was one thing I knew from the beginning, Jimi Hendrix was undoubtedly number one. The way Hendrix played was like none other. He was rooted in the blues. He was a master of the psychedelic. Anything thought technically impossible, Hendrix could do it. To him, the guitar was a voice and he made it speak. When Hendrix died in 1970 at the age of 27, we lost an innovator, a creative genius, a poet and a legend. To me, he will always be the greatest guitar player of all time. Kyle Sutton can be reached at ksutton@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @KyleSutton_DE or at 536-3311 ext. 273.

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journeys from Ukraine

Austin Miller Daily Egyptian

Imagine living in a country during times of civil unrest and seeing hundreds of people be killed. Then imagine another country invading your home and warring with your countrymen. This was life for Yana Golovkina, a 16-year-old freshman tennis player from Zaporozhye, Ukraine. Golovkina said she played tennis for 12 years in Ukraine. She traveled across Europe, playing matches in Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. She trained for three to four hours each day with the goal of becoming a professional tennis player. She said this was her usual routine, up until late last year when protests against the Ukrainian government began. She said Ukraine has had economic problems since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. Citizens began protesting former President Viktor Yanukovych, who wanted to sign an economic agreement with Russia, instead of the European Union. Protesters, including Golovkina and her family, took to the capital city of Kiev to demand it align with the EU and protest any further involvement with Russia. One protest in February resulted in more than 100 dead protesters at the hands of police, according to a CNN article. “I saw dead people,” Golovkina said. “I saw blood and people being shot. Every day people were dying.” She said the violence caused her tennis club fees to almost double, and reduced her father’s income. Those factors decreased the amount of practice she could have. Head coach Audra Anderson said she began to follow the news closer after violence erupted. “Before it got big, she was already committed,” Anderson said. “I wanted to make sure she was safe and I was trying to follow it as much as I could, but I didn’t know as much as she did.” Golovkina said she focused on making it through her last year of school so she could play at an American university, which was her goal. She said tennis was her release from the violence. “I was trying not to think about [what was going on] and I was trying to stay positive,” she said. “I was really scared and I just wanted to hurry up and come here. It’s really tough there, now.” She said she tries to stay in contact with her family through daily Skype calls and emails. She said she is worried about her family because their home is 300 miles east of the Russian border and in the middle of Russian soldiers, who are coming to fight the Ukrainian military. “I’m really scared that my brother, who is 20, will be taken by the Ukrainian Army to fight,” Golovkina said. She said she was not sure how many of her teammates knew about her country’s conflict, but they have taken an interest in it after meeting her. One teammate, Polina Dozortseva, a sophomore from Russia, knows the conflict well. Dozortseva said she and Golovkina have kept politics out of their relationship. “I’m Russian and she’s Ukrainian, but that doesn’t matter to us,” she said. “We aren’t in control of what our countries are doing, so we just put that aside.” Golovkina said she hopes her teammates and classmates can learn more about Ukraine. “Ukrainian people are very patriotic people. They are really fighting for their country. Ukraine has such a rich history and culture that people should know about.” Austin Miller can be reached at amiller@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter at @AMiller_DE or at 536-3311 ext. 265

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Thomas Donley Daily Egyptian

The more things change for Carterville High School, the more they stay the same. The 2013 Lions featured Michael Aschemann as quarterback and Phillip Frangello as running back, who combined more than 4,000 yards en route to a 10-1 season. Those players are gone, but their replacements are proving they’re up for the challenge after being thrust into new roles. Senior running back Brayden Bisaillon spent his junior year as an offensive lineman blocking for Aschemann and Frangello, who are both freshmen on the SIU football team. Junior quarterback Blake Hicks sat out his sophomore year with a broken hand. Bisaillon and Hicks have led Carterville to a 5-0 start in explosive fashion this season. The Lions have scored more than 40 points in three of their first five games. Bisaillon ran for 308 yards in 63 attempts with 8 touchdowns. Hicks carried the ball 74 times for 560 yards and 11 touchdowns. He is also 9-20 in the air for 124 yards. Bisaillon and Hicks are on pace to gain more than half as many yards as Aschemann and Frangello did in 2013. Comparisons to their predecessors do not faze Bisaillon or Hicks.

“I just have to be my own person,” Bisaillon said. “I’m not Frangello. I’m Bisaillon, and I’ve got to do whatever I have to do for my team.” Carterville head coach Dennis Drust said Bisaillon worked hard over the summer to make the transition from offensive line to running back. While the transition has been affective, it has not been seamless for Bisaillon. Early in the season, Bisaillon wanted to cut and juke past defenders, but Drust convinced him to lower his shoulders and run over defenders rather than around them. “There are still phases of the game that he doesn’t understand, “Drust said. “He’s got to learn to be a power runner for us, and I think he’s developing as a back.” Drust said his uncertainty with starting underclassman necessitated Bisaillon’s move to running back. Bisaillon dropped 30 pounds for the move to running back. But at 6 feet tall and 204 pounds he is built like the teenaged version of a Ford F-350. Bisaillon still outweighs 15 of Carterville’s linemen. Aschemann said Bisaillon’s speed and ability to pull around the edge as a blocker gave him confidence when running. “That was probably the biggest thing that shocked me, was his speed,” Aschemann said. “We had a play that was an outside run and he beat me

to the edge every time.” Bisaillon plans to join the Marine Corps after graduation. Drust said moving a two-year starter away from guard would slow down the offensive line, but the Lions’ front five has improved week by week. Hicks started 2014 with the advantage of being unknown, he never started a varsity game before. He quickly erased that advantage by scoring 6 touchdowns against Benton in his first start replacing Aschemann, a two-time All-State quarterback. “It was nice to make people believe in me,” Hicks said. “He was All-State two years in a row, so there’s some big shoes to fill.” Hicks ran wild over opponents at the start of the season, but teams have taken notice. Du Quoin shut down Hicks and kept the Lions out of the end zone in a game Carterville won 9-8. “Unfortunately for Hicks, he’s a marked man now,” Drust said. “You’ve got to give Du Quoin some credit. They took him out of the game plan and forced us to stick with our power game.” With its 55-21 win over Anna-Jonesboro Friday, the Lions are one win away from guaranteeing their 19th playoff appearance in 20 years. Carterville will put its perfect record on the line against undefeated Nashville Community High School Friday night. Bisaillon and Hicks believe they can bring Carterville its first state championship since 1996.

Saluki runners reunite with former coach Brent Meske Daily Egyptian

Not all cross-country meets are special, but when the Salukis travel to Notre Dame this weekend, they will be reunited with their former coach. Former SIU head coach Matt Sparks spent 12 years coaching SIU before becoming the associate head coach at the University of Notre Dame on Aug. 15. Sparks told the team that he was not looking forward to the matchup upon his departure. “I told the team that it was their goal to come to South Bend on Oct. 3 and kick our butts,” he said. “They should circle that day on the calendar and look forward to it. Since the girls will be in the same event as Notre Dame, I told

them they should look forward to coming up here and trying to beat the Irish.” Sparks led the SIU cross-country team to six Missouri Valley Conference championships, five for the men in 2004, 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013. The women’s team also won in 2013. Sparks led eight teams to NCAA Championship top-25 finishes and coached 10 NCAA event finals qualifiers. Although Sparks led teams to athletic success, he also pushed them to succeed in the classroom. He coached 11 cross-country teams that earned national academic honors including his 2003 women’s and 2010 men’s teams they each had the second-highest grade-point averages in the nation. “In the recruitment process, I look for academics,” Sparks said. “If a kid had straight

‘A’ grades through high school they understand what it means to be committed to something. From a coaching perspective, you can take that kid and once someone shows them how to be committed to the program, they’ll take that and treat it like their academics.” Sparks coached SIU runners through their summer workouts before leaving for Notre Dame. “After the summer, we came into what [David] Beauchem has for us, and it’s kind of like we have two coaches for one season,” Juan Carrera, a senior runner on the cross-country team, said. Sparks speaks weekly with Beauchem, even after leaving. For the rest of this story, please see www.dailyegyptian.com.