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Semester contracts create uncertainty for spring graduate assistantships CORY RAY | @CoryRay_DE

The introduction of semesterlong graduate contracts may spell trouble for SIUC graduate students.

John Flowers, president of GAUnited, said most graduate assistant contracts typically were offered for one academic year in the past, but rising uncertainty surrounding the state budget has led to the introduction of semesterbased contracts. SIU System President Randy Dunn said most graduate assistants are currently in semester-based contracts.

If departments decide not to renew some semester-based contracts in the spring, Flowers said it could be devastating to graduate students at SIUC. “The offering of the semesterlong contracts is a new development that has introduced a fairly large level of uncertainty and insecurity among graduate students,” Flower said. “Many of them don’t know if they can afford to attend school next semester, if they can afford to continue with their graduate school education and many of them are unsure what they can do to resolve this situation.”

Graduate students use stipends from assistantships as a way to support their educations, but if graduate students’ do not receive such assistantships, they would have to find jobs or another mode of support to continue their education.

Flowers said for some, the loss of a contract may result in graduate students leaving SIUC or end their

graduate studies. The situation is made worse being mid-way through the academic year, as the availability of alternative funding is limited during this period.

“This is not a situation unique to the graduate students,” Flowers said.

“This is a situation that concerns the entire campus.”

As graduate students teach many introductory undergraduate courses, Flowers said a lack of graduate assistants constitute a large part of the teaching staff at SIUC. The lack would also mean that faculty could possibly be spread thin to make up gaps.

GAUnited is also advocating for international students, as many fund their education through assistantships, which allow them to study in the U.S. In April this year, a hold was placed on graduate assistant contracts. Flowers said any contracts not already processed were put on hold because of insecurities of state funding. Following the freeze, semester-based contracts were given to graduate students based on the need to cover courses taught by graduate students.

Flowers said the introduction of the semester-based contracts came after the contract freeze.

Lyle White, dean of the College of Education, said the entirety of the College of Education’s $191,000 cut comes from graduate contracts that were not committed after April 1.

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Award-winning SIUC media organization alt.news 26:46 added another notch to its belt Saturday, by receiving a regional Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Mid-America Regional Chapter.

Nominated for Best Magazine Program alt. news 26:46 was up against four other entries from professional television marketers in the region. The show’s co-producer Holden Jones, a senior from Jacksonville who is double-majoring in cinema and photography and radio, television and digital media, accepted the organization’s 31st Emmy on behalf of last year’s co-producer, Dallen Detamore, and the rest of the 2014-15 crew

Holiday Wagner | @HolidayWagnerDE Aaron Downs, a member of the band Hot! Sauce plays congas Saturday at StarView Vineyards. Hot! Sauce plays an assortment of Latin Jazz music. Downs studied music at Chicago State University and has played professionally for 15 years. “I thought the experience was really good,” Downs said. “I like playing music, I like seeing people happy, dancing and having fun.”

during the 39th annual awards ceremony in St. Louis.

“It had been several years since we had won, so it was very exciting to bring the tradition back and keep it going,” Jones said.

Detamore, an SIU Alumnus from Germantown, Tenn., moved to Los Angeles after graduating from the university and now works as a visual effects coordinator. He said he did not expect to win, considering the competition they were faced with.

“I wasn’t able to be there, but I wish I was,” he said.

Emily Jelinek, a junior from Rockford studying English and current co-producer of alt.news 26:46, said there was a mixed reaction of excitement and disbelief when they were announced as winners.

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Campus Lake through the years ANNA SPOERRE | @ASpoerre_DE

Campus Lake is as rich in history as it is in nutrients — the cause of increased toxic algae in the water.

The lake, originally created in the 1880 as a local ice supply, now plays a different role in the community.

SIUC bought the body of water on the west side of campus from the Thompson family in 1955. Delyte W. Morris, the university’s president from 1948 to 1970, developed the surrounding area by having trees and the paved path added to what used to be farmland.

“He bought the lake primarily as recreational use for students to have something to do after class,” said Phil Gatton, director of Plant and Service Operations.

As a recreational area, the lake became a boating and fishing spot. At one point, students and community members could cool-off by taking a dip in a beach area.

Usage of the lake has changed slowly as much as its name: Originally called Thompson Lake, it was later renamed Lake on Campus and is now known as Campus Lake.

In an attempt to eliminate problematic silt build-ups, the lake was dredged, deepened and a dam was added in 1956, according to “Experts differ on care for SIU lake,” a 1977 Daily Egyptian article. Now roughly 40 acres, the project significantly increased the lake’s size.

The following year construction of Thompson Point began around the lake’s edge, and both became a fixture of student life.

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White said the cut ensured that programs within the College of Education would not be affected.

The cut is nonrecurring and only applicable for this fiscal year.

“Next year, we’re hoping that we’ll have the same funding that we had from the state that we had for fiscal year [2016],” White said. “We hope we’ll have that in fiscal year [2017] and be able to spend all that towards graduate assistants.”

The uncertainty surrounding graduate assistant contracts coincides with Dunn’s statement that graduate students could be seeing some of the roughest cuts.

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“Nobody, I think, was really expecting it — we were all really, really hoping and it was just amazing. We couldn’t believe it,” Jelinek said.

“When you’re up against professionals, it’s a little difficult. That was really intimidating.”

The Emmy-winning episode, Episode 1603, features a Metal Museum in Tennessee; the annual Skunkfest in Ohio; the Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Indiana; the national non-profit organization “Cleaning for a Cause,” which aids women by providing cleaning services and is based out of Texas; and the Louisville Mega Cavern, an underground zip-line course in Kentucky.

Jones said the episode turned out so well in part because he and Detamore pined over minute details and had long discussions over the smallest parts of the editing process. In accepting the award, Jones stressed the high importance of collaboration among his team.

“Thousands of hours of people’s time went into this episode,” Jones said. “It wouldn’t be possible without all of their hard work.”

Putting a half-hour episode together costs time

The renewal of contracts is a departmental decision as every college decides on the appointment of graduate assistantships, rather than the university as a whole.

“As we head into late fall, we’re going to have to make a very tough decision with what we do about contracting GA’s for the spring semester,” Dunn said.

“That is a group that is going to have to get carefully, carefully looked at as we go into spring.”

Enrollment figures show graduate students at the university have decreased by 7.17 percent — almost double the university’s 3.87 percent total enrollment decrease.

“The offering of the semester-long contracts has made a difficult situation a little bit worse,” Flowers said. and money — something that has been cut short for the crew in recent years. Jelinek said finding a way to cover stories in other states with outdated cameras, taped-together tripods and shoddy sound equipment is a challenge “We make it work,” she said.

And despite the many obstacles, the program has continued to receive accolades and awards for its off-the-wall content.

“We are definitely a motley crew when we go places,” Jelinek said.

In previous years, the news organization would enter submissions for numerous categories and win multiple awards per year, but Jones said alt. news 26:46 was only able to send in one episode for consideration because of increased disinvestment by the university.

“We would enter more if we had the funds to do so. And I think we could win more, too,” he said.

The members of alt.news 26:46 pride themselves on being an atypical news organization that covers an array of zany stories, and that’s one of the reasons Jelinek said she loves working there.

Sometimes, she says, finding a story is as simple as typing “weird stuff” into a Google search.

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Marcus Yam | Los Angeles Times The road into Umpqua Community College has been reopened, but the campus is still closed. Snyder Hall, where the shooting took place, is covered in black tarp in Roseburg, Ore., on Sunday.

To grieving town, Oregon college shooter doesn’t deserve a name MATT PEARCE | LOS ANGELES TIMES

Keith Weikum, a set builder and special effects operator for theater productions at Umpqua Community College, already had a skeptical expression when he opened his front door.

The reporter standing outside asked him if he knew a particular UCC student who had signed up to be a production assistant on a play with Weikum.

Weikum’s lips winched into a scowl. He did know that student.

Not well. But he had seen the student’s face splashed all over the TV news. Weikum shook his head as he spoke slowly and directly.

“I don’t know that name.

I don’t use that name,” said Weikum, who had a specific suggestion instead. “Say: ‘the shooter.’”

To the bewildered and angered residents of Roseburg, the shooter who gunned down nine people at the community college Thursday is a man with no name. The shooter, a newcomer to Oregon, forged an almost totally anonymous life in a town — population 21,968 — where it can be hard to keep secrets.

“For us, he was another guy who worked on a set,” said Weikum’s wife, Wendy Weikum, a local actress and a UCC trustee, who — following a community campaign not to focus on the shooter — challenged a reporter to write a story that didn’t mention the shooter’s name.

So, here’s that story: The shooter’s neighbors at his tancolored apartment building rarely saw him, and some had to be shown his photo by reporters for identification. Downstairs neighbor Eli Loomas just

remembered the shooter as a guy with baggy pants who walked goofy.

Few students knew the shooter, either, and those who did said he was low-key.

For a survivor who had been in the classroom next door to where the shooter opened fire, junior Kendra Godon, it wasn’t just that she had never seen the shooter before: She couldn’t even remember whether she had seen him before.

Jane Ortiz, who met him when he attended the Switzer Learning Center in Torrance, Calif., recalled him as an awkward boy who was slow to respond when someone said “hi.” The center teaches students with special needs, learning disabilities and emotional issues.

“He really didn’t have a personality that was memorable,” she said.

Not much is known about what the shooter was doing in Oregon since he moved from the Los Angeles area with his mother in 2013, and that’s fine with many Roseburg residents. They don’t know him, and they don’t want to know him.

“Let’s heal, and move forward, and not focus on this guy,” said Keith Weikum.

In recent years, several communities and officials around the nation have called for similar bans on using mass shooters’ names in public, or at least restraint.

The argument holds that attention on gunmen only takes away from attention on the victims and possibly encourages other future gunmen to commit massacres in hopes of elevating their lives out of anonymity.

After another gunman killed

two Virginia journalists on live TV a few weeks ago, the soonto-be UCC shooter wrote in an online post linked to him: “I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are.”

“A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone.

His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day.”

The shooter apparently got his wish after the worst school shooting in Oregon history.

The Roseburg News-Review published his name and a modest one-inch photo of his face on Friday’s front page, below a large photo of the community at a vigil and the headline “UNITED IN GRIEF.” News outlets across the nation had also featured the gunman. But the News-Review met a furious backlash on the newspaper’s Facebook page.

“Way to slap your community in the face!” wrote a Facebook user, Val Kammeyer.

Another user, Josh McDonald, added, “Since the news review (sic) decided to post the pic and the name we should refrain from buying their paper.”

The next day, the News-Review resumed its coverage but this time the shooter’s name did not appear. Publisher Jeff Ackerman said on Saturday that the omission was unintentional and that the shooter’s name would return to its pages in the future.

Roseburg’s anonymity campaign has been driven in part

by Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin, who told reporters, “you will never hear me say his name.”

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The first Cardboard Boat Regatta was organized in 1974 by Richard Archer, an assistant professor for the School of Art and Design.

Every spring, people construct cardboard boats to race across the lake — now in its 42nd year, the tradition has stood the test of time.

In 1976, polychlorinated biphenyls, a group of fluids used in industrial equipment, escaped from an electrical transformer into Campus Lake. Tests did not indicate PCB levels high enough to cause reason to close the lake at the time, John Meister, a previous director of SIUC Pollution

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Control told the Daily Egyptian in the 1984 article, “Lake ecology OK, director says.”

SIUC announced it received a $75,000 grant through the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency as part of the EPA’s Clean Lakes Program in April 1997. Funded by Conservation 2000, the program was a state initiative aimed at protecting Illinois’ natural resources and expanding outdoor recreation.

The Doc Spackman Memorial Triathlon was one of these recreational activities, first occurring in the early 1980s. The bicycling, running and swimming event partially took place in Campus Lake.

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In 1986, the Polar Bear Club was formed. The club started the “Polar Bear Plunge,” an annual tradition of running into the often-cold lake every spring to raise money for Special Olympics Illinois. The 2015 plunge raised nearly $55,000.

On Oct. 3, 2014, the university closed Campus Lake because of toxic algae blooms. This also shut down the boating dock on the lake and the swimming portion of the 32nd annual Doc Spackman Triathlon.

SIU closed the lake again for the same reason on June 19 of this year. It remains closed until further investigation on the health of the lake is completed.

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‘The Martian’ soars to perfection JACOB PIERCE | @JACOBPIERCE1_DE

After “Saving Private Ryan” and “Interstellar,” someone could have stopped saving Matt Damon. But if this film gives any indication, it might be better to keep following the trend.

“The Martian,” directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, lives up to the hype and provides a stunning, soon-to-be science-fiction classic in which Damon’s character is stuck on Mars and has to attempt to escape.

After a large critical slump with “Exodus: Gods and Kings,” “The Counselor” and “Prometheus,” Scott is back and has made one of his best films to date.

He gives us an ensemble cast, and makes sure every character is welldeveloped.

Watching the trailers, one could assume “The Martian” was going to be 100 percent Damon. Just Damon stuck on Mars would have been a fine movie, especially with the loneliness his character goes through.

The movie shows Damon the most, but every actor gets their due. Characters who could be easy stereotypes end up gaining your empathy quickly.

Some may complain more time could be given to a few actors other than Damon, but the movie never leaves you wanting in this area; he gives an Oscar-worthy performance.

Damon brings humor and humanity to the role. The character comes off as a relatable, but genius

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He is helped by a fantastic script written by Drew Goddard, but not just anyone could play Mark Watney. Damon brings raw emotion to various scenes and ends up being the reason you cry to this film.

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‘Saving Mr. Wu’ is a smart thriller TIRDAD DERAKHSHANI The Philadelphia Inquirer

In fewer than five years, Chinese filmmaker Ding Sheng has established himself as one of the region’s top action directors with a pair of smash hits produced by and starring Jackie Chan — “Little Big Soldier” (2010) and “Police Story” (2013), which had cleared $100 million well before it was released in America in June as “Police Story: Lockdown.”

Ding’s latest offering, the fact-based crime yarn “Saving Mr. Wu,” which he made without Chan’s involvement, may be only his fourth film, but it displays an impressive maturity and fine mastery of the genre.

Financed in mainland China and shot on location in Beijing, “Saving Mr. Wu” is based on the real-life case of TV star Wu Ruofu, who was snatched by a small gang of professional hoods in 2004.

Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau (“The Warlords,” “Shaolin”) is perfectly cast as the titular Mr. Wu, an actor visiting Beijing to ink a new movie deal. Wu is taken outside a nightclub by a group of men posing as cops in what appears to be a meticulously planned and perfectly

timed operation.

It turns out that the men who took Wu were out cruising for anyone who looked wealthy. They ran into Wu 24 hours after they had taken a young man parking a $100,000 sports car.

The criminals are led by Zhang Hua (Wang Qianyuan), an immensely intelligent and equally brutal ex-con whose nihilism will make you squirm in your seat.

“We value money more than life,” he says matter-of-factly to a chainedup Wu. In fact, Zhang puts no value on life at all.

We learn this — and find out about the kidnapping — from his own sneering lips. The story is told by Zhang while in police custody.

Arrested 18 hours after taking Wu, Zhang seems entirely in control.

He tells his interrogators that his pals will execute the actor within hours, regardless of any developments.

“Saving Mr. Wu” is terrific fun as a crime thriller, with great photography and tense action sequences. Yet it truly excels in its quieter moments during the parallel set of conversations Zhang has with Wu and later with the police.

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Today’s Birthday (10/05/15).

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Rejuvenate old bonds naturally.

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your path toward your heart’s work.

Demand for your services booms. Do what you love.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

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SIU women's tennis crowns a conference champ The SIU women's tennis team ended the Missouri Valley Conference individual championships Sunday with seven placers — including one champion.

Sophomore Yana Golovkina won the Flight 6 singles against Wichita State junior Whitley Quan (6-2, 6-1). Golovkina lost nine sets in her three matches.

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Freshman Katie Fries

3rd Place

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Junior Ana Sofia Cordero

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Junior Polina Dozortseva

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Sophomore Yana Golovkina

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Freshman Elizabeth Parr

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Sports Bark The Major League Baseball playoff picture is finalized. Which team wins the campionship this season?

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Call it the “Show-Me Series” or the “I-70 Series,” the bottom line is it will be the World Series. The St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals are going to meet in the Fall Classic. The Royals will break fan’s hearts again in a game seven loss, ending a close matchup with the Cardinals winning their 12th World Series.

I think the Blue Jays are going to win the World Series. Their offense is incredible and as the Giants proved last year, one pitcher can carry a team to a ring. David Price is capable of that.

I have the Cardinals. Their postseason experience and pitching will be the key. Even though they had injuries all year, they have found way to keep winning.

Anyone can win a one game playoff. As a Cub fan that makes me nervous. However, I believe the Cubs starting pitching will continue to dominate and end the drought. I pick the Cubs over the Royals.

The Cardinals will ride a suddenlydeep bench to World Series ring No. 12. The starting pitching will be enough to get to the bullpen that now includes perennial Cy Young contender Adam Wainwright.

Wainwright’s last relief appearance before this year? 2006, when he struck out Brandon Inge to end the World Series. The last time Wainwright sat out five months or more of the regular season? 2011, when the Cardinals won it all again.

Aidan Osborne | @AidanOsborne_DE Senior safety D.J. Cameron reaches for the ball during SIU’s 27-24 loss to SEMO on Sept. 26. Cameron made one interception for 15 yards during Saturday’s loss to Western Illinois.

Consistency is lacking for the Salukis SEAN CARLEY | @SCARLEYDE

SIU football continues to be one puzzle piece away from being a good team. Until they figure it out, Saluki fans will continue to have a frustrating year.

Saturday’s matchup against Western Illinois may have exposed the Salukis’ biggest weakness yet: the inability to play consistent, complete games.

This week, fans saw more of the team that showed up in the first two weeks of the season than the one that showed last week against Liberty.

The high-octane offense from the first three games was stalled a bit for the first time Saturday, only amassing 425 total yards — the lowest this season.

While 425 yards is still an impressive performance, the inability to string positive drives together in clutch situations did not help SIU’s cause. The Salukis fell flat when they needed a big drive.

After an interception by senior safety D.J. Cameron, the Salukis got the ball with the lead and only 2:43 left in the game.

Needing only a couple first downs to seal the game, the offense was held to a three-and-out possession, giving the ball back to Western for its game-winning drive.

The Salukis gained just 55 yards on 16 plays in the

fourth quarter.

The defense kept SIU in the game but didn’t overwhelm the Leathernecks.

Saluki defense allowed 528 total yards with 294 from the Leathernecks’ two best players, junior wide receiver Lance Lenoir and senior running back Nikko Watson.

Such performances are expected but the defense stepped up when needed, forcing three turnovers, including a pick-six by sophomore safety Kenny James.

Special teams, usually the most steady unit had its slip-ups as well, literally. Austin Johnson, last week’s Missouri Valley Special Teams Player of the Week, missed two short — 26 and 24-yard — field goals when he appeared to lose his footing through his kicking motion.

However, the special teams defensive unit was impressive again — senior linebacker Brandon Williams blocked a punt and returned it for a touchdown in his second blocked kick in two weeks.

Coach Dale Lennon summed up his team’s performance Saturday: “Every side of the ball gave us a chance to win the ballgame,” Lennon said. “We just don’t have that consistent game to play at a high level straight through.”