Daily Egyptian THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015
Saluki legend dies at 88
VOL. 99 ISSUE 106
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Former SIU men’s basketball coach Harry Gallatin died at the age of 88 Wednesday. In his four years — 1959 to 1962 — as head basketball coach at SIU, Gallatin led the Salukis to three small-college NCAA tournaments with a 79-35 record. Gallatin was inducted into the SIU Hall of Fame in 2015. Gallatin played for the New York Knicks from 1948-1957 and the Detroit Pistons from 1957-1958. He was selected to seven NBA All-Star games, including the first one ever. In his nine years with New York, he played in 610 consecutive games — a record that still stands in the organization. “The thing I’m most proud of whenever people talk about consecutive streaks is this,” Gallatin said in a 2002 interview with NBA. com. “My mother isn’t alive now, but she probably could have told you that I didn’t miss a game or a practice in grade school, in junior high school, in high school ... didn’t miss a game or a practice all the way through my basketball career, and that includes the playoffs. So when I say my prayers, I thank God for the health that I’ve enjoyed. I don’t know of anybody else who hadn’t missed a practice or a game in their entire basketball career. I really feel proud about that.” When Gallatin was inducted, he said he, his wife and three sons wanted a different lifestyle. “[Carbondale] is a special place for me,” Gallatin said. “I didn’t have any coaching experience. ... I came here just as a player, an old, beaten up, tenured NBA player.” Gallatin led the Salukis to three 20-win seasons before a five-year coaching stint in the NBA. After that, he became the first athletic director and men’s basketball coach at SIU-Edwardsville in 1967. He also led SIUE’s men’s golf program to 18 NCAA Division II championship appearances. He was inducted into SIUE’s athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.
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TV program to showcase local talent BILL LUKITSCH | @Bill_LukitschDE
Bands from Little Egypt will start seeing the screens of WSIU viewers Thursday night. Little Egypt Live — a concert series produced by WSIU in coordination with the Carbondale Music Coalition — is a new stage for the folk, bluegrass and blues musicians of southern
Illinois. The premiere episode, featuring the first of four locally known groups, Jenny Johnson & The Storm Crows, airs 8 p.m. Thursday on WSIU-TV 8 and WSIU-TV 16. Mark St. George, lead producer and director of Little Egypt Live, said he is enthusiastic about bringing the sights and sounds of local musicians to viewers. “We have some amazing artists in
could get, but we also wanted them to be from at least somewhere down in this area,” St. George said. As the region’s public access station, St. George said WSIU wants to bring its audience new and locally relevant content, and focusing on Carbondale’s rich music scene was a natural progression. Please see EGYPT | 2
Culture of academic dishonesty BILL LUKITSCH | @Bill_LukitschDE
Harry Gallatin
SIU’s footprint, and to do an original program right from southern Illinois with the best artists that you’re not going to find anywhere else — that’s just exciting,” he said. All four episodes of the series were recorded in front of a live audience in April at Varsity Center for the Arts on the Strip in Carbondale. “We wanted the biggest artists we
Editor’s note: The FOIA request was for all reprimands and expulsions involving academic dishonesty since 2009. Eighty-two percent of surveyed college alumni cheated academically in some way as undergraduates, a 2009 study published in Ethics & Behavior found. But if SIUC students are cheating to the same scope as the study suggests, it
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is going mostly unnoticed or unreported. Since 2009, 31 cases of academic dishonesty resulted in administrative action, according to information obtained by a Freedom of Information Act request. The university’s Student Conduct Code says faculty members have complete discretion for sanctioning students within their classes, which allows them to remove a student from a class for academic dishonesty, according to Chad Trissler,
director for Student Rights and Responsibilities. The university handles more severe penalties for academic dishonesty, such as academic suspension or expulsion. “The only requirement of the Student Conduct Code is that they notify Student Rights and Responsibilities so we can put it in the student’s record to ensure that it’s not something happening across multiple classes,” Trissler said. Please see CHEATING | 2