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Daily Egyptian THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2015

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VOL. 100 ISSUE 4

Breast cancer solidarity takes shape outside Morris Library

Students petition interim Chancellor to change policy

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Jordan Duncan | @jordanduncanDE Beth Alongi, chair of the Start Seeing Pink committee, shades her eyes so she can talk to a photographer standing on the roof of Morris Library. SIU Student Health Services and the committee organized the event, where a photo is taken of people in the shape of a ribbon, to raise awareness for breast cancer. “It gives students a chance to participate in something,” said Alongi. “If they couldn’t make one of the other events, this give the opportunity to come and show their support.”

Some SIUC students will have to dig deep to pay their debt if they want to enroll in classes in spring. The Bursar’s office announced last semester it would revert to a former policy on registration holds for past-due balances, and students with a Bursar balance of more than $200 will not be able to enroll. The new policy was enacted Oct. 1, and some are finally starting to feel the effects as registration draws near. “There are a lot of students who have negative feelings towards this new $200 policy,” said Michael Smith, a junior from Chicago studying political science. Smith started a Change.org petition last week asking Interim Chancellor William Bradley Colwell to raise the threshold back to $1,000 for registration holds. Nearly 400 people have already signed, including SIUC Student Trustee Allen Shelton. “As the student trustee, my job is to cater to the student needs … if [the policy] could be a hindrace to their registration, it’s something that need to be addressed,” Shelton said. Please see PETITION | 2

Saturday’s glass pumpkin sale helps art students SAM BEARD| @SamBeard_DE

From candles to lattes, pies to holiday sweaters, pumpkin is in season. The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, an annual student art sale hosted by the Registered Student Organization Southern Glass Works, is at 7 a.m. Saturday at City Pavilion in city’s Town Square, and will offer community members a chance to purchase some of the most indemand pumpkins on the block. The pumpkins are handcrafted by student-artists from the School of Art & Design’s glass specialization. Profits from at the sale are important to furthering their education, Southern Glass Works President Bryan Beck said. Students will sell independentlycrafted pumpkins and group pumpkins, which were designed and created through collaborative efforts. The process of blowing glass almost always requires some level of cooperation, as some of the steps involved are much better done with a teammate, Beck said. Suyeon Kim, a graduate student from Seoul, South Korea studying fine arts, is no stranger to glass work. She spends her time in both the hot shop, where the glass is hot

and malleable, and the cold shop, where it is cold and brittle. Kim is one of the more versatile artists in the studio, according to her peers. Kim said she blows glass because it is fun to work with molten glass and is fascinated by its fluid behavior. “Glass is interesting because it is almost half liquid when at an extremely hot temperature,” she said. “Glass blowing is pretty much the only technique that you can physically work with glass.” Group pumpkin profits are pooled and used for bringing residentartists and speakers to campus, while the artist’s keep 70 percent of independent pumpkin sales. “The funding from the sale gives us the opportunity to fix and by new equipment for the studio, basically giving the students educational opportunities that we would otherwise not have,” said Beck, a graduate student from Boca Raton, Fla., studying fine arts. At last year’s sale, the hundreds of unique glass pumpkins sold out in less than an hour. Sale organizers encourage those who want pumpkins to get there when the sale begins, because they tend sell quickly. “We’ve got people from out

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Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE u-yeon Kim, left, a third year graduate student from Seoul, South Korea studying glass, and Clint Wilkie, right, a senior from Marion studying glass, work on a glass-blown pumpkins on Saturday for the Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, an annual art sale which beneﬁts the glass program. Kim decided to come to SIU to pursue her master’s degree in glass after completing her undergrad in Korea. Kim one day hopes to be a full-time glass artist.

of state coming for the pumpkin sale. Some have been collecting since we started this,” Beck said. “Besides funding, we also sell them because people enjoy collecting the pumpkins.”

Pumpkins start at $25 and are priced according to size, color technique and intricacy. The artists convene before the sale to discuss prices to ensure fairness. “This fundraising event is

very important to us,” Kim said. “Because we do this fundraising, we can invite two or three visiting artists every semester — an advantage to every student in the glass program — so I think it is very helpful.”