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TJ Price | @TJPrice_DE Left to right: Illinois State Senators Gary Forby, Democrat, Andy Manar, Democrat, and Dave Luechtefeld, Republican, speak about the state’s budget in relation to higher education to a crowd of about 60 people during Tuesday night’s town hall meeting in the Student Health Services auditorium.

State legislators discuss budget with student representatives BILL LUKITSCH | @BILL_LUKITSCHDE

State leaders may not agree on how to fix the state budget, but they contend Illinois is in a dire financial situation without one.

Although 90 percent of the budget has been passed through continuing appropriations and court orders, funding for higher education remains uncertain.

On Tuesday night, state senators met with the Graduate Professional Student Council and Undergraduate Student Government in the Student Health Center auditorium to discuss some of the ongoing political problems that have kept Illinois without a budget for four months.

Dave Luechtefeld (R-Okwaville) said Illinois has been headed toward “absolute disaster” during the last decade and the problem may be out of the hands of state legislators.

“We may not get this fixed,” Luechtefeld said.

He said Illinois is in a hole higher taxes and reduced spending cannot

“Furthering education shouldn’t just be offered to those who can afford it. It should be offered to anyone who wants to further themselves.”

- Andy Manar Illinois state senator

fully resolve, and the consequences of running the state in the red will have an impact on taxpayers for years to come.

“There will be pain. You cannot avoid pain right now,” he said.

Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill) said Democrats acknowledge the state’s situation and are seeking economic

reforms, but have a different approach than Republicans. He said finding a solution to the state’s financial problems may require changes in Illinois’ tax code – something that will require time and bipartisan support.

Manar said he feels it is a primary responsibility of state government to provide access to higher education for its citizens.

“Furthering education shouldn’t just be offered to those who can afford it,” Manar said. “It should be offered to anyone who wants to further themselves.”

Gov. Bruce Rauner has been accused of using the budget crisis to pressure state lawmakers into furthering his turnaround agenda, which aims at weakening labor unions in the state.

Luechtefeld commended the governor’s attempt to resolve the state’s financial problems by adding parts of his turnaround agenda to the budget conversation, but conceded that Rauner may not get everything he is asking for.

Southern Illinois University was one of six public universities to receive a credit downgrade Tuesday as the political stalemate between Illinois lawmakers and republican Gov. Bruce Rauner carries the state through its fourth month without a budget.

Moody’s Investors Service reduced SIU and Northern Illinois University’s ratings to Baa1 — three levels above “junk” status. Northeastern Illinois University was downgraded to Baa2. Eastern Illinois University, Western Illinois University and Governors State University now have the lowest credit rating of public institutions in the state, lingering one level above speculative grade.

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Community Coalition wants to end poverty ANNA SPOERRE | @ASPOERRE_DE

The Illinois budget impasse further complicates the discussion of homelessness in southern Illinois.

Imagining Geographies, a university-funded initiative that focuses on regional issues, partnered with The Sparrow Coalition to host “Challenges of Poverty in Carbondale, The Budget Crisis, The Fates of the Vulnerable and Regional Social Services” on Tuesday at Carbondale Public Library.

A panel of five community members discussed consequences of Illinois’ budget crisis on the area’s homeless population.

Marlene Sheppard, spokesperson for The Sparrow Coalition, a community partnership addressing poverty and homelessness in southern Illinois, said there has been increasing poverty in the region.

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Antonio Perez | Chicago Tribune Police chiefs listen to President Barack Obama as he speaks to the International Association of Chiefs of Police at the 122nd Annual IACP Conference and Exposition in Chicago on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015.

Obama wants focus on both police and civilian victims of gun violence CHRISTI PARSONS TRIBUNE WASHINGTON BUREAU

President Barack Obama met Tuesday with families of slain police officers while in Chicago to try to persuade law enforcement officials to work more closely with communities they police.

But he also met with the families of children who have died in Chicago’s epidemic of violence as he attempts to focus attention on all victims — police and community alike.

While expressing sympathy, Obama also told the more than 14,000 police chiefs and others gathered that more could have

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been done for victims of violence.

“When I meet with these families, I can’t honestly tell them that our country has done everything we could to keep this from happening again, from seeing another officer shot down, from seeing another innocent bystander suffer from a gunshot wound,” Obama said.

Obama has met with victims’ families before and has paid tribute in statements and speeches to fallen police officers several times during his presidency.

But his meetings Tuesday with family members of both officers and civilians were designed to

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“This is probably as low as I’ve seen [credit ratings] for the state universities as long as I’ve been following it,” said SIU System President Randy Dunn.

Illinois was also lowered to a Baa1 credit rating last week because of uncertainty of the state’s fiscal future. Dunn said SIU’s downgrade is tied to the state rating because the university largely depends on state appropriations.

The university has $289 million in rated debt and is 43 percent reliant on state appropriations, according to a report by

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“[Rauner] felt that he would not get those changes if he had signed a budget and used taxes to pay for it,” Luechtefeld said, adding that Democratic Speaker of the House Michael Madigan has not offered Rauner a compromise.

Manar said proposals in Rauner’s turnaround agenda have nothing to do with

emphasize that the tragedies are not limited to either police or community members.

Some 32 police officers have been shot to death this year, the president said, and at least a dozen children have been shot to death this month in the U.S. He cited the statistics after the morning meetings in a speech to the annual gathering of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

As part of an Obama administration push for criminal justice reform, the president is urging law enforcement officials to re-evaluate and try to improve

their relationships with the communities they police.

At the same time, Obama renewed his call for tougher gun safety laws, with a special emphasis on the safety of police officers.

Lax gun laws don’t mean more freedom; they mean more fallen officers, Obama said, pledging to ask Congress again to reconsider failed attempts to pass gun safety legislation.

“If they don’t,” Obama said, “I’m going to keep calling on Americans to change the folks in Congress until they get this right.”

the credit-rating company.

Moving forward, Dunn said the university plans to increase cash-on-hand by pursuing strategies already in place to meet the budget shortfall. He also said the university was able to maintain a higher rating compared to smaller schools because it is part of a system that operates over three campuses, effectively spreading operational costs over a greater number of students.

Dunn called the direct impact of costing more to borrow “negligible” for SIU, as the university has no plans to take on new debt. But, he said the lowered rating does hurt the university’s reputation.

“There is a reputational aspect to a downgrade that causes other institutions in financial agencies to look and generally wonder what’s going on,” he said.

Lawmakers are scheduled to meet with Rauner on Nov. 18 to discuss the state’s fiscal crisis. The governor has said he does not expect a resolution to come from the meeting, and has blamed democratic Speaker of the House Michael Madigan of preventing a budget to force a tax increase.

SIU was also given a “negative outlook”

by Moody’s, meaning the rating could fall further should it see a decline in state support or further deterioration of Illinois’ credit rating.

passing a budget and should be “separate conversations.”

“We should be focused on a budget exclusively at this point,” Manar said.

But part of the problem is negotiations between state legislators and the governor have yet to take place, Gary Forby (D-Benton) said.

“I’ve been in Springfield [for] 15 years, awnd every time you do a budget, you have to negotiate,” Forby said. “I don’t know if

anybody gets 100 percent what they want.”

Manar said Democrats want to reform state spending and a budget will only come with compromise.

“That takes leadership and that takes someone willing to lead to do it,” Manar said.

A budget meeting between state legislators and Rauner is scheduled for Nov. 18, but state leaders believe the impasse could last well into 2016.

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Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Peter Lemish, co-facilitator of The Sparrow Coalition and visiting assistant professor of journalism at SIU, speaks at a meeting of The Sparrow Coalition on Tuesday at Carbondale Public Library. The Sparrow Coalition brings together representatives from local agencies and community members to discuss the current situation of poverty in the Carbondale area. This particular meeting focused on problems surrounding the state’s budget impasse. “We are in an impasse right now, but the crisis has been actually growing for many years,” Lemish said. “In that kind of situation we are really the voices of some of the vulnerable people whose voices are not being heard here and we need to find a way that we can wake up this region and say, ‘Look this is the zero hour, we need to be acting collectively and let the legislator and the governor and those who are influential know that this region is not to be taken for granted.’”

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“The impasse truly is a crisis for the most vulnerable in our state, and in particular for southern Illinoisans, who are disproportionately affected by poverty,” Sheppard said before opening the floor for the community to discuss a solution.

Peter Lemish, facilitator of Imagining Geographies and visiting assistant professor of journalism at SIU, said southern Illinois has been defined as a poverty zone. He said the community should consider political and advocacy work as well as regional collaboration. He said reaching a solution needs to be a group effort.

“We are the voices of some of the vulnerable people whose voices are not being heard here and we need to find a way to wake up this region,” Lemish said. “We need to be acting collectively and let the legislature and those who are influential know that this region is not to be taken for granted.”

“Our fundamental problem is we have a dysfunctional state government,” said Carbondale Mayor John “Mike” Henry, who cofacilitated the event with Lemish.

Henry said he recently met with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner who

said a budget would not pass until January, even though the deadline was nearly four months ago.

Jennifer Cushman, field coordinator and policy specialist for the Responsible Budget Coalition, a group concerned with seeking solutions to state budget and tax issues, said the current budget stalemate caused a significant loss in state revenue. This is because personal and income tax rates dropped sharply.

“This is causing the severe pain and harm to families and communities across the state,” Cushman said.

Mike Heath, executive director of Carbondale’s Good Samaritan Ministries, a non-profit organization that provides food and shelter for those in need, said waiting until January to reach a settlement will create major problems for the emergency shelter, which is primarily funded by the state.

“On a normal year, we would have received just under $50,000 from the state of Illinois,” he said.

He said the organization has yet to receive state funding for this fiscal year for their emergency shelter, which hosts about 20 people per night. The soup kitchen, which served just under 34,000 meals last

year, came within a week of closing last month.

Camille Doris, executive director of the Southern Illinois Coalition for the Homeless, said the group provides affordable housing services to individuals who are, or are at risk of becoming homeless.

The coalition recently took out a loan to pay employees and sold off property to raise funds and prepare for more cuts in the near future.

“These are properties that would normally be available to individuals who are homeless,” Doris said.

She said six homes are vacant because the lack of funding has prevented necessary repairs.

“In terms of the future, it’s difficult to fathom what’s going to happen,” she said.

Gary Williams, interim city manager of Carbondale, said when social services are cut for impoverished citizens, greater problems arise.

Mariam Link-Molleson, director of the Jackson County Health Department, said lawmakers need to advocate for people’s needs.

“It’s a bigger picture than just a budget, it is really trying to encourage our lawmakers to set priorities that support our families and our communities,” she said.

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Opinion

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

A guide to living a decent life, courtesy of Walt Whitman MARK EDMUNDSON LOS ANGELES TIMES

Everyone is afraid of being sexist or racist, or being branded as such. No one wants to offend members of the LGBT community. It almost seems to be the goal of many people’s lives now not to offend anyone, ever.

I see the point. I’m on board. But I think the usual motives behind “do not offend” injunctions are almost entirely backward. Worse, the more we emphasize not giving offense, the more likely we are to miss bad behavior that is a lot more serious than a vulgar word or a painful joke.

The problem is, we are approaching questions of race and gender and sexuality by way of the negative: words we are not supposed to say, gestures we are not supposed to make. Don’t cross the street to avoid passing a young black man. Don’t smile at the latest in lesbian couture.

Commit no micro-aggressions.

Don’t laugh at Chris Rock’s jokes.

When I signed on to being a Walt Whitman-inspired

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democrat in the 1970s, I decided, among other things, that I’d quit getting down on people for being who they were: gay or straight, black or yellow or brown, male or female or in-between. But I didn’t make this vow — which I admit I didn’t fulfill completely then — out of guilt. What Whitman taught me, a white, working-class guy from around Boston, had very little to do with thou-shaltnots. It had to do with openness, the kind that makes humans happy, or at least happier.

Whitman was a radical egalitarian: “No stander above men and women or apart.”

Instead of prohibitions, he pushed pleasure. He was curious. He was friendly. He understood, I think, that the basis for lasting social change wasn’t so much a hunger for justice and fairness but the feeling that as different as we are, we all compose one being.

“I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, / Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, / Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, / Stuff’d with the stuff that is coarse and stuff’d with the stuff / That is

fine, / One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same.”

He was above all practical: The best reason to put away hostility isn’t to be a goody-goody or to placate your super-ego but to contribute a little something to making life better for you and everyone else.

Don’t be this! Don’t be that!

Let’s replace those dictates with what Whitman prescribes: Be friendly. Try to be open. Learn from other people. Treat them fairly. Don’t let prejudices get in the way of a good time.

I understand that friendliness isn’t going to solve our major social problems by itself. It’s not going to cut the knot of mass incarceration, or income disparity, or make our schools better on its own. But when I hear Hillary Rodham Clinton say, “I don’t believe you change hearts, I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate,” I think, “Wrong.” Laws change because hearts have been changed when people see that decency is tied to pleasure.

What prevents us from behaving Whitman’s way? Here’s a guess: If

all you have to do to be “good” is to not be overtly sexist and racist and to not stigmatize gay people in public, then it’s pretty easy. Just zip it at the right time.

You can still buy plenty of stuff.

You can live in a big house. You can go on spiffy vacations. You can send your kids to an Ivy League college. You don’t have to vote to pay more taxes so that black kids and brown kids and poor white kids can go to better schools. You don’t have to help pick up the tab for day care so a low-income mom can take a few classes, or just take a break. You really don’t have to do a thing but mind your manners and watch your mouth.

If you’re white, you might also be inclined to avoid various people, lest you offend them. You can segregate yourself and segregate them. Is that a great result?

I believe there are such things as micro-aggressions. Turning to a young black woman you just met and expressing surprise at the fact that in high school she was on the tennis team or in the chess club isn’t right. That’s a micro-aggression.

But “micro” is the word. It calls for a genially tart comeback, not an

Internet campaign.

People now seem to believe that when they hear something that smacks of prejudice, they are encountering the tip of an iceberg. They assume there’s plenty more where that comes from and it must be attacked with guns blazing. That’s a Freudian way of thinking: A slip of the tongue or pen gives us tantalizing peeks into a person’s unconscious, his deep, abiding character.

Maybe. I’m more inclined to think that people, and especially young people, are shifting and inconsistent in their identities.

They are unformed and forming.

When a white student laughs at a Chris Rock joke, I don’t assume there’s a mother lode of racism buried inside him or that he is about to become Grand Dragon of the West Texas branch of the Klan.

Whitman (and I) have a simple message: If people are truly going to get along, we need to ask something better of them than verbal hygiene, basic manners and subservience to the political super-ego. They have to give themselves to openness and friendliness: liberation, a good time, and maybe even some joy.

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‘Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension’ scares no one JACOB PIERCE @JacobPierce1_DE

This movie was always going to be trash, the only reason to see it was to find out if the series could salvage something.

“Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension,” directed by Gregory Plotkin and starring Chris J. Murray and Brit Shaw, ends a terrible series with an awful installment.

In this movie, a couple and their daughter move into the house from the second film and soon realize they are not alone and their daughter is in line to be used by a malicious, demonic presence.

This series has never been good.

The original film was decent,

if not just OK. From there, the movies only worsened to the point where the penultimate “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones” jumped the shark and added time travel.

Given the chance to redeem the entire series, this film does not make the cut.

“The Ghost Dimension” has to make-up for five iterations of no answers and little to no mythology that makes it an expository mess.

The number of times characters spend explaining the ridiculous situation they are in is baffling.

It slows down the entire flow and exhausts any viewer.

This series in general relies on jump scares — the laziest tactic to frighten someone — and this film is no different.

It seems like every five seconds a ghost is jumping out for no reason.

Eventually the cheap scares become laughable and you focus on

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On ‘Walking Dead,’ bodies of audience favorites still pile up as Grim Reaper gets grimmer MARY MCNAMARA LOS ANGELES TIMES

The Jacob Show that more than the actual movie.

The only redeemable quality lands on the random pieces of funny dialogue.

It is not ironically funny, it is barely hilarious in an actual, natural way.

But a few random bits of good dialogue does not save this garbage.

It would have been more entertaining for the demons to possess me than watch this film.

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Caution — major spoilers ahead if you haven’t seen Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead.”

Glenn is dead, and once again viewers gasp and wonder: “How much more of this can we take?”

Indeed, “The Walking Dead” has become the story of two bands of post-apocalypse survivors: its fictional characters and its audience.

On Sunday night, swaying on top of a dumpster surrounded by Walkers, Nicholas (Michael Traynor) looked out at the grasping hands, the ravenous mouths and gave up.

Turning to Glenn (Steven Yeun), who had been working so hard to help Nicholas find redemption, he apologized and then shot himself in the head. But it was an act of murder as well as suicide: His falling body took Glenn into a sea of rotting predators where he died, screaming.

Glenn, who has been with us since the beginning. Glenn, the scrappy supply runner with the baseball cap, who saved Rick (Andrew Lincoln) in Atlanta and has been by his side —

pretty much — ever since. Glenn, so shy when they arrived at Hershel’s farm but courageous enough to fall in love. Glenn, whom we have watched mature from a twitchy man-boy into a loving husband and friend, whose love affair with Maggie (Lauren Cohan) was often the only bright spot amid carnage and despair.

So now we, the audience, face the same bleak realization that sent Nicholas over the edge: Death is everywhere, loss is inevitable. Do we have what it takes to push on anyway? To invest in plans and communities that will falter and fail, to embrace characters who will be killed, sometimes for no good reason except to remind us that the universe is a brutal place?

Can we, the audience, survive AMC’s zombie apocalypse?

Certainly we, like Rick and his band, have undergone enormous transformation. Just a few years ago, the increasing death rate of regular characters on television in general and “The Walking Dead” in particular sent up howls of protests and sermons of soul-searching.

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<< Answers for Tuesday’s Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk

ACROSS 1 Political statistician Silver 5 Sell for 9 Learn 13 Lacking company 15 “__ way!”

16 Indian mausoleum city 17 Dodge Chargers, e.g.

19 Doesn’t keep 20 Rescue squad pro 21 Gerald of Tara 22 Vision-related 23 Take __ the waist 25 Hyundai’s home 27 House of Henry VIII 29 Camera named for a Greek goddess 30 One of the Canaries: Abbr.

31 Cyber Monday events 33 Previously 34 Backs (out) 35 Warm underwear 38 Edges 41 Notre Dame’s Parseghian 42 Had a bug 45 Dashboard Confessional rock genre 46 Painter’s deg.

47 Root beer brand 49 Easter season feast 54 1492 caravel 55 “Peace out, Pablo!”

56 Like ham in some omelets 58 Little one 59 Future flower 60 Shindig by the shore, and a hint to the starts of 17-, 25-, 35- and 49-Across 62 Run out of steam 63 Smallest of the litter 64 Derisive look 65 Rose support 66 Rich rocks 67 Root beer brand DOWN 1 “Whatever you want”

Today’s Birthday (10/28/15).

Together you can move mountains this year. Group efforts exponentially multiply your voice and results. Money comes with steady action. Make bold requests.

Springtime romance could scramble your plans. Friends produce miracles this autumn, leading to a turning point in the

game. Push for a shared passion.

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) -Today is an 8 -- The next two days favor communications, transportation and research. You’re especially clever under the Gemini Moon. Craft plans, outlines and sketches. Detail logistics.

Produce and promote upcoming events.

Participate in a bigger conversation.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Keep track of all the money flowing in today and tomorrow.

Don’t just spend it all. Stash some for home improvements and feed the rainy day kitty. Resist the urge to splurge. Get items in the budget.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re especially strong and confident today and tomorrow.

Ask for what you want. Be bold for a cause. Take on something larger than yourself. Focus on a

broader goal. Motivate others to get involved.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Finish a project in private today and tomorrow. Slow down and consider options. Look back to acknowledge the ground taken. Assemble files and photos. Take time for spiritual reflection and meditation. Brilliant ideas come when you’re relaxed.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your friends really come through for you the next couple of days. Your team is on your side. Get the word out about a group project.

Together you can surpass obstacles.

Love melts all barriers.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Consider your career over the next two days. New opportunities have you tantalized. Which to choose?

Forge ahead into the spotlight. Your work is receiving attention. Clean up your presentation. Step up to the next level.

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2 Fund-raising target 3 Food truck order 4 Wedding RSVP card, e.g.

5 Chocoholic’s favorite tree?

6 Hokkaido seaport 7 Battlefield board game 8 Prof’s aides 9 Marx playing with strings 10 Narcissistic indulgence 11 Most pretentious 12 Imps 14 Gp. with the album “Secret Messages” 18 Uncertain responses 22 Signs off on 24 Trucker’s expense 26 To-do 28 Stutz contemporary 32 Huge mess 33 1977 Steely Dan album 34 Country singer K.T.

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36 Awesome quality, as of mountains 37 Bethesda-based medical research org.

38 Lunches and brunches 39 Cry of success 40 “Tartuffe” playwright 43 Horn of Africa nation 44 Signified

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Today and tomorrow favor travels and studies. The news or weather may affect your decisions.

Update your itinerary and keep in touch with home. Learn about new cultures and viewpoints by visiting in person. Try another way.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Sort, organize and file financial documents. Contribute to managing family money and benefits over the next few days. Gentle persuasion works best. Check investments and manage accounts for growth. Collaborate and get everyone pumped up.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re entering a two-day partnership phase.

Compromise. Negotiate for a winwin situation. Emerge victorious on a shared goal. The two of you are far more powerful together than either separate. Advance to the next level, and celebrate.

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46 Submissions to eds.

48 Nymph chasers 50 Data transmitter 51 “Cheers” waitress 52 Savings and checking: Abbr.

53 Slangy affirmative 57 Around-the-horn MLB plays 60 Good bud 61 “Wait, there’s more”

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -Today is a 9 -- Begin a new two-day phase in your work. Your services are in increasing demand. Put in structural supports to manage it ... delegate and divert the flow. A rising tide floats all boats. Work smarter, not harder.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -Today is an 8 -- Have fun today and tomorrow. Play games and devote yourself to favorite activities with favorite people. Share a meal with someone entertaining. Take advantage of a harmonious mood.

Relax and indulge in delicious romance.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -Today is a 6 -- Home projects take on a life of their own today and tomorrow. Keep expenses reined in.

Spend what you’ve budgeted to make improvements. Settle into your newly feathered nest and get comfortable with homemade baked goods.

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Sports

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015

SIU basketball teams in different spots in preseason MVC polls BRENT MESKE | @BRENTMESKEDE

Saluki men’s and women’s basketball were picked to finish in ninth and fourth place, respectively, in the Missouri Valley Conference preseason poll released Tuesday during the MVC Hoops Tipoff Event.

Men’s basketball finished last season with a 1221, 4-14 record, good for No. 9 in the Valley.

Coach Barry Hinson, now in his fourth year as coach, has never had a team ranked higher than No. 7 in the preseason poll. His teams are 40-57, 18-27 since his first season in 2012-13.

The team won its first round matchup in last year’s MVC Arch Madness, 55-48, against No. 8 Missouri State. They then lost to No. 1 Wichita State, 56-45.

The Shockers are picked to finish No. 1 in the MVC this season, receiving 42 of the 43 first place votes. No. 5 Loyola received the other vote.

WSU will return senior guards Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker who were both selected to the preseason All-Conference team. VanVleet, who led the MVC with 5.2 steals per game last season, was selected as the preseason Player of the Year.

SIU senior guard Anthony Beane was selected as an honorable mention for the preseason AllConference team. Beane started all 33 games last season and led the team with 531 points and 41 steals. He averaged 16.1 points and 2.6 rebounds per game while shooting .333 behind the arc and .813 from the free throw line.

The men begin their season with an exhibition game against Maryville at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 at SIU Arena.

The women’s team is selected to finish No. 4 in the conference after its historic turnaround season last year. The team finished 17-13, 10-8

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last season, a 12-game turnaround from the 5-25, 3-15 record in 2013-14.

Missouri State was selected as No. 1, receiving 22 votes, and Drake followed with 15 votes.

Northern Iowa, SIU and WSU rounded out the top-5, each receiving one first place vote.

SIU, No. 5, was ousted by No. 4 UNI last

season in the first round of the MVC tournament, 59-50.

The Salukis are the only team in the Valley returning all five starters from last season including senior forward Dyana Pierre and junior guard Rishonda Napier who were both allconference last season.

Pierre was selected as a preseason all-conference player this season after leading the MVC with 11.8 rebounds a game and boasting a .554 field goal percentage last season.

The women begin their season with an exhibition game against Maryville at 6 p.m.

Friday at SIU Arena.

Middle hitter’s roots do not extend far EVAN JONES | @EVANJONES_DE

TJ Price | @TJPrice_DE Junior middle hitter McKenzie Dorris celebrates after a scored point a match against No. 22 Missouri State on Oct. 5.

A town about 60 miles south of Carbondale adopted Superman as its own because of the fictional city in comics and films.

The real Metropolis is also the hometown of SIU volleyball junior middle hitter McKenzie Dorris.

A Superman statue stands 15foot tall in the Metropolis city square. At 6 feet 2 inches tall, tied as the tallest SIU volleyball player, Dorris is dwarfed by her hometown’s icon.

However, she still finds success on the court.

Dorris led the Missouri Valley Conference in blocks per set last year with an average of 1.1. At one block per set on average this year, she is ranked sixth in the conference.

Middle hitters sophomore Alex Rosignol and senior Taylor Pippen, and junior setter Meg Viggars join Dorris as the top Saluki blockers.

SIU volleyball is averaging the most blocks per set in the MVC this year with 2.42.

“The system we run is really fast,” Dorris said. “We work with [coach Todd Nelson] a lot to get to our spots.”

Blocking has always been a part of Dorris’ game.

She set the Massac County High School record for career kills with

980 and 362 blocks. Her career kill record no longer stands, but her career blocks record is still on top of the Patriots’ record books.

She is a “woman of steel” as she is the only middle hitter on the Saluki roster not affected by injuries this season.

Dorris first encountered SIU volleyball on a Girl Scouts trip.

Troop 696 attended a volleyball match and football game in 2002 when Dorris was 8 years old.

She started to play volleyball when she was 13 years old.

Coach Justin Ingram started to notice Dorris’ powers when she attended his offensive clinic with Massac County High School in 2011.

“She was one of the best players in the stretched region of southern Illinois, not just in southern Illinois,” Ingram said. “She had height, length and potential — which often produces an offensive and defense skill set that matches what the [Missouri Valley Conference] has.”

Spending a lot of time in Carbondale and on the road for away matches has not kept Dorris away from her roots, or Superman.

Every year for a few days in June, Metropolis hosts a Superman festival, which Dorris said is like any other small town festival with street vendors selling funnel cakes

and snow cones.

“McKenzie has been begging for someone [on the team] to go with her for a while, so I stepped up to the plate,” Viggars said. “I remember having a snow cone, because I’ve never had one before.”

The town also holds a Superman look-a-like contest, which neither Viggars nor Dorris competed in.

The campus’ distance from her hometown gives Dorris’ parents an easy drive for every SIU volleyball home match.

“SIU has always been an option to go to school, not just to play volleyball,” Dorris said. “My grandpa and both of my aunts went here. My mom got her second degree here, so it’s been in my family.

And she has only become a better player since high school. As Superman discovered and learned to control his powers, Dorris has matured since she started at SIU in 2013.

“We just recently watched McKenzie’s first month as a Saluki on film,” Ingram said. “We compared it to how she looks now — it’s tough to see it on the court — it’s like watching a child grow.

You have to measure them on the door and after a couple years when you see the marks gain a foot you’re amazed by the growth.”