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SIUC chancellor Local barber shop search expected carries its community to be completed by summer 2017 ANNA SPOERRE | @annaspoerre

Applicant screenings for SIU’s next chancellor will begin in January, with the finalist expected to take the position on July 1.

The 18-person Chancellor Search Advisory Committee announced by SIU President Randy Dunn on Oct. 17 will begin screening candidates Jan. 15 to fill the position held by interim Chancellor Brad Colwell, according to a position description released by the committee.

This committee placed advertisements for the position in publications including the Chronicle of Higher Education, Diverse Issues in Higher Education, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Hispanic Outlook and Women in Higher Education, according to a university press release.

Laurie Achenbach, chair of the advisory committee and dean of the College of Science, said the committee voted not to use an outside consulting firm to advertise the position — instead forming

a sub-committee to focus on this outreach.

She said committee members and others on campus are also reaching out to their own networks, adding a personal touch that is important in finding the best candidates.

Achenbach said she anticipates significant savings from deciding not to use an outside firm, which she estimated would have cost between $50,000 and $100,000. Instead, she said, the total spent on advertising will be roughly $12,000.

The exact total will be determined later this week, she said.

“The committee is very confident they can get the broadest, most diverse pool of applicants they can,” Achenbach said.

According to a timeline on the university’s chancellor web page, approximately 10 candidates will be selected by February, and the committee will proceed with Skype interviews leading up to Spring Break.

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Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Kent Mason, 71, sprays the hair of Mary Harvey, 89, of Metropolis, at his Carbondale barber shop, Arnette’s, on Nov. 4.

Mason runs the shop — open Tuesday through Saturday — with three other barbers.

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At least half a dozen cars let out friendly honks as they passed a 71-yearold man standing in the shadow of a small red, brick building, his arm raised up in a wave.

Kent Mason stepped inside and began trimming the white curly hair of

an 89-year old woman.

“Afros are always in style,” Mason said, smiling as he gently took a pick to the woman’s freshly-cut do.

It is Mason’s 51st year working at Arnette’s, a small barber shop located on the corner of East Oak and North Washington streets in Carbondale.

The business has serviced the city’s

predominantly African American northeast side since 1945, the same year Mason was born just a few blocks away.

“All these years I’ve been here, it’s never a job,” said Mason, a man with a full head of white hair, wearing a black button up vest pulled over his T-shirt.

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How will the loss of longtime higher education legislators affect SIU? MARNIE LEONARD | @Marsuzleo

While national attention is focused on the results of the presidential election, changes in the Illinois state legislature may be consequential for the future of higher education in the state.

“A lot of people may say ‘Oh, the state government doesn’t affect me’ but it does,” said John Charles, a lobbyist for SIU. “For our students, there’s a direct impact.”

After a year-and-a-half long stalemate in the Capitol, a stopgap budget was passed by lawmakers on June 30, the last day of the 2016 fiscal year.

This budget is a temporary solution to a problem that still looms over the state the minute the six-month-long funding plan comes to a halt.

The budget impasse remains the most significant issue for higher education in the state, Charles said.

The stopgap provided roughly $1 billion to Illinois higher education institutions for the 2017 fiscal year, and included $106 million for the SIU system, SIU President Randy Dunn said.

This meant a reduction of $18 million in operational funding for SIU from last year, interim Chancellor Brad Colwell said.

One result of the lack of full state funding has been the loss of 246 full and part-time faculty members in the last decade, according to university data.

For the fall 2016 semester, enrollment hit its lowest point since 1964, which Colwell partially attributed to the state budget crisis.

Academic and non-academic programs face cuts and graduate assistantships have been reduced by 265 positions since spring 2016.

At the time of the SIU Board of Trustees meeting in September, Dunn said the future funding for the university was largely dependent on the state legislative elections.

With winners announced and new legislators preparing to take

office in the upcoming year, many are left wondering — what comes next for SIU? When the newly elected lawmakers are inaugurated in January, the makeup of the House will be 67 Democrats to 51 Republicans. Though they still maintain a sizable advantage, this takes away the Democrats’ supermajority status, which stands at 71 Democrats to 47 Republicans.

The GOP also took control of two Senate seats from the Democrats, meaning the balance in the new year will be 37 Democrats to 22 Republicans.

Charles said fully funding higher education will have to be the priority for state legislators.

The campaigns of three southern Illinois state legislative races spent over $6 million, according to the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, and the outcomes of these matches were not encouraging for the Democrats.

They lost the seat of 16-year legislative veteran Sen. Gary Forby, D-Benton, in the 59th District. He will be replaced by Harrisburg mayor Dale Fowler.

In the House District 117, seventerm Democratic Assistant Majority Leader John Bradley, of Marion, was unseated by challenger Dave Severin, R-Benton.

In the race for the seat left vacant by the retiring Republican Sen. Dave Luechtefeld in District 58, Republican Paul Schimpf, of Waterloo, was the victor over the former Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon, D-Carbondale.

When these three legislators leave office, the Capitol will lose 49 years of combined experience in the House and Senate.

Luechtefeld, who sat on the Higher Education Committee, “always had [the university’s] back,” Charles said.

This was also the case with Forby, he added.

In February 2016, Forby introduced Senate Bill 2970, which would allow

the SIU’s board of trustees to sell, transfer or lease any surplus land owned by the university. The profits would go toward scholarships for students.

But the bill never made it out of the House, Charles said.

Forby and Bradley were also advocates for Senate Bill 2048, which aimed to provide funding to higher education institutions across the state, Charles said. This included roughly $53 million to SIU, but the bill ultimately failed to pass a vote in the Senate in May. Charles said all three of these lawmakers have consistently been there for the university, supporting SIU not only in the General Assembly but in their communities as well.

He and his team will have to spend time educating the incoming policymakers on the importance of the university for southern Illinois, Charles said, but he is “looking forward to building relationships with the new lawmakers.”

Before the inauguration on Jan. 11, state legislators will once again be tasked with finding a solution for the state budget crisis.

Charles said he isn’t sure if a new budget will be passed by the outgoing 99th General Assembly during the lame duck session or if the job will be left for the incoming 100th.

Lawmakers will come together again for a new legislative session starting Nov. 15. That meeting, and the meetings in the weeks that follow, will provide a good indication of the future of the state budget and higher education’s representation in it, Charles said.

While he can’t say for sure what the incoming legislators’ contributions will be to the university just yet, Charles said he is optimistic.

“All I can say is we look forward to working with them,” he said.

Staff writer Marnie Leonard can be reached at mleonard@dailyegyptian.com.

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SIU experts weigh in on Trump, Republican state legislative wins MARNIE LEONARD | @marsuzleo

As the American political establishment tries to stabilize after being shaken by the unexpected victory of President-elect Donald Trump, many are left with the same question.

How did this happen?

The Daily Egyptian talked to political pundits on campus to hear their assessments of the events leading up to the election that led to the country’s new leadership.

A major factor was the low turnout from registered Democratic voters, said John Jackson, an SIU emeritus professor of political science.

Jackson attributed low turnout to a lack of excitement from voters about Hillary Clinton as a candidate.

Clinton’s disapproval rating among voters was 54 percent in November, while Trump’s was 58 percent, according to the last polling averages from Real Clear Politics.

“Nobody has ever accused Hillary Clinton of being charismatic,” Jackson said.

The opposite could be said of Trump, whose campaign was built on ideas such as a wall that would stretch across the U.S.-Mexico border and mass deportation of illegal immigrants.

“That’s what makes people pay attention,” Jackson said.

Virginia Tilley, a professor of political science, agreed.

Tilley said Trump’s perceived success as a businessman may have made him something of an idol to the average American voter.

“He represents an American dream of sorts for some people,” Tilley said.

But, she added, much of Trump’s support was fueled by white supremacy.

Whites still make up 69 percent of the nation’s electorate, according to the Pew Research Center’s analysis of the voting population. The Edison Research for the National Election Pool shows Donald Trump won 58 percent of those white voters.

Of white women voters with no college degree, Trump received 62 percent of votes. White men with no college degree also overwhelmingly favored the Republican candidate, with 72 percent of votes going to Trump.

“For his followers, the idea of making the country great again is making it white again,” Tilley said.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the president-elect pledged to “begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country and cancel visas to foreign countries that won’t take them back” during his first 100 days in office.

Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric played into the fears of this demographic, Jackson said.

“He appeals to the fearful and the anxious,” he said. “These people are threatened by diversity.”

In certain parts of the country, especially those parts dominated by white voters, anxiety about employment is particularly prevalent, Tilley said. “‘Other people are taking our jobs’ is a simple, easy-to-understand notion,” Tilley said. “The Republicans tell them, ‘It’s not your fault, it’s these foreigners.’”

Jackson said the Clinton campaign failed when it didn’t spend more time appealing to white voters on the campaign trail, especially in battleground states like Pennsylvania.

“When Trump won big with 70 percent of voters, Clinton had a heck of a mountain to climb,” he said. “It

doesn’t matter if she got all the black vote and all the Hispanic vote, she still couldn’t get there.”

Jackson said the white demographic tends to have more traditional views, which may have also led to a hesitancy electing a woman president.

“Whether they admit it or not, their view is the president is a man,” Jackson said. “President Trump is as macho-man as it gets.”

Clinton ultimately failed in her presidential bid because voters didn’t trust her, Jackson said.

Less than two weeks before the election, FBI Director James Comey wrote a letter to Congress saying the bureau was reopening its investigation of Clinton’s private email server.

Though Comey announced two days before the election nothing new was uncovered to warrant further prosecution, the damage had already been done.

“It doesn’t matter that nothing was found,” Tilley said. “What matters is she was unable overcome this notion that she was untrustworthy.”

Jackson said this re-investigation caused late-deciders to make up their minds in Trump’s favor.

It also negatively impacted the leads of Democratic congressional candidates.

“Everything stopped cold for the blue guys,” Jackson said. “Democrats lost the Senate the day Comey came out with that letter.”

But it wasn’t just that American voters didn’t trust Clinton — a general apprehension toward career politicians and the government was at play too, which Tilley said the Republican Party used to their advantage.

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Supermoon silhouette

Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko The Pulliam Hall clocktower weathervane sits silhouetted by the rising supermoon Monday in Carbondale. A perigee-syzygy, commonly dubbed as a “supermoon,” occurs when the moon becomes full on the same day as its perigee, the point in the moon’s orbit when it is closest to Earth. The 2016 supermoon appeared larger than at any other point in the last 68 years, and won’t appear this large again until 2034, according the NASA.

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The businessman-turned-realityTV-star-turned-politician often touted his lack of experience in government, saying his goal as president is to “drain the swamp” of career Washington politicians. This was a stark contrast with Clinton, who has been active in politics since 1993. “[Republicans] create a distrust in government in the eyes of the American public,” Tilley said.

“Then they can step up and say, ‘We are the solution.’”

While much of the focus has

been on the presidency, Trump’s success nationwide affected some legislative races closer to home, said Jak Tichenor, interim director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute.

In almost every county in southern Illinois — excluding Jackson County and St. Clair County — Trump supporters showed up in droves, causing him to win by significant margins. This impacted two local races in particular.

“The Trump headwind had a very dramatic impact on Gary Forby’s and John Bradley’s defeats,” Tichenor said.

Rep. Bradley, D-Marion, of

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Upcoming events Election autopsy SIU’s political pundits will pick apart the 2016 election results Wednesday with a panel discussion organized by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute. National, state and local political races will be analyzed at the Institute’s “Election Autopsy.” The event is scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday in Shryock Auditorium. For more information, contact PSPPI at (618) 453-4009.

family trees. Attendance is free but seats are limited. Those interested are encouraged to call (618) 4535618 for reservations.

film “Trail of Tears” as part of its monthlong series of events for Native American Heritage month.

The showing begins at 3 p.m.

Friday in Morris Library Guyon Murder mystery party Auditorium.

For additional The Southern Illinois Steampunk information, contact Lanel Love at Society is working a murder (618) 453-3470. mystery case on campus. Attendees portray characters and investigate Saluki volleyball to discover the murderer among The Salukis will take on the them. The party runs from 5 to Missouri State Bears on Saturday 10 p.m. Saturday in the Student for the last home game of the Student loan seminar Center Ohio Room. For additional season. The game is scheduled The university’s Financial information, email Colleen Searcy to begin at 7 p.m. in the large Literacy Office will host a seminar at colleensearcy@siu.edu. gymnasium at Davies Hall. to help students better understand how to manage student loans. The Immigration and employment Saluki football seminar is scheduled 5 to 7 p.m. seminar The Salukis will play the final Thursday in the Student Services The SIU School of Law will host game of the season Saturday rooms 150 and 160. Contact a free seminar open to students, against Western Illinois University.

Financial Literacy Coordinator faculty and staff that will focus It is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.

Jordee Justice at (618) 453-4611 on U.S. immigration policy. The at Saluki Stadium and will be for details. seminar will begin at 9:30 a.m. televised on ESPN3.

Thursday in the Hiram H. Lesar Rooted Building’s courtroom. Topics will Saluki basketball A world premiere of visiting include maintaining immigration The men’s basketball team will author and performance artist status, how to remain in the U.S. play Mount St. Mary’s on Monday Tim Miller’s “Rooted” is scheduled after graduation and employment night at home. The game is to take place at 8 p.m. Thursday options within academia. For scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. at the in Marion Kleinau Theatre. The more information, contact Melissa SIU Arena. performance is centered around Gibbons at (618) 453-7636. what he calls obsessive genealogical If you know of any upcoming research aimed to uncover hidden Film showing events, email the Daily Egyptian at LGBTQ histories contained within The university is showing the editor@dailyegyptian.com. the Illinois 117th House District has served in Springfield since 2003. Bradley lost to Republican challenger Dave Severin, a business owner from Benton.

In the Illinois Senate, Democratic incumbent Forby, who was first elected to state legislative office in 2001, was defeated by Harrisburg mayor Dale Fowler in the 59th district.

Trump “made life difficult” for Democratic candidates across the state, Tichenor said.

Republicans made net gains in both the Illinois House and Senate, picking up three seats and two seats

respectively. But, Tichenor said, the top-ticket Republican candidate wasn’t the only deciding factor in the state races.

These victories can also be attributed to the negative ads lobbed at Democrats from Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and his supporters. In these ads, Republicans tied Forby and Bradley to Democratic House Speaker Mike Madigan, whose political career has been roundly criticized by the Illinois GOP. A poll conducted by the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute from Sept. 27 to Oct. 2 found Madigan had a 63 percent disapproval rating,

compared with Rauner’s 55 percent disapproval rating.

Republicans used this as leverage to oust the longtime Democratic legislators, Tichenor said, which is significant because once state legislative seats flip, they tend to remain flipped for a long time.

No matter which factor was the main culprit in the Democratic losses, Tichenor said everyone was “knocked off their feet” by the incumbent failures.

Staff writer Marnie Leonard can be reached at mleonard@dailyegyptian.com.

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Letter to the Editor: It’s time to tear down the coal power plant representing SIU SIU student Noah Leverett is a senior from Carbondale studying therapeutic recreation.

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I didn’t know climate change was real.

I was an 8-year-old kid riding my bike around Carbondale. I was crashing into UPS trucks. Five years later, I even broke my arm riding my bike, feeling the wind too heavily in my sails. But heck, I didn’t know what global warming was.

Not until I was lucky enough to attend an AP environmental class and graduate high school, did I have the slightest idea what it was.

Trash filling oceans. Rising waters.

A hockey shaped curve in the graph that illuminates us to the drastically rising temperatures.

Before I knew it, I was in college. I applied to SIU with a mission to learn about the Earth; I started in plant biology. After being rejected by a field opportunity in the Canada Tar Sands, I switched gears to mathematics.

I learned about curves, about sudden changes in trajectories, about trends.

There are two curves I have noticed — two trends — both of which are reflections of some of the problems that need solving in Carbondale.

Autumn Suyko | @AutumnSuyko_DE SIU's power plant is seen from a pedestrian overpass over South Illinois Avenue on Oct. 30 in Carbondale.

that they don’t deserve the wealth that brings overwhelming harm to the environment.

Researchers at SIU and elsewhere have found coal to be one of the most harmful fossil fuels to extract from the environment.

But the rich keep getting richer, right? At least the administrators.

At least the politicians. While SIU students and faculty (some, of course) are in debt.

“We're doing the research about the environment and about agriculture. We're even doing research about therapy. But why aren't we walking the walk?”

One, of course, is the rising wealth inequality in the United States of America. Of course, it is a free country, and the rich deserve some of their riches, of course. I would argue

Meanwhile, we do the research.

We bring in the ideas, the writing, the educational insights; learning how to fix the cars.

But it’s jobs. It’s employment. It’s

manufacturing. Coal does, in fact, live near the heart of many American families.

But let me offer a solution, of course, because I have mentioned the problems.

How about raised beds? A massive greenhouse, or multiple greenhouses, for that matter, with the nice big label: Southern Illinois University Carbondale. All of which can bring food to underprivileged families, as well as horticulture therapy for those affected by war or tragedy. This is important not just for our environment as a globe, but for our community as Carbondale.

I think our students, many of whom know the issue of global warming all too well, would rather their grandparents drive to a town for graduation that doesn’t blatantly represent coal, something we now know is a disaster for our globe.

We’re doing the research about the environment and about agriculture.

We’re even doing research about therapy.

But why aren’t we walking the walk?

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Letter to the Editor: Start being proactive to situations of oppression Johnathan Flowers is a doctoral candidate in philosophy from Oak Park.

Administrators, faculty and staff, Many of you have argued in statements to the campus that embodying the values of “diversity and inclusion” present in the mission of our university will protect us from the wave of intolerance that has emerged following the election.

We can see this appeal in interim Chancellor Brad Colwell’s Nov. 10 statement to the campus: “We value individuals, diversity and inclusion.

Anything less diminishes all of us.

Free speech is an important right and value that we should use wisely and respectfully.” In the changed climate wrought by this election, we no longer have time for this naiveté.

We no longer have time because the entire black freshman class of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school, was added to a Facebook group named “Nigger Lynching.” We no longer have time because this climate enabled two white men from Babson College to engage in their racially and sexually motivated intimidation of students of African descent at Wellesley College, Hillary Clinton’s alma mater.

We no longer have time for this naiveté because this nation, which Colwell has said repeatedly is reflected by the university, has long since decided that some individuals don’t have value.

We no longer have time because this changed climate has given license to students at New York University’s Brooklyn engineering campus to deface the prayer room used by its Muslim students with Trump graffiti. I will reiterate: this climate has made permissible the defacing of designated prayer spaces by members of a campus community.

This, in particular, should be of grave concern, administration, faculty, and staff, because our own institution

provides a similar space for worship on campus. We no longer have time for administration, faculty, and staff to be “tolerant” of their colleagues’ inability to grasp the gravity of the situation, nor do we have time for them to be “respectful” of their colleagues’ hurt feelings or their guilt. The time for coddling has passed.

Do not misunderstand: by saying that we no longer have the time for doing things with “respect and tolerance,” for coddling of administration, faculty and staff, I am saying that we no longer have the time to engage in diversity work in a way that preserves the feelings of the power majority.

Put another way, we no longer have the time to continue with the present trend of relying upon marginalized faculty, staff and administrators to make clear to their colleagues their experiences of oppression on this campus in a vain attempt to promote “diversity.” Doing so places the onus of education upon those who already understand the reality of the situation of oppression they are living in.

situations of oppression.

Allow me to be crystal clear: we no longer have the time to “gently” educate you, and your colleagues, on the ways in which your failure to recognize your privileged identities directly contributes to your inability to “solve” the problems of institutionalized oppression at your institution, nor do we have the time to allow you to avoid taking responsibility for that failure.

And, if we are to be serious, we should look at the way the institution relies upon the marginalized to explain their experiences in the language of the power majority as an example of the evasion of this responsibility.

Demanding that you take responsibility for your failure to understand the ways in which your privilege affects the way in which you manage this institution, your classrooms, and its support structures is not the same as blaming you for the way that they perpetuate oppression.

“In the changed climate wrought by this election, we no longer have time for this naiveté.”

By focusing our diversity work on the experiences of the marginalized, we preserve the feelings of the power majority by not exposing the way that they have directly contributed to the perpetuation of a society that maintains the conditions for those experiences.

This is not a call for education that seeks to assign blame for the situation of oppression on those of you who might identify with the power majority; rather, this is a call for education that forces administrators, faculty and staff across all axis of identity to immediately confront the way in which they are complicit in

Rather, it is to demand that you acknowledge this failure and move immediately to address it. It is to demand that you stop being reactive to situations of oppression, and start being proactive. This isn’t asking you to “check your privilege;” this is asking you to see that you have privilege in the first place.

If my words are not enough, then let me rephrase that last statement in the words of George Yancy, who was recently invited to our sister campus: “use this letter as a mirror, one that refuses to show you what you want to see, one that demands that you look at

the lies that you tell yourself so that you don’t feel the weight of responsibility.”

Now, the content of the lies you tell yourselves isn’t important: what is important is that they enable you to evade the responsibility that I am speaking of. It is the same responsibility that faculty, staff and administrators have evaded in all their diversity programming, their seminars. It is the responsibility to recognize your own privilege and to take action.

Allow me to pause here: at this point, many of you may have started to engage in some of the defensive reactions common to members of privileged groups when confronted with their participation in institutionalized oppression. Some of you may have simply written me, and this piece, off as another one of those “deviant university leaders spouting off all this diversity garbage,” who deserves to be arrested, tortured, tarred and feathered. You may thank the anonymous students at Texas State University for that clever turn of phrase.

I’m not speaking specifically to them, or those members of privileged groups who’ve made a sport of dismissing pieces like this as “social justice warrior” nonsense. I am not speaking to those of you who I lost at the third paragraph: I am speaking to the readers, the administrators, faculty and staff who have begun to read only for the sake of generating a counter-argument.

I am speaking to all of you who call yourselves “allies.” I am speaking to the administrators, faculty and staff “allies” who express vocal support for “equality” or “equity,” take your pick, but fail to hold your fellow privileged colleagues accountable for their perpetuation of institutionalized oppression. I am speaking to those administrators, faculty and staff who will claim the

title of “ally,” and then lie through their action or inaction.

I’m speaking to every administrator, faculty or staff member who will nod politely in understanding (another one of those lies I spoke of earlier) while their colleagues or their students explain time and time again their experience of oppression at this institution, yet will do nothing to incorporate the experience communicated into their pedagogical, institutional or social practices. I am speaking of what Thomas Paine would call the “sunshine ally,” or the “summertime ally” who would shrink from the responsibility of holding themselves or their colleagues accountable in times of crisis. What we need now are the “winter allies,” who are unwilling to be silent, who are unwilling to allow oppression to persist. You can thank John Kerry for that turn of phrase.

By now, those readers who are not reading defensively, will have generated an image of the administrators, faculty and staff that I am indicating in this piece. This image is likely straight, white and probably male, but given the vocal conversation about the 53 percent of white women who supported our president-elect, this image cannot be assumed to be exclusively male.

This image is incorrect. This image is a lie told by those administrators, staff and faculty who themselves are marginalized, yet consistently fail in holding members of their own community accountable for the ways in which they perpetuate oppression.

Thus, I return to the statement at the beginning of this piece: we are out of time. We are out of time for the multiply-marginalized to gently remind you that marginalization along one axis of identity does not make you immune from the perpetuation of oppression.

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Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Mason writes down an appointment in his planner that he keeps in his pocket as he works from his shop on Nov. 4.

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The outside of his shop sports a large mural of barber accessories and an old red, white and blue “Arnette’s” sign above the front door. It is more than a business for much of the city.

“Barber shops are everything to the community,” said Lee Hughes, 39. “People need it like food for the soul.”

Hughes — a barber who, since 2007, rents out one of the four chairs in Mason’s shop — said most of the men who work there also mentor children in the neighborhood.

He said some youth, especially from the Boys and Girls Club nearby, will stop by on their way home. The barbers ask them about school and their grades. If they’re doing a good job, they might get a courtesy haircut.

“When you do something for someone else, you get the blessing,” Mason said.

Mason said he tries to provide a service to the community when he can, offering free cuts to people who can’t afford it and giving kids a bit of money to sweep around the shop. That, he said, gives him a chance to give advice to the next generation.

“I had a kid that came in and said, ‘Mr

Kent, I wanted to beat somebody up, but I remembered you told me don’t fight,’” Mason said of the boy.

Though the younger crowd usually comes in the afternoon, mornings are Mason’s favorite time to be in the shop.

On busy days, the chatter drowns out the blues songs playing in the background.

The dozen or so seats along the opposite wall often stay crowded through the early afternoon as people wait for a barber.

“We just have a good time here,” Mason said. “I want people to come here and say this is their place. It’s beautiful. I love just sitting around talking to people.”

But the younger crowd comes out during the evening, after Mason leaves for the day.

On the night of the final World Series game between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians, the glass front door swung open and shut many times as people stopped in to say hi and catch part of the game.

“You don’t just get a haircut, you get an experience,” customer Elias Jackson said before he left the shop that night. “There are good vibes in here.”

Mason attributes the shop’s good reputation to the store’s first owner, Charles Arnette.

“Mr. Arnette is like a father,” Mason said. “Working in this shop, you’ve got to learn how to talk to people.”

Before Arnette died in 1983, he asked Mason to take over the shop, which Mason said he couldn’t have done without the help of his fellow barber and best friend, James Morgan, who later became a preacher in Peoria.

And, if it weren’t for Morgan’s help decades earlier, Mason said he probably would have ended up in jail.

“I wasn’t a bad guy, but I hung with everybody, and if you hang out with the wrong crowd, something is going to happen,” Mason said of his younger self, fresh out of high school. “I thought that’s what you were supposed to do — do nothing. I learned you’ve got to do more than just sit there.”

Mason said one day while he was hanging out at a basketball court, Morgan stopped by and told him to load his stuff in the truck.

The two of them took off for Springfield, Mason not realizing that a year later he would be a fresh graduate of the National Barber College, landing a job at Arnette’s shortly after.

Morgan died about five years ago at 66.

“I really miss him, I really do,”

Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Taliq Montegomery grimaces as barber Terrence Upchurch rubs after shave on his face Nov. 2 at Arnette’s barber shop.

Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Left to right: DJ Hogan, a senior at Carbondale Community High School, Lee Hughes, Taliq Montegomery and Terrence Upchurch laugh together just before the shop closes up at 8 p.m. on Nov. 2.

Mason said.

In Arnette’s, a black and white portrait hangs above the row of mirrors. A 21-yearold Mason smiles next one of the black swiveling chair with Arnette and Morgan to his left.

Fifty years later, not much besides the trending hairstyles has changed, Mason said.

With Arnette gone, Mason now fills the role of a father figure on the block.

“He’s taught me things about life, about my children, career stuff, saving,” Hughes said.

This consistency in commitment to the community is something Hughes also appreciates.

He said more often, barber shops are acting like fast food joints where busy people just run in and out.

“But the barber shop is everything to

the community,” Hughes said. “It’s where we talk politics, family, religion. We debate about sports, we build strong families. …

Without that barber shop, a lot of people wouldn’t have an avenue for those type of communicative things.”

Hughes said one of his fondest memories happened about a year ago when all four barbers were at their chairs and the shop was full.

“Mr. Kent [Mason] turned to all of us and just stopped us in the midst of cutting and he was like, ‘This is why I’ve been doing this for 51 years. This right here,’” Hughes said. “It hit me, ‘We’re doing something important here.’”

As for Mason, as long as he’s still able to stand all day, he will keep cutting hair.

“I tell people, I’ll be here when you leave and I’ll be here when you get back,” Mason said.

Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Left to right: Henry Traylor, John Chambers and Kent Mason wave to people driving past Arnette's barber shop.

Anna Spoerre | @annaspoerre Half a dozen electric razors hang from the side of the cabinet at Arnette’s barber shop, which has been open since 1945.

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Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko Junior guard Jonathan Wiley puts up a shot over UMSL defense Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, during the Salukis' 72-67 exhibition win over the UMSL Tritons at SIU Arena.

SIU men’s basketball looking to revamp offense this season JONATHAN THOMPSON @TheReal_JT3

The SIU men’s basketball team has multiple things it needs to account for going into its second game of the season, but none may be more important than how the Salukis are going score.

Losing their leading scorer in Anthony Beane, who averaged a Missouri Valley Conference second-best 19.3 points per game, SIU is going to have to find ways to make up for his production.

“There is no one guy who can replace Beane,” SIU coach Barry Hinson said.

“The way we could give him the ball late in the shot clock and he could get his own shot is something we don’t have. You guys are going to see a totally different team this year.”

The Salukis were second in the MVC in scoring (73.8 points per game) and third in field goal percentage (45.3) last season.

In addition to Beane’s departure, SIU also lost starting center Bola Olaniyan, who transferred to Alabama. He

averaged 7.8 points per game, fifth-most on the team.

Despite these losses, SIU actually returned more scoring this season than most of the conference.

SIU returned 60.4 percent of its scoring from last season, more than five other Valley teams. Three of the five teams finished tied or above SIU in the conference standings last year.

Not having a go-to scorer could result in more interesting games this season for SIU with Hinson’s team looking for someone to step up each game.

“We have a lot scorers and shooters that are going to try and make up for what we lost,” senior guard Tyler Smithpeters said.

“I think it’ll be someone different every game. It may be one guy the first game and then someone totally different in the middle of the season. It’s going to be a little of everyone.”

One way the team is trying to help get everyone involved is working on more ball movement.

SIU finished near the bottom of the

conference (eighth) in assists per game at 11.5, which was a sharp upgrade from an MVC-worst 8.3 in 2014-15.

“We have a lot of good playmakers on our team,” junior guard Jonathan Wiley said. “Outside of them, we have a bunch of guys who want to move the ball. We have been practicing, making sure everyone touches the ball so we won’t have to rely on one person.”

Wiley also said improvements have to be made across the board.

“We need toughness all around,” Wiley said. “We need offensive rebounds to give us more possessions. We’re improving on our defense so we can keep the other team from scoring on us so much. It sounds simple, but it’s doing the little things that’ll help us.”

It’s still the start of the season, but the Salukis will have to put all of pieces together soon if they want to compete.

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Get only what you need.

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Saluki football notebook: Scouting the Western Illinois Leathernecks SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

The year is almost over and SIU football will have one more chance to taste victory this season when No. 23 Western Illinois comes to town.

It’ll be senior day for the Salukis, but they aren’t the only team with something to play for.

The Leathernecks stand at 6-4, 3-4 in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and are on the bubble of the Football Championship Subdivision playoff picture.

A win will likely propel Western in, but a loss to a team with SIU’s record (37, 1-6 MVFC) may bump them out.

SIU will send off 15 seniors on Saturday, including preseason All-MVFC linebacker Chase Allen and wide receiver Billy Reed, whose 110 career receptions rank in the top 10 in program history.

After making strong work of one of the nation’s strongest defenses last week, sophomore quarterback Sam Straub should have an easier time this week against one of the conference’s weaker defenses.

Western Illinois has allowed the second-most yards on defense in the conference this season at 431.4 yards allowed per game. However, SIU is not much better by comparison at 430.1

yards allowed per game.

WIU has been especially susceptible through the air, allowing 268.6 passing yards per game, 12th-worst in the country.

Despite all this, the Leathernecks have done a decent job at keeping opponents off the scoreboard in comparison to the rest of the conference. They’ve been consistent too. Only one of their last six opponents have put up a point total outside of the 30s.

Western makes up for their defense on the other side of the ball, averaging 405.7 yards of offense per game.

The Leatherneck offense is run in part by one of the most dynamic quarterbackwide receiver duos in the country with sophomore quarterback Sean McGuire and senior wide receiver Lance Lenoir, brother of SIU freshman wide receiver Landon Lenoir.

McGuire is the conference’s thirdleading passer at 257.7 yards per game.

He has also thrown for 17 touchdowns to nine interceptions.

Lenoir is also third in the conference in his specialty with 101.2 yards per game, but his 6.9 receptions per game is the second most.

The senior has been setting his own records for over a year now. His 262 career receptions is over 80 more than

Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko Players burst onto the field Nov. 5 prior to the Salukis' 35-28 win against the University of South Dakota Coyotes at Saluki Stadium.

the next closest receiver, his teammate Joey Borsellino. He also has more than 1,200 more yards than any Leatherneck in program history.

While the WIU pass game is strong, its run game may be the most underrated

in the conference. hard-fought game for both teams and it Sophomore running back Steve may come down to whatever team is able McShane is second in the MVFC with to control their emotions better.

83.5 yards rushing per game with eight touchdowns.

Sports editor Sean Carley can be reached Saturday is sure to be an emotional at scar@dailyegyptian.com.

SIU volleyball looking to finish season strong, prepared for postseason JONATHAN THOMPSON @TheReal_JT3

As SIU volleyball is wrapping up its season and with two games left, the Salukis are gearing up for the postseason.

The Salukis’ record of 21-9 and 12-4 in the Missouri Valley Conference puts them at No. 57 in the RPI rankings, with the 64-team NCAA tournament looming.

SIU was ranked No. 40 last year when the tournament rolled around and earned its first-ever NCAA bid.

The Dawgs will look to improve that

during upcoming games against No. 37 Wichita State (20-7, 13-3 MVC) and No. 47 Missouri State (23-7, 14-2 MVC) on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

“There are three valley teams ahead of us: Missouri State, Northern Iowa and Wichita State,” coach Justin Ingram said.

“We get the opportunity this weekend to close out at home with two top-50 teams in the country. We’re sitting in a place that’s interesting.”

However, the Salukis will likely not have a full roster for the rest of the season.

Senior setter Meg Viggars and junior middle hitter Alex Rosignol are each

out with injuries and Ingram said it is “doubtful” that they will be able to return this season.

“Others have to step up,” he said.

“That’s athletics at its finest, you have to make sure everybody is prepared throughout the course of the season and prepared to get in there and perform.”

Ingram had high praise for his other players that have stepped up. He said he still expects them to continue to perform well going into the MVC tournament Nov. 24 to 26. “[Freshman setter] Alayna Martin is our starting setter of the next three to four

years and it’s on her now to perform,” he said. “She’s doing a fantastic job with the position that she’s in.”

In her six matches since Viggars broke her finger, Martin has had 95 assists in time split with senior setter Hannah Kaminsky.

A far more experienced Saluki is replacing Rosignol’s time.

“With the middle position, McKenzie [Dorris is] more than capable of getting there and performing,” Ingram said. “It’s a great job for those that are having the opportunity to step in and they’re doing it.”

Dorris got two kills in the match Friday against Evansville, the first since Rosignol got injured.

“We need to get the two huge wins this weekend that will definitely put us in a really good position,” Kaminsky said. “Focusing everyday at practice on what Wichita State and Missouri State are going to do, and not looking too far ahead, but focusing on what’s right in front of you. That’s the biggest thing we can do right now.”

Staff writer Jonathan Thompson can be reached at jthompson@dailyegyptian.com.

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Men’s basketball: Scouting Missouri Southern State, SIUE SEAN CARLEY | @SCarleyDE

After its tough loss to Wright State to open the season, SIU men’s basketball will face three opponents in five nights this week.

Here’s how this upcoming week looks for the team.

7 p.m. Wednesday versus Missouri Southern State Regardless of what happens Monday, the Salukis should have their easiest win Wednesday when Division II Missouri Southern State comes to Carbondale.

The Lions are making noise in the D-II ranks though, coming off a double-overtime victory Saturday against No. 17 Minnesota State-Mankato.

Missouri Southern State’s star so far is someone who the Salukis have seen before: SIU-Edwardsville transfer guard C.J. Carr. He averaged 7.5 points and 3.1 assists per game as a Cougar last season, and hit the game-winning shot to beat SIU at home last season.

This season, however, Carr has averaged 36 points, 7.5 assists, seven steals and six rebounds in two games.

Three other Lions — senior guard J.J. Cratit (18), junior forward L.J. Ross (13.5) and freshman guard Elyjah Clark (13) — are averaging in double-figures.

7 p.m. Friday at SIU-Edwardsville Carr’s former team will be the final opponent of the week for SIU. The Salukis will try to avenge last season’s loss to their sister school, the first in program history.

SIUE was picked to finish next-to-last in the Ohio Valley Conference this season, but has experienced a strong start to its season. The Cougars will be fresh with three days of rest after three games in four nights this previous weekend.

As of Sunday afternoon, they have an enigmatic 1-0 record. They lost to D-II McKendree University in an exhibition, but then beat Hawai’i-Mānoa, a team that made the NCAA tournament last year, on its home floor to open the season.

Granted, the Rainbow Warriors lost most of their key players from that tournament team, but are still a strong team.

Last season’s leading scorer — senior guard Burak Eslik — returns this season, one of three starters coming back.

This year’s squad lines up very similarly to the Salukis, with only four players standing 6-foot-8 or taller and a plethora of guards.

Sports editor Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com.

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SIU men’s basketball gets blown out by Arkansas JONATHAN THOMPSON @TheReal_JT3

The good news is SIU men’s basketball won the second half Monday against Arkansas by six. The bad news is SIU was outscored by 31 in the first half, a hole the Salukis couldn’t climb out of in a 90-65 defeat.

The Razorbacks shot 58 percent from the field and shot 69 percent from the 3-point line, making 9-12 in the first half alone.

Arkansas built its huge lead with runs of 12-3, 12-0 and 10-0.

Ten different Razorbacks scored in the first half, including Preseason All-SEC second-team member senior guard Dusty Hannahs and junior guard Daryl Macon’s team leading nine points each.

The Salukis couldn’t get any offense going to retaliate against Arkansas’ onslaught. SIU shot 24 percent from the field and 30 percent from the 3-point line, plus 11 turnovers didn’t help the Salukis’ cause.

Senior guard Mike Rodriguez came off of a 29-point game in the season opener struggling on Monday. He wasn’t able to make a basket shooting 0-7 from the field.

He would finish with four points, two rebounds and four assists.

Sean Carley | @SCarleyDE SIU senior guard Leo Vincent (5) meets Wright State senior forward Steven Davis (0) at the rim during the Salukis' 85-81 loss to Wright State on Friday at SIU Arena.

making 5-6 of his 3-point attempt, five That wouldn’t be enough as the rebounds and an assist.

Razorbacks would hold on to their lead for their second win of the season.

Sophomore guard Armon Fletcher was a silver lining for SIU. He led the Salukis in points with 13 making 3-4 of his threes. He also tallied five rebounds and an assist.

He was the only Saluki to make more than half of his shots in the game.

Junior forward Thik Bol made his presence felt again in this game, scoring nine points with 12 rebounds.

The Salukis will look to get their first SIU played better in the second half, win as they play at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 against raising their field goal percentage to 37 Missouri Southern State at SIU Arena. percent and 3-point percentage to 33 percent. They also cut down on turnovers, Staff writer Jonathan Thompson can be only committing six opposed to the 11 reached at they had in the first. jthompson@dailyegyptian.com.

“The Salukis couldnt get any offense going to retaliate against Arkansas' onslaught.

SIU shot 24 percent from the field and 30 percent from the 3-point line, plus 11 turnovers didn't help the Salukis' cause.”

Arkansas would have a 31-point lead going into halftime at 56-25.

The Razorbacks had four players with double-digit points.

Hannahs gave the Salukis trouble all game. He led all scorers with 19 points

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