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Rejections split board KARTSTEN BURGSTAHLER Daily Egyptian Thursday’s SIU Board of Trustees meeting did not adhere closely to schedule. Roger Herrin, the board’s chair pro tempore, adjourned the meeting less than five minutes in because too few trustees were present for the board to vote on agenda items. During the press conference that followed, Herrin and University President Glenn Poshard heavily debated Gov. Pat Quinn’s recent dismissal of three trustees whose terms expired last month, as well as three replacements’ subsequent appointments without the state Senate’s advisement or approval. The Illinois Senate on Wednesday unanimously rejected the three appointees: Lee Milner, of Springfield; Melvin Terrell, of Chicago; and Sandra Cook, of Collinsville. Herrin said he was disappointed with the Senate’s rejection despite the appointees’ qualifications and thinks the voters should shape up. “You need to put your big-boy pants on and go to work, and do the right thing,” he said. “We’re here to do the right thing. We were here to unify this board and to work for this university, nothing more than that.” However, the discussion soon turned to reasons behind Quinn’s appointments. Poshard said Terrell told him upon a congratulatory phone call that the governor’s office said Herrin would be the board’s chairman and Terrell would be vice-chair. “We all know what happened here,” Poshard said. “There’s no sense in trying to spin the truth.” Poshard said the three former members — John Simmons, Ed Hightower and Mark

Hinrichs — were unceremoniously let go. He said Herrin informed the three former members last year the governor would kick them off the board. “Once again, the governor gave people their walking orders to do something that they needed to be independent of and he had assured everybody they would be independent of,” he said. Herrin said he did not personally know the names of the new trustees before this week, but any collusion for the chairman position would have come from somewhere else. Terrell turned down several requests to consider running for the chairman position, he said. Trustee Don Lowery said he and SIUEdwardsville student-trustee David Hamilton are the only board Republicans, so they are not involved in the board’s political issues. However, he said the real reasons behind the appointments are simple. “The reality is, there were three vacancies,” Lowery said. “The terms expired. And yes, sometimes people are reappointed; sometimes they’re not. That’s the normal evolution of boards. It happens statewide.” Herrin used a December 2012 basketball game to highlight an issue he had with the former trustees. Several trustees, including Hightower, did not attend the game they were invited to at the SIUC campus the night of the executive session, he said. However, Poshard said the event was irrelevant and cited how several members, including Herrin, did not attend SIUE chancellor interviews as an example of how much animosity there is toward the Metro East area, an area now underrepresented on the board. Please see TRUSTEES | 3

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Visiting artist Amy Kilgard, a professor at San Francisco State University, performs a scene from her play, “Triskaidekaphobia: 13 Consumer Tragedies,” Friday in the Communications Building’s Marion Kleinau Theater. Using viewer participation and various monologues, the play tells stories of consumerism and issues that occur in retail stores. “Triskaidekaphobia” is on a 13-city nationwide tour, and Kilgard’s next performance will be March 14 at California State University in Northridge, Calif.

Airport tower closure to affect SIU aviation KAYLI PLOTNER Daily Egyptian Airports nationwide face possible closure of air-traffic control towers because of federal sequestration cuts, and Southern Illinois Airport is on the chopping block. Starting early April, government funding for 238 air-traffic control towers will be completely cut, leaving those towers to be shut down or find alternative ways to continue operation.

Spencer Dickerson, president of the American Association of Airport Executives, said the tower controllers provide guidance to pilots, up-to-date weather alerts, separation instructions and increased safety. “When towers shut down, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the airports shut down, but it does mean it is a drastic change in the operation and management of flights at the airport,” Dickerson said. “Every airport is different (and) has a different density of

traffic, different mix of aircraft, military (and) student pilots.” Airport manager Gary Shafer said SI Airport is the sixth-busiest Illinois airport, and operating with such high traffic and no tower to help guide could be chaotic. “Imagine Route 13 in Carbondale at eight in the morning and five at night when it’s full of cars, and each one of those cars avoids each other by talking to each other on the phone,” he said. Shafer said only 450 of the country’s

19,000 airports have control towers because of their high traffic density. “In the absence of a control tower, you’ve got pilots talking to pilots and trying to remain clear of each other, and when you fill the sky in a very dense manner you increase the likelihood that they aren’t able to accomplish that,” he said. “The real concern here is that the skies get so dense with airplanes that pilots will have an increased difficulty separating themselves from each other.”

The majority of SI Airport’s traffic comes from the university’s aviation program, which sends out flights at 8 a.m., 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m. and sometimes 5 p.m., Aviation Department Chair David Newmyer said. NewMyer said these cuts will have a heavy impact because of timing, as April and October are the busiest months for students to fly when visibility is ideal. Please see AVIATION | 3

University applauds general counsel for years of legal service MATT DARAY Daily Egyptian The university’s general counsel has retired after several years of service. Jeff McLellan, who has worked for the university system since November 2005 when he began as a senior associate general counsel and special assistant to Edwardsville campus chancellor, retired Friday. McLellan served as the university’s interim lead attorney for several months until he was appointed in September 2011 to general counsel, a position which oversees SIU Board of Trustees and staff

member legal representation at both university campuses. The BOT will appoint an interim general counsel during a special session Tuesday, but university President Glenn Poshard said the board will take its time to find the right permanent candidate. Poshard said McLellan was a great asset to the university, and his presence will be missed. “Jeff was an excellent general counsel,” he said. “He did a great service for this university when he was associate general counsel up in Edwardsville as well as full general counsel for the whole system. He was

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e’ll miss his services tremendously because he’s worked throughout the system and really knew this system well.

very diligent (and) very thoughtful.” McLellan said he chose to retire because of several factors, including his age and Illinois’ pension issues caused by the state’s budget. While he said he does not think he left much of a legacy, he thinks he displayed a good work ethic and was well liked by his co-workers.

— Glenn Poshard SIU President Poshard said the university is very grateful for McLellan’s service. He said McLellan represented several controversial cases against the university, including one that involved Christi Turpin, a former graduate student who sued two deans and a professor in federal court for failing

to acknowledge that she earned her doctorate. Despite a month of trial, the case was later dismissed. McLellan and his staff handled cases with integrity, Poshard said, and the time he invested served him well in his duties. “We’ll miss his services tremendously because he’s worked throughout the system and really knew this system well,” he said. McLellan said he will now join his wife in retirement and plans to travel to Europe and enjoy life. BOT members could not be reached for comment by press time Sunday.

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“The concern we have is putting up a mix of student pilots without other pilots,” he said. “There’s the problem in the fact that we’re training new pilots who sometimes aren’t really experienced and then we have the situation of they must learn to fly at night and they must eventually learn to fly in poor visibility conditions. The tower is very important for all that in terms of how they learn to communicate in the sky.” The aviation program’s curriculum requires students to fly in tower-controlled environments in certain courses, which is something the SI Airport may be unable to provide should the budget cuts occur. “If (students) are not in the tower-controlled environment here, they’re going to have to go find it,” NewMyer said. “The only suitable tower it looks like it will be possible for us to do that will be at Champaign-Urbana.” Michael Bacha, a junior from Palatine studying aviation, said he would not enjoy flying over 180 miles to achieve that requirement. “That’s kind of far just to talk to a tower. I personally wouldn’t want to fly all the way up to Champaign,” he said. “If that’s what it takes to get the experience, then I guess that’s what we’d have to do.” Bacha said, tower communication was kind of scary as a new pilot, but with experience he feels comfortable asking for help and double-checking things such as being clear to land. “If people want to be a pilot for a major airline, you’re going to fly into airports with towers,” he said. “It’s nice to have that experience now learning how to talk to air traffic control. It keeps everyone on their toes, and it’s safer because you trust them to have another set of eyes watching you.” NewMyer said the Department of Aviation will look at ways to keep the tower open that would require the airport and the university to share the cost. However, the cost is unknown because the tower is privately contracted through the FAA.

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Retired professor Charlie Rodriguez, of Murphysboro, displays his photo of the Southern Illinois Airport tower Friday that he took in the mid 1990s. The control tower at the Murphysboro airport control tower risks closure by April 1 because of federal spending cuts. Rodriguez said the control tower enables communication between pilots and air-traffic control operators. “I’ve been flying since 1974, and we’ve always had some sort of control tower ever since I can remember,” he said. “We will still be able to deliver flight instruction, but the layer of complexity that it adds to our normal training routine becomes far more complicated,” said John Voges, university

flight instructor. “I know that our students deserve the best quality training we can provide them, and I know that an air traffic control tower helps us to achieve that objective.”

The three released trustees, who were all tied to SIUE, have been good ambassadors to SIUC, Poshard said. Herrin said he did not attend the interviews because he had business obligations. He said the instance was different from the basketball game because trustees were already in town for the next day’s meeting. “We’re not only comparing apples to oranges,” he said. “We’re talking about apples and grapefruits.” Poshard said Hightower was unable to attend the game because he had business to attend to. “These board members have been totally supportive of athletics at SIU Carbondale,” Poshard said. “The new (stadiums) and everything else.” Herrin said he had no personal issues with the departing trustees, and he will continue to perform his job to the best of his ability despite the turmoil. “There is no one, no one, who would want unity at this university more than me,” he said. “I’ll bend over six ways from Sunday. I will cooperate with anybody, everybody.” Poshard said he was unsure when the board would be able to reconvene, but appointments will need to be made first. However, he said any newly appointed trustees will still need time to study university issues. “It’s not an immediate thing just because somebody comes on to the board,” he said. “It’s not the most productive thing, having those people voting the next day on the board agenda when they really don’t know anything about it.” Although the meeting was canceled, Poshard said no pressing financial issues will be put off because of the delay. Trustees will still be able to review material on tuition raises now and vote during May’s meeting, he said. While Thursday’s meeting has not yet been rescheduled, the board will hold a special meeting Tuesday to appoint a temporary general counsel.

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TERRANCE PEACOCK JACK ROBINSON The SIU track and field team continued its successful season with two event wins during the weekend’s last-chance meets, but members failed to qualify additional athletes for the NCAA Indoor National Championships. Last-chance meets are opportunities before the championships to give track and field athletes one last opportunity to push their personal bests and crack the top-16 in their respective events. The Salukis traveled to the Arkansas Final Qualifier in Fayetteville, Ark., and Alex Wilson Invitational at Notre Dame to compete for spots at nationals. Senior Kim Fortney, freshman Josh Freeman and sophomores Sophia Lozano and DeAnna Price traveled to Arkansas to improve their personal bests, while senior distance runner and Missouri Valley Conference Champion Zach Dahleen headed

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“It was really hard for her to play in the last game because they play all guards,” Harlow said. “I really couldn’t put her in. I guess we should have played her in the first half (on Sunday) and when she got in. She went hard. She didn’t have an attitude about it, and she went and did her thing. Panthers freshman guard Hannah

to South Bend, Ind., with hopes to improve his mile time. Dahleen finished eighth of 33 runners in the mile run with a 4:01.41 final time, but he fell two seconds shy of entering the top16, where qualifying times ranged from 3:52 to 3:58. Dahleen came off of an impressive indoor MVC championship performance, where he captured his second-straight indoor mile-run title clocked at 4:12.02. Wisconsin’s sophomore Austin Mudd, the mile’s top finisher, ran a time of 3:58.59, which ranks him 14th in the nation. The country’s top time belongs to 2012 indoor mile national champion, senior Chris O’Hare of Tulsa University, who owns the national collegiate record of 3:52.98. O’Hare’s time was nearly two seconds better than his 2012 record. Distance coach Matt Sparks said the meet’s goal is to qualify for nationals, so anything less than doing so is a disappointment. “(Dahleen) came off such a high week before when he was named the

MVC Most Valuable Men’s Athlete, so we were really confident going into it, but he fell a little bit short of the goal in qualifying for the national meet,” Sparks said. “He still has outdoor track to go, so we’ve got another season to go out and try to redeem ourselves.” Fortney won both the women’s shot put and the women’s weight throw during the Arkansas Final Qualifier. However, Fortney didn’t qualify for nationals as she fell less than two feet shy in the shot put and a half foot short in the weight throw. Her longest shot-put throw was 15.90 meters, and her meet-winning weight throw flew 20.28 meters. Price took second in the weight throw with a 20.23 meter heave, and Lozano claimed third with a 19.46 meter toss. Freeman’s 17.18-meter shot-put toss placed him third among the hopeful athletes. National meet qualifiers will be officially announced today. The NCAA Indoor Championships will be held Friday and Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.

Schonhardt responded late with five consecutive points to help Northern Iowa build a 10-point lead with less than five minutes left in the game, but the Salukis couldn’t recover from the deficit. SIU freshman guard Rishonda Napier said with the tournament approaching, it’s time for the team to step up. “Our coach told us that it’s time

to grow up,” she said. “We’ve got a team of freshmen and sophomores, and people say, ‘Oh, they are young, they are learning.’ Whether we are freshmen and sophomores or juniors and seniors, we are basketball players. When a play needs to be made, we need to make them.” Please visit www.dailyegyptian.com for the rest of the story.

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ANTHONY PICKENS Daily Egyptian Consumerism has made American citizens more like robots rather than human beings, and one performance artist is out to prove it. Amy Kilgard, a performer and professor at San Francisco State University, presented her show “Triskaidekaphobia: 13 Consumer Tragedies” Frday at the Marion Kleinau Theater by mocking the awkwardness and irrationality consumerism brings society. She portrayed 13 different characters through a series of skits, and the audience responded by laughing and approving of Kilgard’s exaggerated American capitalism portrayal. Before the show began, shopping bags labeled 1 to 13 were placed in front of the stage. Each bag symbolized one of 13 consumer tragedies Kilgard enacted onstage during the skits. Throughout the performance, she turned each bag to its opposite side to reveal a new consumer tragedy she planned to portray. Kilgard said she interviewed people with retail experience for the show and found that American corporations make awkward, scripted interactions with customers more robotic and less human. As Kilgard enacted “The Deal,” the eight consumer tragedy, she received Black Friday audience advice. One crowd tip was to miss Thanksgiving dinner to wait in line early outside of a retail store. She called on Felix Peralta, a sophomore from Chicago studying physical education, to give a helpful Black Friday shopping tip. He told her to plan her route of stores to visit in advance. Kilgard wrote the tips frantically as the crowd shouted more. Kilgard’s interactions made it easier to be drawn into the experience, Peralta said. “I thought (audience interaction) was pretty cool,” he said. “It’s definitely awesome to be engaged in the performance. I’m that kind of person who likes to be involved. It keeps me more focused.” Another audience-participation element allowed patrons to pelt Kilgard with paper. Kilgard told various consumerism tales during each skit, and the crowd threw paper at her as she poked her head and hands through an on-stage green target whenever an audience member grew tired of the situations she enacted. Audience member Simone Biles, a senior from Country Club Hills studying theater, said the

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Visiting artist Amy Kilgard delivers a monologue Friday during the performance of “Triskaidekaphobia” in the Marion Kleinau Theater. Audience members received instructions that involved them in the show in various ways. For example, some members read lines aloud while others crumpled their programs into a ball and threw them at onstage target. show related to one of her favorite hobbies — shopping. She said Kilgard’s over-the-top performance was hilarious and changed the way she viewed the passtime. The show left her in laughter because it was relatable, but also humbling, Biles said. “Honestly, (the show) struck a chord with me because I really love to shop, and so I didn’t really realize how many different ways we are being consumed with consumerism,” she said.

Biles said “iLand,” Kilgard’s fifth shopping bag skit, made her rethink whether her uncontrollable desires for Apple products was appropriate. In the skit, Kilgard pretended to be an obsessed Apple fan trying to find ways to fill her emotional needs with the next product. Rebecca Walker, associate professor of speech communication, said the show made her reflect on her own consumer habits. “We are sort of taught to buy things as an

expression of our identity, or like Amy talks about, buying things as a way to fill a void for something that’s lacking in our life,” she said. “Consumption becomes one of the main ways that we’re told over and over by corporations and advertising campaigns that we can fix any sort of problem that we’re having.” Anthony Pickens can be reached at apickens@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext.257

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Sophomore guard Cartaesha Macklin goes up for a basket Sunday during the Salukis’ 74-60 loss to the University of Northern Iowa at SIU Arena. Macklin would finish with a team-high 21 points and five assists. The Salukis travel to Drake University Thursday to face the Bulldogs at the Knapp Center.

The Salukis kept a close game in their final two season home games but lost both weekend matchups. The Salukis lost 77-61 Friday against Bradley and 74-60 Sunday against Northern Iowa. After losing to Bradley 90-48 Feb. 2, the Salukis kept the Braves’ lead within 6 points for the game’s first 11 minutes. The Braves then went on a 7-0 run to extend the lead to 29-19. Bradley took the lead into halftime with a 43-30 advantage thanks to the Salukis’ 16 first-half turnovers. SIU interim-coach Adrianne Harlow said the turnovers were the main reason the lead was unreachable. “Obviously, the turnovers were a major issue, especially in the first half,” she said. “We settled down a little bit more in the second half and really made some runs at them. Had we (cut down on the turnovers), we would have put a lot of pressure on them.” The Salukis ended the night with 26 turnovers, which led to 25 Bradley points. Macklin ended the night with 18 points and 10 assists, tying a career-high she set against Chicago State earlier this season. Freshman center Dyana Pierre and Macklin were the only players with a double-double on the night. Macklin said she was surprised she accomplished the feat. “Oh shoot, I didn’t even know that,” she said. “That’s pretty exciting. I got to keep my teammates involved, and if I get

them involved they keep me in my routine of working hard and playing hard.” Macklin continued her routine in the Salukis’ Sunday matchup against Northern Iowa. The Salukis started with a 13-6 lead over the Panthers in the game’s first five minutes thanks to a hot Macklin start. She scored five of the Salukis’ 11 initial points and ended the first half with 15. Defensive rebounding was a Saluki issue, as the Panthers grabbed five offensive boards in the first half alone. The rebounding fueled SIU’s shooters as they went on a early 14-4 run. Harlow has said hot shooters fuel other shooters, and that was the case for Macklin as she found her range from beyond the arc and hit three of her four shots in first half. It took the Panthers’ six-year senior Jacqui Kalin, the Missouri Valley Conference’s leading scorer, 15 minutes to score her first points on the night. She finished with 15 points, and was instrumental in the Panther’s first half offense with four assists. Despite not playing in Friday’s game, sophomore center Alexus Patterson produced for the Salukis in the second half as she scored all six of her points in the second half and helped the SIU keep the Panthers’ lead within 7 points until the final game’s five minutes. Harlow said she was impressed with Patterson’s play. Please see MACKLIN | 4

Men’s basketball ends road dry spell DEMARIO PHIPPS-SMITH Daily Egyptian The SIU men’s basketball team ended a 15-game conference road losing streak Saturday as it defeated Drake 66-63. The Salukis have won five of their last six games and appear to be the hottest team in the Missouri Valley Conference as the MVC tournament looms. Senior guard Jeff Early helped lead a Saluki rally in the second half. Drake led 50-42 with 12 minutes left in the game, before Early poured in 16 of his 26 total points to take the SIU lead. His two clutch free throws with five seconds remaining put SIU up 3 points, and the Bulldogs failed

to connect on a desperation attempt to tie the game. “Early had a great night,” Drake coach Mark Phelps said. “He’s been playing better lately and our guys knew that. We couldn’t stop him enough tonight.” Early said he felt he would do something great in his last Saluki road game. “I’ve been losing road games since last year, and I told my guys at the hotel I feel like doing something big today,” he said. “I’m just glad the ball got to me at the end.” The senior hybrid averages more than 20 points per game in his last five contests, and her shoots better than 50 percent for the season.

SIU coach Barry Hinson said Early was the go-to-guy at the end of the game. “Every play we called down the stretch involved Jeff Early,” Hinson said. “He just kept telling me, ‘Get me the ball, get me the ball.’ I have no problems doing that right now.” The Salukis played effective defense on both the perimeter and post interior. In the first half, Drake made just three of its eight 3-point attempts and shot 48 percent from the field for the game. Despite 6-foot-11 center junior center Seth VanDeest’s and 6-foot-8 senior forward Jordan Clarke’s efforts, the Bulldogs were outscored 26-22 in the post by a smaller SIU frontcourt.

SIU’s swift defenders forced Drake into 16 turnovers and the Salukis cashed in on those opportunities with 18 points. Early and freshman guard Jalen Pendleton led the team with three steals each as the Salukis accumlated 10 steals on the game. Phelps said the Bulldogs’ weak ball security was too much for the team to overcome. “Obviously it’s a disappointing loss for us. At the end of the day our defense wasn’t good enough, and we didn’t take good enough care of the ball,” he said. “Our offense was fine when we took care of the ball, but the combination of turning the ball over and allowing 52 percent shooting was too much.”

Junior guard Desmar Jackson was the Salukis’ second leading scorer with 15 points on six of 11 shooting. Jackson also added two steals, three rebounds and an assist. The junior made two of four 3-pointers, including a bank shot off the glass in the game’s final moments. Hinson said the Salukis have turned their season around after a poor start in conference play. “I don’t think there’s a lot of programs that lost six in a row, that started off the way we did in the Valley,” he said. “Going into the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament, I don’t know of another team hotter than us. That’s a credit to our kids not giving up.”