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SIUC announces restructuring plan RYAN VOYLES JACOB MAYER Daily Egyptian
Chancellor Rita Cheng announced more changes to the structure of the university Monday, including breaking up of the Division of Student Affairs. As part of the changes, Larry Dietz, who has served as vice chancellor of student affairs since 2000, will be reassigned to another
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position within the university, he said. Dietz said he understands Cheng was brought to SIUC to provide a fresh point of view about how the university is organized. “It’s a change in philosophy relative to the role that the student affairs division plays at a university,� he said. “(Cheng) has a different kind of philosophy about that, and that’s her prerogative.� SIUC Spokesman Rod Sievers said the changes would take place immediately.
“The provost starts next week. ... So yeah, this is a go,� he said. The restructuring will place New Student Programs, Center for Academic Success, Student Support Services, Supplemental Instruction, University 101, Residential Life, Career Services and Pre-Major Advisement under the control of Gary Minish. Please see RESTRUCTURING | 3
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FIR TREES AND FAMILY Evan Baker, left, holds his four-year-old brother Brayden on his shoulders while their brother, Tyler Byrnes, carries Brayden’s twin, Riley, and interacts with his girlfriend, Abby Clark, Thursday evening in the Hobby Lobby parking lot. The brothers’ mother, Tonya Baker, said this was the first year the family from Murphysboro bought a live Christmas tree. The Carbondale Community High School band boosters were selling trees as a fundraiser. GENNA ORD DAILY EGYPTIAN
Students concerned with holiday recognition
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Leah Rosenblat smiled as she led the Shabbat services at the Hillel House's annual Hanukkah party. As the Jewish student community recited the service prayers, the house filled with laughter and everyone read off-beat. “We like to have fun with everything,� said Rosenblat, a senior from Glencoe studying psychology. The Hillel House, a Registered Student Organization, brought together the Jewish student body to celebrate the “Festival of Lights.� However, Rosenblat said efforts made by the university to acknowledge the holiday are somewhat disappointing. “It’s a public university, and they have to make an effort to decorate for everyone or not dec-
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orate at all,� she said. Hanukkah, an annual Jewish festival, began Wednesday on the 25th day of Kislev, the ninth month of the Jewish calendar. The celebration lasts for eight days and is commemorated by lighting candles on the menorah, one for each night of Hanukkah. Ilana Sidorow, a freshman from Hinsdale studying communication disorders and sciences, said she walked into the holiday dinner at Lentz Hall on the first night of Hanukkah to find a lit-up Christmas tree and several people wearing Santa hats.
Hanukkah (Judaism) sunset Dec. 1 through sunset Dec. 9
Winter Solstice/Yule (Paganism) Dec. 21
Saint Nicholas Day (Germany) Dec. 6
Pancha Ganapati Festival (Hinduism) Dec. 21 through 25
Saint Lucy’s Day (Croatia) Dec. 13
Christmas (Christianity) Dec. 25
Day of Ashura (Islam) Dec. 16
Kwanzaa (Pan-African) Dec. 26 through Jan. 1
— Rachel Wides master’s student in social work and director of the Hillel House
“I understand that it was the first night of December, but it was also the first night of Hanukkah and they could have chosen another night to do it,� she said. “They said it was a holiday dinner, but the only holiday represented was Christmas.� Max Braun, a freshman from Champaign studying aviation flight, said issues within religious acknowledgment seem to be embedded within the southern culture. Many SIUC students are from northern regions where there is more diversity, but university administration might not be in the same boat, he said. Braun said he doesn’t believe the Jewish community is being discriminated against by the lack of acknowledgment, but it seems as if people haven’t experienced other religions so they don’t understand. “It’s not just about the Jews on campus, it’s about recognition of what else is out there,� Braun said. Susan Coriasco, deputy director of marketing and graphics at the Student Center, is in charge of the decorations within buildings and
said she sends out a letter in October to all RSOs to inform them that there are trees available for them to decorate. She said the trees are referred to as “holiday trees,� not Christmas trees, and are available to any RSO that wants to decorate them. “There’s a separation of church and state, so we don’t call our Christmas decorations, ‘Christmas decorations, ‘we call them ‘holiday decorations.’ ... We don’t promote any particular holiday with these,� Coriasco said. Rosenblat said the reason Hillel wasn’t interested in decorating a holiday tree was because most identify it with a Christmas tree. For the students who aren’t part of the Christian community, she said the concern is that they are being overlooked. For other organizations that aren’t interested in a tree, Coriasco said it’s not possible to reserve an enclosed case specifically for decoration. She said it’s possible to have a display, but there is no way to provide security for it.
For RSOs that look to have representation in the Student Center, Coriasco said they need to come up with the display, but she isn’t able to provide it. “In order to put up Hanukkah or Kwanzaa decorations, we would have to have some representation from those communities,� Coriasco said. “I wouldn’t want to misrepresent them or do it wrong.� Campus isn’t the only place lacking recognition for the holiday. Sidorow said she was upset when she wasn’t able to find decorations for the Jewish holiday anywhere in Carbondale. “We went to Walmart, and we asked if they had Hanukkah stuff and they said ‘No.’ We asked them if they had a menorah and they said ‘What’s that?’� Sidorow said. In Chicago, Rosenblat said it’s common to walk into a department store and on display is both a menorah and a tree. She said it’s rare to hear someone say ‘Merry Christmas,’ but the common saying is ‘Happy Holidays.’ In Carbondale, she said it seems as if people tend to assume everyone is Christian. “It’s always ‘church’, it’s never ‘your place of worship,’� Rosenblat said.
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Rachel Wides, a master’s student in social work and director of the Hillel House, left, plays with her niece, Eirwen Wides, after lighting the menorah with her brother, David Wides, right, at their grandmother’s house. Despite the local lack of recognition of Hanukkah, a Jewish student community does exist on campus. Wednesday marked the first day of Hanukkah, an eight day holiday that runs until Thursday. ISAAC SMITH DAILY EGYPTIAN
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Sam Donets, a junior from Glenview studying radio-television, said he had a test scheduled on the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and it took a significant amount of convincing for his teacher to let him take the day off. He said he feels as if many professors don’t put effort into educating themselves on other cultures, and it can be very offensive. Rachel Wides, a master's student in social work from Carbondale and
director of the Hillel RSO, said she has recently spoken to administration in hopes of organizing a focus group with Hillel students so they can feel like their voices are heard. She said it finally seems as if people in power at SIUC are going to follow up on recognizing other religions. “It’s not just about Judaism; it’s about representing everyone,” she said. For incoming freshman, Wides said Jewish families who are from predominately Jewish areas do take Hillel into consideration when they are looking for universities.
“Our idea is to provide community and provide a place that is welcoming and comforting,” Wides said. “We're looking to give people a place to practice Judaism in the way that is best for them.” Sidorow said she had a friend in her dorm interested in Jewish holidays so she took them to temple on Rosh Hashanah. “We’ve taken it into our hands to teach others about the traditions,” she said. “We teach them, and they’re more understanding now, but they just didn’t know before they came.”
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Correction In the Friday edition of the Daily Egyptian, the caption for the page one photograph should have read “Lana Carlson, of Carbondale, left, shops for Christmas gifts as Dan Tran dozes Thursday at the 32nd annual Craft Sale in the Student Center.” The Daily Egyptian regrets this error.
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Rice to return to faculty, department of anthropology RYAN VOYLES Daily Egyptian Don Rice says after six years of being an administrator, it is time to return to the field he loves. “There are not other administrative positions open, and I think it’s time to return,” he said. “I’ve got a lot of research data I would like to be working on. We have graduate students who will be doing dissertations and need mentoring. It just seemed logical.” Rice, interim provost at SIUC since Dec. 2006, will return to the department of anthropology as a tenured faculty member when his term ends next week. Gary Minish, former dean of the SIUC College of Agricultural Sciences, was selected Nov. 18 by Chancellor Rita Cheng as the provost and senior vice chancellor. He will begin Dec. 15, pending ratification Thursday
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Minish will take over as provost and senior vice chancellor starting Dec. 15, pending ratification Thursday by the SIU Board of Trustees. Minish will also oversee International Programs and Services. Several departments will also move under the control of Kevin Bame, vice chancellor for administration and finance, including Housing, Recreational Sports and Services,
by the SIU Board of Trustees. Cheng chose Minish over three other candidates, including Rice. He said though he does not have an official job title yet, Rice will return to the Center for Archaeological Investigations as well as help the vice chancellor of research and members of the Center of Ecology. Rice said he has enjoyed his term as provost, even during the tough financial times. “I've always seen administrative positions as being a good steward of resources and help people do what they need and want to do,” he said. “Sometimes you can't accomplish all of that, but I try to be straight with people, and help as much as I can. There have been good things, and some things that could have happened better.” Cheng said she was excited for Rice to remain at the university and
continue to contribute with his research and journal publication. “Don is a highly regarded and well-respected member of the faculty, and he has made many contributions to this university,” she said. “And I expect him to continue to contribute in significant ways in his department, in (the College of Liberal Arts) and across the university.” Rice came to the university in 1991 as the director for the archaeological investigations center. He also held the position of associate dean for budget, personnel and research for SIUC's College of Liberal Arts before becoming associate provost in 2004. Brian Butler, director of the center, said he served as the associate director when Rice came to the university. Rice always kept a professional working environment, Butler said. “(Rice) was a very good director;
he knew each member of the staff had different roles, and he did what he could to support us in our various research and funding efforts,” he said. “He did what a director is suppose to do, he was good at it.” Rice said he has never considered leaving southern Illinois, even after other job opportunities appeared. “(SIUC) is a great place to work and the region is a great place to live,” he said. “The people here have been very friendly, both academically and otherwise. This university is a place where you can create a great opportunity.” Rice said he will begin moving into his new office in Faner Hall Thursday or Friday, and described it as a “different feeling.” “Being surrounded by academic books instead of books on the (Regional Access and Mobilization Project) and the office can be much
more personal,” he said. Susan Logue, associate provost for academic administration, said she has learned more about academics during her three years serving under Rice than she did in her more than 30 years at Morris Library. “My job as an administrator at the library didn't provide me with the training that someone like Rice could give me. I received a wellrounded idea of the academy in general,” she said. Though he said he has started to get too old for anthropology field work and can't tolerate as much sun exposure, Rice said he does not plan to retire anytime soon. “I hope to keep up my work here for awhile,” he said.
Rainbow’s End, Student Development, Student Health Center, Counseling Center and Student Center. The Bursar’s Office will become part of Enrollment Management, while Disability Support Services, Veterans Services, Student Judicial Affairs, Multicultural Programming and Student Legal Affairs will report to Peter Gitau, dean of students. Gitau will report to Minish. “The steps we are taking build on Saluki First Year, which is having a very positive impact on our first-year
students,” Cheng said in the release. “This expanded approach will help us more effectively meet the needs of our first- and second-year students and help them achieve their goal of earning a degree.” Cheng said in the release Dietz’s position in the division of student affairs would temporarily remain vacant. Dietz said he respects Cheng’s decision, and he expects a decision to be made about his new position in the relatively near future.
“The issue for both of us when these kind of changes happen is to try to look toward the future as quickly as possible,” he said. Dietz said he is a tenured associate professor in the College of Education and Human Services, and with his past experience as an administrator, looks forward to continue to be involved at the university. “There’s lots of ways to serve the university, and I look forward to continue to be active and continue to be involved,” he said.
Sievers said the restructuring also answers questions about the administration raised by some people. “You heard about a lot of calls saying, ‘You’re too top-heavy’ and the chancellor hears that,” he said. “This is one of the goals of this (restructuring).”
Ryan Voyles can be reached at rvoyles@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 254.
Jacob Mayer contributed to this report.
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Officials review challenges to Emanuel candidacy DEANNA BELLANDI The Associate Press CHICAGO — In a crowded basement hearing room, dozens of people who don't want former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to be Chicago's next mayor moved ahead Monday with their efforts to keep him off the February ballot. Other candidates dropped out or were kicked out of the race. Chicago election officials began sifting through hundreds of petition challenges to candidates in the citywide election, including more than 30 objections to Emanuel's candidacy. Opponents contend Emanuel doesn't meet the residency requirement because he lived for nearly two years in Washington before coming home after Mayor Richard Daley announced in September that he wouldn't seek a seventh term. Meanwhile, the businessman who has been renting Emanuel's home in Chicago while Emanuel worked in Washington dropped his competing bid for mayor on Monday, citing the financial pressures of a campaign. Rob Halpin made headlines when he refused to move out of Emanuel's house until his lease was up, and then was among the 20 people to file paperwork for
a chance to replace Daley. “I have no plans to either endorse or work against any current candidates and have faith that the voters of Chicago will make the right choice in electing new leadership,” Halpin said in a statement. Halpin is expected to be a witness against Emanuel as he tries to fend off the residency challenges. Emanuel has been living elsewhere in Chicago since moving back in October after quitting his job with President Barack Obama. Emanuel faces a crowd of motivated objectors who gathered Monday as a hearing officer for the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners laid out the schedule for dealing with their petition challenges. “I think it's going to turn into a little bit of a circus,” attorney Burt Odelson, one of the lawyer representing people who want Emanuel off the ballot, said of the process. The hearing officer is expected to begin listening to evidence Monday after a status hearing that's scheduled for Friday. Election officials are rushing to get a decision on whether Emanuel will be on the ballot because the case is likely to end up in court before the Feb. 22 election. In addition to questions about his residency, some objectors contend
Emanuel didn't purchase city stickers required for his vehicle so therefore he owes the city money and isn't eligible to run for mayor. Emanuel's campaign said he has had the required stickers but didn't buy one in June 2009 because the Emanuel family car was taken to Washington then and they didn't need one. “All of this is an irrelevant diversion from what matters, which is that Rahm never abandoned his residency and has been clear that he intended to return to Chicago when his service to the president was completed,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said in a statement. If Emanuel survives the challenges to his candidacy, he'll have a better position on the ballot than the No. 3 spot he won in a lottery last week. The little-known candidate who won the No. 2 spot was kicked off the ballot Monday. That means Emanuel would be No. 2 behind U.S. Rep. Danny Davis, who won the top spot. Other candidates for mayor include former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, former Chicago school board president Gery Chico, City Clerk Miguel del Valle and state Sen. James Meeks, the pastor of a South Side megachurch. Associated Press writer Don Babwin contributed to this report.
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Hate hidden under cloak of religion Tim Rutten McClatchy Tribune
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an organization with deep roots in the civil rights movement. Its ingenious lawsuits helped break the back of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist factions, and in recent years, it has joined the Anti-Defamation League as a reliable monitor of hate groups. The Family Research Council is an influential Washington-based advocacy group with deep roots in the religious right. Its annual political forum, the Values Voter Summit, has become a nearly obligatory stop for ambitious Republican office-seekers hoping to win the support of so-called values voters. In recent years, the council has given an increasing share of its attention to opposing marriage equality and open military service by gays and lesbians. Now, the two groups are locked in a sharp confrontation that raises crucial
questions about where the expression of religiously based views on social issues ends and hate speech begins. Last week, the law center added the Family Research Council to its list of more than 930 active hate groups, citing the anti-gay rhetoric of its leaders and researchers, which have included calls to re-criminalize consensual sex between individuals of the same gender. The Southern Poverty Law Center defines a hate group as one with “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.� The council’s president, former Louisiana lawmaker Tony Perkins, reacted angrily to the designation, calling it “slanderous� and demanding an apology. “The left is losing the debate over ideas and the direction of public policy, so all that is left for them is character assassination,� Perkins said, insisting that his group “will continue to champion
marriage and family as the foundation of our society and will not acquiesce to those seeking to silence the JudeoChristian views held by millions of Americans.� Other conservative commentators also have assailed listing the council as a hate group, calling it an affront to protected speech. That is a superficially compelling argument, but it won’t withstand scrutiny. It is perfectly possible for a church or an organization associated with a denomination or religious tendency, as the Family Research Council is with evangelical Protestantism, to oppose, say, marriage equality as a departure from tradition and traditional notions of civic virtue without defaming gays and lesbians as a group. But the council goes well beyond that. Throughout the years, it has published statistical compendiums purporting to quantify the “evils� of homosexuality. One of its pamphlets is titled, “Dark Obsession: The Tragedy
and Threat of the Homosexual Lifestyle.� At various times, its spokesmen have spuriously alleged that the gay rights movement’s goal “is to go after children� and that child molestation is more likely to occur in households with gay parents. Last week, one of its senior fellows, Peter Sprigg, told reporters on a conference call concerning repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell� policy that “homosexuals in the military are three times more likely to commit sexual assaults than heterosexuals are relative to their numbers.� Such rhetoric is eerily reminiscent of that with which religiously affiliated opponents of black equality once defended segregation. It wasn’t all that long ago that some of them argued against school integration because, they alleged, black adolescents were uniquely unable to control sexual impulses and, therefore, would assault white schoolgirls. Exhortations against “race mixing� were commonplace pulpit
messages short decades ago, though we now recognize them as hate speech. It’s past time to do the same with rhetoric that denigrates gays and lesbians. So long as even the most objectionable religious dogma stays under the church roof, it’s a constitutionally protected view. People’s religious beliefs, even when, are a private matter. Our churches are free to order their internal affairs as they will — to set the terms of sacramental marriage as they see fit, to discriminate in the selection of their clergy, to racially segregate their membership or to separate the sexes in their schools or places of worship. However, when a group sets out to impose its views on the rest of society by lobbying for public policies or laws, it can no longer claim special protections or an exemption from the norms of civil discourse simply because its views are formed by religious beliefs. This is precisely the dodge the Family Research Council has been running.
my comprehension and then telling me to shut up. I have sat in the Dawg Pound with my father for 28 years, before there was a Dawg Pound. I want the Dawg Pound and the greater SIU community to know this, and I know dad will whole-heartedly back me up on this one. In all of those years sitting with the students, we heard expletives more times than we could hope to count, even put to song at times. But not once in all of those years did one of our fellow SIU Dawg Pounders act like one of those expletives to my parents or our children; quite the contrary. Personally, I’m not
concerned about a couple of losing seasons, though I’d obviously rather see us win. But if a couple of losing seasons sends jerks like our new friend back to wherever they came from to complain about how good they have it elsewhere, then the rest of us can go back to stretching out, having fun and getting down with the true Saluki spirit in that beautiful arena. Thank you Dawg Pound, our preDawg Pound friends, the SIU band, the SIU cheerleaders, Saluki Shakers and Saluki athletics for 28 great years.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dawg Pound should be respected, even during losing streaks Dear Editor: I am writing to record the negative interaction my party and I were participants in just after halftime of the Saluki game with New Mexico. While sitting in our seats on the first row on the south end, my friend and a local business owner came to visit us for a few minutes with his son who is a playmate of my own son, who was with me. After about a minute and a half, a man behind us leaned in and bellowed, “Do you people have tickets here?� so loudly and aggressively it caused my son to come off his seat. My friend and I were so aghast at
first we didn’t know how to respond, but then he said “No.� “Then I’m going to have to ask you to leave,� the man said. His voice was so angry that my friend and I both decided to let it go as we’ve seen his kind before and knew better than to set him straight at that moment. I apologized profusely to my friends and even called them after the game to apologize again. My friend took his son and returned to his own ticketed seats. I then turned to my son and said, “That’s how not to act in public.� The man leaned in again loudly asked me to repeat myself.
“I said that’s how not to act in public,� I said. He then proceeded to yell that he paid $10,000 for his seats and nobody would sit in the second row, where no one sits because it has not been sold for seating. My friend and I were sitting in my seats and our two 9-year-old boys were talking and sitting nicely in row two, the empty one. None of us interfered with the vision or personal space of this man’s party. He obviously has other issues but doesn’t have the vocabulary, decency or tact to address whatever they may be. He continued to yell, questioning
Stephen Gariepy SIU graduate ‘91
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Germ inspector helps prevent hospital infections LAURAN NEERGAARD The Associated Press BA LTIMORE — Michael Anne Preas patrols the University of Maryland Medical Center's ICU like a cop on the beat to help keep bacteria in check. With 1.7 million healthcareacquired infections a year, adding $20 billion to the nation's health bills, infections have long plagued hospitals. But they're getting renewed attention as the federal government aims to cut certain types in half in the next few years, linking success to
dollars. Medicare has begun cutting payments to hospitals with high rates of certain infections, cuts that will increase by 2015 under the new healthcare law. Infections caught at health care facilities are one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, claiming an estimated 99,000 lives a year. That's where Preas comes in. She's part of the University of Maryland Medical Center's crackdown on hospital-spread infections. Yet chances are you've never heard of Preas' job: She's an infection preventionist, part of an evolution un-
der way as hospitals are pushed to slash those rates or lose lucrative Medicare dollars. “You have to be out and about,” says Preas, who with a team of four other specialists checks parts of this large Baltimore teaching hospital for infection-control steps, looking to identify the inevitable spots where fast-paced care can allow the bugs an entry. Doctors and nurses are under orders to heed their advice. The program is unusual. There are only about 8,000 to 10,000 infection preventionists nationwide, and in most smaller hospitals they're occupied
with documenting infection statistics or advising doctors about specific pathogens, according to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. But with some other steps, it's starting to pay off: This surgical ICU has gone 24 weeks without a single case of one of the most insidious hospital infections, where bacteria infiltrate the bloodstream through that easy-to-contaminate IV catheter called a central line. Hospital-wide, those central line infections have dropped 70 percent in the past year. And some germs need a stronger
attack than others: On this fall day, Preas tells ICU nurses to post new brown-colored warning signs on the rooms of people with diarrhea, a possible sign of an intestinal superbug named Clostridium difficile, or C-diff. Health workers tend to use alcoholbased hand sanitizers that work well on most germs but won't kill the fecal spores that spread C-diff., she explains. While there's debate about the best approach, she advises the ICU nurses to wash hands with soap and water after removing their gloves and leaving those rooms — and to clean the room's equipment with bleach.
Students inspired by ‘I, Televised gay marriage Robot’ take science prize hearing attracts audience JESSICA GRESKO The Associated Press WASHINGTON — A pair of high school students inspired by the science fiction movie “I, Robot” and another who studied star formation took home $100,000 grand prizes Monday in a competition honoring the nation's top math and science students. The Siemens Competition announced the winners of its college scholarships during a ceremony at George Washington University. Benjamin Clark of Lancaster, Pa., won the top individual prize for his research on binary stars which, unlike the sun, have companions. The 15-year-old plans to major in physics or astrophysics. Akash Krishnan and Matthew Fernandez of Portland, Ore., won the team prize for their work on speech recognition technology. They developed a computer algorithm that can detect a speaker's emotion better than current
technology and will split the $100,000 team prize. Krishnan, 16, and Fernandez, 17, watched “I, Robot,” while taking a break from trying to come up with a project idea. The movie featured a robot that could detect when its user was stressed, and they decided to try to improve on the existing technology. Their algorithm has a 60 percent accuracy rate, compared with about 40 percent for a previous system. They say their work could be used to improve computer automated phone systems, helping, for example, to tell if a caller was becoming irate. “You could automatically redirect them to a actual human person, so that you could handle those kind of angry people better,” Krishnan said. The teens are also working to develop a wristwatch-like device that would display colors or happy and sad faces to help autistic children identify and interpret other people's emotions.
LISA LEFF PAUL ELIAS The Associated Press SAN FRAN CISCO — The legal fight over California's same-sex marriage ban went before a federal appeals court Monday in a hearing that reached a nationwide TV audience anxious for a final decision on whether the measure violates the U.S. Constitution. The hearing before a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also focused on whether supporters of voter-approved Proposition 8 have legal standing to challenge a lower court ruling that the ban was unconstitutional. The judges did not issue an immediate ruling. C-SPAN piped the nearly three-hour hearing into law schools, courthouses, community centers and elsewhere across the country, giving the public outside the courtroom its first
— and possibly last — direct look at the debate raging in the federal case. The U.S. Supreme Court blocked a lower court from broadcasting the full trial earlier this year, and the high court has a blanket ban on televising its own proceedings. That means the issue would be blacked out if it reaches the U.S. Supreme Court, as many legal experts and lawyers on both sides believe it will. Matt Walker, 60, of Los Angeles watched the hearing with about 20 other people at the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center in West Hollywood, saying the lives of many of his friends will be affected by the final decision. He found the hearing to be fascinating. “Nobody from either side was getting a pass. The judges asked very probing question,” he said. The 9th Circuit has allowed broadcasts of civil cases for year. The California Supreme Court twice aired the gay marriage debate.
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Tiber said she doesn’t know who will guard the opposition's best player in future games because she doesn’t know if she has another player who can do what Crayton did. Last year, sophomore guard Teri Oliver guarded the best player, but it would wear her out because she also leads the Saluki offense, Tiber said. Oliver said the loss of the senior doesn't put any extended leadership role on anyone, but more players will have to be prepared to play solid defense and always be ready to play as Crayton was. “It's a big loss. She holds leading scorers to two points a game when they’re averaging 16 or 17 points,” Oliver said. With Crayton out the Salukis will have to do more offensively, such as take better care of the ball and take advantage of the Commodores' defense switching on every single screen regardless of the position, Tiber said. Tiber said the biggest difference between Vanderbilt and SIU is size.
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COMMUNITY KICKS TOGETHER Midfielder Gabe Streit, a junior at Carbondale Community High School, goes for the ball Monday during an indoor soccer match at Sports Blast. His team is led by Mike Cannell, CCHS soccer coach, and consists of five others who play
on the high school team. The co-ed fall indoor league, which has seven teams, started in mid-November and lasts until next week. “We want the girl players to get active before their season starts,” Cannell said, “And give the guys an extra month to play.”
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The 2010 season was an anomaly for the Saluki football team, Lennon said. Three football players, junior cornerback Nick King, junior safety Rashad Graham and sophomore cornerback James McFadden all suffered knee ligament injuries. “Trying to come back after an injury and play takes hours and hours and hours of rehab and trying to get the full range of movement back,” Lennon said. Standard rehabilitation time for an ACL or MCL injury is six months, Land said. Some athletes heal faster than that, while rehab for some can take nine to 12 months, he said. “Most people that are coming off an ACL injury, we're beginning to find out that they're not feeling right, not like they did prior to the injury,” Land said. Land said the ACL cartilage is like a rope composed of thousands of fibers. The biggest difference between a partial and complete tear is the effect it has on the knee's functional stability.
“They don’t have too many weaknesses,” she said. “When you’re playing a school at that level — they’re just so big and strong. It's not like they’re overly athletic, but they’re just big and physically beasts.” The Commodores have five players who are 6-foot-3 or taller, while the Salukis just have one in freshman center CiCi Shannon. Vanderbilt lost its last game 70-65 to Denver, its only loss of the season. Senior Commodore forward Hannah Tuomi scored 17 points and grabbed six rebounds in the game while senior guard Jence Rhoads scored 19 points and had five rebounds. SIU is coming off its worst performance of the season in a 66-39 loss to Saint Louis and is hoping to gel again as a team to compete with Vanderbilt, senior forward Katrina Swingler said. The team used the last four days to rethink its strategy to take steps forward instead of backward, she said. “We have been regrouping. We had a rough game and rough couple of practices ... trying to get chemistry back,” Swingler said. “Is the ACL doing what it needs to do, holding the knee stable and preventing that anterior translation, the tibia of the lower leg from pulling forward on the upper leg?” Land said. An athlete can have a partially torn ACL, and yet his or her ligament could be more unstable than an athlete who has a completely torn ligament or no ligament at all, Land said. Athletes are not more prone to suffer another ACL or MCL injury if they've had one before, Land said. The strength of a ligament such as the ACL or the MCL depends on how much surgery needs to be done on it and if any other ligaments were torn, he said. Tiber and Lennon said players are more cautious of their movements after rehab though they are physically capable of performing most movements. “There's a mental element in the comeback process,” Lennon said. “They may mentally not allow themselves to do the things they are capable of. Some guys come back very strong, very confident; they play like the injury never occurred.”
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Horoscopes
By Nancy Black and Stephanie Clement
Today's birthday — Opportunities open up for increased income and additional education to further your career. Practical effort takes you into new arenas, where you express private thoughts with like-minded individuals. Choose wisely to build a solid future and follow your passions.
Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Healing potential expands now. This could involve yourself or family members. Love and compassion work wonders. Pour your energy into each act.
Aries (March 21 - April 19) — Today is a 6 — Focus attention on public or social activities. Get out and meet people to take advantage of multiple opportunities. Anticipate career openings.
Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Dress up your style and message today. Even the most practical concepts can use a bit of marketing. Don't be afraid to sing your own praises, with compassion.
Taurus (April 20 - May 20) — Today is a 9 — Multiple long-distance contacts provide your partner with everything necessary to complete a change. Take off on your own and allow others to work.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Pay your own way today. That way, you maintain as many possibilities as possible, while enjoying great company. Stay close to home rather than traveling far.
Gemini (May 21 - June 21) — Today is a 6 — Associates have gathered the financial information needed to make a decision. Work together and the desired changes fall into place effortlessly.
Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — Ideas come together today in unusual ways. What appear to be very different directions actually arrive at the same place. If one fails, try another.
Cancer (June 22 - July 22) — Today is a 7 — Close relationships provide opportunities for practical action. Whether it's work or play, enthusiasm increases and imagination carries you forward.
Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) — Today is a 6 — Private gatherings take advantage of multiple possibilities. Each group member can pursue an idea independently and then bring it to the table for consensus.
Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — A new person enters the workspace, bringing new opportunities and possibly some tension. Everything works out if you don't push too hard. Use finesse rather than force.
Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 20) — Today is a 7 — Pay close attention to the role independent action plays regarding physical well-being. Listen to professionals. Then check with your own body for confirmation.
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Daily Bark Kill is great at recruiting players and a likable coach that players want to play for. As soon as he’s able to work with mostly his own recruits, Minnesota should have a respectable 7-5 record. Give it two or three years.
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The key to breaking Bill Belichick's well-coached unit is to attack its inexperienced secondary. The Pats are dead last in the NFL in pass defense, and give up 24 points per game. There's no guarantee how Chicago's inconsistent offensive line will play, so Martz needs to move the pocket with quarterback Jay Cutler, bait the blitz and then get the ball to either of Chicago's talented running backs via screens and draw plays. If Chicago stays the course and the referees don't pander to pretty boy Brady
too much, the Pats could limp out of Soldier Field. Fantasy Forecast: Earl Bennett, wide receiver — A former teammate of Cutler's at Vanderbilt, Bennett is more of a possession receiver, but he has shown big-play capabilities. He's second on the team in receptions and had two touchdowns against the Eagles two weeks ago. He had seven catches in the Lions game and has potential for another big game against the porous Pats' secondary. St. Louis Last week: Rams 19, Cardinals 6 Week 14 score prediction: Saints 24, Rams 20
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Former SIU football head coach Jerry Kill has been hired by Minnesota to try to improve the Golden Gophers from this season’s disastrous 3-9 record and eighth-place finish in the Big Ten. Kill resurrected SIU into a winning program and helped Northern get to three straight bowl games and a No. 24 ranking this season. Will Kill bring the Gophers to the top of the Big Ten or the NCAA?
I’m with LaChance. You’ve got to like what the guy has done with each program he’s led. It will probably be a struggle at first, but I’m sure Kill expects that and he’ll find some success in the Twin Cities.
If he can turn midmajor programs around with marginal talent, there should be no doubt he could turn around a team in the Big Ten.
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The Cardinals are just an absolute train wreck without Kurt Warner or his yet-to-be-found successor at quarterback, so the Rams should have won by plenty more. In a rare occurrence for this team this year, rookie quarterback Sam Bradford wasn't carrying the banner. He managed the game well, but threw a bad interception that the defense bailed him out of by immediately earning a three-andout, and Steven Jackson ground out 102 rushing yards and a gamebreaking 27-yard touchdown run in the second half. Jackson normally struggles against the Cardinals, who before
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Sunday had won eight straight against the Rams. But everything is different for St. Louis this season. Another encouraging thought: the last time Jackson played the Saints, the Rams' next opponent, he had 131 rushing yards and a touchdown. The Rams also picked off quarterback Drew Brees twice. Rams coach Steve Spagnuolo will look at last year's game plan and, with the defense playing 100 percent better in 2010 and emerging offensive stars like Bradford, should be able to develop a strong game plan that should at least make for an entertaining showdown in the
Big Easy. Anything less will be a disappointment. Fantasy Forecast: Danny Amendola, wide receiver — The Saints' superior secondary will take away what few deep threats the Rams have, and so Bradford will look to his main man Amendola underneath for most of the game. He'll probably get at least five passes thrown his way, with the possibility of more if Jackson rips up the Saints' front seven again.
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Ligament injuries end seasons but not careers
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BRANDON COLEMAN Daily Egyptian
If not for advancements in sports medicine and preventative training measures, the number of Salukis who suffer knee ligament injuries could be higher, says SIU football coach Dale Lennon. “There are times that we go through a season and maybe only have one; sometimes if you're really fortunate, you go through the season and don't have any,� he said. During injury prevention training, the Salukis focus on range of motion and overall movement, Lennon said. Proper training protects against injuries that occur during quick changes in direction, he said. “You just want to make sure the supportive muscles are all strong and able to handle different types of movements,� Lennon said. In the weight room at the Troutt Wittmann Center, the Salukis perform workouts that contain consistent movement to develop stronger joints, Lennon said. SIU assistant athletic trainer Lee Land said usually players in sports that involve major stress on the knees and ankles and quick changes in direction are more susceptible to anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament
(MCL) injuries. Knee ligament injuries are more common for women athletes than men, Land said. Ligament injury can happen in almost any lower extremity-based sport, Land said. “It's a problem with female athletes in general,� said women's basketball coach Missy Tiber. “It happens almost five times as much in female athletes as it does in male athletes.� Women basketball players’ knees tend to bend inward when they plant their feet to take a shot or accelerate through a play, she said. Senior guard and forward Eboni Crayton tore both her ACL and medial cartilage meniscus in her right knee six games into the women's basketball season against Saint Louis, Tiber said. Freshman guard Sidney Goins, Crayton's teammate, also tore her ACL this spring and is still recovering, she said. “(In) the history of the program here at SIU, there's been a significant amount of ACL injuries in the last four or five years even before I got here,� Tiber said. Tiber said she teams up with SIU assistant strength trainer Rebecca Kimball to exercise ACL injury preventative routines, the same as what Lennon does with the Saluki football team.
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Senior guard and forward Eboni Crayton readies for a shot Thursday against Saint Louis. Crayton tore her meniscus and ACL in the game and will miss the rest of the season. Coach Missy Tiber said the loss of Crayton’s defensive skills will leave a void in the Saluki’s lineup. The Salukis travel to Nashville, Tenn., to play Vanderbilt today and look to improve their record to 2-5. GEORGE LAMBOLEY DAILY EGYPTIAN
Salukis begin six-game road trip BRANDON LACHANCE Daily Egyptian The Salukis begin their six-game road trip today against No. 23 Vanderbilt University, and coach Missy Tiber says she wishes SIU would have a better record than 1-5, but her young team is learning and should continue do the same on the road. “I was hoping we would do better at home, but we just haven’t quite got there yet. So far it's just trying when
you’re building a program,� Tiber said. “It doesn’t happen overnight, and to be quite honest with you, when we went away and played at Western Michigan, we didn’t play any different than when we played at home.� The Salukis travel to the 4-1 Commodores' gymnasium without senior forward Eboni Crayton, who is out for the season after she tore her meniscus and ACL Thursday against Saint Louis. Crayton's injury leaves a void defensively and on the glass,
as she was the Salukis' best defensive player, Tiber said. “It’s huge; it’s disappointing. I think my biggest frustration is for her,� Tiber said. “Your heart just aches for a kid who is not only the glue that holds our team together, but she has no ego. She accepts her role to be our best defender and didn’t care about scoring.� Please BASKETBALL | 8
STAFF COLUMN
Rams, Bears take down weaker division opponents NICK JOHNSON Daily Egyptian For at least one Sunday in the NFL this year, things happened the way they were supposed to. The Bears needed a couple bailouts from their defense but got past the scrappy Lions, and the Rams battered Arizona with a healthy dose
of Steven Jackson. And it's a good thing both teams took advantage of weaker teams, because they're both up against juggernauts Sunday. Chicago Last week: Bears 24, Lions 20 Week 14 score prediction: Bears 20, Patriots 17 The stalwart Patriots will be the biggest test the Bears have faced
this season, and even if they topple the three-time champs, the road doesn't get any easier. Chicago still has games against New York, Minnesota and Green Bay left on its schedule. Bears fans are happy with their 9-3 record, but they probably won't be able to exhale until after the final week of the regular season. The Bears offense turned in another stel-
lar performance against an extremely poor Lions defense — Detroit's offense has never been its problem this season — but, like the Eagles, the Patriots will present a more difficult puzzle for offensive coordinator Mike Martz. Please see COLUMN | 11