Despite the environmental co-alition’s e! orts, university admin-istrators say the coal plant will not be shut down.

Phil Gatton, director of Plant and Services Operations, said the university has done everything it can to ensure they use the cleanest coal burning process available.

" e Environmental Coalition - a

student run organization - has gathered 400 signatures during the past week in support of its Beyond Coal Campaign, meant to shut down the plant. " e coalition plans to get 1200 signatures before approaching the university about a discussion on the plant within the month, said Jason Mischke, president of the Environmental Coalition.

Gatton said coal provides about 50 percent of electricity in the United States because it is readily available

and cheaper than other energy sources such as oil or gas.

" e university’s plant consumes around 50,000 tons of coal each year used to provide 14 percent of the schools electricity needs as well as steam for heating and power for cooling, according to the university’s plant and service operations web page.

Dexter Gordon, a sophomore from Chicago studying aviation flight, draws a message of peace Monday on the sidewalk outside Parkinson Laboratory during the chalk 4 peace event. “I saw all this happy stuff going on and I liked the good vibes,” Gordon said. Timeloyd Rich, the

coordinator of the event, said he was inspired by the movie “Mary Poppins,” so when he heard about chalk 4 peace five years ago he decided to do it on campus. “I’m just trying to show people that we should care more about each other and to spread the idea of peace,” Rich said.

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Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn says Murphysboro Youth Center closure is necessary because of $313 million budget deficit.

Quinn announced Sept. 8

more than 1,900 state employees will be laid off when he shuts down seven facilities, one of which is the Illinois Youth Center in Murphysboro. The center is a correctional facility for juvenile delinquents. Quinn said the closures are necessary because

the Illinois General Assembly gave him a budget of at least $313 million less than needed to run the state for a full year.

“Members of the General Assembly cannot run away from what they did in the spring,” Quinn said in a press conference

Thursday in Chicago.Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon said she

is supportive of Quinn’s efforts to deal with the budget, which she said is a very sticky situation. She said she is also in support of Quinn giving maximum notice to employees of the potential layoffs.

Since the General Assembly will meet again in November to discuss and debate options, Simon said she does want to look into other ways to save money for the state.

Murphysboro youth center may shut down TARA KULASHDaily Egyptian

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A Chicago resident was arrested Monday for willfully making a bomb threat against the university.

Maurice Leon Wiggins, 23, allegedly submitted a message from his cell phone to the SIUC Campus Crime Watch webpage Aug. 29 and said he planned to kill 4,000 students and staff

by bombing three dormitories and the Student Center between September and November, according to a press release from the Springfield division of the FBI.

Wiggins was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury and had his initial appearance before the federal district court in Chicago Monday, according to the press release.

Todd Sigler, director of the department of public safety, said FBI agents and a DPS officer interviewed Wiggins in Chicago within days of being identified.

Sigler said the university takes any threat seriously and investigate until there is no longer a threat.

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Chicago man arrested for bomb threats to universitySARAH SCHNEIDERDaily Egyptian

Sidewalk art shows message of peace

University: coal plant shutdown unlikely

The university coal plant uses 50,000 tons of coal per year and supplies 14 percent of the university’s electrical power. The Environmental Coalition started a petition last week to obtain signatures of students who don’t support coal use and would like to see the plant shut down.

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Administrators ensure cleanest burning process available

A lot of students think of coal and they think of the old technology and it’s really not that way at our power

plant which is run by computers and a very efficient process.

— Phil Gattondirector of Plant and Services Operations

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Johnston writes of Bristol Palin’s pregnancyN E W YO R K — Levi Johnston writes in his

upcoming book that his ex-girlfriend Bristol Palin was so angry about her mother’s pregnancy with son Trig that she wanted to get pregnant, too.

Johnston says when Bristol found out her mother, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was expecting a baby she responded she should be having a baby, not her mother. He says she told him in March 2008, “let’s get pregnant.”

His book, “Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin’s Crosshairs,” comes out Sept. 20. The Associated Press bought a copy on Monday.

In Bristol Palin’s own book, “Not Afraid of Life: My Journey So Far,” released last June, she says she lost her virginity to Johnston on a camping trip when she got drunk on wine coolers.

Johnston, who has feuded often with the Palin family, says in his book if that’s when Bristol first had sex,

Community college enrollment falling in IllinoisARLINGTON HEIGHTS — After marking record

levels in recent years, 2 percent fewer students enrolled at Illinois community colleges in the spring, according to data from the Illinois Community College Board.

The board found spring 2011 semester enrollment was 381,582, down from 389,432 in spring 2010, The Daily Herald reported (http://bit.ly/oPwk6p ) Monday. Those figures include student head counts and full-time equivalent students, which a credit-hour measure.

Figures aren’t yet available for the fall semester.Enrollment has remained flat or fallen at six of seven

community colleges in Chicago’s northern and western suburbs, the newspaper reported. One reason for the drop is that in because of poor economic conditions students can’t afford not to work and don’t have extra time for classes, officials at several of the schools said.

“Community colleges continue to be the best value in town, but if it’s the difference between paying an electricity bill and taking classes, people have to prioritize,” said Jim Bente, College of DuPage’s vice president of planning and institutional effectiveness.

The largest decrease was at McHenry Community College with 3.6 percent fewer credit-seeking students and 6 percent fewer credit hours. Those statistics come after the school recorded 20 percent growth in 2009 and 5 percent in 2010.

Elgin Community College saw a 3.3 percent drop in

Romney, Perry trade debate jabs on Social SecurityTAMPA, Fla . — Under attack from rival Mitt Romney,

Texas Gov. Rick Perry softened his rhetoric if not his position on Social Security in a campaign debate Monday night, declining to repeat earlier statements questioning the program’s constitutionality and likening it to a “Ponzi scheme.”

“A program that’s been there 70 or 80 years, obviously we’re not going to take that away,” Perry said as his cross-stage rival pressed him repeatedly to answer Romney’s pointed questions.

The Texas governor counter-attacked quickly, accusing Romney of “trying to scare seniors” with his own comments on a program that tens of millions of Americans — including millions in Florida alone — rely on for part or even all of their retirement income.

The debate unfolded in the Florida city where Republicans will gather next summer to bestow the party nomination on a challenger to President Barack Obama.

It was the second time in less than a week that Perry, the front-runner in opinion polls, and Romney, his closest

3 dead in Effingham double murder-suicideEFFINGHAM — A central Illinois man fired more

than 40 rounds before killing his estranged wife, her mother and then himself in a double murder-suicide, police said Monday.

Jerry Smith, 52, started shooting Sunday before he reached the front door of his estranged wife’s Effingham home, reports WICS-TV in Springfield. Smith killed Sharon Smith, 41, and her mother, Dorothy McClelland, 71, police said, before turning the gun on himself. Sharon Smith and Jerry Smith were pronounced dead at the scene. McClelland was later pronounced dead at an Effingham hospital.

“We don’t believe there’s anyone else involved in this incident,” said Effingham Police Department Cpl. Matt Sager. “We have nothing to substantiate that.”

Police did not reveal a motive. Four others were in the home at the time of the shootings, including three children, but no one else was hurt.

Two days before the killings police extended an order of protection for Sharon Smith against Jerry Smith. Police found a rifle and handgun in the home and more ammunition in Smith’s truck.

Police continue to investigate the deaths along with the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office and Illinois State Police.

Effingham is about 75 miles south of Champaign.

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State Rep. Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, said rather than have the center shut down, it should be handed from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services back to the Department of Corrections. He said the program, before it was given to DCFS, had a higher success rate for inmates to return to civilization without being committed of crimes again.

He said it doesn’t make sense to close down the Murphysboro center because it’s one of the newer facilities.

“We gave (Quinn) the money in the budget to operate the facilities,” Bost said.

“He chose to do this to try to borrow more money.”

He said while Quinn is trying to blame Republicans for the low budget, both political parties came to the budget decision together.

Kendall Marlowe, spokesperson for the Department of Juvenile Justice in Illinois, said more factors have to go into the decision than just the age of the center.

Marlowe said while the building has a capacity of 156 inmates, there are only 60 young men in the program so the facility isn’t completely used. He said there is another youth center in Harrisburg, so some inmates at the Murphysboro center could be transferred there. ) ere’s

also more than enough space for them in any other juvenile correctional facilities in the state, he said.

Marlowe said there are 101 sta* members at Murphysboro, so they would be a* ected if the center shut down.

“We are sensitive to the local impact of a situation like this,” he said.

He said the employees would be eligible to bid for vacant positions at other locations, though.

Marlowe said the budget + xture process will be completed by December, and shutting down the center would save the state $3.1 million in + scal year 2012.

“In terms of process, none of this

happens overnight,” Marlowe said.He said the process is called

the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

Bost said another center the cut would a* ect is the Chester Mental Health Center. He said the facility’s patients are forensic mentally ill, meaning they’ve committed heinous crimes such as rape and murder but do not stand + t for trial. Bost said Quinn mentioned moving the patients from Chester to the center in Alton.

“In Alton they let the patients walk around in the yards,” Bost said. “You don’t let these people walk around. ) ey kill people. ) is shows the governor is in over his head.”

) e Illinois Association of Rehabilitation Facilities’ President and CEO Janet S. Stover issued a statement that said closure plans or recommendations must take into account the needs of the individuals currently served in these facilities, and the community-based system’s capacity needs to serve individuals in these settings, should that be where they choose to live.

She said the IARF is ready to work with the Administration, members of the COGFA and the General Assembly to make sure any closures which take place will account for impacts on the entire system of care, and keeps the needs of patients in mind.

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) e Building Board of Appeals found that Campus Habitat failed to comply with all the parts of its Aug. 18 order concerning the company’s prop-erties at 600 and 820 W. Freeman St.

Campus Habitat sent no representative to Monday’s meeting and did not present an action plan for bringing 820 W. Freeman St. into compliance with building codes.

Chairman Carlton Smith said the city had authority to deal with the issue, including an order for the building be vacated.

) e board heard testimony from

inspectors that the 17 doors ordered for replacement in 600 W. Freeman St. had been replaced. Inspectors said work was being done on 820 W. Free-man St. but it was not complete.

Assistant City Attorney Jaime Snyder said he spoke to someone claiming to represent Campus Habi-tat over the phone, who said the com-pany was not sending anyone to the meeting and had assumed the charg-es had been dropped.

“I + nd it hard to believe they would not send their attorney or somebody over here on a matter of this nature,” Snyder said.

) e city announced Aug. 9 that 25 rooms in 600 W. Freeman St. and

all of 820 W. Freeman St. were posted with a 14-day notice to vacate for + re code and safety violations.

Campus Habitat appealed the de-cision to the Building Board of Ap-peals Aug. 16, which granted an ex-tension to Sept. 5 to replace 17 doors in 600 W. Freeman St. and until Mon-day to develop an action plan to bring 820 W. Freeman St. into compliance with building codes.

) e board also heard testimony from tenants at Monday’s meeting who discussed issues they have had with the company.

Bryan Haggard, a junior from Chicago studying history educa-tion, said he was given a replacement

room for his original one, which had to be vacated. He said the replace-ment room was not the same as his original, but he was told he would have to pay the same amount. He said he had problems contacting manage-ment about his issues.

“I was ignored the whole week,” he said.

Snyder said the tenant’s testimony illustrated the company’s unwilling-ness to comply with the board’s or-ders.

“) is company is going to drag its feet and they’re going to continue to drag its feet until the proverbial ham-mer hits the , oor,” he said.

) e threat to close the buildings

was successful in getting Campus Habitat’s attention and to + x the health, life and safety issues, said Kevin Baity, director of development services and economic development.

He said health, life and safety is-sues such as the doors can be dealt with by posting a building with a vacation notice, but smaller issues such as ripped carpeting and leaky faucets are addressed with citations if the landlord fails to + x them. He said such problems are still present in some of the company’s buildings.

Eli Mileur can be reached at emileur@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 266.

Campus Habitat building still not in compliance

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William Sutphin, secretary for the Environmental Coalition and graduate student in geography from Bartlett, said the coalition wants to shut down the plant because people in areas close to coal plants o) en have higher levels of metal, such as mercury, in their blood and higher rates of respiratory disease such as asthma and lung cancer.

“A lot of students think of coal and they think of the old technology and it’s really not that way at our power plant which is run by computers and a very e* cient process,” Gatton said. “We can’t just throw the plant away.”

+ e American Lung Association has partnered with the club and other coalitions which organize anti-coal campaigns across the country to address the issue of increasing rates of lung cancer and asthma associated with burning coal, he said.

Adam Reaves, a fulltime campus organizer for the Illinois branch of the Sierra Club - an environmental group stationed throughout the country that helps coordinate the campaign and raise awareness - said the club will engage in a discussion with university administration about the plant within the next few weeks. He said the club’s primary concern is the serious health crisis throughout the U.S. in areas where coal is burned.

“We know that continuing to utilize coal in the plant is leading to human health problems,” Reaves said. “As it stands now, our proposal is to ask the university to address the fact that the coal plant is contributing to these

health problems.”Gatton said emissions from the

plant are reduced as much as possible because of continuous experimentation with cleaner burning processes and developments that come from the Coal Research Center.

“Our emission levels are signi, cantly less than what a traditional boiler is,” Gatton said.

+ e plant currently breaks coal into smaller pieces than others, which are then mixed with limestone to help absorb harmful chemicals released when coal is burned, Gatton said.

He said this process allows coal to be heated at a lower temperature which reduces the amount of toxic byproduct from burning it.

+ e plant currently monitors its emission levels through computer technology which runs the operation as well.

He said the university does have a solar array and looked into wind power before but it can be costly to build.

Changing from coal to oil or gas would be costly for the university because prices - uctuate rather than stay at a relatively steady rate, Gatton said.

“We have to provide steam and electricity 24 hours a day seven days a week so you can’t become completely reliant on renewables at this point in

time because of the availability issue,” he said.

Gatton said the university did look into the possibility of using wind turbine power but it is a lengthy process. He said a decision could be made this fall to determine if a wind turbine would be economically possible.

Sutphin said the pollutants students are exposed to would be eliminated if alternative power resources were used and the plant shut down.

“(Pollution) is happening to us, it’s a. ecting us, our children, our families,” he said. “I think people should be aware of how their lives are by a. ected by coal plants when alternatives can be used to minimize those risks.”

A 2006 study done by the Environmental Protection Agency and cited by Reaves said one-in-six women has high enough mercury content in their blood to pose a risk for birth defects in an unborn child. + e Illinois , sh advisory website currently has a mercury advisory warning people to only eat large mouth bass caught from Campus Lake once per week.

“I think a great example of the dangers of burning coal is the condition of campus lake, which is full of mercury,” Sutphin said. “Students are advised against swimming in it.”

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“In this day and age, with some of the various incidents that have occurred across the nation, we felt that anything like this that is potentially a threat to students, faculty, sta. and the university is something that needs to be addressed aggressively,” he said.

Sigler said Wiggins is not a student and the department has no knowledge that he was ever a student.

He said he could not discuss motives behind why the threat was made.

Willfully making a threat carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison, a $250,000 , ne, or both, and a three-year supervised release.

Sigler said it is imperative to have cross-relationships with other agencies in an investigation of this importance.

Stephen Wigginton, United States attorney for the southern district of Illinois, was also part of the

investigation.“With the somber remembrance

of Sept. 11 in our hearts, and the school tragedy at Northern Illinois University always on our minds, my o* ce does not take terroristic threats against our citizens, our schools or our children lightly,” he said in the press release.

Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

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I t hink people should be aware of how their lives are affected by coal plants when alternatives can be used to

minimize those risks.

! — William Sutphinsecretary for the Environmental Coalition

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D,!- E."'/-:For at least the second time in the

last two months, the Daily Egyptian has published front-page articles about McDonalds' so-called Happy Meals going healthy. Neither article addresses the fundamental problem. McDonald's is an inherently toxic and unhealthy institution serving health-damaging foods to billions of

people worldwide.Adding a choice of milk and apples

instead of fries and soda to their meals will have little-to-no e) ect in changing the overall health consequences in eating the rest of their food.

While McDonalds' food destroys our bodies, rainforests are destroyed to provide grazing land for the cattle they use for beef production.

McDonald's creates plenty of trash too, annually producing over a million tons of packaging, used for just a few minutes before being discarded. Our lovely campus is o0 en littered with this very packaging. Working conditions at McDonald's "restaurants" is another deplorable sight. + e grease permeates everything, and most of the employees are literally shiny from it. + e smell is

even worse. Nonetheless, the lines to order its food at the student center are o0 en very long.

+ eir products are addictive and many people are hooked. I o0 en wonder why an institution of higher education can house such an unhealthy corporation, though it obviously generates a lot of money.

Our students deserve better.

Quality food should be available for at least the same hours that McDonalds is open. Without proper food education, our students and our society will continue to su) er from obesity, heart disease, cancer, etc.

Gregory Wendtspecialist at the Center for

Teaching Excellence

McDonald’s: I'm not lovin' it

Coopperation makes roadways safe

D,!- E."'/-:I am writing this in response

to the letter from Lloyd Rich published Friday, which reiterates the sentiment for possibly the hundredth time in this publication by various cyclists that motorists are dangerous and should stop being so mean and nasty to bicyclists.

I agree with a couple of his points. I agree in a perfect world we would have motor vehicle and bicycle lanes everywhere. I agree motorists should be conscious and courteous for the bicyclists' safety. I concede there are laws that aim to keep cyclists o) of sidewalks and on the road. I concede there are penalties in place for motorists who do not exercise caution near bicycles. In a perfect world, all laws would be

followed and none would be asinine.Welcome to reality.Here, there are sidewalks and

roads, and some laws are asinine. In reality, we must all cooperate and obey the rules of logic. Also, here in reality, the average vehicle weighs 4,000 pounds, travels at a speed of 30-70 mph, is 6 feet wide and requires 45-105 feet to completely stop. + e average person weighs 185 pounds, an extra 30 on a bike, travels at an average speed of 7-15 mph and requires 7-20 feet to stop. + e average pedestrian walks at about 3 mph and stops immediately when confronted with an obstacle when paying attention.

I'm no physicist, but it took a 1 ve-minute Google search to have enough information at my

1 ngertips to see a major * aw in the aforementioned asinine law. Is this sidewalk law in place to prevent scrapes and bruises and make everybody feel warm, tingly and self-congratulatory about their environmental contribution? Or is it to actually prevent deaths and serious injury?

It seems intuitive that 4,000 pounds traveling at 45 mph is far more likely to seriously injure or kill a bicyclist in the middle of a tra2 c lane than a bicyclist is to seriously hurt a pedestrian on the sidewalk.

Worst-case scenario of a bike-and-car collision: the cyclist ends up in a body cast, paralyzed or dead. Worst-case scenario of a cyclist-and-pedestrian collision: someone has a sprained wrist or a mild concussion,

and swearing ensues.+ e other aspect of this reality

is laws such as this will not likely be changed in the near future. + ey sound far too pleasant and 'green.' So motorists and cyclists must cooperate, as long as the government mandates that comparatively light-weight transportation devices meander slowly in droves onto busy streets 1 lled with 4,000-pound automobiles.

I'm far more interested in pragmatic cooperation than I am in trying to change the law. I'm not directing this at all cyclists, but it seems to me about half of them in this community are more willing to preach tra2 c laws when an outraged environment-killing motorist brushes past them than

they are when they themselves make similar tra2 c errors.

Cooperation is two-sided. Cyclists hoping to enjoy the law's bene1 ts should try following some of the other ones, too.

Let's all cooperate; let's all share the road; let's all exercise logic under illogical circumstances. If screaming at someone saves a life, then scream away. I'd rather be verbally rude than inadvertently kill or injure a human being. If you're on a bike and riding onto a curb or a sidewalk for a moment, then save your own life or bones. I'd also rather get a sidewalk ticket from a bored police o2 cer than be paralyzed or dead.

Ryan FloresCarbondale resident

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Janette Fishell, an esteemed organist and professor of organ in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, will serve as a spotlight musician at Marianne Webb & David Bateman Distinguished Organ Recital Series at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Shryock auditorium.

) is will mark the 19th concert in the series. Each year, the directors of the series strive to bring internationally- known concert artists to campus to perform on the Marianne Webb Pipe Organ. Fishell has performed in a number of venues, including Toyko's Suntory Hall, King’s College in Cambridge, Berlin's Konzerthaus and the Prague Spring Festival. She was a featured recitalist and lecturer at * ve national and regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists. Fishell spoke with ) e Grind about her upcoming performance as well as her established career as an organist.

! e Grind: When did you start your journey as an organist?

JF: I started piano at the age of * ve, taking classes and basically practicing on my own. I didn't gain an interest

in playing the organ until age 11 and was lucky enough to take classes and have mentors such as Wilma Jensen, Wolfgang Rübsam, Richard Enright and Anita Werling. Taking those classes lead me to a summer at ) e National Music Camp in Interlochen, Mich., where I had more training and just continued to learn and practice throughout high school.

TG: What is a major difference between playing the piano and the organ?

JF: ) ey are completely di+ erent instruments, mainly because the piano is a percussion instrument. A percussion instrument makes its sound by the action of striking against something else, which sets the object into vibration. ) e organ, however, makes its sound from wind going through pipes. ) ere are a series of valves (pallets) connected to the keyboard by a mechanical linkage. ) ese pallets govern the , ow of air to each pipe, creating di+ erent sounds.

TG: Which is a harder instrument to play, piano or organ?

JF: I wouldn't say one is harder to play than the other; however, the organ is more physically challenging to play. ) e organ is a body instrument, requiring both hands and feet. You have to master balance

within your torso to play the organ.TG: What was the most memorable

moment of you career?JF: It had to be when I performed

at the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris for a crowd of 2,000. It was a moment that I wanted to live in forever.

TG: What composers will you cover in your performance this Friday, and will any of it be original material?

JF: Selections from Bach, Vierne, Ebn, Hampton, Alain and Liszt. I have something for everyone. If you like the older composers, you will love my cover of Bach and if you want to hear more contemporary composers, you will like what I perform by Kalvin Hampton. I believe it's important for any musician to try their hand at writing their own music, which is why I enjoy writing my own. However, my work is not on the level of the greats that I will be paying tribute to, so I will only be performing their works.

TG: When you perform this week, what do you want your work to say to those who come and listen?

JF: I want my audience to be fed by my music, to be full on my sound. I have fun performing, so in turn I want my audience to be excited about experiencing something as beautiful as music.

Distinguished organist will take stage at Shryock

JANETTEFISHELL

Janette Fishell, an organist and professor of organ at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, will perform at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday in Shryock Auditorium as part of the Marianne Webb and David Bateman Organ Recital Series.

PROVIDED PHOTO

JAMES JONESDaily Egyptian

D!"#$ E%$&'"!(Tuesday, September 13, 2011 7T!" G#$%&

Joyce Robinson, left, a visiting instructor for the School of Architecture, demonstrates Monday to Maury Cesair, right, a senior from Chicago studying fashion design and merchandising, a bias tape technique during a fashion production class at Quigley Hall. The class teaches beginning sewing construction for the fashion design and merchandising program. The New York Fashion Week began Thursday and features collections

from Ralph Lauren, Diane von Furstenberg and Donatella Versace. The event will continue until Sept. 15. “I was really liking some of the Michael Kors collection this fall,” said Pamela Gaston, a senior from East St. Louis studying early childhood development and fashion design. “I watch it to stay current and keep my mind thinking about what’s out there in fashion,” Gaston said.

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Students focus on fall fashion

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Study: SpongeBob in hot water

CHICAGO — ) e cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants is in hot water from a study suggesting that watching just nine minutes of that program can cause short-term attention and learning problems in 4-year-olds.

) e problems were seen in a study of 60 children randomly assigned to either watch “SpongeBob,” or the slower-paced PBS cartoon “Caillou” or assigned to draw pictures. Immediately a* er these nine-minute assignments,

the kids took mental function tests; those who had watched “SpongeBob” did measurably worse than the others.

Previous research has linked TV-watching with long-term attention problems in children, but the new study suggests more immediate problems can occur a* er very little exposure — results that parents of young kids should be alert to, the study authors said.

Kids’ cartoon shows typically feature about 22 minutes of action, so watching a full program “could be more detrimental,” the researchers speculated, But they said more

evidence is needed to con+ rm that.) e results should be interpreted

cautiously because of the study’s small size, but the data seem robust and bolster the idea that media exposure is a public health issue, said Dr. Dimitri Christakis. He is a child development specialist at Seattle Children’s Hospital who wrote an editorial accompanying the study published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.

Christakis said parents need to realize that fast-paced programming may not be appropriate for very young children. “What kids watch matters, it’s not just how much they watch,” he said.

I think this is a place that people will expect to go through

some security. JOE DANIELS

President of the Sept. 11 memorial in New York City, which opened to the public on Monday, saying that visitors will have to empty their pockets, walk through a metal detector and send their handbags and

backpacks through an X-ray machine.

What we really need is rain. But right now, there is no relief

in sight. BILL PAXTON

of the Texas Forest Service, describing the moisture content of Texas grass Sunday at what he called an “unheard of” 2% as wildfires con-

tinued burning in the drought-stricken state, where more than 34,000 acres have been consumed.

Quinn vetoes bill to raise Illinois electric rates

CHICAGO — ! e fate of legislation to raise

electric rates to help pay to modern-ize Illinois’ power grid is back in the hands of lawmakers a" er Gov. Pat Quinn made good on a promise Monday to veto the measure because he said it was a “nightmare” for con-sumers.

Sponsors of the legislation were quick to cautiously predict that Quinn’s veto wouldn’t stand when lawmakers returned to work next month at the Illinois Capitol.

“We’ve got a good shot,” said state Sen. Mike Jacobs, an East Moline Democrat who has previously said supporters would # nd enough votes to override Quinn’s long-anticipated veto. State Rep. Kevin McCarthy of the Chicago suburb of Orland Park also said he was “very con# dent.”

It’s a challenge Quinn seemed to relish.

“If they want to try and override

the veto, be my guest,” he said at a Chicago news conference. Lawmak-ers had held on to the bill to try to convince Quinn of its merits before eventually sending the measure to his desk late last month for action.

! e veto came as no surprise be-cause Quinn had been promising to do it since lawmakers passed the bill in May. Quinn and other opponents, including Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, complained the bill didn’t have enough consumer pro-tections and would unfairly raise rates for Commonwealth Edison and Ameren customers. ! e gover-nor added to his criticism by chastis-ing ComEd for its handling of recent power outages, saying the company could, and should, provide better service.

Supporters contend the legisla-tion is needed to # nance a “Smart Grid” that can monitor energy use and reduce waste. ! e $3 billion, 10-year plan also would have given ComEd and Ameren money for ba-sic infrastructure.

Quinn urged lawmakers to let his veto stand and said everyone should go back to the bargaining table. He said the starting point should be a plan put forth by the Illinois Com-merce Commission, which regulates utilities.

ComEd said opponents were o$ base about the legislation known as Senate Bill 1652 or SB1652.

“Despite the rhetoric of the leg-islation opponents, SB1652 does not guarantee pro# ts, will not result in automatic rates increases and does not strip the authority of the ICC,” ComEd said in a statement. “Illinois customers want more than the status quo. We look forward to working with members of the General As-sembly to help make grid modern-ization and economic growth a real-ity in Illinois.”

Overriding Quinn won’t be easy. ! e measure didn’t pass with a veto-proof majority in either chamber, and supporters will need 71 votes in the House and 36 in the Senate to do it.

WASHINGTON — In a sharp challenge to the

GOP, President Barack Obama proposed paying for his costly new jobs plan Monday with tax hikes that Republicans have already emphatically rejected. ! e reception to his new proposal was no more welcoming, setting the stage for a likely new # ght with Congress.

Flanked at the White House by workers he said the legislation would help, Obama declared, “! is is the bill that Congress needs to pass. No games. No politics. No delays.” He sent it to Capitol Hill saying,

“! e only thing that’s stopping it is politics.”

! e president’s proposal drew criticism from House Speaker John Boehner, who previously responded in cautious but somewhat receptive tones to the $447 billion jobs plan made up of tax cuts and new spending that Obama # rst proposed in an address to Congress last ! ursday.

“It would be fair to say this tax increase on job creators is the kind of proposal both parties have opposed in the past. We remain eager to work together on ways to support job growth, but this proposal doesn’t appear to have been o$ ered in that bipartisan spirit,” Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck said.

! e biggest piece of the payment plan would raise about $400 billion by eliminating certain deductions, including on charitable contributions, that can be claimed by wealthy taxpayers. Obama has proposed that in the past — to help pay for his health care overhaul, for example — and it’s been shot down by Republican lawmakers along with some Democrats.

Yet by daring Republicans anew to reject tax hikes on the rich Obama could gain a talking point as the 2012 presidential campaign moves forward, if not a legislative victory.

At a Rose Garden event Monday, Obama brandished his jobs bill and surrounded himself with police

o% cers, # re# ghters, teachers, construction workers and others he said would be helped by it. Adopting a newly combative tone that’s been welcomed by dispirited Democrats, Obama demanded immediate action on the legislation, which the White House sent to Capitol Hill Monday a" ernoon.

“Instead of just talking about America’s job creators, let’s actually do something for America’s job creators,” he said.

Late in the day, he told a group of Spanish-language reporters that if Congress agreed to just a portion of the bill he would accept it while still # ghting for more.

“I am going to put forward the

entire bill and I have asked them to pass the entire bill. Obviously, if they pass parts of it, I am not going to veto those parts,” Obama said. “I will sign it, but I will then say, give me the rest, and I will keep on making that argument.”

In the Rose Garden, he told of reading a quotation in a newspaper article from a Republican congressional aide who questioned why Republicans should work with Obama since the result might just be to help the president politically. “! at was very explicit,” Obama said.

Buck, the Boehner spokesman, said the anonymous quote cited by the president didn’t re& ect the view of Republican leadership.

Obama would raise taxes to pay for his jobs bill

7 oil workers found alive in Gulf of Mexico

VERACRUZ, MEXICO !Seven of 10 oil workers miss-

ing in the Gulf of Mexico were found alive Sunday, according to Mexico’s state oil company, three days after evacuating their dis-abled rig in a tropical storm and escaping in an enclosed life raft.

A woman who answered the phone at Trinity Lifeboat Services said the company can’t con# rm de-tails about the workers being found.

A girl who answered the tele-phone at the home of Ted Allen Derise Sr. said she was the sister of the rig worker but wouldn’t give her name.

“It’s good news to us but we’re still praying for the other people,” she said.

! e oil workers called for help

! ursday a" ernoon in the middle of Tropical Storm Nate, which disabled their vessel, the Trinity II, a 94-foot (29-meter), 185-ton li" boat, that can lower legs to the sea & oor and then elevate itself above the water level. ! is one was being used as a recording vessel and housing for the crew, and it was in waters about 25 feet (8 meters) deep.

! ey abandoned the li" boat about 8 miles (13 kilometers) o$ shore of the port of Frontera in southeastern Mexican state of Tabasco.

Pemex and the Mexican navy led the search by air and sea, which intensi# ed Saturday as the storm moved west toward the coast of Veracruz. A dozen # shermen who disappeared aboard two shrimp boats on Friday in the gulf during the storm.

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“One thing as a coach we always look at is your one-to-) ve gap: How much time is between your ) rst runner and your ) * h runner,” Sparks said. “+ at gap is under a minute from our ) rst runner to our eighth runner.”

+ e men’s team walked away with a third place ) nish out of eleven other squads.

“Team-wise, I thought we didn’t do very well at all,” sophomore runner Brian Dixon said. “I think we should have won that meet as a team, if everybody ran what they were capable of.”

Dixon came in ) rst for SIU and second overall, ) nishing just more than a second a* er an Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis runner.

He said he was happy with his time, despite losing the lead in the ) nal leg of the race, as he set his personal best for an 8K race. Dixon said he’s excited to see how much lower he can push his time during the course of the season.

Sparks said he wanted the team to feel pressure and see how the runners react in tense moments. While some shined, he said others had their share of struggles.

“We would have liked to see Cole Allison and Brad Wrage run a lot better, they struggled but (I’m) excited to see Brian Dixon come out and run the way he did.” Sparks said. “He’s setting himself up as one of the top ) ve to ten guys in our conference right now.”

Sparks said the ) rst two competitions developed a clearer

picture of who will ) ll certain roles on the men’s squad. He said there are, however, other questions that may not be answered until the team’s next meet, which will be the Saluki Invitational on Sept. 24. Both upperclass and underclass runners will participate in the event.

“Now the next question to clear up in my mind is how ) t and competitive are the guys that actually haven’t raced,” Sparks said, “+ ey seem to be training well but how well can they translate that into racing?”

Dixon said, despite the rank to ) nish in second in the conference the team is con) dent it ) nish the season as the top team.

“We’re ranked to get second in conference, but I think everyone keeps proving that we can give Indiana State a run for their money,” he said.

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Head coach Brenda Winkeler and Saluki Athletics were concerned that the crowd might be too spread out to give SIU any home-court advantage. A crowd of 550, which was the largest crowd of the three games SIU played last weekend, ) lls a bigger percentage of the about 1,000 seats in Davies Gymnasium than the 8,339 seats in the SIU Arena.

“I was hesitant to come (to SIU Arena) and play because Davies (Gymnasium) is small and you can get a lot of people in there and really feel the energy,” junior setter Rachael Brown said. “Our basketball team struggles to ) ll this huge arena, but I think

the fans came out and supported us and it felt like we were in Davies.”

Winkeler said she thought attendance would improve since the arena is much more recognizable than Davies Gymnasium.

“People know where the arena is, and there’s nothing on Davies that says we even play volleyball here,” Winkeler said. “If you look at a campus map, it’s not even called Davies Gym, I think its called (Davies Hall), so we’re hoping that people see the arena, know how to get in there and get better seating. It should also be more of an entertainment value with all of the bells and whistles.”

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Winger Alex Felton, left, a junior from Rockford studying biological sciences, pitches the ball before rugby head coach Joe Lasky, a senior from Springfield studying social work, tackles him Monday at a field near the SIU Arena.

Saturday the team beat Western Illinois University 12-8 at SIU. The team will travel to Eastern Illinois University to take on the Panthers’ intramural rugby team at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17.

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Mother Nature decided to throw the Saluki women’s tennis team a curveball on the day it was set to begin its ) rst event of the season.

A light drizzle slickened the courts just enough to cause safety concerns and force the event inside the Kings Point sports club in Belleville. Head coach Audra Nothwehr said the change from outdoor to indoor presented a few issues, but she thought her team took it in stride.

“+ ree of our freshmen come from places where they never had to play inside,” Nothwehr said. “It was a huge learning experience but we got better as the matches went on.”

Despite weather complications, the Salukis posted a 14-10 record in singles competition and a 5-5 mark in doubles play. + e matches were shortened Friday due to time constraints and a limited number of courts, but play resumed Saturday outdoors without changes in game length.

Juniors Melanie Delsart and Anastacia Simons both went 3-0 in

singles play, while Jennifer Dien, Anita Lee and Gisela Cairo Baza all went 2-1. Nothwehr said she was pleased with the leadership her veterans showed.

“Overall, our returning players really set the stage for the newcomers,” Nothwehr said. “+ ey did a great job of leading through the wins column.”

Dien said she thought the team played well despite the venue change.

“Given the fact we played inside one day and outside the next day I thought we played well,” she said. “Especially the freshmen that haven’t played on an indoor surface before.”

In doubles play, the Salukis were led by Lee and Korey Love who posted scores of 2-0, as did Simons and Ariadna Cairo Baza.

Delsart said the doubles play was an educational process because of how the players were paired.

“We learned a lot playing with the freshmen,” Delsart said. “We have to be patient and realize it takes time to form these new pairings.”

Dien said minor improvements could still be made on the doubles court.

“We just need to improve on the

little things like setting our feet,” Dien said. “Everyone played well, but we can always improve.”

Korey Love played in doubles despite a quad injury she obtained during practice. Freshmen Natasha Tomishima and Ariadna Cairo Baza were injured in the event itself, however Nothwehr does not expect the injuries to be of serious concern.

+ e Salukis do not play again until the Missouri Valley Conference individual tournament Oct. 7- 9 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

KEVIN TAYLORDaily Egyptian

Women’s tennis deals with venue change, starts season strong

Intramural rugby gets ready for weekend

WOMEN’S TENNIS

The SIU women’s volleyball team moved the 32nd annual Saluki Invitational to the SIU Arena for its first match there since 1982.

“As we looked at the other types of facilities that other (Missouri Valley Conference) teams play in, we realized that the teams at the top of the league were playing in arenas where they play their basketball,” Senior Associate Athletic Director Kathy Jones said.

The SIU women’s volleyball team played Friday for its home opener. The decision to host volleyball at the SIU Arena was made after it was renovated last year. There are new video boards that help create an atmosphere unlike Davies Gymnasium, said Andy Pettit, director of facilities and game operations.

“With the new renovations to the arena, we really want to utilize it as much as we can,” Pettit said. “Before, the arena wasn’t really anything spectacular compared to Davies Gym, which provides a very good home atmosphere.”

Women’s tennis posts record in singles despite weather

complications

Volleyball has test run at SIU ArenaFuture matches in the SIU ArenaJOE RAGUSADaily Egyptian

The women’s volleyball team played its first match at the SIU Arena since 1982 Friday and Saturday during the 32nd annual Saluki Invitational. The Salukis won two of three games, defeating Murray

State and Wisconsin-Green Bay but losing to Memphis 3-0. With more seating and new video boards, Saluki volleyball fans might see more matches in the arena later this season.

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While the SIU women’s cross-country team prevailed without their top runner, the men think some minor improvements are in order if they want to achieve similar results.

! e women won while the men took third place Friday at Eastern Illinois University’s Walt Crawford Open in Charleston. Freshmen runners Kelsey Gallagher, Lacey Gibson and Sarah McIntosh held the " # h, sixth and seventh spots while Kristen Levi, who won for SIU at the " rst meet against University of Missouri and Rend Lake College, was unable to compete due to a foot injury.

“Every week it’s just a di$ erent person stepping up to lead the way for us,” head coach Matt Sparks said. “! at was the neat thing about the women’s team, we took our No. 1 runner out and we were still able to . . . win the meet.”

Sparks said several athletes on the women’s team have the ability to head the pack.

“! is was our " rst team-scored event of the year and it’s always nice to start the year with a win,” he said. “! e two most consistent people in the " rst couple weeks for the women

have been Kelley Gallagher and Lacey Gibson.”

Sparks said team depth has allowed runners to " nd comfort in the event of

an injury because others are able to " ll in if needed.

BROOKE GRACE | DAILY EGYPTIANCross-country team members Jacqueline Lintzenich, left, and Julia Mangler, right, run Sept. 3 during the unscored 4K Saluki Early Bird

meet against Rend Lake College and Missouri. The men and women’s teams competed in the Walt Crawford Open Friday in Charleston.

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Women’s cross-country places ! rst, men third