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Ryan VoylesDAILY EGYPTIANRVOYLES@SIU.EDU

For the eighth straight year, the Salukis defeated the Leathernecks — though this win counted a little more in the record books.

No. 8 SIU (3-1, 2-0) defeated West-ern Illinois 30-10 Saturday at Hanson Field in Macomb, giving the Salukis their 400th victory in program history.

“It was a good win for us tonight,” head coach Dale Lennon said. “In the first half, the offense came out and did what they had to do and in the second half the defense closed out the game for us.”

Senior running back Deji Karim played a key role in the Salukis’ his-toric victory.

The redshirt senior, who set a school record for longest run from scrimmage in the game with his 92-

yard touchdown scamper, had 18 car-ries for 157 yards and two touchdowns. The 92-yard sprint happened on the Salukis’ first offensive play of the game.

Karim also had a career-long 42-yard reception and a 69-yard kickoff return in the game.

Karim said his blockers deserve most of the credit for his record-set-ting performance.

“My offensive line blocked great for me and my special teams blockers

were great as well,” Karim said. “I had a good game, but without those guys putting the work in week in and week out, I wouldn’t be able to do it. It was a total team effort.”

The Salukis gained 368 total yards compared to the Leathernecks’ (1-3, 0-1) 243 as SIU’s defense held the na-tion’s No. 9 passing team to 140 yards in the air.

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SIU continued two streaks this weekend.

One it wanted to extend, and one it wanted to snap.

SIU (13-2, 3-2) lost to Illinois State (7-10, 2-4) (24-26, 26-24, 25-23, 25-20) Friday at Davies Gym, dropping its 36th straight match against the Redbirds. The Salukis bounced back on Saturday, defeating Indiana State (29-27, 25-27, 25-8,25-21). It was the Sa-lukis’ ninth straight win against the Sycamores.

Head coach Brenda Winkeler said statistically, SIU should have won the match Friday.

“We out played them in ev-ery category statistically, it should have been a win,” Winkeler said.

“We just made a lot of key errors and it gave them momentum.”

The Salukis out hit the Red-birds .204 to .193 and had more digs and blocks.

The Redbirds won the third set even though they only hit .083. Il-linois State out hit SIU in the final set .268 to .128

“For the older girls, facing Illi-nois State may be a problem,” said freshman setter Rachael Brown. “For the younger players, it’s not a big deal. It’s just Illinois State. I think we just need to stick with the mentality that we’re a good team. We’re the Salukis and if we play at Davies we are going to win.”

SIU wasn’t down for long as it bounced back against Indiana State.

The Sycamores (5-13, 1-5) kept the first two games tight, but SIU dominated in the final two games.

SIU out hit Indiana State .408 to .092 during the last two games and out scored the Sycamores 50-29.

Freshman outside hitter Bailey

Yeager served 17 straight points for SIU in the third game.

“I was so excited,” Yeager said. “It felt like every point was going

our way; the crowd really got be-hind us. It was awesome.”

SIU wins 400th gameFOOTBALL

SEAN MCGAHAN | DAILY EGYPTIANJunior right side hitter Alicia Johnson gets up from the Davies Gym floor after failing to convert a dig attempt Friday against Illinois State. Head coach Brenda Winkeler said errors at inopportune times cost the Salukis a match they should have won.

Salukis split weekend matches at DaviesVOLLEYBALL

SIU defeats Indiana State, loses to Illinois State

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Ryan VoylesDAILY EGYPTIANRVOYLES@SIU.EDU

Western Illinois backup quar-terback Wil Lunt had a rude wel-coming to the Missouri Valley Football Conference.

The redshirt freshman never had a chance to get settled Saturday as the SIU defense pressured him all night and helped the Salukis to a 30-10 victory at Macomb.

Lunt finished the night com-pleting seven of 14 passes with 50 yards. He also threw two intercep-tions and was sacked four times in just more than 38 minutes.

“When Wil came in, they wanted him ... to get his feet underneath him and to get comfortable working the offense,” SIU head coach Dale Lennon said. “I feel he did make progress as the game went on, where he became a little more comfortable with some good throws, and they were able to do a little more with him.”

Lunt replaced Matt Barr in the first half after the Leathernecks’ star quarterback left with a thumb injury. Barr helped lead the Leath-ernecks to the 10th-ranked passing attack in Football Championship Subdivision, averaging 282.7 yards a game. The Salukis held Barr to just 90 yards passing before the redshirt junior left the game with a thumb injury.

Among Lunt’s tormentors from SIU was safety Mike McElroy, who continued his assault on MVFC opponents. A week after recording his career-high 10 tackles against North Dakota State, the junior picked off two passes Saturday.

“That definitely helped our con-fidence as a defense, knowing that we had to change coverages trying to mess with the guy,” McElroy said. “He settled down and made some plays, but it definitely helped out the confidence of our defense knowing their second guy was in.”

Lunt’s first play from scrimmage foreshadowed the rest of his night as he was sacked on his first drop back of the game. Lunt rarely had time to step into his passes, often having to dodge defenders while throwing.

Despite his struggles, Western Illinois running back Dre Gibbs said the team stands behind Lunt’s play and have high hopes for him.

“We have total confidence in what Wil can do. Obviously Matt Barr has more experience and brings a different type of confidence, but we have faith in Wil,” Gibbs said. “I told him in the huddle ‘This is your of-fense, we believe in you,’ and we just needed to really show him that we were confident in him.”

Ryan Voyles can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 256

Defense shuts down backup

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defense knowing their second guy was in.

— Mike McElroysafety, SIU Salukis

PROVIDED PHOTO | SIU MEDIA SERVICESSenior running back Deji Karim runs back a kickoff during SIU’s 30-10 victory over Western Illinois Saturday at Hanson Field in Macomb. Karim finished with 282 all-purpose yards in the Salukis 400th all-time victory.

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Caryn RousseauTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — The funeral of a Chicago teen who was beaten to death on his way home from school drew civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Saturday, both calling for an end to youth violence.

Farrakhan said he came to the funeral because he was “deeply pained” by the death of 16-year-old honor roll student Derrion Albert. The boy was walking to a bus stop after school when a group of teens attacked him during a street fight late last month.

“Naturally, we wonder why such a beautiful life? Such a future we thought was waiting for this young man,” Farrakhan said. “This was a special young man of righteous bearing who God took from us so young.”

Cell phone video footage shows Albert being kicked and hit with splintered railroad ties. Four teens are charged in his death.

President Obama is sending U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who once led Chicago Public Schools, to Chicago on Wednesday to meet with school officials, students and residents and talk about school violence.

“The eyes of the world are watching,” Pastor E.F. Ledbetter Jr. told mourners at the Greater Mount Hebron Baptist Church on the city’s South Side. “This has affected people all over the globe.”

Mayor Richard Daley, just off a plane Saturday from an International Olympic Committee meeting in

Copenhagen where Chicago lost the 2016 Summer Games, said he would work with police, the community and school officials to break the “code of silence” that happens after street violence.

“The code of silence is unacceptable in this day and age where we have young children being killed,” Daley said at a news conference at O’Hare International Airport.

Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis and Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman also attended the funeral along with other city and public officials. Huberman called the Christian Fenger Academy High School sophomore a “bright light.”

Jackson demanded children and teens to be given safe passage to and from school.

“Derrion didn’t have to die,” Jackson said. “He was murdered. His pain, his suffering, his death have shook the world.”

As mourners filed into the church, video screens scrolled through pictures of Derrion as a baby and with his family, as well as photos of his academic awards. Some mourners wore T-shirts with Derrion’s picture that read “We will always remember you.”

The program included a poem Derrion’s mother, Janette Albert, wrote to her son titled “May I Go Now?”

“I know you’re sad and afraid because I see your tears,” she wrote. “I’ll not be far. I promise that.”

Farrakhan also called for communities to support their youth.

“Let’s go get our young people,” Farrakhan said. “His righteousness was to serve as a redemptive force to command us to get up and get busy and save our children.”

!Jackson, Farrakhan at beaten Chicago teen’s funeral

!!His righteousness was to serve as a

redemptive force to command us to get up and get busy and save our children.

— Minister Louis Farrakhannational representative of the

Nation of Islam

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Madeleine LerouxDAILY EGYPTIANMLEROUX@SIU.EDU

A sustainability council is now in place and students will soon be able to suggest environmentally friendly uses for the Green Fee.

According to a university press release, Chancellor Sam Goldman appointed the council members earlier this month and asked them to create their operating papers by Dec. 15.

“We already have many sustainability initiatives underway on our campus, and this council will

enable us to take even more pro-active steps not only to preserve, but also enhance the environment,” Goldman said in the release.

Paul Restivo, council chairman, said Goldman wants the group to give him directions on how to make the campus more environmentally sustainable. The council is made up of three students, three faculty and four staff members who will serve two years and report to Kevin Bame, vice chancellor for administration and finance.

Restivo, director of the Center for Environmental Health and

Safety, said one of the council’s first charges is to appoint a committee of mostly students by Oct. 15 to review proposals on use of the $10-per-semester Green Fee, which was supported by students in a campus-wide referendum in the spring semester.

The Green Fee committee would be made up of the three student members of the council, one faculty and one staff member.

“We here at SIU are blessed with obviously very creative and energetic and positive thinking students who voted the green fee in,” Restivo said. “I

think the students have sort of taken the lead and our council will hopefully build upon that momentum that the students have started.”

Justin Harrell, council member and electrical engineer in Plant and Service Operation, said the council has been discussed for about two years and was part of the original proposal for the Green Fee.

“This is something that’s been in the works for a long time,” Harrell said. “I think that we’re finally seeing that come to fruition.”

Harrell said the operating papers, when finished, would contain rules

and procedures for proposals and applications on what to do with the Green Fee money.

“Things are coming together rather quickly, so I think that we should have — within a fairly short time — a process in place that people can go ahead and make applications,” Harrell said. “Start thinking about what type of projects you’d like to see to enhance sustainability on campus and look for that request for applications.”

Madeleine Leroux can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 254.

Chancellor names members of Sustainability Council

Charles Alexander, a graduate student in speech commu-nication from Chicago and member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, plays catch outside Brush Towers Sunday before a football tournament that was a part of Alpha Week. “I just needed to warm up,” Alexander said. To kick off Alpha Week, Alpha Phi Alpha and Beta Phi Pi partnered Sunday

to have a barbecue and football tournament.The event was a precursor to Homecoming Week.

Homecoming tickets were given as prizes to the winners of the tournament. In conjunction with the event, the 38th annual Miss Eboness competition will be held at 6:30 p.m. Saturday in Shryock Auditorium.

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Lolita C. BaldorTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — A top U.S. commander’s public plea for more troops in Afghanistan prompted a mild rebuke Sunday from the White House national se-curity adviser, as the administration heads into a second week of inten-sive negotiations over its evolving Afghan strategy.

Retired Gen. James Jones said that decisions on how best to sta-bilize Afghanistan and beat back the insurgency must extend be-yond troop levels to development and governance. And the request by Army Gen. Stanley McChrys-tal, the top U.S. commander in Af-ghanistan, for up to 40,000 more troops is just one of three key el-ements advisers must consider as they meet this week to plot the way ahead.

He added that it is “better for military advice to come up through the chain of command,” rather than off a public stage, referring to McChrystal’s speech in London last week making a case for more

troops. But Jones also beat back suggestions that the open campaign could jeopardize the general’s job.

McChrystal “is in it for the long haul,” Jones said. “I don’t think this is an issue.”

Jones comments came amid growing government fissures over whether to send thousands of ad-ditional forces to the fight, and just hours after militant forces over-whelmed U.S. troops at two out-posts near the Pakistan border, kill-ing eight Americans.

Obama’s senior advisers are set to meet twice this week to debate the Afghan strategy, juggling political pressure from the left to scale back combat troops with arguments from military leaders, including Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that additional forces are needed to secure the country and enable government and economic development advancements.

Jones said that Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling to the Taliban, and he downplayed fears that the insurgency could set up a renewed sanctuary for al-Qai-

da. McChrystal has said insurgents are gaining ground and the U.S. is in danger of failing unless more forces are sent to the fight.

“I don’t foresee the return of the Taliban. Afghanistan is not in imminent danger of falling,” Jones said. “The al-Qaida presence is very diminished. The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country, no bases, no abil-

ity to launch attacks on either us or our allies.”

He said Obama has received McChrystal’s request for additional troops, and the force numbers will be part of a larger discussion that will include efforts to beef up the size and training of the Afghan army and police, along with eco-nomic development and governance improvements in Afghanistan.

“It would be, I think, unfortunate if we let the discussion just be about troop strength. There is a minimum level that you have to have, but there’s, unfortunately, no ceiling to it,” Jones said.

Obama is considering a range of ideas for changing course in Afghanistan, including scaling back, staying put and sending more troops to fight the insurgency.

Adviser downplays threat of renewed al-Qaida haven

Eric TalmadgeIrwan Firdaus

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JUMANAK, Indonesia — With no outside help in sight, villag-ers used their bare hands Sunday to dig out rotting corpses four days after landslides triggered by a huge earth-quake obliterated four hamlets in western Indonesia.

Officials said at least 644 people were buried and presumed dead in the hillside villages in Padang Paria-man district on the western coast of Sumatra island. If confirmed it would raise the death toll in Wednesday’s 7.6-magnitude earthquake to more than 1,300, with about 3,000 missing.

The extent of the disaster in remote villages is only now becoming clear. So far, aid and rescue efforts have been

concentrated in the region’s capital, Padang, a city of 900,000 people where several tall buildings collapsed.

But the quake was equally devas-tating in the hills of Pariaman, where entire hillsides were shaken loose, sending a cascade of mud, rocks and trees through at least four villages.

Vice President Jusuf Kalla said there was little hope of finding anyone alive.

“We can be sure that they are dead. So now we are waiting for burials,” he told reporters.

Where the villages once stood, there is only mud and broken palm trees. The mountainsides appeared

to have been gouged bare by a gigantic backhoe.

The villages “were sucked 30 me-ters (100 feet) deep into the earth,” said Rustam Pakaya, the head of Indone-

sia’s Health Ministry crisis center. “Even the mosque’s minaret, taller than 20 me-ters (65 feet), disap-peared.”

In Jumanak vil-lage, some 200 to 300 wedding guests at a restaurant were buried alive, includ-

ing the bride, her 15-year-old brother, Iseh, said.

He said his sister Ichi, 19, had come back to the village for her wedding.

“When the landslide came, the party had just finished. I heard a big

boom of the avalanche. I ran outside and saw the trees fall down,” said Iseh, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

“I tried to get in front of the house with my brothers. We were so afraid. Landslides started coming from all directions. I just ran and then I waited,” he said.

Iseh said he knows of only 10 people from the village who survived. He doesn’t know the fate of his parents or brothers.

The adjacent villages of Pulau Aiya, Lubuk Lawe and Limo Koto Timur were also swept away.

Pakaya earlier had said the wedding party was in Pulau Aiya, but Iseh clari-fied Sunday that it was in Jumanak.

Survivors in the area said no government aid or search teams had arrived, even four days after

the quake. Only about 20 local policemen had come with a power shovel and body bags.

“My relatives were all killed, washed away by the landslide,” said Dola Jambak, a 48-year-old trader, picking through the rubble of his house. “I lost seven relatives. Now all I can do is wait for the search teams. But they don’t come.”

The landslides cut off all roads, and the villages were accessible only by foot. An AP team reached Jumanak after walking about four miles for 1.5 hours.

Villagers gathered as men used their bare hands to slowly and cau-tiously pull corpses from a tangle of roots and grit. The bodies were bloated and mutilated, some unrecognizable. One man’s body was found because his hand was sticking out of the mud.

Indonesian villagers use bare hands to dig corpses

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If Chicago can’t regulate parking

meters or fix potholes without massive inefficiency or corruption, how then, in just more than six years, are we going to be able to expand the CTA, create facilities and raise money necessary to host the Olympics?

My mother called me early

Friday morning with the news that Chicago had lost its bid for the Olympics.

After all the effort that went into trying to host the 2016 Summer Games, Chicago was unexpectedly and unceremoniously booted in the first round. Ouch.

The press has been doing an autopsy all weekend on the pitch. Was it a political fight between the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee?

Was it the lack of confidence in Chicago’s ability to adequately host and pay for the games? Was it the brutal street killing of an innocent 16-year-old that made internation-al headlines when a video of the murder was put on YouTube?

There have been many rea-sons as to why Chicago didn’t get the games. They run the range from plausible, “the Olympics have never been held in the Southern Hemisphere and it was about time” to the ridiculous, “The world has rejected Obama” (thank you Matt Drudge).

The reason Chicago lost is probably a combination of many

different things: Rio made a better pitch, the USOC greedily attempt-ed to create a TV network and thus gain all broadcast revenues, the IOC bidding process itself is transparently corrupt, etc.

The brutal street violence highlighted in the YouTube video couldn’t have helped, but still, Rio has more than 4,000 murders a year and anyone who has seen “City of God” knows Chicago’s west side doesn’t hold a can-dle to the ghettos of Brazil.

The real truth is, after reading the post-mortems and talking to friends and family back home, Chicagoans just weren’t too excited about the games in the first place.

It ’s not that Chicagoans don’t want the world to see why we live in the best big city in the U.S. Chicagoans have a sense of col-lective pride that has lasted through a massive fire, two Daley’s and a hundred years without the Cubs winning the World Series. We still love our town.

But the people of Chicago were wary of the games. If Chicago can’t regulate parking meters or fix pot-

holes without massive inefficiency or corruption, how then, in just more than six years, are we going to be able to expand the CTA, create facilities and raise money necessary to host the Olympics?

The debate often mirrored the one on this campus over the new football stadium, “with the serious infrastructure and fiscal problems we currently face, how can we justify putting this massive sports project at

the top of our prior-ity list?”

The answer always given is that investing in the games (football stadium, etc.) will generate economic development in the future. The money going into sporting events will “trickle down” into the com-munities that sur-round it.

Anyone who has driven down 94 through the Loop can see the remnants

of one of the last events to “generate economic development” in the form of two miles of highway dividers put up for the 1996 Democratic National Convention. The dividers on the way to the fancy hotels are much nicer than the rest.

And it is through that prism

that people are distrusting of the Chicago Olympic bid.

No Olympic games have made money since the Los Angeles games, and both of the next two games, Vancouver and London, are already massively over budget.

To boot, Mayor Daley, aka “King Dick,” has a 32 percent approval rating. Only at the last second was he able to get the City Council to approve a blank check to fund the Olympics (and the Olympics require a blank check).

Many see this as a cheap stunt meant to secure Daley’s legacy and distract from Chicago’s massive problems.

Still, all the problems aside, I’m not happy Chicago lost the Olympics. Sure there were a host of problems with the bid, and not getting the games is probably better financially.

But I still love my city and I don’t cheer that it, or any other American city, lost its chance to show the world what makes it so special. We may have lost the Olympics, but we’re still better than New York City or Los Angeles.

So in the aftermath there’s nothing left to do besides pick up, dust off and congratulate Rio. Let the 2016 games be for the People of the Sun. You earned it.

O’Connor is a senior studying political science and philosophy.

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Luke McCormickDAILY EGYPTIAN

LMCCORM2@SIU.EDU

“Zombieland”Directed by: Ruben Fleischer

Rated: RStarring: Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail

BreslinRelease Date: 10/2

Rating: B+

It is unnerving to take such de-light in zombies feasting on human flesh and bone marrow, but “Zom-bieland” makes the whole apocalypse scene seem like a day at the beach.

Within minutes of the film’s start, blood is spurting and dripping across the camera and the only response is nervous laughter. The carnage lasts throughout, and so do the laughs.

Columbus (Eisenberg) narrates the film as he tries to make his way back home with hopes that his par-ents have not yet been zombified. He

has survived because of a list of rules he has made while avoiding and kill-ing zombies. He follows these rules religiously, until he crosses paths with another survivor, Tallahassee (Harrelson).

Harrelson’s character’s sole de-light in the world is zombie kill-ing. He makes his way through the wasteland America has become, us-ing a variety of items to skull crush the flesh eaters. Unlike Columbus, he is not careful and does whatever is necessary to take care of anything that crosses his path.

The unlikely duo smashes through zombies with shotgun blasts, banjo head smashes, garden shear throat slashes and a number of other creative kills. The two en-ter a grocery store to try and fulfill Tallahassee’s never-ending quest for Twinkies when they come upon a pair of other survivors.

Wichita (Stone) and Little Rock (Breslin) are on their way to California in hopes of reaching an

amusement park, which could pro-vide safety for survivors.

The film doubles as a road-trip and zombie film, succeeding within each genre.

Harrelson is the film’s star, drop-ping one-liners through a thick southern drawl. He is the perfect

accompaniment to his younger trip mates, as he is less mature than even 12-year-old Little Rock.

The film does not bring any-thing new to the screen, but with such a strong cast and script, the film is a winner. One of the great-est cameos in history helps its case

as well (no spoilers here).Through all the blood blood and

loads of laughs, “Zombieland” is one of the year’s funniest and most enjoy-able films.

Luke McCormick can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 251.

‘Zombieland’ is a bloody good time

Stile T. SmithDAILY EGYPTIANSTS34@SIU.EDU

A single database is available to preserve work by faculty, researchers and students.

According to its Web site, Open-SIUC is an “institutional repository offering permanent, reliable, and free access to research and scholarly ma-terial produced at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale.”

OpenSIUC coordinator Jona-than Nabe said the goal of the Web site is to make both scholarly research and creative output more

available to the outside world.“Some faculty have their work on

their individual Web sites, but then maybe they leave or the department changes the Web site and all that stuff disappears,” Nabe said. “We want to bring it together all in one place and preserve it.”

Nabe said OpenSIUC has a com-mitment to protect all the work done by faculty at the university.

He said as well as working with faculty and researchers to preserve their research and output, the program also works with graduate students and students in the honors program.

“Right now, the way it works — a grad student writes a thesis or disser-tation, submits it to ProQuest, then you have to have a sub-scription to ProQuest database to have access to those,” Nabe said. “We want them to be freely available to the world through OpenSIUC.”

Nabe said Open-SIUC now has honors theses that are from as far back as 20 years ago.

Lori Merrill-Fink, director of the University Honors Program, said the

program has been available to honors students who have completed a thesis since last spring.

“It’s something we definitely promote to our seniors who are graduating with a the-sis,” Merrill-Fink said.

Merrill-Fink said the site is relatively new to the honors program, and she is not sure if any honors students have used it.

Nabe said an open forum on the Web site would be held Nov. 19 in the

Morris Library Auditorium.He said the program allows stu-

dents and their work to have higher visibility.

“The stuff in here, typically in a Google search, is retrieved and ranked higher than it is if it’s on an individual Web site,” Nabe said. “They’re more likely to be cited in other publications.”

Nabe said every college in the uni-versity has representation on Open-SIUC, though not every department has decided to participate.

Stile Smith can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 259.

OpenSIUC Web site makes faculty, student work accessible

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together all in one place and preserve it.

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“What kind of a place is this when the dean and the provost feel that they can ... not follow the order of a chancellor and feel that there is no consequences,” Zeman said. “And apparently there weren’t.”

Zeman, who is also chairman of the policy committee who wrote the amendment, said it was nothing controversial and would have been passed with no problems had there been the right amount of voting fac-ulty present.

“It was a trivial thing,” Zeman said. “It was about the hiring of an interim associate dean ... (but) the amend-ment process was very important.”

According to the grievance, the Faculty Association repeatedly at-tempted to have Goldman’s instruc-tions enforced with no success. At the end of February 2009, the Fac-ulty Association filed for arbitration, which took place June 22.

Randy Hughes, Faculty Asso-

ciation president, said the arbitrator sided with the Faculty Association, calling the delay in implementation “frivolous.” All costs of the arbitration were then assessed to the university, which Hughes said is unusual. Ze-man said he believed the arbitration costs amounted to roughly $4,000.

“(The arbitrator) seems to be say-ing that there wasn’t a middle ground, that there was just a very clear case of the university and officials in the university just failing to do what they were obligated to do,” Hughes said. “It was an unusual situation.”

Means declined to comment and Goldman said he was not allowed to speak about ongoing grievances, though, according to the grievance papers, the arbitration was settled July 21.

Zeman said the college faculty was in the process of redoing the vote.

Stile Smith contributed to this report.Madeleine Leroux can be reached at

536-3311 ext. 254.

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Wasson said the club is planning to hold next semester’s event in the Student Center so more students can attend. If the event is hosted there, members should not run into any con-tract issues as they did this year, Was-son said. Since the event was held on campus housing property, food had to be purchased from the dining halls, he said. If it takes place in the Student Center next semester, he said members could purchase food from a place of their choosing.

Next year, Wilson said he wants to raise more money to improve the event. He said he plans on putting fli-ers up around campus and partnering with local businesses.

“I want to keep making it bigger and better,” Suite said. “It is a fantastic gathering where people can come up with transparent ideas.”

Carrie Mulderink can be reached at 536-3311 ext. 255.

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HoroscopesBy Linda C. Black

Across1 Precious stones5 Burn a bit9 Roe source13 Most eligible for the draft14 Like a snowy landscape15 “Royal” nuisance16 Put in pigeonholes17 Duncan __: cake mix brand18 Reformer for whom a Bible book is named19 What little girls are made of, so it’s said22 “That makes sense”23 The Blue Jays, on score-boards24 Place for a napkin27 Prof’s degree28 Spat31 C.S. Lewis’s “The Chronicles of __”33 Out of harm’s way35 Border38 Prior to, poetically

39 Courtroom figs.40 Light lunch45 “Queen of Soul” Franklin46 Supermarket checkout unit47 Rainbow shape50 Hesitant sounds51 Mexican Mrs.53 “Beats me”55 Pleasantly concise59 Fuzzy fruit61 “Shucks!”62 Castaway’s spot63 Post-workout woe64 Spud65 Use a swizzle stick66 Modernists67 Previously, old-style68 Coop residents

Down1 Grapevine news2 Sufficient3 Combined two compa-nies into one4 Occupied, as a desk

5 Goatee’s location6 __ legs: rear extremities7 ‘50s nuclear experiment8 Answer9 Designer’s detail, briefly10 Coffee flavoring11 What we breathe12 Genetic initials14 “Just suppose ...”20 Beatles meter maid21 Some savings plans, for short25 “__ That a Shame”: Domino hit26 Writing tablets29 Supply meals for30 Iran’s official language32 Thoroughfare33 Labor Day mo.34 Tidy35 Jacob’s twin36 College housing37 Phone caller’s “Bet you don’t recognize my voice!”41 Facetious “Of course”

42 Tell a story43 Mortgage bank, e.g.44 Andy’s old radio partner47 “__ Fideles”: Christmas carol48 Land, as a fish49 Supplies food for, as an affair

52 Engaged in battle54 Start of a request to a genie56 Goes in haste57 FBI employees58 Depilatory product59 Wichita’s state: Abbr.60 Hockey surface

Today’s Birthday — Spend at least a few minutes creating a new way to get your ideas across to others. You have the talent. Just take the time and you’ll see a way to transform your life. E-mails or long-distance calls bring opportunities.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 9 — You change your mind a lot today. That’s OK. In the end, you know exactly what to do.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — You get a chance to test a pet theory. Do the empirical analysis yourself. Leave nothing to chance.Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is an 8 — You don’t have to say anything. Dress the part and demonstrate your love in other ways.Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — You realize that facts aren’t clear. Don’t expect to change that until much later. Stick to practical details.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — Don’t believe everything you hear today. Test what you’re told against practical observation.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is an 8 — Do the glamour thing today: It’ll work. Start a new relationship or find a new way to relate to your current partner.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — Some very strange information comes into your possession. This could be a really good thing. Use it well.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Who needs words when passions are flowing so well? Work smart, play later.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Monitor medications carefully. Don’t double up. Good nutrition can ease symptoms.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Put on the Ritz and the glitz! Dress one notch higher than usual to impress.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Fools rush in. Are you a fool today? Let’s hope not. Baby steps work better.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Whatever isn’t clear in the morning takes shape during the day so that you can make a decision by nightfall.

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Ryan SimoninDAILY EGYPTIANRSIMMY@SIU.EDU

The SIU swimming and diving team had two dominant performances to open its season.

The Saluki men’s and women’s swim teams finished in first place in the SIU Miler Friday at the Dr. Edward J. Shea Natatorium against Illinois State University. The men took first in the 5K Open Water Festival at Grassy Lake in Marion. The women’s team tied for first with University of Missouri.

Head coach Rick Walker said the team swam well, especially with two meets back-to-back.

“We have a pretty gritty group of swimmers and we’re not going to back down to anybody,” Walker said. “We are going to keep doing what we’re doing.”

Freshman Kirsten Groome placed first out of 18 participants at the SIU Miler with a time of 16 minutes, 24.12 seconds while sophomore Jennifer Kwok came in second with a time of 17:38.86.

On the men’s side, sophomore Matt Parsons placed first with a time of 16:23.28 and sophomore César Pérez followed close behind in second with a time of 16:41.46.

“We’ve been training really hard this season, a lot harder than last season and we have a great freshmen class this year and they have been pushing us to train hard to keep up,” Pérez said.

The Salukis carried their success from the SIU Miler over to the Open Water Festival Saturday in the five-ki-lometer race where each school fielded a team of three men and three women.

SIU competed against Illinois State University, University of Evans-ville and University of Missouri.

Parsons, sophomore Matt Kruse and freshman Barrett Mark represent-ed SIU. The trio combined for a time of 177 minutes, 84 seconds to take first place. Parsons and Kruse finished with a time of 59:15 and 59:17, respectively. Mark followed with a time of 59:52.

Groome, Kwok and senior Keli Kramer tied for first place with a com-bined time of 189 minutes, 82 sec-onds. Groome finished with a time of 59:32. Kwok and Kramer finished in

the top-15 with a time of 64:48 and 66:02, respectively.

Groome said it was nice to see her teammates out in the open waters having fun.

“I love open water swimming,” Groome said. “It was a great experi-ence to be out in open waters again and to see my teammates enjoying it.

The Salukis head to Evansville, Ind., Wednesday for their first dual meet competition of the 2009-10 season.

Ryan Simonin can be reachedat 536-3311 ext. 261.

Swimmers sweep first meetsSophomore Matt Parsons, from Brisbane, Australia, dives off a block Wednesday in preparation for his team’s first meets Friday and Saturday. The SIU swim team took first place in the SIU Miler Friday in Carbondale and first in the 5K SIU Open Water Festival at Little Grassy Lake Saturday. Parsons, along with swimmers Matt Kruse and Barrett Mark took the top three places in the men’s race at the Open Water Festival.ISAAC SMITHDAILY EGYPTIAN

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Western Illinois quarterback Matt Barr came into the game averaging 274.7 yards per game, but only had 90 yards before being forced to leave in the first half with a thumb injury. The Leathernecks’ backup quarterback Wil Lunt was harassed by the Saluki defense as soon as he stepped into the game. The redshirt freshman finished 7-14 passing with only 50 yards and two interceptions while being sacked four times.

Western Illinois head coach Mark Hendrickson said despite his quar-terback’s numbers, he showed a lot of maturity under center.

“From what I saw from Wil Lunt

tonight, I thought he did a very good job,” Hendrickson said. “They (SIU) do pressure the passer really well, and they did again tonight. Wil had a couple passes that were dropped that he put right there. He hung in there for a freshman and for his first real-life action.”

The Leathernecks seemed deter-mined to make it a game in the first half. Western Illinois got on the board with 4:30 left in the first quarter with a Brian Egan 30-yard field goal af-ter SIU quarterback Chris Dieker fumbled.

After a three-yard touchdown run by Karim put the Salukis up 14-3, the Leathernecks charged downfield again, capping off a 73-yard drive with a two-yard run by Dre Gibbs.

The Salukis never let the Leath-ernecks get any closer, capping off the first half with 13 unanswered points.

The second half was a defensive battle on both ends, with the only points of the half coming on a Kyle Daugherty 43-yard field goal to put the Salukis up 30-10. SIU held West-ern Illinois to only 51 yards of offense in the second half.

Lennon said despite the lack of flashy plays in the second half, he was pleased with the team’s effort.

“It wasn’t the prettiest win for us, but what I told the team in the locker room is that we’ll take a win on the road any day,” Lennon said.

Ryan Voyles can be reached at 536-3311 ext 256.

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Not to sound too homerish with my pick, but I really like the Cardinals’ chances going through the NL. The Cards have dominated the Dodgers so far this season, and I would like their pitchers to shut down the Phillies. I’ll call it now though, look for the Rockies to win the NL a la 2007. Everybody is overlooking them again, and they’re on a roll since Jim Tracy took over the team. Look for the Rockies to defeat the Cardinals in the NLCS to advance to the World Series. Does this mean I have to give up my Cards fan card?

Also not to be biased, but the Cardinals are looking good, though they have been quite shaky wrapping up the season. If their pitching stays strong the Cards will be golden against the Dodgers and the rest of the NL. I personally like the Phillies over the Rockies. I will leave you with this: Opinions do not matter in the post-season. Anything can happen; that’s why I love this game.

Wait, I’m being forced to answer this question again? I about suffered an aneurism last time I predicted the representative for the NL in the World Series. My answer is still going to be the St. Louis Cardinals. Yes, it still hurts to type that, but it doesn’t change their amazing pitching. There is no team in the NL in a seven-game series that can match what they have to offer. It’s painful to talk about this again, but sometimes the truth hurts. I hope I’m wrong.

The win was a team effort, with four players scoring double dig-its in kills. Junior right side Ali-cia Johnson led the way with 14 kills, junior outside hitter Jennifer Berwanger and freshman outside hitter Laura Thole each had 12 and senior middle blocker Marina Medic added 11.

Johnson and Berwanger both

had double-doubles. Johnson had 22 digs while Berwanger recorded 11.

“I feel that we did really well,” Medic said. “We were disappoint-ed by how we did (Friday) night and we weren’t going to let that happen again tonight. We were going to go in and play as hard as we can and not make any excuses for ourselves.”

Winkeler said the team needed to not only win the match, but also

win it in a dominant fashion. She said the third and fourth sets were exactly what SIU was looking for.

Medic said finishing the home stand with a win was important.

“Winning (Saturday night) was huge, we definitely needed it,” Medic said. “(Friday) night was frustrating and it felt good to come out and win like we did.”

Derek Robins can be reached at 536-3311 ext 269.

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Ronald BlumTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Minnesota’s Joe Mauer all but locked up his third American League batting title in four seasons, and Hanley Ramirez became the first Florida Marlins player to win a National League batting crown.

In a year in which home runs increased from last year’s average of 2.01 per game to 2.07, there were no 20-game winners on the mound. It was only the second time that’s happened in a non-shortened season since 1900. The other time was 2006.

Mauer, the only catcher to win an AL batting title, has a .364 average. While Minnesota meets

Detroit on Tuesday in an AL Cen-tral tiebreaker that counts in the regular-season statistics, Mauer would have to go 0 for 18 or worse to drop behind Seattle’s Ichiro Su-zuki, who is second at .352.

“I’ll worry about winning the game before I worry about all of that,” Mauer said. “The game is the only thing on my mind right now.”

Ramirez finished with a .342 average and became the first NL shortstop to win a batting title since Dick Groat for Pittsburgh in 1960.

“It’s a lot of work, a lot of dedi-cation. And the coaching, they’ve been on me from Day 1,” Ramirez said. “I know I have to keep work-ing hard and try to get better. My family will be happy.”

Ramirez wins batting title; Mauer all but a lock

ELIZABETH FLORES | MCCLATCHY TRIBUNEMinnesota Twins’ Joe Mauer hits a two-run double during the fourth inning against the Cleveland Indians at the Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minn., Wednesday, Sept. 16. The Twins won 7-3.

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Madeleine LerouxDAILY EGYPTIANMLEROUX@SIU.EDU

An improperly held vote in the College of Science, which led to a grievance filed by the Faculty Association, has some members questioning the accountability of administrators and the authority of Chancellor Sam Goldman.

Marvin Zeman, former Faculty Association president and co-chair of the grievance committee, said an amendment to the college operating paper, brought by the College of Science Policy Committee, was presented to the college faculty at the end of the spring 2008 semester.

The existing operating paper requires a 60 percent vote of approval from the faculty in order to approve amendments, Zeman said, but only 58 of the eligible 122 voting-faculty cast ballots, 50 of which voted yes.

According to the operating paper grievance in the College of Sci ence, the policy committee decided to delay the vote until fall 2008, when the appropriate number of faculty members would be present. On July 16, 2008, however, College of Science Dean Jay Means wrote to Interim Provost Don Rice that the faculty ratified the amendment and, on July 24, 2008, Rice approved the change. The Faculty Association filed a grievance on Oct. 20, 2008 after receiving notification of the approved amendment.

“There was a disagreement over whether the vote that was taken fulfills the operating paper’s requirements on who can vote and how many needed to vote in order for something to pass,” Rice said. “It was just a misunderstand-ing.”

Zeman said Chancellor Sam Gold-man agreed with the Faculty Asso-ciation and on Nov. 3, 2008, Goldman ordered a revote. Seven months later, Zeman said, the Faculty Association filed for arbitration after Goldman’s in-structions were not followed.

“What kind of a place is this when the dean and the provost feel that they can ... not follow the order of a chan-cellor and feel that there is no conse-quences,” Zeman said. “And appar-ently there weren’t.”

Grievance filed in College of Science

To see the fuloperating paper grievance in the College of Science, go to the Faculty Association Web site, at www.siucfa.org, and click on Grievance/Support.

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Carrie MulderinkDAILY EGYPTIANCRASH1@SIU.EDU

Students arrived at Grinnell Hall carrying computers and con-trollers as they prepared for a video game marathon and a presentation on computer safety.

Saluki Lan and the Carbon-dale chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery hosted its first public event in Grinnell Hall Saturday and Sunday, said Ben Wasson, president of the Carbon-dale chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Wasson said Saluki Lan and the Association for Computing Ma-chinery are student organizations with the goal of advancing aware-ness about information technology within the campus.

The event featured 32 hours of consecutive video game playing, and six tournaments among participants using a video game of their choice, said Wasson, a junior from Rock-ford studying computer science. More than 100 students played in

the tournaments, said co-founder of Saluki Lan Jared Suite, a junior from DeKalb studying cri minology.

Wasson said while the event has been held the past five years, this was the first time it was open to the public, which led to more than triple the amount of average participation. This year, Suite said, Saluki Lan members made several advertising efforts by seeking out support from local businesses.

“There are not many student events for purely having fun and learning,” Wasson said. “I also ran a similar gathering when I attended Kishwaukee Community College. It was successful, so I wanted to bring it to SIUC.”

The event also featured a speech by Curtis Wilson, network security officer for the university. Wilson said the goal of his presen-tation was to further knowledge about the importance of computer security. He said he touched on various topics, including a brief history of malicious software, threats and detection.

Wilson said this was his first year speaking at a Saluki Lan gath-ering and he sees a great deal of importance in the group’s work.

“It is crucial to educate students about computers,” Wilson said. “They are a great tool, but users can be tricked into giving up informa-tion or downloading viruses. With the knowledge these people now

have, they can avoid much of the stress that can go along with main-taining a computer.”

Wasson says the Saluki Lan group plans on running this gather-ing for years to come, but is looking to hold it in a larger venue.

Technology group teaches computer securityVideo game tournaments attract more than 100 students

KEVIN TRUJILLO | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Ethan Humiston, 8, of Springfield, participates in the Saluki Lan party PLUS with his father, Robert Humiston, in the basement of Grinnell Hall Sunday.

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JULIA RENDLEMAN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

A WEEKEND IN MURPHYSBORO

Carl Pritchett, left, and Ben Canning, right, of Murphysboro, discuss the items up for bid at the Hagler estate auction in Murphysboro Saturday. The estate be-longed to Mary Ann and the late Gene Hagler. The house sold for $82,500, ac-cording to David Canning Auctioneers.

This photo was taken as part of the Weekend in Murphysboro project that is part of a new program created by profes-sors in the SIUC School of Journalism called “South of 64.” The program will focus on documenting stories south of Interstate 64 in a workshop environment

and allow students access to top profes-sionals in the field of photojournalism. Roughly 30 journalism students spent the weekend documenting the lives of Murphysboro residents, while industry professionals worked with students to improve their stories and photos.

To see more images and stories from the weekend, check out Thursday’s Currents edition and siude.com.