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!e 10-day enrollment "gures released Tuesday showed a marked improvement in freshman enrollment, despite a decline in overall enrollment.

Overall enrollment decreased for the ninth straight year, falling from 18,847 to 17,964. !is marks one of the lowest enrollments in 40 years.

Chancellor Rita Cheng blamed the enrollment numbers on a small 2010 freshman class and expressed a need to work back up from that low point. Transfer student enrollment has also decreased, something Cheng attributes to rough economic times.

“[!e drop] was mostly economy driven,” she said. “Students are staying longer at community colleges, or not going to college because of the cost. !ey’re coming back, but slowly.”

Despite the drop in overall enrollment, freshman enrollment grew by more than 12 percent from 2,286 to 2,571. !e freshman class is the largest it has been in 20 years. Cheng attributed this to a complete overhaul of how SIU is being marketed to new students.

“We revamped our branding and marketing materials, expanded the number of students who got those materials in the mail and social media, increased our advertising, increased our presence in cities across the state and

the region, expanded our open house and new student orientation and we expanded our scholarships,” Cheng said.

She went on to say that the university had faltered in previous years with new student recruitment.

“We weren’t doing all the things that we needed to do,” she said. “We were late, our materials weren’t as sharp as our competitors and we weren’t sending a strong message about the quality of our faculty and our academic programs. If you don’t do that right, how is a 17-year-old going to know that SIU is a place to consider.”

Overall enrollment falls near 40-year lowSETH RICHARDSONDaily Egyptian

Skating for new facilities

Dandy Martin, a junior from Gurnee studying computer science, performs a backside overcrook Friday during a Southern Illinois University Skate Society skateboard session at the roller rink on Wall St. “Part of the romance of skating here is you have to be creative due to the lack of creative facilities,” Martin said. The organization SIUSS raises money to one day build a skate park and promote skateboarding in Carbondale.

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Kirk Dillard’s choice for Lt. Governor is set and it’s one of southern Illinois’ very own.

Dillard traveled around Illinois Tuesday to announce his partner, Jil Tracy, for his bid to become Gov. of Illinois. Tracy is a former

Carbondale and Anna resident who also attended and graduated from SIU.

Choosing Tracy was a way to show people that the entire state is important and not just the Chicago area, Dillard said.

“I have had the privilege and the honor of working with all of the regions in the state of Illinois,”

he said. “And today, with my announcement of Jil Tracy as my choice for Lt. Gov., I am making the down payment on the promise that I will be a Gov. for all of Illinois.”

Tracy has the experience and judgement needed to get things done, Dillard said. He said their goals are to provide Illinois with

the leadership it lacks, create jobs and take care of the state’s pension problem and financial situations.

The future of the state is a huge problem that needs to be addressed, Tracy said.

“I’m honored and humbled to be chosen as Lt. Gov.,” she said. “As a state representative, I’ve enjoyed working for the people

of western Illinois, but like all of you, I’m very concerned and I love this state.”

Tracy was born in Carbondale and raised in Anna. She also attended SIU, where she graduated with honors in political science and earned a law degree.

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Oldest Nobel Prize winner

Ronald Coase dies at 102CHICAGO — Nobel Prize

winner Ronald Coase, a pioneer in applying economic theory to the law, has died at age 102. !e former University of Chicago professor was the oldest living Nobel laureate before his death Monday at a Chicago hospital.

Coase died after a short illness, said University of Chicago Law School Dean Michael Schill, who spoke to Coase’s caregiver who was with him when he died.

!e British-born economist won the Nobel in 1991 for expanding economic theory to include simple but neglected concepts such as property rights and overhead costs. His work generated a new way of thinking about government regulation, without condemning all regulation as bad, Schill said.

“It’s impossible to overstate the in-uence of Ronald on the law,” Schill said. “Ronald was one of the founding fathers of (the *eld of ) law and economics.”

Coase was born in suburban London in 1910. He wore leg braces as a child and was sent to a school for “physical defectives,” he recalled in a biographical essay he wrote for the Nobel Prize organization. He hadn’t taken Latin, so a degree in history — his *rst choice — was impossible.

!at became “one of those accidental factors which seem to have shaped my life,” he wrote, and eventually led him to the study of economics.

Coase’s ideas grew from roots in the real world. In the 1930s, while a student at the London School of Economics, he toured U.S. factories.

What he learned from talking to business owners shaped his *rst signi*cant paper, “!e Nature of the Firm,” published in 1937 when he was in his mid-20s.

His second in-uential paper, published in 1960 and titled “!e Problem of Social Cost,” made the case that parties in a dispute — such as a railroad and a farmer — can negotiate ideal agreements without government intervention as long as property rights are clear. !e idea, called the Coase !eorem, still helps policymakers think about when taxes are appropriate to resolve problems such as industrial pollution.

In a 1997 interview published in the journal Reason, Coase talked about studying the e+ects of government regulation using real-world cases.

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Overall enrollment lowest in 40 yearsBecause of her teaching and

administrative experience, Dr. Lisa McClure, associate professor of rhetoric and composition, recently served as the keynote speaker at the VIII National Conference for Teachers of English in Honduras.

!e American Embassy-sponsored conference, held from Aug. 5-17 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, is held every other year to provide university and high school teachers with ongoing training in teaching English as a second language.

Ronda Dively, associate professor of rhetoric and composition, said organizers sought McClure’s help with the conference because of her success at SIU. Dively said McClure has

helped many international students succeed in the English department, while also instructing them on di"erent teaching techniques.

“She has developed quite a reputation as an excellent innovative educator,” Dively said. “And students who have experienced her course would certainly back that up.”

Dively said she believes that McClure’s connections with students and faculty in the English department are the reason she was chosen by the embassy to have this high honor of traveling and representing the university and representing the country.

McClure said learning English is important for the people of Honduras in order for them to receive more education. !is, McClure said, will then lead to better jobs.

Part of McClure’s goal included the incorporation of technology in ESL classes.

“I admire the teachers in Honduras,” McClure said. “!ere are some classrooms that don’t even have chairs and the teachers are doing everything possible to help their students learn, regardless of what they have or don’t have.”

She said she thought it was important the people learned English so they would have a greater

opportunity to succeed in both their native country and around the world.

Jennifer Hewerdine, a Ph.D. student from Murphysboro studying rhetoric and composition, lauded McClure’s accomplishments. “McClure is a fabulous teacher in terms of pedagogy, and she is a great mentor for students who are learning to teach,” she said.

McClure said she believes teaching and learning are always valuable and she believes she made an impact on

the people attending the conference and their future students. While she taught several di"erent workshops, many integrated technology in the classroom, including two titled “Changing Learning Environments” and “Inquiry-Based Learning and Student-Centered Classrooms.”

“While opportunities are not the same because many people do not have access to the latest technologies, our students live in the same world,” McClure said. “As educators, we must keep in mind that regardless of how little or how much we have, we must do the best for all of our students in preparing them for a world that is driven by technology.”

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SIU professor delivers keynote speech in Honduras STEPHANIE DANNERDaily Egyptian ‘‘I admire the teachers in Honduras. There are some

classrooms that don’t even have chairs and the teachers are doing everything possible to help their students learn, regardless of what they have or don’t have.

— Dr. Lisa McClureassociate professor of rhetoric and composition

Cheng also said that the school has greatly expanded the number of high achieving students on campus, leading to a higher retention rate than in previous years.

“Our honors program has tripled in three years,” she said. “!at means we will have higher retention numbers because students will not have as much di#culty in their

$rst year because their academic preparation is higher.”

!e university also saw an increase in international and online enrollment at a rate of 10.7 and 36 percent, respectively. !e College of Engineering and the College of Sciences and Applied Arts also experienced overall growth.

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Tracy serves on the pension conference committee and is one of six members on the Legislative Ethics Commission. She has also served on the Special Legislative Investigation Committee and was a member of the impeachment committee that investigated former Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

Some attendees of the press

conference were thrilled with the choice of Tracy as Lt. Gov.

Larry White, an Anna resident, said Dillard and Tracy have his vote because he knows Tracy cares about the area and he has known her for a long time.

“Jil is from Anna, her mother is a wonderful friend of mine, and I taught Jil in high school,” he said.

White said he knows Tracy works hard and will stay true to her word. He said he hopes she gets elected to o#ce

and makes changes in the state.Louise Williams, an Anna resident,

said she came to support the Dillard campaign because she thinks they are trustworthy individuals who well solve her issues with the state.

“I came out today because I (wanted) to say that I wanted to move out of Illinois because it is so corrupt,” she said. “We’re taxed heavily and southern Illinois gets ignored by the Chicago politicians and I feel it’s important (to) get back to the basics.”

As the government looks at ways to minimize college costs for students, the traditional law degree may soon receive an update.

President Barack Obama said Aug. 20 he believes law schools should consider cutting their programs from three to two years as a way to reduce college debt. !e theory behind this idea is controversial among many within the legal community and profession. Some are calling into question how much experience students would receive preparing for the bar exam and whether students will be ready to practice law without the extra year.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Mark Brittingham said the change could work but it may require law

students to take summer courses. !e type of things one learns in the $eld typically does not prepare them for the bar exam, he said

“Most student debt is acquired during the undergraduate career and more is piled on during law school without much regard to the return on their investment,” Brittingham said. “Imposing a two-year law school may or may not be cheaper than the current structure and format that is currently being used.”

John Erbes, Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical & Experimental Education, said he likes the idea but it would force some law schools to restructure their curriculum, which typically involves $eld studies in the third year, in order to accommodate such a change.

“!e idea is not very di"erent on how many law schools are operating today,” he said.

Students also said they could see pros and cons with the president’s proposal.

Tom Drysdale, a third-year law student from Streator, said in theory the plan is a good idea but in practice it might have some problems.

“!e problem I see with the proposal is that students may miss much needed knowledge that can only be acquired from the classroom in the third year that heavily prepares them to do well on the bar exam,” he said.

Many third-year law classes generally prepare students to do well on the bar exam. With the third year being cut out

and students having $eld experience in the profession they may not do as well, Drysdale said.

Another student said two years could work, but students will have to be dedicated and responsible.

Shanna Crafts, a third-year law student from St. Peters, Mo., works as a law clerk in the Student’s Legal Assistance O#ce. She said working there really gives her great experience and prepares her for a future career in the legal profession.

“You enter the law $eld not really knowing what you are doing and learn as you go,” she said. “!is time next year I will probably be as prepared as I am now.”

Christopher M. Hicks can be reached at [email protected]

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CHRISTOPHER M. HICKSDaily Egyptian

Two-year law school instead of three becomes possibility

‘‘M ost student debt is acquired during the undergraduate career and more is piled on during law school without much regard to the return on their investment. Imposing a

two-year law school may or may not be cheaper than the current structure and format that is currently being used.

— Mark BrittinghamClinical Assistant Professor of Law

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Students now have more options in regards to on-campus dining as University Housing has extended

Starting this semester, the Trueblood Dining Hall near Brush Towers will stay open on weekdays until 11 p.m. whereas it previously only stayed open until 7 p.m.

days a week, from four to 11 p.m., compared to last semester when the areas were open from 11 a.m.

Crystal Bouhl, the assistant director of marketing, said the later hours with Trueblood were introduced as a pilot program this year, and that if the expanded hours are successful that Housing will look into expanding the hours for Lentz Dining Hall as well.

possible for the best value possible,” Bouhl said.

Multiple student employees at

the dining halls said they were not authorized to talk about the hour changes.

Sarah Smith-Whitehead, a freshman from Skokie studying pre-music, said she thinks the change

“It’s convenient because sometimes I have class later and want to take a nap afterwards, and when I wake up the dining hall is still open when I am hungry,” Smith-Whitehead said.

Greg Zimay, a sophomore from Cary studying chemistry, said he also appreciated that Trueblood is open later but doesn’t quite understand why Lentz Dining Hall wouldn’t also open later.

Point got a little cheated out,” Zimay said.

Zimay said students who wanted

would have to make an undesirable walk in the dark across campus to Trueblood.

Zimay said.Ashley Porter, a freshman from

Oak Park studying pre-medicine, said she thinks the problem is the dining halls don’t have extended hours on the weekend.

“To me, it would make more sense to have more hours on weekends when students have more time,” she said.

Bouhl said housing works with the Residence Hall Association, a group comprised of students living in the residence halls, to help make decisions in changes every year with the dining program.

She said the express areas, which are more geared towards convenient,

grab and go food, often provide less nutritional value than the dining halls do, which is why housing decided to encourage dining hall eating with cutting the hours of the express areas and adding more to Trueblood. Boul said with both dining and express areas open late, students could choose which one they prefer.

“While the express areas are convenient, we encourage our students to eat in our dining halls

nutritional choices and are a better value,” Bouhl said.

As far as students who want to spend their meal points in the express areas, Bouhl said they would need to compromise.

“Students who wish to use their dining plan as points in the express areas will need to do so early in the

week,” Boul said. Smith-Whitehead said she didn’t

feel like there was an issue with cashing out her meal points early like Bouhl suggested.

“I haven’t had any issues with it so far,” Smith-Whitehead said.

Zimay disagreed with Smith-Whitehead and said going to the express area is often a pain.

“It’s much busier now than it was last year, so I don’t even see the point of going there anymore,” Zimay said.

Roxcine Pabillore, a senior from Oswego studying information systems technology, said he didn’t mind the express areas closing on

their hours but for the reason that he just didn’t like what express

“Grinnell (Eastside express) is kind of just junk food,” Pabillore said. “I like to eat a lot but watch my diet so Grinnell was never my

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Daily Egyptian ‘‘W hile the express areas are convenient, we encourage our students to eat in our dining halls because they o!er many more nutritional choices and are a better value.

— Crystal Bouhlassistant director of marketing

Americans might soon need to get used to apple or grape juice as their breakfast drink of choice — unless, that is, they’re willing to pay exorbitant prices for orange juice.

Or maybe scientists, plant breeders and farmers will manage to save the day, using two critical but often-disparaged technologies: chemical pesticides in the short run and genetic engineering in the longer term.

!e pestilence that is devastating Florida citrus is a disease called citrus greening.

It is caused by a bacterium, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, which is spread by small insects called psyllids. !e bacteria infect the tree’s phloem, thereby blocking the "ow of nutrients, causing yellow mottling on the leaves and asymmetrical, bitter fruit that never ripens.

Infected trees die within about #ve years, during which time they serve as a reservoir for psyllids to spread the disease further. !ere is no known cure, but it can be slowed by frequent spraying with large amounts of chemical pesticides.

Greening has seriously compromised citrus production in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian peninsula and was discovered in July 2004 in Brazil. In 2005, the disease was found in south Florida and has since spread to sites in all counties that grow commercial citrus in the state. It has also been found in California but is not yet widespread here.

Several strategies that use genetic engineering techniques are being pursued to produce orange trees resistant to C. Liberibacter. (Because resistance hasn’t been found to occur naturally in citrus varieties anywhere in the

world, conventional cross-breeding techniques are not an option.)

!e approaches range from incorporating a gene from spinach or pigs into orange plants to using viruses — bacteriophages — that prey on bacteria (but are completely harmless to other organisms).

Some of these strategies have been used with stunning success in other crops to enhance resistance to various pests and diseases and to introduce other characteristics.

!e vast majority of corn, cotton, canola, sugar beet and soy grown in the United States have been genetically engineered with modern molecular techniques. And for more than a decade, most Hawaiian papayas have been engineered to resist a pest that in the 1990s was devastating the state’s production.

More to the point, neither farmers nor consumers are unfamiliar with foods that have been genetically modi#ed in some way.

With the exception of wild game, wild berries, wild mushrooms and #sh and shell#sh, most everything in our diet has been genetically improved by one technique or another. (Even some heirloom fruits and vegetables.)

Since the 1930s, plant breeders have performed “wide cross” hybridizations in which large numbers of “alien” genes are moved from one species or genus to another to create plant varieties that otherwise cannot and do not exist in nature. Common commercial varieties include tomato, potato, oat, rice and wheat — hardly fearsome “Frankenfoods.”

However, even with modern molecular techniques, the genetic engineering of trees is a slow process, and citrus growers are desperate for solutions that will buy them time until disease-resistant trees can be developed and tested and are yielding fruit.

One promising approach focuses on

killing the proli#c psyllids. Currently, there is only one e$ective treatment: a soil drench of neonicotinoid (“neonic”) pesticide (derived from the naturally occurring nicotine found in plants) at the base of the young citrus tree’s trunk. !is enables the chemical to be taken up through the roots, which keeps it from a$ecting other "ying insects or pollinators, as spraying can.

Important research is underway that could expand the use of neonic treatment to large, mature, fruit-bearing trees as well as young trees, once the safety and e$ectiveness of the treatment have been demonstrated to the Environmental Protection Agency.

It must be shown to protect the tree from both psyllid attack and citrus greening infection; and it must not harm bees, show up in harmful amounts in fruit or juice or have other adverse environmental e$ects.

So far, the results have been promising — excellent news for Florida’s citrus farmers. Genetically engineered trees resistant to citrus greening are no doubt the eventual solution to this scourge, but it may take a decade or more to develop reliably resistant, reproducible orange trees that can serve as a basis for the industry.

In the meantime, without the protection currently being o$ered by neonicotinoid soil treatments, the U.S. citrus industry and its associated infrastructure would probably be gone by the time genetically engineered citrus trees become commercially viable.

If we are to preserve Florida’s $9-billion orange juice industry — and citrus crops in California and Texas when the disease spreads further — we will need to rely on the best technologies available. !at means coming to terms with safe and rational genetic engineering and the innovative applications of systemic neonic pesticides.

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Saving the orange treeBY HENRY I. MILLER

LOS ANGELES TIMES

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear editor,It was my privilege to bring the Marching Sa-

lukis to Champaign-Urbana this past Saturday for our game against the Fighting Illini, and I would like to express my gratitude to those who made the trip possible:

First, to the students, faculty and fans of the University of Illinois. At every turn, my students were treated with kindness and respect. Fans we passed while on parade around the stadium were gracious and polite. People said, "Good morning" and o!ered encouraging comments. "is is the true measure of sportsmanship, and it was greatly appreciated.

I would also like to thank the Division of In-tercollegiate Athletics for their hospitality and for allowing us to appear in Memorial Stadium in support of our team.

On behalf of every student, I would like thank the #re and emergency crew members stationed behind us under the stadium who tended to our students. With a heat index of 105, and clad in black wool uniforms, many of our members were overcome. Even removing our jackets did not work for everyone, and the emergency crew members were right there to check vital signs and help the band members cool down.

"e emergency crew and the U of I athlet-ics concessions director deserve special thanks for providing several additional bottles of wa-ter to the band during this di$cult time. Sev-eral times, I o!ered to pay for additional water so the band could have more, but was told each time that there would be no charge. Again, this is a sign of a program with sportsmanship, care and class.

Finally, my sincere thanks to the members of the Marching Illini, and the entire U of I band sta!; especially my colleague and good friend Barry Houser and interim director of bands Dr. Linda Moorehouse. Barry and I share the same philosophy that the rivalry on the #eld should not translate to our students. We are there to en-tertain. We also both wanted for the two bands to work together, and hopefully form new and lasting friendships. I think we succeeded.

Planning for this endeavor started over a month ago, and continued while both of us were in band camp, and into the #rst week of classes. I appreciate the sacri#ce Professor Houser and Marching Illini made in their rehearsal schedule to allow our visit with them friday night and sat-urday morning before the game.

We hope you, the audience enjoyed the half-time performance by both bands. As an alum-nus of the University of Illinois, I am proud of the way my students were treated by my alma mater. "ank you Dr. Houser, Marching Illini, and all students and fans. You are a model which all other programs should aspire to become.

Very sincerely yours,George Brozak, ed.D. (University of Illinois)Associate Director of BandsSouthern Illinois University

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Artist turns 9/11 stories into song

Black Blacks gets ‘Tough’ on new E.P.

NEW YORK — A dozen years after 9/11, an American musician has turned memories of grief into survivor songs — some of them surprisingly joyous.

Composer and pianist Jake Heggie said Sunday that his new album titled “here/after (songs of lost voices)” is meant “to create a sense of hope and newness that can come from the grief. Otherwise, the people who did it win.”

The singers, including baritone Nathan Gunn and soprano Talise Trevigne, tell the stories of 9/11 survivors from around the country, expressing feelings about lost loved ones as they sort belongings left behind. One set of songs is called “Pieces of 9/11.”

A firefighter from Texas Task Force 1 who had combed through the smoking ground zero rubble says, “And everything belonged

to somebody/To somebody gone/And we all belonged to each other/From that moment on.”

Songwriter Gene Scheer, a Grammy award nominee, listened to real people to !nd words for the lyrics.

Adults and children shared sometimes whimsical stories about dead spouses, fathers and friends — even about the pregnant woman who perished on United Flight 93 that crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers fought back the terrorists.

Her surviving husband faces the emotionally tricky questions, in the words of one song: “What’s beyond your anger? What’s beyond your sorrow?”

The double CD will be released Oct. 21, by PentaTone Classics.

The stories from 9/11 are not static — etched in history, said the composer.

“A dozen years later, stories continue to emerge, evolve and

yearn to be told,” said Heggie, who lives in San Francisco and relied on New York resident Scheer to interview survivors.

They all have one thing in common: None is a New York resident, though the city is the site of their loss.

There’s a reason, Heggie said in a telephone interview.

“I wasn’t in New York, I didn’t see the smoke and destruction, and yet my life changed that day — everyone’s life changed that day,” said Heggie.

But people outside the city were somewhat left out “because there was an ownership of grief taken by New Yorkers — and of course they had a right to it.”

So after Sept. 11, 2001, he said, he looked for ways “outsiders” like him could mourn and grieve — and hope.

“That’s why I wanted to write this piece,” Heggie said.

VERENA DOBNIK

Associated Press

"ere is a sound on the horizon as well as the foreground, a sound that drives and stirs nostalgia into the wakefulness by day as well as within the dream under black night. "is is the sound the Black Blacks create in their latest music.

"e band, which formed in southern Illinois more than a year ago, is fronted by Clay Bonifecius, the only remaining member since the band’s formation. "e band’s punk-rock sound enraptures the ear with infectious rhythm of exploding pace, exploring in#uences such as "e Ramones and "e Mis!ts, as well as "e Riverdales and "e Lillingtons.

Fellow musician Bob Zulu asked to join the group upon seeing the band during a 2012 performance. Bonifecius and Zulu have known one another around the music scene since their individual moves to Carbondale in 2000. With Bonifecius on lead vocals and Zulu performing backup, both incorporate their individual styles with the guitar, occasionally swaying from rhythm to lead and vice-versa, with Zulu sporadically taking up bass.

Other band members include Je$ Funburg, who plays bass for the band, as well as guitar for local band "e Copyrights, where he performs

with past Black Blacks member Taylor Spray.

Bonifecius said the group wanted to !nd a name that would match their dark sound.

“"ere are just like a million rock bands called Black-something-or-other, so I thought, to be ‘black to the core,’ we would be Black-Black,” Bonifecius said. “"at’s also why most of the content in the songs are mean spirited. To kind of keep it on that level, we don’t really have any ‘nice’ songs. "at’s kind of the plan in moving forward.”

"e group has just released a new E.P. entitled Smells like Mean Spirit, conveying popular tracks such as “Take Your Lumps” and “Tough Guy.” "e E.P. recording session was !nished within a matter of hours, during which all members were able to lay down their entire instrumentals.

“It was real easy,” Zulu said. “We told the guy recording us that we wanted to do 16 songs. He laughed at us because we wanted to do all of the drums in one night and our drummer knocked it out in two hours. Each one of our parts took about two hours . . . vocals and post-production took a little longer.”

"e album was recorded at musician Morgan Demling’s studio, where the band had complete creative control in recording their 16-song set list.

“Everything took about two takes for the most part, and that’s all the vocals were two takes, just to make sure that there would be enough to make everything sound good,” Bonifecius said.

"e E.P., which was cordially recorded alongside their L.P. AR-15, possesses two bonus tracks for listeners. "ere are six songs in total on the E.P., two of which are unique and made speci!cally for the record, as well as two covers.

"e band is also considering an acoustic performance, Bonifecius said.

“In a di$erent environment to what we would normally do, yeah, I’d be open to maybe doing a couple of our songs acoustic and maybe doing some covers,” he said. “I really like ’50 and ’60s music like "e Crystals and "e Ronettes. I wanted to do some of their songs anyway.”

"e band intends on releasing their full-length album soon, with a tentative release date by the end of the year, they hope to release it onto both vinyl and cassette.

Tracks from the E.P. can be found online on "eBlackBlacks.bandcamp.com, where the E.P. can be purchased for $2.50. Listeners can also purchase it at Carbondale’s Plaza Records for $3.

Jake Saunders can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 261.

JAKE SAUNDERS

Daily Egyptian

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Running for bright futures

Runners participate in the “Color Me For Hope Fun Run” Monday in Marion. Mindy Hammond, executive director of the Hands of Hope Clinic organized the event. “This race raises money for Hands For Home Clinic which serves the needs of working low-income families without insurance in Johnson, Williamson, and Franklin Counties,” Hammond said.

ZANE ECKLUND | DAILY EGYPTIAN

‘True Blood’ will end in 2014LOS ANGELES — HBO is

finally putting a wooden stake in heart of its vampire show. “True Blood” is set to end in 2014 at the conclusion of its seventh season.

!e network made the announcement Tuesday with a statement from HBO President of Programming Michael Lombardo, who said, “Together with its legions of fans, it will be hard to say goodbye to the residents of Bon Temps, but I look forward to what promises to be a fantastic "nal chapter of this incredible show.”

Though the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse and the various vampires, werewolves, witches and other creatures that populated her backwoods Louisiana home are still popular (the recently

concluded sixth season average 10.6 million viewers per episode), there seems to be a sense among its creators that it’s time to move on.

Series creator Alan Ball stepped down from his show runner duties at the end of the fifth season and author Charlaine Harris, whose novels were the basis for the show, published her 13th and final Sookie Stackhouse novel in May.

One final book, called “After

Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse,” will be published in October and serve as a kind of epilogue to Stackhouse’s literary adventures.

As for the HBO incarnation of the character, she’s got 10 more episodes, under the guidance of new show runner Brian Buckner, to wrap up her adventures.

The final season of the show will debut sometime next summer.

‘‘T ogether with its legions of fans, it will be hard to say goodbye to the residents of Bon

Temps, but I look forward to what promises to be a fantastic final chapter of this incredible show.

— Michael LombardoHBO President of Programming

PATRICK KEVIN DAYLos Angeles Times


WORLD & NATIONObama heads to Russia summit looking for support of Syria strike

ST. PETERSBURG, Russ ia — President Barack Obama heads this week to a global summit in Russia, hoping to rally international support for his bid to launch a military strike against Syria.

Backing from global partners such as France and Germany could boost Obama’s chances of securing support from Congress for military action when lawmakers arrive back in Washington next week from summer recess. But allies are treading cautiously, particularly after the British Parliament shot down Prime Minister David Cameron’s request for military action. And Obama’s call to seek approval from a divided U.S. Congress further muddles the global calculus. He visits Sweden Wednesday, then arrives in Russia on !ursday.

“His decision makes it so much more complicated to build that coalition,” said Heather Conley, a former State Department o"cial and director of the Europe program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. “What does he say to (French President Francois) Hollande when Obama doesn’t know if or when congressional authorization will be there? !is is a complicated challenge of building diplomacy.”

“I don’t expect every nation to agree with the decision we have made,” Obama said Saturday. “Privately, we’ve heard many expressions of support from our friends. But I will

ask those who care about the writ of the international community to stand publicly behind our action.”

European leaders have suggested waiting for the United Nations, and Conley said she expects “more questions than answers” from U.S. allies. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in a weekend interview with the German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine, said the use of chemical weapons in Syria had “broken a taboo” that “cannot remain without consequence.” But Merkel ruled out German participation “without a mandate” from the U.N., NATO or the European Union.

One impossible sell for Obama: summit host Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose government is Syrian President’s Bashar Assad’s chief political and military ally.

Obama and Putin aren’t talking, and the meeting of the Group of 20 —representing the world’s wealthiest and emerging economies — has as its focus the global economy. Still, the summit is likely to be overshadowed by Syria and the icy relationship

between Putin and Obama, who last month canceled a pre-summit Moscow meeting with the Russian leader amid mounting tension.

“!ere is no chance that Obama could persuade Putin,” said Steven Pifer, a former ambassador to Ukraine and a Russia specialist at the Brookings Institution, noting that Putin dismissed the Obama administration’s intelligence report on Syrian chemical weapon use as “unimaginable nonsense.”

Obama will run into Putin in St. Petersburg, but any interactions will be “short, polite and cool,” Pifer said.

Russia routinely quashes U.S. e#orts at the U.N. to censure Assad, but Putin’s response to the U.S. “in the end may be quite measured, because does he really want to make St. Petersburg about Syria?” Pifer said. For Putin, the G-20 is a “big show in his hometown of St. Petersburg, designed to showcase Russian leadership on the world stage,” Pifer said.

Obama’s $rst stop will be Sweden — a trip added after Obama scrapped the meeting with Putin. !e staunch

U.S. ally has shown a “robust level of engagement” — it contributed troops to the war in Afghanistan and to operations in Mali and was on standby for operations in Libya, said Europe specialist Conley.

In Russia, Syria will only serve to underscore divisions between the U.S. and European countries, which want Assad removed, and China and Russia, who fear Assad’s ouster could prompt regional destabilization and the rise of unfriendly governments.

“!e mood of the principal players, the Europeans, the United States, the Russians and Chinese, I would have to think would be very, very sour,” said Andrew Kuchins, director of the Russia and Eurasia program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Although the tension with Russia doesn’t rise to the level of the Cuban Missile Crisis or the more recent Russia-Georgia war, the two leaders’ relationship is likely “the worst personal relationship between U.S. and Russian — perhaps even U.S. and Soviet — leaders in history,”

Kuchins said.!ough Russia observers are

pessimistic about rapprochement, the White House says it is working “productively with Russia on a range of issues,” including counterterrorism exercises with its military and missile defense discussions.

“Even as we paused on holding the bilateral summit with Russia, we’re absolutely prepared to cooperate pragmatically,” said a senior administration o"cial, speaking on the condition of anonymity as a matter of White House policy. “We’re going to continue to be driven by our mutual strategic interest, and I don’t see that cooperation should halt even as we have di#erences on tactics. Russia and the United States have had relations that are often marked by both cooperation and contested policies. So this is not new for us.”

In fact, U.S.-Russian relations have been deteriorating over the last 18 months over Russian disinterest in cutting nuclear weapons, its freeze on U.S. adoptions of Russian children and its treatment of human rights activists.

Lawmakers are pressing Obama to raise U.S. concern over the adoption ban to Putin; gay and human rights activists are pressing Obama to take a $rmer stance against anti-gay legislation that Putin signed into law in June. Obama denounced the laws but dismissed calls to boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

‘‘W e’re going to continue to be driven by our mutual strategic interest, and I don’t see that cooperation should halt even as we have differences on tactics. Russia and the United

States have had relations that are often marked by both cooperation and contested policies. So this is not new for us.

— a U.S. senior administration official

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CHICAGO — When city students arrived for the $rst day of school under the blazing temperatures of a Midwest heat wave, sta# greeted them with some unusual school supplies: water bottles, fans and wet towels to drape around their necks.

What they couldn’t always o#er was air conditioning.

“It’s kind of hard to focus because everyone was sweating,” said Deniyah Jones, a 12-year-old 7th-grader at Nash Elementary School on Chicago’s West Side, which has just a few window units for the entire fortress-like brick and stone building.

!is year’s late August heat exposed a tug-of-war in school districts that are under pressure to start school earlier than ever but are unable to pay to equip aging buildings with air conditioning. Parents who worry hot classrooms are a disadvantage for their kids are issuing an ultimatum: Make classes cooler or start the year later.

“!inking about air conditioning — we can’t even a#ord new textbooks,” said Bement Community Unit School District Superintendent Sheila Greenwood, who oversees a tiny district of 380 students about

20 miles southwest of Champaign, Ill.Many people can recall school days spent

inside ancient, brick-construction buildings that on sweltering days seemed as hot as pizza ovens. But hot classrooms are becoming a bigger problem for schools than in years past, and increasingly, getting a “heat day” is as common for students as a “snow day.”

As temperatures soared past 90 last week, some Midwest schools gave students extra water and bathroom breaks or canceled after-school activities. Districts from St. Joseph, Mo., and Frankfort, Ind., sent kids home early. In Fargo, N.D., $ve schools got the week o#, and schools in Minneapolis closed down, too.

“I was up on the third %oor and it was 93.8 degrees in the classroom and the kids hadn’t been there in hours,” said Matt Patton, superintendent of a one-school district in Baxter, Iowa. “You put 20 bodies in there and it will go up to at least 95 and you can imagine all the sweat on the desks and textbooks.”

For years, schools have been moving to start the year in late or mid-August rather than just after Labor Day, when it is typically cooler. Part of the reason is that schools need more training days for standardized testing and new academic standards. Holiday breaks have also grown longer, and administrators say the only direction they can go is back into August.

CICERO — Cops in the Chicago area call it a “track,” a stretch of street known for its steady sex trade.

Women in tight, scant clothing stand in high heels on street corners along an industrial strip in suburban Cicero. Customers, usually men, slow their cars and roll down a window.

“How much?” they ask.Some might see these interludes as exchanges

between consenting adults, or at the very least, consenting criminals, if the prostitute is, indeed, an adult and seemingly free to come and go as she pleases. !ey may call it a victimless crime, seeing domestic prostitution as something very di#erent from human sex tra"cking - with its cross-border abductions and brutal coercion - a scourge that’s come to the forefront of news in recent years.

But are they so di#erent, after all? Increasingly, experts in the $eld are saying no, and applying the label human tra"cking to homegrown prostitution. And now more lawmakers, police and prosecutors across the country are starting to shift their view on this, too. Increasingly, they are focusing on arresting tra"ckers and customers (pimps and johns, as it were) and on getting help for prostitutes.

“It’s almost similar to a domestic violence issue,” says Michael Anton, commander of the Cook County Sheri#’s vice unit, based in the Chicago. “A lot of (people) say, ‘Well, they can just get out.’

“Well, it’s not that easy.”As of this year, Illinois became one of several

states where prostitution is no longer a felony. It’s also one of a growing number where a minor cannot be charged with prostitution, even as a misdemeanor. Meanwhile, prosecutors in Cook County, which includes Chicago, have set up a human tra"cking unit and, in recent years, have been using new state laws to put more tra"ckers in jail.

Cook County Sheri#’s police also run regular sting operations to ticket customers who proposition undercover female police o"cers, or who use popular escort websites. !e johns must pay a $ne. Police also impound their cars.

“Dear John,” read billboards the department has posted near various tracks: “If You’re Here To Solicit Sex, It Could Cost You $2,150. We’re Teaming Up To Bust You.”

!e money funds a rehabilitation program for prostitutes, and Anton says his vice unit o"cers have never arrested the same customer twice.

“I’m not saying we’ve stopped it,” he says. “!ey might be going to other areas. But we haven’t seen them again.”

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contain every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Tuesday’s Answers:

Pick up the Daily Egyptian each day to test your crossword skills

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THE Daily Commuter Puzzle by Jacqueline E. Mathews

FOR RELEASE MAY 8, 2012

ACROSS1 Spouse5 Firstborn of two

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14 __ house;Realtor’s event

15 Stringedinstrument

16 Lion’s den17 Time before

Easter18 Large gold bar19 Citrus fruit20 Like dodos and

dinosaurs22 Small stones24 Folding bed25 Romero or

Chavez26 Lopsided29 No longer fresh30 Goes first34 Applies frosting35 Singing pair36 Neither large

nor small37 Unruly crowd38 Mellows40 Actress Remick41 Wiped away43 Clamor44 Spill the beans45 Sum deducted46 __ as a beet47 In the __ of;

surrounded by48 Confined to a

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accessory51 Dills and others54 Humility58 Doing nothing59 Muscle cramps61 Spanish bull62 Uris or Panetta63 Spoils64 In the distance65 Fails to keep

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2 High point3 Camp shelter4 Lures; tempts5 Kick out6 Dryer residue7 Beagle or collie8 Fled and wed9 Prices per hour

10 Raised withoutmanners

11 Tack12 Magazine title13 Rich deposits21 At the present

time23 Hay bundles25 __ up; became

hazy26 Shot carefully27 Make points28 Shish __; BBQ

favorite29 Not at home31 Felt sick32 Sword fights33 Small bony fish35 Papa36 Fellows38 Tin or iron

39 Get __ of; shed42 Makes ill44 Many a Dalai

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or wife49 First, neutral,

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50 Domineering51 Aspirin, for one52 Creative notion53 Drain problem54 Repair55 Couch56 Mine car57 Olden times60 Hurry

Monday’s Puzzle Solved

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(Answers tomorrow)VENOM STALL ETHNIC UNJUSTYesterday’s Jumbles:

Answer: The guest’s rude comments about the lodg-ing establishment were — “INN-SULTS”

Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, assuggested by the above cartoon.

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAMEby David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Unscramble these four Jumbles,one letter to each square,to form four ordinary words.

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Level: 1 2 3 4

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Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved09/04/13

Aries — Today is an 8 — It’s back to work. Expect a quick pace. Test colors or spices before committing to expensive ingredients. Don’t get stopped by a friendly disagreement. Help others do the same.

Taurus — Today is a 6 — Go for substance over symbolism. Stock up on basics. Continue to repay obligations. You score big with creative output. Ignore a critic. Love comforts when money’s tight.

Gemini — Today is a 5 — This phase is good for domestic projects. First, discover something new. Add to your home to increase functional comfort and ease. Research and implement solutions.

Cancer — Today is a 7 —Things fall into place this week, a time of intense learning. Resist the temptation to splurge. Gather up and study new information privately. Let it feed your imagination.

Leo — Today is an 8 — A new assignment brings in more revenue. Accept coaching. This can get very lucrative. Start your shopping list, and keep it basic. Associates show that they believe in you.

Virgo — Today is an 8 — You’re more assertive. Take advantage of this, and ask for what you want. Include details. There’s more to the picture than meets the eye. Work efficiently not hard.

Libra — Today is a 5 — Pay attention to dreams. Review your plans. Call if you’re going to be late. It’s getting easier to stick to your budget. Too many people wreck an intimate moment. Forgive them.

Scorpio — Today is a 6 — Team projects go well. A disagreement about priorities arises from a higher level. Develop a strategy based on hard-hitting news. Clean up a mess by working together.

Sagittarius — Today is a 6 — Plan for two days in the spotlight. Abandon old fears, and take on more responsibility. What you are seeking is copious farther away. Call ahead to avoid running all over town.

Capricorn — Today is a 7 — Plan your vacation or just escape and go. Travel conditions are favorable. Get down to the essential. Carve out time for yourself. Encourage others to swim on their own.

Aquarius — Today is a 6 — There’s a choice to make; keep your objective in mind. Review financial arrangements. Firm up your opinions after you have more data. Fall in love all over again.

Pisces — Today is a 7 — Negotiate your way through some minor adjustments. Reality and fantasy clash, but stick with reality. Dreams stimulate and inspire imagination. Get your message out.


Although the SIU football team came up short Saturday, dropping their season opener against Illinois 42-34, I predict the Salukis may have gained some new fans with their resilient performance.

Despite the loss, the Salukis showed us when their backs are against the wall, they don’t shrivel up and die, they rise to the occasion and keep !ghting until the play clock hits

all zeroes. "ere were two instances

throughout the course of the game when it looked like the Illini were going to walk away with an easy win.

"e !rst took place late in the second quarter, when Illinois drove the !eld and scored a touchdown with 17 seconds left in the half to take a 25-7 lead into halftime. "eir second chance came late in the third quarter, when the Illini returned an SIU kicko# 100 yards for a touchdown to increase their lead to 39-17.

In both cases, the Salukis could have given up. No one expected them to beat Football Bowl Subdivision opponent Illinois anyway. "ey could have traveled back to Carbondale content with being 0-1 and began preparing for Saturday’s Eastern Illinois game.

But instead, the Salukis showed heart. "e same heart SIU showed in 2012 when the team won three

straight games after starting the season 2-3 to crawl back into playo# contention. "e same heart the Salukis will need throughout this season to get back into the playo#s for the !rst time since 2009.

"e Salukis showed us that fans should never count them out, because they never count themselves out.

"e Fighting Illini wasn’t the only opponent SIU faced on Saturday. SIU also battled against the heat.

"e temperature reached 95 degrees Saturday with a heat index of 108. "e heat played a huge factor, with one of the o$cials being rushed to the hospital midway through the game because of heat exhaustion.

Senior linebacker Brian Presume said he even had to take himself out of the game a couple of times because of the heat. "at didn’t stop him from recording a team high 10 tackles Saturday.

"e heat may have also played a role in the Salukis’ lackluster

performance in the !rst half Saturday."e o#ense struggled in the !rst

half. "e Salukis converted only !ve !rst downs in the half with 84 passing yards and 28 yards on the ground. "e !rst half of Saturday’s game looked like a repeat performance from a very inconsistent 2012 o#ense.

But something changed in the second half and things started clicking.

Faulkner started spreading the ball around to his playmakers and !nished the afternoon throwing for 312 yards with three touchdown passes. Faulkner’s 312 passing yards set a school record for most passing yards in a season opener.

Coach Dale Lennon was impressed with his quarterback’s resiliency.

“Kory Faulkner played a gutsy game,” Lennon said. “He kept pulling himself o# the turf. He was playing hurt and didn’t want to come out. "at’s what you want from your

quarterback: a guy that the team can rally around.”

"e defense forced two turnovers in the second half, including an interception by sophomore safety D.J. Cameron that led to a Saluki touchdown and recorded !ve sacks.

If it wasn’t for Illinois sophomore defensive back V’Angelo Bentley’s 100-yard kicko# return touchdown in the third quarter, the outcome of the game could have been in SIU’s favor.

"e Salukis’ relentless comeback fell just short, but if anything was taken away from their performance, it’s that a lead against SIU is never safe. "e Salukis have a down, but never out, mentality. "ey need this mentality to navigate through a tough schedule and reach the playo#s.

Terrance Peacock can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 256.

TERRANCE PEACOCK

Daily Egyptian

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Coming o# a sub-par season can be hard for players and coaches alike. But sometimes it can create an opportunity to better the team in the o#season.

"at’s exactly what coach Cindy Stein and the women’s basketball team hope to accomplish.

One of Stein’s !rst moves after being hired as head coach for the women’s basketball team was demanding that each of the players learn the Saluki !ght song. She hopes this tactic will instill school pride in her players.

“It’s all about school pride,” Stein said. “I mean we wear Southern Illinois Salukis on our chest every game, every practice. We are representatives of our university and we should know it.”

Stein said she wants the players to sing the !ght song after every home game, and hopes the pride will encourage fans to rally along with the team to help increase the team’s fan base. She expects attendance at the beginning of the season to be low, but hopes it will grow as the season progresses.

Stein is not only focusing on team pride and school spirit, but on leadership. When a player does something right, such as helping a teammate during conditioning, they earn leadership points.

Points can be earned in multiple ways. Stein has started a competition among the players with the point system.

Each player is evaluated after practices and workouts, and the player with the most points gets to wear a superman shirt during practice. Junior guard Cartaesha Macklin said the

players enjoy the competition and think Stein’s tactics of making the players gain pride will bring them closer as a team.

Junior guard Mercedes Gri$n said it has already gotten pretty competitive among the players.

“Everybody is looking forward to trying to wear it,” she said.

"e players and coaches are behind each other every step of the way, and are becoming a unit quickly under a new system.

“I think it’s exciting that she really believes in this school and is behind us on that,” senior forward Jordyn Courier said.

"e team’s goals for the season are simple. "ey want to get better, and they want to win as many games as they can. Stein plans to make the team better by working on basketball fundamentals.

“You take care of the ball, you make free throws, you make layups, and you play defense,” Stein said.

"e players agree that Stein has a sense of humor, but said that she is still primarily focused on driving the players to the best of their ability.

“She’s awesome, she’s de!nitely going to challenge you in every way possible, mentally, physically and emotionally,” Macklin said. “She’s very strict and very disciplined, but she also has a sense of humor.”

"e new season for Saluki women’s basketball begins Nov. 15, in a home game against the University of Central Arkansas.

Aaron Gra! can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 269.

AARON GRAFF

Daily Egyptian

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Running back McCall dismissed from football team

Head Coach Dale Lennon announced Tuesday that junior running back Mika’il McCall has been dismissed from the team for disciplinary reasons.

“Due to team disciplinary policies, Mika’il has been dismissed from the team,” Lennon said in a Saluki Athletics Press Release. “!e focus of our team remains on our game preparation for Eastern Illinois.”

McCall is the brother of former Saluki All-American track star Jeneva McCall.

McCall, who transferred to SIU from Iowa after the 2011 season played in 12 games for the Salukis and started "ve. McCall appeared in two games for Iowa during the 2011 season before breaking an ankle. He returned late in the season, but was later suspended for unspeci"ed reasons.

Last season, McCall played in all 11 games making four starts. He was second on the team with 489 rushing yards, tied for eighth in the Missouri Valley Football Conference with nine total touchdowns and was third on the team with 662 all-purpose yards last season.

On Saturday against Illinois, McCall got to start and rushed for 24 yards on seven carries and a touchdown. McCall also fumbled in the second quarter of Saturday’s game, which later led to an Illini touchdown.

Lennon said the Salukis have su#cient depth at the running back position. Junior running backs Ken Malcome and Tay Willis both received carries in relief of McCall on Saturday. Junior running back Malcolm Agnew dressed for Saturday’s game, but did not receive any playing time due to a hamstring injury.

Terrance Peacock can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 256

TERRANCE PEACOCK

Daily Egyptian

Junior running back Mika’il McCall, center, drives through a tackle Saturday during the Salukis’ 42-34 loss to the University of Illinois at Memorial Stadium in Urbana. Head coach Dale Lennon announced Tuesday that McCall has been released from the team due to disciplinary reasons. McCall had seven carries, 24 yards and a touchdown Saturday against Illinois

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Senior outside hitter Jessica Whitehead goes for the kill Tuesday at Davies Gym. The Salukis lost to the Middle Tennessee University Blue Raiders 3-2. SIU will continue play this weekend at the K-State Invitational in Manhattan, Kan.

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Volleyball team loses heartbreaker in home opener

The Salukis lost a thrilling five set match against Middle Tennessee State in front of a large crowd Tuesday at Davies Gym.

SIU and MTSU competed for over two hours in a match that looked as if it would only last three sets, but the Salukis fought back and pushed the Blue Raiders to their breaking point.

The Salukis entered the match on a two-match losing streak; they lost to IPFW and Duquesne on Saturday. Middle Tennessee was also coming off a loss to the 24th ranked team in the country, North Carolina.

The Blue Raiders took the first two sets of the game by a score of 25-22. MTSU had a combined 31 kills on their 50 points in the first two sets and were led by sophomore Chelsea Ross with 17 kills.

Head Coach Justin Ingram said his team showed grit and toughness after Friday’s five set win against Connecticut. The

team found that grit again in last night’s third set. SIU trailed 13-10 in the third, and then scored 15 of the next 18 points to take the set in commanding fashion, 25-16.

“(I’m) pretty pleased about the kind of fight we showed,” Ingram said.

Sophomore Taylor Pippen finished the game with 16 kills, and was a key component in several blocks. Pippen is one of only four players that returned from last year’s squad. She said the older players on the team need to lead the newcomers.

“The veterans on the team definitely need to step up,” Pippen said. “We have so many new faces on the team.”

After taking the fourth set 25-23, the Salukis set up a fifth and final set against MTSU, who Coach Ingram said had characteristics of a former heavyweight champion.

“Playing Middle Tennessee is like playing Mike Tyson,” Ingram said. “You have to be able to sustain some of those punches.”

With 11 newcomers on the team, it’s easy to use youth as an

excuse but Ingram said his team can’t use that as a crutch anymore.

“We can only use that we’re young so often, and that was this weekend,” he said.

After the many ups and downs of the match, it ended rather abruptly on a controversial net call. Middle Tennessee State took the final set 16-14.

Senior Jessica Whitehead led the Salukis with 18 kills in the loss while freshman Meg Viggars ended the match with 10. Viggars added 12 digs as well.

Coach Ingram said his team knows what they are capable of.

“The team’s a good team, the team’s believing that we’re a good team,” he said.

Pippen said the third set showed what their team can be for the rest of the season.

“Third game, everything was just flowing,” she said. “It showed us the team we can be, and the team we’re going to be.”

Tyler Dixon can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 282.

‘‘Playing Middle Tennessee is like playing Mike Tyson. You have to be able to sustain some of those punches.”

— Justin Ingramvolleyball coach

TYLER DIXON

Daily Egyptian

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