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Bridge over troubled water

Contractors for the Chicago based construction company F.H. Paschen walk on the steel beams of the Illinois Highway 13 bridge Tuesday in Murphysboro. Supervisor Dustin Vibbert said workers are framing the bridge neck after the beams were put in place Saturday. Vibbert said delays because of recent flooding have caused the company to expedite its schedule for completion.

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Domino effect takes Shryock center stage

USG concludes semester, looks aheadThe Undergraduate Student

Government made constitutional changes, reviewed allocations and said farewells at its last meeting of the semester.

Treasurer Cameron Shulak said $12,000 will roll over to the fiscal year 2015 Student Organization Activity Fee Control Account.

“That’s actually a number well above anything I can see in the past,” he said. “That’s much more rolled over than in recent history.”

Shulak said the SOAF account is usually near zero balance by mid-late spring.

The Senate debated constitutional changes and passed the document after removing the proposed redistricting of representation and name change of Student Government Association.

Sen. Matt Schmidlin said the name change was necessary.

“It is very difficult for transferring or incoming freshman to say USG because many times I’ve heard, ‘oh, what’s that?’” he said. “But then if I mention

student government they say, ‘oh, SGA,’ and they know what it is right away.”

President Adrian Miller recommended the Senate postpone the constitutional amendment because there has been little discussion and debate.

“I would hate to kill (the proposal) without (the Internal Affairs Committee) being here and having more thorough conversation about it,” Miller said.

LUKE NOZICKADaily Egyptian

After an entire semester, one student’s long-awaited play will finally see the stage.

Marcus Sumrall, a senior from Chicago studying radio-television, will introduce the second part of his “Domino Effect” production on Saturday. The first part left audience members full of questions and assumptions about what would happen next.

Sumrall describes the Domino Effect saga as stories that display realistic experiences from everyday life.

“I’ve been writing all my life,” he said. “I used to rap and do spoken word so performing was something I focused on when I first got to college. However, it was a mentor by the name of Brandon “Hollywood” Williams that steered me towards me into writing plays,”

The play is called the “Domino Effect” because Sumrall said he wanted to place emphasis on how one person’s action could directly affect another’s outcome.

Sumrall said he loves to create realistic stories.

“I literally sit in a dark room and think about life and everything else happening

around me,” he said. “Fantasies are great, but I like concentrating on the real things that happen, because displaying the real tends to gain a better reaction out of people.”

The play features plenty of old and new faces, all of whom said they are excited to display their talents for the campus.

Michael Smith, a freshman from Chicago studying political science, worked with Sumrall before in the previous Domino Effect production and traveled with him when the play went to Illinois State.

“This has honestly been an overwhelming experience,” Smith said. “I’m learning a few things about

myself with acting. My character is a horrible person, and I’m learning how to be him. This just goes to show that you can learn outside of the classroom when you’re in college,”

Aaron Adams, a senior from Flossmoor studying advertising, plays one character and is also an assistant director of the play. He said having the title of assistant director means a lot to him.

“The joy of having this title is that you get to see your work manifest,” Adams said. “I would agree that being in this play is overwhelming, because the roles that we play require you to be very in touch with your

emotions. However, it always comes out perfect in the end.”

Adams did not help write the play, but said he helped with script revisions and handpicked some of the characters.

“When a person comes to audition for us, we look at how well a person executes his or her dedication to the character,” he said.

LaTaiya Duncan, a sophomore from Bloomington studying biological science, said participating in the play gave her new opportunities.

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Undergraduate Student Government AllocationsFiscal year 2014USG began the fiscal year with approximately $329,000 and allocated more than $317,175.00 including $142,000 in spring allocations of fiscal year 2013. USG allocated 175 event requests in fiscal year 2014.

Spring AllocationsUSG allocated $142,850. It allocated more than $5,675 on average per event including umbrella groups. It received 43 requests and allocated 33 in the spring.

Fall General FundingUSG allocated more than $40,480. It allocated an average of $2,250 per event. It received 25 requests and allocated 18.

Spring General Funding USG allocated more than $66,400. It allocated more than $2,010 on average per event. It accepted 43 requests and allocated 33.

USG allocated itself $42,000Officers $17,900Workers $10,000Printing $1,000Supplies $1,000Telecommunications $1,800Travel $2,000Elections $800Copyright $4,000Marketing $1,000Miscellaneous $2,500

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Apple versus Samsung case goes to California jury

SAN JOSE, Cal i f . (AP) — It was Apple versus Samsung but Google loomed large Tuesday during closing arguments at the monthlong federal trial involving claims of patent infringement exchanged by the world’s two largest smartphone makers.

A lawyer for Apple accused Samsung of “slavishly” copying key features of its iPhone and iPad products and demanded $2.2 billion in damages.

An attorney for Samsung denied the allegations and argued that its Google-developed software differs from Apple’s operating system.

In his closing argument, lawyer William Price referred to an email from Apple founder Steve Jobs indicating that he had ordered employees to wage a “holy war” against Google and its Android system, believing it was a rip-off of Apple’s operating system.

Price said that was the sole reason Apple filed the lawsuit against Samsung.

“We don’t think we owe Apple a nickel,” added John Quinn, one of four Samsung lawyers involved in the company’s closing argument.

Quinn also said Apple wants to monopolize the industry.

“They want to attack Google and Android by attacking the most successful Android maker,” he said.

Apple lawyer Harold McElhinny told jurors that Samsung’s “illegal strategy has been wildly successful” and insisted that Google had nothing to do with the case.

“Despite all the times Samsung mentioned it, you will not find a single question about Google in your jury form,” McElhinny said. “Google is not a defendant in this case.”

Google spokesman Matt Kallman declined comment on the proceedings.

The four men and four women on the jury began deliberating Tuesday but did not reach a verdict. They will resume Wednesday.

The case marks the latest legal fight between Samsung and Apple as each tries to dominate the $330 billion annual market for smartphones.

Samsung has captured about 31 percent of the smartphone market while Apple retains a 15 percent share.

A different jury in San Jose presiding over a previous trial regarding older technology ordered Samsung to pay Apple $930 million. Samsung has appealed that ruling.

Google may not be a defendant in the current trial, but evidence

introduced by Apple attorneys showed the Internet search giant has agreed to reimburse Samsung if the South Korean company is ordered to pay damages on two of the five patents at issue.

In addition, Samsung lawyers called three Google engineers to the witness stand to testify.

The trial involves five Apple patents that the company accuses Samsung of using to create nine newer smartphones and a tablet. The features in question include slide-to-lock, universal searching, quick linking, background syncing and automatic word correction.

Samsung, meanwhile, has alleged that Apple infringed two of its patents related to camera use and video transmission. Samsung is seeking $6.2 million in damages.

Jobs, who died in 2011, is a Silicon Valley legend revered for launching Apple in his family’s garage in 1976. The Cupertino headquarters of the tech giant is a 15-mile (25-kilometer) drive from the San Jose federal courthouse where the patent case is playing.

Prospective jurors were closely questioned before the trial about connections and views about Apple, which employs about 80,000 workers worldwide.

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One member of the IAC, the committee that constructed the document, attended Tuesday’s meeting.

Shulak said discussion is needed to find the general concerns about the amendment.

“This is stuff that would change

the face of (USG) as we know it,” Shulak said. “To say, ‘well we need to vote on it,’ probably isn’t the best mindset to take.”

One of the debated changes would create a new house within USG to represent Registered Student Organizations.

USG approved First Year Generations, Full Flutter Dance Team and Friends of Graduate

Assistants United as RSOs. The Senate officially nominated

Sen. Nick Roberts as treasurer-elect after Shulak chose him as nominee.

Luke Nozicka can be reached at

[email protected], on Twitter @lukenozicka, or at 536-3311 ext. 286.

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Tuesday at Turley“I love performing in front of people,” she

said. “I love being seen and interacting with lots of people. Being in this play allows me to get more in tune with myself. At practice, I have to think and feel and act like my character. If you’re going to be in a play, a person needs to be open-minded and follow the directions of the director.”

Sumrall, Smith and Adams said being in this play is demanding with time constraints and issues between cast members.

“Of course there’s drama,” Sumrall said. “But that’s what happens when you become a family.”

The play is free to students. Sumrall said Interim Dean of Students Katie Sermersheim and Phi Rho Eta Fraternity helped cover the costs of Shyrock and use of props for the play. However, Sumrall would not give a dollar amount.

“One of the most important things I’ve learned while doing this play is teamwork,” Sumrall said. “I have a strong, dominant personality, but doing this play has humbled me enough to adapt to different situations and work with different people.”

Sumrall said he hopes the play will have a similar effect as the annual “Can I Live” rally on the audience.

“Like the rally, we want people to take the message that they are not alone,” he said. “People may watch this and think ‘Oh, this is just a play so it’s not real life,’ but we want people to realize that there are people who go through this in our communities, and we want them to feel that they can make it through their adversity.”

The Domino Effect 2 premieres at 7 p.m., May 3 in Shyrock Auditorium.

Kia Smith can be reached at [email protected] on Twitter @KiaSmith__

or at 536-3311

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Waylon Ticer, 3, of De Soto, plays on the monkey bars Tuesday at Turley Park in Carbondale. Tiffany Ticer, Waylon’s mother, said she brought him and his sister Madison, 2, out to the park to play and have a family cookout while the weather was decent. According to the National Weather Service, no rain is expected to approach the Carbondale area for the rest of the week.

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Protesters seize new building in Ukraine

Protesters demanding more power for Ukraine’s regions stormed the government building in Luhansk with baseball bats Tuesday, seizing control of a key site in one of the largest cities in Ukraine’s troubled east.

The move further raises tensions in the east, where pro-Russia militias have seized city halls, police stations and other government buildings in at least 10 cities and towns.

In Slovyansk, the insurgents have been holding seven European military observers since Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin said late Tuesday he hoped they will be released soon.

The demonstrators who overran the building in Luhansk are seeking — at the very least — a referendum on granting greater authority to Ukraine’s regions.

Eastern Ukraine, which has a large Russian-speaking population, was the heartland of support for Viktor Yanukovych, the ousted president who fled to Russia in February. The government that replaced him in Kiev has resisted those demands so far, fearing they could lead to a breakup of the country or that more regions could join Russia, as Crimea did.

The storming came as 1,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the building. About 150 people, some masked and wielding baseball bats, broke out of the crowd and charged into the

building, meeting no resistance. Later, protesters formed a corridor to allow police inside the building to leave.

Luhansk, a city of about 450,000, is just 25 kilometers (15 miles) west of the border with Russia.

Regional autonomy is a core issue in the unrest in eastern Ukraine, where insurgents fear the government that took power after Yanukovych fled will suppress the Russian-speaking population.

In Kiev, Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday discussed the possibility of holding a national referendum on whether the country should remain united or become a loose federation that allows the regions more powers. However, no consensus was reached on how such a referendum would be phrased or when it could be held.

Ukraine is already holding a presidential election on May 25.

Yulia Tymoshenko, a former prime minister who is running for president and whose party dominates the new government, spoke out Tuesday against excessive decentralization.

“While we are giving authority to local administrative bodies, we are obliged — under any circumstances — not to lose authority over the country,” Tymoshenko told lawmakers. She asked them to allow local self-governance “but not to lose the possibility of building a whole, unified, governable country, a country that is moving ahead under a strategy determined by all the elites and the people.”

Russia has massed tens of thousands of troops in areas near the Ukrainian border, feeding concerns that Moscow aims to use unrest in the east as a pretext for an invasion.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danylo Lubkivsky again accused Russia of fomenting the unrest in Ukraine and said the pro-Russian insurgents were violating an international agreement on overcoming the crisis in Ukraine.

“The east, though, still remains a trouble spot, with civilians being threatened and attacked. Russian terrorists are refusing to surrender arms,” he told reporters. “They have no real political agenda. They have no political goals and they have no intention of holding any dialogue. They simply execute orders from Russian authorities.”

Speaking after a meeting with Lamberto Zannier, chief of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Lubkivsky called on the pro-Russia forces to release the hostages they are holding, including the military observers, who are operating under the auspices of the OSCE.

Putin said both sides were at fault: the observers for going into eastern Ukraine and the pro-Russia forces for detaining them.

“I hope this conflict will be resolved, that they can leave the territory where they are unhindered,” Putin said during a visit to Minsk, the capital of Belarus. “But the participants in this process should draw the necessary conclusions from this.”

ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO Associated Press

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14-year-old killed girl over boy

A 14-year-old Chicago girl accused of killing another girl in a dispute over a boy tried unsuccessfully to fire a gun before someone fixed it for her and handed it back to her so she could open fire, prosecutors said Tuesday.

That detail emerged during a hearing in juvenile court on the latest incident of violence grabbing headlines in Chicago. The alleged shooter appeared at the hearing on a first-degree murder charge in Monday’s slaying of 14-year-old Endia Martin.

Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy told reporters earlier in the day that the girls were fighting over a boy.

According to prosecutors, the suspect went to a residence in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the city’s South Side at about 4:30 Monday afternoon to continue a fight that began on Facebook.

A visibly upset McCarthy told reporters the shooting of Martin illustrates a point he’s long made: It is far too easy to get a gun in Chicago. For more than a year, McCarthy has sought stiffer state penalties for gun crimes.

“What would have been, under any other circumstances, probably a fistfight between two 14-year-old girls because they were arguing over a boy turned into a murder,” he said.

According to a statement read in court and relayed later by the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, the girl

pointed the gun at a group of people standing on a porch and pulled the trigger, but it would not fire.

She then “handed the gun to an individual in the group to clear the malfunction and they handed it back” to her, at which point she opened fire with what police said is a .38-caliber revolver, striking Martin in the back and a 16-year-old girl in the arm.

The 14-year-old suspect’s name has not been released because she is charged as a juvenile.

No one else had been charged as of Tuesday afternoon, prosecutors said. However, the investigation is continuing, and McCarthy said that two other people had been taken into custody.

DON BABWINAssociated Press

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Living the retail lifeIf you work in retail like me and many

other young adults trying to get enough money to make their way through school, then you know the struggles of dealing with demanding customers.

Now don’t get me wrong, I love my job. As a cashier at a chain retail shop, I get to interact with people all day. Customers have the potential to be super sweet and my co-workers are fantastic, but they also can be pretty harsh if they are mistaken about a price or cannot find what they need.

Some days putting on a smile and cheerily telling shoppers to “have a nice day” can become an exhausting routine.

Especially on those days where your first customer insists the machine is wrong and a particular item is supposed to be cheaper. And, of course, we are encouraged to give them what they want for great customer service. But when

customers begin to be rude about it, that’s when the day starts to go downhill.

Anyone working in retail has heard the line, “There’s no price tag, so it’s free right?” followed by a little chuckle or “Oh I think I got 100 percent off in the mail!”

I understand they are trying to be funny, but hearing it more than once a day makes the joke lose its humor very quickly and makes your day drag on much longer.

Then you have those customers who think it is their right to treat you like an emotionless robot. I have had some pretty rough days handling situations with not-so-understanding customers.

One day in particular, another worker and I had a bag filled with clothes tossed back at us from a lady who decided that she was right and we were wrong. She refused to think that an item had wrongly been placed on a rack and did not match up with the corresponding sign. Instead of letting us check out the problem or listening to our manager, she decided not to

buy any of her pile and throw what was bagged up right back to us.

That’s just a normal day. Black Friday might as well be a curse word for retail workers. It is the most dreaded day of the year.

Not that it is always bad. Sometimes it is nice to learn about people in your community, especially when the area is pretty small like mine. Every once in a while you have a customer come through your line who brightens your day and helps you to remember that it isn’t necessary to be rude, to get the cashiers to help you out to their best ability.

If there’s anything to take out of this, it is to treat retail workers with respect. We are humans with feelings just like you. If you are nice to us, we will take the time and effort to make sure your shopping trip is easy and enjoyable.

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An open letter to the SIU community Climate change is real and it is here. Rising seas

and temperatures are fueling more powerful and destructive storms. Unpredictable precipitation patterns are making it more difficult to provide food for growing populations. Ecosystems and ways of life are being threatened as the planet attempts to adjust to ever-increasing quantities of greenhouse gases. The damage is being inflicted now and reckless consumption of fossil fuel is the cause. This is the future facing students everywhere. Climate change is the defining problem of our time. Yet, we have a choice to see this as an opportunity as a university community to prove our resilience, ingenuity and collective power by rising to meet this challenge.

One of the conversations that should be guiding our decisions as a university is not happening, and that is that we are sitting on a “carbon bubble.” The stock prices of fossil fuel companies are based on proven reserves, which amount to 2,795 gigatons of carbon globally. The world’s top climate scientists claim that in order to keep global temperature from increasing beyond 2 degrees Celsius we can only burn another 565 gigatons. This means the vast majority of fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground. Solving the climate crisis requires fossil fuel investments to become stranded assets. Continued investment in fossil fuel implies that SIU is morally bankrupt and before long we will be economically bankrupt as well. SIU has an endowment fund of approximately 100 million dollars and we are asking the SIU administration to make the practical decision to divest from fossil fuels before

those investments become worthless. The time to act is now. As students pursuing

an education, we are investing in our future. As climate change accelerates, our hopes and dreams of our future are swept away. We chose SIU as the place to brighten our future by fostering our growth and education. Now, we call on our university to truly invest in our future and not our demise, by recognizing the very future we are striving for is threatened by climate change. SIU must divest from fossil fuels and re-invest our money in verified and proven sustainable companies and ventures. This is not clean coal. We cannot in good conscience support an industry that is betting against our future. We can no longer afford to invest in an industry whose future depends on further damaging our planet and causing devastation to the most vulnerable communities. The fossil fuel industry is primarily responsible for climate change and seems bereft of the fact they are creating a more dangerous world for our generation and all those that follow. Once more, a sustainable future means we must be trained and educated for a changing job market.

For these reasons, we join over 500 other active divestment campaigns at universities across the nation. We want SIU to become one of the growing number of institutions, foundations, cities and universities that have committed to divest from fossil fuel. We see divestment as an incredible opportunity to be an exemplary research institution willing and able to act on necessity, collective knowledge and scientific consensus. Divesting from fossil fuel will send a

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Reviews: Elephant’s ‘Swimming,’ Incident’s ‘Head’Elephant: ‘Sky Swimming’The melodies rise, paced and strong

yet delicate, in a finely crafted tone. An echoing mezzo-soprano joins in.

When the vocals and instrumentation drift together, the music plays out with synthesizer, which create a haunting yet beautiful movement.

This sound belongs to English pop duo Elephant’s debut album, “Sky Swimming,” released April 29. The group creates a specific atmosphere in each song, rooting the music in a pop style. Listeners can expect catchy hooks.

Indeed, several of these hooks are noteworthy. If the first song, “Assembly,” isn’t alluring enough, the album’s second song, “Skyscraper,” boasts a light and fun sound that is certain to raise some interest.

To say Elephant produces only a pop sound would be false. The band manages to produce a dream-like quality through every melody — the overall sound aspires to be like the band Beach House while

treading lyrically similar to a band like Daughter.

While maybe not as rounded as

either of those bands, Elephant’s effort seems, to some degree, influenced by them. And if not, they still rise to the

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Reviews: Elephant’s ‘Swimming,’ Incident’s ‘Head’same musicianship through a ghostly, pop-oriented sound.

“Sky Swimming” shines in the direction more pop music should aspire to. With plenty of energy and clever melodies, “Swimming” manages to virtually reimagine the pop song format and what it means to be striking without being overdone.

The String Cheese Incident: ‘A Song in My Head’

Musicians who mingle progressive bluegrass with the boldness of a jam-band sound are few and far between.

Many bands attempt, and do so poorly, or simply never get the project off the ground.

However, The String Cheese Incident is marking 20 years of success with this mixture. The band’s latest project, “A Song in My Head,” was released April 29.

The album features reworked or reimagined prominent hits from past albums, highlighting their success with string instruments.

The band not only makes use of classical instrumentation like the piano and violin, but also puts heavy focus on slide guitars and lap guitars as well as the mandolin. The way Incident presents its traditional instruments makes the sound unique. It’s not simply average bluegrass that ends as quickly as it begins.

The band makes an honest effort in revitalizing the “jam” aspect of music by lengthening songs with dedicated and controlled performances.

Every ounce of soul is summoned in each song. Although there are no new entries on the album, the compilation of new renditions will wholly satisfy listeners.

The String Cheese Incident still thrives on the passion which made it a success in the first place. There is an

array of depth to their melodies and each track is rooted in a whimsical ambition and refinement.

As old as they are, the songs play like new. With their age came wisdom, summoned uniquely though “A Song in My Head.”

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Storms thwart Saluki conference dreams

Donald Sterling banned for life by the NBA

Severe weather slammed the Midwest and suspended play at the Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Golf Championship.

The first and second rounds were scheduled for Monday in Silvis but when severe storms hit, officials ended play by 4:30 p.m. The second round had begun, but was suspended until 8 a.m. Tuesday because of lightning in the area.

Coach Leroy Newton has seen his team struggle through tough weather conditions all season and said they cannot blame high scores on bad weather.

“The conditions, the weather, the greens were not ideal,” Newton said. “But we can’t use that as an excuse. We’ve played in these conditions

before. I think the big thing was that this was almost everyone’s first conference tournament.”

On Tuesday, the weather improved but remained windy and humid. After a respectable score of 306 in the first round, the Salukis had the worst second round of any team, shooting 311, which landed them in seventh out of nine teams.

Wichita State University claimed its seventh straight MVC Men’s Golf Championship as the Shockers shot 874 on the par-71, TPC Deere Run golf course. Wichita has won 12 of the last 15 conference titles and has finished in either first or second for 17 straight seasons.

Newton said Wichita State has the financial means to maintain its dominance as well as good coaching, but he believes the Shockers can be taken down.

“They remind me of the Yankees. They have a great program, lots of money, I understand, a good coach and great facilities,” he said. “They have some really good players but we’ve come close to them, and Illinois State almost had them this year.”

The host school, Illinois State University, was three shots back of WSU, at 877. Bradley University came in third, posting an 897; their best finish in conference play since 1986.

SIU, which was projected to finish last in the tournament, shot 919.

Individually, Wichita State senior Chandler Rusk won the tournament after defeating ISU sophomore Tyler Gentilella on the third playoff hole. The two were tied at 215 after the third round.

Sophomore Drew Novara led the

Salukis, tying for 18th in the field of 45 golfers. Junior Steve Souchek was the only other SIU golfer to break the top 20, finishing tied for 20th.

Several players said one positive takeaway from the season was the experience gained golfing in rain and wind, even if they struggled. The team played half of its regular season tournaments in such conditions. The Salukis averaged a 15th place finish when it rained compared to an average finish of fourth when rain was not a factor.

“It was a struggle like every other tournament this year,” senior Caleb Harms said. “On Monday, it was pretty miserable. It was windy so that made it colder and it rained a little bit and we had a rain delay.”

Even with the low finish to end the season, the Salukis were confident in their abilities moving

forward. Though the team did not meet expectations, the group still set a school record for the best round in SIU history when they combined for a 278 two weeks ago at the Tennessee State Big Blue Intercollegiate.

Novara said with the four returning golfers from this tournament, as well as other golfers on the roster, he expects big things from the Salukis moving forward.

“I have some pretty high expectations coming into next season,” Novara said. “We’re losing Caleb (Harms), which is a pretty big loss, but I think if guys work hard in the offseason, and I think they will, we can make an impact next season.”

Tyler Davis can be reached at [email protected], on Twitter @TDavis_DE or at 539-3311 ext. 269.

NEW YORK — NBA Commissioner Adam Silver delivered the swiftest, strongest penalty he could, then called on NBA owners to force Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling to sell the team for making racist comments that hurt the league.

Almost unanimously, owners supported the commissioner Tuesday, as he handed down one of the harshest penalties in the history of U.S. sports.

“We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling’s views. They simply have no place in

the NBA,” Silver said at a news conference.Sterling, 80, is banned for life from any

association with the league or the Clippers, and fined $2.5 million — the maximum allowable under the NBA constitution. If three-fourths of the other 29 owners agree to Silver’s recommendation, Sterling will be forced to sell the team he has owned since 1981.

Messages left seeking comment at Sterling’s business office and with the Clippers on Tuesday weren’t immediately returned.

Players and others cheered Silver’s quick action, with union officials saying that if

the league’s punishment hadn’t included a mandate for Sterling to sell the team, players were considering boycotting playoff games, including Tuesday’s Golden State Warriors-Clippers matchup, the team’s first home game since the scandal erupted.

“We wanted to be a part of this decision, and we wanted Adam Silver to know where we stood. And we were very clear that anything other than Sterling selling his team was not going to be enough for us,” said Roger Mason Jr., the first vice president of the players’ union.

Sterling’s comments — which were recorded

by his girlfriend and released by TMZ on Saturday — harmed the league, Silver said. Sponsors were threatening to abandon the NBA, and criticism was coming from fans on social media and even the White House.

Sterling criticized V. Stiviano — purportedly the female voice on the tapes — for posting pictures of her with black athletes Magic Johnson and Matt Kemp.

“It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” Sterling asks the woman on the tape.

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Two dominant Salukis have jumped into SIU record books.

First year college athlete Kyle Landon, and Kenya Culmer, who is in her last season, have led the track and field jumpers this season.

Culmer imprinted her name in the SIU record books and has progressed every season during her four years as an SIU athlete.

The former shy girl flew thousands of miles from where she grew up in the Bahamas to become one of the most dominant athletes on the track and field team.

During her first year, Culmer barely spoke to any of her teammates and was even shy to compete. Jumping coach Andre Scott was the only person Culmer would talk to.

Scott said Culmer has developed into a great athlete and it has been great to watch her grow.

“If I had a daughter it would probably be her,” Scott said. “That’s what I want my daughter to be like. She is pretty much everything I would want in a student-athlete.”

Culmer has broken the SIU high jump record three times and has made every bit of her final year count. She even broke her own SIU all-time record in the indoor high jump last season after clearing 5 feet.

This year, the senior has finished in first place eight times and even pushed her career-best record to 6 feet (1.83m) during the last day of the

Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Championships March 2.

Culmer qualified for the NCAA championships and finished in 16th place. Last year she collected four All-MVC honors and broke several records.

“Athletes like her are hard to replace,” Scott said. “I’m not going to go out there and easily find someone who can jump 6 feet and also have that attitude to go above and beyond what you ask them to do.”

Culmer said SIU has become a place that she can call home.

“It’s crazy to know how nervous I was when I first got here and how bad I wanted to go home after I spent days crying,” she said. “Now I don’t even want to go back to the Bahamas. I will eventually, but just not anytime soon.”

Culmer is not alone in bringing dominance to the jumpers’ team; freshman Kyle Landon has made his name known in his first season as a Saluki.

The two swept the MVC Indoor Championships together, which was the first indoor Saluki high jump sweep since 2002.

“You don’t have to go somewhere big to do anything great,” Landon said. “SIU is a big enough college for me and I like it here.”

He said his first year has been moderately comfortable, but his workouts have been completely different than he expected.

Since high school, Landon has had a huge support system throughout southern Illinois. He played basketball,

SYMONE WOOLRIDGE

Daily Egyptian

Jumpers create a dominant dynamic duo

Freshman jumper Kyle Landon practices the high jump Monday at the Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex. Landon took second place with a jump of 2.17 meters during the weekend at Arkansas State Universities Red Wolf Open in Jonesboro, Ark.

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ran cross-country and participated in three jumps at Chester High School, where he collected seven state championships.

The freshman has made a huge impact on the SIU jumpers’ team and has continuously pushed himself to reach the top.

As a first year college athlete, Landon walked away with nine victories out of the 11 meets he competed in.

“By the time I leave here I want to

qualify for the Olympics and I want to be a 7-7 (7 feet, 7 inches) jumper,” he said.

The freshman posted the best mark at SIU in nine years after clearing 6 feet (10.75m) at the Saluki Open. A week later, Landon secured his spot in the SIU indoor record books after leaping 7 feet.

Before the Kansas Relays, Landon said his goal was to hit 7 feet in the high jump. This past weekend he cleared 7 feet (2.50m) to mark his personal best record.

Scott said Landon is an athlete

who always does what he is asked and is willing to do whatever it takes to get better. He is also Scott’s first SIU male jumper to maintain a 4.0 grade point average.

“It’s hard to find kids like him now who have the work ethic and is generally good,” Scott said. “Academically he is a solid kid. He’s probably better academically than he is athletically so he is going to go a long way in life with the qualities that he has.”

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NBA commissioner Adam Silver recently placed a ban for life on Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling from the NBA for racist statements he made on a taped phone call. Silver will also urge the owners to vote to take the Clippers away from Sterling. Do you think this a fair ruling?

Silver made the right decision. I anticipated the fine, but did not expect the lifetime ban for Sterling. When looking at the big picture, $2.5 million is not that much money. It could and should have been more. The NBA is a minority driven league and does not have any room for owners like Sterling. With a commissioner like Silver, the NBA has a bright future as do the Clippers without Sterling at the helm.. - Tyler Dixon

It's not fair at all. The higher class a person is socially, the more careful he should be. He made terrible comments in private without any intention of others hearing them. He owns the Clippers. It'd be like Silver taking away his car or house. It just isn't right. It's great to see players protesting and people encouraging him to leave, but that's a choice he has to make. He didn't break any laws. - Aaron Graff

I think the ruling is more than fair. There is no room in this world for racism or bigotry. Sterling has no place in sports anywhere if this is what he thinks of his employees, who are mostly made up of minorities. I applaud Adam Silver for the way he handled this issue, which has been the first scandal of his stint as commissioner. This sends a message to not just the owners, but also the players and coaches of the NBA, that racism will absolutely not be tolerated - Tony McDaniel

The NBA made the right choice in ousting longtime bigot Donald Sterling. The notion that he was fired for something that was illegally recorded is a little bit unsettling, but not nearly as unsettling as his penchant for behaving in a racist manner. I will be curious to see what will happen the next time an owner gets in hot water. To have his property seized (and the Clippers, as a business entity are his property) even though he broke no law is unprecedented. I think there were better ways to go about it, but still, kudos to NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver. - Tyler Davis

Just as a celebrity, Sterling has to watch what he says. The NBA had no other choice but to let him go. Let alone, new commissioner Adam Silver had something to prove. Sterling is an 80-year-old man with more than 30 years of owner-ship experience. He's old enough to know his words would cause harsh repercussions and is smart enough to know that he has to watch what he says, no matter where he is or who he's with. - Symone Woolridge

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