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Police arrested at least one person after breaking up an Unofficial Halloween house party about 12 a.m. Sunday after more than 100 people met on the lawn of 408 S. Ash Street where a car was flipped by partiers. An SIU student and a woman were pepper sprayed during the incident, according to witnesses.

Witnesses watching from West Cherry Street said a water bottle was thrown at Carbondale Police officers. Dylan Coler, a freshman from McHenry studying mechanical engineering, said he was maced.

“There’s this girl who’s just crying. We’re like, ‘What’s wrong? Are you okay?’ She’s saying how she’s been pepper sprayed in the face,” said Chris Wiley, a freshman visiting from Northern Illinois University. “She was pepper sprayed in the face over nothing. This girl was no anarchist.”

Police officers on the scene did not comment if anyone was maced or pepper sprayed. Carbondale Police Department Sgt. Doug Wilson said he could not confirm if anyone was pepper sprayed because he was not at the incident and has not read the report. He said CPD officers do carry pepper spray.

Wilson said he could not comment on why the people were arrested or if they are SIU students.

An officer on the scene, who did not disclose his name, said there were at least three Carbondale

police vehicles, four Illinois State Police vehicles and one Jackson County Sheriff’s Office vehicle at the incident. He said the event was not as serious as they initially thought when calls were made to the station.

“There were cops everywhere telling us to back up or we’d be tear

gassed,” said Ryan Powers, a student visiting from Lincoln College.

Clinton Farr, a 19-year-old freshman at Lindenwood University in Belleville, said a vehicle was flipped on the street before police arrived.

“We were sitting there with

everybody outside this house and all the kids started going crazy chanting ‘S-I-U, S-I-U,’ forever,” said Farr, who plans to transfer to the university within the next year. “They brought in the swat team and riot shields. … The crowd got a little bit crazier and started throwing beer

bottles, alcohol bottles in the street and the cops started marching down with dogs. [Police] started forcing everybody out of the street. They didn’t do anything, they just made everybody leave the street, other than that it was pretty crazy.”

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On the eight-month anniversary of the death of SIU student Pravin Varughese, Morton Grove Mayor Dan DiMaria held a news conference Saturday to show support for the family.

“We are a close-knit community in Morton Grove. We pride ourselves on family,” said DiMaria, who has been the village’s mayor since May 2013. “When a family in need has gone through tragedy, we’re there to help.”

Varughese was reported missing Feb. 12, and on Feb. 18, then-Carbondale Chief of Police Jody O’Guinn announced Varughese’s body had been found about 9:45 a.m. in a wooded area east of the 1400 block of East Main Street near Buffalo Wild Wings.

O’Guinn, who was fired by Carbondale City Manager Kevin Baity on Aug. 18 for a confidential matter, said Varughese left a party on West College Street with a male from Harrisburg he met at the party. O’Guinn

said Varughese succumbed to hypothermia overnight as temperatures fell to as low as 6 degrees. He was found in a t-shirt and jeans.

“There were no obvious signs of trauma that would be caused by something other—by any kinds of suspicious means or any kind of altercation,” O’Guinn said at the initial press conference in February.

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Interim Chancellor Paul Sarvela will need surgery to remove his rare but treatable tumor, according to an email on Wednesday by his oncologist, Dr. Brian Van Tine.

Van Tine, an assistant professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, said there are only a handful of cases every year in the U.S. involving this type of cancer.

“The tumor is rare enough that little is known about it in terms of causes and prevention,” according to Van Tine’s email.

“The good news is that I have been given an excellent prognosis for a positive outcome, and I will be able to maintain an active, if somewhat modified schedule in my role as interim chancellor of SIU Carbondale throughout treatment over the next few months,” Sarvela wrote in an email Tuesday to colleagues.

Sarvela, who was appointed acting chancellor by SIU system President Randy Dunn on July 8, said he is in the excellent hands of physicians and staff at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes- Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

“I am deeply grateful for the counsel and care I have received over the last few weeks from outstanding local doctors and staff, many of whom hold SIU degrees,”

he wrote in his email Tuesday.Sarvela’s prognosis is presently

excellent, Van Tine wrote in his email.“Sarvela is being treated with

curative intent,” wrote Van Tine, who received his medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2005. “He should be able to tolerate what is being done to him, his love for SIU will him get through this and the support of the university will help him continue to live as

normal a life as possible.”University spokeswoman Rae

Goldsmith said Sarvela has been working a very full schedule while undergoing tests.

“His schedule may be off so there will be things he can’t make. … He needs to be open about his health because it is going to be pretty visible that he is undergoing treatment,” Goldsmith said in an interview Thursday.

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Rachel Graff, 22, of Carbondale, said the flipped car was towed away.

“I’m kind of disappointed in our town and also kind of impressed that someone went to the trouble of flipping over a car, for why I don’t know,” said Graff, who watched the incident from her roof on South Ash Street. “I’ve never seen anything like that.”

Ashley Broshears, an undecided sophomore from Columbia, said someone threw a plant in a plastic pot at her during the incident.

“We literally had to get dirt out of our scalps last night,” she said during a phone interview on Sunday.

Broshears said her friend who was visiting from Belleville was hit with a police baton during the incident.

Initially a Carbondale Police Department dispatcher said a press release would be online Sunday, but one was not released Sunday and more information will be available Monday, according to an email by interim Chief of Police Jeff Grubbs. The dispatcher said Lt. Mark Stearns was the on-duty officer Sunday morning and could not be reached for comment because he was out on call.

“Some of the behavior described is deeply disappointing and doesn’t represent either the standards expected within our community or the character of the majority of our students,” interim Chancellor Paul Sarvela wrote in a statement Sunday. “In fact, it appears that many attending do not appear to have been SIU students.

Regardless, we urge students and others to protect their health, safety and reputations by avoiding large parties and crowds driven by excessive alcohol.”

Students found to have violated the university’s conduct code for disorderly conduct, public or underage intoxication or consumption of alcohol could face discipline, Sarvela wrote.

This story will be updated online as more information becomes available.

Aaron Graff, Branda Mitchell and Nathan Hoefert contributed to this report.

Luke Nozicka can be reached at [email protected] or on

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Val Kendrick, of Carbondale, sweeps up trash Saturday morning outside Wise Guys Pizza and Subs in Carbondale. Kendrick said he does maintenance for both Wise Guys and Sam’s Café when needed. “If either one of them has a problem, they call me,” Kendrick said. “I don’t mind sweeping all this up. It’s a job.”

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Illinois has taken strides to correct its budget deficit in recent years, but the tax debate is coming back up.

A presentation held in the Saluki Stadium Club Suites on Thursday helped illustrate Illinois’ financial situation.

The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute hosted the presentation, which featured Dan Long, the executive director of the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability.

David Yepsen, director of the institute, said the commission is useful because it provides an objective review of legislature and finances.

The commission uses numbers to illustrate what is happening in the economy, tax revenues and the

state’s pension system. Yepsen said the numbers tell a

simple story.“Illinois is in the worst financial shape

than any state in the country,” he said.The state is facing issues similar to

ones of 2011: a rising deficit and an unfriendly business climate, according to the report issued by Long.

Illinois lawmakers combated the debt issue with the 2011 Temporary Tax Increase, which will expire in January 2015 and lower the state’s income tax rate from 5 to 3.75 percent for individuals, and 7 to 4.8 percent for corporations.

“Between fiscal 2011 and fiscal 2015, the state has taken in $31.5 billion from the increase in income tax,” Long said.

The state has managed to pay most of its deficit payments since

the tax increase was inducted, and had a fiscal surplus in 2011 and 2013. The state’s budget deficit is at $4 billion, down from $6 billion in 2010, according to a report presented by Long.

The report predicts a $2 billion drop off in net revenue from 2014 to 2015. This projected loss is an effect of the income tax decrease.

There will be a further reduction of $2 billion in 2016, which will leave the state with a $4 billion loss in revenue, according to the economic budget report.

With the income tax rate at 5 percent for individuals, the state has brought in about $8 billion each year for the past three years, and in 2011 an additional $2 billion came in. Between this amount and the regular income tax rate, the state

has brought in $70.5 billion since 2011, the report stated.

Bruce Rauner, the Republican candidate for governor, said on Sept. 30, one way to reform the financial situation is overhauling the corporate tax code.

“We have a lot of corporate welfare and loop holes that we should close,” Rauner said. “Special deals for certain corporations that are politically connected.”

Long also touched on corporate loopholes, but had a different view of them.

“There is legislation every year that says we need to close these loop holes,” Long said. “But they aren’t really loop holes. They are incentives, and when you start closing those, you get the perception of being an unfriendly state to business.”

The state wants to attract more businesses and to do so, it needs to figure what the tax rate will be, Long said.

“Our taxes were at one level, then they went up. Now they may go back down, or may keep it the same, or may make it permanent, and all that uncertainty is not good for the business environment,” Long said.

The responsibility of solving Illinois’ tax rate falls squarely on the state legislatures shoulders, Long said. They are the ones who will need to agree on a budget.

“We are at a crossroads in terms of how we are going to handle that situation,” he said. “Some factions want to make it permanent other say we should keep it temporary and we will work for our issues and then sometime in the future we will lower it.”

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“I would like to use this occasion to emphasize the importance of staying on top of routine annual physicals, as my tumor would not have been

detected and treated if I had not visited our family physician,” wrote Sarvela, who comes from a health research background.

Goldsmith said Sarvela frequently exercises and can often be found at

the Recreation Center before coming into work.

Sarvela has served as chairman of the Department of Health Care Professions and director of the Center for Rural Health and

Social Service Development at the university, according to his online biography.

Sarvela is a tenured professor of health care management, professor of health education and clinical

professor of family and community medicine, and has served on three Centers for Disease Control expert panels related to HIV/AIDS and injury control issues, according to his SIU biography.

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Countless hours of marching, standing at attention, playing and holding an instrument are just some of the things that go into a high school marching band’s preparation for a show.

The Music in Motion festival was held on Saturday at Saluki Stadium. The competition featured performances by 17 high school marching bands from Missouri and Illinois.

Festival and competition organizer George Brozak, decided to revive the event from many years ago when the competition was a regular yearly occurrence.

The event was discontinued after the stadium was rebuilt and the department took a shift in a new direction, Brozak said.

“My first year, when I heard that that had been the case, I wanted to resurrect it,” he said. “So this is the fifth year of bringing it back.”

Different from traditional marching band competition, Music in Motion is considered a festival. It allows bands a relaxed environment in case they don’t necessarily want to compete, but still perform in front of a crowd.

“If somebody wants to come and just get feedback from the judges and get comments on what they are doing well or what they can improve, I wanted them to have that experience … without having to compete,” he said.

Bands that did not participate

in the competition portion were performing for “exhibition,” where they would still receive comments on their performances.

The competition had three classes based on school and band size; class C being the smallest class, class B consisting of medium sized bands and class A with the largest amount of members.

One of the main focuses of the event was the promotion of healthy competition, participation and to promote musicianship after high school.

Every group at the event received a customized participation plaque, which allows everyone to take something back to their school, win or lose.

“We do these participation plaques and we put a little more money into them because we want them to take home something meaningful,” he said. “Obviously everyone can’t win everything but we do that for every band, so 17 of them are going to take these plaques home.”

Aside from the different class awards, a grand champion was awarded to the band that the judges thought performed best for the entire day, which was given to Dunlap High School Varsity Band, a class A marching band.

“It was great,” Dunlap High School band director Jill Potts said. “Especially because we felt like we had our best show of the season.”

One of the class C bands that

competed was Carterville High School, under the direction of Nicholas Williams.

This is Williams’ first year as band director for Carterville High School. He previously directed in Murphysboro and served as the director for Murphysboro Middle School.

“The transition has gone smooth and I cannot thank Carterville Unit School District #5 enough,” Williams said. “We had a very successful season. The kids placed at every show they went to this fall including winning some best music and best visual awards in Edwardsville and Charleston.”

During the event, participating high school students get a feel of what it is like to perform on a university field and allows SIU to showcase their facilities in hopes of drawing some students to enrolling in following years, Brozak said.

“My other goal is to get these kids on campus. I want them to come to SIU and hopefully be in the marching Salukis,” Brozak said. “I think it’s a win-win, I don’t see it negative in any way for anybody.”

The event was well received by participating schools and was complemented by participating directors as a very well organized festival and competition.

Chase Myers can be reached at [email protected],

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Original concepts are untested ground to big budget studios. Untested ground is the possibility of losing money. Because of this, film is going through a stage of franchising anything with sequel potential.

“Dracula Untold” (PG-13; 92 min) is a casualty of this unoriginality.

“Dracula Untold” is an action prequel directed by Gary Shore and stars Luke Evans, Dominic Cooper and Sarah Gadon.

Vlad the Impaler, played by Evans, is the prince of Transylvania, a tribute territory of the Turkish Empire. The Turkish King Mehmed II asks Vlad for 1,000 children to put in his army. Vlad did not want the children of his kingdom to suffer this fate and decides to go to war. Largely outnumbered, he looks to the dark arts for help. Now with immense power, Vlad fights the Turkish army. But with this power comes with a price.

“Dracula Untold” is the start of a rebooted Universal Monsters

franchise. If this movie is any indication of how it will go, it might want to reconsider. Just pack the bags, and find another property to ruin.

It has no identity, no authentic thought of its own. It is both a period action movie and a villain-centered prequel. Think 2010’s “Robin Hood” mixed with “Hannibal Rising” in some twisted, awful cocktail.

This movie could have been saved from its uninspired fate, if it would have just showed a little violence once in a while. It has action scenes, but they all had the fragrances of a PG-13 movie. For a guy whose signature move is to impale people, Vlad is pretty mild on the battlefield.

This is not the howl of a gory hound, but a call for film to worry about the quality of the movie first. Making it violent and brutal would have differentiated it from all the other action films trying to reach PG-13 audiences. Dracula is known property; people will come regardless of rating.

Dracula is portrayed more as a superhero than a future villain. There is a

reference to him not having remorse for the people he killed while in the Turkish army. This is a bright spot in the film.

It would be interesting if the character were in his element on the battlefield. The battlefield is his canvas. Let him paint. Then he goes home and suppresses his warrior instincts all for the greater good; a family man and a caring king.

The acting is horrid and the dialect is poor in this film. Cooper specifically takes cues from terrible Transylvania impressions.

Evans is miscast. He is an actor who is one note, which is not to insult him. The movie business is filled with actors who play the same character over and over again. Evans commands the role of the soft-spoken action character. That is not Dracula.

Dracula is a jovial and complex being. His personality should be intoxicating. Even in this version of the character, he should be a commanding and sympathetic leader. That is not how Evans plays him and the film suffers for it.

If masochism and laughably bad movies is your thing, see this movie.

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Kenny Fisher’s name still appears on the staff schedule on a whiteboard at the United States Department of Agriculture service center in Murphysboro, though “permanent vacation” is written next to it.

Fisher retired in June 2013 after working at the USDA for 10 years, but still works in conservation as a local beekeeper. For the last six years Fisher has been keeping hives and collecting honey, learning more about bees each year.

“We started noticing years ago the bees were having problems, and we thought it would be a good idea to get into beekeeping,” said Fisher, who graduated from SIU in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in Forestry. “Because if bees are going to be saving the United States they need to be saved with small beekeepers.”

National trends show the population of honeybees is declining and fewer people are beekeeping. There are only half as many managed bee colonies in the U.S. as there were in the 1940s, dropping from about 5 million to 2.5 million, according to the USDA. A contributing factor is a condition called Colony Collapse Disorder, in which a very low number of adult bees are present in the hive, while a queen and immature bees are still there. CCD threatens the health of the bee population and economic stability of agriculture that relies on bees for pollination.

One-third of the food produced in North America depends on honeybees for pollination, meaning the U.S. and other countries could be dependent on the bees’ survival. Agriculture production in the U.S. relies on having a healthy

population of bees, said USDA Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in a press release June 20. This summer the USDA provided five Midwest states with $8 million for honeybee habitats, and President Obama directed government agents to take action to protect and restore populations of pollinators, which include honeybees.

The 2013 to 2014 winter was especially harsh Southern Illinois beekeepers had about 60 percent survival this winter. Northern Illinois lost 70 to 80 percent of their bees.

Fisher maintains 10 hives on his own and neighbors’ property. Fisher and his wife Phyllis, a retired Vergennes postmaster, run a business called Arrowhead Apiary. The name comes from the subdivision in Carbondale the Fishers live in—Arrowhead—and “apiary” refers to a place where bees are kept.

They harvest honey for themselves and to sell at the Carbondale Farmer’s Market. In their first year, the Fishers sold 350 pounds of honey at their four appearances at the market.

The Fishers sell their honey in 12 fluid ounce glass jars, plastic bottles and 2 fluid ounce bear-shaped containers, all with labels made by a neighbor. Their honey is filtered but not heated, and packaged in sealed bottles and jars.

“It has a professional look to it and I think people appreciate that,” Phyllis said.

Phyllis said she considers herself the marketing person of their business. She goes through a checklist of all the materials they take to the market and once they arrive, she puts out the tablecloth and decorations.

“[I] bring out the points that people want to hear about,” Phyllis said. “It is local honey, and that’s a selling point because people ask about that almost constantly while you’re at the farmer’s market.”

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Kenny Fisher uses a smoker to relax bees when working on his hives. “When you’re working with bees it’s good to have a smoker,” he said. “Smoke is a relaxer to bees if you use just a little bit of it.”

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The 2013 to 2014 winter was especially harsh Southern Illinois beekeepers had about 60 percent survival this winter. Northern Illinois lost 70 to 80 percent of their bees.

Fisher maintains 10 hives on his own and neighbors’ property. Fisher and his wife Phyllis, a retired Vergennes postmaster, run a business called Arrowhead Apiary. The name comes from the subdivision in Carbondale the Fishers live in—Arrowhead—and “apiary” refers to a place where bees are kept.

They harvest honey for themselves and to sell at the Carbondale Farmer’s Market. In their first year, the Fishers sold 350 pounds of honey at their four appearances at the market.

The Fishers sell their honey in 12 fluid ounce glass jars, plastic bottles and 2 fluid ounce bear-shaped containers, all with labels made by a neighbor. Their honey is filtered but not heated, and packaged in sealed bottles and jars.

“It has a professional look to it and I think people appreciate that,” Phyllis said.

Phyllis said she considers herself the marketing person of their business. She goes through a checklist of all the materials they take to the market and once they arrive, she puts out the tablecloth and decorations.

“[I] bring out the points that people want to hear about,” Phyllis said. “It is local honey, and that’s a selling point because people ask about that almost constantly while you’re at the farmer’s market.”

Kenny and Phyllis said they have had a good season with the market, and great reception from the community.

“We have approximately five bottles left and that’s all for our season this year,” Phyllis said. “Because you have to save enough honey in the hives for the bees to last through the winter.”

Kenny said he enjoys the atmosphere and the social aspect of the market.

“I like to talk to people. I’d go even if I didn’t have honey probably.”

For Kenny, who is a member of the Illinois State Beekeepers Association, his passion for beekeeping is less about the business and more about saving the bees.

S.I. All-A-Buzz Apiary Enthusiasts Club, a group of local bee enthusiasts said there are 2,500 registered beekeepers in Illinois, and hold Beekeeping 101 classes a few times each year to teach those interested how to start a hive. Fisher volunteers and said about 20 to 30 people come each time.

“It’s just fun talking to people about that,” he said.

The group uses Facebook to communicate about events and even let other beekeepers know about swarms of bees, or if a beekeeper has an extra queen. Swarming occurs when about half the bees leave their hive, and rest at a neutral location until a suitable location for a new hive can be found.

“They have a lot better chance to survive when you keep them in a box rather than if they were just in a hollow tree or wherever they were going to go,” Kenny said.

Local farmer Rick Saupe called the USDA service center after spotting a swarm of bees on a soybean plant in his field in Murphysboro on Sept. 9. Kenny captured the swarm to make his 10th hive.

“It’s fairly easy to catch them if you know where

they are. Normally if you get most of them in the box … they’ll march in there like an army if the queen is in there.” Once a swarm is caught, Kenny said they have a 60 to 70 percent chance of survival rather than a 15 to 20 percent chance in the wild. Now he feeds the new hive a sugar water mixture, and expects it to survive the winter.

The Fishers are hoping to have an even more successful year with their bees next year. They hope to take double the amount of honey to the

Farmer’s Market next year than they did this year. Until then, you can find Kenny keeping calm,

and keeping his bees.

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Today’s Birthday (10/20/14). You’re a powerhouse this year. Creativity abounds. With friends, magnify a project’s impact. Unpredictable and even impulsive

circumstances impact a partnership. Interact with honor and respect. You’ve got the Midas Touch, especially through 12/23. Then communications take focus. Speak out, write and record. It’s all for home and family. Over springtime, balance work and health for personal bliss.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 9 — Take action for

what you love. You hear about a lucky break. Accept encouragement without embarrassment. You’re making a good impression. Start from the ground up. Be assertive with your love. Let joy and abundance win.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is an 8 — Today has the

potential for extraordinary fun (and hot romance). Your team shows off their skills. Learn by doing. Ask the family to play along. Your own wit and effort makes the difference. You can win the game.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)Today is an 7 — It’s all coming

together at home. Do the homework, so you know what you’re talking about. You have what you need at hand. Do what you love, well. Friends provide leads for service providers. Buy household items.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is a 8 — Good news arrives

for your partner or mate. An unexpected bonus gets unveiled. Express your affection. You can still get what you need. Play music while you work. You’ve got an ace up your sleeve.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 9 — Gather valuable

clues and piece the puzzle together. Investigate an interesting suggestion from a friend. A beneficial development arises at work. You’re learning through experience, earning more than money. The cash isn’t bad, either.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is a 9 — You’re in your

element today and tomorrow, with the Moon in your sign. Power on, and add

to savings. Make a decision you’ve been avoiding. Get your teammates on board. Frugality gives you the edge. Act quickly.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is a 7 — Passion is

definitely part of the moment. Talk about love, beauty and matters of the heart and soul. Go visit your muse. Your efforts finally show results. Friends help you make a new connection. Provide leadership.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is a 8 — Get social for

highest impact. Express what you’re up to, ask for help where needed, and give abundant thanks. Support your team. Punch up the sexiness! The old blends with the new. Send out a call.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 8 — Your career could

surge forward in a beautiful direction, with a little encouragement. Let your partner take the lead. Continue to push ahead and pay off bills. Keep track of the details. Do good works.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is an 9 — Long-distance

travel makes a connection. Passion sparks career advancement. Take stock of where you’d like to be. Cast your nets wide. Never doubt your powers. Make long-term plans. Invest in efficiency. Important people are watching.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is a 8 — Fortune favors

your actions today. Earn money and love. An opportunity arises for physical passion... dance, explore, climb, race and play for a thrill. Form a new partnership. Discover new options to grow your family resources.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is a 9 — Romance is a

distinct possibility. Pay attention to any and all offers. If you’ve done the homework, you can prosper. Follow your mom’s rules. Your loved ones inspire you. Talk about partnership and collaboration.

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Little backing leaves non-Greeks lackingI was asked to define what a

“typical Homecoming nominee” was and I didn’t have a good answer. I turned to the DE, and found an article from October 2013 by Charinder Thompson that explained it well. I learned last year Greek candidates outnumbered non-Greeks 9-to-1 and the winners of the past several years were also Greek. Roughly 840 students involved in Greek life make up about 5.5 percent of the total full-time SIU student population of 15,208.

The article explained how being Greek was a requirement when the tradition first started, but has since changed to include everyone at the university.

Homecoming Court winners should embody what it means to be a Saluki.

“It encourages Alumni to celebrate being a Saluki and the SIU community to create a strong focus on school spirit and pride,” according to the university’s web page.

Not all students connect with the “Greek identity” or the “typical Homecoming nominee” and when you’re outnumbered 9-to-1, who do you vote for? Someone committed to making SIU a better, more-inclusive place. Someone who takes pride in the university and will carry the title on proudly. Someone who can connect with the diverse student population of SIU. Someone like Sophia Thomasson.

Thomasson is on the

Homecoming ballot as the only non-Greek candidate for queen. She’s a model student in more than just the classroom. She’s a tutor for Achieve, a program on campus that provides one-on-one services for students with learning disabilities. She is a triple major in criminology and criminal justice with a minor in forensic science, university studies with a minor in psychology, and communication studies with a specialization in persuasive communication.

She wants to break the mold and set a new example of what it means to be Homecoming Queen. The article I mentioned at the top quoted candidates saying a majority of the marketing and promoting help they received was from the Greek organization they’re

a part of. But with no Registered Student Organization to back her up, how can Thomasson compete with candidates who have large backings? The answer is with you.

I challenge all readers to really think about whom they want to represent SIU Homecoming for 2014. Who do you identify with? Who has a strong focus on school spirit and pride? I can not say if one candidate is better than another, because I do not know them all. But I do know SIU is a diverse university where anyone can get a chance. I do know SIU can be represented well by any of the candidates. The challenge is, who will take the title and raise the bar for what it means to be a Homecoming Court winner and a Saluki? I know who has my vote.

Letter to the Editor

Peace Prize spotlights children’s rightsThe 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was

awarded to Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi from India, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced earlier this month.

Both defenders of children’s rights, Satyarthi has focused on child trafficking and labor while Malala has brought attention to children’s education.

This year’s award has garnered much attention because, at 17, Yousafzai is the youngest recipient of the Nobel.

However, it is due to her youth that Malala has brought international awareness to education by risking her own life to go to school.

In 2009, at the age of 11, Malala began writing a blog for BBC speaking out against the Taliban’s ban on girl’s education in her Pakistani community. She defied their calls to stop attending school. Three years later, a member of the Taliban shot her in the head on the school bus to silence her voice forever.

Miraculously, she survived from her wounds after extensive surgery in Britain and now millions hear her voice.

She has created her own organization, the Malala Fund, which advocates for governments to make policies to enhance girls’ access to school. The organization also gives funding to groups all over the globe who promote education.

Malala said it is “an

encouragement to go forward and believe in myself.”

Satyarthi has also been an influential leader in children’s rights. He has fought for more than 30 years to end child labor and trafficking by leading raids to free those held captive.

Leader of the Global March Against Child Labor, Satyarthi raises awareness of products produced by child labor. His aim is to end child slavery in his lifetime.

Both recipients of the award have called upon their governments’ prime ministers to attend their award ceremony.

This is particularly important because tensions between the Pakistani and Indian governments have degraded over the past years with 20 being killed on the border

earlier this month. Nobel Committee chairman

Thorbjoern Jagland said it is imperative for “a Hindu and a Muslim, an Indian and a Pakistani, to join in a common struggle for education.”

Additionally, this year’s Nobel Prize is significant because it draws attention to an often forgotten cause in a world focused on the terrorism of ISIS and the spread of Ebola. Ensuring that education is accessible to children all over the globe is equally important.

Unlike many other causes that seem completely out of our control, universal education has made huge strides over the past decade. According to the United Nations, the number of out-of-school children has dropped by nearly half since 2000.

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Sports teams tend to act as family and this year, part of the women’s cross-country team actually is.

Senior Sadie Darnell has been on the team since 2011. Last season, she led the team to its first conference title since 1992 and became an All-MVC runner. She is also a two-time MVC Scholar-Athlete.

Her sister, freshman Claire Darnell has raced in two events to start her SIU career; she finished 16th and 87th in those meets.

Claire ran on the 4x800 meter relay team that won the state championship with Festus High School. She also ran in the 1600 and 3200 meter races.

Sadie said the exercise science program and her individual success were both reasons for Claire to come race for SIU.

“[Claire] knows I have been successful here, and we have a good program for what she wants to major in,” Sadie said. “It was comforting for her to come here and the distance from home helped.”

Sadie said there is a big difference

between running in high school and running in college, mainly the distance. In college, races are 8k compared to the 5k races in high school. She said she has progressed a lot since her freshman year, and hopes Claire can too.

Although Sadie has had success, coach David Beauchem said it is not Claire’s job to fill her role on the team after Sadie graduates.

“Claire is not here to replace Sadie; Claire is here to be Claire,” Beauchem said. “She is not trying to replace Sadie. That is not the expectation or direction I have for Claire’.” Claire said she has no heightened expectations because she is Sadie’s sister. Claire said she is trying to learn her role on the team and improve on her times.

“[Claire] has a lot of potential,” Sadie said. “If she keeps building mileage and pushing herself, she will get faster and step up on the team. My freshman year is actually pretty close to where she is now.”

Beauchem said staying healthy and building experience will help Claire develop as a runner.

Brent Meske can be reached [email protected].

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Qualifying for the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs is a task with simple requirements: win your conference or seven Division I games.

SIU football sits at 5-3 on the season and fifth in the Missouri Valley Conference. With back-to-back losses to North Dakota State and Youngstown State, the Salukis are approaching crunch time to make themselves playoff eligible.

NDSU and Illinois State both sit atop the MVFC with 3-0 records. South Dakota State and Youngstown State are tied for third at 2-1. SIU is fifth with a 2-2 record in conference.

SIU is not mathematically eliminated from the MVFC championship race, but it is unlikely to win the standings at the end of the season. NDSU, Illinois State and potentially another one-loss team are likely to duke it out for the conference crown.

SIU’s most likely route into the playoffs is through an at-large bid.

SIU’s season opening 45-0 victory was against Taylor University, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics team. It does not contribute to the seven-win qualification, which means the Salukis are 4-3, in the eyes of the FCS Selection Committee.

The Salukis must win three of their last four games to become

playoff eligible, a task easier said than done.

The Salukis still have games against Illinois State, Indiana State and Northern Iowa. All three teams are ranked in the

FCS top 25. SIU will also have to play at Missouri State, which received votes in last week’s FCS coaches’ poll.

While this is a difficult task, the Salukis have the luxury of

holding their own fate.SIU has been good at home and

has not lost at Saluki Stadium this season. If the Salukis can extend their perfect home record against UNI and Indiana State, they will just

need to win one of their away games.

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Senior running back Malcolm Agnew rushes the ball Oct. 4 during the second half of the Salukis’ 41-10 win against South Dakota University at Saluki Stadium. The Salukis need to win three more games this season to be eligible for the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs.

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Senior Sadie Darnell competes in the White 6K Race Saturday during the Indiana State University Pre-National Invi-tational at LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Ind. Darnell took 40th place out of 214 with a time of 22:38.8. Darnell said she helps the freshmen, including her sister Claire, in developing to take over for the seniors on the team. The Salukis, who are the reigning Missouri Valley Conference champions, will defend the men’s and women’s titles at the MVC Championships Nov. 1 in Carbondale.

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