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SIU student fatally shot while home for break

A man found shot to death Friday night in County Club Hills was home from college on winter break, family members told the Chicago Tribune Media Group’s SouthTown Star.

Justin Haney, 18, was found on West 186th Street and pronounced dead at the scene at 8:30 p.m. Friday, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Following an autopsy Saturday, the office determined Haney died from a gunshot wound in a homicide.

Family told the SouthTown Star that Haney was home from Southern Illinois University for winter break.

Police were called to the 4500 block of Provincetown Drive in the south suburban city about 7:20 p.m. Friday because someone heard shots fired in the area, according to a release from Country Club

Hills police. While officers were in the area, a neighborhood resident told one of them there was someone down in the snow in the 4400 block of 186th Street, police said.

Police went to 186th Street and found a man lying face down in the snow, and paramedics who responded to the scene determined he was dead. The medical examiner’s office said Haney was found dead in the 4100 block of West 186th Street.

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“Doc” Dubois plays the trumpet for a laugh in PB&J resale shop on Tuesday in Makanda, Ill. The 84-year-old Korean War veteran visits the store often, bringing one of the owners, Pam Baker, apples and good conversation. “They make these long, cold days entertaining,” Baker said. “I just enjoy coming up here and looking at things,” Dubois said.

Rauner sworn in, says business as usual would be ‘morally corrupt’

Bruce Rauner took over as Illinois governor Monday and asked for shared sacrifice to help him restore a state he described as in decline, beset by financial, moral and ethical crises.

The first Republican chief executive in a dozen years laid out what he views as the state’s problems -- shaky finances, lack of competitiveness with other states and a slow-to-grow economy -- and sought to blame them on the lack of pro-business initiatives and mindset.

Also assigned responsibility were some of those in the audience there to listen to his inaugural speech, served notice by the new governor that the messy financial condition was the result of decades of bad decisions by politicians of both parties. Rauner vowed to seek bipartisan solutions with a Democratic-dominated General Assembly.

Continuing to conduct “business as

we’ve been doing it would be morally corrupt,” Rauner said in pledging to replenish citizen confidence in government that he maintained has been drained away.

“I’m nobody that nobody sent,” he said. “And I’ve come to work for you.”

The inauguration of Rauner as the state’s 42nd governor marks a new era for Illinois -- a first-time officeholder who has demonstrated he will use his extensive personal wealth and that of his allies to try to leverage political and public support for his initiatives.

While successful as an equity investor, questions remain as to how quickly Rauner will grasp the levers of governing after a lengthy campaign filled with heated anti-government, anti-tax rhetoric but lacking specific solutions.

Standing before a few thousand people on stage at a less-than-filled Prairie Capital Convention Center and surrounded by his family, Rauner took the oath of office shortly after noon. His 20-minute inaugural address, punctuated often by applause, offered a critical

if not downcast look at state government and its practitioners, from its past financial policies to its politics and ethics.

It was a speech that echoed many of the themes and phrases he used in defeating Democrat Pat Quinn in November. The remarks followed a post-election pattern of delivering a litany of the state’s financial problems in an effort to reinforce to voters and taxpayers the need for a difficult -- but still unstated -- agenda that could contrast with his anti-tax positions during the campaign.

Underscoring the state’s precarious finances, which include agencies that could run out of money in the short term and a ballooning deficit for the long term, Rauner issued his first executive order aimed at sharply curbing state spending for at least the next six months.

Rauner’s order halts all new contracts and grant awards except those deemed to be an emergency or less than $50,000. It also puts a block on any new interstate transportation construction projects.

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Rauner removes Joel Sambursky from SIU Board of Trustees

Gov. Bruce Rauner’s two-day purge of former Gov. Pat Quinn’s appointees across the state hit home for the SIU Board of Trustees.

Joel Sambursky, who was appointed to the board in September 2013, was one of more than 100 people ousted Tuesday.

Sambursky said in an email he understands Rauner’s desire to present his own recommendations.

“I understand this action to be procedural given Governor Rauner’s efforts to combat last-minute appointments which I was not a part of. While disappointed in the news, it is an honor to be able to give back to my alma mater in this way,” Sambursky said in the email.

Sambursky served as a member of the board’s architecture and design and audit committees. Student trustee Adrian Miller said there were nearly 200 appointments yet to be confirmed by the senate when Rauner took office. He said there is still a chance Rauner would reappoint Sambursky to his position, and Sambursky being a Republican may help.

“Joel has been a phenomenal asset to the board,” Miller said. “I’m disappointed he won’t be with us for the next meeting.”

He said having to re-educate a potential new appointee before the next meeting would be unhealthy for the board and the university, and hopes Sambursky will be reappointed before the next meeting.

In addition to the challenge of bringing a new appointee up to speed, Miller said if no student trustee is appointed to vote and just one member of the board is absent from the March 19 meeting, there would be an issue of the board meeting quorum.

“I would hope that Gov. Rauner will step up and make sure that the vote is appointed for the student vote. … And I hope he does it before the next meeting,” Miller said, “It’s a similar situation to Joel.”

The list of people in state positions Rauner has ousted has grown quickly after his inauguration on Monday. In a press conference, Rauner said he was aiming to undo some of Quinn’s appointments made shortly before he left office, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“What we’re going to do is across the board cancel all appointments, we are going to cancel all hires, cancel all, rescind all, the actions that the governor has taken since Nov. 1,” Rauner said Monday.

He said his office wanted to rescind decisions Quinn made and give all positions a hard look over time.

“Rauner’s definitely sent the message statewide that the status quo is coming to a little bit of a change,” Miller said.

Sambursky said he was honored to serve his alma mater, and would gladly aid Rauner in the future.

“I stand ready and willing to assist [Rauner] in any way possible as we work to support Southern Illinois University,” he said.

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State agencies, which Rauner said were seeking $760 million in new spending authority, were told by the new governor that they were out of luck and instead should manage their current budgets — a move likely to prompt major cuts.

Rauner also called on agencies to conduct more populist-sounding cost-saving measures, including blocking new vehicle purchases and leases, limiting travel and requiring offices to turn off unnecessary lights, heating and cooling.

“Sacrifice by all of us — politicians and interest groups, business and labor, those who pay for government and those who depend on government’s services and need us and who we need to support,” Rauner said in his speech. “Each person here today and all those throughout the state will be called upon to share in the sacrifice so that one day we can again share in Illinois’ prosperity.”

During the campaign, Rauner vilified state government and Democratic political leaders and some Republican lawmakers as “corrupt.” On Monday, Rauner used his speech to attack what he called a “moral” and “ethical” crisis that’s led to the public’s lack of faith in Springfield.

“Illinoisans see insider deals and cronyism rewarded. They see lobbyists writing bills for special interests and taxpayers being left with the tab. They see government union bosses negotiating sweetheart deals across the table from governors they’ve spent tens of millions of dollars to help elect. That’s a corrupt bargain, and the people of Illinois are left to wonder where they fit in,” Rauner said.

Rauner’s use of the term “government union bosses” was a prominent feature of his successful campaign for the GOP nomination but largely was abandoned in his general election campaign against Quinn. Public employee unions spent millions in the GOP primary and general elections in an unsuccessful attempt to block Rauner.

Senate President John Cullerton, a Chicago Democrat, questioned whether Rauner had grasped the complexities of becoming governor at a challenging time for the state.

“I believe he is very sincere in everything he’s said.

I just think he might be very inaccurate about some of the things we’ve been doing for the last six years in improving the state after the biggest recession that has ever hit the states. We’ve been making good progress, paying our bills down, cutting the spending, and so he’ll discover that and then he’ll have to decide what he wants to do with his budget,” Cullerton said.

But House Republican leader Jim Durkin of Western Springs called the critical tone of Rauner’s remarks “refreshing.”

“We don’t need a rosy picture that’s going to be portrayed about the state of Illinois,” Durkin said. “The problems are deep, they’re serious, they’re not political. We have to have a bipartisan solution to these major problems.”

Promising to work with lawmakers on a “comprehensive jobs and economic package” in the coming weeks, Rauner bemoaned a culture of “high taxes and high regulation” against business.

He singled out the problems of Keats Manufacturing, a Wheeling-based metal stamping company, to illustrate how small business owners have grown increasingly frustrated.

Rauner said the Keats company was launched in 1958 in a Chicago storefront, with founders Bert and Glenn Keats going door-to-door to scour up business. “All its customers were Illinois companies,” Rauner said. “But today, none of their customers are Illinois companies -- they have all left.” Rauner said Keats’ grandsons, who now run the operation, “tell me they couldn’t have started their company in Illinois today.”

While Keats is headquartered in Illinois, the portrait of the firm as laid out by Rauner was incomplete. According to the Keats website, in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement the company expanded operations in 1994 to a facility in El Paso, Texas, to serve manufacturers in Mexico.

Rauner, a strong supporter of charter schools, called improving education in the state “an important emotional issue for me.” He called for investing “adequately in every neighborhood” on all levels of education, from early childhood to vocational and higher education.

“That means putting more directly into the classrooms, reforming the education bureaucracy, rolling back costly mandates and giving more students access to great schools,” he said.

Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich, who delivered the invocation, liked Rauner’s emphasis on the issue.

“I appreciated very much the aspirational tone, looking forward to the next generation not just, as he said, the next election,” Cupich said.

Also in attendance were Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and several members of Illinois’ congressional delegation. Not there was Quinn, the Democrat Rauner replaced as governor. Quinn remained in Chicago to finish his work until Rauner took over, an aide said.

Along with the inauguration were a bevy of celebratory activities, from an interfaith prayer service in the morning to afternoon open houses held by the new cast of statewide elected officials to an evening concert featuring country star Toby Keith and Chicago blues legend Buddy Guy.

Each of the new officials found their official photographs hanging just inside the main doors of the Capitol. Rauner is shown wearing a blue-and-red, buttoned-collar, plaid sports shirt.

For his swearing-in, Rauner placed his hand on a massive Bible belonging to Susan Lawrence Dana, of Springfield. Dana, who lived from 1862 to 1946 was a supporter of suffrage and equality for women. She was also a major supporter of the arts, commissioning Frank Lloyd Wright to design what is now known as the Dana-Thomas House, a Springfield attraction.

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Under fire for seemingly snubbing one of its closest allies, the White House conceded Monday that it should have sent a high-ranking U.S. official to Paris over the weekend to demonstrate U.S. support in the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks.

White House press secretary Josh Earnest admitted the mistake, siding with critics who assailed President Barack Obama for not attending the rally or sending a high ranking representative such as Vice President Joe Biden in his stead.

“It’s fair to say that we should have sent someone with a higher profile to be there,” Earnest said at the White House daily news briefing.

Earnest noted that sending a “high-level, highly visible” senior administration official would have demonstrated “that the American people stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies in France.”

He said there should be “no doubting” U.S. support for France, noting that Obama had offered assistance to President Francois Hollande during a call immediately after the attacks and that the U.S. and France were cooperating on counterterrorism measures.

While as many as 2 million people marched through the streets of Paris in a show of unity and defiance, about 50 world

leaders marched with Hollande. Although U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Alejandro Mayorkas, the deputy secretary of homeland security, were in Paris for meetings with French officials, only the U.S. ambassador to France, Jane Hartley, joined the demonstration.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., called it a “mistake” for a high-ranking U.S. official not to participate, likening the attacks in France to the 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S.

“The French are going through a similar trauma,” he said on CBS’s “This Morning.” “I thought it would have been important to have someone there.”

The New York tabloids took it a step further, with a front page Daily News headline that blazed, “You Let the World Down.”

Earnest refused to provide any details on who had made the decision not to send a higher-ranking official, but said it was the

White House’s responsibility.“We here at the White House

should’ve made a different decision,” he said.

He said the call did not rise to Obama’s level, saying it was “not a decision that was made by the president.”

Obama and Biden were at their homes over the weekend, Earnest acknowledged, but he wouldn’t say what the president was doing Sunday and said he hadn’t talked to him about any “personal regret” or whether he’d watched the march.

He did say he thought that Obama “himself would have liked to have had the opportunity to be there,” but noted that planning for the event began only Friday and the security arrangements for a presidential visit would have been considerable.

“I’m confident that the professionals at the Secret Service could overcome those challenges, but it would have been very difficult to do so without significantly impacting the ability

of common citizens to participate in this march,” Earnest said.

The Secret Service was not asked or notified about planning for a potential presidential trip to Paris, a Secret Service official said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity to discuss security arrangements.

And Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said the event “would have been a challenging advance ... based on what we know.”

Secretary of State John Kerry, who is scheduled to visit Paris on Thursday and meet with French officials Friday, dismissed talk of the low-level U.S. attendance as “quibbling” and said he looked forward to visiting France “to make it crystal clear how passionately we feel about the events that have taken place there.”

State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said internal discussions continued until the day of the rally about how best to represent the United States.

She said security was among the factors in the decision against sending Obama or Biden. Holder was in meetings, and Kerry was “never an option” because of a prior commitment to high-level talks in India. She added, if “he could’ve been in Paris, he would’ve been.”

Harf said planning for Kerry’s trip to Paris later this week was under way before Sunday and was “in no way in response” to the criticism.

While the White House struck a conciliatory tone Monday, Harf called the criticism unfair and mused aloud whether reporters would spend as much time asking about deadly attacks by the Boko Haram militant group as about “a march.”

She added that the U.S.-French relationship is “much broader than a short march.”

French ambassador to the U.S. Gerard Araud told MSNBC on Monday that “from the French side,” there were no hard feelings. He noted that Obama had signed a book of condolences Thursday at the French Embassy in Washington and Kerry had expressed condolences soon after the attacks in French, as well as English.

“We have been overwhelmed by the expression of solidarity, of grief, of friendship coming from all corners of the American people, from the highest level of the administration ... to the ordinary Americans,” Araud said. “I can say Americans are compassionate people.”

White House: We were wrong on Paris rallyLesley ClarkHannah AllamMcClatchy Washington Bureau ‘‘I ‘m confident that the professionals at the Secret Service could overcome those

challenges, but it would have been very difficult to do so without significantly impacting the ability of common citizents to participate in this march.

— Josh EarnestWhite House press secretary

Year in review: front pages that defined 20144 Wednesday, January 14, 2015

2014 was a busy year for SIU.The university saw a drastic change

in its top administrative roles.After the retirement of former

President Glenn Poshard and the reassignment of ex-Provost John Nicklow, SIU hired President Randy Dunn and promoted Susan Ford to fill provost duties. Nicklow will become provost at the University of New Orleans later this spring.

Three people oversaw the chancellor seat in 2014.

Former Chancellor Rita Cheng was hired as Northern Arizona University’s president and Paul Sarvela served as interim until his death in November. Dunn has since taken on chancellor duties until the university hires someone full time.

2014 also brought sorrow to SIU.Along with Sarvela’s death,

sophomore Pravin Varughese was

found dead in the woods near East Main Street after going missing for six days. His family has since filed a lawsuit against a state trooper involved.

It was a big year for the City of Carbondale as well. Then-Carbondale Mayor Joel Fritzler resigned to take a job in Arizona and Don Monty took the seat as interim. The April elections will determine who will fill it permanently.

On top of a mayoral flip, the city’s police chief was fired in August. City Manager Kevin Baity released then-Police Chief Jody O’Guinn and the role was filled by Deputy Chief Jeff Grubbs.

In Saluki Athletics a few events stood out. Two football players were suspended for violating team rules, and Athletic Director Mario Moccia accepted a new director role at his alma mater New Mexico State University, and Harold Bardo

was named interim. Meanwhile women’s basketball coach Cindy Stein led the women to their best season start since 1997 with a record of 7-4.

In 2015, SIU will search for a full-time chancellor, provost and athletic director and learn the result of Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner’s budget. It will be another year of challenges, changes and celebrations. From the Daily Egyptian, happy new year.

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“Tomorrow” has come once again for little orphan Annie. This time around, Annie falls victim to the “Hard Knock Life” of Hollywood remakes.

“Annie,” (PG; 118 min) is a musical adaptation directed by Will Gluck and stars Jamie Foxx, Rose Byrne, Quvenzhane Wallis and Cameron Diaz.

Annie Bennett, played by Wallis, lives in the foster care of Colleen Hannigan, played by Cameron Diaz, a drunkard and former rock singer stuck in her past glory. The conditions are terrible; Hannigan treats the children poorly and the kids have lost all hope of being adopted.

Bennett’s life improves when she is saved by Will Stacks, played by Foxx. Stacks is a New York mayoral candidate and rich beyond imagination. Stacks adopts Annie

and as they bond with each other, Annie’s life begins to change forever.

In the kingdom of reboots and adaptations, a modernized version of “Annie,” was far from the worst idea Hollywood has come up with. The moment Jay-Z became a producer for the film, the idea of combining show tunes and hip-hop arose. The potential seemed to be endless and was not completely wasted.

Gluck’s intelligent level of pop-culture humor rarely misses. Cringe-worthy pop culture references are a staple of bad children’s movie and are often mistaken by lazy writers as smart humor. With experience directing movies such as “Easy A,” Gluck provides jokes that have merit and are not outdated.

Gluck’s main adult star, Foxx, helps keep this bland picture from drowning in its plain qualities. Regardless of the film’s value, the actor brings humor and joy to every role he plays. His random quips and line deliveries saves jokes that would flounder if delivered by most other actors.

Wallis, a former nominee for the best actress award at the Oscars, brings empathy to a seemingly annoying role. Every trailer for this movie showed Wallis being a precocious kid character. As the titular role, she goes beyond expectations and makes the character real.

For all of the little pieces of gold “Annie” has hidden, it is surrounded by a lot more wasted opportunities. The biggest wasted opportunity is the lackluster music delivery.

“Annie,” starts at an unfair advantage when it comes to its music because of the tunes’ popularity. It is not only one of the most well-known musical acts in existence, songs like “Tomorrow” and “Hard Knock Life” are familiar numbers, even to those who have never seen the original musical.

It is unclear who is to blame for the songs playing second fiddle to everything else in this film. A lot of the classic songs in “Annie,” ones that should make the audience feel dozens of emotions, are better left on

the cutting room floor in this adaptation.Ms. Hannigan is a key role in any version

of “Annie.” Almost as well-known as Annie herself, it would be evident in any film if the character was portrayed badly. Diaz may be the most inept choice ever.

Even in her best movies, Diaz has never given anything past an adequate performance. Average is the only way to describe her. She bores even more in this film than before.

The character should be even more interesting in this modern reimagining. A better portrayal would include charisma and empathy with everything this film gives her in backstory. Diaz does not go the extra mile and it shows in this film.

The fad of reboots and remakes has lasted longer than most Hollywood trends normally do. Unfortunately, it does not look like it will end anytime soon; even films with bad reviews tend to find odd box office success. Uneven attempts like “Annie,” will become commonplace because of this.

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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 (11/19/14). Expect spontaneous fun and romance this year. Begin a two-year phase in personal

growth and development on 12/23. Step into power and confidence. Focus on home and family around 3/20, and get involved with community around 4/4. Share your dreams. Explore cultures, art and philosophy through 8/11, when your professional status leaps. Creative collaborations delight. Grow like a child.

Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is an 8 — Long distance

travel holds your attention today and tomorrow. Check reservations and connections. It could get intense, but that’s what makes it an adventure. Get lost in studies and research. Set goals and measures. Prepare for the next stage. Let your spirit soar.

Taurus (April 20-May 20)Today is an 8 — For the next two

days, handle financial matters. Confer with family. Review assets and liabilities. Get good advice from an elder. Don’t give in to pessimism. Love is the bottom line. Treat yourself and others compassionately. Melt your worries in hot water.

Gemini (May 21-June 20)

Today is an 8 — Don’t be afraid if you don’t know how to do the job at hand. Partnership is your magic key. Get expert advice, find talented support and brainstorm for clever solutions. Someone has a fabulous idea. You can learn a lot from failure. Don’t fear it.

Cancer (June 21-July 22)Today is an 8 — Postpone a

romantic interlude. The pace is picking up, so step faster. Shoulder your responsibilities. Focus on your work for the next couple of days. Keep at a task until you get it right. Navigate a breakdown gracefully. Trust your experience.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)Today is a 7 — The fun could

get out of hand if you let it. Play by the rules. Remind others what they are. Try something new, creatively. The perfect solution appears. Things may not go as planned. Romance could enchant you into unexpected scenarios.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)Today is an 8 — Shortages or

shipping delays could cause a breakdown at home. You can’t afford to buy everything for everybody. Find what you need nearby. Fix one problem and discover another. Handle repairs and preparations. Ask for help to clean a mess.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)Today is an 8 — You’ve got a silver

tongue, but it may not be enough to achieve the result you’re after. Take a practical stand. You’ll retain information well today and tomorrow. Scratch some old chores off your list. Change your job description. Research and write findings.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)Today is an 8 — Provide leadership.

Take responsibility for getting the job done. Enter a potentially quite profitable two-day phase. It’s not a good time to gamble. The piper will have to be paid, and soon. Keep your word. Plan to head out toward a favorite place.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)Today is a 7 — You’re gaining

authority today and tomorrow. Don’t

take anything for granted. Despite desire to run away, there’s still work to be done. Contribute to the common good. Plan actions before taking them... you might actually make matters worse. List the costs.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)Today is a 7 —Take a philosophical

view of your work. Review your budget and plan the next stages. Don’t dig into savings. Your imagination gets very active today and tomorrow. Slow down and get organized to direct your efforts for the greatest impact. Liberate some space.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)Today is an 8 — Work together

on an important job. An older individual is helpful. A community project inspires you to take action. Put your heart into it, and succeed. Associates applaud. Focus on abundance, even if it seems rare. Share a meal with friends.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)Today is an 8 — Put your nose to

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Right before the Salukis started Missouri Valley Conference play, the team dropped two winnable games at home and was looking for a win against coach Barry Hinson’s former team, the Missouri State Bears.

SIU not only lost against the Bears to begin MVC play, but the next three conference games after.

The team is in the midst of a six-game losing streak—its longest since Hinson’s first season at the helm.

What started as a promising year from a talented young squad that reeled off six wins in seven games, has turned into a lost season where Hinson is probably just hoping his team can finish near .500.

The shooting will have to improve dramatically for any shot of a salvaged season.

In three games against Missouri State, Bradley and Northern Iowa, the team shot 33 percent, 33 percent and 29 percent from the field respectively. It has yet to shoot better than 40 percent from the field in a conference contest.

Junior guard Anthony Beane, who was a preseason candidate

for MVC Player of the Year, has hit a scoring slump including two conference games where he failed to top 10 points.

The lack of scoring, mixed with a poor defensive game against Murray State, has not helped the team during its four straight home losses; the longest home losing streak since 2011.

Indeed, the competitive season the young team was poised for has not come to fruition and the success the team experienced against lesser competition has been much harder to find against mid-major Division I teams.

The trouble is there may not be much of an option for this team besides shooting better.

Either that, or just let Beane chuck up 30 shots a night and hope he catches fire. No one else on the team has been able to score consistently on this team besides freshman forward Jordan Caroline, and periodically sophomore forward Sean O’Brien.

Beane has taken shots nearly 15 times per game for nearly a season and a half—but if he does not make more than half of those

field goals, getting enough points to win is a struggle.

To make matters worse, the defense has not maintained its great play against steeper competition. Hinson lives by the 40 percent field goal threshold. As he has said many times, if the Salukis can hold opponents to a 39 percent or worse field goal rate, they will be in a position to win most games.

The team has not hit Hinson’s mark in nearly a month; the last time a team shot worse than 40 percent against SIU was Dec. 14, 2014 against lowly Chicago State. Hinson knows a team with offensive struggles like his needs to play shut-down defense every game.

The normally boisterous Hinson said he was crushed and speechless after the team’s latest loss to Indiana State. He said the team had practiced well and seemed prepared to face a tested Sycamore team.

For about 37 minutes, the Salukis did seem prepared, holding the Sycamores to 30 percent shooting in the first half. But the Saluki defense failed the team down the stretch, allowing ISU junior guard Devonte Brown, a

28 percent three-point shooter, to knock three long-range jumpers in the closing minutes.

The deflating home loss against a rival like Indiana State seems analogous to the Salukis’ season. They had a fast start to the year, as they did in the game against the Sycamores.

This is where the similarities become problematic. Near the season’s midpoint, SIU is playing its worst basketball during vital conference games. And as fans saw against the Sycamores, when the game was on the line, the Salukis couldn’t pull off the win.

It seems this team does not have much of a chance to improve. The players seem to be playing hard, chasing down lose balls and competing on the glass, but even in a sub-par MVC, that is not enough to win games.

The team needs more scoring—one thing that most people thought would come easy to a squad with so many highly touted freshmen.

But no one has asserted himself as a threat on offense aside from Beane and Caroline. And most of the forwards’ points come from hustle plays and put back points. When the

Salukis get into a halfcourt set, they look nervous, frazzled and inept.

These things will need to improve, and fast; the Salukis travel to Kansas tomorrow to face the No. 13 Wichita State Shockers. While SIU’s chances seem slim, fans who have watched the last few years know this team seems to play up to big time competition.

However, it will take a herculean effort to topple the Shockers. If the Salukis do, they may have enough wind in their sails to get their conference record back near .500 before the end of the year.

If the team does not, the following game is against a 12-4 Loyola team in the midst of one of its best seasons in recent history.

Hinson needs more time as the leader of the team, so any call to fire the coach is done with haste and nearsightedness.

After all, this is really the first season with his team of players he recruited. But if this MVC losing streak continues to five, six or more games, and the team does not win at home soon, some difficult questions may have to be asked about the fiery coach’s future in Carbondale.

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Salukis hoping to salvage season

Bardo familiarizes himself with athletics

Pruitt to attend NFL combineFor the first time in nine years, a

new SIU athletic director is assuming the responsibility.

Interim athletic director Harold Bardo began his duties Jan. 1. Former athletic director Mario Moccia was hired for the same position at his alma mater New Mexico State University.

“It’s a tremendous selection,” Moccia said. “He’s capable of doing the job as long as the university needs him to,

until they find a permanent director.”Bardo retired as the director of the SIU

Carbondale medical/ Dental Education Preparatory Program. He also spent 15 years as the faculty representative in the athletic department and previously served as interim athletic director from 1999-2000.

Bardo said he has been reacquainting himself with people he worked with in the athletic department and meeting new people.

He said Moccia left him with a to-do-list of things he did not finish, but he did not go into specifics.

Bardo said he will stay retired and would not accept the position if it were offered to him.

“I don’t know how long I’m going to be there,” Bardo said. “My long-term goals and my short-term goals are to have the athletic department in as good of condition as we can have it, in order to attract the most viable candidate.”

Bardo said SIU President Randy Dunn told him once the semester starts, he would formulate a plan about how the university will choose its next athletic director.

“I’m happy to be of service,” Bardo said. “I’m glad people think I can hold on to this position until we can get a new person appointed.”

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Senior tight end MyCole Pruitt catches the ball for a first down Sept. 20 during the first half of the Salukis’ 35-13 loss against Purdue University at Ross-Ade Field in West Lafayette, Ind. Pruitt was invited to the NFL Scouting Combine, which takes place in Indianapolis from Feb. 20-23.

Former Saluki tight end MyCole Pruitt will participate in the NFL Scouting Combine beginning Feb. 17 in Indianapolis.

Pruitt was invited to the combine after an offseason in which he earned many awards. He was most notably named to the Associated Press All-America Frist Team. Pruitt is only the

eighth Saluki to be named to the team and is the first to make the team in consecutive seasons.

He was statistically the best tight end in the Football Championship Subdivision in 2014, leading the position with 13 touchdowns, 861 yards and 71.8 yards per game.

Pruitt set the SIU school record for career receptions with 221. He is also

second in both career receiving yards (2,601) and touchdowns (25).

All 32 NFL teams will have representatives in attendance at the combine, giving Pruitt the opportunity to showcase his skills.

The combine separately tests every position. Tight ends are tested in the 40-yard dash, 3-cone drill, 20-yard shuttle, vertical jump, broad jump and bench

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