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Gov. Bruce Rauner said Monday that Illinois temporarily will not accept Syrian refugees in light of Friday’s attacks in Paris that left 129 dead.

Rauner’s statement pointed to potential security threats Illinois citizens face. He said the state will consider all legal options “pending a full review of our country’s acceptance and security processes by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.”

“Our nation and our state have a shared history of providing safe haven for those displaced by confl ict, but the news surrounding the Paris terror attacks reminds us of the all-too-real security threats facing America,” the statement read. “We must fi nd a way to balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety and security of our citizens.”

Th e Obama administration’s decision to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees has been criticized by GOP leaders after

offi cials said at least one of the Paris attackers was a Syrian refugee.

Rauner’s decision aligns with more than half the governors in the country -- 26 states -- including Arizona, Michigan, Georgia and Maine. Federal law delegates state governors as responsible for administering and supervising refugee resettlement programs in their respective states.

“Given that the governor’s first and most important constitutional duty is to protect the safety and security of Illinois residents, Gov. Rauner has simply taken the responsible and prudent step of suspending the resettlement of Syrian refugees pending this ongoing review of our participation in the refugee resettlement program,” Rauner’s press secretary Catherine Kelly wrote in an email.

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Th e university is working to get Federal Aviation Administration approval to allow drone use outdoors on campus.

“We’re beginning to fi nd the application is practically endless,” said Jim Garvey, interim vice chancellor for research.

Drone operations are banned by the federal government without an FAA permit.

Until the university gets one, students operating one of these aircrafts will be told to stop, but will not face fi nes or repercussions, Garvey said. Despite the outdoor restrictions, drone use is still allowed inside buildings and caged enclosures.

Garvey said the university is working to submit the permit proposal to the FAA by the end of the semester. He hopes drones will be allowed by spring, but said that may be overly optimistic.

If SIU gets a permit from the FAA, Garvey said drones can be used in a variety of ways at the university, including aerial photography and animal tracking, as well as benefi t university programs such as agriculture and aviation.

As unmanned aircraft systems become more popular, concerns about challenges the technology can present have prompted bans on federal, state and local levels. Earlier this month a rogue drone crashed into a Ferris wheel in Seattle, according to the Seattle Times.

“Now everybody wants to use them, and that’s the thing that’s got everyone concerned,” Garvey said.

Individuals who wish to operate drones inside must fi rst talk to University Risk Management.

Garvey said the aircrafts present a safety issue because they can be dangerous if the user does not know how to properly operate them.

Jan Th ompson, a professor of radio, television and digital media, has used drones in her work as a fi lmmaker. Th ompson said she purchased a drone four months ago and used it to fi lm in Montana, but has yet to use it on campus.

Drones can be difficult to operate, Thompson said. After crashing several of them, she realized how easy it is for an inexperienced person to mishandle one. She now brings two people to assist her when operating the drone while filming.

“It’s sad people aren’t taking the time to learn to operate these drones safely,” said Th ompson, whose drone setup costs about $2,000.

She said many people have the misconception that drones are toys when they can actually be dangerous. However, she believes the university could be a key player in fi guring out how to operate them safely.

“I think SIU is in a perfect place to be able to be a front-runner to help the FAA create standards and training,” Th ompson said. “We should be the Midwest [region] training ground to certify people on how to use a drone.”

Th ompson believes the aviation program could be helpful in this endeavor.

“It’s terrifi c technology,” Th ompson said. “It’s a technology that’s not going to go away.”

Students and faculty in the agriculture department are already planning for the permit.

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Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DEJan Thompson, professor of radio, television and digital media, explains the operation of her drone Monday at her home. Thompson used the drone in Montana during fi lming for a documentary. She said she wants to see the university become a Midwest region training ground that collaborates with the Federal Aviation Administration to offer certifi cations for drone operating. “This is an industry that’s not going to die. It’s blowing up now,” Thompson said. “It’s a matter of how do we make it safe and how can SIU tap into it, so that we can lead the pack and not be following the pack.”

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Chris Clemens, an instructor of plant soil and agricultural systems, said his department is hoping to prepare its students for the marketplace, and drones can help accomplish this. He said the technology can be used to monitor crops and make agriculture production more effective and environmentally

friendly by monitoring the crops from a bird’s eye view.

Andrew Craig, an assistant instructor of aviation technologies, also wants to use drones in his program.

Craig said he is working with airport authorities to pioneer a course on unmanned aircraft systems. Craig said he plans for the class — which would introduce history, safety, regulations

and the drone certification process — to begin as early as next year.

Garvey said he hopes drones will be part of campus life in the near future. Until then, he patiently awaits approval because this new territory is more challenging than people might imagine.

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Political pundits are in the unique position to watch one of the most crowded presidential races in decades unfold as the 17 remaining candidates for 2016 remain in play.

With the Iowa caucus less than three months away, three experts from the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute met to discuss the candidates and possible election outcomes during a special luncheon Monday at the Saluki Stadium Club.

Visiting professor John Jackson said the country is in the midst of what he and fellow scholars call the “invisible primary season,” even if it has been anything but quiet.

“Actually it’s been louder, longer, more raucous, more public and more confl ict-ridden than perhaps ever in history,” he said.

Jackson pointed to changes in the election process and how it has impacted the way politicians run for offi ce.

“We used to have pragmatic parties that were interested in winning the presidency and offi ce, now we’ve got very ideologically-driven, programmatically-driven, issue-oriented political parties,” Jackson said.

Competing ideologies are forcing moderate candidates on both sides of the aisle to address far-left and far-right issues, furthering the stagnation of the entire political process, Jackson said.

Jackson said Clinton is likely to win the Democratic nomination and thinks Jeb Bush’s $100 million super PAC will secure the Republican nomination, despite recent media focus on Marco Rubio, who he regards as the “fl avor of the hour.”

“Th at money’s got to go somewhere, and I don’t think it’s over for Jeb Bush yet,” Jackson said.

Donald Trump and Ben Carson are neck-and-neck for the GOP nomination, according to national polling data. But polling expert Charles Leonard said national polls are little more than popularity contests, and frontrunners don’t usually win the nomination.

“We get tired of the person who’s the frontrunner for too long,” Leonard said.

While that theory may or may not apply to Trump or Carson, Leonard said Clinton shouldn’t have a problem securing the nomination this year, despite her early lead.

“We are looking at national polls, trying to

fi gure out what’s going on in a process that’s driven by states,” Leonard said. “It happens state by state, yet we look at national polls year-in, year-out like they’re going to tell us something.”

While neither Leonard, Jackson or David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, predict a President Trump, Leonard acknowledged Trump’s campaign may have a negative residual eff ect on the party’s reputation among voters.

“What Donald Trump is doing to the Republican brand among young people and among Latinos scares them half to death,” Leonard said.

Yepsen, former chief political writer for the Des Moines Register, said immigration policies touted by ultra-conservative Republicans may be infl uencing minorities of Latino or Asian descent to vote blue.

“Republicans simply cannot be a party with much of a long-term future in the electoral college if they continue to alienate those kind of groups,” Yepsen said.

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Walter Echo-Hawk hosts his keynote presentation for Native American Heritage Month on Monday evening in Guyon

Auditorium

Activist discusses Native American social issues to honor heritage monthAUTUMN DOUGLAS | DAILY EGYPTIAN

A prominent Native American activist visited SIUC in recognition of Native American Heritage Month to encourage students and staff to join in the fight for human rights.

Keynote speaker Walter Echo-Hawk of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma talked Monday night at Guyon Auditorium about contemporary issues and Native American history related to social justice.

Echo-Hawk, an author, law professor, attorney and Supreme Court Justice of the Pawnee Nation, has dedicated his life to representing and protecting the rights and culture of Native American tribes.

“Most Americans think that Indians vanished, that our peoples became extinct. Others know very little about the native tribes in our homeland and others are held hostage to racial stereotypes of the native peoples that have been propagated by [the media],” Echo-Hawk said.

He stressed that despite popular belief, Native Americans have not disappeared from America today.

There are about 3 million Native Americans in the country as of 2015, according to Echo-Hawk. This number includes Native Hawaiians, Alaska Natives and Native Americans.

Native Americans own about 100 million acres of land in the continental U.S. and Alaska, Echo-Hawk said, which is the most land owned by one group of people besides the federal government.

There are more than 560 federally

recognized Indian Nations, each of which have their own governments and judicial systems that define the rights of Native American people, Echo-Hawk said.

They retain their right of self-government under U.S. protection through more than 370 treaties and acts of Congress.

Human rights are important to the Native American people, and they feel a strong need to defend these rights against any and all violators, he said. Echo-Hawk defines human rights as the fundamental freedoms all humans enjoy in their societies.

He said he believes most Americans equate legal systems with justice and generally agrees, but he acknowledged law is a man-made institution and, therefore, imperfect.

Law has two sides to it, he said, with one good side and the other being a perversion of justice that misuses the law to bring harm to vulnerable groups. Some of these miscarriages of justice still haven’t been reversed today, he added.

“Once injustice is implanted into the law, it’s really hard to get rid of it,” Echo-Hawk said.

He used the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case as an example, which established segregation as constitutional. It took 58 years to overturn.

In the Native American experience, people faced colonialism, conquest, invasion and more than 100 years of warfare.

The appropriation of land, habitat destruction, eradication of animals, loss of culture, enforced

assimilation and introduction of smallpox into their populations characterized the colonization of the nation, Echo-Hawk said.

By 1900, only 250,000 Native Americans were left in the U.S., which is a 95 percent difference from the 5 million recorded in 1491, he said. By 1955, only 2 percent of Native American land holdings remained.

Native American policy hit its low point in the 1950s with the Termination Policy, which would have made them disappear from the U.S.

Native Americans resisted the Termination Policy by creating the Tribal Sovereignty Movement. In 1970, President Richard Nixon called for an Indian self-determination policy, which allowed tribes to determine what was best for their people.

The Tribal Sovereignty Movement, which is still active, enforces this policy.

Echo-Hawk said he believes Native Americans have stalled aspirations of self-determination in recent years. He said he challenges people to teach the new generation about Native American history and to support Native people.

“The challenge is to implement each and every one of these human rights standards so that we can finally write the last chapter of our great American experience … and bask in the light of justice together,” he said.

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Campus protests are a matter of when, not if, for the underrepresentedJOHNATHAN FLOWERS

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Previously, I have written for the Daily Egyptian on matters of race and diversity. In charging the University to consider issues of race beyond the confines of “history months,” the piece initiated a conversation that has been muted by the budget crisis in which the university finds itself. In light of the recent events at the University of Missouri, some four hours from our campus, I feel compelled to write again about the situation concerning race and diversity within our own campus community.

As the point of this piece is to address the situation in our own community, I will not waste more than a few lines on Thursday’s “Our Word” column in which the Editorial Board of the Daily Egyptian said the following regarding the interaction of the press and activists at Mizzou: “They were in the wrong, and put more attention on themselves than the racial issues. The confrontation took away from the cause.” I cannot, in good conscience, agree with this assessment of the situation.

The morality of the activists’ actions aside, I find the implication that the activists “made [the] story about themselves” and “set back change,” disingenuous, particularly when the focus of the media is not on the activists engaged in the violation of

Tim Tai’s First Amendment rights, but the fact that the rights were violated in the first place. It is as though the media or its audience were hungry for anything but a public engagement with the institutional racism these activists sought to highlight.

I might even venture to say the media or its audience were so uncomfortable with the prospect of students — black students — coming together to demand equal rights that they sought anything to turn their eyes towards. While I do not deny the importance of the encounter between Tai and the activists, I view the media’s focus on the violation of Tai’s rights as another example in a pattern of deflection of attention away from the institutional issues that resulted in the need for the protests at Mizzou.

Putting the situation at Mizzou aside for the moment, I would like to turn towards another statement made in Thursday’s “Our Word” — one that engages our campus: “If something like this happens on our campus, we hope students and administrators will allow us to write about and photograph the event.” In my mind, “if” is not the word we should be using, particularly when we consider the cultural climate of this campus.

Let us be honest for a moment: SIU has a 100-to-1 black student to tenured and tenured-track faculty ratio, a 10-to-1 total female student-

to-faculty ratio and a 42-to-1 ratio of black female faculty to black female students — the statistics for other underrepresented groups are not much better. These ratios are important, not simply because it indicates this is a very white, very male campus, but because there is a very real hesitance on the part of students of color and underrepresented students to approach a predominantly able-bodied straight white male professoriate with their experiences of oppression, as able-bodied straight white males are most often the ones visiting the oppression upon them.

Institutionally, this ratio between black students and black faculty is indicative of the way those faculty who share experiences with students of color and underrepresented are in the minority among their peers. That being said, the minority status of underrepresented professoriate makes it all too easy for those who would be advocates for minority and underrepresented students to be shouted down in departmental meetings, taskforce meetings and even on committees designed to address the very issues at question. Put simply, nothing is getting done because those in power are not listening.

Thus, as minority students regularly find themselves the subjects of racial, sexual and homophobic comments; victims of sexual assault rarely find

justice through official channels; minority faculty continually find themselves silenced; and underserved students find themselves without anyone who understands their isolation and their struggle because of the lack of support services, the question no longer becomes if a situation like the one at Mizzou will happen, but when something like Mizzou will happen on our campus.

But why haven’t we seen this on campus? Why haven’t students occupied the Student Center, or the library lawn, or any of the other public spaces on campus? The simple answer is fear. There is a climate of fear that pervades this campus which paralyzes its student body, and limits its ability to act. We are afraid of the institutional retribution; we are afraid of the administration simply ignoring us; we are afraid of the perception of our predominantly white peers and mentors; and we are afraid that no one will stand with us.

This fear is not limited to the students, undergraduate and graduate: Faculty are afraid. Our teachers, our mentors, are paralyzed by fear of the administration. They are afraid to bring to light the injustices visited upon them, and their students, by their peers and administrators. They are afraid of not finding justice through a system that promises them restitution. They are afraid of losing the positions that

many have struggled through adversity to attain, and, most seriously, they are afraid to stand with their students against these injustices.

It is easy to understand why students are afraid, but why are faculty afraid? Put simply, they are isolated and kept afraid through threats — perceived or actual — to their departments, their positions, and their livelihood especially in a time when the university must “tighten its belt” to maintain operations. After all, in a situation where institutional support for minority students and faculty is tenuous at best, who wants to place their job on the line to stand against the institution?

When something like Mizzou happens on our campus, it will be the result of the situation here growing so intolerable that our suffering outweighs our fear. When it happens here, at SIU, it will not be because our athletics teams decided not to play (though that would be helpful) — it will be because we can no longer endure the kinds of conditions in our departments and classrooms that make the primary mission of the institution all but impossible.

It will be because we — students, faculty, staff — said with one voice “enough.”

-Johnathan Flowers, doctoral candidate in philosophy

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‘Love the Coopers’ strives for mediocrity

No matter what this film does, it’s too hard to love the Coopers.

“Love the Coopers,” directed by Jessie Nelson and starring John Goodman and Diane Keaton, ruins all goodwill it has with a generic ending and an uneven tone.

It is Christmas time, and the Coopers are coming together once again. But this year will be different; this year will bring sadness and depression before joy.

Parents on the verge of a divorce, a son out of job and a daughter with a multitude of personal problems are only some of the issues the Coopers need to get over if they plan to have a holly, jolly Christmas.

It is depressing to see a movie with so many good aspects fail so bad. Even a cast of fantastic actors, and a few cool character arcs, such as Olivia Wilde’s Eleanor’s inability to love herself, could not save this Christmas blunder.

Without giving away any spoilers, the ending to this movie is extremely undeserving.

The last 30 minutes of “Love the Coopers” come off as a rushed attempt to complete everyone’s storylines. No one is given a satisfying conclusion, and the tone tries to be sweet to the point of giving you a cavity.

Most of this movie comes off as the most depressing Christmas movie ever, a genre known for being inspiring. One of the themes involves being unable to buy a child a gift, not exactly uplifting.

This is not a bad idea for a holiday movie, it bucks the constant trend of being overly inspirational. But “Love the Coopers” tries to throw jokes written by hackney comedians from the 1960s in with all of this sadness.

This dramedy leaves audience members questioning if they felt anything at all. However, the movie succeeds in its acting.

With a cast featuring the talents of Alan Arkin, Ed Helms and Goodman, it should be no surprise the cast comprises most

of what’s good in this movie.Every actor, with a little help

of an OK script, brings raw emotion and sympathy to their characters, even through their darkest moments.

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Global tragedy strikes these days with a kind of wearying familiarity. The pain is fresh, but our thoughts — as they did after Madrid, London, Mumbai and elsewhere — return to a well-known place.

As the Paris attacks and their aftermath have played out this weekend, once again we stare dazed at the cable news screen, facing questions we never imagined — questions we suspect have no answers, even as the scouring of CNN for motives and details and revelations provides a comforting illusion otherwise.

And once again, those of us immersed in entertainment — as producers, as distributors, as chroniclers, or even just as devotees — are left to ask where it fits in. Cultures have been grappling for centuries with how much space to allow levity in the place of a tragedy. But the relevance and even the defensibility of entertainment has lately been thrust forward as never before. These are new and confusing times, an age when mass civilian murders are common and our individual responses to them, thanks to social media, widely known. The proper reaction

remains unclear; the rules of collective grief are still unwritten.

Was going to the movies, for instance, acceptable this past weekend? Was it OK to tweet about a television series or college football game? Was there a palatable way to return to, or justification for embracing, the shows, sports, movies, music and other pursuits that fill our typical weekends?

Was doing some of these things perhaps even an act of noble defiance — the attacks, after all, had taken place in part at a musical performance and seemed intended to strike at the freedom to enjoy life in such a manner — or an act of unsavory and even heartless self-distraction?

Would it be OK to wait 24 hours and then resume such activities? What about 48? Was the very idea of a statute of limitations untoward?

Entertainment companies faced their own dilemmas. Lionsgate weighed how to proceed with a Los Angeles premiere for its new “Hunger Games” movie Monday, ultimately deciding to hold the event without a traditional red carpet. “Saturday Night Live” also scaled down but didn’t step out: It scrapped its usual comedic opening this past weekend in favor of a touching salutation, in English and French, from cast member Cecily Strong, then carried on with the show.

A friend at a Hollywood publication

said he was in a quandary over whether to overhaul an upcoming issue to focus on the attack. On the one hand, Paris was all we were thinking about, and it would be insensitive, even inaccurate, to carry on with the coverage of ratings and box office and first-look deals as if we weren’t. On the other hand, the Paris attacks were not fundamentally an entertainment story, and wouldn’t it be tone-deaf to pretend that they were?

And yet through it all, entertainment may have already been playing a role in our processing mechanism. In movie theaters these past few months, films have, in their own oblique way that seem clearer after Friday, already been speaking to the issues underlying the attack, to the perpetrators and the victims, to the dangers posed and the values threatened.

The season has brought the high-wire-walking story “The Walk” and its spirit of unbridled humanity, whose main character uses ingenuity and showmanship to enhance lives instead of diminishing them, a fitting antidote to what happened in Paris. That said character was French and was walking between New York’s twin towers that themselves would become a target and symbol only underlines the comparison.

There is the new release “Spotlight,” an abuse drama in which truth-seeking journalists push forward and try to do

what we all hope to do in the face of cataclysm: find justice, and maybe a little comfort for the afflicted, even as they are tempered by the knowledge their actions will always be insufficient. They press on while Sept. 11 strikes right in the middle of their efforts.

There has been “The Martian,” which in its own Hollywood escapist way has showed the power of countries and people around the world to band together when life is at stake, differences of nationality and ideology suddenly irrelevant.

There are, of course, literal attempts in Hollywood at understanding militant attacks, as with the upcoming “13 Hours” and “Patriots’ Day,” each about those trying to prevent the murder of innocents. But comprehension also comes more subtly, as with the current “Spectre,” in which disparate acts of mass murder are chillingly realized to be emanating from a common source.

The movie seeks to fathom what could drive such bloodthirsty nihilism (while also depicting the struggles of democratic governments to contend with it). Like many other examples, “Spectre” is part of a feedback loop that circles between our brains and our screen, fears of an attack making their way from the first to the second, then coming back to us in a different form once such violence takes place in real life.

The question after attacks like Friday’s is whether to allow entertainment back in. But perhaps that elides the real issue. Perhaps entertainment has been here all along.

When it comes to a post-tragedy pop culture, there are the easy calls to make — the French distributor that decided to pull an upcoming movie in which Paris was under attack, for example. Most choices are harder. There are no answers — certainly no one-size-fits-all answers — on how entertainment can fit in during these shocking after-hours. Personal choices remain that way.

But whatever the response, there may be some comfort is not seeing these activities as separate. Asking the too-soon question may be, in a sense, asking the wrong question. Maybe entertainment shouldn’t be treated as a distinct refuge to which we tentatively crawl back when it is safe to do so and after we sheepishly check to make sure no one is looking. Maybe it’s something that can and should be part of the understanding of the attacks in the first place.

In its purest form, entertainment is built into the process — part of a post-attack rebuttal that allows us to stand up for a life of choice and freedom, sure, but also a way we’ve been understanding the tragedy all along, comprehending those who plot to kill, and the humanity they would seek to destroy.

Entertainment’s place in post-attack rebuttalSTEVEN ZEITCHIK

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The SIU volleyball team is second in the Missouri Valley Conference and this weekend will play the teams above and below them in the conference standings.

The matches could be a turning point for the team, which set the goal of making the NCAA tournament for the first time in school history before the season.

Coach Justin Ingram said the team would need to rank in the low 40s in the country to have a chance of making the NCAA tournament with an at-large bid. They are currently No. 42.

“The whole thing is about getting your team to play hard,” Ingram said. “We’re in a position right now where we feel good about what we’re doing. At this time in November there’s a lot of things that can happen.”

The Salukis’ 22 wins so far this season are tied for Ingram’s most as a head coach — he finished 22-11 in 2009 with Arkansas State.

Here are the possible outcomes for the SIU volleyball team before the MVC tournament:

2-0If the Salukis beat both No. 30 Wichita

State and No. 43 Missouri State they will be in sole possession of first place in the MVC.

SIU beat Missouri State and Wichita State in five sets at Davies Gym on Oct. 5 and Nov. 2, respectively.

The Salukis and Shockers would have the same conference record, but SIU would hold the tie-breaker with two regular season wins against Wichita State.

Possible match-upsSIU would earn a first round bye for the

conference tournament.1-1Wichita State and Missouri State are

playing Evansville which, no matter the outcome, cannot make the MVC playoffs. If both teams win against Evansville, the standings will remain as is.

As long as the Salukis win a match, they will finish the season No. 2 in the MVC for the first time in SIU history and earn a first round bye for the conference tournament.

Possible match-upsSIU would earn a first round bye for the

conference tournament.0-2The SIU volleyball team will travel 1,110

miles this weekend, according to Google Maps. Traveling the whole distance by bus and playing two top-50 teams could prove a challenge for the Salukis.

If the Salukis lose both games this weekend and Wichita State and Missouri State go 2-0, SIU will fall to No. 3 in the conference.

Possible match-upsLoyola Ramblers (19-10, 8-8) and SIU

split the season series 1-3, 3-2.Northern Iowa Panthers (16-13, 10-6)

and SIU split the season series 1-3, 3-1.Illinois State Redbirds (21-9, 11-6) and

SIU split the season series 2-3, 3-0.

Evan Jones can be reached at [email protected] or at 536-3333

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SIU to host two games in Women’s National Invitational Tournament

SIU women’s basketball will play the next two Women’s National Invitational Tournament games at SIU Arena after losing the season and tournament opener to No. 22 Depaul 105-61 Friday in Chicago.

The Salukis’ second round game is against Siena at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

Redshirt sophomore guard Denisha Petty-Evans is a three-point threat for Siena, shooting 36 percent from beyond the arc.

The Saints are shooting 33 percent from the field in the first two games of the season. The Salukis shot 42 percent in their first game.

On Saturday, SIU will play against the winner of Friday’s Alabama State versus Tennessee State game.

Alabama State lost its opener to Southern Mississippi 65-44. Senior center Jasmine Peeples is 6 feet 2 inches tall — taller than any other eligible Saluki.

SIU senior center Dyana Pierre, who is 6 feet 2 inches tall, is still suspended indefinitely.

Peeples has eight rebounds through two games this season. SIU senior forward Kim Nebo also has eight, leading the team. The Salukis had 32 rebounds in the season opener.

Tennessee State lost against Indiana, 88-56, in the first round. The team shot 16 percent in the first half, but was able to outscore the Hoosiers in the second half

42-38. Senior guard Brianna Lawrence led the

Tigers in points, rebounds and steals against Indiana.

Overall, the Salukis will have to make a few changes in order to come away with two wins this weekend.

1. Limit turnovers in transitionSIU struggled against DePaul’s full

court press and defensive pressure in the opening round with turning the ball over 24 times, which led to 30 points for the Blue Demons.

Senior guard Cartesha Macklin, junior guard Rishonda Napier and sophomore guard Kylie Giebelhausen accounted for 14 of the turnovers.

2. Box outDePaul grabbed 18 offensive rebounds,

which amounted to 24 second-chance points. The Salukis cannot afford to trail in rebounds on a nightly basis if they hope to improve last season’s record.

3. Take smarter shotsThe Salukis shot 42 percent from the

field and 15 percent from the three-point line. Most of the shots were forced because of DePaul’s tight defense, but a better shot selection is something coach Cindy Stein should stress to her team.

Ted Ward can be reached at [email protected] or at 536-3333

Shooting to relieve stress

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Blake Schank, a junior from Ottawa studying zoology, concentrates on aiming at a target down range during an Archery Club meeting Monday at Davies small

gym. Schank has been coming to Archery Club for most of the semester and enjoys the freedom to shoot that the club offers. “It’s pretty good for a stress reliever,” said Jorge De Jesus, a senior from Chicago studying computer science and Archery Club president. “It’s definitely something that hones a lot of your skills and it’s fun for hanging out with friends.” The club meets at Davies small gym Mondays and Thursdays from 8 to 10 p.m.

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