Nationally, two out of every three graduates have an average of $24,000 in student loan debt. Athena Ross, a junior from Chicago studying chemistry, said having a degree is almost a requirement in most elds but students have to rst nd a job to begin repaying their debt. “e best place to be right now is jail,” she said with a laugh. “You get free bedding, room and board, food, friends, you get a degree, you don’t pay taxes. I think I might commit a crime and go there.” In scal year 2009, 8.8 percent of borrowers defaulted on student loans nationally. Public institution default rates have increased to 7.2 percent, up from 6 percent, according to the FY 2009 national student loan cohort default rates released Sept. 12 from the U.S. Department of Education. Terri Harfst, director of the nancial aid oce, said 5.2 percent of students at the university who took out loans in FY 2009 defaulted on their loans. ese debts are from when borrowers had to pay between Oct. 2008 and Sept. 2009. According to the U.S. Department of Education 3.6 million borrowers entered repayment during this time and 320,000 defaulted. If a student does not make a payment within 270 days, the loan is considered in default and the consequences can be detrimental to the borrower. Harfst said consequences could include garnished wages, damaged credit ratings, low credit score, additional charges, late fees, collection costs and lawsuits. Last year student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the rst time, according to an article in the New York Times, and is estimated to top a trillion dollars this year. Lisa Brock, a senior from Chicago studying public relations, said when she graduates in May she will have around $20,000 in student loan debt. She said with the troubled economy it may not be easy to get a job. For Federal Staord Loans, the borrower has six months until they have to begin payment and for Federal Perkins Loans the borrower has nine months. Harfst said about 54 percent of undergraduate and graduate students at SIUC receive either of these student loans. Ross said six months is an extreme expectation for students to get a job and begin paying. “It depends on your career, I guess. People that want to be artists and stu, that takes time,” she said. “You have to feed yourself and pay bills. You can’t do that on top of paying Sallie Mae.” Student loan debt has increased by 511 percent since 1999 according to the New York Federal Reserve data for household debt. In the rst quarter of 1999, student loan debt was at $90 billion and in the second quarter of 2011 outstanding student loan debt stood at $550 billion. A new industry is brewing in Southern Illinois: cra alcohols. “Right now we’re at a grassroots level of the next big industry,” said Shawn Connelly, local beer expert and cra-beer blogger at e Beer Philosopher. “People are interested in a cra product.” e only microbrewery in the area is Big Muddy Brewing in Murphysboro, but Connelly said there are several more in early stages of development. He said he doesn’t know why, but the alcohol industry seems to be recession- proof. e Carbondale City Council recently voted to include microbreweries and microdistilleries as special-use establishments in agricultural zones. Council member Jane Adams said several entrepreneurs have expressed interest in brewing or distilling in Carbondale. “One of the remarkable things is, in this period of recession, we have an industry growing here,” Adams said. Chuck Stuhrenberg, owner of Big Muddy Brewing, said the demand for his beer has surpassed his ability to produce it. “It amazes me how much beer people drink,” he said. Big Muddy recently expanded to produce more beer, and Stuhrenberg said he plans on further additions. e company currently brews four dierent beers. He said he hopes to add a vanilla stout to the lineup in time for Christmas. “I found out you have to sell a lot of beer before you become protable,” Stuhrenberg said. He said starting the brewery about two years ago required a large initial investment, but he learned the trade by home brewing as an SIUC undergraduate in the 1980s. Starting a microbrewery is a daunting process both nancially and legally, said Marika Josephson, vice president of Southern Illinois Brewers, an organization of about 90 area home brewers. She said she, SIB President Ryan Tockstein and a third partner plan to open a microbrewery of their own. Josephson said the licensing can take months to complete, during which they must have an address for the brewery. She said one way to make money in the meantime is to serve food or make soda with the brewing equipment, which they plan to do. “Brew pubs, which are restaurants that make beer on-site, can draw in tourists like wineries do,” Connelly said. e region has the potential to draw in tourists like the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail has, said Matt McCarroll, associate professor of chemistry and owner of Windy Hill Hop Farm, located south of Murphysboro. “I like to think we’ll have a beer path along with the wine trail,” McCarroll said. McCarroll planted his hops, a key ingredient in beer, during the ’09-’10 winter. He said he came up with the idea while cleaning up his farm aer the May 8, 2009 storm and decided it would be a way to put his property to use. 7KXUVGD\ 6HSWHPEHU 9ROXPH ,VVXH SDJHV ELI MILEUR Daily Egyptian 3$*( THE GRIND CAMPUS 3$*( 3RZHUKRXVH ¶6XSHUKHDY\· DGGV H[FLWHPHQW LQ PRGHUQ PXVLF ¶)UHVKPHQ · P\WK GHEXQNHG GLHWLWLDQ VD\V QRW DQ LVVXH SARAH SCHNEIDER Daily Egyptian SIUC student loan default rates lower than national Beers, spirits do well in dry economy 3$*( SPORTS 9ROOH\EDOO KRQRUHH RYHUFRPHV VWUXJJOH ZLWK FROOHJH OLIH Please see MICROBREW | 7 Council paves way for more breweries, distilleries Please see DEFAULT | 7 JUSTIN SKARIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN '( 'DLO\ (J\SWLDQ 6LQFH ZZZGDLO\HJ\SWLDQFRP Chuck Stuhrenberg, owner and brewmaster of Big Muddy Brewing, collects yeast during a brew session Wednesday in his Murphysboro brewhouse. Stuhrenberg said he has had to expand his operation to meet the area’s demand for craft beer. During Tuesday’s Carbondale City Council meeting, the council approved a motion to allow microbreweries, microdistilleries and wineries in agricultural districts of Carbondale. Stuhrenberg, who owns the area’s only microbrewery, said he hopes to see more open in response to the council’s decision. ISAAC SMITH DAILY EGYPTIAN
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Nationally, two out of every three graduates have an average of $24,000 in student loan debt.
Athena Ross, a junior from Chicago studying chemistry, said having a degree is almost a requirement in most ! elds but students have to ! rst ! nd a job to begin repaying their debt.
“" e best place to be right now is jail,” she said with a laugh. “You get free bedding, room and board, food, friends, you get a degree, you don’t pay taxes. I think I might commit a crime and go there.”
In ! scal year 2009, 8.8 percent of borrowers defaulted on student loans nationally. Public institution default rates have increased to 7.2 percent, up from 6 percent, according to the FY 2009 national student loan cohort default rates released Sept. 12 from the U.S. Department of Education.
Terri Harfst, director of the ! nancial aid o# ce, said 5.2 percent of students at the university who took out loans in FY 2009 defaulted on their loans.
" ese debts are from when borrowers had to pay between Oct. 2008 and Sept. 2009. According to the U.S. Department of Education 3.6 million borrowers entered repayment during this time and 320,000 defaulted.
If a student does not make a payment within 270 days, the loan is considered in default and the consequences can be detrimental to the borrower. Harfst said consequences could include garnished wages, damaged credit
ratings, low credit score, additional charges, late fees, collection costs and lawsuits.
Last year student loan debt outpaced credit card debt for the ! rst time, according to an article in the New York Times, and is estimated to top a trillion dollars this year.
Lisa Brock, a senior from Chicago studying public relations, said when she graduates in May she will have around $20,000 in student loan debt. She said with the troubled economy it may not be easy to get a job.
For Federal Sta$ ord Loans, the borrower has six months until they have to begin payment and for Federal Perkins Loans the borrower has nine months.
Harfst said about 54 percent of undergraduate and graduate students at SIUC receive either of these student loans.
Ross said six months is an extreme expectation for students to get a job and begin paying.
“It depends on your career, I guess. People that want to be artists and stu$ , that takes time,” she said. “You have to feed yourself and pay bills. You can’t do that on top of paying Sallie Mae.”
Student loan debt has increased by 511 percent since 1999 according to the New York Federal Reserve data for household debt.
In the ! rst quarter of 1999, student loan debt was at $90 billion and in the second quarter of 2011 outstanding student loan debt stood at $550 billion.
A new industry is brewing in Southern Illinois: cra% alcohols.
“Right now we’re at a grassroots level of the next big industry,” said Shawn Connelly, local beer expert and cra% -beer blogger at " e Beer Philosopher. “People are interested in a cra% product.”
" e only microbrewery in the area is Big Muddy Brewing in Murphysboro, but Connelly said there are several more in early stages of development. He said he doesn’t know why, but the alcohol industry seems to be recession-proof.
" e Carbondale City Council recently voted to include microbreweries and microdistilleries as special-use establishments in agricultural zones. Council member Jane Adams said several entrepreneurs have expressed interest in brewing or distilling in Carbondale.
“One of the remarkable things is, in this period of recession, we have an industry growing here,” Adams said.
Chuck Stuhrenberg, owner of Big Muddy Brewing, said the demand for his beer has surpassed his ability to produce it.
“It amazes me how much beer people drink,” he said.
Big Muddy recently expanded to produce more beer, and Stuhrenberg said he plans on further additions. " e company currently brews four di$ erent beers. He said he hopes
to add a vanilla stout to the lineup in time for Christmas.
“I found out you have to sell a lot of beer before you become pro! table,” Stuhrenberg said.
He said starting the brewery about two years ago required a large initial investment, but he learned the trade by home brewing as an SIUC undergraduate in the 1980s.
Starting a microbrewery is a daunting process both ! nancially and legally, said Marika Josephson, vice president of Southern Illinois Brewers, an organization of about 90 area home brewers.
She said she, SIB President Ryan Tockstein and a third partner plan to open a microbrewery of their own.
Josephson said the licensing can take months to complete, during which they must have an address for the brewery. She said one way to make money in the meantime is to serve food or make soda with the brewing equipment, which they plan to do.
“Brew pubs, which are restaurants that make beer on-site, can draw in tourists like wineries do,” Connelly said.
" e region has the potential to draw in tourists like the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail has, said Matt McCarroll, associate professor of chemistry and owner of Windy Hill Hop Farm, located south of Murphysboro.
“I like to think we’ll have a beer path along with the wine trail,” McCarroll said.
McCarroll planted his hops, a key ingredient in beer, during the ’09-’10 winter. He said he came up with the idea while cleaning up his farm a% er the May 8, 2009 storm and decided it would be a way to put his property to use.
ELI MILEURDaily Egyptian
THE GRINDCAMPUS
SARAH SCHNEIDERDaily Egyptian
SIUC student loan default rates lower than national
Beers, spirits do well in dry economy
SPORTS
Please see MICROBREW | 7
Council paves way for more breweries, distilleries
Please see DEFAULT | 7
JUSTIN SKARIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN
Chuck Stuhrenberg, owner and brewmaster of Big Muddy Brewing, collects yeast during a brew session Wednesday in his Murphysboro brewhouse. Stuhrenberg said he has had to expand his operation to meet the area’s demand for craft beer. During Tuesday’s Carbondale City Council meeting, the council approved a motion to allow microbreweries, microdistilleries and wineries in agricultural districts of Carbondale. Stuhrenberg, who owns the area’s only microbrewery, said he hopes to see more open in response to the council’s decision. ISAAC SMITHDAILY EGYPTIAN
Laura ! ole could barely see the court her " rst two years, but she had more on her mind at the time than just volleyball.
“My freshman and sophomore years I wasn't very con" dent and it just dragged me down,” ! ole said. “You could be the best player out there, but if you have a bad mindset, you can be the worst player.”
! ole, a junior from Breese studying speech communication, said she had a hard time adjusting to college life without her parents there to reinforce academics. A# er earning three all-tournament honors in her " rst season as a full-time starter, ! ole said she’s back on the right track.
“In high school I got all A’s and B’s, then I got my " rst C in college and I was distraught about it,” ! ole said. “My parents were big deal to me in high school but obviously they had no control over here, so I just did whatever and thought I could get by, and I didn’t always get by.”
Head coach Brenda Winkeler said ! ole’s grades weren’t that big of a deal to the coaching sta$ , but she noticed ! ole struggled with the transition to college life.
“! e hardest thing she had to overcome was (being from a small town). We both came from towns with 500 people, her’s was a little bigger,” Winkeler said. “It’s a culture shock, it’s di$ erent walking in to an arena where up to 3000 people are watching you.”
! ole also had to play behind former two-time All-MVC outside hitter Jennifer Berwanger, so Winkeler had to move ! ole around to several positions to get her playing time.
“We got her in a comfortable position. She went through libero, le# -side hitter, and we kind of bounced her around since we had Berwanger out there,” Winkeler said.
! ole had a position battle with Saluki graduate Sydney Clark for the other outside hitter position last season, but Clark saw more playing time while ! ole moved around di$ erent positions.
“I wanted to beat out Sydney so
bad, and I would have done anything. I would have bulldozed (Davies Gymnasium) if I had to, but it didn’t happen,” ! ole said. “I think today, that is a reason I am as good as I am because Sydney pushed me that hard.”
! at versatility has worked out well for the Salukis, as ! ole leads the team in kills with 131 and is second on the team in digs with 120 this season.
“You don’t see many players like her anymore, she is a six-rotation player and can play the front and the back,” Winkeler said.
Her teammates are well aware of the skills that Thole can bring to the floor.
“She can move around, hit di$ erent shots, and she can block, pass, and get a kill for us,” junior setter Rachael Brown said Sept. 10 a# er their match against Memphis. “I think she’s the go-to hitter right now.”
First year assistant coach Peter Chang has worked with ! ole a lot this season and said he’s noticed a change.
“Before I came here, I heard from di$ erent people that she had been a role player, but she was really competitive in high school,” Chang said. “I know she had that in herself, she just had to gain it back.”
Chang singled out ! ole’s
performance against Bradley Saturday as an example of how far she’s come. Chang said ! ole was able to identify her poor o$ ensive performance, and she recovered defensively to record 22 digs and played a role in helping sophomore Elly Braaten get her " rst career double-double despite losing to Bradley in " ve sets.
“You’re not going to have a perfect night every night, but you have to maximize what you can do with that situation,” Chang said. “Yes, if she had a good o$ ensive night, it would’ve been nice. We certainly needed it. But at least she didn’t fold, and she did what she could do to help lead the team.”
Even though this season has started o$ with a lot of inconsistent play from ! ole and her teammates, ! ole said she feels that at least her own life is going steady.
“I think just being happier, doing things positively like eating well and going to class, just doing more positive things outside of the gym leads to more positive things inside the gym,” ! ole said.
Joe Ragusa may be reached at [email protected]
or 536.3311 ext. 269.
Alexis Mihelich, right, the SIU women’s head golf coach, starts practice Wednesday by showing the team a chipping exercise. This is Mihelich’s first season coaching for SIU and her seventh season as a golf coach. She was named the Midwest Region
Coach of the Year Sept. 12 by LPGA, and is now a finalist for National Coach of the Year. “When we are in season I work pretty hands-off; I watch their form and what they’re doing and go from there,” Mihelich said.
LYNNETTE OOSTMEYER | DAILY EGYPTIAN
The SIU women’s head golf coach Alexis Mihelich has made her presence known.
Mihelich won the LPGA Midwest Regional Coach of the Year award Monday, Sept. 12, and in turn was nominated for the LPGA National Head Coach of the Year award. The winner is set to be announced within a few weeks.
Mihelich has already guided her team to a victory in its second tournament this season since she was hired Aug. 5.
Mihelich said the award means more to her because her peers are the ones who voted.
“It’s an honor,” she said. “It tells me I am doing the right thing and on the right track.”
Senior Margaret Gilley and her cousin, sophomore Ryann Gilley, have known Mihelich for six years due to mutual golf community connections. Margaret Gilley said Mihelich’s strength lies in her ability to read her players.
“(Mihelich) knows when to help and when to let you " gure it out your own way,” Margaret Gilley said. “She just knows golf.”
Mihelich said she wants the players to take accountability for their play and to have the expectation that they will win.
“If we are going to lose, I don’t want it to be because we played bad and essentially beat ourselves,” Mihelich said.
Mihelich said fellow coaches voted for regional awards, but the national award would most likely be merit-based.
Mihelich began her collegiate career as a golf coach at Chicago State University and turned the dormant program into a conference contender. Before Mihelich took the job at CSU, she was a teaching professional golf at Green Garden Golf Academy in Monee.
However, Mihelich was a golf player before she was an instructor. Mihelich attended New Orleans University where she majored in English and graduated with honors. She went on to participate in several LPGA events, and she said the transition from coach to player requires a mindset change.
“When you become a coach, It’s not about you anymore,” Mihelich said. “You have to put your playing aspirations aside in order to best benefit your players.”
Mihelich said she decided to become an instructor in high school when she noticed the lack of female instructors.
One aspect of golf that separates it from other sports is that golf is primarily an individual sport. Mihelich said she coaches players on an individualized basis, specific to their personality.
“Especially at the collegiate level, its important to know what goals each player has for their golf career,” said Mihelich.
Ryann Gilley said Mihelich’s relatability makes the compre-hension process easier.
“She is just easy to talk to,” Ryann Gilley said. “She will do whatever she can to make you a better golfer.”
Kevin Taylor can be reached at [email protected]
or at 536-3311 ext. 269.
Coach nominated for LPGA National Coach of the YearKEVIN TAYLORDaily Egyptian
W hen you become a coach, It’s not
about you anymore. You have to put your playing aspirations aside in order to best benefit your players.
— Alexis Mihelichhead golf coach
Laura Thole, a junior from St. Rose studying speech communications, works on drills Wednesday at Davies Hall. Thole, an outside hitter for the SIU women’s volleyball team, has won all-tournament honors in three tournaments this season. The team will play Drake at the SIU Arena Friday.BROOKE GRACEDAILY EGYPTIAN
Thole excels after attitude adjustmentJOE RAGUSADaily Egyptian
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Students have the potential to gain weight when entering college but ! uctuations naturally occur throughout people’s lives and an increase in weight isn’t always a negative occurrence.
" e common idea of 15 pounds gained by freshmen during their # rst year of college has been proven inaccurate and causes a common misconception, according to a 2008 review in the Health Information and Libraries Journal.
" e review in the journal looked at more than 300 magazines, university and newspaper articles from 1985 to 2006 on the subject of the ‘freshmen 15’ and showed mixed results about how much weight students gain. " e review reported most freshmen gain less than 15 pounds.
A 2005 study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association of almost 400 students showed more than 25 percent gained # ve pounds within the # rst eight weeks of school.
Even if a student does gain # ve to seven pounds during their # rst year, it may not signal unhealthy habits, said Lynn Gill, licensed dietician and nutrition coordinator for the Wellness Center .
She said she believes students need to realize sometimes their bodies are not done growing yet and changes in weight may be natural.
“" e body is not meant to be one particular weight,” Gill said. “It’s not uncommon for somebody to experience a two- to three-pound
weight change in the course of a day.”Alan Beck, a personal trainer at the
Recreation Center, said he has heard the term ‘freshman 15’ o$ en in the # tness world and thinks the increase occurs from the newfound freedom students experience.
Beck said portion control also has an e% ect on how much weight some students gain because there is no limit to how much they can eat at the dining hall.
Ben Asmus, a senior from Heyworth studying forestry, said he had gained a little weight his freshman year and believes it was partly because of the cafeteria food.
“I thought (the freshmen 15) was a kind of scare when you’re going into school to get you to keep on top of your eating,” he said.
He said he didn’t believe the freshman 15 would a% ect him because he has remained active in running since attending the university. Asmus said he believes another cause of weight gain is students not being active.
Chris Brown, a senior from Marion studying philosophy, said he did put on some extra weight when he # rst started attending the university but it was mostly muscle mass.
He said he was involved in competitive sports in high school and believes staying active in intramural sports keeps him in shape.
Brown said school and work take up a lot of his time and it can be di& cult to stay active and eat healthy foods.
“I don’t eat fast food like McDonald’s or Taco Bell. If I do (eat fast food) I’ll try to eat Subway or go to Arnie’s
(Sandwiches),” Brown said.Gill said so$ drinks and sugary
snacks also lead to empty calories throughout the day.
“A student can possibly get 500 to 750 calories just from what they drink, but the body doesn’t necessarily register it at that amount,” she said.
Some students resort to short-term fad diets to avoid weight gain, Gill said, but this is not an e% ective form of weight control.
“Once they either lose weight or get frustrated with lack of weight loss, they just return to their old eating habits,” she said.
Two classes are being o% ered at the Wellness Center this semester that will address how students can eat healthy and what to do if they are concerned about weight gain, Gill said.
She said the classes focus on the physiology of the human body, how the body is designed to eat and how to increase movement into an everyday schedule.
Gill said the classes are scheduled at multiple dates and times, and students are welcome to call the center with any questions about the schedule.
Beck said he believes the university should help students avoid weight gain because it may also help with student retention rates.
“We’ve done research here that shows the more times you come (to the Recreation Center), your GPA tends to be higher and you stay in school longer,” he said.
Beck said he thinks students active at the university are more likely to stay because they believe they are more a
part of the school.He said the center also does
metabolic testing for students for $20 which will tell how many calories per day a student should take in comparison to how many they actually do.
Gill said she thinks the term ‘freshman 15’ is too simple to accurately describe any increase in weight for students because there are so many
factors a% ecting weight change.Gill said a more accurate way of
determining whether weight gain is good or bad is to look at a person’s metabolic health factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate and other lifestyle factors such as smoking.
“Just because someone is slim doesn’t imply that they’re healthy,” Gill said.
D'()* E+*,-('.N!"#" ursday, September 22, 2011 3
Known as the ‘freshman 15,’ the problem of weight gain is a recurring issue on university campuses across the country. Alcohol consumption, buffet-
style campus meal plans, lack of exercise and eating late at night contribute to weight gain. However, ‘freshman 15’ is misleading.
Increases in student weight not a big problem
STEVE MATZKER | DAILY EGYPTIAN
SEAN MEREDITHDaily Egyptian
D!"#$ E%$&'"!( N!"# ) ursday, September 22, 20114
) e Carbondale City Council held a closed meeting Tuesday night a* er the City Council meeting to discuss Carbondale police chief Jody O’Guinn’s stolen handgun among other topics.
O’Guinn announced Friday his gun had been stolen from his personal vehicle in June and may have been the murder weapon used in the death of 20-year-old Carbondale resident Deaunta Spencer. O+ cers responded to reports of gun shots at the 400 block of North Brush Street Sept. 14 at approximately 2 a.m. Spencer was pronounced dead at Carbondale Memorial Hospital, and authorities have charged Matthew Jones, 18, of Carbondale, with the murder.
) e council agenda listed the closed meeting was to discuss the appointment, employment, compensation, performance or dismissal of speci, c employees. A* er two hours of private discussion, the council announced it had taken no action on any city employees.
) e council would not give any more statements on the meeting, but councilman Lee Fronabarger said he was shocked when he saw the the situation on TV.
“I was a little surprised that we hadn’t been noti, ed of the situation,” he said. “I think we should have been briefed before it was released to the media.”
Council member Jane Adams said in her blog she still had faith in the police chief.
“I have not always agreed with his actions,” she said. “But I have judged him to be a skilled and conscientious professional.”
Councilwoman Corene McDaniel said media questions should be directed to City Manager Allen Gill or Mayor Joel Fritzler.
Gill refused to comment on the case but said he has con, dence in Chief O’Guinn and his ability to
manage the police department.Mayor Fritzler could not be
reached for comment.According to the police report,
O’Guinn waited a week before he reported the stolen gun, a Colt .380 semiautomatic. ) e report said no evidence was obtained, and the investigation was closed the same day.
) e stolen gun investigation’s case number was later , led as an animal control violation. O’Guinn said there must have been a typographical error.
Jewlious Causey, 19, was also arrested Sept. 15 during a parole compliance check for possessing the stolen , rearm and for being a felon in possession of a , rearm. He is being held on $100,000 bond, and the case was reopened the day he was arrested. Police believe Causey had possession of the gun sometime between August and September.
Jones has been charged with three counts of murder and is in Jackson County Jail with a $1 million bond.
O’Guinn released a statement Friday that expressed an apology for the incident.
“My prayers and deepest sympathy go out to the family of this young man and I grieve with them in their loss,” he said in the statement.
Tara Kulash can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext. 273.
Council members discuss police chief's stolen gun
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If you happen to be a fan of the CW Network’s hit drama “One Tree Hill,” then you remember Gavin Degraw’s theme song, “I Don’t Wanna Be.” ) e song topped the Billboard 100 list, which gained Degraw the fan base he needed to have longevity in the music industry.
Since his debut album “Chariot” (2003), Degraw has slowly lost momentum and released a slew of poorly received albums.
Despite his hardships, the blue-eyed soul singer steps back into the spotlight this year with his fourth album “Sweeter.” “Not Over You” serves as the album’s lead single and sets the album’s mood. ) e overall theme of “Sweeter” is the cliché of love, a clear topic of familiarity for Degraw as he breathes soul into his ten-track album.
“Soldier” proves to be Degraw’s vocal high point as he belts out his declaration to always protect the love of his life. The song is assisted by a live piano and choir-arranged background vocals, easily making this his most emotional ballad to date.
“The truth is harder to amuse/but when you know it’s wrong you’ve got to cut it loose,” Degraw sings in “You Know Where I’m At.” The singer makes the conscious decision to let his relationship go in hopes that what is meant to be will be. Though his love is walking away, he reminds her that — when ready — he will
be right where she left him.Another standout track is
“Stealing,” which sounds much like a sequel to “You Know Where I’m At.” “Stealing” is the term Degraw uses for what was done to his heart, and in this song he wants it back. The song’s production shows inspiration from Al Green’s 1972 hit “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart,” as both create a doleful mood.
“Radiation” is an album favorite, though the first listen may be confusing. This track simply tells the story of someone who tries to maintain a fling with an ex-lover due to irresistible physical attraction.
Degraw seemes to have * nally found his way back to his
musical origins with his array of instruments and self-written lyrics. “Sweeter” is genius in the sense that he seems to have documented past relationships and translated his notes into songs. ) e song’s penmanship quality and production re+ ect the creativity vheard in Adele’s “21.”
Unfortunately, this album may never see the respect it deserves as most people have forgotten about Degraw. For those who have let this album be their wake up call, this is a form of music rarely seen in this day and age of pop music.
James Jones can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext 265.
Gavin Degraw delivers on new album “Sweeter”JAMES JONESDaily Egyptian
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SuperHeavy is the ultimate musical cocktail. ) e supergroup consists of equal parts Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger, soul crooner Joss Stone, reggae revivalist Damian Marley, Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart and * lm composer A.R. Rahman. ) e sound is a mix of contrasting cultures, genres and ages that, when blended correctly, melds otherwise opposing sounds into perfect harmony.
As far as supergroups go, this is one of the most unusual and, based on awards and critical acclaim alone, impressive groups thus far. And don’t they know it. ) e band’s name is a nod to former super heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali. It * ts because not since Caccius Clay’s glory days has anyone been so cocky.
From their eponymous opening track, the band boasts its sheer heaviness and musical godliness that basically, they’re better than you. Stone sings “it’s a gi+ to us/from the heavens above” while Marley and Jagger bark the chorus “it’s unbelievable/we’re super heavy.”
) ey come on hard, really hard, but they spend the rest of the album backing it up. “SuperHeavy” plays out like a melodic jetsetter drawing upon Caribbean, Middle Eastern, classic rock, hip-hop and Delta blues in, uences. Not since M.I.A.’s “Kala” has an album made such a conscious e- ort of globetrotting sounds.
“Miracle Worker” pairs Stone’s signature soulful vocals and Jagger’s throaty yelp atop a sunny reggae rhythm with Marley’s signature adlibs. ) ey even throw in a violin solo for good measure. “Beautiful People” is
pure reggae, fully equipped with a warm, positive message, fuzzy guitar and marijuana double entendre (the chorus suggest to “spark it up/live it up right now.”)
“Energy” is a sonic * reball — so much happens under four minutes it’s a bit dizzying. Hip-hop beats, ‘80s synthesizers, rapping, soul singing and blues guitar solos , y by at a breakneck pace. In “Satyameva Jayathe” A.R. Rahman takes center stage, pairing traditional Indian sounds (the title itself is the country’s national motto, which literally translates as “Truth Alone Triumphs”) with crashing drums and thick guitar ri- s. “Mahiya” pairs a slowed-down Soca beat and Marley’s conscious raps with Bollywood strings and a distorted sitar.
In “Never Gonna Change,” Jagger sounds like the tender Rolling Stone frontman we’ve always known. With
his quivery vocals, the song’s acoustic guitar, and piano chords the track sounds like a B-Side to “Angie” or “Wild Horses.” “I Can’t Take It No More” kicks through the album, sounding every bit like a long lost ‘80s arena-rock anthem. ) e song’s underlying political message is covered up with Stewart’s heavy ri- s, Jagger’s signature swagger and Stone’s profanity.
“SuperHeavy” is an album that lives up to it’s name. As a record it’s clearly unbalanced, ping-ponging between loud and so+ , rap and rock. But that’s what adds to its intrigue. And in the golden age of MP3s, album consistency is the least of any musician’s problems. ) is is by far one of the strangest, loudest, cockiest, most diverse releases in recent years and adds some much-needed excitement in modern music.
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Collective bargaining de! nes this universityD,!- E."'/-:
I appreciate hearing news of an impending strike vote at SIUC. It is liable to bring an increase in blood pressure or adrenaline to any Saluki students, parents, alumni and supporters. It’s scary and unsettling. However, it may be hard to understand why the unions do not just accept the administration’s o) er and get on with it. Please believe me: speaking as a member of the Faculty Association, we would love to have an o) er we could accept without throwing away
crucial values, like job security, shared governance and academic freedom.
When the administration’s bargaining team said 'no' to the practice of Interest-Based Bargaining back in April 2010, it was the beginning of this excruciatingly slow-motion train wreck that we are either witnessing or riding, depending on your perspective.
IBB requires both sides of a bargaining situation to focus on shared interests. For example, both sides presumably want to attract and
retain excellent faculty and students. Starting from these shared values reminds the negotiation partners to behave as such, and IBB enabled us to achieve our last two contracts.
+ e 0 rst universities, historically, began as collections of scholars in urban centers, and gradually, people came to study with them. Students have never come to a university because of who sits in the highest administrative position, or because of a million-dollar logo. + ey come to get an education. Quality
universities attract and retain the best faculty by paying a living wage and o) ering the chance to achieve tenure, the meaningful commitment to job security. Only then can faculty develop strong educational departments that attract, retain and graduate the best students.
+ e o) er that the administration imposed six months ago e) ectively kills tenure. Any one of us could be singled out for dismissal without cause. I feel anxiety as we head toward a strike vote on Sept. 28,
but also pride that our unions have tried for every other option for 17 months. Sadly, we have seen no change in the administration's “surface bargaining."
A strike is our last tool to convince the administration to bargain seriously. For the university to survive and thrive, we all must work together.
Suzanne M. DaughtonAssociate professor
of speech communication
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
D,!- E."'/-:I am writing in response to
your recent article regarding the selection process for a new Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center coordinator. While it presented an interesting narrative, it had nothing to do with the issues we had on the University Screening Committee and the subsequent selection of Wendy Weinhold.
First of all, Ms. Weinhold’s sexuality was not a considered factor. In fact, by law, it could not be. What is imperative for the position is “one year experience providing services to the GLBT community, preferably in higher education,” as stated in
the position announcement. + e screening committee very speci0 cally questioned Ms. Weinhold’s quali0 cations before the interview and noted in our recommendation letter to Dr. Gitau, the Dean of Students and hiring administrator, that she lacked su1 cient experience with the GLBT community. Because another applicant fully met the quali0 cations listed, it was not a recommendation against one applicant, but rather a recommendation for a fully quali0 ed individual.
Secondly, and perhaps most troubling, was the recommendation's paternalistic disregard of the screening committee which
represented individuals who were deeply involved with the resource center and GLBT community. It is assumed a screening committee of quali0 ed individuals provides important feedback in the selection process, particularly when it involves a special population. In conversation with me before the interviews were even scheduled, the Dean of Students said he liked Ms. Weinhold “because she is not a stereotype.” In the GLBT
community, this is code for not being an e) eminate man, a butch woman or a gender variant individual. It is code for either being in the closet or straight —someone who won’t make you uncomfortable in your homophobia. Clearly Dr. Gitau had already made up his mind.
Finally, my concern that an inexperienced heterosexual being hired over an out, quali0 ed and involved individual sends the
wrong message to our students, faculty and sta) . Is it safe to be out? Are we an institution that does not hire GLBT people? Should you stay in the closet? Are you too much of a stereotype?
+ e GLBT Resource Center was founded as a result of university insensitivity and their ultimate realization that perhaps they needed to trust the GLBT community's recommendations. It is a shame that they seem to have forgotten that only 0 ve years later.
Paulette CurkinGLBT Resource Center Coordinator,
2006 to 2008
GLBT search committee produces controversial verdict
M y concern that an inexperienced heterosexual being hired over an out, qualified and involved individual
sends the wrong message to our students, faculty and staff. Is it safe to be out?
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“Along the way we found a lot of people who were thinking the same thing,” he said.
Hops, traditionally grown in the Paci* c Northwest, are now being grown in the Midwest, the Northeast and North Carolina, he said.
He said he hopes to sell the hops to local home brewers and microbreweries, and he’s sold-out of all his crop so far.
) e presence of local ingedients such as fruits should lend itself to microdistilleries and the production of cra+ spirits and help the integration of the new industry into the region, Adams said.
“It really is a perfect * t,” she said.SIU recognizes the potential for the industry to impact the
region and is therefore looking into the possibility of developing a fermentation science program to train professional brewers, McCarroll said.
Josephson said she thinks the rise in interest is connected to people staying closer to their community in the recession and being interested in where their food and drink comes from.
McCarroll said the interest might have to do with something a little more simple.
“) e * rst and historical reason is the taste and quality,” he said. “Most of the really good beers I’ve had have been homebrews.”
Eli Mileur can be reached at [email protected] or 536-3311 ext. 266.
Jyotsna Kapur, an associate professor in cinema and photography, said the generation facing loan debts have fewer life choices than any previous generation since the 1920’s in the United States.
She said for the * rst time she is starting to see a decline in standards of living.
“Students are coming out with
$25-30,000 in loans which means upon graduation if you try to get together with another person and start a family, you are beginning as a young couple with $60,000 in loans on your back and that really diminishes the choices you can make, the jobs you can have and determines if and when you can have children,” she said. “) is is not typical of what the parents and grandparents of this generation went through.”
She said these diminished life
choices a, ect not just young people, but everyone.
Harfst said there is a strong correlation between student loan default rates and unemployment rates.
She said she encourages students to only borrow what they really need in order to cover their educational costs.
“Once students graduate, if they have di- culty making loan payments, they should contact the lender as soon as possible to see if any additional
options are available to them,” she said.Borrowers can sometimes request
alternative payment plans to lower monthly payments, she said.
She said students who receive Federal Direct Sta, ord Loans are required to go through entrance counseling when they are awarded the loan and they are also required to go through exit counseling at the time of graduation, withdrawal, or dropping below at least half-time enrollment.
Arrealee Owens, a junior from
Bellwood studying history, said most people say college is the best place to be because you have health insurance, a place to stay and food to eat.
“It may be the best place … but what happens when you can’t pay your bill and they don’t let you register for classes and you get kicked out?” she said.
Sarah Schneider can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext. 255.
Chuck Stuhrenberg checks grain Wednesday in his brewhouse. Stuhrenberg said he started Big Muddy
Brewing two years ago after he spent close to 20 years as a homebrewer.
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House kills spending bill with disaster aid ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — In a rebuke to GOP leaders, the House rejected a measure Wednesday providing $3.7 billion for disaster relief as part of a bill to keep the government running through mid-November.
) e surprise 230-195 defeat came at the hands of Democrats and tea party Republicans.
Democrats were opposed because the measure contains $1.5 billion in cuts to a government loan program to help car companies build fuel-e- cient vehicles. For their part, many GOP conservatives felt the underlying bill permits spending at too high a rate.
) e outcome sends House Speaker
John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his leadership team back to the drawing board as they seek to make sure the government doesn't shut down at the end of next week. It also raises the possibility that the government's main disaster relief program could run out of money early next week for victims of Hurricane Irene and other disasters.
Earlier Wednesday, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 Republican in the House, had con* dently predicted the measure would pass.
) e Federal Emergency Management Agency has only a few days' worth of aid remaining in its disaster relief fund, lawmakers said. ) e agency already has held up thousands of longer-term rebuilding
projects — repairs to sewer systems, parks, roads and bridges, for example — to conserve money to provide emergency relief to victims of recent disasters.
) e looming shortage has been apparent for months, and the Obama White House was slow to request additional money.
) e White House, a vigorous advocate of greater fuel e- ciency for U.S.-made cars, welcomed the result of Wednesday's vote.
"We are pleased that the House of Representatives today rejected e, orts to put politics above the needs of communities impacted by disasters," the White House communications director, Dan Pfei, er, announced on his Twitter account.
) e underlying stopgap funding measure would * nance the government through Nov. 18 to give lawmakers more time to try to reach agreement on the 12 un* nished spending bills needed to run government agencies on a day-to-day basis for the 2012 budget year.
Forty-eight Republicans broke with GOP leaders on the vote; six Democrats voted for the measure. Some of the Republicans also came from manufacturing states like Michigan, which bene* t from the loan program.
) e measure was originally designed by GOP leaders to pass with bipartisan support. Last week, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Rep. Norm Dicks
of Washington, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said publicly that they would vote for it reluctantly.
) e underlying stopgap measure was opposed by conservative Republicans unhappy with the spending rates set by the measure, which are line with levels set by last month's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama. ) at measure provides about 2 percent more money for Cabinet agency budgets than Republicans proposed when passing a nonbinding budget plan in April. More than 50 Republicans recently wrote to Boehner calling on him to stick to the earlier GOP budget.
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In today’s world, it is hard to avoid the need for intercultural relations, said ) omas Saville.
Saville, associate director of international programs and services, said it is important to understand other cultures in order to be successful both personally and socially.
) e O* ce of International Programs and Services hosted a study abroad fair Wednesday at the Student Center to give students options to learn beyond academics. Students who wanted additional information on the university’s study abroad programs spoke to representatives from di+ erent nations, students who had previously studied abroad and sta+ members from each college on their own cultural experiences.
“Everyone is a+ ected by international a+ airs; it’s the reason for politics, peace and economic , ow,” Saville said.
Stephanie Schreieck, a foreign exchange student senior from Tyrol, Austria studying social work, said studying abroad is not only about what is learned in class, but also the experience from being exposed to
another way of life.She said studying in America has
changed her life and she has become more culturally aware.
Malcolm Turner, a freshman
from Bellwood studying journalism, said he wanted to study abroad to see how di+ erent people function in di+ erent places.
He said he wants to be able to use the
trip as a personal learning experiences.His main concern was - nding the
resources to make his travels a possibility.Emma Will, a junior from Marion
studying English education, said there
are several options available when it comes to - nancial situations.
"Don’t be intimidated by the costs … people out there want to help you get abroad,” she said.
Study abroad fair introduces students to sociocultural experiences
Stephanie Schreieck, a senior foreign exchange student from Austria studying social work, informs students at the Student Center about studying abroad. The Study Abroad Fair set up many booths to represent di! erent countries around the world. Schreieck
said she was very nervous when she " rst came to America, but after a week she became used to American teachings and found it very helpful and informative. Schreieck will head to California after the semester's end to continue her studies.
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E veryone is affected by international
affairs; it ’s the reason for politics, peace and economic flow.
associate director of international programs and
services
! e alternative rock group that shook up the music world with its experimental, edgy sound and then earned multi-platinum success and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced on its website Wednesday that it has “decided to call it a day as a band.”
“A wise man once said — ‘the skill in attending a party is knowing when it’s time to leave.’ We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we’re going to walk away from it,” frontman Michael Stipe said in a statement on the website.
“I hope our fans realize this wasn’t
an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way.”
! e Grammy-winning group, now composed of Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills, released its debut album “Murmur” in 1983; at the time it was a quartet, with drummer Bill Berry. He le" the group in 1997, two years a" er he su# ered symptoms of an aneurysm onstage.
! e group got its start in Athens, Ga., coming out of the region’s $ ourishing indie-rock scene. ! e band was credited for helping launch college radio with songs such as “Radio Free Europe.”
Later, the mainstream caught on, and R.E.M. became chart-topping
rockers, selling millions of albums with hits like “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” ‘’Losing My Religion” and “Everybody Hurts.”
Stipe, the band’s chief songwriter, cra" ed songs that were atypical of the standard rock fare. “Man on the Moon” was about the late comic Andy Kaufman. “Losing My Religion” was not about religion at all, but about trying to relay the feelings of a crush.
! e band’s videos also became staples of MTV in the 1990s, including the eye-catching “Losing My Religion” and the stark “Everybody Hurts,” which had Stipe walking through a highway tra% c jam.
R.E.M. became one of the more forceful voices of 1990s rock, and came along around the same time as another rock quartet — U2. But whereas U2 managed to maintain (and even increase) its popularity over the years, R.E.M. stumbled commercially in recent years, and their hits dwindled.
! e band continued to create music that resonated with critics and their core group of fans; the group’s last album, “Collapse into Now,” was released in March and a greatest hits retrospective is in the works.
But Mills said the band was running out of ideas.
“During our last tour, and while making ‘Collapse Into Now’ and putting together this greatest hits
retrospective, we started asking ourselves, ‘What next?’” he said. “Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together.”
Buck said the band parts as “great friends” and thanked fans for their support.
“One of the things that was always so great about being in R.E.M. was the fact that the records and the songs we wrote meant as much to our fans as they did to us,” said Buck. “It was, and still is, important to us to do right by you. Being a part of your lives has been an unbelievable gi" . ! ank you.”
The end of the world: R.E.M. calling it quitsNEKESA MUMBI MOODYAssociated Press
! e Federal Reserve will use more than $400 billion to try to drive down long-term interest rates, make home and business loans cheaper and invigorate the economy.
Analysts said the moves would provide only a slight economic bene& t.
! e action the Fed announced Wednesday is modest compared with previous steps it’s taken. ! e Fed won’t expand its $2.9 trillion holdings; it’s just rebalancing them.
It will sell $400 billion of its shorter-term Treasurys to buy longer-term Treasurys by June 2012. And it will
reinvest principal payments from its mortgage-backed securities, to help keep mortgage rates at super-low levels.
Fed policymakers announced the moves a" er a two-day meeting. ! ree members out of 10 dissented from the decision. ! e Fed acted despite criticism from Republicans who have warned that such steps could ignite in$ ation.
“! e actions the Fed has taken are helpful,” says Josh Feinman, global chief economist at DB Advisors. “! ey will help hold down long-term rates, but they’re no panacea.”
! e Fed le" open the possibility of taking further action to try to
strengthen the economy.Stocks dropped immediately a" er
the announcement around 2:20 p.m. and then continued falling. ! e Dow Jones industrial average closed down about 283 points.
But the yield on the 10-year Treasury note tumbled to 1.86 — the lowest since the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis started keeping daily records in 1962. ! e 10-year yield is used to peg rates on a variety of loans, including long-term mortgages.
! e plan the Fed unveiled Wednesday, dubbed “Operation Twist,” resembles a program the Fed used in the early 1960s to “twist” long-term rates lower relative to short-
term rates.In its statement, the Fed noted
that the economy is growing slowly, unemployment is high and housing remains in a prolonged slump.
Under its plan, the Fed will extend the average maturity of its holdings from six years to eight years. ! e Fed has directed the New York Fed to buy Treasurys with remaining maturities of six to 30 years, and to sell an equal amount of securities with maturities of three years or less.
Analysts say the shi" in the Fed’s portfolio could reduce borrowing costs and perhaps raise stock prices.
“! is is a measured response to weak economic conditions,” said
David Jones, head of DMJ Advisors and the author of four books on the Fed. “! e Fed is still trying but it can only do so much.”
In June, the Fed completed a $600 billion bond-buying program that many economists have credited with keeping rates low.
He said that just the market anticipation of the Fed’s Operation Twist had sent long-term rates down by around 25 basis points for the 10-year bond. He said that without the Fed’s move Wednesday, those rates would have risen. With the move, he predicted the 10-year bond would probably fall by another 5 basis points.
Fed to shift $400B in holdings to boost economyMARTIN CRUTSINGERAssociated Press
Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians — not us — who must reach agreement
on the issues that divide them: on borders and security; on refugees and Jerusalem.
President Obamain a speech before the
United Nations General Assembly
I do love my daughter. I don’t like what she’s
done to this family.
George Anthonyfather of Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of murdering her
2-year-old daughter in July, speaking to TV host Dr. Phil McGraw in one of his first public appearances since the trial
A" er more than two years in Irani-an custody, two Americans convicted as spies took their & rst steps toward home Wednesday as they bounded down from a private jet and into the arms of family for a joyful reunion in the Gulf state of Oman.
! e families called this “the best day of our lives,” and President Barack Obama said their release — under a $1 million bail-for-freedom deal — “won-derful news.”
! e release capped complicated diplomatic maneuvers over a week of
confusing signals by Iran’s leadership on the fate of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer.
Although the fate of the two gripped America, it was on the periph-ery of the larger showdowns between Washington and Tehran that include Iran’s nuclear program and its ambi-tions to widen military and political in-$ uence in the Middle East and beyond. But — for a moment at least — U.S. of-& cials may be adding words of thanks in addition to their calls for alarm over Iran.
For Tehran, it was a chance to court some goodwill a" er sending a message of de& ance with hard-line justice in the July 2009 arrests of the Americans
along the Iran-Iraq border. ! e Ameri-cans always maintained they were in-nocent hikers.
“Today can only be described as the best day of our lives,” said a statement from their families. “We have waited for nearly 26 months for this moment and the joy and relief we feel at Shane and Josh’s long-awaited freedom knows no bounds.”
“We now all want nothing more than to wrap Shane and Josh in our arms, catch up on two lost years and make a new beginning, for them and for all of us,” the statement added.
Obama called it “wonderful, wonderful news about the hikers, we are thrilled ... It’s a wonderful
day for them and for us.”! e families waited on the tarmac
at a royal air& eld near the main in-ternational airport in Oman’s capital, Muscat. Also returning to Oman was Sarah Shourd, who was arrested with Bauer and Fattal but freed a year ago. She received a marriage proposal from Bauer while in prison.
At about 20 minutes before mid-night, Fattal and Bauer — wearing jeans and casual shirts — raced down the steps from the blue-and-white plane. ! ey made no statements to re-porters before walking into the airport terminal building, which was guarded by security o% cials. ! e men appeared thin, but in good health.
“We’re so happy we are free,” Fattal told reporters in Oman. ! e two men made brief statements before leaving the airport with their families.
“Two years in prison is too long,” Bauer said, and hoped their release from prison will also bring “freedom for political prisoners in America and Iran.”
In many ways, the release was a mirror image of the scene last year when Shourd was freed on $500,000 bail. ! at deal, too, was mediated by Oman, an Arabian peninsula sultan-ate with close ties to both Tehran and Washington. A statement from Oman said it hoped the release would lead to better ties between Iran and the U.S.
Americans freed from Iran prison begin trek homeBRIAN MURPHYSAEED AL!NAHDYAssociated Press
! e alternative rock group that shook up the music world with its experimental, edgy sound and then earned multi-platinum success and a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced on its website Wednesday that it has “decided to call it a day as a band.”
“A wise man once said — ‘the skill in attending a party is knowing when it’s time to leave.’ We built something extraordinary together. We did this thing. And now we’re going to walk away from it,” frontman Michael Stipe said in a statement on the website.
“I hope our fans realize this wasn’t
an easy decision; but all things must end, and we wanted to do it right, to do it our way.”
! e Grammy-winning group, now composed of Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills, released its debut album “Murmur” in 1983; at the time it was a quartet, with drummer Bill Berry. He le" the group in 1997, two years a" er he su# ered symptoms of an aneurysm onstage.
! e group got its start in Athens, Ga., coming out of the region’s $ ourishing indie-rock scene. ! e band was credited for helping launch college radio with songs such as “Radio Free Europe.”
Later, the mainstream caught on, and R.E.M. became chart-topping
rockers, selling millions of albums with hits like “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine),” ‘’Losing My Religion” and “Everybody Hurts.”
Stipe, the band’s chief songwriter, cra" ed songs that were atypical of the standard rock fare. “Man on the Moon” was about the late comic Andy Kaufman. “Losing My Religion” was not about religion at all, but about trying to relay the feelings of a crush.
! e band’s videos also became staples of MTV in the 1990s, including the eye-catching “Losing My Religion” and the stark “Everybody Hurts,” which had Stipe walking through a highway tra% c jam.
R.E.M. became one of the more forceful voices of 1990s rock, and came along around the same time as another rock quartet — U2. But whereas U2 managed to maintain (and even increase) its popularity over the years, R.E.M. stumbled commercially in recent years, and their hits dwindled.
! e band continued to create music that resonated with critics and their core group of fans; the group’s last album, “Collapse into Now,” was released in March and a greatest hits retrospective is in the works.
But Mills said the band was running out of ideas.
“During our last tour, and while making ‘Collapse Into Now’ and putting together this greatest hits
retrospective, we started asking ourselves, ‘What next?’” he said. “Working through our music and memories from over three decades was a hell of a journey. We realized that these songs seemed to draw a natural line under the last 31 years of our working together.”
Buck said the band parts as “great friends” and thanked fans for their support.
“One of the things that was always so great about being in R.E.M. was the fact that the records and the songs we wrote meant as much to our fans as they did to us,” said Buck. “It was, and still is, important to us to do right by you. Being a part of your lives has been an unbelievable gi" . ! ank you.”
The end of the world: R.E.M. calling it quitsNEKESA MUMBI MOODYAssociated Press
! e Federal Reserve will use more than $400 billion to try to drive down long-term interest rates, make home and business loans cheaper and invigorate the economy.
Analysts said the moves would provide only a slight economic bene& t.
! e action the Fed announced Wednesday is modest compared with previous steps it’s taken. ! e Fed won’t expand its $2.9 trillion holdings; it’s just rebalancing them.
It will sell $400 billion of its shorter-term Treasurys to buy longer-term Treasurys by June 2012. And it will
reinvest principal payments from its mortgage-backed securities, to help keep mortgage rates at super-low levels.
Fed policymakers announced the moves a" er a two-day meeting. ! ree members out of 10 dissented from the decision. ! e Fed acted despite criticism from Republicans who have warned that such steps could ignite in$ ation.
“! e actions the Fed has taken are helpful,” says Josh Feinman, global chief economist at DB Advisors. “! ey will help hold down long-term rates, but they’re no panacea.”
! e Fed le" open the possibility of taking further action to try to
strengthen the economy.Stocks dropped immediately a" er
the announcement around 2:20 p.m. and then continued falling. ! e Dow Jones industrial average closed down about 283 points.
But the yield on the 10-year Treasury note tumbled to 1.86 — the lowest since the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis started keeping daily records in 1962. ! e 10-year yield is used to peg rates on a variety of loans, including long-term mortgages.
! e plan the Fed unveiled Wednesday, dubbed “Operation Twist,” resembles a program the Fed used in the early 1960s to “twist” long-term rates lower relative to short-
term rates.In its statement, the Fed noted
that the economy is growing slowly, unemployment is high and housing remains in a prolonged slump.
Under its plan, the Fed will extend the average maturity of its holdings from six years to eight years. ! e Fed has directed the New York Fed to buy Treasurys with remaining maturities of six to 30 years, and to sell an equal amount of securities with maturities of three years or less.
Analysts say the shi" in the Fed’s portfolio could reduce borrowing costs and perhaps raise stock prices.
“! is is a measured response to weak economic conditions,” said
David Jones, head of DMJ Advisors and the author of four books on the Fed. “! e Fed is still trying but it can only do so much.”
In June, the Fed completed a $600 billion bond-buying program that many economists have credited with keeping rates low.
He said that just the market anticipation of the Fed’s Operation Twist had sent long-term rates down by around 25 basis points for the 10-year bond. He said that without the Fed’s move Wednesday, those rates would have risen. With the move, he predicted the 10-year bond would probably fall by another 5 basis points.
Fed to shift $400B in holdings to boost economyMARTIN CRUTSINGERAssociated Press
Ultimately, it is Israelis and Palestinians — not us — who must reach agreement
on the issues that divide them: on borders and security; on refugees and Jerusalem.
President Obamain a speech before the
United Nations General Assembly
I do love my daughter. I don’t like what she’s
done to this family.
George Anthonyfather of Casey Anthony, who was acquitted of murdering her
2-year-old daughter in July, speaking to TV host Dr. Phil McGraw in one of his first public appearances since the trial
A" er more than two years in Irani-an custody, two Americans convicted as spies took their & rst steps toward home Wednesday as they bounded down from a private jet and into the arms of family for a joyful reunion in the Gulf state of Oman.
! e families called this “the best day of our lives,” and President Barack Obama said their release — under a $1 million bail-for-freedom deal — “won-derful news.”
! e release capped complicated diplomatic maneuvers over a week of
confusing signals by Iran’s leadership on the fate of Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer.
Although the fate of the two gripped America, it was on the periph-ery of the larger showdowns between Washington and Tehran that include Iran’s nuclear program and its ambi-tions to widen military and political in-$ uence in the Middle East and beyond. But — for a moment at least — U.S. of-& cials may be adding words of thanks in addition to their calls for alarm over Iran.
For Tehran, it was a chance to court some goodwill a" er sending a message of de& ance with hard-line justice in the July 2009 arrests of the Americans
along the Iran-Iraq border. ! e Ameri-cans always maintained they were in-nocent hikers.
“Today can only be described as the best day of our lives,” said a statement from their families. “We have waited for nearly 26 months for this moment and the joy and relief we feel at Shane and Josh’s long-awaited freedom knows no bounds.”
“We now all want nothing more than to wrap Shane and Josh in our arms, catch up on two lost years and make a new beginning, for them and for all of us,” the statement added.
Obama called it “wonderful, wonderful news about the hikers, we are thrilled ... It’s a wonderful
day for them and for us.”! e families waited on the tarmac
at a royal air& eld near the main in-ternational airport in Oman’s capital, Muscat. Also returning to Oman was Sarah Shourd, who was arrested with Bauer and Fattal but freed a year ago. She received a marriage proposal from Bauer while in prison.
At about 20 minutes before mid-night, Fattal and Bauer — wearing jeans and casual shirts — raced down the steps from the blue-and-white plane. ! ey made no statements to re-porters before walking into the airport terminal building, which was guarded by security o% cials. ! e men appeared thin, but in good health.
“We’re so happy we are free,” Fattal told reporters in Oman. ! e two men made brief statements before leaving the airport with their families.
“Two years in prison is too long,” Bauer said, and hoped their release from prison will also bring “freedom for political prisoners in America and Iran.”
In many ways, the release was a mirror image of the scene last year when Shourd was freed on $500,000 bail. ! at deal, too, was mediated by Oman, an Arabian peninsula sultan-ate with close ties to both Tehran and Washington. A statement from Oman said it hoped the release would lead to better ties between Iran and the U.S.
Americans freed from Iran prison begin trek homeBRIAN MURPHYSAEED AL!NAHDYAssociated Press
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Trial begins in killing of Chicago police officer
CHICAGO — Prosecutors say an alleged gang member killed a Chicago police officer before going to a friend’s house to party and drink tequila.
Cook County prosecutors started their case Tuesday in the trial of an alleged gang member charged in the slaying of 27-year-old Chicago police officer Alejandro “Alex” Valadez. Valadez was gunned down as he investigated a shots fired call on the city’s South Side in June 2009. Twenty-two year-old Shawn Gaston is the first of three men to stand trial on first-degree murder charges in his death.
ISU opens $2.7 million nursing lab
N O R M A L — Illinois State University has opened a new $2.7 million nursing lab on its campus in Normal.
The Pantagraph newspaper in Bloomington reports (http://bit.ly/qa5TWi ) that the Mennonite College of Nursing lab is a 10,000 square-foot simulation of a hospital unit. It includes four patient rooms where nursing students will be able to experience simulated patient care before they do their required clinical practice in real hospitals.
Senior Tina Hitz says the lab will allow nursing students to make their mistakes on mannequins before they see real patients.
Man admits sending threatening KKK lettersEAST ST. LOUIS — Sentencing will be held in January
for a black man who admits posing as a member of the Ku Klux Klan in sending racist letters in 2006 to a police department and city hall in his former southwestern Illinois hometown of O’Fallon.
Twenty-eight-year-old Justin Kidd pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in East St. Louis to charges of conveying false threats in O’Fallon.
Federal prosecutors say Kidd mailed a letter to the O’Fallon Police Department in November 2006 that threatened to burn down an apartment complex if blacks were not barred from living there.
Another letter to O’Fallon City Hall a week later pledged to burn down the houses of blacks there if they weren’t purged from the city.
Pa. man gets two DUI arrests in one night
WASHINGTON, Pa . — Police have charged a man in western Pennsylvania with driving drunk twice in the same night — the second time about 15 minutes after they released him into the custody of a friend.
Online court records don’t list an attorney for 58-year-old Robert Brodnick, of Washington, Pa., who was arrested Monday night by the state police.
Police charge that Brodnick’s blood-alcohol limit was at least double what the law allows when he was arrested.
Illinois waterfowl hunter sentenced to 13 months
SPRINGFIELD — A professional Illinois duck hunter will spend 13 months in prison for illegally selling and guiding waterfowl hunts in Pike County.
Federal prosecutors say 54-year-old Jeffrey Foiles of Pleasant Hill was sentenced Wednesday in Springfield. Foiles pleaded guilty in June to misdemeanor unlawful sale of wildlife in violation of the Lacey Act. Foiles also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor illegally taking migratory game birds in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Prosecutors say hunters on Foiles’ trips took ducks and geese in excess of daily bag limits. Officials say Foiles and others falsified hunting records to cover up the excesses.
Foiles must also serve one year of supervised release. He can’t hunt or guide hunters for two years and he must pay a $100,000 fine.
Police: Would-be robber ID’d by bright blue eyes
AVA LO N , Pa . — Police in a Pittsburgh suburb say a man’s bright blue eyes helped a convenience store clerk identify him as a would-be robbery.
Nineteen-year-old Conor McClelland, of Bellevue, is charged with walking into a Marathon Quik Serve gas station last week and demanding cash.
The clerk tells police she recognized McClelland as a regular customer — despite the fact that he was wearing a hoodie and a bandanna over his face — because of his distinctive blue eyes.
Billionaire Buffett to headline Obama fundraisers
WA S H I N G TO N — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett will headline a pair of campaign fundraisers for President Barack Obama in the coming weeks.
Obama’s re-election campaign says Buffett will help raise money for the president at an event Sept. 30 in New York City. The longtime Obama adviser will also headline an event on Oct. 27 in Obama’s Chicago hometown. Obama was not expected to attend either event.
Illinois man guilty in mother’s stabbing death
C A R O L S T R E A M — Jurors in DuPage County have found a suburban Chicago man guilty of stabbing his mother in the back nine times then pouring household chemicals on her body.
Jurors deliberated for about two hours in the trial of 39-year-old Robert Lyons. He was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder in the March 2008 death of 61-year-old Linda Bolek. Prosecutors say Lyons became upset with Bolek when she wouldn’t call a friend to get tickets for an Avril Lavigne concert.
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“Along the way we found a lot of people who were thinking the same thing,” he said.
Hops, traditionally grown in the Paci* c Northwest, are now being grown in the Midwest, the Northeast and North Carolina, he said.
He said he hopes to sell the hops to local home brewers and microbreweries, and he’s sold-out of all his crop so far.
) e presence of local ingedients such as fruits should lend itself to microdistilleries and the production of cra+ spirits and help the integration of the new industry into the region, Adams said.
“It really is a perfect * t,” she said.SIU recognizes the potential for the industry to impact the
region and is therefore looking into the possibility of developing a fermentation science program to train professional brewers, McCarroll said.
Josephson said she thinks the rise in interest is connected to people staying closer to their community in the recession and being interested in where their food and drink comes from.
McCarroll said the interest might have to do with something a little more simple.
“) e * rst and historical reason is the taste and quality,” he said. “Most of the really good beers I’ve had have been homebrews.”
Eli Mileur can be reached at [email protected] or 536-3311 ext. 266.
Jyotsna Kapur, an associate professor in cinema and photography, said the generation facing loan debts have fewer life choices than any previous generation since the 1920’s in the United States.
She said for the * rst time she is starting to see a decline in standards of living.
“Students are coming out with
$25-30,000 in loans which means upon graduation if you try to get together with another person and start a family, you are beginning as a young couple with $60,000 in loans on your back and that really diminishes the choices you can make, the jobs you can have and determines if and when you can have children,” she said. “) is is not typical of what the parents and grandparents of this generation went through.”
She said these diminished life
choices a, ect not just young people, but everyone.
Harfst said there is a strong correlation between student loan default rates and unemployment rates.
She said she encourages students to only borrow what they really need in order to cover their educational costs.
“Once students graduate, if they have di- culty making loan payments, they should contact the lender as soon as possible to see if any additional
options are available to them,” she said.Borrowers can sometimes request
alternative payment plans to lower monthly payments, she said.
She said students who receive Federal Direct Sta, ord Loans are required to go through entrance counseling when they are awarded the loan and they are also required to go through exit counseling at the time of graduation, withdrawal, or dropping below at least half-time enrollment.
Arrealee Owens, a junior from
Bellwood studying history, said most people say college is the best place to be because you have health insurance, a place to stay and food to eat.
“It may be the best place … but what happens when you can’t pay your bill and they don’t let you register for classes and you get kicked out?” she said.
Sarah Schneider can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext. 255.
Chuck Stuhrenberg checks grain Wednesday in his brewhouse. Stuhrenberg said he started Big Muddy
Brewing two years ago after he spent close to 20 years as a homebrewer.
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House kills spending bill with disaster aid ANDREW TAYLORAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — In a rebuke to GOP leaders, the House rejected a measure Wednesday providing $3.7 billion for disaster relief as part of a bill to keep the government running through mid-November.
) e surprise 230-195 defeat came at the hands of Democrats and tea party Republicans.
Democrats were opposed because the measure contains $1.5 billion in cuts to a government loan program to help car companies build fuel-e- cient vehicles. For their part, many GOP conservatives felt the underlying bill permits spending at too high a rate.
) e outcome sends House Speaker
John Boehner, R-Ohio, and his leadership team back to the drawing board as they seek to make sure the government doesn't shut down at the end of next week. It also raises the possibility that the government's main disaster relief program could run out of money early next week for victims of Hurricane Irene and other disasters.
Earlier Wednesday, Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the No. 2 Republican in the House, had con* dently predicted the measure would pass.
) e Federal Emergency Management Agency has only a few days' worth of aid remaining in its disaster relief fund, lawmakers said. ) e agency already has held up thousands of longer-term rebuilding
projects — repairs to sewer systems, parks, roads and bridges, for example — to conserve money to provide emergency relief to victims of recent disasters.
) e looming shortage has been apparent for months, and the Obama White House was slow to request additional money.
) e White House, a vigorous advocate of greater fuel e- ciency for U.S.-made cars, welcomed the result of Wednesday's vote.
"We are pleased that the House of Representatives today rejected e, orts to put politics above the needs of communities impacted by disasters," the White House communications director, Dan Pfei, er, announced on his Twitter account.
) e underlying stopgap funding measure would * nance the government through Nov. 18 to give lawmakers more time to try to reach agreement on the 12 un* nished spending bills needed to run government agencies on a day-to-day basis for the 2012 budget year.
Forty-eight Republicans broke with GOP leaders on the vote; six Democrats voted for the measure. Some of the Republicans also came from manufacturing states like Michigan, which bene* t from the loan program.
) e measure was originally designed by GOP leaders to pass with bipartisan support. Last week, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer of Maryland and Rep. Norm Dicks
of Washington, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said publicly that they would vote for it reluctantly.
) e underlying stopgap measure was opposed by conservative Republicans unhappy with the spending rates set by the measure, which are line with levels set by last month's budget and debt pact with President Barack Obama. ) at measure provides about 2 percent more money for Cabinet agency budgets than Republicans proposed when passing a nonbinding budget plan in April. More than 50 Republicans recently wrote to Boehner calling on him to stick to the earlier GOP budget.
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SuperHeavy is the ultimate musical cocktail. ) e supergroup consists of equal parts Rolling Stone frontman Mick Jagger, soul crooner Joss Stone, reggae revivalist Damian Marley, Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart and * lm composer A.R. Rahman. ) e sound is a mix of contrasting cultures, genres and ages that, when blended correctly, melds otherwise opposing sounds into perfect harmony.
As far as supergroups go, this is one of the most unusual and, based on awards and critical acclaim alone, impressive groups thus far. And don’t they know it. ) e band’s name is a nod to former super heavyweight champion of the world Muhammad Ali. It * ts because not since Caccius Clay’s glory days has anyone been so cocky.
From their eponymous opening track, the band boasts its sheer heaviness and musical godliness that basically, they’re better than you. Stone sings “it’s a gi+ to us/from the heavens above” while Marley and Jagger bark the chorus “it’s unbelievable/we’re super heavy.”
) ey come on hard, really hard, but they spend the rest of the album backing it up. “SuperHeavy” plays out like a melodic jetsetter drawing upon Caribbean, Middle Eastern, classic rock, hip-hop and Delta blues in, uences. Not since M.I.A.’s “Kala” has an album made such a conscious e- ort of globetrotting sounds.
“Miracle Worker” pairs Stone’s signature soulful vocals and Jagger’s throaty yelp atop a sunny reggae rhythm with Marley’s signature adlibs. ) ey even throw in a violin solo for good measure. “Beautiful People” is
pure reggae, fully equipped with a warm, positive message, fuzzy guitar and marijuana double entendre (the chorus suggest to “spark it up/live it up right now.”)
“Energy” is a sonic * reball — so much happens under four minutes it’s a bit dizzying. Hip-hop beats, ‘80s synthesizers, rapping, soul singing and blues guitar solos , y by at a breakneck pace. In “Satyameva Jayathe” A.R. Rahman takes center stage, pairing traditional Indian sounds (the title itself is the country’s national motto, which literally translates as “Truth Alone Triumphs”) with crashing drums and thick guitar ri- s. “Mahiya” pairs a slowed-down Soca beat and Marley’s conscious raps with Bollywood strings and a distorted sitar.
In “Never Gonna Change,” Jagger sounds like the tender Rolling Stone frontman we’ve always known. With
his quivery vocals, the song’s acoustic guitar, and piano chords the track sounds like a B-Side to “Angie” or “Wild Horses.” “I Can’t Take It No More” kicks through the album, sounding every bit like a long lost ‘80s arena-rock anthem. ) e song’s underlying political message is covered up with Stewart’s heavy ri- s, Jagger’s signature swagger and Stone’s profanity.
“SuperHeavy” is an album that lives up to it’s name. As a record it’s clearly unbalanced, ping-ponging between loud and so+ , rap and rock. But that’s what adds to its intrigue. And in the golden age of MP3s, album consistency is the least of any musician’s problems. ) is is by far one of the strangest, loudest, cockiest, most diverse releases in recent years and adds some much-needed excitement in modern music.
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Collective bargaining de! nes this universityD,!- E."'/-:
I appreciate hearing news of an impending strike vote at SIUC. It is liable to bring an increase in blood pressure or adrenaline to any Saluki students, parents, alumni and supporters. It’s scary and unsettling. However, it may be hard to understand why the unions do not just accept the administration’s o) er and get on with it. Please believe me: speaking as a member of the Faculty Association, we would love to have an o) er we could accept without throwing away
crucial values, like job security, shared governance and academic freedom.
When the administration’s bargaining team said 'no' to the practice of Interest-Based Bargaining back in April 2010, it was the beginning of this excruciatingly slow-motion train wreck that we are either witnessing or riding, depending on your perspective.
IBB requires both sides of a bargaining situation to focus on shared interests. For example, both sides presumably want to attract and
retain excellent faculty and students. Starting from these shared values reminds the negotiation partners to behave as such, and IBB enabled us to achieve our last two contracts.
+ e 0 rst universities, historically, began as collections of scholars in urban centers, and gradually, people came to study with them. Students have never come to a university because of who sits in the highest administrative position, or because of a million-dollar logo. + ey come to get an education. Quality
universities attract and retain the best faculty by paying a living wage and o) ering the chance to achieve tenure, the meaningful commitment to job security. Only then can faculty develop strong educational departments that attract, retain and graduate the best students.
+ e o) er that the administration imposed six months ago e) ectively kills tenure. Any one of us could be singled out for dismissal without cause. I feel anxiety as we head toward a strike vote on Sept. 28,
but also pride that our unions have tried for every other option for 17 months. Sadly, we have seen no change in the administration's “surface bargaining."
A strike is our last tool to convince the administration to bargain seriously. For the university to survive and thrive, we all must work together.
Suzanne M. DaughtonAssociate professor
of speech communication
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
D,!- E."'/-:I am writing in response to
your recent article regarding the selection process for a new Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center coordinator. While it presented an interesting narrative, it had nothing to do with the issues we had on the University Screening Committee and the subsequent selection of Wendy Weinhold.
First of all, Ms. Weinhold’s sexuality was not a considered factor. In fact, by law, it could not be. What is imperative for the position is “one year experience providing services to the GLBT community, preferably in higher education,” as stated in
the position announcement. + e screening committee very speci0 cally questioned Ms. Weinhold’s quali0 cations before the interview and noted in our recommendation letter to Dr. Gitau, the Dean of Students and hiring administrator, that she lacked su1 cient experience with the GLBT community. Because another applicant fully met the quali0 cations listed, it was not a recommendation against one applicant, but rather a recommendation for a fully quali0 ed individual.
Secondly, and perhaps most troubling, was the recommendation's paternalistic disregard of the screening committee which
represented individuals who were deeply involved with the resource center and GLBT community. It is assumed a screening committee of quali0 ed individuals provides important feedback in the selection process, particularly when it involves a special population. In conversation with me before the interviews were even scheduled, the Dean of Students said he liked Ms. Weinhold “because she is not a stereotype.” In the GLBT
community, this is code for not being an e) eminate man, a butch woman or a gender variant individual. It is code for either being in the closet or straight —someone who won’t make you uncomfortable in your homophobia. Clearly Dr. Gitau had already made up his mind.
Finally, my concern that an inexperienced heterosexual being hired over an out, quali0 ed and involved individual sends the
wrong message to our students, faculty and sta) . Is it safe to be out? Are we an institution that does not hire GLBT people? Should you stay in the closet? Are you too much of a stereotype?
+ e GLBT Resource Center was founded as a result of university insensitivity and their ultimate realization that perhaps they needed to trust the GLBT community's recommendations. It is a shame that they seem to have forgotten that only 0 ve years later.
Paulette CurkinGLBT Resource Center Coordinator,
2006 to 2008
GLBT search committee produces controversial verdict
M y concern that an inexperienced heterosexual being hired over an out, qualified and involved individual
sends the wrong message to our students, faculty and staff. Is it safe to be out?
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If you happen to be a fan of the CW Network’s hit drama “One Tree Hill,” then you remember Gavin Degraw’s theme song, “I Don’t Wanna Be.” ) e song topped the Billboard 100 list, which gained Degraw the fan base he needed to have longevity in the music industry.
Since his debut album “Chariot” (2003), Degraw has slowly lost momentum and released a slew of poorly received albums.
Despite his hardships, the blue-eyed soul singer steps back into the spotlight this year with his fourth album “Sweeter.” “Not Over You” serves as the album’s lead single and sets the album’s mood. ) e overall theme of “Sweeter” is the cliché of love, a clear topic of familiarity for Degraw as he breathes soul into his ten-track album.
“Soldier” proves to be Degraw’s vocal high point as he belts out his declaration to always protect the love of his life. The song is assisted by a live piano and choir-arranged background vocals, easily making this his most emotional ballad to date.
“The truth is harder to amuse/but when you know it’s wrong you’ve got to cut it loose,” Degraw sings in “You Know Where I’m At.” The singer makes the conscious decision to let his relationship go in hopes that what is meant to be will be. Though his love is walking away, he reminds her that — when ready — he will
be right where she left him.Another standout track is
“Stealing,” which sounds much like a sequel to “You Know Where I’m At.” “Stealing” is the term Degraw uses for what was done to his heart, and in this song he wants it back. The song’s production shows inspiration from Al Green’s 1972 hit “How Can You Mend A Broken Heart,” as both create a doleful mood.
“Radiation” is an album favorite, though the first listen may be confusing. This track simply tells the story of someone who tries to maintain a fling with an ex-lover due to irresistible physical attraction.
Degraw seemes to have * nally found his way back to his
musical origins with his array of instruments and self-written lyrics. “Sweeter” is genius in the sense that he seems to have documented past relationships and translated his notes into songs. ) e song’s penmanship quality and production re+ ect the creativity vheard in Adele’s “21.”
Unfortunately, this album may never see the respect it deserves as most people have forgotten about Degraw. For those who have let this album be their wake up call, this is a form of music rarely seen in this day and age of pop music.
James Jones can be reached at [email protected]
or 536-3311 ext 265.
Gavin Degraw delivers on new album “Sweeter”JAMES JONESDaily Egyptian
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Students have the potential to gain weight when entering college but ! uctuations naturally occur throughout people’s lives and an increase in weight isn’t always a negative occurrence.
" e common idea of 15 pounds gained by freshmen during their # rst year of college has been proven inaccurate and causes a common misconception, according to a 2008 review in the Health Information and Libraries Journal.
" e review in the journal looked at more than 300 magazines, university and newspaper articles from 1985 to 2006 on the subject of the ‘freshmen 15’ and showed mixed results about how much weight students gain. " e review reported most freshmen gain less than 15 pounds.
A 2005 study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association of almost 400 students showed more than 25 percent gained # ve pounds within the # rst eight weeks of school.
Even if a student does gain # ve to seven pounds during their # rst year, it may not signal unhealthy habits, said Lynn Gill, licensed dietician and nutrition coordinator for the Wellness Center .
She said she believes students need to realize sometimes their bodies are not done growing yet and changes in weight may be natural.
“" e body is not meant to be one particular weight,” Gill said. “It’s not uncommon for somebody to experience a two- to three-pound
weight change in the course of a day.”Alan Beck, a personal trainer at the
Recreation Center, said he has heard the term ‘freshman 15’ o$ en in the # tness world and thinks the increase occurs from the newfound freedom students experience.
Beck said portion control also has an e% ect on how much weight some students gain because there is no limit to how much they can eat at the dining hall.
Ben Asmus, a senior from Heyworth studying forestry, said he had gained a little weight his freshman year and believes it was partly because of the cafeteria food.
“I thought (the freshmen 15) was a kind of scare when you’re going into school to get you to keep on top of your eating,” he said.
He said he didn’t believe the freshman 15 would a% ect him because he has remained active in running since attending the university. Asmus said he believes another cause of weight gain is students not being active.
Chris Brown, a senior from Marion studying philosophy, said he did put on some extra weight when he # rst started attending the university but it was mostly muscle mass.
He said he was involved in competitive sports in high school and believes staying active in intramural sports keeps him in shape.
Brown said school and work take up a lot of his time and it can be di& cult to stay active and eat healthy foods.
“I don’t eat fast food like McDonald’s or Taco Bell. If I do (eat fast food) I’ll try to eat Subway or go to Arnie’s
(Sandwiches),” Brown said.Gill said so$ drinks and sugary
snacks also lead to empty calories throughout the day.
“A student can possibly get 500 to 750 calories just from what they drink, but the body doesn’t necessarily register it at that amount,” she said.
Some students resort to short-term fad diets to avoid weight gain, Gill said, but this is not an e% ective form of weight control.
“Once they either lose weight or get frustrated with lack of weight loss, they just return to their old eating habits,” she said.
Two classes are being o% ered at the Wellness Center this semester that will address how students can eat healthy and what to do if they are concerned about weight gain, Gill said.
She said the classes focus on the physiology of the human body, how the body is designed to eat and how to increase movement into an everyday schedule.
Gill said the classes are scheduled at multiple dates and times, and students are welcome to call the center with any questions about the schedule.
Beck said he believes the university should help students avoid weight gain because it may also help with student retention rates.
“We’ve done research here that shows the more times you come (to the Recreation Center), your GPA tends to be higher and you stay in school longer,” he said.
Beck said he thinks students active at the university are more likely to stay because they believe they are more a
part of the school.He said the center also does
metabolic testing for students for $20 which will tell how many calories per day a student should take in comparison to how many they actually do.
Gill said she thinks the term ‘freshman 15’ is too simple to accurately describe any increase in weight for students because there are so many
factors a% ecting weight change.Gill said a more accurate way of
determining whether weight gain is good or bad is to look at a person’s metabolic health factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate and other lifestyle factors such as smoking.
“Just because someone is slim doesn’t imply that they’re healthy,” Gill said.
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Known as the ‘freshman 15,’ the problem of weight gain is a recurring issue on university campuses across the country. Alcohol consumption, buffet-
style campus meal plans, lack of exercise and eating late at night contribute to weight gain. However, ‘freshman 15’ is misleading.
Increases in student weight not a big problem
STEVE MATZKER | DAILY EGYPTIAN
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Aries – Today is an 8 – Write down what you want and the logical steps to get it. Come up with a tagline, and words that clearly express the heart of your concept. Let your brilliance out of the box.
Taurus – Today is a 7 – Stick to the rules and routine, especially this morning. Handling old tasks provides clarity, peace of mind and relief. Harmony and happiness grow with great music.
Gemini – Today is an 8 – Ask your friends for tips on how to save money, and reap a bounty of creative ideas. Review your budget to apply the best ones. An antique plays a part.
Cancer – Today is an 8 – Even if someone questions your judgment, it doesn’t mean they’re right. Respectfully separate out the gold, and take notes. Make your own choices, and keep your promises.
Leo – Today is a 6 – If you focus on the limitations, you’ll be limited. Listen through all the white noise for a solution that serves you well. Do your share of the work, and call for reinforcements.
Virgo – Today is a 7 – Don’t start until you’re ready (but don’t keep folks waiting, either). Review the steps to take. Spend time with friends, but keep to the budget. Creative writing flows.
Libra – Today is an 8 – Consider new opportunities where once there were none. Focus on what’s real (or at least on what you believe to be real). Set your old fears down for a while.
Scorpio – Today is an 8 – New doors appear in unusual places. These doors may very well open by themselves, but you have to show up to trigger the sensor. Ask for what you want. Say “yes.”
Sagittarius – Today is a 7 – Rediscover your sense of humor over the next few days, as you assume more responsibility. Accept well-earned acknowledgment, and enjoy some philosophical reading or discussion.
Capricorn – Today is a 7 – As Bob Marley would say, “We don’t need no more trouble. What we need is love.” Whenever you’re confronted or worried today, focus on what you’re passionate about.
Aquarius – Today is a 9 –There’s nothing you can’t endure by using your mind and your muscle, with a dash of intuition. Common sense wins over hardheadedness, so be willing to step aside rather than push.
Pisces – Today is a 7 – It’s not a good time for romance, but be nice anyway. A practical partner guides. Draw three things you want. Dream big. Then play big and go for it.
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Laura ! ole could barely see the court her " rst two years, but she had more on her mind at the time than just volleyball.
“My freshman and sophomore years I wasn't very con" dent and it just dragged me down,” ! ole said. “You could be the best player out there, but if you have a bad mindset, you can be the worst player.”
! ole, a junior from Breese studying speech communication, said she had a hard time adjusting to college life without her parents there to reinforce academics. A# er earning three all-tournament honors in her " rst season as a full-time starter, ! ole said she’s back on the right track.
“In high school I got all A’s and B’s, then I got my " rst C in college and I was distraught about it,” ! ole said. “My parents were big deal to me in high school but obviously they had no control over here, so I just did whatever and thought I could get by, and I didn’t always get by.”
Head coach Brenda Winkeler said ! ole’s grades weren’t that big of a deal to the coaching sta$ , but she noticed ! ole struggled with the transition to college life.
“! e hardest thing she had to overcome was (being from a small town). We both came from towns with 500 people, her’s was a little bigger,” Winkeler said. “It’s a culture shock, it’s di$ erent walking in to an arena where up to 3000 people are watching you.”
! ole also had to play behind former two-time All-MVC outside hitter Jennifer Berwanger, so Winkeler had to move ! ole around to several positions to get her playing time.
“We got her in a comfortable position. She went through libero, le# -side hitter, and we kind of bounced her around since we had Berwanger out there,” Winkeler said.
! ole had a position battle with Saluki graduate Sydney Clark for the other outside hitter position last season, but Clark saw more playing time while ! ole moved around di$ erent positions.
“I wanted to beat out Sydney so
bad, and I would have done anything. I would have bulldozed (Davies Gymnasium) if I had to, but it didn’t happen,” ! ole said. “I think today, that is a reason I am as good as I am because Sydney pushed me that hard.”
! at versatility has worked out well for the Salukis, as ! ole leads the team in kills with 131 and is second on the team in digs with 120 this season.
“You don’t see many players like her anymore, she is a six-rotation player and can play the front and the back,” Winkeler said.
Her teammates are well aware of the skills that Thole can bring to the floor.
“She can move around, hit di$ erent shots, and she can block, pass, and get a kill for us,” junior setter Rachael Brown said Sept. 10 a# er their match against Memphis. “I think she’s the go-to hitter right now.”
First year assistant coach Peter Chang has worked with ! ole a lot this season and said he’s noticed a change.
“Before I came here, I heard from di$ erent people that she had been a role player, but she was really competitive in high school,” Chang said. “I know she had that in herself, she just had to gain it back.”
Chang singled out ! ole’s
performance against Bradley Saturday as an example of how far she’s come. Chang said ! ole was able to identify her poor o$ ensive performance, and she recovered defensively to record 22 digs and played a role in helping sophomore Elly Braaten get her " rst career double-double despite losing to Bradley in " ve sets.
“You’re not going to have a perfect night every night, but you have to maximize what you can do with that situation,” Chang said. “Yes, if she had a good o$ ensive night, it would’ve been nice. We certainly needed it. But at least she didn’t fold, and she did what she could do to help lead the team.”
Even though this season has started o$ with a lot of inconsistent play from ! ole and her teammates, ! ole said she feels that at least her own life is going steady.
“I think just being happier, doing things positively like eating well and going to class, just doing more positive things outside of the gym leads to more positive things inside the gym,” ! ole said.
Joe Ragusa may be reached at [email protected]
or 536.3311 ext. 269.
Alexis Mihelich, right, the SIU women’s head golf coach, starts practice Wednesday by showing the team a chipping exercise. This is Mihelich’s first season coaching for SIU and her seventh season as a golf coach. She was named the Midwest Region
Coach of the Year Sept. 12 by LPGA, and is now a finalist for National Coach of the Year. “When we are in season I work pretty hands-off; I watch their form and what they’re doing and go from there,” Mihelich said.
LYNNETTE OOSTMEYER | DAILY EGYPTIAN
The SIU women’s head golf coach Alexis Mihelich has made her presence known.
Mihelich won the LPGA Midwest Regional Coach of the Year award Monday, Sept. 12, and in turn was nominated for the LPGA National Head Coach of the Year award. The winner is set to be announced within a few weeks.
Mihelich has already guided her team to a victory in its second tournament this season since she was hired Aug. 5.
Mihelich said the award means more to her because her peers are the ones who voted.
“It’s an honor,” she said. “It tells me I am doing the right thing and on the right track.”
Senior Margaret Gilley and her cousin, sophomore Ryann Gilley, have known Mihelich for six years due to mutual golf community connections. Margaret Gilley said Mihelich’s strength lies in her ability to read her players.
“(Mihelich) knows when to help and when to let you " gure it out your own way,” Margaret Gilley said. “She just knows golf.”
Mihelich said she wants the players to take accountability for their play and to have the expectation that they will win.
“If we are going to lose, I don’t want it to be because we played bad and essentially beat ourselves,” Mihelich said.
Mihelich said fellow coaches voted for regional awards, but the national award would most likely be merit-based.
Mihelich began her collegiate career as a golf coach at Chicago State University and turned the dormant program into a conference contender. Before Mihelich took the job at CSU, she was a teaching professional golf at Green Garden Golf Academy in Monee.
However, Mihelich was a golf player before she was an instructor. Mihelich attended New Orleans University where she majored in English and graduated with honors. She went on to participate in several LPGA events, and she said the transition from coach to player requires a mindset change.
“When you become a coach, It’s not about you anymore,” Mihelich said. “You have to put your playing aspirations aside in order to best benefit your players.”
Mihelich said she decided to become an instructor in high school when she noticed the lack of female instructors.
One aspect of golf that separates it from other sports is that golf is primarily an individual sport. Mihelich said she coaches players on an individualized basis, specific to their personality.
“Especially at the collegiate level, its important to know what goals each player has for their golf career,” said Mihelich.
Ryann Gilley said Mihelich’s relatability makes the compre-hension process easier.
“She is just easy to talk to,” Ryann Gilley said. “She will do whatever she can to make you a better golfer.”
Kevin Taylor can be reached at [email protected]
or at 536-3311 ext. 269.
Coach nominated for LPGA National Coach of the YearKEVIN TAYLORDaily Egyptian
W hen you become a coach, It’s not
about you anymore. You have to put your playing aspirations aside in order to best benefit your players.
— Alexis Mihelichhead golf coach
Laura Thole, a junior from St. Rose studying speech communications, works on drills Wednesday at Davies Hall. Thole, an outside hitter for the SIU women’s volleyball team, has won all-tournament honors in three tournaments this season. The team will play Drake at the SIU Arena Friday.BROOKE GRACEDAILY EGYPTIAN
Thole excels after attitude adjustmentJOE RAGUSADaily Egyptian
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