Nearly 100 students and faculty rallied Monday evening in front of Grinnell Hall to raise awareness of the crisis in Ferguson, Mo. At the event, organized by Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha, community members discussed the aftermath of the death of Michael Brown, 18, who was reportedly unarmed when shot by a St. Louis County police officer on August 9. Desmon Walker, a junior from Champaign studying business and finance, led the rally with opening statements regarding the timeline of the past week. “We want people to be aware of what happened,” Walker, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said. “Aware of both sides of the story because the officers’ version varies greatly from what other witnesses are saying.” Walker said he hoped those at- tending have a peaceful reflection of people suffering from the events in Ferguson. “This could have happened anywhere, it could have happened here,” Walker said. Marquita Winston, a junior from St. Louis studying criminal justice and psychology, recited a poem she wrote for the crowd con- veying her personal thoughts on the injustice of the situation. Winston ended the poem with the state- ment, “because I could have been Mike Brown.” Nathan Stephens, director for the Center of Inclusive Excellence, spoke of his first-hand experience with racism. He said he questions whether media or activism was a stronger method of change. “Is a one-million-strong Face- book group more, or less meaningful and impactful than a dozen activists storming a building?” he said. Stephens said it is the younger generation’s duty to be active in the movement to ensure changes in the way situations like these are handled. A great way to work with the younger generation is by men- toring, he said. The rally ended with a group photo, where everyone raised their arms, counted to three and yelled, “Don’t shoot.” Many similar photos have been post- ed on social media within the last week. e “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” movement has become popular on social media, with more than 17,000 posts with the hashtag #handsupdontshoot on Instagram alone. Sarah Niebrugge can be reached at [email protected], on Twitter @SNiebrugge_DE, or at 536-3311 ext. 264 TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014 VOLUME 98 ISSUE 84 DE Since 1916 Daily Egyptian Carbondale police chief fired “It could have happened here” Lewis Marien DaiLy egyptian Desmon Walker, left, a junior from Champaign studying business management and president of the Alpha Phi Alpha SIU student chapter, and JaPone Johnson, a senior from Chicago studying criminal justice participate in the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Rally Monday in front of Grinnell Hall. Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha organized the rally that featured guest speakers talking about the recent violence in Ferguson, Mo. “We wanted this event to be peaceful and basically shed light on what happened and not necessarily the senseless things following after the rioting,” Walker said. e Carbondale chief of police has been fired. City Manager Kevin Baity announced Mon- day in a press release that he is dismissing Jody O’Guinn from his position and naming Deputy Chief Jeff Grubbs as interim police chief. Grubbs was previously deputy chief of administration. “I have full faith and confidence in Deputy Chief Grubbs’ ability to lead the police depart- ment,” Baity said in the statement. There is no timeline to find a permanent replace- ment for O’Guinn, who began his post in June 2009. In June 2011, O’Guinn’s handgun was stolen out of his car and he did not report it for a week. Once he did report the theft, Carbondale police initially filed it as an animal control issue. ree months later the weapon was used in a murder in the city, leading to the sentencing of Matthew Jones for the death of Deaunta Spencer, 20. Investigation of the circumstances surround- ing the theft and how the police department handled it continues. O’Guinn oversaw the department in March of 2012, when Molly Young, 21, died of a gunshot wound to the head. She was in the Carbondale apartment of Richie Minton, who was a Carbon- dale police dispatcher at the time. Minton faced no charges in the death. en SIU student Pravin Varughese went missing in February. e 19-year-old ran into the woods along Illinois 13 after having a conflict with another person. His body was found five days later and the public has since questioned the police de- partment’s handling of the case. Baity made clear in his statement that O’Guinn’s dismissal is not related to the recent incidents. “I want to stress that my decision to dismiss Chief O’Guinn is a confidential matter and has nothing to do with the unsolved cases or recent liti- gation filed against the city and the chief,” he said in the release. “Any assumptions/allegations to this effect are completely unfounded.” Tara Kulash Daily Egyptian Housing opens doors to gender inclusivity JaMie eaDer DaiLy egyptian Quentin Harris, a freshman from Lebanon, Ind., works in his dorm room Sunday, which is a part of SIU’s Campus Pride Living Learning Community. SIU has dedicated parts of University Housing to the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans* and queer community. The LLC is part of a new initiative brought on by the LGBTQ Resource Center to better serve LGBTQ students living on campus. “I feel like I will be more comfortable in gender-inclusive housing,” Harris said. “In society it’s like you have to be one RU WKH RWKHU DQG QRW HYHU\RQH ÀWV LQWR WKRVH VWULFW FDWHJRULHVµ Several students were welcomed into the university’s first gender-inclusive residence hall last weekend, at the Campus Pride Living Learning Community in Mae Smith Hall. e LLC is a program through the LGBTQ Resource Center and University Housing that is “designed to provide a welcoming and inclu- sive space for students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and or queer,” its website states. e floor allows students to live on cam- pus without disclosing their gender. Quentin Harris, a freshman from Lebanon, Ind. studying art education, said SIU providing a gender-inclusive housing option was the main reason he chose the university. “It was either this or Alaska,” Harris said. He was planning on attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks had it not been for the LLC. Les Billing, a senior from Batavia studying fashion design, who lives in the LLC, said he had roommate trouble while living in tradi- tional dorms last year. “At the beginning of last year, I started going by a different name,” Billing said. “It was really hard to deal with my roommates because they were not respectful of me being me.” Billing identifies more as male than female, which made living with female roommates particularly difficult. “I just felt so uncomfortable that I didn’t even live in my room for a while,” Billing said. “I was couch surfing.” Billing said the gender-inclusive dorms were appealing because of bullying experiences in the traditional dorms. “[Bullying] was the biggest reason that I wanted to be on the floor,” Billing said, “I wanted to be able to be myself around people without having to worry about judgment.” Billing appreciates names not being specified on the dorm room doors in the LLC because typically the gender of given birth names do not match the gender of students’ chosen names. “I knew if they used birth names [on the doors], some of us would get really offended,” Billing said. “I know if they had our chosen names my mom would have freaked out.” The absence of names helps students avoid disclosing their gender identity to their fellow residents. Brett Shoemaker, a senior from Watseka studying mechanical engineering, who also lives in the LLC, said he is unsure about his gender identity, but appreciates the opportunity the new dorm arrangement gives him to explore who he is. Marissa Novel Daily Egyptain Please see INCLUSIVE · 2 Sarah Niebrugge Daily Egyptian
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Nearly 100 students and faculty rallied Monday evening in front of Grinnell Hall to raise awareness of the crisis in Ferguson, Mo.
At the event, organized by Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa Alpha, community members discussed the aftermath of the death of Michael Brown, 18, who was reportedly unarmed when shot by a St. Louis County police officer on August 9.
Desmon Walker, a junior from Champaign studying business and finance, led the rally with opening statements regarding the timeline of the past week.
“We want people to be aware of what happened,” Walker, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said. “Aware of both sides of the story because the officers’ version varies greatly from what other witnesses are saying.”
Walker said he hoped those at-tending have a peaceful reflection of people suffering from the events in Ferguson.
“This could have happened anywhere, it could have happened here,” Walker said.
Marquita Winston, a junior from St. Louis studying criminal justice and psychology, recited a poem she wrote for the crowd con-veying her personal thoughts on the injustice of the situation. Winston ended the poem with the state-ment, “because I could have been Mike Brown.”
Nathan Stephens, director for the Center of Inclusive Excellence, spoke of his first-hand experience with racism. He said he questions whether media or activism was a stronger method of change.
“Is a one-million-strong Face-book group more, or less meaningful and impactful than a dozen activists
storming a building?” he said. Stephens said it is the younger
generation’s duty to be active in the movement to ensure changes in the way situations like these are handled. A great way to work with
the younger generation is by men-toring, he said.
The rally ended with a group photo, where everyone raised their arms, counted to three and yelled, “Don’t shoot.”
Many similar photos have been post-ed on social media within the last week. The “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” movement has become popular on social media, with more than 17,000 posts with the hashtag #handsupdontshoot on Instagram alone.
Sarah Niebrugge can be reached at [email protected], on Twitter @SNiebrugge_DE,
or at 536-3311 ext. 264
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Carbondale police chief fired
“It could have happened here”
Lewis Marien � DaiLy egyptianDesmon Walker, left, a junior from Champaign studying business management and president of the Alpha Phi Alpha SIU student chapter, and JaPone Johnson, a
senior from Chicago studying criminal justice participate in the Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Rally Monday in front of Grinnell Hall. Alpha Phi Alpha and Alpha Kappa
Alpha organized the rally that featured guest speakers talking about the recent violence in Ferguson, Mo. “We wanted this event to be peaceful and basically shed
light on what happened and not necessarily the senseless things following after the rioting,” Walker said.
The Carbondale chief of police has been fired.City Manager Kevin Baity announced Mon-
day in a press release that he is dismissing Jody O’Guinn from his position and naming Deputy Chief Jeff Grubbs as interim police chief. Grubbs was previously deputy chief of administration.
“I have full faith and confidence in Deputy Chief Grubbs’ ability to lead the police depart-ment,” Baity said in the statement.
There is no timeline to find a permanent replace-ment for O’Guinn, who began his post in June 2009.
In June 2011, O’Guinn’s handgun was stolen
out of his car and he did not report it for a week. Once he did report the theft, Carbondale police initially filed it as an animal control issue. Three months later the weapon was used in a murder in the city, leading to the sentencing of Matthew Jones for the death of Deaunta Spencer, 20.
Investigation of the circumstances surround-ing the theft and how the police department handled it continues.
O’Guinn oversaw the department in March of 2012, when Molly Young, 21, died of a gunshot wound to the head. She was in the Carbondale apartment of Richie Minton, who was a Carbon-dale police dispatcher at the time. Minton faced no charges in the death.
Then SIU student Pravin Varughese went missing in February. The 19-year-old ran into the woods along Illinois 13 after having a conflict with another person. His body was found five days later and the public has since questioned the police de-partment’s handling of the case.
Baity made clear in his statement that O’Guinn’s dismissal is not related to the recent incidents.
“I want to stress that my decision to dismiss Chief O’Guinn is a confidential matter and has nothing to do with the unsolved cases or recent liti-gation filed against the city and the chief,” he said in the release. “Any assumptions/allegations to this effect are completely unfounded.”
Tara KulashDaily Egyptian
Housing opens doors to gender inclusivity
JaMie eaDer � DaiLy egyptian
Quentin Harris, a freshman from Lebanon, Ind., works in his dorm room Sunday, which is a part of
SIU’s Campus Pride Living Learning Community. SIU has dedicated parts of University Housing to
the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, trans* and queer community. The LLC is part of a new initiative brought
on by the LGBTQ Resource Center to better serve LGBTQ students living on campus. “I feel like I will
be more comfortable in gender-inclusive housing,” Harris said. “In society it’s like you have to be one
Several students were welcomed into the university’s first gender-inclusive residence hall last weekend, at the Campus Pride Living Learning Community in Mae Smith Hall.
The LLC is a program through the LGBTQ Resource Center and University Housing that is “designed to provide a welcoming and inclu-sive space for students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans* and or queer,” its website states. The floor allows students to live on cam-pus without disclosing their gender.
Quentin Harris, a freshman from Lebanon, Ind. studying art education, said SIU providing a gender-inclusive housing option was the main reason he chose the university.
“It was either this or Alaska,” Harris said. He was planning on attending the University of Alaska Fairbanks had it not been for the LLC.
Les Billing, a senior from Batavia studying fashion design, who lives in the LLC, said he had roommate trouble while living in tradi-tional dorms last year.
“At the beginning of last year, I started going by a different name,” Billing said. “It was really hard to deal with my roommates because they were not respectful of me being me.”
Billing identifies more as male than female, which made living with female roommates
particularly difficult.“I just felt so uncomfortable that I didn’t
even live in my room for a while,” Billing said. “I was couch surfing.”
Billing said the gender-inclusive dorms were appealing because of bullying experiences in the traditional dorms.
“[Bullying] was the biggest reason that I wanted to be on the floor,” Billing said, “I wanted to be able to be myself around people without having to worry about judgment.”
Billing appreciates names not being specified on the dorm room doors in the LLC because typically the gender of given birth names do not match the gender of students’ chosen names.
“I knew if they used birth names [on the doors], some of us would get really offended,” Billing said. “I know if they had our chosen names my mom would have freaked out.”
The absence of names helps students avoid disclosing their gender identity to their fellow residents.
Brett Shoemaker, a senior from Watseka studying mechanical engineering, who also lives in the LLC, said he is unsure about his gender identity, but appreciates the opportunity the new dorm arrangement gives him to explore who he is.
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IRBIL, Iraq —Iraqi and Kurdish troops, backed by heavy U.S. air support, recaptured Iraq’s largest dam Monday, the most significant victory over the Islamic State since the militants overran almost half of Iraq in mid-June.
It remained to be seen whether the Iraqi military, which all but collapsed as the Islamic State staged its lightning advance to the doorstep of Baghdad, can capitalize on the first serious setback dealt to the extremists. The Iraqi army remains burdened by serious deficiencies, the country’s sectarian politicians have yet to form a new government and President Barack Obama made it clear again Monday that there are limits to U.S. military intervention.
“I have been firm from the start that we are not reintroducing thousands of U.S. troops back on the ground to engage in combat. We’re not the Iraqi military, we’re not even the Iraqi air force,” Obama said at White House news conference. Iraq must “ultimately provide for its own security,” he said
At the same time, he hailed the recapture of the Mosul Dam.
“If that dam was breached, it
could have proven catastrophic, with floods that would’ve threatened the lives of thousands of civilians and endanger our embassy compound in Baghdad,” Obama said. “This operation demonstrates that Iraqi and Kurdish forces are capable of working together and taking the fight to ISIL,” the U.S. government’s preferred acronym for the Islamic State, which also is called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.
Obama said there had been important strides in Iraq in recent weeks as the United States conducted airstrikes across the nation.
“We will continue to pursue a long-term strategy to turn the tide against ISIL by supporting the new Iraqi government and working with key partners in the region and beyond,” Obama said. “There should be no doubt that the United States military will continue to carry the limited missions that I’ve authorized, protecting our personnel and facilities in Iraq in both Irbil and Baghdad and providing humanitarian support.”
Officials of the Iraqi Defense Ministry and the Kurdish security forces claimed that the dam, which controls the agricultural water supply to most of northern Iraq and generates Mosul’s electricity, was under the control of the joint
Iraqi-Kurdish force, although the dam itself had to be cleared of booby traps and mines left behind by retreating fighters from the Islamic State, an al-Qaida offshoot that recently declared itself an Islamic caliphate.
“We control the facility but the facility is not secure and Daash is retreating,” said one security official with the Kurdish peshmerga militia, who used the pejorative Arabic acronym for the group.
In Washington, the Pentagon said that while the dam is no longer under Islamic State control, there remain pockets of resistance within the dam complex, leaving officials stopping short of saying it is under Kurdish control. Rather, Pentagon officials believe that Kurdish officials are conducting a mop-up on the site of remnants of Islamic State control. Pentagon officials note that while Obama
said that militants no longer control the dam, he stopped short of saying that Kurdish officials do.
An Iraqi defense official speaking by phone from Baghdad was more specific, claiming that the dam and the hydroelectric facility had been recaptured in a joint operation between the peshmerga and the Iraq special forces unit known as the Golden Brigade, which has been supported by at least 35 U.S. airstrikes by a combination of drones, long-range bomber aircraft and aircraft carrier-based fighter-bombers. A Pentagon press statement Monday said the U.S. military had conducted 68 strikes on Islamic State targets, around Irbil, the dam and near the western city of Sinjar, which also fell to the militants on Aug. 7, sending tens of thousands of residents fleeing to a local mountain range for safety.
Iraqis, U.S. recapture Mosul Dam from Islamic state, Obama saysMitchell ProtheroMcClatchy Foreign Staff
“It’s nice to be in an environment where [gender] doesn’t really matter,” Shoemaker said. “Where you can kind of be yourself or try to figure out who you are. You’re not expected to be one thing and that’s kind of how it was always growing up.”
He said he lived in an engineering LLC last semester, but mostly kept to himself.
“The worst part was that I felt I had to hide my feminine clothes,” Shoemaker said.
Athur Scoleri, a junior studying music performance from Calumet City, who lived
on campus before the LLC was founded, said although the new housing option is a good idea, there is more housing can do to make people like himself feel welcomed.
He said while applying for housing, he had to specify he was transgender in the disability box in the application, which negatively affected his on-campus residential experience.
“I went going into it like I had some sort of like hindrance or like disability even, because I had to put it in a disability box,” Scoleri said. “There was literally no other space for my existence to be [proposed].”
SIU is not the first state public university in Illinois to introduce this type of housing.
Mark Hudson, the director of University Housing and Dining Services at Eastern Illinois University, said there are eight gender-inclusive floors in two buildings on EIU’s campus.
“Our philosophy is that we work with the LGBTQ community to see what’s best for them,” Hudson said. “We try to be as flexible as possible.”
Illinois State University is currently working on a gender-inclusive housing proposal, Hurdylyn Woods, the assistant director of residence halls, said.
To apply for the gender inclusive housing at SIU, each student had to submit a maximum 500-word essay describing their interest in the LLC, as well as an application form that can be found on the LLC website.
For more information about the LLC, and applying for next semester, visit the LGBTQ Resource Center in room 318 of the Student Center or contact Justin Schuch at 618-453-7535.
Marissa Novel can be reached at [email protected], on Twitter @marissanovelDE or at
536-3311 ext. 268.
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SIU students gave back to a program Friday that has served the community for 10 years.
The Boys and Girls Club on North Springer Street, which provides after-school activities for children, received a visit from students in the University Honors Program. The honors students are required to volunteer at least 10 hours per semester, a requirement that began last year.
The students repainted parking lot lines, repainted areas of the gym and painted a newly installed handrail.
Tim Merriman, a freshman from Carbondale studying political
science, said students were given the option to volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club, Giant City State Park, Carbondale Public Library or Green Earth. He said the Boys and Girls Club was an easy pick because he attended the club from third through sixth grade.
“I think it’s a nice way to meet people and a nice way to break out and do something for the community and the town that a lot of people just moved into,” Merriman said.
Alongside the SIU students were associates of Lowe’s, who donated time and supplies such as paint, brooms, and other equipment needed for the community service day.
“We’re just wanting to be, as much as we can, a member of the community in regards to the Boys and Girls Club,” Chris Brinkerhoff, assistant store manager of Lowe’s said. Brinkerhoff said Lowe’s is a national partner with the Boys and Girls Club of America nationwide, but this was the first project Lowe’s had locally been involved in with the Boys and Girls Club.
Randy Osborn, executive director of the Boys and Girls Club of Carbondale for 10 years, said the club is an after-school program that helps families by providing child care, but it’s so much more than that.
“We’re an education program. We help them with homework, special
projects, look forward to careers, and we help kids get scholarships,” Osborn told the SIU students.
Osborn said in the past two years, the club gave eight students scholarships to either community colleges or universities. There are 4,000 clubs in America and about 4 million children from ages six to 18 who benefit from the program, according to the Boys and Girls Club of America’s website.
He said the volunteer work is appreciated.
“We want the kids to understand that there’s a whole community involved in supporting the work of the club, and volunteers help show that,” Osborn said.
“The fact that I can help someone is really empowering.” said Kaylee Stillwell, a freshman from Orlando, Fla., studying biological sciences.
The Boys and Girls Club afterschool program will begin in full swing Aug. 25 from 3 to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. Full-year membership costs $18 per child. Volunteers may contact the Boys and Girls Club at 618-457-8877 or visit the club at 250 N. Springer St.
Taylor Voegel can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @taylorkaylove
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Obama sends attorney general to Ferguson as National Guard deploys
FERGUSON, Mo. — Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Ferguson on Wednesday, President Barack Obama said as he repeated a call for calm in the troubled community.
“Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other,” Obama said at the White House.
He decried a “gulf of mistrust” between residents and police that exists in “too many communities.”
Obama also said the amount of military-style equipment that local police forces have been receiving from the federal government needs to be reviewed. Numerous state and federal officials have said that the amount and scale of military-style equipment that the police in Ferguson displayed on the street in the first days of unrest there worsened the situation.
The U.S. has always maintained a line between its police and military, Obama said, and “we don’t want those lines blurred.”
The effort to expand the sort of equipment available to police forces, which was stepped up after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was well-intentioned, Obama said. But “it’s probably useful for us to review” the government’s law enforcement aid programs now to see what local police departments are buying and “to make sure that what they’re purchasing is
stuff that they actually need.”Obama said the Justice Department would
carefully monitor events in Ferguson and the use of Missouri National Guard units to patrol the city, beset by unrest since the fatal Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old, by a white police officer. The use of the National Guard should be “limited and appropriate,” Obama said, noting that the decision to use the military units had been made by state officials.
It’s important to ensure that “peaceful protesters” have an opportunity to air their grievances, Obama said. At the same time, he said, law enforcement officers need to be able to protect communities against people who are using the unrest as an excuse for looting or violence.
Ferguson will not be under curfew Monday night, but authorities may shut down some streets as the National Guard steps in to help keep order, Gov. Jay Nixon announced _ a change that left some residents and civic leaders uneasy.
A midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew was in effect Saturday and Sunday nights as officials sought to quell unrest after Brown’s death. But each night, demonstrators refused to honor the curfew, violence arose, and police used tear gas to disperse the crowds. At least two people were shot Sunday night, and police were fired upon.
Police said there were signs of a planned and coordinated attempt Sunday night to disrupt the St. Louis suburb and launch an advance on the police command post not far from the scene of Brown’s death.
Nixon issued an executive order Monday to bring in the National Guard. Its “limited mission” will be to protect the command
post so local law enforcement officials can protect peaceful demonstrators, he said in a statement. He condemned “the firing upon law enforcement officers, the shooting of a civilian, the throwing of Molotov cocktails, looting and a coordinated attempt to overrun the unified Command Center.”
Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Matt PearceLos Angeles Times
Christian Gooden � st. Louis Post-disPatCh
Brigadier Gen. Greg Mason of the Missouri National Guard speaks to the media on Monday, August 18, 2014, to explain the capacity his soldiers will take in securing the Ferguson, Mo., protest area in the coming days.
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Summer releases offer a cure for student stress
Summer is over. It is time for students to get back to the grueling schedule of everyday academia. What better way to alleviate the stress than with music? Most students suffer from stress at some point but do not fear, there is a cure! The remedy is easy listening, and this compilation will give a suggested dosage for individual genre tastes. Many artists produced great albums over the summer, and here are a few.
Andrew BirdThe eighth solo studio album
from American singer-songwriter Andrew Bird was released June 3. The dual melodicism of a violin and a whistle came together as far back as its release date, thus showing promise to the summer’s many anticipated albums. “Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…” continues to boast Bird’s signature style while existing as a collection of cover songs from The Handsome Family, some obscure Americana, husband and wife duo from Chicago.
Bird’s album provides a picked-up pacing to some otherwise traditionally slow-played songs, and other songs feature an intense arrangement of instruments with intricate sounds. It is a poetic album full of excellent easy listening melodies.
Willie NelsonTo completely reach a spectrum
of differences in artists, days later, Willie Nelson released his album, “Band of Brothers,” on June 17 through Legacy Recordings.
Needless to say, Nelson continues his artistic intelligence in another entry into the country music genre. As old as the man is, his new album offers newly written pieces that occupy more than half of the album. “Band of
Brothers” is traditional in essence, stylistically encompassed with the twang of steel guitar and harmonica, but Nelson manages to keep the arrangements rather poignant and elegant.
The AntlersTo stray from the solo acts,
indie-folk band The Antlers released its fifth studio album “Familiars” on June 17, as well. This album is the follow up to its critically successful album “Burst Apart” from 2011. Along the way, The Antlers brought an EP that endeavors into new-age territory with an entry into the rising genre of “dream-pop” with “Undersea.”
The EP was exceptional, and fared well against their more traditional previous albums, however “Familiars” truly manages to encompass the past and present perfectly, and still display new ideas. We find the band at a much more controlled pace with a fluidity of melodies that are utterly brilliant and beautiful. It offers a dramatic vision that had been yet unseen by The Antlers with an album as happy as is sad.
Old Crow Medicine ShowSome larger musical entries
came in July with the rise of Tom Petty and Old Crow Medicine Show once again.
On July 1, the Americana string band Old Crow Medicine Show released its album “Remedy.” There have been riffs and harmonies the group has been able to present over the years and this album continues that experience. Sharp jangling of drum-kicks and guitar beats underlie the smashing sounds of mandolin and harmonica.
“Remedy” certainly offers one of the best and creatively well-organized arrangements in this musical line-up and does so with its heavy use of stringed
instruments. Old Crow manages to bring the old-fashioned sound back once more.
Tom PettyOn July 29, Tom Petty and
the Heartbreakers ventured back out with its 13th studio album “Hypnotic Eye” to an expansive amount of critical acclaim. The album managed to debut at the number one spot in on the Billboard 200 chart, and it is not hard to understand why.
“Hypnotic Eye” burns with the intense fervor that Petty has presented in his music for years now. Some of the songs are possibly his greatest and have potential to be as memorable as songs from 1989’s “Full Moon Fever.”
Petty has the catching hooks of both guitar bridges and lyrical choruses, which existed in previous recordings, and he still brings the energy of his youth to the forefront in “Hypnotic Eye.”
LuceroLastly, we have the release of the
punk-rock country band Lucero. Its new album “Live from Atlanta” was released August 12. Despite being a live-recording of songs from their past albums, it has interestingly enough put the band on tour again. One of their stops on tour will be at Carbondale’s own Hangar 9. This event will be held Sept. 5, and thusly brings this outside acclaim and prestige of a much larger world of music into the microcosm that is Carbondale. The show will cost $15 in advance or $18 at the door, for ages 19 and up. Look forward to that, as it is also a component of the fourth annual Carbondale Rocks Revival music festival.
Nicaraguans, safe at home, feel little reason to flee to US
MANAGUA, Nicaragua —Nicaragua is the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and, like its Central American neighbors, a transhipment point for cocaine headed to the United States.
But unlike El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to the north, Nicaragua hasn’t sent a wave of children and teenagers fleeing north. Of the 62,998 unaccompanied children who’ve been detained at the U.S. border between Oct. 1 and the end of July, only 194 have been Nicaraguan, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures.
The reason? In part, it’s because while Nicaragua is poor, it’s also the safest country in Central America. Nicaragua’s homicide rate is slightly lower than neighboring Costa Rica, a nation known as the Switzerland of Central America. Vicious transnational street gangs that have overwhelmed police forces elsewhere have no presence in Nicaragua.
Experts looking for why point to a national police force widely seen as more engaged with the citizenry _ perhaps too much so, some might argue _ than its counterparts elsewhere. They also point to a migration pattern different from
that found in countries to the north. While Nicaraguans fled their homeland for the U.S. during the 1979-1990 Sandinista Revolution, they primarily settled in South Florida, where they were embraced by that region’s Cuban-Americans, who saw them as kindred refugees from communism, and where gangs such Los Angeles’ notorious 18th Street weren’t active.
Today Nicaraguans seeking opportunity are more likely to travel south, toward Costa Rica and Panama, than to make the dangerous and expensive journey north.
Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, a former leftist revolutionary who now leads an authoritarian pro-business government, takes pride in the low crime.
“We have the satisfaction, the blessing, the privilege of being one of the safest countries — I dare say — in the world,” Ortega’s wife and spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo, told the nation in a talk April 9.
There’s virtually no extortion in Nicaragua from criminal gangs of the kind rampant in the Central American nations to the north, and crime syndicates have failed to permeate law enforcement and the military. According to the State Department’s 2014 drug enforcement report, the amount of
cocaine transiting Nicaragua fell last year, from 9.7 tons seized in 2011 and 10.2 tons seized in 2012 to 3.3 tons in 2013.
Visiting industrialists from the Northern Triangle, as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are known, seem to breathe easier in Nicaragua.
“They come here driving their own cars. In their countries, they go around in armored cars and with guards. Here, they feel free. They feel they are in a different world,” said Jose Adan Aguerri, head of the Private Enterprise Council, or COSEP, Nicaragua’s umbrella association of business chambers.
Earlier this year, the United Nations Development Program reported that Nicaragua’s homicide rate had dropped to 8.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, below the 10.3 rate in Costa Rica, a nation that abolished its army in 1948 and has become a beacon of neutrality. Honduras, which tallies 92 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, has the highest murder rate in the world. El Salvador’s is 69 per 100,000 residents and Guatemala’s 39 per 100,000.
Nicaraguan officials credit a community-oriented style of policing that puts officers on beats across the country, talking constantly with the citizenry.
Nicaraguans, safe at home, feel little reason to flee to US
MANAGUA, Nicaragua —Nicaragua is the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and, like its Central American neighbors, a transhipment point for cocaine headed to the United States.
But unlike El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala to the north, Nicaragua hasn’t sent a wave of children and teenagers fleeing north. Of the 62,998 unaccompanied children who’ve been detained at the U.S. border between Oct. 1 and the end of July, only 194 have been Nicaraguan, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures.
The reason? In part, it’s because while Nicaragua is poor, it’s also the safest country in Central America. Nicaragua’s homicide rate is slightly lower than neighboring Costa Rica, a nation known as the Switzerland of Central America. Vicious transnational street gangs that have overwhelmed police forces elsewhere have no presence in Nicaragua.
Experts looking for why point to a national police force widely seen as more engaged with the citizenry _ perhaps too much so, some might argue _ than its counterparts elsewhere. They also point to a migration pattern different from
that found in countries to the north. While Nicaraguans fled their homeland for the U.S. during the 1979-1990 Sandinista Revolution, they primarily settled in South Florida, where they were embraced by that region’s Cuban-Americans, who saw them as kindred refugees from communism, and where gangs such Los Angeles’ notorious 18th Street weren’t active.
Today Nicaraguans seeking opportunity are more likely to travel south, toward Costa Rica and Panama, than to make the dangerous and expensive journey north.
Sandinista President Daniel Ortega, a former leftist revolutionary who now leads an authoritarian pro-business government, takes pride in the low crime.
“We have the satisfaction, the blessing, the privilege of being one of the safest countries — I dare say — in the world,” Ortega’s wife and spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo, told the nation in a talk April 9.
There’s virtually no extortion in Nicaragua from criminal gangs of the kind rampant in the Central American nations to the north, and crime syndicates have failed to permeate law enforcement and the military. According to the State Department’s 2014 drug enforcement report, the amount of
cocaine transiting Nicaragua fell last year, from 9.7 tons seized in 2011 and 10.2 tons seized in 2012 to 3.3 tons in 2013.
Visiting industrialists from the Northern Triangle, as El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras are known, seem to breathe easier in Nicaragua.
“They come here driving their own cars. In their countries, they go around in armored cars and with guards. Here, they feel free. They feel they are in a different world,” said Jose Adan Aguerri, head of the Private Enterprise Council, or COSEP, Nicaragua’s umbrella association of business chambers.
Earlier this year, the United Nations Development Program reported that Nicaragua’s homicide rate had dropped to 8.7 per 100,000 inhabitants, below the 10.3 rate in Costa Rica, a nation that abolished its army in 1948 and has become a beacon of neutrality. Honduras, which tallies 92 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, has the highest murder rate in the world. El Salvador’s is 69 per 100,000 residents and Guatemala’s 39 per 100,000.
Nicaraguan officials credit a community-oriented style of policing that puts officers on beats across the country, talking constantly with the citizenry.
Tim JohnsonMcClatchy Foreign Staff
Delhi Airport’s facility now functional for supsected Ebola
NEW DELHI — The quarantine-cum-isolation health facility at Delhi Airport has been made functional and all suspect cases of the Ebola Virus Disease detected at Delhi Airport would be admitted here from now on.
The move came after doctors at New Delhi’s Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital found that most cases, while screening passengers flying from West Africa for the deadly EVD, are found to be of Malaria, typhoid and a other diseases that cause high fever.
Union health ministry on August 9 had designated RML Hospital as the nodal hospital for management of cases of the Ebola Virus Disease in Delhi, following which suspected cases are being rushed there from the airport for mandatory screening.
However, a major chunk of the patients coming to Delhi for treatment from outside India. According to the hospital sources these are people who come to India for treatment and fever is a common symptom in most illnesses.
“These people are here for elective surgeries and form a substantial part of medical tourism in the country. Just on August 15, the passenger who was brought to us with high fever eventually tested positive for malaria,” said the hospital source.
“When airport authorities find them running high fever they rush them to us straight for Ebola screening. You have to test them and they are bound to turn negative cases,” said the source.
The hospital medical superintendent Dr HK Kar confirmed that many of those tested had come for treatment to India. “Delhi experiences maximum medical tourism rush in the country. Since screening is mandatory we can’t afford to not test them as a precautionary measure,” he said.
On an average, the hospital has been getting two to three suspected cases of Ebola daily.
“It will help to tackle suspected cases at the airport hospital,” said Kar.Meanwhile, the blood sample of a 79-year-old man from Nigeria was
sent to National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, as his ELISA blood test for Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was ‘inconclusive’.
83 ft. 2 in.
A modular Aeromedical Biological Containment System in placed in
the cabin section of the jet. This is a tent-like structure covered in
plastic that provides negative air pressure to keep pathogens from
entering the cabin.
Source: CDC, Associated Press, ReutersGraphic: Greg Good
A chartered medical plane is scheduled to take off early Tuesday from Liberia for Atlanta with American missionary Nancy Writebol aboard. The highly modified Gulfstream III is designed to convey very ill people over very long distances.
This is a look inside the retrofitted jet
Clam-shell cargo door
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Frame covered in plastic
The patient is accompanied by a doctor and nurse wearing protective clothing.
The bed and patient are also covered in a plastic layer.
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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Today’s Birthday (08/19/14). Let your love light shine this year. Your talents are in demand. October eclipses
(10/8, 23) open new doors at work and home. Household renovation strengthens infrastructure. After 12/23, it’s easier to express love and win at games. Springtime’s good for financial organization and making connections. Spontaneous travel and educational opportunities arise (until 2018). Steadfastly save resources. Share gratitude.
Aries (March 21-April 19) Today is a 7 — An unexpected
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delivered. Follow a hunch to advance. One possible route has a dead end. What works here won’t work there. Planning saves time and energy, and provides security. Invest in success.
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have the funds required. A partner can help you advance. Psyche out the opposition. Quiet pursuits reap unexpected rewards. Choose the option that feels most true. Follow your heart.
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about work. Finish up, despite changes. Find out who’s really in charge. Discover another option. All is not as it appears. Take your partner along for extra insight. Double-check instructions. Practice techniques.
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limits. Provide facts, and wait for what develops. You don’t have the full picture. Revise plans to roll with changes. Practical, creative actions solve the problem. Count your earnings.
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the gaps. Reconnect with distant friends. Love drops a surprise in your lap.
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fantasy... get out before the spell wears off. Unexpected circumstances at work offer new options. Choose the most practical direction, the one that adds to your family coffers.
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provide satisfying results today. Simple efforts like cooking and cleaning keep the household thriving. Surprises require postponing what you had planned. Graciously offer tea and comfort to unexpected guests.
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Two Saluki baseball players spent their summer calling a rival stadium home and calling eight oth-er Missouri Valley Conference play-ers their teammates.
Collegiate baseball players have the opportunity to play in summer leagues to develop their skills. The Saluki coaching staff placed sopho-more right-handed pitcher Austin McPheron and sophomore infielder Ryan Sabo with the Terre Haute Rex.
Terre Haute plays in the Pros-pect League at Bob Warn Field, which is also home to the Indiana State University Sycamores.
“It was a little funny,” Sabo said. “We just had the conference tourna-ment there and I went right back there to the same field.”
McPheron and Sabo were not only calling other conference play-ers their teammates, but they were also playing against six other Salukis in the same league.
“It was kind of weird actually,” McPheron said. “You’re used to be-ing on the same team, but now they’re over in another dugout rooting against
you, wearing another uniform.” Sabo said he liked seeing fa-
miliar faces and giving grief to his Saluki teammates. He will treat the other MVC players the same during the season, he said.
“We’ll see all of them next year,” Sabo said. “There’ll be some trash-talking, but it’s all in good fun. We turned into pretty good friends over the summer.”
Sabo was named the starting third baseman for the West Divi-sion of the Prospect League All-Star Game. He averaged .230 during the summer with 1 home run, 21 RBIs and 7 stolen bases.
“As far as (Sabo) goes, I just think that he’s a caged rat,” Rex manager Bobby Segal said. “He’s a sponge, he really enjoys the game, he respects the game and he plays it very hard.”
McPheron had a 4-1 record with a 3.61 ERA, 18 walks and 12 strike-outs in six starts.
He chose to come home July 10 because he needed a break from throwing. Saluki coach Ken Hen-derson said there was no problem with that.
“I talked with him at length
before he came home,” Henderson said. “It wasn’t like he just quit. He and I had a long talk, and that’s not uncommon. We did the same thing with Cody Forsythe once. Sam Coonrod came home early twice.”
Henderson said this year was the first time in his career at SIU every returning position player was placed with a summer team. He said he looked at the box scores every time he came to work.
“I had it down to a science,” Henderson said. “We had (players) in about six or seven different places. I had easy access to all of those and knew exactly where to find them so I would check every morning.”
Players usually stay with host families during the summer. Sabo said he has stayed with host families for a week at most before, but stay-ing the whole summer made him
feel like a part of the family.Sabo said his host family lived on
a lake and he would usually go fish-ing with McPheron before games.
“The first day it was pretty much just me and Austin,” Sabo said. “We kind of stuck by each other’s side and had each other’s backs all summer.”
McPheron said this summer was the first time he has stayed with a host family.
“I commute to SIU from home because I live pretty close by,” McPheron said. “That’s really my first time living away from home, so it was a neat experience.”
McPheron said he learned a lot from the other MVC players on the Rex, and has adopted some of their pre-game rountines. He said he wants to play in a more competitive league next summer, but wouldn’t mind going back to Terre Haute.
Former Rex players include for-
mer Indiana State shortstop Tyler Wampler, who played there in 2013 and won the MVC Defensive Player of the Year title in 2014. The Los An-geles Dodgers drafted him in June.
Segal said Sabo was one of the team’s best defenders, and he has a lot of potential in the future.
“Those summer league teams are trying to win,” Henderson said. “The coaches, the organization and our kids are trying to win. But for me it’s about getting players back in August that are better than what they left in May.”
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Golf coach aims high for low scoresWhen Leroy Newton began his job
as SIU’s ninth men’s golf coach only one Bush had been president, and the cost of tuition at SIU was $3,522.
Newton retired in May after 18 years on the job.
The man who succeeded Newton in July, Justin Fetcho, was not even in high school when Newton took over at SIU. Nearly five presidential terms later, Fetcho begins at a time when the cost of tuition at SIU is more than $10,000, according to colleg-ecalculator.org. It’s safe to say times have changed.
Fetcho, an Eldorado native, was a former assistant at the University of Illinois, the University of Oregon and the University of South Florida. He wants to change one more thing about Southern Illinois University.
“I want to bring the Missouri Valley Championship back to Car-bondale,” Fetcho said. That would be the first championship in the
39-years of Saluki golf in the MVC. Fetcho knows those results won’t
come easily. Newton led the Salukis to their best stretch in school history. Over Newton’s career SIU had eight top 4 finishes in the MVC tourna-ment and 13 All-Conference golfers.
Fetcho said he respects every-thing Newton did for SIU golf but sees his hiring as a chance to make history.
“I think Coach Newton did a great job building up the program,” he said. “I’ve known Coach Newton for a long time and I’ve got some big shoes to fill, but that championship is our goal and we’re going to get bet-ter each and every day leading up to that conference championship.”
Some players have already noticed Fetcho’s more intense approach. Junior Drew Novara said in just a few conver-sations, he realized the new coach will demand more out of his players.
“Talking with Coach Fetcho I think we are planning on working out a little harder,” Novara said. “I
think some of our practices will be a little bit tougher.”
“Working hard” is a phrase New-ton used frequently, but after a couple poor finishes in a row, Newton said he questioned how hard his golfers were working during an interview in April. He said his team was “not working hard enough” after a bad showing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock First Tee Collegiate Classic.
Fetcho said hard work and dedica-tion will not be a question on his team.
“What I’m going to bring to try to turn this around is going to be hard work,” he said. “We’re going to be working hard, we’re going to be preparing and we’re going to have this attitude from the first practice of the year.”
He said his attitude of prepara-tion and practice is a product of his former jobs at other schools. He has worked on some of the best teams in the nation including an Illinois team that finished in the top 5 twice.
While at USF Fetcho worked
closely with two Big East Freshmen of the Year and at Oregon he was an interim head coach with the women’s team. Fetcho said these experiences have prepared him to lead a team.
“I’ve been very diverse in my lo-cations,” he said. “I’ve been on the East Coast, West Coast, Midwest; I’ve worked for some great coaches and I’ve learned a lot, so now is a great opportunity for me to combine all that and put my own little flavor into the team aspect.”
Senior Steve Souchek also noticed Fetcho’s differences from Newton.
“I think Coach Fetcho is a lot more business-like,” Souchek said. “I think a lot of things will be more structured and timely versus Coach Newton who would usually let us know about our practices the day of. I think with Coach Fetcho, we might have schedules in advance.”
Even with the changes coming for Saluki golf, Fetcho expects his team to contend from day one. He said even though Wichita State Uni-
versity has claimed 12 of the last 15 MVC Championships, he is not wor-ried about SIU competing.
He said strategy and focus will be vital to unseating the dominant Shockers.
“I’m not scared of Wichita State,” he said. “I’m not scared of any of the teams in our conference. I respect them, but every time we tee it up against them we’re not going to be afraid to play them. We’re going to go out and take care of our business. That’s the only thing we can control.”
“If we have short games, if we drive the ball well and we play the game the right way, that’s what we can control and that’s how we’ll be great.”
It’s been a while since SIU has been “great” in golf. Fetcho hopes to change that and more when the sea-son starts Sept. 8 in Edwardsville.
Tyler Davis can be reached at [email protected], on Twitter @TDavis_DE
Tyler DavisDaily Egyptian
Two Salukis develop on enemy turfAaron GraffDaily Egyptian ‘‘ I t was kind of weird actually. You’re used to being on the same team, but
now they’re over in another dugout rooting against you, wearing another jersey.
— Austin McPheronSIU Pitcher
2004-2005: John A. LoganJunior College National
Championshipsrunner-up & Academic
All-American
2006-2007: University of South FloridaBest placing was a tie
for seventh placein the Adams Cup of Newport as a
Junior & he logged a team-best 72.2 scoring average as a Senior
2007-2009: Played events on Nation-wide, Hooters, E-Golf and Moonlight
Tours
2009-2011: Assistant men’s golf coachUniversity of South Florida
2011-2013: Assistant Women’s golf coach at University of Oregon
2013-2014: Assistant Coach of U of I - Now in his second season
2005: Associate degree from John A. Logan
2007: Bachelor’s in Elementary Educa-tion at University of South Florida
