A Carbondale police officer kneels next to an overturned vehicle on South Poplar Street after the victim was extracted by rescue personnel Thursday. Two vehicles were involved in the wreck with no fatalities reported.

JAMES DURBIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

The Saluki football team gets pumped before the season opening game against Quincy Thursday at Saluki Stadium. The Salukis beat the Hawks 70-7 in front of the opening day crowd. The new stadium contains 15,000 seats and 15,276 people were in attendance. For the full story, see page 16.

JAMES DURBIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Two vehicles collided today at South Poplar and West Cherry Street into what looked like a “T-bone,” an onlooker said.

A white Ford Explorer crashed into a blue Jeep Grand Cherokee in the middle of the intersection. ­ e Explorer � ipped several times and landed upside down in the east lane while the Cherokee was pushed up into the yard of 500 W. Cherry Street, said Evan Truesdale, the � rst witness to arrive on the scene.

Lt. Keith Sti� said the driver of the Explorer sustained injuries and was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.

Onlooker Sean Harper said he got a call from a buddy and came running outside at the same time Truesdale stopped to help.

“­ ere was an ROTC guy that was driving by, he jumped out of his car, said ‘I’m a medic’ and start-

ed wrapping the guy in shirts,” on-looker Sean Harper said.

Truesdale said he saw the crash out of his peripheral vision and im-mediately ran to check the drivers.

“When I got to the (Explorer), I assessed the � rst person I saw. I talked to him, calmed him down, made sure he had eye movement, and was conscious and coherent,” Truesdale said.

Truesdale, a senior from Chi-cago studying political science, said the driver’s hand was pinned between the roof of the vehicle and the pavement, so when police and medics arrived Truesdale and sev-eral other witnesses helped li� the vehicle o� the driver’s hand.

“It looked like he had some frac-tures in his forearm. ­ e injured person was in amazingly good health considering the force of the impact,” Truesdale said.

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To help manage budget cuts,   e SIU athletic department will receive a guaranteed payment of $80,000 when the men’s basketball team plays the University of Illinois Nov. 13 in Champaign, Athletic Director Mario Moccia said.

“We are being paid to play there,” said Mark Scally, associate athletic director of � nances, in an email. “In the past we’ve avoided this type of game in an e� ort to increase our chances of winning or at least get a return game.   is is a pure money deal.”

With the university likely to face an $11.5 million shortfall for � scal year 2011, Chancellor Rita Cheng said in an email to university personnel Aug. 2 that she had asked each department on campus to submit plans for an average 4 percent reduction in its budget for the � scal year.

Scally said the department enacted more than $400,000 cuts for 2011.

He said about $69,000 was part of the proposed 4 percent cuts, but another $325,000 in cuts became necessary a� er the student fee increase proposal, which was approved by the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate and Professional Student Council, was withdrawn from the Board of Trustees agenda this spring before a vote occured.

Moccia said the department

would not receive the fee increase this year because, with the economic situation, the university did not want to add more student fees.

To make the cuts, the department saved $45,000 by eliminating printed media guides for this year and replacing them with online versions, a cut made possible by a change in NCAA legislation, Scally said.   e basketball game against the University of Illinois will also help make up budget losses because of the cuts, he said.

  e teams’ required travel has been a challenge as the department manages its budget, he said.

“We have tried to schedule more regionally for non-conference opponents, but we are required to compete at other sites,” Scally said. “Omaha didn’t get any closer because of budget cuts.”

With football, for example, Moccia said the department scheduled games against regional teams such as Southeast Missouri State instead of non-conference games that would require plane trips.

Also, he said the team would play teams from larger conferences in coming years for larger paydays.

“Now we’re playing Big Ten schools or Big 12 schools or SEC,” he said. “So, in the next few years we have Illinois, Ole Miss, Missouri, Purdue — those kind of schools.”

  e department did not lay o� anyone, but one civil service worker in a clerical position le� the university, Scally said. At this point, the department will leave the position un� lled and use the money for the budget cuts, he said.

All areas of the athletic department felt the sting of the budget cuts, but it has tried to minimize the e� ect of the cuts to student-athletes and any speci� c team, Scally said.

“We try to treat each sport as equally as possible, so there really isn’t a big loser,” he said.

Swimming and diving head coach Rick Walker said the athletic department administrators have worked hard to make sure the cuts do not a� ect the athletes.

“  ey’ve accomplished that,” he said. “Now, there are probably cutbacks still to come, so eventually the athletes will start to notice some changes.”

However, Walker said he is proud the department did not take the easy way out and instead looked at ways to deal with the cuts in a way that was as fair as possible to the teams and athletes.

He said these types of cuts have been debilitating to athletic departments at other universities.

“  at’s not to say we’re through it,” Walker said “We’re not. We’ve still got some tough times ahead of us, but our athletes are prepared for it.   ey know the sacri� ces have not been on their backs.”

During Christmas break, Walker

said the swimming and diving team usually travels to train without distractions. However, because of the cost, it will stay to train in Carbondale for the second year in a row.

He said the team also does several fundraisers throughout the year to help make ends meet.

Overall, Scally said the department has been able to handle the cuts to this point, and he hopes the new football stadium and renovated SIU Arena will bring in more people.

“We have been fortunate so far,” he said. “I’m not sure how much further we can stretch a dollar. I hope the new facilities lead to larger crowds and ticket sales, which will make this much easier.”

Moccia said the department’s contract with sporting equipment provider Under Armour helps cover many of the equipment costs, which has allowed the department to focus on cutbacks in areas such as o ce supplies.

“  at was the one focus we tried to do, is try to have the student-athletes at least have the same experience that

they’ve been having,” Moccia said.Other cutbacks include having

coaches drive back a� er a recruiting trip instead of staying overnight if it is reasonably close, and every purchase must be cleared by Scally or himself, Moccia said.

If the budget situation gets worse, Scally said the e� ect on the department will depend on how large of a cut is necessary.

“  e next step depends on how bad the next cut is,” he said. “For example, a $10,000 cut would be hard; a $100,000 may be catastrophic.”

To get through the budget problems, Walker said he believes the administrators will lead the department through the di cult times.

“I trust that they are going to � gure out how to get us through this, and they’ve got no bigger supporters than their coaches,” he said. “We’re all in this together.”

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Athletics department stretches their dollar

JACOB MAYERDaily Egyptian

Running back Shariff Harris shakes hands with head coach Dale Lennon after scoring one of his two touchdowns in the Thursday game against Quincy. To help manage budget cuts, the athletic

department has scheduled games against regional teams such as Southeast Missouri University instead of non-conference games that would require plane trips.

PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

W e are being paid to play there. In the past we’ve avoided this type of game in an effort to increase our

chances of winning or at least get a return game. This is a pure money deal.

 

— Mark Scallyassociate athletic director of finances

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Dear Editor:I agree with the Daily Egyp-

tian’s position on not having lights at Abe Martin, but as I read the edi-torial, I got the notion that the paper opposes the construction of the new stadium and the arena renovation. As a son of a former SIU football coach, and a friend of a baseball player, I was shocked by the last sentence. Your pa-per should do more investigation of a topic before you publish a story. Back when my dad was coaching here, the

conditions at McAndrew Stadium were horrible then, too. ­ e funny thing about this is that the basket-ball team always needed new game jerseys or warm-ups. ­ e basketball team also traveled via charter plane while football took a bus. My point is that basketball should have saved the money that was spent for renova-tions. So please don’t include football in the blame game with basketball.

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Basketball, football spending on different fields

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Israeli and Palestinian leaders are in Washington in an attempt to make peace — again.

­ is summit marks the latest chap-ter in a story that began on the White House lawn 17 years ago, when Israelis and Palestinians committed themselves to ending the con£ ict once and for all. Since then, every round has failed and bloodshed has continued. Against the backdrop of Tuesday’s Palestinian ter-rorist attack that le¥ four Israeli civilians dead, including a pregnant Israeli wom-an, there is, for the ¦ rst time in history, a reason for optimism.

Most Arab leaders view a Middle Eastern state other than Israel — Iran — as their major enemy. ­ e Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is strong, stable and deeply committed to resolving the con£ ict based on two states for two peo-ples, Israeli and Palestinian.

In the West Bank, Palestinian Au-thority President Mahmoud Abbas is working to restore law, order and economic prosperity while similarly pledging to pursue the two-state solu-tion. And President Barack Obama has placed achieving peace at the top of his foreign policy agenda. Never before, perhaps, have conditions been so con-ducive for a breakthrough.

Still, daunting obstacles remain. Nearly half of the territory slated to become part of the future Palestinian state is controlled by Hamas, an Iranian-backed terrorist group dedicated to Is-rael’s destruction.

­ e Palestinian Authority, mean-while, is insisting that Israel inde¦ nitely freeze all construction in the West Bank Jewish communities. While little can be done at this stage to neutralize the Hamas threat — the hope is that the people of Gaza will someday rid them-selves of Hamas and opt for peace — the construction issue need not be a deal breaker. Adding a bedroom for a grow-

ing family should not disrupt the peace process.

­ e West Bank — Judea and Sa-maria in the Bible— was twice used as a staging ground for wars of annihilation against Israel, which captured the area in 1967. Sacred to the Jewish people for 3,000 years and vital to the defense of Is-rael’s borders — a mere eight miles wide prior to 1967 — the area became home to hundreds of thousands of Israelis.

With the start of the peace process in 1993, successive Israeli governments recognized the need to make pain-ful sacri¦ ces in these crucial territories while upholding the right of Israeli citi-zens to continue to build there. Palestin-ian and Israeli leaders agreed that the ¦ nal status of these settlements would be determined, along with Jerusalem, refugees and borders, in the peace talks.

Since assuming o® ce a year and a half ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Ne-tanyahu has made gestures to the Pal-estinians to encourage them to resume negotiations, removing hundreds of

checkpoints and facilitating the Pales-tinian economic boom and refraining from building any new settlements, from acquiring new territory for exist-ing ones, and from incentivizing Israelis to move to them. ­ en in a measure described as “unprecedented” by Secre-tary of State Hillary Clinton, Netanyahu froze construction within the settle-ments for 10 months.

­ e Palestinians are now threat-ening to quit the negotiations unless Netanyahu extends the construction freeze. Israel, of course, is seeking specif-ic goals in the talks, including the demil-itarization of the Palestinian state and its recognition of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.

Israel also wants the Palestinians to cease teaching their children that Israel has no right to exist and naming their public squares a¥ er terrorists.

But we are not insisting that the Pal-estinians meet these objectives before the talks even begin. We appreciate, therefore, Clinton’s call for “good faith”

negotiations “without preconditions.”Settlements have never been an ob-

stacle to peace. ­ ough Israelis account for 17 percent of the West Bank popu-lation, they inhabit a mere 1.7 percent of the land. ­ e existence of the settle-ments did not prevent Egypt and Jor-dan from making peace with Israel or the Palestinians from negotiating with us for nearly two decades. All parties to negotiations understand that the large settlement clusters will, in any ¦ nal sta-tus treaty, remain part of Israel.

As Obama launches the direct Israeli-Palestinian talks, there is reason for optimism — in spite of the obstacles. If the core issues are determined at the table rather than before the negotiations start, Netanyahu and Abbas can move swi¥ ly and con¦ dently toward conclud-ing a historic treaty. ­ ough long over-due, but not too late, the peace we have yearned for may yet be achieved.

Dr. Michael B. Oren is Israel’s ambassador to the United States.

Michael OrenMcClatchy Tribune

Reason for optimism in Mideast peace talksTHEIR WORD

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Glenn Beck is liberation theology-obsessed

At least Glenn Beck isn’t among the nearly one in � ve Americans who believe President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Nor, as far as he’s yet admit-ted, is he among the majority of Re-publicans who actually told News-week’s pollsters that they believe the president hopes to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, on America.

No, Beck — who appears to be campaigning for prelate of an amor-phous new civil religion — believes Obama schemes to impose collec-tivism because he is an adherent of liberation theology.

On Sunday, the Fox News per-sonality, fresh from the success-ful promotional rally for his chat shows and business enterprises staged on the National Mall the day before, told his colleague Chris Wallace that he regrets calling the president a “racist,” because he now realizes that Obama “understands the world through liberation theol-

ogy, which is oppressor-and-victim. People aren’t recognizing his ver-sion of Christianity. … It’s all about victims and victimhood; oppressors and the oppressed; reparations, not repentance; collectivism, not indi-vidual salvation. … It’s a perversion of the Gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it.”

It’s an odd enough allegation on its own — mainly because there’s no evidence that the president is an ad-vocate of liberation theology — but there’s little doubt about what Beck believes it implies. In a broadcast last month, he linked the movement to the Black Panthers — again without evidence — and charged that they “and anyone who subscribes to lib-eration theology are perverting the message of Christianity, and it goes straight to evil.” Liberation theology, he said, “leads to genocide.”

Beck may no longer believe the chief executive is a racist, but he is strangely bent on linking race and liberation theology: � rst the Pan-thers, then the president, and, in

another broadcast last month, the weird allegation that the distin-guished African Methodist Episco-pal theologian James Cone is “one of the founding fathers of liberation theology.”

Like the philosopher-theologian Cornel West, Cone is one of the black scholars who have applied principles borrowed from liberation theology to their re� ections on the condition of black America. He cer-tainly is not among its founders.

Beck has made a lucrative spe-cialty of peddling fantasies about the Founding Fathers and the history of the Revolutionary and constitution-al eras. However, there’s something particularly distasteful, even sinister, about misrepresenting the content of religious beliefs — or to attribut-ing a variety of belief to someone who does not hold it.

Liberation theology is a move-ment that took shape in the late 1950s and ‘60s among Latin Ameri-can Catholic thinkers, foremost among them the Peruvian Domini-

can priest Gustavo Gutierrez, who coined the term. e other “found-ers” were the Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo; the Spanish Jesuit Jon Sobrino, who has spent most of his career in El Salvador; and the Brazil-ian Franciscan Leonardo Bo� .

ese are hardly shadowy � g-ures; Gutierrez, for example, is the O’Hara Professor of eology at Notre Dame.

eir common position was that social injustice is a form of violence arising from sin. ey urged the poor, and those acting in solidarity with them, to re� ect on Scripture from the perspective of the poor. To that end, some argued that certain facets of Marxist analysis, particu-larly those having to do with social class, could be helpful. None of this is particularly mysterious, nor does it have anything to do with Obama. In fact, it’s hard to imagine anyone touched by liberation theology pro-posing anything like his Wall Street bailout.

Beck also has alleged that Pope

Benedict XVI condemned liberation theology as “demonic.” at’s anoth-er fantasy. As the cardinal in charge of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he acted in 1984 and 1986 to condemn “cer-tain forms” of liberation theology for elevating practice above ortho-doxy and for promoting a notion of struggle against hierarchy that could be extended to the Roman Catholic Church itself. As ponti� , his writings on social justice don’t di� er substan-tially from those of most liberation theologians.

His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, counseled Latin American bish-ops that any moral concept of pri-vate property “must lead to a more just and equitable distribution of goods.”

Perhaps Beck should go back to peddling misinformation about the Founding Fathers, who have been dead too long to complain.

Timothy Rutten is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

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Tim RuttenMcClatchy Tribune

Politicians lost loving feeling for Muslims

As we navigate away from our xenophobic August, with so many opportunists in high dudgeon about Muslims in our midst, per-haps it’d be wise to quote a nota-bly tolerant Republican, some-body whose words might possibly shame the fearmongers who per-vade his own party.

For instance: “America counts millions of Muslims amongst our citizens, and Muslims make an in-credibly valuable contribution to our country. Muslims are doctors, lawyers, law professors, members of the military, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, moms and dads. And they need to be treated with respect. In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect. … ey love America just as much as I do.”

On Sept. 17, 2001, so said Pres-ident George W. Bush.

Hey, I’m starting to miss the guy. Notwithstanding all the di-sastrous aspects of his presidency, his generous, inclusive attitude to-ward immigrants of color — par-ticularly Muslim-Americans in the wake of 9/11 — was always in the � nest American tradition. We could use a sustained dose of his tone today.

Unfortunately, the conserva-tive movement that he twice led to victory now seems to have shelved

that pluralistic tradition, prefer-ring instead to sow fear to reap short-term political gain. And not a single prominent Republi-can politician has had the cour-age — heck, it’s not even courage, it’s a duty — to step forward and denounce the roiling irrational-ity that infects our political dis-course.

So we’re stuck with the faux issue of a “ground zero mosque” that’s actually not just a mosque — it’s a proposed community cen-ter with an interfaith board of di-rectors — and not at ground zero; with Newt Gingrich equating all Muslims to Nazis; with myriad attacks on mosques in Florida (pipe bombs, bullets); with Sarah Palin Twittering her simplici-ties; with an evangelical pastor who plans to mark the 9/11 an-niversary by burning copies of the Quran (when asked what he knew about the Quran, he replied, “I have no experience with it what-soever”); with a tea party blogger who writes that all Muslims are “animals” who worship a “monkey god,” and whatever else the haters are doing in our name.

Since no elected Republican dares to utter a peep, let us try to quell the hatred, however brie� y, by skimming the cream of the Bush oeuvre. What you’re about to read was mainstream Republican thinking just a few scant years ago.

From the president’s second in-

augural address, on Jan. 20, 2005:“In America’s ideal of free-

dom, the public interest depends on private character, on integrity and tolerance toward others. …

at edi� ce of character is built in families, supported by communi-ties with standards, and sustained in our national life by the truths of Sinai, the Sermon on the Mount, the words of the Quran. …”

From remarks on June 27, 2007, at the rededication of the Is-lamic Center in Washington:

“We come to express our ap-preciation for a faith that has en-riched civilization for centuries. We come in celebration of Ameri-ca’s diversity of faith and our unity as free people. And we hold in our hearts the ancient wisdom of the great Muslim poet Rumi: ‘ e lamps are di� erent, but the light is the same.’”

From remarks on Sept. 17, 2001:

“Both Americans and Muslim friends and citizens, tax-paying citizens … were just appalled and could not believe what we saw on our TV screens. ese acts of vio-lence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that. e English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Quran itself: ‘In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those

who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.’ e face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. at’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace.”

Compared with what we’re hearing on the Republican right these days, Bush sounds like a “Kumbaya” folkie in the tradition of Peter, Paul and Mary. But even at the time, he was no starry-eyed naïf. Aside from the fact that his calls for tolerance were in the best American tradition, there was also a dash of calculation. He and his advisers knew al-Qaeda wanted to frame the war on terror as a clash of civilizations.

erefore, it ill-served Ameri-ca to behave as though it were at war with Islam. It was smarter to embrace the followers of Islam, as a way of isolating the violent ex-tremists who had perverted its te-nets. Basically, this was a national-security priority. It still is.

Bush’s former chief speech-writer, Michael Gerson, under-stands that. He’s one of the only Bush alumni who has spoken out. In a recent newspaper column, he reiterated the Bush credo: “A president not only serves Muslim citizens, not only commands Mus-lims in the American military, but also leads a coalition that includes Iraqi and Afghan Muslims who risk death every day � ghting Is-lamic radicalism at our side.”

In other words, Americans who attack their fellow Muslim citizens — and politicians who in� ame such attacks or remain mute — are weakening America. As Gerson put it, treating Muslims as bogeymen, and assailing their Lower Manhattan project, will “undermine the war on terrorism. A war on Islam would make a war on terrorism impossible.”

Of course, it’s easy to under-stand why the post-Bush GOP has done nothing to quell the Muslim-bashing.

Its priorities are decidedly short-term. Forget the war on terror; this party is primarily fo-cused on the war for control of Congress. Its conservative base is angry, fearful and ginned up for November. Muslim American voters are far less numerous, and the liberals and moderates who lament the current hysteria aren’t likely to vote Republican anyway — or even to vote at all this year.

So it’s probably futile to wave the � ag and quote George W. Bush again, but let’s give it one last try. Six days a· er 9/11, he warned his fellow citizens that Muslims “must be not intimidated in America.

at’s not the America I know. at’s not the America I value.”

Is that really so hard to agree with?

Dick Polman is a columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Dick PolmanMcClatchy Tribune

Travelers may see anywhere up to 35 cents tacked on at the pump this weekend.

According to a release from GasBuddy.com, prices may reach $2.85 to $2.89 in parts of Illinois and $2.75 to $2.79 in Kentucky. At some stations, the increase could be as much as 35 cents per gallon compared to prices Thursday morning.

Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com, said the influx of gas prices could be attributed to the increase in wholesale gas prices for the last week and a half. He also said less people are being laid off so gas prices have increased to meet the demands of people going to work.

“Second of all, it’s a Labor Day travel holiday weekend and a lot of stations are eager to raise their price just a penny or two to take advantage of holiday travelers,” DeHaan said.

DeHaan said Illinois may not see as much of an increase because there are not as many Speedway SuperAmerica stations in the state.

“They have the power to set prices and whatever the price

is that they set all of the other stations follow and raise their prices,” he said.

DeHaan said prices in Illinois would slowly increase Friday and Saturday, immediately falling thereafter. He said prices should lower again in September and the rest of the fall season and will somewhat depend on the hurricane season.

Mike Right, vice president of public affairs for the St. Louis branch of the American Automobile Association, said 31.4 million Americans nationwide are expected to hit the roadways this holiday weekend, which is up 10 percent from last year.

Right said any slight increase in gasoline is more likely because of the increase of crude oil and wholesale gasoline prices. He said the Labor Day holiday really has little to no effect on the retail price of gasoline.

Some SIU students are displeased about the rise in gas

prices as they travel back home.Mindy Hoene, a senior from

Effingham studying engineering, said she is not happy about the price of gas and is planning to take alternative means of travel to reduce costs.

“I am actually going to start carpooling with people because I am not going to continue to put $40 dollars in my tank to go home two hours away,” Hoene said.

Carbondale resident Kevin Rathert said he depends on traveling, working as a sales representative for Western & Southern Financial. He said gas prices directly affect how much he makes.

“(The gas prices are) costing me out the wazoo and doing it around the holiday is not right,” Rathert said. “It hurts just as much here if not more because there is not as many people working.”

Ryan Simonin can be reached at rsimonin@dailyegyptian.com

or by 536-3311 ext. 274.

Gas prices may rise 35 cents per gallon during weekendDaily Egyptian News Friday, September 3, 20106

A new program could help students o¥ -campus get the same education opportunities as those in the classrooms.

A Distance Learning Steering Committee was appointed last spring to study methods to improve the way the university’s online programs are available to students, said James Cradit, dean of College of Business and member of the Distance Learning Steering Committee. Chancellor Rita Cheng, in a letter to the university, said she appointed a Distance Education Council to oversee the next stages a er reviewing the committee’s recommendations.

Cradit said this would increase the university’s enrollment numbers.

“Because we have declining enrollment and tuition revenue, we’re putting ourselves deeper in the hole,” Cradit said. “Whereas, this is the very thing that will get us out of the hole. © e residential campus is not going to go away, but it may have very real limits on the size of the population here. We’re in an isolated area.”

SIUC enrollment has dropped every year since 2005, including a drop of 1,849 students from fall 2007

to spring 2010. Enrollment numbers for this fall are expected early next week, said university spokesman Rod Sievers. Ten day enrollment numbers for each semester are typically released on the second Friday of the semester, but Sievers said Labor Day would complicate the release.

Interim Provost Don Rice said SIUC needs to see changes to how it executes it’s distance learning program.

“We’re behind the curve,” he said. “We don’t o¥ er the number of programs online that other universities do.”

© e university needs programs like this to get out of its budget crisis, Cradit said.

“© is university needs to break out of this ‘place-bound’ mode and deliver things online to students who would not normally come here,” he said. “We’re in a crisis, and our tuition has risen to the levels to which we’re also making it di« cult for students to

go to school. It’s a matter of trying to increase our visibility and improve our programs that will attract students.”

Susan Logue, associate provost for academic administration and council chairwoman, said the council will work with various academic departments, colleges, support units and constituency groups to ensure the policies and infrastructure of distance learning at the university.

“What we’re trying to do is incorporate the distant learning initiative with the colleges, so it has more to do with that than anything with the structure of courses,” she said.

Cradit said one of the main concerns with courses is how faculty would be paid. He said it could create a work “overload,” which would place faculty member above their regular teaching and research load — creating a need for compensation money. © e goal is to ® nd a way to balance the faculty’s pay and the cost

of o¥ ering the course.“We need to do this at a sustainable

level — meaning we want programs that will create net revenue,” Cradit said. “If we get enough pro® t, some of that goes back to the university to help further it, but then it stays with the college. © ere are a lot of competitive programs between here and Chicago — where a lot of our students come from.”

© e committee will address how the university can create a startup and reserve fund for distance learning programs, but Cradit said online courses could still be cheaper than classroom-style courses.

“Hands down, the most expensive way to teach students, in terms of cost, is to place a small number of them in one room, and a faculty member with a piece of chalk,” he said.

Rice said doing this study would allow faculty to have the tools and the training needed to create cutting edge courses. He said they wish to

expand and improve the program, but also give colleges control of what was o¥ ered.

“We want to create online courses and programs that will attract students,” he said. “We hope this is an enhancement to our program, and a considerable expansion. We want the online courses to be owned by the colleges but there has to be some central oversight.”

Rice said the committee would look into the recommendations and there should be more answers in the fall. © e concerns are how the program develops distance learning courses, the program’s funding and the bandwidth available.

Logue said it was important to expand on what structure has already been created in the department, and use that to help all students.

“© e Division of Continuing Education has done an excellent job creating structures that we have in place right now, and I think we can build on those right now,” she said. “© at’s the most critical thing I think, that we provide support for students who are at a disadvantage.”

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 256. Ryan Voyles

Committee investigates online course expansionLAUREN LEONEDaily Egyptian

RYAN SIMONINDaily Egyptian

T hey have the power to set prices and whatever the price is that they set all of the other stations follow and raise

their prices.

— Patrick DeHaan senior petroleum analyst for GasBuddy.com

W hat we’re trying to do is incorporate the distant learning initiative with the colleges, so it has more to do with that than anything with the structure of courses.

— Susan Logue associate provost for academic administration and council chairwoman

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Katherine Frith said she went to a dinner to talk about one thing — fasting.

Frith, a professor in the SIUC School of Journalism, said fasting is important to many major religions, and they are all interconnected through their spiritual goals.

“All of our spiritual interests are about non-material things, regard-less of the words we use,” she said. “I think it’s the words that have sepa-rated people over time.”

Frith spoke about Buddhist fast-ing practices to about 50 people at the third annual Intercultural Dialogue Student Association If-tar dinner � ursday at the Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center. � e dinner also included speeches about the fasting practices of Muslims, Christians and Jews.

� e aim of the third annual Dia-logue I� ar, or breaking of the fast, dinner was to promote dialogue and mutual understanding among people of diverse backgrounds at SIUC and in Carbondale, said Sabri Yilmaz, president of the associa-tion.

Imam Abdul Haqq, of the Car-bondale Muslim Center, said fast-ing is important to Muslims dur-ing the month of Ramadan, which lasts from Aug. 11 to Sept. 10. He said fasting is something that is prescribed for people so they can

learn self-restraint.For Muslims, Haqq said fasting

prevents them from having ideas or thoughts of sel� shness.

“It is also for us to learn how to control human beings’ emotions, the attributes that make us unique in this creation,” he said.

Haqq said fasting helps people

stayed disciplined, as well as under-stand the sense of hunger and thirst that people without those resources face. Muslim’s fast during Ramadan helps them stay away from bad be-havior and to help others, he said.

“We are capable and will be re-straining our desires so that the best of our character, the best of our

human excellence will be utilized for the advancement of not only ourselves, but our fellow human be-ings,” Haqq said.

Don Sparling, deacon at St. An-drew’s Catholic Church in Mur-physboro, said there are actually several similarities between Cath-olics and Muslims in how they

honor the Virgin Mary.� e dinner was another way to

bring together di¢ erent religions and share ideas, he said.

Jacob Podber, an associate pro-fessor in radio-television, spoke about fasting in Judaism, and said he was frustrated when he was young that he was unable to fast un-til his bar mitzvah when he turned 13-years-old.

“A� er that, of course I started to regret the having to fast, whereas when I was younger I wanted to fast because I thought that was the ideal,” Podber said.

Overall, Yilmaz said people of di¢ erent faiths should come to-gether and understand di¢ erent re-ligions and cultures.

“Our goal was to give the people who attend this dinner the idea of sharing your dinner, sharing your culture and sharing your tradition,” he said.

Jacob Mayer can be reached at jmayer@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

Several religions gather to break bread

Imam Abdul Haqq, of Carbondale, the Imam of the Carbondale Muslim Center, socializes with members of his and other congregations Thursday at the Intercultural Dialogue Student

Association’s annual dinner. The dinner had four people from four different religious backgrounds give speeches about what it means to fast in their specific denomination.

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JACOB MAYER Daily Egyptian

O ur goal was to give the people who

attend this dinner the idea of sharing your dinner, sharing your culture and sharing your tradition.

—Sabri Yilmaz president of the third annual Dialogue Iftar

Emergency Medical Services arrived quickly and took the man to Carbondale Memorial Hospi-tal. Harper said he didn’t think either vehicle made an attempt to stop.

The driver of the blue Jeep Cherokee had only minor injuries and refused medical service.

Carbondale police declined to release the drivers’ names or com-ment on the collision.

Christina Spakousky can be reached at cgray@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 258.

CRASHCONTINUED FROM 1

T here was an ROTC guy that

was driving by, he jumped out of his car, said ‘I’m a medic’ and started wrapping the guy in shirts.

— Sean Harperonlooker

A man involved in a two car accident is pulled from his overturned vehicle on South Poplar Street Thursday. According to Carbondale police, the man sustained injuries but was in good condition and

was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. Witnesses say the man’s hand had been pinned between the roof of his vehicle and the pavement.

JAMES DURBIN| DAILY EGYPTIAN

Daily Egyptian News Friday, September 3, 20108

WIRE REPORTS

NORTH CAROLINAEast Coast braces for a pounding from Earl; Nantucket and Cape Cod could get the brunt

BUXTON — The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hun-kered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds Thursday on North Carolina’s dangerously exposed Outer Banks, the first and potentially most destructive stop on the storm’s projected journey up the Eastern Seaboard.

The hurricane’s leading edge brought on-and-off light rain in the afternoon to the long ribbon of barrier islands, which were expected to get the brunt of the storm around midnight.

Earl’s arrival could mark the start of at least 24 hours of stormy, windy weather along the East Coast. During its march up the Atlantic, it could snarl travelers’ Labor Day weekend plans and strike a second forceful blow to the vacation homes and cottages on Long Island, Nantucket Island and Cape Cod.

It was unclear exactly how close Earl’s center and its strongest winds would get to land. But Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Craig Fugate said people shouldn’t wait for the next forecast to act.

“This is a day of action. Conditions are going to deteriorate rapidly,” he said.

WASHINGTONIn early sign of promise, Israel, Palestinians agree to work on outline of final peace deal

WASHINGTON — In an early sign of promise, Israeli and Palestinian leaders pledged Thursday in a cordial first round of talks to keep meeting at regular intervals, aiming to nail down a framework for overcoming deep disputes and achieving lasting peace within a year.

As their facilitator-in-chief, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to rise above the suspicion and skepticism that has blocked peace efforts for decades. “By being here today, you each have taken an important step toward freeing your peoples from the shackles of a history we cannot change,” she said.

The eventual aim is the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state beside a secure Israel.

Thursday’s results, in the first face-to-face peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in nearly two years, were modest — and acknowledged as such by all sides. There was no detailed negotiation on any substantive issue, according to George Mitchell, the administration’s special envoy for Mideast peace, who held months of preparatory talks and was a partici-pant in most of the day’s discussions.

Netanyahu and Abbas will meet again on Sept. 14 and 15 in the Middle East, probably at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik, with Clinton and Mitchell attending. The two also agreed to meet roughly every two weeks after that — sometimes with U.S. officials present, other times not.

NEW YORKRetailers report solid sales gains for August, but worries about holiday season abound

NEW YORK — This year’s back-to-school season isn’t as big a bust for retailers as they feared — or as last year’s — but it’s not great either.

Americans are spending only when the item and price are just right, according to August reports from major chains released Thursday that showed shoppers bought a little more than a year ago.

Analysts expect stores will need to keep discounting to get shoppers to spend this fall and for the holiday season while they grapple with job worries and tight credit.

“It’s a glimmer of hope that the numbers are coming in ahead of low expectations,” said Ken Perkins, president of research firm RetailMetrics. “But the back-to-school shopping season isn’t anything to get excited about. It means that Santa may not be dumping a huge lump of coal, but it sets up a very promotional holiday season.”

Retailers that cautiously primed for a comeback five months ago as sales improved have been scaling back their hopes and making some tweaks to their merchandise again, analysts said. And stores will face more difficult comparisons starting this month because consumer spending had started rising by last September.

CHICAGO — Calling the Chicago police chief 's ultimatum to stop resorting to violence a waste of time, current and former members of some of the city's most notorious street gangs held an un-likely news conference on � urs-day to send their own message to police: You're not playing fair.

Representatives of the Traveling Vice Lords, Four Corner Hustlers and other gangs gathered before TV cameras on a park building portico and bemoaned a recent message police Superintendent Jody Weis gave to reputed gang leaders at what has been billed as a "gang summit" — that if gangs don't stop the killings, police will go a� er their leaders.

"Is it possible for one person to micromanage a group?" Vice Lords gang member Jim Allen asked re-porters, wearing a black baseball cap with the words, "Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest." ''We will not be responsible for anyone's ac-

tions but our own."Former gang member Reginald

Berry Sr. said police would be better o� if gang members were given job o� ers instead of threats of jail time.

"� e problem with them is they're giving us an ultimatum — 'quit!' instead of alternatives," he said. Members of gangs ought to be told, "Get o� the corner selling these bags, and come to this construction site and pick up this brick."

Weis is facing mounting criti-cism from leaders across the city and state — including Gov. Pat Quinn — for holding the unpub-licized Aug. 17 meeting, even though several police departments across the country have relied on similar approaches for decades to help reduce crime.

Some reputed gang members said they were surprised to see Weis at the meeting a� er being told by their parole o§ cers to show up. Many were visibly angry, with some even leaving the meeting.

Convening gang members un-der false pretenses undermined any possible e� ectiveness of the

meeting, Allen, 32, told reporters."� eir words and actions are

null and void — because it was all a trick," he said.

Weis has said prosecutors at the Aug. 17 meeting, which was first reported by the Chicago Sun-Times, threatened attendees that they could be charged under the Racketeering Influenced and Cor-rupt Organizations Act if killings were traced back to gangs with members attending the meet-ing. The federal law, commonly known as RICO, provides stiffer penalties for acts performed as part of a criminal organization such as the Mafia.

� e police chief has defended the initiative with the support of Mayor Richard M. Daley and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who likened Weis' approach to his o§ ce holding parolee forums to warn people leaving prison that they'll be watched.

Weis also doesn't buy the no-tion gang leaders are powerless to stem violence by their auxiliaries.

"You have the ability to inª u-

ence people within your sphere," Weis told � e Associated Press on Wednesday. "You guys are in the position to stop the killing."

� ough Chicago's homicide rate has mirrored national trends and dropped signi« cantly since the 1990s to 460 last year, the number of brazen shootings have escalated this year. Four police o§ cers have been killed in the line of duty this year, and on Wednesday, two cops were shot and injured while serv-ing a warrant on suspected gang members.

Daley seemed to shrug o� the gang members' media o� ensive, telling reporters earlier � ursday that, "Everybody complains about the police. But again, it's America. You can complain about anything."

Later, some of the current and ex-gang members turned commu-nity activists complained about Daley.

Activist Mark Carter asked how gang leaders could be asked to take responsibility for their subordinates when city government leaders don't take

responsibility for alleged misdeeds by their employees.

"Is the mayor going to be held accountable for the corruption that takes place under his watch?" he said. "And the biggest gang in the city of Chicago is the Chicago Police Department."

But experts say the tactic of meet-ing with gang leaders — whether formally with top administrators or at the neighborhood level — is just part of good police work.

At least 50 jurisdictions nationwide use the approach, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles and Boston.

"It sounds like pixie dust, but it works," Jim Fealy, a chief of police in High Point, North Carolina, said � ursday. "It's worked miraculously in other parts of the country, and it can work in Chicago."

Since starting to put gangs on notice 13 years ago, he said, violent crime is down in the city of 100,000 people by more than 40 percent.

"High Point was once known as little Chicago because of the violence," he said. "We're not known as that anymore."

MICHAEL TARMThe Associated Press

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NEW ORLEANS — An oil platform exploded and burned o� the Louisiana coast � ursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than � ve months. � is time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.

� e Coast Guard initially reported that an oil sheen a mile long and 100 feet wide had be-gun to spread from the site of the blast, about 200 miles west of the source of BP's massive spill. But hours later, Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau said crews were unable to � nd any spill.

� e company that owns the platform, Houston-based Mariner Energy, did not know what caused the explosion.

Mariner o� cials said there were seven active production wells on the platform, and they were shut down shortly before the � re broke out.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said the com-pany told him the � re began in 100 barrels of light oil condensate, but o� cials did not know yet what sparked the � ames.

� e Coast Guard said Mariner Energy re-ported the oil sheen. In a public statement, the company said an initial � yover did not show any oil.

Photos from the scene showed at least � ve ships � oating near the platform. � ree of them were shooting great plumes of water onto the machinery. Light smoke could be seen dri� ing across the deep blue waters of the gulf.

By late a� ernoon, the � re on the platform was out.

� e platform is in about 340 feet of water and about 100 miles south of Louisiana's Ver-milion Bay. Its location is considered shallow water, much less than the approximately 5,000 feet where BP's well spewed oil and gas for three

months a� er the April rig explosion that killed 11 workers.

Responding to any oil spill in shallow water would be much easier than in deep water, where crews depend on remote-operated vehicles to access equipment on the sea � oor.

A Homeland Security update obtained by � e Associated Press said the platform was pro-ducing 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. � e platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said the administration has "response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water."

All 13 of the platform's crew members were rescued from the water. � ey were found hud-dled together in insulated survival out� ts called "Gumby suits" for their resemblance to the car-

toon character."� ese guys had the presence of mind, used

their training to get into those Gumby suits before they entered the water," Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty O� cer John Edwards said.

� e captain of the boat that rescued the platform crew said his vessel was 25 miles away when it received a distress call � ursday morn-ing from the platform.

� e Crystal Clear, a 110-foot boat, was in the Gulf doing routine maintenance work on oil rigs and platforms. When Capt. Dan Shaw arrived at the scene of the blast, the workers were holding hands in the water, where they had been for two hours. � ey were thirsty and tired.

"We gave them soda and water, anything they wanted to drink," Shaw said. "� ey were just glad to be on board with us."

Shaw said the blast was so sudden that the crew did not have time to get into lifeboats. � ey did not mention what might have caused the blast.

"� ey just said there was an explosion, there was a � re," Shaw said. "It happened very quick."

Crew members were being � own to a hospi-tal in Houma. � e Coast Guard said one person was injured, but the company said there were no injuries. All of them were released by early � ursday evening.

Jindal met with some of the survivors. He would not identify them except to say most were from Louisiana.

Environmental groups and some lawmakers said the incident showed the dangers of o� shore drilling, and urged the Obama administration to extend a temporary ban on deepwater drill-ing to shallow water, where this platform was located.

"How many accidents are needed and how much environmental and economic damage

must we su� er before we act to contain and con-trol the source of the danger: o� shore drilling?" said Rep. Frank Pallone, a New Jersey Demo-crat.

Mike Gravitz, oceans advocate for Environ-ment America, said President Barack Obama "should need no further wake-up call to perma-nently ban new drilling."

� ere are about 3,400 platforms operating in the Gulf, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Together they pump about a third of the America's domestic oil, forming the back-bone of the country's petroleum industry.

Platforms are vastly di� erent from oil rigs like BP's Deepwater Horizon. � ey are usually brought in a� er wells are already drilled and sealed.

"A production platform is much more stable," said Andy Radford, an API expert on o� shore oil drilling. "On a drilling rig, you're actually drilling the well. You're cutting. You're pumping mud down the hole. You have a lot more activity on a drilling rig."

In contrast, platforms are usually placed atop stable wells where the oil is � owing at a predict-able pressure, he said. A majority of platforms in the Gulf do not require crews on board.

Many platforms, especially those in shal-lower water, stand on legs that are drilled into the sea � oor. Like a giant octopus, they spread numerous pipelines and can tap into many wells at once.

Platforms do not have blowout preventers, but they are usually equipped with a series of redundant valves that can shut o� oil and gas at di� erent points along the pipeline.

Numerous platforms were damaged during hurricanes Katrina and Rita. � e storms broke pipelines, and oil spilled into the Gulf. But the platforms successfully kept major spills from happening, Radford said.

“� ose safety valves did their job,” he said.

Oil platform explodes o� Louisiana coastALAN SAYREThe Associated Press

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HoroscopesBy Nancy Black and Stephanie Clement

Daily Egyptian Study Break Friday, September 3, 201012

For the answers to today’s puzzles,check out dailyegyptian.com!

Across1 What some sirens do6 1990s-2000s Irish leader Bertie11 Pres. counterparts14 It may be blank15 Food processor setting16 Outback critter17 Like a dialect coach?19 End of an academic address20 Periods21 Amount-and-interval numbers23 Not connected26 Reel art27 Knack28 Whalebone30 New York home of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

31 Three-time French Open champion32 Its symbol is Sn35 Musical knack36 Web danger, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme38 Murcia Mrs.39 Nutritional stat40 Like some panels41 Genesis locale42 Key of Mozart’s Symphony No. 4044 Where the Maine sank46 Expects48 Consequences of an all-nighter49 Obsess50 Titania’s consort52 General on a menu53 Answer from LL Cool J?58 Where Nina Totenberg

reports59 Inuit for “women’s boat”60 Gives some TLC to, with “in”61 Doofus62 They’re heavier than foils63 Source of brown fur

Down1 Airport safety org.2 Last letters on some lists3 Slicker4 Performer with five #1 hits in his first year on the Billboard charts5 One at the edge of the gutter6 Record label launched in 19687 Pitch

8 Lover of Psyche9 Toon dog10 Most impoverished11 Christmas?12 Cable __13 “Semper Fidelis” composer18 It may pop up in a clearing22 Vending machine insert23 Fish-eating mammal24 Capacitance unit25 Herbivorous reptiles?26 Bass symbol28 Joy of “The View”29 A or Ray31 City SE of Cherbourg33 Papas of “Zorba the Greek”34 Family matriarchs36 “For real?”

37 Oxford fellows41 Become balanced43 Athletes for Hope co-founder Hamm44 Word on a towel45 Embraces46 Cigna competitor47 Mud daubers, e.g.48 Smells50 Boy with a fishing pole in a ‘60s sitcom title screen51 Highlands hillside54 Rock concert fixture55 U.S. Army E-6, e.g.56 Jamaican genre57 Phila. setting

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Today's birthday. You may feel that you have to work a lot harder this year to get what you want. However, the hard work pays huge dividends as you maximize lucky circumstances to produce more than you planned. Focused will and power are the key to success now.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 5 — Your partner accepts an assignment that places demands on your time and energy. Let go of expectations and follow a leader.

Taurus (April 20--May 20) — Today is a 6 — You can't bend the content to fit the box. You have to trim the edges somehow or find a larger container. Wrap carefully for shipping.

Gemini (May 21--June 21) — Today is a 7 — Give each action you take a firm purpose or goal. The more you stick to practical matters, the more that gets done.

Cancer (June 22--July 22) — Today is a 5 — What seem like major obstacles in the morning may resolve into workable issues and then solutions. Don't press too hard and accept what others offer.

Leo (July 23--Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Today's effort goes into planning for both long range and immediate needs. Inspire others to consider tomorrow while handling today's details.

Virgo (Aug. 23--Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Your personal goal is to get all your ducks in a nice tidy row. Associates are more focused on their problems. Agreement may have to wait until tomorrow.

Libra (Sept. 23--Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — Gathering up the loose ends today may turn out to be quite a project. You wish you had help, but get more done through independent effort.

Scorpio (Oct. 23--Nov. 21) — Today is an 8 — Everything works out today if you keep the ball rolling to prevent stagnation. This means giving one person an occasional nudge.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22--Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — Today you've perceived the need to get down to business and stick to it. Once you get the ball rolling, keep it in motion for best results.

Capricorn (Dec. 22--Jan. 19) — Today is a 6 — Devise a schedule or other means to get everyone in sync. Your partner may be the only person who naturally goes with the flow. Others need guidance.

Aquarius (Jan. 20--Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — Take all your ambitious ideas and put them to work now. Make sure you include the essence of your core values in everything you do.

Pisces (Feb. 19--March 20) — Today is a 6 — For a steady flow, consistent effort is required. Ask others to walk the walk and not just pontificate, all while doing your share.

Former Saluki quarterback Bobby Brenneisen provided the only highlight for Quincy when he connected with freshman re-ceiver Justin Dickens early in the second quarter for a 30-yard touchdown.

Brenneisen, who saw minor action last season with the Salu-kis before transferring to Quincy during the off-season, finished with just 89 yards passing before he and the rest of the Quincy starters exited the game in the second half.

Up nextThe Salukis travel to Cham-

paign Saturday to take on the Il-linois Fighting Illini. Kickoff at Memorial Stadium is at 6:30 p.m. Bus travel for SIU students is available.

Nick Johnson can be reached at njohnson@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 256.

Daily EgyptianNewsFriday, September 3, 2010 13QUINCY CONTINUED FROM 16

(TOP) Brooke Barwick practices a cheer with her fellow Saluki cheerleaders before the Thursday season opener against Quincy. The women led the crowd in supporting the Salukis’ crushing victory. (MIDDLE LEFT) A C130 flies over the first game at Saluki Stadium Thursday. This was one of many attractions to kick off the first game at home. (MIDDLE RIGHT) The Salukis run out onto the field before the inaugural game for the new stadium. The next home game is September 18 against Southeast Missouri. (BOTTOM LEFT) Senior

running back Lucien Walker reaches for the endzone in the second half of Thursday’s game against Quincy. Walker scored 3 touchdowns for the Salukis, helping bring the final numbers to 70-7. (BOTTOM RIGHT) Phi Epsilon Kappa pledges Dan Ershen, Tyler Frayn, Joe Jordahl, and Chris Laukant (from right) wave to a passing car that honked as the group painted themselves maroon in front of their frat house on Poplar. Chris Laukant said the idea to get painted up for Thursday’s game was a communal one.

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NEW YORK — Oregon State coach Mike Riley and the 24th-ranked Beavers open the season Saturday night in Arlington, Texas, against No. 6 TCU.

It just might be Oregon State’s toughest game of the season and it will be the � rst time the Beavers have blocked or tackled an opponent since they played BYU in the Las Vegas Bowl in December.

Wouldn’t it be nice for the Bea-vers if they could play a preseason game in August to get ready for the ones that count?

“I think that’d be awesome,” Riley said recently.

While the NFL is considering cutting its preseason from four to two games (and lengthening its regu-lar season), Riley and some other college coaches long for just one warm-up game or even a scrimmage against another team before the sea-son starts.

“I was thinking about that the other day,” Riley said. “It would be chance to see some new stu¤ and have your players have to adjust.”

“What happens in the � rst game of the regular season, you take every-thing you’ve been working on and everything you do … and then you’ve got to make some adjustments.

“I think a preseason scrimmage would give you the chance to get through some of the those hurdles and get your team to understand that that’s the way it is every week. You’ve got to take what you do and adapt it.”

Of course, Oregon State is the ex-ception among top teams in major college football, many of which will open the season this weekend toying with weak opponents and playing their starters for a half.

But maybe teams would be more inclined to play a tough opener if they had a dress rehearsal?

NCAA rules allow Division I college football teams to play 12 contests, that includes scrimmages against other teams. Since no school is about to give up a regular-season game to play a game that doesn’t count, the � rst step would be a rule change.

NCAA spokesman Erik Chris-tianson said in an e-mail that “there have not been any proposals from member schools or conferences to change the rule on scrimmages or exhibition football games.”

But maybe one might be coming.Michigan coach Rich Rodriguez

is a proponent of playing a preseason tuneup and apparently he’s turned his new boss, athletic director David Brandon, on to the idea.

“Our coaches and I believe this is something worth considering,” Brandon said. “We need to look at all of the issues carefully, and get input from other coaches and programs. However, it could be bene� cial to provide a scrimmage opportunity

versus another team during the pre-season practice period to better pre-pare the team for competition. is would be for the same reasons that basketball, hockey, and other sports do the same thing.”

At the lower levels of college foot-ball, it’s not uncommon for teams to work in preseason intersquad scrim-mages.

“We’re probably one of the only levels of football that doesn’t have preseason games,” said Rodriguez, whose � rst college head coaching job was at Division II Glenville State.

Indiana coach Bill Lynch also coached in Division II.

“We’d � nd another school that was close, so it was relatively inex-pensive and I thought it was really good. We used to really kind of make a day of it and it was really a practice against each other broken down into individual drills as well as 11 on 11.

“Whether that would work at this level, I’m not sure. I’m sure there would be � nances that would get in-volved and probably try to make it a money maker. But in terms of getting your team ready, it would be great.”

Rodriguez suggested limiting ac-cess so a preseason game doesn’t turn into “a big event.”

But there’s the problem.As Ohio State coach Jim Tressel

put it, “If we were to play a preseason game, there would be 100,000-some people here.”

When intrasquad spring games draw tens of thousands of fans at schools such as Nebraska, Alabama and Ohio State, it seems inevitable that even a bulked-up practice would become a major deal at the football factories.

While Rodriguez said he thinks most coaches would welcome an ex-hibition game of sorts, certainly not everyone would.

Count Stanford’s Jim Harbaugh, who played in the NFL, and Arizo-na State’s Dennis Erickson, who has coached in the NFL, among those who would stay with the status quo.

“ e uniqueness of college foot-ball is a good thing, understanding that your going to see more fumbled snaps, more blocked punts, more miscommunication in the second-ary, more missed tackles in that � rst game.”

Erickson brought up the other big concern.

“To have it would be just an extra opportunity for guys to get hurt,” he said.

Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne isn’t much for the idea of playing a preseason game, though he suggested the possibility of bringing in another team during the spring.

“I would sure hate to see them do anything to lengthen the season right now,” he said.

At least one player, Notre Dame receiver Michael Floyd agrees with that.

“No reason for an extra game,” he said. “I’m just ready for Purdue.”

Preseason in college football? Why not?RALPH D. RUSSOThe Associated Press

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Absolutely not. Boise State wields one of the most experienced, potent offenses in the country and they will rip through the relatively new Virginia Tech defense. Boise State wins this one 45-21.

This reminds me of last year’s Rose Bowl between Ohio State and Oregon. There were plenty of arguments for Oregon winning because of their offense. Ohio State dominated them because they were bigger and stronger. It has to do with their recruiting class, just like with this game. Boise State is too small and is not ready to bang with BCS schools like Virginia Tech, who will win 27-14.

Since joining the ranks of football bowl division teams a little more than 10 years ago, Boise State has proven year in and year out they are the real deal. They’ll win against Virginia Tech, but it won’t be easy. Broncos 24, Hokies 17.

In the most anticipated game of opening weekend in college football, No. 3 Boise State takes on No. 10 Virginia Tech in Hokey country. Because of the Broncos’ weak schedule, many view this as a must-win game for them to be considered for the BCS title game should they run the table. Will the Hokies dash Boise State’s title hopes in week one?

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� e more money an athletic pro-gram wants, the more it has to do to earn it.

“All our teams are required to raise money to help plug their bud-get. If they can’t raise the money to help fund their budget then they are restricted to their regular operating budget,” said Mark Scally, associate athletic director for � nances.

Scally said money for each ath-letic program depends on the team's

schedule and the number of athletes in it. � e money from the athletics department covers each teams' ex-penses for the season with the help of fundraisers each team holds, he said.

Matt Sparks, cross country head coach, said the cross country teams are included in the track and � eld teams' budget. Combined, the track and cross country teams host � ve to six meets where they raise a large amount to pay for expenses, he said.

“We host events and charge teams to come to our cross country meets and track meets,” Sparks said.

Audra Northwehr, women’s ten-nis head coach, said her team hosts three fundraisers each year in order to pay for its expenses and to play a competitive schedule.

� anks to private donors, the women’s golf team received new lockers and an indoor hitting facil-ity in 2004, said Diane Daugherty, women’s golf head coach.

Tom Weber, SIUC director of media services, said men’s basket-ball hosts a golf outing with a silent auction, while both the football and baseball teams host a � sh-fry

with silent auction.Scally said though money allot-

ted to each program di� ers slightly, he tries to promote them equally to the public.

“We try to market all of our sports," he said. "We put out an-nouncements and press releases for all of our sports in almost every event that we hold."

Northwehr said more promo-tion goes into revenue-based sports, which bene� ts the whole department in the end.

Weber said the athletic depart-

ment prints action shot posters for sale, but depending on the vendor and the season some sports receive more promotion than others.

Scally said there isn’t a depart-ment that oversees all renovation policies. Instead, the athletics depart-ment prioritizes each project based on its needs and what it hopes to ac-complish, he said.

“Ultimately our goal is to treat all of our student athletes the same so that basketball doesn’t get something ... and an Olympic sport like tennis doesn’t get that,” he said.

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“I think if a few more companies opened up their own tailgating to add some more opportunities, more people might show up,” Zuercher said.

Zuercher and Wiercinski, members of the SIU Alumni Association, pay $15 to be a member which includes a tail-gating fee for the associations tent.

O’Neil said the law school has set up a tailgating tent every year they have been allowed. She said the law school uses tailgating as an opportunity for law students and alumni to come together in an informal environment and enjoy common interests: food, beer and foot-ball.

Zoning would be the only consid-erable change; there are three levels to tailgating zones: student, restricted and general, assistant athletic director Tom Weber said. � e student section is the same as before, lot 52, behind the arena.

Donors who give money to scholar-ship funds are given a parking pass and allowed to park in the lot 89 and 18, in between the Arena and the stadium. � e lot next to McAndrew Stadium was restricted but is now general. Other lots, including the lot across from Abe Martin Field are open for everyone, Weber said.

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Travis Healey, left, junior from Brighton sutdying biological science, Stefan Bernal, middle, senior from Lasalle studying biological science, and Tony Dziuba, right, a senior from Claredon Hills studying business

management, play tailgate games Thursday on the lawn next to Saluki Stadium. The Salukis played the Quincy Hawks in the first game of the season as well as the first game in the new Saluki Stadium.

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The season-opening game against the Quincy Hawks brought 15,276 people into the new Saluki Stadium on Thursday. To help the football team’s budget, one of the fundraisers it hosts is a fish-fry with silent auction.JAMES DURBINDAILY EGYPTIAN

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With all the changes surrounding SIU athlet-ics, there is one thing that hasn’t changed at all — the tailgating.

Seven years ago, SIU opened up lots of land for people to tailgate during football games. � e football players now play in a di� erent stadium, but the fans will still enjoy their pregame spec-tacle in the same places they always have, said Elizabeth O’Neil, director of the School of Law’s Alumni A� airs and Annual Giving.

“We didn’t have to do anything di� erent; we’re in our same location with same tent and

tables,” O’Neil said.Dan Zangerl, a senior from Oakwood study-

ing radio/television, Andrew Wiercinski, a se-nior from Peoria studying criminal justice, and Bee Mo, 22, from Marion, said they tailgated since they were old enough to consume alcohol. � ey said tailgating is the same as it always is, but should be new and exciting like the new stadium.

“New stadium, new season, there should be more,” Wiercinski said.

More companies and a bigger portion of the community should be involved in tailgating to make it bigger and better, they said.

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Running back Lucien Walker

scores one of his three

touchdowns against Quincy

Thursday at Saluki Stadium.

The Salukis beat the hawks

70-7 in their first game of

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Johnnie Robinson, a freshman from Chicago studying business management, sports an Iron Man mask while tailgating. JESS VERMEULENDAILY EGYPTIAN

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Had the 15,276 who attended � ursday’s inaugural game at Salu-ki Stadium been playing defense for Quincy, it still probably wouldn’t have mattered.

� e Salukis dominated the line of scrimmage in their season open-er and blew away the Hawks 70-7 in front of a beyond-capacity crowd. � e game was the second most at-tended season opener in school his-

tory and the ninth most attended overall.

By the end of the third quarter, when most of the Saluki starters had been pulled, head coach Dale Lennon’s squad had already racked up 413 yards of total o� ense, with 232 of those yards coming on the ground.

Senior running back Lucien Walker scored the first touch-down at Saluki Stadium when he dashed off left tackle for a 16-yard score with 8:59 remaining in the

first quarter.Walker’s 116 yards and 3 touch-

downs on 12 carries were career highs for the 6-foot, 215-pound back.

“I think the o-line just did a wonderful job,” Walker said.

Walker said he spoke with for-mer Saluki running back Deji Karim, now a member of the Jack-sonville Jaguars, prior to his ¤ rst start.

“He told me to play my own game,” Walker said. “He texted me

earlier and said to ‘do work.’”Junior running back Shari�

Harris added 44 yards and scored two of the Salukis’ six rushing touchdowns.

Lennon was most happy with the o� ensive line, who beat back an experienced Quincy line, he said.

“(� e Hawks) had three se-niors, and I really feel our guys did a good job of controlling the tempo,” Lennon said.

Senior quarterback Chris Dieker added two touchdowns through the

air, and senior receiver Je� Evans caught one of them. Evans led the Saluki receiving corps with 78 yards on 7 catches.

Senior receiver Joe Allaria suf-fered what Lennon called a leg bruise on an 11-yard catch and run in the ¤ rst quarter. Allaria was upended and hit as he came down. Lennon said he’s waiting to here more from the training sta� .

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