Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee � red up an over� owing crowd of Republican activists dur-ing a party rally Tuesday.

Besides Huckabee, Republican legislators stood behind Brady as he spoke to the crowd at the William-son County Pavilion. A� er hav-ing been a governor for more than 10 years and lieutenant governor for three years, Huckabee said he had never seen so many legislators come out to back up Brady.

“What people want is not only good government but they want clean government. � ey want gov-ernment that acts with honor, and they also want a government that re� ects who they are,” he said.

Brady holds a 13-point lead over Gov. Quinn and has backing from 93 percent of Republican voters, while Quinn draws support from only 66 percent of Democratic voters, accord-ing to a Sept. 12 poll from Rasmussen Reports.

Mica Matso� , a spokesperson for Quinn, said Brady’s campaign propos-als could be disastrous for the economy.

“His George W. Bush economic policy will only set back the progress we’ve made recently,” Matso� said.

Huckabee, a current Fox News personality from Bloomington, served as Arkansas governor from 1996 to 2007, and a� er losing the 2008 presi-dential campaign, he formed a nation-wide volunteer team to assist Republi-can campaigns.

“You’re going to have a remark-able opportunity to bring to your

state capital, a governor that will have the support and cooperation and the will and commitment to get good things done for the people of Illinois,” Huckabee said to the crowd.

Huckabee encouraged the crowd to contribute generously to the cam-paign as well as register to vote.

“It’s less expensive to give to a can-didate that will keep your taxes low than to let someone get elected who will raise your taxes,” Huckabee said.

Matso� said Brady’s plan only cuts taxes for the rich, o� ers fewer jobs, a larger de� cit and cuts in higher education.

“(Quinn’s) whole e� ort as gover-nor has been focused on creating jobs and opportunities for Illinoisians,” Matso� said.

Several Tea Party members held signs endorsing Brady’s campaign. Sandy Foster, of Harrisburg, said she was there to support Brady and to re-

mind students to vote in November.“Somebody’s vote matters and ev-

ery vote counts, but you got to know what you’re voting for,” Foster said.

Christina Spakousky can be reached at cgray@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 258.

SIU is unlikely to borrow any money this calendar year, though it has established a line of credit for “a worst-case scenario,” said SIU President Glenn Poshard.

Poshard said the university has estab-lished a line of credit of 1.3 percent a� er dis-

cussions between SIU’s � nance department and agencies who rate debts. He said the rate SIU received is very favorable, with no up-front cost, and no fee for unused credit.

“It is wise to have it in case of a worst-case scenario happening,” he said. “If we don’t end up getting the money we need, then we need to borrow that at some point this year.”

SIU is still waiting for more than $18

million from the state for the � scal year 2010, which ended June 31, Poshard said. He said the state has until the end of De-cember to give the university what it is owed, as the original August 31 deadline for the state to pay back public universities was extended to Dec. 31.

University’s credit line set at 1.3 percentRYAN VOYLESDaily Egyptian

Alexa Chamberlin has been liv-ing out of a hotel since the middle of August.

Chamberlin, a senior from Marion studying early childhood education, said she was supposed

to move in to � e Pointe July 31, one of Carbondale’s newer apart-ment complexes.

But Chamberlin said she is staying at the Ramada Inn until her apart-ment is built. She said she believes she has been lied to by � e Pointe as its administration continues to push back her move-in date as was stated

in the lease agreement.A week before July 31, Chamber-

lin received a call from � e Pointe administration saying she couldn’t move in to her room until Aug. 15 due to ongoing construction in her building. � e Pointe o� ered her a room at the Ramada Inn, but Chamberlin opted to live with her

parents for two weeks. She said she moved into the Ramada Inn Aug. 15 to be closer to the university.

� e Pointe had a delay in con-struction and reserved rooms for the students with the hotel, said Manny Patel, general manager and owner of the Ramada Inn. He said more than two dozen students

have stayed at the Ramada Inn be-cause of the delay.

Residents have the option to cancel the lease but Chamberlin said it’s di£ cult � nding another apartment at this point in the semester.

LAUREN LEONEDaily Egyptian

Pointe residents holed up in hotel until further notice

Joe Foster, of Harrisburg, holds up a sign in support of Illinois Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Brady at a rally Tuesday at the Williamson County Pavilion in Marion. Mike Huckabee,

former presidential Republican candidate and current Fox News channel talk show host, spoke in support of Brady’s candidacy during the rally that was sponsored by Citizens for Brady.

PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

William Freivogel knew the School of Journalism would be hit hard this year by the proposed 4 percent budget cut.

So Freivogel, director of the School of Journalism, asked to take a two-month unpaid educational leave that would

be spread throughout the school year, a move that cost

him about $17,000 but saved the school three positions, he said.

With the university likely to face an $11.5 million shortfall for � scal year

2011, Chancellor Rita Cheng said in an e-mail 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.

Freivogel said the school would have lost the faculty positions held by Carolyn Kingcade and Vicki Kreher, as

well as receptionist Sherida Evans, who would have been reassigned to another department. � e school had to come up with about $106,000 to save the posi-tions, he said.

A� er he received word during the � rst week of August about the cuts, Freivogel sent a note to Gary Kolb, dean of the College of Mass

Communications and Media Arts, to explain how they would a� ect the school, he said. Freivogel then sent a counter proposal that included cuts in the school’s operating budget and his decision to take an unpaid educational leave, he said.

JACOB MAYERDaily Egyptian

Journalism director proposes to take unpaid leave to save jobs

Please see BORROWING | 6

Gov. Huckabee endorses Brady for governor

Please see POINTE | 6

Please see FREIVOGEL | 6

CHRISTINA SPAKOUSKYDaily Egyptian

If SIU were to borrow $1 million from an investor, then it would have to pay the investor back $1.3 million within one year of receiving the money.

Gov. Pat Quinn signed a borrow-ing bill June 8 which allowed universi-ties to borrow as much as 75 percent of the money owed to them by the state through public � nancing. All universi-ties had 90 days to declare their inten-tions of whether to use the borrowing authority, Poshard said.

� e SIU Board of Trustees autho-rized the university to establish a line of credit in case it needs to borrow money in place of what the state owes SIU at its meeting July 8.

Kevin Bame, vice chancellor for administration and � nance, said the state is scheduled to give $113.5 mil-lion to the university this � scal year. � e university received about $122 million last year. � e di� erence ac-counts for the loss of federal stimulus money, Bame said.

State appropriations are expected to account for approximately 25.8 percent of the total SIUC budget, according to the university’s proposed budget. In the

2009 � scal year, state appropriations made up 28.7 percent of the budget, while state funds accounted for approx-imately 28 percent of last year’s budget, according to the SIUC Factbook.

Even though SIUC is looking at an $11.5 million shortfall for the coming school year, Chancellor Rita Cheng said funding from the state did not have an impact on the shortfall.

“We came in knowing from the very beginning that we would, at the very least, have a $15 million shortfall, regardless of appropriations,” she said.

Poshard said though the situation may seem dire, the way SIU has man-aged its � nances over the last year ap-pealed to � nancial agencies.

“Despite everything, we have man-aged our � nances well,” he said “I think we have shown our ability to cut, to refrain from spending money that we absolutely do not have and we’ve established a pretty hard e� ciency when it comes to hiring freezes and I think they felt like we managed ev-erything very well ... given the circum-stances we were under.”

“I don’t think they see our estabil-ishing a line of credit as anything detri-mental to our university or our ability to pay it back if we need to,” Poshard said.

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Daily Egyptian News Wednesday, September 15, 20102

William E. Bailey, 46, of Cam-bria, was killed Monday in a mo-torcycle accident on West Main Street and North Glenview Drive.

Bailey was traveling east on West Main Street when his mo-torcycle was struck by a 2008 Chrysler 300 turning south onto North Glenview Drive from West Main Street, according to a report by the Carbondale Police Department. Bailey was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbondale for life-threatening injuries and was transported to a St. Louis hospital where he was pronounced dead.

� e driver of the Chrysler, Debra A. Crawford, 56, of Mur-physboro, declined medical treatment. She was cited for dis-obeying a tra� c control device.

Cambria man killed in motocycle accident

BORROWINGCONTINUED FROM 1

Marcus King, president of Undergraduate Student Government, discusses in undertones with Sen. Jamal Easley, representative of Brush Towers and chairman of Internal Affairs, Tuesday at the USG meeting at the Student Health Center Auditorium.

DANIELLE MCGREW | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Daily EgyptianNewsWednesday, September 15, 2010 3

LAUREN LEONEDaily Egyptian

Chancellor Rita Cheng told the Faculty Senate Tuesday to close the gap on the $2.5 million shortfall faculty, sta� and administration may undergo salary cuts.

Despite e� orts taken to better SIUC’s de� cit, Cheng will seek approval from the Board of Trustees on � ursday to enact a closure day policy for employees, which would require them to take four unpaid administrative leave days.

“� ese are di� cult times. We want to make sure we are not interrupting the student learning experience as best we can,” Cheng said.

She said she anticipates that the four unpaid administrative leave days will close the university’s de� cit. Campus payroll reaches $550,000 a day, she said.

Faculty Senate President Sanjeev Kumar said the policy shows there will

be a negative impact on salaries and wages.

“� is needs to be negotiated with all parties before it is enacted,” Kumar said. “Shared governance, not heavy-handed power display, is key to establish a welcoming atmosphere conducive to high quality education and research.”

Kumar said the university could still provide a quality education with few administrators. He said education will su� er if the University continues to cut faculty positions, and in the future, he wants the possibility of hiring any new administrators to be reconsidered.

Cheng said if the Board of Trustees approves the closure day policy, the decision would be discussed with constituency groups such as civil service, tenure/tenure-track and non-tenure-track employees. � ey will bargain the e� ects of the procedures and the policies, she said.

“We have not started to bargain

because we have not received any authorization,” Cheng said. “� ere are details that have to be ironed out. We want to move this as quickly as we have approval. “

Cheng said employees with nine-month contracts would experience a 2 percent gross pay reduction while 12-month employees would have a 1.5 percent gross pay reduction. Bene� ts such as health insurance would not be a� ected, she said. Non-academic departments would take an extra 1 percent cut, she said.

James Ferraro, associate professor of physiology, said salary cuts would make university positions less marketable. He said the university needs to stay competitive with its salaries.

“How do we compete if we diminish salaries?” Ferraro said. “It will be easier for people to leave, especially the more outstanding they are, the more they are going to be recruited away.”

Cheng said while she has made e� orts to inform the state on the university’s operational needs, her main priority was the welfare of the employees at the university.

“� is is temporary, then the payroll system kicks back to normal,” Cheng said. “� is is just a stopgap.”

Since the start of the fall semester, there was a $15.3 million shortfall in the university’s budget, Cheng said. With a 4 percent budget reduction, $7.3 million was cut from the budget, leaving an $8 million shortage. Cash reserves of $1.6 million from last year le ̈ a $6.4 million shortfall. Revenue from tuition this fall should approximately be $4 million, which leaves a $2.5 million shortage on the university’s base budget, excluding cash © ow, she said.

In other news, university enrollment has increased in some categories, Cheng said.

Graduate enrollment increased by 111 students with 4,062 students, international student enrollment increased by 7 percent and transfer students by 8 percent, Cheng said. However, between sophomore and freshman classes, decline was signi� cant, she said.

“We have to look for ways that we reach out to local high school students, transfer students and returning adult students in a more deliberative way,” Cheng said.

Cheng said she wants to ensure the quality of education and the student learning experience despite hard decisions.

“Over time we need to look for di� erent structures and di� erent ways to do things,” she said.

Michara Canty can be reached at

mcanty@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 259.

Cheng’s proposal for faculty senate: cut salaries, enact closure day policyMICHARA CANTYDaily Egyptian

Majority of USG senate seats � lled, improvement from last year

Dave Lo ̈us said it was refresh-ing to see a university administra-tor attend an Undergraduate Stu-dent Government and engage in open dialogue.

Chancellor Rita Cheng updated the senate about the university, and emphasized budget concerns, enrollment numbers and distance learning.

She said she updated USG President Marcus King during the summer to relay the university’s challenges. Cheng said SIU has less money than it did a year ago but wants to continue to provide the same quality of education with the help of USG.

“USG has had di� culty com-municating with administration in the past, but this is a step in the right direction,” Lo ̈us said.

King said he is reintroducing a committee that was inactive last year, the Event Audit Committee, which oversees how funding is spent at registered student organi-zations’ events.

“We want to know the money is

being used wisely,” he said. During the weekend, the Finan-

cial Committee elected Ben Was-son, a senior studying computer science, as its chair.

Ashley Jordan, a senator for the College of Liberal Arts, � lled the open seat in the Finance Committee.

“� at’s one of the most impor-tant things we needed to get done,” King said.

King said funding could be al-located to RSOs by USG’s next meeting, Sept. 28.

He said he was initially wor-ried about last night’s attendance because of past meetings’ low at-tendance. When Priciliano Fabian was USG’s president, only 12 of 22 senators arrived for the second-to-last meeting of the semester, mak-ing the group unable to allocate money to any RSOs, as reported by the Daily Egyptian. A two-thirds majority is needed for senators to approve funding.

King said he has filled 34 of 42 seats and the 25 of 34 sena-tors present last night was an im-provement from last year’s aver-age attendance.

Juan Carlos � lled one of two

open seats for College of Educa-tion and Human Services. Aaron McNeal � lled the open seat for Greek A� airs. Andrew Osafulijo � lled one of two open seats for East Side Housing.

Transportation and quality of housing are two of the biggest is-sues with East Side housing, he said. Osafulijo said he wants to see discussion opened between land-lords and residents to improve the quality of housing.

� e College of Agriculture and College of Mass Communications and Media Arts still have one open senate seat.

West Side and � ompson Point housing still have two seats open each, while East Side and Brush Towers housing have one seat le ̈ to � ll.

To ensure senators are prepared for their new roles, King said a fall retreat for all senators would be scheduled in upcoming weeks.

King said he hopes the retreat will give senate members the skills, knowledge of procedures and con-� dence to speak up at meetings.

“If they don’t know parliamen-tary procedure, people don’t want

to speak out on the © oor because they’re scared to speak,” he said. “I don’t want people to be scared to � ght.”

Lo ̈us said he still has some res-ervations about USG’s success this year.

“I’m more concerned about the quality of work than the quantity of senators,” he said.

� e biggest change from last

year’s USG is the amount of open dialogue with various groups across campus, he said. He wants to continue that progress, he said.

“As long as the senators are pas-sionate and engaged, it will be a successful year,” Lo ̈us said.

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 255.

A new program allows elemen-tary children to exchange school days off for fun games.

Recreational Sports and Services officials instituted a new program called School Daze Off for children on scheduled half days and holidays. The program seeks to provide youths in first through eighth grade with theme-related activities, which include arts, crafts, learning modules, swimming and recreational entertainment, said Kathy Hollister, assistant director of recreational sports and services.

She said this program gives parents an opportunity to have their children involved with other children their own age while parents are working and not able to have childcare.

“School Daze will have a camp   avor,” Hollister said. “A lot of kids are unable to have these opportunities. I think it will be a chance for students to receive physical activity for health purposes. It is a chance for kids to build friendships and parents to see what the Rec (Center) has to o� er.”

Service days offered are Sept. 17, Oct. 8 and Nov. 24, according to the program’s flier. For half days, SIU recreational members pay $25 while non-members pay $40. For full days, members pay $35 while non-members pay $50.

For each additional child brought to the camp, there is an additional $5 off for that student.

The program initiative started in the spring with input from the Saluki Single Parent Program, fac-ulty and staff, she said.

David Galvin, a graduate masters in recreation from Pensacola, Fl., and Hollister’s graduate research assistant, said he began contacting schools in surrounding areas for days applicable to holidays and half days during the summer.

Galvin said he investigated within the Carbondale, Carterville and Murphysboro communities to gather information on in-service days and off school days for students.

“The main targets were elementary students,” he said. “School days off for students are different from days off from parents. So, I found off days that overlapped from the university’s schedule and elementary schools.”

Galvin said he contacted schools such as Carbondale Elementary School, Unity Point School and Carterville Community School, and looked at the schools’ calendars to compare holidays and half days.

The service cost was based on needed staff wages, use of camp space and membership and non-membership status, Hollister said. She said snacks for children would be funded by the overhead cost of each child. Parents are required to pack their child’s lunch.

Natasha Aldrich, a graduate masters student in educational psychology from Robinson and program coordinator for the Salu-ki Single Parent Program, said the

program has potential to grow, but there may be a few kinks in its structure.

She also said grants for pro-grams like these will ease the fi-nancial burden on non-tradition-al students.

“I think they are trying to do a trial run to see if people are interested,” Aldrich said. “I would also like to see us get a grant so parents do not have to pay for it. Having that extra expense coming out of their pocketbook just does not work that well for them.”

The program requires a minimum of 10 students in order to be sustainable, Hollister said. She said the staff would determine whether to continue the initiative in the spring semester based on the popularity of the program with members and non-members of the community.

Aldrich said it is important for the children in the community to have a program like Daze to give them another outlet.

“What we see a lot of times are kids unsupervised in Evergreen Terrace, one of our public housing facilities for students with children,” Aldrich said. “I think having that outlet for them where Mom’s at school, kids get to feel like they are part of the school because they’re on campus.”

Michara Canty can be reached at mcanty@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

Daily Egyptian News Wednesday, September 15, 20104Children take a day o� MICHARA CANTYDaily Egyptian

I t is a chance for kids to build friendships and parents to see what the Rec (Center) has to offer.

— Kathy HollisterAssistant Director of Recreational Sports and Services

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A plan to pay the tuition and fees of Illinois veterans pushed that whole � nancial burden on public two- and four-year colleges and universities this semester. Now the state is looking to pass the cost on to southern and central Illinois veterans.

Under the original Illinois Veterans Grant, the state reimbursed schools for the cost of tuition and fees covered by the grant. Inaction and mismanage-ment in Spring� eld, and the longest, deepest recession since the 1930s, led the state to cut funding for the grants each year since 2002. Illinois now pro-vides no IVG reimbursement at all.

Instead of short-changing veter-ans, the state continued to recognize their service and sacri� ce by requiring universities to pick up the IVG tab, es-sentially requiring them to o� er them a tuition-free education by making the grant an unfunded mandate.

State o¢ cials assumed veterans would choose the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill, un-der which the federal government pays

tuition and a housing allowance, when it was introduced in August. Instead, most veterans found that using the state grant combined with the old Montgom-ery G.I. Bill is more bene� cial. ­ at’s because the new federal bill pays less to students who live outside of expensive areas such as Chicago because their cost of living, based on housing, is less.

Clearly, nobody could have pre-dicted this problem. In fact, the Illinois Student Assistance Commission said, in August 2009, it expected 60 percent of the state’s veterans to choose a combina-tion of the IVG and the old G.I. bill.

SIUC struggles continuously with its budget. Chancellor Rita Cheng ordered 4 percent budget cuts across the depart-ments in preparation for an expected $11.5 million shortfall this year. More cuts will come.

SIUC bursar’s o¢ ce documents show SIUC expects 700 veterans to receive the Illinois grant this academic year, at a cost to the university of $3.5 million. Other universities face similar

problems. Unfunded mandates almost always pose problems.

­ e state has said it is looking to Wisconsin’s model for distributing vet-eran’s education bene� ts, namely the Wisconsin G.I. Bill. Wisconsin veter-ans must exhaust their federal bene� ts before tapping into state funds. But stu-dents then use federal money tradi-tionally allocated to living expenses for tuition and fees, thus risking reduced bene� ts.

Cheng asked students to do the same, exhausting their federal bene� ts before using the IVG to save the univer-sity money. But student veterans can’t double dip from the federal pot to save Illinois money. ­ ey must choose be-tween the Montgomery G.I. Bill and the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill.

­ e Post 9/11 G.I. Bill pays tuition and fees directly to the veteran’s uni-versity, and a housing allowance based on where he or she attends school. Veterans receiving the Post 9/11 G.I. Bill cannot draw from the IVG until

their Post 9/11 bene� ts run out. ­ e Montgomery G.I. Bill is paid

directly to the veteran. When combined with IVG payments toward tuition and fees, this means veterans receive month-ly checks for books, food and housing. For Illinois veterans outside of Chicago, this means more money each month.

­ e state should honor its veterans and pay for its programs, but not by standing on the backs of state universi-ties and community colleges. Fortu-nately, the university cannot, nor should it, ask veterans to take less than the law promises them to help balance its own budget. Allowing the state to adopt Wis-consin’s policy could do just that.

Money for education is a primary bene� t o� ered as an incentive to poten-tial service members. ­ ey are reward-ed for service to their country, especially those who have deployed overseas. In the past several years, several members of the Daily Egyptian sta� , including a photographer, a former editor-in-chief and the current editor of this page,

served in the military at least partly as a way to pay for an otherwise unobtain-able college education.

It doesn’t take an accountant to know the state’s grant program is unsus-tainable. ­ e solution to the state’s bud-get woes is not simply the 1 percent in-come tax increase for higher education proposed by Gov. Pat Quinn. ­ at won’t solve anything, short- or long-term. Il-linois can not a� ord to stand by and wait while democrats and republicans meander their way to a middle ground over decades while the public universi-ties, the future of the state itself, rot from underneath it. If the universities don’t get money, the states can’t just sit back and wait for the federal government to bail them out because it won’t happen.

Our editorial board is � lled pri-marily with non-veterans who don’t believe it necessary for universities to spend money they do not have to pre-vent veterans from sacri� cing money they were promised by an irresponsi-bly managed state.

OUR WORD

Schools, veterans burdened by state budget woes

Dear Editor:­ e main damage as the result of the

vandalism to the turf outside of the Ag-riculture Building is psychological and emotional.

I work very hard for this university, having put in an average of 55 hours per week for more than 20 years. I love work-ing with my students. I put my heart into it. As with anything else in life, when you put your heart out there, making yourself vul-nerable, the negligence and outright mean-ness of some people penetrates deeply into your emotions.

I knew the signs, cord and posts were vulnerable and am not surprised the van-dalism occurred. However, I am hurt it occurred so quickly. It’s like some people just couldn’t stand to have something con-structive and progressive going on.

So, is the vandalism a crime? Of course it is. ­ e dollar value does not determine its name. Aside from discouraging me, it has discouraged the developing hearts and minds of my 20 turf students who are working on the project. It has been one more ding on the thinking of every person who walked past the damage yesterday, hardening their hearts just a little bit more regarding the condition of the thinking within the young society of our SIUC stu-dent population, making each one of them less generous and less open.

Vandals just don’t realize the ripple ef-fect their actions have upon society. Or maybe they do.

Ken Diesburgassistant professor of plant, soil and

agricultural systems

Ag turf vandalism hit personal noteLETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor:Ryan Voyles’ article on the Il-

linois Veterans Grant and its cost to SIUC is still pertinent a ́er al-most three decades of continuing funding shortfalls by the state.

In the early eighties, admin-istrative responsibility for the IVG (then, the Illinois Veterans Scholarship) was transferred from the Illinois Department of Veterans A� airs to the Illinois State Scholarship Commission. At that time, student veterans could choose to utilize the schol-arship, or were, depending on � nancial status, eligible for the state-funded Monetary Award Program Grant.

­ is bene� t, as a legislatively

mandated entitlement, could be used for undergraduate classes or could be held in reserve for those students who chose to use the funding to help with gradu-ate school. ­ e Illinois State Scholarship Commission made usage of this funding mandatory on the undergraduate student veterans. ­ is transfer of ad-ministrative control had an im-mediate impact on state schools — funding shortfalls began dur-ing the semester following the transfer.

As SIUC coordinator of vet-erans a� airs at that time, I was invited to Spring� eld on two oc-casions to discuss the expected impact these changes might have

on both the budgetary process and the veterans themselves.

Representatives from several colleges and universities did a lot of talking and presented volumes of evidence outlining the expected negative e� ects of the proposed changes — all for naught. ­ e “powers that be” made those changes anyhow, and campus budgets have suf-fered since.

It’s sad to know, no matter how progressive we think we are, there are some things that remain the same for too long.

Perry L. Murryformer SIUC coordinator

of veterans a� airs

State has history of ignoring budgets’ impact on universities, veterans

THEIR WORD

A new report from the Insti-tute for Policy Studies said,

“CEOs of the 50 � rms that have laid o� the most workers since the onset of the economic crisis took home 42 percent more pay in 2009 than their peers at Standard & Poor’s 500 � rms.”

If true, that is a troubling � nd-ing. In tough times, expenses must be cut and executives have a duty

to shareholders to ensure the sur-vival of the enterprise.

Were they to do otherwise, the nation’s long-term economic pros-pects would su� er dramatically.

Yet the pay raises reported by the study were tacked onto salaries already stratospheric. S&P chief executives’ median pay is $1.025 million, or around $7.5 million with bonuses and bene� ts. Mean-

while, their workers get median packages of pay and bene� ts worth about $40,000.

As the Financial Times pointed out, a provision in the � nancial re-form package Congress just passed is causing nightmares for some at the top by requiring comparisons of top wages to workers’ average salaries.

Mean CEO compensation is

about 20 times the pay of the U.S. president and 187 times the pay of the average worker.

Two big questions: Where are the boards of these companies? And what can they be thinking?

A Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, not to mention a Warren Bu� ett, can mean the di� erence between prof-itability and stagnation, or worse.

But at the same time, widening

pay disparities can undermine the economic system by causing many to question its basic fairness.

Boards should recognize that lavish pay raises for chiefs oversee-ing the � rings of wwork forces do not play well in the court of public opinion.

� is editorial appeared in the Kansas City Star Monday.

Companies should be ashamed of CEO pay raises, favoritism

Freivogel said he would take parts of the leave around Christmas break, spring break and the end of the school year to minimize its ef-fect as much as possible.

He said he asked the faculty for their opinions before he sent the counter proposal, and support to save the positions was unanimous.

“If even one person on the fac-ulty had raised questions it would have been hard to push forward with it, certainly if a couple of people had been disgruntled about it,” Freivogel said.

Kolb said he thinks Freivo-gel has done a terrific job since he came to the position and has pushed for new initiatives within the school, such as multimedia projects and the redesign of the journalism curriculum.

Freivogel entered the School of Journalism as interim director in 2006 after 34 years at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he said. He be-came the permanent director the following year.

Kolb said he was caught off guard when he first received Freivogel’s proposal because nei-ther he nor the university has

asked anyone to take an unpaid leave. However, he said he was not surprised that Freivogel would be willing to do something that would help the school.

“Given Bill’s character, it doesn’t surprise me that he was willing to do that,” Kolb said.

Kreher, an advertising professor who was able to remain in her position in part because of Freivogel’s proposed unpaid leave, said his decision means a lot to her.

“It means that I have a job, and not just a job,” she said. “It means I’m here, I’m still part of this.”

Kreher said she has worked for many companies and Freivogel is one of the few bosses she has worked for who doesn’t have a personal agenda.

She also said she is impressed with the level of trust Freivogel has in his faculty.

“He trusts us, and that’s something that’s rare,” she said. “It’s the sign of a really good leader.”

Freivogel said he came in during a time when the faculty was divid-ed, but with time, he has been able to create relationships among the faculty based on trust.

“I think that we all have been able over the years since then to pull together and have a lot of

trust in each other,” he said. “I have trust in every member of the faculty who we send into the classroom.”

Kreher said Freivogel has worked to provide students op-

portunities to succeed and is will-ing to look in new directions.

“He’s open to ideas,” she said. “He’s really always looking for better ways to serve the students, better ways to improve the edu-

cational experience for students, and he’s great to work for.”

Jacob Mayer can be reached at jmayer@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

The lease agreement states, “Resident may cancel this lease if possession of the premises has not been delivered within 30 days of the commencement of the term.”

Sarah Dorau, a junior from Muncie, Ind., studying art, will be Chamberlin’s roommate at The Pointe, but for now she too lives at the Ramada Inn.

She said when The Pointe told her she wouldn’t be able to move in July 31, they offered to pay for an extended hotel stay.

“When I � rst got to the Ramada, I had nothing,” she said. “I just had a television. No refrigerator. No mi-crowave. On top of all that, all my stu� had to be put in storage.”

Patel said he worked with The Pointe’s Community Marketing Director, James J. Heininger when booking rooms for residents.

“In the first week, there were about 27 students, and week by week, it dwindled down,” he said.

He said there are seven residents still living at the Ramada Inn.

“It was good for us, for busi-ness, and I think they handled the matter pretty professionally for a mess up,” Patel said.

He said he hadn’t heard any complaints from the residents about the matter.

Dorau said The Pointe is pay-ing for all hotel rooms for resi-dents unable to move in to their apartments due to the prolonged construction — and residents would not have to pay rent until they have moved in.

Muriel J. Ball, executive di-rector at The Pointe, declined to comment.

During Dorau’s stay at the Ra-

mada Inn, she said she received a phone call from The Pointe saying she had to pack up and move to the Quality Inn. The Pointe did not give her a reason, she said. She spoke with the front desk at the Ramada Inn to see when she would have to check out, she said.

“I had to find out from the lady at the front desk I would be stay-ing here another three weeks (in-

stead of one) because The Pointe told her and not me,” she said.

When Chamberlin went into the office Aug. 9, she said the con-struction did not look like it was going to be done in six days.

“There were no windows and the building’s side panels were not complete,” she said.

Chamberlin said she believes because she is a student, she is be-

ing pushed around by Pointe ad-ministration.

“When I went in there to con-firm my room would be available on the 15th, they said ‘No, sorry, now it’s the August 29,” she said.

She said The Pointe had as-sured her she would be moving into the building that would be completed Aug. 29.

“£ en they told me I was actu-

ally in the less completed section,” she said.

Chamberlin and Dorau can-not move into their building un-til Sept. 18, seven weeks after the original move-in date outlined in the lease agreement.

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 268.

Alexa Chamberlin, a senior from Marion studying early childhood education, studies Sept. 8 in her room at the Ramada Inn in Carbondale. Chamberlin was supposed to move into her apartment July 31 at the Pointe apartment complex, however, just days before

her move-in date, she was told she would not be able to move in on time due to construction. Chamberlin said her move in date has been changed several times in the last few weeks but that her stay at the hotel has not been bad. “It could be a lot worse,” she said.

ISAAC SMITH | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Daily Egyptian News Wednesday, September 15, 20106POINTECONTINUED FROM 1

William Freivogel, director of the School of Journalism, talks to students while enjoying a gift from faculty members, an autographed Stan Musial baseball, Tuesday in his office in

the Communications Building. Freivogel has proposed to take two one-month leaves of absence, meaning a substantial pay cut, to save money in the school’s budget.

STEVE BERCZYNSKI | DAILY EGYPTIAN

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FREIVOGELCONTINUED FROM 1

Daily EgyptianWorld & NationWednesday, September 15, 2010 7WIRE REPORTS

PAKISTANRecord number of U.S. airstrikes hit Afghan militants in Pakistani border region

I S L A M A B A D — Drone aircraft unleashed two missile attacks in a law-less tribal region on the Afghan border Tuesday, making September the most intense period of U.S. strikes in Pakistan since they began in 2004, intelligence officials said.

The stepped-up campaign is focused on a small area of farming villages and mountainous, thickly forested terrain con-trolled by the Haqqani network, a ruthless American foe in Afghanistan, U.S. officials say. There is some evidence the network is being squeezed as a result, one official said.

American officials said the airstrikes were designed to degrade the Haqqanis’ operations on the Pakistani side of the border, creating a “hammer-and-anvil” effect as U.S. special operations forces carry out raids against their fighters across the frontier in Afghanistan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to dis-cuss ongoing classified operations.

The missiles have killed more than 50 people in 12 strikes since Sept. 2 in the Pakistani region of North Waziristan, according to an Associated Press tally based on Pakistani intelligence officials’ reports. Many struck around Datta Khel, a town of about 40,000 people that sits on a strategically vital road to the Afghan border.

The border region has long been a refuge for Islamist extremists from around the world. Osama Bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders are believed to have fled there after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

FRANCEFrench Senate votes overwhelmingly to ban Islamic face veils in final move toward law

PA R I S — The French Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill banning the burqa-style Islamic veil on public streets and other places, a measure that affects less than 2,000 women but that has been widely seen as a symbolic defense of French values.

The Senate voted 246 to 1 in favor of the bill in a final step toward making the ban a law — though it now must pass muster with France’s constitutional watch-dog. The bill was overwhelmingly passed in July in the lower house, the National Assembly.

Many Muslims believe the legislation is one more blow to France’s No. 2 religion, and risks raising the level of Islamophobia in a country where mosques, like synagogues, are sporadic targets of hate. However, the law’s many proponents say it will preserve the nation’s values, including its secular foundations and a notion of fraternity that is contrary to those who hide their faces.

In an attempt to head off any legal challenges over arguments it tramples on religious and other freedoms, the leaders of both parliamentary houses said they had asked a special body to ensure it passes constitutional muster. The Constitutional Council has one month to rule.

IRANAmerican woman leaves Iranian prison after bail mediation in Persian Gulf

T E H R A N — In just a few dizzying hours, American Sarah Shourd exchanged a cell in Tehran’s Evin Prison for a private jet crossing the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, after an apparent diplomatic deal to cover a $500,000 bail and secure a release that seemed in jeopardy from the start.

Shourd was met by her mother and U.S. diplomats at a royal airfield in the capital of Oman, which U.S. officials say played a critical role in organizing the bail payment and assuring it did not violate American economic sanctions on Iran.

Shourd stepped off the private Omani jet and into the arms of her mother in their first embrace since a brief visit in May overseen by Iranian authorities — and her first day of freedom in more than 13 months. Shourd smiled broadly as they strolled arm-in-arm through the heat of the late summer night along the Gulf of Oman.

“I’m grateful and I’m very humbled by this moment,” she said before boarding the plane in Tehran for the two-hour flight to Oman.

The whirlwind departure of the 32-year-old Shourd brought little change for two other Americans — her fiance Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal — who remained behind bars while authorities moved toward possible trials on spy charges that could bring up to 10 years in prison if they are convicted.

SANTIAGO — Chile’s 33 trapped miners have something good to think about: their next jobs. Bulldozer driver, mechanic, electrician. And here’s a couple they might � nd particularly use-ful: “risk reduction specialist” and “escape-tunnel driller.”

Two dozen companies with operations in Chile have made more than 1,000 job o� ers to the trapped miners and their 317 sidelined co-workers at a job fair this week. Even if they choose to go back to mining, the work won’t necessarily be underground and it will almost certainly be with a company with a better safety record than their struggling current employer.

� e 33 miners have been trapped for 40 days in harrowing, sweltering conditions since an Aug. 5 collapse. No miners in history have been trapped so long, and it still could be months before a hole large enough to get them out is completed. � ey are getting food, medicine, communication and other essentials through narrower holes dug by rescuers, but their anxiety has become evident, with more questions asked each time

they hear the drilling stop.� eir relatives wait anxiously

for the miners, many in tents at the mine itself, but in many ways life goes on without them. One of them, Ariel Ticona, became a father for the � rst time Tuesday.

� e San Esteban mining company, which owns the mine, has pursued bankruptcy protec-tion since the collapse and has claimed it can’t a� ord to pay the trapped miners, even though they’ll have to work their way out by clearing rubble around the clock below the escape tunnels.

� e San Jose miners have been o� ered 1,188 jobs as of Tuesday, many of them posted on a government labor ministry web site. Mining industry companies have interviewed some 200 of the miners who are not trapped at a hotel in the regional capital of Copiapo, and say they have no trouble waiting for the trapped miners to be rescued before they interview them as well.

“� e 33 won’t be without a job,” vowed Sara Morales, a dep-uty human resources director for Terra Services, a Chilean drilling

company. She told � e Associat-ed Press on Tuesday that she had received resumes from 80 miners and will o� er 20 of them jobs.

� ere will be no deadline for the trapped miners to take advantage of this “relocation program,” said Jose Tomas Letelier, a vice-president at Canadian gold mining company Kinross.

None of the trapped miners should have to venture back into marginal mines like San Jose that struggle to meet Chile’s modern safety standards. Many of these job o� ers come from some of the world’s most advanced mining companies — major international players making huge investments in Chile.

� e companies are prepared to have the miners work as truck or bulldozer drivers, heavy equipment operators, electricians, mechanics, and supervisors in various jobs up on the surface. Kinross alone is o� ering 46 positions, including risk reduction specialist.

“As the name suggests, it’s to prevent risks in mining, which is a very risky activity ... it’s a very important role,” Letelier said.

Even without the government-organized job o� ers, the miners shouldn’t lack for work in the industry. Chile’s mining sector is booming, with $50 billion in new investment expected in the next � ve years, making skilled mining workers increasingly hard to � nd.

“It’s already di ̈ cult today to � nd certain kinds of operators,” Letelier said.

Some of the jobs being o� ered to the miners seem risky — like the four “explosives handler” positions the San Geronimo mining company seeks to � ll.

Some of the spouses of the trapped men have warned them to give up mining or else.

Lila Ramirez has said her marriage to 63-year-old Mario Gomez will be over if he returns to the mines.

And Carola Narvaez, whose husband, Raul Bustos, is stuck un-derground, said a few days aª er the miners were found alive that “in my heart, I don’t want him to ever return to the mines.”

Asked if she thought her hus-band would be willing to give up the relatively good wages a man can make in mining — and if she would have the power to convince him otherwise — she « ashed a bittersweet smile and shrugged. “Every man has to work,” she said.

WASHINGTON — Estab-lishment Republicans vied with challengers favored by tea party activists one last time Tuesday in a multistate � nale to a primary elec-tion season marked by economic recession and political upheaval.

Highlighted by GOP-tea party showdowns in New Hampshire and Delaware, � ve states chose candidates for the Senate and six for governor.

In New York, 40-year veteran Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel faced the voters for the � rst time since the House ethics committee accused him of 13 violations, most of them relating to his personal � nances.

So far this year, seven incum-bent members of Congress have tasted defeat, four Republicans and three Democrats. And that does not include a lengthy list of GOP contenders who fell to tea party-supported challengers de-spite having the backing of party o ̈ cials eager to maximize their gains in November.

With unemployment high and President Barack Obama’s popularity below 50 percent, Republicans said the primaries re« ected an enthusiasm that would serve the party well in the fall, when control of Congress will be at stake.

Democrats, however, said the presence of tea party-supported Republicans would prove costly to the GOP on Nov. 2 — a propo-sition that remained to be tested in seven weeks’ time.

In Delaware, Rep. Mike

Castle sought the nomination to a Senate seat held for 36 years by Vice President Joe Biden in a primary that took a sharp turn for the negative three weeks ago when the Tea Party Express announced it would come to the aid of challenger Christine O’Donnell.

Castle, a former two-term governor and a veteran of nearly two decades in the House, was repeatedly assailed as a liberal, a Republican in name only. He and the party responded by challenging O’Donnell’s fitness for public office and her ability to win a statewide election in the fall.

In an extraordinary move, the state Republican Party began automated phone calls attacking O’Donnell in the campaign’s � nal hours. � e calls feature the voice of a woman who identi� es herself as Kristin Murray, O’Donnell’s campaign manager in her 2008 unsuccessful Senate campaign, accusing the candidate of “living on campaign donations — using them for rent and personal expenses, while leaving her workers unpaid and piling up thousands in debt.”

O’Donnell’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Republican o ̈ cials have said privately they intend to write o� the seat if O’Donnell is victorious against Castle.

While Republicans brawled, New Castle County Executive Chris Coons coasted to the Democratic nomination with-out opposition. Biden resigned the seat in early 2009, and his

successor, Democratic Sen. Ted Kaufman, pledged not to run for a full term.

Republicans in New Hampshire sorted through a crowded � eld of candidates for the nomination to a seat long held by retiring GOP Sen. Judd Gregg.

Former Attorney General Kelly Ayotte was the party-backed favorite, and she added support from prominent conservatives who have played a heavy role in several primaries this year, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

Her principal opposition came from Ovide Lamontagne, a lawyer and former head of the state board of education. He campaigned with the support of tea party activists and claimed to be the most conservative candidate in a race that also in-cluded businessmen Bill Binnie and Jim Bender.

� e winner will face Demo-cratic Rep. Paul Hodes, who is giving up his seat in the House to run for the Senate.

Republicans must gain 10 seats this fall if they are to win control of the Senate, and their chances count heavily on their ability to prevail in both Delaware and New Hampshire.

In Wisconsin, businessman Ron Johnson faced two minor opponents for the Republican nomination to oppose three-term Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold in November in what polls show is a tight race. Johnson has said he will spend millions of his own money to � nance his campaign through Election Day.

In New York, Democratic At-

torney General Andrew Cuomo faced no opposition for the party’s nomination for governor, and he will be the prohibitive favorite in the fall for an o ̈ ce his father held for three terms.

Former Rep. Rick Lazio vied with political novice Carl Paladino, a wealthy developer who got tea party support, for the Republican nomination.

� e state’s new electronic voting machines made their debut, and there were scattered reports of problems that resulted in delays and long lines.

In Maryland, former Republi-can Gov. Bob Ehrlich sought the nomination for a rematch against the man who ousted him from o ̈ ce in 2006, Democratic Gov. Martin O’Malley.

There were gubernatorial nomination contests in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Massa-chusetts and Wisconsin, where Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker collided with for-mer Rep. Mark Neumann for the Republican line on the fall ballot. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was heavily favored for the Democratic nomination.

Trapped miners have a thousand job o� ers EVA VERGARAVIVIAN SEQUERAThe Associated Press

Primaries � nale: GOP establishment vs Tea PartyDAVID ESPOThe Associated Press W ith unemployment

high and President Barack Obama’s popularity below 50 percent, Republicans said the primaries reflected an enthusiasm that would serve the party well in the fall, when control of Congress will be at stake.

C hile’s mining sector is booming, with $50 billion in new investment expected in the next five years, making

skilled mining workers increasingly hard to find.

CHICAGO — A 12-foot section of a damaged pipeline that sent oil bubbling to the surface outside Chicago was being replaced Tuesday, and a federal o� cial said crews hoped to � ll in the excavation site this week.

A water main beneath the pipeline was scheduled to be repaired Wednesday, said Sam Borries, the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s on-scene coordinator. And if all goes well, workers could begin repairing the street in Romeoville by the end of the week, he said.

But the spill and resulting pipeline shutdown have meant a spike in regional gas prices, and federal o� cials say it could take weeks to clean up contamination.

A 2-inch diameter hole was been found in the bottom of the pipe

directly above the water main, and two holes were found in the top of the water main, but the cause of the oil leak won’t be known until the National Transportation Safety Board tests the damaged pipe, investigator Matthew Nicholson said. � e damaged section should arrive in Washington by � ursday, he said.

“We’ve got the primary piece of evidence,” he said.

Daily Egyptian News Wednesday, September 15, 201010

DEKALB — Northern Illinois Athletic Director Jeff Compher says defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys will fill in for head coach Jerry Kill against Illinois if doctors say Kill isn’t able.

Compher said Tuesday he isn’t sure yet whether Kill will be able to make the trip with NIU (1-1) for Saturday’s game against the Illini (1-1).

Kill has been hospitalized since the weekend after he became dehydrated during Saturday’s win

over North Dakota. Compher says Kill’s illness isn’t related to a past bout with kidney cancer.

In Champaign on Tuesday Illinois coach Ron Zook said his thoughts and prayers are with Kill. Zook says he doesn’t know him well but admires him as a coach.

NIU has replacement if needed for ailing head coach Jerry Kill

County clerk says voter safeguards in place

SPRINGFIELD — State election o� cials have been alerted about possible irregularities in Alexander County’s voter registration lists, but the county clerk says safeguards are in place to help prevent problems in November.

A newspaper report suggested

the number of registered voters may exceed the number of residents eligible to vote in the southern Illinois county. County Clerk Francis Lee says she hasn’t had time to purge the rolls since taking o� ce last year, but it’s her “intention to get it cleaned up.”

She says the process could take two years.

A spokesman says the Illinois State Board of Elections is aware of the irregularities but isn’t currently investigating. � e Illinois Attorney General’s o� ce also isn’t investigating.

� e county has experienced voting problems in the past. An incident in 2000 had former clerk Louis Maze indicted for vote fraud.

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NICK JOHNSON

Saluki Insider

I think Bush is showing incredible maturity with this move. Giving up the award for best player in the country requires incredible selflessness, and it’s not a coincidence that many of the greatest professional football players were also the most humble ones.

Bush gained points in my book for forfeiting the trophy. He definitely shouldn’t have accepted any gifts in the first place, but what’s done is done. Way to step up and be a man.

Daily EgyptianSportsWednesday, September 15, 2010 11

New Orleans Saints running back Reggie Bush announced Tuesday he will willingly forfeit his 2005 Heisman Trophy in the wake of a four-year NCAA investigation that ended this summer with strict punish-ments for his alma mater, the University of Southern California. Bush and his family received hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from marketing agents while he was attending USC. Former Heisman winners Eric Crouch and Eddie George have both said Bush may not have made the right choice. Did Bush do the right thing by giving up the coveted Heisman?

Bush gave up the award only because he knew the NCAA wanted to take the Heisman from him. It was only a matter of time before the powers that be came crashing down on him. Give it to Vince Young.

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Today’s birthday — Surrounded by love and a sense of security and protection, this year you can stretch your wings and fly. Career potential opens before you. Take a new path or sweep your current one clear of obstacles. Every day is filled with opportunity to grow and expand.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — You feel like angels are standing by your shoulder, guiding your every decision and action. Protected and supported, you can do anything.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 8 — Fly on angel wings to a passionate encounter. Say exactly how you feel and support your partner from behind the scenes.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 8 — The countdown reaches zero today, and you take off to a unique destination. Your spirits are uplifted by the prospect. Enjoy the ride!

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 5 — You get into today’s activities wholeheartedly. There’s a lot of running around, but, in the end, you gather everything you need for a delightful party.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 6— Your boat is almost on an even keel. Careful communication throughout the day keeps you headed in your direction of choice. Remain focused on work and family matters.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — Your words have tremendous impact on the feelings of others. Today you provide a protective shield that someone really appreciates.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 9 — You begin to wonder what you were thinking when you started out. Don’t be disheartened: just re-examine the logic to get back on track.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Wrap yourself in the comfort of self-confidence and mental precision. You have everything you need to bring about change as desired.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 9 — Embrace the world! Wrap friends and family in a warm hug as if angel wings were guarding their security. Love heals all wounds.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 9 — This is the day with angel wings. You feel loved and protected, and share that with everyone you know. Communicate your joy in emails and by phone.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 9 — Although your imagination carries you off to a desert island for a much-deserved rest, practical thinking keeps your body producing at work.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — Today you manage partnership issues, travel, group activities and private introspection. Everything fits into your schedule. Give thanks.

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Daily Egyptian Sports Wednesday, September 15, 201014

For junior Saluki le� guard George Danilkowicz, sports were al-ways his area of interest and talent. � at’s why he decided to use sports to help the community that gave him so many opportunities, he said.

In 2004, Danilkowicz, a transfer student from North Dakota State University, said he and his two brothers, Jack and John Danilkow-icz, started a community outreach program called Athletes C.A.R.E. near their hometown of Green Oaks. George Danilkowicz was attending Libertyville High School at the time.

“We felt like we needed to give back,” George Danilkowicz said.

Athletes C.A.R.E. gives abused children at Kids Hope United, an all-boys orphanage in Lake Villa that houses children from elemen-tary school age to high school age, the chance to develop positive role models, Danilkowicz said. � e three brothers and approximately 40 other volunteers visited the children pe-riodically and played sports with them, he said.

� e Danilkowicz brothers re-cruited male student volunteers primarily from Libertyville High School, George Danilkowicz said.

Danilkowicz said his mother called Kids Hope United and the or-phanage agreed to let the high school students have a trial period. � e pro-gram took o� from there, he said.

� e Villa Park Kids Hope United did not return multiple calls seeking comment.

Watching the kids change and grow during the years was the most rewarding part of the experience, Danilkowicz said. He said the chil-dren would noticeably open up to the volunteers and some even be-

came friends with Danilkowicz and the others.

In 2009, the program received the Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy award from the Association of Fund-raising Professionals Chicago.

“I was shocked. I didn’t real-ize how big it had gotten and how much recognition it had received,” Danilkowicz said.

Fellow SIU o� ensive lineman Bryan Boemer said Danilkowicz is a

hard character to peg but is a good team player.

“He’s easy to get along with and easy to talk to,” Boemer said.

Scott Stoczynski, Danilkowicz’s former teammate at North Dakota State University, said Danilkowicz was a good-hearted guy.

Stoczynski lived with Danilkow-icz for the 2008-2009 school year.

“He always would do anything for you, always be the one to help

out,” he said. Stoczynski said Danilkowicz talk-

ed about Athletes C.A.R.E. but never talked about starting a branch near North Dakota State.

With Danilkowicz and his brothers away at college, the program is in the hands of the next generation of volun-teers from Libertyville High School, Danilkowicz said.

Jack Danilkowicz is starting a branch in Virginia and John is work-

ing on a program in Baltimore, he said. George Danilkowicz said he has consid-ered starting a branch in Carbondale.

He said football and school take up much of his time.

“I just haven’t really had the time to get it all ¦ gured out,” he said.

When asked where he saw him-self in 10 years, Danilkowicz said that he would be doing what he al-ways does: looking for a way to give back to the community.

Transfer student provided role models for orphans

Transfer junior offensive lineman George Danilkowicz runs back to the locker room during halftime Saturday during the Illini 35-3 loss at Memorial Stadium in Champaign. Danilkowicz started

Athletes C.A.R.E. with his brothers in 2004 and got students from Libertyville High School involved with Kids Hope United orphanage to play sports with children.

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Sophomore setter Rachael Brown dives for the ball in the second set of the match against University of Tennessee at Martin Tuesday at Davis Gymnasium. The Salukis beat the Skyhawks 3-0 and will be playing Creighton at home on Friday.

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� ough they struggled with fouls and had to claw out of a comeback in one match, the Salu-kis recorded their eighth shutout of the season in a 3-0 home victo-ry over University of Tennessee-Martin on Tuesday.

� e Salukis (9-1) defeated the Skyhawks (2-9) 25-19, 25-23 and 25-23 in three games. SIU start-ed each game on a run, then let UTM make runs of its own to get back in the game.

Skyhawk outside hitter Ka-tie Redman (13 kills) and errors by the Salukis, such as net and hit violations and serves out of bounds in crucial moments, kept Tennessee-Martin in each game, head coach Brenda Winkeler said.

Sophomore setter Rachael Brown said the team was thrown a curve ball because it’s used to playing weekend tournaments during the preseason.

“It’s de¦ nitely di� erent playing

in the middle of the week instead of on a Friday because we are in the middle of school,” Brown said. “But that is not an excuse for us not to play.”

� e Salukis were down 21-18 in the second game but bounced back with solid defense. Senior outside hitter Jennifer Berwanger tied the game 21-21 with an ace. Tennessee-Martin scored two more times before sophomore outside hitter Laura � ole scored on a block and two kills to take the game for the Salukis. � ole ¦ nished the game with seven digs and three kills.

Senior middle blocker Jasmine Conner said the Salukis’ game plan was to get their hands up and stop the aggressive Skyhawk hitters.

“Coach said ‘shut down the outside and right side (hitters).’ � ey have some good hitters, smart hitters, so it’s not like we could just pound it through. We had to be smart where we placed (the ball),” Connor said.

� e ¦ nal game was a replay of the second, with SIU edging out its opponent with strong defen-sive net play.

SIU had nine blocks in the match, six more than Tennessee-Martin, and senior right side hitter

Alicia Johnson led SIU with 12 kills.Winkeler said she talked to

her players about not giving away games to opponents with medio-cre records.

“We didn’t do the small things that we always talk about. We got

saved by some good performanc-es by a few people in the end,” Winkeler said.

Tuesday’s match was the last preseason game for the Salukis. Be-ginning Friday, SIU will play tough conference opponents who make the Missouri Valley Conference the seventh toughest in volleyball, ac-cording to NCAA rankings.

Winkeler said her team is ready to play against MVC op-ponents, who have compiled a record of 76-26 in their preseason matches. � e match against Ten-nessee-Martin was a good ¦ nal test to make sure her team was fully prepared, she said.

“It was good opportunity to get out on the ± oor and I think it’s a good reminder that any given night anything can happen,” Win-keler said.

SIU hosts Creighton 7 p.m. Friday and Drake 4 p.m. Saturday.

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Women’s tennis head coach Audra Nothwehr likes having the � avor of a multicultural team, she said.

“We purposely recruit from di� er-ent countries,” Nothwehr said.

But not all athletic teams at SIU are as diverse as Nothwehr’s, said Dan Rohrer, assistant athletic director for compliance. � e number of interna-tional student athletes at SIU is low, at approximately 25 to 30 students, he said. � ese students are primarily involved with tennis and swimming, with a few participating in track, Rohrer said.

On the women’s tennis team, for example, three of the nine players are international students, Nothwehr said. On the men’s tennis team, six of the nine players are international students.

“� e international students are more easily able to translate their tal-ents (in these areas),” Rohrer said.

He said tennis and swimming are more global sports, and therefore ap-ply to the majority of the international students.

Nothwehr said athletics and aca-demics are not combined in most other countries. If a student wants to participate in a sport while attending a university, the U.S. is most likely his or her best option, she said.

Perhaps this is why the tennis teams maintain an average of half in-ternational players, said Nothwehr. � is is a striking contrast to foot-

ball, basketball and volleyball, which Rohrer said currently have no interna-tional players.

Nothwehr and sophomore tennis player Jennifer Dien said the presence of international students has a positive

e� ect on the team. Dien, who is from Overland Park, Kan., said she had no prior experience playing with interna-tional students and the diversity of the players helps avoid one-sided thinking.

“It gives us di� erent depths ... like a

little variety,” Dien said. Nothwehr said she especially loves

international students from develop-ing countries.

“� ey greater appreciate the op-portunity that you give them,” she said.

“� ey are usually harder workers ... � at’s the kind of kid I want to recruit.”

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International students add variety, depth to Saluki teams

Anastacia Simons, a sophomore tennis player from South Africa, gets instruction along with teammates at practice Tuesday at the tennis courts. In addition to Simons, the team has two other international players, Vishakha Sheoran, a senior from India, and Melanie Delsart, a junior from Argentina. STEVE BERCZYNSKIDAILY EGYPTIAN

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