Daily Egyptian July 01, 2010

RYAN VOYLESDaily Egyptian

LAUREN LEONEDaily Egyptian

HOOP JAMPeople were “hooping” during the performance June 24 at Turley Park. Adrienne Barrow, of St. Louis, said she loves hooping to jam music, but said it’s hard for her to find someone who shares her enthusiasm. For part two of the DAILY EGYPTIAN’S series on the sunset concerts, please see page 3.DIANA SOLIWONDAILY EGYPTIAN

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More than $360,000 has been grant-ed to an SIUC research project by the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser-vices, a U.S. Congressman Jerry Costel-lo release stated.

e $363,750 will go toward “Regulation and Function of the Rhox8 Homeobox Gene in Granulosa Cells,” a research project directed by

James MacLean, assistant professor of physiology.

e project is designed to look at the � nal steps of ovulation, MacLean said.

“Federally funded research results in many positive developments for soci-ety, and SIUC continues to distinguish itself by the quality of its academic con-tributions,” Costello said in the release.

e report also said the univer-

sity has been awarded with a grant of $10,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts. e money will go toward a public outreach education program that will focus on the University Mu-seum’s American Pop Art collection.

“ e designation of the University Museum as a recipient of NEA is a posi-tive re� ection on the university and our region,” Costello said in the release.

SIU receives more than $370,000 in grants

State universities will � nd themselves in the same uncertain position as they have in the past when Gov. Pat Quinn presents the Illinois budget today.

Only this year, SIU President Glenn Poshard said there‘s unlikely to be any federal stimulus money to ease the pain.

Poshard said though the state ap-propriation is expected to stay the same

as last year, a lack of stimulus money could result in a 7 percent cut at SIU.

“We know unless the federal leg-islation takes action, we’re going to lose the 7 percent stimulus money,” Poshard said. “So while the budget may re� ect � at funding at the FY10

level, we know in the state � scal level there is going to be at least a 7 percent cut unless the money is restored at the � scal level.”

e 7 percent stimulus money came when Illinois was given $1.02 billion in education-related stimulus

spending last year, said Poshard. SIU could receive more than $211

million in state appropriations in � scal year 2011, according to the FY11 Fis-cal Overview & Budget Summary that Quinn presented to the Illinois Gener-al Assembly in March. e budget calls for almost $1.17 billion to be appropri-ated to public universities, including $456 million to be appropriated to University of Illinois.

e document states, however, the numbers are “the governor’s operating budget recommendations.”

When the budget is presented, Quinn still has the power to cut fund-ing to “anything (he) sees � t” at a later time, said Rod Sievers, SIUC spokes-man. He said it was possible education could be e¥ ected by these cuts.

“As far as people that I’ve talked to today, no one really knows where these cuts are going to come from,” Sievers said. “ e governor’s o¦ ce has not led on to anything.”

Quinn to present budget today

Carla Coppi hopes she can bring � rst-year students together — with one book and Hurricane Katrina.

Coppi, a Saluki First Year commit-tee member and interim director of international students and scholars, is

the creator of the theme “ e Storm Re-membered: Tragedies and Triumphs of Katrina,” which Saluki First Year will use as its 2010-2011 theme.

Saluki First Year was created in 2009 when academic and student a¥ airs truly collaborated and communicated for the � rst time, said Mark Amos, director of Saluki First Year. He said the program

encourages � rst-year students to get involved in events on campus, sporting events, and also provides resources to succeed in the classroom.

e program is designed to increase � rst-year students’ awareness of the community around them, Coppi said.

Amos said the � rst-year college ex-perience — like Hurricane Katrina — is di¦ cult.

“Wherever you are in your life, whatever you are doing, you’re going to run in some rough spots and you will really need some human support,” he said.

First-year students will receive a free

copy of the book “1 Dead in the Attic” by Chris Rose, a former journalist who evacuated New Orleans a¬ er Katrina for a week, but came back immediately to write about he saw, Coppi said.

“ e book is full of humor, but a lot of it is also horrible,” she said.

Coppi said the book is an easy-read, something they were looking for to at-tract � rst-year students. e book is composed of individual articles — some only a page and a half — so it can be put down and picked up again.

“ e book is transformational,” Coppi said. “So if you had been clois-tered before and didn’t reach out to peo-

ple, a¬ er you read this, you might start.”A Speaker Series will bring guests on

campus to present on a wide variety of topics and issues. Many � rst-year semi-nar courses will require students to at-tend the event, according to Saluki First Year’s brochure.

Coppi said she felt it was appropri-ate to bring guest speakers who expe-rienced the a¬ ermath of the hurricane and the ensuing � ooding to Carbon-dale. She said Rose will be one of the featured speakers in the fall.

Katrina, community focus of Saluki First-Year program Guest speakers to discuss personal experiences with HurricaneKatrina a¬ ermath this fall

W e know unless the federal legislation takes action, we’re going to lose the 7 percent stimulus money.

— Glenn PoshardSIU President

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About Us� e Daily Egyptian is published by the students of Southern Illinois University Carbondale 50 weeks per year, with

an average daily circulation of 20,000. Fall and spring semester editions run Monday through Friday. Summer editions run Tuesday through � ursday. All intersession editions will run on Wednesdays. Spring break and � anksgiving edi-tions are distributed on Mondays of the pertaining weeks. Free copies are distributed in the Carbondale, Murphysboro and Carterville communities. � e Daily Egyptian online publication can be found at www.dailyegyptian.com.

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LEARNING THROUGH LEGOS Second grader Connor Giblin plays with a motorized merry-go-round Lego set he and Rowland Whiles, also in second grade, built during the Junior Creative Lego Camp I Wednesday in Quigley Hall. “(The Division of Continuing Education) initiated this because there were no workshops for younger kids,” said Jon Davey, an architecture professor and the project director and instructor of the Kid Architecture program at SIUC. The camp is intended to inspire young people to learn via creative processes.

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SIU is still waiting for state ap-propriations for this � scal year, but Poshard said the university re-ceived a $14.4 million payment this week; bringing the total owed to the university in FY10 to $82 million.

“� is will allow us to make pay-roll all the way to September, so that settles a lot of fears people were having coming into the fall semes-ter,” Poshard said.

But Poshard said he would sit and wait for Quinn to present next year’s budget to see what the � nan-cial situation for the university will be like the upcoming year.

“I guess (today) we’ll just � nd out what level we’re going to be funded at — and cut at,” he said.

Ryan Voyles can be reached at [email protected] or

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In addition to Rose, Coppi said local individuals involved with Ka-trina’s animal rescue during the af-termath would be part of the Speaker Series. � e program may also feature New Orleans-style music.

“We are trying to get several of our architectural and anthropol-ogy professors that have been down

there numerous times to also be guest speakers,” Coppi said.

Amos said the program wanted to approach Katrina from a number of di§ erent angles.

“Having issues discussed by a di-verse group of individuals is Saluki First Year’s goal,” he said. “We can all put it together to see we can’t divide the world into history, English and science. It is all how we think about the world.”

Coppi said she hopes � rst-year students will get something from the book and from the events planned for the fall.

“It’s about trying to develop your-self holistically, what it means to serve the world at the beginning of your college career,” she said.

Lauren Leone can be reached at [email protected] or

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� e Sunset Concert pregame is di erent for those who aunt yellow sunset volunteer shirts.

� e steps of Shryock and Turley Park are converted every � ursday into a celebration of music and summer through the Sunset Concert Series. � e series is coordinated to include volunteers from the city of Carbondale, Carbondale Park District, Student Programming Council and the Student Center in an e ort to strengthen ties between the university and the city, said Donald Castle, the chair of the sunset concert committee.

Castle, who has 22 years of experience with the series, said the sponsors are meant to bring in various parts of the town and campus together to create an entertainment event for the community.

“Its very intentional that the four sponsors come together in the summer to produce the concert,” he said.

Volunteers are able to witness the concert from a di erent perspective, said Kyle Fisher, a junior from Du Quoin studying cinema and radio, who volunteered as a safety walker.

Each of the four sponsors supplies volunteers to create the group of 12 to 16 safety walkers needed for each concert.

“You get to see people from all walks of life,” Castle said. “� at is by de� nition what a festival is about — bringing people together.”

Fisher said a safety walker’s primary responsibilities are to make sure pets remain in their designated areas and to watch for glass bottles.

Serious safety issues are le� to the police, Fisher said.

Castle said the series allows volunteers

to see a greater picture of the Carbondale community.

“� is is a very unique crowd,” he said. “� ere is only a few times where the community really mixes it up likes this.”

Fisher said concert-goers o� en do not realize all that goes into the production of the series. He said through his experience as a volunteer he was

able to better appreciate the concert.“I go out there about an hour before the

show to help � nish setting up and prepare for the crowd,” Fisher said.

John Maesar, a senior from Morton studying meteorology and photography and the concert director, said some volunteers have attended the concert since they were

younger and wanted to help continue to make the concert series enjoyable.

“It is great that we have separate outlooks on it from di erent perspectives,” he said.

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536-3311 ext. 258.

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Rick Rost tweaks the 22 channels of audio during The McClymonts’ sound check before the group performed at the Sunset Concert June 24 at Turley Park. Rost said he has attended the concerts since he was in school in the early 1980s — just a few years after the city tradition began.

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Former associate dean of the col-lege of Technical Careers, Harry R. Soderstrom, died Monday at Hospice of South Central Indiana Inpatient Facility. He was 87.

Soderstrom’s daughter Sandra Aimers, said her father was a caring man who lived a long successful life.

“He was a wonderful person, an intelligent man. Family was probably the most important thing to him,” she said. “He loved his work. From what I’ve gotten, all his students loved to work with him.”

Soderstrom spent 28 years at SIUC, and retired as full-time professor and associate dean of Technical Careers.

He also spent time as an instructor at Bradley University, but Aimers said he always loved Carbondale.

“I know he spent most of his lifetime (in Carbondale),” she said. “I think he looked at that as his home, even when he moved away.”

Aimers said she will always remember her father as someone who enjoyed other people’s company.

Soderstrom’s survivors include his sister, Evelyn Eckberg; two daughters, � ve stepchildren, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Jewell-Rittman Family Funeral Home in Columbus, Ind.

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LOUISIANAWorld’s largest oil skimmer heads to Gulf spill for tests; hurricane churns coastal waters

CYPRUSCypriot police say they are search for alleged Russian spy who vanished after release on bail

Former associate dean of Technical Careers dies at 87

NEW ORLEANS — With hurricane-whipped waves pushing more oil onto the Gulf of Mexico’s once-white beaches, the government pinned its latest cleanup hopes Wednesday on a huge new piece of equipment: the world’s largest oil-skimming vessel.

The Taiwanese-flagged former tanker named the “A Whale” is the length of 3½ football fields and stands 10

stories high. It just emerged from an extensive retrofitting to prepare it specifically for the Gulf, where officials hope it will be able to suck up as much as 21 million gallons of oil-fouled water per day.

“It is absolutely gigantic. It’s unbelievable,” said Louisiana State University environmental sciences profes-sor Ed Overton, who saw the ship last week in Norfolk, Va.

LARNACA — Cypriot police began searching late Wednesday for an alleged Russian spy wanted in the United States who vanished after being released on bail a day earlier in the Mediterranean island nation.

Police spokesman Michalis Katsounotos said Christopher Robert Metsos, 54, who says he is Canadian, failed to report to police in the southern coastal town of Larnaca between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. local time (1500GMT and 1700GMT; 11:00 a.m. EDT and 1:00 p.m. EDT) Wednesday according to the terms of release imposed on

him Tuesday by a Cypriot court.Katsounotos said a search failed to locate Metsos and

authorities have begun the procedures to issue a warrant for his arrest for breaching the terms of his release.

Andreas Pastellides, one of two lawyers representing Metsos in Cyprus, told the Associated Press that they’d had no contact with their client since Tuesday afternoon.

Pastellides said Metsos did not show up for a meeting he was supposed to have Wednesday afternoon in Larnaca with Pastellides’ partner, Michalis Papathanasiou.

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Fans get excited before the start of the women’s basketball game against Illinois State Feb. 20 at SIU Arena. The women’s basketball program received a $45,200 grant from the NCAA to promote the team and attract a larger audience.

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Gazdik said the playland will be full of games and in� atables for kids to play with so they have an enjoy-able experience at the games. He said SIU wants to do all it can to make women’s basketball a fun event for the entire family.

Taylor said the Salukis already work within the community in the Boys and Girls Club. � ey also visit middle school students for lunch, in a program called Dining with Dawgs. He said they designed the proposal around what the coaches and team have already been doing.

“We piggy backed on what they al-ready do,” Taylor said. “� ey’re getting out in the public so people can get to know them and will want to come see them play.”

� e grant will also help SIU re-ceive more local coverage. Money has been set a side for more local TV and radio time compared to previous years.

SIU Athletic Director Mario Moc-cia said the grant would also help the local economy.

“A lot of money we are receiving from the NCAA will be spent on ra-

dio, television and billboards in the local area,” Moccia said. “� e region will get an investment as well.”

Moccia also said the women’s bas-ketball program would have an op-portunity to get season-long � nancial support with extra money.

“In the past, if we had money to al-locate, we would throw it to the Pink Out game or a specialty event, now we feel we can comprehensively market almost each and every game and sea-son tickets,” Moccia said.

� e sta� will work on the plan to see where the money should be spent � rst. Taylor said SIU has eligibility for the NCAA grant for two more years, but is not guaranteed to receive it again. If the Salukis meet their goals of ticket sales and the money is spent in the areas targeted in the proposal, SIU can reapply next season.

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In the � ve PGA Tour events he has played this year, he tied for fourth in two, tied for 19th in one and was cut and withdrew from two other events.

� ose results may seem stag-gering considering his collection of four green jackets and 14 ma-jor golf championships, but there is no reason to believe Woods is past his prime.

Woods needs this win to prove he is still among the best golfers in the world, and there could not be a better tournament to do it in than the one he used to o¢ cially host before the scan-dal. Last year Woods won by one stroke to Hunter Mahan, which means the pressure to repeat will be there along with the pressure of following up disappointing performances.

� ough the � eld for this tour-nament is full of young talent in Justin Rose, Rickie Fowler and Jason Day, Woods still has what it takes to show these youngsters what it means to rule the course. Woods’ fourth-place � nish in the

U.S. Open gives him some mo-mentum going into the tourna-ment and his swing looks much better. However, he needs to put up longer, more accurate drives.

His driving distance on av-erage is 285.9 yards, which is ranked 78th on the tour and his driving accuracy sits at 57.9 per-cent, which ranks 147th on the tour. Doesn’t quite seem like the Woods of old.

What is refreshing is that his putter has been pretty strong, and in the end, that’s what will save any golfer in a close competition. His putter has put him 22nd on the tour with a birdie average at 3.88. His putting average sits at 1.7 putts per green, which puts him 15th overall.

Woods’ drive is the only ob-stacle stopping him from his re-turn to greatness. He needs to put it all together out on the course and not worry about his critics.

� is weekend would be the per-fect time for the Woods of the past to come back around full force.

Ryan Simonin can be reached at [email protected]

or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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“I used to work as a (court-ap-pointed special advocate) for the ju-venile court system and my job was to � gure out the best interests of the child and so that was my inspiration for founding this organization,” Bond said.

Bond said SIU President Glenn Poshard was a big in� uence in helping her start the program with a $125,000 donation from his own foundation. She said the shelter needs the help now more than ever as it approaches its one-year anniversary Aug. 12.

“One thing that I will never forget Glenn saying to me is ‘As long as no-body cares who gets the credit, what

you’re doing will be a success,’” Bond said. “It is something that has stuck with me ever since.”

Essary said he hopes to work with more charities and shelters in future events.

Ryan Simonin can be reached at [email protected] or

536-3311 ext. 269.

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JEFF ENGELHARDT

After multiple blown calls in this year’s World Cup, talks have emerged about whether or not FIFA should institute instant replay in soccer. Do you think the sport should adapt instant replay?

Saluki InsiderWe all know soccer referees don’t make mistakes, so why would

instant replay be needed. Now let’s just say a team, we’ll call them England, scores a goal to tie a game at 2-2, but the referee does not see the ball cross the line by 2 yards, so he disallows the goal causing England to lose any potential momentum and therefore the game. If something as outlandish and impossible as that were to happen, then instant replay might be needed.

FIFA should definitely add instant replay. Cameras catch what really happened by being rewound and paused to review any call. Referees are human and will make mistakes. The world deserves to see the best teams win by playing better soccer, not by a human error. Instant replay aids the officials and it seems like they need it in FIFA.

I think it is a great idea. Football, baseball, basketball and tennis have it, if that says anything. The only thing worse than losing is losing on a blown call. It is time for the World Cup to follow suit because it is the biggest sporting event in the world.

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BASKETBALLNew Jersey

EAST RUTHERFORD — The New Jersey Nets traded forward Yi Jianlian to the Washington Wizards on Tuesday, creating even more room under the salary cap as they head into free agency.

The Wizards dealt forward Quinton Ross to the Nets, who also sent an undisclosed amount of cash to Washington.W

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AUSTIN — Cincinnati Bengals running back Cedric Benson was arrested Tuesday and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly punching a bar employee in the face nearly a month ago.

Benson was booked into the Travis County jail where he later posted bail and was released, authorities said.

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PRACTICE BRINGS NET GAINS Tyler Kerly, a senior at Benton High School, returns a serve from tennis instructor Larry Geer during practice Wednesday at Carbondale Community High School tennis courts. The pair

practices every day to improve Kerly’s skills for the upcoming high school tennis season. Kerly has gone to state in doubles twice in the past three years, Geer said.

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Local mixed martial arts � ghters will battle it out for more than just a win when they enter the cage at Rent One Park.

� e Fight Factory, a local mixed

martial arts promotion, will raise money for � e Night’s Shield Children’s Shelter of West Frankfort by hosting a � ght night 7p.m. July 9 at Rent One Park in Marion. Promoter Aaron Es-sary said 100 percent of the proceeds from all merchandise sales would go to the shelter.

� e Night’s Shield is a local shelter for children who have been removed from their homes because of abuse, ne-glect or abandonment.

Essary said he has always had an interest in helping kids in need and is happy to host an event that will help raise money for the shelter.

“What � e Night’s Shield has been doing is something me and my wife have been wanting to do for years, but we have just not had the funds and resources to handle such a project,” Es-sary said. “So I thought that if I cannot put together an organization to help kids, than I would raise money for one that is doing just that.”

Essary said he chose the shelter be-cause it was local and he believed in the vision of the organization.

“I chose � e Night’s Shield because the kids in this shelter really need it the most. � ey have been through the roughest of circumstances,” Essary said.

Co-promoter Josh Cox said he is not concerned with the violent stereo-types associated with mixed martial arts and believes his company can still give back.

“We are not going to let the stigma of the sport of MMA determine what we can and can’t do within this com-munity,” Cox said.

Sara Bond, co-founder of � e

Night’s Shield, said the money raised from the event will go directly to the kids, not toward administrative costs.

“� e funds go to putting food in these children’s stomachs, clothes on their backs and basically all of their ne-cessities,” she said.

Bond said part of the focus of her organization is to help children of big families who are removed from paren-tal custody. She said her organization puts emphasis on taking in siblings from large families so they are not sepa-rated during the crisis.

RYAN SIMONINDaily Egyptian

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

NCAA grants Salukis’ wish with more money � e SIU women’s basketball

team hopes more money will mean less empty seats.

SIU is one of 12 Division I schools selected by the NCAA to receive a grant to grow its women’s college basketball program. SIU, the � rst to receive money from NCAA’s grant program in the Mis-

souri Valley Conference, intends to use the $45,200 on marketing and advertising in order to increase at-tendance, said Saluki head coach Missy Tiber.

She said the grant gives the pro-gram many opportunities to help the NCAA with its commitment to involve communities with women’s college basketball.

“� e grant will help us further involve ourselves with the south-

ern Illinois community and help us do whatever we can do to get more fans to games,” Tiber said. “� is will get us up and running; it’s a jump start.”

In order to obtain the extra funding, SIU had to submit a pro-posal to the NCAA. Mark Gaz-dik, assistant athletic director of marketing; Brad Taylor, assistant athletic director of operations; and Nicole Williams, marketing

graduate assistant, were involved in producing the grant-winning proposal.

Gazdik and Taylor said their proposal listed what SIU intended to use the money for in attempts to bring awareness to the women’s basketball program. Gazdik also said the entire athletic department has been great in increasing its marketing and promotions to draw more people to the games.

“We knew we had a strong pro-posal but we also knew 75 to 100 other schools would be submit-ting proposals,” Gazdik said. “You will see di� erent marketing venues such as billboards throughout the region, give-away items and some (money) will be used for Brown Dawg’s Playland.”

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As Tiger Woods tees up today to defend his title at the AT&T National in Newtown Square, Pa., spectators will watch to see if the former host

of the event still has what it takes to be considered among the best golf-ers in the world.

Woods has played more like a house cat than a tiger since his re-

turn to golf in April a¤ er his mis-chievous winter last year.

Woods can still be tour’s tiger this season

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