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by Zach Groves Alestle News Reporter
SIUE has formally agreed with Southwestern Illinois College to allow students who get their associate’s degree in two years to finish in four through a dual-admissions program. SIUE admitted more than 1,000 students from community colleges last fall, according to a press release. Admissions Director Todd Burrell said 254 o f those transfers came from SWIC and expects the numbers to rise, since they do not include spring and summer transfers. Burrell said the process took more than a year, but added that SWIC is SIU E’s “biggest feeder community college.” Director o f Public Affairs Greg Conroy said with the dual Katy Hartwig/Alestle admissions plan, community college students will work with As part of Give Kids a Smile Day, fourth-year dental student Liz Uhrich and second-year dental student the SWIC counselors from the time they start in order to have Jonathon Long provide dental care to four-year-old Nakayah Ewing of Alton. the classes needed to transfer. Conroy added that students can “map out what they need to take (at SIUE) at the community college.” somethin SWIC will have an academic advisor working at the college, according to SWIC Admissions Director Michelle Birk. Birk said students looking to transfer must maintain a 2.0 cumulative GPA and have 64 credit hours required to earn an associate’s degree. Since students will be admitted to both SWIC and SIUE at the same time, their information will already be available to the university when they graduate from SWTC’s two-year about program. In fact, Birk said they will not have to apply to any of the university’s departments except the School of Education for by Emily Siemer both himself and the children in attendance. education majors, since the information is in place. Alestle News Reporter “I get more experience with dentists and seeing their everyday work,” Barras said. “And it makes me Birk said students will be up to date on their classes, so “they would not wait until they transfer” to have their course On Saturday, students from the Southern Illinois feel good knowing I helped out some o f these kids, load figured out. University School o f Dental Medicine in Alton just keeping a lighter mood. A lot of the kids are very O f the 200-plus students who transferred to SIUE from received some valuable experience while helping out happy to be here.” SWIC, some think the system will only get easier. Junior the community. The Alton campus hosted the 4th Ten year-old Gaston, after a little coaxing, Amanda Crocker, for example, said she already made a flawless Annual Give Kids A Smile Day, providing an confirmed this. When asked if he liked going to the transition after getting her associate’s degree. estimated $37,000 worth of care to needy and dentist, he replied, “a little ... kind o f ... yeah.” “I did not have to do anything - I did it (all) online,” underserved children in our area. Third-year dental student Pat Hamper noted Crocker said. “A week later, I got a confirmation letter stating It was a sea of green and blue scrubs as 190 that without the event many of the children would that all my credits transferred.” dental students and 28 dental professionals provided go without proper dental care. For him, Give Kids A Others, however, have not had it so easy. Sophomore the M l spectrum of care. In addition, 140 dental Smile Day offers a chance for him to earn credit English education major Marshall Todt said he had a more hygienist students from Lewis and Clark needed to graduate while helping the community. difficult time and only recendy received his credits after Community College assisted with cleanings and “I get a lot out o f it,” Hamper said. “It’s very finishing his associate’s degree in December. exams. In all, over 400 volunteers helped to make the rewarding.” “I got through it by the skin of my teeth,” Todt said. “I event possible. State Sen. William Haine and State Tony Chin, a fourth-year dental student who literally had to fly by the seat o f my pants and do it.” Rep. Daniel Beiser were also present to observe die will graduate in June, pointed out that this program Burrell said the new system should simplify the transfer event. is just one o f the many things the dental school offers process. Sophomore Phillip Barras, a bio-med major the community in exchange for student credit. “ (We’ll) make sure that we continue to work with their who will pursue a degree in dental medicine, spent The first stop upon arrival is the ‘Oral Health students and make this a smooth transfer to SIUE,” Burrell the day escorting children around to the different Carnival,’ as deemed by Cathy Anderson, an said. stations for a variety o f treatments and exams. He described the event as an exchange of benefits for SMILE/pg.4 Zach Groves can be reached at [email protected] or 650-3527. ConocoPhillips, Raise Your Voice meet to discuss environment
by Kyle Wiese “We do believe that human beings are “The U.S. is responsible for the reduction o f carbon dioxide,” Watkins Alestle News Reporter responsible for most greenhouse gases, approximately 35 percent of global said. and we are doing our part to help stop emissions of carbon dioxide,” Raise Your The main concern that the company ConocoPhillips came to SIUE that,” Manager o f Advanced Technology Voice member Rupak Thapaliya said. has had with starting new programs to Wednesday to speak about environmental and Emerging Technology Sabrina ConocoPhillips said they are create new technologies is that they are issues. Watkins said. aggressively trying to reduce the amount costly. Members of student organization The panel o f students that met with o f carbon dioxide the company uses. “We understand that the people will Raise Your Voice sat down with executive the members o f ConocoPhillips voiced “Innovation will really be required for have to bear the expenses of new members o f the energy company to discuss their concerns about the environment and cleaner renewable energy to be technologies; however, we believe that the steps the company is taking to improve asked what the company was doing to help competitive in the marketplace, and the environment. curb dangerous emissions. ConocoPhillips is taking a leading role in ENVIRONMENT/pg.4 www.thealestle.com Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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The senate University Board of Trustees and other seats left open by Senators Kevin Coppinger and administration would be more effective than a yes Justin Montgomery were filled by freshman or no vote with or without the concerns. Stephanie Medhurst and International Student SIUE Phelps said the board will likely approve the Reese Patel. reclassification because only he and another board According to Student Body President Carl B. member opposed the move. Consequently, he Mitchell, the two new senators were picked from 20 Sunday services: explained, a vote by the senate in support or in to 30 applications that were submitted for the two Mass at 10:30 AM every Sunday and at dissent o f the move would be o f little influence. senatorial positions. They were then interviewed by 8:00 PM during Fail & Spring Semesters. However, not all of the senators wanted to stay Mitchell, Vice President Cameron Cobb, Internal Hosted by Catholic Campus Ministries neutral on the decision. 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instructor at Lewis and Clark Alton event, there appears to be a How does $50 and who was volunteering in the gulf between coverage and access. registration area. Dean Drake is a dentist in “We’re teaching in a fun Fairview Heights, and a 1975 a FREE pizza sound E way,” Anderson said. “We want graduate of the School of Dental these kids to say to their mom Medicine. He spoke o f the and dad, ‘we want to go back problems that plague providers there because it was fun, and the when dealing with the dentist part was OK too.’” government bureaucracy related Anderson told of an to programs like Medicaid and Open a savings and checking account BONUS OFFER! exchange she overheard at a game the All Kids programs. she was supervising, in which “There were a lot of and we’ll give you $50* Get a coupon for children could win a toothbrush. headaches ... a lot of paperwork, a FREE pizza “A little girl was playing, and and so much forms,” Drake said. when you sign up for a debit card mom was standing by and she “The paperwork and red tape can when you sign up kind of whispered in her ear ... get to be overwhelming.” ’If savings account is dosed within 365 days, initial $50 deposit remains at ‘Try really hard to win one, so A first-time volunteer at the Scott Credit Union. Must open Savings, Checking and Debit Card to qualify. for a debit card! you won’t have to share mine,”’ event, Drake is an advocate for Anderson said. “It just breaks early and preventative care for your heart. That’s what we’re everyone. faced with.” “There really is a need out Give Kids A Smile Day there,” Drake said. “There’s a lot Open your FREE checking account today and enjoy focuses on those who are without of people who just can’t afford FREE access to 32,000 ATMs, FREE Online Bill Pay, dental insurance coverage, as well dentistry, especially the children. as those whose coverage is often The things that we can do by and much more! refused by providers, such as the seeing them today can prevent a Illinois All Kids program. lot of big problems as they get to All Kids is a universal health be adults.” care program for qualifying The event’s turnout is a children under the age o f 18. It testament to this need. By 10 claims to “ensure that every child a.m. Saturday, Dean of the SIU ... has access to health' care,” School o f Dental Medicine Ann }G O T T according to the State o f Illinois Boyle said they had already C F t E D I T All Kids Web site. That includes exceeded their attendance from J V I 0 2 V dental care. last year. When the day was done, “Care is covered by All Kids, over 187 children received care. 1067 S. State Route 157 Edwcirdsville, IL 62025 but it is tough finding a provider,” Haine said. As is Emily Siemer can be reached at (800)888-4728 • iviviv.scu.org evidenced by the turnout at the [email protected] or 650-3527. ENVIRONMENT from pg. 1
most people will be willing to Wednesday evening’s forum accept that to improve the was held to give the public more environment,” Raise Your Voice information about what the graduate assistant Leah Orwig company is currendy doing as said. well as environmental and public ConocoPhillips addressed response. President Bush’s agenda to One of the main issues reduce the amount of gasoline addressed during Wednesday used in cars by 20 percent and to evening’s session was the use of reduce the dependency on ethanol as a form o f alternative foreign oil. fuel. This W edc • The company seeks to have According to the Illinois at least 20 percent of all their Farm Bureau Board o f Directors gasoline converted to cleaner- member Darryl Brinkmann, five burning ethanol by 2030 and to million gallons of ethanol and continue to use oil from domestic 250 million gallons of biodiesel sources. fuel were produced. “Most o f our company’s oil However, ConocoPhillips actually comes from the U.S., cautioned against relying on Canada and Venezuela and only a ethanol as the answer to solving very small percentage comes from the problems o f the environment. Gos, the Middle East,” ConocoPhillips “A barrel o f ethanol, right Manager of Government Affairs now, costs about $85 as opposed H.J. Reed said. to the cost o f oil, which is about According to SIUE $50 per barrel right now, and it «:3CörU 00p<* C p f i e e participants, SIUE will also try to just doesn’t deliver in terms of do its part to- improve the local gas mileage,” said Executive Vice OareJ Campbell environment simply by trying to President of Refining, Marketing increase awareness of and Transportation Jim Gallogly. environmental safety. The members of “We are trying to look at ConocoPhillips addressed new technologies as well and questions received from the f e b ~ 7 <3S f r O O p H educate our students for the public regarding the current state future,” Biology Department of the environment, but the IHUC Cpuopr ' D e s \ Chair William RetzlafFsaid. company states that they have ConocoPhillips and SIUE taken steps to produce a cleaner also hosted a town hall forum product. Wednesday night. “We can now p.od c n.ovc The event was open to the oil with less environmental public to discuss the same impact than ever,” Watkins said. matters that they discussed with Raise Your Voice earlier in the Kyle Wiese can be reached at vww.slie.edn/CAB I V day. ...I..;...... —....., [email protected] or 650-3527. Questions or comments regarding this section? Express your opinion 24 hours a day, seven days a week! Contact Opinion Editor Justin Gibson at Polls, message boards and more at www.thealestle.com 650-3527 or [email protected]. Tuesday, February 6, 2007 Alesile Food hours
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Megan Gattung Willis Fortunately Advertising Manager for the sleep- Maurice Bishop deprived, SIUE’s Starbucks has Molly Maurer late hours, supplying practically Graphics/Production Global warming an issue for everyone life-saving caffeine until 2 a.m. Lance Speere The Center Court also has The world could be in for a viewers what global warming only have between 10 and 50 Adviser late hours for those who can not shock in the next few centuries; can and will do. years. always eat supper at a normal— Mike Genovese that is, if people are unwilling to The film points out that due There are many things Graphics Supervisor oh, wait... scratch that. Center change their ways. Global to global warming, Category 4 people should do to be Court closes at 8 p.m. Aria Capel warming is not just for hippies and 5 hurricanes have doubled responsible. Choose fuel Thankfully, however, hungry Graduate Assistant and environmentalists to believe in the past year and could get economy cars because each students can still choose from Debbie Roberts in anymore, as worse. It goes on to describe gallon of gas burned releases 25 Taco Bell and Pizza Hut to fill Office Manager the debate over other possibilities if global pounds of heat-trapping carbon their empty stoma—oh, man. its existence is warming is not reversed. dioxide. Unplug a freezer that Ashlee Glover Wait, that’s not right either. Only shifting to a Extreme heat waves will occur isn’t used often to cut down Sade Thomas one or the other will stay open at Office Secretaries debate over much more often, in just half a carbon dioxide transmissions by night. how responsible century more than one million 10 percent. Well, at least there is some Letters to the Editor Policy: humans are for species could become extinct and Another thing that everyone good news. 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No, actually... that’s not people are coming to terms The problem is that many few people can solve; it is going right either, is it? In fact, Taco All hard copy letters should be typed with, yet are waiting for people are not willing to change to take a collective effort. It is and double-spaced. Letters should be Bell closes at 10 p.m. and Pizza someone else to draw up a their lifestyles in order to reverse past time that everyone hops on no longer than 500 words. Hut closes at 11 p.m. solution for. its effects. Its up to us to change board. Please include phone number, Wow, this is quite the Former Vice President A1 this, and while experts have a signature, class rank and major. dilemma. What exactly are Gore’s 2006 movie, “An hard time agreeing on the exact We reserve the right to edit letters for students supposed to eat at night? Inconvenient Truth,” a must-see length of time until we grammar and content. 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They went without mom or dad prodding the residence halls. and Thursdays during fall and spring years? through each box and sorted the you to do so, that is At the risk of sounding semesters and on Wednesdays during After toys and other items by what volunteering. Maybe you will egocentric, maybe it’s time summer semesters. For more traveling with the Gamma Phi was still good for donations and find some old memories and Dining Services started catering information, call 650-3528. Omega sorority and Student what was trash. relive the glory days o f your to students’ schedules instead o f Leadership Development From old “Teenage Mutant childhood. students always catering to theirs. Have a comment? Let us know! Program graduate assistant Leah Ninja Turtles” toys to old board Who says volunteering can’t Send us an e-mail: Orwig, I had the opportunity to games, I felt like I was five years be all fun and games? [email protected] help out in the St. Vincent old again. 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by Cary Darling themselves that can walk, run and dance, plus residents conduct their commerce in aimed at the podcast and vidcast MCT (Fort Worth Star-Tclegram) and then are dropped into a landscape Linden dollars, some are raking in real community, set up Second Life’s Podcast where they interact with others’ avatars, money. Last fall, Linden Lab CEO Philip Island, where podcasters from all over the So I show up, first time in the place, including those o f real-life friends who are Rosedale estimated that $1.5 million (in world meet and promote what they do. and this fox is speaking to me. also “in world,” buy or sell Second Life He pays $200 a month in real dollars in Not talking here about the way-old - land, set up businesses, build houses, buy “Second Life, or rent and sees SL as the next step beyond school slang for a beautiful woman but clothes, work a job, go bar-hopping, make two-dimensional, text-heavy Web sites something closer to Animal Planet than art and, yes, even some NC-17 activities. something like it, and instant messaging. the Playboy Channel. Bushy tail. Canine It’s free to join but potentially expensive “I think it’s the future,” he declares. features. The works. in the site’s made-up Linden dollars or in will become such a “Second Life, or something like it, will Can’t remember exacdy what the real currency if you want a super kickin’ become such a mainstay ... once the conversation was, a mere exchange of SL lifestyle. Just like real life. mainstay ... once the young kids and college kids get into it, passing pleasantries before it walked off, And if that doesn’t sound all that there’s really going to be a boom at that but the whole thing left an unsettling much different from everyone’s first life, young kids and point.” feeling, like this could really get weird. it’s a life buffed to perfection. You can be Second Life is the brainstorm of Like I’d fallen through the looking glass whomever or whatever you want. You can college kids get into Rosedale, 38, a former chief technology and Alice definitely wasn’t living here fly. You can teleport. No taxes. No officer at RealNetworks who helped anymore. politicians. No war. No terror. No War on it, there's really develop the streaming technology that is That’s because it was my first foray Terror. the lifebl(H)d o f Second Life. into Second Life, the buzzed-about and But there is plenty o f hype. going to be a boom “He had a great idea: to create a controversial online role-playing and Hatched in 2000 by a San Francisco collaborative online space where people social networking site that’s being hailed company called Linden Lab, which didn’t at that point.” could do things together,” says Linden make the site publicly accessible until as the next YouTube, the next thing to -Gary Leland, Lab marketing director Catherine Smith. bedazzle the tech-sawy and befuddle the 2003, Second Life includes eBay co “I don’t think anyone knew how it would podcaster and Second Life technophobes. founder Pierre Omidyar and Amazon evolve.” Sort of a combination of My Space, pioneer Jeffrey Bezos as backers. Major enthusiast One of the ways SL is being used is The Sims and Monopoly with the three- companies and organizations from Dell for education. Anne Beamish, a professor dimensional touch of Star Trek’s and MTV to the American Cancer Society in the graduate program in Community holodecks and the videogame World o f are flocking to the site to set up “islands,” actual currency) changes hands through and Regional Planning at the University Warcraft, Second Life is not a competitive worlds within the world dedicated to their Second Life monthly. In November, a of Texas at Austin’s School of pursuit, even though it’s technically products. German woman named Ailin Graef, Architecture, has had her students utilize what’s called a “massively multiplayer Former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner known on the site as Anshc Chung, SL to envision ideas about public space. and Sun Microsystems have held press online game” as much as an alternative reportedly became the site’s first real-life “... One o f the projects was they had state. conferences in Second Life. Reuters news millionaire, buying and selling Second to design a project that really fostered Life real estate. Users choose a fictional name and agency even has a reporter “embedded” in public life,” she says. “Somebody created create an avatar, an animated version o f Second Life full time. Gary Leland, 52, of Arlington, Texas, Although most o f the site’s 2 million- who runs podcastpickle.com, a Web site SECOND LIFE^pg 7 Tuesday, February 6, 2007 www.thealestle.com ENTERTAINMENT
c a l e n d a r Image courtesy of secondlife.com SECOND LIFE from pg._6______a spacc to discuss virtual reality. Another created (in Second Life) the building he was designing.... Somebody else did a performance- art kind o f work where your avatars would move through space with sound and art.” “Sun (Microsystems) is using it as a way to meet each other and a way to communicate with their audience,” Smith says. “American Apparel has opened a store ... They can create a prototype for jeans and ask for feedback from residents... It’s a way to be super-creative The Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and to fulfill a fantasy, say, o f being a fashion designer or building continues its Andy Warhol exhibit with something and going inside.” revealing movies. For all the glowing talk, there’s a potential downside to Second Life. As the world becomes more populated and subsequently moves away from being just a high-tech monkey bar for early Are you a fan of avant-garde film? The Contemporary Art Museum of adopters, it can become more prone to crime, hacking and St. Louis may have just the ticket for you - a trio o f flicks directed by inappropriate behavior, just like real life. Andy Warhol shown at 5 p.m. Thursday. The feature includes “Blow For now, though, there’s not a lot of bad news for Second Life. Job,” a silent film cataloging the facial expressions of a man receiving With a virtual land mass four times the size of Manhattan but with oral sex, “Kiss,” a response to a Hollywood mandate forbidding only 2 million inhabitants, and with generally around 20,000 online “excessive kissing” and “Since,” an exploration o f the Kennedy and at one time, there’s room for growth. Many “islands” are empty, real Oswald assassinations. Admission is free, but reservations are required. Photo courtesy of warhol.org estate just waiting to be bought, traded or populated. For more information, visit www.contemporarystl.org or call the Certainly, there seems to be a lot of smiles at the privately held museum at 314-535-4660. Linden Lab. Profit figures aren’t released, but Rosedale told the Chicago Tribune, “We’re very close to profitable. The business itself, Described as “funny and touching, wryly incisive,” the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis launches “The Heidi on an operating basis, is very profitable.” Chronicles” on Friday. This Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning play investigates the life and times of “feisty” art historian Heidi Holland and explores women’s issues over three decades. Tickets range from © 2007, Fort Worth Star-Telegram. $19.50 to $63. For more information, visit www.repstl.org.
Sylvester Brown, known to the Black Theater Workshop St. Louis Post-Dispatch as the “accidental columnist,” seeks to wow students speaks at SIUE on Tuesday. of all races with satire St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Sylvester Brown Jr. will speak at the Meridian Ballroom in the Morris University Center. Brown “Purlie Victorious” published the award-winning publication “Take Five Magazine” for 15 years along with his wife Victoria, and is also a blogger on by Holly Meyer sylvesterblogcom.blogspot.com. His speech, which is part o f SIUE’s Alestle News Reporter Black Heritage Month, will commemorate the life o f the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday. The performance o f “Purlie Victorious” will offer SIUE Tickets are $10 for students and includes lunch. For more students the opportunity to see serious civil rights issues portrayed information, contact Steve Sperotto at [email protected]. in a satirical way. “Just because the issue is serious doesn’t mean the show has to Though the mercury continues to drop outside, things are heating up Photo courtesy of be serious,” Greg Finner said, who will be playing Purlie in the at the Student Fitness Center. Campus Recreation is holding its annual sylvesterblogcom.blogspot.com production. “Parti Gras” all-night celebration, a precursor to Mardi Gras on Feb. According to the SIUE Assistant professor and director o f the 20. Parti Gras offers Cajun food, fortune tellers, henna tattoos, prize play Kathleen Bentley, Purlie Victorious was written by famous giveaways and more. Festivities start at 8:30 p.m. Friday and continue until midnight. For more actor, writer and civil rights activist Ossie Davis. information, visit siue.edu/crec. “He puts a twist on everything,” Bentley said. “It makes people have to laugh at the absurdity of segregation and bigotry. Classic rock group Foghat play at the Bentley said she chose the play in remembrance of Davis who passed away in 2005. It gives students the opportunity to witness Bottleneck Blues Bar on Thursday. the work o f a lesser-known writer According to Bentley, Purlie Victorious is set during the Civil Rights era. It is about a self-ordained preacher, Purlie Victorious, Foghat, an English rock group synonymous with the term “classic who returns to a small Georgia town to claim his family’s rock,” will be performing at the Bottleneck Blues Bar in St. Charles. inheritance in order to buy the church. Purlie devises a scheme to Foghat arrived on the music scene in 1970 jnd scored a number of have the plantation boss Cap’n Cotchipee, who owns everything in hits including “I Just Want to Make Love to You,” “Slow Ride” and the town, to give the money to a women posing as Purlie’s cousin. “Fool for the City.” The show starts at 7 p.m. on Thursday and tickets The play highlights the hypocrisy and bigotry of the era. are $25. Concert goers must be 21 to enter. For more information, Bentley said the play is being performed by nine SIUE students visit www.ameristar.com. not all of which are theatre majors. “It is not just for black students, it’s for all students, Bentley Lock the door and hide the kids. Comedian Bob Saget is making an said. “Everyone can learn something.” appearance at the Pageant in St. Louis. Don’t be fooled by Saget’s The play is a part o f the Black Theater Workshop, which is a performance in the family show “Full House.” On his latest tour, self part of Black Heritage Month. dubbed as “for adults ... and people with really good fake ID’s,” his It will be running from Feb. 7-10 beginning at 7:30p.m. and stand-up comedy is decidedly more risque. Doors open at 7 p.m. on on Feb. 11 at 2:00p.m. in the Metcalf Theater. Photo courtesy of foghat.com Saturday and general admission is $25. For more information, visit Holly Meyer can be reached at [email protected] or 650-3531. www. thepageant. com. Women’s Basketball @ Drury - Thursday, 5:45 p.m. Wrestling vs. McKendree College - Thursday, 7 p.m. Questions or comments regarding this section? Men’s Basketball @ Drury - Thursday, 8 p.m. Contact Sports Editor Matthew Bruce at 650-3524 or [email protected].
SportsI www.thealestle.com ______Tuesday, February 6, 2007 Cougars burn Quincy Hot shooting in the from a zone defense to a man-to- always good for us,” Hedberg man in the second period, said. “And Fogle hit a couple of second half, Shelton’s thwarting Quincy’s precision big 3-pointers.” from beyond the arc. The Hawks The Hawks were keyed by 25 points lifts SIUE were just l-for-6 from 3-point Alex Wisser, who finished with to GLVC victory range after halftime while SIUE 18 points, splashing four shots continued its hot shooting, from downtown on the night. stroking 5 of 6 3-pointers. Shaquita Crawford came off the by Matthew Bruce But the Hawks were able to bench to pour in 17 points, grab Alestle Sports Editor hang tough in the up-and-down six rebounds and dish out four court battle behind 59 percent assists. Quincy dropped to 13-8 SIUE women’s basketball shooting and 14 free throws in overall and 6-7 in the Great Lakes was in the zone over the weekend the half. Valley Conference with the loss. as it bolted to a high-flying 80-75 “That’s die tempo we want SIUE moved into a tie with victory over Quincy University to try to have,” Hedberg said. Drury University for first place in Saturday at the Pepsi Arena in “Both teams hit some big shots. the GLVC West Division, Quincy. From a spectators point o f view, jumping to 16-5 and 9-5. The Cougars caught fire in it was probably a good game to The Cougars face off against the second half, connecting on 14 watch.” Drury for sole possession o f the of their 20 shots to rally from a SIUE junior forward Amber conference lead at 5:45 p.m. nine-point deficit earlier in the Shelton led the Cougars with a Thursday at Weiser Gym in period. game-high 25 points on 10-for- Springfield, Mo. “I don’t have an answer for 17 shooting, including a pair of “They’re all big at this that,” SIUE Head Coach Wendy 3-pointers. point,” Hedberg said. “We’ll be Hedberg said. “I thought we got “She’s a winner. She comes trying to do something most some good looks and knocked from a winning program,” teams struggle to do, which is down some big shots. Hedberg said. “She took the beat them on their home court.” “We knew it was going to be shots we needed her to take and The Panthers pulled the feat a tough game. They’ve had some she’s just a gamer. I think she off on SIUE Jan. 25, handing the success at home,” Hedberg loves those situations.” Cougars a hard-to-swallow 66-64 added. “We came out strong, but Senior center Julianne loss at die Vadalabene Center. kind of tailed off a little bit.” McMillen was a force in the Drury is 9-1 at home diis season. Both teams came out middle for SIUE, adding 17 “It’s small, but they pack the shooting the ball well. SIUE hit points and five rebounds. place in,” Hedberg said of Weiser 54 percent o f its shots in the first Senior guard Amy Austin Gym. “They get about 1,500 half while the Hawks were 48 and sophomore guard Allison people in there that make a lot of percent from the field. Quincy Fogle came up big for the noise. It’s a great atmosphere to nailed eight 3-pointers in the Cougars as well, notching 15 and play for first place.” Pete Ridens/Alestle frame to take a 38-33 lead into 14 points, respectively. SIUE senior center Julianne McMillen maneuvers under the basket halftime. “Amy Austin decided to Matthew Bruce can be reached at during the Cougars’ 88-58 rout of Oakland University Wednesday at But the Cougars switched score some points, which is [email protected] or 650-3524. the Vadalabene Center. No. 3 Quincy Hawks hammer it down over SIUE
by Matthew Bruce Simmons said. “Obviously he’s a within more than two. Alestle Sports Editor great scoring threat when he’s at 100 “They hit a couple of shots percent and he seems to be getting early,” Simmons said. “We did a good SIUE men’s basketball senior better and better.” job of battling back, but they would point guard Ty Johnson was back But SIUE shot 38 percent from have another spurt.” from an injury that has kept him out the field and missed 15 o f 18 tries Andre Muse led the way for of commission for more than a from 3-point range. Quincy, pouring in a game-high 23 month. “We’ve got to do a better job of points on 7-for-10 shooting. It was not enough, however, to just finishing plays,” Simmons said. “He’s a tough player,” Simmons lift the Cougars as they fell to No. 13 “Whether it be from the perimeter or said. “He got a couple o f 3-pointers Quincy University 67-55 Saturday at on drives to the basket, we’ve got to in transition. He got a couple of the Pepsi Arena in Quincy. put in more effort.” drives. He’s quick, he’s athletic, he scores inside and he can shoot the ball. So it was a tough matchup.” We’ve got to do a better job Quincy guard Ryan Walker pitched in with 12 points and 10 55 of just finishing plays.! rebounds to go along with six assists as the Hawks moved to 17-4 and 10- -Marty Simmons, 3 in the Great Lakes Valiev SIUE Head Coach Conference. Both teams had trouble hanging onto the ball as they combined for a “I thought we showed excellent The Cougars missed four of total of 34 turnovers in the game. effort and played hard,” Simmons their first five shots and found The Cougars suffered 15 miscues, said. “They’re a pretty balanced themselves trailing early. Hawk point leading to 20 Quincy points. That team. They’ve got a lot of scorers.” guard Marlon Jackson got his team offset the Hawks’ 19 blunders, which Johnson, who missed 10 games started, nailing a pair of 3-pointers to SIUE capitalized on to the tune of 21 due to a dislocated right shoulder he help Quincy take an 11-2 lead four points. suffered Dec. 14 in practice, scored minutes into the game. “We’ve got to do a better job of 11 points in 21 minutes of play off It was all the breathing room the taking care of the ball,” Simmons Pete Ridens/Alestle Quincy's Cameron Murkey, 34, dunks on SIUE senior guard the bench. Hawks would need as they held said. “We’ve got to have more Ty Johnson during the Hawks’ 67-55 victory onver SIUE “Hopefully he continues to get SIUE off the rest o f the way, never Saturday at the Pepsi Arena in Quincy. better,” SIUE Head Coach Marty- allowing the Cougars to close to BASKETBALLypg. 10 Tuesday, February 6, 2007 www.thealestle.com 9 Grossman’s play can only be called gross negligence
by Bernie Miklasz XLI. Because of Indy’s red-zone Bears fans are use to this. St. Louis Post-Dispatch struggles, the Bears had managed Except for Jim McMahon, the to stay close, down 22-17 late in franchise has a long history' of (MCT) - Bears quarterback the third quarter. But Grossman’s incompetent play from Rex Grossman might want to grossly neglect pass was snatched quarterbacks. And on Super find another place to live. Perhaps by Hayden, who sprinted away, Bowl Sunday, Rex Grossman was he can qualify for protection in and suddenly the Colts were up a lot closer to Bobby Douglass the Federal Witness Program. 29-17. than Jim McMahon. After his comically inept OK, Rex, how about a Grossman was so bad, he performance in Super Bowl XLI, comeback? should play for the Cubs. Grossman may need 24-hour Uh, no. Not that the overrated Bears’ security in Chicago. On the next series, defense was soft against the run Vociferous fans and media in Grossman gave the Colts another or anything, but when Colts Chicago howled for Grossman’s balloon for their post-game parts’ running backs Joseph Addai and benching (or was it a caning?) all - an underthrown ball picked off Dominic Rhodes needed a season, and after his epic hack job by safety Bob Sanders. breather, halftime performer Sunday at Dolphin Stadium, he’ll Ballgame. Prince came on and gained 37 be less popular in Chicago than And Indianapolis Colts yards on six carries. Steve Bartman. quarterback Peyton Manning was There were many more Bears Grossman set himself up for well on his way to MVP status fans than Colts fans in the house an ugly fall by behaving like a and the symbolic post-Super Sunday, which meant that we smug brat all week in his Bowl trip to Disney World. were treated to a parade of pregame interview sessions. As if Rex didn’t even rate a chunky, sunburned, hopelessly on cue, Grossman had one o f the vacation to Wally World. inebriated men wandering worst games by a quarterback in Earlier in the second half, aimlessly in William Super Bowl history. Grossman destroyed another “Refrigerator” Perry jerseys, The Colts won, 29-17, and Chicago drive by tripping over wolfing down any cooked item Grossman was more of an his own feet for an 11-yard sack, that vaguely resembled a accomplice than a threat. Forget then muffing a snap for another bratwurst, and rhythmically Grossman’s misleading statistical 11-yard loss, after die Bears had belching out “Da Bears” every 10 line o f 20 completions in 28 faced a second-and-1 at the seconds or so. attempts for 165 yards; most of Indianapolis 45. It was I’m sorry, but did Brian his connections were underneath Grossman’s second botched snap Urlacher suit up for the Bears? throws happily conceded by the o f the day; the first was recovered Can we now turn down the Colts after Grossman had sunk by the Colts. Urlacher hype a few notches? the Bears’ chances. I can recall seeing only one Thank you. He’s a very good, Grossman threw two fourth- quarterback play this poorly and occasionally great, player. quarter interceptions, one a before: author George Plimpton, But Urlacher is no Butkus, no floater returned 56 yards for a who masqueraded as a training- Singletary. John L. White/South Florida Sun-Sentinel touchdown by cornerback Kelvin camp quarterback in Detroit to I don’t think members of Chicago Bears' quarterback Rex Grossman, 8, walks off the field after Hayden. It was the most get material for his book, “Paper the Bears’ famous “46” Defense . throwing an interception against the Indianapolis Colts in the Colts' damaging play of Super Bowl Lion.” 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI in Miami on GROSSMAN/pg. 10 Sunday.
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For mora Information, call Richard at 650-3245 or vtolt ut aft wwwxtueadu/crac 6455 Center Grove Rd., Suite 101 • Edwardsville, IL 62025 10 www.thealestle.com Tuesday, February 6, 2007 Pete Ridens/Alestle SIUE junior center Doug Taylor, 55, gets his shot blocked by Quincy defenders Austin Chapital, 14, and Marcin Konarzewski during SlUE’s 67-55 loss Saturday at the Pepsi Arena in Quincy. BASKETBALL from pg. 8 concentration and more focus.” Cougars, who fell to 12-9 and 7- Johnson was one of only two 6 in the GLVC. Cougars to score in double SIUE gets back in action at 8 figures on the night. Sophomore p.m. Thursday when they travel forward Nick Arth, who swished to Weiser Gym in Springfield, in 12 points on 4-for-13 shooting Mo., to take on Drury University. from the field, was the other. The loss snapped a two- Matthew Bruce can be reached at Are you an game winning streak for the [email protected] or 650-3524. energetic, hard GROSSMAN from pg. 9 working person? from 1985 need to worry about lead. But on their other 18 carries their legacy. And Buddy Ryan, in the game, the Bears managed who coached that defense, must only 59 yards. And again, a big How would you like to work for the have been yelling at the TV part o f this is the Grossman Sunday. Bears head coach Lovie Factor. Because the Colts had no busiest restaurant in town? Smith and defensive coordinator reason to fear Chicago’s passing Ron Rivera never adjusted the game, their defenders could defense, and basically let the crowd the line to clamp down on If you answered YES, Colts run wet and wild. the runs. The Colts bowled over Tank Manning was brilliant in the then come to: Johnson and the Chicago victory, settling down after a bit defensive line for 191 yards of a jumpy start. He completed rushing on 42 carries. This is 19 o f his final 25 passes, and The Old Spaghetti Factory what happens when Tank isn’t smardy and patiently exploited 727 N. First Street allowed to bring his AK-47 to the the Bears’ tactic o f playing their game. safeties deep. Manning didn’t get Located two blocks north of the Gateway Arch in Billy Joel’s national anthem greedy He’d go to the line, see Laclede's Landing was predictably terrible, as the the Bears’ safeties setting up in “Piano Man” mailed in another Ft. Lauderdale, and adjust by We are currently hiring for all positions performance, and picked up a checking into a running play or a rather easy paycheck. But at least short pass. Manning won this No experience necessary! he remembered the words. When game with his knowledge and his You must be 16 to work here, 19 to wait tables the reliably annoying Michael pragmatism and never let the Bolton did the anthem during the rain, or the Bears, bother him. Some of the great benefits include: 2003 American League His idol, the late Johnny Unitas, Championship Series, he forgot would have been proud to see Employee discounts the words and could be seen Manning honor the horseshoe Flexible scheduling sneaking a peek at his palm, symbol on Colts helmets with a where he’d written the lyrics in winning championship Metro Line Access small letters. presentation in the art of Set your own schedule On a serious note, the Bears’ quarterbacking. running game was disappointing and a major factor in the loss. 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