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Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC February 2014 Daily Egyptian 2014 2-17-2014 The Daily Egyptian, February 17, 2014 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_February2014 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2014 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in February 2014 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. @dailyegyptian @dailyegyptianphoto DAILY EGYPTIAN Daily Egyptian Dunn front-runner for president KAYLI PLOTNER Egyptian Youngstown State University “I just had a call from another 2000. His wife Ronda, of Benton, also violation of the Open Meetings Act. Daily Egyptian President Randy Dunn is the leading person that indicated that, and it’s attended SIU. Dunn cited diferences in philosophy candidate for the position, YSU ofcials news to me,” he said. Dunn is best known for his between himself and board chairman SIU’s Board of Trustees decided who said they had not been notifed of Dunn received a bachelor’s degree time at Murray State University, Constantine Curris as the reason will be the university’s eighth president Dunn’s application. Dunn has served as in teacher education and a master’s where he served as president from for the vote, according to WKMS, in a special session Tursday, and will Youngstown’s president for seven months, degree in educational administration May 2006 to July 2013. Dunn left Murray State’s NPR station. announce its choice at 2 p.m. today in taking ofce July 13. and foundations from Illinois State Murray State after the MSU Board A report released by a contract Edwardsville. Trustees Roger Herrin and “If this is true, it’s a surprise to me,” University, as well as a doctorate in of Regents voted not to renew his committee several days before the Donna Manering were absent for the YSU Board Chairman Sudershan Garg educational administration from contract. Te vote took place March vote stated relations between Dunn vote. Board Chairman Randal Tomas said. “We had an executive meeting six the University of Illinois Urbana- 15, the same day Dunn accepted his and the board had moved from said Manering:, chair of the presidential days ago and the subject never came up.” Champaign. He spent nine years position at Youngstown. insensitivity to disrespect during his search advisory committee, was out of the YSU board member James Greene said at SIU — he became an associate However, it was suggested the fnal year. country Tursday. he hadn’t heard anything ofcial yet, but professor of education in 1995 and regents met the night before and While sources have told the Daily the board has meetings later this week. chair of the education department in determined their vote, a possible Please see PRESIDENT · 3 Police continue Students protest in support to search for of prisoner hunger strike LUKE NOZICKA missing student Daily Egyptian Nearly 20 people, including university students, used drums, SETH RICHARDSON signs and a microphone to Daily Egyptian support a hunger strike Tursday afternoon at the Menard Carbondale police are searching Correctional Center in Chester. for missing SIU student Pravin M. Te protest was the second at Varughese from Morton Grove. Menard, a maximum-security Varughese was last seen at a party state prison for adult males, at 606 W. College St. around 11:00 which previously hosted one for p.m. Wednesday. the same cause Jan. 17. Inmates Varughese is 5-foot-7 and weighs report they are on a hunger strike 150 pounds with short brown hair, because they have not received LUKE NOZICKA · DAILY EGYPTIAN brown eyes and a dark complexion. due process and hope to improve He was last seen wearing the red shirt living conditions. Community members and SIU students protest to support a prisoner hunger strike Thursday at the Menard Correctional Center pictured with blue jeans and purple Nick Smaligo, a graduate in Chester, a maximum-security correctional state prison for adult shoes. He is 19 years old. Varughese student in philosophy from males. The demonstrators carried signs, drums and flags in hope has a tattoo on his chest reading Carbondale, said the hunger inmates would hear or see them. This was the second of two “Fear God.” strike began Jan. 15, and protests; the first took place Jan. 27. Carbondale Police Lt. Mark PRAVIN VARUGHESE estimated nearly 25 prisoners Goddard said people in the area Te Varughese family is ofering initially participated. should remain alert and contact the a reward of $15,000 to anyone with Several prisoners were justifcation for why they are being Tom Shaer, director of police with any information. information leading to his safe return transferred to Menard after Gov. held there and they are not given any communications for the Illinois “We just ask people in the area or the arrest and conviction of the Pat Quinn ordered the closing procedure for how they can get out,” Department of Corrections, said to keep their eyes open, be diligent person or persons responsible for of Tamms Correctional Center Smaligo said. “Te U.S. Supreme administrative detention is never and if they hear anything to give us a Varughese’s disappearance. because of budget cuts. Court requires that before inmates given without notice or hearing by call,” he said. Anyone with information Smaligo said the prisoners in are placed in high maximum-security, a special committee who reviews A group of volunteer K-9 units regarding Varughese’s whereabouts Menard are on a hunger strike they be provided notice, hearing, administrative detention status. from the Pulaski County Emergency should contact the Carbondale because they are held in solitary written reasons, a statement of what Services Disaster Agency combed the Police Department at 618-457-3200 confnement without due process. they can do to move to a lower For the rest of the story, please visit area Saturday without luck. or Crime Stoppers at 618-594-2677. “Tey are not being given any security level and the right to appeal.” www.dailyegyptian.com Graduate student enters city council race SETH RICHARDSON Don Monty after Former Mayor Joel Northwestern University in 1990 with a trading-card company and a Daily Egyptian Fritzler’s Feb. 3 resignation. a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. combination comedy club/cigar bar. The deadline for applications During his time in Chicago, he He returned to Carbondale in 2009, Graduate Assistant Brent Ritzel was Friday. was active in the music community acting as president of the Fuller Dome has submitted his application for the Ritzel was born in 1968 in and started Happy Tails Records and Home, vice president of Gaia House and open Carbondale City Council seat. Carbondale and graduated from the cooperative Crank Records. on the board of directors of Lifesavers. Ritzel is one of eight applicants and Carbondale Community High School He moved to Boulder, Colo., one of two SIU students vying for in 1986 where he was in the top in 2006 and launched a mortgage Please see RITZEL · 3 the seat left vacant by Acting Mayor 10 in his class. He graduated from brokerage, an employment agency, BRENT RITZEL Love at the Glove Robocop remake a success Women take third in MVC See Pg 3 See Pg 5 See Pg 8 2 Monday, February 17, 2014 ‘Love’ torn apart at the Glove DYLAN FROST reimagine a personal experience in reality of skin color. She said she Daily Egyptian New Orleans. Ross, who identifes often uses that style for show fiers at as bisexual, was walking down the Hangar 9 and other local shows. Te return of Valentine’s Day street when a drunken man called While some artwork was more also means the return of a tradition him queer for wearing jean shorts straightforward in portraying sexual displaying erotic and salacious and a pink shirt, he said. content, other pieces were more artwork created by students and “I really didn’t know how to react subtle or ambiguous. “Te Nova area artists. to it because I’ve never really – other Express,” created by an artist named “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” a than grade school – had that thrown Lauren, appeared to show sperm cells premise inspired by songwriter Ian as a slur to me,” Ross said. penetrating a female egg. Te wax Curtis of the ’70s post-punk band Ross presented three comics and spray-painted piece featured a Joy Division was the theme for the painted on woodcut, collectively thick layer of bluish and violent paint Glove Factory’s 18thannual “Love titled “What Happened: A Comic dripping into a circle of splattered at the Glove” art show. One of Triptych.” Each four-paneled comic yellow, orange and red paint and a the exhibition’s organizers, Patrick created with uniformed lines of red, multi-colored glittery background. Westra, a senior from Carbondale black and white ink reimagined how A creative demonstration of a studying art, said he meant to capture Ross could have responded to being broken television intended to show a darker side of Valentine’s Day. called queer. a pornographic GIF, but the screen “I wanted to go with more of an One scene showed him decapitating was not functioning as planned. anti-Valentine’s Day theme because the man with a guillotine; in his However, the piece managed to be that is often more challenging or second response, he hit on the relevant at the gallery, as the cracked against the grain,” Westra said. “So I intoxicated man; and in what Ross television screen inadvertently went with something more personal, said was the most accurate portrayal, resembled the shape of a female egg closer to my own work since I he appeared depressed as he walked being penetrated by sperm cells.