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VOLUME 95, NO. 36E!"#$%&O'CTOBER 13, 2009 12 PAGES Committee hears students’ grant concerns Testimonies heard in final Illinois Student Assistance Commission hearing M adeleine Leroux DAILY EGYPTIAN [email protected] Students gave their personal testimonies Monday in hopes of convincing the General Assembly to find money for the Monetary Award Program. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission, which provides fund- ing for student grants such as MAP, held its final public hearing at 11 a.m. Monday in the Student Center Audi- torium. Don McNeil, chairman of the commission, said the purpose of the hearing was to create a record of public testimony to help persuade the Gen- eral Assembly to restore the grant. “This is a program that has univer- sal support, but no funding,” McNeil said. Funding for the grant, which af- fects more than 5,000 students on the Carbondale campus, was cut in half this year, leaving no money for grants ISAAC SMITH | DAILY EGYPTIAN Andy Davis, right, executive director of the Illinois Student Assistance Commission speaks at a public hearing Monday in the Student in the spring semester. Center Auditorium. The purpose of the hearing was to gather testimonials from students about the possible loss of the Monetary Award Program. Half the program’s funding was cut for the year. Other members of the panel included ISAC chair Don McNeil, center right, SIUC See MAP | 3 Financial Aid Director Linda Clemons, center left, and Student Trustee Nate Brown, left. Southern Glassworks prepares University recognizes for largest sale of the year Indigenous Peoples Day C hristina Spakousky reservation, and all of Osage County DAILY EGYPTIAN Erin Holcomb should be considered Indian Country, DAILY EGYPTIAN [email protected] [email protected] according to Tulsa World newspaper. Columbus Day signifies “What is fundamental about Art students are creating glass pumpkins this week American culture for some people, being part of an indigenous nation for their annual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch sale. but for Jean Dennison, it reminds her today is culture, community, Southern Glassworks, a Registered Student of the struggle for Native American political association and something Organization, has sponsored the sale for four years. freedom. biological,” Dennison said. It will start at 10 a.m. Saturday and continue until Dennison, professor of anthro- Roberto Barrios, assistant every pumpkin has been sold at the Carbondale pology at the University of North professor of anthropology at Town Square Center. Carolina, visited SIUC on Monday SIUC, said people with different Those interested in purchasing a glass to address Native cultural values pumpkin should come early, said Alissa Friedman, American citizen- shape our system, a member of Southern Glassworks. ship as part of “In- e can’t forget and recognizing “Last year we sold out in less than two hours,” said digenous Peoples Wthe great indigenous people Friedman, a senior from Chicago studying fine arts. Day.” !!diversity of the on Columbus Day is “There were 100 people in line before we started.” Dennison is an important part of The group sold more than 480 handmade glass a member of the people who live diversity. pumpkins ranging from $15 to $100 each last year, she Osage Nation and here. “Here we have a said. She said they’re hoping to make even more this said, unlike all other — Roberto Barrios huge nation (where) assistant professor year and are making pumpkins as fast as they can. Indian nations, the of anthropology the first settlers … Money from the sale will help fund the Osage are the only are actually being glass program at the School of Art and Design, Native American tribe that still has a excluded through legal and political Friedman said. federally recognized reservation. policies.” The industrial wing in Pulliam Hall hosted busy In January, however, the state of Dennison said while there students blowing and forming molten glass infused Oklahoma refused to recognize the are struggles, the Osage Nation with bits of color Saturday. reservation and insisted on collecting continues to thrive despite the ruling. While the students continuously create pumpkins, taxes from Osage citizens, which It no longer defines citizenship by Friedman said it still provides a unique experience KEVIN TRUJILLO | DAILY EGYPTIAN Dennison said states are not allowed blood but by something biological each time. Victoria Heine, a senior from Sesser double to do in Native American territory. passed down from ancestors, she said. majoring in graphic design and glass, molds a The Osage argued Congress | pumpkin in Pulliam Hall Friday. | See GLASS 3 never formally disestablished the See RECOGNIZE 3 2 Tuesday, October 13, 2009 !"#$%&'(%)*#"+ News Sniping starts early in governor’s race Deanna Bellandi Hynes is after the job that The ad was Quinn’s first of the THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Quinn, the former lieutenant gov- campaign but hardly his first jab at ernor, inherited in January when Hynes. CHICAGO — The gover- then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich was Quinn inherited a budget mess nor’s race is barely under way, but removed from office by lawmakers when he took over from Blagojevich the name-calling and finger-point- after being arrested on federal cor- and he has castigated Hynes for, in- ing are already in full swing with ruption charges. Blagojevich has stead of helping to fix it, only com- Gov. Pat Quinn and Comptroller pleaded not guilty to charges he plaining about various proposals. Dan Hynes duking it out months schemed to sell or trade President “There will always be ankle- ahead of the Democratic primary. Barack Obama’s old Senate seat. biters over on the sidelines ... The Quinn has called Hynes an “an- The crowded Republican pri- comptroller wasn’t part of the solu- kle-biter,” accused him of sitting on mary for governor has been low- tion and it doesn’t appear he ever the sidelines and chastised him for key, but the Democrats’ race heated will be,” Quinn said. trying to “deceive” voters in a TV ad. up quickly. Hynes has shot back at Quinn Hynes has swiped at Quinn’s tax “When you have a primary, you for what he says is a lack of leader- proposal, criticized him for having know, politics ain’t bean bag. If ship in navigating the state through “no plan” in a worsening budget cri- somebody attacks me, I’m going to a fiscal crisis. sis and sent him a dozen 2009 wall defend myself,” Quinn said Mon- “The problem’s getting worse, calendars so he isn’t stuck in the past. day in Springfield. and we seem to be drifting from The two also have dueling TV Hynes went after Quinn last one day to the next,” Hynes said. ads touting their tax plans flooding week with the first TV ad of the “There’s no plan. There’s no com- the airwaves in Chicago, Spring- campaign. He criticized Quinn for prehensive proposal. There doesn’t field and points downstate. proposing a 50 percent income tax seem to be, really, the will to deal But all this back and forth so rate increase, while trumpeting his with this crisis now.” early in the election season could own tax plan, which he said would The two camps also continue to backfire, said Robert Rich, director only raise income taxes on some of spar over each other’s support for of the University of Illinois’ Institute the state’s wealthiest people. a progressive state income tax that of Government and Public Affairs. “I think our campaign reflects would make the rich pay more. “I think that to the extent that the mood of voters: Where’s the Hynes got into the race by pro- Mr. Quinn and Mr. Hynes contin- leadership and who’s going to get posing a progressive income tax, ue the kind of negative campaign- us out of this mess?” said Hynes’ which would require a state consti- ing we heard this weekend, I do be- spokesman, Matt McGrath. tutional amendment. lieve that the voters will be turned Quinn didn’t waste time firing But Quinn’s campaign has trot- off,” Rich said. back, putting up a TV commercial of ted out a 2003 newspaper story that Disenchanted voters could stay his own that called out Hynes for his said Hynes opposed a proposed away from the polls in the February “negative ad.” A narrator in Quinn’s state constitutional amendment to primary or turn to a Republican in ad asks: “Do we really want to go raise taxes on the rich that Quinn, the November 2010 election. back to the same old political games?” then lieutenant governor, backed. 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