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EMILY COOPER | Daily Egyptian Delyte Morris and sent everyone home on May 12, in Illinois,” Jackson said. “That is was for people with disabilities. The university existed primarily Jackson said. what makes us a fairly unique and It was through Freeberg that we Founded in 1869 as Illinois’ as a teacher's college until Delyte “That was both a good and a bad,” certainly compelling story.” got into the conversation through second teachers college – with Morris took offce as president of he said. “Ever since, in a moral and Today, minority students make up networking, getting in touch with 12 academic departments and an the university in 1948. Morris was historic sense, demonstrating against 29 percent of the total enrollment, the right people to play a role in inaugural class of 143, including SIU's longest-serving president the war was certainly defensible. and SIU continues to rank among starting the Special Olympics.” two African American students from 1948 until 1970. One can argue that was the right the nation’s top colleges and Gorzalski the university's is – SIU Carbondale is the fagship “We had the so-called Morris thing to do, but it left an indelible universities in the number of degrees something to be proud of. campus for the Southern Illinois era,” John Jackson, a visiting scar in the area and in the political awarded to students in ethnic and “We have a long history of University system. professor at the Paul Simon Institute powers in Springfeld because most racial minority groups, according to being faced with challenge after “[SIU] was unique in that it and coauthor of “Southern Illinois of them at the time were strongly in the university's website. challenge and overcoming it and grew in ways that other teaching University at 150 Years,” said. “He favor of the Vietnam War.” SIU also was the frst to offer succeeding despite some ferce colleges did not,” Matt Gorzalski, a was the transformational president, It has been tough to marshal a program to provide support to opposition from other schools over university archivist with the Special who over 22 years took us from a the kind of political support the students with specifc learning the years,” Gorzalski said. “We Collections Research Center, said. relatively small university to major university has needed to keep the disabilities at a college level, called have established programs and “People are still trying to fgure university status and well over place going and growing since then, Project Achieve. expanded them. We still manage to out how because of a rural location 20,000 students.” Jackson said. There is still tension “SIU is known for being a school thrive overall. You get some ups and [which] wasn’t conducive to During his presidency, Morris that causes many political leaders to that has been a leader in services for downs, but it has been good.” necessarily the major growth that had a major commitment to not go out of their way to help the people with disabilities and having Jackson said SIU’s legacy lies we saw in the 50s.” graduate education, master’s and university when it is in dire straits. a friendly campus for those people,” within over 200,000 living alumni, New Mascot PhD programs and ambitions for “I saw those anti-war Gorzalski said. who have had great careers and In the late 40s, there was a a law and medical school, which demonstrations up close and Project Achieve was founded by been better because of having an growing interest by the student came later, Jackson said. personal because I was a young Barbara Cordoni Kupiec in 1978. SIU degree. body to adopt a more aggressive “We went from elite education faculty member then,” Jackson said. She pursued a career in the feld “You can't ask for a much better mascot for their athletic teams to mass education in that 20 year “I think it symbolized the idealism initially to help her own children legacy than having well over than the original “Maroons.” period,” he said. “By the time he and diversity of SIU students at that and has left behind a legacy that has 200,000 living alums who carry On March 19, 1951, the left here, which was the summer point because our demonstrations assisted thousands of students in the mark of being in Carbondale student body of 2,000 voted of 1970, we were a massively and riots were a reaction to the earning their degrees, according to for two, three or even fve years, in favor of "Salukis" as the different place.” deaths of college students on SIU’s website. whatever it took, and then went new mascot for the university's Morris oversaw the creation of campus’ of Kent State University In 1983, Project Achieve became out and did great things,” he said. teams. new departments and programs and Jackson State University.” the Clinical Center Achieve SIU has sent alumni out all over Shortly after, SIU adopted a as well as a new campus, the SIU Diversity and Inclusion at SIU program when the university the state, nation and world with Saluki, named King Tut. Edwardsville campus.In 1970, Diversity has been an integral decided to institutionalize the the education and intellectual The mascot became an instant Carbondale was separated from its part of SIU’s legacy. program. This made it a permanent curiosity gained at the university, celebrity and attended football satellite campus in Edwardsville. “We have always been a gritty, part of the university's structure.SIU according to Jackson. and games and Student Protests blue collar-oriented university,” also played a key role in starting “The mission has always participated in the homecoming “One of the biggest things [at Jackson said. “We have always the Special Olympics, according been to serve southern Illinois celebrations. In 1954, however, SIU] is the student activism,” been more diverse than the other to Gorzalski. William Freeberg and the people,” Gorzalski said. King Tut was struck by a car Gorzalski said. “It has been a big universities in the state.” was the frst person in the U.S. that “Southern Illinois historically near Anthony Hall and killed. part of this school’s history. We Jackson said SIU has no history earned a PhD in outdoor recreation, has not had access to top quality The pyramid in front of Saluki were a hotbed during the era of the of being segregated, even when and he came to SIU after he got that schools [...] SIU has played a Stadium, which originally Vietnam War.” other universities were. degree in the early 50s. huge role in providing college stood in the northeast corner of The anti-war demonstration “We have had a unique place “He lead the growth of the 'Camp education to a whole region of the McAndrew Stadium, marks the and riots of 1970 got so bad the in history in not only southern Little Grassy,' which is now Touch state that had really no options to tomb of King Tut. university abruptly closed its doors Illinois, but really higher education of Nature,” Gorzalski said. “That get a college education.” PAGE 4 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019

Daily Egyptian file photo Dick Gregory: Paving the way for racial equality

JEREMY BROWN | @JeremyBrown_DE SIU after being discharged, he chose to drop out because he "I never learned hate at felt the university wanted him home, or shame. I had to go there for the wrong reasons. to school for that." -Dick "[SIU] didn't want me to Gregory Richard Claxton study, they wanted me to “ is a Gregory was a stand-up run," Gregory said according comedian, civil rights activist to African Americans in the great sport for and SIU alumnus. He became Performing Arts by Steven a breakout hit in the 1960s for Otfinoski. my people: his comedy sets which tackled Gregory was one of the first racism and bigotry repeatedly. black comedians to break into it’s the only Carbondale’s history of the white audience. Much discrimination and segregation of his comedy was current- sport in the was changed partly because events based and questioned of Gregory’s leadership with the way society operated. world in which other SIU black students. Nothing from segregation to Setting records with the baseball was off-limits. a negro can fastest mile times in the "Baseball is a great sport country, Gregory was offered for my people; it's the only shake a stick scholarships to various sport in the world in which universities, choosing SIUC a negro can shake a stick at at a white in 1952. a white man and not start a Gregory stood against the riot," Gregory said in an early man and not white-only policy found 1960s routine. in the Outstanding Athlete Gregory attributed his start a riot.” Award at the university and success in mainstream the segregated seating at comedy with white and black - Dick Gregory Carbondale’s only movie audiences when Hugh Hefner SIU Alumni theater. He then became the discovered him in Roberts first black student to receive Show Bar in Chicago. He the Outstanding Athlete said once there hadn't yet Award in 1953, the same been a healthy race joke yet year segregated seating at in America. Carbondale’s movie theater "They were all derogatory an interview with David came to an end. to one race or another," Letterman in 1984, Gregory His role as activist began Gregory said. "[I] gave the said he got a million and a in 1951 when he was denied country a new way out, half votes. He said it was a the Missouri State Mile healthy racial jokes." fine experience, and at the Championship Title because During the 1960s Gregory time told secret service agents he was black. was also a civil rights he didn't want them. His time at SIU was put on activist. He was in Selma, "I told them I didn't want hold when he was drafted into Alabama on "Freedom Day" them," Gregory said. "They've the U.S. Army in 1954. His on Oct. 7, 1963. Along with been around everybody who commanding offcer encouraged campaigning for African get hit." him to pursue comedy. During American rights, Gregory his time in service he entered was a Native American Arts and Entertainment and won several talent shows activist and feminist. Editor Jeremy Brown can be for his comedy. Gregory also ran for reached at When Gregory returned to the presidency in 1968. In jbrown@dailyegyptian. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 PAGE 5

Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Alaina Pape (center), a freshman studying cinema and photography from Roselle, pets “Pharaoh,” one of the SIU mascots, on Aug. 16, 2018, during “Light Up the Lake” at Campus Lake. Alumni give back to SIU students with ‘BEER’ scholarship

ISABEL MILLER | @IsabelMillerMedia today] than it was for us,” Giedeman group have been about the people said she donated to the "BEER" realizes this is an important time said. “It’s fnancially hard.” they met in college, the places in Scholarship because of her in student's lives where they can At Southern, beer isn’t just for Madison Miller, a junior studying Southern Illinois that they went and memories of her time in Carbondale. branch out. drinking. elementary education from the experiences they had. “It meant so much to me that “Be serious with your studies but The ‘BEER,’ or the Balancing Marion, applied for scholarships “When people were talking with I returned almost 20 years later also know that the world is not just Education, Experience and Reality last semester but said she has not the group, people talked about the to make sure my degree was books,” Giedeman said. Scholarship is a product of an 1980’s received any. She said she is happy teachers, the professors, but mostly from SIU,” Bross-Novak said. The requirements for the "BEER" to 1990’s SIU alumni Facebook alumni are putting scholarships like about the activities they did,” “If I can help a current student, scholarship are a student must be a group wanting to give back to their the "BEER" scholarship together. Giedeman said. even in the smallest of ways, to junior or senior attending SIU, they university. “I think it's nice that SIU is Group member Ann Norris-Price have the true SIU experience, must be in good academic standing The group, created by Craig having this day and that alumni are remembers the memories of her time then this is defnitely my way of and they must write a essay of one Wilson, has 13,917 members on participating to give scholarships to as a student at SIU. Norris-Price says paying it forward.” page or less describing why they Facebook. Wilson created the group students,” Miller said. the 'Balancing' part of the scholarship As of Friday, the scholarship came to love SIU. to research a book project and Seeing that college students had a is supposed to encourage students to has raised close to $5,000 and has Giedeman wants SIU students to connect old friends. fnancial need, Giedeman decided to enjoy the Southern Illinois area while had nearly 75 donors contribute, know alumni are thinking of them. "The experience of being in the see if other alumni felt the same way they are students." according to Giedeman. “We’re thinking about our own 'Dale during peak enrollment was and wanted to give back to SIU. We have so much here: the “In order for the scholarship to be memories, but we’re also thinking very exciting; there was more live “Everybody seems so Shawnee National Forest, our lakes, endowed, we have to raise $25,000. about the students making their music than I could keep up with, enthusiastic about SIU and their state parks, and also so much great If we don’t raise that, we would give own,” Giedeman said. “Even though people were hosting open mics time at Carbondale. I thought there food and music and art in town too, $1,000 until the money runs out,” it’s the name of the scholarship, the in cafes and having d.i.y. music might be interest in people giving we have it all, plus all the food and Giedeman said. abbreviation is kind of funny, we shows in their basements," Wilson back a little bit,” Giedeman said. art and music out at the wineries and Giedeman said he wants students hope it is a serious thing and we said. "Some of this is still going Giedeman posted about starting breweries we have here in Southern to focus on books and studying but hope that it helps students.” on here, of course, but back then a scholarship in a secret Facebook Illinois," Norris-Price said. "I really it was like someone had turned group dedicated to SIU students hope students are taking advantage the volume up. As a musician and from the 1980’s and 1990’s — of everything that is here. SIUC is writer in town I got to take part in his post generated interest and he a great academic experience in a a lot of the commotion and meet a reached out to the university. beautiful, natural setting. A whole, lot of great folks that I remain in “It’s not my scholarship,” balanced college experience needs contact with today." Giedeman said. “It’s the group’s all of it." The organizers hope to fundraise scholarship.” Giedeman attended SIU from for the scholarship with a big push Giedeman says that the name of 1991 to 1994, where he graduated on the Day of Giving, an annual the scholarship, decided by a vote, with a bachelor’s degree in history fundraising campaign held by the is tongue-in-cheek. He says he still and economics and later received a university. is not sure if the name is going to be master’s degree in economics. Dan Giedeman, an SIU alumnus, approved by the SIU Foundation.“ “[SIU] seemed like a place where I says his job as a professor at Grand In the past, SIU has had the could go and have a good experience Valley State University in Michigan reputation of being a party college with education and non-classroom gives him a frst hand view on how and the administration never seemed activities,” Giedeman said. students struggle with college tuition. to like that,” Giedeman said. Sara Bross-Novak, a member “I realize that college is a lot more Giedeman said the majority of of the group and an SIU alumna, expensive than it is for [students the interactions in the Facebook attended SIU in 1994 to 1997. She PAGE 6 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019

Daily Egyptian file photo Demonstrators raise their hands while chanting “Hands up, don’t shoot” as they march across campus during a protest organized in part by the May 2 Strike Committee. During the protest, demonstrators yelled, “We have a duty to fght for our freedom, we have a duty to win.” The protest, which consisted of more than 100 participants, was in response to issues such as the Illinois budget impasse, student loan debt and racism at SIU. Politics and protests make the university what it is today

KALLIE COX | @KallieECox County Historical Society, in a United Mine Workers network The next day the strikers and anti-war movements were piece published in the Carbondale was in the middle of a strike. cornered the strikebreakers in in full swing across the nation. SIU has always been a Times. The workers were fghting for the mine, forced them out and The Vietnam war was raging and politically active university, made “By the time Prohibition took fair wages, adequate pay for marched them into a barbed wire multitudes of young people were up of passionate students and effect in 1920, the local county dead work, and freedom from the fence. The strikebreakers were being drafted for the war every community members who fght sheriff was already accustomed oppression of mine owners and lined up against the fence and day. for what they believe in. to turning his head away from operators. told to run for their lives. The following is from an SIU 150 years ago, SIU was formed the illegal production of alcohol,” This strike turned deadly and “As they clawed desperately security report posted on the SIU during a time of rebirth and Lattuca said. “That left many became famous nationally as the at the wire, the union men Department of Public Safety’s reconstruction. The university local Protestant churches fertile Herrin Massacre. opened fre, some fell down website: served as a beacon of hope for for coupling with the Ku Klux Frederic D. Schwarz, a writer dead or mortally wounded; On May 2, U.S. Army a damaged nation which was Klan and relying upon them for for American Heritage, said the others escaped into the woods, Recruiters were scheduled to recovering from the Civil War, illegal alcohol enforcement when Massacre took place in June where strikers continued to hunt conduct interviews in the Student but that didn’t mean life in they resurged nationally in the when a group of strikebreakers them down,” Schwarz said. “An Union. The recruiters set up southern Illinois was perfect. early 1920s.” from Chicago (who were not told unlucky few were captured, their table at an assigned area Racism was still alive and well Lattuca writes the Ku Klux they were strikebreakers) were marched to a cemetery, and shot; which would afford them as much in the south – as was sexism – Klan used their infuence to take brought to Herrin. those who were still breathing student traffc as possible. but because of the dedication over southern Illinois, but their “Accounts differ as to who shot then had their throats cut.” At approximately 12:00 noon, of politically active student authority was challenged in 1924 frst, but gunfre was exchanged The fnal death toll was twenty- a group of people surrounded protestors, SIU is in a better place by the Knights of the Flaming on the road and, shortly after, one, with most of the survivors the recruiters and then formed a than it was. Circle, who joined forces with at the mine,” Schwarz said. badly injured, according to "human chain" by linking arms. 1920s pro-alcohol gangsters. “One strikebreaker and two Schwarz. They thereafter refused to allow Prohibition began in 1920 and This led to an all-out war in the strikers were killed, and a third The strikers responsible for anyone access to the Recruiting continued into the early 30s in towns of Williamson County and striker was mortally wounded. the violence were acquitted of all Offcers. The demonstrators were southern Illinois. the National Guard was called in Within hours, union men from crimes. comprised of non-students as well The Ku Klux Klan also to end the violence. surrounding communities were 1960s-1970s as students and faculty members. fourished in the area during this Prohibition was not the only focking to the mine, liberating Tension coursed through the Immediately thereafter, a crowd time, according to Sam Lattuca, time southern Illinois saw unrest. guns and ammunition from stores veins of Southern Illinois in the began to form and grew to such president of the Williamson In 1922 in Herrin, Illinois, the as they went.” 1960s. The civil rights, feminist, proportions that the main hallway WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 PAGE 7

of The Union was blocked and became almost impassable. A number of students, most notably veterans, began to heckle the demonstrators. The situation quickly became highly explosive. A student coalition was formed and approximately 150 people met to plan a “major confrontation” with the university, according to a May 6, 1968 article in the DAILY EGYPTIAN by Don Mueller and John Epperheimer. The group suggested occupying and burning down the house of university president Delyte Morris, before ending the meeting. On May 7 at 3:55 a.m., the Agriculture Building was bombed, according to a report fled by SIU DPS. This bombing was investigated by local police and the FBI, but the case was never solved. Following several more protests and riots, a sense of constant unease plagued the campus. In 1969, an arsonist set SIU’s Old Main building on fre and left obscene messages on its chalkboards. Marvin Kleinau, emeritus professor, said in a past interview with the DAILY EGYPTIAN he believes the burning of Old Main came as a result of anti-war Carson VanBuskirk | Daily Egyptian sentiment toward Vietnam. Alaysia Brandy, a junior studying biological sciences from Chicago, poses for a portrait on Feb. 27, 2019, in a studio at Southern Illinois University. Brandy was one Kleinau said student activists of three cheerledaers who knelt during the national anthem during athletics events last year to protest police brutality. who opposed the war sought ways to disrupt the University’s gassed student housing. involvement and they were On May 12, thousands of successful. At this time, Old Main students marched to the home housed the Air Force ROTC’s of President Delyte Morris and rife range and burning down Old threw rocks at the building. They Main down got rid of the ROTC marched to fnd MacVicar and facility. threw rocks at the building he After Old Main was destroyed, was in. the riots got worse in Carbondale. Laux said Raymond Dillinger, Students were forced to abide by Jackson County Sheriff, along a curfew and the militia and state with Mayor Keene requested police were called in. more National Guard and by One year later in 1970, SIU the evening of May 13, 1,200 once again descended into chaos National Guard members were in when students protested the Carbondale. expansion of the Vietnam war, This was the fnal straw for racism and alienation on campus students and they began to food and the deaths of four Kent State the ROTC building and Woody students who were shot by the Hall. The police tear gassed the National Guard, according to students again. a senior paper written by Katie After this, the SIU campus shut Laux, a former SIU student. down for the remainder of the The students had obtained a semester. permit to protest by the city of 1980s-2000s Carbondale but violence ensued While it wasn’t as far out, when a small number of the 1,500 groovy, crazy, or wild as in the student demonstrators began to 60s, Carbondale saw its share block the railroad tracks next to of political activism in the 80s Daily Egyptian file photo Main Street, according to Laux. through the early 2000s. At this time, the police and Most protests during this National Guard took action time centered around the Bush social issues impacting the university's handling of an party school, but it is also a to disperse the protestors and administration and the United campus. These issues included incident involving a student politically active school filled sprayed the crowd with tear gas. States’ involvement in foreign the budget crisis, homophobia, accused of being a neo-Nazi. with passionate students who Laux said the students affairs. racism and academic diversity. The student was found are still protesting for their attempted to disperse and fee Students gathered on campus Violent threats were to have posted anti-Semitic causes to this day. to campus but were pursued by to protest for or against abortion made before the protest, but comments in a Discord chat. Whether it’s standing up police who continued spraying rights, voiced their opposition protestors still marched. No Screenshots of the chat were to nazis, kneeling for racial them with tear gas. to unnecessary political incidents occurred. shared on social media along justice and civil rights, The mayor of Carbondale at involvement and war in Iraq, the In Oct. 2017, three SIU with a flier accusing the protesting the president, that time, David Keene, declared Persian Gulf, and Afghanistan cheerleaders knelt during the student of being a neo-Nazi. advocating for administrative a state of emergency and forced and advocated for the closure of national anthem at a football The university did not change or saying no to a students to abide by a curfew of Guantanamo. game to protest for civil rights take action based on the border wall, SIU students 7:30 p.m., and then-chancellor They also protested for minorities. accusations. Students are engaged in the political Robert MacVicar forbade any KFC’s abusive and unethical The university responded criticized the university's climate and actively working student gatherings that involved treatment of chickens. by banning all displays of handling of the incident in to create social change. more than 25 people, according Present Day activism from student athletes, comparison to its handling to Laux. On May 2, 2016, dozens including cheerleaders. of the cheerleader protest, Staff reporter Kallie Cox Over the next several days, of students gathered in front The ban was later rescinded. and this was one of the main can be reached at police violently attacked unarmed of Faner Hall for a peaceful In Sept. 2018, students focuses of the march. [email protected] or students and unnecessarily tear protest against some of the gathered to protest the SIU may be considered a on Twitter at @KallieECox. PAGE 8 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 Buckminster Fuller: Southern’s innovator

Buckminster Fuller in front of the World’s Fair dome in 1967.

JEREMY BROWN | @JeremyBrown_DE to the site. “He produced some of his most important work during his time Richard Buckminster Fuller was the as a distinguished University Professor inventor of the geodesic dome and a at Southern Illinois University professor at SIU from 1959 to 1970. Carbondale from 1959 to 1971.” Fuller’s geodesic dome is a While a professor at Southern, Fuller structurally secure sphere built out of made the cover of Time Magazine and equilateral triangles. This design has was nominated for the Nobel Peace been used in various felds of study Prize. Additionally, during his twelve including architecture, astronomy years in Carbondale he produced and counterintelligence. some of his most infuential writing; His other inventions included more than a quarter of his 23 patents the Dymaxion car, a progenitor and was bestowed of nearly half his to a possible “Omni-Medium 48 honorary doctorates. Transport” which could traverse He would travel constantly land, air and water. because of his global popularity. Another was the Dymaxion house, It is said he wore three watches a prototype building would have a simultaneously at any given time– rotating structure on top of the house. one for his office in Carbondale, In theory, the structure would rotate one for whatever timezone he was around a central mast and have natural in and one for whatever timezone wind for cooling and air circulation. he was going to next. “In April 1960 Buckminster Fuller During his tenure at SIU, Fuller’s assembled his geodesic dome home geodesic domes were used to house in Carbondale, Illinois and lived in radars that detected possible Soviet it with his wife Anne until 1971,” bombings known as the Distant Early according to the RBF Dome Home Warning line. website. “Considered to be one of the The FBI knew of Fuller’s strongest and most effcient structures involvement in the project, and known to humankind, the geodesic kept a dossier on Fuller because dome is Buckminster Fuller’s most of his possible Soviet connections. enduring legacy.” According to the FBI file on Fuller, Fuller patented the dome home in an official from the American 1954 as a solution to humanity’s need Soviet Science Society released a for safe, affordable and accessible membership list from October 1946 housing, according to the site. “This which had Fuller’s name on it and original dome home was constructed categorized him in mathematics by Pease Homes, a company who and engineering. licensed Fuller’s 1954 patent in Fuller’s connection to the DEW hopes of stimulating a dome home Line and an older Russian science construction boom.” society was not the only reason the He was born July 12, 1895 in FBI kept tabs on him. They also Milton, Massachusetts. He attend monitored his time with an SIU Harvard University and was student in 1965, whose name was affliated with the Adams House, a redacted in the fles, because the dormitory designed to provide high- student was a suspected Soviet agent. end accommodations for wealthy The FBI fle said Fuller was very Harvard undergraduates. He was cooperative with federal agents about expelled for spending all his money his contact with the suspected agent. partying with a vaudeville troupe. “[REDACTED] planned to Later readmitted, Fuller contact Fuller,” the FBI fle said. got expelled again due to “[Fuller] volunteered information irresponsibility and a lack of concerning his contact not only with interest. He said once he was a non- [REDACTED] but with other Soviets conforming misfit in the fraternity, over a period of years.” according to Martin Pawley’s book While there were no details of titled ‘Buckminster Fuller.’ an apprehension of the suspected Fuller was a professor in the Art Soviet, Fuller was never targeted as and Design department at SIU from an enemy of the state. 1959 to 1971. “Bucky is a unique fgure in Arts and Entertainment Editor Carbondale history, and a grandfather Jeremy Brown can be reached at of the green movement,” according [email protected]. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 PAGE 9

Brian Munoz | @BrainMMunoz Grey Dawg and Brown Dawg unveil SIU Athletics’ new logo on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019, during the logo-reveal ceremony at SIU Arena in Carbondale, Illinois. Saluki Athletics unveils new logo, athletics branding projects BRIAN MUNOZ | @BrianMMunoz part of Southern’s partnership with digitally and on merchandise.” “I think the people that have approved an allocation of $850,000 IMG College Licensing and was The SIU-IMG College Licensing looked at it are excited about it to update the Saluki Stadium turf Saluki Athletics unveiled a completed by graphic-design and partnership renewal, signed in 2017, and we need revenue,” Kill said. feld, which was installed in 2010, new logo Thursday, replacing marketing frm Torch Creative, included a $12,000 signing bonus “This is another way for us to and allocated roughly $750,000 for their existing mark, which had according to Tom Weber, SIU for the university to cover costs make some money.” a new digital scoreboard. represented the intercollegiate Athletics spokesman. associated with the logo. $1,450 Replacing the existing branding Saluki Athletics received a athletics brand since 2001. Torch Creative was chosen based came out of the athletic department’s While the logo redesign did not private donation to display updated The new logo features “Southern on the frm’s history of developing pocket for the redesign. cost the university a large outright graphics in SIU Arena and Saluki Illinois Salukis” in a sans-serif block unique collegiate athletics logo, “Saluki Athletics paid Torch expense, there will be “hard costs” Stadium, Weber said. Athletics font with angular motifs in the type, according to the release. The Creative $3,450 for the creation of associated with the redesign– such was unable to move forward with as well as an updated maroon and design frm’s client base ranges an offcial SIU Saluki type font,” as replacing the logo on athletics the project without revealing the white rendition of the Saluki head. from a Michigan State redesign of the release said. “IMG College facilities– but Kill said the unveiling updated logo because of the logo’s “The Saluki is unique throughout “Sparty” to various minor league Licensing paid Torch Creative comes at a strategic time. incorporation in the graphics collegiate athletics,” Jerry Kill, SIU baseball teams. $10,000 for the design services.” Branding on uniforms will project. He said installations are set Director of Athletics said. “Our goal The frm researched the history of IMG is the United States’ be updated within their regular to happen as soon as April. with the new logo was to retain the the Salukis and presented ideas and largest collegiate sports marketing replacement cycle and facilities will “We are excited about the new original look and feel of the Saluki, sketches to the University. company, representing more than be updated as regular maintenance logo and what it means for the while giving it a sleek, modern feel. University employees and 200 of the nation’s top collegiate is needed, according to the release. future of the Salukis brand,” said The new logo is symbolic of the community members provided properties including the NCAA In regards to updating uniforms Denise Lamb, Vice President of progress we intend to make.” feedback during the design phase and its 89 championships and which may be at the beginning of Partner Services for IMG. “The Inspiration for the logo came until the fnal version was approved NCAA Football. their usage cycle, Kill said “we’ll updated, streamlined approach stays largely from the community support by Kill and the Chancellor’s offce The partnership between Saluki just have to see” and athletics will true to the history and tradition of and ferceness of the Kansas State last fall. Discussions on a new logo Athletics and IMG gives the “do the best they can.” SIU while meeting the increased “Powercat” logo, according to Kill. began under former athletic director university 75 percent of the revenue Kill said he expects to have 75 demand for fexibility across digital The logo is going to be a Tommy Bell. when an item is sold with the offcial percent of the athletics’ branding and social platform that is needed by unifying look for Southern’s 17 Creating the logo branding and IMG keeps 25 percent. replaced by July. top universities.” intercollegiate athletic teams, Kill The last revision of the Saluki Weber estimates during the last “As far as money, it’s not going said in a video shared on social Athletics’ logo was introduced year, Saluki Athletics made $95,000 to be any different – everybody’s Sports editor Adam Warfel media platforms earlier this month. in 2001. from the deal. With the introduction worried about money,” Kill said. contributed to this report and can “When I came back to SIU about “It has a dated appearance of new branding, university offcials “We’re going to generate money or be reached at a year ago, I noticed each team was and had fallen out of favor as the expect an increase of anywhere we wouldn’t do it.” [email protected] using a different logo,” Kill said. “I primary athletic mark, having been between $9,500 and $28,500, or The frst two items to be or on Twitter at @Warfel_Adam. made it one of my top priorities to replaced in most instances by the a 10 to 30 percent increase, to last replaced with the new branding bring back a sense of unity within bullet ‘SIU’ mark,” according to a year’s total. As of Thursday evening, include the basketball foor in SIU Editor in Chief Brian Munoz can be Saluki Athletics and having the SIU Athletics press release given the licensing frm has acquired 75 Arena and the Saluki Stadium turf, reached by email at same look will achieve that goal.” Thursday evening. “The new logo is vendors to sell merchandise with the according to Kill. [email protected] The logo redesign was done as modern and sleek, easy to reproduce new branding. The SIU Board of Trustees or on Twitter at @BrianMMunoz PAGE 10 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 You’re Dumb and Wrong: Just because I like your memes doesn’t mean I’ll go to your band’s bar gig

JEREMY BROWN | @JeremyBrown_DE where the bathroom is. Half the time we're already in it. No one will come to a But what I don't get is why lukewarm comedy show just one of the Jake's would think because the performer writes an if I like virtual comedy they infammatory weekly column. share on my phone, that I'd On Facebook, I'm friends be interested in an in-person with a lot of bearded white guys eardrum stress test. I like that share dozens of memes memes because I'm buried in daily. For some weird reason social insecurities and liking three of them are named Jake memes helps me act like I but all of them are in some form don't have those, Jake. of band. I know because half It's the internet equivalent my Facebook notifications of giving me a Snickers bar are notifcations inviting me to for free, then inviting me their latest show. to bungee jumping. You're I understand the premise of not you when you're hungry, using social media to promote or when you're puking on a your brand and band–it's a bungee cord. fast way to tell a lot people There is a definite overlap about upcoming performances for other people. Sometimes and your latest t-shirt that's people like a ton of memes "selling out soon!" from a band-guy and then But what's that got to do think "You know what? I with memes? On Facebook might be interested in his these amount to mostly gifs, show plus I loved the post jpegs of the latest trend, about how obnoxious local screenshot tweets and the guitarists are." occasional drawing of a penis For me the problem lies on a now tainted childhood in that the memes are not cartoon that makes me throw really a representation of a work for me would be if these have much else to say. Keep my phone at work. Sorry band-guy's talent, but rather memes were personally made putting out, band-guys, just You’re Dumb and Wrong is Isabel, I would've told you to his taste in humor. That does by the band-guys I see share don't expect me to do the same. a weekly column about video duck if I was ready for it. give you a clearer picture them. It would show their Editor’s note: The views games, movies and popular My problem isn't getting of someone, but it's not as work as creators, and give and opinions expressed in entertainment from Arts & invited to punk shows I won't if knowing Jake is hip with me a better picture of how this article are solely those of Entertainment editor Jeremy attend. I'm not interested in current Pokemon Sword and much work they put in to even the author and do not reflect Brown. Brown can any of them because I'm a Shield memes will give me a these short, creative jokes the official policy or position be reached at prude, the music's too loud better picture of how "clean" that make me forget I have a of The Daily Egyptian, its [email protected]. and everyone's either too his sound is. column due in three hours. staff or its associates. drunk or too high to tell me The difference that would I'd blame it on that, but I don't WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 PAGE 11

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Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz Southern Illinois Salukis guard Eric McGill goes for a basket on Saturday during the Southern Illinois Salukis’ 72-63 win over the at SIU Arena in Carbondale, Illinois. In the War Room with Warfel: Looking ahead to 2019 Arch Madness

ADAM WARFEL | @warfel_adam Game 2: Illinois State (7) vs After 18 games of conference Evansville (10) at 8:35 p.m. play through the Missouri Valley While Evansville fnished their Conference, the feld is set for what is conference schedule with fve wins, sure to be an exciting Arch Madness I would not count them out against Tournament March 7-10. Illinois State. The Redbirds swept The frst games at the Enterprise the season series against the Purple Center in St. Louis starts Thursday, Aces, but Evansville has played with the frst game being the eight well as of late. The Aces won their versus nine seed. fnal game over Valparaiso and lost Game 1: Indiana State (8) vs to Bradley by two and Southern Valparaiso (9) at 6:05 p.m. by eight. I believe they have the The Sycamores will kick off the potential to upset the Redbirds. tournament facing the Crusaders of Players to watch: Keep an eye out Valparaiso. In the season series between for Illinois State senior forward Phil the teams, the Sycamores claimed both Fayne, who averages 6.2 rebounds per wins – winning the frst matchup by 17 game as well as 15.8 points per game. and the second, in overtime, by 5. Senior guard Milik Yarbrough is a Players to watch: Keep your eyes key to this team as well averaging 16.8 on Indiana State's trio of guards: points per game to go along with seven freshman Cooper Neese, sophomore rebounds per game. Tyreke Key and junior Jordan Barnes. Don't sleep on Evansville junior In their last game against Northern guard KJ Riley who is averaging 13.5 Iowa, the three combined for 44 of the points per game and keep an eye out Sycamores' 71 points. for senior guard Marty Hill; having Make sure to watch Valparaiso shot 57 percent behind the three-point freshman guard Javon Freeman – the line in Evansville's fnal game against newcomer is averaging 10.1 points Valparaiso. per game. Also watch for junior center Game 3: Loyola (1) vs Game 8/9 Derek Smitts; he is averaging 12.5 winner on Friday March 8th 12:05 points per game to go along with 5.7 p.m. rebounds per game. I would expect Indiana State to beat WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 PAGE 13

Valparaiso, so I expect this game to be Loyola vs Indiana State. If the Ramblers end up playing the Sycamores, the Rambler's shouldn't worry having swept the season series against Indiana State. Prior to winning their last two games of their season, Loyola lost three out of four – while having the number one seed in the tournament, the Rambler's are beatable. Players to watch: Loyola relies on three players to do a lot of the heavy lifting – senior guard Marques Townes, sophomore center Cameron Krutwig and senior guard Clayton Custer. The three combined for 57 of Loyola's 81 points in their win over Bradley on Saturday. Game 4: Missouri State (4) vs Bradley (5) 2:35 p.m. This game is bound to be a thriller with both teams playing their best Brian Munoz | @BrianMMunoz basketball in the second half of the Valley season. The Bears won Southern Illinois Salukis center Kavion Pippen attempts to pass the ball from Illinois State Redbirds guard Milik Yarbrough on Saturday during the Southern Illinois Salukis’ six out of seven to climb the way 72-63 win over the Illinois State Redbirds at SIU Arena in Carbondale, Illinois. towards the top of the standings, while faltering and losing three out Loyola, so a Drake v Illinois State Players to watch: Keep an eye of their last four. Bradley started matchup would be exciting. out on Southern Illinois senior the Valley at 0-5 but won ten out of Players to watch: Drake's guard Armon Fletcher who has their next 12 games. best player is senior forward played his best basketball down Players to watch: Missouri Nick McGlynn, averaging 15.6 the stretch, averaging 22.8 points State junior forward Tulio points per game and leading the per game on 53 percent shooting Da Silva is the best player conference in rebounding with as well as 8.2 rebounds over the statistically, averaging 14.7 8.5 rebounds per game. last six games. points per game to go along with Senior guard Brady Ellingson For the Panthers, watch for Bluesky 7.6 rebounds per game. is also someone to keep in mind freshman guard AJ Green who is QP, FC The Bears offense runs through when watching the Bulldogs averaging 15.6 points per game senior guard Josh Webster who squad as he leads the Valley in with 41 percent shooting. leads the conference in assists three-point feld goal percentage The rest of the schedule is as per game at 5.2 – his assist to at 48 percent and three point feld follows: March 9th will be the turnover ratio is leading the goals per game averaging 2.6. winner of game three against the Missouri Valley at 3.1. Bradley Game 6 Southern Illinois (3) winner of game four at 2:35 p.m. junior guard Darrel Brown leads vs UNI (6) 8:35 p.m. The winner of game fve will the Bears' charge, averaging 15 This game will be a fun play the winner of game six set points per game and 3.1 assists nightcap to fnish off day two of for 5:05 p.m. The championship per game. Arch Madness. Southern rolls game is set for March 10th with Game 5: Drake vs 7/10 into the contest winners of three tip off set for 1:05 p.m. at the winner 6:05 p.m straight and having won four out Enterprise Center in St. Louis, While I expect Evansville to of their last fve. Missouri. give Illinois State a run for their The University of Northern Saluki fans if you thought the money, I think the Redbirds Iowa comes into the contest season was crazy, keep your eyes will come out on top and end up having lost two straight against on this tournament and hope SIU playing the hottest team in the Loyola and Indiana State. SIU can walk away winners of the conference – Drake. Illinois State claimed the season series having Valley for the frst time since 2006. is the only team to have beaten the won both games against the Bulldogs in their last seven games. Panthers, but as anyone who Sports editor Adam Warfel can The Redbirds are also the only watches college basketball be reached at team to have beaten Drake twice knows, it is hard to beat a team [email protected] or in conference play aside from three times. on Twitter at @warfel_adam. PAGE 14 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 Saluki Athletics: 150 years, 51 Olympians

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Throughout 150 years through Southern Illinois’ history, several athletes made their mark – not just in Carbondale, but on the international stage. In track and feld alone there are 20 athletes, consisting of 14 men and six women have made it to the Olympics, representing Southern Illinois University. Phil Coleman was the frst Olympian from SIU, competing in track and feld. He tried his luck in the 3,000 meter steeplechase in both the 1956 and 1960 Olympics. While did not medal in the Olympic events, he did fnish frst in the 1959 Pan-American Games, setting a record time for Americans with a mark of 8:56.4 Coleman participated in Southern’s track and feld team until graduation in 1952, leading the track team to 24 consecutive dual meet wins. He was honored Back in the 815 for his contributions to Saluki athletics with an induction into the hall of fame in 1981. this summer? Cameron Wright is the most Make the most of it at Ryan Michalesko | @photosbylesko recent of men in Southern’s Deanna Price, SIU alumna from Moscow Mills, Mo., poses for a portrait Thurs- track and feld team to compete day, Sept. 1, 2016. Price placed eighth in hammer throw, throwing 70.95 meters, Save money. internationally for the United at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. States. Graduate sooner. Wright competed in the the university, competing in the swimming there has been four Summer registration Olympics in 1996 in the high Summer 2016 Olympics. She women athletes to compete begins March 26 at 9 p.m. jump, but failed to reach the competed in the hammer throw at the International level, fnals in the long jump in the for the United States and placed including Pamela Benitez in the one year he competed. third in the Olympic trials just 2012 Olympics. R ckValleyCollege.edu/RVCsummer Wright was a fve time All- behind both of her teammates. Benitez competed for El American during his time at Price fnished eighth in the Salvador in the Olympics Southern, was a four-time MVC 2016 games and is on track to swimming in the 800 meter champion in the high jump and compete again in 2020, setting freestyle, coming to the is apart of the 2011 class for the an American record at the 2018 university in the spring season SIU’s hall of fame. national championship with a of 2012. In women’s track, six have hammer throw of 78.12 meters. She competed from 2012- reached the Olympic level Price competed for SIU 2015 earning frst team all heralding from Southern. from the 2011-2012 season conference selections each year, Connie Price-Smith is one of through the 2015-2016 season, posting 17 top-three fnishes in the most recognizable names winning back-to-back NCAA her fnal season at Southern in among women’s track at SIU. championships in the hammer 2015. She is a four-time Olympian throw in 2015 and 2016. SIU had a men’s gymnastics competing in the shot put and Track and Field is not the only program from 1956 until the discus throw in 1988,1992, sport at Southern has generated program was cancelled in 1996 and 2000. Olympic level talent, swimming 1989, yet in the programs 33 In 1992, Price-Smith became has produced 23 Olympians – year history it produced two the frst women Olympian in 19 men and four women. Olympians. 32 years to win both the shot Mazen Aziz joined the Fred Orlofsky was a member put and discus at the Olympic national stage for the 2012 of the 1960 Men’s Gymnastics trials. In 1996, she fnished ffth Summer Games in Egypt, team for the United States, his in Olympic games in Atlanta competing in the men’s ten team fnished ffth that year. fnishing just four inches short kilometer open water fnishing He competed for Southern of a bronze medal in the shot- 24th. from 1960 through 1963, in put. Aziz swam in Carbondale 1961 he won an NCAA title Price-Smith then coached from 2009-2012 under head in rings and parallel bars, and track and feld in Carbondale coach Rick Walker who recently fnished second for all-around. for 15 years, coaching her announced his retirement. Orlofsky was honored for his last season in the 2015-2016 Aziz swam in ten meets his achievements in Carbondale by season. She is now the head senior year at Carbondale in earning an induction into the coach at Ole Miss in Oxford, 2012, fnishing second in the hall of fame in 1980. Mississippi. 500 freestyle in the dual meet DeAnna Price is the most against Evansville. To read more, please go to recent Olympic competitor from Across the women’s side for www.dailyegyptian.com WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 PAGE 15

Isabel Miller | @isabelmillermedia Tyjuana Eason, a sophomore majoring in psychology, poses with her medals won at the MVC Indoor T&F Championships at Cedar Falls Iowa. Where she was the top-point earner for the Saluki women. Tyjuana Eason: Sprinting ahead TAMAR MOSBY | @mosbytamar to where I wanted to be,” Eason team as a whole and we’ve business and I think that’s going High School in her home town said. “My goals for indoor are been doing speed work early on to lead to a lot of success for her of Kankakee, Illinois. Saluki Track and Field to win conference and cut my which is helping a lot.” in track and feld and beyond.” While attending her high has continued to uphold its time down in both the 60 and Ewell has also seen a change While she enjoys winning school, Eason competed in reputation of producing some the 200.” for the better in her teammate races, the sprinters admitted track and feld and volleyball. of the best athletes in the For the past two seasons, since the arrival of the new her favorite part of being on She frst started running track conference and country. The Eason has also qualifed for the coaching staff in Carbondale. the SIU track and feld team is in grade seven and has loved the team holds top marks in the NCAA West Regional meet in “I think the change in the her teammates. sport ever since. MVC, to go along with school at least two or more events. coaching staff has really “My favorite part of being on “I first started running in records and national rankings Last season, the now senior brought out the best in her,” the track team would have to the seventh grade,” Eason within this year’s program. set the school record in the 200 Ewell said. “They work with be my teammates,” Eason said. said. “My physical education Veteran sprinter Tyjuana meter dash running a time of her, care about her goals, and “They keep me well rounded teacher pushed me towards Eason is just one of SIU’s many 24.24 seconds, but broke the cater to her needs. They believe and focused. On my down days, it. I wasn’t too big on track track stars, but has certainly been record once again this year at in her and in return, she gives they keep me motivated.” at first, but once I started making her mark this season. the Samford Invite with the new them school records and frst According to her fellow winning and getting better I This indoor season, the senior record being 24.14 seconds. place fnishes.” teammates, Eason not only became more interested.” has been competing in the 60 “It sounds crazy, but I didn’t New sprints coach, Richard receives support from them, After graduating from SIU meter dash, 200 meter dash, even know that I broke the Jones is known for his success she’s the one to give it out. with a major in psychology and 1600 meter relay. When the record until someone mentioned in coaching world class “Ty lifts me up when I’m not and a minor in criminology, outdoor season rolls around in it to me,” Eason said. “It feels sprinters as his athletes at Ohio feeling great about practices,” the sprinter plans on pursuing a March, Eason is set to compete good to have been able to break State won 15 Big Ten titles and Ewell said. “She keeps me professional track career. If she in the 100 meter dash in place of it and be apart of that history.” earned 46 All-Big 10 accolades. honest and constantly reminds is not able to go pro, she would the 60 and the 400 meter relay. Amongst her teammates and 42 of Jones’s athletes also were me that I have to stay positive like to attend grad school to While being a short sprinter for her coaches Eason is seen as a qualifers for national meets. and trust the process. She’s become a psychologist. Southern Illinois, Eason has been positive and hardworking leader. When Jones arrived in an awesome training partner “If I don’t become a an MVC Champion four times, “She is a leader and a goal Carbondale Eason immediately because she reminds me to have professional, I plan on earned All-MVC honors on six setter,” said teammate and stuck out to him and he admired a championship mentally and attending grad school after I different occasions and been fellow junior sprinter Genesis her work ethic. that pumps me up.” graduate,” Eason said. “I’m named MVC Women’s Track Ewell. “She is always positive “She has a very strong Eason’s support of her currently deciding between the Athlete of the Week three times. and had a phenomenal work competitive nature and she is teammates has become clinical psychology program Despite being a highly ethic. She works out with the not afraid of hard work,” Jones noticeable even to her coaches and the counseling psychology decorated collegiate athlete, guys and keeps up with them to said. “When it’s time to do and they see her as one of the program. Either way, I just the sprinter has never been able make herself better.” the work she does it without leaders on the team. want to help others and the to snag an individual MVC Eason has been successful complaining because she wants “She adds senior leadership community in some way.” championship as the ones she has in every single year of her to get better.” to the program,” Jones You can catch Eason and earned have been in relay races. collegiate career, but this season While only having known said “We’ve come an the Salukis this weekend in All is set to change this she has improved at a rather the senior for a short period of understanding in the quick Cedar Rapids Iowa as they year as Eason enters the MVC rapid pace achieving many of time, Coach Jones says he can amount of time. All of the compete in the MVC Indoor Indoor championships with the her goals early on. already conclude that the senior athletes respect her opinion Championships. top mark in both the 60 meter “I think this year my will have no trouble being and she’s always willing to be dash and 200 meter dash. motivation has increased,” successful this year and later on a liaison for me when I need Sports reporter Tamar Mosby “It feels great to come in Eason said. “This mainly has in life.“She’s very driven and the athletes to focus.” can be reached at with the top mark, especially to with the new coaching staff. takes her craft very seriously,” Before attending SIU the [email protected] or because I worked so hard to get They are more focused on the Jones said. “She handles her sprinter competed at Kankakee on Twitter at @mosbytamar. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2019 PAGE 16

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