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The Daily Egyptian, March 19, 2013
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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Daily Egyptian 2013 at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in March 2013 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TUESDAY DAILY EGYPTIAN MARCH 19, 2013 DAILYEGYPTIAN.COM SINCE 1916 VOLUME 98, ISSUE 110 Hillel House Making the cut for pedestrian mall closes after funding cuts TREY BRAUNECKER Daily Egyptian
A campus organization has had to shutter its meeting space because of budget issues. !e Hillel organization, also known as !e Foundation for Jewish Life on Campus, has provided Jewish college students a Registered Student Organization to help establish a tight- knit community while emphasizing Judaism for more than 90 years, according to its website. However, Carbondale’s Hillel chapter was denied the funding needed to keep it from operating because of the organization’s budget cuts. Located near campus, the house is a place where Jewish students could meet to connect with other Jewish students on SIU’s campus. Melissa Schwedel, a university Hillel chapter organizer, said funding became an issue because of Hillel’s decreased recession budget, as well as the organization’s size. “I think it is mainly the economy,” said Schwedel, a graduate student in public administration from Bu#alo Grove. “Not many organizations have much money to begin with, so it needs to be rationed out. !at means bigger Hillel chapters are getting more funding because they have more membership and participation.” Hillel’s inadequate marketing also made it harder for the university’s Hillel chapter to present the RSO to the student body, said Torin Hopkins, a senior from Highland Park studying physiology and a university LAURA ROBERTS | DAILY EGYPTIAN Hillel chapter organizer. Sid Rathert, of Ava, cuts a piece of stone Monday in a makeshift workshop outside Faner Hall. Rathert, who has Hopkins said Jewish RSO university funding is di$cult cut stone for 35 years, works part time on the Faner pedestrian mall project. Since there is not much work for to obtain, especially for a campus located so close to the stonecutters in southern Illinois, Rathert said he has enjoyed his involvement with the project. Bible Belt. “Years ago, some people had the idea to buy the house in expectation that participation would keep growing for the house and the economy would pick up,” he said. “Unfortunately for the student body, it is not something we can a#ord right now.” SIU Board of Trustees If passed, SIUC would be one bargaining power on issues before the Hillel has not had the presence other RSOs have university with its own Board of legislature or other state agencies could established because the Jewish community is not strong on may be abolished Trustees, and SIUE would have its own be diminished,” he said. “Instead of one campus, Hopkins said. Board of Trustees and would include the voice, there would be two, and the two “!e fact is, we do not have a lot of Jewish students on TARA KULASH Spring"eld School of Medicine and the may not be heard as loud or as strongly campus,” he said. “Losing Hillel means the Jewish students Daily Egyptian Alton School of Dentistry. as one.” here on campus will not feel like they are at home at an !e agenda states it is important !e move could also present di$culties environment where they can be open about their Judaism.” !e Carbondale City Council may the bill does not pass because both for students. With the campuses acting With such a diverse university community, Hopkins said oppose a split between SIU Edwardsville universities would see duplicated jobs as one university system, students can it can be hard to come into contact with other students who and SIU Carbondale. and higher administration costs. transfer credits easily and the campuses share the same religious beliefs. !e Hillel House not only !e group will vote tonight to City Manager Kevin Baity said the can maintain joint programs. If the introduced Hopkins to fellow Jewish students, he said, but approve a resolution against a bill that two universities may also lose bargaining resolution is passed, students may be it also helped him "nd a place to practice Judaism without would abolish the SIU Board of Trustees power with the state legislature and unable to transfer credits as easily. prejudice. and establish each university separately, other government agencies. according to the council’s meeting “If the system were divided into two Please see HILLEL | 3 agenda. campuses with individual boards, their Please see COUNCIL | 3 MAP grant applications suspended earlier than anticipated
ELIZABETH ZINCHUK be positive or negative. be sooner than March 19,” she said. the Illinois General Assembly appropriated Daily Egyptian Harfst said her o$ce had an idea of the grant’s Even with students applying earlier, the $371 million for MAP "scal year 2013, and the outlook before the announcement. amount of recipients may be stagnant. ISAC website states the actual appropriations Students who have not applied for Monetary “!ey gave us a noti"cation this year that MAP According to ISAC’s 2012 data book, 369,674 may be more or less than the "gure used in their Award Program grants may be out of luck. grants were probably going to go quicker than students were eligible for "scal year 2012 MAP information, dependent on General Assembly and !e Illinois Student Assistance Commission they did in the previous year, and so at SIU we grants, but only 158,349 received them. !is governor approval. announced that students who had not "lled did a lot of outreach to our continuing students, year, ISAC announced once again that less than Harfst said ISAC tries to forecast the cuto# out their Free Application for Federal Student as well as our prospective students,” she said. half of eligible students will receive the aid. If date based on how many applications were "led Aid as of March 2 would not be considered for Harfst said her o$ce performed "nancial aid less appropriations are awarded, the amount of and the need they see from those applicants as the state-funded award, which is based on a and FAFSA presentations throughout the month eligible students who receive the grant will be well as their own Illinois allocations. Because student’s "nancial need for an upcoming school of February. Her o$ce also assembled booths in even less than "scal year 2012, according to of that, the earlier date may happen because of year. Terri Harfst, SIU’s director of "nancial aid, the dining halls, the Recreation Center and the ISAC data. students who apply earlier with a greater need. said students were considered for last year’s grant Student Center, she said. Total "scal year 2012 MAP grant funds were !e "nancial aid o$ce monitors the cuto# date until March 19, 2012. While the date has now “We were encouraging our students to apply slightly less than $412 million, according to the day by day, she said. come and gone, university students and sta# as soon as possible because we didn’t have a date data. Preliminary ISAC information shows total outlined various reasons why the results could when they would cut o#, but we knew it would "scal year 2013 funds at $350 million. However, Please see MAP | 3 TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013 PAGE 2
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MAP Administration agree students should HILLEL involves religious practice,” he said. programs, but they are much older CONTINUED FROM 1 "le their "nancial-aid applications as CONTINUED FROM 1 With the loss, the university’s than the students here.” soon as possible, but students di!er on Jewish students will lose the solid Schwedel said the house loss also Because the MAP grant is a statewide whether the shortened deadline is fair. “Coming out and saying you’re student community and many means students will not have access program, Harfst said she can’t predict Hannah Harris, a senior from Jewish in a place like this is not traditions they practiced, said to speci"c services such as preparing whether the university will be a!ected. Carterville studying elementary really the most comfortable thing Jeanette Grosman, a Hillel chapter kosher meals or having peers who Even if a student applies after the education, said the cuto! change is to do,” Hopkins said. “Living in the organizer. can relate to classes and school. cuto! date, they might still receive aid, understandable. dormitory, I did not tell anybody I “#e Hillel House has always Even without the house, she said. Last year, ISAC added another “Funding is a big issue everywhere, was Jewish until I had to, and when been a place for students to meet Carbondale’s Hillel chapter is still week to the suspension date, which so I don’t think students should be that came out I was called the Jew on on Friday nights and have Shabbat determined to make a di!erence for meant students were still eligible until surprised, especially with Illinois,” my %oor the entire year.” services and dinner, and on Jewish Jewish students, he said. March 26. she said. He said religious identity can be an holidays we would gather there,” “It is not that the culture will not University President Glenn Poshard Prince Rule, an undecided issue on campus, where Christianity she said. continue, but it makes it a lot harder said even when MAP grant funds sophomore from Chicago, said he has a greater population. Although the house is closed, when you do not have a speci"c increased, they only supported half of disagrees with the deadline because “When you come to college, you Schwedel said Carbondale’s Jewish place for students to come together,” those who quali"ed, and this year is no students already face numerous college want to be part of a group where you community has been supportive. he said. di!erent. Poshard said the cuto! date deadlines and often cannot cover can create a new image for yourself, “#e community has been is often unfair to students who are still education costs. and it needs to be one where you fantastic,” Schwedel said. “#ey Trey Braunecker can be reached at considering their college options and “To put a deadline on it rushes can feel comfortable about yourself love when students attend their [email protected] have not received news of their college students who are already busy and and your background, especially if it services and are involved with their or 536-3311 ext. 255. acceptances. pressured with school and paying for “#e MAP grant has been stagnate it,” Rule said. “It’s an outrage; it’s crazy for quite a while,” he said. to provide less MAP grants and not do COUNCIL if she could. farmer’s market to conduct product Poshard said the grant’s "rst-come, something to replace it.” CONTINUED FROM 1 “It’s important because it brings tastings. "rst-serve acceptance is an issue Rule said as tuition increases, grants foot tra$c to downtown,” she said. One item includes the consideration because students with good academic become more important. #e council will also consider “It brings people into the district to of a special-use permit for dwelling backgrounds don’t "nish their FAFSAs “I feel like it is a big, key thing allowing fair days for Carbondale frequent the businesses here, to spend units at 310 and 312 W. Monroe early enough, as some are still waiting that the school aid is provided for SpringFest and the second annual some money on restaurants.” Street, while another will call the on college acceptance letters and urban areas or low income families,” CarbondALE Microbrew and Music Another agenda item includes council to discuss a request to rezone considering which to attend. he said. “It really bene"ts students Festival. #e events, which are co- an ordinance to expand the property in the 400 to 600 block “#at’s been the frustration before all around.” sponsored by Carbondale Main Street Class H winery license to of North Washington Street from because there have been a lot of excellent and Hangar 9, will take place April include microbreweries and Low Density Residential to Light students (who) just didn’t make up Elizabeth Zinchuk can be reached at 13 and Sept. 28, respectively, and will microdistilleries. #e license allows Industrial. their mind and weren’t able to get the [email protected] be located in the parking lot south of wineries to make and sell products #e council will also discuss application in on time,” Poshard said. or 536-3311 ext. 268. Hangar 9. #ey include live music on their premises. Under the new amending the restrictions on the and entertainment, as well as public ordinance, the license would be Neighborhood Business District. Map Grant Information alcohol consumption in designated split into H1 and H2 classi"cations. #e Local Liquor Control Year Funds Recipients Average Award areas. #is will be Carbondale Main An H1 license would allow Commission will meet before tonight’s Street’s and Hangar 9’s "rst SpringFest, production and sale on a winery, 7 p.m. meeting to consider allowing 2012 411,604,561 158,349 $2,599 so there will be a festival in the spring microbrewery or microdistillery’s liquor licenses for SpringFest and 2011 403,295,683 147,210 $2,740 and one in the fall with CarbondALE, premises. However, the H2 license CarbondALE Microbrew and Music 2010 390,465,309 141,380 $2,762 which features beer tastings from would extend the H1 to allow 40 Festival. regional microbreweries. percent of the businesses’ sales to 2009 383,892,890 144,230 $2,662 Meghan Cole, director of be produced o!-premises. Another Tara Kulash can be reached at 2008 383,817,064 145,543 $2,637 Carbondale Main Street, said she license — Class I — would also [email protected] SOURCE | ISAC’S DATA BOOK would have a festival every weekend be created, and it would allow a or 536-3311 ext. 255. TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2013 PAGE 4 Giving from the heart
TIFFANY BLANCHETTE | DAILY EGYPTIAN Heidi Coons, right, of Carbondale, donates blood Monday while American Red Cross phlebotomist Vicky Baudendistel, left, prepares William Walker, a junior from Elk Grove studying mechanical engineering, for his donation during a one-day blood drive in Lentz Hall’s lower level. Walker said he tries to donate because it’s a good cause.