Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC March 2014 Daily Egyptian 2014 3-16-2014 The Daily Egyptian, March 16, 2014 Daily Egyptian Staff Follow this and additional works at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/de_March2014 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 March 2014 by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. @dailyegyptian @dailyegyptianphoto DAILY EGYPTIAN Daily Egyptian First pitch at ‘the Itch’ Dunn opens up Richard “Itchy” about SIU’s Jones throws out the first pitch Friday at the confdential newly-renovated stadium named in his honor. The new stadium is search process the result of a $4.2 LUKE NOZICKA million project KAYLI PLOTNER at the site of Abe KARSTEN BURGSTAHLER Martin Field, which has been the Salukis’ home since Incoming SIU president Randy Dunn may have been a late 1964. Jones, who arrival to the presidential search, but was a nominee all along. holds the record Te Presidential Search Advisory Committee was formed in for most wins as late September. Dunn said he was a potential candidate months an SIU coach in before he agreed to apply. President Glenn Poshard announced his 21 years, said he retirement July 25, and it wasn’t long before Dunn was notifed of was pleased with the open position. the stadium. “I “Diferent friends and colleagues from southern Illinois had think the playing been texting and emailing that information,” Dunn said. surface, the lights He said R. William Funk & Associates, the search committee’s and the dugouts chosen consulting frm, approached him to be a nominee in mid- [make for] a very October. nice facility for the “While the position really was a dream job for me and certainly players and the very attractive, having just started out (at Youngstown State coaching staff to University), it was going to be really impractical if not impossible play,” Jones said. to become a candidate,” Dunn said. Despite declining the nomination, Dunn told the search frm to keep him in mind. JENNIFER GONZALEZ “I certainly said, given my ongoing interest in fact, that would DAILY EGYPTIAN be my job of all jobs to end my career with,” Dunn said. · Please see BASEBALL 12 Please see DUNN · 2 New marijuana legislation Crab Orchard catch requires higher education KYLE SUTTON studying architecture, said he would be Daily Egyptian interested in these classes if SIU were ever to follow this path. As social reform continues to change over “Te stereotype of weed from 10 years ago time, the marijuana conversation is beginning and the stereotype today has done a complete to move from one looking down on a long- 180 degrees,” he said. “I think an awareness time prohibited narcotic to one focusing on a among colleges would be good. Even if it’s not rising industry within the economy. about the business, just to learn more about Twenty states across the nation – including marijuana in general would be interesting.” Illinois – have enacted laws legalizing the use Kurt Agner, a senior from Willow Springs of medical marijuana, with Colorado and studying automotive technology, said the Washington being the only two states legalizing science behind cannabis would be something weed for recreational use. he would enjoy learning about. According to a Feb. 26 New York Times “Even if my major was something else, article, there are at least 17 states who either I think it would be something interesting have bills in the state legislature or ballot to take,” Agner said. “I think it would be initiatives to legalize the regulated use of interesting to learn other ways to get other marijuana for adults. Oregon and Alaska are things out of cannabis and other uses.” JENNIFER GONZALEZ · DAILY EGYPTIAN the two states most likely to integrate new In 2007, Richard Lee, a long-time pro- policies, according to the article. cannabis advocate and business owner, formed A seagull pulls a fish from Crab Orchard Lake Saturday in Carterville. The To educate individuals about the industry, Oaksterdam University in Oakland, Calif., to lake sits on the Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge, which, according to the U.S. “cannabis colleges” such as Oaksterdam provide high quality training for those wishing Fish and Wildlife Service, acts as a natural ecosystem to sustain migratory University are forming across the nation. to enter the cannabis industry. water fowl and native southern Illinois fish species. Tese colleges have seen national attention in A pioneer in cannabis education, Oaksterdam the media in recent years as more and more ofers weekend seminars and semester-long states pass legislation allowing the regulated classes covering a variety of topics in the felds “First and foremost, we need to start getting students on drug policy will probably be the distribution of medical marijuana. of business, horticulture, medicine and politics, the science into medical schools,” she said. “It’s frst to be integrated. As marijuana education is thrust into the according to Dale Sky Jones, the executive insanity that we can’t have a conversation about “Tis drug policy, I believe, will be studied national spotlight, students from SIU say they chancellor and instructor at the university. reality in medical schools.” similar to the way we study alcohol prohibition would be enthusiastic of a curriculum focused Te introduction of medical research into While medical research is the most and the rise of organized crime,” she said. on cannabis within the university. schools is the frst step in educating about important aspect of cannabis Jones wants Mike Young, a senior from Springfeld cannabis, Jones said. to see in schools, she said courses educating Please see MARIJUANA · 2 Crimea vote rejected Need for Speed review See Pg 3 See Pg 4 See Pg 11 2 Monday, March 17, 2014 Oscar Pistorius trial enters popular culture CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA lawyer’s “I put it to you” challenge Was Oscar on his stumps or Some people turn up their noses at wounds and the general impact Associated Press to prosecution witnesses — are wearing prosthetic limbs when the spectacle, then dive into television of gunshots on fesh and bone in creeping into popular culture. he battered the toilet door with a or social media to soak up the latest, metaphor-studded monologues so PRETORIA, South Africa Te rise and fall of the double- cricket bat? Does he scream like a often extraordinary revelations. Te precise and structured that they — Children chatter about the amputee runner, who competed woman, as the defense suggests, parade of witnesses, some shown were almost lyrical, the macabre Oscar Pistorius murder trial at in the London Olympics in 2012 or did neighbors indeed hear a in the televised proceedings and contents notwithstanding. Here was South African schools, startling and then killed model Reeva woman’s screams on the night of some concealed from TV viewers a man, clinical and courtly, who parents with details about how the Steenkamp less than a year after the killing? Will apparent missteps to respect their privacy, gives a had conducted between 10,000 and athlete fatally shot his girlfriend. that inspirational triumph, is by police investigators muddy the glimpse into rich, diverse, fawed 15,000 autopsies over the decades. Big audiences in South Africa are a consuming saga for South prosecution’s case? Did Pistorius and accomplished lives, swept into “Death is efectively a process watching a 24-hour television Africans that has drawn sheepish vomit during graphic testimony a single narrative from previously rather than an event, and may take channel dedicated to coverage of comparisons to reality television about Steenkamp’s wounds because anonymous routines. some minutes for it to come to its the sensational trial. Turns of phrase shows. Te more people hear, the of anguish, or was he trying to curry Prof. Gert Saayman, the conclusion at a physiological level,” from the courtroom — the defense hungrier they are for more. sympathy with the impassive judge? pathologist, described Steenkamp’s he said. DUNN MARIJUANA CONTINUED FROM 1 CONTINUED FROM 1 hile the position really was a dream job for me and certainly very “I said certainly keep me in prized with attractive, having just started out (at Youngstown State University), it “It’s going to be one of those politics or history- developments, but at that point I indicated . I W type courses.” didn’t feel like I could apply.” ‘‘was going to be really impractical if not impossible to become a candidate. Jones said the economic value of cannabis is an Although Dec. 15 was the preferred — Dunn argument hard to ignore. application deadline, Dunn received another call SIU president “Tis is the frst industrial production from the search frm just days before Christmas opportunity that I can think of in an awfully long inquiring about the candidacy. Dunn said he president, but would not comment on when an presidential search at Illinois State University, time to bring jobs to American workers,” she said. told them he was content at Youngstown and announcement would be made. Te original which uses a transparent search method. Dunn “I’m not just talking about cannabis for adult would keep in touch. search timeline called for a new president to be was one of the fnal four candidates who held consumption or even for medicinal use. I’m talking Dunn said the search frm contacted him named in April. an open forum with the student body to address about industrial hemp, energy opportunities and again in early January. On Feb. 14, the trustees announced they what they felt was required of a president.