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The Undergraduate Student Government proposed several new initiatives, voted on 14 Registered Student Organizations funding requests and appointed six senators at its meeting Tuesday.

President Cameron Shulak said USG is working on a web portal for student services, town hall meetings and programming for speaking events.

Shulak said the new web portal, Saluki 411, is going to help students locate resources across campus. He said it is still in early development and its goal is to be established by the end of the fall semester.

“All of it is going to be USG designed and run,” Shulak said. “As the process goes on, the only time the university will be involved will be for technological developments.”

The student government allocated $1,500 from student funding for Adam Ritz, a frequent speaker to professional

and collegiate athletic teams, to visit the university and discuss topics such as sexual assault, alcohol, drugs and violence on Oct. 27.

Shulak said the event would hopefully change collegiate cultural habits in response to recent violent incidents on campus. He said the total cost of the event would be $45,000.

The first town hall meeting, designed to connect students, USG senators and administrators, will be held at 5 p.m., Oct. 28 in Student Center Ballroom B.

More than 14 members of administration have been invited, such as interim Provost Susan Ford, Director of Housing Jon Shaffer and Director of Student Health Services Ted Grace.

RSOs requested more than $26,000 for events occurring Jan 1., through March 15. The senate allocated about $17,000, resulting in a surplus of more than $5,000, Treasurer Nick Roberts said.

Three new RSOs were approved at the meeting: the Fiat Club, Students Today

Leaders Forever and Real Talk. Fiat Club is dedicated to Latino

cultural awareness and wants to form a fraternity in the future.

Students Today Leaders Forever is a national nonprofit organization that tours U.S. cities while providing community service.

Real Talk discusses male and female dominance in professional spaces and gender and race across cultures.

Chief of Staff Shantel Franklin said USG still has 12 available seats.

“The seats are constantly changing,” she said. “We have 30 senators who are on board but some will be transitioning out. It will continue to vary until we have a solid senate seating.”

The next USG meeting will be 6 p.m. Oct. 7 at in the Student Health Center Auditorium.

Marissa Novel can be reached at mnovel@dailyegyptian.com,

on Twitter @marissanovelDE or at 536-3311 ext. 268.

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With the recent arrests of six SIU students for sexual assaults Sept. 12 through 14 in two separate incidents, student leaders are launching a new task force to address attacks on and off campus.

Cameron Shulak, president of the Undergraduate Student Government, said the “It’s On Us” task force, a White

House initiative launched by President Barack Obama on Friday, is a nationwide campaign designed to find solutions for issues regarding sexual assaults. The task force acknowledges everyone can contribute to stopping violence.

“I don’t know what the task force will specifically come up with, obviously that’s the reason for the creation of it,” Shulak said. “[The task force] is going to start by coming to the table talking about the issues

that are currently affecting students on campus, but then will quickly move from there to develop those solutions that we could possibly implement.”

Matt Ryg, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, said nearly one in five undergraduate women experience some form of sexual assault, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

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The university’s latest soybean research project has provided information for further research and triggered a twin program at a university in Greece.

Stella Kantartzi heads the soybean research and is a graduate of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She said the university is looking into developing an identical program that will help accelerate the breeding process.

Kantartzi, an associate professor in the department of plant, soil and agricultural systems, said in an email the program was started last year with a seminar she organized, along with discussions during summer 2013.

The Saluki soybean varieties adapt well to the Midwest environment and offer competitive yield and disease resistance.

The plants are resistant to sudden death syndrome, soybean cyst nematodes, frogeye leaf spot and stem canker Kantartzi said. These diseases cause a significant loss of yield and are common diseases throughout the United States.

Soybean development takes around seven years, but Kantartzi said that certain factors can reduce that time to five years.

“New selection designs, highly thought out technology and shuttle breeding can reduce the time to five years,” she said.

Shuttle breeding involves a breeder using winter nurseries in warmer climates to advance their material before shuttling it back to SIU.

Although research has led to a better Saluki soybean, Kantartzi said the plant isn’t perfect.

“These varieties are not super plants, but they are significantly better than the ones SIU released before,” she said. “We always try to create genotypes with as many good traits as possible.”

Kantartzi did not use genetically modified materials in her research. A plant can become genetically modified when its DNA is transformed with genetic engineering methods. To combat this, Kantartzi said the university only uses conventional, or non-genetically modified material.

“Genetically modified plants are not part of our research,” she said. “My program uses only conventional lines. The advantage is that the varieties that are produced can be either used as conventional lines or can be transformed genetically.”

A line is a soybean that has specific traits that differentiate it from other soybeans.

Other research opportunities have stemmed from the Saluki soybean research.

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James Anderson, a graduate student from Carbondale studying plant breeding, is currently researching soybean breeding for the production of biodiesel.

He said the research is centered on the quality of the soybean.

“A majority of soybeans at SIU have not had information for the oil quality done,” he said. “Part of my project is the identification of lines for both yield and fatty acid composition.”

Anderson is looking at lines, both commercially viable and experimental, in hopes of benefiting people who grow soybeans for biodiesel production.

“A commercially viable line has been tested in multiple locations for multiple years and will show good traits and then be considered for release or made commercially available,” he said. “An experimental line has not been as thoroughly tested. An experimental line may have good results in our area, but we have

no idea if it would have the same results in multiple areas.”

Anderson said he hopes to provide lines which will be better suited for biodiesel production.

Raphael Hamawaki, a graduate student from Brazil studying plant breeding, is also using the Saluki soybeans for his research on nitrogen fixation.

He said he is involved in researching soybean genotypes with enhanced capacity to get nitrogen from the air. This is done by the symbiosis, a relationship established between two organisms.

Hamawaki said he is doing his

research to obtain varieties which will continue to reach higher yeilds each year.

“By improving soybean genotypes to get more nitrogen from air through symbiosis, we will ensure that we will continue to grow soybeans without nitrogen fertilizer input,” he said. “Therefore guaranteeing sustainable crop intensification.”

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“Of those assaults, only 12 percent are reported and of those reported assaults, only a fraction of the offenders are punished,” Ryg said. “If Adrian Peterson can get suspended from his job during the investigation of child abuse allegations, so too should SIU students for being investigated for criminal sexual assault.”

Shulak said USG, GSPC and Adrian Miller, Carbondale’s student trustee on the SIU Board of Trustees, will work with the Department of

Public Safety, Student Rights and Responsibilities and the Carbondale Police Department on this campaign. He said CDP is increasing officer presence in areas of the town considered problematic.

“Lately reports of the actions of a few people have been used to define this student body,” Miller said. “To suggest this campus and community is overwhelmed by violence is nonsense.”

The student leaders will also work with Ben Smith, an employee of the Women’s Center, Nathan Stephens, director of the

Center for Inclusive Excellence, DPS Police Chief Benjamin Newman and several others to find systematic solutions for victims of sexual assault.

“On Friday, President Obama speaking to the White House said, ‘Perhaps most important, we need to keep saying to anyone out there who has ever been assaulted, you are not alone,’” Ryg said. “Student leaders offer a similar message today to survivors of assault on the SIU campus, you are not alone, we have your back, I’ve got your back.”

Aaron Graff contributed to this story.

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BEIRUT — With the dramatic aerial bombardment of militant positions in Syria on Tuesday, the Obama administration has expanded its offensive against Islamic State extremists to new but treacherous terrain.

The U.S.-led air assault across a wide swath of northern Syria – broadening the campaign from neighboring Iraq – was an audacious move, signaling a major escalation in the battle against an al-Qaida breakaway faction formerly known as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

The strikes hit multiple targets, the Pentagon said, including “fighters, training compounds, headquarters ... storage facilities, a finance center, supply trucks and armed vehicles.”

But six weeks of bombardment in Iraq, including almost 200 airstrikes, have resulted in relatively few territorial gains against Islamic State.

The momentum of the Sunni Muslim militant group has been blunted in Iraq, but the extremists still hold sway in much of the country’s Sunni heartland. There is widespread agreement that some kind of ground offensive will be needed to oust them from their Iraqi strongholds, such as Mosul and Tikrit.

In Iraq, Washington at least has the support of allies on the ground, including the army, affiliated Shiite Muslim militias and the spirited if ill-equipped Kurdish peshmerga force, not to mention a functional government to work with.

In Syria, however, the U.S. has no reliable on-the-ground partner, only disparate “moderate” rebels who have steadily lost territory to Islamist militants.

After more than three years of war, much of Syria is lawless, a nation where hundreds of armed groups, proclaiming various degrees of Islamist militancy, hold sway. Though Iraq may pose a complex problem, it hasn’t plummeted to the level of Syria’s utter despair.

The fact that the Obama administration is preparing to overhaul its approach and vet, train and equip the so-called moderate Syrian rebels attests to its lack of confidence in the only opposition fighters it has backed so far: the loosely organized Free Syrian Army, more a shifting franchise operation than a unified fighting force with a coherent central command.

Analysts doubt that the White House’s initial pledge of about $500 million will be sufficient to train and equip a new army to defeat the Islamists, who are flush with captured weapons and cash from oil smuggling and other illicit enterprises. Moreover, the Syrian

rebels say their principal aim is to overthrow not the Islamists but the Syrian government, whose formidable military is backed by Iran and Russia.

In effect, this newly revamped, U.S.-backed rebel force, whenever it is ready to deploy – the buildup could take years – will be fighting a war against two powerful adversaries, Islamic State and the Syrian military. That equation hasn’t generated much optimism.

“We spent hundreds of billions of dollars and years of effort trying to build up forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, and look at what we got for it,” said Joshua Landis, a Middle East expert at the University of Oklahoma. “We don’t have a partner in Syria. That’s the reality of the situation.”

It’s not yet clear whether Washington’s purported allies in Syria are completely on board with the U.S. offensive against Islamic State. One of the administration’s favored moderate rebel factions, Harakat Hazm, part of the Free Syrian Army alliance and a recipient of U.S. missiles and training, issued a statement Tuesday denouncing the “external intervention” – that is, the U.S.-led bombing campaign in Syria – as “an attack on the revolution.”

The group said its main goal was toppling Assad. It is demanding “unconditional arming” of the Free Syrian Army, yet its members also acknowledge fighting alongside Al Nusra Front, the official al-Qaida force in Syria.

Still, the country’s motley bands of fighters labeled as moderates may well be the White House’s best hope for now. It has few other options.

Some analysts have urged the administration to forge a limited, conditional alliance against Islamic State with the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad, a kind of lesser-of-two-evils approach. Syrian warplanes have been pummeling Islamic State positions for weeks, and Assad has long presented himself as a bulwark against regional “terrorism.”

But Obama, who called for Assad to step down in 2011, declared in a nationally televised speech Sept. 10 that “we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people, a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost.”

U.S. allies such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, all predominantly Sunni nations, have invested too much in removing Assad – a member of an offshoot sect of Shiite Islam – to turn away from that goal.

Washington already faces criticism from Sunni allies that it is backing a Shiite-dominated, pro-Iran government in Baghdad. Aid from Iran and its Lebanese ally, the militant group Hezbollah, has been crucial in keeping Assad in power in the face of Syria’s largely Sunni uprising.

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Graduate and Professional Student Council discussed updates on the student healthcare initiative, the 20-hour work cap and the addition of a new science institute and major at its Tuesday meeting.

President Matt Ryg said the latest proposal request for student healthcare was posted on the university’s website Friday. He said the university is entertaining bids for Affordable Care Act-compliant health insurance plans.

“When the student insurance task force reviews those proposals [from insurance companies] they’ll make recommendations to the Board of Trustees and decide on the best deal,” Ryg said.

Insurance companies have until Oct. 21 to send proposals to the university with their bids.

Liaison Brandon Woudenberg said there was a chance the price of insurance

would not increase for students at first, but could in the future.

“The university has a reserve of money that can only be used for health insurance purposes,” he said. “So for the resolution it’s possible for us to use the money from the old program and initially subsidize the cost.”

Amanda Barnard, vice president for graduate school affairs, said the university is asking insurance companies to submit three different proposals: one to insure the student body, another that is beneficial to graduate and international students and an additional plan that will remove the mandate for student healthcare and make coverage voluntary.

The 20-hour work cap for student employees was also discussed.

Sarah Curtis, a graduate student from Carbondale studying English, said the cap adversely affects students with families, especially single parents.

“As a graduate assistant, I’m not

allowed to work another job,” she said. “If I can’t pay my bills with that income, I have to quit school, because I can’t afford the tuition.”

The council decided to create a proposal for interim Provost Susan Ford to discuss the cap.

Apart from deliberating on changes to the university, the council agreed to allocate funds to two Registered Student Organizations. The Buckminster Fuller Future Organization received $1,000 and the Student Bar Association was granted $2,150.

Barnard said a new fermentation science institute was approved at SIU, which will offer a bachelor’s degree in science with a concentration in fermentation, a program that is available at few universities.

Muriel Berry can be reached at mberry@dailyegyptian.com

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Hollywood likes to get stuck on trends. Its recent trend seems to be adaptations of young adult dystopian novels.

With the successes of films like “The Hunger Games” and “Divergent” it might be a while before this trend ever stops.

But even in its annoying moments, one cannot forget to give every film its fair day in court.

“The Maze Runner” (Rated PG-13; 103 min) is a young adult adaptation directed by Wes Ball and staring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario and Will Poulter. When Thomas is deposited into a world full of boys surrounded by a giant maze. He is without his memory and finds himself struggling to survive. With his arrival, many changes follow. The inhibitors of this land find themselves wondering whether

getting out is worth the risk of The Maze.Go see this film. It is thrilling and frightening

in ways not a lot of movies out there are. Many creative films find themselves

being labeled as just another movie cashing in on a specific genre or craze. It happened to “Warm Bodies” and now it will happen to “The Maze Runner”

This film’s concept and the execution of that concept are amazing. It is something we have not seen in this genre and adds a little more flavor to it. Ball takes this world set up in the novel and puts it pleasantly on the screen for everyone to see.

But the great thing that Ball as a director does and what the screen writers do, is to never fully explain this world visually or throughout dialogue. Even by the end, you find yourself asking more questions that you hope to get answered in the next film.

When getting a glimpse at the random pieces of futuristic technology and the world of The Maze and beyond, things seem unique and

different. Yet, everything is shadowed so as to not give too much of it away.

The world and the characters inhabiting it are always convincing and this seems to be thanks to both the writing of the film and the actors. At times this village of young boys and men seems like something out of “Lord of the Flies.”

A class system has been set up, there are leaders and everyone is expected to help. Every character in this group is compelling and dynamic. All of the actors should be commended for bringing something great to their roles. Many of them are somewhat unknown, but bring an A-game not seen in many established child actors.

You feel for every character and when many die, it is beyond heartbreaking. Even when the “villain” of the film Gally, played by Will Poulter, goes into full villain mode, he never seems like a villain. You understand his thinking, no matter how dangerous it is, and have empathy.

This is an extremely enjoyable film and it will make any flaws it has disappeared in your mind.

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Michael Milligan of New York acts out a scene from his play “Mercy Killers” Monday in Guyon Auditorium at Morris Library.

Milligan, a Broadway actor and playwright, has performed this play around the country for the last two years. Milligan said

he developed the play when he encountered the healthcare system. “The play was written because I wanted to make a contri

bution to the discussion around healthcare and address it from a humanistic point of view,” he said. Milligan said he got a lot

out of acting in a one-man play. “It’s an extraordinarily intimate experience with the audience,” Milligan said. “When you’re

on stage, you forget everything else, and it’s intensely alive and meaningful.” The play, under the moniker “Mercy Strain”, is

showing Oct. 19 at the American Theater Company in Chicago.

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different. Yet, everything is shadowed so as to

The world and the characters inhabiting it are always convincing and this seems to be thanks to both the writing of the film and the actors. At times this village of young boys and men seems like something out of “Lord of the Flies.”

A class system has been set up, there are leaders and everyone is expected to help. Every character in this group is compelling and dynamic. All of the actors should be commended for bringing something great to their roles. Many of them are somewhat unknown, but bring an A-game not seen in many established child actors.

You feel for every character and when many die, it is beyond heartbreaking. Even when the “villain” of the film Gally, played by Will Poulter, goes into full villain mode, he never seems like a villain. You understand his thinking, no matter how dangerous it is, and have empathy.

This is an extremely enjoyable film and it will make any flaws it has disappeared

‘The Maze Runner’ exceeds expectations

When a movie features a star cast, one imagines the film has a chance to be good. Somehow, having an amazing line-up will disregard any other problems the film could have.

“This Is Where I Leave You” (Rated R; 103 Mins) reminds us that a great cast does not mean a great movie.

“This Is Where I Leave You” is a dramedy film directed by Shawn Levy and starring Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda and Adam Driver. When the father passes away, a family finds itself back together

for his one dying wish. He wished his family would spend one week together under the same roof. The past starts to haunt, and they realize you cannot run away from family.

This movie should have been great.

Putting a cast of A-list celebrities in a film to headline it is not always a recipe for the success. Like anything in Hollywood, there are good and bad examples.

For every “Nashville” there is a “Valentine’s Day.” For every “The Thin Red Line” there is a “New Year’s Eve.” But this film seemed different.

The difference between successful ensemble casting and unsuccessful ensemble casting can be simple at times. Movies like “The Thin Red

Line” and “Nashville” cast actors who are known for their acting ability instead of star power.

Films like “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve” have casts that include people like Taylor Swift, Taylor Lautner and Ashton Kutcher, who are not specifically known for their acting ability.

This film seemed to land on the side of successful casting. Bateman, Fey and Driver are all known for being able to play both a comedic and serious role successfully. This cast also includes actors like Timothy Olyphant, Corey Stoll and Rose Bryne.

The actors gave amazing performances in many terrific movies, yet this film decided they did

not need to use them. Even Bateman and Fey, whose characters drive this plot as siblings, are used very poorly throughout this film.

A lot of interesting character developing moments are brought up throughout the film. A car accident that changed the lives of two characters and a miscarriage that ruined a marriage of two others are just two examples.

Both storylines are dropped for the sake of each character delivering a funny line that barely has any context in the scene.

You have two characters that are having baby issues, yet they never talk about the issue. They barely even talk at all.

Which leads to another big

problem with this film. These characters never seem like family or even real characters for that matter. They are puppets used to get out jokes the writer and possibly the director of this movie must have thought were really cleaver.

Characters do not really talk to each other in this film. Some do not even seem to notice that others exist unless it is to set up a witty piece of dialogue. The characters seem to be stuck in defined stereotypes without room to grow.

This is a very tempting movie to go watch. It has all of those actors you love, and even appears to have an interesting and compelling storyline. This is all a mirage. Do not see “This Is Where I Leave You.”

Jacob PierceDaily Egyptian

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Michael Milligan of New York acts out a scene from his play “Mercy Killers” Monday in Guyon Auditorium at Morris Library. Milligan, a Broadway actor and playwright, has performed this play around the country for the last two years. Milligan said he developed the play when he encountered the healthcare system. “The play was written because I wanted to make a contri-bution to the discussion around healthcare and address it from a humanistic point of view,” he said. Milligan said he got a lot out of acting in a one-man play. “It’s an extraordinarily intimate experience with the audience,” Milligan said. “When you’re on stage, you forget everything else, and it’s intensely alive and meaningful.” The play, under the moniker “Mercy Strain”, is

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Women’s tennis team ventures to Colorado

SIU has been without a rowing club for more than half a decade, but two underclassmen hope to change that.

The club has everything it needs to begin practicing except a faculty adviser.

Alex Tomzack, an undecided freshman from Wilmette, and Jack Fossler, a freshman from Evanston studying automotive technology, are attempting to revive SIU Rowing, a club that has been absent from SIU’s Registered Student Organizations since 2008. “I was looking for the colleges that had rowing teams,” Tomzack said. “Coming here was kind of a disappointment when I

found out they didn’t have one.”The team has 13 official and 10

unofficial members that have not signed up for the team yet. The team already possesses a four-person rowing boat with a cox in the front for steering, named the Kisker.

Fossler, the club’s vice president, said club president Tomzack, eats, sleeps and breathes rowing. Fossler said 90 percent of the team is really committed.

Tomzack said Alan Brandenburg, a former SIU Rowing club member and zoology graduate purchased the Kisker, which is sitting idle at Little Grassy Lake.

Brandenburg, who was part of the original group that founded a rowing team at SIU in 2006, said when he

worked with the team it was able to go to a few competitions as well as work out together.

“It was a very nice thing to do,” he said. “ Sometimes there weren’t enough students to go out, so I would go out and help man one of the oars.”

Brandenburg said the best part of working with the club was seeing the team row on water.

“It was very rewarding just to get the boat moving down the lake,” Brandenburg said. “So much of that is teamwork. From carrying the boat from the storage point down to where you need to put it in and getting four oars to work at the same time. It really is a wonderful feeling to do that.”

Brandenburg said Carbondale is ideal for rowing because of the many lakes in the area.

The team has already begun working out together in the Recreation Center, but until the club finds an adviser, that is all they can do.

Fossler said the team is shaky right now, but will get better in time.

“We’ve been practicing proper rowing technique,”Fossler said. “ We’ve been working on more powerful rowing rather that distance rowing. [The team is] looking pretty promising once they get into shape.”

Tomzack said he is looking for an adviser interested in rowing, who would also be able to help the team haul the boat from place to place.

“It would be nice if the faculty

member had some kind of SUV or big car,” Tomzack said. “You could just strap it on top of a Suburban.”

Brandenburg said in his time with the team they focused on building the organization from top to bottom with advisers first and then students. He said Tomzack and Fossler are building the club the right way.

“I hope that someone will be able to step up as a faculty adviser and help provide some guidance for them,” Brandenburg said. “I think it should be made more student-run than adviser-run than it was in the past. I hope that’d be a lot more effective.”

Tony McDaniel can be reached at tmcdaniel@dailyegyptian.com, on Twitter @tonymcdanielDE

SIU Women’s tennis will head to the mountains to kick off its season.

Coming off a nine-match win streak in 2013, the Salukis travel to Boulder, Colo., Thursday for the four-day Colorado Fall Invite for their season debut.

Head coach Audra Anderson said the team had balance last season and that helped its success.

“If someone had an off day, you had others that were very consistent and still strong,” she said.

The team had two seniors last season, Korey Love and Anita Lee. Love was only able to compete in doubles matches because of a knee issue, Anderson said.

“We actually only lost one singles player, although she was a very steady, consistent player,” she said. “Losing one senior in the singles lineup but gaining four freshmen, we hope someone is able to slide into that spot.”

Anderson said sophomore Meagan Monaghan was pretty equal to Lee and looks stronger this season.

The twins, seniors Gisela and Ariadna Cairo Baza played No. 4 and No. 6 singles last season and both look stronger this year, Anderson said.

“The challenge I give them over the summer is to get better, for us to have a better team, the returners have to get better,” Anderson said. “You can’t just depend on the freshman coming in to fill in those holes.”

Anderson said the upperclassmen are in great shape and challenge the freshmen for spots in the lineup.

Monaghan said she has grown both on and off the court.

“Off the court, I think I’ve definitely grown as a leader, I’ve grown into a leadership role and not being so afraid to talk and cheering for the team,” Monaghan said.

She said she developed her mental and physical game by not shying away from hitting the ball.

“Mental [game] is half the battle and I think I’ve grown being stronger out there by staying calm,” Monaghan said.

Monaghan said she thinks about the team more than herself.

“You have to start thinking not so individual, it’s not all about me anymore,” she said. “I have to do well in practice to make everyone better.”

Gisela said she has more expectations for herself this year. She expects to help the freshman because she knows what it is like to be in their position.

“I am going to do the best I can, and I’m going to enhance the team, because it’s my last year,” Gisela said.

She said her goal this season is to win conference, and is working hard to get there.

“I’m playing as hard as I can, I always do that, but I’m practicing as much as I can,” Gisela said.

She said the team is strong and it could earn great results.

Freshmen Athena Chrysanthou, from London, and Hannah Wich, from Hainburg, Germany, said they are excited to be on the team.

“We are really excited just to meet everyone new on the team because we are freshmen and learning from the upperclassmen, and seeing how they compete in tournaments and how it works,” Chrysanthou said.

She said there are great girls on the team who support and guide them as international students.

“It’s a great team full of great people,” Wich said. “… in a great university.”

Monaghan said she is excited for the season and thinks the team will have success in Boulder.

“I’m so excited, I’m from Colorado,” Monaghan said. “So I’m going to my hometown and we’re just going to kill it.”

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Dandy Martin, a senior from Gurnee studying computer science and computer engineering, attempts to complete a “pop

shove-it,” Tuesday outside Morris Library. Martin is the president of the Registered Student Organization SIU Skate Society

and said skating on campus is convenient. “We have to skate in places like this because our skate park was torn down,”

said Ryan Geist, a sophomore from Naperville studying cinema, and member of Skate Society. “These places are better lit

and a safe environment,” Martin said.

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