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Intramural battleship debuts with a splash

SIU has lost its chancellor.Interim Chancellor Paul Sarvela, who

was 55, died at 5:45 p.m. Sunday, SIU President Randy Dunn said. His cause of death was not released as of Sunday.

“Our hearts go out to his wife, Debbie, their son [Johnny] and daughter [Kristin], and the other members of their family,” according to an email Dunn sent to the university community. “Over the past 28 years, Dr. Sarvela has served our university with distinction as a faculty member, department chair, center director, dean, associate system vice president, and since July, interim chancellor.”

Dunn said he never saw Sarvela in a bad mood.

“He was actually Finnish. He loved two things about his Finnish background: one of which was the sauna and the other was the ability to have a beer on occasion,” Dunn said. “He just loved life. He was a kind, unpretentious individual you would want to come across. … We need more people like that. I’m sorry I didn’t have more time to spend with him as a person because in six months he had become a good friend.”

Interim Provost Susan Ford said Sarvela’s death is a terrible tragedy. She said he was a genuine person who was full of integrity.

“Working with him was just really nice,” Ford said. “He was an easy-going person. He found a lot of humor in life, even in his current circumstances with his health challenges. He had an interesting Finnish, dark humor, is the best way to put it.”

Ford said Sarvela was a truly loving family man.

“He would often talk with such warmth of his wife and his children, and I know how very much his family meant to him,” she said.

Adrian Miller, the campus’ student representative on the SIU Board of Trustees, said he is deeply saddened by the news.

“I can’t speak any more highly of a person than of Dr. Sarvela,” said Miller, who grew up knowing Sarvela. “SIU has lost somebody that will be hard to replace.”

Ford said it was pleasurable working through problems with Sarvela.

“He was always so open,” Ford said. “He had a lot of plans and visions, and was very excited for what he thought he was going to be able to do for the campus. … He was very upbeat about the future of SIU.”

Sarvela, who worked out at the Recreation Center several times each week, was diagnosed with a rare but treatable cancer in October. His oncologist, Dr. Brian Van Tine, an assistant professor at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Louis, said there are only a handful of cases every year in the U.S. involving his type of cancer. On Oct. 16, Van Tine said Sarvela’s prognosis was excellent.

Ford said Dunn will meet with campus leaders at 8:30 a.m. Monday for an already planned chancellor’s cabinet meeting to discuss how the university will handle a transition plan.

“We will ensure that information about any arrangements will be shared with the campus community when they are available,” Dunn said in the email Sunday. “I would ask that you keep the Sarvela family in your thoughts and prayers.”

Five groups of SIU students took to canoes in the Edward J. Shea Natatorium at the Student Recreation Center marking the first time intramural sports battleship was a university event.

The goal was to sink two opposing boats. Competitors could not contact other teams’ boats or equipment, and not empty water from their own boat.

With that in mind, teams braved the crystal clear water and lingering smell of chlorine for aquatic supremacy.

Three teams competed at once, with the winner staying in the pool and the losers alternating with the non-competing teams. The first team to earn four wins was crowned the champion.

Heading into the fifth matchup of the day, the Firebola Naval Club, a group of Brazilian students, needed one win to become inaugural battleship champions.

With “Seven Nation Army” by the White Stripes playing in the natatorium, Firebola unleashed bucket after bucket of water to defeat its final foe. The men recorded their final assault with GoPro cameras. One member, Guilherme Cavalli, a junior from Pato Branco, Brazil studying mechanical engineering, had his camera strapped to his chest.

Even though this event has never been played at SIU, Fabio Fagundes, a senior from Sao Paolo, Brazil studying food engineering, said the team had developed strategies coming into battle.

“We tried to use the walls to protect our back and just use the front to attack,” Fagundes said.

Aside from the positioning strategy, teams also had to create an efficient attack and ration their energy.

Luan Alves, a senior from Curitiba, Brazil studying medicine, said the group created roles to maximize its firepower.

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Police investigate shootingsShots were fired around 12:15 a.m.

Saturday at the intersection of West Cherry Street and South Rawlings Street, according to Carbondale police officers and witnesses.

A nearby resident said he saw a sedan speeding west on Cherry Street, and a silver SUV following closely behind. He said eight to 10 shots were fired from the SUV’s passenger side window.

Annie Jackson, of Cairo, said her 21-year-old son, Jalan Davis was targeted in the shooting. She said Davis is not an SIU student and she thinks he knows the shooters. She said Davis is feuding with

a group of people from Mounds, who mugged her son recently.

“It’s been this Mounds and Cairo thing going on for years,” Jackson said.

She said her son was in the sedan and one of the shots hit his taillight.

A Carbondale police officer said they found a few shell casings. Nobody was struck and there are no known injuries, according to a CPD press release.

According to another CPD press release, a second shooting occurred at the 500 block of Cherry Street around 2 a.m. A 23-year-old male suffered a non life-threatening wound.

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Most community college students haven’t left their counties for school; now a push is under way for them to leave the country.

Bergen Community College in New Jersey is one of more than 240 schools that are part of an initiative by the global Institute of International Education to double the number of American students studying abroad by 2019. Community colleges are vital to this effort because nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates attend the two-year schools, said Daniel Obst, a deputy vice president at the institute.

“A lot of people think this is something that only wealthy students in their third year can do,” said Amparo Codding, a dean at Bergen Community. “It’s not; you just have to plan ahead to make it work.”

Study abroad has burgeoned over the last generation, and programs are available at most four-year colleges. Still only about 14 percent of U.S. college

students study internationally, according to the institute. And just over 5,200 of the more than 283,000 American students studying abroad are from community colleges, according to the most recent figures available.

But interest is growing.“Community colleges were

marginally involved previously, but we are seeing momentum now,” Obst said, referring to recent statistics showing a 13 percent increase in the number of two-year college students studying abroad.

Bergen student Emily Setteducato of Fair Lawn, N.J., spent July studying Italian in Tuscania, an ancient hamlet about a 90-minute drive northwest of Rome. She learned to live life without a car and used her weekends to travel to other parts of Europe.

“When I heard about it, I jumped at the opportunity,” said Setteducato, who is studying education at Bergen. “I realized, coming back, that all I want to do is travel.”

Federal student aid and loans can be applied to study abroad, and there are

federal and private scholarships. One, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program, run by the U.S. State Department, is specifically for low-income students.

Some foreign governments also offer scholarships for overseas students.

Francia Valenzuela, a 20-year-old business and computer science student, said she hoped that studying Japanese in Japan would give her more job opportunities.

Codding, who came to the United States as an exchange student from Colombia more than three decades ago, said that the study abroad experience was “transformative” for students, who come back with a stronger sense of independence and wider world view.

“They want to travel more, learn more, see more and do more,” Codding said. “What’s most important from my perspective is that they come back with a sense of independence; they really learn about themselves and their boundaries.”

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Improvements still needed in veterans’ healthcareIn May 2014, scandal within

the Veterans Affairs department (VA) grabbed the nations’ attention. Veterans had endured long wait times to receive medical care. In extreme cases, Veterans died before receiving care.

While the VA has made improvements, the system still is broken.

Last week, the new secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert McDonald, defended his department’s achievements in the past six months.

Through the Accelerated Care Initiative put into place this summer, the VA has reduced the wait time by nearly 37 percent and the new patient wait time by 18 percent. This was achieved

through the addition of longer work hours at VA clinics across the nation.

McDonald has also sought to contract more qualified doctors by personally recruiting at medical schools across the nation and advertising increased salaries for VA physicians.

Additionally, the VA has begun to publish waiting list data online and hold town hall meetings with VA officials to regain the public’s trust.

These efforts have also been a part of the recent three-month program entitled “Road to Veterans Day.”

According to a Nov. 6 press release by the VA, “This reorganization will be known as ‘MyVA’ and is designed to provide Veterans with a seamless,

integrated, and responsive customer service experience whether they arrive at VA digitally, by phone or in person.”

Yet, the most meaningful change the VA has initiated comes in the form of a small card referred to as “Choice Cards.”

The first wave of Choice Cards has been sent to a handful of veterans and will allow them to see physicians not employed by the VA.

Still, the American public remains skeptical.

The wait time is still too long in many states and Veterans need

and deserve urgent attention. According to a study done by the VA, 22 Veterans commit suicide each day, many due to Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

The VA should continue to hire more staff and use funding wisely to be able to treat more Veterans.

It is unfortunate that many Veterans will not receive their Choice Cards for many months.

So while considerable progress has been made at the VA in a short period of time, more needs to take place.

This is something Americans should remember on Veterans’ day.

Veterans have given more to this country than has any other group. of citizens. They should not give up their healthcare too.

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‘‘T his reorganization will be known as ‘MyVA’ and is designed to provide Veterans with a

seamless, integrated, and responsive customer service experience whether they arrive at VA digitally, by phone or in person.

— Veterans’ Affairs

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Space. It is vast and infinite. The beauty and mystery that surround it have left humanity fascinated.

While space travel has found itself in a standstill as of late, humans still express their curiosity through the realm of fiction. Through fiction, what seems impossible becomes a reality and we find ourselves constantly yearning for more.

“Interstellar” (PG-13; 169 min) is a modern day science fiction masterpiece.

“Interstellar” is directed by Christopher Nolan and stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain and Michael Caine.

Planet earth is dying. The human race is running out of options no matter how hard they try to find a solution. Soon, its food supply will disappear and the air will begin

to suffocate humans. The extinction of life on earth is a real threat.

A former pilot and engineer, now turned farmer named Cooper, played by McConaughey, is asked to help save the human race. He and a team of scientists take a space craft through a wormhole near Saturn and find another inhabitable planet. The mission is beyond dangerous, and the chances of them returning are very slim. With survival on the line the team will do all they can to ensure the human race lives on.

Nolan stated in interviews about this film that it was heavily inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.” This is evident right from the beginning of the movie, both in style and scale.

“Interstellar” is epic, grand, glorious and any other synonym for epic that you can think of. It is sad this word gets thrown around a lot when talking about film. Every movie tries to portray a level of grandeur that few actually reach.

To say space is presented as vast and infinite may sound a little redundant. This movie shows the immenseness of space in a way completely different from modern sci-fi films. It is interesting, beautiful and frightening like it once was.

The differences between its modern day counterparts take this movie ahead of the rest. Even a series like “Star Trek” that was once about the exploration of space, has been delegated to the hybrid genre of Sci-Fi action. Big computer generated imagery spaceship battles take precedent over story and character development.

This world is encased in realism. While it is set significantly in the future, the battles are not between aliens and humans. Things like the relativity of time on earth in comparison to the different planets and running out of resources are the big mountains the characters have to climb over.

This film is smart and does not talk down to its audience. It is never bogged down or hard to follow, even with NASA jargon being

thrown out left and right. Christopher Nolan and Jonathan Nolan, who both wrote the film, are experts at making expository dialogue in a movie realistic.

One major difference between “Interstellar” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” is that at its core, “Intersellar” has some fantastic character driven moments. This is a little odd, being that Nolan is usually just as cold and sterile as Kubrick was. This movie will bring you to tears just as fast as it makes you question metaphysics.

This comes a lot from the writing and from the performance of a terrific cast. McConaughy brings another Oscar-worthy performance. The relationship between him and his family, even when in space, is spell binding.

These types of sci-fi films do not come around often. The sci-fi action film tends to do a lot better at the box office than an intellectual piece. One can only hope that a brilliant piece like this will hit audiences later and make them realize what they missed out on.

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Pixar Animation is returning to its most successful franchise, “Toy Story,” for a fourth movie, to be directed by the studio’s chief creative officer, John Lasseter.

Walt Disney Co., which owns Pixar, said Thursday during an earnings call that the latest incarnation of “Toy Story” will be released June 16, 2017.

Lasseter told The LA Times that “Toy Story 4” will be a love story and will pick up where “Toy Story 3” left off, when Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the series’ toy chest of characters were handed down to a little girl named Bonnie.

“A lot of people in the industry view us doing sequels as being for the business of it, but for us it’s pure passion,” said Lasseter, who directed the first two “Toy Story” films. “We only make sequels when we have a story that’s as good as or better than the original.

“We don’t just, because of the success

of a film, automatically say we’re going to do a sequel and then figure out what we’re going to do.”

That philosophy sets an awfully high bar for a “Toy Story” sequel _ the first three have grossed more than $1.3 billion worldwide and collected uniformly positive reviews for their storytelling and technique. The third, directed by Lee Unkrich in 2010, won Oscars for animated feature and original song, and became only the third animated movie in history to be nominated for best picture.

While “Toy Story” and its myriad extensions into merchandising and theme parks are important to Disney financially, the series’ characters are a crucial part of Pixar’s and Lasseter’s identity creatively.

He directed the original 1995 film, the first feature at the then-nascent studio. Its release revolutionized the animation industry, which is today nearly exclusively computer-driven.

In addition to the three features, the “Toy Story” characters have also appeared in 3 short films and two TV specials, including “Toy Story That Time Forgot,” which will air on ABC on Dec. 2.

The idea for a fourth film germinated at a lunch Lasseter held in his office in Emeryville, Calif., with Pixar directors and key creative executives Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton and Unkrich, he said.

Over the last two years Lasseter and Stanton wrote a treatment and pulled in other writers, including Rashida Jones and Will McCormack after seeing their 2012 comedy “Celeste and Jesse Forever,” about a divorcing couple who try to remain friends.

“They have such a great sense of character and originality,” Lasseter said of Jones and McCormack. “And I wanted to get a strong female voice in the writing of this.”

The last film Lasseter directed, 2011’s “Cars 2” performed well at the box office, particularly internationally, but was a rare critical misfire for the studio.

Lasseter said he will work on “Toy Story 4” while continuing in his significant other roles at Disney, which include heading up two other animation studios _ Walt Disney Animation and Disneytoons _ and serving

as the principal creative advisor for the media company’s theme park designers. Galyn Susman, who produced the “Toy Story” short “Hawaiian Vacation” and the two TV movies, will produce “Toy Story 4.”

“One of the things that was very important for me as an artist is to continue directing,” Lasseter said. “When I direct, I get to work with the individual artists, with the animators. It’s very important to keep young talent coming into the studios ... to get back in and help tell stories.”

Lasseter was speaking by phone after returning from a two-week tour of Asia to promote “Big Hero 6,” Disney Animation’s film opening this weekend, and the rest of the Disney Animation and Pixar slates, which include Disney’s “Zootopia,” a comedy about a fast-talking fox directed by Byron Howard; “Moana,” a Polynesian musical directed by Ron Clements and John Musker; and Pixar’s “Inside Out,” Docter’s movie set in the mind of a young girl; and “Finding Dory,” Stanton’s sequel to “Finding Nemo.”

Pixar to make ‘Toy Story 4’: Lasseter returning to directRebecca KeeganLos Angeles Times

The mood was warm and comfortable Saturday night as the Armando Nùñez-Portillo group filled room 112 in Altgeld Hall with smooth jazz melodies to conclude SIU’s first guitar festival.

Born in Camargo, a small surrounding town near Chihuahua, Mexico, Nùñez-Portillo began playing guitar at an early age.

His interest in guitar began while he was in junior high school. He began listening to ’80s rock during high school and by the time he graduated, he decided to pursue it professionally.

Nûñez-Portillo was self-taught for several years after high school because of the lack of musical schools in the area.

“Back then there were no schools, so the only way to learn was to learn from the recordings or if you could find somebody like an older person that can teach you something,” Nùñez-Portillo said. “I started by myself that way.”

Shortly after, he moved to Guanajuato where he studied classical composition, he said.

“Even now the jazz schools are just starting in Mexico,” he said. “If you want to study music, it is always centered around classical music.”

After finishing up a degree in classical composition, Nùñez-Portillo said he knew he leaned more toward jazz and improvisation, rather than the classical road.

After Mexico, he moved to the United States and studied at the University of North Texas, where he would go on to get his master’s degree in jazz studies and met current SIU guitar professor, Isaac Lausell.

He began to play on a Carnival cruise ship out of Florida right after school, in which he described as a perfect job for him right out of college.

“I got a lot of time to practice, and since you don’t really spend money while you’re working there … it was a good way to save money,” he said. “I always felt that it was like a paid vacation.”

Nùñez-Portillo has since been teaching at the University of Chihuahua in Mexico for six years, which has just recently developed a jazz program and curriculum.

“Right now, we are already teaching a few of those classes as electives, but the plan is that they are not electives anymore, but just become a part of a core curriculum for people who want to get their degree in jazz specifically,” he said.

Nùñez-Portillo organizes a yearly jazz festival in Chihuahua that has been growing and gaining funding from the government for the past four years and featured some high caliber jazz acts from around the world.

“For the last two years, people in Chihuahua have been exposed to the real jazz, real American jazz,” he said.

The festival has increased in attendance over the last couple

years, he said.“The students are getting really

excited to see this, so we are getting a lot of new students and the interest is very noticeable,” he said.

Nùñez-Portillo taught a master class and performed with a four-piece jazz band on the last day of SIU’s guitar festival. He played both original tunes

and songs from some of his inspirations such as ‘The Red One” by Pat Metheny.

As the organizer of the recent guitar festival, Lausell brought him in as a featured performer and guest teacher after the two began regaining contact on and off over the Internet.

“We hadn’t seen each other since we left UNT, but we stayed in contact

through Facebook and e-mail every now and then just to say ‘hi’,” Nùñez-Portillo said. “14 years later, we’re working together again.”

Nùñez-Portillo said at his performance on Saturday, it was great to reunite with Lausell after all these years in the same way that they met.

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More than 300 students gathered Saturday on West Mill Street for the 16th Tour de Carbondale, where people purchased wristbands to participate in the ongoing marathon of drinking at five locations throughout Carbondale.

Five types of alcohol were served, one at each station. Students traveled by bicycling, longboarding, skateboarding and rollerblading.

Ally Pauli, a senior from Dunlap studying nursing, said the SIU cycling team started the event in 2008. Pauli, who has participated in the tour six times, said hosts of the event do not condone underage drinking.

“Neither I or any of the hosts are responsible for anyone,” said Pauli, an organizer of the tour. “Each one is responsible for his or her own actions. After all it is about the individual.”

When partiers finished the Monster Energy and vodka mixed drinks on West Mill Street, they traveled toward the football practice field, where the men’s rugby team was playing a game.

Jake Bernicky, a junior from Homer Glen studying civil engineering, said it took 15 minutes to reach the second stop.

“We dominated the streets,” Bernicky said. “There were a lot of people but it was spread out. Cars had to stop and wait as we passed by so it was safe.”

Carbondale Police Department officers closed intersections so students could pass by.

Once the second stop ran out of wine, students moved to Aspen Court Apartments.

Laura Ericksen, an exploratory freshman from a Chicago suburb, said the event was awesome.

“[It was] definitely better than unofficial because we are all at one place,” Ericksen said.

Chris Gill, a senior studying mechanical engineering, said the purpose of the tour is to have a good time while being safe. Gill, who hosted the third stop for his fourth time, said his is the only stop on the west side of town.

On the way to South University Avenue, where the fourth stop was held, a woman fell off her bicycle and was injured. Two police officers and paramedics responded to the incident.

The fourth stop served up a mixture of gin and juice. It was about 3:15 p.m. when people started heading to the fifth and final stop on West Elm Street, where drinks were served in a canoe.

Jake Thacker, a senior from Chenoa studying aviation technology and resident of the fifth stop, said 750 beers were in the canoe and five minutes after everyone arrived, all the beer was gone.

Thacker said he was willing to put in the effort and initial funds to try to keep

this tradition alive.In regards to safety precautions, Thacker

said a group can be the safest option.“We have this group mentality,

if someone falls off his bicycle, immediately people hop off their bicycles and help him up,” he said.

“It is a great group of people.”Thacker said the tour is a great

way to meet new people and interact with other students.

“I have seen nothing but smiles all around,” he said. “Nothing but a good time without violence is what this town needs.”

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Saluki athletics had an extremely successful weekend.

Four sports played in five games this weekend with SIU coming out as the victor in all five games. SIU football defeated Missouri State. Volleyball won both of its matches. And both the men’s and women’s basketball teams were victorious in their exhibition games.

SIU volleyball clinched a Missouri Valley Conference tournament bid with two wins. The Salukis upset the Northern Iowa Panthers 3-2 Friday, and swept the Drake Bulldogs 3-0 Saturday.

“We’re feeling pretty good about the kind of production, the kind of energy and really the kind of consistency that’s happening,” volleyball coach Justin Ingram said.

Freshman outside hitter Abby Barrow led the Salukis with 30 kills this weekend. She said the team has been giving her higher sets lately, which helps her become more efficient. She has led the team in kills the past three matches.

SIU traveled to Missouri State in football and won 32-22.

The Salukis were carried by freshman running back Cameron Walter. Walter had 210 yards on 37 carries in his first career start.

Sophomore quarterback Ryan West made his first start of the season. He went 16-25 passing for 136 yards and 3 touchdowns. Two of those touchdown passes went to Senior receiver Tay Willis, who had 8 catches total.

The defense did a nice job shutting down senior quarterback Kierra Harris, who leads the Bears in rushing and passing yards. Harris was held to just 35 yards on the ground and 159 through the air.

Senior linebacker Jordan Poole said the win was a morale boost.

“People are starting to get more confidence. West is in there, got his first win too. He threw the ball well.” He said. “I just think it’s a great confidence builder and its gonna give us momentum to help carry on through the rest of the season.”

On the court, SIU closed out it’s preseason with wins.

SIU men’s basketball team dominated Division II opponent Southwest Baptist for 40 minutes en route to a 79-63 victory Saturday.

The Salukis struggled shooting from

three-point range and at the free-throw line, but played tough defense, holding the SW Baptist Bearcats to just 38 percent shooting from the field. Besides Bearcat senior guard Derrick Stewart, who scored a game-high 28 points, no SW Baptist player shot better than 40 percent.

Junior guard Anthony Beane led all Salukis with 22 points. Freshman guard Deion Lavender scored 9 points, as did freshman forward Jordan Caroline.

Caroline shot 9 free throws and said getting to the rim is his plan anytime he’s on the court.

“I’d rather go the rim but I’m still working on my shot, I have confidence in it,” said Caroline, who converted both of his scoring chances from inside 10 feet. “But if the defense is up on me, I just beat them around the corner.”

Coach Barry Hinson said he was happy with the way Caroline played, considering he suffered an injury in practice Friday.

“He was in the emergency room last night, up ‘til midnight,” he said. “We had an injury last night with Jordan. He’s fine but he was banged up, he was not full speed at all in any way, shape or form today. He was hobbling all day.”

Caroline also grabbed 6 rebounds in 17 minutes off the bench.

The SIU women’s basketball team won its exhibition game against Division II opponent Quincy University 72-57 Friday night.

The Hawks led for the first ten minutes of the game, but a layup by junior forward Azia Washington on an assist from junior center Dyana Pierre gave the Salukis a lead they never relinquished.

Washington led all scorers with 18 points and hauled in a game-high 9 rebounds. She was second on the team in points and rebounds last season.

Junior center Dyana Pierre added 14 points in her first action after being named to the All-Missouri Valley Conference First Team this spring.

Sophomore point guard Rishonda Napier also scored 14 points in her first game since Nov. 21, 2013.

Defensively, SIU allowed only two second-chance points and took advantage of a 1-15 performance from beyond the arc by Quincy.

Tony McDaniel, Tyler Davis, Aaron Graff, and Thomas Donley all contributed to this story.

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As the fall season comes to a close, the men’s and women’s tennis teams will work during the offseason to continue success during its spring season.

While both teams have had success, neither is complacent with how the first half of the season has gone.

Men’s head coach Dann Nelson said this fall season was better than was last year’s.

“We have had some good results and some that aren’t typical of what we normally do,” he said. “We have a really young team and we’re trying to install a certain work ethic and teach them how we do things.”

The team played in three tournaments through the fall. The final event, The Bulldog Jamboree, hosted by Drake University was canceled. Nelson said the team spent extra time in the weight room and conditioning to make up for it.

He said the doubles teams did well this season, especially the 7-1 team of junior Jonny Rigby and sophomore Michal Kianicka.

Rigby and Kianicka were undefeated in doubles last season and were named the best doubles team in the Missouri Valley Conference.

This year, they were 7-1 as a doubles team and want to continue their success.

“The one match we lost was a really close match, and we could have won

it,” Rigby said. “I think it is great knowing that we can compete with anyone in the nation.”

The duo said they could still improve going forward, including their on- court communication. Rigby said they have improved since last year and their level of confidence has been the biggest improvement.

In singles play, Rigby was 7-3, his best fall record as a Saluki.

Rigby said while his previous

fall seasons were inconsistent, that changed this year.

Rigby went 1-3 in the fall of 2012 and 7-6 in the fall of 2013.

Kianicka was 3-5 and he said he is not happy with his singles performance this year.

“I have not had a good season,” he said. “I have fought some injuries and have not felt good on the court most of the season. I was not as confident and focused as I could have been.

Now I’m focused on having a good spring season.”

The spring season will revolve around team play instead of individual play. Rigby said the team has the talent to be successful, but it needs to be more consistent.

Nelson agreed, but said the youth on the team might be the reason why they have struggled with consistency. The team has six new players on the team.

Kianicka said the team has more depth than last season, which adds more competition to the lineup.

“Last season we only had 6 or 7 guys, but this year we have 8 or 9 that can make the top 5,” he said. “No one can take a day off, because if you do you will fall behind.”

Women’s head coach Audra Anderson said her team could have done better in the fall.

“It wasn’t an amazing fall, but it wasn’t a bad fall,” she said. “We still have work to do, but I think we’ll have a solid team in the spring.”

Senior Natasha Tomishima and sophomore Meagan Monaghan led the way for the Salukis.

Anderson said the two were the best players on the team this season.

“One of the best things this year was doubles,” she said. “We have the top team who has done really well this year, but the rest of the teams involve freshmen so we’re teaching them how to do well as a team.”

The duo was 8-3 in doubles play this season.

Tomishima said players have different individual goals for the year. She said she has achieved her personal goals other than winning conference.

Anderson said she was most disappointed in the team’s effort at the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.

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Saturday’s victory much needed for SIU football

The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines adversity as a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune.

Merriam-Webster could add the Salukis’ current situation to its list of examples for the word.

The Salukis were without six key players because of either injuries or disciplinary reasons at Saturday’s game against Missouri State. Sophomore quarterback Ryan West also made his first start of the season.

The coaching staff adapted with a new Saluki offense.

SIU started the game with a high tempo, no huddle offense and West called the plays from the line of scrimmage. This was the first time this season the Salukis went with this tactic and it caught the Bears off guard.

SIU moved the ball downfield with ease to set up a tough 34-yard field goal into high winds on the opening drive. The coaching staff found yet another way to adapt, this time with bold play calls.

The team faked the field goal for an easy score. SIU faked the extra point on the following play to give the Salukis an early 8-0 lead.

On the following offensive drive, the Salukis marched 72 yards on 10 plays to jump to a 15-0 lead.

The quick start stunned Missouri State, but the Bears got going in the second quarter. SIU probably wouldn’t have won without the fast start.

The SIU coaching staff deserves some serious appreciation for its bold start.

The most valuable asset on the field was

surprisingly third-string freshman running back Cameron Walter.

Walter filled in for senior running backs Malcolm Agnew, who was out with injury and Mika’il McCall, who was out for disciplinary reasons.

Walter blew the Bears away with a 210-yard rushing performance in his first career start. His previous high for rushing yards in a single game was 28 against South Dakota on Oct. 4.

Despite becoming the Saluki workhorse, Walter never found the end zone. Each player and coach who spoke to the media after the game sang Walter’s praises.

The defense adapted to adversity as well. It filled in for three key players who were out with suspensions.

Sophomore linebacker Darius Merriweather had a career-high 4 tackles and had his first sack of the season.

Junior cornerback Brandon Willingham made a clutch fourth quarter interception, the first of his career.

Saturday’s victory was truly a team effort. The Salukis are playing with a “next man in” mindset. Each player has the ability to fill in for one another successfully.

That mindset will have to continue next week since junior defensive end Brandon Williams left the game with a leg injury.

Depth at defensive end could be an issue for the remainder of the season because junior defensive end Adam Brandt is suspended.

SIU will face even more adversity next week against Northern Iowa.

UNI defeated North Dakota State to snap its 33-game win streak Saturday. The Panthers defeated the previously undefeated Illinois State Redbirds on Nov. 1.

That does not bode well for the Salukis’ playoff chances.

Men and women wrap up fall tennis seasonBrent Meske@BrentMeskeDE | Daily Egyptian

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DE Sports BarkAlabama defeated LSU in an exciting 20-13 overtime victory Saturday to keep its

playoff hopes alive. The game ended in exciting fashion. The Crimson Tide kicked a field goal with seven seconds left to send the game to overtime. Alabama scored on

the first overtime possession to lock up the victory. Games like this one are what makes sports so great. What is the best game you ever watched and why?

The 2005 matchup between Notre Dame and USC is one of the best games I've seen period. USC was the No. 1 team in the nation and Notre Dame was No. 9, both teams were undefeated. The game went down to the wire. With seven seconds left USC’s quarterback Matt Leinart fumbled the ball and the time keeper at Notre Dame Stadium allowed the clock to run out and the fans rushed the field thinking the Irish had won. The referees added three seconds back to the clock to set up one last play from the goal line. Leinart attempted to run the ball in and running back Reggie Bush pushed him across the line to give the Trojans the victory. I still haven’t recovered from the Irish loss.Tony McDaniel

Last year's Iron Bowl between Alabama and Auburn was the best. The Tigers, who were comeback kids all season long, found a way to pull out one of the most improbable victories I have ever seen. When Amari Cooper broke 99-yard pass for a touchdown in fourth quarter, I thought the Crimson Tide had the game in hand. And it did until 32 seconds left when Auburn's Nick Marshall passed for the game-tying touchdown. Then, Chris Davis went all Devin Hester on Alabama, returning a missed field goal for a touchdown as time expired. I still find myself wondering how a team as tested as Alabama couldn't finish the job.

Tyler Davis

June 5, 2007 I witnessed, in person, the Toronto Blue Jays defeat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 12-11 after trailing 8-1. Two-time Cy Young Award winner, Roy Halladay started for the Blue Jays and gave up 12 hits and 7 earned runs. The only reason we stayed the whole game is because we were on a field trip, and it was in the agenda. But I'm glad we did, because that one game helped me fall in love with baseball.

Aaron Graff

Chicago Blackhawks against the Nashville Predators, game 5 of the Western Conference Finals in 2010. With just more than a minute remaining in regulation, and the Blackhawks down 3-4, Chicago forward Marian Hossa was charged with a 5 minute major for boarding. Patrick Kane sent the game to overtime by putting home a rebound with 13 seconds left in regulation. The Blackhawks pushed the game into overtime, most of which would be played shorthanded. Hossa finished serving his penalty, came out of the box, went down the ice and buried the game winner. Without a doubt, it was the best game I have ever seen. Brent Meske

Game six of the 2011 World Series is the greatest game I've ever seen, and I don't expect that to ever change. Any time a team is down to its last strike in the World Series three times and comes back to force a seventh game, it's going to be extremely exciting. The only thing that could make it better is if it's the team you grew up loving that wins it, which is exactly what happened that night.

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Seniors go out with an important win

Three SIU volleyball seniors had their final match in Davies Gym Saturday against the Drake Bulldogs. SIU won the match 3-0, and qualified for the Missouri Valley Conference tournament.

Three seniors, outside hitter Kat Agson, student assistant coach Sarah James and libero Alex Rivera, are expected to graduate at the end of the semester.

Rivera transferred from Western Nebraska Community College. She has played in 60 matches during her two years at SIU. She also has 961 digs and is on pace to finish top 10 in Saluki history. She said she was happy to go out on a win at home and clinch a bid in the conference tournament.

“That’s the important thing here,” Rivera said. “It’s not senior night. We came here. We did work this weekend. We stuck with a plan. We were disciplined.”

Agson suffered a knee injury and did not play for the Salukis at all last season. Fans were chanting, “We want Kat!” during the majority of the third set, and she finally got to play as a Saluki when she came into serve the last point of the match, which resulted in a point for SIU.

“It was very exciting, especially because that’s the first game I ever got to play in as a Saluki with the jersey,” Agson said.

Despite the injury and not playing a lot, Agson said it was worth transferring to SIU from Western Nebraska Community College.

James played as a freshman in 2011 and redshirted as a sophomore. She said she experienced at least one concussion before college and two more at SIU, which ended her career. She spent two years as the student assistant coach.

“It’s really great to be a part of something,” James said. “Everyone was just so encouraging, outside of volleyball even, to get better and everyone was there to lift me up. It was really hard to not play anymore.”

Rivera’s family members from Puerto Rico surprised her at the match. She said they have not made all of her matches, but they have made the ones most important to her.

“I think compared to everyone else, my family has put more mileage compared to any other family here,” Rivera said. “I feel very blessed. I have a family that has supported me for the entire journey. They’ve never thought, ‘She’s diabetic, or she got injured when she was in high school, or she doesn’t know English.’ They always thought I was going to be able to do it and make it. It was not only a recognition of my hard work, but also their hard work and support.”

Agson knew her mother would be in attendance, but it was still a shock factor because she had not seen her for so long. Agson said she barely even remembered her moment of recognition right after the match. She remembers hugging her teammates and running to hug her mom right after.

“I was just happy to see my mom,” Agson said. “ I haven’t seen her since spring break. It was literally like one of those things you see in a movie and you don’t hear anything. You’re just caught in that moment.”

The team treated James the same as the players and wrote her a nice note, decorated her locker and even gave her a crown.

“I really didn’t think it would be as hard since I’ve already played my last game,” James said. “But it was really emotional for me seeing the support of the whole team.”

Coach Justin Ingram said he is unsure who will fill in for Rivera at the starting libero role next season. He said the team already has five more defensive specialists, and he might recruit someone else.

“Each an every year is a special task of finding who is going to contribute at the highest level,” Ingram said.

Junior hitter Taylor Pippen is the only junior on the team.

“I think I’m ready to fill those shoes,” Pippen said. “The team has always kind of looked at me as one of the oldest since I’ve been here the longest, so I’ll be able to fill that role.”

The seniors have three regular season matches on the road and the conference tournament. If they win conference, they will also qualify for the NCAA tournament before graduation.

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Sean Koller, a junior from Marion studying physiology and president of the SIUC Bowl-ing Club, practices Wednesday at the Student Center bowling alley. The SIUC Bowling Club, a registered student organization, is open to anyone that enjoys bowling. The top eight players in the club get to travel and bowl against other teams in tournaments.

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‘‘I think Jordan’s the kid that when he was in elementary school and recess was coming up, and he was sick, he never went to the nurses’ station. I think he went to the flying

genies. Maybe the swings. I’m sorry, they had flying genies when I was growing up. Do they have flying genies anymore? Do we even have teeter-totters anymore? Ok! Jordan wanted to go to the teeter-totters, instead of the nurses station.

‘‘N ow I’m talking to myself: you have to be really careful with a young team. They still got to have confidence and as my dad said, you can’t whip ‘em like a rented mule.

There’s gotta be a point in time where they got to understand teaching, learning and getting better. And we’re going to try to accentuate the positives.

‘‘O ur football team had a heck of a road win today. And they’re gonna come home for senior day, and we got a chance for the playoffs, so I’m asking everybody in

southern Illinois. I don’t care if snowing and polar bears and penguins are roaming around the campus, let’s get our butts out and root this football team on so we can go into the last game of the year with a chance for the playoffs. Man, I’m fired up about our football team; that’s a road win and a chance to go to the playoffs so everybody get your butt out here on Saturday at 3 o’clock. It’s supposed to be really warm that day.

The following quotes come from men’s basketball coach Barry Hinson’s press conference following Saturday’s 79-63 win against Division II Southwest Baptist University.

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