CAMPUS SPORTSCAMPUS

Gary Minish, former dean of the College of Agriculture, addresses members of the faculty, staff and students Tuesday at the Student Center Auditorium. Minish is one of four finalists for the provost and senior vice chancellor position. A decision is expected to be announced by the committee in late November.

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Gary Minish says SIUC al-ready has what it needs to fix all its problems, it just needs to real-ize it has the solution.

"Everything's here ... our folks know how to get it done, and have been getting it done, with limited resources," he said. "I tell you, once we get that turned around, just think of what we can really do at this university."

Minish, former dean of the SIUC College of Agricultural Sciences from 2004 to 2009, was the third of four finalists for the provost and senior vice chan-cellor position to hold an open forum to address concerns by faculty, staff and students. Final-ists Robert Hampton, a professor of sociology and social work at Tennessee State University, and Don Rice, current interim pro-vost at SIUC, held their forums Oct. 18 and Oct. 20.

The fourth finalist, Cameron Hackney, dean of the Davis Col-lege of Agriculture, Natural Re-

sources and Design, and director of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station at West Virginia University, will hold his open forum Monday.

Minish, who retired as dean in Dec. 2009, told the more than 80 people Tuesday at the Student Center Auditorium that his years of experience — 27 years at Vir-ginia Tech and six years at SIUC — have prepared him for the many challenges he would face if he were to take over as provost. Minish said the university's ma-jor focus has to be on increasing enrollment and retention, and he said he has fixed enrollment problems in the past and will do it again if given the opportunity.

"I've turned around enroll-ment numbers at Virginia Tech, and I did it again here," he said. "If I am selected, that will be fixed. It will be done and we can focus on more initiatives."

After Minish took over as dean of Agricultural Sciences in 2004, undergraduate enroll-ment in the college increased to 21 percent in the last three years

of his tenure, according to the 2009-2010 SIUC Factbook.

He said bigger problems such as enrollment have distracted people from the smaller prob-lems that are taking place on campus, such as the need to con-

nect to alumni, update facilities and increase faculty involvement on campus.

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THE WRITING ON THE WALL Gavin Gottfried, 22, of Chicago, washes graffiti off the wall of Attitude Designs in Carbondale. “I’m all for graffiti, but when people do stuff like this, it’s

just ignorant,” Gottfried said. A recent increase in graffiti in Carbondale and on campus has caused authorities to step up patrols and offer rewards for information leading to arrests.

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Only 1,400 early voting ballots have been cast in Jackson Coun-ty, which is lower than statewide predictions, says Jackson County Clerk Larry Reinhardt.

“We’re at about 10 percent cast early so far. Whether that’s a sign of low turnout or a sign that people are waiting until the last minute to decide, I’m not sure,” Reinhardt said.

He said Jackson County usually averages 15,000 to 16,000 votes in the midterm elections, and he as-sumes this election will show the same results.

John Jackson, visiting pro-fessor at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, said in each of the county’s last seven elections — local, statewide and national — an average of 27.6 percent of the registered population voted. The 2008 General Election saw the highest voter turnout in the county since the election of Presi-dent John F. Kennedy in 1960, at 57.4 percent, Jackson said. Still, he said that rate was 5 percentage points lower than the national av-erage, and turnout typically drops for midterm elections.

“We have this mythology in American life that the government closest to home is the one we care most about, when in fact the gov-ernments closest to home are the ones we care least about,” he said.

For the past three local elec-tions held in Jackson County, an average of 17.5 percent of regis-tered voters cast ballots in each one, data from the Jackson County election results archives shows. Jackson said he doesn’t foresee the low turnout rate improving for the upcoming elections.

“It’s continued for a long time and it seems to be exacerbated by this upcoming midterm elec-tion where the polls are showing young people not engaged and not planning to go vote,” he said.

Early voting to close � ursdayJackson County ballots look slim

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"� ere are all kinds of opportuni-ties that we have to refocus on," Minish said. "We have been distracted in the past, but we have the people that would allow us to � x all of these problems.”

Joe Deamer, a senior from Carbon-dale studying hospitality and tourism, said he has met Minish several times, as the former dean helped fund De-amer's Registered Student Organiza-tion, Minorities in Agriculture. Minish has always been a pleasant person who seemed to have student's best interest in mind, Deamer said.

"(Minish) has always been a good man, and he has done a lot for us in the College (of Agricultural Sciences)," De-amer said. "He made sure every student

he talked to had what they needed, and he was a huge help to me and my RSO."

Deamer said he was pleased to hear Minish discuss the issues of recruit-ment and retention on campus, and he said he believed Minish could use his experience to help the university.

� e image of SIUC also needs to shi� to help draw in more students, Minish said. He said the Southern at 150 project, which is set to make SIUC one of the top 75 research universities in the nation by 2019, has created a nice guideline, but more needs to be done.

"We really need to make SIUC the destination for students who are look-ing for a great education, as well as for faculty and sta� for people to come here," Minish said.

Kristine McGuire, constituent de-velopment o¢ cer for the SIU Founda-

tion, said a� er Minish's presentation she was very impressed by the way he addressed many of the issues facing campus, and how he solved similar problems in the past.

"He was very open about his ideas of how to turn around our recruitment and retention, which is the major issue right now," she said.

Minish said a� er the presentation all the university needs to make the neces-sary changes is a change of attitudes.

"� is university has unlimited po-tential," he said. "We just need to de-velop a culture full of can-do attitudes here. It's something as simple as that that can change everything around."

Ryan Voyles can be reached at rvoyles@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 254.

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Sam Nyl-en, president of the College Democrats, said many students were

rejected from the process because they had to provide proof of resi-dence in Jackson County.

“A lot of their IDs are from back home; they don’t match the dorm room and current address. It makes the process a little more di¢ cult for students,” he said.

In order to register, a photo ID along with another document prov-ing residency, such as a piece of mail, bill or magazine was needed. A� er the student registered, an ab-sentee ballot was sent to his or her address, but then he or she was re-sponsible for returning it.

Despite voter registration end-ing, Nylen said he’s still trying to en-courage student voter participation by making phone calls, sending out mailers and © yers and running ads.

“We’re doing just about every-thing we can to raise awareness,”

Nylen said.Students and Carbondale resi-

dents can still cast early ballots from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at City Hall and at the Jackson County Courthouse in Murphysboro until 4 p.m. In addition, early voting is available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at

the Student Center � ursday.Information about where to vote

Nov. 2 can be found on the Jackson County Web site at www.jackson-county-il.gov.

Nick Johnson contributed to this report.

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Gary Hartlieb, of Carbondale, submits his vote electronically Monday at the Carbondale City Hall. Nancy Fager, an election judge from Murphysboro, said early voting opened Oct. 12 for Carbondale.

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Gus Bode says Go

vote Tuesday!

Undergraduate Student Gov-ernment President Marcus King said USG should and will be a strong voice for students.

Ashleigh Dixon came to USG's Tuesday meeting for support after her car was vandalized on cam-pus. She said she wants support from USG to petition for security cameras installed in campus park-ing lots. Dixon said her car was vandalized Oct. 12 in Wall and Grand Apartments parking lot and because there were no secu-rity cameras, she was told by cam-pus police nothing else could be done without a suspect.

“I came to USG tonight to basi-cally get the support,” said Dixon, a junior from Petersburg, Va., studying early childhood educa-tion. “I don’t understand why we pay for parking and there’s no type of security. You’re just paying for the spot.”

She said she hopes USG can help others in her situation.

“Installing cameras would pre-vent this from happening again,” she said.

Dave Lo� us, senator for West Side housing and member for in-ternal a� airs, said he wants to see quick progress with the issue. He said he supports Dixon’s request to install security cameras in parking lots with frequent vandalism.

“We will � ght on her side to see what we can do at the university level,” he said.

Loftus said Dixon’s first step should be to seek guidance and legal advice from the Students’ Legal Assistance office, which

provides services paid for by the $6 per semester student fee.

USG’s responsibility is giving students a voice, King said.

“This is what USG is all about. ... to be able to help someone out,” he said.

King said he wants to give Dixon an even stronger voice by o� ering her a place on a safety committee within USG.

“This will be taken care of,” he said. “There’s too many people here that want to help. She doesn’t have to worry anymore.”

USG also gave 12 student organi-zations stronger voices by approving groups as Registered Student Orga-nizations, King said.

Black Male’s Roundtable, SIU Culinary Club, Dub Club, Game Mechanics, Heavy Hitters Enter-tainment, Incognita (Ultimate Frisbee), Naturalistas, Nursing Un-dergraduate Recruitment Student Education, Saluki Respects Life, Student Researchers in Physiology and Anatomy, Unite for Sight and Blacks Interested in Business were approved to be RSOs.

USG also approved $4,050 for Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. and $1,591 for Blacks Interested in Business.

Phi Beta Sigma's request was approved to pay for its first an-nual Sneaker Ball. The charitable event will benefit Soles4Souls, an organization active in more than 125 countries that donates shoes to children. The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday in the Newman Catholic Student Center.

Blacks Interested in Business'

request was approved for events throughout the fall semester, in-cluding a Breast Cancer Awareness Walk, College of Business Pride Week, a Garden of the Gods trip and SIU Idol.

¤ e approval of Film Alterna-tives’ request for $7,150 for the Big Muddy Film Festival was tabled for USG’s next meeting because the RSO was not present.

Lauren Leone can be reached at lleone@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 255.

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Parking lot cameras spotlight of USG meeting

Marlee Trandel, a junior from Sandwich studying medicine and science, catches a frisbee while Sarah Wagner, a freshman from Oak Park studying education, gets ready to throw during an ultimate frisbee practice Tuesday in an open area southwest of the arena. Incognitas, the women’s ultimate frisbee team, is one of 12 groups to gain RSO status at the Tuesday USG meeting.EDYTA BŁASZCZYKDAILY EGYPTIAN

Daily Egyptian News Wednesday, October 27, 20104

CHICAGO — A massive storm with wind gusts up to 81 mph howled across the nation’s midsection Tuesday, snapping trees and power lines, ripping o� roofs, delaying � ights and soaking commuters hunched under crumpled umbrellas.

Spanning from the Dakotas to the eastern Great Lakes, the unusual system mesmerized meteorologists because of its size and because it had barometric pressure similar to a Category 3 hurricane, but with much less destructive power.

Scientists said the storm had the force of a blizzard minus the snow.

“If it were colder, we’d have a blizzard with this system,” said David Imy, operations chief at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. But temperatures were in the 50s and 60s, instead of the 20s.

� e National Weather Service said the system’s pressure reading Tuesday was the lowest ever in a non-tropical storm in the mainland U.S. If con¡ rmed, that would be worse than the pressure that produced the Blizzard of 1978, the March 1993 “Storm of the Century” or the November 1975 storm that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald freighter, memorialized in a song by Gordon Lightfoot.

� e storm blew in from the Paci¡ c Northwest on the strength

of a jet stream that is about one-third stronger than normal for this time of year, Imy said. As the system moved into the nation’s heartland, it drew in warm air needed to fuel thunderstorms. � en the winds intensi¡ ed and tornados formed.

Add to that the fact the storm was moving fast, 50 to 60 mph, and the winds became even stronger, Imy said.

By Tuesday morning, sustained winds were about 35 to 40 mph and gusting much higher. A gust of 81 mph was recorded in Butlerville, Ohio, and 80 mph in Green¡ eld, Ind., according to NOAA.

At one point, more than 145,000

homes and businesses were without power in Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and the St. Louis area.

� e storms were headed toward the East Coast by late a§ ernoon, and winds were expected to subside in the evening. But forecasters said the winds could pick up again on Wednesday.

A tornado touched down in Racine County, Wis., where two people were injured when a section of roof was torn o� a tractor factory, and in Van Wert County, Ohio, near the Indiana border, where a barn was � attened and � ipped over a tractor-trailer and camper. A tornado also

touched down in Peotone, Ill., where three people were injured when a home’s roof came o� , and twisters were suspected in several other states.

Sheryl Uthemann, 49, was working ¡ rst shi§ at the Case New Holland plant in Mount Pleasant, Wis., when the storm blew through about 8 a.m. and started to li§ the roof.

“It was just a regular workday and all of a sudden that noise just came and (co-workers) said ‘Run! Run! Run!’ You didn’t have time to think,” she said. “I looked up where the noise was coming from and saw pieces of the roof sucked up. I’ve never been more scared, ever.”

In the Indiana town of Wanatah, about 60 miles southeast of Chicago, a pole barn at a hydraulics company was destroyed, and two homes were severely damaged, though no injuries were reported.

TAMMY WEBBERThe Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD — No, Illinois, you’re not seeing double.

� e Nov. 2 ballot asks for two votes for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama, another twist of the state’s wacky politics.

A judge has determined the same candidates must run for two terms: one being the normal six years beginning in January, the other an

interim stint beforehand that probably will last little more than a month.

In both cases, voters will choose from among Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, Republican Mark Kirk, Green LeAlan Jones and Libertarian Mike Labno. Polls show the race extremely close between Giannoulias and Kirk.

Kirk has tried to make the short-term Senate seat a selling point in his campaign, reminding people they have a rare chance to vote twice for

the same o ́ ce.He argues the temporary position

shouldn’t be seen as a throwaway vote. He warns Democrats might try to sneak through legislation like new taxes during the period between the election and the start of the next Congress. Kirk says if he’s there, he could help prevent such moves.

Giannoulias has said little about the short-term position in his campaigning.

Just how long the short-timer

would even serve is unclear. Illinois election o ́ cials must certify the results of elections, which might take weeks, and the Senate ultimately decides when its members are seated.

� e saga of the double vote began when Obama, a Democrat chosen senator in 2004, resigned a§ er he won the Oval O ́ ce in November 2008 with more than two years le§ on his term.

� e U.S. Constitution’s 17th Amendment gives governors the power to choose a replacement until the

Legislature conducts a special election.Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich,

who had been arrested on political corruption charges, including a claim he tried to sell the appointment to the Senate in exchange for personal gain, named former state attorney general Roland Burris. Blagojevich was convicted this summer of lying to the FBI, but a jury could not reach a verdict on 23 other counts, including the Senate-seat allegation. He will be retried this winter.

Voters asked to choose twice for Senate seatJOHN O’CONNORThe Associated Press

I looked up where the noise was coming from and saw pieces of the roof sucked up. I’ve never been more scared, ever.

— Sheryl Uthemannplant worker in Mount Pleasant

Massive windstorm tears across Midwest

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­ is weekend, Julian Assange, the reclusive renegade computer hacker who has made a career of unveiling government and corporate secrets on the whistle-blower website Wikileaks, confounded American policymakers for the second time in three months when he released nearly 400,000 classi-� ed � eld reports from the war in Iraq.

In July, Wikileaks posted 90,000 classi� ed documents describing a lita-ny of strategic setbacks, human rights abuses and widespread corruption in the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. ­ e latest leak of Iraq

materials is said to be the largest un-authorized disclosure of secret military documents in U.S. history.

­ e most recent revelations, which o� er evidence of widespread killings and torture of detainees by Iraqi se-curity forces enjoying tacit American approval, and an Iran increasingly em-boldened to manipulate events behind the scenes, come at an awkward mo-ment for the Obama administration. While American o¢ cials continue to insist that plans to withdraw all U.S. forces from the country by the end of next year remain on track, the docu-ments’ description of a country be-sieged by threats of sectarian violence

and at the mercy of meddling neigh-bors raises the question of whether Iraq would immediately slip back into chaos if U.S. forces le£ .

­ ough the general outlines of the new material have been published pre-viously, the Wikileaks cache provides a far more in-depth and speci� c account of some of the most brutal episodes of the war from the perspective of soldiers on the ground. Among other things, the reports suggest that � agrant hu-man rights abuses by Iraqi government forces widened the sectarian and ethnic divides that continue to frustrate e� orts to achieve stability there.

Assange justi� ed releasing the se-

cret war logs by saying he wanted to expose “the truth” about America’s in-volvement in Iraq. But the U.S. govern-ment is investigating him for possible violation of espionage laws, and even some of his supporters reportedly have begun to suspect that he su� ers from delusions of grandeur or worse.

Yet, however � awed the messenger may be, Americans ignore the mes-sage in these documents at their peril. U.S. military advisers who tolerated the torture and killing of innocent ci-vilians in the name of quickly turning over responsibility for security to Iraqi forces did the country they were trying to help no favors. Indeed, they probably

damaged the overall U.S. mission there by inadvertently creating a whole new constellation of grievances for al-Qaida and its allies to exploit.

As U.S. commanders in Afghani-stan contemplate a similar accelerated transfer of security responsibilities to indigenous forces in that country, they would do well to remember that turn-ing a blind eye to atrocities committed by allies is unlikely to create the kind of long-term, countrywide stability that eventually would allow U.S. forces to withdraw. On the contrary, tolerating such abuses almost certainly will only prolong the con� ict and increase its cost in blood and treasure.

Wikileaks shines light on lessons learnedTHEIR WORD

On Oct. 22, the largest leak of classi� ed military documents in his-tory was loosed via the World Wide Web by the increasingly well-known whistleblower website Wikileaks, led by the infamous spokesman Julian Assange. ­ e nearly 400,000 U.S. Army documents detail the day-to-day reports of individual troops at the ground level in Iraq. ­ ey pro-vide a concrete narrative of a large amount of the war, from the begin-ning of 2004 to the end of 2009; an o¢ cial body count (up until now, its

existence has been denied) was ascer-tained to be 109,032 total dead with 66,081 o¢ cially counted as civilians. Almost as o� ensive as the depictions of torture, rape and murder con-tained within the documents is the lack of media response to it.

Not all were as silent as the Daily Egyptian has been on this matter, which did not even have a back-page blurb on the issue. ­ e New York Times, commonly regarded as the main liberal source of news in America, was the paper that broke the Pentagon Papers, a leak that ex-posed war crimes committed during Vietnam and is now acknowledged as

a monumentally historic event. Per-haps Assange had that in mind when he included the Times in with those allowed to preview the leak before it happened. ­ eir response almost made me wish they had stayed silent.

­ e NYT has a special section of its website dedicated to what have been dubbed as “­ e War Logs.” ­ e headlining article as of Monday night is entitled “Wikileaks Founder on the Run, Chased by Turmoil,” a character assassination piece painting Assange as psychologically unstable. ­ is piece comes from John Burns, a writer not-ed for being a cheerleader for the Iraq War from its start. It is simple for him

to attack Assange on a personal level to marginalize what he exposed, but it is a much more complicated matter to actually address the o� enses con-tained within the leak. While other articles in NYT’s War Logs section are not nearly as bad as Burns’, all of them downplay U.S. culpability regard-ing these atrocities. I don’t care if the Queen of England was the one behind the leak, it still does not change what was actually leaked.

More reasonable, but still malig-nant, are the journalists condemn-ing Wikileaks for endangering lives irresponsibly. While Wikileaks does redact sensitive speci� cs to minimize

innocent bloodshed, it is not per-fect. However, there is no evidence that there has been violence caused by previous similar leaks regarding Afghanistan. Furthermore, it is un-fair to place the blame on Wikileaks; Assange requested help from the Pentagon to sanitize the documents and was refused. In fact, that denial should be a scandal itself; the motives of that refusal should be brought into serious question.

It is sad we cannot trust journalists to investigate the truth. Journalism is supposed to be a noble and idealistic profession. To the writers of the DE: I expected more from you.

Sam Tempelsenior studying physics

Press coverage of Wikileaks’ latest stunt less than desirableGUEST COLUMN

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Daily Egyptian News Wednesday, October 27, 20106

As it enters its 50th year, the Gaia House Interfaith Center program looks to fundraisers and sustainability programs to keep the program continuing in its current building, says Maurine Pyle, director of the center.

Brent Ritzel, a Gaia House board member, said a campaign was launched Monday at a board meeting to raise $100,000 for the center.

Pyle said the campaign will start in November and end in October 2011.

Ritzel said the goal of the campaign is to renew the building and make it eco-friendly, while promoting the historical signi� cance of the building.

“We really want to maintain the integrity of the space, because we want to look at getting on the national registry for being 50 years old; it could be at a national landmark status,” he said.

Pyle said the main goal of the center is to support students in their human development and spiritual searches.

“Our mission is to SIUC students and an outreach to the wider area,” she said. “We are a welcoming community committed to spiritual awareness and to integrate peace, justice and ecological sustainability.”

Gaia House, named for the Greek goddess of the earth, is a

place where students can learn about other cultures and seek a spiritual path, Pyle said.

“A lot of young people at this age when they come to college sort of let go of what they experienced before, when they were children living with their parents, and now they are exploring,” she said.

She said students o� en have questions about their value systems and their own belief systems. Gaia House is a place where someone will listen if students don’t get their questions answered, she said.

While the building itself is entering its 50th year, the interfaith program is 67 years old, she said.

¢ e program, originally called the Student Christian Foundation, was founded in 1943 by SIU President Roscoe Pulliam with the intention of giving students a place on campus to gather together and learn about their own spiritual search and values, she said.

Pyle said one of the biggest changes over the years is that the center is no longer a Christian only ministry.

“We welcome students of any background,” she said.

Pyle said more than 20 groups meet at the center, many of which the Gaia House Registered Student Organization helps to arrange. ¢ e programs vary, including weekly Quaker meetings, dance classes, martial arts, yoga, Quran readings, Buddhist meditation classes, a wide variety of discussion groups and

weekly dinners.Ritzel said the RSO constantly

puts on fundraisers and will help signi� cantly in raising the money for the campaign.

Acaisha Bu ̈o, vice president of the RSO, said she joined the group a� er attending the weekly InterVeg vegetarian potluck dinner at Gaia House for a year. Bu ̈o, a junior from Itasca studying

communication design, said the main goal of the RSO is to promote the Gaia House and get the word out that the center exists.

She said her favorite aspect about the center is the variety people she has met there.

“¢ ere are all kinds of people, from wannabe Buddhists to the hardcore Christians to Wiccans,” Bu ̈o said. “You get all these

di ̈ering opinions from di ̈erent people.”

She said she keeps coming back to Gaia House because it feels like home.

“It’s really like a family here,” she said.

Sarah Schneider can be reached at sschneider@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 259.

Gaia House seeks anniversary makeoverSARAH SCHNEIDERDaily Egyptian

Bob Tiffin, 57, of Carbondale, rests his hands on his knees during a sitting meditation session Tuesday at the Gaia House Interfaith Center. Gillian Harrison,

a member of the Shawnee Dharma Group, said the group has met at the Gaia House for 11 years. The center is celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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Daily EgyptianNewsWednesday, October 27, 2010 7ILLINOISNursing home to shut down after reports of attacks

J O N E S B O R O — A southern Illinois nursing home will surrender its license and close within 90 days for failing to comply with safety regula-tions.

Orchard Court, a 16-bed facility in Jonesboro, agreed to pay a $12,000 fine. The agreement with the Illinois Department of Public Health was signed Monday.

The facility had been cited for fail-ing to protect residents from violent attacks by a teenage resident. A staff member told investigators the teen-ager targeted elderly men, sending at least one to the hospital.

Orchard Court is owned by a non-profit company, R.A.V.E. Residential Services. Attorney William Radkey says the company can’t afford a legal fight with the government, so agreed to give up its license while admitting no wrongdoing.

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NEW YORKOfficial: Actor Charlie Sheen in psychiatric care after NYC police called to his hotel room

NEW YORK — Charlie Sheen was hospitalized Tuesday for a psychi-atric evaluation after a woman told police he was throwing furniture and yelling in his hotel room, a law enforcement official said. His pub-licist blamed an allergic reaction to medication.

Police were called to The Plaza by hotel security at about 2 a.m. and Sheen appeared highly intoxicated, the official said. The actor was not arrested and went voluntarily. The official was not authorized to speak publicly about the encounter and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.

Sheen’s publicist Stan Rosenfield said the 45-year-old was expected to be released Wednesday.

IRANIran acknowledges it has been funding Afghanistan for years, says money is for reconstruction

TEHRAN — Iran acknowledged Tuesday it has been sending funds to neighboring Afghanistan for years, but said the money was intended to aid reconstruction, not to buy influ-ence in the office of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Karzai said Monday he receives millions of dollars in cash from Iran, adding that Washington gives him “bags of money” too because his office lacks funds.

In Washington, President Barack Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, denied that. “We’re not in the big bags of cash business,” he said Tuesday.

Earlier, State Department spokes-man P.J. Crowley said some of the U.S. aid to Afghanistan is in cash.

IR AQPentagon’s No. 2 official says enemies already mining WikiLeaks Iraq papers to use against U.S.

B AG H DA D — U.S. enemies already are combing through data released last week in a trove of Iraq war documents for ways to harm the American military, the Pentagon’s No. 2 official said Tuesday.

U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn called the documents “stolen material” and said they give adversaries key insight on how the U.S. military operates. He did not say which groups, or how the Pentagon knew they were researching the doc-uments.

“There are groups out there that have said they are indeed mining this data to turn around and use against us,” Lynn told a small group of report-ers during a brief visit to Baghdad. “We think this is problematic.”

MICHIGANConsumer Reports: Honda, Toyota vehicles most trouble-free, but GM , Ford improve

DE TROIT — The most problem-free cars and trucks are made by Honda and Toyota, but U.S. automakers Ford and General Motors are closing the gap in quality, according to an annual survey by Consumer Reports magazine.

Ford and GM continue to narrow the disparity that once separated Asia-based automakers from their Detroit rivals. Large overhauls of American car companies in the last few years have resulted in fewer brands and better vehicles from Detroit.

For the third year in a row, Toyota’s Scion had the fewest problems of any brand in the survey. It was followed by Porsche, Acura, Honda, and Nissan’s Infiniti luxury brand. The Toyota brand ranked sixth, down from third last year. It was followed by Subaru and Volvo. Lexus, which had been a top finisher in past years, fell to ninth. Ford was 10th, but rose from 16th the previous year.

Daily Egyptian Sports Wednesday, October 27, 20108

Green Bay is dealing with in-juries to many of its impact play-ers, but the rest of the league isn't showing any mercy. � e Packers lost to the Bears by three, squeaked by the Lions 28-26 and then lost consecutive overtime games with Washington and the Miami Dol-phins (3-3).

� e Giants lost against two teams on the same level as them, the Colts (4-2) and the Tennes-see Titans (5-2), but were down 20-7 Monday against the Dallas Cowboys (1-5) until Tony Romo broke his collarbone and the Dal-las o� ense became stagnant. � e Seahawks beat the Bears and the Arizona Cardinals (3-3), but got it handed to them 31-14 by the Den-ver Broncos (2-5) and 20-3 by the St. Louis Rams (3-4).

Atlanta has one dominant win, a 41-7 rout of the Cardinals, but otherwise has a 27-24 overtime win against the New Orleans Saints (4-3) and a two-point win against the San Francisco 49ers (1-6).

From a fantasy football point of view this is awesome because everyone is scoring, but at the same time, is it really good for

football? Big fan bases are being let down while teams with little fan bases are trying to get whoever they can to buy tickets. I think we can call the 2010-11 season a transition year where the bad teams are on their way to the top, while the good teams are falling to a rebuilding period.

Need more proof? Both con-ferences are identically shaped. � ere is a two-way tie between similar teams at the top, then av-erage teams on top of other aver-age teams.

� e AFC East is a two-way tie between the New York Jets and the New England Patriots with 5-1 records. � e AFC North is headed by the Pittsburgh Steelers (5-1), the AFC South by the Titans and the AFC West by the Kansas City Chiefs (4-2).

Coach Rex Ryan and his Jets lost a tough game against the Baltimore Ravens (5-2) during week one then won © ve consecutive games. � eir only dominant victories were a 20-point win against the horrible Bu� alo Bills and a two-touchdown win over the Patriots.

� e Patriots have almost the same story; they've only lost to the Jets but beat a bad San Diego (2-5) team Sunday only because the Chargers' 50-yard © eld goal bounced o� the goal post with seconds remaining. � e Chiefs were 3-0 and then lost two straight games a« er a bye week, while the Titans looked great against the Cowboys in a 34-27 win but looked awful against the Broncos in a 26-20 loss.

This means there is absolutely no chance of correctly picking a division, conference or Super Bowl winner in the NFL. Each division could be won by two or maybe three teams while the con-ference could be won by six or seven.

Although this makes the sea-son interesting, it makes it hard to enjoy watching the NFL on TV because better games could al-ways be playing out on a different channel.

Brandon LaChance can be reached at blachance@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 282.

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Erickson said it was huge to © n-ish the fall season even better than it started. He said the wind was a tough battle for the team but was happy it could hold on to second place.

“It was good for our team to play well under that pressure with those kinds of conditions," he said.

Erickson said the second-place © n-ish is a con© dence booster going into the break and will motivate everyone to play even when it's cold out.

“I am really glad we played that

tournament, and it shows that we are capable of doing anything. It gives us a lot of momentum going into the spring,” Erickson said.

Ryan Simonin can be reached at rsimonin@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 274.

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"Jennifer (Berwanger) is one of the most humble people. A« er the match on Friday she was more talk-ing about Jessica (Whitehead) and vice versa," Winkeler said.

� e Salukis don't o« en talk about the weekly awards and they don't dwell on the honors because they want to focus on the team and not individu-al accolades, Winkeler said.

Friday against the Evansville Aces, Berwanger had 29 kills and 18 digs for her 52nd double-double

in her © ve-year career as a Saluki. Whitehead set a career high for kills with 29 while only committing © ve errors to give her a match-high 47 kill percentage.

SIU hasn't had two players with at least 20 kills in the same match since a MVC tournament match in 2002.

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CHICAGO — Hall of Famer Ryne Sandberg is not expected to end up on the Chicago Cubs' coaching sta� next season.

A person familiar with the situ-ation said Sandberg could continue to manage the Cubs' Triple-A Iowa a ́ liate if he wants. � e person spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.

� e Cubs are looking for a bench coach a« er Alan Trammell le« Tues-day to take a similar spot on former teammate Kirk Gibson's sta� with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

It won't be Sandberg, who has made it clear he would like to manage in the majors next season. He was a finalist for the Cubs job along with Eric Wedge, and there was some speculation that he might wind up on Mike Quade's staff.

Quade led the Cubs to a 24-13 record over the © nal six weeks a« er Lou Piniella retired, a strong © nish to a disappointing season in which Chicago © nished 75-87 and in next-to-last place in the NL Cen-tral. � e Cubs decided to stick with him, promoting a longtime minor league manager who had spent the past four years as their third base coach.

A franchise icon, Sandberg spent the past four years managing in the Cubs' system, working his way up from Class-A to Triple-A, and was the Paci© c Coast League manager of the Year this season a« er Iowa went 82-62.

Sandberg was a 10-time All-Star and nine-time Gold Glove sec-ond baseman for the Cubs. He won the 1984 NL MVP Award while leading Chicago to the NL East title and its © rst playo� appearance since 1945, before the Cubs lost to San Diego in the league champion-ship series.

� ey have made the playo� s © ve times since then, but their champi-onship drought is at 102 years.

ANDREW SELIGMANThe Associated Press

Sandberg not likely to be on Cubs sta�

T he saying “any given Sunday” is a perfect way to describe a league full of mediocrity because any team can honestly

beat any opponent.

 

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Today’s birthday — To achieve your desired level of independence and still remain a viable member of a group, you must temper frustrations and accept the challenge of shared management. Your luck comes from your capacity to sit in the middle and see both sides of each question.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is an 8 — Once you resolve a misunderstanding early in the day, your mind turns to more romantic possibilities. Someone invites you on an adventure.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — More than one close friend or associate gathers together to make changes you require. New opportunities emerge as you handle old business.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — You feel driven today to accomplish major changes in the shortest possible time. At least one associate agrees completely. Go for it.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 6 — Seek emotional balance by first demonstrating your own feelings, and then allowing others to do the same. You create a safe space for expression that way.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — A day at home does you a lot of good, so take one if you can. Your work will still be there tomorrow. And you’ll have better ideas for how to get it done.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 9 — Combine resources with one or more females. The changes you want to make respond to gentle but persistent effort. Resist empty chatter.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — You want everything perfect when you make your big announcement. Write your speech, and prepare to revise right before the microphone. Then just express.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Your personal energy is on track at the desired pace to achieve a major goal. Give yourself time in the morning to get rolling, then don’t stop.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Share sorrow with others in private. Others appreciate your restraint, and you’re grateful for the intimacy. The mood passes.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Complete understanding of a partner’s issue is just around the corner. Meanwhile, gather information. It’s all grist for the mill.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — Get design ideas on the table. This isn’t the time for finished work. Everyone needs to remain flexible as changes develop. Thought now goes a long way.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March. 20) — Today is a 7 — Finish your housework before you take on a creative project. One mess at a time is more than enough. Enlist help from your associates.

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A SUPER “DUPER”

Delsart said what she and the team need to work on during the offseason is how to handle pressure when facing nationally ranked opponents. Sometimes they'll be up in a match but wind up losing because they lost focus, she said.

Freshman Anita Lee said she was pleased to earn a place in the main draw but disappointed that she psyched herself out before her third match, a 6-2, 7-5 loss to JoAnne Karaitiana from the Uni-versity of Tulsa.

"Being a freshman, I was thinking in my head 'I'm a little freshman against this girl that's pretty good,'" Lee said. "I snapped out of it in the second set (of the third match) and didn't think about anything but trying my best."

Lee said her thoughts before her match against Karaitiana were absurd because she knows she could have won. She said she knows now not to let a mental block such as that hinder her per-formance on the court.

The Salukis' duo of Dien and Delsart played competitively and missed winning their doubles match by one game.

Dien and Delsart led their match against Bonny Davidson and Michelle Farley of Tulsa at 7-4 before losing 9-7.

"Both of those matches, we just needed to close it off; unfortu-nately we couldn't do that," coach Audra Nothwehr said. "We're a young team; we need to learn how to close off matches."

Wins by Lee and Dien and strong play from Delsart prove the Salukis can play with players

ranked in the top 40 nationally, Nothwehr said.

She said the team plans to em-phasize closing out matches and finishing off points at the net dur-ing the Salukis' break between seasons. SIU starts its spring sea-son Jan. 28 against Louisville in Hardin, Ky.

Brandon Coleman can be reached at bcoleman@dailyegyptian.com

or 536-3311 ext. 269.

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NICK JOHNSON

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Daily Bark

The Cowboys are 1-5 so far this season and the whole league seems to be upside down. That is the upside as well because if Oakland can beat the Broncos and the Chargers then anything can happen for the Cowboys, even with a backup quarterback.

The Dallas Cowboys seem to not even be able to buy a win this season, and their situation hasn’t improved as quarterback Tony Romo broke his clavicle Monday against New York. Romo won’t require surgery, but will be out six to eight weeks. Does Romo’s injury automatically destroy Dallas’ high preseason hopes of playing a Super Bowl at home?

Will the sun rise tomorrow?

They will play in a Super Bowl. Have you forgotten about the man and legend known as Jon Kitna? He’s the second coming, and will throw for 700 yards and eight touchdowns every game to lead the Cowboys to the Super Bowl. He is a man among boys and should be retired in every Hall of Fame in the country. I’m flying to Vegas now to make my millions with this bet!

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Sophomore Jennifer Dien plays a singles match Oct. 17 at the Saluki Fall Draw. Dien was one and one in singles

matches at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Central Regional tournament Oct. 21 to 24.

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I have to close out the matches, and I (can’t)

let them try a second time because good players and good teams will take it.

  — Melanie Delsartsophomore tennis player

MEN’S GOLF

� rough sev-en weeks of NFL football, fans should be able to notice one thing: there aren't any great teams.

� e saying "any given Sunday" is a perfect way to describe a league full of mediocrity because any team can honestly beat any opponent. � e teams at the top of their division are not bullies and some are winning only because of opponent's mistakes rather than talent and ability. Last season, the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts were unde-

feated going into week 15 and the Minnesota Vikings � nished the sea-son with only three loses.

� is season, the Kansas City Chiefs became the last team to lose a game in week � ve to the Indianapolis Colts.

� e NFC North is headed by the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Pack-ers with 4-3 records, the NFC East is

led by New York Giants at 5-2, the South by the Atlanta Falcons at 5-2 and the NFC West, the worst divi-sion in the NFL, is led by the Seattle Seahawks at 4-2.

Chicago won 19-14 in week one against the Detroit Lions (1-5), but if Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson had read the rule book and didn't let the ball go out of his hands in

the end zone at the end of the game, the Bears would have lost. � e only hands-down win for the Bears was 23-6 against the Carolina Panthers (1-5). � ey were dominated by the Giants 17-3 and then lost back-to-back games to the Seahawks and the Washington Redskins (4-3).

BRANDON LACHANCEDaily Egyptian

National Football League full of mediocrity ‘any given Sunday’

Sophomore Jennifer Dien said she thought too far ahead in her matches and didn't focus as much as she should have in her closing sets at the Intercollegiate Tennis As-sociation Central Regionals tourna-

ment � ursday through Monday."� at stopped me from playing

my game and actually playing ten-nis," Dien said.

Dien advanced to the singles main draw in the tournament � ursday but lost Friday.

During the Salukis' time o� from competition, Dien said she plans to

practice on patience when � nish-ing points at the net and on serve returns.

� e Salukis are not used to play-ing nationally ranked opponents, sophomore Melanie Delsart said. Players at the Little Rock, Ark., tour-nament who weren't ranked gave up a¡ er losing the � rst set while ranked

players wouldn’t, she said."� ese teams are not going to do

that. � ey will � ght until the end. � ey will � ght to the last point until they shake your hand," Delsart said.

Delsart won the second set of her singles main draw match and led 5-3 during the third set before losing 7-5 to Ewa Szatkowska from

the University of Tulsa."I have to to close out the match-

es, and I (can't) let them try a sec-ond time because good players and good teams will take it," Delsart said.

BRANDON COLEMANDaily Egyptian

Salukis to practice patience, focus under pressure

Golfer David Griffin practices chipping Friday at Crab Orchard Golf Course in Carterville. The Salukis finished second out of eight teams at the SIUE Invitational Oct. 25 and 26 in Edwardsville. The second-place finish was the team’s best of the 2010 fall season.EDYTA BŁASZCZYKDAILY EGYPTIAN

For the � rst time since Aug. 31, 2009, an SIUC volleyball player has been named Missouri Valley Confer-

ence Player of the Week. Senior out-side hitter Jennifer Berwanger was the last, and most recent, recipient. Fresh-man outside hitter Jessica Whitehead was named MVC Freshman of the Week.

Coach Brenda Winkeler said the weekly awards are a great accomplish-ment for two deserving players.

BRANDON LACHANCEDaily Egyptian

Berwanger, Whitehead receive MVC honors

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� e men’s golf team saved the best for last as it wrapped up its fall season Tuesday with a second-place � nish at the Southern Illinois Uni-versity Edwardsville Invitational.

� e team � nished with a score of 913, 16 strokes behind � rst-place � nisher and conference foe

Missouri State University. SIUE followed in third place with a score of 923 while Tennessee State � nished in fourth with 925.

Coach Leroy Newton said it was a good � nish for the Salukis and it was a great experience for the team to compete with Missouri State.

“We got to play with them in the � rst round and we found out that if we play our game, we can be right

there with them. Not one person quit today, and even with the wind everybody still had a good atti-tude,” Newton said.

Newton said the scores might have been even better if injured sophomore Je� Miller had been able to play. Newton said he is looking forward to the return of Miller, as well as the spring season a¡ er the team has had more time

to improve.� e Salukis had two top-ten � n-

ishers in the tournament, as sopho-mores Brandon Cauldwell and Jake Erickson � nished in third and tied for sixth out of 52 players with scores of 222 and 225.

Brandon Cauldwell said his game was the best he has played in his college career and was happy he kept the ball in play.

Freshman George Tate � nished in a tie for 14th place with a score of 232, while senior David Gri© n tied for 24th place as he posted a 236. Juniors Jamie Stocks and Richie Williams rounded out the scorecard for the Salukis, as they tied for 29th and 38th place with scores of 238 and 245.

RYAN SIMONINDaily Egyptian

SIU squeezes second in � nal fall tournament

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