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! e innovative mind of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., along with the creation of Apple products has allowed students and professionals in media to develop the skills re" ective of the industry as a whole.
Students who major in journalism and media arts at the university learn to operate multiple so# ware programs on one platform with the use of Macintosh computers, said Gary Kolb, dean of the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts.
CBSNews, along with many other news organizations, commemorated Jobs following his death Wednesday and in an article stated he “revolutionized technology through his design, marketing and creation of personal computers and mobile devices.”
Jobs took a leave of absence from Apple, Inc. in 2004 to have surgey due to complications with pancreatic cancer and stepped down as chief executive in August. He died from respiratory arrest Wednesday,
according to a release from Apple.Kolb said the convergence of multiple
programs onto the Macintosh platform has changed the way people work with media.
“You’ll $ nd that if you go out into the world and you’re dealing with professionals in $ lm, video and photo editing, design, advertising and music production, the standard is the Macintosh platform,” he said. “I think that’s because from the beginning, the design of the platform was very friendly to people who are more visually or graphically oriented.”
Kolb said the assembly of so# ware such as Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Adobe, video and audio editing on the Macintosh computer has caused people to develop a jack-of-all-trades skill set in the media industry.
He said it was possible to $ nd a job a few years ago with just one specialization in a communications and media program.
“Now when you graduate you need to know how to shoot digital photographs, record digital audio and edit those things in a program like Final Cut Pro and post
it all on the web,” he said. “! e di% erence between someone who’s practiced radio broadcasting and someone in photojournalism has decreased because now (employers) want people who know how to work on multiple platforms.”
! e demand of Apple products and so# ware at the university can also be because of the familiarity of the brand with students, faculty and sta% , said James Abbott, customer service manager of the University Bookstore.
Abbott also serves as the uno& cial on-campus representative of Apple products. He said on average the bookstore sells about 20 Macintosh computers per month.
“We get students asking about every di% erent Apple product and the majority of the time, customers will come in and they know, or they’ve already used, a Mac, iPad, or iPod,” he said. “Just because most people are familiar with it, it increases the demand on them tenfold.”
Apple products in! uence students
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Faculty group plans to decertify Faculty Association
A group of faculty members have begun to discuss how to decertify the use of the only bargaining unit for tenured and tenure-track faculty, the Faculty Association, and instead represent themselves as a group of faculty.
In the six days since Mike Eiholz, an associate professor of zoology, sent an email to all tenure and non-tenure faculty expressing the goal of his group, Faculty for Sensible Negotiations, and the need to explore alternatives to the Faculty Association, Eiholz said he has received overwhelming responses both in support and in question of the group.
Eiholz, representative for FSN, said more than 140 faculty responded in support of the e% ort to replace the Faculty Association which is a& liated with the Illinois Education Association.
! e IEA represents the four campus unions without contracts that have been negotiating terms in their contracts since June 2010 when the previous settlement ended. In the last two weeks the unions’ dues-paying members have authorized their executive bodies to set a strike date if there is no further progress in negotiations.
Eiholz said a group of about $ ve faculty members have discussed for two years their opposition to decisions made by the association. He said faculty members are intelligent enough to negotiate their own contracts without the use of an outside representation.
“As you are aware, our university is at a crisis that threatens our reputation and possibly our future as a scholarly institution,” he said in the email sent ! ursday. “While we may not agree with the administration’s stance on some matters, we believe that the Faculty Association and its parent organization, the Illinois Education Association, share responsibility for bringing us to this point. We are currently working under an agreement that was imposed because of what we believe was unrealistic and unreasonable FA demands on many issues.”
! e email said the association has resorted to tactics that have created an openly hostile atmosphere on campus.
Rod Sievers, spokesman for the university, said the administration would have no say in how the union was represented and would want no say in the matter. He said it is something the faculty would have to determine.
“Whatever group should emerge, the university would work with them just like they do in the Faculty Association,” Sievers said.
Eiholz said the decerti$ cation of the association could take up to six months, but if it were to happen the group would want the Faculty Senate, or a similar organization, to represent the faculty.
According to the senate’s website the group is a body of elected faculty members whose goal is to ensure the enforcement of policies involving academics and all faculty status and welfare.
In a follow-up email sent to faculty Friday, Eiholz said the senate already represents faculty on many issues and is in place to deal with faculty concerns. He said they are not sure if the senate will be able to represent the faculty but they are in the process of determining that.
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SIUE bass ! shing club moves on to national championship
Justin Skinner, of Taylorville, casts a line Friday into Kinkaid Lake during the National Guard FLW College Fishing Central Regional Championship. Skinner, with
his SIU-Edwardsville teammate Brad Lemasters, took third place in the tournament, advancing them to compete in the national championship.
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Senior Justin Ruszkowski ) nished second in the one-meter, and ahead of Beres in the three-meter dive. Freshman diver Kegan Skelton showed promise in his college debut with a third and second place ) nish in the one- and three-meter events among SIU divers, respectively.
Despite the wins, Walker said times for the swimmers could have been improved. He said the e* ort was there, and that’s what counts at this
stage of the season.“I’m encouraged by the e* ort
because, on any given day, things may not be going right and if your e* ort isn’t there you might as well just stay home and watch TV,” Walker said. “+ ose who maybe felt a little bit o* fought their way through … I didn’t see anybody just pack it up and go for the remote control. I was very pleased with that.”
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Blaylock said this award is not only a positive for the so, ball team but for the university as a whole.
“+ is award is something people can read about and be impressed by,” Blaylock said. “It shows that our student athletes can be successful and that they come here to get a great education.”
Senior out) elder Mallory Duran-Sellers said juggling Division I sports and achieving academic success can be di- cult without the support. Duran-Sellers said she gives credit to her teammates for helping her with homework and being de facto tutors during road trips.
“Bus rides help a lot when it comes to homework. Some girls have di* erent strengths (in certain
subjects) so it de) nitely helps when you have someone to study with,” she said.
Helping each other is an example Blaylock said she hopes to instill in her players, both on the diamond and in other aspects of their lives.
“I believe we try to teach disciple in the classroom, on the ) eld, and in your personal life, as well as time management and maintaining priorities,” Blaylock said.
One of the main priorities Blaylock said she emphasizes in her players is classroom attendance. She said if players miss class they will have to miss games as well, regardless of the reason behind the absence.
“I give players two hiccups," Blaylock said. “I want them to understand that if they don’t go to class and perform in the classroom, then they cannot perform on the ) eld.”
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CORY DOWNER
CORY DOWNER
T he NBA officially canceled two weeks of the 2011-12
regular season after Monday’s negotiations between team owners and players proved unsuccessful. Now on the 102nd day of the league lockout, who do you think is to blame for the downsized season?
I forgot they even had a regular season. I thought they just picked straws to see who would make it to the playoffs.
I find it hard to place blame on a specific side when it comes to issues as complex as how to structure million-dollar contracts and distribute a projected $4 billion in revenue for the 2011-12 season. Both the league owners and the players' union need to make some compromises to save what remains of the season.
I think both sides are to blame, people are
too greedy nowadays. Just go play your sport for our entertainment.
D!"#$ E%$&'"!(N!"# 3Wednesday, October 12, 2011
RSO takes fresh spin on local comedy
After years of being exposed to what they call raunchy, offensive and vulgar local comedy, a group of students decided to make a change. Sideshow Comedy is a new Registered Student Organization focused on presenting humor in a more thought-provoking and inclusive manner.
Kaleb Cook, a senior from Eldorado studying cinema and journalism, said he, along with his twin brother Kyler Cook and fellow comedian Matthew Baccus, came up with the idea for Sideshow Comedy, after a chance encounter with a well-known comedian.
“I talked to Jim Brewer in Nashville and he said our generation is trying to push the boundaries and make comedy darker than it’s ever been and really go to a whole new lower
level,” Kaleb Cook said. “I don’t feel like it’s necessary.”
Kaleb Cook said both he and his brother are Christians and open-minded. He said they both see comedy as a venue of self-expression. However, he said his experiences in the Carbondale comedy circuit were discouraging and left him with conflicted feelings.
“We witnessed vulgar comedy turn racist, turn sexist and it was just too dark for us,” Kaleb Cook said. “It’s sad when you go to a comedy club and a black person takes the stage and his whole set is catered toward the African-Americans in the audience. Then you get a Caucasian guy up there and his whole set is geared toward the Caucasians. It’s really dividing and it’s a struggle to be able to feel comfortable in that environment.”
Kyler Cook, a senior from Eldorado studying English, said he shared the same feelings as
his brother. Kyler Cook said last year both he and his brother tried out for a community comedy group that didn’t have a lot of regulations on the jokes and that many people became offended by the material.
“It was a group of white males and one white female,” Kyler Cook said. “Comedy should be able to speak to all different groups. They didn’t do that.”
Baccus, a senior from Carterville studying sociology, said the main goal of Sideshow Comedy is to encompass different types of comedy and speak to demographics. Kaleb Cook said race is an issue that is abused and
glanced over in comedy and one he wants to explore within the group.
“The honest and true thing about race is that no one will ever truly understand where the other person is coming from,” Kaleb Cook said. "It’s impossible to be able to perceive how somebody else hears a joke and know exactly what they mean.”
Kaleb Cook said his experiences in clubs have reestablished his feelings of segregation and sexism. He said on a number of occasions he can recall male comics saying jokes that blatantly objectify women to the point where female audience members would leave.
“A lot of modern day sketch and comedy groups rely on cursing and dirty humor,” Baccus said. “But we’re relying more on our wit and writing than just going to curse words.”
Kaleb Cook said he sees Sideshow Comedy as a way to bring people together. Kaleb Cook said aside from all the things that focus on individual’s differences it’s important to have one to focus our on people’s similarities. He said the group will be holding auditions Monday for students who share the same philosophy.
“As a comedian, you should have a value that you bring to the audience,” Kaleb Cook said. “We really felt like that’s what shows were lacking ... We hope to change that.”
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T he honest and true thing about race is that no one will ever truly understand where the other person is
coming from.!— Kaleb Cook
co-creator of Sideshow Comedy
BRENDAN SMITHDaily Egyptian
D!"#$ E%$&'"!(C!"#$%Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9D!"#$ E%$&'"!( N!"#4 Wednesday, October12, 2011
“) e faculty would determine and approve the manner in which the senate would appoint members to our bargaining team,” the email said. “) e process would be transparent and inclusive of all faculty.”
Randy Hughes, an associate professor of mathematics and president of the Faculty Association, said the Faculty Senate would not necessarily meet the needs of faculty members like the Faculty Association does.
He said the Illinois Education Association partnership is more than just bargaining contracts.
He said through IEA, the union has access to legal services, professional service and the faculty is part of a large organization able to have an e* ect on state policy regarding union members.
“I don’t think the Faculty Senate has the ability to do what we are
able to do,” he said. “It is all well and good to bargain a contract but if you don’t do anything to make sure the terms of the contract are being followed, the contract is not very useful.”
) e Faculty Association’s Departmental Representative Council has members from departments on campus that represent faculty within the departments similar to the Faculty Senate. In both units, representatives are elected by Dave Johnson, an associate professor of foreign language and literature and chair of the council, who said elections are not hotly contested.
He said not every department has a representative on the DRC but each have a college representative. He said this is the same in the Faculty Senate. He said the Faculty Senators were not elected to do what the Faculty for Sensible Negotiations has proposed.
“) e Faculty Senate currently
contains a lot of people that are not covered by the Faculty Association at all,” he said. “) e president is a non-tenure track member. ) ere are people who have administrative appointments who are management as far as labor laws go and can’t be playing both sides of the fence.”
Eiholz said because all departments are not represented, faculty voice is limited in decisions made.
Since he sent out the + rst email ) ursday, he said at least 10 faculty members have said they support decertifying the Faculty Association but do not want their names released for fear of what their colleagues would do.
“In other words what they are supposed to be + ghting for, what we are supposed to be teaching our students to think about things critically, and then speaking out with their ideas. We have faculty on this campus afraid to do that because they are afraid of
retribution from colleagues within their department or the Faculty Association,” he said. “) at is just astounding to me and extremely concerning. It just contradicts our whole philosophy of what we are supposed to be teaching students.”
As the representative for the group, Eiholz said he has also received negative feedback such as hate mail from fellow faculty members. He would not release names of other members until more action is taken for fear of the same happening to them.
“It is a very miserable position to be in when you have colleagues sending you emails like that,” he said.
) e group will start to gather faculty signatures on a petition next week that would support the Faculty Senate as a bargaining unit. If 30 percent of faculty represented by the union, around 200 members, sign the petition the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board would hold a vote
of either staying with the Faculty Association, having the Faculty Senate represent members or have no representation.
Eiholz said from the feedback he has received the last option would most likely not happen.
“It is a process we have been talking about for awhile and we have just been able to get everything together to determine how the process would work and one is potentially to get the attention of the Faculty Association and get them to realize their stance isn’t supported by a lot of faculty,” he said. “I think Randy Hughes has made it very clear that if you want to have input you can pay your dues and become a member. This was basically our only option to be heard.”
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Perhaps the most disturbing element in the current dispute between unions and the university is the di! culty in evaluating the kind of job security a tenured faculty member has earned by virtue of having served six years as a non-tenured faculty and having been approved by colleagues and the administration.
" e bible for faculty has long been the American Association of University Professors’ standard for relationships between faculty and administration. It is a fair-minded set of guidelines for every possible problem that might develop. A violation of those guidelines by a university administration can, a# er an investigation and vote of the whole association, put that institution on a “watch list,” which says to the world: Take caution when you deal with this university.
As a former president of the local chapter of the AAUP, I can vouch for the fact SIU made that “watch list” one time. I believe it was 1974 and the cause of the AAUP action was the $ ring of 104 faculty, including some tenured faculty. SIU’s position was that there were insu! cient funds to maintain the university without that action. " e Board of Trustees passed a resolution declaring a $ nancial exigency and the administration moved to solve his problem as it felt it best to do so.
Ever since that day, the faculty have been a bit nervous about holding onto their jobs — even if they were tenured.
I think it is high time that uncertainty regarding a tenured faculty position be ended once and for all. I have a hunch it might end the current deadlock and get SIU back on the road to educating, researching and providing services to the area.
" e question is: Is it possible to guarantee a faculty member employment regardless of the introduction of circumstances that
negatively a% ect that employment? " e AAUP Handbook gives us the answer to that question that has been in force in higher education for a long time. It clearly indicates you can only remove a continuous appointment for a couple reasons. First, if the faculty member’s conduct violates university standards and second, if there is a $ nancial exigency. " e language seems clear, with this proviso: “Termination of a continuous appointment because of $ nancial exigency should be demonstrably bona $ de.”
Pretty clear, right? Well, not really. When do we have a“bona $ de” $ nancial problem? If you don’t have money, you can’t pay faculty, right? " ere isn’t a businessman in the country who would not understand the relationship between money and workers. And there isn’t an administrator at SIU unaware of the loss of well over half of the state support for those faculty wages. Even with higher tuition the problem is acute. So it is clear to any budget conscious person that some faculty will have to be let go.
Enter worry number one: Will the administration $ re only non-tenured faculty or use the excuse to $ re tenured faculty?
Obviously, the determination of a $ nancial exigency is critical. By law, the Board of Trustees is the only body legally quali$ ed to do that. So there is little sense in going on strike to dispute their responsibility or their wisdom to do so. You simply have to trust they are good people with all interests at heart. But what about “who gets $ red?”
As I indicated, there are on-record cases of tenured faculty being $ red at SIU. Money was not there to pay the bills and ‘pink slips’ went out. To say the least, all hell broke out
as a result of that action. Some court action followed, though that is not part of this story.
So here we are, still pondering the same old question: Who gets $ red? Chancellor Rita Cheng has argued she respects tenure but must have control of the budget in order to keep SIU open and on track. " e union has implied publically they don’t trust her word. It would appear they want something in writing that says, “no tenured faculty will be $ red before all other non-tenured are $ red.” " us the impasse.
" e AAUP handbook also o% ers another slat on tenure that might help to resolve this impasse.
" ey point out that tenure o% ers a reasonable assurance of continuous employment. " e observer has to wonder: What is a reasonable assurance of continuous employment? Does the word ‘guarantee’ substitute for reasonable? I don’t think that was ever the intent of the faculty that put together the AAUP standards. Yet it would be hard to
argue that $ ring a tenured faculty before a non-tenured faculty member was reasonable.
" e SIU family has a lot at stake here.It would seem to this writer that the
$ rst victim to fall by the wayside has been the trust that is so vital between faculty and administration. We will not be able to move forward together unless that trust is reestablished. And it would seem to this writer there is only one way to do this now.
" e union has to believe Cheng will honor a reasonable assurance for tenured faculty and Cheng has to believe the faculty have earned a right to play a role in determining which faculty are $ red and which are retained. In other words, there is no guarantee of continuous employment for tenured faculty in times of $ nancial exigency in the contract but, in the contract the chancellor will assure the faculty, just as we do now, they will have a voice in determining who will be $ red.
I have a hunch they will never have to meet.
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Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., died Wednesday during the peak of Apple’s success. According to CNNMoney, the March quarter for Apple showed a 27.7 percent increase in Mac sales, a 29 percent
increase over PCs, which showed a 1.25 percent decline. Technological advances in the Apple industry such as the iPad and iPhone allow journalists to take photos, video and edit audio while on assignment.
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During Jobs’ time as CEO of Apple Inc., the tech industry witnessed the release of the iPod in 2001, the ) rst Macbook in 2006 and the iPad in 2010.
In its presale release of the iPhone 4s, Apple revealed more than one million units sold within 24 hours which broke the iPhone 4’s previous one day record of 600,000 units, according to the Hu* ngton Post.
Kolb said Apple has impacted the campus through the New Media Center in the basement of the Communications Building.
He said the center started as a program by Apple, Adobe, Macromedia and a few other hardware and so+ ware companies. , e idea was to develop these centers with the purpose of infusing technology in the classroom at universities.
Kolb said the agreement held with these companies stated that once a center was established, the college would get special deals that allowed it to get technology into the classroom quickly and cost-e- ectively.
Silvia Dadian, a graduate student from St. Louis in mass communications and media art, works with video and
writing and said the so+ ware available on Macintosh platforms is not always a- ordable and the center makes it convenient for her to work on projects when she gets out of school.
Kolb said the center features more than 70 Macintosh computers equipped with the latest so+ ware in writing, digital and graphic design for students in media and also o- ers classes to those with digital modeling labs and digital animation classes.
“Between 2002 and now, it’s become a showcase,” he said. “People come from other universities and we give them a tour of the college.”
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D!"#$ E%$&'"!(T!" G#$%& 7Wednesday, October 12, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A couple decades ago, a young tough Je) Tweedy thought he was punk rock.
* at’s nothing compared to how out there the 44-year-old Wilco frontman and father of two feels these days.
“To be honest, at this age, I feel like what we're doing now is more punk rock than anything I could’ve pulled o) during the conformity of punk rock,” Tweedy said. “To me, growing up and being an adult playing rock music is almost revolutionary. I’m not talking about just getting older.
I'm talking about acting like a mature person and advocating growing up, which gets a lot of bad ink as far as rock people go.”
In a sense, Wilco’s eighth studio album, “* e Whole Love,” represents the + nal step into complete rock ‘n’ roll adulthood — true independence. * ey recently jettisoned their perfectly good record label and started their own, dBpm Records — punk cred for the DIY initiative, for sure.
* ey rarely tour more than a few weeks at a time, carving out a private life that allows for children and wives and a life. While that doesn’t sound very punk, in Tweedy’s world view, it’s as good as a tall blue mohawk and a pair of Dr. Martens.
“It’s not something people want you to do,” Tweedy said. “People want to have some sort of vicarious idea that you can stay irresponsible and immature forever.”
“* e Whole Love,” which was released last month to generally strong reviews, debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 82,000 copies sold. * ey + nished o) a U.S. tour last week that included two sold-out shows at * e Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Tweedy was loose and in good humor in his hotel room during an interview, wearing a denim jacket and his trademark tousled hair. He was full of funny, self-deprecating stories and playfully feigned exasperation at
the petty travails of life on the road.“He’s a lucky guy and he knows it,”
said Wilco manager Tony Margherita, who's been with Tweedy since he was part of the seminal alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. “(It) does generally feel like a pretty good family business, and that's a nice thing if you can do it on your own terms.”
It’s been that way a long time musically for Wilco, the band that famously fed at the same trough twice when it was dropped by Reprise over creative di) erences, then signed to sister imprint Nonesuch to release a milestone album. Even back then, they thought of leaving the traditional label paradigm.
“It's funny, I think even back
on ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ when we were kicked o) Reprise, it was pretty obvious what was going to happen,” bass player John Stirratt said of their eventual decision to start their own label. “You could really see the writing on the wall. We thought, ‘Gosh, should we try this now?’ It was considered.”
Instead, Wilco released four studio albums on Nonesuch, a label all genuinely respected. But when Tweedy, Stirratt and the other members of the Chicago-based band — guitarist Nels Cline, drummer Glenn Kotche and multi-instrumentalists Pat Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen — had the chance to break away, they took it. And it’s been better than expected.
New label, album: Keeping it fresh, the Wilco wayCHRIS TALBOTTAssociated Press
D!"#$ E%$&'"!(T!" G#$%& 7Wednesday, October 12, 2011
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A couple decades ago, a young tough Je) Tweedy thought he was punk rock.
* at’s nothing compared to how out there the 44-year-old Wilco frontman and father of two feels these days.
“To be honest, at this age, I feel like what we're doing now is more punk rock than anything I could’ve pulled o) during the conformity of punk rock,” Tweedy said. “To me, growing up and being an adult playing rock music is almost revolutionary. I’m not talking about just getting older.
I'm talking about acting like a mature person and advocating growing up, which gets a lot of bad ink as far as rock people go.”
In a sense, Wilco’s eighth studio album, “* e Whole Love,” represents the + nal step into complete rock ‘n’ roll adulthood — true independence. * ey recently jettisoned their perfectly good record label and started their own, dBpm Records — punk cred for the DIY initiative, for sure.
* ey rarely tour more than a few weeks at a time, carving out a private life that allows for children and wives and a life. While that doesn’t sound very punk, in Tweedy’s world view, it’s as good as a tall blue mohawk and a pair of Dr. Martens.
“It’s not something people want you to do,” Tweedy said. “People want to have some sort of vicarious idea that you can stay irresponsible and immature forever.”
“* e Whole Love,” which was released last month to generally strong reviews, debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with 82,000 copies sold. * ey + nished o) a U.S. tour last week that included two sold-out shows at * e Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.
Tweedy was loose and in good humor in his hotel room during an interview, wearing a denim jacket and his trademark tousled hair. He was full of funny, self-deprecating stories and playfully feigned exasperation at
the petty travails of life on the road.“He’s a lucky guy and he knows it,”
said Wilco manager Tony Margherita, who's been with Tweedy since he was part of the seminal alt-country band Uncle Tupelo. “(It) does generally feel like a pretty good family business, and that's a nice thing if you can do it on your own terms.”
It’s been that way a long time musically for Wilco, the band that famously fed at the same trough twice when it was dropped by Reprise over creative di) erences, then signed to sister imprint Nonesuch to release a milestone album. Even back then, they thought of leaving the traditional label paradigm.
“It's funny, I think even back
on ‘Yankee Hotel Foxtrot’ when we were kicked o) Reprise, it was pretty obvious what was going to happen,” bass player John Stirratt said of their eventual decision to start their own label. “You could really see the writing on the wall. We thought, ‘Gosh, should we try this now?’ It was considered.”
Instead, Wilco released four studio albums on Nonesuch, a label all genuinely respected. But when Tweedy, Stirratt and the other members of the Chicago-based band — guitarist Nels Cline, drummer Glenn Kotche and multi-instrumentalists Pat Sansone and Mikael Jorgensen — had the chance to break away, they took it. And it’s been better than expected.
New label, album: Keeping it fresh, the Wilco wayCHRIS TALBOTTAssociated Press
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Aries — Today is an 8 — Life’s good, but a spiral of self-doubt could shake things up. Draw or write down your worries and fears, and burn them to release their hold on you. Cast a new intention into the fire.Taurus — Today is a 7 — Rethink your roles at home and at work, and try something new. Use your experience to avoid a costly mistake. Don’t spend your check before you get it. Patience pays.
Gemini — Today is an 8 — A dream may inspire a romance. Your friends are there to help. Most great innovation is sparked by an accident. Consider this when confronted by one.
Cancer — Today is an 8 — It may take something to sort fact from fiction. Stick to what you know to be so. Your standards and perceptions are challenged (which could be a good thing).Leo — Today is a 6 — Now you’re on a roller coaster. Will you laugh and scream and enjoy the ride, or cry the whole way, waiting to get off? You may go through both sensations before the day’s out. It’s temporary.
Virgo — Today is a 6 — Find satisfaction in little things. It’s okay to want to hide now and be private. There’s time for social life later. Read the small print. Go over picky details.
Libra — Today is a 7 — If you want to understand their point of view, put yourself in your partner’s shoes. If things don’t work the way you want, try again tomorrow. Look at it philosophically.Scorpio — Today is an 8 — Not everything that glitters is gold. You can make barriers disappear (especially the ones that exist only in your head). Gain self-respect through a job well done.
Sagittarius — Today is an 8 — Your imagination plays to your advantage now. Aim higher than usual to gain some ground, even if you miss the mark. Stash away winnings. Note the options that worked.
Capricorn — Today is a 7 — Devote time for artistic creation today. Express something abstract, symbolic and dreamy. Go for clear communications tomorrow. Read the instructions carefully.Aquarius — Today is an 8— There’s a fork in the road ahead. A message from your dreams can point you in the right direction. The line between fact and fantasy may blur, so double-check the data.
Pisces — Today is an 8 — Don’t forget to call if you’ll be late for dinner. Don’t get lost in nebulous daydreams without keeping an eye on the clock. You could make great progress in private.
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Senior Justin Ruszkowski ) nished second in the one-meter, and ahead of Beres in the three-meter dive. Freshman diver Kegan Skelton showed promise in his college debut with a third and second place ) nish in the one- and three-meter events among SIU divers, respectively.
Despite the wins, Walker said times for the swimmers could have been improved. He said the e* ort was there, and that’s what counts at this
stage of the season.“I’m encouraged by the e* ort
because, on any given day, things may not be going right and if your e* ort isn’t there you might as well just stay home and watch TV,” Walker said. “+ ose who maybe felt a little bit o* fought their way through … I didn’t see anybody just pack it up and go for the remote control. I was very pleased with that.”
Nareg Kurtjian can be reached at [email protected]
or 536.3311 ext. 282.
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Blaylock said this award is not only a positive for the so, ball team but for the university as a whole.
“+ is award is something people can read about and be impressed by,” Blaylock said. “It shows that our student athletes can be successful and that they come here to get a great education.”
Senior out) elder Mallory Duran-Sellers said juggling Division I sports and achieving academic success can be di- cult without the support. Duran-Sellers said she gives credit to her teammates for helping her with homework and being de facto tutors during road trips.
“Bus rides help a lot when it comes to homework. Some girls have di* erent strengths (in certain
subjects) so it de) nitely helps when you have someone to study with,” she said.
Helping each other is an example Blaylock said she hopes to instill in her players, both on the diamond and in other aspects of their lives.
“I believe we try to teach disciple in the classroom, on the ) eld, and in your personal life, as well as time management and maintaining priorities,” Blaylock said.
One of the main priorities Blaylock said she emphasizes in her players is classroom attendance. She said if players miss class they will have to miss games as well, regardless of the reason behind the absence.
“I give players two hiccups," Blaylock said. “I want them to understand that if they don’t go to class and perform in the classroom, then they cannot perform on the ) eld.”
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CORY DOWNER
CORY DOWNER
T he NBA officially canceled two weeks of the 2011-12
regular season after Monday’s negotiations between team owners and players proved unsuccessful. Now on the 102nd day of the league lockout, who do you think is to blame for the downsized season?
I forgot they even had a regular season. I thought they just picked straws to see who would make it to the playoffs.
I find it hard to place blame on a specific side when it comes to issues as complex as how to structure million-dollar contracts and distribute a projected $4 billion in revenue for the 2011-12 season. Both the league owners and the players' union need to make some compromises to save what remains of the season.
I think both sides are to blame, people are
too greedy nowadays. Just go play your sport for our entertainment.
! e Saluki so" ball team has knocked their academic achievements out of the park this season with the second-highest grade point average among Division I teams.
! e National Fastpitch Coaches Association announced SIU as the recipient of honor for the team's performance throughout the 2010-11 season. Members of the so" ball team earned a combined 3.611 GPA, and according to head coach Kerri Blaylock, the award is a re# ection of the structure of the program as a whole.
Blaylock said support services play a major role in the success of the team, and the man in charge of providing those services is Je$ Jones, academic coordinator and advisor to the team.
Jones said his job ranges from providing necessary school supplies to % nding tutors for the athletes. He
said the e$ ort of the so" ball team makes his job much more rewarding.
“It has been a privilege to work with such an inspired and motivated group. ! is award shows how they are determined in every aspect of their lives,” Jones said. “! ey have played a big role in my life as well. I am so grateful to be
able to work with these players.”Blaylock said the players are also
responsible for the academic success.“I give credit % rst to the athletes.
! ey are the ones who have to buckle down and be disciplined academically,” Blaylock said.
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Swimmers ! nish ! rst despite exhaustion! e Salukis gave themselves something to
smile about as they propelled into the regular season.
! e SIU swimming and diving team competed in their % rst dual-conference meets of the season. ! e women took the show on the road at Evansville, ind., Friday, while the men swam at home against both University of Evansville and Miami University of Ohio Saturday at the Edward J. Shea Natatorium.
! e women were 143-100, winning 10 of the 13 events. ! e men secured both wins with a considerable gap between them and their competition: 162-81 against Miami and 200-37 against Evansville.
Redshirt senior and captain Justin Wolfe said though the team expected to be the favorite for the meet, nothing is certain at the start of a new season.
“We weren’t expecting quite as steep of a result as we saw,” Wolfe said. “As long as I’ve been here, we’ve never won a meet like that before, so it was very encouraging for us.”
Senior swimmer and captain Jared Bradd, who su$ ered from mono during the summer, said his goal was to perform to the best of his ability rather than worry about % nishing at speci% c times.
He said the main emphasis of the team’s training is to be able to swim quickly despite being tired. ! e team has trained as they
regularly would, without rest before meets, to build mental stamina and help overcome adversity later in the season. He said team members were able to do that by placing the fatigue out of their minds and focus on the task at hand.
“Our philosophy is anyone can swim fast when they’re rested and they’re having a great day,” Bradd said. “We’re preparing for when conditions aren’t perfect, for when things aren’t going your way.”
! e women were e$ ective in all phases of the meet, with seven individual wins in events and victories in both the one- and three-meter dives.
Head swimming and diving coach Rick Walker said the women did well but will become a stronger team as they continue to gain con% dence. He said some athletes handled the meet better than others, but showed e$ ort as a whole team.
“When you are as fatigued as we are, it's very hard to hit all pistons % ring — some are going to miss,” Walker said. “We had no dead pistons on this one. Everybody was doing a great job.”
! e men were even more successful than the women, with a Saluki athlete placing % rst for every men's swimming event. ! ey also held their own in the diving events, undeterred by the presence of James Beres of Miami, a three-time MAC diving champion.
Saluki senior diver Nathan Day, of Grand Blanc, Mich., performs a two-and-a-half reverse dive Thursday during practice at the Recreation Center. SIU men’s swimming and diving faced the Miami University of Ohio and University of Evansville Saturday at the Edward J. Shea Natatorium and placed first in all swimming events.TONY JOUDAILY EGYPTIANPlease see SWIM | 11
NAREG KURTJIANDaily Egyptian
Softball team awarded for academic successAKEEM GLASPIEDaily Egyptian
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! e innovative mind of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc., along with the creation of Apple products has allowed students and professionals in media to develop the skills re" ective of the industry as a whole.
Students who major in journalism and media arts at the university learn to operate multiple so# ware programs on one platform with the use of Macintosh computers, said Gary Kolb, dean of the College of Mass Communications and Media Arts.
CBSNews, along with many other news organizations, commemorated Jobs following his death Wednesday and in an article stated he “revolutionized technology through his design, marketing and creation of personal computers and mobile devices.”
Jobs took a leave of absence from Apple, Inc. in 2004 to have surgey due to complications with pancreatic cancer and stepped down as chief executive in August. He died from respiratory arrest Wednesday,
according to a release from Apple.Kolb said the convergence of multiple
programs onto the Macintosh platform has changed the way people work with media.
“You’ll $ nd that if you go out into the world and you’re dealing with professionals in $ lm, video and photo editing, design, advertising and music production, the standard is the Macintosh platform,” he said. “I think that’s because from the beginning, the design of the platform was very friendly to people who are more visually or graphically oriented.”
Kolb said the assembly of so# ware such as Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Adobe, video and audio editing on the Macintosh computer has caused people to develop a jack-of-all-trades skill set in the media industry.
He said it was possible to $ nd a job a few years ago with just one specialization in a communications and media program.
“Now when you graduate you need to know how to shoot digital photographs, record digital audio and edit those things in a program like Final Cut Pro and post
it all on the web,” he said. “! e di% erence between someone who’s practiced radio broadcasting and someone in photojournalism has decreased because now (employers) want people who know how to work on multiple platforms.”
! e demand of Apple products and so# ware at the university can also be because of the familiarity of the brand with students, faculty and sta% , said James Abbott, customer service manager of the University Bookstore.
Abbott also serves as the uno& cial on-campus representative of Apple products. He said on average the bookstore sells about 20 Macintosh computers per month.
“We get students asking about every di% erent Apple product and the majority of the time, customers will come in and they know, or they’ve already used, a Mac, iPad, or iPod,” he said. “Just because most people are familiar with it, it increases the demand on them tenfold.”
Apple products in! uence students
SARAH SCHNEIDERDaily Egyptian
KARL BULLOCKDaily Egyptian
Faculty group plans to decertify Faculty Association
A group of faculty members have begun to discuss how to decertify the use of the only bargaining unit for tenured and tenure-track faculty, the Faculty Association, and instead represent themselves as a group of faculty.
In the six days since Mike Eiholz, an associate professor of zoology, sent an email to all tenure and non-tenure faculty expressing the goal of his group, Faculty for Sensible Negotiations, and the need to explore alternatives to the Faculty Association, Eiholz said he has received overwhelming responses both in support and in question of the group.
Eiholz, representative for FSN, said more than 140 faculty responded in support of the e% ort to replace the Faculty Association which is a& liated with the Illinois Education Association.
! e IEA represents the four campus unions without contracts that have been negotiating terms in their contracts since June 2010 when the previous settlement ended. In the last two weeks the unions’ dues-paying members have authorized their executive bodies to set a strike date if there is no further progress in negotiations.
Eiholz said a group of about $ ve faculty members have discussed for two years their opposition to decisions made by the association. He said faculty members are intelligent enough to negotiate their own contracts without the use of an outside representation.
“As you are aware, our university is at a crisis that threatens our reputation and possibly our future as a scholarly institution,” he said in the email sent ! ursday. “While we may not agree with the administration’s stance on some matters, we believe that the Faculty Association and its parent organization, the Illinois Education Association, share responsibility for bringing us to this point. We are currently working under an agreement that was imposed because of what we believe was unrealistic and unreasonable FA demands on many issues.”
! e email said the association has resorted to tactics that have created an openly hostile atmosphere on campus.
Rod Sievers, spokesman for the university, said the administration would have no say in how the union was represented and would want no say in the matter. He said it is something the faculty would have to determine.
“Whatever group should emerge, the university would work with them just like they do in the Faculty Association,” Sievers said.
Eiholz said the decerti$ cation of the association could take up to six months, but if it were to happen the group would want the Faculty Senate, or a similar organization, to represent the faculty.
According to the senate’s website the group is a body of elected faculty members whose goal is to ensure the enforcement of policies involving academics and all faculty status and welfare.
In a follow-up email sent to faculty Friday, Eiholz said the senate already represents faculty on many issues and is in place to deal with faculty concerns. He said they are not sure if the senate will be able to represent the faculty but they are in the process of determining that.
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SIUE bass ! shing club moves on to national championship
Justin Skinner, of Taylorville, casts a line Friday into Kinkaid Lake during the National Guard FLW College Fishing Central Regional Championship. Skinner, with
his SIU-Edwardsville teammate Brad Lemasters, took third place in the tournament, advancing them to compete in the national championship.
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