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Dozens of bowls filled with rice are prepared each day for the children of Rainbow Town, a Liberian orphanage that took root in 2006 after Feeta Naimen, or “Ma Feeta,” became a mother to more than 250 children. Her role began in 1994, when members of the rebel group Liberian Peace Council threatened to kill her if she didn’t take children who were likely orphaned as a result of the violence. The civil war lasted from 1989 to 2003, with international agencies

estimating more than 200,000 dead. Naimen and her sisters now care for 86 children at the orphanage with the help of the Shine Foundation, an aid agency created by Lauren Selmon Roberts’ family members. Roberts, a graduate student in cinema and photography, made the documentary film “Rainbow Town” as her thesis and publicly screened it for the first time Sunday at the Student Center Auditorium. SEE PAGE 8 for the full story.

Uche Onyebadi has big plans for SIU to expand its school over-seas in a country still ravaged by one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.

Onyebadi, an assistant profes-sor in the School of Journalism, is working on a project in which SIU will construct at least one primary school in Haiti, and so far support from administrators has been overwhelming.

“I bounced it o� (director of the School of Journalism) Bill (Freivogel) and he liked it, and he took it to the dean who also liked it,” Onyebadi said. “Now it has been passed between deans across campus, and everybody has been sold on the idea so far.”

Haiti is still reeling a� er a 7.0 earthquake hit the country Jan. 12, killing at least 217,000 people and leaving more than 1 million homeless, according to Associ-

ated Press reports. Onyebadi said though the country needs food and shelter, those are only tem-porary � xes.

“� ey have all these tempo-rary needs... but what about the future?” he said. “� ey need an education, and I thought why not go and help them with that?”

Onyebadi’s proposal, which will be presented to the Faculty Senate on Tuesday, asks for vol-untary donations of $5 from faculty, sta� and students inter-ested in helping Haiti. Onyebadi said there is not yet a set target amount, and the proposal is still being adjusted.

Lisa Brooten, the interim chair for the radio-television department, said she � rst heard about the project when Onyebadi brought it to the Management Council Group, where chairper-sons and deans meet weekly.

Students who rely on Monetary Award Program funding could have less than three weeks to apply for the grant.

Paul Palian, director of communi-cations for the Illinois Student Assis-tance Commission, said applications for the grant are up 37 percent this year, which could lead to a submis-sion deadline by the end of April, a month earlier than last year. More than 5,000 students at SIUC bene� t-ed from the MAP grant last year.

“Tough economic times mean that the demand is highest when the state’s ability to meet the demand is probably at its lowest,” Palian said. “Our advice to students is if you haven’t � lled out FAFSA yet, do it soon — do it now.”

� e Free Application for Federal Student Aid form gives students ac-cess to programs such as MAP, Pell grants and work-study programs.

Palian said competition would be even more intense for � nancial aid in the fall semester than it was last year when close to 100,000 eligible students did not receive aid because of a lack of resources.

Gov. Pat Quinn has pro-posed a $5.4 million increase in MAP funding for � scal year 2011, which would bring the total to roughly $410 million. Carbondale representative Mike Bost — a member of the House Higher Education Com-mittee — said the modest increase in MAP funding compared to the substantial increase in applicants shows the state is still looking at education as one of the � rst services in line for the chopping block.

Bost said he has pushed for MAP funding, but Republicans and Demo-crats have reached a stalemate that makes progress on any issue a rare

occurrence. He said eventually some-thing will have to give and cuts will need to be made, so students need to continue to voice their support for MAP.

MAP deadline could be April 30JEFF ENGELHARDTDaily Egyptian

JULIA FROMME | DAILY EGYPTIANSource: The Simon Review,

Paul Simon Public Policy Institue

Monetary Award Program funding in Illinois

2004 $342,399.80

2005 $338,699.80

2006 $350,399.80

2007 $384,799.80

2008 $384,799.80

2009 $385,299.80

2010 $405,000.00

Please see MAP | 3

Professor proposes SIU-HaitiRYAN VOYLESDaily Egyptian

Please see HAITI | 3

AMY ELROD | PROVIDED PHOTO

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Carbondale police re-sponded at 9 p.m. Monday to the 600 block of West Col-lege Street in reference to a report of a trespass to a resi-dence, a department release stated. Officers learned the suspect entered the apart-ment without permission from the resident and ap-peared to attempt to take a picture of the victim with a camera phone before he fled, the release stated. The sus-pect is described as a black male, 5 feet 8 inches, 140 pounds. Police are still in-vestigating the incident.

Carbondale police con-ducted a traffic stop at 12:50

p.m. Sunday on South Illinois Avenue near the intersection of Lincoln Drive, a depart-ment release stated. During the stop, officers arrested Joseph Wyatt for unlawful possession and delivery of 30 to 500 grams of cannabis, the release stated. Wyatt was also arrested on a Kankakee County warrant for failure to appear for driving while li-cense suspended, the release stated. Wyatt is being held in the Jackson County Jail.

Carbondale police re-sponded at 12:35 a.m. Sat-urday to the 100 block of North Washington Street in reference to a report of mob

action, a department release stated. Officers learned the victim was in a verbal argu-ment with an unknown per-son when he was approached by seven to eight males who knocked him to the ground and battered him before flee-ing north, the release stated. The victim declined medical attention. Police are still in-vestigating the incident, the release stated.

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“I represent SIU, so I will and do argue for the MAP grant, but the ques-tion is are there enough legislators to say that is justi� able over more funding for services for the handicapped? � ose are the decisions that have to be made,” Bost said.

Priciliano Fabian, president of the Undergraduate Student Gov-ernment, was one of the hundreds of SIUC students that showed up in Spring� eld during the fall semester to help convince the General As-sembly to bump MAP funding from

$198 million to $403 million. While Fabian said he was happy to

see Quinn make MAP a priority this � scal year, he said students would need to show up in force again for the April 22 Lobby Day to demand more aid.

“I was glad to hear there was $5 mil-lion more for MAP next year, but I still feel we may need to � ght for it to make

sure it comes to the students,” Fabian said. “With Lobby Day coming up next week, we hope to get as many students as we can to go to Spring� eld to not just push for MAP funding, but the operat-ing budget as well.”

A recent report by John Jackson, a visiting professor at Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, highlights the declining

support of higher education and MAP from the state.

� e report shows funding fell from � scal year 2001 to 2003 before going up again in 2004. It then dropped again in � scal year 2005 before staying relatively stagnant from 2007 to 2009. Without student intervention last fall, the funding would have been lower than 1997 levels.

Jackson said the political climate in Spring� eld is hurting the state’s ability to dig out of the $13 billion de� cit it is in, and the students are the ones feeling the a¤ ects.

“� e MAP grants are terribly im-portant to Illinois students,” Jackson said. “I think every item is in jeopardy if the (General Assembly) doesn’t get seri-ous in the budget negotiation that ends May 15. If they don’t get serious, we will start — on July 1 — a budget year that will be a nightmare for everyone.”

Je� Engelhardt can be reached at jengelhardt@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 254.

“I think despite the economic problems that we have in the country, we really need to recognize we have a lot, and it’s important to create soli-darity globally — especially in educa-tion,” Brooten said. “As a university, to help a country that has had so much happen to it, it’s a great feeling.”

It would not be the � rst time SIU has had facilities in Haiti.

� e construction of a primary school in Haiti would revive the study abroad program that SIU had with Haiti during the 1980s, On-yebadi said. He said students from departments including architecture, education and theater could send students there to learn in a di¤ erent atmosphere.

Onyebadi said he has already contacted the Haitian embassy and is waiting for word from the Haitian government about the project. He said he wants to start it soon, before

Haiti is forgotten.“As we get further away from the

tragedy, the news goes on to the new-est story,” he said. “We want to do this while it is still fresh on people’s minds.”

Brooten, a member of the Fac-ulty Senate, will open the « oor for Onyebadi to present his case to the senate Tuesday. She said she already knows several higher-ups have ex-pressed interest.

“Phil Howze, the senate president, has been very supportive,” Brooten said “� e senators we took it to last week in the Executive Council were really interested in it and all the indi-vidual faculty senators we have taken it to are really helping out.”

Onyebadi said the situation is simi-lar to an old adage about education.

“It is as they say, ‘Give me a piece of � sh, I’ll eat,’” he said. “Teach me how to � sh, and I’ll eat for a lifetime.’”

Ryan Voyles can be reached at rvoyles@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 259.

MAPCONTINUED FROM 1

A young Haitian man, right, flirts with a young Haitian woman as life goes on inside the Daihatsu tent camp Jan. 25 on the outskirts of Port au Prince, Haiti.

BRIAN VANDER BRUG | MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

HAITICONTINUED FROM 1

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

THEIR WORD

Dear Editor:I would like to applaud Mr. Martinez

for having the guts to publicly state his views on my recent letter to the Daily Egyptian, unlike most of the anony-mous persons who have posted their negative responses to my views on the DE Web site.

However, one cannot help but ques-tion the judgment of someone who admits to being the “victim of multiple crimes at the hands of intoxicated people.”

Unless his victimizers were his parents or guardians, you’d think he would know better than to involve himself in situations where he is likely to be victimized.

Alcohol is a drug — a very dangerous drug. And you do not have to drink even a single drop for it to have an impact on your life. If limiting access to it can help prevent even one incident of child abuse, spousal abuse, murder, rape or any other serious crime that it is too o� en a major contributing factor of, it is more than

worth the minor inconvenience of having to make an extra stop at the liquor store.

Some of you are probably thinking, “But Jim (or insert favorite expletive here), these places are o� en surrounded by mean, aggressive, drunken panhandlers. You are putting us in danger by making us go there!”   en I would have to coun-ter that you don’t care if our grocery stores and gas stations become that way also. Enough is enough.

James L. Desper Jr.

Carbondale resident

One inconvenience can prevent many crimes

Dear Editor:In response to James Desper Jr.’s

letter Tuesday, he is incorrect that I suggested “that an increase in the sales tax would fall hardest on stu-dents and renters.” I did, though, suggest that an increase in the property tax would a ect students and renters more than an increase in the sales tax.

Also in response to Mr. Des-per’s letter, according to comments

on the DE Web site by notJonOs-born, apparently rats are revered in China and parts of India, and research by Jaak Panksepp and Je Burgdorf found that rats emit short, high frequency, ultrasonic, socially induced vocalization when tickled. In other words, rats enjoy a good laugh.

Joel FritzlerCarbondale city councilman

Dear Editor:I read with interest the letters in

“Voices” about climate change from professors Sullivan and Gray. Although my major is ceramic engineering and minors are chemistry and physics, I do not portend to be a climate expert.

I do have a strong foundation in chemistry and thermodynamics and hope to be better than a ¬ � h grader when it comes to the relationships be-tween carbon dioxide/carbon monox-ide, oxygen and chlorophyll, and under-standing the Earth is heated by the sun. More solar activity equals more heat.

How will taxing Americans and American industries for carbon mon-oxide emissions and giving that money to the UN to give to third-world coun-tries bene¬ t the Earth and humanity? Planting more trees, especially in the rain forests will! More oxygen, less carbon dioxide!

Professor Sullivan quoted a sur-vey from a “tree hugger” organization in San Francisco managed by Rhett Butler, who studied economics and math. He also quotes realclimate.org, which has ² opped from a global cool-ing panic to a global warming panic.

Realclimate.org is owned by Environ-mental Media Services (formed by Arlie Schardt, associate of Al Gore) and is funded by Soros through moveon.org.

Funny, Gore confused the tem-perature of the Earth’s core with the surface temperature of the sun and used a computer-generated image of a glacier melting instead of the real im-age. Real science and climate expert!

Climatologists and meteorolo-gists make predictions using models. When data used is insu³ cient or has been altered, the results are not sci-

enti¬ c. Recently, NASA and “scien-tists” from IPCC have misreported, hidden, manipulated and destroyed data to achieve their economic and political interests. Consensus of opin-ion isn’t fact when the scienti¬ c data proves the opposite.   e Earth was ² at by a consensus of opinion!

No scienti¬ c study proves a cor-relation between global warming and man-made carbon dioxide. Read “Environmental E ects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide,” which can be found at http://www.oism.org/pproject/GWReview_OISM300.pdf.

  e results of a survey by the American Meteorological Associa-

tion said 24 percent believe global warming is human-induced, 19 per-cent believe climate models are reli-able and 56 percent believe global warming is a scam.

Recently, Dr. Phil Jones of CRU (one of the most adamant global warming activists) stated there has been no global warming since 1998.   is was a� er Climategate. Recently, the Institute of Physics (36,000 mem-bers) rebuked IPCC for the fraud per-petrated by the “Climategate” group. Why the need to cheat?

Dale E. Wittmerprofessor in engineering

Property tax would a� ect renters more than sales tax

Not pretending to be a climate expert and neither should they

Mining accidents are as closely as-sociated with West Virginia as Appa-lachian folk music.   ey’re expected, but no one knows when the next trag-edy will occur.

It was Monday.   at’s when an ex-plosion occurred at the Upper Branch Mine near Montcoal, W.Va., killing at least 25 miners. Rescue e orts con-tinue for four others believed to be trapped inside.

While mining accidents seem bound to happen, there are strong signs that this one might have been prevent-ed.   e canaries indicating potential

danger were the hundreds of safety violations attributed to the coal mine’s operator, Massey Energy.

  e federal Mine Safety and Health Administration had cited Massey for more than 1,300 violations at the Up-per Big Branch mine since 2005, charg-es that could bring nearly $2 million in ¬ nes. Fi� y citations in the last year involve issues like proper ventilation, handling combustible materials and escape routes.

  at Massey has been cited so many times should in one sense be comforting. It’s an indication that safety

inspections have improved since Con-gress passed the 2006 Miner Act, which was its response to another West Vir-ginia tragedy, the Sago Mine explosion, which killed 12 miners that year.

But the fact that a mine could continue operating despite hundreds of safety violations is absolutely dis-heartening.

“Something went very wrong here,” Kevin Stricklin, an MSHA administra-

tor, said of Monday’s explosion. Yes, and the greatest wrong was

Massey’s ability to sco at citations and keep its mine running.   e company’s CEO is Don L. Blankenship, who seems to dismiss MSHA citations as if they were toilet paper.

“Violations are unfortunately a normal part of the mining process,” Blankenship said.

He is known for his anti-union

antics, and for spending millions of his own money to in² uence a 2004 election for the West Virginia Su-preme Court.

Coal miners need assurances that safety regulators are going to do more than issue citations to people like Blan-kenship, whose company doubled its pro¬ ts to $104 million last year com-pared with 2008. Shutting down a mine will get his attention — and it just might save some lives.

� is editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer � ursday.

Safety regulations need to be changed for minersW hile mining accidents seem bound to happen, there are

strong signs that this one might have been prevented.

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Across1 A dog may pull on one during a walk6 __ Hari10 Engrave with acid14 Navel type15 Medical suffix16 Rise sky-high17 Loose-hanging trousers19 Soaks (up)20 Coiled hair style21 Slanted type style: Abbr.22 Buddies23 Most sickly25 1957 hit for Buddy Holly and the Crickets28 Sharpshooter30 Painting props31 Tight as __32 Hired thug35 4:00 London social36 Coin collector?40 Not prem., as gas43 Chewy Hershey’s candy44 “__ my case”

48 Beethoven symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon51 Erode gradually, as savings53 Gershwin song set in London, with “A”56 Coast Guard operation57 Do bar duty58 Wander60 Like two peas in a __61 Cylindrical pasta62 Carriage outings65 Grammy co-winner for the rap song “Back on the Block”66 Theater award67 “__ evil ...”68 Super Bowl, e.g.69 Avoid flunking70 Admin. aides

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3 Lean and bony4 Enrolled5 Attention-getter6 Castle protector7 “Easy!”8 Lancelot’s was “Sir”9 Barnyard brayer10 Some exam answers11 Handyman’s must-have12 Word after time or timed-release13 Time measures: Abbr.18 Feel sorry for22 Links org.23 Snake River st.24 Big road rig26 Actress Rowlands27 That, in Tijuana29 “Leggo my ___!”33 Popeye’s Olive34 Woodwind quintet member37 Alum38 Evening, commercially39 Crunchy cereal brand

word40 Foul caller41 Art of a sexual nature42 Rah-rah encouragement45 Scrambles to keep secret46 Pupil47 Corn site49 Set ablaze50 Charisse of “Singin’ in

the Rain”52 Military force54 Vacation isle near Venezuela55 Bear and Berra59 Ripens, as cheese61 Sharp turn62 Jazz style63 Pretoria’s nation: Abbr.64 “H-E-L-P!”

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Today’s birthday — Financial matters continue to challenge your creativity this year. Your success grows out of an increased capacity to use both sides of your brain when making decisions and plans. In addition, artistic talents provide an income stream to supplement other resources.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — If you can take the day off with your significant other, you’ll discover romance at your fingertips. If you can’t, plan an evening that starts as early as possible.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Take extra care when working on creative projects, especially when using sharp instruments. Make refinements in small increments, and evaluate as you go.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — Every time you meet a deadline, you turn an obstacle into opportunity. Delivering ahead of time eliminates pressure for everyone and frees you for the next great idea.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 5 — You find yourself in the spotlight without part of your costume. Oops! Grab an associate or two and ask them to fix it, now! They’ll jump to help.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — You may be tempted to tiptoe around a problem today. A better strategy would be to face obstacles head-on while pulling strings in the background.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 5 — Be aware of your partner’s unusual needs. The challenge is to meet demands even when neither of you enjoys the process. Add empathy, and then just take care of it.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — A solid strategy for work would be to challenge all participants. Inspire enthusiasm by focusing on practical outcomes that everyone can appreciate.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 5 — Spread your charm as far as you like. There’s plenty to go around. Meanwhile, keep your opinions to yourself.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — You’ll get more done today if you work around everyone else. They have their own challenges, unrelated to yours. Leave them to their own devices.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Everything will work out the way you want if you pay attention to your partner’s requests. If you don’t, you’ll face major obstacles.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — You surprise even yourself with your careful management. You recognize the challenge in stretching dollars to cover it all. Reward yourself too.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — What a difference it makes to be aware of your partner’s foibles, and vice versa. Both of you feel a bit compulsive today. Creative teasing is in order.

HoroscopesBy Nancy Black and Stephanie Clement

Daily EgyptianStudy BreakMonday, April 12, 2010 13

Editorial PolicyOur Word is the consensus of the Daily Egyptian Editorial Board on local, national and global issues a� ecting the Southern Illinois University community. Viewpoints expressed in columns and letters to the editor do not necessarily re� ect those of the Daily Egyptian.

EDITORIAL CARTOON

Taxpayers � ling their 1040s are likely wondering just where all their hard-earned tax dollars are going.

Washington will spend $31,406 per household in 2010 — the highest level in American history (adjusted for in� ation). It will collect $18,276 per household in taxes. � e remaining $13,130 represents this year’s staggering budget de� cit per household, which, along with all prior government debt, will be dumped in the laps of our children.

Government spending has in-creased by $5,000 per household since 2008, and nearly $10,000 per house-hold over the past decade. Yet there is no free lunch: If spending is not reined in, then eventually taxes must also rise by $10,000 per household.

Washington will spend this $31,406 per household as follows:

Social Security and Medicare: $9,949. � e 15.3 percent payroll tax, split evenly between the employer and employee, covers most of these costs.

� is system can remain sustainable only if there are enough workers to support all retirees, which is why it risks collapsing under the weight of 77 million retiring baby boomers. Unless these programs are reformed, paying all promised bene� ts would eventually require doubling all income tax rates.

Defense: $6,071. � e defense budget covers everything from military paychecks to operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to the research, development and acquisition of new technologies and equipment. Lawmakers drastically reduced military spending a¥ er the collapse of communism in the early 1990s. � e 9/11 attacks reversed this trend, and the in� ation-adjusted $2,472 per household increase since 2000 has returned military spending closer to its historical levels (but still lower than during previous wars).

Anti-poverty programs: $5,466. Nearly half of this spending subsidizes state Medicaid programs that provide health services to poor families. Other low-income spending includes: Tem-porary Assistance for Needy Families,

food stamps, housing subsidies, child-care subsidies, Supplemental Security Income and low-income tax credits. President George W. Bush increased anti-poverty spending to record levels, and it has grown an additional 32 per-cent since the end of 2008 under Presi-dent Barack Obama.

Unemployment bene  ts: $1,640. Unemployment costs have surged by 411 percent during the recession.

Interest on the federal debt: $1,585. � e federal government is $13 trillion in debt. It owes $9 trillion to public bond owners, and the rest to other fed-eral agencies (mostly to repay the Social Security trust fund, which lawmakers raided annually before the program went into de� cit in 2010). Record-low interest rates have recently held down these costs. However, the national debt is set to double by 2020, which will combine with higher interest rates to raise annual interest costs to nearly

$6,000 per household. Veterans’ bene  ts: $1,052. � e fed-

eral government provides income and health bene� ts to war veterans. Spend-ing is up 83 percent since 2000. Federal employee retirement bene� ts: $1,018. � is spending funds the retirement and disability bene� ts of federal employees, including the military.

Education: $914. Education spend-ing is primarily a state and local function; 9 percent of the total comes from Wash-ington. � e federal education budget has leaped 125 percent since 2000. Most federal dollars are spent on low-income school districts, special education and college student � nancial aid. Highways/mass transit: $613. Most highway and mass-transit spending is � nanced by the 18.4 cent per-gallon federal gas tax. Washington subtracts an administrative cost and sends this money back to the states with numerous strings attached.

Health research/regulation: $550.

� is spending is up 50 percent since 2001, and much of this growth is con-centrated in the National Institute of Health. � e category also includes the Food and Drug Administration and dozens of grant programs for health providers.

Mortgage Credit: $470. While most of the bank bailouts occurred last year, the bailouts of Fannie Mae, Fred-die Mac and the rest of the housing market continue. � e programs listed above cover $29,328 per household.

Remaining: $2,078. � e rest is al-located to all other federal programs, including justice, international a� airs, natural resources, the environment, regional development, farm subsidies, social services, space exploration, air transportation and energy.

Taxpayers — and the next genera-tion that will be paying nearly half of the bill — must decide for themselves if they’re getting their money’s worth.

Brian Riedl is the Grover M. Hermann fellow in federal

budgetary a� airs at � e Heritage Foundation.

How Washington is spending your taxes in 2010BRIAN RIEDLMcClatchy Tribune G overnment spending has increased by $5,000 per

household since 2008, and nearly $10,000 per household over the past decade.

GUEST COLUMN

KABUL — A� er days of dis-cord, U.S. o cials on Sunday went one step farther in their new, gentler tact with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, expressing sympathy for the pressure he faces and promoting him as commander in chief of the warring nation.

U.S.-Afghan relations grew tense last week when Karzai, seeking to bolster his own political stature, lashed out against the U.N. and the international community, accusing them of perpetrating a “vast fraud” in last year’s presidential polls as part of a conspiracy to deny him re-election or tarnish his victory — accusations the U.S. and the United Nations have denied.

Two days later, Karzai told a group of parliament members that if foreign interference in his govern-ment continued, the Taliban would become a legitimate resistance — one that he might even join, accord-

ing to several lawmakers present.White House spokesman Robert

Gibbs described Karzai’s remarks as “troubling.” But the American tone quickly so� ened. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and De-fense Secretary Robert Gates blitzed Sunday morning news shows in the U.S. to call Karzai a reliable partner.

“I have to say that some of these outlandish claims that are being made and accusations that are being hurled are really unfortunate,” Clinton told CBS’ “Face the Nation” in an interview taped Friday and aired on Sunday.

“� is is a leader who is under enormous pressure. And I wonder sometimes how anybody can cope with the kind of relentless stress that you face a� er having been in some military activity or war footing for 30 years, which is what the reality is in Afghanistan,” she said.

Gates stressed that Karzai deserved respect as the leader of a sovereign country and said he had a cooperative relationship with U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top commander of

NATO forces in Afghanistan.“� is is a man who’s, � rst of all,

a political leader,” Gates told ABC’s “� is Week.” ‘’He has domestic au-diences as well as foreign audienc-es. What I can tell you is that Gen. McChrystal continues to meet with him regularly. � ey have a very posi-tive relationship. He gets very good cooperation out of President Karzai.”

Gates said the Afghans want their president to be treated with respect as representative of a sover-eign nation. Gates said it’s only natu-ral that when a political leader feels he or his nation is being pressured or disrespected, “he’s going to react strongly,” Gates said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Richard Holbrooke, special U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Gen. David Petreaus, who over-sees the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, echoed the comments Sunday in the Afghan capital.

“President Karzai is the com-mander in chief — he is the presi-dent of a sovereign country,” Pe-

treaus told reporters. “Yes, there’s a partnership, but he is the command-er in chief.”

Petreaus praised Karzai for mak-ing trips to Marjah in Helmand province where thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops pushed out the Taliban earlier this year, and to the Taliban’s birthplace in neigh-boring Kandahar province. Kan-dahar is the site of a joint o� ensive ramping up to clear neighborhoods of insurgents and rush in new gov-ernance and aid to stall the Taliban’s momentum.

NATO reported that another international service member was killed Sunday by a bomb in south-ern Afghanistan but gave no further details.

On Sunday, Karzai traveled to northern Afghanistan where he urged insurgents to lay down their arms and air their grievances. Ad-dressing a gathering in Kunduz province, he repeated his standing invitation to meet with any insur-gent who renounces violence and

terrorism and embraces the Afghan Constitution.

“Come and have your say, not by the gun,” Karzai said.

“You say that ‘foreigners are here.’ As long as you � ght, they won’t leave,” he said, referring to what the insurgents say is their main goal of driving foreign forces from the country.

Underscoring insecurity in the area, three rockets were � red to-ward Kunduz ahead of Karzai’s ar-rival Sunday morning, but landed harmlessly in farm � elds, provincial spokesman Ahmad Sami Yawar said. � e president later pulled out of a visit to German troops stationed in the area due in part to what were described as safety concerns.

Security has been deteriorating in Kunduz for the past two years, particularly since the opening ear-ly last year of a route through the province for supplies traveling from Europe through Russia and down to the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.

WARSAW, Poland — Tens of thousands of Poles so� ly sang the national anthem and tossed � owers at the hearse carrying the body of Presi-dent Lech Kaczynski to the presidential palace on Sunday a� er it was returned from Russia, where he and dozens of political, military and religious leaders were killed in a plane crash.

� e plane carrying Kaczynski’s body arrived from the Smolensk air-port, where he and 95 others had been heading Saturday to honor 22,000 Pol-ish o cers slain by the Soviet secret police in 1940 in the western Soviet Union.

� e co n bearing Kaczynski’s re-mains were met � rst by his daughter Marta, whose mother Maria also per-ished in the crash. She knelt before it, her forehead resting on the co n.

She was followed by Jaroslaw Kac-zynski, the former prime minister, and the president’s twin brother. He, too, knelt and pressed his head against the � ag-draped co n before rising slowly and crossing himself.

Standing sentinel were four Polish troopers bearing sabers.

� ere was no sign of the twins’ ailing mother Jadwiga, who has been hospital-ized. � e president had canceled several foreign trips lately to be by her side.

� e co n was placed aboard a Mercedes-Benz hearse and slowly trav-eled several miles to the palace, watched by thousands of weeping Poles.

Earlier, the country held two min-utes of silence in memorial for those killed in the crash.

Church bells pealed at noon and emergency sirens shrieked for nearly a minute before fading. Hundreds bowed their heads, eyes closed, in front of the presidential palace. Buses and trams halted in the streets.

No date for a funeral has been set and the presidential palace has not yet said if Kaczynski will lie in state.

� e death of the president and much of the state and defense es-tablishment in Russia, en route to commemorating one of the saddest events in the neighboring nations’ long, complicated history, was laden with tragic irony.

“He taught Poles how to respect our traditions, how to � ght for our dig-nity, and he made he made his sacri� ce there at that tragic place,” said mourner Boguslaw Staron, 70.

Among the dead were Poland’s army chief of sta� , the navy chief com-mander, and heads of the air and land forces. At the Field Cathedral of the Polish Army in Warsaw, hundreds gathered for a morning Mass and le� � owers and written condolences. Gov-ernment spokesman Pawel Gras said the country’s armed forces and state o ces were operating normally despite the devastating losses.

Michal Boni, an o cial in the prime minister’s o ce, said they re-mained in constant contact with deputy head of the National Bank of Poland, Piotr Wiesiolek.

He said the bank’s Monetary Policy

Council will hold a meeting on Mon-day, as previously planned.

“We are prepared to take various decisions, but we do not see that any-thing dangerous could happen in the economy,” Boni said. � e economy has so far managed to avoid recession.

� e acting president, Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski, said he would call for early elections within 14 days, in line with the constitution. � e vote must be held within another 60 days.

Kaczynski had indicated he would seek a second term in presidential elections this fall but was expected to face an uphill struggle against Ko-morowski and his governing party, the moderate, pro-business Civic Platform. Kaczynski’s nationalist con-servative Law and Justice Party could bene� t, however, from the support of a country mourning the loss of their president, particularly with elections now set to take place by late June.

In Moscow, Russia’s transport min-istry said that Russian and Polish inves-tigators had begun to decipher � ight data recorders of the aging Soviet-built Tu-154 airliner that crashed while try-ing to land in deep fog in Smolensk.

Russian o cials had said 97 people were killed but revised the � gure to 96. Poland’s Foreign Ministry also con-� rmed the � gure.

� e Smolensk regional government said Russian dispatchers had asked the Polish crew to divert from the military airport there because of the fog and land instead in Moscow or Minsk, the capital of neighboring Belarus.

Former president, Solidarity found-er and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Walesa, said it was too soon to cast blame.

“Someone must have been taking decisions on that plane. I don’t believe that the pilot took decisions single-

handedly,” he told reporters. “� at’s not possible. I have � own a lot and whenev-er there were doubts, they always came to the leaders and asked for a decision, and based on that, pilots took decisions. Sometimes the decision was against the leader’s instructions.”

Daily Egyptian World & Nation Monday, April 12, 20106FLORIDAAstronauts take second spacewalk to replace space station tank

C A P E C A N AV E R A L — Astronauts struggled with stiff bolts while attaching a big new tank full of ammonia coolant to the International Space Station on Sunday, their second spacewalk in three days to accom-plish the job.

The 215-mile-high action unfolded on the 40th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 13.

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TS BANGKOK — Anti-government pro-testers dug into their encampments around Bangkok and rejected talk of negotiations Sunday after a monthlong standoff escalated into clashes that killed 20 people in Thailand’s worst political violence in nearly two decades.

Foreign governments issued warnings for citizens visiting Thailand, where tourism is a lifeblood industry.

Sudanese begin votingK H A R TO U M — Sudanese across

Africa’s largest country voted Sunday in their first competitive elections in nearly a quar-ter century despite partial boycotts by the opposition and calls to delay the vote.

In Khartoum, turnout was lighter than expected in the first few hours of voting, aside from a few enthusiastic supporters of President Omar al-Bashir.

I am determined to do it if it takes two weeks or

two years.

JORDAN ROMERO13, on climbing Mount Everest; if he succeeds,

he will be the youngest person to reach Everest’s summit at 29,028 ft.

SUDANTHAILAND

Afghan leader is ‘commander in chief ’DEB RICHMANNThe Associated Press

Polish president’s body returns to WarsawMONIKA SCISLOWSKAVLADIMIR ISACHENKOVThe Associated Press

Thai protesters dig in, reject talks

A young boy carries flowers in front of the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland on Sunday after Polish President Lech Kaczynski died in a plane crash. Kaczynski, his wife and some of the country’s highest military and civilian leaders died Saturday when the presidential plane crashed as it came in for a landing in thick fog in western Russia, killing 96.

PETR DAVID JOSEK | MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

Two students went to Las Vegas to com-pete in a tournament for a game they had never played before.

Jered Sloan, a graduate student in sculp-ture from Norton, Kan., and Tanya Gadbaw a graduate student in painting and draw-ing from Great Bend, N.Y., won a trip to Las Vegas a� er winning a quarters tournament March 20 at Copper Dragon. � e win led the duo to compete for $25,000 at the Hard Rock Hotel Las Vegas last weekend in the Bud Light Shoot for the Championship National Quar-ters Competition.

� e pair said they had never played quarters before March 6, when they won a competition at � e Cellar, which quali� ed them to enter a Copper Dragon tournament.

Sloan said some sponsors from the Vegas tournament at the bar asked if the two wanted to play, which Gadbaw said lead to the unusual night.

“It was very random. (Sloan) needed a partner, and we didn’t know what we were playing for,” Gadbaw said. “We played � ve or six teams and they said the � nals to go to Ve-gas would be at Copper. I said, ‘Well, it’s only Copper; let’s see what happens’.”

� ey won that, too — which sent them to Las Vegas, where they made it to the third round of the 200-competitor tournament.

In Vegas, the game of quarters is played with poker chips, with 35 seconds to land their chips in either a tub — for two points — or a cup within the tub — for three points. � e college version of quarters might consist of rules that require one to bounce a quarter into a shot glass or a cup of beer, allowing them to hand out drinks.

Gadbow said the � eld was a little more stacked than she thought it would be.

“Even on the plane from St. Louis to Las Vegas, there were other teams participat-ing there, and they were talking about how a team in the tournament has won four straight years,” Gadbow said. “It was kind of intimidating.”

� e duo made it to the round with 64 teams le� but lost 148-131, Sloan said.

Sarah Renshaw, a graduate student in metals, was there the night they were asked

to play quarters. She said the victory was very surprising to her.

“I thought Jered might be alright, but I didn’t even think Tanya had played before,” Renshaw said. “It was all just really crazy.”

Even though they came up short of win-ning the $25,000, Sloan looks back on the trip fondly.

“It was completely abnormal — I have never been to Vegas before and I had no idea what to expect,” Sloan said. “It was like the grandest of the grand. You can’t see anywhere

else like it.”Gadbow said a return to the tournament

next year was not out of the question.“I don’t know what I’ll be doing at the

same time next year, but it’d be interesting to go back,” Gadbow said. “I would like to see if we could go there and win it. It’s hard to pass up on a chance to win that kind of money.”

Derek Robbins can be reached at drobbins@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 273.

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Jered Sloan, a graduate student in sculpture from Norton, Kan., and Tanya Gadbaw, a graduate student in painting and drawing from Great Bend, N.Y., bounce poker chips as they pose for a portrait Sunday in the Communications Building.

The pair entered the Bud Light Shoot for the Championship National Quarters Competition in Las Vegas, which took place last weekend, after competing in tournaments that were held at The Cellar and Copper Dragon.

DAN DWYER | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Quarters earn students a trip to VegasDEREK ROBBINSDaily Egyptian

A w oman t ries to navigate home. � ere are machine guns and rebel groups. Young people wield ma-chetes. Hundreds of children are le� homeless.

� e woman is sick. She has le� the hospital in an e� ort to � nd her family, who could be lost already as a result of civil war violence. She’s walking to her home village of Kpolokpai, Libe-ria, hoping to � nd help.

“� ey said, ‘If you can’t take the children, they will die!’” Feeta Nai-men explained at the beginning of “Rainbow Town,” a documentary � lm Laura Selmon Roberts, a gradu-ate student in cinema and photogra-phy, premiered as her thesis Sunday at the Student Center Auditorium.

“In war, you had no power; you had no right,” she said. “ ... You just wanted to live.”

For the next 74 minutes, dozens of audience members listened to the story of Naimen, or “Ma Feeta,” a woman who � rst struggled against but eventually embraced the task of taking hundreds of children under her wing. Her role as a mother began in 1994, when members of the rebel group Liberian Peace Council am-bushed her while walking home and forced her to become a caregiver to eight children.

“I can’t,” she said. � ey stripped and raped her. “I don’t know to care for them,”

she pleaded. She said LPC members raped her

three times in two days before leav-ing her and the children to engage in more � ghting with another rebel group, the National Patriotic Front of Liberia, led by former Liberian Pres. Charles Taylor.

While at � rst she didn’t want the children — Ma Feeta admitted she tried to give them away in Gbarnga, a town near Kpolokpai, before six local pastors advised her not to — she said she realized what God had saved them all from and decided to accept the responsibility.

� e number of children dropped o� by rebels and family members rose to more than 250. Ma Feeta said she focused on providing them with food and shelter.

Now, with the 86 children at the Rainbow Town orphanage, she wants them to have access to an education, she said.

Roberts said she � rst learned of Feeta’s story when she began work with an aid agency in Liberia in 2004.

� rough a series of events, her parents eventually adopted a brother and a sister — Christiana, then Adam — from Ma Feeta, she said.

When Roberts’ hometown com-munity, Norman, Okla., heard Chris-tiana’s story, they wanted to help, she said. � ey began donating.

Family members took the money and created the Shine Foundation, an aid organization that helped build Rainbow Town.

Roberts’ goal of the documentary is to build on the stories of growth and strength at the orphanage and fundraise to build several educational outlets for Liberian children, she said.

She said hopes to present three options: an outlet for college, a trade school or any other passion a child might have.

“You can’t create these one-size-� ts-all programs and expect it to re-ally make a di� erence,” Roberts said.

As for Ma Feeta, she’s con� dent she made the right choice.

“When I die I will receive my re-ward,” she said.

Daily Egyptian News Monday, April 12, 20108

Rick and Marla Britton look at paintings made by Liberian children at Rainbow Town after viewing the premiere of Lauren Selmon Roberts’ documentary Sunday in the Student Center Auditorium. The documentary, named after the orphanage, focused on the story and struggles of Feeta Naimen, or “Ma Feeta,” and how she started

Rainbow Town, which now gives home to 86 children. “It was very moving to see the testimony about God and how God moves in other parts of the world and provides for their needs,” Rick said. Along with paintings, viewers could also purchase crosses sculpted from bullets used by rebel soldiers in the war.

PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

‘Rainbow Town’ tells story of strength, hopeDIANA SOLIWONDaily Egyptian

Children stand around what they’ve created — the name of their orphanage spelled with rocks. The documentary, a thesis project by Lauren Selmon Roberts, used a mixture of video and stills to tell the story of “Ma Feeta,” a Liberian woman who said she used her faith in God to find the strength to care for more than 250 orphaned children during her country’s 14-year civil war.AMY ELRODPROVIDED PHOTO

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Ron Rogers, left, cooks hot dogs for his nephew, Justin Davis, middle, and his son Jeff Rogers Saturday in front of a dilapidated home on his property on Town Creek Road in Murphysboro. Ron Rogers said he purchased the decaying estate next to his home to assure he would not have neighbors. His nephews stay with him nearly every weekend, where they enjoy jumping on a trampoline, games of hide and seek and hunting snakes with machetes. “They play on their Xbox a lot,” Rogers said. “I don’t let them do that when it’s nice. I make them stay outside.”

ISAAC SMITH | DAILY EGYPTIAN

Daniel Mellenthin, or “Sunshine,” a graduate student in rehabilitation from Alton, throws the ball during wheelchair softball Saturday in the Lesar Law Building parking lot. Mellenthin, along with nine other people, came out to enjoy the nice weather and some physical activity.

PAT SUTPHIN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

COUNTRY CAMPFIRE

SOFTBALL WITH ‘SUNSHINE’

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Across1 A dog may pull on one during a walk6 __ Hari10 Engrave with acid14 Navel type15 Medical suffix16 Rise sky-high17 Loose-hanging trousers19 Soaks (up)20 Coiled hair style21 Slanted type style: Abbr.22 Buddies23 Most sickly25 1957 hit for Buddy Holly and the Crickets28 Sharpshooter30 Painting props31 Tight as __32 Hired thug35 4:00 London social36 Coin collector?40 Not prem., as gas43 Chewy Hershey’s candy44 “__ my case”

48 Beethoven symphony originally dedicated to Napoleon51 Erode gradually, as savings53 Gershwin song set in London, with “A”56 Coast Guard operation57 Do bar duty58 Wander60 Like two peas in a __61 Cylindrical pasta62 Carriage outings65 Grammy co-winner for the rap song “Back on the Block”66 Theater award67 “__ evil ...”68 Super Bowl, e.g.69 Avoid flunking70 Admin. aides

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3 Lean and bony4 Enrolled5 Attention-getter6 Castle protector7 “Easy!”8 Lancelot’s was “Sir”9 Barnyard brayer10 Some exam answers11 Handyman’s must-have12 Word after time or timed-release13 Time measures: Abbr.18 Feel sorry for22 Links org.23 Snake River st.24 Big road rig26 Actress Rowlands27 That, in Tijuana29 “Leggo my ___!”33 Popeye’s Olive34 Woodwind quintet member37 Alum38 Evening, commercially39 Crunchy cereal brand

word40 Foul caller41 Art of a sexual nature42 Rah-rah encouragement45 Scrambles to keep secret46 Pupil47 Corn site49 Set ablaze50 Charisse of “Singin’ in

the Rain”52 Military force54 Vacation isle near Venezuela55 Bear and Berra59 Ripens, as cheese61 Sharp turn62 Jazz style63 Pretoria’s nation: Abbr.64 “H-E-L-P!”

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Today’s birthday — Financial matters continue to challenge your creativity this year. Your success grows out of an increased capacity to use both sides of your brain when making decisions and plans. In addition, artistic talents provide an income stream to supplement other resources.

Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 7 — If you can take the day off with your significant other, you’ll discover romance at your fingertips. If you can’t, plan an evening that starts as early as possible.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — Take extra care when working on creative projects, especially when using sharp instruments. Make refinements in small increments, and evaluate as you go.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 6 — Every time you meet a deadline, you turn an obstacle into opportunity. Delivering ahead of time eliminates pressure for everyone and frees you for the next great idea.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 5 — You find yourself in the spotlight without part of your costume. Oops! Grab an associate or two and ask them to fix it, now! They’ll jump to help.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 5 — You may be tempted to tiptoe around a problem today. A better strategy would be to face obstacles head-on while pulling strings in the background.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 5 — Be aware of your partner’s unusual needs. The challenge is to meet demands even when neither of you enjoys the process. Add empathy, and then just take care of it.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 6 — A solid strategy for work would be to challenge all participants. Inspire enthusiasm by focusing on practical outcomes that everyone can appreciate.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Today is a 5 — Spread your charm as far as you like. There’s plenty to go around. Meanwhile, keep your opinions to yourself.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 6 — You’ll get more done today if you work around everyone else. They have their own challenges, unrelated to yours. Leave them to their own devices.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — Everything will work out the way you want if you pay attention to your partner’s requests. If you don’t, you’ll face major obstacles.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 5 — You surprise even yourself with your careful management. You recognize the challenge in stretching dollars to cover it all. Reward yourself too.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 6 — What a difference it makes to be aware of your partner’s foibles, and vice versa. Both of you feel a bit compulsive today. Creative teasing is in order.

HoroscopesBy Nancy Black and Stephanie Clement

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The SIU baseball team became only the second conference team to beat Wichita State (21-10, 7-2 Missouri Valley Conference) in Wichita, Kan. this season but dropped the three-game weekend series.

The Shockers took the first two games of the series with a com-bined score of 18-3, but SIU (16-16, 5-4 MVC) avoided the sweep with a 9-5 victory in game three.

Head coach Dan Callahan said he was disheartened by the team’s performance in the � rst two games, but the bus ride home was much more enjoyable a� er Sunday’s win.

“I was very discouraged after Friday and Saturday,” Callahan said. “We weren’t playing like we had been when we won the last six in a row. I thought our guys showed a lot of courage (Sunday); we could have easily folded after losing two and being down early. It was a good comeback and a big win for us.”

Senior left-hander Ryan Brad-ley (0-3) made the start for SIU in game one of the series and sur-rendered all nine of the Shockers’ runs through 2.2 innings pitched. Junior Andrew Bever kept the Shockers o� the scoreboard in the � nal 5.1 innings, but the Salukis could not get their o� ense going and dropped the opening game 9-2.

The Salukis received a strong performance from their starter in game two, but three errors and an absence of offense spelled the dif-ference in a 9-1 loss.

Senior right-hander Nathan Forer (1-2) gave up six runs in the first two innings and seven

through six innings pitched, but only one run was earned.

Forer said a few mental mis-takes cost the team the first two games, but it left Kansas feeling like it matches up well with the conference’s top team.

“We didn’t play (Wichita State) as well as we should have this weekend,” Forer said. “But we played well enough to get one win out of it and that’s the important thing. We know we can play with them; we just beat ourselves in the

first two games.”The Saluki offense came back

to life en route to a 9-5 victory Sunday to avoid the team’s first three-game sweep of the season.

Every starter for SIU finished with at least one of the team’s 14 hits in the game and three Salukis hit a home run, which included freshman catcher Austin Mont-gomery’s first collegiate long ball.

Junior lefty Randy Hoelscher (2-2) struck out four and walked one through five innings pitched

in his sixth start of the year, allow-ing four earned runs off six hits.

Freshman right-hander Lee Weld (1-3) made his 13th appear-ance of the season in the sixth in-ning and held Wichita scoreless through three innings of work, striking out five and setting the team up for its first win in Wichita since 2008.

While more than 7,000 fans were in attendance, Weld said the atmosphere at Eck Stadium did not rattle his composure.

“I wouldn’t say I was intimated; I was more excited than anything,” Weld said. “You never come into a place intimidated. That’s the worst thing you can do … You have to have a little fun with it and show a little emotion. Be what you’re sup-posed to be as a reliever. Come in and throw strikes and be aggres-sive and pound the zone. You have to have that attack mentality.”

The Salukis will entertain the University of Illinois in a mid-week matchup Wednesday at Rent One Park in Marion before trav-eling to Illinois State for another three-game weekend series.

Ray McGillis can be reached at rmcgillis@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 269.

Three of Southern’s 12 steals came from senior designated player Allie Hanson who, before Saturday, had never stolen a base in 118 career games.

Hanson said while most don’t think of her as a fast runner, her speed is deceptive.

“Don’t underestimate me,” Hanson said. “My freshman year I got in a rundown in Wichita, and ever since then Kerri has called me ‘Wheels.’”

In the Salukis’ three weekend wins, junior pitcher Danielle Glosson picked up the first and last and pitched a complete game in both, going a combined 13 in-nings while allowing three runs

on four hits and striking out 14 batters.

e Salukis will return to the diamond at 3 p.m. Wednesday when they take on Missouri, who is ranked No. 7 in the NFCA So� ball Top 25, at Charlotte West Stadium.

Stile T. Smith can be reached at ssmith@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 256.

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Freshman catcher Austin Montgomery tags a Bradley University runner out at the plate during 3-1 SIU victory April 3 at Abe Martin

Field. The Salukis lost two of three games over the weekend in their series against Wichita State in Wichita, Kan.

JULIA RENDLEMAN | DAILY EGYPTIAN

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“I did not want to lose in front of them,” Blaylock said. “I didn’t want to have to hear it for a long time. I wanted to win.”

Stile T. Smith can be reached atssmith@dailyegyptian.com or

536-3311 ext. 256.

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Salukis unable to overtake Shockers in MVC raceWichita State takes two of three against SouthernRAY MCGILLISDaily Egyptian

I thought our guys showed a lot of courage (Sunday); we could have easily folded after losing two and being down early. It was a good comeback and a big win for us.

— Dan Callahanhead coach

O ur kids have to understand that

we can win ballgames like this. Early in the year we didn’t, but right now we are.

— Kerri Baylockhead coach

Sophomore Malaikah Love won the women’s triple jump for the second straight meet with a jump of 40-06 feet. Freshman Kasey Oceguera finished fourth in the high jump.

The throwers took a back seat to the track athletes for the first time all season, but by no means had a bad day.

Junior Gwen Berry won the women’s hammer throw, an event throws coach John Smith said she has had trouble adjusting to this outdoor season.

Smith also said he felt the meet was not run efficiently.

Immediately after the hammer throw concluded, the women had to go straight into the shot put with little time to rest and warm up for the event. Afterwards, the discus competition went into the night, but Smith said sophomore Jeneva McCall still excelled, win-ning the event with a throw of

177-09 feet.“(McCall) was throwing in

the dark but still made the kind of throw that could make her an NCAA champ,” Smith said.

McCall also placed second in both the hammer throw and the shot put.

Sophomore Jake Deiters con-tinued his discus success, grab-bing third place in the event.

Fellow sophomore J.C. Lam-bert finished second in the ham-mer throw and fifth in the men’s shot put.

Junior Meredith Hayes came out on top for the Salukis in sprints, winning the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 13.84 sec-onds. Junior Kandise Thompson took third in the 400-meter dash with a time of 53.73.

The men and women both fin-ished in third place in the 4x400 meter relays. It was the men’s first time competing in the event this season.

“It was a good meet; we got to face a lot of teams we’ve never seen before,” head coach Connie Price-Smith said. “We had a lot of (personal records) and top-10 finishes in multiple events, and the distance team is continuing to get better for some of the longer events later in the season and for conference.”

The Salukis return to the track this weekend for the Indiana State Invitational in Terre Haute, Ind.

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Ultimate Fighting Championship striker Anderson Silva won his match against Demian Maia in what UFC president Dana White called a “disgrace” and an “embarrassment” to the fans and sport after Silva spent the entire match prancing around the Octagon making odd motions and strange faces, generally disrespecting Maia. Is Silva still the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world?

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Nope. Silva didn’t show a willingness to bring the fight to an end — he certainly has the ability to. It’s tough to say exactly who is the “best” pound-for-pound fighter in the world, especially after Silva and BJ Penn had lackluster performances. But a fight between Silva and GSP appears to be in our near future, so all is still well in the MMA world.

Silva’s story sounds a lot like “Rocky III.” Man rises through the ranks, eventually wins the title, gets cocky and loses it. I’m hoping Silva runs into a Clubber Lang, someone who will go toe-to-toe with Silva and make him earn back the title of “best pound-for-pound fighter in the world,” because in my eyes, Silva has lost it.

The fight was disappointing for Silva, but it has shown that he has done everything he can in the middleweight division and is bored. He should drop the title and move up to the light heavyweight or heavy-weight divisions and test himself against better competition.

TRACKCONTINUED FROM 16 T rack is about finding your niche, being better at an

event that others struggle with and then excelling. — Matt Sparksdistance coach

� e SIU track and � eld teams returned home from their trip to Oxford, Miss., with seven � rst-place � nishes and 57 top-10 � nishes overall at the Ole Miss Relays, the � rst non-scored outdoor meet of the season.

Two of those � rst-place victories came from the distance team which has been struggling to get back in a rhythm from the indoor season. Ole Miss was the team’s third outdoor meet of the season.

Freshman Lucas Cherry won his � rst outdoor title in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 9 minutes 29.05 seconds, and junior Stephen Ar-vanis took home � rst in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:51.92.

“Track is about � nding your niche, being better at an event that others struggle with and then excelling,” dis-

tance coach Matt Sparks said. “(Cher-ry) is � nding his in the steeplechase.”

Sparks said Cherry has been somewhat mentored in the event by senior Jason Ordway, who is the de-fending Missouri Valley Conference champion.

Junior Kyle Kirchner took sec-ond place for the Salukis in the 1,500-meter run.

� e women’s distance team also shined, with junior Emily Toennies grabbing a second-place � nish in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:39.96. Juniors Ryan Eichelberger, Jamie P� ster and Megan Hoelscher took fourth, sixth and seventh, re-spectively.

Sparks said he was pleased with his distance runners’ performance.

“� is was the springboard to the rest of the outdoor season,” Sparks said. “� is meet brought pieces of the team together, and we need to

keep those pieces together for the conference meet.”

Sophomore Cody Doer� ein won the pole vault title for the third straight meet. He cleared a height of 17-02.50 feet for the win on the men’s

side. Junior Miracle � ompson came in second for the women with a vault of 12-07.50.

Chelsea Held stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh inning with the bases loaded, one out and the game tied at three. � e junior center � elder had been 0-3 in her previous three at-bats, and the Salukis had not led the entire game.

� en, Held took the o� ering and put it between the third base-man and shortstop to score soph-omore le¡ � elder Mallory Duran and give the Salukis a 4-3 win Sunday and a three game sweep of Indiana State.

Held, who has led the Salukis to two walk-o� wins this season, said she loves coming to the plate in clutch situations.

“I think they’re fun,” Held said. “I always do a lot better when I’m in pressure situations.”

� e win gave the Salukis (27-12, 12-1 Missouri Valley Confer-ence) a three-game sweep of the Sycamores (14-22, 1-12 MVC).

Blaylock said Indiana State is better than its record indicates, and the Salukis played a great se-ries against the Sycamores.

“Illinois State only beat them 5-4 and 6-3, and I think Creighton

had to come back to beat them,” Blaylock said. “Our kids have to understand that we can win ball-games like this. Early in the year we didn’t, but right now we are.”

Senior right fielder Katie Wil-son hit her 10th home run of the season in the second inning, putting her four shy of tying the single-season record, which she

tied in 2007.� e Salukis used their prow-

ess on the base paths to pick up wins of 8-0 and 3-1 in Saturday’s doubleheader.

Between the two games, the Salukis stole 12 bases in 13 at-tempts against Indiana State catchers Alyssa Marcum and Alex Lucas.

Blaylock said she knew the Salukis would be able to run on Indiana State going into the game.

“I got a little too aggressive,” Blaylock said. “But we just feel our team speed and power can create a lot of havoc.”

BASEBALL

SOFTBALL

About 80 former members of the SIU softball team received one last moment on the field.

The Salukis paid tribute to the program’s alumnae, honoring the former members of the team with a pre-game tailgate in the outfield before the noon softball game Saturday. After the first game of a doubleheader against Indiana State, they were announced and recognized on the field and later treated to a dinner.

Former SIU head coach Kay Brechtelsbauer, the only other head coach in the program’s his-tory aside from current head coach Kerri Blaylock, said she had many memories from her coach-ing days come back after seeing the former players.

“One right after another just pop up,” Brechtelsbauer said. “It’s been a very, very special event.”

During her 31-year coach-ing career, Brechtelsbauer went 633-438-2 after helping start the program in 1968. She guided the team to four Women’s College World Series appearances and a trip to the NCAA Tournament in 1991.

Athletic Director Mario Moc-cia said it was a great opportunity for the alumnae to be recognized and to reunite.

“It also gives them a chance to reconnect with Southern Illinois University,” Moccia said.

Amy Harre, a pitcher for SIU from 2002-2005, said she was amazed at the tradition of the program.

“They started the tradition, then I was in the middle of the tradition and now the girls on the field are continuing that tra-dition,” Harre said. “It makes you miss being out there and getting dirty and sweaty.”

In her four years at SIU, Harre was a four-time first team All-Missouri Valley Conference selec-tion. She recorded 84 wins during her time as a Saluki pitcher and was named the 2005 MVC Pitcher of the Year.

The alumnae were not disap-pointed in the results of the game, either, as the Salukis beat Indiana State 8-0 in the first game and 3-1 in game two.

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Approximately 80 alumnaereunite for aSaluki sweep

Freshman sprinter Jeremy Bankston runs the first leg of the men’s 4x400 meter relay race Saturday during the Ole Miss Relays in Oxford, Miss. The men’s team took home three first-place finishes while the women’s team won four events. Overall, the men and women placed in the top-10 in 57 events during the non-scored meet.

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Outfielder Mallory Duran hits the ball in the game against Indiana State Sunday at Charlotte West Stadium. The Salukis won all

three of their games against ISU this past weekend with final scores of 8-0, 3-1 and 4-3, respectively.

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SIU takesthree-game set from Sycamores

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