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Enrollment up, revenue downEnrollment has increased for the first time in a
decade, but revenue is down roughly $2 million.The university’s 10-day figures show overall
enrollment is up 25 people from last year, an increase of just 0.001 percent. Total enrollment is 17,989 students. International enrollment has increased nearly 25 percent, and enrollment of new international graduate and undergraduate
students is the highest since 1985. Freshman enrollment is up 2.4 percent and transfer enrollment is up 2.3 percent.
“It’s relatively flat, but it’s a reason to celebrate,” Interim Chancellor Paul Sarvela said at the media announcement Tuesday. “This is the first time we haven’t had a decline in 10 years.”
Sarvela said the university needs to focus on recruitment and retention. He said enrollment has improved because of strategic outreach, a growing reputation and strong academic programs.
“It is 10 times more cost effective to retain a student then it is to go out after a student,” Sarvela said.
This year’s freshman class comes from 32 states and 22 countries, according to a university press release. Twenty-nine percent of the freshman class is African American, 11 percent is Hispanic or Latino and 52 percent of the freshman class is female.
Brent MeskeDaily Egyptian
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Governor bans smoking at public universities
Whether by foot, bicycle or bus, Carbondale residents need to get around, and some think the process could be easier.
Downtown traffic and alternative transportation will be discussed at the second Downtown Advisory Committee meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Old Train Depot, 111 S. Illinois Ave., in Carbondale.
Meghan Cole, committee member and director of Carbondale Main Street, said the meeting will begin with information on the types of transportation, traffic flow, parking and public safety. She said the committee will take public comments at the meeting.
Jessica Pike, a junior from Decatur studying marketing, said she would enjoy the creation of a bike rental service in Carbondale.
“I drive everywhere in Carbondale,” she said. “I don’t personally own a bike, but if I had access to one, I would use that over driving any day.
… If we had the option to have a bike rental system, it would give students an extra means of transportation that may be more reliable based off of their schedules.”
Pike said purchasing a bike would be counterproductive because of her financial situation, as well as the challenge of traveling home for summers.
“Bike share programs cut that issue out,” she said. “There is the issue of me shelling out money to buy a bike only to have the bike stolen.”
Columbus, Ohio, home to Ohio State University, offers the bike rental program CoGo Bike Share. It has 30 stations with 300 bikes available year-round, according to its website. The program offers $6 day passes and $75 annual ones.
Dominique Crespo, a junior from Quito, Ecuador studying speech communication, said she wants the bus system to become more functional.
“The main issue is the sometimes unnecessary stops the bus has,” Crespo said. “I’ve seen a
pattern where people never get in or out at a certain stop.”
Crespo said she would also like to see additional bike routes throughout the city, especially from where she lives, The Reserves, as well as a carpooling system for students.
Cole said there were 165 business owners, city representatives and general community members at the committee’s first meeting and she encourages people to attend the second.
“All we’re there to do is to listen to the public voice any transportation issues or any transportation opinions they may have,” she said.
Cole said the transportation focus group consists of herself, Kris Schachel, sustainability coordinator at the university, and Nathan Colombo, the committee’s marketing consultant.
Marissa Novel can be reached at [email protected],
on Twitter @marissanovelDE or at 536-3311 ext. 268.
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American Ice Cream truck driver Tim Carter, 48, of Carbondale, takes ice cream out of one of his vehicle’s freezers on Saturday. “At 4 a.m. I’lll hear the
music ... I’ll go out there and there’s no truck.” Owner Brendan Tolan, 45, of Waukegan, said the company is being sued for $100,000 after an 8-year-
old girl on a motorized scooter hit a truck on July 4, 2013 in Murphysboro. “It didn’t hurt her. It didn’t hurt us. Then they took her to the emergency
room,” Tolan said. “We discontinued going to Murphysboro after that event … and then we just started going back probably in June or so.”
More than 17 percent of SIU students smoke, and as of July 1, 2015, will no longer be allowed to on campus.
Gov. Pat Quinn signed the Smoke Free Campus Act on Aug. 17, which bans smoking on Illinois public university campuses.
Smoking is allowed 15 feet away from entrances, exits, open windows and ventilation intakes at the university, but will only be permitted in cars beginning July 1, 2015.
In February, the university announced the campus would become smoke-free in July, but the SIU Board of Trustees delayed the policy to wait for state legislation.
The law states schools must create a task force by the end of 2014 to work on implementing the ban.
Katie Sermersheim, dean of students, said she is recommending people for the law-mandated task force, which will be approved by interim Chancellor Paul Sarvela.
She said no new punishments would be created for those found violating the law. The university will follow the regular Student Conduct Policy when dealing with violators.
Dr. Ted Grace, director of Student Health Services, was appointed head of a previous 16-person task force by former-Chancellor Rita Cheng. The task force was created in January 2013 to research how many students smoke on campus.
He said the task force created several mock policies and surveyed students on preferences. The group found a majority of those surveyed were in favor of increased smoking limitations.
Grace said the university received complaints of excessive smoke in several areas on campus, such as the archway of Faner Hall.
“Even though they were legal, they were the 15 feet away,” He said. “You had to walk through a smoke cloud to get into that building.”
Grace said the effects of secondhand smoke, which can cause lung cancer and cardiovascular disease, is just as dangerous as primary smoke. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s website states secondhand smoke causes more than 7,300 non-smoker deaths each year.
Michele Guerra, director of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Wellness Center, said she has seen change on campus since its smoke-free policy was introduced on Jan. 1, 2014.
“We are not 100 percent smoke free,” Guerra said. “But there is a lot less smoke and a lot less litter.”
Austin MillerDaily Egyptian
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Sarvela said in previous years, majorities of freshman have been male. Off-campus enrollment increased more than 5 percent.
Although enrollment has gone up, revenue has gone down roughly $2 million, partially due to scholarships.
A retention task force was formed last year to execute a plan to keep students at the university. Sarvela said the university does not know if the task force has been effective yet.
“That significant increase in the proportion of sophomore students leads us to believe that our retention efforts and transfer programming are working out,” Sarvela said.
Bresnt Meske can be reached at [email protected]
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Grace said he is excited about what this law will do for public health.
“I don’t think you can make a bigger contribution to the health of the state and the campus,” Grace said. “So many people will benefit, whether they want to or not. You are entitled to an environment you can walk through and not become unhealthy just from being in the environment.”
Tannaz Sattari, a graduate student from Iran studying computer science, said while she is a smoker, she is not bothered by the law because non-smokers should not have to be subject to smoke.
“Sometimes you see elderly people or children and when you smoke and walk, it follows you around,” she said. “I don’t want to irritate those who don’t smoke.”
Sattari said there should be an area to smoke for people who do not have cars.
Those interested in quitting smoking can make an appointment with Student Health Services via www.salukihealth.siuc.edu or by calling 618-536-441. Smokers can also call the Illinois Tobacco Quit Line at 1-866-784-8937.
Austin Miller can be contacted at [email protected]
or on Twitter @amiller_DE.
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Video depicts beheading of second American journalist
WASHINGTON — Ignoring his mother’s plea for mercy, the Islamic State posted a video Tuesday showing the beheading of Steven Joel Sotloff, the second American journalist executed in two weeks by the extremist group in reprisal for U.S. airstrikes against its fighters in northern Iraq.
Sotloff’s slaying was certain to pile new pressure on President Barack Obama to devise a strategy for dealing with the brutal group in its sanctuary on Syria’s side of the border. Obama admitted last week his administration had not yet developed such a plan, triggering widespread derision.
Sotloff, 31, of Miami, appeared to have been executed within the last two days as his killer referred to U.S. airstrikes that on Sunday helped Iraqi forces break a two-month-long Islamic State siege of Amerli, a town populated by minority ethnic Turkmen.
He also appeared to have been killed by the same suspected British militant who had beheaded American freelance photojournalist James Foley, 40, of Rochester, N.H., on Aug. 19. The video of Foley’s slaying ended with the militant threatening to kill Sotloff unless
Obama halted the U.S. airstrikes — which now total more than 120 — that began Aug.8. Sotloff’s capture last year in Syria had been kept secret until he appeared in that video.
Bernadette Mehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said the U.S. intelligence community was working “as quickly as possible” to verify the authenticity of the video. A statement issued by Barak Barfi, a Sotloff family spokesman, appeared to confirm that it was genuine.
“The family knows of this horrific tragedy and is grieving privately,” said the statement.
The video of Sotloff’s slaying was first detected by the SITE Intelligence Group, a private organization that monitors extremist Internet postings. Titled “A Second Message to America,” it began with a clip of Obama on Aug. 20 condemning Foley’s killing and vowing to “act against” the Islamic State “standing alongside others.”
Like Foley, Sotloff, a freelance writer for Time magazine and other publications, then spoke to the camera as he knelt in a bleak, desert-like setting. His black-clad executioner stood at his side, a knife in his left hand, only his eyes left uncovered by the black scarf swathing his face.
“I am Steven Joel Sotloff. I’m sure you know exactly who I am right now and why
I’m appearing before you,” said Sotloff in a calm, steady voice. “Obama, your foreign policy of intervention in Iraq was supposed to be for the preservation of American lives and interests. So why is it that I’m paying the price of your interference with my life? Am I not an American citizen?”
Sotloff was clad — as was Foley — in a surgical scrubs-like garment of orange, the same color as the uniforms in which detainees who were abused at the former U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison were dressed.
It wasn’t clear whether Sotloff was speaking his own words or those dictated by his captors. His statement ended in a virtual taunt of Obama.
“From what little I know of U.S. foreign policy, you could not win an election without promising to bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan and to close down Guantanamo,” said Sotloff. “Here you are now, Obama, nearing the end of your term without having achieved any of the above, deceivingly marching us, the American people, into a blazing fire.”
After Sotloff ended, the killer was seen standing behind him and beginning to slice into his throat. The video then cut to a picture of Sotloff ’s bloodied head sitting atop his corpse.
Jonathan LandayMcClatchy Washington Bureau
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Understanding the difference between curriculum and standards
Fanning the firestorm over Common Core State Standards is the fear that by adopting common standards, states are signing onto a national curriculum and thus undermining the decisions of local school boards and educators.
But before going too far down that road, an important distinction needs to be made be-tween standards which outline what students should know and be able to do at each grade level and curriculum which is what happens day to day and week to week in classrooms. Standards remain constant, but curriculum can be altered year to year or classroom to classroom to ensure students are meeting the learning goals.
Let me illustrate with examples from three high-performing, high-poverty schools in three different states.
I asked them to share with me lessons they had developed to meet three of Common Core’s reading and language arts standards, which say that fifth-graders should know how to:
Use a dictionary and other reference ma-terials.
Identify the main ideas and supporting de-tails of a text.
Cite evidence to support an answer.The first lesson, from George Hall Elemen-
tary in Mobile, Ala., is on the human circu-latory system, part of a larger unit on major body systems, including the respiratory, ex-cretory and reproductive systems. During the lesson, the teacher introduced particular terms the students would encounter in their
reading, such as capillaries and white blood cells and asked the students to look up and record the definition of those terms in their science journals. Students then read “The Circulatory System,” the fictional “A Journey through the Digestive System with Max Ax-iom,” and consulted other non-fiction books. At the end of the lesson, students were asked to describe the function of the circulatory sys-tem in three to five sentences, citing evidence from the texts.
The second is from Finlay Elementary in Miami and is part of a three-week literature unit on “Hatchet,” a story of wilderness sur-vival. The teacher discussed the genre of re-alistic fiction with the students and then in-troduced vocabulary words such as hatchet, vibration and rudder. Students read along as the teacher read aloud, modeling fluent and expressive reading. Every couple of chapters, they wrote an analysis of the main ideas of the chapters along with the supporting de-tails and an analysis of how the chapters fit together. This unit was paired with an envi-ronmental unit they were doing in science that culminated with a field trip to the Bis-cayne Bay where students learned about the kind of conditions in which the “Hatchet” protagonist found himself.
The third is from De Queen Elementary in southwestern Arkansas and is part of a large interdisciplinary English and science unit on the environment that has as its core question, “Why is it important to protect and preserve the Earth?” Before the students read “The River Ran Wild” by Lynne Cherry, a non-fic-tion account of the pollution and subsequent restoration of the Nashua River, teachers in-troduced vocabulary that students would en-
counter, with a focus on multisyllabic words with prefixes, suffixes, root words, and inflec-tional endings such as industrial and migra-tion. After reading the book, they read about the Dust Bowl, which helped bring about the Great Depression, and other environmen-tal effects of industry and farming. Students were then asked to write essays using complex sentences about Marion Stoddart, the woman who sparked the restoration of the Northeast’s Nashua River in the 1960s.
This is just a taste of these lessons, which are much more nuanced and sophisticated than there is room to describe. And I should note that these are not the only lessons de-signed to help students meet those stan-dards; kids don’t learn complicated skills from one lesson.
But the point is that Common Core standards merely provide goals or benchmarks for learning to be filled by science, history, and literature les-sons all determined by local educators.
The idea behind the standards, which are in place in 43 states, is that no matter where students live or what their life circumstances may be, they should all have to meet the same expectations for learning such as being able to use a dictionary and cite evidence from a text. Those common expectations can be met in a whole variety of ways, leaving all the most important decisions about curriculum, les-sons and classroom activities in the hands of local schools and districts.
But by having a common set of expec-tations to measure their decisions against, school boards and educators will have a lot more information about how well they are serving all their students. That doesn’t undermine them; it supports them.
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Coves find middle ground on debut album
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The strum of electric guitar floats in the air across a field of beats. The sound eats at the atmosphere with a synthesizer that uplifts the vocals.
This aptly describes the debut album of English rock band, Coves. The album, “Soft Friday,” was released Tuesday and is available online.
It manages a dream-pop quality amid the distorted guitar. Through the grunge backdrop of John Ridgard’s strings, the vocal tracks of Beck Wood force the album into new territory.
The album is a great collaboration toward bringing past influences into the new-wave outbreak today.
“Soft Friday” blends sounds together to form something original.
The album opens up with a clamor and boisterous roll in on the drums. The guitar resonates as the reverb carries it around the vocal melody.
The track, “Fall Out of Love,” creates fluidity. It is as much a rhythm of rock and roll as it is a calm elegance.
The following track, “Honeybee,” is
more reserved. The strings chug along in a sharp and distant pace behind the vocal rhythm. The song begins to build, looks toward a crescendo, and then falls off into quiet tones.
Coves’ song, “Beatings,” is perhaps the epitome of the album. It manages the eclectic style amid the electric and echoed vocal. It is a beautiful track, taking two approaches on the material by finding the distinction between soft and loud, but “Beatings” manages it easily, without hesitance, and is executed perfectly.
Midway through the album, we find the focus.
The concept enters its primary center with the use of the synthesizer. It captures the vocals wonderfully, and continues to feature Ridgard’s instrumentation as pure ambiance.
Either way the album is perceived, it works. Some of the droning and shuttering pace of guitar and synthesizer can become rather melodramatic or at least repetitive.
The feeling, existing between the songs, is not terrible. It is what connects each of the songs together.
This droning is what creates
the sublime tempo and sporadic psychedelic rhythms.
Coves, while remaining rather original, does nothing daring. There is not one point in the album that takes as big a chance as what could be reached.
Most songs find themselves meandering, never reaching a crescendo, and if they do rise, they pause themselves as said before with “Honeybee.”
Despite a lack of daring in the album, it is still quite entertaining. “Soft Friday” is finely crafted and well put together in regards to the tempo of the tracks being arranged perfectly. Where one track drones, another flows, and this theme persists through to the close.
The album is a decent debut, and there is much to enjoy within it.
Coves should certainly have much more to offer in the future. Consider giving “Soft Friday” a listen.
Jake Saunders can be reached at [email protected],
on Twitter @saundersfj or at 536-3311 ext. 273
Found footage horror films have divided movie going audiences.
“The Blair Witch Project” was released in 1999 and blew away the box office. This allowed for found footage films to go from being a sparsely used gimmick, to its own subgenre.
The release and success of “Paranormal Activity” in 2007 caused a slew of films like it to come out and it is still a craze today.
As Hollywood is apt to do, the market became oversaturated. There were so many found footage movies coming out, people started to hate them. The
entire subgenre has found itself fighting an uphill battle. Any film with found footage, is instantly looked down upon with blind rage.
“As Above, So Below” is a step in the right direction for the found footage genre.
“As Above, So Below” is a horror film directed by John Erick Dowdle and stars Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman and Edwin Hodge.
The film follows Scarlett Marlowe as she continues her father’s hunt for the philosopher’s stone. After finding a key piece of information relating to it, Marlowe enlists a friend help navigate through the secret parts of Paris’ catacombs. As they make their way through, they find out they are in for more than they bargained as they
fight for their survival. “As Above, So Below” is by no means
a great film.Many of the tropes and clichés that
haunt today’s horror genre are riddled throughout this film. Jump scares, randomly placed cults and creepy little kids fill this movie and at times make it hard not to groan.
This movie does a lot to try and bring itself down.
While there are many bad things throughout this film, it is hard to walk out of the theater and not be impressed by its ability to be unique.
The film starts out as an interesting character study early on. Marlowe is an Indiana Jones like treasure hunter. She holds several doctorates, is a black belt in Krav Manga and a historian.
But, she is more than that. Taking a hint from Captain Ahab,
Marlowe finds herself obsessed with finding the stone. She is obsessed to the point that she brings everyone around her down in pursuit of it. She is continually putting herself in danger, but always finds a way out.
The film surrounds Marlowe with interesting, broken characters, characters who play off of her well and bring their own baggage. The movie is disappointing at times because of the lack of character development, excluding Marlowe.
The effectiveness of a horror movie is based upon how well it scares its audience and this film does not disappoint. While this film was a lot of scares, it is also a psychological horror.
The movie can be described as lovecraftian at times. It is about the fear that comes with helplessness.
The film even makes its set a villain of its own. The catacombs are just as likely to hurt the main characters, as what lies in it. The feeling of claustrophobia and inevitability linger even as our heroes win their little battles.
As stated before, this film is not perfect. It is not going to change how everyone looks at horror films nor found footage movies. But within a sea of genericness, “As Above, So Below” is an enjoyable movie.
Jacob Pierce can be reached at [email protected] , on
Twitter @JacobPierce1_DE or at 536-3311 ext. 273
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‘As Above, So Below’ above average
Not even superheroes could save Hollywood this summer.
The movie industry suffered its worst May-to-Labor Day season since 1997, after adjusting for inflation. U.S. ticket sales dropped 15 percent compared with last summer. It was a disappointment for an industry that had hoped movies with giant robots, mutants and talking apes would follow up last year’s stellar season with another blockbuster summer.
Even more telling, no film crossed the $300-million mark domestically for the first time since 2001. That’s
despite much-hyped releases such as 20th Century Fox’s “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” Paramount Pictures’ “Transformers: Age of Extinction” and Sony Pictures’ “The Amazing Spider-Man 2.”
The lack of breakout hits hurt the prospects for other movies. Hollywood is a momentum-driven business. Big hits help draw in filmgoers, who then see trailers that bring them back the next week. That was not the case this summer.
At least several other factors were to blame as well. Studios bet on big-budget action sequels instead of taking a chance on new franchises, and the number of
animated films box office catnip most summers was down sharply, primarily because of scheduling problems at the studios.
“It’s been disappointing that there hasn’t been a film that’s really broken out like a $400-million hit domestically,” said Bruce Nash, who runs the box-office analysis site the Numbers. “We haven’t had a film this year that has been a ‘Harry Potter’ or an ‘Avengers,’ and that inevitably knocks things down a bit.”
Summer movies ended up grossing $4.05 billion this year, compared with $4.75 billion last year, according to entertainment data provider Rentrak.
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One Saluki athlete came to SIU for volleyball, but will finish her career as a cross-country runner.
Senior Krista Menghini participated in cross-country, track and volleyball in high school, but decided to come to the university on a volleyball scholarship.
“Once I got here, it became really clear to me that I was supposed to be a runner, not a volleyball player,” she said.
Menghini said even though she loved being around the volleyball players, she felt she belonged with the runners.
Senior distance runner Tori Parry said Menghini has transformed in her sport.
“It has been rewarding to see Krista grow exponentially with running this past year,” she said.
Instead of returning to volleyball after her first season, she chose to run track and cross-country with full support from her inspiration, her mom.
“I was going into college [knowing] I have four years of volleyball left in me, because there isn’t much to do with volleyball after college,” Menghini said. “I just knew I would be even happier if I switched over.”
Menghini said to quit volleyball was the best and the hardest decision she ever had to make.
Although she was very thankful for being recruited, she knew she would be happier as a runner.
She said last year’s cross country team’s Missouri Valley Conference Championship win was one of the proudest moments of her career.
Menghini said she surprised herself when she beat the school record and got second place at conference while in the steeplechase.
Parry said conference was where Menghini stepped up and had a breakthrough for the team.
“When Krista transitioned from volleyball to track she had a deep passion for running, but lacked the confidence,” former cross country coach Matt Sparks said.
Sparks said he saw Menghini mature and gain the confidence that allowed her to become one of the best runners in the MVC.
Menghini said all she has achieved as a runner was thanks to Sparks.
With new coach David Beauchem, the whole team is putting its trust in him to make
improvements, and hopefully bring another championship, Parry said.
“Since [the conference championship] she has been a significant leader on the team,” Parry said.
She said at the beginning of her training with the cross-country team, she was able to run at most 30 miles a week. Now she runs approximately 70 miles a week.
“I had to build up to that and take steady steps towards that mileage,” Menghini said.
Menghini said her first semester here was not the best, but it was all worth it in the end.
“Switching over didn’t only bring me to the sport I love, but also my best friends,” Menghini said.
In her senior year, Menghini said she and her confidence are exactly where she wants them to be.
Menghini is interested in being a personal trainer after college and wants to compete in triathalons and marathons in her free time.
“I’m happy that I came here to play volleyball first because if I was going to run in college initially I probably would have gone somewhere else, and I wouldn’t have met my best friends, boy friend, and the amazing coach I had,” Menghini said.
Gabriella Scibetta can be reached at [email protected],
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Saluki finds her fit in cross country
Among the captains of SIU football, one player took an unusual route to his leadership.
Senior long snapper Thor Hadfield is a Saluki captain for 2014, but his career with SIU started far from where it is now.
Hadfield joined the Salukis as a walk-on in 2010. Hadfield said he tried out as a quarterback, but quickly realized he should change positions.
“Looking back now I had no business being out there,” Hadfield said. “I was the only quarterback out there, but I wasn’t what they were looking for.”
Hadfield said he told head coach Dale Lennon he could long snap; he snapped the ball three times to Lennon and put each on the money.
Hadfield made the team as a long
snapper, but spent more time filming Saluki practices. Hadfield said he was happy to be part of the team.
“I got my foot in the door. I’d film practice, I’d do the workouts, and earn my keep,” he said. “It just has blossomed into literally a dream come true for me.”
Hadfield was the starting long snapper for SIU last season. He attributed making the move to starter to the confidence he has in his abilities.
“I knew I worked hard to get to where I was and I continued to work hard,” he said. “My motto is ‘confident, but never comfortable.’ I’m always trying to improve and get better, but I knew the coaches put me in the position because they trusted me.”
Hadfield was chosen by his teammates as a captain this season, which comes with off-the-field
responsibilities. Hadfield is one of five Salukis on
the team poster.The California native said
seeing the team poster all around Carbondale is surreal and he still has not gotten used to it.
“It’s unreal. It gives me goose bumps,” Hadfield said. “I walked in the dining hall the other day and they had posters for the game up with me on it. I saw kids looking at me like ‘is that him?’”
Since Hadfield is only on the field for special teams, he uses his time on the sideline to make sure his teammates are staying positive. He said it’s easy for him to do since he is such a laid back and positive guy.
Senior kicker Thomas Kinney said Hadfield’s leadership is crucial to the younger players.
“You always look for that momentum booster to keep the
momentum going,” Kinney said. “That’s important for the younger guys. If they see that, they’re going to jump on the bandwagon, and Thor’s bandwagon is an easy one to jump on.”
Hadfield said he chose SIU over other schools closer to home because being a Saluki is in his blood.
“When I was a kid my dad brought me here to visit my grandma and he took me [to SIU],” he said. “I ran the bases at the baseball field, shot baskets at the arena, played catch with my dad at McAndrew … This is the only real place I’ve ever wanted to go.”
Lennon called Hadfield’s success story the type of story that keeps him coaching.
“He wanted to be a part of the team any way that he possibly could,” he said. “That’s when we talked
about the possibility of snapping … He was our filmer for a while, he just did anything and everything that he could to be a part of the football team and be around the guys. Then he got to a point where we took him very seriously as a long snapper.”
Hadfield said all his success at SIU hasn not changed him.
“I just try to be Thor Hadfield 100 percent of the time,” he said. “I haven’t changed who I am since I was a walk on. Nothing about me has changed; I try to be consistent with my personality and attitude. It’s awesome to have all this recognition and success, but I haven’t forgotten where I came from or what hard work gets you.”
Tony McDaniel can be reached at [email protected]
or on Twitter @tonymcdanielDE
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