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Voters mark their ballots at the voting poll April 1, 2025 at Eurma C Hayes Community Center in Carbondale Illinois.
Colombo, Roberts and Stanfield win Carbondale City Council seats
By Jackson Brandhorst and Lylee Gibbs • April 1, 2025
The crowd watches as the band The Hiccups perform at the end of the Rock Roulette showcase March 29, 2025 at Slabz Skatepark in Carbondale, Illinois.Deangelo Handley | @_deevisuals4
Column: Split-second decisions and life-long experiences, a Rock Roulette reflection
By Dominique Martinez-Powell, Student Managing Editor
Michelle Fraley-Jines delivers food for students on March 20, 2025 at Thompson Point in Carbondale, Illinois.
SIU USG project brings food trucks to campus after hours
By Enan Chediak, Photo Editor
Sports
Photo courtesy of Saluki Athletics.
Dawgs bring out the brooms against Bradley, move to 5-1 in MVC
By Nick Pfannkuche, Sports Reporter
Photo courtesy of Saluki Athletics.
Saluki softball takes 2 of 3 at Belmont, gains control of the Valley
By Ryan Grieser, Sports Reporter
Emily Williams hits the ball during a game starting spring season March 3, 2025 at Charlotte West Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois. “The spring is where the magic happens… You hit the ball as hard as you want to and you’re like yeah I was totally meant to be here.”
Madelynn remembered on the field
By Emily Brinkman, Sports Photographer
Scott Nagy coaches from the sidelines as the Salukis face No. 1 Drake in Arch Madness March 7, 2025 in Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
Opinion: In Nagy I trust
By Ryan Grieser, Sports Reporter
In Depth
A group of EF Tours students hike downhill to the La Fortuna Waterfall March 10, 2025 in La Fortuna, Costa Rica. Located inside the Arenal Volcano, the waterfall is a 200-foot cascade.
Illustration by Dena Rendleman
Julia Kathary (right) listens to her daughter, Connie Kathary (left), tell her about her day of school Jan. 31, 2025 at a marketplace in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Alexa Donaphin stands among the crowd as everyone settles in for the rally Jan. 20, 2025 at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Donaphin grew up in Washington, D.C. and is a Howard graduate. “I feel like we have to do something,” she said. “We have to be in action. I protested in 2017 when Donald Trump was elected. I came for the Women’s March, in fact, I marched in New York just this past Saturday and I am down here today.”
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Voters mark their ballots at the voting poll April 1, 2025 at Eurma C Hayes Community Center in Carbondale Illinois.
Colombo, Roberts and Stanfield win Carbondale City Council seats
By Jackson Brandhorst and Lylee Gibbs • April 1, 2025
The crowd watches as the band The Hiccups perform at the end of the Rock Roulette showcase March 29, 2025 at Slabz Skatepark in Carbondale, Illinois.Deangelo Handley | @_deevisuals4
Column: Split-second decisions and life-long experiences, a Rock Roulette reflection
April 1, 2025
Michelle Fraley-Jines delivers food for students on March 20, 2025 at Thompson Point in Carbondale, Illinois.
SIU USG project brings food trucks to campus after hours
April 1, 2025
Ashton Mathis rides a bull out of the chute during the McCoy Rodeo Extreme Bull Bash March 28, 2025 in Du Quoin, Illinois.
Not their first rodeo: McCoy Rodeo tour stops in Du Quoin
April 1, 2025
Inauguration
(Left to right) Dominique Martinez-Powell, Lylee Gibbs, Enan Chediak, Carly Gist and Will Elliott stand in front of a Abraham Lincoln statue Jan. 21, 2025 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washinton, D.C. Photo provided.
DE 2 DC: What we saw, learned and ate
By Daily Egyptian Staff • January 29, 2025
Charles Mandziara of Chicago, Illinois stands outside the capitol on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th president of the United States Jan. 19, 2025 in Washington, D.C. Mandziara attends Ball State University as a freshman Political Science major and is a volunteer for Donald Trump's Iowa caucus campaign to make calls to supporters as well as put up signs at local polling places. “There’s a lot of influence and responsibility that comes with politics,” he said. “I wanted to get into it and use that force to build up the country.”
Two sides of the inaugural coin
January 29, 2025
David Kreutz looks out on the line of Trump supporters that wind down the street, all waiting to get into Capital One Arena early in the morning Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C., to view the swearing-in ceremony from a livestream after frigid temperatures moved the ceremony indoors. Kreutz, wearing a large Donald Trump-themed cowboy hat and flag, took the first train out at 5 a.m. to get to the arena in hopes to get indoors as he did the day prior for the Make America Great Again Victory Rally.
Inauguration attendees walk the red, white and blue carpet
January 20, 2025
A protester holds a Palestinian flag in front of the We Fight Back protesters’ march Jan. 20, 2025 that went from the Meridian Hill Park down 16th Street to DuPont Circle Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
We Fight Back protests Trump agenda with march in Washington D.C.
January 20, 2025
NATIONAL
Mariann Baratta (right) and Karen Frailey (left) stand by the steps of Congressman Mike Bost’s office as part of a protest held during one of the congressman’s telephone town hall meetings March 11, 2025 in Murphysboro, Illinois.
Telephone town hall meeting spurs protest at Bost’s office
By Enan Chediak, Photo editor • March 12, 2025
Illustration by Day Starr-Fleming | @DaySF-Facebook
Rising flames, unyielding winds: An SIU student endures the LA wildfires
January 29, 2025
Alexa Donaphin stands among the crowd as everyone settles in for the rally Jan. 20, 2025 at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Donaphin grew up in Washington, D.C. and is a Howard graduate. “I feel like we have to do something,” she said. “We have to be in action. I protested in 2017 when Donald Trump was elected. I came for the Women’s March, in fact, I marched in New York just this past Saturday and I am down here today.”
‘We have to be in action’: Martin Luther King Jr. supporters rally in capital as holiday overlaps with Inauguration Day
January 20, 2025
David Kreutz looks out on the line of Trump supporters that wind down the street, all waiting to get into Capital One Arena early in the morning Jan. 20, 2025 in Washington, D.C., to view the swearing-in ceremony from a livestream after frigid temperatures moved the ceremony indoors. Kreutz, wearing a large Donald Trump-themed cowboy hat and flag, took the first train out at 5 a.m. to get to the arena in hopes to get indoors as he did the day prior for the Make America Great Again Victory Rally.
Inauguration attendees walk the red, white and blue carpet
January 20, 2025