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Attendees wait in line to meet Sean Astin February 15, 2025 on the stairs of Shylock Auditorium at SIU in Carbondale, Illinois. Will Elliott
The spring 2025 semester in photos
By Daily Egyptian Staff • May 7, 2025
Students take part in the Cha Cha Slide durning an intermission in the show May 1, 2025, at the Student Center Ballrooms in Carbondale Illinois. Riley Sembler
Salukis shine bright in talent show   
By Riley Sembler, Staff Photographer
Provided portrait of Penny Bordwick
SIU students to see new textbook program and mental health fees in fall semester 
By Annalise Schmidt, Staff Reporter
King Haynes, USG DEI chair poses in front of the student center May 2, 2025 in Carbondale Illinois.
SIU students push for DEI initiatives amid Trump cuts
By Peyton Cook, JRNL 411
Photo of Garden of the Gods in Shawnee National Forest provided by Kristin Borchers
Advocates worry about Shawnee Forest’s future amid waves of federal layoffs
By Kristin Borchers
Sports
Dawg Pound Executive Vice President Chris Catron cheers as SIU Men’s Basketball closes in on wrapping up a game Feb. 22, 2025 at Banterra Center in Carbondale, Illinois. Jason Isele | @iselephotography
Column: A semester with the Dawg Pound executive board
By Jason Isele, Staff Photographer
Photo courtesy of Saluki Athletics.
Softball finishes regular season on top, repeats as MVC Champs
By Ryan Grieser, Sports Reporter
Photo courtesy of Saluki Athletics.
Saluki Baseball drops pivotal series at Murray State
By Nick Pfannkuche, Sports Reporter
Former SIU athletes, Madi Eberle (Murray State softball assistant coach) and Elizabeth Warwick (Murray State softball graduate assistant), discuss strategy during a game April 26, 2025 at Charlotte West Stadium in Carbondale, Illinois. Jason Isele | @iselephotography
Former Salukis return to Carbondale — as rivaling coaches
By Ryan Grieser, Sports Reporter
In Depth
The Pulliam Hall clocktower is illuminated in the evening April 9, 2025 at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois.
‘Chilling silence’: Waves of Illinois’ international university students lose their visas
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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.
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Provided portrait of Penny Bordwick
SIU students to see new textbook program and mental health fees in fall semester 
By Annalise Schmidt, Staff Reporter • May 6, 2025
King Haynes, USG DEI chair poses in front of the student center May 2, 2025 in Carbondale Illinois.
SIU students push for DEI initiatives amid Trump cuts
May 6, 2025
Panelists applaud Lylee Gibbs, editor in chief of the Daily Egyptian, after she introduced herself at the local news forum April 24, 2025 at the Varsity Center in Carbondale, Illinois.
An appetite for local news: Illinois journalists discuss rebuilding news deserts
April 29, 2025
Jacquelyn Rickard, owner of EVTV, sits in the electric 1955 Porsche Spyder April 26, 2025 in Carbondale, Illinois. Riley Sembler
Electric car show brings spark of energy to Carbondale
April 29, 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
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‘Chilling silence’: Waves of Illinois’ international university students lose their visas
‘Chilling silence’: Waves of Illinois’ international university students lose their visas
By Jackson Brandhorst, Bridgette Fox, Molly Parker, Julia Rendleman, and Lylee Gibbs • April 10, 2025
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
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