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Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian

Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian

Proposed budget may cut two Amtrak trains

Proposed budget may cut two Amtrak trains

By Jessica Brown, @BrownJessicaJ April 13, 2015

Two of the three daily Amtrak trains in Carbondale may be taken off the schedule later this year if Gov. Bruce Rauner's budget cut is implemented.Mike Richards of the Midwest High Speed Rail Association...

SIU announces chancellor finalists

SIU announces chancellor finalists

By Luke Nozicka, @lukenozicka April 13, 2015

The university announced the top four candidates for the chancellor vacancy on Tuesday. In addition to presiding over three campuses, President Randy Dunn assumed chancellor duties following the November...

Cuts put Dewey centers global influence at risk

Cuts put Dewey center’s global influence at risk

By Sam Beard, @SamBeard_DE April 12, 2015

Most of the basement in Morris Library is a designated silent zone, but the Center for Dewey Studies — an outfit not bound to that policy — continues to resonate around the world. John Dewey was the...

Students hope to become next representative on board

Students hope to become next representative on board

By Luke Nozicka, @lukenozicka | Sam Beard April 12, 2015

The next Carbondale student representative on the SIU Board of Trustees will be elected later this week. Voting for the position, currently held by Adrian Miller, begins at 6 a.m. Tuesday and ends at 5...

American cartoons inspired by Japanese anime

American cartoons inspired by Japanese anime

By Austin Miller, @AMiller_DE April 12, 2015

Some people may have never noticed Japanese influences in Cartoon Network shows "Powerpuff Girls" or "Dexter's Laboratory." “Anime Revo-Manga Pages to American Movement,” an exhibition showing the...

Bowl n Bop

Bowl ‘n Bop

By Evan Jones, @EvanJones_DE April 12, 2015

A barrage of inflatable beach volleyballs and bowling pins were flung throughout the Student Center Ballroom as a DJ played the crowd favorite, “YMCA” by the Village People.More than 700 people gathered...

No one injured in fire that destroyed Animal House

No one injured in fire that destroyed ‘Animal House’

By Tyler Davis, @TDavis_DE April 12, 2015

Residents of a West Hospital Drive home were alerted Sunday morning that their house was on fire — not by their fire alarms, but by the owner of the neighboring Dairy Queen.Alexa Lyons, who lives in...

Student starts petition to replace Rauner as keynote speaker, exceeds 2,000 signatures

By Luke Nozicka, @lukenozicka April 10, 2015

Following the news that Gov. Bruce Rauner will be one of three keynote speakers at this year's May graduation, a student created a change.org petition asking the university's administration to replace...

LGBTQ coordinator vacancy to be filled

LGBTQ coordinator vacancy to be filled

By Jessica Brown, @BrownJessicaJ April 8, 2015

The LGBTQ — or lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer — Resource Center in the Center for Inclusive Excellence has been without a coordinator since Wendy Weinhold resigned on Aug. 1, 2014, causing...

Senate hearing finds proposed cuts would devastate Southern Illinois economy

The Illinois State Senate held a joint Appropriations I and II Committee Hearing to collect testimony about the impact the governor’s proposed budget cuts would have on Southern Illinois’ economy.Representatives...

Gov. Bruce Rauner to speak at SIU graduation

Gov. Bruce Rauner to speak at SIU graduation

By Luke Nozicka, @lukenozicka April 8, 2015

Gov. Bruce Rauner, who is proposing a 32 percent cut to higher education, will be one of the keynote speakers at this year's graduation.He will speak at the 1:30 p.m. ceremony — for students in the College...

Talk traces identity across borders

By Austin Miller, @AMiller_DE April 8, 2015

Race has been a touchy subject in America and a presentation hopes to turn the topic into more of an embrace.The two-staff, one-student panel will discuss immigration, citizenship and identity from Asian...

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