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Stile T. SmithDAILY EGYPTIANSTS34@SIU.EDU

Administrators are trying to fill two interim dean positions and an associate provost position in the months ahead.

The associ-ate provost for Academic Af-fairs position has been open since Patricia Elmore stepped down July 1.

Interim Pro-vost Don Rice said an in-house search would begin in the next week.

“It will be an internal search, so the application period will not be as long as it might be for a na-tional search,” Rice said. “It will be over in the fall.”

Rice said Elmore’s former staff has taken the duties of the position since her departure, with Rice over-seeing any decisions they make.

Rice said the ultimate decision of who to hire is up to him.

“But I would make that deci-sion in collabo-ration with the chancellor and other admin-istrators,” Rice said.

Dean searches for the School of Law and the College of Ap-plied Science

and Arts would be an external search, as opposed to the internal search for the associate provost of Academic Affairs.

The School of Law is finishing the job description for its dean, and chairman of the search com-

mittee Eugene Basanta said he is expecting advertising to begin in the next week.

Basanta said the committee has clearly defined goals it wants the next dean to accomplish.

“The main focus is a good leader for the law school,” Basanta said. “We just completed a self-study and identified directions and future plans for the law school, so we’re looking for a dean that will help define and implement those plans.”

Frank Houdek has been the interim dean since former dean Peter Alexander stepped down during the summer.

Basanta said locating a good dean is vital to the success of any college on campus.

“I’ve been involved with searches here before for the dean,” Basanta said. “It is one of the most important things that the faculty can under-

take. We’re going to work hard at it.”CASA has been working on

locating a new dean since last spring. Co-chairman of the search committee David NewMyer said he has received 16 applications so far.

“We had our first meeting last week to look at qualifications, and we determined at that meet-ing that we needed more time,” NewMyer said. “We’re meeting again Wednesday and hope to get through the applications.”

NewMyer said the committee hopes to narrow the field at the Wednesday meeting leaving be-tween two and five applicants.

NewMyer said the committee is taking its time to find the best candidate available.

“The way we advertised it, we were hoping to have somebody in place at the latest by the summer or next fall,” he said.

Search set to begin for associate provost position

Shari Sweeney remembers her late husband Patrick at their family farm Sunday. Patrick Sweeney passed away Aug. 5 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. The Sweeney name has been attached to the local growers movement in Carbondale for more than 25 years, and the family stand is a key fixture at the weekly Farmers Market at Westown Mall parking lot. Since her husband’s passing, Sweeney has been struggling with the decision to operate the farm beyond the end of this season. “[I] have to figure out what I’m going to do. It’s all still new,” Sweeny said. The decision is a tough one because she said she sees Patrick in the farm he built.ISAAC SMITHDAILY EGYPTIAN

Madeleine Leroux DAILY EGYPTIANMLEROUX@SIU.EDU

Some Illinois liquor prices may be raised as a result of a statewide tax increase taking effect today.

Liquor, candy and soft drinks are all part of a new tax increase, which provides funding for statewide im-provements to roads, schools and bridges, including the patching and resurfacing of Route 13 from Mur-physboro to Carbondale.

According to the Illinois De-partment of Revenue Web site, ex-cise taxes are increasing from 10.4 cents to 13 cents for a six-pack of beer, 15 cents to 28 cents for a bot-tle of wine and 90 cents to $1.71 for a fifth of distilled spirits.

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that the faculty can undertake. We’re going to work hard at it.

— Eugene Basanta chariman of the search committee

Genna OrdDAILY EGYPTIANGORD@SIU.EDU

Patrick Sweeney spent the last 27 years of his life growing a com-munity out of his passion.

Sweeney, an organic farmer, provided Carbondale residents with fresh produce as one of the original vendors at the Carbondale

Farmers Market before he died from pancreatic cancer Aug. 5.

And while he will no longer be at the market, his stand of multicol-

ored flowers and vegetables will re-main throughout the season as his wife is left to manage without him.

Steve Smith, a local farmer and

familiar face at the market, said Sweeney was a part of the market for 27 years and president of the Farmers Market Association for the last 10.

The local produce market is a weekly grocery stop for many resi-dents as well as an opportunity to socialize.

Founded in 1976 by the Illinois

South Project, it outgrew two pre-vious locations and moved to the Westown Mall parking lot where its operated for the last 25 years.

Henry Mulder, a health inspector for Jackson County, said Sweeney be-lieved in providing organic vegetables and natural fruit to people.

Farmers market loses central figure

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!!After a while, it becomes less about how much money you make and more of a way of life.

— Henry Muldera health inspector for Jackson County

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CHICAGO — Ousted Illi-nois Gov. Rod Blagojevich says in a new book that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wanted his help in arranging to leave the Obama administration after two years to re-claim his seat in Congress.

Blagojevich writes in “The Gov-ernor” that Emanuel spoke with him about whether it was possible to appoint a “placeholder” to the congressional seat Emanuel was giving up so that he could win back the seat in 2010 and continue his efforts to become speaker some day.

“As we have done for many months, we will continue to decline comment,” Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Fein-berg said in an e-mail Monday.

Blagojevich also admits that he wanted something in exchange for ap-pointing Obama’s replacement in the Senate, but it wasn’t the deal described in federal corruption charges against him.

The Chicago Democrat says that the night before his arrest in Decem-ber, he had launched a plan to ap-point Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan to the Senate seat because he hoped to cut a deal on pet proj-ects with her father, powerful Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan.

That plan was ruined by his arrest. Blagojevich writes that he eventually appointed Roland Bur-ris, in part because of Burris’ fa-mously big ego. No one else but Burris would accept the appoint-ment and fight to be seated under the circumstances, Blagojevich says.

Burris’ office declined to comment.The ex-governor’s 264-page

book, published by Phoenix, comes out Sept. 8. It offers a benign picture of events surrounding Blagojevich’s arrest in a corruption scandal that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said would make Abraham Lincoln “roll over in his grave.”

The scandal cost Blagojevich his job when lawmakers impeached and threw him out of office in Jan-uary. The once-rising political star is scheduled to stand trial next year. Blagojevich, who has pleaded not guilty, repeatedly asserts his inno-cence in the book.

He says his discussions about Obama’s possible successors amounted to “ordinary and routine politicking.”

But federal authorities cast it in a much different light, alleging Blagojevich was caught on FBI wiretaps discussing what he could get in exchange for the seat, from jobs to campaign contributions.

Blagojevich says that story is “upside down” and that he never

asked for, or raised the subject of, campaign contributions in ex-change for the Senate seat.

Others approached his admin-istration with offers of campaign money, he says in “The Governor” without naming names. “If anyone should have been charged with a crime for this, it should have been them and not me,” he writes.

When Blagojevich talked to Emanuel after the election about the Senate pick, Obama’s right-hand man “did not lobby for anyone in par-ticular,” according to the book.

Blagojevich says Emanuel was in-terested in his own career because he had to give up his congressional seat to work in Obama’s White House. Blagojevich writes that Emanuel dreamed of being speaker of the U.S. House and wanted to know if Blago-jevich would work with him to name a successor to “hold” his seat until he wanted it back.

Blagojevich says he told Eman-uel he didn’t think he could do that and the House vacancy would have to be filled by special election. But Emanuel reportedly told him “his lawyers thought there was a way.”

Blagojevich writes that he strug-gled with the idea of appointing Lisa Madigan to the Senate. The prospect “repulsed” him because of bad blood with her father.

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Eric TalmadgeTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TOKYO — Japan’s newly em-powered leader Yukio Hatoyama rushed Monday to select Cabinet ministers and start making good on promises to revive the world’s second-largest economy after his party’s historic trouncing of the rul-ing conservatives.

Hatoyama, who also has sig-naled he wants to redefine Tokyo’s diplomacy to make it less reliant on Washington, said in a victory speech late Sunday he would focus on a quick and smooth transition and make a priority of choosing the na-tion’s next finance minister. Hatoya-ma spoke only briefly with reporters on Monday before huddling with his party leaders. Prime Minister Taro Aso, conceding defeat, said he would step down as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. “I have no plan to run for re-election,” Aso said. His successor is expected to be named late next month. “The most important thing is rejuvenat-ing our party.”

Although the nation gave the Democrats a landslide win, most voters were seen as venting dissatis-faction with the Liberal Democratic Party and the status quo more than they were endorsing the policies of the opposition.

The Liberal Democrats have governed Japan for virtually all of the past 54 years. The Democrats will also face next year an election for the less powerful upper house

of parliament. They have controlled that chamber with two smaller allies since 2007, but if they fail to deliver quickly on their promises the Lib-eral Democrats could resurge.

Official results were still being counted, but exit polls by all major media said Hatoyama’s Democratic Party of Japan had won more than 300 of the 480 seats in the lower house of parliament. That would easily be enough to ensure that he is installed as prime minister in a special session of parliament that is expected to be held in mid-Sep-tember.

The task ahead for the Democrats is daunting.

Japan man-aged to climb out of a yearlong recession in the second quarter, but its economy remains weak. Unemployment and anxiety over falling wages threatens to undermine any recovery. The job-less rate has risen to a record 5.7 per-cent. After a rapid succession of three administrations in three years, Japan is facing its worst crisis of confidence in decades.

In the long-term it faces a bleak outlook if it isn’t able to figure out how to cope with a rapidly aging and shrinking population. Government es-timates predict the figure will drop to 115 million in 2030 and fall below 100

million by the middle of the century.The Democrats’ solution is to

move Japan away from a corporate-centric economic model to one that focuses on helping people. They have proposed an expensive array of initia-tives: cash handouts to families and farmers, toll-free highways, a higher minimum wage and tax cuts. The es-timated bill comes to 16.8 trillion yen ($179 billion) when fully implement-ed starting in the 2013 fiscal year.

The party has said it plans to cut waste and rely on untapped fi-nancial reserves to fund their programs. But with Japan’s public debt heading toward 200 percent of gross domes-tic product, the Democrats plan has been criticized as a financial fan-

tasy that would worsen Japan’s pre-carious fiscal health.

Japan’s stock market surged early in the morning on the news of the election, but then fell back — indi-cating uncertainty among investors about what the Democratic govern-ment will bring.

“The key difference is the Liberal Democrats’ spending on public projects and infrastructure, but the Democrats spend on fam-ily and education,” said Martin Schulz, a senior economist at the

Fujitsu Research Institute.“The Democrats have a year to

show results,” he added, noting next year’s elections are looming.

The Democrats are also under scrutiny for their positions on na-tional security and foreign policy.

Party leader Yukio Hatoyama, set to become Japan’s next prime min-ister, has been vocal about distanc-ing the country from Washington and forging closer ties with its Asian neighbors.

Washington’s new ambassador to Japan said the U.S. is looking forward to working with the administration in Tokyo.

“The challenges we face are many, but through our partnership our two great democracies will meet them in a spirit of cooperation and friend-ship,” Ambassador John V. Roos said in a statement Monday.

The Democrats first task will be to convince a skeptical public that they can actually lead.

“I feel very insecure with the Democratic Party of Japan,” said 65-year-old voter Shuji Ueki. “They don’t have a record.”

The Democrats are made up of an inexperienced group of left-wing activists and LDP defectors. The party is just 11 years old, and only a handful have served in top government positions.

But Ichiro Ozawa, co-founder of the party, expressed a quiet con-fidence.

“We have no fear, and we will steadily achieve our campaign promises one by one,” he said.

Japan opposition scrambles to form transition team

!!The challenges we face are many, but through

our partnership our two great democracies will meet them in a spirit of cooperation and friendship.

— John V. Roos United States ambassador to Japan

Steve LeBlancTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — The push to name a successor to the late Sen. Ed-ward M. Kennedy gained momen-tum Monday, with state lawmakers scheduling a hearing on whether to allow an appointee to serve until a special election in January.

Gov. Deval Patrick also said Monday that Kennedy’s widow, Vicki Kennedy, told him she does not want to be appointed as an interim replacement.

“Mrs. Kennedy is not interested in the position,” Patrick said referring to the interim post.

Before he died last week, Ken-nedy had asked Massachusetts law-makers to change state law to let the governor name an interim appoin-tee to serve until voters can choose a permanent replacement. Current Massachusetts law does not allow an interim appointee.

“This is the only way to ensure that Massachusetts is fully repre-sented,” Patrick said, but cautioned that “I don’t think by any means it is a certainty it will happen.”

Patrick said he agreed with Ken-nedy that the state needs two voices in the Senate during the interven-ing five months. State law requires a special election between 145 and 160 days after a vacancy; the special elec-tion was set for Jan. 19.

Patrick said he has heard from top Democrats in Washington, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both of whom support the change allow-ing an appointee. Senate Democrats say they need as many votes as they can during the debate on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

Patrick, a Democrat and friend of Obama’s, had previously expressed support for the change. He declined to say whom he might name as in-terim senator.

Lawmakers in the Democrat-controlled Massachusetts House and Senate announced Monday they would hold a hearing Sept. 9 on a bill that would allow the in-terim appointment.

The speedy scheduling of the hearing was the clearest sign yet that lawmakers might change the law.

Democrats are facing charges of hypocrisy from critics who point out that just five years ago, Democrats changed the law to block then-Gov. Mitt Romney from naming a fellow Republican to fill the seat if Kerry, the Democrats’ presidential nominee, won his White House campaign.

Before that change, the gover-nor was allowed to appoint a nomi-nee until the next general election. As part of the change, Democratic lawmakers also blocked the pos-sibility of Romney naming an in-terim senator.

“Changing the rules in the middle of the game is fundamentally wrong,”

said Rep. Brad Jones, the Republican leader in the Massachusetts House.

The race to fill Kennedy’s seat is expected to be crowded.

The biggest question is whether another Kennedy will jump into the race. While family aides to Vicki Kennedy have said she is not inter-ested in replacing her husband, she has not publicly taken herself out of the running.

Kennedy’s nephew and former U.S. Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II has also been suggested as a possible can-didate but has not said whether he is interested in running for the seat held, also held by another uncle, for-mer President John F. Kennedy.

Other possible contenders for the seat were also keeping mum on Monday.

On the Democratic side, those include state Attorney General Mar-tha Coakley, who would be the first woman elected to the Senate from Massachusetts. Although Coakley

has won statewide election, she would also need to raise money quickly.

Several members of Massachusetts’ all-Democratic congressional delega-tion have also been mentioned, includ-ing Reps. Stephen Lynch, Michael Capuano and Edward Markey.

Lynch, a former steelworker first elected to Congress during a spe-cial election to succeed the late Rep. Joseph Moakley of South Boston in 2001, is considered more socially conservative than Capuano, the for-mer mayor of Somerville, who holds the same seat in Congress once held by House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill Jr.

Markey, chairman of the House Select Committee on Global Warm-ing, is the longest-serving member of the Massachusetts delegation.

All three have sizable federal campaign war chests, including $1.3 million for Lynch, $1.2 million for Capuano and $2.8 million for Markey as of June 30.

Gears move on possibly naming Kennedy replacement

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Yoga instructor Toni Morris, of One O One Yoga, helps Kris Darnell, of Carbondale, with her positioning during class Monday. “I love yoga because it helps me relax and stay limber. My daughter is the one who got me into it,” Darnell said. Morris, who has been doing yoga for more than 12 years said, “Yoga is a part of my lifestyle now. I started because I had arthritis pain, and now I don’t.” JULIA RENDLEMANDAILY EGYPTIAN

Chris McGregorDAILY EGYPTIANCHRISM@SIU.EDU

Kathy Neely knows how to combat flu season.Neely, owner of One O One Yoga Center,

said practicing yoga helps boost the body’s immune system and fight off flu-like symptoms.

September is Yoga month and the One O One Yoga Center, as well as the Recreation Center, is scheduled to host a variety of different yoga classes.

One O One Yoga is scheduled to offer a free class every Sunday in September from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. The Recreation Center is scheduled to begin its fall yoga classes on Sept. 8.

“Yoga month invites all styles of yoga to participate in an awareness campaign designed to draw attention to the many benefits of yoga and inspire our fellow citizens to live healthier, happier lives,” according to Yogamonth.org, a Web site designed to promote and spread yoga.

Neely said Yoga month is a great way for different instructors to get together and teach each other as well as communities.

“Yoga month is a month where studios get together and offer special things to the community,” Neely said. “I want to offer the newly trained teachers an opportunity to teach in front of the community.”

She said the amount of yoga instructors has roughly doubled in the past five years.

She said yoga is a great form of exercise because it is designed to stretch and work every muscle in the body. Yoga is different from other forms of physical activities because of its balance, she said.

“Unlike a lot of other forms of exercise, yoga addresses balance and flexibility throughout the body,” she said. “Other forms may do some of those things, but do not address the entire body like yoga does.”

Yoga has helped Shawna Pope, a resident of Carbondale, overcome injuries she sustained in a car accident.

“I was in a car accident as a teenager and have rods in my back and always had decreased flexibility,” she said.

She said once she started doing yoga she gained back her flexibility and it has helped her reach her full potential in day-to-day activities.

She said she loves yoga because it has great physical and mental benefits.

She participates in power yoga and vinyasa yoga, which have different benefits, she said.

“Power yoga encourages the muscles to relax and be as flexible as possible by warming the muscles up,” she said.

She said many people don’t understand the power of yoga’s mental and emotional benefits.

“It is good for the body, mind and spirit because it addresses the body in such a holistic fashion,” she said.

Yoga teaches people to control their attention and be able to control responses in their body, she said.

She said she would recommend yoga to anyone who is looking to relieve stress and start a healthier lifestyle.

“Yoga is good for combating a lot of stress-related health problems,” she said. “It is starting to be used as a treatment for managing stress.”

For more information on Yoga month visit www.yogamonth.org.

Yoga month stretches through September

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Morris auditorium named after historic administrator

Benjamin A. Shepherd, former vice president for Academic Affairs, center, chuckles during the dedication ceremony of the John C. Guyon Auditorium in Morris Library Monday. Shepherd sits with SIUC Chancellor Sam Goldman, right, and Carbondale Mayor Brad Cole, left, all of whom are familiar with past SIUC associate vice president John Guyon. “Guyon made historic and unprecedented decisions to make sure women and minorities were represented,” Shepherd said during his speech. Cole gave a speech as well. “I remember [Shepherd] challenging the campus to build a library of the future in 1992,” Cole said. “We are finally here, his vision complete.”JAMES DURBINDAILY EGYPTIAN

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How will this

affect the American people?

EDITORIAL CARTOON

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

At the start of his term, President Obama made it clear that the war in Afghanistan was a war of necessity.

In March, Obama ordered a redeployment of 17,000 troops to Afghanistan to “disrupt, dismantle and defeat” the terrorist Al-Qaeda network. To date, the U.S. has lost 763 soldiers in Afghanistan since the invasion in 2002.

So where does the country stand? Is it stable enough to handle its own security? Or even allow for a withdrawal of troops any time soon?

On Aug. 20, Afghanistan held a presi-dential election between the two major candidates.

The candidates were the incumbent presi-dent independent Hamid Karzia, and the United National Front party candidate, Abdullah

Abdullah. Karzia is expected to win the election, as early counting indicates, even with the large specu-lations of fraud, ballot stuffing and dead Afghans voting.

But how does this affect the American people?

It is no secret the war in Afghanistan has been neglected by President Bush; Al-Qaeda has laid heavier groundwork in Afghanistan and is slipping deeper into Pakistan.

Now, Obama is working to rebuild the country with the help of Karzia. So has any progress been made over the last seven years in Afghanistan?

A presidential election is not enough to claim victory and move

on toward reconstruction. Both candidates cam-

paigned on good gov-ernance, social develop-ment, economic stability and safety. The challenger, Abdullah, has addressed a few more issues like cor-ruption, the drug trade and

monitoring reconstruction projects, but words are not actions.

If we turn our eyes to Afghanistan and put the resources into it, then there must be results.

The country has a stable govern-ment that defends challenges from Al-Qaeda and the Taliban everyday, Obama has requested $1.5 billion to fund the war and plans are aimed to expand the Afghan national police from 78,000 to 82,000.

Is this enough? Across the

pound, British Prime Minster Gordon Brown stated to the BBC “We have created space in which we can have Afghan government, Afghan police and Afghan forces and that will make it very difficult for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda to reassert themselves.”

The war in Afghanistan is an important fight; the Al-Qaeda net-work of terror is a serious threat to America.

We cannot let any sector of

a shaken government in Pakistan fall into Al-Qaeda’s hands and the human rights violations against women by the Taliban cannot be tolerated.

This column may seem like an indecisive opinion, but understand

how important this is and the mismanage-ment by Bush made it worse for people to stand behind this war.

Obama has laid out a clear plan for Afghanistan that makes hard sacrifices on American fami-lies, but addresses the

true problems. The two Afghan candidates are

almost the same, so the devil you know is better than the one you don’t know.

It’s time to get this right and not make the mistakes of the past. The Afghan war is too important.

Cratic is a senior studying political science.

D$&' E(")!':I quote from the recent story on

enrollments and the projected drop (again!), “Poshard said with the set of circumstances facing the univer-sity, it would be highly unusual for SIUC’s enrollment to increase.”

University administrators con-tinue to pretend that the enroll-ment problems are external.

However, other universities continue to do better. For example, the University of Evansville (whose teams we see here regularly) has just reported the biggest freshman class in 13 years.

Let’s face it. SIU is known throughout the education envi-ronment as The University With

The Plagiarist President and The University That Builds A New Stadium While The Academic Buildings Rot.

Parents (that’s who pay the bills for the majority of students) won’t send their children here.

Just why do you think Saluki Way must be financed by over-charging students and taxing the people of Carbondale? Why is it that alumni outside of Carbondale don’t make donations?

It is clear why the Board of Trustees had to sneak through the motion to extend the President’s term, at a meeting that took place outside of term time.

W. D. Wallis Emeritus Professor of Mathematics

The real issue with enrollment

Gus Bode says: It’s time to send the DE a letter. Don’t like what our student columnists and editorial board have to say? Want to make your opinion heard on some other university policy? Do something about it.

Send letters to the editor and guest columnist submissions to voices@siude.com, and don’t forget to include your name, year in school, major, hometown and a phone number for verification.

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Phil Reed, chef for Trueblood dining hall, brushes seasoning onto grilled eggplant at the farmers market Saturday. Reed and other university chefs grilled sausage and vegetables to make free food for the market’s customer appreciation day. Bill Connors, head chef for the university, said the dining halls want to purchase more food from local growers. He said the goal is for the university to purchase 20 percent of its produce locally.

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“After a while, it becomes less about how much money you make and more of a way of life,” he said.

Shari Sweeney, Patrick Sweeney’s wife of 14 years, said tak-ing care of the four acres of organic pro-duce was hard but beautiful work.

She said he would rise with the sun, drink a cup of coffee and head outside, often not finishing until dark.

The farm, identified by a cabin-like house and Patrick Sweeney’s famous pile of compost, grows a wide range of produce.

Nurtured within the five gardens are

several varieties of tomatoes, garlic, straw-berries, squash, sunflowers and zinnias, along with a host of other vegetables and flowers.

At this time of year, the property is a riot of reds, yellows, oranges and greens—until

the produce is picked.

“We used to call ourselves the color rob-bers,” Shari Sweeney said.

She said she is not sure what she is going to do with the farm in the future, but for the time being, she is going to continue tending and har-vesting the gardens.

“Patrick planted these things,” she said. “I can’t just let them go.”

Smith said Patrick Sweeney would be remembered for his tenacity.

Sweeney kept a positive attitude throughout his illness, he said, and was still talking about the farm days before he passed away.

During his years providing produce, Smith said he was focused at having more and better supplies than he did the year before.

Shari Sweeney said even when her hus-band went through chemotherapy and doc-tors suggested he cut down on the amount of produce he provided to the farmers market, he thought he would let custom-ers down if he did not offer everything he usually did.

“He loved to supply the people in this community with good food,” she said.

“He cared about the people that he fed.”

Sue Hofer, spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Revenue, said consumers might not see an increase on liquor prices, be-cause the tax affects distributors and retailers. Some may choose not to pass that increase on to their customers, she said.

“It’s strictly up to the distributor,” Hofer said. “They may choose not to pass on that increase at all.”

Though the tax increase officially begins today, opposition to the increase has already reached the courts.

According to Cook County court records, Rocky Wirtz, owner of the Chicago Black-hawks and a liquor distributor, filed suit in January claiming the tax is unconstitutional. As of Monday, the court had not taken any action.

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— Shari SweeneyPatrick Sweeney’s wife

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HoroscopesBy Linda C. Black

Today’s Birthday — This year, sorting out the facts is even more important than getting the job done. A big project takes longer than a year; it could take your whole career. They need you to stay on track. If they do finish this year, it’ll be because of you.To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.Aries (March 21-April 19) — Today is a 6 — A brainstorming session turns up great but insubstantial ideas. Don’t throw them out. At least one will work.Taurus (April 20-May 20) — Today is a 7 — A person set in his ways has an unusual request. No point arguing. It’s easier to just provide what’s desired.Gemini (May 21-June 21) — Today is a 7 — Rules and regulations complicate the project. You and your friends don’t give up, and you do win the prize.Cancer (June 22-July 22) — Today is a 7 — You’re anxious to get started, but you aren’t quite sure where to go. Don’t react emotionally; think it over.Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Today is a 7 — Listen to a technical type. Don’t waste your time on something you know you’re not going to do.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Today is a 7 — If you can keep them on schedule, they’ll be much more efficient. Show them how that happens and gain their support.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — You’re fascinated by a person you can’t really understand. Are you sure you want to go that way?

Scorpio (Oct. 23—Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — You have a knack for initially finding the hard way to do things. But you do learn the lesson, thankfully.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Money’s burning a hole in your pocket. You can afford a couple of treats, but don’t pig out.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — New technology is great, except for the learning curve. That’s where you make mistakes, but you’ll figure it out.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Today is a 7 — When you’re doing research, you don’t need anyone to show you how. You’ll set up the protocol for them to follow.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) — Today is a 7 — Ask your friends to help you figure out what needs to be done. They’re in a better position to see than you are.

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41 Sports spots43 Like Paree, in song44 Jam-pack45 Captain’s superior46 Grab bag category: Abbr.47 Heart and soul48 Pie fruit50 So52 Table salt, to a chemist54 Lupino of film56 “Sleepless in Seattle” direc-tor Nora60 __-Seltzer61 Apartment building emer-gency exit63 Blueprint detail, briefly64 White-tie accompanier65 Finished66 Handy bag67 Sidewinder, e.g.68 Untamed, and word that can precede the starts of 17- and 61-Across and 11- and 28-Down

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38 “The World According to __”: John Irving novel39 Cheyenne-to-Omaha direction42 “There’s __ like home”44 Consistent moneymaker46 Middle of the road49 Picks up51 Favorable times

52 Democrat’s donkey designer53 Chop House dog food maker55 Diva’s solo57 Sitarist Shankar58 European auto59 Uncool sort62 Moose, to a European

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Rich Rodriguez and the University of Michigan football team are under fire for allegedly breaking the NCAA rule of 20 hours of practice a week. Is this a big deal?

So much for Michigan being one of the cleanest schools around. After seeing the way Rich Rodriguez acts, hearing about violations isn’t too shocking. But to hear Rodriguez explain it, the Detroit Free-Press writers hate his kids. The ‘Won’t somebody please think of the children’ defense makes this story even better. I can’t wait to see Rodriguez get canned.

If what the players are saying is true, Rodriguez is doing more than simply breaking the rule – he is outright crushing it. In his case, it is a big deal. Honestly though, I bet most big programs break the 20-hour rule. Are you telling me schools like USC or Ohio State abide by the practice rules all the time? Probably not. If it was just a minor bending of the rules, no, this would not be a big deal.

This is definitely a big deal. College athletes are students as well, and spending 30-40 hours a week practicing hurts their chances at succeeding in school. It’s a rule for a reason.

sports@siu.edu

DEREK ROBBINS

CROSS COUNTRYCONTINUED FROM 12

And just a month ago it looked like that would change this season. The teams were tied for first place on Aug. 6, but since then the Cardinals have gone 18-4 while the Cubs have gone 8-14.

As the Cardinals revamped their offense with the additions of Matt Holliday, Mark DeRosa and Julio Lugo; Jim Hendry could only watch as the Cubs offense disappeared overnight, Zambrano broke down and everybody got injured.

At least if the Cubs stay in second, one shocking record will finally end.

The Cubs and Cardinals have never finished 1-2 in the central division since its formation in 1994. While the Yankees and Red Sox have played each other three times in the last 10 years for the right to go to the World Series, the Cardinals-Cubs

haven’t met each other in the playoffs in the modern era – going back to the 19th century. No you did not misread that, it’s been more than 100 years.

So as we watch the Cardinals coast their way into the playoffs and Cubs fans drown away their sorrow as they add another year to the 101 and counting, it might be fun to imagine what could have been. Sitting in the bleachers of the friendly confines, sipping your beverage as two great rivals compete to see who would represent the National League in the World Series. The drama would be almost immeasurable.

Oh well, there is always next year!

RIVALRIESCONTINUED FROM 12 The story of the Cubs-

Cardinals is full of intrigue and thrills, but the chapter about the heart-wrenching twist and the storybook ending has yet to be written.

“We have real good recruits this year and we have been training together, working together and just cause they’re freshmen doesn’t mean that they can’t be a contributing factor,” he said. “They just need to stay confident. We

recruited them for a reason.” Cross country coach Matt Sparks

said the team needs to transfer the confidence it has in conference competition to the national level of competition.

“At this point they need to believe in themselves, push themselves to be as good as they can be and keep a confident mindset,” Sparks said.

Howard UlmanTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FOXBOROUGH, Mass .— Tedy Bruschi retired Monday after a 13-year NFL career in which he won three Super Bowl titles with the New England Patriots and made a gallant return from a stroke.

The inside linebacker played for no other team and leaves football with only one unachieved goal — a fourth championship.

“I’m 36 years old,” Bruschi said at a news conference. “Your body doesn’t heal as quickly.”

He came back from a mild stroke in February 2005 to play eight months later.

“I was retired,” he said. “I didn’t think it was possible” to play again.

Bruschi’s performance declined last year. He missed much of training camp with an undisclosed injury but played in two of the team’s last three exhibition games.

Coach Bill Belichick, usually stoic, choked up as he discussed Bruschi.

“How do I feel about Tedy Bruschi?” Belichick said. “He’s a perfect player.”

Bruschi’s reaction?On defense, 2001 first-round

pick, defensive end Richard Seymour, has been with the team

the longest. In the offseason, the Patriots lost two other defensive leaders — safety Rodney Harrison to retirement and linebacker Mike Vrabel in a trade with Kansas City.

“I don’t think you can fill that (leadership) void with one person,” outside linebacker Adalius Thomas said. “(Bruschi) has been here. He’s seen so much, been through so many things.”

Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini was New England’s defensive coordinator in 2005 after spending five seasons as the team’s defensive backs coach.

“Tedy is an unbelievable guy, a special guy,” Mangini said Monday. “He moved to inside linebacker my first year there and there was some growing pains. I swear he is made out of elastic the way he can get around blockers and torque his body.”

U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts issued a statement calling Bruschi “the heart and soul of the New England Patriots, a leader, a motivator and a role model.”

Bruschi played on all three Super Bowl-winning Patriots teams. The last championship game was Feb. 6, 2005, against the Philadelphia Eagles. He played in his only Pro Bowl on Feb. 13.

Patriots LB Tedy Bruschi retires after 13 years

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Cross country picked to three-peat

The St. Louis Cardinals have all but punched their tickets into October, leaving the Chicago Cubs and the rest of Central Division in their dust. All Cardinal fans seem to enjoy embar-rassing the Cubs in the division race.

Every Cardinal fan can be pleased with the seemingly inevitable playoff appearance, but there is little argu-ment that this season would be more satisfying if the Cubs were closer in contention.

Some Cardinals fans could say, “Showing sympathy for the Cubbies? How could you?” No, it’s not sympa-thy, but there should be a feeling that something is missing from the Cubs-Cardinals rivalry that separates it from the elite rivalries.

The story of the Cubs-Cardinals is full of intrigue and thrills, but the chapter about the heart-wrenching twist and the storybook ending has yet to be written.

Complain all you want about how much coverage the Yankees-Red Sox receive every time they play on ESPN, but they have earned the right to have Joe Morgan spout his “knowledge” about them almost every Sunday.

Ask any Yankee or Red Sox fan about their rivalry, and sit and lis-

ten to them ramble for hours about the 2003 and 2004 American League Championship Series, Aaron ‘bleep-ing’ Boone, Bucky Dent and the trade of the Bambino.

Now think about the great moments that have happened throughout the Cubs-Cardinal rivalry. What memories come to you? Think about it for a sec-ond. The Lou Brock trade and the 1998 Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa home run chase come to mind, as does the five-game series at Wrigley Field Labor Day week 2003. Other than that, there has been a spark missing in the rivalry.

rvoyles@siu.eduRYAN VOLES

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EDYTA BLASZCZYK | DAILY EGYPTIANT.J. Heffernan, a sophomore runner from Batavia, stretches after Monday’s practice. In a preseason poll conducted by the Missouri Valley Conference, SIU was picked to win the conference championship for a third straight year.

!Ryan SimoninDAILY EGYPTIANRSIMMY@SIU.EDU

!!Conference championships are not enough.

After two years of dominating the Missouri Valley Conference, the SIU cross country team has its sights set on national competition.

The Salukis are the favorites to win a third consecutive conference championship, taking eight of the nine first-place votes in the MVC preseason poll. Indiana State

University cross country coach John McNichols said while the whole conference has improved, SIU is undoubtedly the team to beat.

“All across the board the conference is tougher,” McNichols said. “But Southern is going to have one of the best teams they have had since the early 80s.”

The Salukis have four returning seniors this season in Jeff Schirmer, Mohamed Mohamed, Jason Ordway and Jared Milam. Mohamed said this year the team is pushing to finally

make it to the NCAA Nationals as a team.

“This is our last year here and everybody’s healthy,” Mohamed said. “This year it’s do or die.”

Two of the Salukis are no strangers to national competition. Schirmer finished 25th overall in the nation last season while Mohamed finished 77th in 2007.

Schirmer said he was not surprised by the results of the preseason poll, but knows the team has to stay focused.

“I would hope that we would be ranked first, but it is exciting

to know that people have high expectations of our team,”Schirmer said.

Schirmer said the freshmen runners coming in have an

opportunity to be a big part of the Salukis’ success this season.

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!!We have real good recruits this year and we have been training together, working together and just

cause they’re freshmen doesn’t mean that they can’t be a contributing factor. !

— Jeff Schirmersenior runner