Salukis win conference championship

The No. 1 SIU (9-1, 8-0 Missouri Valley Football Conference) took advantage of numerous turnovers as it defeated Missouri State 44-24 Saturday in the final regular-season home game at McAndrew Stadium.
The win guaranteed the Salukis the outright conference title, and made them the first team ever to go undefeated in league play. They also set the MVFC record with their 14th straight conference win.
Head coach Dale Lennon said taking the conference title outright has been on the minds of the players all week.
“It was definitely on the players’ minds,” Lennon said. “That is all the senior class emphasized, we don’t want to share this. We want to be greedy. It’s one of the only times I can be OK with greed.”
The conference title is the fifth one SIU has won since 2004, but only its second outright title. Last year the Salukis shared the title with Northern Iowa.
The Bears came into Saturday looking to stop their six-game losing streak against the Salukis, and after the Bears’ first possession, it seemed as if all the pre-game pageantry would be for naught.
On the fourth play of the game, running back Chris Douglas tore through the middle of SIU’s defense, going 65-yards untouched to give Missouri State a 7-0 lead in less than two minutes.
The scamper was the longest run given up by the Salukis this season, and only the second time this season the opposition scored on its opening drive.
The Salukis answered back though, as quarterback Paul McIntosh found wide receiver Joe Allaria up the middle for a 56-yard reception. Senior running back Deji Karim capped off the drive with his seven-yard touchdown run — his 12th rushing touchdown of the season.
Missouri State (6-5, 4-4 MVFC) continued its ground assault on the next drive, rushing all the way to SIU’s 16-yard line, but a botched option between quarterback Cody Kirby and Douglas resulted in a fumble that SIU’s Tony Colletti scooped it up.
“We had a guy there on the spot, ready to force the quick pitch,” Lennon said. “The pitch was mishandled and we were on top of it. The big plays I feel were in the first half and set us up for pulling ahead of Missouri State.”
The string of turnovers was only beginning for the Bears.
On the ensuing SIU punt, returner Cedric Alvis took the ball 22-yards before fumbling it on the Bears’ 39-yard line.
The Salukis made them pay as Karim punched in his second touchdown of the day on a three-yard run up the middle.
The defense got in on the scoring as cornerback Brandon Williams picked off Kirby and ran it back for the score, giving the Salukis a 21-7 lead.
Mike McElroy did his best Williams impression early in the third quarter as he returned a Kirby pass 80-yards to the end zone to put the Salukis up 41-7.
“That play was tiring,” McElroy said. “Having to run up the field like that was a good workout.”
Missouri State finished the game with five turnovers, including three interceptions. Missouri State outgained SIU 464 yards to 358 yards, but Lennon said statistics are irrelevant when the defense forces turnovers.
“You can’t even look at the statistics for this game to do justice to it,” Lennon said. “When your defense is getting turnovers and getting points off of them. We lost a couple series because of those plays. Then in the fourth quarter we brought in all the backups, so the numbers mean nothing.”
Karim continued his dream season, finishing with 14 carries for 117 yards and three touchdowns. The redshirt senior leads the Football Championship Subdivision with 14 rushing touchdowns. He even showed off some hands, catching a pass in the second quarter after it bounced off Allaria.
“He told me after the play that he planned that, but it was going all the way all day after that,” Karim said.

from The Daily Egyptian – http://www.siude.com/sports/salukis-win-conference-championship-1.2083459

We Enjoyed The Heavy Snowfall

To us from Malaysia, coming from hot and humid weather all the year round and never ever will see snow in our lifetime (if we never got the chance to study overseas), it was one of the most beautiful experience we had every time it snowed in Carbondale.

That would be the time we will put extra layer of thick clothing [even though sometime it was not that cold] covering every part of our body. Everyone of us got the chance of having to play snow for the very first time. How wonderful.

There were a few occasions when SIU had to be closed as many of the roads were not passable. But then for us it will be time to wander around the campus to enjoy the knee deep snow or sometime up to our waist level.

It is so memorable that we would take these opportunities to capture forever in photo shots of various locations, posing as many shots and playing childishly.

Unfortunately, those shots supposed to be captured for future nostalgic story telling to others were not kept properly and either lost or damaged by our humid weather back home. With working up our career and photos kept all over in kampung somewhere and moving from one house to another in keeping up with hectic life – we lost the those memorable shots that we intend to keep.

And that was what happened to me. Many of those photos were gone, lost or damaged.

Here are some of those that I managed to salvaged. Some had to be digitally doctored else the colors were so bad that you wonder what season they were shot – snow turned out yellowish!

Please share you photos here. Send to me your scanned photos.

With Shukri Azam – who has the most sophisticated camera among us.

The childish play … and we enjoyed it

Was this near the Student Center?

By the little “forest” next to the Student Center.

With Che Wahab Che Man … pretending it was a waist deep!

Al-Fatihah – Sdr. Shuid Salleh

Innalillahi wa inna lillahi rajioon

Sdra. Shuid Salleh (Jojo) ex-SIUC-Engineering telah kembali ke rahmatullah pukul 4.40 ptg 16hb Nov. 2009 dan disemadikan pada hari sama di kampung bapanya dekat Kepala Batas, Kedah.

Beliau mengidap sakit kanser paru-paru.

Semoga rohnya diletakkan bersama orang-orang yang mulia.

 

More of the Gathering Photos

Yes, we had a wonderful gathering on 11th October at Taman Tasik Ampang Hilir. As I had promised to upload some of the photos, here they are:

Osman and Othman

Moslim with daughter (back) and Othman while Zambri and Osman at the background

Burhan talking to Megat and wife

Rauff listening to Megat and Osman's conversation

As the person taking charge of the food, Burhan asked Fauzan and Othman if they need more

The rest of the family members prefer the shade and to be seated

The second generations made friends easily as did their parents

yes ... recalling the good old days stories (Zambri, Burhan, Rauff and Megat standing while Othman seated)

we talk, and talk, and talk ...

everybody were busy talking

Sis. Yaman (Osman) talking to Sis. Norliza (Moslim) while their children prefer to talk standing

Brother Osman and family left for Dubai yesterday en route to Khartoum bringing back sweet memories of a short stay in Malaysia meeting long lost friends. It was also unfortunate that some of us were not able to make it.

However, Shuki Osman made an extra effort taking a trip all the way from Kulim to meet Osman Mokhtar El-Mubarak at Batu Ferringhi despite he was not feeling well and being on medication.

Thank you Shuki for the wonderful lunch and sharing some of the nostalgic photos.

A small memorable gathering

Well, after a short notice and a simple preparation, we finally managed to gather at Taman Tasik Ampang Hilir.

We had Wan Burhan Wan Ismail (who arrived first and brought Nasi Lemak and mineral water), Zambri Mohd Tenang (brought karipap), Othman Ismail, Megat Hisham Hassan and wife (brought homemade kuih lapis), Abdul Rauff Sarail, Moslim Jaafar and his big family (minus one), Mohd Fauzan Mohd Nor and his family (who came all the way from Malacca, and of course our special guest all the way from Sudan, Osman Mokhtar El-Mubarak and his family.

Khalid Zakaria called a day before that he cannot make it at the last minute and there was no news from Mohd Saupi for able to make it and so was Wan Ibrahim.

What was interesting to see the family members and interactions among the 2nd generations among us. Though it was the first time for some of them to meet they were able to continue the brotherly relationship among their parents.

Thanks to all who made the effort to come and meet our brother Osman whom we had not met for over 20 years!

Will write more and upload additional photos later.

p.s. – I do not know who brought the other container of kuih lapis – sorry for not giving the rightful credit.

Guide to Taman Tasik Ampang Hilir

For those who are not familiar with Ampang area, you may want to use the map below as a guide.

Directions:

1.Using Middle Ring Road (MRR2)

a. Coming from Zoo Negara:

Exit at Ampang Jaya i.e. before Ampang Point flyover. Follow under the flyover to the Ampang road junction take right at the light towards the city. Turn left after Shell and Petronas (before Lorenzo) – Lorong Ru. Turn right at Jalan Ampang Hilir. The lake is at your right. Parking and and entrance clearly visible.

In case you missed the Ampang Point/Jaya exit, proceed the MRR2, U-turn at the next two exit (i.e. exit Pandan Jaya – passed Tesco). Then follow (b.)

b. Coming from Cheras:

After Tesco (Kg Pandan), take Jalan Ampang exit after Shell and the lake. Keep left and turn towards the city at Jalan Ampang. Turn left after Shell and Petronas (before Lorenzo) – Lorong Ru. Turn right at Jalan Ampang Hilir. The lake is at your right. Parking and and entrance clearly visible.

2. Coming from the city along Jalan Ampang, U-turn at the light under the MRR2 flyover. Take Jalan Ampang back towards the city, turn left after Shell and Petronas (before Lorenzo) – Lorong Ru. Turn right at Jalan Ampang Hilir. The lake is at your right. Parking and and entrance clearly visible.

The map below should be helpful.

Hari Raya Picnic for SIU-C Alumni (Updated)

Calling SIU-C Alumni, especially 1982-1987, we plan to have a simple Raya picnic (with your family along).

Date: 11 October 2009 (Sunday)

Time: 9:30 am – 11:30 am (most of us need to rush to other Raya Open House invitations and/or wedding receptions after that – so let us all be punctual and finish on time)

Agenda: Just meet and talk, talk, talk

Location: Taman Rekreasi DBKL Tasik Ampang Hilir (just opened before Raya) – next to Shell Station along MRR2 before Ampang Point if coming from Cheras or after Ampang Point if coming from Zoo Negara (map)

Food/Drink: Simple Nasi Lemak bungkus, a little bit of pasta, and other light Raya cookies (as you will all be going to attend various functions after that) – and mineral water. Unless we have other sponsors (please tell me)

SPECIAL GUEST: Bro. Osman Mokhtar El-Mubarak (Sudanese) SIU-C 1985-1987 – he and his family has been in town for vacation since yesterday – and wish to meet all his Malaysian friends.

PLEASE confirm your attendance to avoid food wastage (and also tak cukup makan!).

HELP spread the words …

Person to contact:

1. Karim Omar 019-3199-788 (akarimomar@yahoo.com)

2. Wan Burhan 016-395-6497 (logonwb@yahoo.com)

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Updated (9 Oct 09):

Confirmed coming:

1. Mohd Zambri Tenang *
2. Moslim Jaafar ++
3. Wan Burhan Ismail +
4. Othman Ismail
5. Wan Ibrahim Wan Long *
6. Mohd Saupi Fauzi
7. Khalid Zakaria

Confirmed NOT coming:

1. Sheikh Jaafar Sheikh Ismail
2. Shuki Osman
3. Mohd Hussin Ali
4. Mukhsin Tajuddin

Note:

• + : with spouse
• ++ : with family
• * : no indication

Suspects sought in connection with shots fired Saturday

from Daily Egyptan:

Published: Monday, March 30, 2009

Updated: Monday, March 30, 2009

Carbondale Police are still looking for three males they believe were involved in an incident in which shots were fired at Lewis Park Apartments early Saturday morning.

Officers responded to a disturbance call just after 12:30 a.m. and found several men and women fighting in the complex’s apartment complex, police said in a Monday news release.

Witnesses said they heard two or three gunshots fired, but Officer Randy Mathis said the bullets struck no one.

Police said an 18-year-old Carbondale man, who was treated for injuries and released from Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, and an 18-year-old Marion woman reported being struck by one of the suspects during the scuffle.

The three men left the area in a four-door sedan with Missouri license plates shortly after the shots were fired, police said.

Police said anyone with information regarding this incident can call 618-549-2677 to submit an anonymous tip.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale – Wikipedia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Motto:	Deo Volente
Established:	1869
Type:	Public
Chancellor:	Samuel Goldman (interim)
President:	Glenn Poshard
Faculty:	1,553
Students:	21,000
Undergraduates:	16,500[1]
Postgraduates:	4,500
Location:	Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Campus:	Rural, 1,133 acres (4.6 km²)
Colors:	Maroon and White
Nickname:	Salukis
Mascot:	Brown Dawg and Gray Dawg[2]
Website:	www.siuc.edu

Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC but usually just referred to as SIU) is located in Carbondale, Illinois. The Carbondale campus is the flagship campus of the Southern Illinois University system, which includes SIU’s smaller sister institution Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Founded in 1869, SIU ranks as one of the top public universities in Illinois. SIU is recognized in the U.S. News & World Report rankings as a “National University”, that is, a university which grants a variety of doctoral degrees and strongly emphasizes research.^[3] US News ranks SIU in the “third tier”, meaning that it is currently in the third quartile of schools within the National University category.^[4] Among public universities in Illinois awarding doctorate degrees, only the University of Illinois ranks higher. Additionally, SIU is ranked by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as “Doctoral Research Extensive”. The University offers the full range of degree programs from the bachelor’s to the doctoral level, as well as professional degrees in law and medicine.^[3]

History

In 1869, SIU was founded as a teacher’s college named Southern Illinois Normal College. It began with twelve academic departments and an initial class of 143. The university continued as a teacher’s college until Delyte W. Morris took office as president of the university in 1948. Morris was SIU’s longest serving president (1948-1970).^[5] During his presidency, he transformed SIU from a teacher’s college to the second-ranked public comprehensive research university in Illinois.^{[citation needed]} Among his many accomplishments, Morris created SIU’s law, medical, and dental schools.

SIU’s total undergraduate enrollment is around 20,000.^[3] Typical of public research universities, SIU has over 170 academic degree programs–across all levels; associates, bachelors, masters, and doctoral. It also offers professional programs in business, law and medicine. Since 1989, SIU has offered an M.D./J.D. dual degree program, leading to the concurrent award of both degrees after six years.^[6]

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognizes Southern Illinois University, Carbondale as an elite institution of higher education, based on breadth of research and academic programs. Carnegie categorizes Southern as: “RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity).”^[7]

Highlights

• SIU was the first major university in the United States to be handicapped accessible in the early 1960s.
• The Princeton Review ranks SIUC as one of the Best Midwestern Universities and one of the Best Valued Colleges in the nation.
• U.S. News and World Reports ranked SIUC, alongside Princeton, West Virginia and North Carolina State, as one of the top schools for graduating students with the least amount of debt.
• The College of Business and Administration ranks among the best in the United States, with the finance department among the top 5 percent.
• The Automotive Industry Planning Council ranks the Automotive Technology Program as No. 1 in the country.
• The aviation program has been one of the best nationally for many years, with SIU’s young pilots winning the Collegiate National Team Award five of the last six years.
• SIUC ranks second in the nation in American Philosophy.
• U.S. News and World Reports ranks the Rehabilitation Institute counseling program sixth in the nation. In addition, the program won the 2006 Commissioner’s Award for Excellence in Education and Training from the Federal Rehabilitation Services Administration.
• The Department of Workforce Education is among the Top 10 in the country, joining Ohio State, Wisconsin and Penn State in that category.
• The School of Law’s Legal Research and Writing Program tied Rutgers University for 22nd in the nation among 184 law schools.
• SIUC is ranked 30th in the nation for economic diversity (enrolling undergraduates with family incomes less than $40,000 per year), joining UCLA, Kentucky, Brigham Young and others in this category.
• Less than one year after graduation, 80 percent of SIU graduates are employed full time.
• Ninety-three percent of our alumni have either a positive or strongly positive attitude toward SIUC.
• SIU’s student-athletes lead our conference in overall grade point average. And they succeed in competition. Our men’s basketball team had advanced to the NCAA Tournament six straight seasons, including two trips to the Sweet Sixteen. The women’s team was Missouri Valley Conference champion in 2007. Football has been ranked in the Top 10 in the Football Championship Subdivision for the past four years. Softball has been ranked in the Top 25 in the nation for the past two years and has advanced to the NCAA Tournament five straight seasons.
• SIU will be undergoing more than $200 million in new construction in the next few years, including new academic buildings, a student services building and a new football stadium, creating thousands more jobs and further enhancing our campus.

Leadership

On November 18, 2005, the SIU Board of Trustees unanimously selected former congressman and three-degree SIU alumnus Glenn Poshard to serve as the new President of Southern Illinois University. Poshard took office in January 2006.^[8]

Also, SIUC and SIUE are the same school system.

Athletics

See: Southern Illinois Salukis

Notable alumni

There are currently over 220,000 graduates of Southern Illinois University worldwide.

Main Article: List of Southern Illinois University alumni

External links

Campus Lake on the south side of campus in February, 2007.

• Official SIU System site
• Official SIUC site
• Official SIU athletics site
• SalukiTalk.net, unofficial site of all things related to Southern Illinois University
• Campus map
• The Daily Egyptian, SIU’s student-run newspaper

[edit] References

1. ^ Spotlight Southern. Fall enrollment stands at 21,003.
2. ^ “SIU Daily Egyptian – Donning the Dawg Suit One Last Time”. http://media.www.siude.com/media/storage/paper1096/news/2006/12/04/Campus/Donning.The.Dawg.Suit.One.Last.Time-2519413.shtml. Retrieved on 2008-10-26.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Poshard, Glenn (September, 2007). “A Message To Alumni From SIU President Glenn Poshard”. Southern Alumni.
4. ^ “America’s Best Colleges”. U.S. News & World Report. http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/directory/brief/drglance_1758_brief.php. Retrieved on 2007-10-16.
5. ^ Daily Egyptian, “Delyte Morris”
6. ^ LeBlang to become president in March of the American College of Legal Medicine. Md/Jd Dual Degree Program Overview. Legal medicine education: the M.D./J.D. Dual Degree Program at Southern Illinois University.
7. ^ Carnegie Classifications.
8. ^ SIU Press Release. SIU Board Chooses Poshard For President.

[edit] See also

• Alt.news 26:46
• WSIU-TV
• WIDB
• New Media Center
• SIU College of Business
• SIU School of Law
• College of Mass Communication & Media Arts
• List of Southern Illinois University alumni
• Southern Illinois University Press

SIU opens campus despite harsh conditions

Some students find parking a harrowing process

A car stands alone in a makeshift parking spot Thursday in the Communications Building parking lot. Plant and Services Operations Director Phil Gatton said that the mixture of snow and ice has caused failure to some equipment and delay in getting all parking lots plowed. Edyta Blaszczyk ~ Daily Egyptian

After university officials closed campus for two days because of poor weather, SIUC greeted students Thursday with limited parking spaces and massive mounds of snow.

Most parking lots on campus were half-plowed, rendering many students unable to find a parking space. Those who found space were in danger of being stuck because of lingering ice and snow that amassed from a winter storm that had struck Carbondale two days earlier.

Phil Gatton, director of Plant and Service Operations, said progress has been slow because snow and ice interfered with some equipment, which meant most of the work had to be done with shovels.

“I’m sure there are a lot of people frustrated and I apologize for that,” Gatton said. “We were given a difficult storm and we’ve tried to deal with it the best we can.”

As of 11:45 a.m., only five rows at the SIU Arena parking lot had been cleared.

Christina Trapani, a sophomore from Herrin studying finance, said she would have been fine with the decision to open campus if the lots had been cleared.

“We had softball practice today and we needed to get to the stadium, and they hadn’t even plowed that parking lot,” Trapani said. “I thought they could have plowed yesterday when we had the day off. I thought that was why we had the day off.”

Chancellor Sam Goldman said the decision to open campus came when he drove around campus with Gatton. Goldman said though conditions were not completely clear, they thought it was clear enough to resume classes.

“We were aware there would be some difficulties,” Goldman said. “All in all, it looked like the campus should be operational. It wasn’t perfect, but it was operational.”

Lot Two, which is located east of Anthony Hall, was completely clear at 8:30 a.m.

Kathleen Plesko, director of Disability Support Services, said she received no complaints and was pleased with the work the Physical Plant had done to clear parking lots, sidewalks and roads.

“Our Physical Plant has really been climbing a mountain day and night trying to make things work,” Plesko said. “To me, at some point you have to go and do the hard thing (and open campus). Of course it’s not going to work for everybody, but I think they’ve done a phenomenal job to this point.”

Reza Habib, a professor in psychology, said he had trouble finding a parking space in a lot west of Lawson Hall.

But Habib said he understands why campus was opened after being closed for two days.
“From a faculty point of view — for people teaching Tuesdays and Thursdays — that’s a whole week they would have lost from a semester,” Habib said. “It puts a lot of strain on students to cover the material.”

Lt. Harold Tucker of the SIUC Police Department said officers were encouraged to help with parking and not write tickets unless necessary Thursday.

“We’re just trying to facilitate students, faculty and staff,” Tucker said. “We’re using extreme caution and not writing tickets, but just trying to facilitate safe parking and travel.”

Though the threat of tickets was lifted, some students found parking to be a frustrating process.

John Folak, a senior from Chicago studying aviation, said his car became stuck when he tried to park at the SIU Arena before a 10 a.m. class.

“They just should have plowed these lots, they had all day yesterday,” Folak said. “If they were going to open the campus, they should have had the lots plowed.”

Folak said he had to call a friend to pull him out