tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.comments2024-03-07T10:30:47.870-06:00The Carbondale GazetteCastle Perilous Gameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comBlogger1127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-41739064927838939642024-03-07T10:30:47.870-06:002024-03-07T10:30:47.870-06:00Heads should rollas a result of this disgraceful s...Heads should rollas a result of this disgraceful situation especially in Carbondale City Council.. It may not be coincidental that Gary Williams's resignation comes at this point.Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-1582758703614986392024-02-19T23:39:12.891-06:002024-02-19T23:39:12.891-06:00Phoenix Cycle building has been purchased by anoth...Phoenix Cycle building has been purchased by another marijuana dispensary. But...this one supposedly has a license for a lounge that people can actually sit and smoke in. Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17204777978781339806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-40680382906394105282024-02-13T14:54:15.967-06:002024-02-13T14:54:15.967-06:00Go ahead and submit her name. since it is a music...Go ahead and submit her name. since it is a musical venue, I was looking for great musicians from the area.Castle Perilous Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-52750553944769529092024-02-13T13:54:33.182-06:002024-02-13T13:54:33.182-06:00Maybe Agnes Ayres (1896-1940) would have been a be...Maybe Agnes Ayres (1896-1940) would have been a better choice. She was Carbondale's first major Hollywood star appearing with Valentino in THE SHEIK and THE SON OF THE SHEIK as well as the first version of THE TEN COMANDMENTS. Historical amnesia and antithesis to old b/w films would rule this suggestion out in this area.i.Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-30602279159639911502024-02-10T10:02:53.632-06:002024-02-10T10:02:53.632-06:00Just like the Poshard era! Will this institution n...Just like the Poshard era! Will this institution never learn? Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-62920968954038539532024-02-09T19:12:27.126-06:002024-02-09T19:12:27.126-06:00From what I have heard, he has staffed the top pos...From what I have heard, he has staffed the top postiions at SIUC with a lot of compatriots/cronies from his former positions. What will happen to them should he get another position? Poor dears, left in the Lurch?<br />Castle Perilous Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-20220632547835627692024-02-09T09:27:26.692-06:002024-02-09T09:27:26.692-06:00Quite right. A deafening silence seems to reign on...Quite right. A deafening silence seems to reign on this and other matters on the comments issue of the DE and Southern. He has only been here four years, hired after the BOT and others knew of his being fired from his last job, and we do not know how many of these students are "boots on the ground" or online ones from those Texas Community Colleges he has been promoting. Whatever the case, this is another damning indictment of how SIUC higher administration functions that also has disastrous consequences fr the economic health of the local community. Questions will obviously occur as to WHY he is leaving in such a short time? Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-33358900679928319752024-02-06T19:49:41.865-06:002024-02-06T19:49:41.865-06:00Public works has found and fixed at least three le...Public works has found and fixed at least three leaks in the city water mains and the water plant is no longer running 24 hours a day Castle Perilous Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-87780429931253128352024-02-03T09:55:16.897-06:002024-02-03T09:55:16.897-06:00Foresight could have solved these problems rather ...Foresight could have solved these problems rather than just waiting for them to happen.Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-67748048254119966042024-02-02T19:16:34.949-06:002024-02-02T19:16:34.949-06:00Dunno. Maintenance is having to find repair parts ...Dunno. Maintenance is having to find repair parts for some of the HVAC units on eBay because the manufacturers do not produce them any more.Castle Perilous Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-79221192373919287932024-02-02T09:02:53.283-06:002024-02-02T09:02:53.283-06:00Just like SIU's crumbling buildings and bug is...Just like SIU's crumbling buildings and bug issues reported in the last two issues of the DE. Will these all be repaired and where will the money be coming from?Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-10770200903640085032024-01-28T10:11:43.554-06:002024-01-28T10:11:43.554-06:00Anything that eliminates the drunk fest of Carbond...Anything that eliminates the drunk fest of Carbondale and hypothermia sending students into the emergency rooms is welcome. Anyway, according to one N.A.T.O. General conscription may be returning, and I don't think there will be any college deferments this time round. Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-2766631282939753442024-01-19T11:13:03.272-06:002024-01-19T11:13:03.272-06:00Nor "Rip Off Britain" but "Rip Off ...Nor "Rip Off Britain" but "Rip Off Cabondale"!. Hopefully, clouds will fill the sky on that day making a lot of people justifiably angry.Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-70713901859049009972024-01-11T09:38:57.567-06:002024-01-11T09:38:57.567-06:00As wasteful as the $100 million going to sport at ...As wasteful as the $100 million going to sport at SIUC while the infrastructure continues to deteriorate.<br />Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-19975491534463192942024-01-07T11:25:54.290-06:002024-01-07T11:25:54.290-06:00Probably, the latter. The Southern has never been ...Probably, the latter. The Southern has never been a reliable source for news and suppresses stories of interest.<br />Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-53115949252271451872023-12-23T00:17:26.604-06:002023-12-23T00:17:26.604-06:00Exactly and this is why SIUC is going downhill and...Exactly and this is why SIUC is going downhill and taking Carbondale with it. From the business perspective mentioned by a previous poster, the Athletics program loses $1, million annually and the current deficit would be enough to close it down in the business world. If lawmakers are now investigating Ivy League universities, it is now high time that a national state committee be set up to investigate SIUC administration and why they are allowing education and declining infrastructure to collapse further while spending money on inessential items while students suffer as a result of their mismanagement. Carbondale will also become another Cairo if this state of affairs continues.Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-9956050941288156032023-12-22T21:13:57.578-06:002023-12-22T21:13:57.578-06:00Plan on watching it over the holiday.Plan on watching it over the holiday.Castle Perilous Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-6851009497395558422023-12-21T17:21:40.892-06:002023-12-21T17:21:40.892-06:00I sadly realize that for you education is a "...I sadly realize that for you education is a "business". My comments relate to the students who are being cheated out of a good education because money is being wasted on sport rather than education and essential building maintenance and repair necessary for educational activities. If you think the State will "eventually fix" funding, then you are living in a dream world. State support has dwindled over the years resulting in high tuition and massive student debt which is already putting off the dwindling number of local students from attending high education. You have a "Babbit" mentality in stating that education is only "part" of a university mission. It should be central. Sport is not the main factor that attracts a good student to any university but the quality of its programs. Donations do not necessary go towards educational concerns. This is all the more reason why universities should not face public scrutiny and independent bodies set up to investigate whether education is given a low priority in terms of emphasis on sports which do not attract the best students. this was tried in the past and failed and there is every reason to believe that this rash spending will fail once again.Viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08641840249746095567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-78578878051991332332023-12-20T15:37:09.970-06:002023-12-20T15:37:09.970-06:00"The whole emphasis should be on teaching stu..."The whole emphasis should be on teaching students and hiring and retaining good faculty" Its 2023. This sentence is only true for current students. It has not been true for alumni and the general public for 50+ years. We dont live in fantasy world where the general public pay to attend a math lecture. We live in a country and world where sports is the primary mechanism to connect alumni who live hundreds of miles away from Carbondale with their school. Why do you think Illinois, Michigan, Alabama, Missouri and the sixty or so schools that make up the Power 5 conferences spend so much on sports? Universities are a business. Education is only part of their mission. There is no other entity that connects alumni with their school better than sports and the single best advertising method for a college is sports. The more graduates a school has the better it sports programs need to be because thats the main connection to the donor base. This is true even if we don't want it to be. SIUC now has tens of thousands of graduates. You don't connect with them by fixing old HVAC systems...which the state will eventually fix anyway. Dave S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01286000304116102081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-10060032763299404572023-12-19T18:23:19.451-06:002023-12-19T18:23:19.451-06:00Not with the present administration who are quite ...Not with the present administration who are quite happy that buildings are deteriorating and heating and A/c often malfunction across campus, save Anthony Hall. The situation is getting really serious but all they think of are good looking sports facilities.viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00607983212659867687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-29068844525337890992023-12-19T16:57:07.050-06:002023-12-19T16:57:07.050-06:00One would think repairing existing infrastructure ...One would think repairing existing infrastructure would come first.Castle Perilous Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-8775536960092202492023-12-19T09:07:56.895-06:002023-12-19T09:07:56.895-06:00Again, a complete waste of money that the BOT and ...Again, a complete waste of money that the BOT and higher administration should be held accountable for. Apart from the two-year freeze on hires, prohibitions on library purchases for this fiscal year, one elevator there out of order, and the moving shelves in the basement needing urgent repair plus the state of other buildings for educational purposes one wonders whether SIU is now worthy of a university status. The whole emphasis should be on teaching students and hiring and retaining good faculty, something that always seems on the lowest priority for this institution.viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00607983212659867687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-20314442190057914932023-12-18T09:55:21.743-06:002023-12-18T09:55:21.743-06:00If the SIUC Chancellor attends, it will be "u...If the SIUC Chancellor attends, it will be "ultra-super GOOD!. Everything's coming up Roses..." Who are they kidding? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SxlO7tQLc viperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00607983212659867687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-73290369595568401022023-11-22T14:03:35.608-06:002023-11-22T14:03:35.608-06:00Agreed that they do not compensate but at least th...Agreed that they do not compensate but at least the city is finally acknowledging he was here. for years there were only the geodesic shelters on campus, a mural on the sidewalk on S. Illinois and the work of the Fuller Home Committee.<br />Castle Perilous Gameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11344944898418451419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2119192053371251146.post-4456987130617460512023-11-22T09:19:38.047-06:002023-11-22T09:19:38.047-06:00This is overkill. When on SIUC, Bucky was eventual...This is overkill. When on SIUC, Bucky was eventually "fired" aka life made unpleasant for him by SIUC administrators, so he left. These displays cannot compensate for the fact that businesses are rapidly closing in Carbondale and student demographic due to decline in 2025. These displays are acts of desperation.Tonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16901694376782407983noreply@blogger.com