SI on SIUC

Gary Metro (I guess, there's no credit listed) has an editorial in today's Southern reminding us of the importance of SIUC to Carbondale and the southern Illinois region. He is right. Without SIUC, as I've noted before. Carbondale would be a town about the size of Murphysboro. Nope, scratch that. Murphysboro's the county seat, which automatically draws traffic. Carbondale would probably be more like DeSoto, Elkville or Caseyville without SIUC.