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May 11, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Ryan Grieser |Brandyn Wilcoxen |Joei Younker
There wasn’t much of a question heading into the final day of the Missouri Valley Conference men’s golf championship as to who would claim the title. SIU took a 14-stroke lead into the final day, allowing its golfers to breathe a little easier during the final 18 holes. The Salukis would bring home the title by eight strokes, finishing with a score of 856 over three rounds.
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May 9, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Brandyn Wilcoxen |Joei Younker
In the past couple of years, I’ve been in my head about what I call the “rock band documentary” phenomenon. Essentially, it seems cliche for a rock band documentary to begin with a group of folks who met in college and started making music together. Entering my senior year, I felt I still hadn’t met my metaphorical bandmates yet. Perhaps I hadn’t looked hard enough, or maybe I simply wasn’t going to find that kind of connection. After all, they only make documentaries on the bands that make it big.
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May 9, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Joei Younker |Brandyn Wilcoxen
May 9, 2024 Southern Illinois University and Daily Egyptian alum Nicole Hester is a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for a photo from her coverage of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Tennessee last March. Hester is a photojournalist from Champaign, Illinois who is currently working at the Tennessean in Nashville.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
riverfronttimes.com | Kallie Cox |Joei Younker
Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr. Jill Stein is slated to speak at the University City Public Library on Saturday. She will speak alongside other academic and activist organizations on topics ranging from mass incarceration to factory farms in St. Louis. Stein has previously been slammed by members of the Democratic Party, who accused her of taking votes away from Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
riverfronttimes.com | Joei Younker |Kallie Cox
This story was first published in the Daily Egyptian of Southern Illinois University and is reprinted with permission. Southern Illinois University tenure professor Scott McClurg died April 13 after a long struggle with brain cancer. “Scott was a very good person. Very nice and considerate. Always positive and encouraging. His long fight with his illness was heroic. He will be dearly missed,” said Dong Han, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Advertising.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Joei Younker |Ryan Grieser
April 17, 2024 In Cobden and Alto Pass, from La Mexicana to Flock Farms, Southern Illinois University photojournalism students show a different view of the people and places that make up these two southern Illinois towns. Assistant professor in the school of journalism and advertising, Julia Rendleman, hosted eight southern Illinois students and invited Greg Cooper of Eastern Illinois University and four of his photojournalism students to participate in this year’s revamped weekend workshop.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Ryan Grieser |Annalise Schmidt |Joei Younker
April 17, 2024 Coaches come and go. Programs rise and fall. So is the nature of sports, with college basketball being no exception. In the wake of firing former head coach Bryan Mullins, Southern Illinois University finds itself in a place that has been largely unfamiliar for the last five years; rebuilding territory. While other players have entered the transfer portal, not all are guaranteed to leave.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Brandyn Wilcoxen |Joei Younker
March 19, 2024 This year’s “Outside the Box” music festival will “transcend mere entertainment” and “highlight new concepts and embrace new sounds” at various locations around SIU through April 19, according to Professor Eric Mandat, who will perform a clarinet recital and other duties. “Outside the Box” is celebrating its seventeenth year by bringing in composers and artists from as far away as Taiwan and as close as right here on campus.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Brandyn Wilcoxen |Joei Younker
When SIU athletic director Tim Leonard informed men’s basketball head coach Bryan Mullins that he would not be returning after five years on the job, the decision was not taken lightly. “I haven’t slept in a week because I knew it was coming and I was dreading it,” Leonard said.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
dailyegyptian.com | Joei Younker
March 11, 2024 Back in early February, New Mexico State announced five finalists for its open presidential position at the university; Austin Lane was listed among the top candidates. Today, the Aggies released a statement which clarified they will not be selecting any of the finalists previously listed. Lane will no longer be considered for the position according to NMSU.
