#Southern Illinois University

[1976desire]

bob dylan (performing with the band), mississippi river festival, southern illinois university, edwardsville, illinois, 1969. photos courtesy of the southern illinois university archives

[srnofficial-thesequel]

Drag show is here

[rainbowcafelgbtqcenter]

It's International Transgender Day of Visibility!

Trans rights are human rights!! Join Rainbow Cafe at our new building for our first-ever Southern Illinois Transgender Resource Fair - it's open to anyone and completely FREE, and we'll have services and things for people of all ages like:

HRT providers

Surgery and trans-friendly therapist referrals

Medicaid and insurance assistance

Intake with SIU's OUTlaw clinic for legal and gender marker changes

HIV testing and harm reduction tools like condoms, dental dams, Plan B, Narcan, and more!

Binders, makeup, and clothing!

Free gender-affirming haircuts!

WE ARE STILL HAVING THE FAIR REGARDLESS OF THE SEVERE WEATHER - we have people coming from St. Louis and all over, so we are preparing to have the entire fair INSIDE our new building rather than the pavilion across the street! So, it may be a tight squeeze but the show must go on!

The only thing up in the air right now the MARCH. We will still be having speakers begin at 6 PM, and we will still be making letters and postcards to mail to our elected officials. When the speakers are finished, we will give the audience present the option to do a short visibility march down the Strip and back if they are comfortable regardless of the rain. You won't be required to - but we want to present the option no matter what because trans rights are IMPORTANT.

[ncwsa]

Voting Now Open for 2024 Annual Award Nominees

Conducted by the Awards committee, a total of 116 nominations across all categories were submitted by peers. The top nominees are selected for the annual honors with a vote by the public in tandem with a board of directors vote. Congratulations to all the nominees for our annual awards! Check out the nominations below for NCWSA Outstanding Leader of the Year, NCWSA Athlete of the Year, and NCWSA…

[studyhive-immigration]

Exciting News! Applications are OPEN for September 2024 at Southern Illinois University! 🍂 Join our vibrant community and pave your path to success in the heart of the Midwest. From innovative programs to endless opportunities. Apply now and embark on your academic adventure with Study hive Immigration.

[small-town-student]

2024

I left in-person college to do online. This also means I get to switch to a direct engineering degree 🥳

Here's to getting the degree I truly want and a hopefully better year❤️

[dchan87]

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[afnguy]

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[anirobot]

Pehr Kalm - Wikipedia

Pehr Kalm (6 March 1716 – 16 November 1779), also known as Peter Kalm, was a Finnish-Swedish explorer, botanist, naturalist, and agricultural economist. He was one of the most important apostles of Carl Linnaeus.

[fatehbaz]

Good question:

In the United States, many jails and prisons can and will charge you money for every single night that you spend imprisoned, for the entire duration of your incarceration, as if you were being billed for staying at a hotel. Even if you are incarcerated for years. Adding up to tens of thousands of dollars. What happens when you’re released?

In response to this:

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So.

You’re getting charged, like, ten dollars every time you even submit a request form to possibly be seen by a doctor or dentist.

You’re getting charged maybe five dollars for ten minutes on the phone.

Any time a friend or family tries to send you like five dollars so that you can buy some toothpaste or lotion, or maybe a snack from the commissary since you’re diabetic and the “meals” have left you malnourished, maybe half of that money gets taken as a “service fee” by the corporate contractor that the prison uses to manage your pre-paid debit card. So you’re already losing money every day just by being there.

What happens if you can’t pay?

In some places, after serving just a couple of years for drugs charges, almost 20 years after being released, the state can still hunt you down for over $80,000 that you “owe” as if it were a per-night room-and-board accommodations charge, like this recent highly-publicized case in Connecticut:

Excerpt:

Two decades after her release from prison, [TB] feels she is still being punished. When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 1/2 year imprisonment for drug crimes. [...] “I’m about to be homeless,” said [TB], 58, who in March [2022] became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state law that charges prisoners $249 a day for the cost of their incarceration. [...] All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars [...]. Critics say it’s an unfair second penalty that hinders rehabilitation by putting former inmates in debt for life. Efforts have been underway in some places to scale back or eliminate such policies. Two states — Illinois and New Hampshire — have repealed their laws since 2019. [...] Pay-to-stay laws were put into place in many areas during the tough-on-crime era of the 1980s and ’90s, said Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology at University of Southern California who is leading a study of the practice. [...] Connecticut used to collect prison debt by attaching an automatic lien to every inmate, claiming half of any financial windfall they might receive for up to 20 years after they are released from prison [...].

Text by: Pat Eaton-Robb. “At $249 per day, prison stays leave ex-inmates deep in debt.” AP News / The Associated Press. 27 August 2022.

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Look at this:

To help her son, Cindy started depositing between $50 to $100 a week into Matthew’s account, money he could use to buy food from the prison commissary, such as packaged ramen noodles, cookies, or peanut butter and jelly to make sandwiches. Cindy said sending that money wasn’t necessarily an expense she could afford. “No one can,” she said. So far in the past month, she estimates she sent Matthew close to $300. But in reality, he only received half of that amount. The balance goes straight to the prison to pay off the $1,000 in “rent” that the prison charged Matthew for his prior incarceration. [...] A PA Post examination of six county budgets (Crawford, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lehigh, Venango and Indiana) showed that those counties’ prisons have collected more than $15 million from inmates — almost half is for daily room and board fees that are meant to cover at least a portion of the costs with housing and food. Prisoners who don’t work are still expected to pay. If they don’t, their bills are sent to collections agencies, which can report the debts to credit bureaus. [...] Between 2014 and 2017, the Indiana County Prison — which has an average inmate population of 87 people — collected nearly $3 million from its prisoners. In the past five years, Lebanon’s jail collected just over $2 million in housing and processing fees.

Text by: Joseph Darius Jaafari. “Paying rent to your jailers: Inmates are billed millions of dollars for their stays in Pa. prisons.” WHYY (PBS). 10 December 2019. Originally published at PA Post.

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Pay-to-stay, the practice of charging people to pay for their own jail or prison confinement, is being enforced unfairly by using criminal, civil and administrative law, according to a new Rutgers University-New Brunswick led study. The study [...] finds that charging pay-to-stay fees is triggered by criminal justice contact but possible due to the co-opting of civil and administrative institutions, like social service agencies and state treasuries that oversee benefits, which are outside the realm of criminal justice. “A person can be charged $20 to $80 a day for their incarceration,” said author Brittany Friedman, an assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate of Rutgers' criminal justice program. “That per diem rate can lead to hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees when a person gets out of prison. To recoup fees, states use civil means such as lawsuits and wage garnishment against currently and formerly incarcerated people, and regularly use administrative means such as seizing employment pensions, tax refunds and public benefits to satisfy the debt.” [...] Civil penalties are enacted on family members if the defendant cannot pay and in states such as Florida, Nevada and Idaho can occur even after the original defendant is deceased. [...]

Text by: Megan Schumann. “States Unfairly Burdening Incarcerated People With “Pay-to-Stay” Fees.” Rutgers press release. 20 November 2020.

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So, to pay for your own imprisonment, states can:

-- hunt you down for decades (track you down 20 years later, charge you tens of thousands of dollars, and take your house away)

-- put a lien on your vehicle, house

-- garnish your paycheck/wages

-- seize your tax refund

-- send collections agencies after you

-- take your public assistance benefits

-- sue you in civil court

-- take money from your family even after you’re dead

[srnofficial-thesequel]

It has been confirmed

3 out of 4 serving on the executive board for our group is mainly powered by chaos and caffeine

[rainbowcafelgbtqcenter]

The deadline for our Tim Rice Scholarship is coming up!

It's worth $1,500 this year, so make sure you apply by August 15th while there's still time!

The Tim Rice Scholarship is Rainbow Cafe LGBTQ Center's first-ever scholarship program, named after one of RC's original founders, and helps LGBTQIA+ students in Southern Illinois afford higher education. It's worth at least $1,500 and can be used for any/all college-related expenses such as tuition, books, housing, etc.

APPLY DIRECTLY VIA GOOGLE FORM: https://forms.gle/5ZiE3DtoqV8rMXbR6

CRITERIA:

Applicant must openly identify as LGBTQIA+.

-Applicant has made contributions to the Southern Illinois LGBTQIA+ community in some way.

Applicant resides in the general Southern Illinois region - such as Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Union, Wabash, Washington, Wayne, White, or Williamson counties.

Must be enrolled in an accredited United States college or university (community college, 2- or 4-year university, or graduate student) for the 2024-2025 school year (deferment may be requested for up to one year).

Applicant can be documented or undocumented.

Applicant is not a Rainbow Cafe LGBTQ Center staff member, Board member, or related to an RC staff or Board member.

Applicant demonstrates financial need.

Recipient must be available to receive the Tim Rice Scholarship at the Rainbow Cafe Annual Gala, currently scheduled for Saturday, October 5th (Recipient will receive three complimentary tickets, one for recipient + two guests).

Want a paper PDF application? Have other questions? Visit our website at www.rainbowcafe.org/scholarship.

[ncwsa]

Voting Now Open for 2023 Annual Award Nominees

Congratulations to all the nominees for our annual awards! Check out the nominations below for NCWSA Outstanding Leader of the Year, NCWSA Athlete of the Year, and NCWSA Team of the year! Winners will be invited to the annual USA Water Ski & Wake Sports banquet and awards reception that will be held in Florida in January of 2024. Conducted by the Awards committee, nominees are submitted by…

[blasphemous-bill]

Everybody hates on Carbondale 😢 I'll admit, it's a scrungy town, but for a little while it was my scrungy town.

Why are the Illini and Saluki not included under the student discount? Do you have some vendetta against UIUC students?

We actually hate Carbondale not Champaign Urbana

[fobarchiveteam]

23 years ago today is when Fall Out Boy got their name. We all know the story from The Oral History of TTTYG that FOB’s second show where they famously got their name was at a “Southern Illinois university” while opening for The Killing Tree. For the longest time, it was unknown where this mysterious college was. We finally found our answer: Western Illinois University. Not only did we find the college where they played, but the date of the show- November 30th, 2001. We know this because of a guestbook submission from Patrick’s old band website, Patterson.

After finding this, we went through multiple websites. We eventually landed on an old record label that Arma Angelus was on before Eulogy Records, Happy Couples Never Last Records. On the page about Arma, there are shows listed. One of those shows said they were playing the Western with a few other bands.

Pete even mentions on Arma’s LiveJournal on 11/29/01 that “fallout boy” is playing at the Western the next day. We then thought about looking up the other bands that were on the line-up. After searching through a few sites, we found the website for the band Backup. Backup had past shows listed on their site that were thankfully saved by the Wayback Machine. We found the same show listed on their site (with a slight lineup change) and confirmed that the Western is Western Illinois University.

After looking through the school’s archives including student newspapers, we found an issue from November 2001. We found out there was a column called “The Edge”. This column was all about local music and was published every Friday. It had listings for shows that were up and coming. AND THAT’S HOW WE FOUND THIS:

This was super exciting to see, but it left us with more questions than answers…

FOB is listed as Falloutboy and not the alternate name they had before, which was Short Story; Unhappy Ending, even though Patrick claims they would be playing the show under that name. In the same paper, at the bottom of page 7, they describe the bands that would be playing that upcoming night, and they are referred to Short Story; Unhappy Ending.

In the exact same newspaper, the band is referred to with two different names, and the newspaper never acknowledges this. We also found a review of the show from December 7th, 2001. 

This makes it even more confusing! What could “previous name” possibly mean? We know that the first show at DePaul was played under Forget Me Not according to Mani Mostofi in Where Are Your Boys Tonight? by Chris Payne.

Here’s some facts that we know:

Fall Out Boy was a name proposed by Ben Rose

It was one of many names being considered in those first few shows

Someone in the crowd shouted “Fuck that, no, you’re Fall Out Boy” in response to Pete saying a “very long band name” according to Patrick, which we can reasonably assume is Short Story. 

Tim McIlrath, who was the frontman for The Killing Tree, thanked FOB as Fall Out Boy after they played, which solidified that as their name

Also to note, Andy Hurley was at this show. He played with Project Rocket. Here is a photo of him that was shown in that same review.

We leave this with more questions (but also with answers). We figured out what the Western was and proof of the show happening. BUT the names are still a mystery. Was the listing published after the show? Why were they referred to Short Story; Unhappy Ending on one page then Falloutboy on the next one? Did the person in the crowd shout that because he saw the paper the morning of? Or was it someone who worked on the paper who shouted it?

Final thing to note: recalling the Patterson guestbook post from Patrick, we also theorize that Dressed to Thrill is another one of the rotating names. At first, we assumed that Dressed To Thrill was another pre-established band that Patrick was incorrectly assumed to be joining, but the phrasing leaves it open to either possibility. Plus, we couldn’t actually find anything about a band from the time called Dressed to Thrill.

[eastofedean]

Feels like I've been ready for you to come home for so long.

a story about friendship, forgiveness, one last hunt and a chance to make things right

a web weaving to accompany this moodboard

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