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The Daily Egyptian is a weekday student-run newspaper. As the official newspaper of SIUC, the DE is committed to being a trusted source of information, commentary and public discourse to help readers understand the issues affecting their lives.

The DE is published by the students of SIU Carbondale. Except during vacations and exam weeks, The Daily Egyptian print edition runs Monday through Friday during the fall and spring semesters and TWTh during the summer semester.

News from the Daily Egyptian online

  • Residents urged to warm up to LIHEAP

      Nick Johnson can be reached at nickj39@siu.edu...

  • Clinics hurting, but ready to help

      Low-cost health care clinics in Carbondale are readily available, but suffering from insufficient funding and the state of Illinois' inability to reimburse Medicaid costs, said Fred Bernstein, CEO of Community Health Emergency Services, Inc.  ...

  • SIUC dining halls offer local flavor

    SIUC head chef Bill Connors said he is always pushing for more locally grown produce to be used at the university....

  • Illinois higher education slumps in affordability
    Lack of state funds has made SIUC less accessible

    Illinois is rapidly losing its image as an affordable place for higher education and administrators say without state help, not much can be done. The state received a failing grade in the subject of affordability for 2008 from the National Center for Publ...

  • Poshard: Enrollment numbers in limbo
    Official report to be released next week

    The official enrollment report will not be released until Sept. 4, but administrators are already preparing for what it could bring. In an interview with WSIU that aired Monday morning, SIU President Glenn Poshard said enrollment was down 800 students on ...

  • Conflict-of-interest policy would have avoided Tedrick situation

    A proposed conflict-of-interest policy that awaits adoption by the SIU Board of Trustees could have prevented allegations of conflict of interest against the board’s chairman, administrators say....

  • BOT agenda: plagiarism, sexual harassment, conflict-of-interest, tuition and fees
    Board set to approve 4.5 percent tuition, 10 percent student fee increases

    The SIU Board of Trustees will address a semester’s worth of heated issues Thursday when it meets for its final meeting of the spring semester....

  • Cartoon: It's almost the end

    The semester wraps up....

  • Despite protest, law commencement scheduled for Thursday

    Lance Camp did not expect renovations at SIU Arena to prevent his sister from watching him graduate from law school. The law school’s graduation was during commencement weekend in the past, but this year Camp and his classmates will graduate from th...

  • Saluki AD Mario Moccia weighs in on Saluki Awards

    SIU Athletic Director Mario Moccia was kind enough to weigh in on the DE's Saluki Sports Awards.  This is what he had to say if he was handing out the hardware. Biggest Improvement: Probably Dann Nelson. I don't know if anybody really thought there w...

  • Committee expects new chancellor by summer 2010
    Diversity to play major role in search

    The search committee for the new chancellor should have the position filled by summer 2010, administrators said....

  • DE Sports Desk: The Saluki Awards

    It has been a whirlwind year in Saluki sports. The 2008-09 calendar brought everything from conference championships to changes on coaching staffs and in the locker room. With the school year coming to a close, members of the DE Sports Desk reflected on t...

  • Banter: Which Tennessee '10' would you date?

    Tennessee men’s basketball head coach Bruce Pearl has announced he’s affianced to Brandy Miller only months after the university’s football coach Lane Kiffin’s wife had a Facebook group named in her honor. Which wife would you rath...

  • Life after 'Stay Classy, Carbondale'

    Whoever came up with the saying that all good things must come to an end is foolish.  Not in the literal sense, because it is true ... mostly because all things eventually do come to an end.  However, no one wants good things to come to an end b...

  • Ten-Year Itch: ‘Grosse’ly underrated

    I wonder if John Cusack is happy in real life.  ...

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