THE VINYL COUNTDOWN
A BUMP IN THE ROAD
The Vault Arts Collective celebrates its third anniversary with Sound Bank on Saturday.
The Eastern women’s volleyball team fell to Butler in its home opener Tuesday
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016 “TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” C E L E BRATI NG A CE NTUR Y OF COV E RA GE E S T . 1 915
Canceled research grant leads to problems
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By Analicia Haynes Managing Editor | @Haynes1943 For first-year graduate student Michael West, the plan to continue research he and biology professor Thomas Canam worked on for two years was put on hold because they did not receive a grant. “Now I’m just waiting to see what research I can do with no money,” West said. The competition for the Council for Faculty Research grant was canceled this semester and Canam, whose project was the recipient of the grant for the 2015-2016 school year, said he will not get the money he was awarded. Canam applied for the grant early in September 2015 but was not going to use the money until this semester. The grant money is awarded throughout the year, and whatever money is given needs to be spent or all of it goes back into the fund, Canam said. Canam said this project was part of a larger research program he started with a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. His program deals with white rock fungus and how it can help pre-treat and condition biomass or dead plant matter. Usually, biomass is hard to break down, but it is a good raw source. Canam said the only thing that can break down the biomass is Trametes versicolor mushroom, or turkey tail fungus, because it resembles a turkey tail. Used as an anti-cancer herbal substance in China, the fungus is completely harmless and is also naturally good at decomposing biomass, Canam said. “It’s one of only a few types (of fungus) that can efficiently break this material down,” Canam said. Canam said the question they want to ask during the research is how they can use the fungus as an effective agent or catalyst to help make the biomass easier to break down and find out
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Faculty piano recital canceled Staff Report |@DEN_News The Faculty Piano Recital scheduled to be performed at 4 p.m. on Saturday has been canceled. Jonathan Bowman, a piano instructor, said the rescheduled date and time have yet to be announced. The News staff can be reached at 581-2812 or dennewsdesk@gmail.com.
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Ian Goatley (right), a sophomore majoring in conservation and pre-forestry at Lake Land College in Mattoon, practices mixed martial arts with his coach Aaron Coleman Tuesday at Karate USA Martial Arts Family Center. Goatley said he joined this class because he was already a black belt in kenpo jujitzu and he wanted to get more excercise.
CPD investigates counterfeit bills By Abbey Whittington Associate News Editor | @DEN_News Several counterfeit bills have been passed or attempted for use in various businesses in the past three to four weeks. The Charleston Police Department is investigating these incidents. Businesses that have received the fake bills include East Side Package, McDonald’s, Dairy Queen, Casey’s General Store and Huck’s Gas Station. Casey’s General Store identified a fake bill;
however, the individual who had the bill received it from another purchase elsewhere. Since the counterfeit was not intentional, the individual who had the bill was not charged with forgery. East Side Package received a counterfeit $100 bill, and Huck’s Gas Station received a counterfeit $50 bill, both reported to the CPD. McDonald’s and Dairy Queen each received fake $100 bills, which were identified as counterfeit with the marker test. The markers used to test genuine bills contain an iodine solution that reacts to wood-based pa-
per and leaves a dark stain on fake bills. Real bills are made with fiber-based paper and will have no discoloration in a marker test. Casey resident Chantel Berryman, 21, was charged with forgery after an attempt to give McDonald’s a counterfeit $100 bill. The McDonald’s employee wrote down her license plate and reported the incident to the CPD. Tony West, a CPD detective, said the bill read “for motion picture use only” across the top.
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1 of 2 suspects identified in sexual assault By Abbey Whittington Associate News Editor | @DEN_News The Charleston Police Department has identified one of the two men who are suspected of sexually assaulting a woman visiting Charleston at 5 a.m. Saturday inside an apartment at 1515 Ninth St. Charleston Police Detective Tony West said the name of the identified suspect could not be released since the investigation is still going on. The identified suspect does not have an address in Charleston and is not a student at East-
ern or Lake Land College. In their investigation, West said they are still considering both men involved as suspects even though only one of them may be responsible for the crime. West said the victim›s friend contacted her parents about the assault, who then called the Charleston authorities. The victim was visiting from the Chicago area, and the CPD has not yet confirmed if her friend was an Eastern student. Anyone with information about the incident can contact the CPD by messaging their Face-
book page, contacting the Coles County Crime Stoppers at 866-345-8488 or calling West at 217-345-8402. West said anyone can call to assist in their investigation. “Any information they might›ve heard through Facebook, Snapchat, no matter how trivial or small the information, (people) should contact us,” West said. Abbey Whittington can be reached at 581-2812 or anwhittington@eiu.edu.