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Possible shots fired on Fourth By Analicia Haynes Managing Editor | @DEN_News Several students repor ted what they thought were shots fired early Thursday morning outside of the Melrose Apartments on 4th Street. The Charleston Police Department is still investigating the report, coordinating with their night staff to get more information. Derek Flaugher, a senior sociology major and his girlfriend Kaitlyn Crossen, an Eastern alumna, said they heard three pops right outside their window. “It was unreal,” Flaugher said, regarding the sound of the shots. “I was passed out, heard three or more shots and I was like that was not (normal). Then I woke (Crossen) up and was like ‘did you just hear that?’ and she was like ‘it was just tapping noises’ and I was like no, those weren’t tapping noises.” Flaugher said the shots sounded as if somebody was unloading their clip. Crossen lives in the apartments, on the first level. Flaugher said they heard the shots right outside the window. “It happens all the time,” Crossen said. “Some of us would like to go to bed without the fear of being shot through our window. Can we make that happen please?” Flaugher and Crossen did not call the police. Instead their neighbors who live one floor above them called. The neighbors who called the police declined to comment. Analicia Haynes can be reached at 581-2812 or achaynes@eiu.edu.
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Chinese officials, Eastern talk relations By Jordan Boyer Photo Editor | @DEN_News More collaboration with representatives from Shanghai, China could be coming for Eastern in the future. Guoping Wang, chair of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and economist Xiangcai Zhong talked about future relations between the university and the Chinese legislative delegation with Eastern faculty members. History professor Jinhee Lee said the Asian studies minor, which focuses on Chinese literature, culture, art and history, is starting to attract more students. In the future, she said she hopes study abroad programs will help bring Chinese students to Eastern. “If they want to learn American history, politics and culture, we would love to swap them,” Lee said. Christiane Eydt-Beebe, chair of the foreign languages department, said the Chinese language has been introduced to the foreign language curriculum. Some students involved with the Chinese program attended the public forum and helped translate what the professors were saying to the Chinese representatives. Business professor John Willems expressed an interest in expanding the School of Business to China. “We are particularly open to faculty business exchanges,” Willems said. Technology professor John Cabage said a “dual degree agreement” in architectural artistry might benefit both Eastern and Chinese students. He said this agreement would allow courses to be taught in China by Eastern students, via online or in person. “This collaboration builds strong relationships with the other side of the world,” Cabage said. Cabage has taught in China before and said
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Guoping Wang (left), the chair of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, and Economist Xiangcai Zhong (right) speak at a public forum at the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Thursday morning. The CPPCC came to Eastern to start building a relationship with the university and start many new programs.
there are similarities between China and the United States. These include similar social norms and ways of educating students. Wang himself was not aware of the Chinese influence on Eastern. “I was very surprised that there is an ongoing discussion on China here in the middle of nowhere,” Wang joked. He described how China was a “great stage” in aspects like education, economics, trade and communication.
Wang said he was convinced to start a relationship with Eastern after talking to Rep. Reggie Phillips (R-Charleston). He saw all the opportunities collaborating with Eastern could bring for Chinese and American students and wanted to act on it. “Seeing is believing. We saw teachers and students. I would love to build a long-term relationship,” Wang said. Jordan Boyer can be reached at 581-2812 or jtboyer@eiu.edu.
Art students try drawing cadavers during class
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Students practice drawing cadavers in art professor Jenny Chi’s Life Drawing class. The idea for using the cadavers came from Maggie Thomas, a graduate student studying biological sciences who always has been modeling for Chi’s class for three years. One student said it was interesting to see how the body works. This is the first time the two departments have collaborated.
By: AJ Fournier Campus Reporter | @DEN_News Students in the art department had the opportunity to view and learn about different muscles from the inside of cadavers because of collaboration with biological sciences. Art professor Jenny Chi said her Advanced Level Life Drawing class had been learning and drawing from real-life models and learning about how the body was made. One of Chi’s models, Maggie Thomas, a graduate student studying biological sciences, has been modeling for her for three years. After hearing of the biological sciences department getting two new cadavers, Thomas came up with the idea for the Life Drawing class to see them. Chi said for the assignment, her students would have to view the cadavers and draw a section of the body. “I would love for my students to be able to do it all the time but it is not easy to access cadavers,” she said. Chi took some students last week to view the cadavers and to hear Thomas talk about them, but she did not know the response was going to be so positive. “We decided to do it again tonight, and this time students would go in with their sketchbooks and do an assignment,” Chi said. Chi said this is the first time art students have gotten to draw cadavers and she hopes this assignment
can become part of the requirements for the class. Thomas had been working with the cadavers over the summer. After talking to Chi on how her class would have to identify different muscles on a person from a display, Thomas thought it would be a good idea to show them the bodies. Thomas said she loves that students are interested and not grossed out by seeing the cadavers. “I love when people have the opportunity to learn, and even though I don’t want to become a teacher, it is something I am always going to want to promote,” Thomas said. “This is one thing I have always been very passionate about, how things work and how humans work.” Gary Bulla, chair of the biological sciences department, said this is the first time the two have collaborated. The cadavers can be challenging to get because the state provides a scarce amount of them, but the department were able to purchase two cadavers over the summer, Bulla said. Joshua Corry, a senior 2D studio art major, said it is interesting to learn how the body works. “It is nice to see something that is underneath the skin and how it works. It is also nice to see what in underneath of what you are really drawing,” Corry said. AJ Fourier can be reached at 581-2812 or ajfournier@eiu.edu.