HELPING HANDS
REUNITED
Students got together Wednesday to explore new ways and opportunities to volunteer across campus and in Charleston.
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College of Sciences offers grants Debby Hernandez Administration Editor | @DEN_News
The College of Sciences is offering students up to $500 of grant money for their STE VEN KINNISON | THE DAILY EASTERN NE WS creative works or research projects for eiPanther marching band practices in temperatures as high as 94 degrees in preperaption for their 2014-2015 their 2014-2015 season behind ther fall or spring semesters. College of Sciences undergraduate and Tarble Arts Center Wednesday. graduate travel and research grants offer financial assistance to qualified college of science majors who will be presenting creative works at any conference under the travel grant, or will be conducting research during the school year under the research Luis Martinez grant. Staff Reporter | @DEN_News So far only one student has applied for the travel grant and two for the research Eastern’s marching band is gearing up for grant, said Angie Rhoads, assistant dean for their first big performance of the year, the first administrative services from the college of home football game, at 6 p.m. Saturday at sciences. O’Brien Field. Rhoads said, last year 33 students apCorey Francis, director of the marching band, plied for the travel grant, while only 18 ap- said he is ready to go out on the field and lead plied for the research grant. the band to another successful performance. “This is our second full year with the “I’m actually really excited, this is my third grants,” Rhoads said. year here and we haven’t lost a home game when She said applications are on-going due I’ve been here,” Francis said to different traveling times throughout the The amount of hard work that both the year. members of the band and Francis have put into The funds provided may be used to cov- this show began the week before classes started. er expenses such as travel and supplies reHalf of the band showed up on Aug. 17, lated to the student’s research, and are giv- while the other half showed up the following en based on the quality of the application day. From there on out, it was nothing but work received. the entire week. STEVEN KINNISON | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS According the College of Sciences webDuring the first week, the practice time ran Eastern’s color gaurd practices just outside the Tarble Arts Center with the Eastern site, both of these grants are for reimburse- from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. marching band. Members from the band started showing up on Aug. 17, and practice ment of documented expenses of up to MARCHING, page 5 times ran from 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. for the first week. $500. Contribution from the candidate’s department is also encouraged. Research projects are typically done in collaboration of a faculty member, Rhoads said. Requirements for the research grant include evidence that they will be conducting Stephanie Markham Though the man had blinded Rose with reason not to believe her. a formal research such as a one page out- News Editor | @stephm202 bandages and sunglasses, she said she had a Rose said one of the myths associated with line of the topic with data analysis, a letter slight field of view from the sides of her eyes. sexual assault is that the victims are making from the candidate’s faculty mentor, and a When a 17-year-old Angela Rose realized “I made a conscious decision; I said, ‘If I up their stories for malicious reasons. travel application if the student is a univer- someone was following her about 10 feet get out of this situation alive, he is not going While that does happen, the rate of fabrisity employee and will require travel for the away, her face turned bright red. She figured to get away with it,” Rose said. cated sexual assault reports is 2 percent, the research he probably heard her singing aloud to herAnd he didn’t. same rate as any other crime, Rose said. Students applying to the travel grant self, so she felt embarrassed. However, Rose’s experience with the au“More people false report their death for must be enrolled at the university during As it turned out, the man had been stalk- thorities was far from comforting. insurance than false report sexual assault,” she the term the project was presented, provide ing Rose as she worked in a small boutique Rose said the detectives who initially inter- said. documentation that the work was accept- in the mall. She was on her way home for the viewed her were judging her based on their Other myths are that perpetrators are aled to be presented, in 250 words or less de- day, looking forward to attending a gradua- idea of what a victim should be, and because ways strangers in dark alleys, and that sexual scribe the work presented, and provide a tion party later on. she wasn’t crying, they assumed she wasn’t re- assault only happens to women by men, Rose letter from the candidate’s faculty mentor, As she reached to put her keys in the car, ally assaulted. said. and complete a request for travel form and the man grabbed her. Rose was then kidOne point of her discussion was that everyDespite these myths, one-in-four girls and a travel voucher prior to their travel. napped and sexually assaulted. one responds to trauma differently. one-in-six boys will be sexually assaulted by All students interested in the travel and Rose shared her experience of surviving the “I wasn’t crying in the police station,” Rose age 18, and less than 15 percent of perpetraresearch grants must complete an applica- assault and turning her anger into activism said. “I’m Italian; I was mad. Yes, I had my tors are strangers to the victim, according to tion available through the College of Sci- with the Eastern community Monday during tears over the years, but in the police station Rose’s presentation. ences website under the student awards and her lecture, “Shattering the Silence of Sexu- I was furious.” Rose also outlined some issues associated scholarships tab. al Violence.” She said one detective walked in with his with sexual assault, including victim blaming.
Marching band gets fired up
Survivor shares sexual assault experience
Debby Hernandez can be reached at 581-2812 or dhernandez5@eiu.edu
Rose’s account of the precise details of her attack to the police helped to put her perpetrator, a man who had previously kidnapped, raped and murdered a 15-year-old girl, behind bars.
arms folded, and after hearing her detailed account of what happened, he asked if she was lying. Eventually, two new detectives were put on the case who reassured her that they had no
She said she experienced this when she was asked what she was wearing in court.
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