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SIU student arrested on multiple charges including sexual abuse LUKE NOZICKA | @LukeNozicka

An SIU student was arrested and charged with attempted criminal sexual abuse, battery and disorderly conduct for an incident that occurred April 1, Carbondale police say.

Student jailed, charged in attempted bank robbery

James A. Janowski, 20, allegedly battered and attempted to sexually abuse an acquaintance on April 1 in the 1100 block of East Grand Avenue, according to a Carbondale police news release.

Janowski, a freshman studying marketing, was arrested and

charged Monday at Lentz Hall without incident. He was incarcerated at the Jackson County Jail after his arrest.

SIU spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith said Janowski is a student.

Goldsmith said when a student

is arrested, the Office of Student Rights and Responsibility will “take action based on the nature of the charges.”

Luke Nozicka can be reached at lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

Pravin Varughese’s mother pleads with Carbondale City Council for help

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LUKE NOZICKA | @LukeNozicka

An SIU student was arrested and charged with attempting to rob Regions Bank on Wednesday afternoon.

Alex M. Hofmaier, a freshman studying pre-music, demanded money from a bank teller at Regions Bank at 601 E. Main St. Hofmaier, 19, left the bank on foot without receiving money or property, according to a Carbondale police news release.

Officers responded to the bank at 12:16 p.m. for a call of an attempted bank robbery. Hofmaier was arrested without incident and was charged with robbery, police said.

No weapon was displayed or recovered during the incident, according to the news release.

Hofmaier was incarcerated at the Jackson County Jail.

SIU spokeswoman Rae Goldsmith confirmed Hofmaier is a student.

Police say he lives in Neely Hall.

Goldsmith said when a student is arrested, the Office of Student Rights and Responsibility will “take action based on the nature of the charges.”

Luke Nozicka can be reached at lnozicka@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3325.

Carbondale Police Alex M. Hofmaier

Carbondale Police James A. Janowski

Luke Nozicka | @Luke Nozicka Pravin Varughese’s mother Lovely Varughese — seen here during a memorial ceremony on Feb. 13 in the woods bordering Illinois Route 13, where Pravin Varughese’s body was discovered by police nearly two years ago — went in front of the Carbondale City Council on Tuesday night to plead for its assistance in finding out what happened to her son.

Lovely Varughese has never seen the autopsy photographs of her 19-year-old son, Pravin Varughese, who police say froze to death in a wooded area on the edge of town more than two years ago.

But on Tuesday night, she traveled from her Chicago-area home to present those photos to members of the Carbondale City Council and plead for assistance in finding out what happened to her son.

“I thought they needed to hear what my nightmare is,” Lovely Varughese said after the meeting, standing in a hallway at the Carbondale Civic Center, with a manila folder under her arm.

She told the council she did not make the six-hour trip for revenge or to cast blame on anyone.

There have been conflicting stories by police, differing opinions from investigators and forensic experts and alternative findings in autopsies, she said. After two years, Lovely Varughese said, she simply wants to know what happened to her son.

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Students go to Springfield to rally against budget impasse TIERRA CARPENTER | @TierraMC_

SIU students, faculty and staff traveled to Springfield on Wednesday for a Lobby Day to rally against the state’s budget impasse, which has left Illinois universities and colleges without state funding since July 1.

State representatives Kelly Burke, D-Oak Lawn, and Robert W. Pritchard, R-DeKalb, spoke during

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the rally, where a few hundred students and faculty from universities across the state came together for the same cause. Graduate and Professional Student Council President Brandon Woudenberg called the effort productive and inspiring.

Members of the SIU community also met with legislators and representatives to express their disappointment with the continued budget stalemate between

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Democratic-led Legislature.

Abigail Tochalauski, one of many students who may be required to pay back her Monetary Award Program grant, said she participated in the event because she felt she could make more of a statement in Springfield than in Carbondale. But she said Lobby Day turned out to be “kind of a bummer” because she only spoke with Democratic

state Rep. John Bradley, of Marion, who has established that he is voting in favor of funding higher education.

“I’d rather speak to someone who is on the fence, because I feel like, not necessarily that I’d make an impact, but our group as an entire voice would help,” said Tochalauski, a sophomore from Peoria studying anthropology and communications studies.

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David Johnson, an associate professor in languages, cultures and international trade, said he met with Republican Sen. David Luechtefeld, Okawville, who said he is more hopeful than he has been that there may be some temporary funding for public institutions.

“That’s only part of the issue of course,” Johnson said. “That would be very welcome. Any money would be welcome. Some proportion of our budget is not enough to allow us to really start making solid plans for the future and rebuild the university after what it’s been through.”

Students from SIU’s School of Medicine in Springfield were also there in protest. Alexandra Barger, a second-year medical student from Murphysboro, said she and her classmates were there to support future students.

Willie Lyles III, a second-year law student from Bythewood, North Carolina, said he is concerned about the future of the law school.

SIU President Randy Dunn said in

March that under Rauner’s proposed budget, SIU would lose $23 million — 20 percent of its state funding.

That would put the law school at risk of losing its state funding, which is about $3 million.

This would be about a 30 percent cut of the law school’s $10 million budget, which means the school would operate primarily on tuition.

SIU brought 20 people via bus while others drove separately.

Student government was hoping 100 SIU students would come out because two charter buses were purchased for the trip.

“While today wasn’t as successful as we may have hoped, we look forward to future opportunities to engage our legislative leaders,” Bythewood said.

Woudenberg said Lobby Day could’ve went better if there were more students who got involved and if they were able to talk to more legislatures.

“It’s always frustrating when you try to go up to Springfield and they’re in session because you can’t always pull them off the floor like you’d like to,” Woudenberg said.

Ben Handler, a sophomore

from Beverly, Mass., studying aviation management and business management, said he attended Lobby Day because he’s seen the effects of the impasse on campus, including university employees having to serve in multiple positions and students leaving the university.

“It’s really important that the government knows that we as students care about the budget and we understand that there’s problems making a budget, but you have to work through these problems and you have to find a way to fund education in Illinois,” he said.

Handler was one of four people from SIU who was able to meet with Democratic Sen. Gary Forby. He said meeting with Democrats wasn’t very helpful “because these are the people that already support higher education.”

“From their side of the aisle, they can’t really do much because it’s the Republicans that need to be persuaded that higher education is worth the money,” Handler said.

Tierra Carpenter can be reached at tcarpenter@dailyegyptian.com

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“We are more than confused with everything we have heard,” she said.

“We don’t know what to believe.”

The official story Pravin Varughese was last seen by friends at a house party in the 400 block of West College Street the night of Feb. 12, 2014. Police officials have said he accepted a ride home with a stranger, Gaege Bethune, who is the last known person to see him alive.

Bethune’s official statement to police said he was attempting to drive an intoxicated Pravin Varughese home when a fight broke out between them; the two exited the vehicle and he hit Pravin Varughese multiple times in self-defense. Pravin Varughese fled into the woods as police arrived, Bethune said, where his body was found five days later.

A state trooper happened upon Bethune’s pickup truck at 12:33 a.m., according to a report from the Illinois State Police. Video from the trooper’s dashboard camera shows him conversing with Bethune and scanning the woods briefly from the roadside with a flashlight. The encounter was not reported by the trooper until after Pravin Varughese was known to be missing.

After the discovery of the 19-yearold SIU student’s body, Carbondale police said there was no evidence to support that Pravin Varughese had sustained any injuries and no foul play was suspected. No criminal charges were filed.

In 2015, a grand jury decided not to indict Bethune on charges related to the death of Pravin Varughese. Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Carr released a finding corroborating Bethune’s story and concluded Pravin Varughese would have been too

intoxicated to navigate through the dense forest at night in frigid temperature before succumbing to hypothermia, which was ruled his cause of death.

A tale of two autopsies When she saw her son’s body for the first time, Lovely Varughese said, it looked like he had been beaten.

The original autopsy conducted in Jackson County documented dark-colored marks on the forehead of Pravin Varughese as “post-mortem discoloration” and mentioned only superficial cuts to the face and hands as injuries sustained.

The family commissioned a second autopsy that was performed by Dr. Ben Margolis of the Autopsy Center of Chicago in February of 2014. Margolis found “a deep, recent and healing defensive bruise to the right forearm, a patterned abraded bruise to the right forehead, and bruise to the central forehead as well as other head injuries,” according to a statement from the autopsy center.

The findings in the second autopsy were not presented by the state’s attorney during the grand jury trial.

A toxicology report conducted by forensic pathologist Dr. James Jacobi also showed Pravin Varughese had no drugs in his system and no alcohol other than ethanol, which is naturally produced during postmortem bodily changes.

“Strangely, [the results are] negative except for postmortem bacterial urine alcohol,” Jacobi wrote on the report addressed to Jackson County Coroner Dr. Thomas Kupferer. “No reason for his bizarre behavior and hiding in the woods.”

‘Is this a joke?’

For the last two years, Lovely Varughese claims Carbondale police have denied her requests for police reports because the

PAGE 3 case is still classified as an open investigation. One public records request sent to the Carbondale police department returned a large box of newspaper articles, she said.

“Is this a joke?” she asked the city council. “I’m tired of being treated like a moron.”

The Varughese family filed a $5 million wrongful death civil lawsuit against Bethune, the City of Carbondale, former Carbondale Police Chief Jody O’Guinn and Jackson County Coroner Kupferer in 2014.

All parties have since been removed from the suit except for Bethune.

On March 2, 2015, Carr requested a special prosecutor from the state’s appellate court be appointed “to avoid even the appearance” that he made improper decisions. Since then, the special prosecutor has yet to release a report of the investigation and public records have remained sealed.

“Everything is being blamed on an open investigation,” Lovely Varughese said. “What investigation? If there is one, please keep us informed.”

During the meeting, Councilman Adam Loos said the public should provide as much information to the family as possible “without endangering an investigation.”

“I am not judging whether or not we have done that or not, but that is what we should do,” he said.

When asked for comment on Lovely Varughese’s statements, Carbondale Police Chief Jeff Grubbs said the investigation is in the hands of the state’s appellate prosecutor and the department cannot comment on the ongoing investigation.

Bill Lukitsch can be reached at blukitsch@dailyegyptian.com or 618-536-3329.

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Did somebody say ‘riot’? Yes, May 2 Strike Committee did LAINI WATTS | SIU Student

There was a strange commotion in the past couple of days.

Faner Hall was vandalized with cries of reformation, visible to those would walk by. Less than 24 hours later, the May 2 Strike Committee writes a response, and I read it in the Daily Egyptian, insulted by how the May 2 Strike Committee treats the student body as if it is stupid.

Why do they play coy when it comes to the graffiti?

Why remain anonymous if you truly have no connection to the graffiti as you implied in your letter to the editor?

Do you honestly expect me to believe that this committee has nothing to do with what happened Monday? My final question: Did somebody actually say "riot," as your headline states?

Here are my answers to these questions.

May 2 is most likely linked to the "May 2 Movement," which was the first protest of the Vietnam War. During 1964, several universities formed protests against fighting and the draft with a slight emphasis of the future of education.

Fast forward to sometime in the wee hours of the morning of April 18, someone, or more likely a group of people, spray painted these phrases on Faner: "Debt Rules Everything Around Me, monthly monthly bills, y’all," "You Are Not A Loan," "Riot Proof? We’ll see," and "May 2nd."

Sometime during the April 18, the Daily Egyptian is given the committee’s manifesto of sorts to publish. This as well as the committee’s "Call for a Student Strike" is on the blog may2strike.noblog, which I might add is less than 48 hours old as of Wednesday.

Looking at the cached data on the website, this blog started near the time of Monday's graffiti incident. And yet the May 2 Strike Committee has the audacity to refer to the perpetrators as "the graffiti writers" as if there is no connection. You don’t know what "the graffiti writers" were thinking? What a crock of shit!

You are telling me that while forming this committee, someone who was not a part of your group decided to vandalize Faner with ideas you already had in mind? Or perhaps you formed this committee around the idea of what "the graffiti writers" wrote?

Either way, it all seems highly coincidental to me.

The May 2 Strike Committee said they have no plans to

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riot. So the next question is why bother with the message of "Riot Proof? We’ll see"? Just to get attention? You already got it with the other messages.

Why didn't the word "Strike" come up at all with the messages on Faner? You try to distance yourself from "the graffiti writers" yet want to embody their ideals, since clearly you have no connection with them.

You can’t do that.

Either embrace the graffiti or adamantly stand against those who committed this crime, but you can’t have both.

So to the students, staff and faculty of Southern Illinois University, let me answer these questions. Why do they play coy when it comes to the graffiti? Because someone among them committed a crime.

Why remain anonymous if you truly have no connection to the graffiti as you imply in letter to the editor? They are connected with this crime, so they must hide themselves to avoid the investigation.

Do you honestly expect us to believe that this committee has nothing to do with what happened Monday? Apparently, they do. They expect us to take this at face value.

Finally, did someone actually allude to a "riot"? Yes, they did.

Laini Watts is a senior from Homewood studying journalism.

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Hoa rding leads to strife. L et go of the pa st, a nd begin a n exciting new pha se.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2016

Brandenburg slaps her way to success SEAN CARLEY | @SCARLEYDE

A slap is legally defined as simple assault, but in softball it can be even more dangerous.

As a slap hitter, SIU freshman left fielder Eyrika Brandenburg is almost a third of the way to first base by the time defenders start to react to her.

Brandenburg is batting .305 with her technique, second best on the team.

"You love being able to turn the ball over to someone like Eyrika and know you're going to get a ball hit," said hitting coach Jen Sewell.

Even though she is right-handed, Brandenburg bats left-handed to give her the benefit of shortening the distance to first base, a practice she said began early in her softball career.

The Mooreland, Okla., native admits she is not a fast runner so she adjusted her game to power slapping.

"When I was younger I was a lot faster that I am now," she said. "So when I was nine, they put me at the left side and said it was an advantage even if I wasn't that fast."

Brandenburg said unlike more traditional slap hitters, she tries to drive the ball into the outfield gaps.

The slapper has four doubles and two triples so far in her freshman campaign.

Despite the team's recent offensive struggles, Brandenburg has been one of the more consistent hitters. Over the last two weeks, she's raised her average from .289 to the current .305 mark.

Sewell said there are four types of slap hitters in modern softball: the soft slap, which regularly incorporates bunting; the regular slap built on ground balls; chop slaps, which attempt to bounce the ball high enough to run out singles; and power slaps like Brandenburg's.

SIU (25-16, 8-8 Missouri Valley Conference) had recent success with slap hitters.

Last year's senior starting center fielder Kalyn Harker won the Missouri Valley Conference batting crown using the technique, hitting .466 in Valley games.

"Eyrika is a young Kalyn Harker, she has all the tools of Kalyn Harker," Sewell said. "As we step her through her career she eventually will be like Kalyn was where she leads us off and settles us down as a team."

Sewell said the No. 2 spot is ideal for her as a freshman so the coaching staff can give her explicit instructions for atbats, then ease her into more open at-

Jacob Wiegand | @JacobWiegand_DE Freshman outfielder Eyrika Brandenburg rounds first base while looking toward the outfield during the first game of the Salukisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; doubleheader against Loyola on March 19 at Charlotte West Stadium. The Salukis won both games of the doubleheader by scores of 4-3 and 5-0.

bats later in her career.

Brandenburg has experienced the leadoff role as well this season, batting first 10 times out of 39 games.

In the No. 2 spot in the batting order, Brandenburg serves the purpose of either advancing leadoff hitter Kelsey

Gonzalez into scoring position or getting on base for the power hitters behind her.

Those behind her have brought Brandenburg around to score 20 times this season, fifth-most on the team.

As for this year, Brandenburg is the

only slap hitter on the roster. Sewell said the team always tries to have at least one, but more are on the horizon after SIU signed five players in November on National Signing Day. "This is just one of those odd years where we just one," she said. "You're

going to see next year that'll go back the other direction, but they're all triplethreats like Eyrika."

the bullpens.

Freshman pitcher Seth Hackett described the process as necessary yard work.

"First we go in and rake out all the dirt clods and even it out. Then we take bags of mound clay and pour that in to fill in any holes and rake it to keep the shape of the hill," he said.

"Next we'll take a tamp, which we use to compact the dirt, and finally we water it down and leave it to dry."

The process to getting the mound ready takes about 10 to 15 minutes and has a crew of five players at each bump.

Pitching coach P.J. Finigan said the coaches assign jobs to certain players before games and they must be done prior to a student-athlete leaving.

"Guys will usually tell us what they'd like to do and Shimmy [Anthony Shimkus] is one of those guys who says, 'Hey I want to be on mound duty,'" Finigan said. "He's been on it since his freshman year and he enjoys doing it. These guys take great pride in the ability to do it themselves and they do an excellent job with it to get it game ready. While they're doing that, our position players will remove the batting

practice cage."

Finigan said while having the mound in good shape is important, it can be tough to keep it in pristine condition for relief pitchers.

Shimkus, a junior pitcher, said keeping the mound fresh before games makes life easier for pitchers.

"It's important that the mound stays in good condition because it can be really tough to throw off of if you're stepping in holes and uneven dirt," Shimkus said.

The mound crew's contributions maintaining the mound may seem small, but it's allowed Saluki pitchers

to focus on games instead of what their foot will land in.

This season, their Missouri Valley Conference-leading 3.42 ERA is a big reason why the team has surpassed its win total from 2015.

"It's a great responsibility for these guys to have and they've been more than willing to stay after to fix it," Finigan said. "It looks like a complex job, but those guys make it look really easy."

Sean Carley can be reached at scar@dailyegyptian.com or at 618-536-3307

How the Salukisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mound is mended TED WARD | @TEDWARD_DE

At every baseball game, a pitcher will step onto a round dirt hill to throw a tiny sphere at the leather glove of the catcher.

That dirt hill takes some abuse every game and SIU baseball pitchers have to fix the problems on Abe Martin Field at Itchy Jones Stadium.

The Salukis don't have a grounds crew to take care of the field and, with the surface at Itchy Jones Stadium being mostly artificial turf, there isn't much dirt to maintain apart from the pitcher's mound on the field and in

Ted Ward can be reached at tward@dailyegyptian.com or 618-534-3303