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Daily Eastern News: October 26, 2018 Eastern Illinois University Eastern Illinois University The Keep October 2018 10-26-2018 Daily Eastern News: October 26, 2018 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2018_oct Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: October 26, 2018" (2018). October. 19. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2018_oct/19 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the 2018 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in October by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. SPOOKY ANTICS TOURNAMENT BOUND The Eastern women’s soccer team will The Pemberton Hall Council will host go to the OVC Tournament Sunday, its annual Haunted House on Friday which is the first time since 2013. The and Saturday in the Pemberton Hall team is the three seed and will host basement. Belmont or Southeast Missouri. PAGE 3 PAGE 8 HE T Friday, October 26, 2018aily astErn Ews D E“TELL THE TRUTH AND DON’T BE AFRAID” n VOL. 103 | NO. 48 CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF COVERAGE EST. 1915 WWW.DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM UPD, U.S. Bank work to combat online scams By Analicia Haynes it seems like at the end of last se- Editor-in-Chief | @Haynes1943 mester and into this semester we started seeing an uptick in on- The number of employment line and fraud related scams in- scams and online scams has in- volving students, and so we got creased this semester and the together with the bank to try U.S. Bank branch on campus and come up with the solution is teaming up with Eastern and to address those issues,” Wil- the University Police Depart- liams said. ment to inform students about He said scam and fraud relat- these scams and crack down on ed and online related crimes are them. hard to investigate and harder Lt. James Williams from to prosecute and that is why the UPD said the bank and univer- UPD is working with the bank sity started to notice an increase to try and educate students on in these online scams, which what the scams are and how to typically come in the form of an prevent them from happening email that offers students a job, in the first place. over the course of last semester. “The simplest solution (to But he said this semester avoiding the scam),” he said. “If there has been an “uptick” in the it’s too good to be true, it is.” number of these emails sent to U.S. Bank Branch Manag- panthermail accounts and the er Elizabeth Medina echoed CHECK PHOTO BY TOMWSULCER [CC0] FROM WIKIMEDIA COMMONS | ILLUSTRATION BY ANALICIA HAYNES number of students who have the same sentence when show- The illustration is a copy of a check with redacted information and is used to show what people should look for on a fake check fallen victim to the scams. ing examples of the several fake and what fake checks have on them. U.S. Bank branch manager Elizabeth Medina said the most common thing to look for is “We started seeing (the checks she received from people whether or not you recognize the name of the employer and if there are any spelling errors or errors in the amounts posted scams) last semester (and) we this semester. (sometimes there will be two different amounts listed on the same check). Medina also said the checks, which are given to differ- would get them periodically SCAMS, page 5 ent people, have the same signature or every check is in numerical order. throughout the school year, but CAA has tied vote over agricultural program option By Brooke Schwartz lege, I’m fine with advising them to News Editor | @brookesschwart1 take a major in OPD when they get here, … but to call this a (new op- The Council on Academic Affairs tion) that has agriculture in the ti- did not pass through a proposal for tle without us offering something the organizational development, ag- that has 3000/4000 agriculture class- ricultural and rural enterprise op- es, (that concerns me),” Throneburg tion through the organizational de- said. velopment program at its meeting Throneburg said she does not like Oct. 25. the idea of students graduating with Bruce Barnard, the program co- this degree option and only having ordinator for the organizational de- 1000/2000 course expertise in agri- velopment program, presented the culture. proposal, which was different than With these concerns, the coun- other major options on campus be- cil voted with four no votes, four yes cause it required interested students votes and one abstention. to have an associates degree in agri- The proposal, since it was not culture, something Eastern does not pushed through, will go back to provide, before being accepted into the departmental planning stages to the option. try and address the concerns of the Barnard said this program was council members before CAA will re- developed in association with Lake view the proposal again. Land College to come up with East- The council did approve a new ern classes that could benefit stu- course through the organizational dents who already have an agricul- development program; OPD 2200. ture background. This is the lower level version of “Essentially, (students) come with the current course 3200, the only oc- an agricultural focus, because their cupational experience course before associates degree was built on agri- the approval of the new one Oct. 25. culture, so what we would be adding These courses allow students who would be the organizational compe- complete occupational portfolio to tency that might be associated with receive credit in OPD 3200, the cur- running a larger operation, or work- rent system, or now OPD 2200, if ing in an agro-business environment the student writes to the learning ob- as opposed to directly on a farm,” jectives of a lower level class they will Barnard said. now receive lower division credits. Rebecca Throneburg, council Revisions to the HTM 3500: member and a communication disor- Hospitality and Tourism Profes- ders and sciences professor, said she sionalism, in an effort to break away was not comfortable having the word from the old School of Family and ‘agriculture’ be in the option name if Consumer Sciences, were also passed Eastern was not adding to the agri- by the council Thursday. BROOKE SCHWARTZ | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS culture part of students’ degrees. Bruce Barnard is the program coordinator for the organizational development program. Barnard presented a new “If students have got 1000/2000 Brooke Schwartz can be reached at major option and a new course proposal to the Council on Academic Affairs; the major option was not passed but level (agriculture classes) that they 581-2812 or at [email protected]. the new course was. are bringing from community col- 2 THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS | AP NEWS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2018 Local weather State and Nation FRIDAY SATURDAY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Trump sends troops Pipe bomb scare raises new to border, an issue Rain Partly Cloudy that fires up base High: 49° High: 57° questions about mail safety Low: 39° Low: 42° WASHINGTON (AP) — The NEW YORK (AP) — The wave of division said hundreds of thousands of security experts said. The parcels also con- Trump administration is planning pipe bombs addressed to prominent postal employees were searching the sys- tained a number of misspellings. to dispatch at least 800 active duty Democrats has raised fresh questions tem for any additional bombs. The Postal Inspection Service, which troops to the southern border at the about the ability of the U.S. Postal Ser- While two packages addressed to for- investigates mail-related crimes, said in an direction of a president who has The Daily vice and private delivery companies to mer Vice President Joe Biden were inter- email that in screening the mail, the agen- sought to transform fears about immi- intercept explosives and other dangerous cepted at postal facilities in Delaware on cy relies on a "targeted strategy of special- gration into electoral gains in the mid- easTern news items. Thursday, a pipe bomb addressed to for- ized technology, screening protocols and terms as a caravan of thousands of mi- “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Biohazard detection, X-rays and other mer Attorney General Eric Holder made employee training," as well as "state-of- grants makes its way through Mexico. technologies have had some notable suc- it so far into the mail stream that it was re- the-art equipment to include portable X- Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is ex- The Daily Eastern News cesses in recent years, but officials warn turned to its purported sender: the Sun- ray machines." pected to sign an order sending the 1802 Buzzard Hall that the sheer volume of mail makes it im- rise, Florida office of Rep. Debbie Wasser- The agency pointed to its Dangerous troops to the border, bolstering Na- Eastern Illinois University possible to catch everything. man Schultz, whose name was on the re- Mail Investigations division, a program tional Guard forces already there, Charleston, IL 61920 217-581-2812 "The public should not have the im- turn address. created following the 2001 anthrax-by- an official said Thursday. The action 217-581-2923 (fax) pression that all of our mail is screened Another crude bomb addressed to for- mail attacks that killed five people and comes as President Donald Trump like going through security at the airport," mer CIA Director John Brennan at CNN infected several others. The program was has spent recent days calling attention News Staff Advertising said David Chipman, a retired agent with went through the U.S.
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