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Turmeric, a bright yellow spice native to India, has the capability of adding more than just an aromatic flavor to the plate, according to a team of SIU researchers.

Ruplal Choudhary, an associate professor in plant, soil and agriculture systems, is lead principle investigator of a team researching the potential health benefits of turmeric, which contains the natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent curcumin.

Choudhary said this research is important because turmeric can be used as a natural way to delay the expiration date of foods. He said there is a growing concern that artificial food preservatives link to cancer, and shoppers should be able to identify ingredients on food labels.

“It has been scientifically proven that many synthetic preservatives are carcinogens,” Choudhary said. “Health-conscious people are going for natural products.”

Choudary worked with fellow principle investigators Derek Fisher, an assistant microbiology professor, and Punit Kohli, an assistant chemistry and biochemistry professor.

The group received $5,200 earlier this month from the deans of agriculture, science and engineering and $92,000 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fund research.

Their previous research beginning in 2011 — supported by a $400,000 grant from the Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund based in

Israel — revealed the spice also has antimicrobial qualities. It is powerful enough to potentially prevent E. coli outbreaks in food and lengthen the shelf-life of fresh produce, Choudhary said.

Jim Thomson, a second-year graduate student in plant, soil and agricultural systems from India, has been helping with the research

as part of his thesis project.Choudary said Thomson had

the idea of testing the benefits further by combining limonene, a natural chemical found in citrus peels, with curcumin to produce an antibacterial and antifungal agent.

“He is getting good, encouraging results,” he said.

Thomson said this coating, which damages E. coli cells and slows fungal growth, can be poured on berries and increase their shelf-life by three to four weeks.

They are also testing the use of Ultraviolet light, which damages E. coli cells, for use by small-scale farmers to store produce, Choudhary said.

“Basically, we are developing a UV-light purified cooler,” he said.

The team will present its research at the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers this summer in Florida.

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The SIU Board of Trustees and SIU-Edwardsville are being sued by a Palestinian-born employee for racial discrimination.

Sandra Tamari, an international admissions specialist at SIUE, according to the biography on her university webpage, claims the university violated her civil rights when she was denied an in-person interview for a promotion because of her national origin, according to a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court last week.

Tamari also alleges systematic discrimination directed at herself and students of Middle Eastern descent has been perpetuated by administrators and staff. One or more SIUE staff members equated admission of students from the Middle East as “admission of terrorists,” Tamari claims in her complaint.

Tamari asked all inquiries concerning the case be relayed to her attorney Lee Barron, who could not be reached for comment.

SIUE would not comment regarding ongoing litigation, university spokesperson Megan Wieser said.

Chad Martinez, SIUE’s director of the office of equal opportunity, could not be reached for comment.

Tamari is seeking damages in excess of $75,000 from SIUE for lost compensation and attorney fees. An injunction has also been filed with the suit to prohibit SIUE from discriminating based on national origin. While Tamari still has a biography on SIUE’s webpage, Wieser could not confirm if Tamari is currently employed by the university.

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Aspen Court prepares for Polar Bear weekend

After Solar Bear 2015 ended with police pepper spraying several partygoers, Aspen Court Apartments is laying down new rules ahead of Polar Bear 2016.

Apartment complex employees posted a flyer with several ground rules around the premises for Polar Bear, which is a drinking event started by Pinch Penny Pub that has grown to encompass other areas of Carbondale.

Sanctions include fencing off the grass area between apartment buildings P and Q adjacent to the pool, banning DJs and PA systems and prohibiting people on rooftops, and hanging out of windows, according to a flyer posted on the premises. The area near the Q building has been a popular congregation spot for partygoers and music during the past few semesters.

Brian Marik, property manager at Aspen Court

Apartments, said Polar Bear is a bar event and the organization has never promoted the parties.

“We want people to be safe, we don’t want anyone to get hurt,” he said. “Last year we had extra security because we knew what was happening. This year we’re going to have heavy security and fence off some areas. We want people to have a good time — we just don’t want destroyed property. After the Solar Bear problems, we don’t want that to happen again.”

There were also noise warnings posted on the sheets from Carbondale’s sound ordinance.

In apartment buildings, noise cannot be heard from more than 25 feet away at night and 50 feet during the day, according to the ordinance.

Fines will be handed out to any tenants or apartments who violate the rules.

Evan Jones can be reached at Ejones@dailyegyptian.

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President Barack Obama on Monday waded more deeply into the contentious Democratic primary race than he ever has, touting the strengths of both leading candidates while intimating that Hillary Clinton is the stronger contender.

A week before the Iowa caucuses open the nominating contests, he also predicted in an interview with Politico that no matter the party, the candidate “who can project hope” will ultimately prevail in succeeding him.

Obama spent more time in the interview listing Clinton’s strengths than rival Bernie Sanders’, but stayed away from anything resembling an endorsement. He acknowledged that some of Clinton’s chief assets are also her weaknesses, noting that she began the race with the “privilege and burden” of being perceived as the front-runner, and thus was under more scrutiny. But he also underscored Clinton’s message that she is liberals’ best hope for accomplishing policy change.

“I think that what Hillary presents is a recognition that

translating values into governance and delivering the goods is ultimately the job of politics, making a real-life difference to people in their day-to-day lives,” he said, adding that she, like Sanders, is also “idealistic and progressive.”

Her rival Sanders, meanwhile, arrived on the campaign trail with the luxury of being a long shot whose attitude is, “I’ve got nothing to lose,” as Obama put it, and Sanders immediately set up a contrast with Clinton.

“She is a good, smart, tough person who cares deeply about this country and she has been in the public eye for a long time and in a culture in which new is always better,” the president said of Clinton. “And, you know, you’re always looking at the bright, shiny object that people haven’t seen before.”

But the scrutiny will amp up for Sanders if he begins to win nominating contests, Obama told Politico during a somewhat nostalgic interview that recalled his win in the Iowa caucuses, which catapulted him to the front of the 2008 race. He labeled the monthslong effort leading to the victory as his favorite period of his political life.

Obama also said he hasn’t been trying to “stick my nose in”

with political strategy, though he acknowledged that he knows Clinton, his former secretary of state, better than Sanders, the Vermont senator. Any of the Democratic candidates can ask him if they need advice, he said, and he reminded both candidates that one will eventually need the other’s supporters.

He also sought to minimize the division between Clinton and Sanders and urged voters to instead focus on the contrast between the leading Democratic candidates and their Republican counterparts, raising concern about the tenor of the GOP primary, about candidates who deny climate change and Donald Trump’s calls to ban Muslims from the country.

“My No. 1 priority is having a Democratic president succeed me,” Obama said during the Oval Office interview recorded as the first snowflakes of the winter blizzard began to fall last week.

With that on his mind, Obama seemed to be nudging the Democrats toward the winning message of his political rise.

“The candidate who can project hope still is the candidate who the American people, over the long term, will gravitate towards,” he said.

Obama says his bet in 2016 election is on the candidate ‘who can project hope’CHRISTI PARSONS

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Left to right: Caroline Hale of Carbondale, Toni Cardin and Gary Key of Zeigler and Jordan Duke of Carbondale open Pokémon card packs during the Pokémon Pre-release Tournament on Monday at Castle Perilous Games & Books. Participants in the tournament were granted access to Pokémon BREAKpoint, the most recent addition to the Pokémon XY card franchise, two weeks prior to its U.S. release date.

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Campuses must counter assaults on game daysJason Lindo, an economics

professor at Texas A&M University, had a hunch about campus sexual assaults at Division I football schools and whether their rates were affected by big-game days. So he and several colleagues scoured 22 years of FBI data, comparing assault reports to local police on

game days with those filed on non-game days.

The researchers found a strong link between football game days and an increase in reported rapes by college women ages 17-24. Lindo’s study, released Dec. 28, said sexual assault reports increased 41 percent during home games and 15 percent during away games. If the home team was an underdog

that defeated a higher-ranked team, reported rapes went up 57 percent.

Heavy drinking also appears to be a factor in the statistics that showed hundreds of assaults at 128 schools.

It goes without saying that school administrations must develop strategies to curb overconsumption of alcohol, but they also must

educate students about sexual assault and use the study as a guide toward new approaches on game days. Based on a 2010 study on the economic losses associated with crime, the Texas A&M researchers estimate that each Division I-A campus rape carries a social cost of $267,000. The annual cost of these assaults is at least $68 million.

While the price in dollars is steep

enough, the damage to individuals from alcohol-related sexual assault is too huge to tolerate. Every college and university, not just those with Division I teams, should consider the research. They know that alcohol combined with sports can be a factor in campus rape, but do they have the courage to confront and do something about the problem?

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Earth sends more warnings about warmingIgnore those shivers over this

week's single-digit temperatures. NASA and the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday that 2015 was the hottest year in 136 years of record keeping.

The 2015 average temperature was 58.62 degrees Fahrenheit, 0.29

degrees higher than 2014's, NOAA said. Scientists put the blame on the El Nino ocean-atmosphere interaction and human-caused global warming.

The announcement came two days after the journal Nature Climate Change published a study showing that the amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the oceans has doubled since 1997.

Both revelations are more evidence that humans must pay more attention to environmental changes confronting the planet.

Utilizing data stretching from the British research ship Challenger in the 1870s to statistics from the 1990s, ocean researchers reported that the Earth's waters absorbed 150 zettajoules of energy from 1865 to 1997. But it took only 18

more years for the oceans to soak up another 150 zettajoules. This is both astounding and disturbing.

Because the subject of climate change is so politically contested, independent studies like those reported this week continue to be important. The ocean research was conducted by the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Penn State University and other reputable

institutions.Determining how human

activity has raised the temperatures of the oceans and the air requires the constant gathering of evidence from many sources. These reports, of course, will be followed by other data. The latest findings are two more independent signs that climate change deniers need to stop and smell the science.

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‘Dirty Grandpa’ sets the bar low for 2016Oh, how far Robert De Niro’s

career has fallen.His latest appearance in “Dirty

Grandpa,” directed by Dan Mazer and starring De Niro and Zac Efron, can barely be called a movie.

Dick Kelly, the titular dirty grandpa, is reeling off the death of his wife. Well into senior-citizen status, Dick realizes he doesn’t have a lot of time left.

He convinces his grandson, Jason Kelly, played by Efron, to take him on a trip to see an old war buddy in Florida. On the verge of his wedding, Jason reluctantly agrees and regrets it immediately when his grandfather’s true intentions of having sex with a younger woman come out.

Jason now must find a way to reel in his grandpa, and come to terms with his unfulfilling life.

If you are reading this and considering seeing this movie, please do not. Even if you are in the theater, waiting to see this god-awful film, leave and go see anything else.

Watching the theater attendants close up would be better than watching “Dirty Grandpa.”

This movie has a huge storytelling problem.

Saying that this film’s narrative was poorly constructed is an understatement. One might inaccurately state that comedies do not need a well-told story, but plot-driven comedies like “Groundhog’s Day” are evidence to the contrary. There seems to be very little attempt to tell an actual story in “Dirty Grandpa.”

Bits and pieces of this movie are dedicated to Jason and Dick Kelly’s miss opportunities. A valiant storyline for a better movie, but

this film overshadows it with awful penis puns, homophobia and racial stereotypes — all of which fail repeatedly. Eventually, you forget any character had an arch or development at all.

“Dirty Grandpa” tries way too hard to be funny.

This movie is the equivalent to a little kid learning a curse word. He or she will hear the word, spout it off and get a laugh from all the adults. But at a certain point, the child keeps saying the word and anyone passed a 4-year-old's mindset gets

annoyed.The jokes from this movie seem

to be taken from a rejected pile of gags left from awful comedies like “The Hangover 3.” If there is a penis joke to be said, this movie says it and with no setup. It is the type of film that finds an old man saying the N-word hilarious — that's pretty much all you need to know.

Dick Kelly might be the worst, most unsympathetic character of the year.

Characters can be bad people. Walter White, Darth Vader; the

best kind of characters are flawed ones, sometimes people who have no sympathetic qualities. Dick Kelly does so much awful acts, he can barely be called a character.

The minds behind this movie seem to not want to give De Niro, one of the greatest actors in recent memory, an actual personality to work with. Instead, the actor becomes a puppet for gimmicks and lame jokes. The writers probably thought they struck gold when someone pitched "Hey, let's have De Niro rap!" or "How about he

just calls someone fat for no reason?"The only reason “Dirty Grandpa”

even gets a one out of five is comedians like Adam Pally and Jason Mantzoukas trying to save this movie.

Even Efron tries his best to elevate this movie, serving as possibly the only competent main actor.

He gives the character of Jason Kelly his all, making him somewhat likable, no matter what the filmmakers throws at him to ruin it.

Unfortunately, there is nothing any of them can do.

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SIU student opening for comedian Jeff DyeFor some comedians, opening up

for a well-known performer can be nerve-racking. But for SIU student Jeremy Brown, it feels like another day at the office.

Brown will open this week for touring comedian Jeff Dye, who has appeared on "Last Comic Standing," "Girl Code" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition."

Dye, who categorizes himself as a comedian, actor, host and prankster, will headline the SIU Student Programming Council's "Laugh till you Dye" event at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Student Center Ballroom.

Brown, a freshman from Champaign studying journalism, serves as the comedy director for SPC. On his application for the position, which was vacant during fall 2015, he listed his stand-up comedy experience as a skill.

Not only is a skill, it's Brown's dream.

“Anytime I’m not doing class or video games, I’m writing comedy,” he said.

Brown will start the show with a five- to seven-minute routine. His job is to warm up the audience and get them ready for the headlining comedian, he said.

His comedy career started when he was 16 years old in a local church. From there, he performed

at any open mic he could, taking all opportunities to hone his craft.

Brown describes his comedy as clean and devoid of shock humor or constant curse words. He takes this style from his idols such as Brian Regan and Jerry Seinfeld, he said. Brown knew he wanted to be a comedian after watching a Jim Gaffigan special.

Before that, he did not realize stand-up comedian was a career option.

“This guy just has to stand here on stage, talk at people, who are not allowed to respond, they all love him and he gets paid and goes home,” Brown said. “That sounds like the best job.”

Kaila Messerli, graduate advisor

to the SPC, said the performance is a chance for Brown to introduce his set to other students.

Messerli said she relates with the style of comedy Dye uses. He talks and tells stories in an awkward manner, much like John Mulaney.

While she admits to never seeing Brown’s comedy, the two have had a lot of interaction working with SPC. She said she thinks he has a good sense of humor and both talents should connect with the student audience, Messerli said.

Carly James, assistant director of Student Center programs, said the SPC is made up of 11 directors for various topics, all of whom plan events for comedians, lecturers and other talent.

Because there was no comedy director for half of last semester, this show was put on by staff members and students, James said. When they were looking for someone for this event, the group was searching for anyone funny they could afford.

And once they got Dye and asked Brown to participate, the group gave a young comedian a chance to hit the stage in front of a new audience.

“It’s a way for us to open more doors for our students,” Messerli said.

Jacob Pierce can be reached at [email protected] or

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Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Enjoy privacy and peaceful contemplation. Make plans and organize papers. Talk to your angels. Clear out clutter to create space for what’s coming. Pamper yourself with sensual treats like hot water, subtle flavors and fragrances.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Get to work on a team project. Meetings, gatherings and parties go well. Schedule carefully. Work out priorities with everyone in advance, or risk wasted efforts. Build a strong foundation, especially financially, for support.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- Enjoy your work today. Abandon theory for practice. Get your hands dirty. Learn by doing. The pace is picking up, so look sharp and get moving. Keep fulfilling your promises. Don’t get stuck on misconceptions or assumptions.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Review financial plans, including for the long-term future. Focus on what’s in the bag, not what you hope is coming. Keep generating momentum. Replenish reserves, and cut unnecessary spending. Dream big dreams backed by concrete action.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- Focus on joint finances. Handle bills, invoices, insurance and investments to keep current. Discover unconsidered savings. Strategize your moves. Collaborate and coordinate efforts for maximum ingress. Completion leads to profits. Beat your deadline.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 9 -- A partner’s opinion is important, and it’s coming straight at you. Push each other past individual limitations. Dance gracefully with unexpected circumstances. Collaborate, negotiate and arrange terms. Discover romance hiding in plain sight.

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Surging Salukis run through RodriguezThe point guard is like the

quarterback of the basketball team, and getting the ball into the hands of scorers is the goal.

Consider junior point guard Mike Rodriguez the Tom Brady of the Saluki men’s basketball team — they’re both in-game leaders who want to win above all. He may not have the accolades of Brady yet, but his leadership and team-first mentality are traits his coaches and admire.

The Boston native leads his team with 73 assists through 21 games, which is more than junior forward Sean O’Brien’s team-high of 54 last season.

Assistant coach Anthony Beane, Sr., who recruited Rodriguez while he was at Marshalltown Community College in Iowa, said he knew Rodriguez needed to be a Saluki.

“When I first saw him play, I fell in love with him ... I knew he would be the type of point guard we really needed in our program,” Beane said. “He was a floor general and had all the things we were looking for ... great IQ, talent, very explosive and athletic, could get to the rim and shot the ball really well too.”

At SIU, Rodriguez has developed into more than just a scorer — he

leads the team with a 1.97 assist-to-tunover ratio, putting him in the top 10 percent of all men’s basketball players in the nation tied at No. 162.

Rodriguez said playing with teammates who can shoot the ball allows him to be a true point guard for the Dawgs.

“In [junior college], they needed me to score,” he said. “[Here] I can be more of a point [guard]. I don’t have to score as much.”

Senior guard Anthony Beane, Jr. and O’Brien are Nos. 1 and 2 on the team with 405 and 259 points, respectively, and Rodriguez is No. 3 with 203.

Senior center Ibby Djimde said Rodriguez playing point guard allows Beane and other scorers to get open looks.

“Mike helps out a lot because he makes it easy for Anthony Beane and [junior guard] Leo [Vincent] to get the easy baskets,” he said. “Mike attacks and can pass, which is good for us.”

More consistent playing time has led to Rodriguez finding the confidence he lacked in high school and junior college, when he doubted he would ever play Division I basketball.

Rodriguez said he had to find confidence in himself after sitting on the bench at Marshalltown, where he posted a 1.53 assist-to-turnover ratio.

“I was playing 10 minutes here and there ... I knew I wasn’t a factor,” he said. “I was on the bench of a junior college team that wasn’t that good and behind someone I thought I was better than, but I wasn’t proving it on the court.”

This season Rodriguez has started every game for the 18-3 Salukis and has taken pressure off of Beane. That has led to a 7-1 record in conference and 8-0 record on the road.

Coach Barry Hinson was forced to use Beane as a point guard last season. After watching tape, Rodriguez said he could compare Beane to himself at Marshalltown.

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Saluki women’s basketball may not be ranked in a top-25 poll, but the team does share a distinction with two AP top-10 programs.

SIU (11-8, 4-3 Missouri Valley Conference) is one of three teams to have three players with more than 1,000 career points, alongside Oregon State and Connecticut.

The trio of senior center Dyana Pierre (1,332 career points), senior guard Cartaesha Macklin (1,572 career points) and junior guard Rishonda Napier (1,093 career points) have been together since the 2012-13 season, the last of the Missy Tiber regime. Macklin recently became the program’s all-time leading scorer, and Napier could come close to her record if she averages about 14 points a game during the rest of her career and doesn’t miss any games.

The players are also the top-three scorers for SIU this season, scoring a combined 59 percent of the team’s points.

Napier talked about playing with two probable Saluki Hall of Famers.

“They taught me to keep my head up and be humble and just work hard,” Napier said. “They also taught me to take nothing for granted and go out and play hard.”

UConn, which also has a 2,000-point

scorer in forward/center Breanna Stewart, is one of the most prestigious programs in women’s hoops, winning 10 national championships, including three in a row on two occasions.

SIU coach Cindy Stein said it’s an honor to be mentioned in the same sentence as a team like the Huskies.

“[Pierre, Macklin and Napier] have certainly been a big part of our program,” she said. “They’re very coachable and get after it every day of practice, but I know they’ll tell you individual accomplishments aren’t their main focus.”

Macklin, who became the top scorer in SIU history during a 74-56 win against Evansville last week, said exactly what her coach predicted

she would.“It’s really cool knowing that

you’re in that exclusive club with those two great programs,” said the Mayo, Fla., native. “But we’re focused on trying to win a championship, and individual success isn’t as great as team success.”

Napier said, as a point guard, it puts her mind at ease knowing she has two elite scorers to go to.

“Knowing I can put the ball in their hands and let them go to work makes my job easier,” she said. “They’re both amazing teammates and work really hard.”

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‘Buffalo hide’ Salukis grinding out tough wins

Men’s basketball coach Barry Hinson has said his Salukis have a lot of “buffalo hide” toughness, and their tendency to never give up reflects that.

The Dawgs have come back to win after trailing by double-digits three times this year: the season opener Nov. 13 against Air Force (15-point deficit), Nov. 21 at Sam Houston State (18 points) and Jan. 12 against Illinois State (12 points).

Hinson said the team’s construction makes the comebacks possible.

“You got a good core of returning guys who’ve been through a difficult three years and you got guys who haven’t been through a difficult three years, but have added to everything we needed,” he said.

And the players understand how important everyone on the team is to its success.

“It starts with the leaders,” junior forward Sean O’Brien said. “But at the same time, we have a deep bench with guys like Leo [Vincent], Ibby [Djimde], Armon [Fletcher] and Austin [Weiher] that have helped out a lot too.”

Junior guard Tyler Smithpeters said the key to being able to come back is mental fortitude.

“We don’t panic,” he said. “I

think everybody is maturing on the court to where if we get down like we did against Illinois State, we don’t panic and just take the best shots possible.”

Smithpeters said he believes that will come in handy as the season progress.

“Every team will have to come back at some point in the season, so we’ll be ready when it happens,” Smithpeters said.

However, mental fortitude goes both ways. The Dawgs have had several other wins where games came down to the wire.

On Nov. 28 against Portland, Jan. 2 against Northern Iowa and Jan. 17 at Drake, SIU lost leads in the second half, but came out on top.

The Salukis have a little saying to get through these games.

“’One media timeout at a time,’” O’Brien said. “There are 10 of those throughout the game, so we got 10 rounds and we want to win all of those. That’s our goal.”

The comebacks and close games have Salukis feeling like they can win any game. With the calendar headed for February, and tough conference games coming up, they need that confidence.

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