TIGER TAKE DOWN
WEEKEND DEFEATS
The Eastern football team improved to 4-2 after beating Tennessee State, 35-34, Saturday at O’Brien Field. PAGE 8
The Eastern volleyball team dropped its 2 home matches Friday and Saturday in Lantz Arena. PAGE 7
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Trump, Hey Charleston what do you say? Clinton face-off for 2nd time ST. LOUIS (AP) — In a bitter debate filled with accusation and insult, Hillary Clinton declared that Donald Trump’s vulgar comments about women reveal “exactly who he is” and prove his unsuitability to be president. Firing back, he accused her of attacking women involved in Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs and promised she would “be in jail” if he were president. Trump, who entered Sunday night’s debate desperate to steady his floundering campaign, unleashed a barrage of attacks and insults, and continually interrupted Clinton. He repeatedly called her a “liar,” labeled her the “devil” and contended she had “tremendous hate in her heart.” On one substantive matter, he acknowledged for the first time that he had paid no federal income taxes for many years. The debate was the culmination of a stunning stretch in the race for the White House, which began with the release of a new video in which Trump is heard bragging about how his fame allowed him to “do anything” to women. Many Republicans rushed to revoke their support, with some calling for him to drop out of the race. Answering for his words for the first time, Trump denied that he had ever kissed and grabbed women without their consent. He said repeatedly that his words in 2005 were merely “locker room talk” and paled in comparison to what he called Bill Clinton’s abuse of women. “She should be ashamed of herself,” Trump declared. Ahead of the debate, the businessman met with three women who accused the former president of sexual harassment and even rape, then invited them to sit in the debate hall. Trump refused to answer questions from reporters about his own aggressive sexual remarks about women during the meeting in a hotel conference room with Paula Jones, Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey. Kathy Shelton, a fourth woman who appeared with Trump, was a 12-year-old Arkansas sexual assault victim whose alleged assailant was defended by Hillary Clinton. Some of the women seated alongside him, however, were graphic in their accusations against the Clintons. Bill Clinton never faced any criminal charges in relation to the allegations, and a lawsuit over an alleged rape was dismissed. He did settle a lawsuit with one of the women who Debate, page 5
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Students react to the part of the Cubs-Giants game when Javier Báez won Game 1 with a home run at the bottom of the eighth inning Friday at the Penalty Box.
Profit-loss sheets raise concerns By Cassie Buchman News Editor | @cjbuchman Though profit loss sheet data is now available on the vitalization project’s webpage, there are still concerns on differences between the data for intercollegiate athletics and academic programs. On the intercollegiate athletics profit and loss sheets, the tuition, student fee, and housing and dining revenue is counted as income athletics brings to the university. Philosophy professor Grant Sterling pointed out that the only income counted for the university from academic programs is student tuition. Profit-loss sheets look at the cost efficiency of different programs on campus and were put up on the webpage online under a “data” tab to assist Workgroups. Sterling said since student fees are earmarked for specific purposes, nobody should get credit for this revenue except for the programs the fees are being used in. “It seems to me more reasonable to say tuition and housing don’t count as income to anyone,” Sterling said. In profit-loss sheets for intercollegiate athletics from 2015, they claimed $4,185,756 in tuition, $1,217,773 in fees and $2,278,592 in housing and dining to get $7,682,121
as their total revenue. When this was added to their $7,017,767 expenditure, intercollegiate athletics came out with a profit of $664,354. Without adding in tuition, fees, housing and dining as revenue, athletics would have had this expense of $7,017,767 on their profit-loss sheet. Jon Blitz, president of Eastern’s chapter of the University Professionals of Illinois, showed these numbers in a presentation to the Faculty Senate. He argued that if academic departments used the same model intercollegiate athletics did, it would look like academic programs were making money as well. “Athletics was $7 million in the hole,” Blitz said. “To be in the black, they counted $4 million in tuition, (but) athletics doesn’t generate tuition.” Blitz’s fear is that if more resources are given to athletics because it looks like it is raising money, it will come out of everyone else’s budgets. In intercollegiate athletics, the profit-loss sheets were calculated by business affairs. Paul McCann, interim vice president for business affairs, said athletics is spread in so many different places that there is not just one place to look when doing an annual audit of intercollegiate athletics.
“We identify all the various sports, and we allocate costs, or specifically identify costs, associated with each of those sports,” McCann said. He said there are costs related to intercollegiate athletics. “Uniforms, umpires, officials, maintaining field, so you got the cost of doing the activity. You also have scholarships that you pay out,” McCann said. However, McCann said these athletes are also generating revenue for the university. McCann said this revenue, including student fees and housing and dining, with a bulk of the money coming from tuition, is part of the income athletes produce. “If the issue is that we want to adjust athletics, you have to consider what they’re bringing to the table,” McCann said. “And they’re bringing a significant amount of income to the university.” They did not put in housing revenue for academic departments, McCann said, because they do not have anything to do with housing, but athletics does provide housing for many athletes. The numbers business affairs used are from the university’s accounting system. “What we did was we pulled together what we thought was reason-
able for them to start with,” McCann said. “We think it’s a reasonable look.” However, Sterling said this made it look as if intercollegiate athletics play by one set of rules, and all the other programs play by a different set. Candace Flatt, a budget analyst who works in the Office of Academic Affairs, said she used several sources from student data, and financial aid that fed through accounts receivable to calculate the data for academic programs. The only funds she used were from Ledger One, which is from student tuition and state appropriations. The expenditure data comes from personal services, such as faculty payroll, student expenses, operating expenses, capital expense and summer school. The revenue used was from fall, spring and summer tuition as determined by a student’s billable hours and collected from the tuition amounts by the department associated with the courses. These billable hours were also used to allocate scholarships, waivers and the department spending by student, by course. Scholarships in academic programs are looked as an expenditure in Banner. Some scholarships are ledger one, and some are not. Profit Loss, page 5