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Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a series of articles addressing the resolution proposing to phase out the appropriated funding the intercollegiate athletics department receives. A philosophy professor proposed to gradually remove the athletics department’s appropriated funding in order to alleviate academic financial strains like increased class size and decreased faculty members. However, according to Eastern data, the average class size is at the lowest in 10 years, and the facultystudent ratio also decreased. Grant Sterling, a philosophy professor, introduced a resolution to the Faculty Senate on March 20 to phase out the amount the intercollegiate athletics department receives from appropriated funds, which consist of general revenue funding from the state and tuition money. He proposes the phasing out to occur over the next five years and to reallocate those funds to the Academic Affairs Office to increase the hiring of Unit A full-time faculty members. Sterling said a debate on the resolution will occur at 2 p.m. on Tuesday in Room 4440 of Booth Library during the Faculty Senate meeting. “What has happened is that many departments can’t afford to replace retired professors, and they just have to make due with the professors that they have,” Sterling said. “We still have a lot of small classes taught by really good professors but our ability to do that is being sliced.” President Bill Perry said the faculty-student ratio was 1-15, and the
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average class size in 2011 was 19 students, which is the lowest in 10 years. “The average class size is the lowest it has been going back to 2002,” Perry said. “Some departments have increased enrollment so class sizes may increase there but decrease somewhere else.” Sterling said the amount of appropriated funds given to athletics is comparatively small to those given to academics, but the funds should be diverted because intercollegiate athletics does not fit into Eastern’s academically central mission.
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veterans information about the program and services that could help them. “I think it’s important to have events such as this one because veterans have a lot of transferable skills that they learned while they’re in active duty that can transfer over when they come to school,” she said. Jeff Duck, the coordinator of elementary education, said his table did not get the traffic he was hoping it would, but that the fair was something important to offer. “I’m a veteran myself, so I understand how important fairs like this are,” he said. “Hopefully other veterans can feel more inclusive within the EIU community and use the resources that are here for them.”
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H.W. Brands, a history professor at the University of Texas, holds up a $20 bill during his presentation "The Past, Present and Future of the Dollar" Thursday in the Doudna Lecture Hall.
The American dollar has had a short yet powerful life, but this power may soon fade, said historian H.W. Brands in his lecture Thursday. Brands, a history professor at the University of Texas at Austin and author of 25 books on history and economics, presented his lecture titled “The Past, Present and Future of the Dollar” in the Lecture Hall of the Doudna Fine Arts Center. Brands began the lecture by explaining how the U.S. did not always have a steady form of currency like the dollar. From ratification of the U.S. Con-
stitution until the Civil War, the federal government issued coins of gold and silver. However, private banks printed their own paper money. Money printed by these private banks did not hold their value across the United States and would sometimes be rejected, Brands said. It was not until the Civil War, when the Union began to run out of gold to produce coins to pay its debts, that the federal government began to print two forms of paper money to cover costs, he said. Paper bills printed in white were backed by gold while green bills, known as greenbacks, were backed by a federal requirement that individuals and institutions accept these
bills as legal tender. However, many people did not wish to accept this new form of currency not backed by precious metal, Brands said, and some thought it was unconstitutional. “People would say, ‘This is not worth anything’ and ‘Why should I be required to take it?’” Brands said. The Supreme Court determined that it was legal, and the practice of using paper bills continued, he said. From this point, Brands explained that the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 allowed the federal government to exercise greater control of the nation’s money supply. FADING, page 5