Eastern Illinois University The Keep March 2012 3-30-2012 Daily Eastern News: March 30, 2012 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2012_mar Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: March 30, 2012" (2012). March. 14. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2012_mar/14 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the 2012 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in March by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. “Tell the truth and don’t be afraid.” Friday THEDAILY MARCH 30, 2012 VOLUME 96 | No. 127 EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CHARLESTON, ILL. MARCH 30, 2012 DENNEWS.COM weekly tern News' e Daily Eas Th entertainment section EastVergearts and Ern nEws TWITTER.COM/DENNEWS There’s more to know about sex than Panthers aiming the birds & the bees. Educate yourself for consistency with this week’s issue of the Verge! SEX SURVEY Page 8 page 5 We asked... Section B What type of 20 sexy songs protection do you use? CAMPUS Female UNIVERSITYto get you in 7 AFFAIRS condoms the mood PAGE ProfessorStudents ask, 8 proposes we tell PAGE Let’s talk A WHOLE LOTTA reduced fundingabout sex Safe sex is Parents too late to give “The Talk” By Ashley Holstrom re are many tales Verge Reporter smart sex When it comes to the birds and the bees, the Rubber Lovers educates students of how people first heard about sex, be it through discussan awkward with their - sit-down with the parents or a risky Google search. By Robyn Dexter These days, it is not as common for parents to Campus Editor children what happens when a mommy and daddy love each oth oncepts can mislead them.ucate er very much. forThough sexual healthathletics is important to many students, not This is because most kids are watching their TV shows on their knowing accurate information and c computers, not in the living room with the whole family, where Rubber Lovers was created at Eastern to informion and Coordinator ed moments on sit-coms can bring about conversations about ; vers has sex, according to Misty Baker, a family and consumer - students on condom usage and other aspects of sexual wellness. sciences professor. Jennifer Cannon, the Sexual Health Educat usly called the Misty Rhoads, a health studies professor, agrees PAGE 6 for Health Education Resource Center, said Rubber Lo - she said the majority of people tell herS EtheyX, nev er even had a sex talk with their parents. 50 been around for several years, but was previo Condom Club. TOTAL UNITS “It was started by Eric Davidson, who is now the As sociate Director of Health Services, to teach students the steps to putting on a condom,” she said. “He firmly believes you can’t just give a student a By Rachel RodgersPAGE 4 condom, you have to teach themSMART, the steps.” BREAKING DOWN RECEIVED Administration Editor BLOOD 51 THE NUMBERS Editor’s Note: This is the first in- Donations exceed 40 stallment of a series of articles ad- 2007 (IN MILLIONS) dressing the resolution proposing to original goals BLOOD DRIVE GOAL phase out the appropriated funding the intercollegiate athletics depart- for blood drive 30 ment receives. $96,561 A philosophy professor proposed Total FY07 Appropriation to gradually remove the athletics BY ROBYN DEXTER | CAMPUS EDITOR department’s appropriated funding in order to alleviate academic finan- 20 cial strains like increased class size $1,534 ommunity members donated veterans 40 and decreased faculty members. Athletic department 51 units of blood in honor of a informa- However, according to Eastern Charleston veteran at a service tion about UNITS data, the average class size is at the portion of Appropriations fair on Thursday. t h e p ro - lowest in 10 years, and the faculty- _____________ CThe Rucksacks to Backpacks ser- gram and 10 student ratio also decreased. 2011 (IN MILLIONS) vice fair brought together many gen- services Grant Sterling, a philosophy erations of veterans of the Martin that could professor, introduced a resolution Luther King Jr. University Union, help them. to the Faculty Senate on March 20 where they could participate in a “I think it’s to phase out the amount the inter- $115,209 blood drive to honor marine veteran, impor tant to have collegiate athletics department re- Total FY11 Appropriation Darrell Eaton. events such as this one ceives from appropriated funds, Veterans came from the Eastern because veterans have a which consist of general revenue community as well as the Charles- lot of transferable skills funding from the state and tuition ton, Effingham and other surround- that they learned while money. $1,612 ing communities. they’re in active duty that He proposes the phasing out to Athletic department JoAnn Heaton, one of the coordi- can transfer over when they occur over the next five years and nators of the fair/blood drive, said 88 come to school,” she said. to reallocate those funds to the Aca- portion of Appropriations people donated and they collected 11 Jeff Duck, the coordinator of demic Affairs Office to increase the units over their goal of 40. elementary education, said his ta- hiring of Unit A full-time faculty average class size in 2011 was 19 “We had to turn people away for ble did not get the traffic he was members. students, which is the lowest in 10 the last hour of the drive because it hoping it would, but that the fair Sterling said a debate on the years. was that successful,” she said. was something important to offer. resolution will occur at 2 p.m. on “The average class size is the low- Amber Scott, the other event coor- “I’m a veteran myself, so I under- Tuesday in Room 4440 of Booth est it has been going back to 2002,” dinator, said she had expected a bet- stand how important fairs like this Library during the Faculty Senate Perry said. “Some departments have ter turnout, but that she was pleased are,” he said. meeting. increased enrollment so class siz- for the most part by how the day “Hopefully other veterans can “What has happened is that es may increase there but decrease went. feel more inclusive within the many departments can’t afford to somewhere else.” “It’s been fairly steady,” she said. EIU community and use the re- replace retired professors, and they Sterling said the amount of ap- Sarah Knapp, a graduate student sources that are here for them.” just have to make due with the pro- propriated funds given to athlet- in the College of Student Affairs, was fessors that they have,” Sterling ics is comparatively small to those at the CSA table to give interested SEE ‘BLOOD DRIVE’ PAGE 5 said. “We still have a lot of small given to academics, but the funds classes taught by really good profes- should be diverted because inter- sors but our ability to do that is be- collegiate athletics does not fit into ing sliced.” Eastern’s academically central mis- President Bill Perry said the fac- sion. ulty-student ratio was 1-15, and the FUNDING, page 5 GRAPHIC BY SHELLEY HOLMGREN | THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS LECTURE Brands: Power of dollar fading Tim Deters stitution until the Civil War, the fed- bills as legal tender. Staff Reporter eral government issued coins of gold However, many people did not and silver. However, private banks wish to accept this new form of cur- The American dollar has had a printed their own paper money. rency not backed by precious metal, short yet powerful life, but this pow- Money printed by these private Brands said, and some thought it was er may soon fade, said historian banks did not hold their value across unconstitutional. H.W. Brands in his lecture Thursday. the United States and would some- “People would say, ‘This is not Brands, a history professor at the times be rejected, Brands said. worth anything’ and ‘Why should I University of Texas at Austin and au- It was not until the Civil War, be required to take it?’” Brands said. thor of 25 books on history and eco- when the Union began to run out The Supreme Court determined nomics, presented his lecture titled of gold to produce coins to pay its that it was legal, and the practice of “The Past, Present and Future of the debts, that the federal government using paper bills continued, he said. Dollar” in the Lecture Hall of the began to print two forms of paper From this point, Brands explained Doudna Fine Arts Center. money to cover costs, he said. that the creation of the Federal Re- Brands began the lecture by ex- Paper bills printed in white were serve in 1913 allowed the federal SETH SCHROEDER | DAILY EASTERN NEWS plaining how the U.S. did not always backed by gold while green bills, government to exercise greater con- H.W. Brands, a history professor at the University of Texas, holds up a $20 bill dur- have a steady form of currency like known as greenbacks, were backed trol of the nation’s money supply. ing his presentation "The Past, Present and Future of the Dollar" Thursday in the the dollar. by a federal requirement that indi- Doudna Lecture Hall. From ratification of the U.S. Con- viduals and institutions accept these FADING, page 5 Students and instructors debate generational differences in the classroom THE DAILY EASTERN NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 2 DAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM N o. 127, VOLUME 96 FEATURE EIU weather TODAY SATURDAY Attitudes differ among students, professors Generation business management major, said she feels it is easier for professors “I think it is much easier now differences to bond with students when they are familiar with pop culture re- for students to cut around pointed out in lated issues.