On the same weekend that the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) tournament championship in men’s basketball was lighting up the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, a different kind of ACC gathering took place at Virginia Tech with a meeting of the ACC.
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New 1st-year seminar course aims to enhance discussions of race, identity
Emily Steinberger | Photo Editor
The new course was designed based on feedback from students who have taken the course, peer facilitators and lead facilitators.
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Syracuse University faculty members hope that the first-year seminar course replacing SEM 100 next academic year will better equip students to talk about race and identity.
Chandice Haste-Jackson is the recently-appointed interim director of the course, called FYS 101. In this role, she’ll lead a team of SU faculty to oversee the implementation of the course and track its progress.
United States 1933 Double Eagle $20 Gold Coin
The
1933 double eagle $20 gold coin is one of American Numismatics’ most notorious coins. Only one surviving specimen was ever monetized and made legal to own, yet an uncertain number of examples still exist.
When the
United States made the controversial decision in 1933 to suspend the gold standard that it had based its monetary policy on since the turn of the 20th century, most double eagles dated that year were summarily melted down. It was an ignoble end for the most spectacular of all American coin designs.
That American sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens would have a hand in creating that design and remaking American coinage was no easy accomplishment. The world-renowned sculptor, venerated in his time and even more so sense, had a serious distaste for the Mint’s bureaucracy and an even lesser opinion of its chief engraver. He turned down more commissions than he could possibly accept. Commissions with even better terms. A