Fact #125002
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Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, USA, honours a former student, folk singer Burl Ives, by naming an art studio after the 81-year-old recording artist and actor, who enrolled at the college in 1929 but dropped out in his third year as his grades slipped. Ives attends the naming ceremony and says it felt good to be back at Eastern, despite not having a degree.