Take a gander Look back at the Cyclones’ season opener (it’s inside and on the back)
FRIDAY
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Kickoff
Flood Repairs
Lied stays closed for more tests By Torey.Robinson iowastatedaily.com
Football: Cy flies ISU colors
Cy rallies a crowded group of tailgaters before the Cyclones’ first game of the season against Northern Illinois on Thursday night. Photo: Whitney Sager/Iowa State Daily
Lied Recreation Athletic Center is considered dry, but will have to undergo cleaning and environmental test prior to reopening. Members of Facilities and Planning Management, Environmental Health and Safety, recreational services and ServiceMaster employees performed an official walkthrough Wednesday and determined there are areas of the building that still require attention, said Recreational Services Director Mike Giles. “We inspected every nook and cranny of the first floor,” Giles said. “We’re going to go ahead and let ServiceMaster get in there and address the areas of concern clean, and on Tuesday we will preform environmental tests.” Giles said the tests are conducted by the university’s department of Environmental Health and Safety. If the tests produce positive results, recreational services will begin the process of reopening the building to students and patrons.
Faculty Senate Agriculture
Experiencing Taiwan By Whitney.Sager iowastatedaily.com
Standing in a field of mud at least a foot deep, and planting rice clump after rice clump is not something the average ISU student would find themselves doing in the 20 days before the start of the fall semester. That is exactly what Scott Henry, junior in agricultural business, was doing. “I never thought I would be calf-deep in mud and sweating like a pig and loving it,” Henry said. Transplanting rice was just one of the many activities Henry experienced while taking part in the Exploring Agriculture in Taiwan program. Offered through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Study Abroad office, EAT is a fully-paid program sponsored by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at National Chung Hsing University and Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Henry said the two goals of the program are to show collegelevel agriculture students the agriculture system in Taiwan and bring students together to talk
about higher education in their agriculture schools. Henry said 23 students from 18 universities in the United States, along with 15 students from Taiwan, participated in the 17-day program. During those 17 days, the students did everything from transplanting rice and learning about organic farming, to visiting a Taiwan brewery and an experimental forest. Henry said that he gained a better understanding of different cultures through the various tours and presentations he attended. One requirement of the program is each student must give a presentation regarding their university’s agricultural education and study abroad programs. Henry’s presentation focused not only on the required topics, but also on his personal experiences in what Iowa State has to offer students. During the course of his presentation, Henry said the students were amazed at all that Iowa State has to offer, from the spacious campus to the support of faculty members.
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By Taysha.Murtaugh iowastatedaily.com The Faculty Senate will meet for the first time this school year Sept. 21 in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. Michael Owen, professor of agronomy, will serve as this year’s president, replacing Arnold van der Valk, professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology. Owen said he is excited but anxious about his new position, which entails running all the meetings and representing the Senate with the administration and the provost. “There’s no course I can take about being a Faculty Senate president,” Owen said. “I want to make sure I represent the faculty and I do so in an objective fashion.” Van der Valk, who will remain on the Senate for one more year as president, said his roles this year include serving on a number of university and academic boards, including the University Budget Advisory Committee and the council of
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Scott Henry, junior in agricultural business, stands in the middle of a rice patty before planting a rice clump. This was just one of the many activities Henry participated in as part of the Exploring Agriculture program in Taiwan. Courtesy photo: Scott Henry
Agriculture
Iowa farms reflect on flooding By Tessa.Callender iowastatedaily.com
This year’s flood resulted in thousands of dollars of water damage to Iowa’s farms, including approximately $10,000 in hay loss. Courtesy photo: Marshall Ruble
Position changes discussed
This year’s flooding that took place in Ames mid-August had widespread effects on campus, and Iowa State’s teaching farms didn’t escape the rising waters. The teaching farms include dairy, swine, beef, sheep, poultry, equine and the Ag 450 Farm. Overall, damages included approximately $10,000 in hay loss, $3,000 in fence damage, $1,000 in roof damages and $2,000 for extra cleanup labor. “We had some 250 large, round hay bales that got wet and stood in the water, up to 3 feet, and we could lose half of its feed value — approximately 100 tons of feed,” said Marshall Ruble, research station manager at the Beef Teaching Farm. In addition, the horse pasture, located
Hurricane Earl
Eastern Seaboard threatened
on 13th Street, is covered in sand, while the fences will have to be repaired, and partially replaced. There was also pasture and crop loss due to the resulting standing water. Managers of the farms were first and foremost concerned about losing water and not being able to hydrate the animals in the 90-degree temperatures because the farms rely on the city of Ames for water. The city of Ames had water main breaks due to the flooding that occurred Aug. 11, and managers of the farms were initially told they would be without water for three to four days. “We were freaking out at that point,” said Dan Morrical, farm coordinator.
KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. — Larger than the state of California, Hurricane Earl prepared to take a swipe at the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday as residents scrambled to ready themselves ahead of its arrival. The hurricane has been downgraded to a Category 2 storm, the National Hurricane Center said Thursday night, but warned that “Earl is expected to remain a large and strong hurricane as it passes near the Outer Banks” of North Carolina. Hurricane warnings and watches stretched from North Carolina to Delaware and into Massachusetts, where a hurricane warning was issued for Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket and the surrounding area.
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