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September 2, 2010 | Volume 206 | Number 9 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
THURSDAY
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We’ve always had extreme rains in Iowa; we’ve never had events like this, where one cloud will sit there and dump five or eight inches in a night. That’s been happening on a more regular basis.”
Department of Natural Resources
Student death
Q&A with director
Vet school student found dead
Iowa’s two largest floods, climate change, agriculture at Iowa State reflected upon By Sarah.Haas iowastatedaily.com In the three years and eight months Richard Leopold has served as the director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, he has witnessed the two largest floods in the state’s history. An ecologist by training and ISU alumnus, Leopold has taken a position newly created within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. As he leaves to assume a new role as Midwest Region Assistant Regional Director for Science Applications, Leopold reflects on climate change, agriculture and Iowa State.
What are the noticeable differences in Iowa’s climate you have observed? The tricky thing when you talk about climate change is that it’s not a problem within itself. It makes every other problem worse. We’ve always had floods in Iowa; we’ve never had floods like this. We’ve always had extreme rains in Iowa; we’ve never had events like this where one cloud will sit there and dump five or eight inches in a night. That’s been happening on a more regular basis. We’ve always had a hot humid night here or
there; we’ve never had weeks at a time with humid nights. So we’re seeing weather changing and that is leading to other ecological effects. We have hot humid nights, which fungus loves. So that’s great for mushroom hunters, but bad for farmers because things like late season soybean rust and things like that are very bad. So we’re seeing more late-season aerial applications of herbicides and fungicides. There’s 27,000 miles of perennial waterways in Iowa and no matter how careful they are, they’re hitting water. We’re seeing fish kills. When they hit water, a lot of these pesticides break down fast, but they’re having acute effects on fish. It’s so potent we’re seeing fish swimming in circles until they die. So we have climate change way over here as the pebble, and we have these ripples on a pond playing out. We don’t know what these ripples look like. As an agency, the DNR and then in my new position with the federal government, that will be what I’m trying to do. Set up a framework so that we can get scientific inquiry into what’s going on, why it’s going on, and what can we do about it. We’ve seen a great example out west. The pine beetle isn’t dying during the winter, devastating millions of acres of forest. Forest fires ripping though and killing everything. That’s climate related. Forest fires are because of pine beetles, are because of mild winters.
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Richard Leopold, who served as Iowa DNR director for three years and eight months, reflects on climate change, Iowa’s two largest floods in state history and agriculture at Iowa State. Photo: Sarah Haas/Iowa State Daily
By Abigail.Barefoot iowastatedaily.com Amber Stumbaugh, graduate student in veterinary medicine, died Monday night. Tom Liguori, veterinary medicine communications and events coordinator, said Stumbaugh went to sleep Monday night and just never woke up. Cmdr. Mike Brennan, of the Ames Police Department, said police suspect no foul play in Stumbaugh’s death.
Flooding
Rainwaters affect game day parking availability Tuesday night’s rain showers have led to the closure of additional areas in some public parking lots for Thursday’s football game against Northern Illinois, according to an Inside Iowa State news release. The release states that “grass lots G-4, G-5 and G-8 [along South 16th Street] will have limited availability due to saturated ground.” Lots north of Center Drive will remain closed to accommodate flood recovery work in Hilton Coliseum. Carpooling, the use of smaller vehicles and early arrival are all strongly encouraged. Stadium-area lots will open at 1 p.m. Daily Staff
Railroad
Record GSB
Dinkey Bridge demolition underway
Senators disagree on dress proposal
By Taysha.Murtaugh iowastatedaily.com The destruction of Dinkey Bridge, located just east of campus, began last Friday at noon and will continue until the end of this week. Dinkey Bridge was once part of the campus railroad system owned by Union Pacific Railroad; when the service was discontinued and the tracks removed in 1929, Ames residents continued to use it for transportation. It became a popular hang out place for local high school and college students, who eventually covered the bridge in artwork. Union Pacific decided recently to tear it down due to liability issues, despite efforts by the city council and Ames citizens to save it. “The crews have been removing all the portions of the bridge, and that’s been going very well,” says Mark Davis, director of corporate relations and media for Union Pacific. Last week, excavating contractor Mike Howard removed the wooden ties of the bridge and says the next step is cutting the steel support beams, which each weigh about 13,800 pounds. The Ames Historical Society attended destruction last Friday to determine if any of the painted ties could be salvaged for a future museum exhibit. “We went back at 5 p.m. to rescue several huge wood painted ties,” says Alan Spohnheimer of the historical society. “We got the one with the penguin ... Mike promised us five or six additional ones from the west end-the
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By Paige.Godden iowastatedaily.com
assistant vice president of admissions. “The enrollment is a real testament that students believe in Iowa State as an excellent college selection,” Harding said. “Students wouldn’t be here if they didn’t think it was worthwhile.” Harding attributes the record enrollment to a number of factors: dining services, residence life, a beautiful campus, great enrollment services staff, a variety of student activities and organizations, volunteers who share
The Government of the Student Body spent most of its meeting seating senators during the second meeting of the year Wednesday night. Six senators from the college of business, veterinary medicine, liberal arts and sciences, and the united residence of off campus filled vacant seats. Nicholas Davis, junior in political science, was voted in as the new election commissioner. Davis said his goals were to update the election code, because things turned into a mess last year. He mentioned e-mails sent out last year, which were not a problem in the past. He said he would “like to make the rules more clear, and make them so they don’t contradict themselves.” The senate also looked at adding a dress code. Engineering Senator Derek Grygiel said that he doesn’t agree
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Students participating in Destination Iowa State crowd to Central Campus for the kickoff event Aug. 19. Enrollment for the 2010-2011 year has reached a record high. File photo: Kelsey Kremer/ Iowa State Daily
Enrollment increase Student numbers to break 28,000 for first time at ISU By Matt.Wettengel iowastatedaily.com Iowa State welcomed its largest classes to campus this year. Projections indicate that the overall enrollment will be more than 28,000 for the first time in the school’s history, breaking the record set last year, at 27,954, said Marc Harding,
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