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One of the weirdest [experiences] was an email where he told me he was dreaming about watching me sleep, and the bizarre text messages where he said he would hurt himself if he didn’t see me.” Cassidy

For her own protection, the stalking victim prefers to remain anonymous. The individual’s name has been changed to Cassidy.

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Community food drive celebrates MLK holiday By Katelynn McCollough Daily staff writer A Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration is scheduled to take place at 6 p.m. Monday at the Ames Middle School. The event is free to anyone to attend. Cake will be served before a program consisting of skits, music and speeches to honor King. Nonperishable and canned good items can be brought to the event as part of a food drive being held that day. All items donated will go to MidIowa Community Action, a community action agency, and its food pantry. The Young Women’s Christian Association has described the event on their website as an opportunity to “celebrate how through service we can all work toward a common goal of community cooperation and leadership development.” The event is scheduled to last an hour and a half. Iowa State will host its Martin Luther King Jr Holiday Celebration at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. The event will feature opening remarks from President Steven Leath, musical performances from Bridges to Harmony Choir and Shy of a Dozen and numerous speakers. The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Advancing One Community Awards will be presented at the event.

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It took a breakup from her boyfriend of 12 months for Cassidy to realize the toll a certain friendship was taking on her life. Cassidy first made contact with her male stalker, this “friend,” on a social networking site designed to bring together artists with similar interests. Both individuals, ISU students within the same college and major, met soon after and formed a friendship. After going through a bad breakup, Cassidy sought counseling. It was here that she began to reevaluate the other relationships in her life. It became clear to Cassidy what she thought was just a casual friendship actually meant more to her male friend. Soon, she began to notice warning signs that things were going too far. “No one ever really believed me that this was going on, because he had this other side to him,” Cassidy said. This behavior continued for two more years with a climax after she separated from her boyfriend in fall 2010. Her stalker jumped at the opportunity to be with Cassidy and began showing up unannounced. There were disturbing letters posted on her door, shrine-type artwork and confessions that led the relationship beyond just friends. Cassidy described the behavior as “over-the-line.” Other students who knew the two dismissed

these early signs as personal expression. “One of the weirdest was an email where he told me he was dreaming about watching me sleep,” Cassidy said, “and the bizarre text messages where he said he would hurt himself if he didn’t see me.” January is National Stalking Awareness Month, and according to the Stalking Fact Sheet released by the Stalking Resource Center and the National Center for Victims of Crime, since 2004 communities across the nation have been raising awareness about a crime that affects 3.4 million adults in the United States a year. Assisted by these organizations, citizens are becoming equipped to “know, name and stop” stalking. As defined by the Stalking Resource Center, stalking is “a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to feel fear.” Capt. Carrie Jacobs of the ISU Police Department said she handles one to two stalking cases a year, but believes the actual number of potential cases is much greater.

“I think stalking is occurring a lot more,” said Jacobs, who is a member of the Threat Assessment and Management division. “It is simply not being reported.” Identifying a stalker is not always easy. There is no specific profile that law enforcement officials use to identify these individuals. Jacobs said the only way to identify an individual as a stalker is to pay close attention to their behavioral traits. Some warning signs include an aggressive and possessive nature and extreme changes in behavior, including increased conflicts, desperation, paranoia, needing constant contact, monitoring phone calls and substance abuse. A person needs to possess three or four of these traits to be identified as a stalker, as was the case with Cassidy’s stalker. It was only after her rough breakup and seeking guidance from the university’s counseling services that Cassidy began to identify these negative and harmful qualities. Her friend was dealing with anxiety, depression and lack of self-worth. Cassidy found herself feeling responsible for his actions. “He had a lot of mental issues too that we had talked about,” Cassidy said. Her counselor helped her realize her “follower” was bringing her down and making it even harder to recover from her own mental breakdown. “I started thinking about me more because

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Women receive honors College for impact on Iowa State releases The Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics unveiled its 2012 “Women Impacting ISU” calendar Thursday to celebrate 12 women who have gone above and beyond in serving the ISU community. This year, the honorees were Sharon Bird, Joy Ensley, Molly Heintz, Aja Holmes, Kathleen Jones, Ahna Kruzic, Susan Lammers, Alejandra Navarro, Kayla Nielsen, Shelley Taylor, Ann Thompson and Jingtao Wang. The women are a combination of students, faculty and staff at Iowa State. Julie Snyder-Yuly, assistant director of the Catt Center, said the calendar was created in 2007 after students got the idea from the University of Kansas. Its main purpose is to celebrate women on campus who do work behind the scenes, but deserve to be publicly recognized and

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Wentworth works as a public relations intern for the Catt Center and served on the committee for choosing the best candidates. Wentworth said each nomination letter

Students can now download to their phones an app that is the product of the ISU College of Engineering. This app was thought up by a group of students in a senior-level computer engineering class and created by a freshman in his dorm room. The official College of Engineering app debuted on Jan. 4. There were nearly 800 downloads in the first week. “This project was a grass-roots and student-led effort,” said Jonathan Wickert, dean of the College of Engineering. “I’m very proud of the collaboration between Tyler Bell, the senior design project team, and Travis Ballstadt in Engineering College Relations. They worked very closely with ISU’s information technology office and many others to get the details right.” Bell, a senior in computer science, created the “Be > You Imagined” app last year. The app provides 14 services at the fingertips of ISU students.

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Photo: Huiling Wu/Iowa State Daily Shelley Taylor, assistant director of Global Agriculture Programs, is recognized at the 2012 Women Impacting ISU Calendar Reception on Thursday in the Campanile Room of the Memorial Union.

appreciated. “This is a good way to let people know some of the cool things that people are doing at all levels,” Snyder-Yuly said. The Catt Center was flooded with more than 40 nominations for women

to receive this award. The problem is that there are only 12 months in a year, so only 12 women can be featured in the calendar. “It was a process,” said Laura Wentworth, senior in journalism and mass communication.

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