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Salt Company
Students move in faith
Members transfer to University of Iowa to aid future church
Wicked winter weather whips up sleet, ice By Sarah Gonzalez Daily Staff Writer
By Torey Robinson Daily Staff Writer
A moist southern storm system and the Midwest’s cold temperatures are bringing icy conditions to Ames. An ice storm warning was issued for central Iowa for early Wednesday through Thursday morning. Rainfall beginning between 4 – 6 a.m. will freeze into ice due to temperatures below 32 degrees Fahrenheit at ground surface. If this freezing rain falls enough to hit the quarter inch benchmark, it will be considered an ice storm. “We’re looking at somewhere between one tenth of an inch up to one fourth,” said Roger Vachalea, Johnston National Weather Service meteorologist. Freezing rain and possibly sleet is expected throughout the day Wednesday. Freezing drizzle and mist will continue later Wednesday night and into Thursday, but the bulk of precipitation will fall Wednes-
A calling is the only way they can describe it. Mark Arant felt it when asked to move to lead a new church in Iowa City. Justan Spaid, junior in political science, felt it the moment a leader announced during Salt Company that Arant would be planting a new congregation and college program at the University of Iowa — and wanted 100 students to transfer and go with him. James Laugerman, junior in political science, felt it after watching dozens of peers volunteering to consider the opportunity without hesitation. It was the call to serve. Arant, college director of Ames Cornerstone Church, was approached by lead pastor Troy Nesbitt and teaching pastor Jeff Dodge in late October asking if he would be interested in leading a similar ministry in Iowa City. He said he would pray about the decision to move his wife and five children to a new location. “When most people begin new churches they are not happy with the current situation and have new ideas about how a ministry could be run, but that was not the issue in my case,” Arant said. “I’m in a ministry candyland. There’s no better place than Cornerstone.” “It was hard because my family loves our house,” he said. “We love Ames. We love our church. I love my
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Iowa
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Presidency
Professors assess Obama goals after one year By Alexander Hutchins Daily Staff Writer
Mark Arant, college director of the Cornerstone Church of Ames, plans to move and act as the lead pastor of the Cornerstone Church of Iowa City. ISU students intend to transfer and follow Arant. Photo: Logan Gaedke/Iowa State Daily
Budget
Senate discusses termination policy By Jessica Opoien Daily Staff Writer “What’s best for the institution” resounded from the Memorial Union Great Hall as the refrain of Tuesday’s ISU Faculty Senate meeting, as budget cuts and proposed changes to the faculty handbook were disvan der Valk cussed. Executive Vice President and Provost Elizabeth Hoffman addressed the senate, discussing the future and answering questions from faculty in the audience. “We really have to make some significant changes to narrow the focus of what we do if we are to be able to sustain our excellence as a land-grant university,” Hoffman said. One such change discussed was the elimination of academic programs and departments, which would almost certainly result in the termination
and reorganization of faculty. “If the university gets to the point where we’ll have to make significant changes ... there has to be some process for doing that,” said Faculty Senate President Arnold van der Valk after the meeting. He explained that the Faculty Handbook currently has no such policy — an issue addressed at the meeting. Van der Valk said the faculty senate is trying to put in “some kind of rational policy” to deal with potential faculty and staff elimination in the “worst case scenario.” The changes would be made to faculty handbook section 3.4, “Nonrenewal or Termination of Appointment,” which can be found online at www.provost.iastate.edu/faculty/handbook. Hoffman said in the meeting, “These are very difficult times ... and no one wants to be in a position of having to let off tenured faculty. At the same time, it’s extremely important that we have a policy that allows us to do it in a way that respects tenure, that respects faculty rights, that respects due process but also respects the fact that the university may have to make some difficult decisions.”
Although respect of faculty rights was emphasized, Hoffman added, “What is fair to an individual depends on where you sit. So, what I would rather do is focus on what ... is best for the institution.” Hoffman said there is “no chance” that the budget cuts impacting Iowa State will amount to less than the 10 percent that has already been slashed from the university budget. She added that if the university reduces its activities to absorb the cut, some majors, programs and departments might have to be eliminated. Merging programs and departments is also a possibility, along with “some paring down.” However, it is unlikely at this point that any of the university’s seven academic colleges will merge. Hoffman said the possibility has been discussed, but “there is certainly no college that is lacking for students or lacking for research.” “I think that what we will see is once ... we’ve been through this process and we have fewer de-
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Government of the Student Body
Varsity Task Force to present lease research By Paige Godden AttnStaff to:Writer Zach Stork Daily
the GSB were to lease the theater. The meeting will also include the seating of members of the executive branch. Ad's Name: Club Fest 2 Daily Ad The executive branch lost three members afWednesday’s Government of FileName: Club Fest 2 Daily Ad.pdf ter one member took an internship, one member the Student Body meeting will Ad's the size: 1" xof10” resigned and a third is studying overseas, said GSB feature second three prePresident Jon Turk. sentations about the Varsity Task Run Dates: January 20 There will also be the seating of International Force’s research on leasing out Acct #: 206-00-35-00-8901 Resident Hall Association Senators, a Human Scithe old Varsity Theater on Lincoln Way. File sent to: ads@iowastatedaily.comences Senator, a Liberal Arts and Sciences Senator Turk and members of the rules committee. The GSB set up a task force A bill written by Maly and Brian Ryherd, a Camduring the fall semester that pustown senator, will have its first read at the meetlooked into leasing the property. Anthony Maly, a member of the Varsity Task ing. The bill is for a newer student organization on Force, said that this weeks’ presentation will take a look at the fiscal projections for the next five years if campus, the ISU Winterguard, and according to
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the bill, “The ISU Winterguard needs certain equipment for its members in order to be a successful organization.” The bill asks for $1,628 for 60 6-foot flagpoles, 30 swing flagpoles and other items to maintain the flags. The second bill up for a first read was also written by Ryherd and Maly, which is titled: Funding for Iowa State Railroad Club Spring Break Trip. “The Iowa State Railroad Club would like to visit the California State Railroad Museum,” but, “The club was not able to make money by helping to hand pick corn this year,” according to the bill. Even though the Railroad Club was able to raise $1,908 the bill asks for a total of $700 from the GSB for travel expenses.
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On the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s election, the expectations he faces are as enormous as the outcomes riding on his performance. “When he [Obama] ran for president in the Iowa caucuses ... the main issue was the war in Iraq,” said James Hutter, professor of political science at ISU and advisor to the ISU democrats. The issue of Iraq has become less important since then in the face of former president Bush’s economic problems, Hutter said. He said much of the trouble Obama has faced, economic or otherwise, would have befallen whomever had ended up winning the election. Despite all the issues that Obama has been charged with immediately after taking office, Hutter said Obama is making a real effort to tackle every challenge. “Obama has accepted Afghanistan as his charge,” Hutter said. Hutter said that health care reform is the only challenge that Obama did not inherit from the Bush presidency. The way that presidents work to apply their influence behind the scenes makes it difficult to see how effectively Obama is actually preforming at this stage of his presidency, Hutter said. “It’s difficult for us to see how Obama’s really doing,” Hutter said. Obama, unlike president Clinton, did not enter the health care debate with a specific plan to pass. Hutter said there were benefits as well as drawbacks to this approach. He said we can’t predict the future of health care at this point, but regardless of the outcome we will gain a clearer picture of Obama’s effectiveness as a leader. Obama is clearly taking charge of the situation and traveling the world to interact with other leaders. “This is a very active White House,” Hutter said. Steffen Schmidt, professor of political science at ISU, identified himself as a nonpartisan first and foremost. Schmidt still spoke positively about Obama’s first year, saying that in only one year of doing something almost everyone will get some things wrong and right. Schmidt said that Obama’s most significant accomplishment is continuing former president Bush’s initiative to save big banks from collapse. It is an immediate accomplishment because the economy
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