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MLK speech still inspires 50 years later By Abigail Barefoot Daily Correspondent Three years before his “I Have a Dream” speech, Martin Luther King Jr. was a speaker at Iowa State University. In conjunction with the 50th anniversary of this event and with the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration at Iowa State, students and faculty gathered to remember the man and his legacy in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union on Thursday. The event included music, food and a lecture by Lenola Allen-Sommerville, former ISU faculty member and 16-year chairwoman of the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. King’s message, although 50 years old, still resonates. “His speech still pertains to today,” Sommerville said. “It’s not obsolete.” King delivered a speech for Religion in Life Week at Iowa State on Jan. 22, 1960. Afterwards, he was a dinner guest at the Delta Delta Delta sorority house. More than 1,500 students attended the event in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union, with an overflow of people listening to the speech over a public announcement system throughout the Memorial Union. About 99 percent of the people in attendance of the event were Caucasian. “I have never heard a more inspiring leader,” said Farwell T. Brown, who attended the event, in “Ames Words and Pictures, Volume 2.” “He demonstrated an ability to clarify emo-
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Group presents plans to modify aging theater By Paige Godden Daily Staff Writer The members of Varsity Task Force presented their plans for the future of the Varsity Theater at Wednesday night’s meeting. The task force has been working on plans for potenDanielson tially reopening the theater as the Cyclone Cinema. The projected first year sum for renovating, running and leasing the old theater is $177,100. Members of the GSB, Anthony Maly, Tom Danielson and Brian Ryherd gave the presentation which broke down the fiscal responsibilities for the next five years if the GSB were to lease the Varsity Theater. The start-up costs includes sound systems, projectors, screens, seating, concession equipment and $15,000 for other expenses, which is
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Cameron Vens, junior in finance, from the ISU Ski and Snowboarding Club, tests a run on the Grinch Winch for the ISU Rail Jam on Thursday on Central Campus. The ISU Rail Jam will be held Saturday. Photo: Karuna Ang/Iowa State Daily
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By Justine Scattarelli Daily Staff Writer A block of Campustown will be transformed into a winter sports course this weekend. Iowa State’s Ski and Snowboard Club is hosting the fifth ISU Rail Jam competition from 3 to 8 p.m. on Saturday in the middle of Campustown. Chamberlain Street between Welch and Stanton avenues will be completely blocked off for the event. Organizers fill the entire street with snow to construct ramps and obstacles for participants to perform on. Special snow — free of salt and sand — is hauled in from the Ames airport. “Thirty guys and girls build it up to make something you would see on a Breckenridge [ski resort] hillside,” said Clayton Severson, senior in biochemistry and Rail Jam event coordinator for the Ski and Snowboard Club. Because there is no steep incline to provide momentum for the riders, competitors gain speed from a gas-powered engine called a winch. Riders hold onto a ski rope attached to a spool, which propels them up the jump and onto the rails. This is the fifth year ISU Rail Jam has taken place in Campustown. The club wasn’t able to host the event last year, due to time constraints and funding issues. Severson said the problems
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Clayton Severson and Brian Call set up the Grinch Winch on Thursday on Central Campus for a test before Saturday’s ISU Rail Jam. Photo: Kelsey Kremer/Iowa State Daily
presented in 2009 taught him what was necessary to make the event successful this year. The club made some changes in this year’s event, including higher quality snow, a different setup of the rails, and an 18-andolder after-party hosted by Club Element. Funding for the event is mainly provided by GSB, Campustown, and Wilson Scion of Ames. Severson said the club contacted resorts, colleges and ski clubs to inform them about the event. “In years past we’ve had people from Nebraska, Chicago and Minnesota,” Severson said. “Somehow they just hear about these things.” David Pricco, vice president of the ski and snowboard club at the University of Iowa, competed in the event two years ago and plans to participate again this year. “It’s a unique event that you don’t see much around this
area,” Pricco said. “A lot of other competitions aren’t in the middle of downtown, so it’s a little more exciting. There’s a better backdrop.” Pricco said he hopes the competition will challenge negative stereotypes of snowboarders. “It’s good to kind of get people aware and show them that we’re not just hoodlums and we have talent,” Pricco said. Winners of the competition will be awarded a year’s supply of Red Bull, season passes to Seven Oaks ski area, or ski and snowboard apparel. Severson said they are still unsure who will judge the event. “That’s the least of my concern,” Severson said. “It’s mainly to have a good time.” Severson said the club members hope the event will make the sport look fun and further promote skiing and snowboarding.
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The caucuses to be held across the state by both parties Saturday will play an unglamorous but important role in state politics. Steffen Schmidt, proSchmidt fessor of political science, said caucus meetings not involving a presidential election are mostly business meetings of very active party members. Gubernatorial candidates will be important for both parties, Schmidt Hutter said. He said Democrats will focus on Gov. Chet Culver’s re-election and Republicans will choose which candidate will run against him. James Hutter, associate professor of political science, said that when caucuses are convened every two years, they always gather party activists for important tasks the parties must accomplish to keep running. Presidential elections just add another element, albeit an exciting one, every other caucus. Hutter named four principal functions all caucuses perform: They get petitions signed, send members to other conventions, form party platforms and gather funding for the parties. The first major function of the caucus is to bring party members together so potential candidates can gather enough signatures to be included on the ballot. Voters who attend the caucus choose volunteers, who attend further district, county and state conventions dealing with party business. Some voters attending caucuses will be chosen to form committees.
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Climate Change
Melted Arctic ice allows new cable to be laid By Dan Joling Assocaited Press Writer ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Global warming has melted so much Arctic ice that a telecommunication group is moving forward with a project that was unthinkable just a few years ago: laying underwater fiber optic cable between Tokyo and London by way of the Northwest Passage. The proposed system would nearly cut in half the time it takes to send messages from the United Kingdom to Asia, said Walt Ebell, CEO of KodiakKenai Cable Co. The route is the shortest underwater path between Tokyo and London. The quicker transmission time is important in the financial world where milliseconds can count in executing profitable trades and transactions. “Speed is the crux,” Ebell said. “You’re cutting the delay from 140 milliseconds to 88 milliseconds.” The project, while still facing significant obstacles, also serves as an example of how warming has altered the Arctic landscape in profound ways. The loss of summer sea ice prompted the U.S. to list polar bea rs as a threatened species in May 2008. Walrus in two of the last three years gathered by the thousands on Alaska’s northwest shore rather than ride pack ice to unproductive waters beyond the outer continental shelf. Summer sea ice melted to its lowest recorded level ever in late 2007, and most climate modelers predict a continued downward spiral. The result is a path through the Northwest Passage, the Arctic route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific that has fascinated explorers for centuries.
CAUCUS from PAGE 1
There are four types of committees formed at caucuses: platform, committee on committees, credentials, and arrangements committees. These committees do the work of running party business within the state. “That’s one of the great things about political parties in America,” Hutter said. “They keep going, year after year, with volunteer labor.” All caucus events incur costs. Materials must be printed and delegates sent to conventions, so the committees also solicit
“That opens up the construction window to actually do something like this without the need of heavy icebreakers,” Ebell said. “On the other side, you’ve got the market part of it and the increasing demand we’re seeing for lower and lower latencies, or transmission times.” But the project, called ArcticLink, is not without hurdles — namely the estimated construction price of $1.2 billion, said Alan Mauldin, research director at TeleGeography Research, a Washington, D.C.-based telecommunications market research company. “That’s not a cheap project,” he said by phone from the Slovak Republic. By comparison, a line beginning service next month between Japan and the U.S. West Coast was built for $300 million, he said. The leaders of the project will need to persuade telecommunications companies to buy a piece of the capacity created by the cable. Telecom companies will make that decision based on demand. Ebell uses the analogy of building a shopping mall to describe the financing process: Secure some initial investments and then lure an anchor tenant to really drive the project forward. The cable will cut a 10,000-mile path across half the world. wIt would be laid in deep water from Japan to the Aleutian Islands, then go north through the Bering Sea. The company also hopes to link rural Alaska communities to the cable. It has applied for federal stimulus money. The Asia-Europe line does not depend on stimulus money, Ebell said.
attendees for funds to pay the costs of holding caucuses. Another small component of caucus attendance, Hutter said, is getting to meet friends and acquaintances who are involved in the caucus experience as well. In caucuses for both parties, there is the opportunity for people to support issues in the form of party platforms. These statements of party goals play a larger part in non-presidential year caucuses, Hutter said. In recent years, Hutter said, interest groups have become more involved with submitting planks of party platforms. “Many of these [interest group planks] are just long and
dreadful,” Hutter said. A major issue for Saturday’s caucus will be if weather keeps voters from attending. A snowstorm once nearly shut down a caucus that Hutter attended years ago. “Attendance at my precinct was about the same number as fingers on your hand,” Hutter said. Ames caucus locations include the Ames City Hall council chambers for Ward 1 and all precincts; Ames High School cafeteria for Ward 2 and all precincts, Ames Middle School commons for Ward 3 and all precincts, and Room 1414 of the Molecular Biology building for Ward 4 and all precincts.
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from PAGE 1 tional issues in intellectual and objective terms.” King’s major point of the night was that “The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slave from slavery and established him as a legal fact but not as a man.” Lynn Dreezen, a junior at the time of King’s speech, said in “Ames Words and Pictures,” “I recall getting uncomfortably hot — even sweating,” she said. “I knew my sweating was due more to King’s dynamic delivery than the temperature.” Contrasting with King’s speech at Iowa State 50 years ago, the Great Hall had more empty seats than people at Thursday’s celebration. Still, the room was filled with energy for Sommerville’s remarks, and the crowd fed off her enthusiasm for continuing civil rights today. After a short clip of King’s speech, the audience cheered and applauded, showing that King’s message of the “promise
Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a press conference March 26, 1964. Courtesy photo: Library of Congress
be activists: “Take away King’s courage, his faith, his belief and his hope, and implement all [one] can do to achieve that.”
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Obama policies call for cut in Wall Street spending By Daniel Wagner and Philip Elliott Associated Press Writers WASHINGTON — Embracing Depression-era policy and populist politics, a combative President Barack Obama chastised big Wall Street banks Thursday and urgently called for limits on their size and investments to stave off a new economic meltdown. Investors responded by dumping bank stock. Obama’s rhetoric covered the whole financial industry, but the key changes will affect only a few high-profile players while sparing investment banks. The move could undercut Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s strategy of maintaining close ties with the financial industry as part of the administration’s overhaul efforts. “We have to get this done,” Obama said at the White House. “If these folks want a fight, it’s a fight I’m ready to have.” “We’ve come through a terrible crisis,” the president said, “The American people have paid a very high price. ... That’s why we’re going to rein in the excess and abuse that nearly brought down our financial system.” Markets tumbled on the news, the Dow Jones industrial average losing 213 points and continuing this week’s slide that has erased the Dow’s gains for 2010 and provided yet another dire sign for recovery. Obama’s announcement included changes that have been advocated for over a year by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker — who appeared with the president at the White House — particularly by endorsing Volcker’s proposal to ban banks that take deposits from also trading stocks for their own profit. The change would sep-
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from PAGE 1 mostly reserved for contingency funds. Projected annual funds for the Cinema add up to $187,802. The projected annual funds were broken down into four parts which were programming, staffing expenses, operating expenses and concession expenses. Total potential revenues were at $127,600. The revenue that was added into the total came from seats sold to students if
President Barack Obama, second from right, leaves the podium at the White House in Washington on Thursday with, from left, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, National Economic Council Director Larry Summers, and Budget Director Peter Orszag, after announcing a new fee on big banks to recover taxpayers’ money used to prop up corporations during the economic crisis. Photo: Charles Dharapak/The Associated Press
arate commercial banks from investment banks, a line that was blurred a decade ago by the repeal of the Depression-era GlassSteagall Act. That won’t help, suggested Rob Nichols, president of the Financial Services Forum, an industry group representing 18 of the largest financial companies. Neither the president’s proposal, which would need congressional approval to take effect, nor his aggressive tone is likely to help the administration’s case in working with Wall Street and finding support from banks that will need to boost lending to support an economic recovery.
Many banks had supported administration plans publicly and offered assistance behind the scenes. Thursday changed that. Bank representatives usually give input on issues and are briefed on decisions. But that apparently wasn’t the case this week. Geithner said he anticipated the blowback. “You’re going to hear a lot of concerns from bankers on this,” he acknowledged in an interview on PBS’ “NewsHour.” Financial industry officials are frustrated by a proposed change they see as political and punitive and not preventing future crises. They say the changes would not have prevented the largest bank failures.
the theater was to run at 33 percent capacity: the assumption that the theater would be rented out six times for special events throughout the year, one-forth of the 33 percent buying concessions, miscellaneous support and student groups advertising before shows. This would put the future Cinema at a $60,202 deficit. The theater would be treated as a student organization and would go through regular allocations. The idea that was presented by the task force is that the theater would ask for the
$60,000 during regular allocations to make up for the years potential deficit. Danielson said that the group was still factoring in property taxes, which the task force does not yet know what they will have to pay, which could drop the deficit down to around $35,000. As for the future of the theater, Danielson said that the GSB could shut down the program and pay minimal utilities costs, but they would be signing a five year lease agreement. If the varsity bills pass, the GSB will be obligated for the upkeep until 2013.
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Obama, condemned the decision while Republicans cheered it. Still, more labor and corporate money in the political system could dilute the role of both political parties. And the decision seeded the ground for further challenges to an already weakened system of campaign finance regulations. The justices weighed two fundamental political forces — the power of the central government and the concentration of corporate wealth — and tilted decidedly in favor of the latter. The opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy made a vigorous argument based on the Constitution for the right of the public to be exposed to a multitude of ideas and against the ability of government to limit political speech, even in the interest of fighting corruption. “The censorship we now confront is vast in its reach,” Kennedy wrote. Strongly dissenting, Justice John Paul Stevens said, “The court’s ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation.” Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas joined Kennedy to form the majority in the main part of the case. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor joined Stevens’ dissent, parts of which he read aloud in the courtroom. The court overturned two earlier decisions and threw out parts of a 63-year-old law that said companies and unions can be prohibited from using money from their general treasuries to produce and run their own campaign ads urging the election or defeat of particular candidates by name. The decision, which applies to independent spending that is not coordinated with candidates, threatens similar limits imposed by 24 states. The justices also struck down part of the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that barred unionand corporate-paid issue ads in the closing days of election campaigns. It leaves in place a prohibition on direct contributions to candidates from corporations and unions and didn’t touch the McCain-Feingold ban on unlimited corporate and union donations to political parties. Nor did it disturb companies’ right to solicit voluntary
contributions to political action committees that can donate directly to candidates. Corporations and unions would still have to identify the sources of money for their political activity — a provision of current law that the court upheld in an 8-1 vote. Obama called the decision a victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and other powerful interests. The ruling will lead to a “stampede of special interest money in our politics,” Obama said. He pledged to work with Democrats and Republicans in Congress to come up with a “forceful response” to the high court’s action. But Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Senate Republican leader who filed the first lawsuit challenging the McCainFeingold law, praised the court for “restoring the First Amendment rights” of corporations and unions. “ By previously denying this right, the government was picking winners and losers,” McConnell said. Kennedy’s opinion goes to the heart of laws dating back to the Gilded Age when Congress passed the Tillman Act in 1907 banning corporations from donating money directly to federal candidates. Though that prohibition still stands, the same can’t be said for much of the century-long effort that followed to separate politics from corporate money. Campaign lawyers and political operatives immediately began contemplating the consequences of the decision. Its most immediate effect is to permit corporate and unionsponsored political ads to run right up to the moment of an election, and to allow them to call explicitly for the election or defeat of a candidate. In presidential elections and in close congressional contests, that could substantially increase the television advertising competing for the public attention’s with the candidates’ own ads. “It’s going to be the Wild Wild West,” said Ben Ginsberg, a Republican attorney who has represented several GOP presidential campaigns. “If corporations and unions can give unlimited amounts ... it means that the public debate is significantly changed with a lot more voices and it means that the loudest voices are going to be corporations and unions.” The legal community was split over whether corporations or unions would be the biggest beneficiaries.
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Cover all your bases; safe sex is still great sex Abortion was thrust to the forefront of American discourse by the divisive ruling in the U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, and the focus hasn’t faded since. It’s been 37 years since abortion was legalized in the United States, and “pro-lifers” and “prochoicers” are still battling it out Hatfield and McCoy-style. The truth is, almost everyone has an opinion on abortion — moral, legal or otherwise. We know these opinions are unlikely to change. Even among our editorial board, we can’t reach a consensus on whether abortion should be legal. But there’s a greater issue at hand. We can say with some certainty that, with the rare sicko exception, no one is pro-abortion. In the abortion debate, the opposite of pro-life is not pro-baby killing. Even the editorial board members who advocate abortion rights want to minimize the occurrence of abortions as much as possible. It’s time to stop getting sucked into a debate that will, quite likely, never be resolved. We all need to stop wasting time fighting about Roe v. Wade and start working toward a solution to the real problem. What is the real problem? Unwanted pregnancies. We all know abstinence is the best way to prevent an unplanned pregnancy. We’re not going to take you back to that scary place known as high school sex education class. If abstinence is your approach to avoiding pregnancy, we applaud you. Abstinence doesn’t have to mean hands-to-shoulders, no less than one foot apart from your partner, like a middle school dance. There are plenty of ways to be intimate without engaging in full-blown — no pun intended — intercourse, and they can be lots of fun But we also know that not everyone will choose to abstain from sex — and that’s fine too. But please, please don’t be stupid about it. We know you’ve heard it a million times before, but there’s no better way to say it. If you have sex, do it safely. That means you and your partner need to talk before you get too hot and heavy — because once you’re in the moment, the only thing in your head will be Olivia NewtonJohn singing “Let’s Get Physical.” OK, hopefully that song won’t be going through your head in the heat of the moment. But, seriously, talk about it. Talk about the risks involved, make sure your feelings for each other are clear, and talk about what you’ll do if things go wrong. Be prepared for the worst-case scenario, and then take every step you can to prevent that scenario from becoming a reality. Use some form of birth control. We’ll admit some of them are a little scary looking, but there are so many out there now that you should have no problem finding something that works for you. We’d even go so far — is that home base? — as to say you might consider doubling up. That means two different kinds of contraceptives, mind you. Despite what Asher Roth tells you, using two condoms at once is a bad idea. But contraceptives do have failure rates. Follow the directions and use them properly. Even once you’re in a long-term, committed relationship, that doesn’t mean you can forget about all this stuff. Unfortunately, love isn’t a sufficient sperm blocker. Fellas, don’t be a, um ... jerk about using condoms. If you can’t shield the rocket, leave it in your pocket. And ladies, if you’re on the Pill, take it regularly. You know the drill — again, no pun intended.
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TV personalities from left, Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, Jenni “J-Woww” Farley, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and DJ Pauly D Delvecchio arrive at Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, Dec. 12, in Los Angeles. File photo: Matt Sayles/The Associated Press
Guilty pleasures Popular MTV program ‘Jersey Shore’ stereotypes Italian-Americans
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he very first time I turned on the TV and saw the faces of Angelina, Jenni “JWOWW,” Mike “The Situation,” Nicole “Snooki,” DJ Pauly D, Ronnie, Sammi “Sweetheart,” and Vinny, I thought, “Oh my gosh, my high school got its own reality show!” OK, so I didn’t really go to high school with anybody on “Jersey Shore.” I didn’t even go to high school in New Jersey. However, the show hits close to home, because I grew up and attended high school in a Northwest suburb of Chicago where Italian-American “guidos” and “guidettes” abound. Watching the “Jersey Shore” cast members “fist pump” their way onto MTV was all too familiar territory for me. Ninety-five percent of the boys in my high school had Pauly D’s heavily gelled hairstyle down to an art. My Italian male counterparts made working on abs like “The Situation” has and arms like Ronnie’s a part of their daily routines. As for the “guidettes,” tanning until their skin looked like slices of of burnt toast and teasing their hair into the “pouf” hairstyle, a la “Snookie,” were the absolute norm at my school. Sure, it was funny in high school, but now I’m a bit shocked that MTV is actually making money off of a show centered around
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such blatant Italian-American stereotypes. I’m not angry over the show — just slightly irritated. I understand the guilty pleasure one gets from watching reality television, as I myself watch several reality shows regularly. However, it troubles me that more and more reality television shows chronicle the lives of ordinary people who become entertainment because of their appearance, dialect and mannerisms. My first issue with “Jersey Shore,” is the light in which Italian-Americans are portrayed. I can understand why people think “Jersey Shore” is funny. The fist-pumping dance moves, gelled hair, fake tans, ripped muscles and intense Italian pride are all stereotypes, and — let’s admit it — we laugh at stereotypes. However, since this show is so strongly centered around Italians, I think this extreme “guido” stigma may begin to attach itself to all Italian-Americans. When my peers in high school behaved like the cast of “Jersey Shore,” I thought it was funny. Their behavior never really bothered me, because everybody is entitled to behave and dress the way they
want; they shouldn’t be judged. But I am a bit bothered that the idea that “all Italian-Americans are pretentious lovers of tanning beds and weight rooms” might become mainstream if shows like “Jersey Shore” continue to get high viewer ratings. The other reason I don’t care for “Jersey Shore” is that the show has no point. I’m all for reality shows having some kind of plot, with contestants working toward a goal at the end of the show. I am not a fan of shows in which several 20-something-year-olds are thrown into a house and encouraged to do and say foolish things for laughs. Personally, I don’t find that as entertaining as I do silly. It’s not reality. The only reason the members of “Jersey Shore” got their own TV show is because they fit a stereotype that people will laugh at. They have now officially fallen into the “famous for being famous” category. I don’t want to bash anyone who watches “Jersey Shore,” because, as I mentioned, I am guilty of having a trashy television favorite and I can’t expect everyone to appreciate the shows that I find worthy of my time. I just encourage those of you who do watch it to, please, just take it in as pure entertainment and try to dissipate any preconceived notions you may now have about all Italian-Americans. We don’t all go out fist pumping at the club on weekends, and we don’t all tan for hours on end. But you’re all young, college-educated people. Perhaps you figured that out on your own.
Politics:
Digging out of an economic hole Obama struggles in his first year
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s the Obama administration and the Democratic Party finish their first year in office, what can we conclude? First, the world remains a very unsafe place, from would-be terrorists with explosives in their underwear, trying to blow up U.S. airlines, to Iranians chasing after nuclear weapons, mother nature rearing up in devastating earthquakes in Haiti, flooding in California, climate change and a horrible, expensive and depressingly brutal winter in many parts of the United States, including sunny Florida. Second, the U.S. economy is very fragile. More than 17 percent of Americans are unemployed or underemployed. The housing crisis continues, like one of those underground coal mine fires you don’t see, but that is burning away at people’s wealth, mortgages and life. Third, the big banks, insurance companies and other large corporations are as arrogant as they have ever been. They are paying themselves gigantic and unwarranted bonuses, raising fees and charges for credit cards, denying health care coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, putting toxic products on the market and generally disrespecting consumers. Fourth, the taxpayers are coughing up more and more money to bankroll all this, and they are getting depressed and restless. In Massachusetts, the most liberal state imaginable, a Republican won former Sen. Ted Kennedy’s vacant Senate seat. So, how is President Barack Obama doing one year into his four-year term? Here is a grim observation from Jeff Greenfield of CBS News: “Mr. Obama has suffered the steepest decline in
President Barack Obama approaches the podium in the Executive Office Building in Washington on Wednesday before signing a presidential directive ordering a new crackdown on federal contractors who don’t pay their taxes. Photo: Charles Dharapak/The Associated Press
job approval of any first-year president since they started keeping such data: In most surveys, he is barely at, or under, 50 percent.” Why the bad ratings? Because President Obama was handed a can of snakes. All the problems that vex, frighten and anger Americans were handed to him on Inauguration Day. For example, he had to save the banks and auto industry, and there were no other choices. As Greenfield writes, “Everyone, including every decision-maker in the Bush Administration, said that without a huge influx of money, hundreds of billions of dollars worth, the financial system would collapse. That decision meant that a huge federal deficit was inevitable.” On terrorism, Obama wanted a kinder and different approach,
but now he is debating even whether to close the Guantanamo detention center. On health reform, Obama wanted to increase coverage and cut costs, but he finds himself in almost as bad a position as the failed “Hillary Care,” which crashed and burned in the first year of the Clinton administration all those years ago. Yet, the U.S. health care system continues to eat away at people’s incomes, and at state and corporate financial solvency. At the same time, it leaves 40 million Americans
uninsured, so it will eventually have to be fixed or it will destroy this country. On what to do about Iran’s nuclear weapons, Obama has made no progress. He has not managed to turn around Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez’s deep hatred for the United States. He has not made any progress on climate change. The American public education system remains a terrible threat to our future, and China is still eating us alive in economic performance. There is still no immigration reform, which is a festering sore that is simply ignored. The Republicans can attack President Obama, but there seems to be a “just say no” strategy, which is not a policy. Even if the Republicans win big in the 2010 elections and take over the House and Senate, which is now a real possibility, they will have precious few choices. Tax and spending cuts are the magic elixir of the GOP, but those only work in a growing and vibrant economy — not in one that is stagnant. So, I believe that no matter who gets into office in Washington, they will do pretty much the same job. There are no other choices. I’d like to bring an upbeat message to you. However, we’ve dug ourselves into a deep hole with the policies of the past 30 years, both Democratic and Republican. Maybe issuing federal shovels to all of us would be a smart thing to do, so we can start digging ourselves out of this hole.
Steffen Schmidt is a professor of political science and chief political correspondent for www.insideriowa.com
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Track and Field
Women’s Basketball
ISU Open gives Iowa State look at 2010 season
Shoot-out in Austin
By Dan Tracy Daily Staff Writer The ISU men’s and women’s track and field teams will host the ISU Open in the first of four consecutive weekends at home for the CyKoll clones. The meet will be the second of the season for the Cyclones as they took home five first-place finishes in the Holiday Preview on Dec. 11 at the Lied Recreation Sang Athletic Center. The women’s team enters the meet ranked No. 46 in the USTFCCCA national pre-season poll while the men’s team sits at No. 89. Individually for the Cyclone men, junior Elphas Sang is ranked No. 16 in the 800-meter, and seniors Guor Marial and Kiel Uhl are ranked No. 26 and No. 32 in the 5,000-meter. Seven-time AllAmerican Lisa Koll prepares for her final collegiate season with a No. 3 preseason ranking in the 5,000-meter. Koll won the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in the 10,000-meter last season. The Cyclones will host Division II and Division III schools from around the state, including Briar Cliff, Buena Vista, Drake, Graceland, Grandview, Iowa Central and Morningside. Other notable teams include Big 12 rival Nebraska, Western Illinois and St. Cloud State. Nebraska boasts the top ranked team in the Big 12, at No. 4 in the country, and the Huskers women’s team will travel to Ames ranked No. 11 in the country. The meet will begin with the women’s weight throw at 3 p.m. on Friday and run until approximately 6:30 p.m. Saturday’s events begin at 9:50 a.m. with the non-seeded women’s 3,000-meter race and will run until approximately 8 p.m. Admission is free.
MLB
Phillies’ Blanton recompensed for consistency By Rob Maaddi AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA — Joe Blanton got his reward for consistency and durability. Blanton and the Philadelphia Phillies agreed to a $24 million, three-year contract that avoided a salary arbitration hearing next month. The 29-year-old right-hander was 12-8 with a 4.05 ERA last year. “Joe has been absolutely outstanding since he’s been with us,” general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said. “He’s probably been one of the most consistent pitchers in baseball. His consistency and what he brings to the table for us as a person, we’re very pleased to basically buy out two years of free agency and have Joe for the foreseeable future.” “Winning is what I’m about. That’s the big thing,” Blanton said.
Cyclones’ defense prepares to face “fast-paced” offense in showdown with Texas By Kayci Woodley Daily Staff Writer The team with the worst scoring defense in the Big 12, allowing conference opponents 67.6 points per game, will bring a game plan Iowa State hasn’t seen this season. No. 20 Texas is a fast-paced team with a mindset to push the ball down the floor and wear down opposing players as quickly as possible. “They want to go up and down; they want to play fast. They’re going to play 10 players [and] they’re going to try and wear you down,” coach Bill Fennelly said. “They’re going to try to shoot the three.” Aside from the Longhorns’ (13-5, 2-2 Big 12) 7763 victory over Oklahoma State on Wednesday, snapping the Cowgirls’ 11-game winning streak, Texas allowed its previous three opponents over 90 points, edging past Texas Tech in double overtime 95-90, but falling to two previous opponents after allowing a high amount of scoring. “[Against Texas] just playing smart and not getting worried or tensed up, just going out there and trying to play relaxed and have fun [will be important],” said senior guard Denae Stuckey. “When you have fun it’s easier to play hard.” The Cyclones (14-3, 2-2 Big 12) will enter Austin after a “fun” defensive effort, shutting down Big 12 offensive standout Danielle McCray, of Kansas, to just six points Wednesday night. If the ISU defense was ever ready to shut down a speedy Longhorn offense, now would be the time. “Just knowing that we can guard some of the best players in the conference, and even college basketball, I think [is important],” said junior guard Kelsey Bolte. “So just knowing that we can do that and bring that same effort that we had [against Kansas] to the floor every night [is key], because we know we could do it then, so ‘why can’t we just keep doing it the rest of the season?’” McCray averaged more than 20 points coming into Hilton Coliseum on Wednesday, but was shut down by Stuckey’s defensive effort, stuck like glue to McCray, and the help from the strong Cyclone defenders behind her led to a conference win. “The effort that we had, the whole defense that we had, was amazing,” Bolte said. “Everyone was aware of where [McCray] was on the floor; the communication we had amongst each other — [we were] always talking about where she was [and] always talking about where we needed to be.” The Cyclones may have a vivid memory of Texas from last season, as the Longhorns were the only team to defeat Iowa State at home, in front of a pink crowd of 12,424 on the Cyclones’ breast cancer awareness night. In uniforms trimmed with pink, the Cyclones fell to Texas by just three points. With Texas’ lack of defense comes its intensity on the offensive end, as the Longhorns are second in the conference in rebounding offense. This year Iowa State will enter Longhorn country full of solid performers on offense. Senior guard Brittainey Raven leads Texas with 15.2 points per game, with junior Kathleen Nash averaging 13.6 ppg and 7.3rpg. Nash ranked second in the Big 12 in field goal percentage as of Jan. 17 and currently sits at a 50.6
Senior Stuckey provides spark for ISU offense By Jordan Wickstrom Daily Staff Writer Last season, Denae Stuckey seemed to be right in the middle of some of Iowa
Iowa State’s Kelsey Bolte takes the ball down court during the game against Kansas on Wednesday at Hilton Coliseum. The Cyclones defeated the Jayhawks 53-42. Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State Daily
vs. Iowa State (14–3) Where: Austin, Texas Frank Erwin Center When: 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23
percent mark from beyond the arc. “Any time you play Texas you’re playing at a great environment on the road. You’re playing a team that has 10 high school All-Americans; you’re going to have to play a great game,” Fennelly said. “They’re top 20 for a reason. They’re one of the most talented teams in our league and certainly one of the best coaches in our league. Our level of play has to go very
State’s biggest games. Whether it be her 3-pointer in the Sweet 16 win over Stuckey Michigan State or her clutch performances during the Big 12 tournament, Stuckey was able to step up when the Cyclones needed
her most. This season is no different. With no clear-cut No. 2 player, Iowa State has looked to the play of role players like Stuckey to contribute when asked. And while she has accepted that she won’t get as much attention as senior guard Alison Lacey, she knows her place on the team is just as important as any other. “Even though [the role
Men’s Basketball
Hernandez deal secures five years with Mariners By Gregg Bell AP Sports Writer SEATTLE — Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners have completed a $78 million, five-year deal that averts an arbitration hearing and keeps the young ace under contract through 2014. General manager Jack Zduriencik called Thursday a great day for Seattle and for the pitcher, his wife and their two young children. “This one was immense,” Zduriencik said, “It’s rare when you can secure a guy like this. And it’s rare to have a guy with this kind of ability. “There’s no better move than to secure a Felix Hernandez.” Hernandez, who could have become a free agent after the 2011 season, finalized his first big contract after taking a physical that was required to finish the deal. “I’m here for five more years. I hope we make the playoffs (where Seattle hasn’t been since 2001) and the World Series for the fans. They need it. We got this out of the way, now my mind is ready to play baseball.”
Texas (13–5)
high.” Aside from the Cyclones’ last two Big 12 games, Iowa State had a tough time finding the basket, offensively, and will need to find mismatches and spread the court to continue improving on offense against the Longhorns. A team that likes to press, Texas will be sure to apply a high amount of pressure, forcing Iowa State to take care of the ball and not allow any points off live ball turnovers. Fennelly said his team will need to do ‘anything you can to hang around four minutes at a time’ when facing the Longhorns in Austin. “[We expect to see] aggressive defense; aggressive, physical play, and I think that’s the biggest thing,” Bolte said. “I think we’re just going to have to focus on being strong with the ball, being aggressive — go to the basket, and be strong and finish, We’re just going to take what we can get.”
players] don’t get as much attention [as Lacey], it’s OK, because as long as the team is successful that’s fine,” Stuckey said. “I’m a role player and I know exactly what my role is, and I don’t need all the attention Lacey gets.” Looking at last season’s numbers, one would not have believed Stuckey would be as crucial a role player as she has been this season. However,
in a season where no one really knew what to expect, the numbers she has posted this season have been a pleasant surprise for the Cyclones. “To her credit, she’s gone from role player to someone that has impacted our team, and someone who starts and establishes themselves as a very critical part of our team,”
see SPARK on PAGE 10
Wrestling
No. 3 Jayhawks Big 12 action fly into Hilton opens on road By Nate Sandell Daily Staff Writer Sitting at No. 3 in the national polls, the Kansas Jayhawks have boasted the results this season to legitimize their high ranking. In the wake of off-court distractions during the pre-season — a scuffle that broke out between the basketball team and the Kansas football team in September, and the suspension of guard Brady Morningstar in the wake of his DUI — the Jayhawks have remained unfazed. En route to its 17-1 start Kansas has posted a Big 12 best scoring margin average of 23.5 points. The only blemish for the Jayhawks this season was a 76-68 loss to Tennessee earlier this month. Kansas ranks first or second in the Big 12 in 10 of the major statistical categories, including scoring offense (No. 2, 85 ppg.), scoring defense (No. 2, 61.5 ppg) and assists (No. 1, 18.50). The Jayhawks have recovered from their loss to the Volunteers by
vs. Iowa State (12-6)
No. 3 Kansas (17-1)
Where: Hilton Coliseum When: 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23
opening the conference season with three straight victories (Nebraska, 8472; Texas Tech, 89-63; Baylor, 81-75). At the heart of this year’s Kansas squad is All-American senior guard Sherron Collins. Although his scoring average is down from last season (18.9 ppg), Collins has still posted a teamleading 16.3 ppg. Collins is one of four players on the Jayhawks averaging double figures — guard Xavier Henry (14.9 ppg), forward Marcus Morris (12.2) and center Cole Aldrich (10.8) follow. The scoring doesn’t stop there.
see KANSAS on PAGE 10
By Jake Calhoun Daily Staff Writer The ISU wrestling team opens its Big 12 conference action on the road this weekend, going from Norman, Okla., for a battle with No. 10 Oklahoma to Stillwater, Okla., to face No. 3 Oklahoma State, all within a threeday span. The Oklahoma Sooners (12-1-1) are coming off a first-place showing at the Lonestar Duals in Arlington, Texas. Junior Eric Lapotsky, who is ranked sixth at 197 pounds, has an overall record of 18-3 and a 10-2 record in dual meet action this season, and will look to be the Sooners’ standout this Friday against the Cyclones. However, Lapotsky has yet to beat Iowa State’s Jake Varner. Varner, the reigning national champion and topranked wrestler at 197 pounds, defeated Lapotsky by a major decision of 16-5 in the Cyclones’ 23-15 victory over the Sooners at Hilton Coliseum last season. The Sooners’ highest ranked
vs. Iowa State (7–2)
Oklahoma (12–0–1)
Where: McCasland Field House When: 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22
vs. Iowa State (7–2)
Oklahoma St. (8–1-1)
Where: Beard Eaves Memorial Auditorium When: 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23 wrestler, however, is Kyle Terry, who is ranked fourth in the nation at 149 pounds. Terry, a senior, has gotten the best of Iowa State’s Mitch Mueller in
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NFL
Bittersweet season for Jets’ Johnson By Dennis Waszak Jr. AP Sports Writer FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — Woody Johnson watches his team practice as often as he can, standing on the sideline while letting football push the sadness aside for a few moments. The New York Jets owner is a win away from the Super Bowl, but it has
BET to air Vick documentary By Dan Gelston AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA — Michael Vick returned to the site of his gruesome dogfighting crimes, looked at an empty dog bowl left behind in a dingy cage and wondered how he ever could have risked fame, freedom and fortune for “Bad Newz Kennels.” “This is hard to imagine myself doing this years ago, man,” Vick says, cameras rolling. His visit to the property he once owned in Surry County, Va., where he trained pitbulls for vicious fights and helped drown or hang dogs that didn’t do well, is a teaser of what’s ahead in his docu-series “The Michael Vick Project.” Vick candidly tells how he
month. While his team is in the AFC championship for the first time since the 1998 season, Johnson is still mourning. “I think what you do is, what I found myself doing, is it’s two different worlds,” he said. “That’s the way you can handle it. One doesn’t really help the other. The other’s the reality. I mean, I lost a daughter. There’s no way to bring
been a bittersweet postseason — during which he had to bury his daughter, Casey. “This has been a brutal couple of weeks, personally,” Johnson said softly, his eyes watery. In a 20-minute sitdown with reporters Thursday, Johnson spoke for the first time publicly about the emotional seesaw he has been on during the past
her back or any of that.” The oldest of Woody Johnson’s five children was found dead in her Los Angeles home on Jan. 4, a day after the Jets clinched a playoff spot. An autopsy on Johnson, 30, was inconclusive and the results of toxicology tests weren’t expected for weeks. She lived her life on the tabloid pages with the likes of Paris Hilton, and her sudden death was a
major story there as well. “I don’t think it makes it any more difficult for me,” Johnson said of his daughter’s highly publicized death. “It really doesn’t affect the outcome. It’s the outcome. I wish I could change it, but I can’t.” Coach Rex Ryanand his players have chosen to not speak about Johnson’s loss.
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Seven other Jayhawks are averaging at least 3.5 points per game, giving Kansas the depth to rival Texas. That depth is likely to play a major role in Saturday’s matchup between Kansas and Iowa State at Hilton Coliseum. Injuries, suspensions and departures have left the Cyclones heavily depleted. Iowa State’s top two scorers, Craig Brackins and Marquis Gilstrap, have recorded marks of 16.2 and 14.9 ppg, but from there the next top scorer, Diante Garrett, drops down to the mark of 8.4 ppg. It has been five years since Iowa State defeated the Jayhawks — a 63-61 overtime win in Lawrence. Since then, the Cyclones have lost eight straight to their conference rival, by an average of 16.3 points. Unlike Kansas, which enters Ames with its Final Four hopes still intact, Iowa State is stumbling into Saturday’s game. Only days following the Cyclones’ first Big 12 road victory in three years, guard Lucca Staiger abruptly announced Tuesday that he was leaving to turn pro in Germany. Iowa State reeling, the Cyclones fell on the road, 78-71, in a winable game against Texas Tech. Without a standout signature win on their resume, the Cyclones are
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coach Bill Fennelly said. Entering the year, Stuckey knew what would be asked of her. The team only returned a handful of experienced players and would be asked to follow up on the success of an Elite Eight team. For reasons such as those, Stuckey has set her own personal expectations higher and has seen an increase from last year in almost every statistical category. “I expect to make hustle plays. I expect for myself to score when I’m open, or, if I’ve got a chance to do something, just to contribute to the team,” Stuckey said. “This year, my role has really grown since the past years I’ve been here, and
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I’ve really been excited about it; I’ve been excited about the way I have been playing.” Despite her 5-foot-8-inch frame, Stuckey has found herself leading the team in rebounding, with 6.4 boards per game, including two games in which she grabbed 10 rebounds. And while she isn’t Iowa State’s number one scoring threat, and will not light up the scoreboard with 30-point or even 20-point games, her effort at both ends of the court has not gone unnoticed by the team. “[Stuckey] does the dirty work that nobody really wants to do,” Lacey said. “She rebounds and she plays great defense. She sparks us, and that gets us going — gets us excited — and everyone gets into
the game when she does those things.” Players like Stuckey are crucial to the success of a young team like Iowa State’s. Coaches and players agree she has been the spark to a successful beginning of a long basketball season, and according to Stuckey, the excitement the team has when a big play is made is all the motivation she needs when she’s on the court. “If I make a big play, I like to see my teammates get excited with me — jumping around and smiling,” Stuckey said. “I like to be a spark in my team, and I like to see them smile. It’s nice to see coach Fennelly smile sometimes, so my thing is to go out there and just give it my all and just try to do as much as I can for the team.”
Iowa State’s David Zabriskie wrestles against Illinois’ Marty Smith on Saturday at Hilton Coliseum. Iowa State beat the Illini 33-9. Photo: Gene Pavelko/Iowa State Daily
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the past. In their two previous encounters, Terry defeated the Cyclone senior by a decision of 6-0 in last year’s dual meet and pinned him with a fall time of 4:32 at the Big 12 Championships in 2007. Mueller is coming back after tweaking his knee in the championship dual meet at the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals against Iowa in late December. ISU coach Kevin Jackson decided to start redshirt freshman Max Mayfield in Mueller’s place, at 149 pounds, in the dual meet against Illinois on Jan. 16, giving Mueller time to heal his injury in preparation for this Friday’s meet in Norman, Okla. The Sooners have only hit a couple snags on the road to the dual meet against the second-ranked Cyclones, losing to Lehigh University in the semifinals of the Virginia Duals and tying a dual meet with intrastate rival, Oklahoma State, 16-16. Iowa State has beaten Oklahoma in seven straight matches, dating back to 2003. The Cyclones will then hit the road after their dual against the Sooners to face the Oklahoma State on Sunday. The Cowboys (8-1-1) are coming off a slim loss to the No. 1 Iowa Hawkeyes, 19-16, last Saturday night in Iowa City. Oklahoma State features five wrestlers with two losses or fewer, four of whom are nationally ranked in the top 10. Senior heavyweight Jared Rosholt has gone 21-1 with a perfect dual record of 10-0 so far this season and is currently the top-ranked heavyweight wrestler in the nation. At last year’s dual meet, however, ISU senior David Zabriskie defeated Rosholt by
a sudden victory decision of 3-1 to swing momentum in the Cyclones’ favor in the dual meet. The Cyclones went on to win the dual meet at Hilton Coliseum, 24-12. “The fact that he’s ranked first doesn’t really change too much,” Zabriskie said. “We’ve wrestled a whole bunch of times, so I’m just going to go out there with the same mentality that I always do.” Zabriskie and Rosholt are no strangers, as this will be the eighth time the heavyweights have faced each other. Zabriskie is 5-2 all-time against the top-ranked Rosholt. “If it happens, it happens; if it doesn’t, it doesn’t bother me
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Mu Shu 96. Pork, Chicken, Beef, Vegetable 20 oz - $6.79 26 oz - $7.49 97. Mu Shu Shrimp 20 oz - $6.99 26 oz - $7.99 98. Mu Shu Combination 20 oz - $6.99 26 oz - $7.99 Jumbo Fried Shrimp 99. Sweet and Sour Shrimp 20 oz - $7.49 100. General Shrimp 20 oz - $7.49 101. Hunan Shrimp 20 oz - $7.49 102. Hot Braised Shrimp 20 oz - $7.49 103. Sesame Shrimp 20 oz - $7.49 104. Canton Shrimp 20 oz - $7.49
26 oz - $8.99 26 oz - $8.99 26 oz - $8.99 26 oz - $8.99 26 oz - $8.99 26 oz - $8.99
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(2) 20 oz. entrées, (4) crab ragoons, (1) 32 oz. soup or (1) order of sugar biscuits. Limit 1 seafood entrée.
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(1) 20 oz. entrée, (1) egg roll, (1) crab ragoon with fried rice when you order 2 or more entrées. Add $1.00 for a seafood entrée.
(2) 26 oz. entrées, (2) egg rolls, (4) crab ragoons, (1) order of sugar biscuits, (1) 32 oz. soup or (1) order of pot stickers. Limit 1 seafood entrée.
(4) 26 oz. entrées, (4) egg rolls, (4) crab ragoons, (1) order of sugar biscuits, (1) order of chicken wings, (1) 32 oz. soup or (1) order of pot stickers, (1) 2 liter of soda. Limit 1 seafood entrée.
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(1) 20 oz. entrée, (2) crab ragoons, (1) 12 oz. soup or (1) soda. Add $1.00 for seafood entrée or $1.00 to upgrade to 26 oz. entrée.
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